Kuai Yue was a smart man. Among the old ministers in Jingzhou, Kuai Yue thought that he was a particularly smart person. Even his brother Kuai Liang, Kuai Yue thought that he could not compare with him.
Take this matter of claiming illness and returning home to avoid disaster. Kuai Yue felt that he had done this very beautifully.
What does it mean to sit down and wait for good opportunities?
That's it.
But blindly hiding and shrinking is not the character of Quin Yue. Seizing the right opportunity, then counterattacking, and regaining what he lost is the highest state that a wise man should have.
When Cai Mao sent people to find him, Kuai Yue knew that this opportunity had come.
After listening to Cai Mao's narration, Kuai Yue stood up and began to circle back and forth. It goes without saying that his brain was running rapidly.
When he was young, he saw Kuai Yue stop and said to Cai Mao: "Degui, who is the person who came to see you on behalf of the pottery merchant?"
Cai Mao whispered: "It's Zhuge Jin from Jinling City. It is said that he is Zhuge Liang's brother."
"Zhuge." Kuai Yue nodded and said, "We are very close to the pottery merchant, so his words are trustworthy."
"More than trustworthy?" Cai Hao hurriedly took out the seal and ribbon from his arms and said to Kuai Yue: "Tao Shang even brought the official seal and ribbon to Cai Hao. Now we just have to conquer Xiangyang and ask for an imperial edict.
At that time, I will be able to sit firmly in the position of Zuo Zhonglang."
Kuai Yue had no expression on his face, but he was very envious in his heart, secretly thinking that Cai Degui was really a bad guy...a good guy.
Cai Mao said with a smile: "Yidu, you also know that the pottery merchant is known as the Prince of Peace by the world. He has a very orderly way of dealing with people and is known as a gentleman. With your talent and ability, as long as you seize the title of Xiangyang this time,
If you make great achievements in things, you will be reused by Tao Xiang in the future."
Kuai Yue naturally knew that what Cai Mao said was true. After all, he had met with the pottery merchant when Liu Biao and the pottery merchant in Jingzhou joined forces.
This incident is an important opportunity for his personal transformation, and it is also a question of how the Jingzhou Kuai family behind him will live in the next era.
Naturally, Kuai Yue still wanted to seize this opportunity.
"It's not convenient for De Gui to come forward now. It doesn't matter. I will naturally handle this matter secretly. But among the generals in Xiangyang, you must think carefully about which ones can advance and retreat with you. Those who are unreliable are absolutely important.
You must not contact me, otherwise my life will be in your hands."
Seeing that Kuai Yue was willing to help him, Cai Mao hurriedly said: "That's natural, that's natural!"
The Kuai Yue family is the leading noble family in Jingzhou. Business and informants are everywhere in northern Jingzhou. With his help, Cai Mao can naturally get twice the result with half the effort if he wants to contact his old colleagues in Xiangyang.
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After Kuai Yue returned home, he immediately arranged his men according to the list proposed by Cai Mao, operated secretly, and tried to find a way to contact Cai's old generals in Xiangyang one by one to persuade them to join Cai Mao's side.
After a period of communication, everything was ready. All that was left was for Cai Mao and the pottery merchant to agree on a time to attack the city.
The news spread back to the pottery merchant, who immediately summoned the generals to discuss the time for the invasion.
Zhuge Jin and Tian Feng were also knowledgeable people. After many calculations and days of observation, they calculated that there would be heavy fog in the Xiangjiang area in five days. Visibility would be extremely low at that time, but it would be the best time to cooperate inside and outside to attack the city.
Tian Feng and Zhuge Jin are both wise men, and their inferences are naturally not wrong.
Then proceed according to the plan for five days later.
But just when the pottery merchants began to mobilize their troops and prepare to attack Xiangyang City, a letter jointly signed by Guo Jia, Chen Deng, Xun Yu and others was sent from Xuchang.
After reading the contents of the letter, the pottery merchant couldn't help but fell silent.
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The dark moon kills people on a murderous night, and the wind blows high and sets people on fire.
Cai Mao led his soldiers to set out in Yicheng and secretly lurked at the west gate of Xiangyang City.
At this moment, over in Xicheng, there were generals Zhao Yun and Gao Shun sent by the pottery merchants to support them.
After the two parties exchanged names, they headed to the west gate of Xiangyang City together.
Not long after, I saw torches starting to swing back and forth on the gate of the West City. They seemed to be sending signals to Cai Hao and others.
"The time has come!" Cai Hao turned to Zhao Yun and said, "This is the signal sent to us by the people I arranged!"
Zhao Yun didn't say much, but nodded and said: "Let's go to the city!"
The two men commanded the troops and horses and arrived at the gate of the city.
After a while, I saw the city gate creaking open and the suspension bridge slowly lowering.
Cai Mao was excited for a while and said with a smile: "It's really time and time. General Zhao, if we don't attack the city now, when will we wait?"
After that, he turned his head and commanded the soldiers of the three armies to rush into the city.
But Zhao Yun raised his hand and stopped him.
"General Cai, don't worry, just leave this matter to Zhao."
After saying that, Zhao Yun said to the deputy general Sun Guandao behind him: "Send someone to cut off the ropes of the suspension bridge and fill the moat with sandbags."
"promise!"
Zhao Yun looked at Gao Shun again and said, "After a while, the entire city gate will be guarded by General Gao."
Hearing this, Gao Shun smiled and said: "Don't worry, General Zhao. If the city gate falls into the hands of my trapped camp, no one will try to take it back."
As Zhao Yun's order was issued, Sun Guanxian commanded some Jinling troops to rush out of the suspension bridge, cut off the ropes pulling the suspension bridge, and firmly occupied the suspension bridge.
The soldiers under Zhao Yun all had sandbags attached to them. Under Zhao Yun's command, they filled the moat one after another. As time passed, the two sections of the moat in front of the West City Gate were quickly filled.
At the same time, not far behind Zhao Yun, the soldiers and horses of the reserve army began to transport siege equipment to the west gate. Under the command of Sun Guan, a huge ram began to move towards the west gate, and the guards were there to ram the car.
Next to it, there was a heavily armed military camp.
Zhao Yun shouted: "Build a ladder! Attack the city!"
"kill!"
"Woooooooo~~!"
The horn sounded quickly in the dark night.
Cai Mao didn't know why. He looked at Zhao Yun in surprise and said: "Zhao, General Zhao, the city gate has been opened. If we don't take the opportunity to rush in and occupy Xiangyang City, why are we still delaying here?"
Zhao Yunchang sighed and said: "Although we think this plan of combining inside and outside is very good, Mr. Feng Xiao and others wrote to persuade the lord, saying that Pang Tong is not an ordinary person. I am afraid that such a plan cannot be hidden from him... Come to think of it,
Pang Tong will definitely see through the plot and take advantage of it, leading us into the city and destroying us."
After hearing this, Cai Hao was stunned.
"you mean?"
"The opening of the west gate is just a ploy by the opponent, but we can use the trick to capture the west gate, and then attack the city again." Zhao Yun smiled faintly, then raised his spear and shouted: "Now the enemy puts down the fallen bridge and opens the city gate.
, wants us to enter the city, but we refuse to go in. As long as we occupy the suspension bridge and city gate, prevent the other party from going back, then rush down and attack the city head, taking the initiative, this Xiangyang City will still be ours!"
Needless to say, Tao's soldiers were already on the tower.
The ambushing Jingzhou army on the city finally could no longer pretend. They appeared in front of the city wall crenellations one after another and began to throw stones and shoot bows and arrows downwards.
Originally, these were planned to be used to entertain Zhao Yun's troops after they entered Wengcheng, but now it seems that it is no longer possible.