Dragon of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 492 The End of the Hero

After a month of depression and depression, Xia Houyuan finally felt a little angry in his walk.

During this period of time, Xia Houyuan had a very difficult time. Although Li Yi didn't do anything wrong, the news from Yanzhou was still not hidden. The generals and soldiers below were also unsurprisingly panicked. Fortunately, it didn't take too long. Cao Cao's side A victory was won, which reassured Xia Houyuan's people a lot, otherwise Xia Houyuan would have told everyone 20 days ago that he was ready to "surrender" Li Yi.

Soon after, Cao Cao sent someone to contact Xia Houyuan, and told Xia Houyuan a series of his plans and his guesses about Li Yi's intentions. The specific facts were basically the same as Li Yi's conjectures. Sitting on the mountain and watching the tigers fight, Le Jin feigned surrender, plotting against Lu Bu, and helping Xia Houyuan escape, killing two birds with one stone.

Through Cao Cao's letter, Xia Houyuan appeased some generals and stabilized the morale of the army again. However, with the implementation of this plan, after Le Jin's false surrender was heard by ordinary soldiers, some of the morale of the army was restored, but it became a commotion again. , because in the eyes of Li Yi's advisers, this is the performance of Cao Cao's failure, let alone these ordinary soldiers.

This was also the negligence of Xia Houyuan and Cao Cao. As a last resort, Xia Houyuan could only release the news that he wanted to surrender Li Yi, and let the soldiers know that no matter what happens in the future, their lives can always be preserved, and this is barely stable. inside.

Then, Xia Houyuan began to send envoys to Li Yi frequently, begging Li Yi to let him go, but internally he said that the envoys were sent to discuss matters after the surrender.

However, Li Yi never gave Xia Houyuan an answer, whether to let him go or not to let him go, which made Xia Houyuan very anxious, and gradually, some people kept discussing in private why he didn't surrender. Angry, but nothing good to do.

It wasn't until February that Xia Houyuan finally received the news that Li Yi promised to let him go.

However, what is interesting is that Li Yi agreed, but Liu Bei sent the news to Xia Houyuan.

The explanation given by Liu Bei is very reasonable, saying that Li Yi came to help Xuzhou this time, if he took the initiative to release Xia Houyuan at this time, he might not be able to explain to Xuzhou, so although Li Yi can release Xia Houyuan, But he couldn't let it go, he could only ask Liu Bei to tell Xia Houyuan to slip away while it was dark.

When Xia Houyuan got the news, he called Cao Hong and Chengyu to discuss it, and they all thought it was credible, because judging from the apparent situation, releasing Xia Houyuan at this time was the most suitable thing for Li Yi and Li Yi's needs.

As for Liu Bei, we all know that Li Yi doesn't want to see Liu Bei, and although Liu Bei has the performance of betraying friends and seeking glory, the relationship between Liu Bei and Li Yi cannot be very close, so it is obviously very important for Liu Bei to do this kind of dirty work suitable.

Therefore, Liu Bei replaced Li Yi and made an appointment with Xia Houyuan to let Xia Houyuan go on the night of the fifth day of February.

But the accident happened again, and on the night before the action, Liu Bei sent another message, which shook Xia Houyuan's original plan.

Inside the room, Xia Houyuan spread his hands, and said with some entanglement: "The matter is like this. Liu Bei has been dissatisfied with Li Yi for a long time. He promised to let me go before, but he followed Li Yi's orders, but now, he is sending a message. To put it bluntly, Li Yi had secretly moved to the camp in the west of the city with his personal guards three days ago, and the camp in the west of the city is on the defensive, far less dense than in the east of the city. Taking advantage of the opportunity to attack may take Li Yi's life, and even if Li Yi escapes by chance, his soldiers and horses will be seriously injured, and at least he will be able to return to Jingzhou to stay honestly for a year."

As Xia Houyuan said, he stretched out his hand and rubbed his temple vigorously. He didn't have a headache, but was really troubled, because the temptation Liu Bei gave was too great.

Among the vassals of today, Yuan Shao Wubu is the most powerful, but Li Yi is the one with the most rising momentum. It is also indisputable, because Li Yi took the shortest time to rise and the process was the cleanest, and Li Yi The civil servants and generals under his command, as well as soldiers, horses, chariots and boats, are not much worse than Yuan Shao.

For a character like Li Yi, if Cao Cao wants to be an ordinary minister of the land, that's all. But if he has the slightest ambition, he will definitely kill Li Yi when he has the opportunity, because with Li Yi's The speed of the rise, if it continues, no one dares to say how much Li Yi can achieve. Although the relationship between Li Yi and Cao Cao has not been torn apart, the maliciousness is already very obvious. Once Li Yi becomes stronger, especially after Yuan Shu is solved Only, the next one to suffer is likely to be Cao Cao.

Under such circumstances, Xia Houyuan had a chance to kill Li Yi, how could he give up so easily?

Cheng Yu and Cao Hong were also the same. After seeing the news sent by Liu Bei, the two were immediately moved, especially Cao Hong. The excitement in his eyes had almost turned into reality. Although he had not been in contact with Li Yi recently, Li Yi No one came to provoke them, but the act of confining them in the city and trapping them like bastards is already very hated.

After a while, Cheng Yu asked, "Is the general worried about fraud?"

Xia Houyuan nodded and said: "Yes, if what Liu Bei said is true, I have no reason not to agree. After all, such a good opportunity is really rare, but in case there is fraud in it, Li Yi is a young man who cannot be killed. We have more than 1 people People, I am afraid that they will be folded in Xuzhou, and Meng De's arrangements will be disrupted even more."

Xia Houyuan's face was very serious. Although Cao Cao's plan was well arranged, including Lu Bu and Li Yi, none of these could change Cao Cao's current serious situation, so Xia Houyuan couldn't afford to lose at all.

Cheng Yu stroked his beard and didn't dare to answer for a while.

Seeing this, Xia Houyuan asked, "Why, do you think it's wrong?"

Cheng Yu shook his head and said: "That's not true. Looking at the relationship between Liu Bei and Li Yi, I'm afraid no one will believe that Liu Bei is really working for Li Yi. Counting the series of things before and after, Liu Bei now wants to use the power of the general It is also reasonable to remove Li Yi by hand. As early as years ago, Liu Bei intended to cooperate with the general to eliminate Li Yi, which shows sincerity, but "

Xia Houyuan asked, "Just what?"

Cheng Yu sighed: "It's just that all of this seems too reasonable. Although there are no flaws in it, I feel a little uneasy in my heart, for fear that there may be omissions somewhere."

Xia Houyuan couldn't help but nodded when he heard the words, he had exactly the same idea as Cheng Yu.

Seeing this, Cao Hong couldn't help but said: "Miaocai, Zhongde, you were all decisive people in the past, but why are you so hesitant this time?"

Cao Hong pointed to the outside of the city, and said, "Liu Bei and Li Yi obviously have a deep hatred, and Meng De urgently needs me to wait to go back, and for Li Yi, there is a rare chance to defeat him. A good thing is right in front of you, and there is nothing suspicious about it, if you hesitate, once you miss the opportunity, you will regret it in the future?"

In terms of strategy, Cao Hong was the worst of the three, but this time Cao Hong left them speechless.

Especially Cheng Yu, he had already laughed at himself in his heart, did he think too much.

However, Xia Houyuan, the general, was shaken by Cao Hong. He took the letter sent by Liu Bei, stared at it for a while, and suddenly said, "Liu Bei didn't ask for anything."

The other two were startled, and then Cheng Yu reacted first, took the letter and read it carefully, and then murmured: "Liu Bei is going to fight Li Yi desperately."

Cao Hong didn't know why, so he asked, "What's the matter?"

Cheng Yu put down the letter and explained to him: "Ordinarily, if Liu Bei really leads the general to attack Li Yi at night, no matter what the final result is, Xuzhou will definitely not tolerate him. In addition, Qingzhou Tian Kai is also suspicious of Liu Bei, so Liu Bei For my own consideration, I should have proposed in the letter to submit to the lord, but Liu Bei did not mention this."

Cheng Yu paused, looked at Xia Houyuan and said, "General, I thought Liu Bei's words would not be deceitful, but he should be determined to die, not leaving a way of retreat for himself or the general, but the general What you want is different. It is best to kill Li Yi. If you can’t kill Li Yi, you can hit him hard. In short, you must leave with one blow. Therefore, if the general follows Liu Bei’s instructions to attack Li Yi, he will probably be used by Liu Bei , Victory is possible, but I am afraid that it will not be easy to get out in the end!"

Xia Houyuan pondered Cheng Yu's words in his mind, and the more he thought about it, the more reasonable it became, and he let out a muffled snort, and said, "Fortunately, the sir reminded me, otherwise I'm afraid something will go wrong."

When Cao Hong saw this, he immediately expressed disappointment and said, "Did Miaocai just give up such a good opportunity?"

Xia Houyuan sneered and said, "It's fine if you didn't know Liu Bei's plan before, but now, Liu Bei hopes to use us to fight Li Yi desperately, but why can't we let Liu Bei open the way for the pioneers?"

"Wonderful way to say"

"Hehe, Liu Bei should be accepted now, but wait until tomorrow night, shall we let him be the striker? If things go well, let's keep up. If things don't go well, just leave!"

One day later, after Xia Houyuan confirmed that there was nothing unusual about Li Yi's camps outside the city, at night, he quietly opened the west gate and arranged for a team of sentries to go out. Soon, the sentries came back, but behind the sentries There is an extra man with drooping ears and a gentle face, which is Liu Bei.

Both Xia Houyuan and Cao Hong met Liu Bei.

After Li Yi killed Hua Xiong, Dong Mengjun was defeated by Lu Bu at Hulao Pass. At that time, Liu Bei showed up with Guan and Zhang. Liu Bei was very good, but before he had time to get in touch with him, Liu Bei was pushed away. Although Xia Houyuan didn't talk to Liu Bei, he still remembered such a person.

Seeing Liu Bei coming alone with his own sentinel, without even a guard, Xia Houyuan took the initiative to greet him, and praised: "Brother Xuande is so courageous, see you today, the prestige is not worse than that of the old Hulao ah!"

Liu Bei tugged at the reins, and whispered something to the whistler who sent him, who helped him off the horse, Liu Bei then saluted Xia Houyuan: "It's nothing more than a wandering man, the general praises him, Ashamed, ashamed."

After finishing speaking, Liu Bei looked at Cao Hong again, bowed and said, "I think this is General Cao Hong, and I have admired his name for a long time!"

Cao Hong returned the salute with a smile, and said: "No way, I should thank General Liu today, otherwise I don't know how long I will be trapped in this city."

After exchanging pleasantries with Cao Hong, Liu Bei took another look at Cheng Yu and said, "I see that this man has an extraordinary appearance. Could it be Cheng Yu, Mr. Cheng?"

Cheng Yu shook his head with a smile, and said, "Yu is just an ordinary official, doing some chores under General Xiahou's command."

As he said that, Cheng Yu looked at Liu Bei's hands, and said in surprise, "I think it's inconvenient for General Liu to get off his horse just now, why is that?"

Liu Bei didn't hide anything, spread out his hands, showed the bandages on his hands, and sighed: "I was accidentally injured by a sharp blade, and I couldn't use my strength. Now I can't mount a horse, I can't lift my sword, I made a joke of you."

Hearing the words, Xia Houyuan stepped forward and grabbed Liu Bei's arm, and said angrily: "I've heard about Xuande's affairs too. Hmph, Li Yi is nothing more than a wild man, and the power of the dynasty is so domineering, but Xuande don't worry, today you If I join hands, Li Yi must be hated!"

Liu Bei lowered his head, his shoulders trembled slightly, and after a while, he bowed and thanked: "Thank you, General, if you can kill Li Yi today, Bei, I would like to be like a bull and a horse to repay the general's kindness!"

Xia Houyuan glanced at Cheng Yu, Cheng Yu nodded slightly, Xia Houyuan stepped forward to help Liu Bei, and said: "Xuan De don't want to talk about these births, after today, you and I will be a family, except for Li Yi and you Just follow me back to Yanzhou, and you will have a bright future in the future."

Liu Bei smiled silently, but there was no trace of anger in that smile, and there was only loneliness and hatred. Even people who had nothing to do with Xia Houyuan and Cao Hong felt sad when they saw it.

Cheng Yu coughed lightly, and said: "General Liu, our army is ready and ready to set off at any time, but the road is unclear at night, so I wonder if we can let General Liu's soldiers and horses be the vanguard to lead the way?"