Although the Cao army in Jiangling and the army are still preparing for troops recently, they have obviously relaxed the rhythm of the attack.

He also felt that the people were unacceptable and that if he wanted to fight a decisive battle with a strong enemy in Jingzhou, he had to do a stable job in the rear first.

Cao Cao took away Cao Ren's military power (still temporarily serves as General Nan), and only let him be responsible for Jiangling's defense. He also appointed Wen Pin, who was beaten half-dead by Cao Hong, as the prefect of Jiangxia, and also let Cai Mao be the right governor, with full control of the Jingzhou navy.

All of this demonstrates Cao Cao's attitude of reconciliation.

But the head of the Cai family knew in his heart that since ancient times, the struggle for interests either overwhelms the west wind or overwhelms the east wind.

Cao Ren's suppression aroused the common hatred of the Northern Army. They pushed all the previous failures to the Jingzhou Army led by Zhang Yun, and all the difficult and dangerous corvee labor to them. The strict military discipline before was gone. The personal guards under the generals began to plunder the people of Jiangling under the condonation of the chief generals, and the conflicts between the two sides became increasingly deepening.

Cai Mao felt a little sad. He thought that Cao Cao would control the situation quickly after controlling Jingzhou. At that time, the world would be settled. He would be in the court as the leader of Jingzhou and even the entire Jiangnan faction, forming a faction with Kuai Yue, Fu Xun, Han Song and others, and spending his life in the court battle with the people in Jiangbei.

There are already many contradictions within Cao's army, because they have been winning before, and such contradictions have been temporarily shelved and hidden.

But the suppression of defeat now makes people breathless. This suspicion and entanglement will continue to deepen. It is not that Cao Cao can completely calm down just by saying a few words and a little softness.

Cai Mao knew that he could no longer be like before.

If you want us to be a dog for you, you must have the ability to be a master.

If you are not capable, you have to obediently listen to my Cai Mao's dispatch like Liu Jingsheng.

If you don’t listen to me, Cai Mao, still want to stay in Jingzhou? I want to see if you can do it!

On this day, Cao Hong's soldiers plundered the streets, and Cai Mao directly ordered Huang Zhong to fight. Several miscellaneous soldiers were not Huang Zhong's opponents, and they were beheaded one after another as soon as they confronted each other.

Cao Hong was shocked and immediately rushed to the streets with his personal soldiers.

When he saw that the murderer was an old man, he couldn't help but be furious. At least he still remembered Cao Cao's advice and was unwilling to fight with Cai Mao on the streets. However, Cai Mao first angrily scolded the Northern Army in front of the people, counted Cao Hong's tyranny, praised Huang Zhong for his chivalrous and brave martial arts. Finally, he sinisterly stated that enemies should be resolved rather than formed, and it would be better for Huang Zhong and Cao Hong to compete. Everyone got angry and vented their anger. Today's incident was pretending that it had never happened.

Although Cao Hong felt something was wrong, he was violent by nature and relied on Cao Cao's favor and was unscrupulous. How could he be willing to be suppressed by Cai Mao?

He immediately agreed to compete with Huang Zhong, staring at Cai Mao with a resentful look on his face and said in a cold voice:

"We are waiting for the warriors to compete. Life and death are fate, so don't blame Hong for being ruthless."

I believe most people can guess the results later.

Cao Hong was in his prime and had many battles. He thought that he could kill the old man in a short while fighting with swords, but he didn't expect that as soon as the two of them confronted each other, he immediately felt something was wrong.

The old man's sword technique is as continuous as a river striking the bank, as thick as a yin wind.

Cao Hong's sword skills were gradually chaotic after only three moves, and his whole body was sweating profusely.

He walked back while walking, just waiting to jump out of the circle to make peace, but unexpectedly, a idle man in the crowd stretched out his legs and tripped. Cao Hong yelled and fell to the ground immediately.

Huang Zhong resented Cao Hong's indulgence to commit murder in the street. He walked up with a sneer, threw the knife to the ground, and slowly squatted down, punched Cao Hong in the face with a heavy blow.

"Ah!" With a scream, Cao Hong's mouth broke his silver teeth, and the pain was so painful.

"Don't hurt brothers and be kind!" Cai Mao roared and rushed forward to pull Huang Zhong from behind.

Looking at Cao Hong with resentment and fear, the head of the Cai family grinned and squeezed out a trace of suppressed pride from his yellow teeth:

"What a person Liu Biao was back then? When he saw me, Cai Mao, he had to call me "Brother" respectfully.

What do you think? I have tolerated you all these days for Meng De's sake, so you really think I'm afraid of you.

Today I will teach you a lesson. If you offend me, the Cai family, you Jiangling will not be able to get out!"

Cai Mao pulled Huang Zhong away and winked at the surroundings.

Several idle men who had tripped Cao Hong before rushed forward, and suddenly fists and kicked Cao Hong, which made him scream in pain.

The personal guards who followed Cao Hong were shocked and drew their swords to rescue them. However, Huang Zhong raised his eyebrows and drew his sword to stop them. Cai Mao's personal guards also rushed forward, shouting "Don't be angry", pulling Huang Zhong and Cao Hong's personal guards away.

Poor Cao Hong, who had been following Cao Cao for many years, was beaten and screamed by a group of thugs, rolling on the ground, the people around him cheered and couldn't help but surround him and beat him. Cao Hong's limbs were broken, his ribs were broken, his expensive armor and swords were even snatched away by those thugs, and he lay naked on the street.

Cao Ren, who had already taken over Jiangling's defense, couldn't believe his ears. He quickly led Chang Diao and others to rush to the 500 guards. Looking at Cao Hong lying on the street, Cao Ren was angry and angry, drew his sword in his hand angrily, and his fierce eyes were staring at Cai Mao's face.

"Rebellion, rebellion. Is it true? Okay, let me see who dares to fight me, Cao Ren!"

Last time the Cao family was humiliated so much, Cao Cao slaughtered the entire Xu Bei. In a rage, Cao Ren immediately directed Chang Diao and others to attack and took Cai Mao's head.

How dare Chang Diao make things difficult for Cai Mao?

Cai Mao may not dare to kill Cao Ren, but Cao Hong's personal guard was killed in an instant and corpses were everywhere. Chang Diao was afraid that he would suffer such consequences.

His legs kept trembling, but he did not dare to disobey Cao Ren's orders. He could only draw the knife in his hand tremblingly and whisper:

"Cai, why did Cai Junhou hurt someone?"

Cai Mao looked surprised:

"Why are you tainting your innocence out of thin air? Everyone just saw that it was Zilian who wanted to compete with Brother Han Sheng, and he also said that life and death are destined to be loyal and there is no complaints.

Later, Zi Lian's personal guard wanted to go forward and commit a crime, but Cai's personal guard stopped him so that he would not meet him.

But at this time, I saw that Zi Lian was dressed in luxury and took the opportunity to rob him. I was always no wonder that I was on my head."

Cao Ren cursed:

"Fart! Those who beat Zi Lian are clearly the idle in the army! Do you dare to deny it?"

Cai Mao widened his eyes and said:

"There is such a thing? OK, the one who beats people must be some traitors. I will quickly break them. I will also compensate Zi Lian for his injuries."

As he said that, Cai Mao actually took out a long string of copper coins from his sleeve and walked to Cao Hong casually.

He raised his hand and the copper coins fell one after another, landing on Cao Hong's face.

The falling copper coins hit Cao Hong's face, and the blood-faced Cao's general's eyelids moved, and a trace of tears slowly emerged.

Cao Ren stared at the scene in front of him in a daze, and the anger, frustration and grief in his heart rushed towards his forehead.

He slowly stood up, his dark and cold eyes immediately covered with a layer of red blood.

Cao Ren knew that he was far from invincible in the world, but he absolutely could not see his brother being so humiliated in front of him.

I am a wanderer and a slut. No matter what great cause you are, I will kill the person in front of you first.

"Ahhh!" Cao Ren's roar was earth-shaking, and the beast's severely injured roar and bloody saliva splashed everywhere, but no one dared to laugh out loud.

The next moment, a silver-bright cold light appeared in Cai Mao's eyes.

That is Cao Ren’s steel knife!

"Die for me!!!"

Cao Ren was desperate and was invincible. Huang Zhong did not expect that Cao Ren, who had lost his mind, would be so powerful. He wanted to help Cai Mao with a knife, but he was a little slower after all.

Seeing that Cai Mao was about to be blood-stained on the spot, Chang Diao, who had been hesitating before, suddenly rushed out, hugged Cao Ren's waist with the side, and wailed loudly:

"General, stay, general! Do not kill people! Do not kill people!"

Chang Diao's screams restored a hint of clarity in Cao Ren's eyes, and Huang Zhong rushed over to protect Cai Mao.

Looking at the sharp steel knife in Cao Ren's hand, Cai Mao was sweating all over.

He gasped heavily, knowing that he had walked through the moment of life and death, and subconsciously bit his lips.

"Mao has been as timid as a mouse since childhood, so he really dare not stay here for a long time.

I will go to the army to handle some military affairs first. If General Cao wants to kill me, even if he comes with the Prime Minister's order, he will never resist!"

As he said that, Cai Mao quickly waved his sleeves and ran away and disappeared.

Everyone looked at each other and couldn't help but breathe a breath of turbid air.

It's too dangerous. If it weren't stopped in time, it would almost lead to a disaster.

Cao Ren also let out a breath of turbid air, threw the knife to the ground with regret, looked at Chang Diao with complicated eyes, and finally reached out and patted him on the back.

"It's not too late for a gentleman to take revenge for ten years! We'll deal with it later."

"Who can kill Cai Mao? I guarantee him to be the general!"

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A storm finally subsided, but everyone didn't know that a bigger storm would come soon.

A few days later, the grain transport ship from Xiangyang arrived on the riverside. A young general named Yunshan slowly walked down. Feeling the warm winter sun, he narrowed his eyes slightly.

"Gangling, I'm back."

"Why does it feel... strange here?"
Chapter completed!