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"You don't want to sell me to my master, do you?" Liu Bian asked.

When he was in Wolong Village, he learned a lot about Zhuge Tian "selling" people.

Honestly, this suggestion is quite tempting.

But think about it, Zhang Jue is said to be in Chang'an now.

Whether he took Liu Bian there himself or asked Zhang Jue to send money, it seemed unrealistic.

Moreover, this guy Liu Bian is different from the previous "tickets".

If people knew that I brought him back to Wolong Village, I would probably be in a lot of trouble again.

Finally, Zhuge Tian could only shake his head and say, "You're too hard to sell. How about I just kill you?"

Liu Bian was stunned. He even felt that what Zhuge Tian said might be true.

He quickly said, "How about I exchange a piece of information for my freedom?"

"News?" Zhuge Tian thought for a moment and said, "Tell me first, let me see if your news is really valuable."

Liu Bian: "..."

"If you didn't think it was that valuable, not only would you not let me go, but you would also get the information for free?"

"Don't worry, you've been to Wolong Village before, so you should know that I'm a fair and honest person in business."

Liu Bian thought about it and it seemed to be true.

Although Zhuge Tian is greedy for money, he never makes money that does not belong to him.

So he said, "Master has allied with Yuan Shao and will soon attack Cao Cao's capital, Xu."

"Union with Yuan Shao? Will Yuan Shao join forces with your master?"

Zhuge Tian was a little skeptical.

Later records in history books showed that Yuan Shao had great ambitions but little talent.

But in fact, he is also a very arrogant person, and it is hard to imagine that he would cooperate with Zhang Jue and those alien races.

"Because his Youzhou and part of Qingzhou were conquered by the Wuhuan and Xianbei we sent. And my master promised that if he joins forces with us, the north and east of the Central Plains will belong to him, and the west and south will belong to us."

"So why do you think this information is valuable?" Zhuge Tian asked curiously, "I'm not Cao Cao's man."

"Also, if you reveal this information to me, aren't you afraid that I will tell Cao Cao?"

"Since I dare to say it, I'm naturally not afraid!"

"Haha." Zhuge Liang smiled and said, "I'm afraid what you hope most is that we tell Cao Cao this news, so that Cao Cao will definitely be on guard."

"Yuan Shao will also pay a greater price. For you, a mutual defeat is what you want to see, right? As for dividing the territory and ruling it, it's just a pie in the sky."

Liu Bian did not answer this question. He just looked at Zhuge Tian and said, "You should be able to get a good price for selling this information to Cao Cao. Otherwise, if he is attacked by Yuan Shao while he is attacking Chang'an, it will be very disastrous."

"Ah..." Zhuge Tian sighed: "You tacticians, you have really dirty hearts!"

But thinking about it, Liu Bian would not lose out if he got this news: "Tell your men to throw out all their weapons, and I will let you go."

"Why..." Liu He, who was restrained by Zhao Yun, just opened his mouth when Zhuge Tian suddenly threw the dagger in his hand and stabbed it into his thigh.

"Why do you like to interrupt so much?"

"Woo!" Liu He didn't expect Zhuge Tian to throw out a knife without saying anything. He wanted to reach out to pull it out, but he felt a heat on his neck.

The spear in Zhao Yun's hand moved forward slightly and pierced the skin on his neck.

Zhuge Tian took two steps forward, pulled out his dagger, and wiped it clean on Liu He's pants.

Then he turned around and said to Liu Bian: "Does your subordinate really want you to die?"

"Why else would he be so talkative? We don't have that much time to waste with you. Tell your men to throw out their weapons immediately."

Liu Bian saw the dagger in Zhuge Tian's hand shining with cold light and swallowed his saliva.

Just now, he saw Zhuge Tian talking to him with a smile, but then he stabbed Liu He's thigh with a knife.

Glaring at Liu He, Liu Bian shouted, "Just as they said, throw away all your weapons!"

These people were led by Liu Bian, and since he had said so, they had no choice but to do as he said.

Zhuge Tian asked Liao Hua and others to put away all these weapons. Although they were not very valuable, even the smallest mosquito was still meat.

And taking away their weapons can prevent them from catching up.

Zhuge Tian took a look inside the mountain and thought that there were probably about seven or eight thousand people in total, including the archers who were ambushing them.

Even if he joined forces with Gan Ning, it would not be easy to deal with so many people.

As soon as these weapons were confiscated, Gan Ning hurried over with his men.

When he saw the signal flares here, he started rushing over here. Now he saw that Zhuge Tian and the others were fine, he breathed a sigh of relief.

"Who is this kid?" Gan Ning asked when he saw Liu Bian next to Zhuge Tian.

"Liu Bian."

"Oh!" Gan Ning nodded, then was stunned: "He is Liu Bian?"

"What's wrong? Do you know him?"

"Who doesn't know this?"

After all, he was the previous emperor, although he only served for a few days.

"So, what are you doing..." Looking at Liu Bian's embarrassed appearance, and then watching Liao Hua and the others collecting the weapons, Gan Ning asked blankly, "Did you kidnap him?"

"Am I that kind of person?" Zhuge Tian said angrily, "He set up a trap to capture Kong Ming and the others, then deliberately forced us to split up and lure us here. It's just that we were lucky enough to catch him."

Zhuge Tian looked at the sky and said, "Let's go back now. I'm afraid it will rain again."

He didn't want to get caught in the rain in the mountains at night, so he hurried back to Cai Mao's camp.

Then he left Liu Bian behind and led his men down the mountain.

"Just let him go like that?"

After walking a distance, Liao Hua asked doubtfully, "He's Zhang Jiao's apprentice now. I'm afraid the world will be changed because of them."

"Haha." Zhuge Tian smiled slightly: "Zhang Jiao may be quite capable, but this Liu Bian..."

After hesitating for a moment and thinking about his words, Zhuge Tiancai said, "Well... he's just a rookie. If Zhang Jiao completed 80% of the plan without him, it would probably only be 60% with him."

"It's better to keep him than to kill him or capture him."

Zhuge Liang nodded and said, "Zhang Jue probably wants to take advantage of his status, but now that they have entered Chang'an, Zhang Jue has Liu Xie in his hands. I'm afraid Liu Bian's status will be somewhat different."

"Yes, after all, Liu Xie is the current emperor. This Liu Bian is so stupid that he doesn't know it. He even thinks he is very impressive for being an undercover agent in Wolong Village!"

In the eyes of Zhuge Tian and others, Liu Bian was just a little clever, but he was more likely to cause trouble than to accomplish anything.

Moreover, if one does not have a strong will, it is difficult to achieve great things.

Otherwise, Zhuge Tian would not let him go so easily.

It took a lot longer to go up the mountain because we had to search all the way.

They went down the mountain all the way, and it started raining again when it was getting dark.

It starts to get dark in the forest at around four or five o'clock.

However, the rain was not heavy, and the dense forest temporarily blocked the raindrops.

When we were almost at the foot of the mountain, it was already dark and the rain was getting heavier.

The lit torches were immediately extinguished by the rain.

Fortunately, Zhuge Tian and his team brought several high-powered flashlights. Several people at the front, middle and back of the team used flashlights to illuminate the road and began to advance in the rain.

"Huh?" Just as they were about to return to Cai Mao's camp, Zhuge Tian and the others were suddenly stunned.

Because Cai Mao’s camp was gone.

It wasn't that they evacuated, but that the place where they originally camped was flooded.

You can still see some items left from the tents.

"This..." Several people looked at each other, and Zhuge Liang frowned and said, "Although Cai Mao doesn't have any great skills, he still knows the basics of marching and setting up camp."

"This place seems to be close to water, but not too close."

"That's right." Zhuge Tian had been to this camp and described the situation at that time.

Zhuge Liang recalled the terrain nearby in his memory and was suddenly shocked.

"This... I'm afraid someone diverted the Xiang River and flooded Cai Mao's camp."

Although Cai Mao's camp was by the river, the terrain was not too low.

"Redirect the Xiang River?"

"Well, there's been a lot of rain lately, and the Xiang River is rising. There's a dam not far upstream. But if we dig up the dam..."

Zhuge Liang stopped talking here.

He really couldn't understand who would do this.

Even if the water could flood Cai Mao's military camp, the change of course of the Xiangjiang River would be an even greater disaster for the people living downstream.

"The only one capable of causing trouble here is probably Zhang Xian."

Zhuge Tian took a deep breath. "With so many of Liu Bian's men active around here, I'm guessing Zhang Xian has already defected to them. I don't know if this strategy came from Zhang Jue or Huan Jie. I think it was Huan Jie."

They still underestimated Zhang Jue a little. Now, considering what Liu Bian said, if Zhang Jue allied with Yuan Shao, they would definitely need someone behind Jingzhou to restrain Liu Biao.

The Zhang family, which has a high reputation in Changsha, Guiyang and Lingling counties, is the best candidate.

"Not good!" Zhuge Liang suddenly said, "Zhang Xian will attack Cai Mao, probably because he doesn't want Xiangyang to know the news here too early."

"We were captured, and Zhang Xian knew Liu Bian was here with so many people. He knew he was involved, so he flooded Cai Mao's camp. I'm afraid the next step will be to encircle and suppress us!"

As soon as Zhuge Liang finished speaking, a sentry came to report that a large group of cavalry were chasing them.

It will arrive in more than ten minutes at most.

"Form a battle line!" Zhuge Tian and his men came by boat and didn't have many horses.

Besides, it was raining and the roads were slippery, so there was no way they could outrun the cavalry.

Fortunately, this is a high ground, and they can only line up here to defend.

Xu Chu and his men took out something similar to a Luoyang shovel from behind their backs.

This thing was developed by the villagers specifically for digging horse pits.

Stick it in the soil and pull it out, and there will be a small hole with a diameter of about ten centimeters and a depth of about twenty centimeters.

Don't underestimate this little pit.

If the warhorse's hoof stepped into it while it was running, there would be only one result.

It means a broken horse hoof.

More than 200 people dug thousands of such small pits in front of the formation in just a few minutes.

Then Liao Hua began to lead his men to spread the caltrops they had brought with them to places where it was difficult to dig holes.

This was also made by Wolong Village specifically to deal with cavalry.

But they didn't bring much this time, and several small boxes filled with caltrops were dumped on the road by Liao Hua and his men.

After doing all this, the large group of cavalry had arrived.

"Zhuge Tian, ​​don't hide. We know you are on this hill!"

Huan Jie's triumphant voice came from below:

"The lighting you used all the way down the mountain was so visible from a distance. We've been waiting for you here for a long time!"

At this time, Zhuge Tian and his men were on the top of the mountain. They had already turned off all the lights. The entire mountain was pitch black and it was drizzling.

Huan Jie's shouting sounded like a one-man show.

"Hmph, Zhuge Tian, ​​if you surrender today, our lord said that he can spare your life."

"It's a pity it's too dark down there. I can't see where this guy is." Zhao Yun said regretfully, "Otherwise, I would have killed him in seconds!"

Huan Jie saw that there was no movement on the mountain, but at the beginning, someone had been following Zhuge Tian and his men's lights from a distance, and Zhuge Tian and his men had also turned on all their flashlights when they were setting up defense.

Although I don’t know what Zhuge Tian and the others are doing, I can be sure that they are staying on this mountain and have not left.

"Go ahead! If you see Zhuge Tian, ​​capture him alive!"

Huan Jie waved his hand and the cavalry around him rushed forward.

The leader was none other than Liu He, whom Zhuge Tian and his friends met today.

But besides the bandage on his thigh, half of his face was also swollen.

That was the slap Liu Bian gave him after Zhuge Tian and the others left to make him know the rules.

Liu He didn't dare to get angry with Liu Bian, so he could only blame Zhuge Tian and others.

He rushed forward angrily with his men.

"puff……"

The horses' hooves were so chaotic that Liu He naturally didn't hear the sound of the warhorse under his crotch stepping into the horse pit.

But the warhorse's hoof broke, and it fell down with a wail.

Liu He was also thrown off his horse.

As luck would have it, it landed right where Liao Hua had dropped the caltrops.

Among the four sharp corners of the caltrop, one is always pointing upwards.

Liu He pounced on it and penetrated deeply into the flesh.

He just let out a scream and tried to get up in a panic when he was knocked down by another cavalryman flying from behind.

This time Liu He lay there quietly, motionless.

"Turn on the lights!" Zhuge Tian shouted.

Several flashlights with a brightness of one thousand lumens were directly pushed to the maximum gear.

The oncoming cavalry seemed to have seen the sun, their eyes were dazzled and they could not see anything.

Not only them, but also the horses they ride are the same.

Temporary blindness and the traps on the ground caused many cavalrymen to lose their sense of direction.

People were in a panic and some of them bumped into each other.

"Fire arrows!"

Many soldiers in Wolong Village were equipped with bows and arrows. Today, Zhuge Tian and his men confiscated weapons from Liu Bian's men, including a large number of bows and arrows.

This comes in handy at this time.

There's no need to aim anyway. Those cavalrymen are just a few dozen steps away and are in a mess. Just draw your bow, put your arrow on it, and let go!

Unfortunately, Zhang Xian was full of hatred towards Zhuge Tian.

There were more than 10,000 cavalrymen coming this time.

The traps they set in haste only made the cavalry lose their impact.

After a chaos of people and horses, many cavalrymen found that they could not charge forward on horseback for the time being, so they simply abandoned their horses and rushed forward with their weapons.

"Get ready for battle!"