Chapter 357 Undercurrents, Challenge Taishi Ci

Seven days later, Gu Rubing arrived outside Xiangyang City. Gu Rubing, Tai Shici, and twenty cavalry slowly approached the city. The other 480 cavalry had been sent out by Tai Shici to set up defenses around the entire Xiangyang City. Once there is any trouble, they can immediately find it and pass it on to Gu Rubing, so that Gu Rubing can prepare.

Liu Biao opened the main gate of Xiangyang City and greeted Gu Rubing at the gate. After seeing Gu Rubing arriving, Liu Biao immediately stepped forward.

"Brother Xuande, welcome to Jingzhou."

Liu Biao cupped his hands and greeted Gu Rubing. Gu Rubing, without the airs of a great prince, got off his horse and cupped his hands in the same way.

"Brother Jingsheng, please come here to greet me. It's too much trouble."

"Hahahaha, Xuande, what are you talking about? Your brother and I were able to take over Nanchang County without spending a single soldier. It was all thanks to you. Speaking of which, I have to thank you. "

At this moment, Liu Biao just had to express his joy by hugging Gu Rubing. Gu Rubing smiled and waved.

"It's just a little effort, brother Jing Sheng, there's no need to be so polite."

"Hey, Xuande, that's wrong. You're wrong to say that. You exchanged my half of Yuzhang County for Jiujiang County and Lujiang County, and you used your own interests to exchange for my brother's interests. Brother, I will remember this love in my heart!”

As Liu Biao spoke, he wanted to reach out and scratch his back, but he immediately realized that he was wearing fine clothes, which was no different from scratching an itch, so he could only take his hand back.

"Let's go to the city and tell you. I've already asked people to prepare a banquet at my house to welcome the wind and wash away the dust."

Liu Biao turned around and led the way, with Gu Rubing following closely behind, and Tai Shici behind, helping Gu Rubing lead the horse.

Liu Biao's abnormal behavior just now was noticed by Gu Rubing, and he immediately thought of something. You must know that Liu Biao died of gangrene on his back in history. Looking at Liu Biao's back now, although it was covered by clothes, he was still It can be seen that there are already several raised bulges on the back.

This is the first stage of gangrene on the back. In the early stage, the back will be red, swollen and lumpy, with miliary pus heads. At the initial stage, it is just an itch that goes deep into the skin. If left alone, it will spread to the surrounding and deep parts, becoming bigger and bigger. , there will be more and more pus heads, and it will be more itchy, accompanied by burning and painful feelings.

Now Liu Biao is probably in the final stage of the initial stage, and is about to enter the second stage of back gangrene, which is the ulceration stage. Once it enters the ulceration stage, the condition will develop at an extremely fast speed. With the current medical treatment It can be said that the conditions are difficult to save. Only by properly dealing with the pustules and pus flowing out of his back, as well as the rotten flesh left after the abscess on his back. Only when these are dealt with can Liu Biao be saved.

In the world today, Hua Tuo is probably the only one who can save Liu Biao, but Gu Rubing is not so kind. When he asked him for help in times of crisis before, he also took advantage of Gu Rubing's crisis to open his mouth, and No actual action is taken.

If it weren't for Zhuge Liang's tricks that forced Liu Biao to take action, Liu Biao would have stood by and watched Gu Rubing, so now Gu Rubing has no sympathy for Liu Biao.

Liu Biao took Gu Rubing and his entourage to his governor's mansion, where a banquet was being held to greet Gu Rubing. Gu Rubing looked around the crowd, but could not find the person he imagined.

"Xuande, what's wrong?"

"Nothing, nothing."

Gu Rubing was pulled by Liu Biao to sit down, and Taishi Ci was also pulled aside by Cai Mao and started drinking.

In the early hours of that night, Liu Biao and the others let Gu Rubing go. Gu Rubing and the others were arranged to live in Liu Biao's house. As soon as Gu Rubing entered the room, he saw a beautiful woman sitting on the bed. She looked like she was only ten years old. With an aged look, Gu Rubing's smell of alcohol dissipated in an instant.

Although he knew that marriage and other things were relatively early in their era, Gu Rubing would never be able to do it to a teenage girl.

After driving the woman out of the room, a figure appeared at the corner where Gu Rubing put her. The woman shook her head at the figure at the corner, and the figure disappeared into the darkness again.

After Gu Rubing lay on the bed, his original drunken appearance no longer existed. What a joke, the wine at this time was not purified, and the alcohol content was low. In his previous life, he drank with his boss, and the aroma of more than 50 degrees of sauce could be cured. Two kilograms, how could these small drinks make him drunk?

Just now, Gu Rubing felt that someone had been following him. The person was very careful and did not let Gu Rubing see his appearance. It was not until just now when Gu Rubing came in that he saw the person, Liu Biao's brother-in-law Cai Mao. !

Historically, there is no dispute that Liu Biao died of gangrene on his back, but there is controversy about how Liu Biao got gangrene on his back. The most widely accepted version is that Cai Mao and Liu Biao's concubine Cai Shi , drugged Liu Biao, and Liu Biao got gangrene on his back.

As for the reason, there are also different opinions, but most people agree that Cai Hao and Cai Shi drugged Liu Biao in order to let Liu Cong succeed Liu Biao and squeeze out Liu Qi.

Gu Rubing was lying on the bed. There was another secret thing that Zhuge Liang told him before he came to Jingzhou. That is, Liu Qi had gone to Wolongpo in Nanyang County to find him and asked Zhuge Liang to give him advice so that he could survive the joint slander of Cai Mao and Cai's family. However, Zhuge Liang did not give a plan, but just told him that there would be someone to help him solve all the problems, and then that person would help him to secure the position of Jingzhou governor.

This is the brilliance of Zhuge Liang. He had paved the way for entering Jingzhou early. If he entered directly, it would definitely make Liu Biao's old subordinates feel uncomfortable. However, if he supported Liu Biao as the governor of Jingzhou, everything would be different, especially Liu Qi was still very loved by Liu Biao's subordinates. This is why Cai Mao and Cai's family have been suppressing Liu Qi.

It can be said that Zhuge Liang has planned everything for Gu Rubing. Gu Rubing only needs to follow Zhuge Liang's arrangements and go step by step.

Thinking of this, Gu Rubing stopped thinking and turned to sleep.

On the other side of the governor's mansion, in a room, there was another person tossing and turning, unable to sleep all night.

The next day, Liu Biao came to wake Gu Rubing up early in the morning. Gu Rubing was speechless. Before entering the game, he worked 996 hours a day for survival. After entering the game, he still had to work 996 hours a day for the sake of the great cause. But why should he be forced to work 996 hours a day just to relax?

After having breakfast with Liu Biao's civil and military officials, they came to the training ground of the Jingzhou Army. There were two people waiting here. When Gu Rubing saw them, he immediately guessed their identities.

Huang Zu, Huang Zhong!

Unexpectedly, Liu Biao even specially transferred the two back from Jiangxia and Yuzhang. After seeing Liu Biao and his group, the two also came forward.

"Hello, lord. Hello, uncle Liu."

The two men greeted Liu Biao and Gu Rubing in turn. Gu Rubing returned the greeting with a smile. This scene immediately made Huang Zu and Huang Zhong have a better impression of Liu Bei. After all, they had only heard of uncle Liu's reputation for benevolence and righteousness before. Now that they saw him, they found that he was almost the same as the rumors, which made people feel good about him.

"Xuan De, these are two generals under my command. Huang Zu and Han Sheng are my right-hand men, just like Cai Mao."

Liu Biao smiled and introduced the two to Gu Rubing, who immediately bowed.

"I have heard that the Jiangxia Huang family has an uncle and nephew who are in the same battle. They are invincible. Today, I see that they are indeed far beyond ordinary people."

"I have always heard of uncle Liu's reputation for benevolence and righteousness. Today I finally get to see him."

The few people smiled at each other. The few people who were not familiar with each other originally, under the operation of Gu Rubing's high emotional intelligence, have talked about everything in a few quarters of an hour.

While chatting and laughing, several people came to the school platform, and Liu Biao introduced his Jingzhou army to Gu Rubing.

"Xuan De, this is just the garrison army in Jingzhou, 20,000 archers, 50,000 cavalry, and 50,000 infantry. In addition, there are generals stationed in other counties, among which Huang Zu's Jiangxia County and Han Sheng's Yuzhang County are the main ones. Jiangxia County has 80,000 troops and Yuzhang County has 50,000 troops. My Jingzhou has a full 300,000 troops! Where I point is the direction of their war!"

Liu Biao said passionately, and the whole person was full of confidence, and Gu Rubing also echoed.

"Brother Jingsheng's troops are really a group of tigers and wolves."

Gu Rubing naturally knew what Liu Biao meant by this move today. This was to show him his fangs and tell him that even if he didn't help him take Nanchang, he could still do it.

It is not necessary to guess that Cai must have whispered in Liu Biao's ear last night, otherwise Liu Biao would never have changed his attitude. As for why, it must be that he found out from what happened last night that Gu Rubing was not someone they could easily control, so he was anxious to let Liu Biao make his position clear.

Thinking of this, Gu Rubing shook his head. With such a clumsy method, he was able to keep Liu Biao in the dark. Liu Biao's death was not unjust.

"Xuan De, I heard that your generals are very powerful and each of them is a match for thousands of enemies on the battlefield. I believe that this general who can escort you alone is the best among them, right?"

Liu Biao cast his eyes on Taishi Ci. The meaning is self-evident. First, he raised the generals under Gu Rubing. I am afraid that the next step is to let his generals challenge Taishi Ci.

As expected, Liu Biao spoke immediately.

"All the generals under my command are arrogant and look down on everyone. Why don't you, Xuande, let this general fight with them for a few moves? So that they all know that there are always people who are better than you!"

"Okay, Ziyi, then you fight with them for a few moves!"

Gu Rubing emphasized the word "two moves" very much, and Taishi Ci immediately understood and smiled brightly.

"Since the lord and the governor have spoken, how can I not obey."

Taishi Ci stood in the middle of the parade ground with a big knife in his hand, a big bow on his back, and a pair of halberds on his waist. Seeing this, Liu Biao smiled happily.

"Anyone who can defeat this general will be rewarded with 100 taels of gold!"

As soon as Liu Biao said this, countless people swarmed out.

"I'll do it!"

"Let me do it!"

...

"Come one by one! Come one by one!"

Liu Biao said, but it was difficult to resist the temptation of 100 taels of gold for them.

"No need to go one by one, come together!"

Taishi Ci stood in the center of the training ground, speaking even more arrogantly.

"Too arrogant!"

"Brothers, come together!"

Hundreds of soldiers rushed towards Taishi Ci together, but the generals did not move. After all, their status was there. It was understandable for the soldiers to attack together, but if the generals followed suit, it would be a bit unreasonable.

Facing a group fight, the broadsword was obviously better than the hand halberd. Taishi Ci turned the handle of the sword so that the blade was facing up and faced the enemy with the blade. More than 200 soldiers who rushed forward only lasted less than a hundred breaths under Taishi Ci's hands before they were all knocked down by Taishi Ci. After all, they were just some ordinary soldiers, and the gap between them and Taishi Ci was like a world of mud and mud.

Seeing more than 200 people defeated so quickly, Liu Biao's face froze, but soon recovered as usual.

"Hahaha, good! He is worthy of being a general under Xuande, so brave! Which general is willing to challenge this general? The winner will be rewarded with 100 gold! The official will be promoted one level!"

As Liu Biao increased the rewards, many generals could not hold back.

"Deputy Commander of Xiangyang City Defense Army, Chen Li, challenge the general!"

A man walked out of the crowd, a general who used a broadsword. Taishi Ci turned the blade of the broadsword in his hand again, and then waved at him, signaling him to attack. The man did not hesitate, dragging the sword with both hands, running quickly, and then jumped high, trying to chop Taishi Ci with force.

Taishi Ci did not move his hand holding the sword, but just stepped back with one foot, shifting his center of gravity, and then raised the other foot and kicked the general who was chopping at him. The man did not react and was kicked several meters away by Taishi Ci, and then knelt on the ground and could not stand up for a long time.

Liu Biao's smile froze on his face. This city defense commander was a top third-rate general under his command. It was not an exaggeration to say that he was the strongest third-rate general under his command. Facing Liu Bei's generals, he was defeated in one move, and the opponent did not even use weapons.

"I'm here to challenge you!"

After beating the deputy commander, the commander would not sit idly by, and he was Chen Li's brother, so he jumped on his horse.

"I'm better at horse fighting, how about you?"

"Just ride your horse!"

Taishi Ci was still as calm as before, and after hearing this, the commander was no longer polite, and drove his horse forward, waving his spear, and Taishi Ci stared at the opponent. At the moment when the opponent's spear was about to hit him, Taishi Ci just tilted his body slightly and dodged the opponent's attack, and then kicked out again, this time with more force than the last time, and kicked the horse's belly firmly.

The horse weighing hundreds of pounds was kicked over by a kick, and the commander on the horse was naturally doomed, and fell heavily to the ground. Before he could stand up, a big knife was already on his neck.

"I lost."

The whole place was silent. He first knocked down the deputy commander with one kick, and then kicked over the warhorse and the commander. This record was really exaggerated. Only Huang Zu and Huang Zhong looked calm. As top generals and veterans, they could see something.

Taishi Ci was not serious at all. He was more like playing with a child.

"Jiangxia governor, Huang Zu, come and experience the general's martial arts."