Chapter 153 Are we clowns? Struggling to death, killing! The Zhuge family is lucky to have such a divine son-in-law!

Huang Gai looked at Liu Bei sitting high up on the throne, his eyes full of confusion.

Didn't we agree that when I stole Sun Ce's grain ship and returned, you, Liu Bei, would welcome me with open arms?

How come halfway through the journey, Gan Ning suddenly turned against me, shot me into the river with an arrow, turned me into a drowned chicken, and captured all of my more than 50 grain ships?

In this drama directed by Mei Zhoulang, you, Liu Bei, performed well in the beginning. But when it was about to be finalized, you suddenly threw away the script and started acting randomly?

"Huang Gai, didn't you say you were going to steal Sun Ce's food and come to submit to me?"

"How do you explain the boat full of firewood and kerosene?"

Liu Bei, who was sitting high up, finally spoke coldly.

Huang Gai's body was shocked and he suddenly woke up completely.

The secret of the grain ship had been exposed, which meant that Liu Bei had clearly seen through his intention of pretending to surrender but actually launching a fire attack.

Could it be that the overall situation that Zhou Yu had carefully laid out had been discovered by Liu Bei?

"Impossible. Zhou Lang's plan is flawless and unprecedented. Liu Bei has clearly fallen into the trap. How could he have seen through it?"

"Even if it's Xiao Fang, there's no way he can figure it out!"

Huang Gai's thoughts immediately started to stir, and he forced himself to deny the thought that flashed through his mind.

Then his face suddenly changed color, his eyes widened, and he glared at Zhuge Jin angrily.

"Zhuge Jin, how dare you betray your lord~~"

Huang Gai roared at Zhuge Jin in a hoarse voice, his eyes bulging out.

In a state of desperation, he thought Zhuge Jin had betrayed him, so he leaked the secret of his plan of feigning surrender and launching a fire attack to Liu Bei.

As soon as he said this, Huang Gai suddenly realized that something was wrong.

Zhuge Jin was just a chess piece in Zhou Yu's chess game. He had never participated in their conspiracy from beginning to end, so how could he betray him?
now.

Zhuge Jin, who was originally in a daze and confusion, finally came to his senses.

There is irrefutable evidence that the grain ship was not loaded with grain but kerosene.

Huang Gai's angry roar and questioning was tantamount to his personal admission of his plot to feign surrender.

In other words, Huang Gai treated him like a fool from the very beginning, tricking him into saying he wanted to surrender to Liu Bei, and using his relationship with Xiao Fang to express his intention to surrender to Liu Bei.

Huang Gai's real intention was to launch a fire attack on Liu Bei under the pretext of feigning surrender!

The more Zhuge Jin thought about it, the angrier he became.

"Huang Gai!"

"I respect you as a veteran general from Jiangdong and treat you with sincerity. Why do you want to play tricks on me and use me to pretend to surrender to Envoy Liu?"

Zhuge Jin, this honest man, finally exploded. He jumped up and pointed at Huang Gai and scolded him.

This roar also proved that it was indeed not Zhuge Jin who betrayed him, but Liu Bei had seen through his plan of false surrender long ago!

But Zhou Yu's plan was so ingenious, how could Liu Bei see through it?

Huang Gai ignored Zhuge Jin's questioning, turned his head tremblingly, and looked in surprise at the young scholar who was gently waving a feather fan beside Liu Bei.

"Xiao Fang, he must be that Xiao Fang."

"Could it be that he saw through my false surrender?"

"But how did he see through it? Zhou Lang's plan was flawless, how could he possibly see through it?"

Huang Gai's head was buzzing and he looked at Xiao Fang in disbelief.

Liu Bei stood up and slowly walked up to Huang Gai. He stood with his hands behind his back and looked down at the stunned and dazed old body in front of him.

"Huang Gai, since the confrontation between Sun Ce and I, the military advisor has already calculated that Zhou Yu will definitely offer Sun Ce the plan of fire attack in order to achieve a quick victory."

"You deceived Zi Yu into surrendering in order to lull me into a state of complacency, so that you could sneak up on me and launch your fire ships under the pretext of stealing grain."

"Zhou Yu's beating of you with dozens of military sticks was just a self-torture tactic. You just wanted me to believe it and not be able to find the flaws in your false surrender!"

Huang Gai's body began to tremble, and the look he gave Xiao Fang gradually became one of disbelief.

How could Xiao Fang see through such a perfect strategy of self-torture?
Zhou Yu's plan of attacking was actually figured out by Xiao Fang from the very beginning?

What kind of horrible strategy is this?

Is he a demon with the third eye?
Endless fearful thoughts roared in Huang Gai's mind, and he gasped for cold air.

"And there is Lu Xun who came to offer the plan of linking the boats with iron chains."

"My military advisor Jinglue had already predicted that Lu Xun was forced to come to the north bank to feign surrender and offer advice because Sun Ce threatened the lives of the Lu family."

"This iron chain connecting the ships plan is to allow me to connect all my warships with iron chains, so that when you launch a fire attack, my warships will not be able to disperse in time."

"The military advisor has predicted that this plan was also the work of Zhou Yu!"

Liu Bei's tone was cold and sarcastic, revealing the mystery of the chain of schemes.

Huang Gai felt as if he had been hit on the head by a heavy hammer. He was half-kneeling on the ground, trying to hold up his body, but suddenly he felt so weak that he could no longer hold on and fell directly to his knees on the ground.

"Impossible, this is impossible!"

"Gong Jin's plan is impeccable and unprecedented. How could he have seen through it?"

"There can't be such a wise person in this world, it's impossible~~"

Huang Gai muttered to himself in a trembling voice, his face as pale as paper. He tried desperately to stand up, but he had no strength.

"As for your delay in surrendering, you are simply waiting for a southeast wind so that you can use it to launch a fire attack."

"Today, the southeast wind suddenly blew up, and the military advisor predicted that you would come here to pretend to surrender. Now it has turned out to be just as the military advisor predicted."

Liu Bei also revealed the mystery of the southeast wind, which became the last straw that broke the camel's back.

Huang Gai, who was already seriously injured, vomited a stream of blood after hearing these words. He desperately supported himself on the ground with both hands, trying hard to keep himself from falling down.

The truth is cruel, but it is still the truth.

At this point, even if Huang Gai was unwilling to believe it, he had to accept this cruel fact.

Zhou Lang, who was regarded by Sun Ce as the reincarnation of Zhang Liang, had used his entire life's wisdom to set up this shocking situation, but it was indeed seen through by Xiao Fang.

From self-torture to false surrender to a series of schemes, and even his plan to launch a fire attack tonight, every step was under Xiao Fang's control.

It's ridiculous that all of them, whether it's Sun Ce or Zhou Yu, worked so hard to plot, thinking that their plan was perfect, but they turned out to be clowns!
In the current situation, it is obvious that Liu Bei was well prepared. If Sun Ce and Zhou Yu led their troops to attack, wouldn't that be walking into a trap?

Aren't the 40,000 Jiangdong troops in danger of being overthrown?

Sun Ce's plan to capture Jingzhou and completely control the Yangtze River will also fail.

And his wishful thinking of returning home in glory and settling accounts with his old officials in Lingling, had it all become a wishful thinking and a joke?

The more Huang Gai thought about it, the more desperate he became. Endless grief and anger burned wildly in his eyes.

"Bofu is the Lord of Heaven, how could he be defeated by a mat weaver and shoe seller like you!"

"Liu Bei, I'm going to kill you—"

Huang Gai suddenly let out a dying roar like a trapped beast, and with strength seemingly coming from nowhere, he leaped up angrily with his broken body.

He pulled out the arrow that was stuck in his body, raised the blood arrow in his hand, and rushed towards Liu Bei.

Everyone around was shocked. They did not expect that Huang Gai, who was seriously injured, would do such a thing.

Everyone started to move and rushed forward to protect Liu Bei.

Liu Bei, however, stood with his hands behind his back, his eyes as calm as a mountain, and was not at all flustered by Huang Gai's sudden attack.

Because Gan Ning is by my side.

really.

The moment Huang Gai jumped up, Gan Ning's sword was already unsheathed. Before Huang Gai could rush to Liu Bei, the sword had pierced Huang Gai's back.

With a scream, Huang Gai fell to the ground and could not move anymore.

His face was pressed against the ground, his eyes looking directly at Xiao Fang, with endless despair and resentment in his eyes.

"Gongjin, Gongjin, how could you be defeated by a country bumpkin..."

"Why, why, why——"

Huang Gai's cries gradually faded into silence, and his bulging eyes were fixed in a moment of despair and confusion.

One of the three veteran generals of the Sun family was killed.

"This man fought for Sun Ce until his death. He was truly a loyal and brave man."

"Take him away and bury him with proper ceremony."

Liu Bei sighed softly and gave an order with a wave of his hand.

The guards on both sides stepped forward and carried Huang Gai's body away.

It was not until Huang Gai was carried away that Zhuge Jin, who was in a daze, suddenly woke up.

In an instant, endless regret and guilt enveloped my whole body.

"Envoy Liu, my brother-in-law."

"Jin really didn't expect that Sun Ce and Zhou Yu would have such a shocking conspiracy."

"Jin was so foolish that he was deceived by Huang Gai and pretended to surrender to Liu Shijun for him, which almost caused a disaster!"

Zhuge Jin hurriedly stood up, stepped forward to bow to Liu Bei, and apologized in fear and guilt.

Liu Bei hurriedly supported Zhuge Jin, with a generous smile on his face:
"Tzuyu, don't blame yourself too much. You have the intention to submit to Bei, but you are just plotting for Huang Gai and Zhou Yu. If you don't know it, what's the crime?"

"Don't mention you. If it weren't for the military advisor's sharp eyesight and seeing through Zhou Yu's trick, I would have been deceived by Huang Gai as well. Now, the 40,000-man army would have been burned to ashes by him!"

Seeing Liu Bei being so magnanimous, Zhuge Jin secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

Zhuge Liang stepped forward and said with a smile:
"Brother, in fact, my brother-in-law has long known that you are truly loyal to the Lord, but you were deceived by Huang Gai."

"The reason why we didn't tell you right away was because my brother-in-law wanted to take advantage of the situation and lure Sun Ce and Zhou Yu to come and die."

"Before you left that day, my brother-in-law specifically told me that when Huang Gai came to surrender, you must be sent to the north bank to report the news. This was exactly the plan my brother-in-law set up for you to escape."

After hearing what Zhuge Liang said, Zhuge Jin suddenly realized.

When he turned around to look at Xiao Fang again, the admiration in Zhuge Jin's eyes had doubled.

"Brother-in-law's wisdom is beyond the reach of even Zhang Liang who is resurrected. No wonder Envoy Liu was able to defeat Liu Biao and seize Jingzhou so easily with the help of brother-in-law."

"My Zhuge family is blessed with such a divine son-in-law. My father should be pleased if he is still alive."

Zhuge Jin sighed endlessly.

"Brother, you are too kind. It is Fang Zhi's blessing to marry Lan'er."

After being a little humble, Xiao Fang came up to Liu Bei and pointed his feather fan toward the river bank:
"My lord, don't let the Jiangdong army be blown by the river wind for too long. Light the fire and lure them into the trap."

Liu Bei smiled proudly and shouted:

"Pass the order down and light all the firewood that was prepared in advance."

As the order was given, more than a hundred piles of firewood that had been piled up on the beach were set on fire in an instant.

A raging fire burst out, illuminating the entire river bank, as if the entire water camp had been burned into a sea of ​​fire.

(End of this chapter)