Mi Han

Chapter 257
Faced with Guan Yu's behavior, even Ma Liang was puzzled.

As the governor of Jingzhou who Liu Bei left behind to assist and persuade Guan Yu, Ma Liang remonstrated with Guan Yu: "Now it is advisable to lead the sharpest of the three armies, rely on the courage of the general, and rush to attack Fancheng.

If it is rescued by Wei Wei, it will definitely be pulled out, but if you work hard to build a siege, you are afraid that the power of the people and the people will be disadvantaged. "

Ma Liang is not a person who doesn't know soldiers. On the contrary, since he first followed Liu Bei, he has held the position of staff officer and so on.

In Ma Liang's view, Cao Xiu must have sent the message for help.

In such a situation the enemy's reinforcements would arrive soon, and the best thing they could do at this time was to fight quickly.

Ma Liang's remonstrance expressed the aspirations of most of the generals present.

Guan Yu looked at Ma Liang and the generals with doubts, he stroked his beard and explained: "Ji Chang only knows one thing but not the other."

"The city of Fancheng is well-defended, and there is enough food and grain, and there is nothing lacking in all the equipment for defense. Now I attack it, and we must not rush it.

If the northern soldiers arrive and are unprepared, and suffer externally and internally, how can we resist them! "

How could Guan Yu not know what Ma Liang said?
But he did it because he knew it.

In terms of understanding of Fancheng, Guan Yu is still higher than Cao Xiu, the defender of Fancheng.

Because of Cao Ren's lesson before, Cao Xiu will definitely not lead his army out of the city to fight in waves.

From Guan Yu's point of view, even if his army strength is doubled under such circumstances, it would not be easy to take down the prepared Fancheng in a hurry.

Compared with the judgment of the generals that the reinforcements of the Wei army will arrive soon, Guan Yu feels that the reinforcements of the Wei army may appear at any time.

Ni Wei still has many talents. Although his dispatch of troops was a sudden move, it is hard to guarantee that no one will see through everything and make arrangements in advance.

So at this time, his eyes could not be limited to Fancheng.

Seeing what Guan Yu said, although the generals still had doubts in their hearts, Guan Yu's prestige was deep, so in the end the generals still followed Guan Yu's orders.

Under Guan Yu's order, tens of thousands of Han troops began to pull out their camps.

They abandoned the camp they had just built, and came to the moat of Fancheng to start camping again.

It's just that although the main task of the Han army is to encircle Fancheng as soon as possible, Guan Yu did not take the Wei army in the city lightly.

He ordered Lieutenant General Ji Zhang to lead a Han army to observe the Wei army in Fancheng.

Once the Wei army in the city changes when the Han army camps, then Ji Zhang's Han army can play a role in blocking the Wei army in the city, thereby ensuring the safety of the army.

And this change of tens of thousands of Han troops was soon reported to Cao Xiu by Wei Jun spies.

After Cao Xiu learned of this situation, he personally came to the top of the city to check.

Cao Xiu, courtesy name Wenlie, is Cao Cao's clan son and Cao Hong's nephew.

When Cao Cao raised his army, the young Cao Xiu changed his name and went to join Cao Cao in the Central Plains via Jingzhou from Wudi thousands of miles away.

Cao Cao said to the people on the left and right at that time: "This is my family's Qianliju."

After Cao Xiu defected to Cao Cao, Cao Cao let him eat and live with Cao Pi, treating him like a parent.

In the last years of Jian'an, because Cao Cao felt that his health was getting worse, and most of the generals who followed him to fight in the Quartet in previous years were old.

So Cao Cao consciously began to promote and train some of the second generation of his valued clan.

Among the second generations of the clan, Cao Zhen, Xia Houshang, and Cao Xiu were the most valued by Cao Cao.

In order to train the next generation of clan successors, Cao Cao has spared no effort to train Cao Xiu and others in the past few years. Cao Xiu followed Cao Cao to fight everywhere and held important positions.

Under the training of Cao Cao, Cao Xiu, who were already talented, made rapid progress.

After Cao Pi succeeded to the throne this year, great changes have taken place in the history of this world.

Among the southern princes, it was Liu Bei who occupied Jingzhou and Yizhou, so Cao Pi deployed most of Cao Wei's military forces in Jingzhou and Guanzhong.

In the Jingzhou area alone, Cao Pi's clan generals at the beginning included Cao Ren, Cao Xiu, and Xia Houshang.

After Cao Pi proclaimed himself emperor this year, Cao Pi tracked down Cao Xiu's meritorious service before and after, worshiped Cao Xiu as Zhennan General, named Dongyang Tinghou, and led troops to garrison Fancheng.

Before Cao Xiu took office, Cao Pi sent him off in person, and also left Luanyu and Cao Xiu to see him off, hoping that Cao Xiu would be optimistic about Fancheng, the southern gateway, for the Great Wei.

Judging from the current situation, Cao Xiu's entrustment to Cao Pi has been fulfilled well.

This year, because Fancheng's city defenses were severely damaged in last year's war, many ministers suggested to Cao Pi to abandon Fancheng and shrink their troops to Yiyang and Xinye counties for defense.

But when Cao Xiu knew about this, he urged Cao Pi to say: "Jingchu is easy to move, easy to move and difficult to settle down. Guan Yu is a new victor, and he hides and waits and sees for the evil people in the country.

If we abandon Fancheng to protect ourselves today, it will hurt morale and make the traitors of the country secretly harbor evil intentions.Kuang Fancheng's rushing water and land are the key points for the imperial invaders, so we must not abandon them. "

Because of Cao Xiu's strong remonstrance, Cao Pi did not issue an edict to abandon Fancheng at that time.

Judging from the results of the First Battle in West City, Cao Xiu's judgment was undoubtedly accurate.

If the Wei army had abandoned Fancheng at that time, after Cao Ren's defeat, the south of Wancheng in Nanyang County would have been owned by Guan Yu.

After Cao Xiu took office, he not only continued to strengthen the city defense of Fancheng, but even repaired the city defense of Yancheng, a small city not far from Fancheng, in advance.

Yancheng is a city where Xu Huang led his army to garrison Cao Ren when he led the army to support Cao Ren.

Although Yancheng is a city, in terms of scale, it is more like a military camp with a city wall.

Yancheng is not far from Fancheng. If there is a Wei army in Yancheng, it can echo with the Wei army in Fancheng, and they will be the horns of each other.

The most important thing is that Yancheng is on the flank of Fancheng, and Fancheng and Fancheng are firmly nailed to Guan Yu's northward road like two nails.

If these two nails are not removed first, the front of the Han army can only move along the Han River at most, and it will not be able to penetrate too deep into Nanyang County.

Because of the importance of Fancheng and Yancheng, even if he knew the result of the battle of Xicheng before, even if Mi Yang released the news that he was going to attack Wancheng, no matter how many generals persuaded Cao Xiu to retreat and return to Wancheng to defend, Cao Xiu still did not do it. Moved, always stick to Fancheng.

When Cao Xiu came to the city wall, the sky had slowly turned dark.

But even so, the Han army outside the city is still working hard.

Cao Xiu frowned deeply as he watched many Han troops working hard to build the camp.

Cao Xiu, who is in his 40s this year, has been in the barracks for at least 20 years.

With his rich experience in the army, Cao Xiu came to a conclusion when he saw that the sky had turned dark and the Han army outside the city hadn't stopped yet.

Guan Yu wanted to build camps day and night.

And why is he so eager?
For most of the soldiers, the sightlines are not good at night, and night is a time when people are prone to sleepiness, so Cao Xiu was a little puzzled by Guan Yu's desire to build camps overnight.

How come they are the one facing the enemy?
Moreover, the scene in front of him made Cao Xiu feel familiar.

At the beginning, his uncle Cao Ren was trapped in the city by Guan Yu's method, and then watched [-] Wei troops being washed away by the flood.

It's just that although he vaguely guessed Guan Yu's purpose, Cao Xiu didn't want to act rashly because of the lessons learned by Cao Ren and Xu Huang.

If not necessary, try not to fight with Guan Yu.

Anyway, there is no shortage of food and guards in Fancheng at present, and Guan Yu's repeated tricks will not pose any threat to Fancheng.

With this mentality, Cao Xiu chose to sit and watch the actions of the Han army outside the city.

When the sky was completely dark, Cao Xiu asked the captain guarding the city wall to be more vigilant, and then he went down the city and returned to the general's mansion in the city.

If you want to surround it, just surround it, anyway, he just needs to guard Fancheng well.

Compared with Cao Xiu's determined decision, under the high-intensity work for several days, the generals and schools in the Han army at all levels can be said to be suffering.

Although Fancheng is not very big, it would be a lot of work to repair the barriers besieging Fancheng in a short period of time.

In addition, Guan Yu kept sending people to force the siege, as if a large enemy army of the Wei army had arrived in front of him, which caused great psychological pressure on the generals.

But even so, because of Guan Yu's prestige in the hearts of the generals, the generals still followed Guan Yu's request and worked hard to command the soldiers under their command to build the fortress.

In order to complete the task within the specified time, and to keep the Han army under his command in combat effectiveness, Guan Yu asked Ma Liang to transfer many civilian husbands from Xiangyang City a few days later to join the siege of Fancheng.

With the participation of many civilian husbands, tens of thousands of Han soldiers breathed a sigh of relief.

In order to complete the task of besieging the city with barriers, in the past days, except for a part of the Han army responsible for guarding, the remaining Han army, regardless of the main and auxiliary troops, joined the siege operation.

And they often work for a day, which consumes a lot more energy than fighting.

During this period, it is not that there were no generals who privately persuaded Guan Yu to "slow down".

Those generals believed that even if the enemy's reinforcements were to come, they would not arrive so soon.

After all, it will take time for Cao Xiu to deliver the news.

But apparently not persuaded.

It's just that although tired, Guan Yu is a master architect in the world, so under his arrangement, the progress of the Han army's construction of the barrier was not slow.

When the Han army built the most important wall to the north of Fancheng, something unexpected happened.

As scouts from all sides rushed into the camp, the generals at all levels in the camp got the news of the arrival of reinforcements from the Wei army.

But why so fast?
Judging from the time, the reinforcements of the Wei army should have just set off from Wancheng!
The generals of the Han army in the Jingzhou camp were not surprised for a long time, when they heard the sound of a big earthquake.

Under the influence of the sound of the earthquake, generals at all levels of the Han army came to the fortress outside the camp to check.

After many generals of the Han army came to the barrier, in their line of sight, a torrent soon appeared on the ground.

Although the generals of the Han army saw a vast land in front of them, what fell in their eyes was really a torrent carrying dust from the sky.

Only by describing it in this way can it reflect the speed of the dust in front of their eyes.

And as the smoke and dust in the sky continued to approach, the generals at all levels and the Han army standing in the barrier had just seen the Wei army hidden in the smoke and dust in the sky.

In front of you is tens of thousands of cavalry troops from the Wei army!

Tens of thousands of cavalry from the Wei Army gradually emerged from the smoke and dust in the sky, and then gradually approached Fancheng.

Different from the two thousand cavalry troops of the Wei army outside Wudang City, the number of cavalry troops of the Wei army appearing outside Fancheng now seems to be in the tens of thousands.

Moreover, all the Wei Jun cavalry had one man and two horses, and the tens of thousands of Wei Jun cavalry brought at least [-] horses.

No wonder the Han army in the camp just now felt a slight vibration on the ground, no wonder the first thing that appeared in front of the Han army was smoke and dust.

After seeing the [-] horses running fast, the eyes of the Han army hidden in the barrier were shocked.

Most of the Han soldiers were native Jingchu men, and in their impression, the horses were short and thin.

But the [-] war horses that appeared in their eyes now are very tall.

Moreover, the dark hair on the tall horse shone with a breathtaking brilliance under the sunlight.

When [-] strong and high-spirited northern war horses galloped towards Fancheng with hoofs that seemed to crush everything, that spectacular scene was enough to make any bloody man feel excited.

This is the unique charm from the Cavalry Legion!
Under the surging mood, a trace of worry and tension began to emerge in the hearts of tens of thousands of Han soldiers.

When people face things that they have never seen and cannot control, they will naturally feel this way.

Even some poorly disciplined infantry, when facing an established cavalry regiment for the first time, would be frightened and collapsed.

In the Battle of Yanzhou that year, there was a very important reason why Lu Bu was able to defeat Cao Cao several times.

But when tens of thousands of Han soldiers were worried and nervous, they unconsciously looked towards the main tent behind them.

In the main tent sat their general.

Seeing the tens of thousands of Wei army cavalry approaching constantly, fear began to appear in the hearts of tens of thousands of Han troops.

If the general followed the generals' advice and began to attack the city at the beginning, once the tens of thousands of Wei army cavalry unexpectedly attacked them when they were attacking the city, then they would be in danger.

Fortunately, the general had the foresight.

Thinking of this, tens of thousands of Han soldiers looked at the main tent with admiration.

Unlike the peace of mind of the tens of thousands of Han troops, when the tens of thousands of Wei army cavalry were about to rush out of Fancheng, Cao Tai, who was running at the forefront among the tens of thousands of Wei army cavalry, suddenly issued an order.

He immediately ordered the Wei army cavalry behind him to stop the attack.

After Cao Tai's order was issued, there were bursts of loud "wow" sounds from tens of thousands of Wei army cavalry.

With the sound of "wow", under the driving of tens of thousands of Wei army knights, the Wei army war horses that had come on the ground just now stopped a hundred steps away from the Han army.

Because the horses were reined in and stopped suddenly, tens of thousands of knights from the Wei army shook tremendously.

And when the tens of thousands of Wei army knights barely stopped their figures, the dust caused by their encounters gradually disappeared, and the tens of thousands of Wei army knights gradually saw clearly, the scene before them made them dumbfounded.

A wide moat seems to divide Fancheng and them into two boundaries.

And behind that layer of trenches, there are layers of repelling horse antlers.

The trenches and the innumerable antlers that rejected the horse made the tens of thousands of Wei army cavalry with the belief of victory suddenly fall into hesitation.

Cavalry: It is as fast as the wind, and moves like thunder.

But the scene in front of them made them feel sick and move?
And Cao Tai's face became extremely gloomy at this time.

As the son of Cao Ren, he is very familiar with the number of sieges Guan Yu has.

Under the gloom, Cao Tai subconsciously glanced at the valley to the north of Fancheng. Seeing that there was no chance to take advantage of it, he ordered decisively:

"The whole army is stationed on the high ground!"

　Normal updates will resume tomorrow.

　　I am in good health.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)