Three Kingdoms, I'm really not a general!

Chapter 415 Slightly Depressing Atmosphere

It was really not easy to capture Fancheng!

Unexpectedly, it was so easy to lose Fancheng.

Is it possible?
Is Guan Yu old?
Guan Yu should have been born in 160 AD, so if you calculate his age, he would be years old now.

Of course, compared to the original historical age of 60, he is still younger, but 55 is indeed not young in this era.

Having said that, in this era, Sun Quan was still full of vigor and vitality, Liu Bei had just pacified the Three Bas (Ba County, Baxi, and Badong), and had not even dealt with Liu Zhang!
Guan Yu isn't confused yet!
How come Fancheng can be lost just like that?
It seemed that Cao Pi had used some killer move. Xing Daorong immediately asked Bao Long, "Tell me what happened."

But Bao Long had no idea what was going on, so he quickly said, "General! This is all that is written in the message. I don't know what's going on!"

Seeing Bao Long's expression, Xing Daorong knew that he had put him in a difficult position.

After thinking about it, he waved his hand and told Bao Long to take the letter and just told him to find a seat and sit down.

Then he asked Lu Xun: "Yun Chang lost Fancheng in the first battle. What should we do?"

Seeing Xing Daorong's worried face, Lu Xun quickly advised: "Since we have received this military report, I think Chengdu must have received the news as well."

"Besides, losing Fancheng is not a big problem. If we march north today, we no longer rely on Fancheng alone. We don't need to worry about the gains and losses of a city."

Xing Daorong didn't care much about it.

But the people of Fancheng are suffering from a series of changes of ownership, and they will probably have to go through hard times for a while.

Lu Xun's advice finally calmed Xing Daorong down a little.

He took two deep breaths before saying, "Since Jingzhou has suffered a defeat, we must move faster. How is Zhou Tai doing?"

Lu Xun said: "General Zhou has just set up a diversion point upstream, but now is the rainy season, I am afraid it will not be so easy to make the Wubu Lake completely dry up."

broken!

I didn't expect there was this part!
When it comes to war, astronomy and geography are all important, and nothing can go wrong!
Otherwise, he would be like Xing Daorong, who did not consider that it was the rainy season. Even if he could cut off the source, it would be useless.

I am afraid that after all my hard work, Cao’s army has not been affected at all!
Xing Daorong became even more depressed after hearing this.

But he said: "So, I was wrong in my earlier thinking. Why didn't Bo Yan tell me earlier?"

Lu Xun listened and smiled bitterly: "I thought the general had other considerations, but I didn't know that these were the ones he hadn't considered."

My goodness, pure blind worship!

Xing Daorong sighed when he heard this: "No one is perfect. If Bo Yan has other thoughts in the future, just say it!"

Lu Xun nodded in response, but he still had to find a solution to the current problem.

Then Lu Xun said, "The rainy season only lasts for a month, and there have been severe droughts in recent years. Once the rainy season is over, Cao's army will definitely be affected."

"But, there is still a month left. I wonder if the general can wait?"

Xing Daorong understood what Lu Xun was thinking.

Just wait!
Just wait!
This idea is not stupid. Some strategies require the right time and place, and you can't force it.

Besides, Xing Daorong had no other options now. He had the brocade bag that Zhuge Liang had sent him last time, but it was not a matter of urgency or a decisive battle yet, so Xing Daorong did not want to use this trump card. He could wait, but he did not know if Guan Yu could wait.

Xing Daorong still "underestimated" Guan Yu a little.

Although they were defeated for a while, they later became impregnable in Xiangyang.

The two sides once again became the opposition between Xiangyang and Fancheng.

But Cao Pi was quite ruthless. This time he personally led an army of 100,000!
So let's calculate
The 100,000 troops in Xiangfan, plus Cao Zhen's 50,000, plus the 50,000 troops in Chang'an, make a total of 200,000 troops!

This is simply a matter of how many people there are. Cao Pi has just shaken out all the family fortune his father left him!

In comparison, Liu Bei was much calmer.

Guanzhong is guarded, Xiangfan is guarded, and Jiangdong is also guarded!
Using the few to defeat the many and defending instead of attacking, it was said to be a fight against Cao Pi, but in fact, to put it bluntly, it was a fight against the assets left by Cao Cao!
The reason why even Xing Daorong felt a little dangerous this time was precisely because of Cao Pi's momentum.

First they moved the capital, then they sent out troops in three directions, as if they were ready to decide the outcome!

Come to think of it, with such momentum, Guan Yu dared to go out of the city in the first battle, so naturally he would suffer a loss.

And then, after the first defeat, it was not easy for them to resist Cao Pi's 100,000-strong army whose morale was boosted.

It's just a pity that Zhou Cang died. I think Guan Yu must have been extremely sad.
A month passed like this, and finally with the end of the rainy season, the terrible drought season came again.

It can be said that from 100 AD to 220 AD, the Eastern Han Dynasty experienced waves of natural disasters.

During the ten years from 106 AD to 121 AD, the difficulties faced by the Eastern Han Dynasty were mainly natural disasters.

And these ten years happened to be the period when Emperor An of the Eastern Han Dynasty was in power.

If we look up the Chronicle of Emperor An of Han in the Book of the Later Han, we will find that more than half of the content in this chronicle is about various natural disasters.

These natural disasters directly caused the Eastern Han Dynasty, which was originally at its peak, to decline. In order to cope with various natural disasters, although the Eastern Han government at that time had tried its best to carry out disaster relief, it was still unable to recover the losses.

During these ten years or so, grain production in the Eastern Han Dynasty dropped drastically, and cannibalism even occurred.

It is hard to imagine that the generation that experienced "cannibalism" had just experienced the most glorious Yongyuan period of the Eastern Han Dynasty more than ten years ago, and witnessed the heyday of the Eastern Han Dynasty with their own eyes!

But in just over a decade, the country was on the verge of collapse due to various natural disasters!

As we all know, the seismometer was invented by Zhang Heng after he entered the officialdom during the Eastern Han Dynasty.

Why was the seismometer invented?
That’s because there are so many earthquakes these days!
The entire middle and late Eastern Han Dynasty was spent in various natural disasters, and to this day, there are still years of severe drought.

This is clearly documented.

[In the summer of the 214th year of Jian'an in , in April, there was drought. In May, there was rain.]

[In 215, Yiwei, the th year of Jian'an, in the summer of April, there was a severe drought. In the winter of the th month, Renyin, at night, a red gas penetrated the Purple Palace.]

[In 216, on the first day of the fifth month of the st year of Jian'an, there was an eclipse on the sun. In winter, a star appeared in the northeast. That year, there was a great epidemic.]

Looking at these records, it’s hard to imagine how difficult life was for ordinary people over the years!
Even Xing Daorong has begun to get used to the frequent severe droughts in recent years, which shows how frequent the disaster is now.

(End of this chapter)