The Three Kingdoms Fight for the Deer

Chapter 265 Darkness Chen Cang
After the archers were dealt with, Li Yuan organized his soldiers to attack again. Hua Xiong led the army to follow Li Yuan closely. The current situation is in their favor. As long as they strengthen their attacks, they will be able to win the final victory.

"Ziyi, Wenda, you two lead troops to encircle Guan Yu from the left and right sides, and we will encircle him so that he cannot escape." Li Yuan saw that the Chinese army was too crowded, so he ordered Tai Shici and Li Tong to lead the army separately. Some soldiers and horses outflanked from the left and right, so as not to be so crowded, but also to prevent Guan Yu from escaping from other places.

"The last general has orders!" Tai Shici and Li Tong led their respective soldiers and horses to surround Guan Yu. Because there were no soldiers guarding the two streets on the left and right, they quickly formed a siege and launched a joint attack on Guan Yu's army.

The situation is becoming more and more favorable for Li Yuan's army, and the balance of victory is constantly moving closer to Li Yuan. As long as he keeps attacking, Guan Yu will undoubtedly lose.

When Tai Shici passed the south gate, he found that the gate was open. He was a little confused at the moment. They started attacking the city from the east gate. Logically speaking, the south gate should be closed, but now it is open. He must be a little confused. Something is wrong.

"What is General Taishi hesitating about?" Wei Yan noticed the confusion on Taishi Ci's face.

"Wenchang, why did you say that the south gate was opened? It should have been closed when we first attacked the city, but now it is open. Who would dare to open the gate at such a critical time?" Tai Shici expressed his thoughts. Confuse.

"It should be the fleeing common people. When the thunderbolt chariot fires stone bullets, the power is astonishing. The common people are afraid, so they flee from the city." Wei Yan guessed.

"No," Tai Shici shook his head to deny Wei Yan's speculation, "the city gate is the most important place, even if the people want to escape, they can't open the city gate, only the gatekeeper can open the city after receiving the order, so don't worry. It may be the door opened by the people."

"That's what Cai Mao ordered to open the city. We haven't seen Cai Mao show up until now, which proves that he has probably escaped, leaving Guan Yu and others behind to resist our army's pursuit. This is in line with Cai Mao's character." Wei Yan was somewhat disapproving. , isn't it just opening the gate of the city, what's the fuss about.

"That's not right. If Cai Mao really wanted to escape, he should have fled back to Xiangyang. Xiangyang is to the west, so they should go to the west gate instead of the south gate. Could it be that this is their trick?" The more Tai Shici thought about it, the more he felt. Something was wrong, so he decided to investigate in person, and handed over the task of commanding troops and horses to Wei Yan.

Wei Yan took over the military power and continued to command the army to besiege Guan Yu, while Tai Shici went to the south gate to check.

After arriving at the south gate, Tai Shici found that the city gate was very complete and had not been damaged, proving that the gate should have been opened by the gatekeeper. He lowered his head to investigate carefully, hoping to find a clue, but he found nothing, only Seeing countless footprints on the ground, although he was puzzled, he couldn't figure it out, so he sent someone to inform Li Yuan about it.

At this time Li Yuan had already retreated and no longer charged forward personally. The situation was favorable to them now, so he didn't have to work so hard, but gave Hua Xiong and others the opportunity to perform and let them accumulate military merits.

Although Li Yuan did not fight the enemy himself, his eyes were still on the field. He would never underestimate the enemy at any time, not to mention that the opponent was the famous Guan Yu in "history". Until now, Guan Yu had not personally fought. Maybe the other party has something behind him, so Li Yuan dare not relax.

"My lord, General Tai Shici has something to bring to you." The messenger came to Li Yuan's side.

"What?"

"General Tai Shici found that the south gate had been opened, and there were countless footprints on the ground. He felt very strange, so he asked me to tell the Lord about this." The messenger told Li Yuan what Tai Shici had said.

"The south gate is open? There are many footprints on the ground?" Li Yuan lowered his head and thought, the first thing he thought was that someone opened the city to escape. This idea was exactly the same as that of Wei Yan, but he quickly rejected this idea because the south gate leads to the river. It is obviously not a wise choice to flee in the direction of the Yangtze River, not to mention that Xiangyang is in the west, and if you want to escape, you must flee to the west gate, so how can you escape to the south gate.

Suddenly, Li Yuan thought of a very serious problem, that is, Zhang Fei had disappeared. Li Yuan saw Zhang Fei appearing at the beginning of the battle, but now Zhang Fei disappeared after fighting for so long, which is really abnormal, after all Zhang Fei is a fighting maniac, so how could he not resist.

At first Li Yuan thought that Zhang Fei was waiting for an opportunity, but now the situation is very unfavorable to Guan Yu, and he may collapse at any time. It is impossible for Zhang Fei to bear this situation.

Li Yuan looked around, hoping to find Zhang Fei, but after searching for a long time, he still didn't see Zhang Fei, and he was shocked. Now he finally understood why the South City Gate was opened, and it was probably Zhang Fei. Lead some soldiers to leave from the south gate to raid his camp.

The food and grass of the army were all placed in the camp. Li Yuan almost used all his soldiers and horses to attack the city, leaving only a few soldiers to guard the camp. If Zhang Fei succeeded in a surprise attack, his tens of thousands of troops could only retreat. , Even if it transports grain and grass from Wancheng, it will take half a month.

In fact, what worries Li Yuan even more is that Zhang Fei will continue to go east to attack Wancheng after attacking the camp. He will pile up almost all the grain and grass in Wancheng. If Wancheng is breached, Zhang Fei will definitely burn all the grain and grass. Let alone attacking Jingzhou at that time, the soldiers are lucky not to starve to death.

"What a Guan Yunchang, it's your plan to come here to build the plank road, and it's also your hands. No wonder you didn't retreat at such a disadvantage. It turned out to be to create opportunities for Zhang Fei." Li Yuan glanced at Guan Yu from a distance, and at the same time said to the messenger Said, "Immediately notify the Flying Cavalry Army to return to the camp to stop Zhang Fei. They must be defeated, and Zhang Fei cannot be allowed to fly to Wancheng. It is urgent and you go!"

"It's the lord!" The messenger looked confused, but it was the first time he saw Li Yuan so anxious, so he didn't dare to delay and immediately ran to the flying cavalry to find Zhao Yun.

Because cavalry is not conducive to attacking the city, Zhao Yun's flying cavalry army was stationed not far from the gate of the city. The soldiers of the flying cavalry army even felt a little bored. He stared anxiously, depressed in his heart.

Zhao Yun sat on the ground very calmly, and did not feel anxious because he could not participate in the battle. He had absolute confidence in Li Yuan, so he would not worry too much about Li Yuan's safety.

"Husband, it's boring here, why don't we go into the city and have a look." Lu Lingqi was restless by nature, they had been waiting outside the city for more than an hour, she couldn't wait any longer, and wanted to lead the troops into the city.

(End of this chapter)