Shu Han Confucian General of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 118
"What?" Guan Yu didn't expect that Zhuge Liang would reveal such fierce news, and then he rolled his eyes and asked expectantly: "Since you are a relative of your own, Kong Ming, can you persuade him to surrender, so as to avoid a sword fight?" ?”

Zhuge Liang thought for a moment, but finally shook his head with a rare wry smile and said, "Your Majesty, I'm afraid this is not possible. Although Kuai Qi is Liang's brother-in-law, he is also a child of the Kuai family, and he will not surrender easily to you." Guan Yu also knew that the hope was only [-]-[-] at most, but he was not surprised to see Zhuge Liang's answer in this way.These aristocratic families attach great importance to the interests of the family, and often the children of the family will do everything for the benefit of the family.Now that Kuai Yue is committing rebellion, if he fails, the entire Kuai family will be dead, and there is no turning back, and Kuai Qi is no exception.

"Since this is the case, what should our army be stationed in Fancheng now?" Guan Yu pondered.At this moment, Ma came to report that a team of food, grass and supplies was coming across the river to Xiangyang.

"Oh? The supply team?" Guan Yu was also taken aback when he heard the report, but Zhuge Liang's eyes lit up when he heard the words: "Your Majesty, I have a plan! This year, there is a severe drought in Jingbei, and the grain is in short supply. Jiangling is where Jingxiang hoards money and grain. Therefore, there is no danger of food shortages. However, Xiangyang and Zhangling counties are inevitably unable to catch up, and Jiangling must be required to supply. If the grain and grass of these two counties can be cut off, there will be chaos in the long run!"

"This statement is true!" Guan Yu nodded after hearing it.Unfolding the map and looking at it, Guan Yu pointed to two routes and said: "For food and grass in Jiangling, you can either take the Yiling Avenue to Yidu, or take the Jingdong Trail to Xiangyang, and then to Zhangling. Right now, you just need to pinch Even if these two routes cannot cut off the food and grass in the three counties, they will still cause them a great shortage of food."

"Exactly!" Zhuge Liang said.Then he pointed to several important cities on the map and said: "The most important things right now are the cities of Dangyang and Yiling. If we can keep these cities in check, we can control the food supply of the Cai brothers. We wait If the siege lasts at most two or three months, the defenders will inevitably run out of food and grass, and at that time they will have to give up their defense and fight against us." Zhuge Liang didn't say what the battle would be like, but Guan Yu knew it. A little level, playing against yourself is no different from courting death.

"In that case, Yuan Jian, you lead an army of [-] troops southward along the Xiangshui River, occupy Maicheng on the Jingdong Trail, and cut off this grain transportation route." Guan Yu immediately made a decision, and Liao Hua immediately mobilized his troops to capture Maicheng. .At the same time, Guan Yu quickly sent a message to Zhao Feng, asking him to divide his troops to capture Yiling and Dangyang, and cut off the grain roads to Yidu and Zhangling.

But Zhao Feng can't take care of cutting off the grain road now, there is no other reason, because someone has already come to his camp to challenge. "Huang She, Yang Ling?" Zhao Feng recalled "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" carefully, and finally remembered who these two uncles were.Especially for the latter, he was killed by Guan Yu during the battle in Changsha, and before he was killed, he said very arrogantly: "Master Yang Ling is here."

"Since you are here to challenge, then I will fight." Zhao Feng clapped his hands and led the generals to rectify the army and horses to face the invading enemy.After setting up the formation, Huang She's [-]-man lineup was fairly neat, but he didn't know how effective it was.

"Hey, you rats dare to offend me in Jingxiangzhou County. If you don't return as soon as possible, master Yang Ling will finish you!" As soon as everyone stood still, a general from the Jingzhou army jumped out of the formation to show off his might.

"Now the nameless rats have such a loud voice!" Zhao Feng sighed helplessly on purpose, and the rest of the generals were also amused when they heard it. "Which one of you is going to deal with this person?" Zhao Feng asked, looking around the generals, as he was too lazy to deal with such a small character.

"I'm coming!" But Zhu Ran took the lead and rushed out, and Yang Ling hurriedly slapped the horse to fight Zhu Ran.Although Zhu Ran's martial arts was not as good as Guan Yu's, and he wouldn't be able to kill Yang Ling with one move, he was still much higher than Yang Ling after all.After more than ten rounds, Zhu Ran saw a flaw and slashed at it, chopping Yang Ling off the horse.

"Ah!" Huang She was also taken aback when he saw Yang Ling being beheaded.He knew that his martial arts were not as good as Yang Ling's, and he would be dead if he tried to fight, but it would be too embarrassing to go back like this. He looked around at the crowd and gritted his teeth, "Give it to me!" .

"What?" Zhao Feng and the others looked at each other in blank dismay. It's rare for a general to fight in groups after losing a fight.However, the Xuzhou Army has always been well-trained. Although Zhao Feng is not leading the Xuzhou Army this time, it is the incorporated Yangzhou Army.But after more than a year of rectification and training, the combat effectiveness is not much inferior to that of the Xuzhou Army.Seeing that the opponent was coming, he still arrayed according to the combination of long and short weapons, and fought with the Jingzhou army.Rows of large shields stood at the front, blocking most of the Jingzhou army's attacks, and then the comrades behind them were responsible for killing the enemy.The ten-foot-long spear pierced out, reaping their lives like a sickle cutting rice.

"Too bad!" After watching it for a short time, Zhao Feng had a preliminary understanding of the combat effectiveness of the Jingzhou Army: it was worse than that of the Jiangdong Army back in the day. Many times, the Jingzhou Army's weapons stabbed at it, and the Yangzhou Army's large shield blocked it. Just let their offensive deviate by a thousand miles, Huang She is like driving a group of old hens to kill them.The Yangzhou army set up a crane wing array to deal with the opponent's front and arrow array. After a while, the Jingzhou army fell into the siege of the Yangzhou army and was gradually divided and annihilated.As for Huang She, seeing that the situation was not right, he turned his horse around and fled.

"Wen Yuan, how is the battle going?" After cleaning the battlefield, Zhao Feng asked Zhang Liao, who had just received a statistical report from the army chief.

"General, more than 1 of the 4000 Jingzhou army were wiped out, and more than [-] surrendered or were captured. The rest fled back to Jiangling with Huang She. The casualties of our army were only a few hundred." Zhang Liao laughed.

"The Jingzhou Army's combat strength is only slightly better than Yuan Shu's back then, not as good as the Jiangdong Army." Zhao Feng shook his head.After fighting for so many years, Cao Cao's Yanzhou Army and Qingzhou Army were the ones with the strongest real combat effectiveness. When Xuzhou Army fought against them, they barely gained the upper hand.I'm afraid it will be even more difficult to deal with him after he unifies the north and forms an institutionalized tiger and leopard cavalry. I can't let him unify the north so smoothly. Even if I am busy with Jingzhou now, I have to find some time for him. trouble.

At this moment, a messenger rushed to report, sending letters from Guan Yu and Zhuge Liang.Zhao Feng hurriedly went to his big tent to open it and read it. After reading it, he laughed and passed it on to Zhang Liao and others.

"General, if it is true that we can cut off the grain and grass in the three counties of Yidu, then we will get twice the result with half the effort." Zhang Liao couldn't help but excitedly said after reading. "That's right." Zhao Feng immediately sent Hao Zhao with [-] troops to attack Dangyang, and Zhu Ran with [-] troops to attack Yiling.After ordering the two to take these two counties, they guarded the main roads and robbed the grain and grass transported by the Jingzhou army to the three counties.

"General, if we leave, you will have less than 2 people left here. If Kuai Yue attacks, how will you be able to do so?" Hao Zhaolin asked worriedly before leaving.

"It doesn't matter, although Kuaiyue's strategy is outstanding. But the Jingzhou army's combat power is weak, I just want to restrain them here, and when the army of the princes and lords arrives here, I can besiege Kuaiyue. After capturing Yiling and Dangyang, we will wait for three It can become a corner. Kuai Yue will not allow us to cut off the grain road, and will send troops to retake these places, and we need to guard them carefully." Zhao Feng laughed.As for Cai Mao in Xiangyang, in Zhao Feng's view, after the grain road was cut off, and facing Guan Yu and Zhuge Liang, he basically had no possibility of escape.

"The general understands!" Hao Zhao and Zhu Ran replied bluntly, and each set up their army horses and went to the two places to seize the city.At the same time, Zhao Feng ordered to dig deep ditches around the camp and set up fences. While guarding the camp, Kuai Yue was also firmly restrained in Jiangling.Two days later, Hao Zhao and Zhu Ran came to report that the two cities had been taken, and now they are sending more people to pay attention to the nearby passages, as long as they are the rations of the Jingzhou army, they will all be intercepted.Even if Cai Mao can't be completely cut off, let him give him at least [-]% off.

"Hey!" Kuai Yue looked at Huang She, who was kneeling in front of him with a disheveled face, feeling quite helpless in his heart.Although he controlled Jingbei, he lacked capable generals.Yang Ling and Chen Ying are just two knives at the same level as Cai Xun.Jingxiang didn't have too many outstanding generals in the first place, but the only ones, Wenpin and Huang Zhong, also switched jobs one after another. My current comrades are just scholars like Wang Can and Han Song. Kuai Yue used them to determine the outcome of the war. Think of your toes.

"Forget it, victory or defeat is a common matter in military affairs, General Huang, you should step down first." Kuai Yue said helplessly.At this moment, Zhao Feng dispatched two troops to take down Dangyang and Yiling counties. "Why did Zhao Feng send people to capture these two counties?" Kuai Yue took out a map to check, and at this moment another spy reported that Guan Yu had just sent Liao Hua to lead an army to capture Maicheng.

"No, they want to cut off food!" Kuai Yue looked at the map and immediately understood what was going on, and broke out in a cold sweat.Right now Xiangyang, Zhangling and Yidu are all supplied with food and grass by Jiangling.If the food and grass are cut off, Xiangyang can still last for two or three months, and Zhang Ling and Yi are afraid that they will not be able to last for a month.

Although Kuai Yue and Cai Mao joined forces to do such rebellious things, after all, people are separated from each other, and they are both cautious people, so it is inevitable to be wary of each other.This year there was a severe drought in Jingbei, Cai Mao’s Xiangyang, Zhangling’s Kuai Qi, and Yidu’s Huo Jun’s food and grass were all supplied by Kuai Yue. Among them, Kuai Qi and Cai Mao’s were escorted by Zhao Lei, and Huo Jun’s was under his command. Captain Fu Shiren came to pick it up every time.Kuai Yue transported them to them every half a month, somewhat intending to restrain them.If the grain road is cut off like this, then something bad will happen to them.It is inevitable that the morale of the army will be unstable, and it is possible to betray the water if it is not done well.

"Send people to recapture these three cities as soon as possible to ensure the smooth flow of grain roads!" Kuai Yue wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, and quickly sent someone to call Cai He who was in Jiangling, ordering him to lead his men to retake the cities.

At this time, in Fancheng City, Chen Wu was escorting a heavily tied general to Guan Yu. "Kneel down!" Chen Wu said while pushing.The man was quite embarrassed, but his eyes were extremely stubborn, and he refused to kneel down.

Seeing this, Guan Yu snorted coldly and said, "Are you Zhao Lei, Cai Mao's food transport officer?"

(End of this chapter)