Shu Han Confucian General of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 120
"That is to say, now Liu Pan is going to recuperate from the whole army, and then fight Zhang Ling again?" Kuai Yue murmured, looking at the small school kneeling in front of him to report the military situation.

"Yes." The schoolboy lowered his head and said in a low voice, not daring to look at Kuai Yue's gloomy and suffocating face at this time. "Give me the order to attack Zhao Feng's camp!" After all, it was Kuai Yue. After learning that Zhao Feng sent people to attack Zhijiang, he knew that Zhao Feng's base camp was not strong enough, so he ordered people to step up the attack and try his best Repel this group of people first.So from this afternoon, Cai He and Huang She began to attack Zhao Feng's camp thirty miles south of the city.

"General, have the Jingzhou army gone crazy these few days, so they are willing to attack us so desperately?" Wen Pin wiped the sweat from his face, and said angrily.Fortunately, Zhao Feng's camp has been operated for more than a month, and the facilities are extremely complete. There are ditches, traps, arrow towers, and mounds, which are better than the simple facilities in Shenting Ridge back then.

"It seems that Kuai Yue wants to attack us first!" Zhao Feng sighed.There are only more than 1 people under his command now, and it is extremely difficult to defend against an enemy army whose strength is several times that of his own on flat ground.If it weren't for the Jingzhou army's weak combat power, their own position would have been completely submerged.Even so, casualties are quite considerable these days.Just the day before yesterday, the Jingzhou army even broke through two lines of defense. If it wasn't for him and Zhang Liao leading the cavalry to counterattack, the consequences would have been quite serious.

Zhao Feng's situation here is very serious, but compared with Cai Mao in Xiangyang, life is still much easier.Although the strategy of attacking the mind has already been drawn up, neither Zhuge Liang nor Guan Yu intends to wait foolishly.Even if there is no large-scale siege, a courtesy greeting is always necessary.

One hundred trebuchets, this is the greeting from Guan Yu and Zhuge Liang.For more than a month, this rain of stones has really made Jingxiang's defenders miserable. No one knows whether they will be smashed into a pile of meat sauce by the stones falling from the sky.After Cai Mao himself witnessed it once, he never dared to go to the top of the city again.

"Brother, the Jingzhou army is throwing stones again." Cai Xun said to Cai Mao in a terrified tone in the Xiangyang prefect's mansion that day, but the latter's expression was a little blank at this time.

"Second brother, how long will there be enough food and grass in the city?" Cai Mao didn't answer his younger brother's words, but asked another more troublesome question.

"It's only enough for five days." Cai Xun said a little speechlessly. "In this case, we can first collect food and grass from the major families in the city to overcome the current difficulties." Cai Mao thought for a while.

"So, I'm afraid that people's hearts will inevitably be unstable." Cai Xun said with some hesitation, his elder brother's suggestion didn't seem very wise, and few of those big families were generous.

"People's hearts are not stable? I still have tens of thousands of elite soldiers in Xiangyang. I want to see who dares to be unstable." Cai Mao snorted coldly.Cai Xun was speechless, and the next day Cai Xun led his army to collect food and grass from the major families in the city, asking each family to provide a thousand shi of food first.How could these people agree easily, but Cai Xun killed two families in a row and collected all the grain stored in these two warehouses.It's just that the hearts of the people in this city who were not very stable before became even more unstable.

On the night when Cai Mao collected grain and grass, Guan Yu and Zhuge Liang in Fancheng across the river suddenly ordered people to shoot more than a thousand letters of persuasion into Xiangyang.It is not accurate to say that it is a letter of persuasion, because it did not persuade Cai Mao, the prefect of Xiangyang, to surrender.If Cai Mao can be beheaded and surrendered, it will be even more rewarding.As soon as these more than a thousand letters entered the city, Cai Mao went crazy and ordered to burn all the letters. The soldiers and civilians who dare to talk about this matter will be killed without mercy.But this kind of thing can't be completely prohibited. On that night, more than a hundred soldiers found a free time and secretly fell to the top of the city with a rope and surrendered to Guan Yu.

"Very good, Kong Ming, it seems that Cai Hao will soon be unable to hold on!" Guan Yu was also very happy to see so many people on the first day.Zhuge Liang shook his feather fan slightly and said with a slight smile: "This Cai Mao is short of food and grass, and the morale of the army is not stable. It is a dead end to stick to it. You need to prevent him from desperately trying to break through!"

"Don't worry, I have deployed scouts around Xiangyang. As long as Cai Mao dares to move rashly, he will know immediately. Wait, the food and grass are running low?" Guan Yu laughed, then seemed to think of something, and quickly ordered several soldiers to come over to ask.

"That is to say, the defenders of Xiangyang have been living on gruel every day since a few days ago?" Guan Yu asked a few words, and finally clarified the situation. "Exactly!" Several soldiers admitted.

"It's so wonderful!" Guan Yu said happily, and then ordered hundreds of officers and soldiers to be sent to the city of Xiangyang every day to drink and eat meat in order to lure the Jingzhou army to surrender. "Your Majesty's plan is brilliant!" Zhuge Liang was surprised when he saw Guan Yu's order, but after thinking about it for a while, he realized that although this move was a bit rascal, the effect would definitely not be bad.

"This is not my idea. At the city of Peiguo, Bo Tao used this method to lure thousands of Cao troops to surrender. I don't think it can be used in Xiangyang today." Guan Yu laughed.Zhuge Liang was also a little funny when he heard the words, and then he sighed: "General Zhao is really resourceful. The design of the trebuchet is exquisite. My wife thinks that the skill of making mechanisms is unparalleled in the world. I'm afraid I will feel inferior after seeing it."

"Your wife?" Guan Yu was quite surprised to see Zhuge Liang respecting his wife so much. "Jiayue is the heir of the Mohist family. I have learned all the truth about it, and I have always been proud of it. When I let her see this trebuchet, I will also let her understand that there is a sky beyond the sky, and there are people beyond people." Zhuge Liang smiled proudly.Guan Yu looked at the proud Zhuge Liang, and guessed that he would have suffered a lot in front of his wife on weekdays. Now that he found an opportunity to suppress his wife's arrogance, he was so excited, but Guan Yu couldn't help but feel a little sympathetic to him.

At this moment, Kuai Ma came to report that the Shangyong guard general Shen Dan and Shen Yi brothers killed Kuai Qi and surrendered to Liu Pan.The county of Zhangling has basically settled down now.After Liu Pan captured Zhangling, he ordered heavy troops to be deployed in Nanxiang and Xincheng, which bordered Xiangyang, but he did not come to Xiangyang to help in the battle.

"Naturally, now that Cai Mao's fall is imminent, General Liu Pan is naturally afraid that we will take advantage of the fire and seek Jingzhou." Zhuge Liang said plainly.Guan Yu looked at the map, but he hummed in a particularly displeased way: "Liu Pan is really hateful, is he going to cross the river so soon and tear down the bridge?"

"There are so many selfish people in the world, why did Liu Pan escape the vulgarity?" Zhuge Liang was quite open to it, and laughed it off.Looking at Guan Yu, whose face was not very bright, Zhuge Liang said again: "Your Majesty, what do you think of Liu Jingzhou?"

"It's okay to defend one side, but it's not enough to compete for the world." Guan Yu thought for a while.Zhuge Liang smiled when he heard the words: "Jun Hou praised this person too much. Liu Biao was like this ten years ago, and now even the guards are unable to do what they want. Otherwise, why would there be such chaos in Cai Mao Kuai Yue?"

"That's true!" Guan Yu nodded, and then he didn't understand what Zhuge Liang meant. Why did he suddenly talk about Liu Biao's personality, and he just signaled him to continue talking with his eyes.

"Liu Jingzhou is over half a hundred years old, and there is not much time left. His son Liu Qi is not a hero, and Wancheng is already in my hands. It is beyond the reach of Cao Cao to get involved. In this way, apart from the lord, there is no one in the land of Jingxiang. Can it be obtained? Just relying on Liu Pan's generation, how can the world be turned upside down?" Zhuge Liang said with a chuckle.

"So that's how it is!" Guan Yu recalled that Zhao Feng had said similar things to him in Runan City that day, and immediately dismissed Liu Pan's small actions.At present, Guan Yu ordered to send people to Xiangyang City to eat and drink every day, and even distributed earthen horns to the soldiers, asking them to shout loudly for publicity.

The effect of doing so is still obvious.For the next few days, Jingzhou troops sneaked down to the city to surrender every night, and the number increased day by day.However, on the evening of the sixth day, Cai Mao began to send his own soldiers to monitor closely at the top of the city, and if deserters were found, they would be killed without mercy.Unlike the Cao army that day, the Jingzhou army is now in the city after all, not the camp, and it is really not easy to escape.Even so, under Guan Yu's wine and meat offensive these days, more than [-] people have fallen.

"Your Majesty, according to what the last group of soldiers who escaped said, Cai Mao has already assembled his troops, and I'm afraid he will be ready to break through in the next few days." After Zhuge Liang asked about the soldiers, he thought that Jingzhou's army was about to run out of food and grass. He immediately understood that Cai Mao was about to fight to the death.

"Very good, I have been waiting for a long time. Kong Ming, where do you think Cai Mao will go?" Guan Yu was also a little impatient to wait. Hearing what Zhuge Liang said, he also hurriedly unfolded the map to check.Right now, Xiangyang has Jiangxia in the east, Zhangling in the west, Nanjun in the south, and Xiangshui in the north.If Cai Mao wanted to run away, he might have to go to Nanjun to meet Kuai Yue and defend to the death.

"Cai Mao's army must flee south, but Cai Mao himself may not be like this." Zhuge Liang looked at the map and pondered.Guan Yu hurriedly asked him the details, and Zhuge Liang explained in detail: "Cai Mao is well known, and he is very fond of power. He may not be willing to go to Nanjun to accompany Kuai Yue to defend Jiangling to the death. It is very likely that he will do the opposite. The boat fled from Xiangshui to Xuchang via Mioshui, and joined Cao Cao."

"It's okay, wait for me to order more people to interrogate, this thief must have nowhere to hide." Guan Yu quickly sent someone to deliver a letter to Zhao Feng, and dispatched Wen Pin, who was familiar with Cai Mao, to lead hundreds of Qingqi to patrol day and night on the route north to Xuchang, and ordered The navy strictly controlled Xiangshui to check the enemy's situation.Once found, they will be arrested immediately, or even shot to death.

Zhuge Liang's judgment was not wrong. On the third night, the four gates of Xiangyang City suddenly opened wide, and countless Jingzhou troops rushed out from the gate, and then ran south roaring.At the same time, the city was full of flames, and many people were forced to leave the city to flee. The situation was extremely chaotic.

"Cai Mao's dog thief actually set fire to Xiangyang?" Guan Yu was also furious when he saw this, and quickly sent Zhou Cang to lead his men to put out the fire, and at the same time personally led an army to intercept Cai Mao's Jingzhou army.Under the light of the fire, I saw the army running southwards holding Cai Mao's banner. Guan Yu ordered the cavalry to harass from both sides, and led the army to cover up and charge. Flank.

"Hey!" A general of the Jingzhou army was cut in half with a knife. This is already the No. 70 nine who died under Guan Yu's knife.The Jingzhou army saw how powerful this green-robed killing god was, and they were all invincible.It was night with nearly [-] troops from both sides fighting in the wild, and it happened to be foggy in the second half of the night. It was so dark that the sky was dark and the sun and the moon were dark. No command was useful. The two sides fought until the next day. point.

"My God!" Even though Guan Yu had been on the battlefield for a long time, it would be nauseating to see this messy battlefield again after the fog cleared.But seeing that there were limbs and arms and dead bodies scattered around for more than ten li, Guan Yu almost vomited it out on the spot.Not long after, Zhou Cang came to report that the fire in Xiangyang had been extinguished, but tens of thousands of people had been burned to death.

"Cai Hao's dog thief will surely die a bad death if he does this poisonous scheme!" Guan Yu said angrily, his beard and hair all stretched out.More than 4 Jingzhou Army and [-] Yuzhou Army fought in the wilderness. In the end, only thousands of remnants were defeated and fled to Nanjun.The Jingzhou army killed more than [-] and took more than [-] prisoners.

However, Guan Yu was not much better. The Yuzhou Army killed and injured more than 9000 people. Although they captured more than 1 prisoners, the combat effectiveness was too far away. It was impossible to replenish the source of troops in a short period of time. This battle was somewhat traumatic. boned.At the same time, Cai Mao's banner was also found, but Cai Mao himself was missing.Guan Yu couldn't fight again for a while, so he had to station his army in Xiangyang temporarily, rest for a while, and then go south to help Zhao Feng seize the last stronghold of Nanjun.

(End of this chapter)