Liu Biao has become a territory with only one county left, he is a state pastor, but now he can only be in charge of one county, you can imagine how aggrieved he is.

Not to mention the grievances, a few days ago, he also sent his eldest son Liu Qi to lead an army of 30,000 in Xiangyang City to support Jiangxia.

Even so, the battle on Jiangxia's side is not over yet.

If Jiangxia can't handle it here, now that Liu Zheng is going to kill Xiangyang, Liu Biao is already a little afraid.

He hurriedly sent to find Liu Qi and Ding Yuan, wanting Ding Yuan's men and horses to return to Xiangyang.

If Xiangyang is gone, then they will be attacked from front to back, not to mention Liu Biao, Ding Yuan, Liu Qi and others, they will all be surrounded, and then they will be served in a pot.

After Liu Biao's few angry words and scolding, several staff members below were also terrified.

Kuai Yue, Zhang Yun, Cai Zhong and others were all standing at the bottom at this time, not daring to speak.

waited until Liu Biao finished scolding, Kuai Yue then spoke.

"Lord, my brother has been defeated in Runan, he desperately brought the news to us, we must take advantage of Liu Zheng's army to kill Xiangyang and react in advance."

Kuai Liang is Kuai Yue's eldest brother, Kuai Yue is worried about Kuai Liang's life, but at this time, his own Xiangyang is difficult to protect, where does he have time to worry about Kuai Liang.

"Uncle, we are going to prepare to defend Xiangyang now, Liu Zheng's men and horses have already hit Nanyang, and it is not far from our Xiangyang, my cousin took away 30,000 horses from Xiangyang, and now there are only 20,000 people left in our Xiangyang."

Zhang Yun was also a little panicked immediately, when Liu Biao still had the ability, they must not have panicked, but now that the enemy army is about to enter the city, their staff and subordinates are also frightened.

Of course, the one who hasn't spoken has been Cai Zhong.

It's not that Cai Zhong didn't dare to speak, but he was crying bitterly in his heart at this time.

He never expected that Liu Zheng would be able to fight back to Xiangyang City, and Liu Zheng would actually be the emperor.

Knowing this, Cai Zhong would not have broken with Cai Yao no matter what.

Now it's a good thing, although he has been appreciated by Liu Biao and successfully controlled all the Cai family's industries in Xiangyang.

But in the same way, he completely offended Liu Zheng, so much so that now Liu Zheng is hitting Xiangyang again, which makes Cai Zhong nervous.

Even if Liu Biao and the others are defeated, they may not be killed by Liu Zheng, but he Cai Zhongke will not escape his fate.

At this time, Cai Zhong was worried about his own life, where did he have any thoughts to think about other things.

Liu Biao looked at the few people present with a gloomy face.

"Of course, the withdrawal is to be withdrawn, after all, the geographical location of Xiangyang City is important, and there is no room for loss!"

"I have already asked people to send a message to Ding Yuan and Liu Qi, and they will quickly return to Xiangyang to help, presumably it should be too late to calculate the time!"

On the one hand, Liu Biao quickly sent people to send a message to Ding Yuan, Liu Qi and others to ask them to return to Xiangyang, and on the other hand, he also continued to mobilize the defenders in Xiangyang City and began to garrison and strengthen the guards to prevent the enemy from attacking at any time.

It didn't take long for the men and horses sent by Liu Biao to seek rescue to Jiangling in Dingyuan.

Ding Yuan is having a bad time these days.

Since being blocked by Huang Zhong's men and horses at Huarong Dao, Ding Yuan's cavalry has suffered heavy losses.

Although some people fled back from the battlefield, so that his men could still keep a few thousand cavalry, the men and horses under his command suffered heavy losses and were no longer able to compete with Liu Zheng's soldiers and horses.

After that, Ding Yuan organized a group of soldiers and horses again, wanting to support Hanyang City, but was blocked by Huang Zhong's men and horses on the way, and after fighting with Huang Zhong's men and horses again, he still failed to gain any advantage, so he could only stay in Jiangling and hold on for the time being.

And without Ding Yuan's support, the battle situation on the side of Hanyang City is also not optimistic.

Liu Zheng sent Zu Lang, Gan Ning, and a part of Huang Zhong's soldiers and horses to be stationed here, and an army of nearly 40,000 people had been fighting with Zhang Liao's men and horses near Hanyang City.

The two sides have played each other a lot, but neither of them has taken advantage of this.

Although Zhang Liao and Liu Qi have an advantage in terms of strength and have Hanyang City as their backing, Huang Zhong and Gan Ning's people have many generals under their command, and their purpose is not to attack the city directly, so they don't need to take the initiative to attack, they only need to defend, just wait for the people in the city to take the initiative to find their trouble.

In this way, in fact, offense and defense are opposites.

An army of 40,000 is nothing to block Zhang Liao and Liu Qi's 50,000 horses.

Gangneung Fortress.

Gangneung is also a historical city.

The city of Jiangling was formerly known as the capital of Chu State "Ying", from the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period to the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, 34 generations of emperors built their capitals here, which lasted 515 years. Since the Han Dynasty, Jiangling City has existed as the seat of Jingzhou for a long time, so it is often called Jiangling with "Jingzhou".

The ruling center of the Central Plains Dynasty has always been between Henan and Shaanxi, Jiangling controls Bashu in the west, connects Xianghan in the north, takes the rivers and lakes, and refers to Wu and Yue, which is the key point of the Central Plains to communicate with Lingnan, and is called "the southeast important town" and "Yidu also". Most of the regimes that built their capitals in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River in the past dynasties built their capitals here, and there were five dynasties to the Spring and Autumn Period, and a total of ten generations of regimes built their capitals.

Among them, Chu is a big and powerful country, the Eastern Jin Dynasty and the Southern Dynasties both have half of the rivers in southern China, so the ancient capital of Jiangling has a higher status, second only to the "Seven Ancient Capitals", and is the famous capital of Jing and Chu.

When Liu Biao was able to come to Jingzhou, Jiangling was still the seat of Jingzhou, but later Liu Zheng's men and horses were near here, Jiangling was only a river away from Liu Zheng's territory, and there were people in the Xiangyang area, such as the Kuai family and the Cai family, and finally Liu Biao moved the seat of Jingzhou to Xiangyang.

The most powerful thing about the city of Gangneung is that it is surrounded by water on three sides, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and only one city wall needs to be defended.

Historically, Guan Yu, who guarded Jingzhou, was in Jiangling City, and he built an auxiliary city in Jiangling City, which was already easy to defend and difficult to attack.

Let this auxiliary city be connected with Gangneung City, and become a more difficult military town to attack.

Of course, although the current Jiangling City has not become impregnable, it is also an important town and is not easy to attack, which is why Huang Zhong's men and horses chose to temporarily garrison here, rather than directly attacking Ding Yuan's soldiers and horses.

Ding Yuan was in this Jiangling City, and there were less than 20,000 people left.

Of them were five thousand cavalry, twelve thousand infantry.

"My lord! My lord, something is wrong! ”

His lieutenant immediately ran to Ding Yuan's side.

Ding Yuan put down the book in his hand, immediately got up, and came over to find the deputy general.

Now what he fears most is to hear a few words that are not good for big things.

It will make him feel a great pressure, on the one hand, he is worried that he will not be able to defend Gangneung Town, and on the other hand, he is also worried that Hanyang will not be able to hold it.