In the night, Liu Bei and Guan Yu talked with candles.

The floor is warm, and the two of them sit cross-legged in front of a few cases, and the cases are spread out with rough silk maps.

Guan Yu pointed to Jiangxia and Wuchang and said: "He Qi and Buqi each have 10,000 troops and are stationed in Tunxiakou and Wuchang City, and Sun Qian has 5,000 soldiers stationed in Tunfankou; On the north bank, Han was the overseer of 10,000 troops to guard Jiangxia, and Sun Shao had 5,000 soldiers stationed in Tunjukou. ”

The Jiangxia and Wuchang defense lines composed of more than 40,000 people, Liu Bei disagreed and said: "If Sun Quan betrays the alliance and clings to Cao Pi, the defenders of Wuchang will inevitably retreat." ”

Guan Yu thought so, and took out a more standard wargame from the wooden box.

The primitive chess is available, the concept of wargame naturally exists, and Ma Yuan can rub rice to draw the terrain for the mountain, so the sand table and wargame do not need to be invented by Tian Xin, and only need to be slightly improved.

The war games in Guan Yu's hands were mainly battalions, and they began to be arranged: "Huang Hansheng and Li Zhengfang went to Jiangxia, and the minister and Huang Gongheng attacked Xiakou, and another army was sent to march from Chibi on the south bank. The king sits in Jiangling, and after breaking Wuchang, it is not too late for the king to move to Wuchang to supervise the war. ”

Looking at the wargames arranged by Guan Yu before and after, Liu Bei picked up the representative 'Wang' and held it in his hand: "My command of the water army is not as subtle as Yun Chang, and the battle to conquer Wuchang is entrusted to Yun Chang." After passing Wuchang, Jiangdong will defend Chaisang, and I am willing to go with Yunchang. ”

Guan Yu did not object, and fiddled with the war game and said: "Jiangxia Handang and Sun Shao retreated, and our army needs to be guarded by elite soldiers to prevent Cao Xiu from commanding the armies of Runan." ”

The Yangtze River is the main artery, and after the army passes through Wuhan, the only place in Jiangdong that can launch a blockade is the area around Chaisangkou.

At that time, the Han army's battle line had 500 miles of waterway from Xiakou to Chaisang, and the dangerous and river estuaries had to be guarded by troops, and 100,000 troops passed through Wuhan, and it was estimated that the front line could be expanded less than 70,000.

Contrary to Liu Bei's expectations, Guan Yu piled up war games in Jiangxia, with 30 battalions and more than 20,000 people.

Guan Yu said: "In the past, Li Xin attacked Chu with 200,000 people, but he was defeated by Chu, because he underestimated the enemy and had few soldiers. Today, my morale is like a rainbow, but the survival of Jiangdong is also in this battle, and the combat strength of the two armies is almost the same. ”

"The Wei people will not sit idly by and watch our army attack Jiangdong, Cao Xiu will lead Runan soldiers to attack Jiangxia, with as few as 30,000 and as many as 50,000."

"If our army attacks quickly, Sun Quan may lead Zhang Wenyuan's army to help, and Zhang Wenyuan should be between twenty and thirty thousand."

He finally pointed to the area of Nanyang Ye County: "Ma Mengqi and Xiaoxian have hung troops along the way, which can at least make more than 50,000 Wei troops dare not move lightly." Today, Meng Qi and filial piety are famous and shocked the enemy country, and they should not be lightly adjusted. ”

Guan Ping has to defend Xiangyang again, or maneuver in Nanyang, and it is also an army that cannot move.

Maintaining the stability and production of Nanyang can threaten the Central Plains at any time in the future.

Liu Bei glanced at the map, Xi Zhen commanded 5,000 troops to defend Lingling Xiangguan, and Liu Feng 5,000 people in Changsha will be transferred from Changsha to Wuhan to assist in defense.

Jiangxia had to keep 20,000 troops, and the 500 miles of waterway from Xiakou to Chaisang were divided into troops, and there were close to 20,000.

An army of 50,000 will be deployed along the route, while the front army and the left army participating in the war are incomplete, totaling about 50,000; The rear army and the middle army are also between 50,000.

In other words, only half of the army can be thrown to the front.

And Sun Quan can gather at least 120,000 to 150,000 troops to guard the front line of Chaisang, counting Zhang Liao's reinforcements, the Wei-Wu coalition army that fights the defense is at least 150,000.

If the advance fails, it will be difficult for the 50,000-strong army on the front line to retreat in its entirety.

If we win, it will be difficult to expand the results.

Liu Bei raised his hand and transferred 20,000 Huang Quan, the Jiangxia defenders, to the front line of Chaisang, and divided 10,000 of the defenders along the way, gathering 80,000 to Chaisang.

Then he pointed to Nanyang and said: "Nanyang Haoqiang can gather 20,000 people and make them work together to defend Wuchang, okay?" ”

Don't want Jiangxia at all, Cao Xiu can come if he wants, as long as he holds the south bank of Wuchang, the supply of the front-line army will not be easy to cut off, and when he retreats, he can also take Wuchang and retreat to Jingzhou.

It was already difficult for Cao Xiu to lead his troops over the mountains and enter the Jiangxia territory, so it was impossible to carry a boat on his back to fight, right?

Guan Yu looked at Liu Bei's changed layout plan: "If the king insists on completing the battle, the minister has no objection. It's just that in this way, Gangneung should pay attention to his confidants. ”

"Yun Chang thinks that Ma Jichang is not enough to entrust big things?"

"The king, the minister thinks that Pang Shiheng is decisive, but Zuoma Ji Chang."

Liu Bei nodded after a little consideration, in fact, it is not very fatal for Jiangxia and Wuchang to be lost, Jiangling is the most important thing.

He thought of Mi Fang at the moment, and his teeth itched with hatred, but he couldn't bear to kill: "Yun Chang, I want to exile Mi Zifang to Nanzhong, okay?" ”

After the Hou army arrived in Jiangling, Mi Fang was transferred from the military camp in the city to Guan Yu's mansion and placed under house arrest, living with his family.

Mi Fang still has very important information in her mouth that needs to be interrogated, this information is sensitive, Guan Yu just protects Mi Fang, and does not interrogate Mi Fang.

At this moment, Mi Fang, with her hair scattered, bit her fingers and wrote on the wooden partition screen, but stopped halfway through writing, swept up the grass spread on the wooden floor in the house, piled it on the wooden lattice, carefully lit it with a fish oil lamp, and the flame quickly burned and rose into the air, whistling around the beam, and thick smoke billowed out.

He walked out of the hall and said to his wife, concubine, and children who were aware of the fire: "I have no shame to see the king of Han, nor do I have the shame to see my brother. ”

Saying that, he stared at his sons, with a gloomy expression: "My family used to be a huge rich man in Xuzhou, and the family wealth is more than hundreds of millions?" My bad deeds against the king of Han are not for money, but for my own indignation. I hope that you will be generous and take me as a model. ”

After that, he looked at the grandson and granddaughter in the arms of his two daughters-in-law, raised his head and smiled: "Compared with the old people of Xuzhou, how lucky are my heirs to be prosperous?" If you take your own death now, you will not live in vain all your life. ”

"Father?"

Amid the shouts of several sons, Mi Fang turned around and walked into the hall of fire and smoke, and after not taking three or four steps, her hair burned to ashes, and then her whole figure was engulfed in flames.

Guan Yu and Liu Bei stood in front of the hall and looked at the flames rising in the night sky, Guan Yu smashed his fist on the door frame, gritting his teeth: "The thief should die!" ”

Liu Bei looked at it in a daze: "When I went out of Chengdu, I repeatedly appeased Zizhong, and now I ...... Alas. ”

He clenched his fists in his sleeves and looked angry: "Yun Chang, this battle is not going to be fought!" ”

Guan Yu was stunned, but also showed a look of relief, Liu Bei stepped on the door frame with his foot to let out a sigh: "Jingzhou is not going well, the soldiers are suspicious when they go on the expedition, how can they fight?" ”

Guan Yu didn't dare to interrogate Mi Fang privately, and Tian Xin didn't either, for fear that Mi Fang would bite indiscriminately, and he was afraid that he would really involve a lot of shady things.

During the Battle of Guandu, Cao Cao won the battle and was on the rise, and he burned a great deal of letters between the lieutenant general and Hebei for illicit communication.

In the previous battle of Jiangling, if Sun Quan won the battle, he would also be on the rise, and he would laugh at the so-called traitors and ignore them.

It is the Jingzhou Army that can win, and the Jingzhou Army is qualified to ignore the internal problems and give everyone a chance to be a new person.

The defeated Sun Quan had no extra choice, he didn't want to die, and he didn't want to take responsibility, so he had to take the lead in launching a purge.

Guan Yu's mansion caught fire, and the military camps in the city and outside the city were on alert everywhere.

In the building in the city, Jiang Wan and Pan Jun, two cousins, met after a long absence and were eating together.

For example, when he was the commander of Guangdu, it happened that Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang inspected the counties together, and they turned around and ran to Guangdu together.

Jiang Wan was drunk and couldn't get up, and the county's government affairs were piled up and not dealt with, if it weren't for Zhuge Liang's persuasion, he was almost executed by Liu Bei on the spot.

Soon after the dismissal, Liu Bei was called the king of Hanzhong, and Jiang Wan was recommended as Shang Shulang.

Guan Yu's mansion caught fire, Pan Jun, Jiang Wan and many drunken officials gathered in front of Guan Yu's mansion, and the generals of each battalion stayed in the camp.

In front of Guan Yu's mansion, Chen Zhi and Zhou Cang did not extinguish the fire, but only maintained order.

The order was stable, and after Liu Bei, Guan Yu and their relatives calmly withdrew from the mansion, Zhou Cang brought people into the mansion to put out the fire.