By dusk, the flood had receded to the foot of the Fan City wall, and it was estimated that the buildings in the city had also receded.

The warships on both sides of the tower have also run aground, and the decks have been reinforced with bamboo rafts as guards, and each ship can garrison more than 200 sergeants.

A large area of connected bamboo rafts around the tower also ran aground, and in the evening under the light of bonfires, and sergeants rowed back and forth to lay new bamboo rafts. There is no bamboo raft between the tower and Fancheng, and it is a muddy field.

The flood receded faster than expected, and Tian Xin paced back and forth in front of the bonfire, changing places, he was Cao Ren, how to crack the current tower.

Wait until tomorrow, the Han army in Jingzhou will be at the height of the tower and suppress the defenders of the city wall at close range; At the same time, the earth would be excavated and mountains of earth would be piled up between the towers and the walls.

The day when the earth and mountain are repaired is the time when the city of Fan is broken.

Now that the flood in the city has receded, even if Cao Ren wants to attack with fire, he can't find enough firewood and grease, and the warships and green bamboos are not flammable, and they will only dry and flammable after three or five days of exposure.

Surrounded by several people, Guan Ping stepped on the road paved by the bamboo raft to the bottom of the tower, and saw that there were also fires on the left and right sides, and there were several soldiers with hounds on duty, very vigilant.

He sat down beside Tian Xin: "Filial piety chooses Dongcheng first, but there is a plan?" ”

"What the prince said is inevitably biased and untrue, how could I have expected that the flood would recede seven or eight feet in one day and night, and even more so today than in a few feet. I also want to take a big ship to break through Fancheng and capture Cao Ren, but the opportunity has passed, and it is too late to regret it. ”

Tian Xin opened the food box brought by Guan Ping as he spoke, and asked rhetorically: "Why does the prince ask like this?" ”

"I just think it's a bit of a coincidence, I fought with General Xiahou for a long time without success, but Xiaoxian made the best use of his resources and made the best of his interests, and sank fifteen warships near the city wall, so that Cao Ren was like a fish in his throat...... This is by no means a temporary design. ”

Guan Ping said and stretched out his hand to catch the steamed cake handed by Tian Xin, the middle of the cake has been cut open by Tian Xin's dagger, Guan Ping himself put vegetables in the cake, this way of eating invented by Tian Xin has quickly become popular in the army.

He took a bite and chewed: "Father praised Xiaoxian for his quick wisdom, but I think this is Xiaoxian's intention." Xiaoxian has always been astute, I don't know if I can interpret dreams? Recently I had a dream that was very incomprehensible. In the dream, I wanted to cross the Yellow River with my father and return to Xie County, but there were pigs biting their legs and feet, I don't know what the meaning is. ”

Tian Xin turned his head to look at Guan Ping, and took a dagger to depict a 'pig' on the red lacquer food box: "If this dream comes true, this pig may be a sign of Lu Meng's Mongolian character, which means that Lu Meng will harm our army; It may also be that there is a change in the family, and someone in the family has given up the crown and hat, and that is the pig. Perhaps the pig has another metaphor, such as someone who wants to be treacherous and do the things of the beast. ”

Guan Ping said when he saw that he believed it, and ate the vegetable cake with a smile: "Hugh wants to trick me, I am not a sergeant under your rule, so I don't believe your words." ”

In this regard, Tian Xin can only laugh, saying too much, how to lie in the future is a problem, and his image will be weird, which is not conducive to development.

The Han people like divination, and witchcraft and Taoism are widely spread.

But no one likes a master of divination to be a general or a county guard.

The Fanbei area is on higher ground, the flood is not flooded, and it has been occupied by Lei Xu's department, and now Lei Xu is stationed in Tun Fan Beiyun City, cutting off the connection between Fancheng and Nanyang.

Nanxiang County to the west of Fancheng has been annexed, and although Nanxiang Taishou Fu Fang has resigned, he is leading the new Nanxiang Taishou Guo Mu to contact the barbarian leader Mei Shiki.

There are many kinds of barbarians, and they all live in the valley, all around the Qin, Ba and Jing mountains.

The three Meishiki brothers, each with more than 10,000 families, live in the valley and mountains between Xiangyang and Fangling.

If you can win over Mei Shiki to join the gang, you will be able to get more than 10,000 soldiers to help you fight in an instant.

So at present, Fancheng Caoren wants to break through, and there is only one way to survive in the east.

Guan Ping didn't just come to invite Tian Xin to have a meal, he also brought a battalion of Dangkou Army Infantry and spent the night in the nearby warship.

Tian Xin didn't plan to sleep at night, standing on the second floor of the tower, holding a copper-tired iron spine bow in his hand, and wearing an iron ring on his right hand before daring to pull the string, which was his equipment for exercising arm strength.

With nothing to do, he took a bow and a heavy arrow, and aimed at the dark wall of Fancheng twelve or thirteen zhang away.

Although archery is scarce, you can vaguely remember the outline of the city wall, so when you take a break from shooting five arrows, there are always two or three arrows shot at the wall door panel, and heavy arrows can often pierce the door panel.

On the wall, Cao Jun did not dare to make a fire, and sat on the ground with his back to the battlement, or lay on his shield for the night.

Cao Ren was no exception, with a round shield under him, leaning against the female wall, wrapped in a cloak to keep out the cold, and discussed with Niu Jin in a low voice.

The battle has been fought so far, Cao Ren has been unable to break the situation, what he can do is to nail him to death in Fancheng, Fancheng will not be broken for a day, and Lu Chang, who guards Xiangyang, will have the confidence to urge the officials to stick to and wait for help; If Fancheng is broken, then Lu Changzi will not be able to suppress his subordinates, and it will become inevitable that he will be coerced to surrender.

When they discussed, the news that the Seventh Army was supervised by Yu Ban and that Pang De's headquarters was completely annihilated by Guan Yu was transmitted to Chang'an by the flying horse.

Cao Cao withdrew from Hanzhong in May, and is still recuperating in Chang'an to prevent Liu Bei from attacking Guanlong. In mid-July, he canonized Cao Pi's biological mother Bian as queen, establishing the status of Cao Pi, Cao Zhi, and Cao Zhang's sons-in-law.

When the military situation of the Battle of Xiangfan came, Cao Cao couldn't believe that Yu Banhui, who had followed him for more than 30 years, surrendered on the spot, and surrendered with more than 30,000 elite troops!

Let's take a look at the generals of Cao Ying, who else is there among the generals with foreign surnames, except for the tens of thousands of troops led by Yu Bannengdu?

The continuous military intelligence was delivered urgently, and he couldn't believe it.

He began to arrange the strategy of staying in Guanzhong, with his adopted son Cao Zhen as the protector of the Shu capital, and sent Cao Zhen to lead the army to Wudu to meet Cao Hong's retreat to Chencang, and sent Xu Huang to supervise the newly recruited army in Guanzhong with more than 5,000 troops from Wancheng to support the Xiangfan battlefield.

Zhao Yan, the original protector of Guanzhong, was injured and stationed in Tunwancheng, and was serving as Xu Huang's protector, so that Zhao Yan could exert his influence in the Guanzhong region and actively mobilize more troops to support Xu Huang.

Cao Cao also mobilized his army in batches, reinforcing Xu Huang's troops as much as he could, and preparing to move to Luoyang.

His main army cannot be moved lightly, and must be prepared to do so.

More than 30,000 people in Yu Ban were defeated by Guan Yu, how could Xu Huang, who led 5,000 newly recruited troops, take the lead alone?

Cao Cao also ordered the defense of Hefei to be lifted, and the 26th and foreign armies gathered here had 1340,000 people, which were under the command of the governor Xiahoudun. The army assembled on the eastern front could be divided into 50,000 or 60,000 to aid Xiangfan, so Xiahoudun and Zhang Liao served as the third wave of reinforcements after Yu Ban and Xu Huang.

After all this was done, Cao Cao waited until Cao Hong, Cao Zhen, and Cao Xiu withdrew their troops and returned to Chencang, and Cao Xiu served as his central leader, before leading the army to Luoyang.

At this time, Cao Cao proposed to move the capital to Hebei to avoid Guan Yu Fengrui, and after some discussion, he was persuaded by Jiang Ji, the head of the Prime Minister's Mansion, and Sima Yi, the Eastern Cao Peng and military commander, to be suspended. And such a confidential conversation was revealed, spreading to Xu Du and Yecheng.

Why can it be circulated?

Because the West Cao Peng of the Prime Minister's Mansion is called Wei Wei, he is a famous man recommended by Zhong Xuan, who stayed in the Prime Minister's Mansion in Yecheng and assisted the deputy Prime Minister Cao Pi in governing the government.

A few days later, on August 21, Gengzi Day, the ministers of Ji Han entered the table to recommend Liu Bei as the king of Hanzhong, and Liu Bei rewarded the ministers.

With his son Liu Chan as the crown prince, Xu Jing as the prince, Fa Zheng as Shang Shuling, Guan Yu as the former general, Zhang Fei as the right general, Ma Chao as the left general, and Huang Zhong as the rear general.

Liu Bei said that the queen led the main force back to Chengdu (uh) capital, with Yamen general Wei Yan as the general of Zhenbei, leading Hanzhong Taishou, and guarding Hanzhong.

On this day, Liu Bei was proclaimed king in the Han Zhongli Altar, and Chen Zhen, as a messenger, also notified the matter on the battlefield of Xiangfan on this day, and rewarded Guan Yu and the following generals.

Zhao Lei, Wang Fu, Lei Xu, and Xiahou Lan were all rewarded and promoted, and the outstanding military officials who emerged in the war were lieutenants and lieutenant generals.

However, Guan Yu, Guan Ping, and Tian Xin have no rewards, and they have to wait for someone to seal them.

He seemed to be involved in the factional struggle between Liu Bei and Guan Yu, Tian Xin was a little sullen, and returned to the battlefield after a simple banquet.

As the news of Liu Bei's claim to be king was conveyed to the whole army, the morale of the whole army was high and vigorous.

Thanks to Tian Xin and Guan Ping's strict defense, as well as the drive to surrender the army to labor, the east of Fancheng has been built at this time.

As a precaution, Cao Ren temporarily increased the height of the eastern wall by four feet, but the wall was only two feet thick, and it could resist crossbow arrows and arrows, and it was not resistant to collision.

Tian Xin climbed the wooden tower to observe the Cao army at the head of the city, and Cao Ren also hid behind the door panel to observe the jubilant Han army of Jingzhou.

Twelve or thirteen zhang apart, the two stared at each other.