As a springboard for attacking Jingzhou, Sun Jian naturally would not ignore Jiangxia's defense.

Jiangxia City is now guarded by Sun Jian's generals Chen Wu and Nengchen Zhu Zhi, there are 20,000 elite soldiers in the city, and the grain and grass are sufficient, even if the city is besieged, its grain and grass can last for half a year.

It can be said that although Cai Mao and Liu Bei's combined forces have 40,000 people, which is twice as many as in Jiangxia City, it is still extremely difficult for the Jingzhou army to capture Jiangxia City. Not to mention that Liu Bei and Cai Mao must not be in harmony with each other, which makes it even more difficult to capture the city.

However, although Liu Bei and Cai Mao have their own thoughts, at least on the surface, it seems that the relationship between the two is still very harmonious. Although Cai Mao looked down on Liu Bei and thought that the other party was a repeated defeat, he still called him the emperor's uncle when they met, giving the other party enough faces.

As for Liu Bei, not to mention, pretending to be a grandson is simply his specialty, no matter what he thinks of Cai Mao in his heart, at least his attitude towards Cai Mao on the surface is called respect.

Cai Mao originally wanted Liu Bei to lead his 10,000 horses to die at the front during the siege of the city, but Liu Bei behaved so politely, which made it a little difficult for him to speak.

But I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I still have to say what I need to say. Let Liu Bei's men and horses act as meat shields, this is a policy that was formulated from the beginning, and it is also the strategy decided by Liu Biao.

When Cai Mao tactfully expressed the meaning of letting Liu Bei lead his troops as a pioneer, Liu Bei himself was still wording how to respond, but Zhang Fei behind him couldn't bear it anymore and muttered loudly.

If it weren't for Liu Bei's concern that he was here, he might even be rude directly.

Zhang Fei has been unhappy in recent days, and after learning the news of his brother Guan Yu's defection to Cao, he fell into extreme anger every day. Behaviors such as drinking to kill sorrows and whipping soldiers are not uncommon for Zhang Fei today, drinking without moderation, whipping soldiers without mercy, and almost every day soldiers die under Zhang Fei's whipping.

In this regard, although Liu Bei has admonished Zhang Fei many times, he has had little effect. Fortunately, Liu Bei wiped Zhang Fei's buttocks every time, Zhang Fei whipped the soldier to death, and Liu Bei compensated the other party's family with a lot of money, so there was no trouble. And after Zhang Fei knew the inside story, he relented, but that was only to reduce the rate of whipping one soldier to death in one day to one soldier in three days.

Zhang Fei has been in a bad mood these days, and now Liu Biao has asked Liu Bei to lead the army to attack Jiangxia, which is like adding fuel to the fire for Zhang Fei. Although Liu Biao sent the order to Liu Bei and did not use any inappropriate words, in Zhang Fei's opinion, he always felt that Liu Biao was commanding.

You Liu Biao wanted to attack the city and plunder the land, and he sent troops to save it. The army that my eldest brother worked so hard to bring out, why should you send Liu Biao to death! Zhang Fei's heart was filled with indignation.

It's just that while Zhang Fei was not angry in his heart, he didn't think about it at all If Liu Biao didn't give this piece of land to Liu Bei to live in, Liu Bei might not be able to figure out where he was now.

Although Zhang Fei was unwilling to listen to Liu Biao's order to conquer Jiangxia, Liu Bei insisted on marching, and Zhang Fei could only follow.

Zhang Fei was originally holding back a breath of anger to fight, but at this time, Cai Mao actually proposed to let Liu Bei's troops serve as the vanguard to die, which made him even more angry and furious on the spot.

Zhang Fei's voice was like thunder, his sex was like fire, and when he was angry at this time, it really made Cai Mao and the others change color.

Although he was unwilling to be pressed by Zhang Fei like this, Cai Mao did not dare to refute at such a time. Zhang Fei is not a good person at first glance, if he stimulates him, in case the other party loses control of his emotions and stabs himself to death, then he will not even have a chance to regret it.

Although face is important, it is not as important as life.

But no matter what, Cai Mao secretly hated Zhang Fei in his heart after all, he was in a high position in Jingzhou, even if Liu Biao himself spoke politely when facing him. No one has ever dared to be so rude to themselves and make themselves disgraced.

The so-called hatred of Wu Jiwu, Cai Mao secretly hated Zhang Fei, and even took Zhang Fei's brother Liu Bei to hate.

No matter if your attitude is respectful or not, if your brother is so reckless and rude, you are definitely not a good person.

Seeing the awkward atmosphere, Wen Ping, who was the deputy general of Jingzhou, hurriedly came out to play a round. Wen Ping is loyal and upright, and he can't look past the act of letting friendly soldiers die. Moreover, Wen Ping believes that just letting Liu Bei's subordinates be the vanguard will definitely attract the dissatisfaction of the other party, and maybe even slack off during the battle, which will definitely be unfavorable to the war.

Under Zhang Fei's oppression and the mediation of Wen Ping, Cai Mao finally had to retract his fate, and after repeated discussions, Liu Bei sent 4,000 people and Cai Mao sent 6,000 people, forming a total of 10,000 people to serve as the vanguard of the siege.

The siege battle was very fierce, the Jingzhou army hit the city several times, but was beaten back by the Jiangdong army several times, only to see the corpses all over the city and the city, and the situation was unbearable.

Although Jiangxia is difficult to attack, it is not a strong city unparalleled in the world, and the Jiangdong army is inferior in numbers, so it is very difficult to defend.

Zhu Zhi, an important minister in Jiangdong, even died in battle while defending the city.

However, although the Jingzhou army's offensive was fierce, it never succeeded in capturing the city, which was due to the fact that Liu Bei and Cai Mao did not work together.

On the sixth day of Jiangxia's siege, reinforcements from Jiangdong arrived. Cai Mao saw that the siege was hopeless, so he retreated.

In this battle, Jingzhou lost more than 15,000 people, of which Liu Bei's troops lost more than 5,000 people.

It can be said that for this battle, Liu Bei finally saved up some of his family funds, but he was defeated by more than half at once, and the loss in his heart can be imagined.

After retiring from the army, Cai Mao met with Liu Biao and told Liu Bei that he did not contribute to the work and delayed the fighter, so that he failed to take Jiangxia. Regarding Cai Mao's duties, Liu Bei naturally has to write a book to fight back, which will not be pressed for the time being.

On the Jiangdong side, although Jiangxia was saved, Sun Jian was still angry.

Zhu Zhi's death in battle made Sun Jian go crazy.

Zhu Zhi, like Han Dang, Cheng Pu and others, was the first group of people to follow Sun Jian. Although Zhu Zhi's martial arts are not high, he has good ability in both military and political governance, and he has won Sun Jin's trust.

In the original history, Zhu Zhi was worshiped as the Taishou of Wu County, awarded the general of Anguo, and was named the Marquis of Ling, and was deeply favored by Sun Quan. Zhu Zhizhi's adopted son, Zhu Ran, served as the governor of Wu after Lu Xun's death.

The anger caused by Zhu Zhi's death in Sun Jian's heart was no less than the death of Han Dang last time, and Sun Jian could be said to have a complete grudge against Liu Biao.

The battle of Jiangxia, although it had no impact on the situation in the north, was also because of this battle, Cao Cao was now feeling very difficult.

Without him, through this battle, Guan Yu finally learned Liu Bei's current whereabouts.

Liu Bei was previously in Taoguang in Weiyang, so that many people did not know that he lived under Liu Biao's account. But in the battle of Jiangxia, since Liu Bei participated in the war, it is impossible for his whereabouts to continue to hide, and it will definitely be known, and Guan Yu is naturally no exception.

After learning that his brother was with Liu Biao, Guan Yudang even asked Cao Cao to resign, hoping that Cao Cao would let him return to his brother's place.

In the face of Guan Yu's request, Cao Cao now has a headache.