In fact, the war in Jingzhou was not completely eliminated, and even after Zhou Tai saw that he could not break the city, he took his men and horses to sabotage in the Jiangling area, intending to cut off Guan Yu's grain route, which caused Guan Yu a lot of trouble.

However, when Fancheng was breached, there was no shortage of military rations on Guan Yu's side, and the only thing he was worried about was that the back road was cut off.

Now that he has received Liu Yi's assurance, Guan Yu simply let go of his hands and feet, and divided the army to attack Xiangyang day and night, the news that Cao Ren's army returned to the division has been obtained here, and now that the Wen hired army has been withdrawn, there is no way to stop Cao's army from rescuing Xiangyang, Guan Yu obviously hopes to be able to break through Xiangyang before Cao Ren returns to the division.

The stone bullets fell on the city wall with a terrifying roar, even if it was as strong as Xiangyang, the female wall at the head of the city also had a lot of gaps, and the three hundred catapults bombed day and night, which was absolutely ruthless to the morale of Xiang Yang's defenders.

"Hold on, reinforcements will arrive tomorrow!" Li Dian carried a shield full of arrows, and ran back and forth in the city with a strong spirit, the passage under his feet was a little muddy, it was blood and water!

The smell of blood has numbed everyone's sense of smell these days, and he hasn't closed his eyes for three days, Li Dian now only feels that as long as he gives himself a chance to close his eyes, he can fall asleep while standing, but he doesn't dare to sleep, he is afraid that if he closes his eyes, he will be Guan Yu's prisoner when he wakes up tomorrow.

The Cao army defending the city has been numb to Li Dian's words, three days ago, Li Dian said that the reinforcements will arrive tomorrow, two days ago, the same sentence was used to boost morale, yesterday too, at the beginning, naturally people were excited, but after a long time, everyone was numb, and even felt that the reinforcements could not come at all.

Another ladder on the city wall, these days, I don't know how many ladders have been burned, but Guan Yu's ladders are still constantly pushed up, compared to the battle of Fancheng, this attack on Xiangyang, Guan Yu invested not only more troops, siege equipment and even the equipment of the siege soldiers, that is the most sophisticated, to the city defending the Cao army to bring the feeling, that is, the Jingzhou army is extremely brave, invulnerable, really killed on the city wall, often two or three people can change the other party.

Especially as the offensive became more and more fierce and the defenders of Xiangyang became fewer and fewer, the pressure brought by the Jingzhou army was increasing in the north of the city.

At the beginning, the defenders were able to burn the ladder in time, but as the war continued, the Jingzhou army attacked in batches at any cost, so that the defenders had no time to burn the ladder.

Li Dian knew that Guan Yu was in a hurry, obviously something big had happened, either Cao Ren returned to the army, or there was a problem in the rear of Jingzhou, Guan Yu was in a hurry to solve the battle of Xiangyang, the more so, the more he had to hold on, and now the fight is who on both sides can afford to consume energy.

It's just that although the idea is like this, the defenders really can't hold on, if they are placed in the wild, with today's casualties, the Cao army guarding Xiangyang is afraid that it will have already been defeated.

Even now, Li Dian can feel that the morale of the defenders is crumbling on the verge of collapse, and the worst, maybe the pressure of such a straw can make the defenders completely collapse.

Hold on a little longer, and reinforcements should arrive soon!

Li Dian now admires himself a little, he can hold out for a month with less than 8,000 defenders under Guan Yu's offensive, as long as he holds out for two more days, no, one day, maybe there will be a turnaround!

Although he didn't know what was going on, seeing Guan Yu's siege at such a cost, Li Dian knew that although it was tragic at the moment, the dawn might not be far away, as long as he could hold on!

"Whoa~"

At this moment, the city wall under his feet suddenly trembled, Li Dian didn't know what was going on, but the cheers from the Jingzhou soldiers in the distance made Li Dian's heart sink.

"General, the city wall in the west has collapsed, and the Jingzhou army is frantically entering the city along the collapsed gap!" A general rushed to Li Dian's side and said heartbreakingly: "General, run, the city is broken!" ”

At that moment, Li Dian only felt a bang in his brain, and it exploded!

The city is broken?

The city gate was not broken, but the city wall collapsed directly, how is this possible?

A group of generals saw Li Dian stunned, but did not dare to delay, the Jingzhou army has entered the city, the defenders of the four city walls have begun to be chaotic, this city is no matter what, immediately drove Li Dian to run out, the north of the city, the Jingzhou naval army has withdrawn, although I don't know the reason, but there is the only way out, at the moment driving Li Dian to retreat frantically, on the road gathered a lot of routs to flee together, and some chaotic troops took advantage of the chaos to break into the houses, but at this time, no one can take care of so much.

"Prince, the city is broken!" Ma Liang, who has been in charge of watching, looked at Guan Yu in surprise, this battle is really not easy, the defenders of Xiangyang have suffered heavy losses, but the Jingzhou army, under Guan Yu's attack at any cost, although the results are remarkable, but the enemy is injured by one thousand and eight hundred, not to mention the siege war, the losses of the Jingzhou army are not many, and even far exceed the Cao army, but it is worth it to be able to break through Xiangyang.

Guan Yu nodded, waved the command flag, the sound of war drums suddenly rose a lot, and the morale of the Jingzhou army besieging the city rose greatly, and they began to frantically rush down the ladder that was not burned to the city.

Cao Jun had already begun to flee for his life, and there were not many Cao troops still holding on to the city wall, and soon, the city wall had been taken, which was also Liu Beijun's first real victory against Cao Jun on the frontal battlefield.

Xiangyang City has been chaotic, Cao Jun soldiers are constantly setting fires, forcing the people in the city out to help them block the pursuers, although a little ruthless, but the effect is really good, Guan Yu attacked Xiangyang this time, but not to a dead city, after entering the city, seeing the fire, quickly divided a group of soldiers, led the people to extinguish the fire, and at the same time ordered Zhou Cang, Liao Hua to begin to clear the Cao army in the city before they had time to escape, and ordered a group of soldiers and horses to go to the government office to keep the Xiangyang household registration, which is extremely important and far-reaching for the entire Jingxiang.

It was busy until the early morning of the next day, when the fire in the city was gradually suppressed, and Guan Yu, accompanied by Ma Liang and Yi Yuan, arrived at Liu Biao's Assassin's Mansion in the past, but most of the former Assassin's Mansion had been burned down.

"I remember, this is where the attic built by Boyuan for Jingsheng Gong is located, right?" Guan Yu came to a ruined place, looked at the burned attic, and sighed.

"Yutinghou was actually famous back then, when the Tiangongfang was first established, Yutinghou was far from as powerful as it is now." Ma Liang smiled and nodded, Liu Biao was quite fond of this attic during his lifetime, and often invited Jingxiang celebrities here, but unfortunately, now things are wrong, and even this attic has not been spared, which makes people feel quite embarrassed.

Guan Yu said with a smile: "After this battle, most of Xiangyang has been destroyed, and after this incident, we need to invite Bo Yuan to come and repair it." ”

The magnificence of Yueyang City, although I have not been to it a few times, but it is still fresh in my memory, now Xiangyang, in the future, Jingzhou's politics and military will definitely move northward, since then it can go straight to Shangyong, and the territory is also considered to have contact, Xiangyang as a bridgehead against the Cao army, it must be repaired and even rebuilt.

Although this war has devastated Xiangyang, it may not be an opportunity.

"Speaking of Yuting Hou ......" Yi Yuan hesitated, looked at Guan Yu and said: "Recently, the Jiangdong Army cut off our army's grain route, if it weren't for the fact that there was still grain in Fancheng, our army would be in danger!" Yutinghou's side, is it really okay? ”

"Humph!" When Guan Yu heard this, his face, which was originally quite soft, was a little more angry: "Ji Chang!" Machine! ”

"In!" Ma Liang and Yi Yuan hurriedly stepped forward and bowed.

"I left Liao Hua here to defend the city, Zhou Cang assisted, strengthen the city, don't let Cao Jun attack, you two stay to pass orders and deal with Xiangyang government affairs, I should personally lead 5,000 elite soldiers, go to sweep Xiaoxiao!" Guan Yu's eyes were full of murderous intent, and he said.

"Whoa!" Ma Liang and Yi glanced at each other, now that Xiangyang is new, the foundation is unstable, Guan Yu should not leave at this time, but the safety of the rear is also a big problem, that Zhou Tai is a fierce general under Sun Quan, among the generals in Jingzhou, except for Guan Yu, there is really no one else who can compete with it, and the two can only agree.

Guan Yu didn't say anything more, and after ordering five thousand elites, he didn't rest, and went directly to Jiangling.

……

Nanyang, after crossing the Han River, seeing that the Jingzhou army had no intention of pursuing, Li Dian sat down on the ground weakly, and looked at Xiangyang on the opposite side gradually calmed down, at this moment, in addition to a few generals around him, less than three hundred soldiers and horses, this battle of Xiangfan, the Cao army can be said to be a big defeat, not only lost the city, but even Yu Ban, a general, was captured by the other party.

"General, let's go to Wancheng first!" A general suggested, after all, after losing the two important towns of Xiangyang and Fancheng, with their little people, they can't do anything, it is better to go to Wancheng first, and now Nanyang is also very chaotic, just to make meritorious contributions.

Li Dian nodded tiredly, he didn't have any idea of begging for death, after all, he tried his best in this battle, and the reason why the city was breached was not that Li Dian took the initiative to escape, but that there was really no way to defend it, and the city walls were all collapsed, how could he defend it?

Now what Li Dian is thinking about is how to recapture Xiangyang, this is a springboard for the Cao army to attack the land of Jingxiang in the south, if there is no Xiangyang, it will be difficult for the Cao army to attack Jingzhou again, you can't expect that every time, there will be people like Liu Cong and Cai Mao to give you the city.

"Gurgle~"

A rapid sound of horses' hooves came from a distance, and Cao Jun, who had been fighting for a month, already had some feelings of a bow and snake shadow, and when he heard the sound of rapid horses' hooves, he instinctively stood up and protected Li Dian's side: "Protect the general!" ”

Li Dian also stood up and looked in the direction where the sound of hooves came from, it shouldn't be the chasing soldiers of the Jingzhou Army over there.

"It's our scout!" A general rejoiced.

Soon, the scout had been recruited.

"Who are you? Where is the army? Li Dian looked at the scout and asked.

"General Hui, the last general is under the command of General Cao Ren, and the main force of our army is less than thirty miles away!"

Li Dian: "......"