The morale in Xiangyang City was boosted by the arrival of Xiahoulan, and everyone was full of confidence in the future, but there was a wail in the Jingzhou military camp outside Xiangyang City.

Xia Houlan led his troops to attack the Jingzhou army camp, although he failed to destroy this camp, but still caused the Jingzhou army to suffer great losses, thousands of soldiers died in this attack, not to mention the wounded.

The most important thing is that Liu Pan's nephew Liu Pan was also killed in this attack and was shot and killed by Xiahoulan.

Liu Biao looked at Liu Pan's corpse covered with a white cloth on the ground, and his face was as gloomy as water.

Although Liu Pan is only Liu Biao's nephew, because of his outstanding talent, Liu Biao still values Liu Pan more. Even in Liu Biao's expectation, the great cause of Jingzhou will be inherited by his heirs in the future, and Liu Pan will escort his heirs. But who would have thought that Liu Pan would actually die here.

Liu Biao took a deep breath at this time and said to Kuai Liang: "Zirou, pass on my order, the army will be drawn out, and I will attack Xiangyang City." ”

"Lord, no!" Hearing this, Kuai Liang hurriedly shouted to dissuade him.

"Huh?" Liu Biao's fierce gaze fell on Kuai Liang, so that Kuai Liang could feel that the current Liu Biao was like a vicious beast that chose people to devour.

Now Liu Biao's state is very wrong, and if he bumps into it at this time, he will be completely angered by Liu Biao, but for the sake of Liu Biao's great cause, Kuai Liang can't care so much at this time.

"Lord, Xiahou Lan led the reinforcements to arrive, we can't take Xiangyang City, and now it is the right choice to withdraw the troops in time, only if we return to Jiangling City, we can have a chance to make a comeback. If Yuan Shujun's follow-up reinforcements arrive, then we may not be able to leave. ”

Liu Biao looked at Kuai Liang, the anger in his eyes was like an active volcano, although it had not yet erupted, but it contained unimaginable power. "You mean to say that we just let Xiangyang City go this time?"

Kuai Liang knew that Liu Biao was already carried away by anger, but he had to pull Liu Biao back to the right path, otherwise all their original plans would be useless when Xiahou Lan had already led reinforcements into Xiangyang City. With the support of Xiahou Lan's new force, coupled with the solidity of Xiangyang City, their plan this time could basically be declared a failure. The plan for now is to return to Gangneung City, accumulate strength, and then make plans.

However, Kuai Liang also knew that Liu Biao basically pressed all the treasures on this counterattack, and now Xiangyang City could not be taken, even if Liu Biao successfully returned to Jiangling City, it would be a great blow to his prestige, maybe it would be difficult for Liu Biao to turn over after this time. But there is always a glimmer of life in retreating to Jiangling City, if you continue to stay outside Xiangyang City, then when a large number of reinforcements from Nanyang arrive, Liu Biao is afraid that he will not be able to leave if he wants to.

Later, under Kuailiang's persuasion, Liu Biaocai agreed to withdraw his troops. In fact, Liu Biao also understood that with the current situation in Xiangyang City, he didn't have the slightest chance at all, Liu Biao just didn't want to give up.

It's a pity that under Kuai Liang's words, Liu Biao could only reluctantly accept this fact and prepared to start withdrawing his troops, but Kuai Liang's first sentence made Liu Biao jump to his feet with anger.

"Zirou, what do you mean by that? Didn't you say you wanted me to withdraw my troops? Why do you say now that you want to continue to attack Xiangyang City? Liu Biao looked at Kuai Liang, his face was not good, and there was a tendency that if Kuai Liang didn't give him an explanation, he would dismantle Kuai Liang.

Kuai Liang said: "Lord, although we are about to withdraw our troops, but at this time, if the defenders of Xiangyang City come to pursue, then our losses will not be small, it is better to take advantage of the time when Xiangyang City gets reinforcements now, we will storm Xiangyang City, so that Xiangyang City thinks that we are going to capture Xiangyang City at all costs, and we will withdraw when they are on full alert, so that even if they can react, we will have already withdrawn." ”

After listening to Kuai Liang's analysis, Liu Biao also sighed and said, "Then so be it, this matter will be entrusted to you." ”

"No!" Kuai Liang also knew that with Liu Biao's current state, it was indeed not suitable to go to the front-line battlefield in person, and no one else under Liu Biao's command now had the qualifications and ability to command siege battles except himself. Although Cai Mao and Zhang Yun are also fine, these two people need to be in charge of the Jingzhou Water Division, and Liu Biao must prepare in advance if he wants to remove the Water Division, so Cai Mao and Zhang Yun will not be able to get out, so they can only be Kuai Liang.

Xiahoulan attacked the Jingzhou army camp at dawn, and since Liu Biao decided to withdraw his troops, there was no need to repair the camp, but the army was assembled at noon under Xiangyang City and launched a fierce attack on Xiangyang City.

The outbreak of the Jingzhou army did not surprise Xun Yan, Xiahou Lan and Yuan Yao in Xiangyang City, on the contrary, if they were replaced, there was a high possibility that they would make a move to storm Xiangyang City. Therefore, although Xiangyang City has now been joined by a new force, it is not a decision that everyone can make to give up attacking Xiangyang City. Liu Biao also made this decision under Kuai Liang's repeated persuasion.

This siege battle was unprecedentedly tragic, and in order not to let the Xiangyang City side notice the abnormality, Kuai Liang also took great pains and was willing to pay a certain price. This time is also the heaviest casualty in the Jingzhou army's siege of the city for several days, although there are reasons for Kuailiang's calculations, but the morale of the Xiangyang City has been greatly boosted is also a very important reason.

At dusk, Kuai Liang's eyes moved away from Xiangyang City with deep meaning, and then ordered Mingjin to withdraw his troops, and the day's siege battle came to an end.

After Kuai Liang led his troops back to the camp, he and Liu Biao and others took advantage of the night to get all the soldiers under his command to the ships of the Jingzhou Naval Division, and then went down the river in the middle of the night and returned to Jiangling City.

Because Zhou Yu deliberately blocked the news, now Liu Biao and Kuai Liang don't know that Huang Zu is dead, Jiangling City has changed greatly, and they don't know that in front of them, Zhou Yu, who is the most brilliant star of this era, has already prepared a big gift to give to Liu Biao.

Although Zhou Yu has an indifferent temperament, but Sun Ce has taken Jiangling City, Zhou Yu is not willing to do nothing, after some calculations, Zhou Yu understands that Liu Biao will return to Jiangling City along the waterway sooner or later, so Zhou Yu has separated the 15,000 Jiangdong Navy soldiers under his command, and ambushed Liu Biao on the only way back to Jiangling City, ready to give Liu Biao a big surprise and lay the foundation for Jiangdong's situation in Jingzhou.