failed to win the battle and break through Fancheng, but all fifty ladders were burned by Cao's army, which made Guan Yu a little annoyed.

"Junhou, although Fancheng has not been conquered today, but judging from today's situation, Fancheng is difficult to support, and it will be able to break the city in a few days!" Ma Liang saw that Guan Yu's face was ugly, and smiled and comforted.

Ma Liang didn't think that this Fancheng could go down in one battle, but in today's battle, the Jingzhou army attacked the city wall several times, if it weren't for Cao's desperate resistance, maybe Guan Yu would really be called down in a battle.

Rao is so, in Ma Liang's opinion, the defenders of Fancheng have lost their anger today, I am afraid that they will not be able to hold for a few days, this record is already good, as for the first battle, it is a little too much.

Guan Yu nodded, the words he said were not fulfilled, he felt a little mustard in his heart, he felt that his face was gloomy, and the most important thing was that the loss of the fifty catapults made Guan Yu feel a little distressed.

"I don't know how much oil this Fancheng has prepared, and if we fight again tomorrow, it is better to divide the troops to attack, so that Yu Ban has no skills." Ma Liang saw that Guan Yu's face was not good-looking, and knew that he was thinking about today's affairs, so he offered advice.

"Today's battle, the defenders of Fancheng suffered a lot of losses, if our army attacks the city, it will drive the people to defend the city, the people of Fancheng followed their brother in the past, how can they harm each other? Moreover, if the four sides are surrounded, the Cao army will inevitably fight to the death, let go of the two sides, but also disintegrate the heart of the Cao army to fight to the death, and fight again tomorrow, you can order Zhou Cang to lead a group of men and horses to ambush outside the north of the city, if that is forbidden to break through, it can be taken in one fell swoop. Guan Yu shook his head.

The division of troops to attack will indeed reveal the disadvantage of the lack of forbidden troops, but the people of Fancheng were all followed by Cao Cao when he went south, and Liu Bei failed to protect it at the beginning, and he felt a little indebted in his heart.

Ma Liang nodded and smiled when he heard this: "The prince is benevolent." ”

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Fancheng, the thick stench permeated the whole city, the people under the supervision of Cao Jun, constantly carried down the corpses of the city head and burned them, there were Cao Jun's, there were also Jingzhou Jun's, many of them were blurred flesh and blood, it was difficult to identify their identities, and they were all burned together.

Yu Ban took his guards to inspect the city, and from time to time he could hear the faint sound of crying in the city, and at night, the whole city was like a ghost.

Everywhere he passed, Cao Jun saw Yu Ban and hurriedly got up and saluted, but the desperate expression on his face made Yu Ban a little worried.

It's only the first day, Fancheng is almost unable to defend it, how to defend it next?

"How many soldiers are there in the city?" Yu Ban saw that the general in charge of counting military merits came back and asked in a deep voice.

"General Hui, in today's battle, more than half of our army was lost, and the defenders in the city are less than one thousand and five, even if you count the wounded soldiers, you can't get together two thousand!" The general smiled bitterly.

"The casualties are so heavy!?" Yu Ban was surprised, although he knew that today's casualties would be huge, but he didn't expect that in just one day, he would lose so much, even if he couldn't hold it for two days!

"The enemy's offensive is too strong, the catapult has a very long range, and even the archers have a far longer range than our army, and most of the casualties are under the enemy's arrows." The general smiled bitterly.

More than?

Yu Banyan sighed when he heard this, those Jingzhou troops who attacked the city were also quite brave, if he hadn't led people to rush to the death, and wiped out the Jingzhou army that had begun to tear gaps in the city wall several times, it was a question whether this Fancheng could be defended today.

The atmosphere became silent for a while, and everyone's hearts were filled with an unspeakable depression, and everyone had no expectations in their hearts about whether Fancheng could hold on until tomorrow.

The group silently continued to inspect the city, and suddenly there was a noise in the direction of the north city.

"What happened?" Yu Ban's face changed, and he hurriedly ordered someone to investigate.

After a while, a soldier hurriedly came back, bowed to Yu Ban and said: "General, there are rebels who have gathered to mutiniate and want to open the city gate, but now they have been suppressed!" ”

Has it already begun?

Yu Ban's heart was a little heavy, today's battle was too bad, he knew that the army's heart would inevitably be turbulent, but he didn't expect that there would be a mutiny so soon!

It is also forbidden to strictly govern the army, otherwise, I am afraid that today's wartime will already be chaotic.

Guan Yu's strength is ten times that of the defenders, but he only attacks the city on two sides, leaving the truth of not attacking on both sides is the same as the one in the siege of Sanque, that is, so that the soldiers defending the city have no intention of dying, and now Yu Ban would rather Guan Yu be surrounded on all sides, so that at least the soldiers of the three armies can fight to the death!

Without saying much, after Yu Ban inspected the city, he went straight back to the government office, frowning and pacing back and forth, until midnight, when suddenly his eyes lit up, and he summoned two guards and said: "You two immediately go out from the east and north gates, and the sunrise is from the other gate, and after entering the city, shout along the street that Nanyang reinforcements have arrived, and in addition, you must not say much to anyone!" ”

The two guards were a little puzzled, but they didn't ask more, and promised to leave with a word of resignation.

Looking at the direction in which the two left, Yu Ban clenched his fists.

The first thing to solve at the moment is the problem of morale, otherwise I am afraid that we will not even be able to survive tomorrow.

What about tomorrow and beyond? Yu Ban didn't think about it, so far, one more day of keeping, one more chance of winning!

This night was undoubtedly torturous for Cao Jun, but overnight, there were several mutinies among the soldiers, and the scale was not too large, and Yu Banshang could suppress it.

In the early morning of the next day, as soon as the sky was bright, Guan Yu commanded the army, divided the army into three parts, and took turns to attack the city.

The ladders brought overnight began to push slowly, and catapults and archers began to strike at the walls.

Yu Ban fought with Guan Yu yesterday, and he was also much familiar with the siege routines of the Jingzhou army, but he was not as busy as yesterday to deal with it.

However, the defenders were seriously insufficient, and the people who were forced to walk on the city wall were so frightened that they screamed in the face of the various siege equipment of the Jingzhou army, and they rushed in a panic at the head of the city, and even the defenders were also affected a lot.

"Those who don't listen to orders and run around without permission...... Kill! At this time, he could not tolerate the slightest soft-heartedness, and ordered people to kill dozens of people who were running around one after another before stabilizing the formation.

Guan Yu did not put the cloud ladder into it at one time this time, but matched it with a lot of temporary siege ladders to cooperate with the siege.

It's just that to Guan Yu's surprise, the Cao army, which has obviously lost many troops, is extremely tenacious today, and the three teams of men and horses take turns to attack the city, coupled with the continuous bombardment of catapults, it is clear that the Cao army is crumbling, but it has never really broken through the city.

Fancheng has few soldiers, and there are siege weapons, failing to break through Fancheng in a battle has made Guan Yu feel a big loss of face, and today Fancheng has shown such amazing resilience, which makes Guan Yu quite angry, and he went to the front line to command the battle.

Guan Yu personally came to the front line, which greatly boosted the morale of the front-line soldiers, and the offensive of the soldiers of the three armies became more fierce.

Yu Ban naturally saw Guan Yu's Shuai Qi arrive at the front line, and hurriedly gathered a few archers, taking advantage of Guan Yu's approach, to release arrows in the direction of Shuai Qi.

Guan Yu calmly swung his knife to shoot down the flying arrow cluster, his eyes were as cold as lightning, and he looked in the direction where the arrow cluster was flying.

His eyes were like knives, and those archers still wanted to shoot again, but when they saw Guan Yu's eyes, they all felt cold in their hearts, and no one dared to shoot another arrow.

Bang~

The city gate, which had been destroyed by the rushing car for two consecutive days, was suddenly smashed open at this moment, and a large number of Jingzhou troops swarmed in, and the city gate of Fancheng was finally broken.

Although the soldiers defending the city got the news that reinforcements were coming in the morning, but now that the city gate is broken, the general trend has gone, and they are willing to defend it again.

"Dangchang~"

A Cao soldier suddenly threw away his weapon and ran down the city without looking back.

As if as a signal, more and more Cao troops began to flee, and fewer and fewer Cao troops were able to hold on to their positions.

"Don't mess up, don't mess up!" How many generals want to stop it, but where can they stop it?

The sword in Yu Ban's hand was still dripping blood, but it did not stop it.

The general trend has gone, and the moment the city gate is breached, the number of winners and losers has been decided!

Unless reinforcements really arrive at this time, but that is just an excuse for Yu Ban to stabilize the army's heart, he knows very well that there will never be reinforcements at the moment, and the nearest reinforcements will take ten days to arrive!

This battle was lost!

In his own life, this battle was probably the worst defeat, and he failed to hold it for two days, and was broken through the city gate by the enemy.

"General, the enemy army has not yet occupied the four gates, break through!" Seeing that Yu Ban was in a daze at the moment, several Cao army generals hurriedly stepped forward to persuade.

Yu Ban reluctantly glanced at the Jingzhou army that was rushing to this side like a tide, nodded silently and said, "Pass on my military order, ...... Break through the East Gate and retreat to Xinye! ”

"General, why don't you go through the north gate? You can retreat directly to Xiangyang and join forces with General Mancheng, and with the solidity of Xiangyang, you will be able to hold on until the reinforcements arrive! "A Cao general is trying to gather the remnants of the army, and at the same time he is in a hurry.

"Although Guan Yu did not besiege the city, do you know that he did not ambush the army? It's better to go to Xinye first, you can go to Nanyang for help, or you can avoid Guan Yu's ambush! Yu Ban strode forward, but his mind was unusually calm, he was almost certain that Guan Yu had ambushed the soldiers.

Just ambush over there, you can only rely on luck.

Comparatively speaking, there is a greater possibility of ambush at the north gate.

"Don't go away!" Guan Yu saw that Cao's army began to break through, and immediately ordered people to start besieging Cao's army.

Fancheng has been broken, and the matter of peace and security is handed over to Ma Liang, Yu Ban is a big fish, and the benefits of capturing Yu Ban are greater in Guan Yu's opinion than taking Fancheng, at least Xiangyang's morale will definitely be affected, and it can also suppress Cao Cao's momentum, if he can surrender, it will naturally be better.

As soon as Yu Ban led his troops out of the city gate, he saw a large number of Jingzhou troops all over the mountains and fields killing this side, and as far as the eye could see, there were Jingzhou troops all over the place.

Yu Ban only felt that his scalp was numb, this Guan Yu didn't even care about the city, and directly led the whole army to kill him?

At this moment, it is difficult for Yu Ban to gather even a hundred people around him, how dare he fight again, but he just runs all the way.

was running away, but saw a sudden battle of soldiers and horses in front of him, and it was the Jingzhou army!

Yu Ban looked around, secretly complained, it turned out that unconsciously, he was forced to the direction of the east gate by Guan Yu, and Guan Yu's soldiers and horses who were ambushed here in advance were killed, completely blocking their retreat......