"My lord, the last general will not be able to do anything well this time, and I also ask the lord to surrender his guilt." As soon as they met, Guan Yu lowered his head with shame on his face, knelt down on one knee in front of Liu Bei, and pleaded with him.

In the first half of the second year of Jian'an, Liu Beijun and Cao Cao's army were in battle. The battle loss ratio of the two sides is about the same, however, because Liu Beijun is always on the defensive, and the casualties of the attacking side are always more, therefore, the casualties of the two armies can be described as 8,000 wounded enemies and 10,000 self-losses.

In this battle, among Liu Bei's army, Xu Shu, Lu Su, Chen Dao, and even Chen Deng all shined, among which Xu Shu and Lu Su had the greatest credit. Although Xu Shu did not directly command or participate in the battles of several battlefields, he was in the middle of the dispatch and secretly sent people to rebel against the three generals under Yuan Shu, which made Yuan Shu's 70,000 army collapse overnight, which can be said to be indispensable.

And Lu Su was just starting out, so he blocked more than a dozen fierce attacks of the Cao army in the defensive battle, so that the Cao army could not take a step further. It also amazed the world, you know, everyone thought that Lu Su was just a white-faced scholar, but he didn't expect that he would be able to have such a record for the first time when he personally led the troops. Although it was only a defensive battle, Guo Jia and Jia Xu asked themselves if they were put in Lu Su's position, they might not be able to do better than him.

However, Lu Su and Xu Shu didn't know that this time, the reason why Liu Bei behaved so well and made the best use of his talents was actually due to Jin Jue. When recommending Xian to Liu Bei, Jin Jue specifically mentioned the specialties of Lu Su, Xu Shu and Chen Zhi.

In addition to Lu Su and Xu Shu being military advisors and good at giving advice, Lu Su is also very good at defense and training, while Xu Shu is good at strategy. Historically, the burning of Bowangpo is true, this battle took place in the seventh year of Jian'an, it is obvious that that the battle was not the credit of Zhuge Liang, but is likely to be the work of Xu Shu's advice.

In the Battle of Xuzhou, the only general in Liu Bei's army who did not make achievements was Guan Yu himself.

Guan Yu was entangled in Pengcheng County by the 5,000 elite soldiers led by Xiahoudun.

I don't know if it was influenced by Jin Jue, or if Xiahoudun was originally so powerful, or if someone secretly gave him advice, in short, Guan Yu was not only unable to break the other party in the face of Xiahoudun, who had much less troops than himself, but Peng Chengguo's soldiers also caused a lot of casualties because of him.

Guan Yu actually knew that Xiahoudun was not easy to deal with.

However, in order to be able to defeat Xiahoudun, and then attract the attention of Cao's army, and reduce the pressure on Donghai County and Xiapi State, Guan Yu even did not hesitate to transfer half of the garrison soldiers from the city and began to attack Xiahoudun's headquarters on a large scale.

However, Xiahoudun actually became a shrunken turtle, and he didn't fight Guan Yu at all. Before Cao's army abandoned Pengcheng and prepared to attack Pi directly, Xiahoudun also built a strong camp near Pengcheng County.

Therefore, these two famous generals fought a battle of offensive and defensive positions outside Pengcheng County.

As a result, Guan Yu naturally failed to break through the camp guarded by Xiahoudun in the end, and for three consecutive days, Guan Yu seemed to lead the army to attack Xiahoudun with anger. However, the attacking side will always suffer more casualties than the defending side.

When the three-day battle was over, Jian Yong had to run out of the county seat of Pengcheng County, and after seeing Guan Yu, he personally persuaded: "General Guan, you can't fight like this anymore." Nearly two thousand soldiers have been killed or wounded in these three days. What if at this time, Cao Jun turned around and chose to attack Pengcheng County? The lord left you and my soldiers are not many, if you lose Pengcheng County, how can you and I replace the lord? ”

At this time, no matter how angry Guan Yu was, how unwilling he was, he could only suspend the attack, as Jian Yong said, Liu Bei left him the most important task, which was to hold the county seat of Pengcheng County, like a nail, blocking the back road of the Cao army, so that the Cao army could never attack Lusu's defensive front with all his strength wholeheartedly.

As long as Guan Yu and the county seat of Pengcheng County are still there, Cao Jun will always be worried, and Guan Yu will send troops to cut off their back road.

So, Guan Yu ordered the attack to be stopped, and the headquarters repaired for three days.

Early in the morning of the fourth day, Guan Yu left a part of his soldiers to guard the camp, and he was ready to lead his selected soldiers to bypass Xiahoudun and attack Yanzhou north.

However, Xiahoudun is not a scarecrow, as soon as Guan Yu sent out the army, he was like a piece of kraft candy, leading the army to follow Guan Yu's department closely, wherever Guan Yu went, Xiahoudun led the army wherever he went, only followed, but did not fight at all.

Therefore, knowing that Cao Jun had to withdraw immediately because of the Dongjun incident, Guan Yu was never able to achieve any results in this battle. Not to mention sending troops to attack Yanzhou, he was so entangled by Xiahou that he couldn't even get out of Peng Chengguo.

"Yun Chang, you don't have to be like this, the situation is already known. This battle is not your fault, it is me, the eldest brother, who did not leave you too many troops, so that you will not be able to defeat Xiahoudun all the time. Liu Bei shook his head, personally stepped forward to help Guan Yu up, and persuaded him.

In fact, it is.

According to Jin Jue's suggestion, Liu Bei gathered all his heavy troops on the front line of Donghai County and Xiapi State, and when he left Pengchengguo, he not only moved all the old, young and women in Pengchengguo, Peiguo and some counties of Lu State to Xiapi State, but also transferred half of the troops from Guan Yu. This made Guan Yu's attack weak, and he was unable to defeat Xiahoudun.

At that time, there were 10,000 soldiers guarding the city in Pengcheng County, but Guan Yu only had 5,000 soldiers trained by himself.

However, it was precisely because of this information that Xiahoudun dared to leave only 5,000 elite soldiers for himself, and dared to pack a ticket to block Guan Yu. If Guan Yu had enough troops in his hands, Xiahoudun would not dare to be so big.

"Okay, General Guan, now is not the time for you to blame yourself. After the Dongjun incident, everyone must have known the importance of ruling the people! Zi Jing and I expected that at this time, Cao Jun would definitely take advantage of the will of the imperial court and immediately send troops to attack Yuzhou and Huainan Yangzhou. Therefore, my lord and I are here this time, preparing to quickly sweep the country of Lu to the north from here.

And General Guan, you will send troops to Peiguo again, and move as many people from the counties of Peiguo that you have not controlled before to the southern region of Peiguo as much as possible. As for Peng Chengguo, just leave it to Xianhe for defense. General Guan, you must pay attention to the fact that the purpose of this dispatch is not to seize land, but only to seize the people. Xu Shu stood up in time to relieve the somewhat dull atmosphere between the two brothers, and he told the purpose of coming to Pengcheng this time.

"The last general commands!" Guan Yu agreed very simply this time.

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