Chapter 203: Overwhelming
Seeing that Cao Xiu was in front, he suddenly stabbed out a force of 3,000 men and horses to stop the Jingzhou army, and Cao Xiu could escape away. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info Guan Yu was immediately furious, and pointed his sword at this team. At this moment, Guan Yu was followed by tens of thousands of horses, and with Guan Yu's order, the wolf-like Jingzhou sergeant immediately entered the enemy formation, although this man and horse resisted desperately, but still did not escape the fate of being killed.
After the war, the sergeant pressed a civilian official and asked Guan Yu to leave.
Looking at this person, he is about forty years old, his body is slightly thin and haggard, but he is full of energy, and he is also a pride in facing Guan Yu as if he were at home.
"Who are you, Cao Xiu only cares about escaping, how dare you come to stop you?" Guan Yu asked sharply.
"Under is Liu Hui, who is appointed to join the army, General Guan is mighty, but he has put his life out of his body, although he is weak but has no fear, since he is captured, he will be killed or killed with the general!" Liu Hui looked completely dead.
Zhou Cang also led the army to arrive, Guan Yu handed Liu Xuan over to Zhou Cang for detention, and a group of people collected their troops and returned to Shuyang City.
Xu Shu heard that he had captured a Cao army to join the army, although he was in the hands of the enemy, he had no fear, and he admired it in his heart.
"Look at Mr. Extraordinary, why do you want to work for traitors like Cao Cao, now for the Lord Liu Yong to employ people on the basis of merit, I heard that Cao Xiu did not listen to Mr. advice and finally suffered this defeat, almost died, why don't Mr. go back to Jingzhou to go out, for the Lord, but also for the benefit of the people!"
Liu Hui sighed and said: "Mr. Yuanzhi don't want to persuade again, Liu Biao is weak, if there was such a master in Jingzhou before, Hui would definitely serve him wholeheartedly, but now he has served Cao Gong, and Cao Gong is not thin, how can he go elsewhere." Those who are ministers must be loyal to death, I have already abandoned Liu Biao, if I abandon Cao Gong again, what is the difference between it and villains like Lu Bu. Now I just want to die! ”
When Xu Shu heard this, he knew that this person could no longer persuade him to surrender, but he admired his loyalty and courage, toasted Liu Xuan a glass of wine, and left.
When Guan Yu heard Xu Shu's narration, he also sighed: "Sure enough, he is a loyal and righteous man, since he wants to die to show his will, we will fulfill him!" ”
On the second day, Guan Yu beheaded Liu Hui and Shuyang City, hung their heads at the city gate, and ordered the sergeant to be buried three days later!
After the reorganization of the Cao army prisoners, Guan Yu led the army again and arrived at the city of Wancheng. Xu Shu accompanied the army, and Zhou Cang arranged for someone to escort the remaining 5,000 captured Cao troops back to Xinye, and also led the army to Wancheng again. Guan Yu had already led 20,000 horses to the expedition, and now with the 6,000 men and horses captured by the Cao army in the previous war, and the men and horses lost in the previous battle, there are now a total of 25,000 men and horses, and the mighty army is coming to the city.
It is said in "Shuowen Jie Zi", "Wan, Qu Cao is self-tracking". Nanyang is surrounded by mountains in the west, north and east, and is a low and flat basin in the middle. Only the south side is suitable for siege.
Wancheng is not better than the general city, the city is solid, built according to the mountain, the terrain is dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack, although the Cao army has just suffered a big defeat, more than 23,000 people were killed and captured, but at this time there are more than 10,000 people in the city, and the grain and grass are sufficient, it is still difficult to attack. At Xu Shu's suggestion, Guan Yu only besieged but did not attack. Hurry up and report to Xiangyang.
Liu Yong got the report and thought about it for a while, such an opportunity is really rare, if it is possible, he needs to take Wancheng in a battle, so that Xiangyang can be solid. Advance, can attack, threaten Luoyang, retreat can defend, block Cao's army south. So, Liu Yong immediately sent Wen Ping, a general who was still in Xiangyang, to Wancheng with 10,000 horses to help in the war.
After Guan Yu needed Xu Shu to discuss, he tried to attack the city several times, although the loss of nearly a thousand soldiers, but it was really difficult to capture, so he had to hold his troops under the city again, surround Wancheng, and wait for the opportunity.
Cao Xiu did not dare to fight, and the two sides were afraid of each other and began to stalemate. At the same time, Wu Dun led 8,000 men and horses from Lixian to come to help, and Zang Ba also sent Yin Li to lead 5,000 men and horses from Shangyong.
Wancheng stalemate, Liu Yong had expected it, but there was no way, in history, if Wancheng was captured, it must not have been too smooth, so Guan Yu was ordered to besiege the city and standby!
Pingyu, Zhao Yun and Wei Yan immediately drove their troops directly to Pingyu City after conquering Runan and Ancheng at the blood station. Wang Si in Pingyu City was already like an ant on a hot pot, and sent three copies of the above table to Xuchang to ask for reinforcements, but there was no reply, which made him a little disheartened.
According to the previous strategy, Wang Si ordered He Mao, Guo Dan, and Cheng Ke to send troops immediately, and wanted to give a blow to the head when the Jingzhou army was not stable.
The three generals led the army out of the city, and they could kill the Jingzhou army. Although Zhao Yun and Wei Yan were galloping all the way, Runan was not far from Pingyu, and when they saw the three generals fighting, they still didn't understand their plans, so they immediately raised their arms and shouted: "Kill the Cao army in front of you, Pingyu can go down with a drum, and the sons and daughters of Jingzhou will kill the enemy with me!" ”
The Jingzhou army broke the city one after another, although it was a little tired, but the morale was unusually high, and as soon as the two armies fought, He Mao immediately regretted it. Cheng Ke rushed to kill, just ran into Zhao Yun, Zhao Yun's face was full of joy, patted the horse forward, just a confrontation, a shot stabbed Cheng Ke's heart, cut him under the horse, Cheng Ke's men and horses were immediately in chaos, not only could not kill the enemy, but retreated, and his own He Mao, Guo Dan's men and horses collided together, so that Cao Jun trampled on each other, and was in chaos before fighting.
Cheng Ke was about to die, Guo Dan was timid, and wanted to retreat from the city, but he met Wei Yan head-on, Wei Yan saw Guo Dan, and naturally refused to let go, wielding a knife to kill dozens of Cao soldiers who were blocking, catching up with Guo Dan, and slashing in front of the horse. Only He Mao saw the opportunity early, when he just found that the Jingzhou army was extremely brave, he immediately ordered the sergeant to move forward, but he secretly retreated, leading 3,000 men and horses to retreat into the city, and the rest of the men and horses were all wiped out, either beheaded or surrendered.
wanted to be on the table again, but it was already under siege, it was difficult to break through at all, and several breakthroughs were killed, Wang Si could only wait for help, hoping that Xuchang would be released as soon as possible.
But what Wang Si didn't know was that Cao Cao went to Hebei and handed over Xuchang to Cheng Yu to guard, but Cheng Yu was even more miserable, not only to transfer grain and grass to Hebei, but also to maintain the entire Xuchang. Previously sent Li Tong, but he didn't expect Li Tong to be defeated, and was even captured alive and escorted to Xiangyang, and quickly sent Zhu Ling to help, but he was also defeated once, Zhu Ling himself was seriously injured, and the road move to defend Runan City was even more dead.
Sent Cao Xiu to attack Xinye, not to capture Xinye, but also to put pressure on Xinye, in order to besiege Wei and save Zhao, so that Liu Yong was afraid, but he didn't expect to receive Cao Xiu again defeated in a short period of time, huddled in Wancheng, and was besieged by Guan Yu and trapped in the city. From Cao Cao's conquest of Hebei, the generals and elite soldiers were all transferred, these things, one by one, one by one, Cheng Yu had no generals to send, so he could only report to Cao Cao quickly and ask him to decide. But he also understood that Pingyu couldn't hold on, and Runan could only temporarily fall into the hands of Liu Yong.
Sure enough, after Zhao Yun and Wei Yan besieged the city for two days, they immediately launched a fierce attack on Pingyu.