Guan Yu is really a bit big, if this aunt has any damage, no matter how much credit he has, he will be finished, not only the lord Liu Yong can't explain it on his face, I'm afraid that the Jiangdong Sun family will also make a big fuss about it.

The grain and grass are in place, the morale is high, it is an excellent time to enter the army, Guan Yu immediately summoned the generals and gave an order, with Zhou Cang as the vanguard and Guan Ping as the flank, to immediately attack Xiangcheng. Zhao Yun, who summoned Dingling, led the army to directly take the Wen Ping who retreated to Zhaoling, and Gao Lanke, who was stationed in Pingyu, led the army to wait for Chen County, Changping and Yangxia to stop the reinforcements from Xuzhou.

The generals took the order and left, but Sun Shangxiang did not arrange it, it was okay just now, but at this time, he couldn't bear it, and asked Guan Yu directly: "General Guan, why is the concubine not arranged?" Do you also want to learn from those people in Xiangyang who deceived me? ”

Guan Yu had a headache, and he was not good at communicating with women, but now he was even more helpless when he encountered this aggressive Mrs. Sun. A young general beside him stepped forward and whispered a few words to Guan Yu, Guan Yu nodded suddenly, and said to Sun Shangxiang: "Madame, don't worry, there is an important place to be guarded by Madame." ”

Sun Shangxiang immediately raised his eyebrows: "Please also ask the general to give an order!" ”

Guan Yu pointed to the map and said: "Our army is attacking in groups, Xiangcheng can go down in three days, Zhaoling is under the fierce attack of General Zilong, and the rebel general diploma will definitely end up with hatred, General Gao Ran will go north from Pingyu, at that time, there will be a large number of reinforcements from the east to aid Xuchang, there must be a place that must be their way, and here it will be annoying Mrs. Lao to stop the enemy!" ”

Guan Yu pointed to a city called Xinji, which was the place that the young general who gave advice to Guan Yu was pointing to.

The general's surname is Zhao Minglei, who is Guan Yu's grain and grass manager and concurrently serves as the former military governor, who is quite resourceful and deeply trusted by Guan Yu.

According to Zhao Lei and Guan Yu's thoughts, once the army breaks through Xiangcheng and Zhaoling, Cao's army will inevitably retreat to Xuchang, and Gaolan will attack northward, and if Chenxian, Changping, and Yangxia in the southeast of Xinji are conquered, Xinji will be a city in the rear, and no one will come.

Sun Shangxiang doesn't understand the map, since Guan Yu said it, then it's okay, go back to reorganize the army, and prepare to set off the next day.

Xiangcheng was already under-defended, under the personal pressure of Guan Yu, Zhou Cang and Guan Ping attacked repeatedly, the catapult continued to project, the boulder smashed the fortifications at the head of the city almost completely abandoned, and there were many people in the city who were affected by the pond fish, the whole Xiangcheng was simply a blood city, and the flames brought up on the boulder ignited countless houses, so that the city was lit up everywhere.

Although Cao Hong was brave, he suffered heavy casualties in the face of the enemy's offensive with several times his number of people, and in less than a day, more than half of the 30,000 horses and horses that he had managed to gather under his command were lost, and countless people were wounded. Breaking through the Ten Meetings with one force, Guan Yu is a very strategic general, and in the face of Cao Jun who let his brother die in battle, he naturally did not give him any respite, and continued to attack the city, after a day and a night, there were only 7,000 troops left in the city who could fight, and the Jingzhou army outside the city was still dense and could not see the edge.

Looking at the smoke and dilapidated appearance of the city, Cao Hong's whole body strength seemed to be drained, and his mouth was full of bitterness.

"General!"

The scout, who thought he was covered in blood, staggered and ran.

Looking at the sergeant's tired and anxious eyes, Cao Hong knew that bad news was coming again: "What happened?" ”

"General, Zhaoling has been breached! The enemy army is coming to Xiangcheng! ”

Cao Hong was suddenly a little stunned, Zhaoling is broken?

In fact, it is a fact that Zhaoling City was broken so quickly, Wen Ping only had 5,000 men and horses in his hands, plus the county soldiers gathered nearby and the temporarily recruited soldiers, there were only 10,000 people, and the good and the bad were uneven, in the face of the 30,000 army under Zhao Yun's command, naturally there was no will to fight, under the onslaught, he immediately messed up, and was soon attacked by Yin Li and Chen Ying on the city, opened the city gate, Zhao Yun led the army into the city, Wen Ping was not Zhao Yun's opponent, and only organized a big defeat that was killed after only one interception, so far the morale was completely lost, and they fled for their lives.

Cao Hong looked bitterly at the soldiers who were fighting bloodily, and ordered: "Order the whole army to retreat to Xuchang!" ”

The soldiers of the Cao army, who were already reluctant to fight, heard the order to retreat, and immediately packed their bags and urgently withdrew from Xiangcheng and went to Xuchang.

Xiangcheng was immediately occupied by Guan Yu and his army, Cao's army lost two cities in a row, the Xuchang government and the opposition were shaken, Cheng Yu immediately went to the palace with an ugly face, and asked the Han Emperor Liu Xie to immediately leave the city and withdraw to Yecheng.

The rest of the officials and others were also withdrawn in batches, and the state treasury was collecting and carrying heavy grain and grass, and they were also urgently organizing manpower to transport it, but they encountered a huge problem, and there was a shortage of manpower.

Xuchang's troops are already thin, and transporting such a large number of materials not only requires vehicles and escorts, but also a large army to escort them all the way.

Under Cheng Yu's strong suppression, the entire city of Xuchang began to move the capital noisily, and at the same time, the battle report was also urgently sent to Cao Cao in the north.

Guo Jia is Cao Cao's most trusted think tank, since judging that Liu Yong would not fight on both sides and march to Xuchang, he did not expect Liu Yong to unexpectedly order Guan Yu to fight, so that Guo Jia learned the news, he was immediately ashamed, he was already in poor health, and suffered from the cold in the north, he was immediately angry, and immediately spurted out a mouthful of blood, and he couldn't afford to get sick.

But the Yuan brothers and the north of Shanggu, Yuyang, Youbeiping, Liaoxi, Liaodong five counties Wuhuan joint confrontation, these minority tribes are scattered and nomadic on weekdays, difficult to gather, want to defeat are difficult to find, now their own gathering, the opportunity is really a golden opportunity, Cao Cao knew that Xuchang was very important, but he was unwilling to miss such a fighter, forcibly pressed the angry and painful head in his heart, insisted on fighting Wuhuan near Liucheng, ready to fight the north.

In this case, Xuchang basically has no reinforcements, the troops that can be mobilized have already been mobilized, and the ones that can come at this moment are extremely limited, Cheng Yu estimates that they will be intercepted by the Jingzhou army, and there is basically no hope. The men who can be transferred in Xuchang City, especially the doormen and servants in the wealthy families, are forcibly transferred by the method of taking one out of five, and finally the personnel needs of the capital are basically guaranteed, and they are nervously marching to Yecheng.

The spies transmitted the information to Guan Yu's camp, and Guan Yu immediately ordered Zhou Cang and Guan Ping to advance with all their might, capture Yingyang, Fanchang, and Linying, occupy the main towns of Yingchuan, and leave Yingchuan as a wealthy family for future use, preparing to storm Xuchang, and at the same time send a message to Zhao Yun to attack Xuchang!

At this time, in addition to some of the big clans who wanted to join Liu Yong, other clans such as the Xun family and the Guo family who threw themselves into Cao Cao were all frightened and moved north to avoid the war.