Chapter Seventy-Seven: Gaining Favor

…… I don't know who said that if someone doesn't agree with you from the bottom of their hearts, then no matter how much good advice you give them, they won't be accepted. It's like when Kong Ming first came out of the mountain, in the face of Cao Jun's first battle, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei didn't want to listen to his dispatch at all, and finally relied on Liu Bei's strong pressure to reluctantly execute.

Similarly, with my current position in Guan Yu's heart, if I repeatedly persuade him in front of his tent not to attack Fancheng again, to be careful of Eastern Wu, and to retreat back to Jingzhou, I have said it too many times, and it may not be enough to kill me, but I will definitely be beaten by Guan Yu on the grounds of disturbing the morale of the army, so that I will never be able to enter his Chinese army tent again.

Since the last time Guan Ping brought someone to me to forcibly recruit the army, I have figured it out for so long, since I can't fundamentally let Guan Yu listen to me, it is better to "behave" well in the next process of getting along with him, try to win his favor, maybe spend a good time with him for a while, and then when I persuade him when I fall into a bad situation, I can increase the possibility of success.

When I arrived at the front line of Fancheng with only one hundred remaining soldiers, our army had built countless camps on the periphery of Fancheng, and these camps surrounded Fancheng, but that day it maintained a state of only besieging and not attacking, thinking that because Yu Ban's reinforcements were coming, Guan Yu may be thinking about countermeasures in the tent, so he postponed the attack on Fancheng, after all, if the forbidden army arrived at the periphery of Fancheng, the forces of both sides did not want to go up and down, and then attacked Fancheng with all their might, it was very dangerous to be attacked from inside and outside.

Maybe it's because Guan Ping took away the 7,000 troops from me before, when he went to see Guan Yu this time, although he didn't go to the tent to greet me outside the tent because of his identity, he still let Guan Ping go out to meet me at the camp gate, and when I Guan Ping entered Guan Yu's big tent together, Guan Yu actually stood up and said to me very rarely: "Song'er, you are here, military affairs are in place, so you can only let Guan Ping meet you, don't be surprised." ”

Although Guan Yu didn't have a trace of apology on his face when he said this, I was already very happy that he could say such things to me. He also hurriedly took advantage of the situation and said politely: "Senior Song'er, it is an honor to have a young general to welcome me, how dare you want to trouble the prince." After speaking, he gave Guan Yu a deep salute.

"Hahaha, Song'er, you haven't seen you for a few days, but you have become humble! Sit down! Guan Yu looked very satisfied and waved me to sit down. Although I was younger, because I had a status only lower than Guan Yu in this tent, I sat behind the first table under his head, while Liao Hua sat opposite me, Guan Ping sat on my right hand, and Zhou Cang stood behind Guan Yu all the time.

After a while, the next person served tea, everyone drank a little, greeted a little chores, and I took a little rest, and then took out the military order that Liu Bei gave to Guan Yu.

This military order should have been sent by Zheng Liang, but he was arranged by me to go to Maicheng to dig a tunnel, anyway, when this military order Zheng Liang came, Liu Bei had already made it clear when he delivered it to him, so there was no problem of confidentiality, so I asked him to hand it over to me directly when he left, anyway, I had to go to Fancheng, which also saved him time back and forth.

I walked to the tent and, while taking out the military order, conveyed to Guan Yu Liu Bei's order for him to continue the attack on Fancheng in order to contain Cao Cao. Guan Yu stood up and took the bag with both hands, and then took the general order out of the bag to take a closer look, and after reading it, he showed all the generals, seeing that his expression was not only not a trace of sorrow after receiving this military order, but was very happy.

When all the generals read the general order and passed it back to Guan Yu, Guan Yu said to everyone with great interest: "Everyone has seen it just now, this military order is indeed the master's handwriting. Now the generals who followed the lord into Sichuan not only helped the lord to determine Xichuan fairly, but also took Hanzhong, although we also laid Xiangyang, but only here to break the ban, capture Fancheng, and transfer the Cao thief back from Hanzhong, can it be regarded as a great merit over those generals! ”

"I want to listen to the orders of the prince!" At this time, the other generals in the account heard Guan Yu say this, how could they not hurry up and express their agreement.

"However, although Yu Ban is not enough to worry about, he also knows a little about military aircraft, this time he brought 20,000 troops from Runan, and I personally led the troops and horses to meet it." Guan Yu said this, but he looked at me: "The previous time Guan Ping transferred 7,000 people from Song'er to strengthen the momentum of our army, Guan had no intention of annexing it, and this army was only stationed after this, and did not participate in the siege of Fancheng, this time you have arrived here, it is better to lead the troops with me to meet Yu Ban, and Liao Hua's army of 15,000 will continue to surround Fancheng here, what do you think?" ”

In fact, as I am now General Pingxi, I should have stayed here when Guan Yu went to meet Yu Ban and was responsible for continuing to surround Fancheng. Obviously, Guan Yu was afraid that after I stayed, Liao Hua would listen to my orders, so he was not very relieved, so he proposed that I go with him. But then he could only bring 5,000 men, while I had 7,000 men, and I had the advantage in the composition of the army anyway.

Of course, now that the enemy is present, Guan Yu will not think too much, anyway, even if I have more troops, I still have to listen to his orders, and he returned the 7,000 troops to me, completely because of his upright character, and he simply disdains to take this opportunity to "annex" the army I brought from Wuling.

For me, what Guan Yu admires is not only his superb martial arts, but also his loyalty, integrity and other excellent qualities that have always been admired by me. It can be said that in this era, the only certainty about him is that he is too arrogant, so arrogant that after a series of victories, he almost gets carried away.

Maybe this kind of arrogance has not reached the extreme before he defeated Yu Ban, and I am more concerned that due to the change of history, Yu Ban did not come to be his vanguard this time.

On the surface, this incident may be due to the fact that Yu Ban has lost a strong vanguard to fight against Guan Yu, but to some extent, the reason why Yu Ban was flooded by the Seventh Army in history was largely caused by jealousy of Pang De and fighting with him.

In other words, Yu Ban is likely not to appear in the stupid moves made in history this time, so how will Guan Yu defeat him this time? Thinking of this, I even had the idea of whether I should drag Guan Yu behind him, so that he could not defeat Yu Ban, but could only hold on.

However, after arriving with Guan Yu at a pass ten miles north of Fancheng that was easy to camp and guard, I still gave up the idea of pulling Guan Yu's hind legs. After all, now Cao Cao's army is still in Hanzhong and Liu Bei is reluctant to withdraw his troops, and Shuzhong is now only nominally pacified, Liu Bei first sent aid to Jingzhou, and then returned to the army to capture Hanzhong, although on the surface it was a short victory in the battle with Cao Cao, but in fact, the military strength he can maintain in Hanzhong is already the end of the strong crossbow, if Guan Yu's side can't achieve a big victory in the face of the ban, it will definitely be more and more unfavorable to us. After all, Cao Cao was far superior to us at this time, both in terms of troops and material scheduling.

Tanma reported that Xinye City still has a garrison of less than 1,000 people, and it is obvious that Yu Ban's reinforcements have not yet arrived in Xinye at this time. With the current military strength of our army, if we rush to attack Xinye at this time, the defenders of Xinye can only abandon the city and flee, but after all, Cao Ren is still guarding Fancheng, at this time, if our army rashly attacks Xinye, the attack can be attacked, but it is far away from Fancheng, only Liao Hua is over there After all, it is difficult to make people completely reassured, and after capturing Xinye, Yu Ban can completely bypass to save Fancheng and attack Liaohua, so that our army will inevitably go out of the city to rescue, rather than fighting with Yu Ban in the field, it is better to hold the pass here, So that the ban can only be held head-on with our army.

Within a few days, Tanma reported that a large number of troops had been stationed in Xinye, thinking that Yu Ban had already arrived in Xinye. As for Cao Ren, because the information has long been cut off, he only knows that he is waiting for reinforcements, although he saw from the city that our army moved troops from the camp to the direction of Xinye, but before seeing the reinforcements with his own eyes, he was afraid of our army's strategy to lure the army and did not dare to attack, and he has been staying in Fancheng very honestly.

After Yu Ban arrived in Xinye, he quickly sent scouts in the direction of Fancheng, and after learning the location of our army, he did not rush to rescue, but began to live in Xinye unhurriedly, without the slightest intention of taking the initiative, and did not know what medicine was sold in his gourd.