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The army withdrew to Lukou through the public security, and met Sun Quan, who was stationed in Lukou to watch the situation in Jingzhou after learning that Jiangling had been lost, and recounted the loss of Jiangling. In addition to lamenting Zhuge Song's ability and adding to his worries, Sun Quan's confidence in reorganizing the army again and capturing Jiangling became even more insufficient.

Besides, Zhuge Song waited for Lü Meng to withdraw his troops and go away, and after Tanma reported that the big ship had left the public security, he ordered Mi Fang and Shamoke to defend the city together, and he personally led 3,000 troops and horses to go straight to Maicheng. General Wu of Maicheng had already been passed on by Lü Meng's withdrawal of troops, and when Zhuge Song's army arrived at the city, Maicheng was already an empty city. According to the location discussed with Zheng Liang in advance, Zhuge Song led the people straight to a private house far away from the city guard's mansion.

It turned out that Zhuge Song was worried about the leakage of the secret of the tunnel, but he had a sudden inspiration and reversed the original plan with Zheng Liang and turned the original escape tunnel into bait. Ordered Zheng Liang to find an abandoned house in the city far away from the city guard's mansion, and only take three of his cronies to dig a secret room according to the design sketch he drew every night, there are only two secret rooms, one is larger for residents, and the other is enough dry food and fresh water for more than a month, and the other is for convenience. In this way, he dug late at night, went back to sleep during the day, and finally dug the secret room before Guan Yu arrived.

That night, after Zheng Liang told everyone that he was afraid of the leakage of the secret of the tunnel, Guan Yu once wanted to let Guan Ping, Zhou Cang and others go to the secret room to hide, but Zheng Liang relayed Zhuge Song's words to Guan Yu, thinking that if Lu Meng found nothing, the search for the whole city would be stricter, it was better to leave only Guan Yu and Zheng Liang and the three or five people who knew the secret in the secret room, if the secret of the tunnel was not leaked, then Guan Ping and others could still escape, if the secret of the tunnel was leaked, only in this way could Guan Yu's safety be more guaranteed. Although Guan Yu refused for a while, he couldn't stand the persuasion of everyone, especially the words left by Zhuge Song in the book, which finally decided the distribution of personnel.

In the end, Zhou Cangcheng was captured, and Guan Ping did not put up a fierce resistance after encountering Wu soldiers at the tunnel entrance, and they all strongly believed that Zhuge Song could capture Wu Jiang in Yidu and exchange them back in the future, because everything Zhuge Song had arranged for them before was worthy of their trust.

When Zhuge Song led people to the outside of the house, he walked into a side room where the window paper was already tattered and uninhabited from the outside, and asked people to clean up a corner of the house covered with a lot of hay, revealing a wooden board, and after knocking a few times according to the agreed code. Everyone in the secret room, who had been unknown day and night for many days, suddenly had their spirits, and Zheng Liang immediately rushed over and gave him a big hug after meeting Zhuge Song!

In the past few days, although there has been pine oil lighting in the secret room, only dry food and fresh water are available, and the light of the fire is not as good as daylight, and several people, including Guan Yu, look very haggard. In order to avoid Guan Yu's embarrassment, Zhuge Song waited for Zheng Liang to let go of himself and then gave Guan Yu a deep salute: "The prince endures humiliation and burden, which is really the luck of the Han family. ”

Although Guan Yu has imagined many times in the secret room in the past few days, how he would put down his posture and sincerely thank him if he was rescued by Zhuge Song. But at this time, face to face, in the face of this "young man" who is not as weak as the crown, he is still very embarrassed, although Zhuge Song verbally relieved him, he still can't avoid whispering: "Ashamed, ashamed!" "I can't even say a word that I've thought of for a long time. Zhuge Song knew what he thought, compared his heart to his heart, and he didn't care, everyone only rested in Maicheng for one day, and then went to Jiangling together on the second day.

Because Zhuge Song had already told Guan Yu about the words planned with Mi Fang on the road, Guan Yu praised Mi Fang after he entered the city and saw Mi Fang. In order to wash away the humiliation on his body as soon as possible, Guan Yu immediately proposed to lead 10,000 people to Xiangyang to rescue Ma Liang in the council hall, and he felt that only by rescuing Ma Liang first could he make his heart feel better.

Although he can understand Guan Yu's mood, it is just like what Zhuge Song discussed with Shamoke before. Zhuge Song simply rejected Guan Yu's request to lead his troops to Xiangyang, and the reason was very simple: although after several days of collecting the soldiers who had fled before, there were now only more than 20,000 people in the city, of which half were barbarians, and although Lü Meng had returned to Lukou, Sun Quan's 50,000 troops were also in Lukou, and the military strength of Dongwu in Lukou had increased to about 80,000, and he was currently unable to divide his troops to save Xiangyang.

Although Guan Yu was refused, although his face was not good, he now had no face to force Zhuge Song to obey his order to send troops.

At this time, Zhuge Song timely threw out a suggestion that Ma Liang could be rescued without sending troops: "The prince doesn't need to be anxious, now that the northern soldiers captured by the prince outside the city of Banhe and Fan are still there, why don't the princes personally write a letter to Cao Cao to forbid the exchange of Master Ma back?" ”

It is also a credit of Guan Yu to be captured in the forbidden book, but at this time, it is a great luck for Guan Yu that Jiangling can be gained and lost, and it is even more difficult to ask for Ma Liang to be able to exchange for it.

Although Cao Cao's army was quite critical of the forbidden surrender, Yu Ban was a general who had followed Cao Cao for many years, and had made a lot of military achievements with Cao Cao's southern expedition to the north before, and Cao Cao finally agreed to exchange Ma Liang's request. In fact, Xiangyang's corporal soldiers had already fled under the siege of Cao Cao's army for days, but it was only because Cao Cao had been watching and watching that the city did not fall. Now to change the ban, Cao Cao directly sent Guan Yu's letter into the city to let Ma Liang leave on his own, Guan Yu has been unparalleled in faith and righteousness for many years, and Cao Cao is not afraid that Guan Yu will regret it after Ma Liang is released. Of course, in order to avoid the surrender of the generals in the army in a desperate situation in the war in the future, Cao Cao still demoted him to a commoner after the ban was released and put it aside for the time being.

And Liao Hua, who begged for nothing and went to Hanzhong for help, arrived in Hanzhong and learned that Liu Bei had returned to the CD, and rushed to the CD for several days, because Zhuge Song had immediately transmitted the news of the Eastern Wu sneak attack on Nanjun to the CD after capturing Lu Xun, and when Liao Hua saw Liu Bei, Liu Bei had earlier sent Zhao Yun to lead 10,000 troops out of the Sichuan Pass first, and the 30,000 troops gathered later were also ready to stop.

After listening to Liao Hua's relays of Liu Feng's behavior of not saving him, Liu Bei gritted his teeth, afraid that Zhao Yun would have few soldiers, so he immediately set off as a whole army.

Since Lü Meng returned to Lukou and rested properly, the generals in Sun Quan's account, especially the generals under Lü Meng, all expressed their desire to fight, and wanted to take advantage of Liu Bei's coming from Shuzhong to help capture Jiangling, but the civil officials and strategists, including Lu Su, who had gradually recovered from his illness, were opposed to sending troops again, and the argument lasted for many days. When Liu Bei's troops to aid Jingzhou had arrived in Yidu, the Lord and the faction finally gained the upper hand and decided not to act rashly, and first waited to see how Cao Cao acted in Xiangyang.