During the time that Zhuge Song was stationed in the city of Nanjun, reports of Liu Bei's battle with Cao's army in Hanzhong kept coming. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoAfter Liu Bei marched to Yangping Pass, he fought endlessly with Xiahou Yuan and Zhang He, who were sticking there. Because Liu Bei only had 50,000 troops, and Cao Cao had no less than 100,000 soldiers left in Hanzhong, under the premise that Xiahou Yuan insisted on not fighting, Liu Bei attacked Yangping Pass several times and suffered heavy casualties and could not move forward. It was not until under the suggestion of Fa Zheng that he crossed the water from the south outside Yangping Pass and camped in Dingjun Mountain, and Xiahou Yuan led the army to fight, so that Huang Zhong condescended to take advantage of the fact that Xiahou Yuan's army was tired after a long time under the mountain, and adopted a surprise attack on it, not only breaking the Cao army, but also killing Cao Cao's general Xiahou Yuan, killing and capturing more than 30,000 Cao troops, and the situation began to gradually tilt towards Liu Bei.

The better news is that the morale of the Cao army in Hanzhong has dropped greatly because the lord will be killed, and the army's morale is unstable, but Cao Hong is eager to avenge Xiahou Yuan despite Zhang He's dissuasion and insists on fighting with Liu Bei, intending to improve morale, Cao Hong, who took away 50,000 troops, was lured by Huang Zhong by deceitful means, when his front soldiers and horses had just crossed the Han River because of the pursuit of Huang Zhong, Zhao Yun, Ma Chao and Liu Bei's headquarters suddenly appeared together, surrounded it on the south bank of the Han River on three sides, Cao Hong could not win the battle, and could not retreat, He could only abandon his subordinates and desperately retreat to the north bank of the Han River, and after being killed for a while, he fled back to Yangping Pass, and the remnants of the defeated generals he brought back were less than 10,000 people.

Cao Cao had already raised troops to Chang'an during this period, but only because Liu Bei had no way to take Yangpingguan before and was afraid of Sun Quan to attack Hefei again, he did not have reinforcements. When the news of Xiahou Yuan's beheading and Cao Hong's defeat reached Chang'an in a row, he finally couldn't bear it anymore, so he raised an army of 200,000 to march from Xiegu Road to Hanzhong. Although Cao Cao was difficult to transport grain because of the danger in Hanzhong, he refused to give up Hanzhong easily, so the two sides entered a long stage of stalemate.

This kind of stalemate is nothing to Zhuge Song, except that he can't go back to Wuling to see Qing'er as soon as possible, Mi Fang is responsible for all the big and small affairs in Jiangling City, Zhuge Song just has nothing to do to practice the army, and he starts to practice every three or two days, and then after a long time, there is no war on the Jingzhou side, so he is too lazy to practice the whole army once in seven or eight days. Although there are not many things, in the end, because Guan Yu is leading the army, Zhuge Song can't leave Jiangling and go back to Wuling without permission to have a look, but fortunately, with Xie Xian's talent, it is effortless to govern a county, and he communicates with him every few days about county affairs, and Qing'er writes to ask about his wife's physical condition, which is also very reassuring.

It's just that the wheel of history will eventually move forward, and it didn't take long for Cao Cao and Liu Bei, who were deadlocked in Hanzhong, to begin to become amazingly the same in a certain matter.

This thing is - since there is no victory or defeat in Hanzhong, then open up the situation in Jingzhou and force the enemies in Hanzhong to waver!

Zhuge Song, who had already understood the main plot line of the Great Drama of the Three Kingdoms, was not surprised at all when he learned that Cao Ren sent troops from Xiangyang to approach Guan Yu's camp to try to fight Guan Yu. It has long been recorded in modern books that the reason why Cao Ren did this was because Cao Cao and Sun Quan had already secretly reached some kind of agreement, so Cao Ren was so unscrupulous. But Guan Yu, who had been holding back for a long time, was actually overjoyed in the face of Cao Ren's arrival, and with a little trickery, he not only easily defeated Cao Ren, but also took advantage of the situation to occupy Xiangyang and drove Cao Ren to Fancheng.

Before Guan Yu sent people to Jiangling to find Zhuge Song to go to Xiangyang, Zhuge Song knew what he wanted to do, so he called Shana and only took himself and Shana's personal soldiers to Xiangyang. Of course, Zhuge Song was not stupid enough to take Shana to Guan Yu with him, but first arranged for her to rest at the pavilion and gave her some money so that she could take the dozen or so female soldiers she often brought with her to wander around Xiangyang City.

Guan Yu was in a good mood just after winning the battle, and after Guan Ping said lightly on the side how they killed Cao Ren and defeated, Zhuge Song also took the opportunity to compliment Guan Yu a few words, and General Guan was a little humble, and then mentioned his so-called "main topic" to Zhuge Song.

It may be because he wanted Zhuge Song to do things for him, Guan Yu didn't directly call Zhuge Song "Song'er", but said to Zhuge Song very face-savingly: "I said General Zhuge now, although our army has just won a big victory, and Cao Ren has fled to Fancheng with his armor lost, there is one thing that still makes me deeply worried. ”

Zhuge Song thought to himself: "If you want to fight Fancheng, just say that you will fight Fancheng, what kind of circle are you going around with me!" But it was inconvenient to say it in front of Guan Yu, so he had to follow his words and ask: "If such a large county in Xiangyang falls into our hands, it will definitely be able to greatly expand our strength in the future, and the lord will be overjoyed when he hears the good news of the prince, what else does the prince have to worry about?" ”

Guan Yu stroked his beard and sighed: "General Zhuge don't you know, recently the eldest brother wrote from Hanzhong that although Cao Cao had difficulty transporting grain and the morale of the soldiers was low, he still refused to give up Hanzhong, and it seemed that he would have to confront the eldest brother in Hanzhong for a long time. And you know the beginning of Shuzhong, although it is difficult to make any trouble with the third brother and Kong Ming's military division, but Cao Cao does not retreat, and the hearts of the people in Shu will fluctuate, so the eldest brother is also worried all day long in Hanzhong, hoping that Cao Cao can return to Chang'an as soon as possible, so that Shuzhong will be stable. ”

"What do you mean?" Although Zhuge Song asked him so, he actually knew what Guan Yu was going to say in his heart.

Sure enough, Guan Yu said to Zhuge Song: "Recently, I heard that Lu Su, the governor of Eastern Wu, is seriously ill and the army is uneasy, and the threat of Eastern Wu to my southern county can be said to have decreased a lot. Now Cao Ren has collected less than 10,000 remnants of troops in Fancheng, I intend you to bring the troops and horses from Wuling to Xiangyang, leaving 3,000 people with you to be responsible for guarding, and the rest are handed over to me to attack Fancheng, if you capture Fancheng, you can take Xuchang directly, and force Cao Cao to return from Hanzhong, what do you think? ”

After Guan Yu said this, he looked at Zhuge Song with cold eyes, Zhuge Song estimated that if he spoke out against it, causing Guan Yu to be displeased, he would definitely use his identity as the commander of Jingzhou to pressure himself to force himself to comply.

Since this situation seems to be so unstoppable, Zhuge Song made up his mind not to oppose it first, not to mention that Guan Yu's reason for Zhuge Song is that Lu Su is seriously ill, and Lu Su still has an account of 50,000 arrows that has not been written off with him a long time ago, and Zhuge Song said to Guan Yu in a hurry: "The prince's intention is very good, but whether Lu Su is really seriously ill, or whether he deliberately released the news to paralyze our army remains to be confirmed." ”

Guan Yu was a little displeased when he heard Zhuge Song's words, and asked, "Could it be that General Zhuge doubts what I just said?" ”

Zhuge Song didn't want to offend him the most now, so he hurriedly smiled at Guan Yudui and said, "How dare you?" It's just that Dongwu has always been cunning, and last time when Cao Cao attacked Hanzhong, he simply took away the three counties from us. So according to the following meaning, I first transferred 5,000 troops from Jiangling to the prince and marquis to prepare for scheduling, and I went to Lukou to explore Lu Su's reality in the name of condolences to the illness. ”

"It's safe, but you come and go, I don't know how long it will take, won't you delay the fighter?" Guan Ping was listening, and immediately retorted.

But it was Guan Yu who waved his hand and said: "Okay, anyway, in the small city of Fancheng District, Cao Ren doesn't have many soldiers and horses, so you can first transfer 5,000 men and horses to guard Xiangyang, and go to Dongwu to investigate, I will raise 20,000 horses to fight Cao Ren, and when Fancheng is taken, it is not too late to increase the number of men and horses to attack Xuchang!" ”

Now, Zhuge Song wanted to persuade again, but when he saw that Guan Yu and Guan Ping were not to mention, even Liao Hua looked at him angrily, and when it came to his mouth, he could only swallow it first, and he gave it up, and waited for Shana to come back from the post house.