Lu Meng, who had been holding on to Gangneung City for many days, became a little restless. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info Now Guan Yu's army is demoralized, so he can only retreat to Maicheng to hold on to wait for help, because the city is small and the food is scarce, the spies reported that hundreds of soldiers and troops in Maicheng City secretly escape from the city every day.

This was good news for Lü Meng, but because Cao Cao no longer marched after besieging Xiangyang, the news that Sun Quan would personally raise a large army to attack Guan Yu had been sent to Lü Meng's case this morning.

No matter how steady and heavy Lu Meng was before, his ultimate goal was still to win the entire Jingzhou for Eastern Wu, and capture Guan Yu, the number one general in China!

With his eyes closed, Lü Meng could imagine what kind of scene Sun Quan would be like when he arrived: one possibility was that Guan Yu saw that Sun Quan was powerful and did not hesitate, and immediately abandoned the city and fled to Shu. The other is that although Guan Yu did not escape, the credit is Sun Quan, and he has nothing to do with himself!

In Lu Meng's heart, the glory of capturing Guan Yu alive even surpassed his success in attacking Jiangling at this time. Guan Yu is now the number one general in China, so if he captures Guan Yu, the title of the number one general in China will belong to him!

He now had an army of 30,000 in his hands, the city was small, the morale of the soldiers in the city was low, and the flight for days was great, as long as he personally led the army to besiege the city, and surrounded three and one, he was almost certain that he would be able to break through the city in less than five days and hold that great glory in his palm.

Thinking of this, Lu Meng stood up excitedly, and almost immediately ordered to gather a large army and prepare for the battle. But he still sat down slowly, Lu Xun, who was full of confidence before leaving, still did not send back the news of attacking Yidu at this time, thinking that the transport team he sent out should have sent the siege equipment to Lu Xun's army at this time. Although Liu Bei's main force is still in Hanzhong, but Yidu is not in the hands of Eastern Wu for a day, there is a variable in Shuzhong that there are generals leading the army to help first, if Lü Meng rashly sent troops to besiege Maicheng at this time, in case there is an accident on the Yidu side, there will be Shu will break Lu Xun to take Jiangling, then Lü Meng's advantage in his hands in the early stage will be reversed at once!

However, if Lu Meng just waited for Sun Quan's soldiers to arrive, and attacked Maicheng without any worries, Lu Meng was still very unwilling.

Just when Lu Meng was sighing for a long time there, suffering from gains and losses, a report suddenly came from outside, saying that Lu Xun had sent someone back to report the victory! Lu Meng, who was happy, hurriedly stood up, and saw that the person who came was still the messenger who came back last time to ask for siege equipment, so he naturally had no suspicion, but just urged the messenger to quickly bring Lu Xun's report documents.

Unexpectedly, the messenger refused with a smile, and said to Lu Meng: "I'm sorry general, General Lu was afraid that I would be intercepted by Guan Yu when I came back to report the good news, so he only let me come back with a message, and there was no paperwork." ”

Lu Meng had doubts in his heart, and sat down to carefully examine this messenger, which was indeed the messenger who carried Lu Xun's handwriting last time. However, he still said tentatively: "Guan Yu has now retreated to Maicheng, and there is no trace of defeat around Jiangling, why is General Lu so cautious?" ”

The messenger calmly replied: "Although my general captured Yidu, he still expects to make new contributions, so he keeps sending sentinels in the direction of Maicheng, knowing that Maicheng is small and demoralized, thinking that Guan Yu will eventually abandon the city and flee westward, and has now set up a heavy ambush on the first line leading to Yidu, so I am afraid that I will fall into the hands of Guan Yu who fled west, and it is difficult to distinguish the letters that have been found, and it is a big deal, so I only ordered to send a message to the general to rest assured." ”

When Lu Meng heard the messenger say this, although he was already at ease with the Western Front, he was shocked by Lu Xun's plan beyond words. Lu Meng thought to himself that Lu Xun's plan was reasonable, and the most important thing was that if he suffered gains and losses in Jiangling City again, seeing that Sun Quan's army was coming to recover the hopeless Guan Yu in Jiangling, it was really very likely that he would abandon Maicheng and retreat to Shuzhong, and then let Lu Xun, a scholar, capture Guan Yu alive, what he did before was really to make a wedding dress for others in vain!

Thinking of this, Lu Meng had already made up his mind, and on the one hand, he ordered someone to bring the messenger down to entertain him, and on the other hand, he immediately ordered the herald to gather all the generals to discuss the march into Maicheng.

Because the Eastern Wu army was already divided into the Chaisang faction directly under Sun Quan and the Lukou faction that was transmitted to Lusu from Zhou Yu, Lu Meng did not dare to say that he wanted to compete with Sun Quan in front of the generals, so he told him again what the messenger had just told him about Lu Xun's plan.

The generals under him have been dissatisfied these days because Lu Meng has been holding his troops still, and in the morning, when he heard that Sun Quan was going to unify the army, he secretly complained that Lu Meng was waiting for the great work that should have been in hand to slip away. At this time, I heard that even Lu Xun, who only had 5,000 people now, wanted to grab this immortal achievement, and he couldn't hold it back, and asked for orders to go to Maichengsheng to capture Guan Yu. This one said that there were only 10,000 soldiers, and that said that there were only 5,000 people, and the price was getting lower and lower, as if Guan Yu was just a lamb to be slaughtered at this time, as long as anyone could get the order, who would be able to succeed.

Lu Meng, who was already excited, no longer had any worries, and suddenly got up and pressed the general's petition and said: "The first few people of this general only wanted to defend Jiangling, all because Guan Yu's military strength was still alive at that time, and he came to seize Jiangling with anger, so he didn't want to fight hard with the lord's overall situation. Now Guan Yu's morale has declined, the city is short of food, and General Lu has blocked the Yidao to Yidu line, if I still cower in the city and refuse to fight, when the lord arrives, what face can I meet?

At that moment, he ordered Zhu Ran to lead 5,000 troops to defend Jiangling, and Dr. Ren still commanded the old troops to guard public security, and led an army of 25,000 people to attack Maicheng. Soon after the army besieged Maicheng, the more he thought about it, the more unsafe it became, so Pan Zhang led 5,000 troops to ambush on the way from Maicheng to Yidao and Shangyong, preventing Guan Yu from escaping Shangyong, or breaking through to Yidao and letting Lu Xun take the credit.

At this time, Guan Yu, who was surrounded in the city, was in a different mood. Previously, when he led his army to recapture Jiangling, if Lü Mengken went out of the city to fight, he would definitely be able to defeat the Wu army and recapture Jiangling. But at that time, Lü Meng refused to fight, and with the solidity of Jiangling City, he had no choice but to retreat into Maicheng.

Maicheng City is small, and the grain storage is only enough for 30,000 troops for more than ten days, Guan Yu is forced to limit the share of each sergeant per meal for a long time, and if he wants to hold on for a month, each sergeant's military ration must be halved. The situation was already very dangerous, and there was no more to eat, and soon some sergeants secretly escaped at night, and the number of them increased, and even one day hundreds of people fled out of the city en masse. Guan Ping came to ask for instructions on whether to go out of the city to chase, Guan Yu thought of storing grain in the warehouse, and felt that if he was not determined, he could let his elite eat for a few more days, so he waved his hand weakly and decided to forget it.

But in this way, the idea of saving food is becoming more and more smoothly realized. After running a few hundred people, it soon grew into thousands of people who decided to flee for their lives and give up, and by the time Lü Meng besieged the city, there were less than 10,000 soldiers in the city.

Although Guan Yu had ordered the quota for each meal to be repatriated, and the current military rations were enough for more than a month, Lü Meng's army only tried to besiege for one round, and when it was dark and the battle stopped, and then when it was dawn, the dead and wounded were added to the run, and seven of the ten sergeants in the city were lost.

In the morning, when he heard Pan Zhang's report, almost all the soldiers who had escaped from the west of the city, which had not been surrounded, were captured by Pan Zhang overnight, about 5,000 people, and asked Lü Meng what to do. Lü Meng was overjoyed and immediately felt that he had the chance to win, thinking that these soldiers were all from Jingzhou, as long as Jingzhou belonged to Eastern Wu, and after being dismissed, he would be the Wu army in the future, so he ordered Pan Zhang not to be abused, and after collecting his weapons, he ordered a partial general to escort back to Jiangling with a thousand troops, and after capturing Guan Yu, he would either be dismissed or absorbed, and then let Sun Quan decide.