Chapter Seventy-Nine: Gaining Favor.
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For example, 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 Zhuge Song's current position in Guan Yu's heart, if he repeatedly persuaded him in front of Guan Yu's tent not to attack Fancheng again, to be careful of Eastern Wu, and it was best to retreat back to Jingzhou, he would say it too many times, and he might not be killed, but he would definitely be beaten by Guan Yu on the grounds of disturbing the army's heart, so that he would never be able to enter Guan Yu's Chinese army tent again!
Since the last time Guan Ping brought people to Zhuge Song to forcibly recruit the army, Zhuge Song has also figured it out for so long, since he can't fundamentally let Guan Yu listen to his words, it is better to "behave" well in the next process of getting along with Guan Yu, try to win his favor, maybe get along with Guan Yu for a while during this time, and then persuade him to increase the possibility of success a little bit when he falls into a bad situation.
When Zhuge Song arrived at the front line of Fancheng, Guan Yu 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 was allowed to reach the periphery of Fancheng, the strength of the two sides would be comparable, and then attack Fancheng with all their might, it would be very dangerous to be attacked from inside and outside.
It may be due to the fact that Guan Ping successfully took the army from Zhuge Song before, when he went to see Guan Yu this time, although he did not greet him outside the tent because of his identity, he still let Guan Ping go out to the camp gate to greet him, and when Zhuge Song and Guan Ping entered Guan Yu's big tent together, Guan Yu actually stood up and said to Zhuge Song very rarely: "Song'er, you are here, military affairs are in place, you can only let Guan Ping go to meet you, don't be surprised." ”
Although Guan Yu didn't have a trace of apology on his face when he said this, he was already very happy to be able to say such things to Zhuge Song. 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 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! Although Zhuge Song was young, after all, he was in a high position, Guan Yu looked very satisfied, and waved him to sit down. Because Zhuge Song had an identity that was only lower than Guan Yu in this tent, he sat behind the first table under his head, while Liao Hua sat opposite Zhuge Song, Guan Ping sat on Zhuge Song's right hand, and Zhou Cang has been standing behind Guan Yu.
After a while, the subordinates served tea, everyone drank a little, greeted a little chores, and Zhuge Song also rested a little, then took out Liu Bei's military order and began to discuss the topic.
This military order should have been sent by Zheng Liang, but he was arranged by Zhuge Song to go to Maicheng to dig a tunnel, anyway, there is no secret problem with this military order, Zhuge Song asked him to hand it over directly to himself when he left, anyway, Zhuge Song also had to go to Fancheng, which also saved Zheng Liang time back and forth.
Zhuge Song walked to the tent and conveyed to Guan Yu Liu Bei's order to continue attacking Fancheng in order to contain Cao Cao. Guan Yu stood up and took the bag with both hands, and then took out the general order from the bag to take a closer look, and after reading it, he showed it to the generals, seeing that Guan Yu's 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's order and passed it back to Guan Yu, Guan Yu said to the people in the account with great interest: "Everyone saw 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 the lord has been promoted to the king of Hanzhong, but he has not been promoted with the promotion of hundreds of officials, obviously waiting for us to break the ban after defeating Xiangyang, capture Fancheng, transfer the Cao thief back from Chang'an, and reward the generals in Shuzhong! ”
"I want to listen to the orders of the prince!" At this time, the other generals in the tent heard Guan Yu say this, how could they not hurry up and behave, and expressed their willingness to serve the dogs and horses.
"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 Zhuge Song: "Guan Ping transferred soldiers and horses from Song'er and the troops transferred earlier earlier to strengthen the momentum of our army, Guan Mou has no intention of annexing it, and this army is 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 Zhuge Song's current general of Pingxi, he 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 Zhuge Song stayed, Liao Hua would listen to his orders, and he was not very relieved, so he proposed to go with Zhuge Song. However, in this way, Guan Yu could only bring 5,000 people, while Zhuge Song had 7,000 people (3,000 people stayed in Xiangyang), but he had more advantages in the composition of the army.
Of course, now that the enemy is present, Guan Yu will not think too much, anyway, even if Zhuge Song has more troops, he actually has to listen to his orders, Guan Yu returned the seven thousand troops to Zhuge Song, which is completely due to his bright and upright character, and he simply disdains to take this opportunity to "annex" the army brought by Zhuge Song from Wuling.
For Zhuge Song, Guan Yu is admired not only for his superb martial arts, but also for his loyalty, integrity and other excellent qualities. It can be said that in this era, Guan Yu's only flaw 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 Guan Yu defeated Yu Ban, and Zhuge Song is more concerned that due to the change of history, Yu Ban did not have Pang De to be the pioneer 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 because he was jealous of Pang De and fought 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, Zhuge Song even had the idea of whether to drag Guan Yu behind him, so that he could not defeat Yu Ban, but could only hold on.
However, after arriving at a pass that was easy to camp and defend ten miles north of Fancheng with Guan Yu, Zhuge Song still gave up the idea of pulling Guan Yu's hind legs. After all, now Cao Cao's army is still in Chang'an to rest and watch, and Shuzhong is now only nominally pacified, Liu Bei first sent to aid 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 Liu Bei. After all, Cao Cao, who ruled the Central Plains and the north, was far superior to either side of Wu Shu in terms of troops or material dispatch at this time.
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 Guan Yu's current military strength, if he marches in a hurry to attack Xinye at this time, Xinye's defenders can only abandon the city and flee, but after all, Cao Ren is still guarding Fancheng, if he rashly attacks Xinye first, the attack can be attacked, but it is far away from Fancheng, leaving only Liao Hua over there After all, it is difficult for people to be completely reassured, and after capturing Xinye, Yu Ban can completely bypass to save Fancheng and attack Liaohua first, so that Guan Yu 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, The ban can only be held head-on with oneself.
Within a few days, Tanma reported that a large number of troops had been stationed in Xinye, and Zhuge Song thought 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 can see Guan Yu moving troops from the camp to Xinye from the city, but he is afraid that this is Guan Yu's strategy to lure the army before seeing the reinforcements with his own eyes, and he does not dare to attack, and he has been very honest in Fancheng.
After Yu Ban arrived in Xinye, he quickly sent scouts in the direction of Fancheng, and after learning of Guan Yu's military deployment, he did not rush to rescue, but began to live in Xinye unhurriedly, without the slightest intention of taking the initiative, and no one knew what medicine was sold in his gourd.