Lu Meng, who was sitting firmly in Jiangling City, finally received a letter from Lu Xun asking for help. In order to avoid Lu Meng's suspicion www.biquge.info Zhuge Song did not make any changes to the content of Lu Xun's letter except for changing the messenger and letting his subordinates change into the clothes of the messenger, and sent it directly according to the original, the purpose was to deceive Lu Meng's transport team.

Zhuge Song had already read the content of the letter, although Lu Xun had indeed reached the point where he had nothing to do under Yidu City, but generally talented people often had a good face. If Lu Xun truthfully stated in the letter that Liu Beijun here had already prepared, and he couldn't attack it, and asked for a transport team, maybe Lü Meng would have other ideas after reading this, and Zhuge Song would never let such a letter be sent to Lü Meng.

But the good-faced Lu Xun wrote in the letter that there were only a few hundred people in Yidu City, emphasizing the accuracy of his previous prediction of the Yidu defenders, and finally began to euphemistically say that although these people are not enough to trouble, he can break the city sooner or later, but he still hopes that Lu Meng can send a transport team to transport large siege equipment, so that he can break the city earlier, and buy more time to prepare for Liu Beijun, who is blocking Shuzhong.

And this letter also became an opportunity for Zhuge Song to take the opportunity to make trouble and decide to change the original conservative plan.

Lu Meng, who saw the letter, did not doubt the identity of the messenger at all, after all, the identity of the messenger was not much higher than that of ordinary soldiers, and as a general of Lu Meng's level, it was impossible for every soldier of the Wu army to know him. Moreover, the content of the letter and the seal inside are also originals, for Lu Meng's inquiries about several common questions involving Yidu City, Zhuge Song had already thought about it for him before the "messenger" came, and he also responded correctly, and after the fact, he acted as the guide of this transport team, guiding this transport team led by only one partial general to march from the west gate to Yidu during the day.

The reason why this transport team dared to be so unscrupulous was because at this time, Guan Yu's army outside Jiangling City had become more and more powerless. Guan Yu, who was unable to attack and unwilling to give up, tried to attack Jiangling City several times, and the surplus food brought by the army was gradually exhausted. Coupled with the rumors that Xiangyang was besieged by Xu Huang, Guan Yu had fallen into a situation of dislocation at this time. Wang Fu once suggested that Guan Yu take advantage of the opportunity of Lü Meng's closure at this time to retreat to Yidu first, ask Liu Bei for help, and then recover Jiangling after the reinforcements arrived.

This is also a good suggestion, if Guan Yu is willing to listen, he will meet Zhuge Song first on the way to Yidu, not only will it not be a problem to destroy Lu Xun under Yidu City first, but Zhuge Song, who has no scruples, will even immediately write a letter to order someone to send him to Maicheng, so that Zheng Liang will also abandon the city and come to Yidu immediately.

But Guan Yu almost immediately rejected Wang Fu's proposal without thinking, unlike the historical Yidu that had been occupied by the Wu army, at this time, Guan Yu thought of Ma Liang, who was surrounded by Cao's army in Xiangyang!

He angrily rebuked Wang Fu and said: "If I retreat to Yidu, where will you put Ji Chang!" ”

People are often always like this, geckos will immediately cut off their tails to escape when they encounter danger, but even if they lose a little, they don't want to give up, but always lose more because they want to win back.

Although Guan Yu angrily reprimanded Wang Fu, he did not have any good ideas, to stop the declining morale, after carefully studying the map of Jingzhou, made the decision to retreat to Maicheng first, and ordered Liao Hua to go to Shangyong to ask Liu Feng and Meng Da to send troops to help in the war, and then go to Hanzhong to ask Liu Bei to lead an army to help.

The reason why Maicheng was chosen is because Maicheng is located between Jiangling and Xiangyang, and there is a city to rely on when retreating to Maicheng first, so that you can show the following sergeants the determination to recover Jiangling, and you can go north to rescue when Xiangyang is in an emergency. In fact, Guan Yu regretted leaving Ma Liang to defend Xiangyang at this time, because although the city of Xiangyang was strong, it was too difficult for 3,000 people to defend the city in the face of Cao Cao's army coming one after another. Because Cao Cao had surrounded Xiangyang City at this time, the connection between Guan Yu's camp and Xiangyang had long been severed during this time, and Guan Yu now even hoped that now that Xiangyang had been broken, Ma Liang could escape before the city was broken.

However, the current Cao Cao has no intention of capturing Xiangyang at all. At this time, Xiangyang was surrounded by an impenetrable army of 100,000 troops, and in Cao Cao's tent, all the generals asked for battle. Cao Cao smiled slightly, noncommittal, just looked at Jia Xu. Jia Xu knew what Cao Cao meant, so he said: "Lord, according to my opinion, although Xiangyang can be broken at this time, it is still unbreakable!" ”

"Oh?" Cao Cao's eyes lit up and he said with a smile: "Wenhe, tell me, why can't this Xiangyang be broken?" ”

Jia Xu saw Cao Cao's smile on his face, knowing that what he expected was not bad, and said with confidence: "When Liu Bei was the king in Hanzhong, but he did not return Jingzhou to Sun Quan, Sun Quan cut his teeth and secretly contacted the lord, but he still wanted the lord to order Cao Ren to send troops, but he was still worried that my Central Plains had far more troops than Eastern Wu, and wanted our army to compete with Liu Bei and take advantage of it."

When Guan Yu broke the ban, Fancheng was not guaranteed, and the limelight was in full swing, so that Lu Meng sent troops to attack Jiangling and returned home. Now although Lü Meng has won, Jiangling Wu soldiers are only 30,000, and the Yu soldiers are not as good as Lü Meng, and he does not think of retreating into Shuzhong Xu Tu to raise again, but still makes the morale of the army stop under the fortified city, even if there are thousands of unwilling, it must be defeated.

The lord raised 100,000 soldiers and 100 generals, if the siege of Xiangyang did not go down for a long time, but a little frustration, it would be no obstacle to the overall situation. Once the city is fully attacked, the 3,000 defenders are only led by a civilian official, and it will not take half a day, and the city will be a success.

But in this way, not only Guan Yu was at a loss when he heard it, but Lu Meng would also be uneasy in Jiangling. When Guan Yu retreated from Shuzhong, Lü Meng only wanted to protect himself and defend Jiangling, what good would it do to our army?

Therefore, according to the opinion below, the lord is like a garrison here, besieging but not attacking, only strengthening the defense on the flanks, so that Liu Bei's troops from Hanzhong did not dare to move, and then naturally they could only join forces with Guan Yu, and fight for life and death with Eastern Wu in Jiangling, and both sides were defeated. At that time, the lord was profiting from it, and no matter how he cut Wu or Shu, it was extremely convenient! ”

Papapa! Cao Cao laughed and applauded, and said, "Wen and this words are just in line with the will!" In the past, Liu Bei and Sun Quan worked together to resist me, which made Lone quite a headache, and today he can watch the snipe and clam fight, and Lone is happy to be a fisherman! ”

"Lord Shengming!" The generals on both sides praised in unison, Cao Cao squinted his eyes, and was out of his mind, as if he saw the scene of Liu Bei and Sun Quan being captured together and tied to the front of the tent.

Besides, Guan Yu's soldiers retreated to Maicheng, and the army was less than 20,000 when they entered the city because the soldiers secretly fled for days. The city of Maicheng is small, and the food in the tun is only enough for the army for a few days, although there is a city to rely on, and the morale is gradually stable, but it is difficult to have a long-term plan.

Cao Cao's troops besieged Xiangyang, but they were delayed, and the news that they refused to join forces with Lü Meng to attack Guan Yu reached Chaisang, and Sun Quan, who had been overjoyed by Lü Meng's capture of Jiangling, became anxious. Gathering the ministers to discuss, it was decided that Zhang Zhao would lead some of the ministers to stay in Chaisang, and Zhu Huan would lead 10,000 troops to enter Lujiang to guard against Zhang Liao, and 50,000 troops would go out of Chaisang, and come to Jiangling along the river through Lukou, intending to enter Jingzhou first, use the advantage of numbers to defeat Guan Yu, and then defend Jiangling steadily, so as to prepare for a long-term hold with Liu Bei.