Lü Meng, who had no idea that Jiangling had been lost that night, was at this time in the tent to convene an emergency meeting of the generals. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Originally, according to Lu Meng's estimate, now the defenders of Maicheng are only a few hundred, and he has set up an ambush on the main road leading to Yidu and Shangyong outside the city, and as long as he urges the army to attack the city as much as possible tomorrow, Xiaomai City will be breached, and Guan Yu will be able to capture it alive.

However, among the soldiers who had just escaped from the city, someone had reported a very important news for a heavy reward, which made Lü Meng have to immediately gather the generals and redeploy. This news is: As early as a long time ago, a general named Zheng Liang came to the city, and brought hundreds of people to martial law around the Taishou Mansion, and secretly dug a tunnel leading to the barren mountains outside the city in the Taishou Mansion!

Lu Meng was shocked, and hurriedly rewarded the person and asked for details. This informant turned out to be one of the hundreds of people, tonight seeing that Maicheng was hopeless, his family was in Jingzhou, and he didn't want to flee to Shu with the army, so he took advantage of the panic in the city to secretly escape from the city, and wanted to get a fortune to return to his hometown, so he asked Lu Meng to tell the informant.

Because he was afraid that Guan Yu would go out of the city overnight, Lu Meng ordered Pan Zhang to continue to surround Maicheng for him, and on the other hand, he personally led three thousand Wu soldiers to the tunnel exit under the barren mountain under the guidance of the informant, and before leaving, he also specially explained to Pan Zhang, if he did not wait for Guan Yu on his side, he would lead the army to attack the city at dawn and force Guan Yu to escape from the tunnel.

On the way, Lu Meng learned from the informant that this Zheng Liang was ordered by Zhuge Song to dig a tunnel in Maicheng, saying that Guan Yu would definitely be besieged here in the future, and he could escape in a hurry.

Lu Meng thought that Zhuge Song had exposed all his schemes outside Hanshou City, and the scene of divination for Lu Su when he saw Lu Su in Lukou, he couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat in the middle of the night, and thought: "This person's divination is so powerful, no wonder the governor of the capital refused to send troops in person, but asked me to lead the troops to take Jiangling, I have heard earlier that this person has repeatedly advised Guan Yu to return to guard Jiangling Guan Yu did not listen, if he let him take charge of the weather, it will be a big disaster for me in Dongwu!" ”

When I arrived at the foot of the barren mountain, Guo found the tunnel exit from a dense forest under the guidance of the informant, uncovered the wooden plank that was well hidden by the fallen leaves, and saw that there was a tunnel that allowed two people to pass side by side, thinking that there was no need to escape to Shangyong from now on, just hide in the barren mountain and dense forest for a few days, wait for nothing to be found, withdraw the ambush, and then go to Shangyong, although embarrassed, but also really able to escape with his life, I couldn't help but sigh heavily, thinking: "This time it can be said that people are not as good as heaven, Zhuge Song according to the prophet's ability, but Guan Yu refused to listen to his words." , Although there is a way out for it, although it is wonderful, Guan Yu does not go early, he has to wait until the mountains and rivers are exhausted, but the tunnel has been leaked, it seems that his life should be like this, God pity me for this great achievement! ”

Thinking about it, in order to witness Guan Yu's shocked face after coming out of the tunnel, Lu Meng did not listen to his subordinates and ordered people to enter the city from this tunnel, but just lit hundreds of bonfires near this place, surrounded the tunnel entrance, and covered it with traps, just waiting for Guan Yu to come out of the exit and make him captured.

When it was time to come, Guan Yu still did not escape from the tunnel entrance. Seeing that the soldiers were tired, Lü Meng divided the three thousand men into three shifts, each shift kept watch for an hour, and took turns to rest until dawn, when Lü Meng woke up from his dream, still did not wait for Guan Yu to appear.

But Lu Meng is not in a hurry, he guesses that Guan Yu must have not made the final decision in the city, before leaving, he had ordered Pan Zhang to attack the city at dawn, he expected that the wheat city is now short of soldiers and food, and the city is only broken today, Guan Yu sees that he can't defend the city, and he will still take the tunnel to appear from here.

Sure enough, not long after the news came that the messenger soldiers on Pan Zhang's side came to report that Maicheng had been broken and was searching for Guan Yu with all their might, there was finally movement at the exit of the tunnel guarded by Lu Meng's army!

When Lu Meng heard the news and went to see, Guan Ping, who was the first to come out of the tunnel, had been surrounded by Wu soldiers, and the people behind saw that the situation was not good and wanted to retreat, and they were quickly captured by Wu soldiers who followed in one by one.

Guan Ping, Wang Fu, and Zhao Lei were all full of shock, and the expression of Guan Yu expected by Lu Meng was the same.

But Lu Meng looked at the three people who had been tied up and pressed in front of him, and there was no Guan Yu in them, and he still couldn't feel satisfied. I couldn't help but ask Guan Ping with some eagerness: "Where is General Guan?" ”

When Guan Ping heard Lu Meng's question, he suddenly restrained his previous stunned expression, and raised his head in disdain: "Ignorant rat generation, my father has already retreated to the upper mediocrity!" ”

"Impossible!" Lu Meng decisively interrupted Guan Ping's words: "My envoy also saw Guan Yu in the city yesterday, how can you hide this from me!" ”

Guan Ping's eyes were even more disdainful at this time: "So what? Father saw that the messenger was just to stabilize you temporarily, and as soon as the messenger left, he immediately left the tunnel, and at this time he should have walked a hundred miles, even if you chase it, I am afraid it will be too late! ”

At this time, the messenger from Pan Zhang's side came to report again: "General Pan has now controlled the whole city, the defender Zhou Cang and hundreds of defenders have surrendered, and Guan Yu's whereabouts have not been found. General Pan is sending people down the tunnel to search outside the city! ”

"Leave everyone behind and run away alone! It seems that General Guan's half-life righteous words are nothing more than that! Knowing that it was still too late to discover the tunnel, Lu Meng used words to slander Guan Yu to make himself feel better, but he was still unwilling, and scattered the soldiers to the barren mountains to search, and after meeting with Pan Zhang, he determined that there was no Guan Yu in the tunnel, and sent hundreds of horsemen to reconnoiter and search in the direction of Shangyong, but it was just a needle in a haystack, and for a whole day, still nothing was found.

Lu Meng had to accept the reality that Guan Yu had run away, although the big fish ran away and caught Guan Ping, Wang Fu, Zhou Cang and others, and it was not a bad achievement, but when he ate dinner, Lu Meng was still a little depressed, picked up the rice bowl, and couldn't eat a mouthful of food for a long time.

The generals comforted one after another, and when they saw that Lu Meng's face was not good, they gradually stopped mentioning it, and they all bowed their heads to eat and stopped making a sound.

At this moment, a messenger soldier who was untidy and didn't seem to close his eyes all night ran outside, and this messenger suddenly rushed into the middle hall, knelt down in front of Lu Meng and said breathlessly: "Newspaper, report to the general, a large number of Liu Beijun suddenly appeared outside Jiangling City, all of them are barbarians, led by Zhuge Song and the barbarian leader Shamoke, General Zhu asked me to immediately find the governor for help!" ”

Bang Dang! The rice bowl in Lu Meng's hand fell to the ground all of a sudden, realizing his gaffe, Lu Meng couldn't help but be a little annoyed, but instead reprimanded the messenger soldiers: "Although the barbarian soldiers are strong in the field, there is nothing more than a group of rabble under the fortified city, why panic!" ”

After hiding his embarrassment, Lu Meng asked again, "How many barbarians are there?" ”

"Back to the capital, about, about 10,000 people!" The messenger came to report the news overnight, and he had not eaten and closed his eyes for a day and a night, and at this time, in the face of Lu Meng's sudden reprimand, he was even more exhausted.

"Come on, take him down, and take care of him." Lu Meng saw that the messenger soldiers knew that it was caused by fatigue, and he was also a little unbearable, so he immediately said in a mocking tone: "The generals are timid, the messengers are tired like this, Zhu Ran has 5,000 people, Jiangling City has thick walls, even if the city is a little short of personnel, the enemy is not more than 10,000, and there will be no problem in guarding it for half a month, so there is no need to panic!" ”

In fact, Lu Meng said that he could actually guess Zhu Ran's true intention, that is, because the leader of these more than 10,000 barbarian soldiers was Zhuge Song, an unexpected Confucian scholar, which caused him to hear that Zhuge Song appeared under Jiangling City, and even his rice bowl fell to the ground.