At that moment, Lu Chang led the army to rush in, and immediately retreated after receiving Cao Ren and others, withdrawing a few miles, and commanding many Cao army grain trucks that had been parked on the side of the road to block the road, delay in chasing the enemy, and then continue to retreat quickly with Cao Ren. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Cao Ren asked Lu Chang as he retreated: "Aren't you guarding Xiangyang City, why did you come so far to meet us?" ”

Lu Chang replied: "I was in the city, and I heard that Guan Yu was dead, and the general led his troops to chase him for nearly two hundred miles, and I felt that something was wrong. General, you don't know that most places near Xiangyang have already taken refuge in Guan Yu. It is really not normal for the general to rush two hundred miles and encounter no resistance along the way. ”

Cao Ren is also full of regret now: "You are right, it is Guan Yu who is too cunning, he deliberately pretended to be dead to paralyze us and lure us deeper." It's that I forgot that it's still his place along the way, and it's easy to ambush the army. Because we were in too haste, the distance between the large armies was too long, and we spread more than a hundred miles along the road, giving the enemy an opportunity to ambush them. ”

Lu Chang hurriedly said: "The general doesn't have to blame himself. Jingzhou was originally Liu Biao's territory, and most of the people here are towards Liu Bei. When the general first came, he didn't know the people's feelings, and rashly went deep into the light army, so he fell for Guan Yu. ”

How could Cao Ren not blame himself and be ordered to lead the Seventh Army to conquer Guan Yu, but it was only a few days after he started, he lost more than half of it and fled in embarrassment, which was also too badly defeated, too fast.

He couldn't think too much about it, and the worse news came again, and a Cao cavalry came quickly and reported to Lu Chang: "General, please return to Xiangyang quickly, Guan Yu's army is going up the Han River and will soon approach Xiangyang." ”

At this moment, not only Cao Ren, but even Lu Chang was anxious: "How could they approach Xiangyang so soon, don't we also have a navy on the river?" ”

The sergeant replied: "Guan Yu's navy is too fierce, and the warships are big and numerous. It didn't take long for our sailors to engage them before they were defeated. Now, we are retreating to Xiangyang with all our might, meeting the army, and protecting the Xiangfan waterway. ”

"Quick, quickly withdraw and protect Xiangyang!" Cao Ren hurriedly shouted.

The waterway was defeated by Guan Yu's army again, and if they really occupied the surface of the Han River, then the retreat route would really be blocked. On the water, it is not as good as on the land, and the army can be sent to rescue at any time, not to mention whether it can send so many soldiers who can fight by boat and water in time, and it is impossible to build so many ships for a while.

Cao's army rushed to Xiangyang overnight, and was ambushed by small groups of enemy troops from time to time along the way.

Those Jingzhou soldiers lay in ambush on both sides of the road, waiting for most of the fleeing enemy troops to pass, and then rushed out to attack the backward Cao army, and when most of the Cao army fought back, they quickly scattered and withdrew.

Cao Ren didn't want to be entangled by these guys, so he ordered everyone to run back to Xiangyang quickly.

Desperately escaped back to Xiangyang, he didn't care about entering the city, first ran to the edge of the Han River to check the battle situation of the navy, only to see that his own warships were densely docked there, several warships had been dumped on the river, and it seemed that they would sink at any time, and the other warships were still smoking smoke, and the sergeants were struggling to put out the fire.

On the bank of the river, some sergeants were carrying a few bed crossbows and were anxious to find a place to put them.

General Cao, who led the naval army, came over to see Cao Ren: "General, Guan Yu's naval army is fierce, his subordinates are incompetent, and he lost the first battle. But rest assured, General, we will defend this river to the death, and just now we have repelled one of their attacks. ”

Cao Ren sighed and comforted: "Very good, you try your best to hold the river here, and I will send someone to support you again." ”

Alas, it is unreliable to count on you. When Cao Ren returned to Xiangyang City, he immediately called Lu Chang to his side: "You have entered the siege this time and rescued us, which can be regarded as a great achievement, and I and all the soldiers have thanked you first." Now, I have sent you another difficult task. ”

"At this critical moment, the general, please give orders, Lu is there." Lu Changyi is stern.

Cao Ren was about to be moved, sniffled, and said to Lu Chang: "In the south of the Han River, now only the city wall of Xiangyang is strong and the grain reserves are abundant, so you can resist Guan Yu accordingly." In my opinion, our navy will not be able to hold the water surface of the Han River. If the waterway of the Han River is cut off, then the connection between Xiangyang and Fancheng will be cut off, and we will not be able to go back even if we want to. This crusade against Guan Yu has been declared a failure. In order to preserve my strength, I decided to immediately lead the remaining soldiers across the river to retreat to Fancheng. I hope you can lead the army to continue to hold on to Xiangyang and wait for reinforcements. ”

Before, you swore that you would take Jiangling, but in just a few days, you are in a hurry to return to Fancheng and leave me here to stay in the lonely city? If you had known this, you might as well not come. If you don't come, Guan Yu may not be in such a hurry to hit Xiangyang.

However, as the Taishou of Xiangyang, it was his duty to stay in this town, and Lu Chang didn't want to refute it. He has served here for many years, and he is very familiar with every grass and tree in Xiangyang City, and it is not appropriate to send anyone else except him to resist Guan Yu, and he believes that with Xiangyang City Defense and grain storage, it is not a dream to hold on for a year or two.

"General rest assured, Lu Chang will definitely live up to his mission!" He replied firmly.

Cao Ren nodded, and said, "Don't worry, King Wei will definitely not give up Xiangyang." This time I go back, I will immediately send someone to report to the King of Wei, believing that reinforcements will arrive soon. When we kill Han Shui again, we must have a drink with you then. By the way, I'll leave you with two more men to help you defend the city. ”

After speaking, Cao Ren did not delay for a moment, immediately gathered men and horses, and under the cover of the naval army, quickly withdrew to the north bank and retreated to Fancheng.

Lu Chang also seized the time to adjust the deployment, and withdrew all the garrisons outside the city to the city and defended them strongly.

The next day, Guan Yu led his army to the outside of the city and surrounded Xiangyang City, and at the same time, the Jingzhou Navy had either annihilated the enemy or caught up with the north bank, completely controlling the Hanshui River.

Guan Yu led the generals to stand outside Xiangyang City on horseback, looking at the tall city wall, and sighed with emotion: "It's going to be ten years soon, and I'm finally back to see Xiangyang City." ”

Guan Ping was the same, he returned to Xiangyang City again, full of passion: "Father, when will you start attacking the city?" ”

Guan Yu smiled and shook his head: "No, don't rush to attack. As you know, the defense of Xiangyang City is extremely strong, easy to defend and difficult to attack. If Liu Cong hadn't taken the initiative to surrender and let us retreat to Xiangyang City, Cao Cao would not have wanted to occupy Jingbei. If we force our attack, we will only increase the casualties of our soldiers. ”

"That—" Guan Ping looked at his father with a puzzled expression.

Guan Yu laughed: "As long as we surround him, when he runs out of food in the city, what is the use of strong city defenses." Xiangyang and Fancheng are separated by a water, echoing each other, as long as one of the cities is lost, the other city will not last long. Now, let's cross the Han River first, take Fancheng down first, and make Xiangyang a real lonely city, at that time, we will come back and attack Xiangyang, the defenders in the city are hopeless, and it will naturally be much easier to attack. ”

Leaving Mihua to besiege Xiangyang, Guan Yu led his army across the Han River and began to besiege Fancheng. (To be continued.) )