Cao Cao personally stationed in Chang'an, commanded an army of 150,000 to counterattack, blocked several of Liu Bei's men, and took advantage of his elite cavalry to constantly move to harass Liu Bei's troops, so that Liu Bei could only hold on to the danger and did not dare to attack easily. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Just when he continued to send more men and horses, preparing to counterattack and drive Liu Bei back, the news came that Cao Ren was defeated in Jingzhou, which made him anxious, Xiangyang and Fancheng could not be lost, so that Guan Yu would drive straight in, capture Wancheng, and approach Xudu, so he had to send reinforcements to support Cao Ren quickly.

Cao Cao first urged Runan Taishou Manzhong to quickly lead the county soldiers to Fancheng and Cao Ren to defend the city, and asked Yu Ban to lead the Seventh Army of 35,000 people to hurry to reinforcements, and then asked Xu Huang to recruit troops everywhere to form a new army, ready to respond at any time, and he immediately set off to Mopi, so as to make reasonable arrangements at any time according to the military situation of Yongliang and Xiangfan.

Guan Yu left Xiangyang behind and only besieged it, and crossed the Han River to attack Fancheng. Cao Ren led the remaining more than 10,000 men and horses to defend to the death.

Man Chong and Yu Ban led their troops to arrive, and the enemy's strength increased greatly, so Guan Yu withdrew the siege of Fancheng and led the army to retreat to the south bank of the Han River.

Cao Ren breathed a sigh of relief and asked Pang De to also lead the army out of the city to help Ban counterattack against Guan Yu.

Yu Ban entered the Han River, but he could only look at the river and sigh, the entire Han River was densely packed with warships, all of which were controlled by Guan Yu's Jingzhou Naval Army, and none of them were theirs.

On a big boat in the middle of the river, the big flag of the word "Guan" was hoisted high, Guan Yu asked people to move a chair to sit on the bow of the boat, squinted Danfeng's eyes, looked at Cao Jun who was swarming calmly, slowly stroked his long beard with his hands, and sometimes closed his eyes and fell into deep thought.

Guan Ping kept observing the enemy's formation, and when he turned his head and saw Guan Yu closing his eyes, he couldn't help but ask: "Father, are we going back to attack Xiangyang now?" ”

Guan Yu shook his head, still not opening his eyes, still gently brushing his long beard.

Guan Ping shut up, and after a long while, he saw that Guan Yu still hadn't opened his eyes, and his hand touching his beard stopped, for fear that he was asleep, you are old, if you are tired, get off the boat and go ashore to have a good rest! Then he cried out softly: "Father! ”

Guan Yu's lips opened lightly: "What's the matter?" ”

Guan Ping persuaded: "Father, the enemy can't cross the river anyway, otherwise, you can go back and rest." ”

Guan Yu closed his eyes and shook his head: "I'm not tired." ”

Guan Ping had no choice but to shut up again, and after a while, Guan Yu opened his eyes and checked the enemy's movements again.

Yu Ban led the army to stare at the river for a long time, but he could only look at the water and sigh, shook his head, and led the army to retreat, going to camp in the open area around Pinglu City.

Guan Ping watched Cao Jun pull out in a mighty way, and asked his father again: "I heard that the enemy army has a total of 35,000 people from the Seventh Army, plus Cao Ren's original remaining men and horses, it should be more than 50,000, right?" ”

Guan Yu nodded lightly and did not respond.

"Father, now that the enemy army is outnumbered in Jiangbei, I think it will be difficult for them to be deceived by us into scattering the armies like last time, so that we can defeat them one by one." Guan Ping couldn't think of a strategy to use this time.

Guan Yu said with a smile: "If the enemies are scattered, we can break them one by one; If the enemy is concentrated, then we will find a way to destroy it in one fell swoop. Wouldn't that be better? ”

Guan Ping's eyes lit up: "Father already has a clever plan in mind? ”

Guan Yu did not answer, and ordered to sail the boat, follow the enemy's movements, and see where they were going.

A flotilla of more than a dozen large and small warships followed Cao's army westward like a shadow, and only stopped with the enemy near Pinglu City.

Pang De watched Guan Yu's fleet follow them like a shadow on the river embankment, and scolded angrily: "Guan Yu's husband, there is a kind of you who come ashore to fight!" ”

Yu Ban glanced at Pang De, shook his head, and said in his heart, You were beaten by others and fled before, but now what are you saying here? Hmph, what did you brag about and shoot Guan Yu to death, it's really embarrassing to get home.

Guan Yu saw the Cao army stationed in Pinglu City, and couldn't help but show a smile on his face, and ordered the bow of the ship to turn around and go back to his own camp.

Then he sent a part of his men and horses to camp across the river with Cao's army, and after observing the enemy's movements at all times, Guan Yu looked up to the sky.

The sky is exceptionally blue; The clouds are so white; Autumn is about to begin.

In the next ten days, it ushered in a rare period of peace, Cao Jun could not cross the Han River to find Guan Yu's army for a decisive battle to relieve the siege of Xiangyang, Guan Yu did not go to the north bank to find Cao Jun to challenge, and Xiangyang City was only surrounded by Guan Yu's army, and no one came to attack the city at all, and everyone was safe.

It's just that Guan Yu suddenly developed a habit of looking up at the sky, looking up several times a day, and when the sky was a little gloomy, he couldn't help but stretch out his right hand and raise it to the sky, as if something would fall from the sky, and he wanted to catch it.

In Yufu County, Padang County, Ge Liang also looked up at the sky from time to time, and raised his hand to the sky from time to time, and said silently in his heart: Although the Han River soared in autumn and July in history, history has changed now. It's only been 22 years since Jian'an, and it's still two years away from Guan Yu's flooding of the Seventh Army.

Also, when will Sun Quan come to attack Jingzhou? I have already prepared for this, but the preparation time is too long, and it is easy to be exposed, Mi Fang and Fan Jiang have been idle here for too long, and it is inevitable that they will not show the news, and I have been pretending to be sick for more than a month, and I am hiding every day, which is really annoying.

According to Guan Yu's instructions, Guan Ping was leading the army to keep looking for rubble on the south bank, and put them all into sacks and tied them up, but he didn't understand what the use of this was, could it be used to pile up dirt mountains and attack Xiangyang City? But it's not right, isn't it enough to load the soil mountain, and if it is fully loaded with this kind of stone, it will take a few people to lift it, isn't it a waste of effort?

Guan Yu didn't explain to anyone, he still only paid attention to the sky every day, in the past two days, his mood seemed to be better, because the sky had become gloomy, and it was raining, it should be the matter of these two days, maybe in the upper reaches of the Han River, the heavy rain had already come down.

"Father, it's raining heavily outside, so you better rest early." After Guan Ping inspected the camps, he came back and saw that Guan Yu was still reading under the lamp, and persuaded him.

"Have you gone to the riverside to make your rounds? There is no rising water, be careful to overflow the embankment. Guan Yu put down the book and looked at his son in a robe.

Guan Ping smiled: "I have already made an inspection." Father, you're too worried, this rain has just come down, where can the Han River rise across the embankment? You can rest assured, the water is still a foot away from the embankment. ”

Guan Yu frowned, walked outside the tent and looked, the rain seemed to be getting heavier and heavier. (To be continued.) )