CHAPTER 221 Return to the South Bank

"Well said!" Guan Yu hates this kind of villain the most, and after reading Ge Liang's letter, he has decided to teach Jiangdong rats a good lesson. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 ļ½‰ļ½Žļ½†ļ½

The military advisor has already mentioned in the letter that Jiangdong actually sent 50,000 or 60,000 people, which is almost pouring out! It's much more than his Guan Yu's total strength in Jingzhou!

And there were forty or fifty thousand horses on Cao Cao's side in front, Guan Yu remembered that the Northern Expedition plan he had worked hard for many years was actually suppressed by Sun Quan, and he was angry for a while, and decided to immediately abandon Fancheng and fight all the way to Jiangxia along the Han River! Recapture Jiangxia County, which was previously occupied by Jiangdong, if Liu Bei agrees, he can't wait to fight to Jingkou in one go!

However, now that Xu Huangbu is so close to himself, he has to think of a way to ensure the safe evacuation of the army.

It was the second day of the new year, and the moon in the sky was as slender as a line, and Guan Yu's forward team quickly retreated to the shore of the Han River at night.

Cao Ren was very happy when he received the letter from Xu Huang into the city during the day, he was very happy, he had been surrounded for so long, the food in the city was almost exhausted, and the soldiers were about to collapse, Sun Quan's actions were really like timely rain in the sky!

He immediately copied the letter several times and posted it everywhere in Fancheng, and the besieged sergeants needed to get them excited in time.

Man Chong also breathed a sigh of relief, for the sake of Jingzhou, he had already been transferred from Runan twice, and he only hoped that this was the last time.

This time, Guan Yu is even going to lose his lair, he will definitely run away, maybe he can seize the opportunity to chase and kill him behind when he retreats, and he can also take revenge!

From day to night, the full pet was staring at the Jingzhou military camp outside the city.

Cao Ren saw it in his eyes and asked, "What are you doing?" ā€

Man Zhong told him what he thought, and asked him to agree that he would lead his headquarters out of the city to pursue at that time.

Cao Ren looked at the lights of the enemy camp in the distance, thought about it, shook his head and said: "It's better not to attack at night, there are few troops in the city, this black light is blind, if you are ambushed by Guan Yu again, and you are killed by others to enter the city, won't you stick to it in vain in the past few months?" ā€

He still can't forget that Guan Yu faked his death and killed him miserably.

Man Chong reminded: "Now that Sun Quan has gone to attack his lair, why don't he hurry back to protect himself?" ā€

"Since Sun Quan is going to attack Jingzhou, then let Guan Yu bring more people back to fight Sun Quan, isn't it just right? They fight, the more lively the better, why should we take the risk of doing it, we have to pursue, or wait for the dawn to be clear, seeing that Xu Gongming is coming, can't we just go out of the city to pick it up? Cao Ren also didn't like the promises of the Jiangdong people very much, and Huang Gai faked his surrender that time, and he almost didn't burn him to death.

Cao Ren disagreed, and there was no way to do it.

Xu Huang had already made the army ready, and he believed that as long as Guan Yu's letter spread among the sergeants, the enemy army would definitely be in chaos without a fight, and then he would lead the whole army to rush over in one go, and he would definitely be able to make great gains.

Therefore, he has been sending people to secretly keep an eye on the movements of the enemy camp, and once the enemy urgently evacuates, he will immediately catch up.

Sure enough, in the middle of the night, he received news that the enemy's front camp had begun to retreat, and quickly ordered all the armies to assemble urgently and rush over with all their might.

Guan Yu thought about it all day during the day, and finally came up with a way to quickly withdraw from the Han River, he did not let the fleet line up on the riverside and wait for the sergeants to board the boats, and then transport them across the river one by one, but connected hundreds of warships with longboards to each other, and built several pontoon bridges on the Han River.

The sergeants only had to step on the bridge and run directly back to the south bank, which greatly improved the team's ability to cross the river.

Anyway, the water surface is controlled by himself, and he is not afraid of the impact of the enemy, and in Jiangbei, he is now less than 30,000 men and horses.

If there is no pursuit by the enemy, if you give up your food and grass and carry your weight to cross the river, with the width of those pontoon bridges, you can almost reach the south bank safely with just one meal.

At this time, his rear army was already carrying most of the grain and grass and was speeding up to cross the river.

And he himself personally led 5,000 elites to lie quietly in ambush in the dark, waiting for the former soldiers to retreat and pass.

He had already ordered the officers and men of the former army to retreat lightly, leaving the supplies that were difficult to take away to the enemy.

Originally, with his character, he was unwilling to give up, but in order to cross the river safely as soon as possible and meet the enemy army in Jiangdong as soon as possible, he decided to give up!

Moreover, the situation is urgent now, and if we do not cross the river as soon as possible, if the Jiangdong naval army has already reached the vicinity of Xiangyang, the losses will be even greater if we are attacked on three sides.

Xu Huang led the army in the dark and chased all the way, but did not make many gains, only to see the enemy's torches moving fast in front of him in the dark night.

After chasing, the torches of the fleeing enemy were suddenly extinguished.

This situation is a bit strange in ancient times, Xu Huang hurriedly went to the army to see what was going on.

It turned out that this was a large battalion of Guan Yu's army, and the barracks were still neatly erected there, but it was pitch black in the face, and I didn't know how many enemy troops there were.

Do you want to go into the camp? It made Xu Huang a little embarrassed.

Although the first few enemy camps were also abandoned by the enemy, the camp in front of him was still too big, would Guan Yu abandon such a large camp and flee overnight?

The question is why did the fleeing enemies suddenly put out all the torches after they went in, didn't they want to escape?

However, the enemy was copied from the back road, and the retreat was certain, so Xu Huang decided to send some men and horses in to inspect the reality first.

Not long after the striker entered, arrows suddenly shot out in all directions in the dark night, and he was immediately put down in a large area.

Immediately after that, there was another bang, and even the Cao army waiting outside the camp was attacked by random arrows from all directions.

In the dark, Cao Jun didn't know where the arrows came from, and he didn't know where to retreat, so many people hurriedly squatted down.

At this time, many torches were lit up in the camp, and I only heard someone shouting: "Brother Xu, I've been waiting here for a long time!" ā€

Xu Huang recognized that it was indeed Guan Yu's voice, and hurriedly ordered a retreat, in this dark night, I don't know how many ambushes there are, and where they are all ambushed, so let's be cautious.

Come to think of it, Guan Yu wants to withdraw his troops, how could he not even have cover for the rear team, so let him chase and kill him so far.

In the dark night, the Jingzhou crossbowmen released a random arrow, and they did not chase after them, so everyone quickly took the opportunity to retreat to the riverside.

That big camp, in fact, except for the fence and the little things at the camp gate, has basically been emptied.

By the time Xu Huang turned around and chased after him, the Jingzhou army had already passed through the Han River, quickly dismantled the longboard, scattered the boats, and left the riverbank.

"I can't imagine that Yun Chang would be willing to run so embarrassed?" Cao Jun has long had no warships, and Xu Huang can only look at the river and sigh.

Guan Yu hurriedly sent someone to inform Liao Hua on the south bank, asking him to withdraw from the siege of Xiangyang with his men and horses and return to Jiangling to hold on.

Immediately, Guan Pingxian immediately asked Guan Pingxian to lead a part of the naval army south along the Han River to prevent the Jiangdong men and horses from suddenly killing.

And he himself led the army to keep an eye on Lu Chang's movements in Xiangyang City, once Liao Hua was far away, he would board the warship, go down the Han River, and go straight to Jiangxia! (To be continued.) )