Chapter 42 Guarding Jingzhou, Guan Yu beheaded the general, avenged his father, and Yuan Tan Xingbing
"Huh?" Seeing that Guan Yu was majestic, the sergeants under his command who were originally scolding invariably chose to shut up, and Cao Hong was also seriously unhappy. But what made him even more unhappy was still to come, Guan Yu snorted directly and said, "Cao Hong'er, come and die!" ”
"Guan Yu's husband will die!" Cao Hong looked at Guan Yu's contemptuous eyes, and suddenly felt as if a big stone had been pressed on his body, and he was almost breathless. In order to get rid of this pressure, Cao Hong roared angrily to strengthen his courage, and then slapped his horse and danced his knife to face Guan Yu.
"Dang!" The first time the two of them crossed paths, Cao Hong knew that he was afraid that he would not be able to get any benefits today, Guan Yu's knife was too heavy, and his arms were already sore and numb after the first stroke. However, now that there is no turning back, Cao Hong can only grit his teeth and persevere, in anticipation of a turnaround.
Guan Yu naturally didn't care about this little Jiujiu in Cao Hong's heart, and attacked Cao Hong like a stormy wave. With his full strength, Cao Hong suddenly felt like a boat in the middle of a huge wave, which could be capsized at any time, and he couldn't even spare time to call someone for help.
"Yun Chang's subordinates are merciful!" But Xu Huang, who was watching the battle from the sidelines, saw that Cao Hong was in danger after more than ten rounds, and hurriedly slapped his horse to come to the rescue. Although Xu Huang was anxious about Cao Hong's safety, Li Tong in front of him was not an idle person, and he would suffer a big loss if he was not careful, so he had to concentrate on the battle first.
"Guan Yu Pifu, eat me with a knife!" But seeing that Cao Jun grabbed another general in the formation, he quickly rushed forward to Guan Yu and Cao Hong, who were fighting fiercely, almost at the moment before the former's Qinglong knife was about to make close contact with Cao Hong's neck, the big knife in this person's hand swung out and blocked Guan Yu's inevitable knife.
"Whew!" Cao Hong, who escaped death, was already sweating, and hurriedly beat his horse and withdrew from the circle. Guan Yu snorted coldly, turned his head to look at the visitor, but his expression was slightly stunned.
"Who is Your Excellency, who is still going into battle at a great age?" Guan Yu frowned and asked, the general who rescued Cao Hong was already gray, and he looked at least sixty years old.
"Old man Cai Yang, I have heard for a long time that Guan Yu and Guan Yunchang are the first famous knife masters in the world, and now I can understand it, which is also a great pleasure in my life!" The general replied with a smile across the big knife in his hand, and there was a majesty between the white whiskers.
Guan Yu's brows furrowed even deeper when he heard this, "Guan Yu never beheads the old and the young, women and children under the knife, the old general can still go into battle at a great age, and his courage is commendable, but Guan Yu will not kill you." Guan Yu withdrew the Qinglong Knife and said proudly.
"Alas!" Cai Yang suddenly sighed, took the big knife in his right hand, and gently brushed the smooth blade with his left hand, as if he was sighing with a little memory: "The old man met a famous master when he was a teenager and taught me the thirty-six Changhe knife techniques, and he was a rare opponent in his life, and he only lost half a move under the hands of a generation of gun prodigy Yuan." The only thing to regret is that until he was over half a hundred years old, he had never been able to compete with a master of using a knife. Today, I have to meet General Guan, but I can fulfill my life's wishes! Even if he dies under the sword, what is the pity? Speaking of this, Cai Yang's eyes suddenly skyrocketed, and his bright eyes did not look like an old man who was nearly sixty years old.
"As you wish!" Feeling Cai Yang's strong fighting intent, Guan Yu knew that any dissuasion at this time would be an insult to him, and at that moment he also picked up the Qinglong Yanyue Knife, concentrating on preparing to fight Cai Yang to the death.
"Green Dragon Glaive Slash!"
"Huangquan Biluo Slash!"
With two roars, the two figures suddenly launched, and then a ball of blue light and a yellow shadow were entangled and killed. At this time, Xu Huang and Li Tong also stopped, and each returned to the formation to watch the peak duel between these two famous sword masters in the world.
At the head of Wancheng City, Zhuge Liang, who has always been calm, was not as graceful as usual, standing on the head of the city and watching the duel between the two in the field. "General Wen, who do you think can win?" Zhuge Liang is only a rough martial artist, how can he see through this level of duel, and he can only ask the Wen around him for teaching.
"Difficult!" Wen Ping only said one word, and when Zhuge Liang heard this, the corners of his mouth twitched.
"Dang!" At this moment, there was a loud bang, and then the two of them quickly separated in the field, and only then did they attack quickly, although it was only a cup of tea, the two had already exchanged more than 100 moves. Under such a high-intensity attack frequency, Cai Yang was already out of breath, but Guan Yu's original red face was even redder.
"General Guan, I'm going to make a special move!" Cai Yang spat and tried his best to smooth out his breath. Guan Yu didn't speak, just nodded, and the Qinglong Sword in his hand tightened.
"Whirlwind Seven Slashes!" With a roar, Cai Yang took out his trick of pressing the bottom of the box, Guan Yu didn't say anything, just danced the knife to catch up. If just now the two of them were like two clouds of light and shadow entangled, now it is two comets colliding. The sound of swords striking each other like popping beans sounded in a row, and in the center of the fierce battle, there were even more flying sand and rocks within a radius of several zhang, so that the people watching the battle could not see the figures of the two people clearly. Xu Huang and Zhuge Liang and other people watching the battle all felt that time seemed to pass quickly, and it seemed to pass very slowly.
"Bang!" There was a loud bang, and the two figures in the field suddenly separated. After the sand and dust cleared, they saw that the two were already standing on their horses, each holding a knife and facing each other. The difference is that Guan Yu's green robe was cut off and fell to the ground.
"Prince!" Li Tong and the others were shocked, and the fan in Zhuge Liang's hand fell even more, but Cao Jun, who was on the other hand, was not in a hurry to applaud. At this moment, he saw Cai Yang's body shake for a while, and said with difficulty: "Good knife!" Then the whole man fell from his horse.
"Whew!" Guan Yu sighed, turned around and slowly returned to the formation. Facing Guan Yu, who had his back to him, none of the thousands of Cao troops dared to release arrows and plot. After a while, Xu Huang was the first to come back to his senses and ordered someone to come forward to collect Cai Yang's body.
"The prince is mighty, rare in the world!" As soon as Guan Yu entered the city, Li Tong and others had already surrounded him and complimented him. Guan Yu smiled reluctantly, but he still didn't hold on, and spit out a mouthful of blood after standing still with a knife.
"Prince!" Li Tong and the others were shocked and hurriedly stepped forward to support them. Guan Yu shook his head to signal that it didn't matter, everyone helped him into the house and sat down, Guan Yu adjusted his breath, and then sighed: "Cai Yang really lives up to his reputation, if he is ten years younger, I am afraid that it will be me who will fall today." ”
"How is the Prince's injury?" Zhuge Liang asked what everyone was most concerned about.
"It's just that I used too much force and suffered some internal injuries, and it's fine!" Guan Yu sighed, then turned his head and asked Zhuge Liang, "What's going on in Shangyong City?" ”
"The Shangyong city wall is dangerous, and there are more than 10,000 elite soldiers stationed at Zang Xuangao's rate, Zhang Lu is pretending to be a ghost, how can he be his opponent. A military report had arrived in Xuangao in the morning, and General Zhang Lu, Yang Bai, had been beheaded by Captain Fu Tong. Zhuge Liang said with a smile. Guan Yu nodded when he heard this, and he was relieved.
Besides, in the Cao army's formation, because Cai Yang was beheaded, morale plummeted. Xu Huang and Cao Hong knew the art of war very well, and knew that reluctantly attacking the city now would only increase casualties. What's more, the city wall of Wancheng is dangerous, and there are 50,000 defenders, even if Cao Hong and Xu Huang's 100,000 people are all wiped out, it is still two to say whether they can be captured.
"The prime minister has a letter delivered." Just when Cao Hong and Xu Huang were at a loss, Cao Ying's order suddenly came. Along with him, there is also Cheng Yu, an important strategist under Cao Ying.
"Mr. Chungdeok!" Xu Huang and Cao Hong hurriedly greeted them, and after Cheng Yu and the two of them saluted, they immediately took out a letter sealed with fire paint and presented it to the two. The three of them knew that this was Cao Ying's most important instruction.
After opening and flipping through it, the expressions of the three were surprised and delighted. "It turns out that the prime minister actually intended to be here?" Xu Huang sighed in admiration.
"The prime minister used soldiers, but there is no trace to be found, even if Sun Wu is resurrected, it is nothing more than the same." Cheng Yu also sighed, and then Cao Hong and Xu Huang gave the order to go down and act according to the plan.
"What? Cao Jun is digging earth to build a city? Guan Yu heard that the soldiers were coming, and he was a little confused. Not only him, Zhuge Liang was also frowning, not knowing what Cao Hong and Xu Huang had in mind. In ancient times, this kind of siege warfare was generally the attacker set up camp and attacked slowly. Now Xu Huang and Cao Hong are actually digging earth to build a city, which reveals a trace of strangeness.
"Prince, Cao Jun is abnormal, there must be a conspiracy, we still need to be cautious." Zhuge Liang thought about it for a long time and didn't come up with too many fames, so he had to act like this first. Not only Zhuge Liang, but Liu Bei and others, who were in the confrontation with Cao Ying in Qian County, also did not understand Cao Ying's true intentions in this battle. Even Sima Yi, the creator of the six-way plan to advance together, didn't expect Cao Ying's real intention to be like this.
"Mr. Gongze, Mr. Gonghe, the right person to explore the Malay newspaper, Uncle Liu Huang led the army to confront the Cao army in Yuzhou, the land of Wancheng, and Uncle Liu Huang even sent Mr. Jian Yong to connect us and send troops together!" In the mansion of the great general of Yecheng, Yuan Tan couldn't hide his excitement and said to Guo Tu and Tian Feng.
"What a godsend!" Guo Tu also sighed, and then turned his head to Yuan Tan and said: "Lord, since this is the case, we should send troops to Yanzhou as soon as possible, and attack Cao Ying on both sides to break the country and thieves!" ”
"Wait, lord. In my opinion, we certainly need to send troops, but what the soldiers are referring to is not Yanzhou, but Sizhou. Frustrated and stroked his goatee and said slowly.
"Sizhou?" Yuan Tan was stunned when he heard this, "Yanzhou is where Cao Ying's foundation is located, if you can break it in one fell swoop, wouldn't it be twice the result with half the effort?" Yuan Tan said quite puzzled.
"Yanzhou has Xun Yu left behind, and the city wall of Xuchang is dangerous, so it is not in a hurry to do it. Sizhou is only tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, and Cao Hong attacked Wancheng and took some away, and the garrison must be weak. "Frustrated, he didn't slow down. Pointing to the map on the wall, he said again: "If you can take advantage of the situation to take Sizhou, then the connection between Cao Ying and Bingzhou will be cut off, and we can wait to recover the annexation!" ”
"Makes sense!" Guo Tu pondered for a moment what he said, and he had to admit that his strategy was more clever. Since Yuan Shaobing's defeat and death, coupled with the recent blows, Guo Tu's arrogance has also been reined in a lot. "And when we said that we agreed with Uncle Liu Huang to divide the land of Cao Ying equally with the Yellow River as the boundary. Even if he won Yanzhou, he made wedding dresses for others in vain. Another strategist, Xin Ping, also admonished.
"That makes sense!" Yuan Tan saw that everyone agreed like this, and immediately ordered Zhang Jaw to be the general, Guo Tu to be the military advisor, and Fu Zhi to be the staff officer, and raised 150,000 soldiers to attack Sizhou, and the strategist Xin Ping and the son of Fu Zhu stayed in Yecheng to supervise the grain and grass. At this point, the three princes once again fought in a scuffle.
(To be continued)