"Junhou, according to the descendants, Cai Mao and his brother Cai Xun disguised themselves as ordinary people, and when the fire broke out, they mixed among the people and ran north! Right now, General Zhongye is patrolling around, and General Gan Ning has also intercepted the waterway, presumably Cai Mao must have nothing to hide! As soon as he returned to Xiangyang, Zhuge Liang reported to Guan Yuyu.

"That's very good, Kong Ming, what's going on in Xiangyang?" Guan Yu nodded and continued to ask.

"Just now, General Chen Wu has already taken Cai Mao's handsome banner to surrender the rest of the counties, and the whole territory of Xiangyang can be pacified. It's just that this fire really hurt Xiangyang's vitality! Zhuge Liang sighed. In order to create chaos, Cai Mao ordered his cronies to set fire everywhere in the city, most of the streets were burned down, and tens of thousands of civilians were burned to death, and the originally prosperous city of Xiangyang is now a piece of rubble.

"Let Zhengfang rebuild Xiangyang here, Xingba will lead the army to help defend the city, you and I should lead the army south as soon as possible!" Guan Yu thought about it and sighed. Now in addition to Zhuge Liang, that is, Li Yan can still deal with this mess. At present, the only remnants of the Cai family and the Kuai clan are Kuai Yue, who is entrenched in Jiangling, Nanjun, and Cai Mao, who has escaped. At this time, it was the end of the ninth month of the lunar calendar, the weather turned cold, Guan Yu left his soldiers and tens of thousands of horses to cooperate with Li Yan to guard Xiangyang and Fancheng, and he and Zhuge Liang and others led an army of 30,000 to the south to help Zhao Feng fight for Nanjun. When the army marched to Jinnan County, it was reported that thirty miles to the south, the defenders in the city were attacking Zhao Feng's camp, and the battle was extremely fierce.

"Gather all the cavalry and follow me to help Bo Tao!" Guan Yu was also a little anxious when he heard this, and hurriedly led the cavalry to the rescue in person. When marching to Jingxiang this time, Guan Yu only led 2,000 cavalry. After defeating Zhang Xiu, he collected more than 2,000 Xiliang war horses, and now he barely mustered up three or four thousand cavalry, and now Guan Yu led a horse to rush to the rear of the Jingzhou army. The cavalry arrived at a distance of thirty miles very quickly, and after a short time, Guan Yu, who was in the lead, had already seen that Zhao Feng's camp, which was standing like a rock, was undergoing the tide of the Jingzhou army. Especially at the gate of the wall, the corpses have been piled up.

"Kill me!" Guan Yu roared angrily and slaughtered into the Jingzhou military formation, every time the Qinglong Yanyue Knife was swung, it could take away the lives of a vote of people, and the five hundred school swordsmen led by Zhou Cang behind him also followed closely, these five hundred people were originally Guan Yu's personal guards, and their combat effectiveness was extremely strong. After capturing the Xiliang War Horse, Guan Yu immediately ordered them to quickly learn to ride horses, and then reorganized them into cavalry as a matter of course. With Shangxi Liang Ma and broadsword, the combat effectiveness of these 500 people is not inferior to Zhang Liao's 800 cavalry.

The Jingzhou army was also caught off guard when it was suddenly attacked from behind, and this time the formation was suddenly chaotic. Cai He, who was commanding the battle in the front army, was shocked and hurriedly ordered people to meet the incoming army. But Guan Yu came too quickly, and Cai He and Huang Jie were a little caught off guard.

"Red face, it's Guan Yu!" Cai He looked at the leading general for a while, and his face suddenly changed greatly. Huang Jie also knew that this level of military general was by no means comparable to himself and Cai He, so the two of them hurriedly gathered their men and prepared to withdraw to Nanjun. After all, Guan Yu had few people, and when the large army behind caught up, the Jingzhou army had already fled for most of it, and could only catch up with a tail and annihilate more than a thousand people, and hundreds of people surrendered.

"Bo Tao, you have been stationed in Nanjun for a while, what is the current situation?" Guan Yu and Zhao Feng are also old friends, and they didn't be polite after meeting, so Guan Yu asked directly about the current situation.

"Feng is ashamed, he has not been able to capture Nanjun so far, so he can only rely on the second general and Kong Ming to preside over the overall situation." Zhao Feng said a little helplessly. These days are really like a year, Kuai Yue has never stopped sending troops to attack his camp. On the most exaggerated day, 20,000 arrows were shot alone. When it was said that the Jingzhou army would naturally not be shot to death by 20,000, but there should still be 2,000. These days, he doesn't dare to go out of the village to fight, otherwise the Jingzhou army will use the numerical advantage to consume this road of men and horses. Rao is so, when Guan Yu and Zhuge Liang arrived, Zhao Feng's 30,000 Yangzhou army, except for the men and horses guarding everywhere, now the remaining troops at hand are less than 10,000, and the entire Dazhai is a little empty, Zhao Feng has ordered the local garrisons of Dangyang and Yiling to come and meet. After all, after Yidu County was breached, the defense of these two places was not so important, and at this time, he didn't know that Zhang Ling had also been sold to Liu Pan by the two famous Erwuzai brothers of the Shen family.

"Why should Bo Tao be modest, it is not easy to fight such a field with 30,000 horses!" Guan Yu comforted. At this time, Zhuge Liang had also followed the army, and at present, except for Wen Ping, Li Yan and others, who were still busy cleaning up the mess in Xiangyang, the rest of Liu Beijun was already here. In Jiangling City, after Kuai Yue learned that the reinforcements had arrived, he simply chose to defend and not fight again.

A few days later, after Liu Pan dragged on for a long time, he also personally led 20,000 people from Zhangling to Nanjun. The three groups of people gathered under the city of Nanjun one after another, adding up to about 60,000 or 70,000 people. In contrast, there were nearly 50,000 defenders in Kuaiyue in the city.

Attacking a city defended by 50,000 men with 60,000 or 70,000 men is not a good deal. Now Zhao Feng is very helpless, since his debut, most of the turtles he has encountered are shrunken heads. This is true for Yuzhou, Jiangdong, and Jingzhou. If you can directly slash the opponent's generals with a knife like in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", and then directly surrender a city, it would be so trouble-free. It's a pity that the current Kuai Yue is even more shrunken than Cao Ren, and he knows that he is even more determined to defend a dead end, and the whole thing is a copy of the trial. Besides, Gangneung has plenty of money and food, and I really don't know when this battle will last.

Not to mention Zhao Feng's emotion in his heart, at this time, on the edge of Xiangshui, more than a dozen pedestrians dressed as ordinary people were sitting under a tree to rest, and the first person was holding a bamboo tube for water, and after pouring it, his eyes were a little distracted and looking into the distance.

"Big brother, let's eat something!" At this time, another person stepped forward and handed over a piece of dry food, this person took two bites, drank some water, and then took a breath and said, "Second brother, has the person who inquired about the news come back?" What is the situation in the north right now? ”

"Just came back, according to what he said, Wen Ping led the army to check around. Portraits of you and me have been pasted everywhere, and a reward has been offered for their capture. At present, all the ships in the vicinity have been confiscated, and not even a single plank can be found. The man replied. That's right, they are the brothers Cai Mao and Cai Xun who have just escaped from Xiangyang, and they are now preparing to go north to join Cao Ying.

"In that case, it is better to go out by day and night, and take advantage of the night to go north again. I remember that there was a section of water that was relatively narrow for dozens of miles ahead, and I could swim across the river later. Cai Mao thought for a while. Cai Xun had nothing to do, and the two brothers rested for a while, found a shady place to sleep, and then prepared to go on the road.

After sleeping until the evening, the passers-by woke up one after another, counted the number of people and were about to go on the road, only to find that two people were missing. "Oh no, they're going to report to the official!" Cai Mao understood the key to this as soon as she thought about it, and her face suddenly changed greatly, and she hurriedly packed up and ran north.

About half an hour later, Wen Ping led people to the foothold of Cai Mao. "Is this it?" Wen Ping pointed to this area and asked the two people beside him, this is a small forest by the Mishui River.

"Exactly, Cai Mao was still sleeping here just now." One of them hastened to reply. "There is no fork in the road on this road, and there are no boats to cross the river, he can't run far, chase me after him!" Wen Ping snorted and led more than 100 cavalry under his command to catch up.

"Big brother, it seems that someone is catching up!" Cai Xun heard the sound of horses' hooves behind him gradually, and couldn't help but change his face. Cai Mao had already heard it, and suddenly saw a large area of reeds on the side of the road, so he was really panicked, and hurriedly ran in to dodge, and Cai Xun and others also followed one after another. The last person looked back, but saw that Wen Ping had already caught up, only hesitated slightly, and didn't have time to hide in the reeds, so he could only be captured.

"Where's Cai Mao?" Wen Ping grabbed this person and asked with a grim face.

"Just got in!" The man's face turned pale, but he still pointed to the reeds and said reluctantly. Wen Ping looked at this large area of reeds, and searched for the hundreds of people under his command. Seeing that the reeds had withered and yellowed, Wen Ping couldn't help but show a cruel smile on his face.

"Set it on fire, burn it for me!" Wen Ping ordered. The night chase was already a torch, and this time it was really blazing, and this piece of reeds suddenly turned red. Fortunately, there are no people nearby, otherwise they would have suffered from the pond fish.

"Don't burn, don't burn!" Not long after the burn, I saw several people with gray faces running out of the reeds in a hurry, all of them choking and coughing. After one of them fell to the ground, he immediately turned his back to Wen Ping, and it was too late to cover it up at this time.

"Cai Dudu, no, Cai Zhou Mu. You don't enjoy happiness in Yangzhou, why did you come to Jingzhou? Wen Ping only glanced at his back, and immediately recognized that this person was Cai Mao who he had been looking for for a long time, and he was in a good mood, and he teased him again and again.

Cai Mao smoothed her breath, then stood up, looked back at Wen Ping, and said, "Wen Zhongye, since I fell into your hands, if I want to kill you, I have to listen to the respect, why bother to say more." He knew that Wen Ping had a deep grudge against him, and it was impossible for him to let him go.

"Hmph, I'm only responsible for arresting you, and how to deal with the princes and them." Wen Ping didn't want to kill him with such a knife, it would be too cheap for him. At that moment, he ordered someone to tie up Cai Mao and his henchmen and send them to Guan Yu in Nanjun.

However, Guan Yu can't take care of Cai Mao's matter for the time being, and it is difficult to capture Nanjun at the moment, and everyone is in a bad mood for a while. On this day, Zhao Feng and Liu Pan's generals, Zhuge Liang and others all gathered in Guan Yu's big tent to discuss together, and they wanted to discuss a way to take Nanjun as soon as possible.

"Guys, I have a plan, maybe I can take Nanjun." A scribe who came with Liu Pan suddenly looked up and said, Zhao Feng knew him, he was Zhuge Liang's classmate Meng Jian Meng Gongwei.

"What's the plan?" Liu Pan hurriedly asked, but Zhuge Liang seemed to realize something, and turned his head to look at Meng Jian's eyes, which were already a little sharp.

"Dig the moat and pour water into Gangneung!" Meng Jian said with a smile. When everyone heard this, their faces changed drastically, and they were ruthless, once this kind of strategy was used, it was really difficult to predict how many people would survive in the entire Gangneung. Even if it is to win Nanjun, I am afraid that it will be difficult to win the hearts of the people here for a while. Although Zhuge Liang knew that this plan was feasible, as a person from Jingxiang, it was naturally difficult for him to exercise such a poisonous plan against his hometown fathers. Meng Jian is a person from Runan, so he doesn't have so many scruples. However, this was only one of the reasons, and later Zhao Feng and Zhuge Liang knew that Meng Jian had other intentions in doing this.

Of course, this kind of strategy is not something that can be used casually. First, it is necessary to see whether the moat has enough water power, and if it is not enough, it will not be able to break the city wall. At present, the moat of Gangneung is made of water from the Yangtze River, and this force is naturally strong enough.

Everyone couldn't make up their minds, and finally turned their heads to look at Guan Yu. Although this is a two-family operation, Guan Yu has the highest official rank and the most prestige, and he still has to make up his mind about this kind of thing. The expression on Guan Yu's face was also constantly changing, and finally he stood up and said, "Zhou Cang, lead a thousand people to the upstream to build a dam and prepare to store water!" ”

"Smack", as soon as Guan Yu's voice fell, the feather fan in Zhuge Liang's hand fell

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