"What?" Guan Yu didn't expect Zhuge Liang to break such fierce news, and then his eyes rolled and he asked with a look of hope: "Since you are your own relative, Kong Ming, can you persuade him to surrender so that he can avoid a sword fight?" ”

Zhuge Liang thought for a while, but finally shook his head with a rare wry smile and said, "Junhou, I'm afraid this matter will not work." Although Kuai Qi is Liang's brother-in-law, he is also a disciple of the Kuai family, and he will not surrender to the prince easily. Guan Yu originally knew that the hope was only five or five at most, but he was not surprised to see Zhuge Liang answer like this. These families attach great importance to the interests of their own families, and often the children of the family can do whatever it takes for the interests of their own families. Now Kuai Yue is guilty of chaos, once he fails, the Kuai family is dead, and there is no turning back from the bow, and Kuai Qi is naturally no exception.

"If that's the case, what should our army do now that it's stationed in Fancheng?" Guan Yu groaned. At this moment, the Malay newspaper reported that a grain and grass baggage team was coming across the river to Xiangyang.

"Oh? Baggage team? Guan Yu was also stunned when he heard the news, but Zhuge Liang's eyes lit up when he heard the words and said: "Junhou, I have a plan!" This year, there was a great drought in Jingbei, and the grain harvest was poor. Jiangling is a place where Jingxiang hoards money and grain, and there is no risk of food shortage. However, counties such as Xiangyang and Zhangling are inevitably overwhelmed, and they must be supplied by Jiangling. If you can cut off the grain and grass in these two counties, it will be chaotic for a long time! ”

"That's true!" Guan Yu also nodded again and again after hearing this. Unfolding the map and looking at it, Guan Yu pointed to two routes and said: "The grain and grass of Jiangling, either take Yiling Avenue to Yidu, or take Jingdong Trail to Xiangyang, and then to Zhangling." At present, just by pinching these two routes, even if they can't cut off the grain and grass in the three counties, they can also make them greatly short of food. ”

"Exactly!" Zhuge Liang said. Then he pointed to several important cities on the map and said: "The most important thing at the moment is the cities of Dangyang and Yiling, if you can hold these cities, you can control the grain of the Cai brothers." We will only need to besiege for a maximum of two or three months, and the defenders will inevitably run out of food and grass, and then they will have to give up holding on and fight us instead. As for what will happen to the battle, Zhuge Liang didn't say anything, but Guan Yu also knows that with the level of Kuai Qi and Cai Mao, fighting with himself is no different from looking for death.

"In that case, Yuan Jian, you lead an army of 5,000 to the south, occupy the wheat city on the Jingdong Trail, and cut off this grain transportation route." Guan Yu immediately clapped his head and said, and when Liao Hua heard this, he hurriedly ordered his army to capture Maicheng. At the same time, Guan Yu hurriedly sent a message to Zhao Feng, asking him to divide his troops to capture Yiling and Dangyang, and cut off the grain route to Yidu and Zhangling.

However, Zhao Feng can't care about cutting off the grain road now, for no other reason, because someone has already come to challenge him in front of his camp. "Huang Jue, Yang Ling?" Zhao Feng carefully recalled "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", and finally remembered who these two masters were. Especially the latter, he was killed by Guan Yu during the battle in Changsha, and before he was killed, he was very angry and said: "Master Yang Ling is here."

"If you are here to challenge, then we will fight." Zhao Feng clapped his hands and led the generals to reorganize the army and horses to meet the invading enemy. After setting up the formation, I saw that the queue of 10,000 people in Huang Shot was quite neat, but I didn't know what the combat effectiveness was.

"Well, you and the other rats dare to offend my Jingxiangzhou County, if you don't surrender as soon as possible, Master Yang Ling will end you!" As soon as everyone stood still, they saw a general in the Jingzhou army jumping out of the formation to show off their might.

"Now the nameless rats have a loud voice!" Zhao Feng deliberately sighed helplessly, and the rest of the generals were also amused when they heard it. "Which of you is going to deal with this person?" Zhao Feng didn't bother to go out on his own in the face of such a small role, and looked around at the generals left and right and asked.

"I'm coming!" But it was Zhu Ran who took the lead, and Yang Ling hurriedly patted the horse to fight Zhu Ran. Although Zhu Ran's martial arts are not as good as Guan Yu, he will not kill Yang Ling in one move, but after all, he is still much higher than Yang Ling. After more than ten rounds, Zhu Ran saw a flaw and slashed it away, splitting Yang Ling off the horse.

"Ahh Huang Jie was also taken aback when he saw Yang Ling being beheaded. He knew that his martial arts were not as good as Yang Ling, and it would be a death to barely fight, but it would be too embarrassing to go back like this, so he looked around at the moment, gritted his teeth and said, "Give it to me!" "He actually led 10,000 horses to kill directly.

"What?" Zhao Feng and the others looked at each other, and it has always been rare to play group fights after losing the fight. However, the Xuzhou Army has always been well-trained, and this time Zhao Feng led the Yangzhou Army, although it was not the Xuzhou Army, but the Yangzhou Army. However, after more than a year of rectification and training, its combat effectiveness is not much inferior to that of the Xuzhou Army. Seeing that the other party was coming, he still combined the array according to the long and short weapons, and fought with the Jingzhou army. Rows of large shields blocked the front line, blocking most of the Jingzhou army's attacks, and then their comrades behind them were responsible for killing the enemy. A large spear long pierced out, reaping their lives like a sickle cutting rice.

"It's too much!" Zhao Feng didn't take long to have a preliminary understanding of the combat effectiveness of the Jingzhou Army: it was worse than the Jiangdong Army when it was called, many times the weapons of the Jingzhou Army stabbed over, and the big shield of the Yangzhou Army blocked it, which made their offensive deviate by 108,000 miles, and the yellow shot was like driving a group of old hens to kill it. The Yangzhou army set up a crane wing array to deal with the opponent's sharp arrow formation, and soon the Jingzhou army fell into the encirclement of the Yangzhou army and was gradually divided and annihilated. As for Huang Jue, he saw that the situation was not right, so he had already turned his horse around and fled.

"Wenyuan, how is the battle?" After cleaning up the battlefield after the battle, Zhao Feng asked Zhang Liao, who had just received a statistical report from the master of the army.

"General, more than 2,000 of the 10,000 people of the Jingzhou Army were annihilated, and more than 4,000 surrendered or were captured, and the rest fled back to Jiangling with the Yellow Shot, and our army suffered only a few hundred casualties." Zhang Liao said with a smile.

"The difference in the combat strength of the Jingzhou army is only slightly better than the original Yuan Shu, and it is not as good as the Jiangdong army." Zhao Feng shook his head and said. After so many years of fighting, the real strongest combat effectiveness was when Cao Ying's Yanzhou Army and Qingzhou Army, and when the Xuzhou Army fought against them, it only barely had the upper hand. I'm afraid that after he unifies the north, it will be even more difficult to deal with the formation of the tiger and leopard cavalry, and he can't let him unify the north so smoothly, even if he is busy with Jingzhou now, how can he find time to find some trouble for him.

At this moment, a messenger came to report quickly, sending letters from Guan Yu and Zhuge Liang. Zhao Feng hurriedly went to his big tent to open and flip through it, and after reading it, he also smiled, and then circulated Zhang Liao and others.

"General, if you can really do this and cut off the grain and grass in the three counties of Yidu, it will be twice the result with half the effort." Zhang Liao couldn't help but say excitedly after reading it. "Exactly." Zhao Feng immediately sent Hao Zhao to lead an army of 3,000 to attack Dangyang, and Zhu Ran to lead an army of 3,000 to attack Yiling. After ordering the two to take these two counties, they will hold the main road and rob the grain and grass transported by the Jingzhou army to the three counties.

"General, if we leave, there are less than 20,000 people left here, in case Kuaiyue attacks, how can you be?" Hao Zhao asked with some concern before leaving.

"It doesn't matter, Kuai Yue is outstanding. However, the Jingzhou army is weak, and I only want to restrain them here, and when the army of the prince and marquis arrives, I can besiege Kuaiyue. After capturing Yiling and Dangyang, we can wait for three places to become a corner. Kuai Yue will not let us cut off the grain route, and will send troops to retake these places, and we need to be cautious to defend them. Zhao Feng said with a smile. As for Cai Mao in Xiangyang, in Zhao Feng's opinion, after the grain road was cut off, plus facing Guan Yu and Zhuge Liang, he basically had no possibility of escaping.

"The last general understands!" Hao Zhao and Zhu Ran replied violently, and each ordered his military horses to go to the two places to seize the city. At the same time, Zhao Feng ordered to dig deep ditches around the camp, arrange fences, and hold the camp while also clamping Kuai Yue to Jiangling. Two days later, Hao Zhao and Zhu Ran came to report successively, saying that the two cities had been taken, and now more people were being sent to pay attention to the passages near various places, and as long as it was the military rations of the Jingzhou army, they would all be intercepted. Even if Cai Mao can't be completely cut off, he must be at least seven or eight folds.

"Alas!" Kuai Yue looked at the yellow shot kneeling in front of him with a gray face, and he was quite helpless in his heart. Although he controlled Jingbei, he lacked effective generals under his command. What Yang Ling and Chen Ying are just two knives at the same level as Cai Xun. Jing Xiang didn't have too many outstanding generals, but the only Wen Ping, Huang Zhong and others also jumped ship one after another, and his current comrades are just Wang Cang, Han Song, these scholars, and what the result of the war depends on them, Kuai Yue can think of it with his toes.

"Forget it, victory or defeat is a common thing in soldiers, General Huang, you should step back first." Kuai Yue said helplessly. At this moment, Zhao Feng sent two groups of men to take down Dangyang and Yiling counties. "What did Zhao Feng do when he sent people to capture these two counties?" Kuai Yue took out the map to check, and at this moment, there was a report from Tanma, saying that Guan Yu had just sent Liao Hua to lead the army to capture Maicheng.

"It's not good, they want to cut off the grain road!" Kuai Yue looked at the map and immediately understood what was going on, and then broke out in a cold sweat. At present, the grain and grass of Xiangyang and Zhangling, as well as the three counties of Yidu, are supplied by Jiangling. If the grain and grass are cut off, Xiangyang can still support it for two or three months, and Zhang Ling and Yi are afraid that they will not be able to survive for a month.

Although Kuai Yue and Cai Mao teamed up to do such a rebellious thing, after all, people's hearts are separated from each other, and both of them are cautious people, so it is inevitable to be wary of each other. This year, there was a great drought in Jingda, and the grain and grass needed by Cai Mao's Xiangyang, Zhangling's Kuaiqi, and Yidu's Huo Jun were all supplied by Kuaiyue, of which Kuaiqi and Cai Mao were escorted by Zhao Lei, and Huo Jun's was extracted by Fu Shiren, the commander under his command. Kuai Yue transports them once every half a month, which has the meaning of clamping them down. If they are cut off from the grain route, then something will be wrong for them. It is inevitable that the military will be unstable, and it is possible to turn against the water if it is not good.

"Send people to recapture these three cities as soon as possible to ensure the smooth flow of grain routes!" Kuai Yue wiped the cold sweat on his forehead, and hurriedly sent someone to summon Cai He, who was in Jiangling, and ordered him to lead people to recapture the city.

At this time, in Fancheng City, Chen Wuzheng came to Guan Yu with a military general with five flowers. "Get on your knees!" Chen Wu said as he pushed. The man was quite embarrassed, but his eyes were extremely stubborn, and he just refused to kneel.

Seeing this, Guan Yu also snorted coldly and said, "You are Cai Mao's grain transport officer Zhao Lei?" ”

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