"In other words, right now, Liu Pan is ready to recuperate from the army and fight Zhangling again?" Looking at the little colonel kneeling in front of him to report the military situation, Kuai Yue muttered.

"Yes." The little colonel lowered his head and said in a low voice, not daring to look at Kuai Yue's already gloomy and suffocating face at this time. "Send the order to go down and give me an intensified attack on Zhao Feng's camp!" After all, it was Kuai Yue, after learning that Zhao Feng had sent people to attack Zhijiang, the troops in Zhao Feng's base camp that he clearly knew were not too sufficient, so he immediately ordered people to step up the attack, and strive to repel this group of men and horses first. So from this afternoon, Cai He and Huang Jie began to attack Zhao Feng's camp thirty miles south of the city.

"General, has the Jingzhou army been crazy these days, attacking us so desperately?" Wen Ping wiped the sweat from his face, and said a little angrily. Fortunately, after more than a month of operation, Zhao Feng's camp has extremely complete facilities, and there are trenches, traps, arrow towers, and mounds, which are better than such simple facilities in Shenting Ridge.

"It seems that Kuai Yue wants to take us first!" Zhao Feng sighed. There are only more than 10,000 people under his command now, and it is extremely difficult to defend against the enemy army on the flat ground with several times the strength of his own. If it weren't for the fact that the Jingzhou army's combat strength was really weak, his position would have been completely submerged. Rao is so, and the casualties these days are also considerable. Just the day before yesterday, the Jingzhou army even broke through two lines of defense, if it wasn't for himself and Zhang Liao leading the cavalry to counterattack, I am afraid the consequences would be quite serious.

Zhao Feng's situation here is very serious, but compared with Cai Mao in Xiangyang, it is still much better. Although the strategy of attacking the heart has already been formulated, neither Zhuge Liang nor Guan Yu intends to wait stupidly. Even if there is no large-scale siege, the greeting of the courtesy surname is always to be called.

A hundred trebuchets, this is the greeting between Guan Yu and Zhuge Liang. For more than a month, this rain of stones has really made Jingxiang's defenders miserable, and no one knows if they will be smashed into a pile of meat sauce by the stones falling from the sky. Cai Mao himself did not dare to go to the city again after witnessing it once.

"Big brother, the Jingzhou army is smashing stones again." On this day, in the Xiangyang Taishou Mansion, Cai Xun said to Cai Mao in a somewhat frightened tone, but the latter's expression was a little blank at this time.

"Second brother, how long will the grain and grass in the city be enough to support it?" Cai Mao did not answer her brother's words, but asked another, more troublesome question.

"It's only five days." Cai Xun was a little speechless. "In this case, you can first collect grain and grass from the major families in the city to tide over the current difficulties." Cai Mao thought for a while.

"In this way, I am afraid that people's hearts will inevitably be unstable." Cai Xun said with some hesitation, his eldest brother's suggestion didn't seem to be very clever, and few of those big families were generous.

"Unstable hearts? At present, I still have tens of thousands of elite soldiers in Xiangyang, and I want to see who dares to be unstable. Cai Mao snorted coldly. Cai Xun was speechless, and the next time Cai Xun led the army to the major families in the city to collect grain and grass, and asked each family to provide 1,000 stone of grain first. These people were willing to agree easily, but as a result, Cai Xun killed two families in a row, and collected all the grain in the two warehouses, and the rest of the people had to be heroes not to suffer immediate losses, and to provide as much grain and grass as possible. It's just that the hearts of the people in this city are not very stable, so it is even more unstable.

On the night when Cai Mao was collecting grain and grass, Guan Yu and Zhuge Liang in Fancheng, who were across the river, suddenly ordered people to shoot more than 1,000 letters of persuasion to enter Xiangyang. It is actually not accurate to say that it is a letter of persuasion, because it is not to persuade Cai Mao, the Taishou of Xiangyang, to surrender, but to call on the soldiers and civilians of Xiangyang not to go to the dark with Cai Mao. If you can kill Cai Mao to surrender, it will be a great reward. As soon as the more than 1,000 letters entered the city, Cai Mao was immediately mad, and ordered all the letters to be burned one after another. But how can this kind of thing be completely forbidden, and on this night, more than 100 soldiers found a vacancy and secretly fell down the city with ropes and surrendered to Guan Yu.

"Very good, Kong Ming, it seems that Cai Mao will not be able to hold it soon!" Guan Yu was also very happy to see that there were so many people on the first day. Zhuge Liang shook the feather fan lightly and smiled slightly: "This Cai Mao is short of food and grass, the army's heart is unstable, blindly sticking to it is a dead end, and the prince needs to prevent him from desperately breaking through!" ”

"Don't worry, I'm already waiting around Xiangyang, as long as Cai Mao dares to act rashly, I can know immediately. Wait, short of food and grass? Guan Yu smiled, and then seemed to remember something, and hurriedly ordered a few soldiers to ask.

"In other words, the defenders of Xiangyang have been living with gruel every day since the number of days?" Guan Yu asked a few words, and finally figured out the situation. "Exactly!" Several of the demos were admitted.

"That's wonderful!" Guan Yu was overjoyed, and immediately ordered hundreds of officers and soldiers to be sent to Xiangyang City every day, drinking wine and eating meat to tempt the Jingzhou army to surrender. "What a clever plan for the prince!" Zhuge Liang was also surprised to see Guan Yu give such an order, but after a little thought, he understood that although this trick was a bit of a scoundrel, the effect would definitely not be bad.

"This is my idea, when it is said that Peiguo is under the city, Bo Tao used this method to lure thousands of Cao troops to surrender, and I don't want to use it in Xiangyang today." Guan Yu laughed. Zhuge Liang was also a little amused when he heard this, and then sighed: "General Zhao is really resourceful, the trebuchet design is exquisite, and my wife's conceited mechanism manufacturing skills are unparalleled in the world, but I am afraid that I will sigh to myself when I see it." ”

"Your wife?" Guan Yu was also quite surprised to see Zhuge Liang respect his wife so much. "Jia Yue is the heir of the Mo family, and he is clumsy and has his true inheritance, and he is conceited by this. Wait for me to let her see this trebuchet, and let her understand that there is a sky outside the sky, and there are people outside the world. Zhuge Liang smiled proudly. Guan Yu looked at the proud Zhuge Liang, it was estimated that he was afraid that he would suffer a lot in front of his wife, and now he found an opportunity to suppress his wife's arrogance so excited, Guan Yu couldn't help but feel a little sympathy for him in his heart.

At this moment, the horse came to report that the Shangyong guard general Shen Tan and Shen Yi's brothers killed Kuai Qi and surrendered to Liu Pan. Zhangling County has basically been pacified. After Liu Pan captured Zhangling, he ordered heavy troops to be deployed in Nanxiang and Xincheng, which are at the junction with Xiangyang, but he did not come to Xiangyang to help in the war.

"Normal, now that Cai Mao's fall is imminent, General Liu Pan is naturally afraid that we will take advantage of the fire to rob and seek to seize Jingzhou." Zhuge Liang said lightly. Guan Yu looked at the map, but he snorted unhappily: "Liu Pan is really hateful, he is going to cross the river and tear down the bridge so soon?" ”

"There are many selfish people in the world, how can Liu Pan be exempt from vulgarity?" Zhuge Liang was quite open and laughed at it. Looking at Guan Yu, whose face was not very good, Zhuge Liang said again: "Junhou, how do you view Liu Jingzhou?" ”

"It is still possible to defend one side, but it is insufficient to compete for the world." Guan Yu thought for a while. Zhuge Liang smiled when he heard this: "The prince has promoted this person too much, Liu Biao ten years ago was still like this, and now even the guards are powerless, otherwise how could this Cai Mao Yue Rebellion come about?" ”

"That's right!" Guan Yu nodded, and then he didn't understand what Zhuge Liang meant, why did he suddenly talk about Liu Biao as a person, but just motioned for him to continue with his eyes.

"Liu Jingzhou is over half a hundred years old, and there is not much time. His son Liu Qi is not the hero, and Wancheng is already in my hands, and Cao Ying is beyond the reach of the whip even if he wants to get involved. In this way, in addition to the lord in the land of Jingxiang, who else can get it? With Liu Pan's generation, how can he turn things upside down? Zhuge Liang said with a smile.

"I see!" Guan Yu remembered that Zhao Feng had said similar things to him in Runan City, and immediately disdained Liu Pan's small actions. At that moment, Guan Yu ordered to send people to Xiangyang City to eat and drink, and even issued earthen horns to the soldiers to let them shout loudly for propaganda.

The effect of this is still obvious. In the following days, every night, the Jingzhou army sneaked down the city to surrender, and the number of people also increased. However, on the evening of the sixth day, Cai Mao began to send his own soldiers to closely monitor the city, and once he found a deserter, he would kill him, which stopped the momentum of escape a little. Unlike the Cao Army, the Jingzhou Army is now in the city after all, not the camp, and it is really not easy to escape. Rao is like this, these days, under Guan Yu's wine and meat offensive, there are still more than 4,000 people who have fallen.

"Junhou, according to the last group of soldiers who fled, Cai Mao has already gathered his men, and he is afraid that he will be ready to break through in the next few days." On this day, after Zhuge Liang asked about the soldiers, he thought that the food and grass of the Jingzhou army was about to run out, and he immediately understood that Cai Mao was about to fight to the death.

"Very well, I've been waiting for a long time. Kong Ming, where do you think Cai Mao will go from? Guan Yu was also a little impatient, and when he heard Zhuge Liang say this, he also hurriedly opened the map to check. At present, Xiangyang has Jiangxia in the east, Zhangling in the west, Nanjun in the south, and Xiangshui in the north. Cai Mao wanted to run, but he was afraid that he could only go to Nanjun to meet Kuai Yue and defend it.

"Cai Mao's army will inevitably flee south, but Cai Mao himself may not be like this." Zhuge Liang looked at the map and groaned. Guan Yu hurriedly asked him for details, and Zhuge Liang explained carefully: "Cai Mao is a person who knows well, and he has good rights, so he may not be willing to go to Nanjun to accompany Kuai Yue to defend Jiangling. It is very likely that he did the opposite, and fled by boat from Xiangshui to Xuchang and defected to Cao Ying. ”

"It's okay, wait for me to order more people to investigate, this thief will definitely have nothing to hide." Guan Yu hurriedly sent someone to send a letter to Zhao Feng, and dispatched hundreds of light horsemen who were familiar with Cai Mao to patrol the path to Xuchang at night, and ordered the sailor to strictly control Xiangshui to check the enemy's situation. As soon as they are discovered, they will be immediately arrested, and they can even be killed.

Zhuge Liang's judgment was not wrong, on the night of the third day, the four gates of Xiangyang City suddenly opened, and countless Jingzhou troops fought out from the city gates, and then ran south with a roar. At the same time, the city was in flames, and many people were forced to flee from the city, and the situation was extremely chaotic.

"Cai Mao's dog thief actually burned Xiangyang?" Guan Yu was also furious when he saw this, and hurriedly sent Zhou Cang to lead people to fight the fire first, and at the same time personally led the army to intercept Cai Mao's Jingzhou army. Under the light of the fire, he saw the army holding Cai Mao's banner all the way to the south, Guan Yu ordered the cavalry to attack from both sides, and led the army to cover up and kill, and at the same time, the men and horses that Li Yan had ambushed in front also killed together, and attacked on both sides.

"Hey!" A Jingzhou military general was split in half with a single sword, and this was already the seventy-ninth person who died under Guan Yu's knife. The Jingzhou army saw that this green-robed killing god was so powerful, and they were all invincible. It was a night when nearly 100,000 troops on both sides also fought in the field, and it happened to be foggy in the second half of the night.

"Oh my God!" Rao is Guan Yu has been on the battlefield for a long time, and when the fog clears, it is also a feeling of disgust to look at this messy battlefield. But seeing that the radius of more than ten miles was full of stumps and broken arms, and the dead bodies were in disarray, Guan Yu almost didn't vomit on the spot. Soon Zhou Cang reported that the fire in Xiangyang had been extinguished, but tens of thousands of people had been burned to death.

"Cai Mao's dog thief will definitely die a good death if he does this poisonous trick!" Guan Yu's beard said angrily. It was a battle between more than 40,000 Jingzhou troops and 40,000 Yuzhou troops in the wilderness, and in the end, only a few thousand remnants of the defeated army fled to Nanjun. The Jingzhou army lost more than 20,000 casualties and more than 10,000 prisoners.

However, Guan Yu was not much better, the Yuzhou army suffered more than 9,000 casualties, although more than 10,000 prisoners were captured, but the combat effectiveness was too far apart, and it was impossible to replenish the source of troops in a short period of time. At the same time, Cai Mao's banner was also found, but Cai Mao himself was nowhere to be found. Guan Yu was unable to fight again for a while, so he had to temporarily garrison the army in Xiangyang, rest for a while, and then go south to help Zhao Feng capture the last stronghold, Nanjun.

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