Chapter 13: The Enemy of Wancheng (2)

"Green Dragon Glaive Slash!"

"Hundred birds towards the phoenix spear!"

With a roar, in the middle of the baggage cart in a circle, the two figures that were originally entangled separated suddenly, each retreating a few steps until they hit the cart.

"Huh?" Zhang Xiu took advantage of this opportunity to take the time to see that the four thousand Xiliang iron cavalry under his command were already fighting with the infantry under Guan Yu's command. Originally, the Xiliang Iron Cavalry only needed one charge to crush these 10,000 people. But now they are all trapped in the chariot battle and can't form a formation, so the biggest advantage of the Xiliang Iron Cavalry can't be brought into play, and they can only ride on horses and fight against the infantry.

"Don't fight, get out of the way!" Zhang Xiu knew at a glance that the chances of winning today were not good, and he shouted and ordered his subordinates to withdraw quickly. But at this moment, there was a roar from the north, and it was another group of people who killed them. Yes, Zhuge Liang asked Guan Yu to hide the ambush soldiers in the baggage cart, entangled the Xiliang army and engaged it. At the same time, let Zhou Cang lead the only 2,000 cavalry, and after the battle began, they killed from Anzhong County, and attacked Zhang Xiu's thousands of cavalry infantry twice.

"Zhang Xiu looks at the knife!" Guan Yu's roar came from behind him, and Zhang Xiu was forced to turn around and fight again. The two of them have been fighting for more than 70 rounds, and Zhang Xiu gradually couldn't parry Guan Yu's heavy knife fast horse, and his arms were already sore. Seeing that Guan Yu's ghost was still lingering, Zhang Xiu could only grit his teeth and insist, looking forward to a miracle.

"General, let's go!" At this time, Hu Che'er stepped forward from the flank to block Guan Yu's move, Zhang Xiu took the time to jump out of the circle, seeing that Hu Che'er's every move was a life-fighting move, desperately attacking Guan Yu, Zhang Xiu also knew that he was taking his life to fight for his own chance to escape, and then gritted his teeth and quickly turned the horse's head and retreated north.

"Retreat!" Zhang Xiu packed up the remnants of the soldiers and hurriedly withdrew to Wancheng, where Guan Yu fought for more than a dozen rounds, and finally cut Hu Che'er under the horse with a knife, which freed up his hands to command the battle, and the battle ended until the sunset.

"Junhou, the last general is incompetent, that embroidery still ran away with hundreds of horses!" Zhou Cang stepped forward with a look of shame. Guan Yu looked at the chaotic battlefield and didn't say anything for a long time. At this time, the master of the army came to tell Guan Yu: Of the 3,000 cavalry of the Xiliang Army, about seven or eight hundred cavalry escaped, and only more than 400 of the remaining 2,000 people were captured, and the rest were all killed. However, the 1,000 infantry were almost completely wiped out under the attack of men and horses from two sides. But Guan Yu's own losses were even heavier, with more than 4,000 casualties.

"The Xiliang Army is really the elite of the world, and the casualties of our army are so large with such a design!" Guan Yu also sighed, and couldn't help but recall the past when he played against Dong Zhuo. Looking at Hu Che'er's body on the ground, Guan Yu sighed and said, "This person is loyal to the Lord and will bury him alive!" Then he ordered the whole army to march to Wancheng in the north.

"Vice Admiral Li, why are you here?" When he ran to Wancheng more than 30 miles, Zhang Xiu saw that it was Deputy General Li who had stayed in Wancheng to defend him, and there were some remnants of the defeated generals behind him, and his heart suddenly cooled.

As soon as Vice General Li saw Zhang Xiu, he immediately cried and said with a sad face: "General, the last general is incompetent." Only then did a hundred soldiers carry more than a dozen carts of grain and grass to the city, saying that they were the grain and grass looted by the general. When the last general saw that they were few in number, he commanded that the gates of the city should be opened, and that they should be let in. I didn't want the cart to be full of soldiers, there were hundreds of them, and as soon as we entered the city, we jumped out of the car and started a fight with our people. Our army failed to expel them from the city for a while, and was killed by Liao Hua, who followed behind, and there were many of them, and the brothers fought for a while, but they still lost the city! ”

"What? Another cart of grain and grass? Zhang Xiu only felt dizzy when she heard this, and almost didn't fall off the horse. Looking at the total of more than 1,000 people around him, Zhang Xiu knew that Wancheng would not be able to take it back, so he gritted his teeth and said: "Withdraw, withdraw to General Xu Huang of Xiangcheng!" After saying that, he turned his horse's head and retreated eastward, and the rest of the soldiers hurriedly followed.

"Haha, this time to win Wancheng, Kong Ming and Yuan Jian are really great! When I report to my eldest brother, there will be a reward! Wancheng was too guarded in the mansion, Guan Yu sat on the main seat in high spirits and said, Zhuge Liang and Liao Hua even said that they didn't dare to be.

"Prince, Wancheng is an important place, and now that it has been taken, it should be garrisoned by a large army in case of Cao Ying." Zhuge Liang waited for everyone's excitement to pass a little, and hurriedly admonished.

"That makes sense, I have sent someone to inform my eldest brother and ask him to send troops as soon as possible." Guan Yu nodded. Speaking of which, this time the troops were indeed a little ill-conceived, originally just planned to attack Xiangyang to respond to the other two groups of people, and now after defeating Wancheng, it is inevitable that the troops are a little stretched. At that moment, Guan Yu left 5,000 men and horses with Liao Hua to guard Wancheng, and he led the remaining 10,000 people south to join Li Yan and Chen Wu, preparing to march to Xiangyang.

"Meet General Zhao!" Under the public security city, Wang Fu led all the officials of the public security to go out to greet Zhao Feng, who had just come here. As Zhao Feng expected, Wang Fu was not Cai Mao and Kuai Yue's sworn friends, and belonged to the "pro-Xu faction" in Jingzhou.

"General Wang doesn't need to be polite!" Zhao Feng hurriedly helped Wang Fu up, in history, this old man was also a person who would rather die than surrender, and finally died in Maicheng with Zhou Cang. After the army was stationed in the public security, Wang Fu told Zhao Feng that Jiangling was only more than 50 miles away, and now Kuai Yue was personally sitting in Jiangling, and there were no less than tens of thousands of defenders in the city, and there was plenty of food and grass, but it was extremely difficult to break the city.

"Kuai Yue guards Jiangling, Cai Mao guards Xiangyang, these two places are extremely critical, the city wall is dangerous, and the two thieves personally guard it. Even if we take all the other counties, the two of them can move at the same time to wait for Cao Ying's reinforcements. Zhao Feng looked at the map and couldn't help sighing. Jiangling City is the capital of Jingxiang, and the city wall is tall and steep and strong, no less than Wu County. Liu Biao and Kuai Yue have been operating here for many years, and they are easy to defend and difficult to attack.

Not to mention Xiangyang, there are countless classic battles fought here in history, but there is almost no time that it is not known after several years of fighting. If you want to take Xiangyang as soon as possible, it's really sad to reach the sky.

"Exactly!" Wen Ping looked at the map and sighed. At this time, after Guan Yu and Zhuge Liang's army crossed the water, they turned north and captured Wancheng, and at the same time, Li Tong led an army of 20,000 to help in the battle. "Okay, it's impossible for Cao Ying to rescue Jing Xiang now. Ordered the three armies, and after the two days, the troops were sent to Jiangling to join Wenyuan's partial division, and we will slowly accompany Cai Dudu and Kuai Bei to play! This result finally made Zhao Feng breathe a sigh of relief, which meant that he could come to besiege Jiangling and Xiangyang to the death.

It's just that the current situation is not very optimistic, Liu Pan was stuck in Yidu and couldn't go north, Guan Yu after capturing Wancheng, he joined Li Tong's follow-ups, and it was also a little difficult to face Xiangyang. In addition to the several counties that the guards have conquered, there are only more than 20,000 people in Zhangliao, and it is difficult to rely on this manpower, let alone capture Jiangling, even if it is to besiege the city.

"Liu Pan, Liu Pan, please give me some strength!" Zhao Feng heard that Liu Pan was still embarrassed by Huo Jun, and he was also annoyed for a while. This crusade against Cai Mao and Kuai Yue, no matter how you say it, you are only helping, but I didn't expect that now the assist will become the main attack.

"Why don't you avoid the real and make it false, please General Guan and they don't attack Xiangyang first, but go to attack Zhangling instead?" At this time, Wen Ping looked at the map and suddenly said. Zhao Feng looked at it, although Zhangling is a county, its area is not small, almost half the size of Yuzhou. Historically, after Liu Bei occupied this place, he once set up three counties together with Zhangling and part of Hanzhong: Shangyong, Xincheng and Weixing. The current Zhangling County mainly includes Nanxiang and Xincheng and Shangyong, and Weixing was still under the rule of Zhang Lu in Hanzhong at this time.

Judging from the map, if Guan Yu's army does not attack Xiangyang and attacks Zhangling, then after pacifying Zhangling, it can go south and attack Yidu County with Liu Pan. And once Yidu is taken, Cai Mao's Xiangyang and Kuaiyue's Jiangling can be surrounded in the core. Even if they can't be defeated for a while, they can be consumed to death.

"It's like swallowing a hard steamed bun, you can't chew it for a while, you swallow it in your stomach and digest it slowly!" Zhao Feng finally figured out the name of the hall, Wen Ping's proposal was not bad, and he sent someone to quickly send a message to Guan Yu and Zhuge Liang in the north, putting forward his own suggestions, how to do it or let them handle it themselves, and they could not command these two masters. It's just that the development of things later was far beyond the expectations of the three of them.

Two days later, Zhao Feng's army sent to Jiangling and joined Zhang Liao's partial division. "General, Huarong Xiaoxian has surrendered, and I will leave Zhang Nan and a thousand men and horses to garrison." After meeting, Zhang Liao said first.

"Wen Yuan has worked hard!" Zhao Feng replied with a smile, and then ordered people to set up camp twenty miles south of Jiangling City, preparing to meet the enemy.

Besides, Kuai Yue in Jiangling City learned that Zhao Feng's army was here, but he was not very flustered in his heart. "How many people are there in Zhao Feng?" Kuai Yue asked Tanma, who was reporting.

"But there are more than 20,000 people, and Zhao Feng is camped twenty miles south of the city." Tanma replied.

"More than 20,000 people? That's it, he can't think of breaking my city. Kuai Yue snorted. When Huang Zu's son Huang Shot was beside him, he immediately came out and said: "Lord Kuai, since Zhao Feng has few people, why don't you break this road first, and then fight Guan Yu?" ”

"Huh?" Kuai Yue was also thrilled when he heard this, and after looking at the people under the tent, Kuai Yue slowly spoke: "I don't know which general is willing to fight Zhao Feng?" ”

"Young general Yang Ling is willing to go!" The first general hurriedly came out of the ranks, but it was Yang Ling, the captain of the military academy. Kuai Yue ordered Yang Ling and Huang Jian to lead an army of 10,000 to challenge Zhao Feng's army.

At the same time, Zhuge Liang and Guan Yu, who had just led their army south to Fancheng, also received a message from Zhao Feng. Unexpectedly, Liu Pan was so poor that he couldn't capture Yidu County. Bo Tao suggested that we wait to go down to Zhangling first, and then attack in two ways to break Yidu. Guan Yu looked at the letter and said.

"General Zhao's words are not unreasonable!" Zhuge Liang was silent for a long time, and then he said such a sentence.

"Kong Ming?" Guan Yu saw that Zhuge Liang was a little excited, and couldn't help but be surprised.

"Alas!" Zhuge Liang sighed lightly, and then spoke: "Zhang Ling is too guarded by Kuaiqi, he is the younger brother of Cai Mao, and he is also Liang's brother-in-law!" ”

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