After Guan Yu discovered the traces of Liu Dai and Cao Cao's army, he passed on the military information to his eldest brother Liu Bei and the military advisor Xi Zhicai in the plains once a day.

From Gaotang to the plains, it is a maximum of half a day's journey, and Guan Yu, who is in Gaotang, receives military information, basically a time difference of one day, so the time difference between military information and the plain is increased to two days.

At a critical juncture, Xi Zhicai persuaded Liu Bei to dispel the worries in his heart, and then assisted Liu Bei in writing a long letter and sent someone to send a horse to Kong Rong in Beihai, that is, together with Liu Bei, every day in front of the map, according to the military situation reported by Guan Yu, to study the progress of Liu Dai and Cao Cao's army.

After a few days of work, Liu Dai's army made rapid progress, after capturing Zhu'a, the army was divided into three roads, he personally led the army to the east, attacked the Licheng of Jinan, and the remaining two roads, crossed the Jishui, and killed the plains Luoyin and Gaotang respectively.

On the contrary, Cao Cao's army was slow to advance, and the vanguard general was under his account, Xiahou Dun, and after a few days, he only entered the plains and marched slowly along the river.

Looking at the marching routes strung together by the marks of a few days on the map, Liu Bei also understood at this time that Liu Dai wanted to fight with Cao Cao in two ways to take down Gao Tang.

But now, because of the different progress of the two armies, Liu Dai's partial division is going deep alone.

Liu Bei squinted and stared at it for a while, but finally couldn't hold back, and asked in a deep voice: "What is the purpose of Cao Cao's move?" ”

It stands to reason that the army from Liaocheng, Dongjun, and into the plain, there was no obstacle all the way, and the advance of its vanguard general Xiahoudun should be faster than Liu Dai's partial division.

The face that came to Xi Zhicai's mind was not Cao Mengde, but the thin but talented junior Guo Jia in the past, at present, Guo Jia didn't know it. He is working under Liu Bei's account, but he regards Guo Jia as his biggest competitor.

Why Guo Jia did this, Xi Zhicai understood very well in his heart, but there are some things, as strategists, they can give advice to the lord who serves, but they can't explain it thoroughly.

For example, before, he had been persuading the lord Liu Bei to replace Kong Rong. To control the entire Qingzhou in his hands, in order to achieve this purpose, as long as the lord Liu Bei does not object, he has a way to make Kong Rong have all kinds of accidents. Let Liu Bei get Qingzhou.

Just like what Guo Jia is doing now, Xi Zhi believes it. and what he wanted to do to Kong Rong. It was the same, so before, he vaguely reminded Liu Bei that once there was an accident in Yanzhou Mu Liu Dai, what would happen to Yanzhou and so on, and Xiahoudun was slow to march. Not by accident, but by intention.

With this idea in his heart, Xi Zhicai couldn't tell his lord Liu Bei of his intentions. However, he did not have such scruples about revealing Guo Jia's intentions, and after thinking for a moment, he replied: "In doing this, it should be to preserve strength and plan for subsequent changes." ”

"Hmm!"

Liu Bei didn't think deeply about this sentence, but was thinking that the second brother Guan Yu should be keenly aware of such a fleeting fighter and seize it.

He guessed correctly, later that day, Guan Yu's second wave of messengers arrived, bringing a very concise military situation, which was very in line with Guan Yu's usual style: a big victory over the Yanzhou army and a beheading of the enemy's general Wang Hong.

Guan Yu led a force of 3,000, a mix of old and new, and he still had to garrison Gaotang, so he could only fight with more than a thousand people. However, what he defeated was Liu Dai's partial division, and Wang Hong, the general under Liu Dai's account, did not have any reputation.

But at best, this is also a victory, and it is also quite effective in boosting morale. And the day when Liu Bei led the army to leave the plain was set when Guan Yu gave up Gaotang and withdrew to the plain.

At the ferry fifty miles upstream of Gaotang, Xiahoudun led 5,000 soldiers to stay here for two days.

The choice to cross the river here, rather than the one closer to Gaotang, is also a very realistic consideration.

Gaotang is on the south bank of the river, and it is only half a day's journey from the plain, if the ferry port chosen is too close to Gaotang, Xiahoudun's army, when crossing the river, will be easily attacked by Gao Tang Guan Yu and Liu Bei of the plain.

After receiving the news that Guan Yu defeated Liu Dai and killed Xiang Gaotang's partial division, Xiahoudun no longer hesitated, regardless of the sunset, ordered the army to cross the river, and sent someone to report urgently to Cao Cao's army behind.

5,000 soldiers and horses could not all cross the river, and 2,000 soldiers and horses needed to stay on the north bank to guard the ferry to wait for the arrival of Cao Cao's army, but even if 3,000 soldiers and horses all crossed the river, even if Xiahoudun had made thorough preparations for this, he still made a fuss until late at night before he completed the crossing of the river.

Fortunately, it is the dry season in late autumn, and the water flow in this section of the water is gentle, and there is no reef undercurrent, and it is not dangerous to cross the river at night.

On both sides of the river, there is a flat river, and if you want to ambush some troops, there is no good place. But even so, Xiahoudun was still extremely careful, when crossing the river, the scouts scattered out for nearly twenty miles, even at night, still did not retreat, until the army crossed the river, Xiahoudun was greatly relieved, and the scouts who were scattered returned one after another.

Tired in the middle of the night, in the camp on the south bank of the river, except for the patrol soldiers, everyone has fallen asleep, Xiahoudun is no exception, when the sudden shouting and killing suddenly came, Xiahoudun bounced up, just opened the curtain and grabbed out of the tent, he heard a long urgent report: "Report~"

The person who came ran fast, clasped his fist on one knee in front of Xiahoudun, and said: "Report, the enemy army has attacked the camp, the number is unknown, and it has broken into the southeast corner of the camp. ”

"Guan Yu!" Xiahoudun gritted his teeth and suddenly shouted: "Prepare the horse, face the battle!" ”

At this time, the camp was already boiling against the sky, especially in the southeast corner of the enemy's attack, fortunately, Xiahoudun had previously ordered that people should not unload their armor and horses, otherwise, they were afraid that Guan Yu would lead the army to rush like this, and the three thousand soldiers and horses would be scattered because of this.

Xiahoudun gave an order, and the soldiers who gathered around him immediately responded loudly, and at the same time ordered the soldiers to run to all parts of the camp, and the sound of whining horns also resounded throughout the camp.

The battalion was attacked by the night, and the soldiers were brave again, and suddenly woke up in their sleep, most of them were still half-asleep, if there was no timely military order guidance, the whole battalion would soon be out of control, Xiahoudun woke up quickly, almost at the same time as the noise came, he had already woken up.

His military orders were issued in a timely manner, with him as the center, coupled with the fierce personal soldiers who were clustered, everywhere he went, the soldiers who were originally panicked and at a loss all followed him and killed them in the southeast corner of the enemy's attacking camp.

At this time, the southeast corner of the camp was already in flames, the figure was longing, Xiahoudun carried a gun and rode a horse, drove the army forward, and ordered the soldiers to chant in unison along the way to calm the hearts of the army.

In the blazing firelight, there is a biao soldier and horse on the opposite side to kill, the leader of the big man is holding a big knife, the face armor is majestic, the fire light is reflected on the face armor, the flow is smart, just like the gods descend to earth.

"Guan Yu!"

"Xiahoudun!"

Xiahoudun and Guan Yu, who was killing on the opposite side, spoke at the same time, and while shouting, they rode their horses and galloped to kill.

It was Guan Yu who led the army to attack at night, and after he defeated one of Liu Dai's partial divisions with only a thousand people, he had already detected the movements of Xiahoudun's army, and expected that Xiahoudun would cross the river here, so he scattered his troops and horses and hid them in the surrounding villages and towns, concealing the exploration of the scouts sent by Xiahoudun.

However, now the results of the battle are not very brilliant, Xiahoudun reacted in time, people did not take off their armor, horses did not take off their saddles, and although the soldiers were panicked, they did not collapse because of this.

Since he encountered the enemy's main general, Guan Yu's heart was overjoyed, his face sank, and he was determined to kill Xiahoudun and make another great contribution.

The war horse neighed, galloping rapidly, Guan Yu raised the Qinglong Yanyue Knife, shouted violently, urged the horse to take a step, the fire was blazing, the sword light was like a meteor, slashing across the night sky, slashing towards Xiahoudun.

Clang!

Xiahoudun was taken aback, and planned to attack the spear, in the face of Guan Yu's attack, he had to hastily change his moves, turn the attack into defense, although the spear blocked Guan Yu's fierce knife, but he was in a hurry to meet the battle, Guan Yu came prepared, and was immediately cut by Guan Yu's big knife and his arms were numb.

Squeaky ......

The big knife slipped along the barrel of the spear, and the sound made made people sour in the teeth, and the horses were staggered, Xiahou Dun secretly said that he was lucky, and then a sense of shame surged in his heart, making the anger in his heart rise with a bang, waw wow screamed, turned the horse's head, and shouted: "Guan Yu!" Hugh is rampant, look at the trick 1"

This time, Xiahoudun was determined to seize the opportunity, and when he urged the horse to gallop, the spear was raised, the tip of the spear trembled, and a shadow of a spear appeared and killed Guan Yu.

Guan Yu snorted coldly: "Hmph, carving insect skills!" Glaring at Danfeng's eyes, exhaling and opening his voice, preempting Xiahoudun, the Qinglong Yanyue knife slashed down on the head, and the momentum sank vigorously, and there was a big knife that split Xiahoudun and his people and horses into two halves.

This move seems to be the same way of playing, but Xiahoudun can see it very clearly, Guan Yu's long knife is slashing at the same time, the knife light suddenly becomes longer, this is not an illusion, but Guan Yu is holding the end of the handle with both hands at this time, so that in an instant, the big knife seems to have become longer, so it also has such a glimmer of opportunity.

Between the calcium carbide firelight, Xiahoudun screamed again, and had to change his moves to block, although he was quick to adapt and successfully blocked Guan Yu's big knife, but this time the strength on his arms was stronger than a move.

Both moves were seized by Guan Yu, Xiahou was ashamed and anxious, all turned into anger, and roared angrily, but immediately, his face changed greatly, and he hurriedly lowered himself on the saddle, and the wind whistled above his head, it turned out to be Guan Yu's move back to the saber, and he almost cut him off.

This time, Xiahoudun was scared into a cold sweat, and only then did he wake up to it, Guan Yu was indeed brave and uncast, and he was able to fight Lu Bu in front of the Tiger Prison Pass, and he was powerful.

"Xiahoudun, where to escape!"

Hearing Guan Yu's shouting behind him, Xiahoudun almost blew up his lungs, and looked back on the saddle, he couldn't help but be surprised, I don't know when Guan Yu had turned the horse's head and chased after the horse! (To be continued......)