Yanzhou was lost and captured, Liu Bei and Guan Yu did not get the news, but Sun Quan and Zhou Yu got the news first. When Sun Quan heard the news, he immediately raised another 30,000 troops, personally commanded them, and ordered Han Dang to be the vanguard, Cheng Pu to be the general, and Lu Su to be the military division, from east to west, straight into Yuzhou, and ordered Lü Meng to transfer troops to cooperate with him to attack Yuzhou.

As soon as Lü Meng received Sun Quan's order, he was in trouble, because Zhou Yu also sent a military order, ordering Lü Meng to transfer military horses to cooperate with him to capture and kill Guan Yu. Lu Meng thought about it and felt that the two battles were very important, so he simply divided his troops into two ways, ordering Pan Zhang and Dong Xi to lead 20,000 troops to help Zhou Yu, Zhu Ran and Zhu Huan to lead 20,000 troops to help Sun Quan, and he led 10,000 troops and horses and Yanzhou soldiers to sit in Yanzhou.

Not to mention that Sun Quan attacked the city all the way and marched into Yuzhou. Shan said that Zhou Yu was overjoyed when he learned that Lu Meng went to Yanzhou as planned. In Zhou Yu and Sima Yi's overall plan, Yanzhou is the top priority. As soon as Yanzhou is lost, it means that Guan Yu has no way to return to the army, and Liu Bei has no reinforcements. At this time, Zhou Yu and Sima Yi's plan can be said to have completed the first big step, before Sima Yi attacked and annexed the state, and Zhou Yu attacked Yecheng, in fact, it was all just to take Yanzhou.

On the one hand, Zhou Yu replied to Lü Meng, ordering him to send troops to respond, and on the other hand, he sent a letter to Cao Pi and Sima Yi, asking them to prepare for a surprise attack on Guan Yu. At the beginning, Zhou Yu did not camp with Guan Yu, Guan Yu thought that Zhou Yu was kind enough to let him lead the troops independently, but in fact, Zhou Yu was camping alone to facilitate contact with Cao Pi.

In the city, Cao Pi knew that the Wu army under the city was his own people, and Guan Yu had no intention of helping Zhou Yu take Yecheng, so Cao Pi was very easy to defend the city, and he still handled government affairs as usual. On this day, Cao Pi was handling official business in the house, and suddenly someone came to report, and Zhou Yu sent a secret envoy to deliver a letter. Cao Pi called people into the letter to see it, and the book said that Dongwu had won Yanzhou, and asked Cao Pi to cooperate with Guan Yu and ask him not to leak, so that Guan Yu was prepared.

When Cao Pi saw the letter, he summoned the civil and military to discuss. Sima Yi and Zhou Yu had already made up their minds, and now Cao Pi was just talking about who would lead the troops. The military generals in the city who can fight are all under Sima Yi, and there is more Chinese in Yecheng and less martial arts, Cao Pi asked: "Now that Yanzhou has been broken, Zhou Gongjin wants to take the first rank of Guan Yu, who among the secretaries wants to break Guan Yu with Wu Jun?" ”

Han Hao came out of the class and said, "Why did Your Majesty let Zhou Gongjin take this lead?" The last general is willing to cut off Guan Yu's head and dedicate it to His Majesty. ”

Cao Pi made a strong statement, so he named Han Hao secretly prepared and ordered Yang Xiu to be the military advisor. The two generals ordered to go down to the palace, and Cao Pi called the envoy in and said: "You go back and tell the governor of your family, and you will say that you will do according to the plan, and there will be an answer in the city." ”

The secret envoy made Cao Pi Zhunxin, and returned to Zhou Yu. Zhou Yu already had a plan in his heart, and ordered someone to ask Guan Yu to discuss the matter in the tent. After a while, Guan Yu raised the curtain and entered the account, and after Zhou Yu and Guan Yu took their seats, they said: "General Guan, we have been waiting for the siege for many days, and the thunderbolt cars at the head of the city have been destroyed, but the Cao army in the state will not return, how should this be good?" ”

Guan Yu frowned when he heard this, he was also worried about this matter these days. Guan Yu and Zhou Yu built a lot of thunderbolts under the city, which basically destroyed the thunderbolts above Yecheng, and also caused some damage to Yecheng, but for some reason, Sima Yi just didn't return to the army. Guan Yu guessed that there were two reasons, one was that Cao Pi did not ask Sima Yi for help, and the other was that Sima Yi saw through the ambush plan, and a general came to the king's life outside. Whatever the reason, in short, this plan to save Zhao from Wei has not succeeded at this time.

Guan Yu thought for a moment and said: "If Cao Jun doesn't return, it must be because Cao Pi and Sima Yi think that this city can be protected." Now that the thunderbolt car at the head of the city has gone, in my opinion, it is better to storm it once, and let Cao Pi in the city know that we are powerful. I don't believe that the city will be broken, and Sima Yi will not return to the army. ”

Zhou Yu was waiting for Guan Yu's words, and said at that time: "General Guan is slightly the same as what I see!" It's getting late today, so tomorrow morning we can attack the city from the east and west gates. ”

Guan Yu didn't know that Zhou Yu had a plan, and when he saw that Zhou Yu agreed to his plan, he returned to the camp to prepare for the siege of the city. Zhou Yu also called the three generals Zhou Tai, Chen Wu, and Ling Tong, and instructed them to go like this.

At dawn the next day, Guan Yu and Zhou Yu's soldiers and horses lined up on the east and west sides of Yecheng, set up cloud ladders, rushed to the city gate, and the soldiers shouted to kill the earth. In the city, Cao Pi also ordered his soldiers to guard the east and west city walls, but he arranged heavy troops at the west gate where Guan Yu attacked, and as for the east gate attacked by Zhou Yu, he only planted banners all over and sent few men and horses.

The three generals, Zhou Tai, Chen Wu, and Ling Tong, were instructed by Zhou Yu and did not bother to attack the city, but just led the soldiers to shout and kill under the city. Seeing that the Eastern Wu soldiers were not even feints, they were just pretending, so they also cooperated with the howl and beat the war drums at the head of the city.

Zhou Yu did not go to the front of the army to command, but listened to the movements of his own family and horses in the tent. It's not that Zhou Yu is lazy, but that he wants to listen to whether Zhou Taisan is pretending to be decent or not, whether he can confuse Guan Yu who is attacking the city opposite. There is a way that the song is wrong, Zhou Lang Gu, Zhou Yu's ears that are proficient in music and rhythm are not covered, and he feels wrong when he listens to it. Although the shouts of killing above and below the city shook the sky, it seemed that there was something missing.

After a while, Zhou Yu discovered the problem, and called his guards to order: "There is no sound of weapons fighting on the battlefield, quickly go to the three generals, and order the soldiers to knock on the weapons to strengthen the momentum!" ”

The guards received the order and went to the front of the battle to inform the three generals. When General Zhou Taisan heard this, he was busy ordering the soldiers of Eastern Wu to pair up and knock each other with weapons. After receiving the order, the soldiers fought on their own, of course, they did not use the blades to collide so as not to wear out their weapons, but only used the back of the knife to fight each other, and the picture was loud.

The Cao army at the head of the city laughed when they saw the actions of the Wu army under the city, they had never seen such a siege. Where is this siege? is clearly acting under the city.

Sima Lang, who was in charge of guarding the east gate, saw that his soldiers were only laughing and watching the play, and forgot to shout, and said angrily: "You have seen how hard Wu Jun is, and you should not follow suit quickly!" If anyone laughs again, they will go to the west gate to guard! ”

Sergeant Cao was shocked when he heard this, he was just cooperating with Zhou Yu at the east gate, and he had to fight with Guan Yu when he arrived at the west gate. None of the sergeants were stupid, and they raised their swords and guns, and their own people fought, and from time to time they let out a terrible scream. "Kill~", "Ah~", "Rush~", "Ah~", all kinds of cries are endless.

Wu Jun outside the east gate was acting, and Guan Yu outside the west gate was really moving. The soldiers of the Northern Han Dynasty pushed the carts, ladders, and shields, braved the rain of arrows to rush to the city wall, and began to fight to attack the city.

Rolling logs and rocks fell from the city, taking away fresh lives, but Guan Yu kept urging the troops. He had already made an appointment with Zhou Yu to attack the city together, so as long as the shouts and killings in the east of the city did not stop, Guan Yu would not withdraw his troops. The arrogant Guan Yu didn't want to lose to Zhou Yu in this siege battle and was defeated first.

Although Guan Yu's soldiers were very brave and good at fighting, the Cao army in the city had already prepared, and most of the soldiers and horses were gathered in the west of the city to wait for Guan Yu to attack the city. The number of Cao soldiers in the city is more than Guan Yu's men, and at the same time, they occupy a favorable position, no matter how brave Guan Yu's soldiers are, it is impossible to attack the city. The two armies fought for a while, and Guan Yu broke thousands of men and horses.

Although Zhou Yu hoped that Guan Yu would lose his troops and lose his generals, he was very measured, and did not let the soldiers fake for too long, so he ordered the three generals to return to the army, and specially sent someone to inform Guan Yu to withdraw the army, so as not to let Guan Yu find a flaw.

This time, Guan Yu's 30,000 men and horses lost nearly 10,000, while Zhou Yu's 40,000 soldiers and horses were not damaged at all, and the contrast between the two sides was even more disparity.

Guan Yu didn't know that he was cheated by Zhou Yu, but he thought that he had lost a lot of soldiers and horses, Zhou Yu also lost a lot of soldiers, and the Cao soldiers in the east and west must have also lost a lot, and he should be able to force Cao Pi to withdraw from the state.

That night, Guan Yu's soldiers, who had been fighting hard to attack the city during the day, were exhausted and fell asleep. The west gate of Yecheng was quietly opened, and Han Hao and Yang Xiu led 30,000 Cao soldiers to rush straight to Guan Yu's camp.

Guan Yu's camp is not far from the city gate, and as soon as Cao's army sends troops, there will be a secret post to report to Guan Yu. Guan Yu was not panicked when he heard the news, and on the one hand ordered the soldiers to meet the enemy, and on the other hand, he sent someone to inform Zhou Yu and ask Zhou Yu to come to help.

The envoy came to Zhou Yu's camp quickly, and saw that the soldiers of Eastern Wu were all dressed neatly, and it seemed that they were ready to send troops, and the big tent was also brightly lit. The envoy didn't have time to think about it before he was led to the tent by the patrol soldiers, and saw that Zhou Yu and the generals of Eastern Wu were also sitting in the tent with helmets and armor, as if they were waiting for themselves.

Zhou Yu smiled slightly when he saw Guan Yu's envoy coming, and asked, "General Guan sent you here because of Cao's army stealing the camp?" ”

The envoy was stunned for a moment, then nodded, "That's exactly why!" My general, please ask the Metropolitan Governor to help early! It's just that I don't know how the Metropolitan Governor learned that Cao's army attacked the camp? ”

Zhou Yu said with a smile: "Today, when I waited for the siege soldiers to be tired during the day, I expected that the Cao army might attack out of the city at night, so I had already prepared, but I never thought that the Cao army would go to General Guan's camp." ”

The envoy had heard that Zhou Yu's wisdom was comparable to Zhuge Liang, and he did not doubt it when he heard it, but flattered him: "The Metropolitan Governor is really clever!" Please also ask the Metropolitan Governor to send troops to save my general! ”

Zhou Yu nodded and said: "I was about to send troops to rescue, you go back first and tell General Guan not to be anxious." ”

The messenger was overjoyed when he heard this, bowed and bowed, and then went out. Zhou Yu gave Zhou Tai a look from the seat, and Zhou Tai suddenly stood up, jumped behind the messenger and drew his knife and slashed. The envoy heard movement behind him, but he was already unprepared, and was cut down by Zhou Tai with a knife and cut off his head.

Zhou Yu saw that Zhou Tai had beheaded the envoy and said with a smile: "This person's head is just the flag sacrifice!" Tonight, you should fight bravely, and Guan Yu will die here! ”

The three generals, Zhou Tai, Chen Wu, and Ling Tong, agreed in unison, and each went down to lead the troops. At this time, Guan Yu was already fighting with Cao Jun, and it was difficult to distinguish between them.

Han Hao and Yang Xiu had already prepared, and there were many soldiers and horses, so they thought that they could capture Guan Yu in a battle, and they didn't need Zhou Yu's reinforcements. I didn't want Guan Yu's corporal to be well-trained, although the camp was stolen, he was not defeated in a fight, but quickly reacted from the panic and desperately held the camp to resist Cao's army.

Guan Yu brandished the Qinglong Yanyue Knife and rushed left and right in the middle of Cao's army, as if entering a no-man's land. Wherever the Cao army broke into the camp, Guan Yu killed wherever he went and killed the Cao soldiers who attacked the camp.