At the same time that the gate of Hanzhong City was knocked open, Lu Bu took 20,000 dragon horses after a night of galloping, and came to the official road two hundred miles behind Hanzhong City.

"Enter the woods on the side of the road, dismount, loosen the horse's belly belt, let the war horse rest, leave five hundred people to feed the war horse, go out to a hundred people to explore the movement in the direction of Chengdu, and the rest of the people take turns to rest and recuperate!" Lu Bu calmly issued a series of orders. The equipment on the dragon horseman's body is very heavy, the Rahu dragon horn spear plus the special three-layer muddy iron bright light armor, as well as the West Wind Spirits and Xizi hand crossbow and other equipment combined, the weight reaches an astonishing one hundred and fifty catties! Therefore, the war horses they are equipped with are all good horses with super endurance, but even so, after running non-stop all night, these war horses must also be rested, otherwise there will be the possibility of exhaustion, in order to prevent such non-combat attrition, Lu Bu cherishes the war horses of his subordinates very much, and at the first time, he issued an order to let the war horses rest and feed.

The dragon horses turned over and dismounted neatly, then removed the horse armor from the horse, loosened the rope on the horse's belly, took off the horse's halter, and handed the horse to the five hundred comrades who stayed to guard the horse.

In this way, every two hours, a group of dragon horses would rise from the ground, replace the comrades who had not been rested to take care of the horses, go out to explore the sentry, and the cycle went on and on, until noon on the second day, all the people were full of spirits, and the horses were fully rested. Yiying's equipment was also re-draped on the body of the war horse, and when the whole army was in full swing, the elite who went out to explore the outpost came back with the news: the elite soldiers of Bai Yu had appeared twenty miles away, and they were speeding up to rush here, and it was expected that they would arrive in two quarters of an hour, with a number of about seven thousand.

After Lu Bu got the news, a grim smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and he lowered his voice and said to his subordinates: "Today, we will tell these so-called elite soldiers. How the real elite fights! ”

The 20,000 dragon horses lowered their voices, slapped their right hand on their left chest, and responded in a low voice: "Long Xiang's anger, there is no advance or retreat!" ”

Lu Bu nodded with satisfaction, then turned his head to look at his lieutenant general Cao Xing, and ordered: "Take half of your brothers to hide in the woods opposite, and when the elite soldiers arrive, you will fight with a certain two sides and cut them into three pieces." Let them take care of one and lose the other, and they can't take care of each other! ”

Cao Xuan replied in a low voice: "Obey!" Then he took 10,000 dragon elites, stepped across the official road, and hid in the woods opposite. Posterior to the most cohort of Cao. Dozens of dragon horses turned over and dismounted, and used branches to sweep the traces of the horses' hooves, so as not to be discovered by the white soldiers of the ambush and escape.

Just when Lu Bu led the Long Xiang heavy cavalry to prepare to ambush Bai Yu's elite soldiers. Ao Lie had already led his troops into Hanzhong City, and after a morning of sweeping, he wiped out all the remaining Shu soldiers in Hanzhong City. Of the 80,000 Shu soldiers stationed in the city, more than half died in this tragic battle, and the remaining half, more than 20,000 people were seriously injured and disabled, and it was impossible to serve as combat soldiers, only more than 20,000 Shu soldiers survived, but all of them were captured by the Han army and became prisoners of the Han army, and even Huang Quan, the main general of Hanzhong, was not spared, and Ling Bao had followed in the footsteps of Lei Tong and died in the city, the only difference was that Ling Bao did not die in the hands of Zhang Liao, but was stabbed to death by Tai Shi Ci.

With the occupation of Hanzhong City by the Han army, Ao Lie followed the suggestions put forward by Zhuge Liang and others, let the army repair in the city, and sent Huang Zhong's department and the Qilin army led by Gan Ning, who did not consume much energy in the war, divided into two routes, extending outward along the east and west directions of Hanzhong City, and successively conquering six county towns near Hanzhong, forming a local defensive circle, like a nail, nailed to Liu Bei's vital point, even if Liu Bei had already led the army on the way to come, Ao Lie was also confident, With this defensive circle, he can strike a blow to Liu Bei's arrogance and swallow his main force in one gulp!

Of course, after resting for two hours, the Han army in Hanzhong City was sent out by Ao Lie in batches to cut down trees on the nearby mountains, used as rolling wood, digging stones, and using them as thunder stones to enrich the defense of Hanzhong City, after all, the materials that Liu Bei had painstakingly accumulated had been almost burned by Gan Ning's fire, defending the city, of course, the more these materials, the better, Ao Lie would never let the Shu soldiers board Hanzhong City half a step, he wanted to recapture Liu Bei's fantasy of Hanzhong, completely strangled in the cradle!

In addition, on the battlefield in the Jingxiang area, Guan Yu led his troops after a day and a night of hard fighting, and his subordinates were killed by the prepared Jiangdong Army, Guan Yu himself was entangled by Zhou Tai, Jiang Qin, Xu Sheng, Ding Feng and couldn't get out, these four people didn't fight hard with Guan Yu, just wandered around the periphery, and from time to time gave Guan Yu two ruthless blows, most of the time it was just a false and wrongful snake, the purpose was just to prevent Guan Yu from jumping out of the circle to command the battle, under the entanglement of these four people, Guan Yu had the courage to be undue, But he was never able to break out of the encirclement, and watched his troops lose their command and be killed by the Jiangdong Army commanded by Lu Meng.

When the Jiangdong army took Guan Yu out of the city, the Jingzhou army was almost killed, and the bad news that made Guan Yu feel desperate came: Xiangyang was under the onslaught of Zhou Yu, Ma Liang, who did not know how to command the battle, was unable to resist, and after a night of perseverance, the city was finally breached, and Ma Liang himself became a prisoner of the Jiangdong army, as for Guan Ping and Liao Hua, who were sent back to support Xiangyang, they were intercepted and killed by 3,000 white-clothed Jiangdong troops on the way. Instead, the traps and tripping pits were dug on the road of the Jingzhou army in advance, and a large amount of fire oil sent by Ao Lie's people was sprinkled nearby, and as a result, a fire was matched with countless traps, and the troops of Guan Ping and Liao Hua were blocked by 3,000 people for two hours, and they did not withdraw until Zhou Yu took Xiangyang City.

Guan Ping and Liao Hua saw from a distance that the banner of the Jiangdong Army had been replaced on the head of Xiangyang City, so they had no choice but to come back to the place where Guan Yu and the Jiangdong Army were fighting, and told Guan Yu the bad news of the fall of Xiangyang. Guan Yu saw that his morale had fallen to a low point. Even if the battle continues, it is difficult to achieve victory, and it will only increase casualties, so there is the idea of temporarily retreating and regrouping in order to make a comeback, driven by such an idea, Guan Yu tried his best to make the Spring and Autumn Sword Technique amazing, in order to avoid unnecessary casualties, Zhou Tai and other four generals will no longer fight with Guan Yu. withdrew from the station circle one after another, and Lu Meng promptly asked the Jiangdong Army to give way to an imperceptible passage, and deliberately let Guan Yu leave, Guan Yu really followed Lu Meng's assumption, and led his troops to leave the battlefield along the passage deliberately let out by the Jiangdong Army.

After letting Guan Yu go, Lü Meng immediately reorganized his army and divided into two routes with Sun Ce's troops, Sun Ce rushed to Xiangyang City with half of his men and horses to assist Zhou Yu in defending, while Lü Meng joined together three thousand white-clothed sailors. rushed to the riverside to set up defenses, and at the same time used ferries to pick up more Jiangdong troops to cross the river, preparing to completely take Jingxiang into the hands of his own people.

After Guan Yu walked to Maicheng, he was counted. found that there were only a pitiful more than 10,000 soldiers and horses available to his subordinates, and most of them were wounded, and only two sons Guan Ping and Guan Xing were left. and the two pioneer officers Liao Hua and Zhou Cang, and the rest of the lieutenants were either separated from the troops, or died on the battlefield and died in battle. Or like Ma Liang, he was captured by the Jiangdong Army. For the first time in his life, Guan Yu felt a trace of despair, he was not afraid of dying on the battlefield, and the eldest husband Ma Ge was wrapped in corpse and returned, which was the honor of being a general, but Guan Yu was afraid that after his death, Jingzhou would completely fall into the hands of Sun Ce, in that case, he was so sorry for his eldest brother Liu Bei's trust in him, even if he died, Guan Yu could not be relieved, but Guan Yu has now understood that all this was calculated by Jiangdong Army, from the very beginning, he fell into their trap, and let himself obediently fall into the trap, It's because of my arrogant personality! At this moment, after thinking about it again, Guan Yu thought about the cause and effect of the matter, and finally lowered his arrogant head, and now he understood why Ma Liang often advised him to restrain his arrogant character, because this arrogance was fatal!

However, Guan Yu finally decided to stay, using Maicheng as a stronghold, and gradually launched a counterattack against the Jiangdong Army, because he didn't want his eldest brother Liu Bei to lose Jingxiang and lose this base for great achievements. But people, after all, there are still selfish intentions, while Guan Yu decided to stay, he sent his two sons away, and asked his eldest son Guan Ping to move the rescue troops to Ba County, which was guarded by Liu Feng, and rushed to Maicheng to help; Let the second son Guan Xing ride straight to Chengdu alone, and inform Liu Bei of Jingxiang's situation. Guan Yu did this in order to leave a way for his two sons to live, after all, they are still young, and they have such a great future, no matter how heroic Guan Yu is, but he is also a father after all, since ancient times, tigers do not eat children, Guan Yu is naturally no exception.

Less than half a day after the two sons left, Guan Yu had not even issued all the orders to send reinforcements, and the Jiangdong army surrounded it again, unlike the attack on Xiangyang, this time the Jiangdong army did not adopt the tactics of strong attack, but surrounded the small Maicheng, cut off the source of water in the city, and implemented the tactics of fortifying the Jingzhou army in the Maicheng, and the defenders in the city were besieged for several days, because they could not get fresh water and food supplements, many people fainted on the ground, and many of them fell. I never got back up again.

Seeing his subordinates fall one by one, Guan Yu's heart ached like a knife, it was his own arrogance that led to this fiasco, and after the worst, Guan Yu made a very difficult decision: to go out of the city and surrender. He ordered the troops to disarm and surrender to the Jiangdong Army, but only on the condition that the Jiangdong Army could not harm these disarmed fighters.

Sun Ce did not break his promise this time, and properly settled the surrendered Jingzhou army, not only gave them food and water, but also found a military doctor to treat their illness, so that Guan Yu, who was watching from the side, had infinite emotion in his heart, at this time, Sun Ce came to Guan Yu's side, and said lightly: "The regent asked a certain person to convey a sentence, the eldest husband was born between heaven and earth, and he should carry a three-foot sword to make immortal achievements, and apologize for his crimes, which was done by a coward!" ”

Guan Yu's heart was suddenly shocked, originally he really thought that after settling down his old subordinates, he would apologize to himself, after all, after losing Jing Xiang, he had no face to go back to see his eldest brother Liu Bei, but Sun Ce's words were like a twilight drum and morning bell, hitting the weakest place in Guan Yu's heart, making him dispel the idea of apologizing.

Sun Ce continued: "In fact, the prince can survive, and these subordinates of the prince can survive, all of which have been instructed by the regent in advance, although the regent has made it clear that it is not difficult for the prince to stay at will, but I think that the prince should go to Yanjing, at least, he should thank the regent in person." ”

When Guan Yu heard this, he silently turned his gaze to the north, there, he had been there once, and the people and soldiers there left a very deep impression on him, and he couldn't imagine that he would have to go to that place again in his lifetime, or if the eldest husband has a favor, he will repay it, this thank you still has to be said to Ao Lie in person.

After making up his mind, Guan Yu asked Sun Ce for a fast boat, took Zhou Cang, Liao Hua and dozens of personal soldiers, stepped on the warship, went north against the current, and sailed in the direction of Yanjing...... (To be continued......)

PS: PS: It's another big chapter close to 4000 words, I hope you have a lot of fun reading it!