Causing such a gaffe, Guo Jia on the side was also very curious about what kind of news it was, so he took two steps forward and looked at the content of the information, and then his face was shocked, and then his expression became sad.

On the note, it was written the battle report sent by Deng Ai, which contained the news of the withdrawal of the cavalry of the Wuqiang State, but at the end of the intelligence, it was also written that Zhang Liao, the commander of the Seventh Army, died in a bloody battle in order to contain Zhang Rensuo's department of the Western Shu Army.

Zhang Chao almost fainted to the ground when he saw Zhang Liao's bloody death.

Zhang Liao followed him after Zhang Chao arrived in Bingzhou, when he was originally a subordinate of Ding Yuan, and later joined the Celestial Empire with General Gao Shun, and had won great military exploits in dealing with the Xianbei and Xiongnu in the north.

But now, Zhang Liao was actually killed, and he left himself when he saw that the Celestial Empire was about to unify the whole country and expand its territory, how could this not make Zhang Chao angry and heartbroken.

While being annoyed in his heart about what Deng Ai, the military advisor, was eating, and how could he not even protect the corps commander, Zhang Chao even sent all his anger to the Xicheng he was facing now, "Pass the order, the four legions will attack with all their strength, regardless of the losses, take Guan Yu down, if the other party does not surrender, kill!" ”

Originally, Zhang Chao still wanted to subdue Guan Yu, just when he wanted to say that the other party was willing to surrender, he stayed to recruit An, but now, Zhang Liao was killed by the Xishu army, and he really didn't have such a mind.

"Also, inform Wei Yan, take the initiative, give Liu Bei a good look, and tell him, don't worry about how many people died in the battle, I will make up for him when I go back, but there is one point, Liu Bei must be hit hard." Zhang Chao, who was angry, originally planned to finish solving Guan Yu and was doing something to Liu Bei, but because something happened to Zhang Liao, he couldn't wait, and he didn't have the patience anymore.

Guo Jia on the side wrote down the two holy decrees, and when he saw that Zhang Chao had no other instructions, he went down to pass on his orders.

As soon as the Holy Decree was issued, the battle in Xicheng became more intense, the four-way army leaped forward together, and Guan Yu's activities became smaller and smaller.

The Lord's Mansion in the West City.

Guan Xing entered the mansion with a nervous expression, came to Guan Yu's face, knelt on the ground and said: "Father, the Celestial Empire army has accelerated the pace of attack again, I don't know why, they are like crazy, they don't care about the ambush of our archers, they just blindly rush forward, because they changed the previous tactics, our soldiers in front were not prepared, they were taken by surprise, and they lost two streets in a row this morning, and now the enemy is only six streets away from us, I'm afraid it's going to take two days at most to kill here. ”

When Guan Xing said these things, he had a helpless look on his face.

Originally, his suggestion was to break out with his father, but at his father's insistence, he didn't grasp the first time to rush out of the city, and now, they are surrounded in the city, even if they want to, they have no chance.

Guan Yu, who was sitting in the hall with his eyes closed, seemed to have expected today's events, so he stroked his beard at his chin and said: "Xing'er is in a hurry, the eldest husband will eventually die, they are coming, just kill them." ”

Guan Yu said it lightly, but in fact, he was also a little sad in his heart. Staying in the West City, just to wait for the eldest brother Liu Bei to come to help, so that under the combination of the inside and the outside, it is likely to give Zhang Chao a heavy blow, but the thing is that after waiting for these days, there is no reinforcement coming, and it should be Liu Bei who is also making progress.

It's just that in any case, in his opinion, he only needs to do his own thing, and he can try to support one day at a time, and everything depends on his destiny.

Regarding his father's indifference, Guan Xing also seemed to have been prepared, and he replied that he knew, so he could get out of the house and go to investigate the information again.

Guan Yu was waiting for his eldest brother Liu Bei to come, in fact, Liu Bei was indeed advancing towards Xicheng, but he was stopped by Wei Yan with an army of 300,000 on the way.

Liu Bei has 800,000 soldiers, but he is not afraid of these 300,000 troops, just because Wei Yan was originally the general of Western Shu, and Uncle Liu Huang still wanted to collect it for his own use, so he decided to try to subdue it. As for the second brother Guan Yu, in his opinion, there should be no problem to stand up for a while.

In ancient times, it was not so easy to attack a city, and often ordinary cities also needed to be fought for half a month, not to mention a strong city like Xicheng, and there were two moats and two fake cities outside. In Liu Bei's opinion, as long as there is no problem with food and water sources, there will be no problems with such a city for a year and a half.

If Zhang Chao didn't have artillery, it would be very difficult to capture Xicheng, even if there were explosives, the effect would not be too good in the face of a city with a moat. However, because of the artillery, the so-called moat did not work at all. If Liu Bei knew this, I am afraid that he would not waste his energy on Wei Yan.

Liu Bei led the army to the territory of Nanjun, and immediately sent an envoy to contact Wei Yan, in his mind, the reason why he surrendered to the Celestial Empire this time must have been Zhang Chao gave a lot of benefits. It doesn't matter, as long as you ask for something, this thing will be easy to do, and it will be for you what you need.

Wei Yan is indeed asking for something, he is also an ambitious person, and of course he can be regarded as a capable person. For example, when he was in Xishu, all he wanted was to trust himself, and even give him enough trust, that is, in the face of the powerful Celestial Empire, he dared to fight. It's a pity that this is the most basic trust and military power, Zhuge Liang was defeated and wanted to do something with him, so he had to rebel.

Now that Liu Bei arrived, he wanted him to return to Xishu, and Wei Yanna would never agree. He had already betrayed Liu Bei once, and he didn't believe that the other party would still believe in him. After saying that, the strength of the Celestial Empire is obvious to all, and he believes that if he dares to play with the Celestial Empire, he will probably die without a place to bury him next.

Xishu is indeed different, under the successive defeats, even the Eight Gates Golden Lock Array has been broken, and Yizhou has lost five counties, it is conceivable that it is only a matter of time before it is destroyed by the Celestial Empire, with such a master, the end is doomed, even if this is the case, Wei Yan will never return to Liu Bei's camp unless his head is kicked by a donkey. And now, the other party sent an envoy to convince himself, and said that he knew that he had done something wrong because he was confused, and as long as he corrected it, he would also be crowned as a general and lead the entire Xishu army.

To say that the position of general was indeed the highest position in the army at that time, but because of this, Wei Yan would not believe that it was true. Don't say that Zhuge Liang will not let the military power be obtained by himself, just say that the second general Guan Yu and the third general Zhang Fei will not obey their own command.

This is clearly an excuse that Liu Bei made in order to convince himself, or to make his army of 300,000 stand on his side. Even Wei Yan could think that once he really agreed to surrender, he was afraid that after waiting for the military power to be recovered, it would be time for him to die.

Wei Yan, who saw everything through, naturally would not agree to Liu Bei's surrender. On the contrary, in order to show his determination to join the Celestial Empire, he killed the envoy sent by Xishu, cut off his head, and hung it on the city tower.

Wei Yan's approach can be regarded as completely angering Liu Bei. Since he became Emperor Yuan of the Han Dynasty, few people have dared to use such an attitude towards him. Liu Bei, who felt a great loss of face, immediately called the general Hu Che'er and ordered him to lead the army to attack Nanjun, even if he couldn't use it for himself, then wait to be destroyed.

With 800,000 to 300,000, and they were all his subordinates, Liu Bei was naturally full of confidence. In addition, he also said that as long as he is willing to submit, the past will not be blamed, and there will only be more Jingzhou soldiers returning, so Wei Yan will definitely not be able to stop himself.

Liu Bei was about to use force, and Wei Yan really didn't have much confidence. It's just that he is really not worried, because just now, he received a secret letter from Xu Shu, the military division of the Fifth Legion of the Celestial Empire, claiming that the main force of the Fifth Legion was already on the way to Nanjun.

With the support of the Fifth Army Corps, Wei Yan believed that Liu Bei's army was not to worry, he only needed to hold on for a few days, and then it would naturally be a great achievement.

In fact, the main force of the Fifth Army Corps had already entered Jingzhou. Regarding this matter, the military advisor Xu Shu and the corps commander Xu Huang were ready to fight with Soochow. After all, they need to borrow outside of Xiangcheng, and it is normal for them to be blocked.

However, he never expected that the Eastern Wu Army would turn a blind eye to the behavior of the Fifth Army Corps, and there was no intention to stop it at all, which made it easy for the main force of the 400,000 Fifth Army Corps to pass through Xiangcheng and enter the land of Jingzhou.

Everything went so smoothly, the Fifth Army could have arrived before Liu Bei attacked Nanjun, but the military advisor Xu Shu did not do this, in his opinion, the Jingzhou Army was just reluctantly integrated by Wei Yan, and the people's hearts were not aligned, and it is not known whether they sincerely surrendered to the Celestial Empire, even if this is the case, it is better to wait and see, wait for the big waves to wash the sand, and just incorporate the army in Wei Yan's hands, so that the matter of screening is omitted.

In this regard, the corps commander Xu Huang also agrees very much. With so many soldiers, he knew that the number of troops was not as large as possible, and the important thing was that the people were united in order to move.

If the army only pays attention to quantity rather than quality, it is better to say that if it wins a battle, once it encounters a defeat, it will not even have the strength to counterattack, and that is the real danger.

In this way, there is the fact that the Fifth Army Corps can arrive quickly, but it is still dragging on the road for several days. They just looked at each other, and there were a few people under Wei Yan who really took refuge in the Celestial Empire.