Chapter 228: Guan Yu withdraws his troops
Outside the tent was already a raging fire, and the trialists had already killed the grain and grass storage point, throwing barrels of gasoline directly into the fire, and under the action of the fire, the oil drums splashed the sparks of gasoline everywhere, not only igniting the grain and grass, but also the nearby military tents.
It turned out that when Wuji and Fang Ren rushed into the tent, Qiu Yu and Xiao Xia had already followed the team to approach the grain and grass pile, Sun Li, who had not been seen, had already poured gasoline at several center points, and the two girls threw fireballs directly, not seeking to kill, but only quantity, and the fist-sized fireballs fell into the grain and grass piles like machine guns, quickly causing a fire with the help of gasoline.
The sudden fire caused the defenders to panic, and Fang Ren, who was in charge of guarding the grain and grass, could not command, some soldiers subconsciously ran to put out the fire, some soldiers wanted to rescue the grain and grass, and some soldiers wanted to resist the trialists first. The scene was chaotic, and it was difficult to form an effective defensive formation, so that the trialists could easily rush into the grain and grass piles and fuel the fire.
At this time, the soldiers and horses arranged in front to defend Cao Ren had already rushed to this side, and Luo Han shouted: "Withdraw!" ”
The group decisively crossed the sea of fire and left from behind the fire. At the same time, the direction of the wind changed again, and the fire spread rapidly with the help of the wind, burning forward. The defenders could only keep retreating, unable to do anything as the fire covered the grain and grass.
Guan Yujun was taking advantage of the opportunity created by a group of trialists to rush to kill in one go, when suddenly a soldier came to report: "Report!" The camp was attacked! Grain and grass are burned! ”
When the soldiers around Guan Yu heard the news, their morale plummeted, and they talked about it, and soon spread the news. Guan Yu was furious when he saw this, and seeing that his morale was unavailable, he could only order the front team to change to the rear team and quickly withdraw his troops.
Yu Banjun cleared the roadblocks, saw that Guan Yu's army retreated and retreated in order, for fear of fraud, ordered not to pursue, and watched Guan Yu's army leave, before continuing to advance towards Fancheng.
In a valley forty miles south of Fancheng, Luo Han and the others lay in ambush on the valley, closely watching the official road to Fancheng.
After Guan Yu withdrew to the camp, he found that the grain and grass were burned, although the soldiers tried to rescue him, after all, there was no one in ten, and the remaining grain and grass was only enough for the army for one day, so he was furious, Fang Ren was dead, so he vented his anger on Fu Fang, who stayed in the camp, and scolded him fiercely, and at the same time sent a messenger to order Mi Fang Fu Shiren, who was guarding Jiangling, to quickly prepare grain and grass support for another battle. Due to the long distance to Jiangling, Guan Yu also ordered the surrounding cities to gather as much grain and grass as possible to support them for a period of time.
Guan Yu's conceit made Luo Han and the others' plan to force Guan Yu back to have twists and turns, and they had no choice but to prepare to cut off Guan Yu's supply and let Guan Yu completely run out of food.
Jiangling is nearly 500 miles away from Fancheng, and the speed of the grain cart is definitely slower than that of the normal march, and Guan Yu will definitely not be able to support it with only the remaining grain and grass. Therefore, as long as Luo Han and his party cut off a batch of grain and grass gathered from the nearby city, Guan Yu could completely lose the confidence to continue attacking Fancheng. And this valley is the only way for several southern cities to reach Fancheng.
No one knows when these cities will be able to gather grain and grass, and Luo Han and the others can only stay here. Out of boredom, he naturally asked what Wuji got by killing Fang Ren. Wuji didn't hide it either, and told the matter of the captain's head. Several captains got together to discuss, and they all felt the pressure.
Fang Ren was just a little-known person, and it was estimated that he was only the lowest grade in the first rank of the captain in the judgment of the trial ground, but he could seriously injure the meteor. Although there is a meteor careless factor, its surprise has made Wuji, a captain-level figure, fall in love, which shows his strength. Fang Ren still has the strength to rival the trialists, what about the strength of those famous generals in history or romance? Especially those generals who are not up to the level of famous generals, but there are generals who are famous for their bravery, such as Guan Ping Zhoucang, I am afraid that one or two trialists can deal with them.
The most terrifying thing is that the demand for the captain's head is ten per person, which means that one team needs fifty, and five teams here need two hundred and fifty, and it may be difficult to meet the demand just by relying on a single general.
When Luo Han was melancholy, another alliance led by the Haotian team was also distressed about this matter. Their choice was to help Guan Yu, and they made up the obstacles on the battlefield. Because of their identity, they couldn't enter the battlefield directly, and they wanted to wait until Guan Yu's big victory to break into the battlefield and pick up a few heads killed by Guan Yu and Guan Ping, but they didn't expect Guan Yu to retreat suddenly, and Yu Ban sent people to clean up the battlefield, piling up the corpses together, and burning them into ashes.
This is very embarrassing, you can't pick up the leak, and the body will be burned after the beating, leaving no chance at all. If you want to get a head, you can only enter the battlefield before the battle is over, and chop it with a bunch of swords, guns, swords, halberds, axes, hooks and forks.
In desperation, Haotian came up with a method, which was to go deep into the hinterland and attack the garrisons in those cities. Generally, there are not too many garrisons in cities that are not on the front line, and there are thousands of people, and there will be thousands of garrisons in important cities, but they are scattered all over the city, which gives the trialists the opportunity to raid and assassinate. Due to the flood of miscellaneous generals and miscellaneous captains at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the gold content of school captains plummeted.
This also means that the team led by Haotian has temporarily withdrawn from the competition for the head of the famous general, while some other teams, large or small, are still watching the fire from the other side, waiting for the right time to enter.
Luo Han and his party stayed here until noon the next day, and finally saw a team coming from the south. According to rough estimates, there were about 1,000 people, and the leading few people rode war horses, and one of them was clearly dressed and armored, and he was the leader at first glance.
The team moved forward in an orderly manner, unaware that there was a group of people sharpening their knives in front of them. Just as half of the team entered the valley, a dozen boulders suddenly rolled down from the valley and landed in the middle of the group. Immediately after that, more than a dozen boulders rolled down, matching with the previous stones, cutting the team into two sections. The boulders kept falling, creating the illusion of a large number of people, making these county **s, who were not regular troops, panic and run around like headless flies. The leading officer shouted and cursed, trying to control the situation, but to no avail.
Seeing that the head and tail were cut off, the soldiers fled in all directions, and the school officer had no choice but to give a loud order: "The front and rear armies should withdraw from the valley respectively, reorganize the formation, and prepare for battle." At the same time, he led a group of cronies around him to run towards the exit of the valley.
I have to say that this school officer is quite bold, and at this time, he is not thinking of running away directly, but the whole army to meet the enemy. However, the Trialists will not give him a chance to integrate his combat power. A narrow section of road towards the exit of the valley suddenly appeared as a wall of ice, blocking the way. Then a strange creature with a five-meter-long body and a lion's head appeared out of thin air, spread its wide wings and flew through the air, swooping down from time to time, grabbing a soldier into the sky and throwing it from the sky.
For a ragtag army, fear is enough to knock them down. There is an ice wall in front of you, boulders blocking the road behind, and unknown and vicious monsters in the sky from time to time catch a person and fall to death. In this situation, these soldiers completely lost the courage to fight, or shouted in despair, or cowered in a corner begging not to be captured by the monster, or tried to climb over the pile of boulders and escape.
By this time the boulders had stopped falling, and a mist began to fill the valley. The fog was getting thicker, the visibility in the valley was getting lower, the temperature was starting to drop rapidly, and some people were already starting to have a faint frost on their armor.
The school officer, who was desperately poking at the ice wall with his spear, was a little anxious, and he could feel that if this continued, maybe without anyone taking action, everyone would turn into ice sculptures in fear and fog. In a hurry, the school official shouted, and the tip of the spear lit up with a little cold light, and instantly fell on the ice wall.
There was a crisp sound, the spear pierced into the ice wall a foot, and a crack appeared on the ice wall, the school officer was overjoyed, condensed and refreshed, pulled out the spear, and was about to use this move again, but he heard a loud noise, instinctively sensed the danger, and subconsciously turned his body, and felt his cheeks hot.
Xiao Yumeng sighed depressedly, the more he went by, the less useful these modern weapons became. Maybe it would be better to replace it with a thunderblast bomb, but that kind of money-burning thing really doesn't dare to be used here.
"Let's go straight to it, there is no better environment for us than this kind of environment, and if it drags on any longer, it will be time for him to break through the ice wall."
A group of people jumped down from the valley and landed in the valley with the help of the mountain wall buffer, and all the rest rushed towards the school officer, except for a few panicked miscellaneous soldiers who had started to heal.
There are more than a dozen cronies around the school officer, and these people are either comrades-in-arms of the school officer in the army, or relatives of the same clan, or they are disciples who cling to the school officer, which is very different from those county **. Although he was also a little flustered, he always surrounded the school officer and faithfully performed his duties.
The trialists each picked an opponent to fight, and Luo Han, Wuji, Reverse Tianxing, and Zhao Qian were left to surround the school officer. It's not how strong the school officials are, but everyone wants to solve it quickly.
Luo Han took the lead in making a move, and a whirlwind rushed up from under the school officer's feet, rolling it into the air, and the sharp air blade cut the school officer's body at high speed, leaving scars one after another. This move is not bad, but unfortunately the duration is too short, and the energy consumption of the light whirlwind will disappear. When the other three rushed to the officer's side, the whirlwind stopped. Zhao Qian stretched out his hand and pressed it, and the iron armor on the school officer's body flowed down the school officer's body like liquid. Wuji was unceremonious, and directly hit the school officer in the chest, and the school officer flew out upside down with a muffled snort, and a dull bao zha sound came from the chest in the air, and he opened his mouth to spurt out a mouthful of blood mixed with fragments of internal organs. Going against the sky, he added a cross slash, and the cross knife light chased the colonel's body, bursting out with dazzling light. When the school officer's body fell, it was already mutilated, and Sun Li appeared in the mist, cut off the school officer's head, and at the same time put away the school officer's spear, and disappeared again.
The four of them killed the school official with thunder, the goal has been reached, Xiao Xia and Qiu Yu quickly ignited the grain and grass in the valley, Huayu withdrew the ice wall, and the group fought and retreated, and soon disappeared into the thick cold fog.
Guan Yu's camp got the news that the grain and grass were burned again, Guan Yu's red face was so angry that he was about to drip blood, but the army was already running out of food, and it was too late to allocate grain and grass, no matter how high Guan Yu's morale was, he didn't think that he could directly break through Fancheng, which still had 20,000 people stationed, under the escort of the forbidden army of sixty or seventy thousand, so he could only give the order to retreat, and at the same time hated the group of calamity stars of the trialists to the bone.
Guan Yu's withdrawal of troops meant that the flooding of the Seventh Army would not happen, and Fancheng, which had hoarded a large number of soldiers and horses, became the important town of the Wei army in Jingzhou. Although Guan Yu was unwilling, he had no food and grass to support him, so he could only give up these cities that he had worked so hard to fight. At the same time, Lü Meng, who was preparing to cross the river, learned the news of Guan Yu's defeat and knew that the Wei army would inevitably take the opportunity to encroach on Nanjun, once Nanjun fell into the hands of the Wei army, Liu Bei's main force would be blocked in Yizhou, and the Wei army occupied the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, which would pose a huge threat to Eastern Wu. At this time, Lü Meng had to choose whether to forcibly cross the river to seize Jiangling, occupy Nanjun, and finally face the pressure of the Wei army alone, or unite with Guan Yu to defend Nanjun and keep the Wei army out of Nanjun. In the end, Lü Meng chose to stay put, and sent a messenger to report back to Sun Quan. This also means that Lu Meng is more willing to choose to join Liu Kangcao, just waiting for Guan Yu to take the initiative to ask for help if he can't support it.
The center of the battlefield shifted from Xiangfan to Nanjun, and the trialists who were watching also saw the situation, either united or alone, and scattered to the nearby counties of Nanjun, waiting for the opportunity to come.
After Luo Han and the others single-handedly changed the situation of the Battle of Xiangfan, they retracted to Xiangyang and entered Xiangyang City in a low-key manner.
Xiangyang is the county of Xiangyang County, in the thirteenth year of Jian'an (206 AD), Cao Cao set the northern part of the southern county as Xiangyang County, and the southern part is still the southern county. After the Battle of Chibi, Cao Cao lost the southern part of Jingzhou, and only retained the Nanyang County, Xiangyang County, and Nanjun County in the north. Zhou Yu stormed Jiangling for a year, and finally with the help of Liu Bei, who had already taken the four counties of Jingnan, he finally took Nanjun from Cao Ren. After Zhou Yu acted as the Taishou of Nanjun, Sun Quan forcibly occupied Jiangxia, which belonged to Liu Bei, and ordered Cheng Pu to act as the Taishou of Jiangxia and firmly control the banks of the Yangtze River, and Liu Bei only had part of the southern part of Nanjun. It was not until Zhou Yu died of illness that Lu Su was in power, and he strongly advocated the alliance with Liu to resist Cao and promote the alliance between Sun and Liu, so that the southern county occupied by Eastern Wu was "loaned" to Liu Bei. Liu Bei was thus able to open up the passage into Shu and eventually capture Yizhou. After that, Sun Quan sent Zhuge Jin to ask for Nanjun or Changsha Lingling Guiyang County, but Liu Bei did not allow it, and the two sides once fought each other. coincided with Cao Cao's army, and Liu Bei was forced to surrender Changsha and Guiyang counties to sue for peace. Therefore, the so-called "borrowing Jingzhou" is not that Liu Bei has borrowed but not repaid, but that Sun Quan is insatiable, the two sides are constantly filthy, and the relationship is extremely tense, so Sun Quan does not hesitate to tear up the alliance and join Cao to attack Liu.
Although the Wei army had been overwhelmed by the Wei army at this time, Guan Yu was still unwilling to compromise with Lü Meng, hoarded soldiers, horses, grain and grass in Jiangling, and was ready to defend to the death. Under such circumstances, Xiangyang City was also surging, and a large number of Wei troops continued to pour into Xiangyang from the north, waiting for orders to go south. Baidu: Read the latest chapter of "The Final Trial of Death: Jiezhong Literature" for free for the first time.