One of the legends of Diaoyutai 11111 Goddess of Victory, Goddess of Peace (33)

In the era of cold weapons, the most taboo thing for soldiers is to siege the city. The siege of the city had to be ten times the enemy's strength, and it was also necessary to be prepared to suffer heavy casualties. Therefore, Guan Yu believes that "the first army is to attack and plan, the second is to attack the enemy, the second is to attack the army, and the next is to attack the city".

After Guan Yu's "attack plot" and "war Jiao" (to Lu Chang's second capture of the second column) were unsuccessful, he could only take the "cutting army" (annihilating the Fan Xiangshui army on the river and annihilating the Seventh Army in the field battle), and now Guan Yu thought that the flood had damaged the city wall of Fancheng and was a rare opportunity to attack the city, so he resolutely decided to give up attacking Xiangyang City first and attack Fancheng with all his might.

Looking at this period of history, I feel the most puzzling thing, that is, Guan Yu from the preparation stage of the Battle of Fanxiang, to the retreat from the battlefield of Fanxiang, and even after finally holding on to Maicheng for two months, Guan Yu always thought that the reinforcements of Shu Han would come immediately, and Guan Yu always believed that he stuck to the front line to contribute to the final victory.

We know that Guan Yu has been fifty-nine years old since he married Liu Guan and Zhang Sanying in Taoyuan when he was young. In these turbulent decades of war, Guan Yu has experienced a hundred battles, not only experienced brilliant great victories, but also experienced countless wanderings, and his experience is very deep.

However, in the Battle of Fanxiang, Guan Yu ordered Liu Feng to send troops to cooperate at the beginning, but Liu Feng clearly refused. However, after that, Guan Yu continued to send envoys to Liu Feng, Hanzhong, and Chengdu to report the situation of the Fanxiang battle, asking for support from friendly troops, and asking for grain and grass support, but they did not get the support of a single soldier, a soldier, a grain and a grass.

In order to let the supreme leadership group of Shu Han always understand the progress of the Fan Xiang Campaign, in order to get the support of Shu Han, Guan Yu presented the jade seal obtained by Xiangyang, and successively sent his most powerful civilian and military generals, Ma Liang, Yi nationality, Liao Hua to Shangyong, Hanzhong, and Chengdu to report and request, it can be said that he did everything he could to do with all means and strength, but he did not get any support.

This period of time is a full seven months, and it should be said that with Guan Yu's experience of a hundred battles, he will think, reflect, and ask "Why is this?" "of. Guan Yu should be prepared to do the other hand, and there should be the preparation and plan to accept it when it is good and leave the whole body. At the very least, it should be arranged to be able to advance and retreat, for example, to take Xiangyang City immediately.

Incredibly, Guan Yu always adhered to his beliefs, believing that Shu Han's reinforcements could come suddenly at any time, so Guan Yu's army always insisted on being in the most dangerous enemy encirclement. Guan Yu has always kept his army in the most offensive posture.

Therefore, I think that while Zhuge Liang strictly ordered the whole army not to be dispatched to cooperate with Guan Yu in the battle, Zhuge Liang should have a scheming reply after receiving every report from Guan Yu and a military report asking for support. This reply should be: "Our army (or Liu Fengjun, or Ma Chaojun, or Zhao Yunjun, etc.) is being mobilized and deployed, and is about to rush to Fanxiang." Wangjunhou overcame difficulties and held the front line, and the general offensive was about to begin. ”

Is this the case in history? Because Zhuge Liang completely destroyed the materials of this period of Shu Han, we do not know, even from the analysis of Wei Wu's data, it cannot make up for the lack of being able to answer this question.

In fact, Guan Yu can retreat at any time until he leaves Maicheng.

When Guan Yu left Maicheng, Cao Jun had no intention of attacking Guan Yu at all. Cao's army was far away from Guan Yu's army. The Eastern Wu Army, on the other hand, was busy seizing the territory of Jingzhou and was in a hurry to arrange fortifications, so it did not have the action and deployment to launch an offensive against Guan Yu's army.

What Guan Yu did in Maicheng for two whole months was to constantly send his trusted civilian and military generals to Chengdu and all parts of Shu Han to ask for reinforcements from Shangyong, while he continued to train his troops to boost morale and wait tenaciously. Friends, please remember that Maicheng and the territory of Shu Han are close at hand, and the henchmen Wenwu, Ma Liang, Yi, and Liao Hua sent by Guan Yu have all successfully arrived in Shu Han, (which can be seen from the later historical materials of Shu Han), Guan Yu waited in Maicheng for two months!

In order to achieve his ambition of monopolizing power, Zhuge Liang used power and tactics to take advantage of Guan Yu's complete trust in himself to viciously put Guan Yu to death.

In order to achieve the goal of monopolizing power after Liu Bei, Zhuge Liang completely overdrew the trust of Liu Bei and all the soldiers of Shu Han in Zhuge Liang, completely destroyed the national policy of "Longzhong Pair" formulated by Zhuge Liang himself when he was young, and made Shu Han go from a great victory to the road of defeat.

Although Zhuge Liang completely destroyed all historical materials, people have a good reputation.

From this we can see that people of insight in the world are respectful of Zhuge Liang, although Zhuge Liang has the land of Shu Han and monopolizes the power of Shu Han, but there is no civil and military general who is willing to serve Zhuge Liang, so that there is a serious talent fault line of "there is no general in Shu, and Liao Hua is the vanguard".

And Liu Bei back then, there was no territory, no army, and he was running around, but the world's top civil and military talents flocked to him. This is where Liu Bei is far more senior than Zhuge Liang.

In the midst of a vast flood.

Guan Yu's powerful Jingzhou army warships swarmed towards Fancheng.

On the broken city wall of Fancheng, the banner of the word "Cao" is shaking.

The flood reached the tower, which was only three slabs high from the city wall.

The waves crashed against the walls of Fancheng, and it seemed that they would immediately break the walls.

Cao Ren and Man Zhong stood on the castle tower.

A big wave splashed.

Cao Ren wiped away the splash on his face, looked down at the rising flood under the city wall, and looked at the powerful fleet of Guan Yu's Jingzhou army, which was constantly approaching Fancheng, in shock.

Cao Ren said to Man Chong: "Boning (full of pet characters), there are only 2,500 people left in our Fancheng, and the water is constantly rising, and the city walls are crumbling everywhere. At this time, Guan Yu's army is attacking the city, how can it resist the enemy? ”

Man Chongyi frowned and asked, "With what the general has seen, what should we do?" ”

Cao Ren sighed and said, "There is no way to fight, so I can only go." Taking advantage of the fact that Guan Yu's Jingzhou army had not yet encircled Fancheng, we would first take a boat to Runan and still be able to break through. ”

Man Zhong looked at the continuous fleet of Guan Yu's navy, and then looked at the water under the city wall, and thought for a long time.

Cao Ren looked at Man Chong, waiting for his answer.

Man Chong finally said: "Guan Yu's Jingzhou army is so powerful, Jia, Lu Hun, and Xu Du are all under his orders, the reason why Guan Yu is not going north now is because Fancheng is still in the hands of our army, if Guan Yu rashly goes north, he is afraid that our army will step behind." If the general abandons Fancheng and leaves, the south of the Yellow River will be all under Guan Yu. ”

Cao Ren said: "I naturally know the stakes in this. Berning, it's just that this big water is full of water, how is it good? ”

Man Zhong said: "This big water comes quickly, and it will naturally recede eventually." It is estimated that within three days, the water will reced. It's just that this wall is crumbling and must be repaired immediately. ”

Cao Ren frowned, and said: "Now there is no manpower, no materials, Guan Yu's army is coming to the city in a blink of an eye, and the city wall has collapsed in many places, how can it be repaired?" ”

Man Zhong said: "Without manpower, we can immediately mobilize the people of the whole city to repair, without materials, we can take materials nearby, where the city wall collapses, we can demolish the houses nearby." Where there is a crisis, fix it first. ”

Cao Ren said with a helpless expression: "Forcibly pull the people, ********, how can Cao not know about this expedient measure?" It's just that Cao Ren led the army to suppress the rebellion of Wancheng Houyin before, but because the situation was urgent, the Pang Dejun slaughtered the city. Although he was in a hurry, the people were dissatisfied, so that the army and the people were separated, and the morale of the people could not be restored. Now we have to force the people, ********, I am afraid that the will of the people and the army will deviate, how can we resist the strong enemy with one heart and one mind? ”

Man Zhong said: "Since there is a plan to abandon Fancheng, what is the use of Fancheng's inventory of silver?" We can use our money as much as we can. Let us inform the people of the place where the wall is collapsing, that it is about to crumble, and that your houses will be the first to be destroyed when the flood rushes in. Our government will buy your house now and buy it with two taels of silver. I think the people must have agreed, and there was no complaint. The people were mobilized to repair the city wall, and the government had to pay cash immediately. ”

Cao Ren nodded and said, "Well, this method is feasible. ”

Man Zhong said again: "We only scatter silver taels, but the stored grain and grass must not be dispersed." We must stick to Fancheng, and we can't do it without grain and grass in our hands. ”

Cao Ren nodded and said, "That's a must!" ”

Man Zhong asked, "In this case, is the general determined to defend the city?" ”

Cao Ren said: "For the sake of the country, Cao Ren is willing to fight!" It's just that the morale of the army in front of him is weak, and the soldiers have no fighting spirit....... ”

Man Chong said: "As long as the general is ready to fight to the death, Man Chong vows to live and die with Fancheng!" ”

Man Zhong ordered: "All the soldiers of Fancheng, please go to the city tower!" ”

The sergeant replied, "Yes, gather all the soldiers to go up to the castle tower." ”

The sergeant went down to the city.

Full Pet ordered again: "Come on!" Bring up my white horse. Then I will bring up ten jars of good wine from my house. ”

Ten jars of wine were lined up on the tower of the city.

The favored white horse was led up to the castle tower.

Sergeant Cao Jun each held a bowl and lined up neatly.

The sergeant led the white horse.

Man Zhong picked up a jar of wine, and at the same time cut the vein in the neck of the white horse.

Blood flowed down the white horse's neck.

Full of favors uses the wine jar to catch the blood of the white horse.

Pick up one altar after another.

The white horse fell to the ground and died.

Man Pet put the two bowls on the city wall, picked up a jar of wine, and poured the two bowls full of blood wine.

Man Pet stood aside and made a "please" gesture.

Cao Ren walked over, picked up a bowl of blood wine, and said loudly: "I, Cao Ren, swear today that I will fight to the death for the country and swear to live and die with Fancheng!" ”

Cao Ren drank the blood wine and threw the wine bowl off the city wall.

Man Pet also walked over, picked up a bowl of blood wine, and said loudly: "I am full of favor, vow to fight to the death for the country, and swear to live and die with Fancheng!" ”

Man Pet drank the blood wine and threw the wine bowl off the city wall.

Cao Ren and Man Chong made a "please" gesture.

A soldier walked over and filled it with blood wine, swore an oath, and threw the bowl.

Man Pet half-knelt on the ground and said, "Hero! Please! ”

Cao Ren saw Manzhong's action like this, and immediately understood. Cao Ren also immediately knelt on the ground and said, "Hero! Please! ”

The soldiers walked over one by one, served wine, swore an oath, and threw bowls.

Cao Ren and Man Zhong half-knelt on the ground and said one by one: "Hero! Please! ”

Guan Yu's flagship approached Fancheng.

On the upper floor of Fancheng City, Cao Ren and Man Pet stood side by side, with high morale.

The soldiers of the Cao army on the city wall were all in good spirits.

The big banner of the word "Cao" on the city wall is waving in the wind.

Guan Yu stood on the command platform and watched silently.

Guan Yu said secretly in his heart: "This Cao Ren really has a hand in governing the army!" It seems that a fierce battle is inevitable! ”