In the face of Guan Yu's approach, even Ma Liang was puzzled.

As Liu Bei's Jingzhou assassination history of assisting Guan Yu to persuade him, Ma Liang admonished Guan Yu: "It is advisable to lead the three armies to attack Fancheng with the courage of the general.

If you save Wei from it, you will be able to pull it out, and you will work hard to build a siege, and you will be afraid that the power of the people will also be harmed."

Ma Liang is not a person who does not know soldiers, on the contrary, since he first followed Liu Bei, he held the position of staff officer and military aircraft.

In Ma Liang's opinion, Cao Xiu must have sent the news of asking for help.

In this case, enemy reinforcements will arrive soon, and the best thing they can do is to fight quickly.

Ma Liang's admonition spoke the hearts of most of the generals present.

Guan Yu looked at Ma Liang and the generals with questions, and he stroked his beard and explained, "Ji Chang only knows one and doesn't know the other."

"The defense of Fancheng is strong, the grain is sufficient, and all the equipment prepared for the defense is not lacking.

If the northern soldiers arrive and are unprepared, they will suffer on the outside, how can they resist them!"

How could Guan Yu not know what Ma Liang said?

But that's why he did it because he knew.

In terms of understanding Fancheng, Guan Yu is still above Cao Xiu, the guard of Fancheng.

Because of Cao Ren's previous lesson, Cao Xiu would definitely not lead the army out of the city to fight.

In Guan Yu's opinion, even if his troops were doubled in such a situation, it would not be easy to take the prepared Fancheng in a hurry.

Compared with the generals' judgment that the Wei army's reinforcements would arrive soon, Guan Yu felt that the Wei army's reinforcements might appear at any time.

There are still many talents in the reverse Wei, although his dispatch of troops is a sudden move, but it is difficult to guarantee that no one will see through everything and make arrangements in advance.

So at this time, his eyes can't be limited to Fancheng.

Seeing Guan Yu say this, although the generals still had doubts in their hearts, Guan Yu's prestige was deep, so in the end, the generals still followed Guan Yu's orders.

Under Guan Yu's orders, tens of thousands of Han troops began to pull out the camp.

They abandoned the tent they had just built and went outside the moat of Fancheng to start camping again.

It's just that although the main task of the Han army at present is to encircle Fancheng as soon as possible, Guan Yu did not take the Wei army in the city lightly.

He ordered his lieutenant general Ji Zhang to lead a Han army and observe the Wei army in Fancheng.

Once the Wei army in the city moved when the Han army was encamped, then Ji Zhang's Han army could play a role in blocking the Wei army in the city, so as to ensure the safety of the army.

And the movements of tens of thousands of Han troops were quickly reported to Cao Xiu by the Wei army spies.

After Cao Xiu learned of this situation, he personally came to the city to inspect it.

Cao Xiu's character is Wenlie, he is Cao Cao's son and Cao Hong's nephew.

When Cao Cao raised his army, the young Cao Xiu changed his name and returned to the Central Plains from Wudi, thousands of miles away, through Jingzhou.

Cao Cao said to the people around him at that time, "This is my family's Qianli Horse."

After Cao Xiu defected to Cao Cao, Cao Cao let him eat and live with Cao Pi and treat him like a parent.

In the last years of Jian'an, because Cao Cao felt that his health was getting worse day by day, and most of the generals who followed him in the Quartet in previous years were already old.

So Cao Cao consciously began to promote and exercise, some of the second generation of clan relatives he valued.

Among the second generations of those clan relatives, Cao Zhen, Xiahou Shang, and Cao Xiu are the most valued by Cao Cao.

In order to cultivate the next generation of clan successors, Cao Cao has spared no effort to cultivate Cao Xiu and others in the past few years.

Under Cao Cao's training, Cao Xiu, who was already talented, made rapid progress.

After Cao Pi succeeded to the throne this year, the history of this world has changed a lot.

Among the southern princes, it was Liu Bei's soldiers who were based in Jingyi and Jingyi, so Cao Pi deployed most of Cao Wei's military forces in Jingzhou and Guanzhong.

In the Jingzhou area alone, Cao Pi's clan generals who stayed in office at the beginning were Cao Ren, Cao Xiu,

Xiahou Shang three.

After Cao Pi was proclaimed emperor this year, Cao Pi posthumously recorded Cao Xiu's exploits before and after, worshiped Cao Xiu as the general of Zhennan, sealed the Dongyang Pavilion Marquis, and led the troops to garrison Fancheng.

Before Cao Xiu took office, Cao Pi personally sent him off, and also sent Luan Yu to Cao Xiu to say goodbye, hoping that Cao Xiu would be optimistic about Fancheng, the southern gateway of Great Wei.

Judging from the current situation, Cao Xiu's entrustment to Cao Pi has been completed well.

In this year, because the city defense of Fancheng was seriously damaged in the battle last year, many ministers suggested to Cao Pi to abandon Fancheng and shrink their forces to Yiyang and Xinye counties for defense.

But when Cao Xiu learned about this, he urged Cao Piyan to say, "Jing Chu is easy to take off, easy to move and difficult to rest. Guan Yu Xinsheng is hiding and watching for the evildoers in the country.

If you abandon Fancheng to protect yourself now, it will not only hurt morale, but also make the country's female cadres secretly have evil intentions. In addition, the water and land rush of Fancheng is the key point of the Imperial Palace, and it cannot be abandoned."

Because of Cao Xiu's strong advice, Cao Pi did not give up Fancheng at that time.

Judging from the results of the battle in Xicheng, Cao Xiu's judgment is undoubtedly accurate.

If the Wei army had abandoned Fancheng at that time, after Cao Ren's defeat, I am afraid that the south of Wancheng in Nanyang County would have been owned by Guan Yu.

After Cao Xiu arrived, he not only continued to strengthen the city defense of Fancheng, but even the city defense of Yancheng, a small city not far from Fancheng, Cao Xiu also repaired it in advance.

Yancheng is a city where Xu Huang led his army to support Cao Ren when he led the army.

Although Yancheng is a city, it is more like a military camp with walls in terms of scale.

Yancheng is not far from Fancheng, and if there is a Wei army in Yancheng, it can echo with the Wei army in Fancheng and be horns for each other.

The most important thing is that Yancheng is on the flank of Fancheng, and Fancheng is like two nails firmly nailed to Guan Yu's northward road.

If these two nails were not removed first, the Han army's soldiers could only move along the Han River at most, and they would not be able to enter too deep in Nanyang County.

Because of the importance of Fancheng and Yancheng, even if he learned the result of the battle of Xicheng before, even if Mi Yang released the news that he was going to take advantage of the situation to attack Wancheng, and even if many generals advised Cao Xiu to retreat and return to Wancheng to defend, Cao Xiu was still unmoved and always stuck to Fancheng.

When Cao Xiu came to the city wall, the sky was slowly darkening.

But even so, the Han army outside the city was still working hard.

Looking at the figures of many Han troops working hard to build camps, Cao Xiu's brows furrowed deeply.

Cao Xiu, who is in his forties this year, has been in the barracks for at least 20 years.

He was experienced in the army, and when he saw that the sky had turned dark, and the Han army outside the city had not stopped, Cao Xiu came to a judgment.

Guan Yu is going to build a camp day and night.

And why is he so anxious?

The night is not a good sight for most soldiers, and the night is a time when people are prone to sleepiness, so Cao Xiu felt a little puzzled about Guan Yu's desire to build a camp all night.

How can they be the side of the enemy?

And the scene in front of him made Cao Xiu only feel familiar.

At the beginning, his uncle Cao Ren was trapped in the city by Guan Yu's method, and then watched the 30,000 Wei army being scattered by the flood.

It's just that although he vaguely guessed Guan Yu's purpose, the lessons of Cao Ren and Xu Huang made Cao Xiu not want to act rashly.

If it is not necessary, try not to fight with Guan Yu in the field.

Anyway, at present, there is no shortage of food and soldiers defending the city in Fancheng, and Guan Yu's old skills will not pose any threat to Fancheng.

In this state of mind, Cao Xiu chose to sit back and watch the actions of the Han army outside the city.

When the sky was completely dark, Cao Xiu asked the captain guarding the city wall to be vigilant, and then he went down the city and returned to the general's palace in the city.

If you want to surround it, just surround it, anyway, he just needs to guard Fancheng.

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Compared with Cao Xiu's decision, under the high-intensity work for several days, the generals and colonels at all levels in the Han army can be described as bitter.

Although Fancheng is not very large, it is a lot of work to repair the barrier besieging Fancheng in a short time.

In addition, Guan Yu kept sending people to urge the siege, as if a large number of enemy troops of the Wei army had come to him, which caused great psychological pressure on the generals.

It's just that despite this, because of Guan Yu's prestige in the hearts of the generals, the generals still worked hard to command the soldiers under their command to build the barrier according to Guan Yu's requirements.

In order to complete the task within the specified time, and to maintain the combat effectiveness of the Han army under his command, Guan Yu asked Ma Liang to transfer many people from Xiangyang City a few days later to join the siege of Fancheng.

With the participation of many people, tens of thousands of Han soldiers breathed a sigh of relief.

In order to complete the task of besieging the city with a wall, in the past days, except for a part of the Han army responsible for guarding, the remaining Han army, regardless of the main army and auxiliaries, joined the siege operation.

And they often work for a day, which consumes a lot more physical strength than fighting.

During this period, it was not that there were no generals who privately persuaded Guan Yu to "slow down".

The generals thought that even if the enemy reinforcements were coming, they would not arrive so quickly.

After all, it takes time for Cao Xiu to deliver the news and go out.

But apparently there was no persuasion.

It's just that although he is tired, Guan Yu is a master builder in the world, so under his arrangement, the progress of the Han army in building the barrier is not slow.

When the Han army built the main fortress north of Fancheng, an unexpected thing happened.

As the scouts from all sides rushed into the camp quickly, the generals at all levels in the camp learned the news of the arrival of Wei reinforcements.

But why is it so fast?

According to the time inference, the Wei army reinforcements should have just set off from Wancheng!

The Han generals in the Jingzhou camp were not surprised for long, and they heard the sound of the earth shaking.

Under the influence of this earth-shaking sound, the generals of the Han army at all levels came to the fortress outside the camp to inspect.

After many Han generals came to the barrier, in their sight, a torrent of land soon appeared.

Although the Han generals saw a vast land in front of them, what fell in their eyes was really a torrent of dust from the sky.

Only this can be described as the speed of the dust in front of them.

And as the smoke and dust in the sky continued to approach, the generals at all levels and the Han army standing in the barrier saw clearly the Wei army hidden in the smoke and dust.

What came in front of me was tens of thousands of Wei cavalry!

Tens of thousands of Wei army iron cavalry gradually emerged from the smoke and dust in the sky, and then gradually approached Fancheng.

Different from the 2,000 Wei cavalry outside Wudang City, the Wei cavalry that appears outside Fancheng now looks like there are tens of thousands.

Moreover, the Wei cavalry was all one person and two horses, and tens of thousands of Wei cavalry brought at least 20,000 horses.

No wonder the Han army in the big camp just now felt a slight vibration on the ground, and it was no wonder that the first thing that appeared in front of the Han army was a cloud of smoke and dust.

When they saw the 20,000 war horses running rapidly, the eyes of the Han army hidden in the barrier were shocked.

Most of the Han army were natives of Jingchu, and in their impression, the horses were all short and emaciated.

But now the 20,000 war horses that appeared in their eyes were each very tall.

And the swarthy hair on the tall horses shone in the sun.

When 20,000 sturdy and radiant northern war horses galloped towards Fancheng with hooves that seemed to be able to crush everything, that spectacular scene was enough to make any bloody man feel excited.

This is the unique charm that comes from the Cavalry Legion!

And under the surging mood, the hearts of tens of thousands of Han soldiers

A hint of worry began to surface, and a hint of nervousness began to surface.

When people are faced with things that they have not seen and cannot control, they will naturally have this feeling.

There are even some poorly disciplined infantry troops, when they face the formed cavalry corps for the first time, they will directly frighten the formation to collapse.

During the Battle of Yanzhou that year, there was a very important reason why Lu Bu was able to defeat Cao Cao several times.

But when tens of thousands of Han soldiers were worried and nervous, their eyes unconsciously looked towards the main tent behind them.

In the midst of the main tent sat their great general.

Looking at the tens of thousands of Wei army iron horsemen who were constantly approaching, fear began to appear in the hearts of tens of thousands of Han soldiers.

If the generals had followed the advice of the generals and started to attack the city at the beginning, once they were attacking the city, the tens of thousands of Wei army iron cavalry unexpectedly launched an attack on them, then they would be in danger.

Fortunately, the general was prescient.

Thinking of this, tens of thousands of Han soldiers looked at the main tent with admiration in their eyes.

Unlike the tens of thousands of Han soldiers who were stable in their hearts, when the tens of thousands of Wei army iron cavalry were about to rush outside Fancheng, Cao Tai, who was running at the forefront of the tens of thousands of Wei army cavalry, suddenly issued an order.

He immediately ordered the Wei cavalry behind him to stop running.

After Cao Tai's order was issued, there were loud "hoops" among the tens of thousands of Wei army iron cavalry.

With the sound of "call", under the driving of tens of thousands of Wei army knights, the Wei army war horses that had just been unbeatable, stepping on the earth, stopped one after another a hundred steps away from the Han army.

Because it was a sudden reining in the horse and stopped, the bodies of tens of thousands of Wei army knights shook trembly.

And when tens of thousands of Wei army knights barely stopped their figures, the dust caused by their bodies gradually disappeared, and tens of thousands of Wei army knights gradually saw clearly, and the scene in front of them made them jaw-dropping.

A wide trench seemed to divide Fancheng into two boundaries with them.

And behind that layer of trenches, there was one heavy layer of antlers.

The trenches and countless horse-rejecting antlers made tens of thousands of Wei army iron horsemen with the belief of victory fall into hesitation all of a sudden.

Cavalryman: It is as fast as the wind and moves as thunder.

But this scene in front of them, how can they still get sick and move?

And Cao Tai's face became extremely gloomy at this time.

As Cao Ren's son, he is very familiar with Guan Yu's encirclement.

Under the gloom, Cao Tai subconsciously glanced at the valley in the north of Fancheng, and when he saw that there was no chance to take advantage of it, he decisively ordered:

"The whole army is stationed on the high grounds!"