When the second master arrived, things were saved.

Guan Yu's arrival not only brought 5,000 sailors as reinforcements, but most importantly, brought the latest news from Liu Bei.

Liu Bei was indeed preparing to go south to conquer Jiangling and use this as the foundation of his life.

But now with more than 100,000 people, Liu Bei can't march quickly at all. Although he was still heading south, he gambled that Cao Cao would not pursue him, but at the same time, Liu Bei also made two arrangements, sending the naval army led by Guan Yu to carry some of the people south quickly.

First, the people can be quickly sent to Jiangxia for refuge.

Second, it is also convenient to connect with Zhang Xi's reinforcements, so that Zhang Xi can lead the army ashore as soon as possible to meet Liu Bei.

Until now, Liu Bei didn't understand why Zhang Xi chose Hanjinkou as the meeting place.

But now it is really a wrong move, because Liu Bei wants to go south to occupy Jiangling, so Hanjinkou has become the nearest Yangtze River ferry to him.

Liu Bei's plan was to send Guan Yu south first, contact Zhang Xi, and let Zhang Xi and Guan Yu come together to pick him up, and take the people away first, so that he could go to Jiangling with a light car to resist Cao's army.

According to the news that Guan Yu found along the way, Liu Bei's wish did not come true, Cao Cao sent a tiger and leopard to ride and run three hundred miles day and night to chase Liu Bei, and Liu Bei's current situation, Guan Yu is not very clear.

Therefore, the first time Guan Yu saw Zhang Xi, he asked Zhang Xi to ask for someone, and then asked Zhang Xi to lead his fleet and people to Jiangxia, and he led his troops to meet Liu Bei on land.

Guan Yu still didn't trust Zhang Xi's ability to lead the troops in the end, and the deeds of the Battle of Exian had not yet reached Guan Yu's ears for the time being.

Zhang Xi doesn't care, Guan Yu is a famous general in the world, and it is also the right decision for him to command Liu Bei.

But at the same time, Zhang Xi also told Guan Yu that it was okay to take Liu Bei, but he had to find a way to break the 10,000 Cao troops who were rushing towards Hanjinkou.

Although Guan Yu was lonely, he didn't underestimate the 10,000 Cao Jun, and hurriedly asked Zhang Xi about the news about Cao Jun, and after learning that it was Man Chong and Xu Huang who led the team, Guan Yu also looked dignified.

"For today's plan, there is only surprise!" Guan Yu said while brushing his beloved beard. "I and Ping'er led the headquarters of 5,000 sailors to set up an ambush, and you led the army to resist the enemy, and when the enemy arrived, there was no need to fight, but it was better to hold on, and when I came out from the back road, you would attack back and forth, and you would be able to break the enemy."

There is nothing special about stratagem, it is a very common front and back flanking strategy.

Zhang Xi is very skeptical, can this really be done?!

After all, the opponent was Xu Huang, and later the battle of Xiangfan defeated the famous general of the second master.

As for the full favor, let alone the person who gave Sun 100,000 the most headache except for Zhang Liao.

The two of them are not rookies, not to mention the battle-hardened, the unified army is even more first-class.

But Guan Yu was very confident, and Zhang Xi had to obey the most important thing, Zhang Xi couldn't think of a better strategy to retreat from the enemy.

Therefore, Zhang Xi ordered Kou Feng to line up on the periphery of the ferry and wait for the arrival of Cao's army, while the second master and Guan Ping began to make a detour, trying to reach Cao's army's rear road.

In just two days, Zhang Xi saw Cao Jun's figure.

Xu Huang and Man Chong were actually quite surprised to see Zhang Xi, they really didn't expect that in Hanjinkou, there was actually a Jingzhou army.

Jingzhou has surrendered, and most of the Jingzhou army is also undergoing reorganization, which part of the Jingzhou army in this place is it?!

Is it from South County? Or Jiangxia?!

No matter which part it is, the place of Hanjinkou is definitely occupied by two people.

However, in order to prevent unnecessary battles, Xu Huang and Man Chong still sent someone to send a letter to the opposite coach first, informing Jingzhou that Liu Cong had surrendered.

Then the soldier reported that on the opposite side was Jiangxia Liu Qi's troops.

Yes, I didn't say it, let's do it.

It's not that Zhang Xi doesn't want to cheat, it's mainly that Zhang Xi doesn't have the confidence to deceive the two world-famous generals.

Moreover, Zhang Xi has few people, and it is also the time when he needs to rush to meet Liu Bei, so it is not beneficial for Zhang Xi to delay fraud.

Therefore, Zhang Xi simply reported to his home, and after Cao Jun knew that this was Jiangxia's army, he was not polite and launched an attack directly.

Then Xu Huang and Man Chong were dumbfounded.

The quality and combat effectiveness of the Jingzhou army have been seen and heard of by them.

Listening to Yu Ban, who is in charge of the reorganization of the Jingzhou army, these things can only be used as auxiliaries in the Cao army's array, transporting grain and grass or something, and expecting them to go into battle to kill the enemy, which is tantamount to messing up their positions and seeking their own death.

But now Xu Huang found that the Jiangxia army in front of him was only three thousand, and the ordnance was even more varied, with bamboo poles and spears, and they were still hiding behind the cart to resist the enemy.

And the loss on his side seems to be greater than the loss of the other party.

Xu Huang sensed that something was wrong, while Man Chong frowned, remembering the strange army that Cao Ren and Li Dian had said before. Suddenly I had a bad premonition.

But before these two could react, thousands of soldiers were killed behind him at once, and the leader was familiar to both of them.

At the beginning, Xu Du's old friend, Liu Bei's first general, Guan Yu, Guan Yunchang.

Before Xu Huang could command the rear army to meet the enemy, the enemy in front also gave up the defense of the cart, directly penetrated from between the two planks, and rushed straight to the front Cao army.

Xu Huang and Man Chong are also calm, and at the moment of division of labor, Xu Huang led the rear army to block Guan Yu, while Man Chong led the front army, striving to break the enemy army in front of him.

Guan Yu is a famous general in the world, and he has the prestige of Yan Liang in the army, Xu Huang went to meet Guan Yu, and let Man Pet deal with the enemy in front of him, which was quite gratifying.

But soon Manpet didn't think so.

The rear army Xu Huang was desperately blocking Guan Yu, and for a while it could be said that he was on par.

But the front army led by his full favor couldn't beat the Jiangxia soldiers who rushed over on the opposite side, and they were forced by others to approach the Chinese army.

It is no wonder that after a division of troops, there are only four or five thousand people under Manzhong, and Zhang Xi has three thousand Jiangxia soldiers who have been trained in the Mandarin Duck Array.

Although the combat power is not as good as the batch under Zhang Fei's hands, it is much better than the ordinary Cao army.

Man Pet was knocked unconscious all of a sudden, and the enemy was almost within the range of his central army, so he had no choice but to ask for help from the rear army.

But Xu Huang is also helpless, is it really Guan Yu, the world's famous general, to blow out? !

Guan Yu not only has an amazing military value, but his ability to command operations is also first-class, and because he has a naval army, his land combat ability is a little worse, otherwise he would have pressed Xu Huang to fight.

Now that Xu Huang can ensure the stalemate, it is already very difficult, how can he have kung fu to support the full favor.

The consequence of not supporting is that the front army of Man Favor really couldn't stop it after resisting for a while, and collapsed directly, and Xu Huang's rear army was rushed by the rout, and immediately scattered the formation, and was directly suppressed by Guan Yu, and finally Xu Huang and Man Zhong also had to flee with the rout.

This Zhang Xi didn't expect it, and Guan Yu didn't expect it either.

Guan Yu originally thought that even if he could win by relying on such a simple front and rear flanking tactic, it was estimated that he would have to pay a lot of price. But it was only more than an hour after the war began, and Cao's army was actually defeated and scattered.

But since it was dispersed, Guan Yu was not polite, and directly commanded the whole army to pursue infantry, and there was no possibility of not being able to catch up.

When two sides are fighting, the real large-scale damage is often not at the time of the battle, but when one side breaks and the other side pursues.

Guan Yu knew this truth very well, so he commanded the army to pursue the twenty miles so oppressively, killed thousands of enemy troops, completely chased the Cao army to the point of rout and fled, and ensured that these Cao troops had no way to gather to threaten Hanjinkou in a short period of time.

But Zhang Xi was still a little cautious, insisting on waiting for the rear army to transport a hundred improved Wugang vehicles brought by his 2,000 men, and then let Kou Feng personally lead these soldiers to set off.

Before leaving, Zhang Xi repeatedly emphasized to Guan Yu that only Kou Feng or Zhang Fei could command the two thousand people, and it was estimated that others could only exert half of their combat power.

Guan Yu squinted at Zhang Xi for a long time, and after seeing Zhang Xi's whole body, he snorted and left.

Zhang Xi breathed a sigh of relief, led the remaining 1,000 soldiers back to Hanjin Pass, and while arranging defenses, he asked Chen to lead the navy and lead the fleet of more than 50 ships brought by Guan Yu to the south of Jiangxia, and asked Liu Qi to send some reinforcements when he came back by the way.

When the county magistrate Banpo is located, there should be some fierce battles that will be recorded in the annals of history at this time, but Zhang Xi really didn't dare to go, so it was better to stay in Hanjinkou to be in charge of scheduling.

In the next few days, Hanjinkou was relatively calm, and Cao's army had no intention of sending troops to attack after the last defeat.

However, in the middle, a lot of people came from the direction of Dangyang County one after another, and after being killed and dispersed by Cao Jun, they were met by Guan Yu and guided them to Hanjinkou.

Zhang Xi immediately asked the soldiers to prepare food and clean drinking water, let these homeless people rest, and when there were more people, he asked the navy to transport a batch to Jiangxia, and then come back.

It wasn't until Zhang Xi sent away three groups of people, about 10,000 people, that the Jiangxia Navy led by Chen finally returned, and brought Chen Zhi and the 5,000 reinforcements led by him.

As soon as Chen Zhi heard that Liu Bei might be besieged in Dangyang County, he immediately did not rest, and directly led his 5,000 men and horses to set off to Dangyang County to respond.

After Zhang Xi sent Chen away, he continued to gather the people.

And as time went by, Zhang Xi found that more and more people seemed to come to Hanjinkou, and the situation of the people was getting worse and worse.

The previous groups of people were at most a little more gray in their faces, a little tired, and a little less in their mental state.

But in the past few days, the people who came here have some scars on their bodies, some of them are falls, and some of them are obviously wounds caused by arrows or weapons.

Zhang Xi's face suddenly became solemn, and he ordered Chen Zhi's navy to go ashore and be responsible for receiving the people, and his own headquarters of 1,000 men and horses began to line up at the ferry.

Obviously, these civilians have fled from the battlefield, so it means that the battle is not far from here.

Soon, when it was almost nightfall, Zhang Xi saw a team of at least 1,000 people, rushing towards the position of Hanjinkou.

It was not the first time that Zhang Xi had faced the enemy, so he was quite calm and began to send sentinels to investigate the origin of the other party.

As a result, the leader was recognized by Zhang Xi.

"Brother, quickly bury the pot and prepare food and drink, the sooner the better, the lord is ahead, and he will be there soon!"

Yes, don't be vigilant, it's your own Erha.

(End of chapter)