The siege commanded by Zhang Fei and Wei Yan startled Cao Renjie firmly.

It's not that the army led by Wei Yan has amazing combat power, but mainly because Cao Ren saw Zhang Fei's banner, and then saw Wei Yan's banner, and even saw the five thousand men and horses under the banner of these two generals.

Cao Ren knew Zhang Fei, and he had already learned from Xizuo that Zhang Fei had only brought a thousand people over.

In the last decisive battle, Zhang Feijun left an indelible impression on Cao Ren, but at the same time, Zhang Feijun's loss also happened directly in front of Cao Ren.

Therefore, Cao Ren judged that although Zhang Feijun's combat strength was terrifying, after that battle, Zhang Feijun should also have suffered heavy casualties and was unable to fight again.

But now Zhang Feijun not only fought again, but also had an unfamiliar general and more than 5,000 people. Does this mean that Liu Bei sent reinforcements?!

Originally, Zhou Yu's army was easy to fight, but now Cao Ren no longer dares to go out of the city to fight.

Well, now Liu Bei also sent reinforcements over, if they all have the same combat effectiveness as Zhang Feijun's gang of killing embryos, this Jiangling City will still be defended?!

Cao Ren was worried, and even for a moment, Cao Ren wanted to withdraw his troops directly and return to Xiangyang, and give up Jiangling to protect Xiangyang.

But fortunately, Cao Ren is also a general, you can't think that he is a related household because his surname is Cao, and in the end Cao Ren still decides to stick to it for the time being, and try the quality of the new Zhang Feijun.

As a result, Cao Ren really made the bet right.

After a day of attack and defense, Cao Ren found that the gap between Zhang Fei's reinforcements and the 1,000 soldiers led by Zhang Fei himself was very large.

Well, after all, it's a troop that has just been collected from the four counties of Jingnan, and it hasn't had time to practice it yet.

But in any case, Liu Bei sent reinforcements and personally participated in the siege of the city, which was not good news for Cao Ren after all.

After withstanding Zhang Feijun's three successive sieges of the city, Cao Ren finally decided to write a letter to Cao Cao to explain the situation in Jiangling City.

The current Jiangling City, surrounded by more than 30,000 Sun Liu coalition troops outside, and the wealthy families inside are also unstable, and the most important thing is that Xiangyang's grain and grass baggage were intercepted and killed by Guan Yu at all, and Jiangling has become a lonely city.

If Cao Ren is allowed to hold on, Cao Ren still has the confidence to continue to defend it, but if he continues to defend it like this, there is no benefit at all except for wasting troops and materials in vain.

Now the Sun-Liu coalition army is increasing its strength, and there is no problem of food supply.

As for Cao Ren, every time he defended the city, he would lose some troops, and there were no supplies, no reinforcements, so he could only rely on the money and grain accumulated in the government treasury in Jiangling City for several years, and it couldn't last long.

Cao Ren wrote to Cao Cao about all these situations, and it was up to Cao Cao to decide what to do about this matter, whether to continue to hold on or give up Nanjun.

After doing all this, before a new order arrived, Cao Ren still had to defend seriously and not give the Sun-Liu coalition army any chance to take advantage of.

After Zhang Fei and Wei Yan led their troops to attack the city three times, they finally asked Zhou Yu to withdraw and rest for the time being because of casualties.

Zhou Yu is not the kind of unreasonable person, even if he uses Liu Beijun as cannon fodder, he will not do it so obviously, so he agreed to this request and rearranged the rested Jiangdong Army to replace Liu Beijun and continue to maintain pressure.

Time came to the end of August unconsciously.

After more than a month of recuperation, Zhou Yu's arrow wound finally got better, and the wound had scabbed over and did not affect normal exercise.

Therefore, Zhou Yu convened a military meeting again to discuss whether to concentrate all his efforts and strive to attack the city again, and then take Cao Ren away in waves.

Anyway, Zhang Xi is against it.

It's not that he doesn't want to contribute, Zhang Xi's opinion is that now Guan Yu's North Road is going very well, and Xu Huang's joint encirclement and suppression have never succeeded, which not only contains the defense of other parts of Nanjun, but also cuts off the supply line of Jiangling.

If Zhou Yu wanted to make a detour north from Yiling and go to the north of Nanjun to attack Linfu and other places to help Guan Yu relieve the pressure, then Zhang Xi was naturally in favor.

If it's just a matter of capturing Gangneung and then passing on Namgun, then now is not the time.

The damage caused by the siege was very large, and the Jiangdong Army was reduced from about 40,000 at the beginning to 27,000 now, of which at least half were killed or wounded in the siege.

The 5,000 soldiers brought by Wei Yan, after three sieges of the city, there are still more than 3,800 people left, with more than 1,000 casualties.

It's not that you can't attack the city, it's completely unnecessary.

Wait another two months, Cao Ren will probably take the initiative to evacuate Nanjun, why take people's lives at this time?!

I have to say that Zhang Xi's suggestion is very correct, but Zhou Yu said - dismissed.

Wait two more months?!

Wait two months for the autumn harvest to be.

Your father-in-law has even more reason to stay at the mouth of the Youjiang River and not leave, and the four counties of Jingnan will also be completely digested by your father-in-law.

Some of Liu Bei's administrative measures in the four counties of Jingnan have been learned by Zhou Yu through the letters sent by Lusu in Chaisang.

That Zhuge Liang originally thought he was a rare military wizard, but he didn't expect that the real ability of this thing was actually governance.

One person controls the three counties, and after half a year's effort, Jingnan is governed in an orderly manner, and the original Taishou is set aside through various means, and a group of people from local families or poor families are promoted to serve as officials.

Even this Zhuge Liang was quite shameless and personally acted as a matchmaker, allowing Guiyang Taishou Zhao Yun to marry the widowed sister-in-law of the original Guiyang Taishou Zhao Fan, and also let Zhao Yun and Zhao Fan become righteous brothers. It's okay now, Jiangdong was still trying to find a way to rebel against Zhao Fan, but as a result, people hugged Liu Beijun's thigh, and they didn't bird the people sent by Jiangdong at all.

Jiangdong's series of small actions in Jingnan were completely destroyed by Zhuge Liang, and if Zhou Yu couldn't capture Nanjun again, then Jiangdong would only be left with jokes.

By the way, Sun Quan's attack on Hefei has already made a joke.

Sun Quan led his troops to attack Hefei, but before he could fight, Sun Quanjun intercepted a letter to Jiang Ji, the Hefei defender of Cao's army, saying that Cao Cao had sent a large army to support Hefei, so that Jiang Ji could hold on with peace of mind.

Sun Quan pondered that since the reinforcements of the Cao army had arrived, it was pointless to fight in Hefei, so he ordered the withdrawal of the army at that time.

But later I learned that this letter was forged by Jiang Ji at all, Cao Cao did not send reinforcements at all, and Sun Quan let a fake letter to the deceived retired soldiers.

This is the whole process of Emperor Wu's 100,000 attacks on Hefei. It's just a joke.

The lord of the Eastern Front battlefield really doesn't give Jiangdong a long face, and on the Western Front battlefield, Zhou Yu must let the world know that Jiangdong is not easy to mess with.

So, attacking, Zhou Yu decided to attack.

It took nearly a month for Zhou Yu to rebuild the siege equipment, accumulating seventy or eighty siege equipment of various types, divided into three gates, and launched a siege on Jiangling, where Cao Ren's army was stationed.

This siege doesn't matter, Cao Ren in the city suddenly doubled the pressure.

In the past month, Cao Ren has not been idle, on the one hand, he wrote a letter to Cao Cao, and on the other hand, he ordered the frustrated full favor to be ready to respond. Infuriate the full of pets.

I only have three or four thousand soldiers and horses in total, and I have to cooperate with Xu Huang to encircle and suppress Guan Yu, and I have to answer you one by one for Ling Caoren, why don't you go to heaven?!

But whether it is an official position or status, it is under Cao Ren, Cao Ren also has a surname with Cao Cao, you say that when you encounter this kind of thing, what can he do if he is full of favors? !

Full Pet also knows that he is a cool official, and his popularity is really not good, so he must not be offended on both sides, and he will do whatever he asks him to do.

Divide the troops, if Xu Huang encircles and suppresses Guan Yu in the future, it is not good to throw the pot, at least there is a Cao Ren in front of him.

Man Pet divided a thousand soldiers and horses and quickly went to Jiangling City, and it was these thousand soldiers and horses that helped Cao Ren a lot.

Zhou Yu's all-out siege of the city led to a sharp increase in Cao Ren's pressure.

First of all, in terms of offensive efficiency, Zhou Yu no longer shot two arrows like before, but launched all kinds of siege equipment, the whole army pressed, and the three city gates were all attacked, so that Cao Ren didn't even dare to leave the reserves, and all of them were piled up on the city wall to block the attack of the Jiangdong army.

Then in terms of the frequency of attack, Zhou Yu fought directly from dawn to dark, unless it was completely invisible, Zhou Yu would never withdraw his troops.

There were even a few times in the middle, Zhou Yu also arranged a night attack, although it was resolved by Cao Ren one by one, but this also made all Cao Jun, including Cao Ren, unable to sleep soundly.

Cao Ren also tried to fight back, and he sent his cavalry force, which was less than 600 men left, to try to go out of the city to attack the Jiangdong army and burn the siege ordnance.

But this time, the Jiangdong Army had too many siege equipment, and after more than half a year of fighting, the Jiangdong Army also had some countermeasures against the cavalry, and the Jiangdong Army's arrows and crossbows were not vegetarians.

When Cao Ren's cavalry was reduced to only four hundred, Cao Ren no longer dared to send these cavalry out to fight.

In this way, Cao Ren could only retreat in Jiangling City, waiting for Cao Cao's order while holding on.

Just in the ten days that the Jiangdong army was attacking the city, when Cao Ren was forced to retreat to the urn city, Cao Cao's new order finally arrived.

Cao Cao ordered Cao Ren to gather his troops, abandon Jiangling, and retreat to Xiangyang.

As for the pursuers that might be encountered on the way to retreat, as well as Guan Yu's possible blockades, Cao Cao also made arrangements.

Ordered Li Tong, the Taishou of Runan, to lead the Runan Cao army and move south along the Han River to meet Cao Ren's army.

Cao Ren immediately organized an army, on the one hand, he suppressed the wealthy families in Jiangling City, making it look like he was holding on to the city, and on the other hand, he contacted the troops sent by Manzhong to respond, ready to abandon Jiangling and retreat north at any time.

Of course, before leaving, Cao Ren took all the gold and silver in the treasury of Jiangling Mansion with him, and burned everything that he couldn't take away, and definitely didn't leave it to Zhou Yu.

After that, the favored soldiers were in place, Cao Ren ordered to open the north gate, and under the assault of 400 cavalry, he personally led the remaining thousands of Cao soldiers to break through the north gate of the Sun-Liu coalition army and retreat to Xiangyang.

At the same time, Runan guarded Li Tong, and also led the soldiers, facing Guan Yu's layers of fortifications, dismounted and pulled out the antlers to enter the shortlist, and fought and forward, to meet Cao Ren. It's a pity that Li Tong didn't get to Cao Ren yet, and he died of illness halfway through.

In this way, the Battle of Nanjun ended in September of the 14th year of Jian'an, with the combined forces of Sun and Liu conquering Jiangling and Cao Ren retreating to Xiangyang.

It ended three months earlier than the historical Battle of Nangun.

(End of chapter)