Zhang Xi asked questions, but Guan Yu didn't care.

Guan Yu has his own ideas about these things.

"Don't worry, Cao Cao will not come to Wancheng in person." Guan Yu looked confident, stroked his beard, and said to Zhang Xi, "The land of Wancheng is the foundation of Fancheng's support, how can the old man have no plans?!" ”

Guan Yu has been thinking about the battle of Xiangfan for six years, and he does think more about many things than Zhang Xi.

In the past six years, Guan Yu has been using space and buying people's hearts in Jingbei, Nanyang and other places, Wancheng is such an important place, how can Guan Yu not have any preparations.

Of course, these preparations actually do not include Geng Ji and Yoshimoto's uprising.

In other words, in fact, Geng Ji and Yoshimoto's uprising was just that they had the Han family in their hearts and took the initiative to start an uprising, hoping to contact Guan Yu and seek Guan Yu's help, not an uprising that Guan Yu asked them to initiate.

If Guan Yu knew that there was still such a person in Xu Du, and he was also a person close to the Son of Heaven, he would definitely let them endure it for the time being, and wait until Guan Yu occupied Xiangfan to make trouble, strive for a success, and bring the Son of Heaven to Jingzhou.

This is the biggest blow to Cao Cao, which can completely destroy Cao Cao's political foundation.

Without the Son of Heaven in hand, then Cao Cao, the king of Wei, really has no legitimacy at all, and has become a complete arrogance.

As for how to deal with this Son of Heaven in the future, with Guan Yu's political IQ, he probably didn't think about such a complicated issue.

But now, this uprising has failed, and the chance of another uprising in the future will be very slim, and Cao Cao will definitely purge in Xudu.

However, Guan Yu didn't count on these people

There are some things that Guan Yu has prepared, but it is not suitable to say to too many people to know, but for Zhang Xi, Guan Yu has no need to hide it.

Hou Yin, the leader of the Wancheng Hao clan, had contact with Guan Yu very early, and after Guan Yu raised his army, he had decided to start an incident at the right time to respond to Guan Yu's military action.

This is Guan Yu's hole card.

As long as Wancheng is in chaos, it is absolutely impossible for Cao Cao to come to Wancheng in person, so he will sit in Luoyang and send reinforcements to rescue Fancheng.

This can buy Guan Yu enough time to deal with the reinforcements, after all, sending reinforcements from Luoyang is not the same as sending reinforcements directly from Wancheng, and the time for the reinforcements to arrive is different.

As for how to deal with Cao's troops' superiority and field capabilities.

"The old man has been thinking about a strategy to break the enemy for a long time, and he has already found a clever plan." Guan Yu stroked his beard and said to Zhang Xi proudly, "The old man wants to order the soldiers to line up with their backs to the Han River, and use 5,000 soldiers who are familiar with the Mandarin Duck Formation to set up a chariot formation to resist the enemy, and then flood the Chinese army with 5,000 crossbowmen, and if the enemy is close, they will attack it with bows and crossbows, and if the enemy holds, they will use the naval army to transport supplies." His army is numerous, our army is outnumbered, and when its food and grass supply is unfavorable and morale is low, we can break the enemy in one fell swoop. ”

Zhang Xi nodded frequently when he listened, thinking that Guan Yu's method was feasible but didn't know why, he just felt that this method of battle seemed to be a little familiar.

This is a warship, a car formation, and a bow and crossbow, why does it have such a sense of déjà vu?!

Zhang Xi couldn't think of it for a while, and it wasn't until he drew the formation method that Guan Yu said on the paper that he realized what this thing was.

Then Zhang Xi looked at Guan Yu's eyes, and it became weird.

Although let's say it, the ancestor of your eldest brother is likely to have a certain blood relationship with the ancestor of others, but you must not have any relationship with others. Say, were you pierced by Liu Yu's kid's soul?!

Isn't this a moon array?!

Relying on the mobility of the navy, the infantry restrained the cavalry. So in the end, in the end, Liu Yu's Moon Array in history came up with it by himself, or did it copy the second master?!

Anyway, Zhang Xi thinks it's a little unclear now.

If the second master really used this tactic in the battle of Xiangfan, then it is really hard to say whether Liu Yu's Moon Array is original or not.

However, compared to Liu Yu's Moon Array, there was something missing in the second master's tactics, and Zhang Xi decided to add it to the second master.

Liu Yu's Moon Formation was equipped with a bed crossbow on the ship, which could form a fire cross with the soldiers in the car formation, and at the same time, it could also use the mobility of the navy to maneuver along the river to attack the enemy.

Zhang Xi couldn't equip Guan Yu with a bed crossbow for a while, but let Guan Yu's sailors prepare more crossbows, although it is more troublesome to operate, but it is also an effective means to kill the enemy with a crossbow when cruising along the river.

Anyway, Cao Cao's water army is garbage, no one can threaten the soldiers on the ship at all, no matter how troublesome the operation of the crossbow is, no matter how weak the defense is, Cao Jun can still swim and attack?!

When Guan Yu heard it, this idea was good. However, you still have to think a little about the operation, and you can't use it casually.

After all, the range of the crossbow is not too far, and if it is not operated properly, it may shoot its own people.

Then, Zhang Xi asked the second master, if there is any additional cavalry, there is no need to have more, as long as there are about 2,000 cavalry, this moon array will be completely perfect.

When the second master heard this, he glared at Zhang Xi angrily, and Zhang Xi instantly understood.

How can there be cavalry, but as long as there are cavalry, the second master will not want to use the moon array against the enemy.

Anyway, the second master already has a way to deal with Cao Jun, and this method is indeed effective Liu Yu testified.

That leaves us with one last question.

"How does the prince want to attack Fancheng?!" Zhang Xi said, "Fancheng was originally a fortress, and the prince and marquis also guarded here, when he knew that this place was strong, and after the red cliff, Cao Cao ordered someone to rebuild the fortifications of Fancheng, which was better than before." The guards of Fancheng are full of favor, although they are literati and cool officials, Ranxi has heard about it, and he also knows the art of war. ”

"The old man is also embarrassed by this matter!" Guan Yu thought for a while, stroked his beard again, and then looked at Zhang Xi and said, "I waited to march into Xiangfan, originally to attract Cao Cao to come to help, so Wancheng should not be broken suddenly." However, this city is strong, if it is not attacked, it may be difficult to capture the enemy, but if it is attacked, it is inevitable that the soldiers will suffer heavy losses, but there is a good strategy?! ”

Is there a good way to do it? Yes, indeed.

Zhang Xi just wanted to see what Guan Yu was going to do.

After all, Guan Yu in history, after all, Cao Cao sent three batches of reinforcements, and Zhang Xi also wanted to take the opportunity to learn and see the siege methods of the second master.

But since the second master asked so, there is no good way to think about it, so there is no need for Zhang Xi to hide it. It seems that this Xiangfan defense system will inevitably suffer an attack from the return artillery after all.

Okay, anyway, sooner or later you will suffer this sin, so it's better to let the second master come

Zhang Xi took out the big killing weapon, the counterweight trebuchet.

Although the second master has not seen this thing with his own eyes, he has also heard that it is said that Zhang Xi built more than 100 counterweight trebuchets under the city of Chengdu that year, and after three days of smashing, Liu Zhang went out of the city and surrendered.

Hm. Rumors, rumors, that Zhang Liao can go to Jiangdong to be the director of the zoo, this change is understandable.

After discussing the specific details of the attack, the second master established a water village at the ferry near Yicheng as a logistics base, and when the naval base was completed, he set out to attack the Cao army sailor to clear the obstacles on the Han water.

Before the water village was repaired, the second master temporarily stationed troops in Yicheng, put on a posture of attacking Xiangyang, and forced the guards in Xiangyang City to quickly ask Cao Cao for help, delaying Cao Cao's westward advance.

And Cao Cao, Cao Cao is indeed in Luoyang now, and is preparing to march west, garrison Chang'an, and respond to Xiahou Yuan.

Cao Cao had already known the news that Guan Yu had raised troops to attack Xiangfan, and had already sent Cao Ren to lead troops to reinforce him.

Cao Cao pondered for a while, and felt that with the more than 30,000 defenders of Xiangyang and Fancheng, plus Cao Ren sent by himself, there were more than 40,000 people in total.

With Xiangfan's integrated defense system, Cao Ren, the ability to be full of favors, not to mention defeating Guan Yu and guarding Xiangfan, it shouldn't be a big problem, right?!

Therefore, Cao Cao decided to continue to lead his army westward.

But before Cao Cao could lead the army to set off, he suddenly received two battle reports.

One was that the Marquis of Wancheng rebelled on the grounds of Cao Cao's tyranny and unreasonableness, and soon swept through most of Nanyang.

The reason for this is that Cao Ren's levy in Wancheng was too heavy, which caused the Wancheng family and the people to complain.

In Cao Ren's eyes, he only went to Xiangfan to defeat Guan Yu, and there was no appeasement at all, but instead intensified the levy and forced labor, causing the local wealthy families represented by Hou Yin to be unbearable and directly rebelled.

Of course, it is impossible for a person like Cao Cao to believe such superficial articles.

If you really want to talk about it, Cao Cao has ruled Wancheng for almost twenty years, and in these twenty years, Cao Cao's policies have been the same.

Why don't these people usually rebel, but Guan Yu rebelled when he started to attack Xiangyang?!

If you want to say that this has nothing to do with Guan Yu, who will believe it.

Another one, Cao Cao, since he became the king of Wei, the whole person's mentality has changed a lot, Wancheng is close to Xu Du, and Xu Du has just rebelled not long ago, and the rebels almost took the Son of Heaven hostage and fled. Cao Cao's whole mentality was messed up.

After learning of Hou Yin's rebellion, Cao Cao immediately ordered Cao Ren to stop fighting Guan Yu and return to his division to quell Hou Yin's rebellion first.

Immediately afterwards, the second battle report arrived, which was sent by Hu Xiu.

Guan Yu led an army of 100,000 to break through Yicheng and threaten Xiangyang, Xiangyang was not well garrisoned, so he asked Cao Cao to send reinforcements quickly.

Cao Cao was angry and tore up this battle report.

How many people Guan Yu can have in total, can he Cao Cao still be unclear, this Hu Xiu and Lu Chang were simply frightened by Guan Yu.

But the military report said that Guan Yu had broken through Yicheng, which was indeed somewhat unexpected by Cao Cao. Guan Yu's advance speed is too fast.

Less than a month after the start of the army, the troops were already in Xiangyang City.

If Guan Yu only attacked Xiangyang from the south bank of the Han River, then Cao Cao was not worried, after all, Xiangfan's defense system was there, and Guan Yu attacked Xiangyang on the south bank of the Han River, which was simply a good strategy.

But Cao Cao didn't think Guan Yu would be so stupid.

Therefore, Cao Cao felt that reinforcements still had to be sent, but not to the two fools Lu Chang and Hu Xiu in Xiangyang City, but to send reinforcements to the Manchu Pet stationed in Fancheng.

Let Man Pet deal with Guan Yu, Cao Cao is still a little uneasy.

What's more, Guan Yu also has a helper Zhang Xi by his side.

This person, but in Padang County, he is a person who has made Miaocai suffer a small loss.

Even if it is not as good as Guan Yu, it may still be possible to contain the full favor.

Therefore, reinforcements must be sent.

(End of chapter)