Reinforcements must be sent, but who is the leader needs to be carefully considered, after all, the opponent is Guan Yu.

Cao Cao and Cao Pi are different, Cao Pi has a child's mentality, and he always feels that his relatives want to harm him, so he will be wary of the clan generals in every way.

Cao Cao's most trusted person was the general of the Cao clan.

But now, Cao Chun died of illness, Cao Ren went to Wancheng Town to suppress the Houyin rebellion, Cao Hong stuck to Chencang Road, and took Cao Xiu and Cao Zhen with the two juniors, Xiahou Yuan was guarding Hanzhong, Xiahou Yuan Well, Xiahou Yuan still forget it, fight the bandits on weekdays, the town guard is a good hand, and in the face of Guan Yu, he is going to deliver food.

The generals of the Cao clan, the older generation are all fighting outside, and the younger generation of Xiahou Shang and others are still young, and they will not be the opponents of the battle-hardened Guan Yu if they barely lead the troops.

Then you can only look for it from the generals with foreign surnames.

Zhang Liao and Le Jin resisted Sun Huan and Sun Yu's attack in Hefei and could not move.

Xu Huang and Zhang He helped Xiahou Yuan in Hanzhong, but they couldn't move.

Li Dian has passed away.

Among the five good generals, only one Yu Ban is still by his side.

Cao Cao pondered in his heart for a while, and then decided to let Yu Ban lead 30,000 troops, divided into seven route armies, bypass Wancheng, go to Fancheng, and cooperate with Fancheng's guards to meet Guan Yu.

Although over the years, Yu Ban has rarely led troops to the battlefield, but at the beginning of Wancheng, Cao Cao's impression of Yu Ban's efforts to turn the tide was still very profound, and Cao Cao was still very relieved to let Yu Ban lead the troops to the battle.

But in view of Yu Ban's strict management of the army, but he is not known for his martial bravery, Cao Cao thought to himself, he had to send Yu Ban a deputy general who could charge into battle.

Thinking about it, Cao Cao was entangled between Xu Chu and his son Cao Zhang.

Xu Chu, needless to say, his own guard, during the Battle of Tongguan, Ma Chao was so good, he didn't take the initiative to ask if Xu Chu was there.

Cao Zhang, is the most outstanding one among his children, he already has a lot of prestige in the army at a young age, originally Cao Cao planned to put Cao Zhang in the north next year to exercise, now Liu Bei is fighting Hanzhong, Cao Cao is thinking about letting Cao Zhang follow to see the world, and by the way, show off that he has a good son in front of his old opponents.

But for now. Score one to help Yu Ban.

Cao Cao thought about it, although his son was noble, his qualifications were too shallow after all.

The status is noble, but he is worried that his son will go to Yu Ban to be a deputy general, and Yu Ban will not move.

The seniority is too shallow, because he is worried that Cao Zhang will make his own opinions, do not listen to the arrangements of the commander-in-chief in the army, and act without authorization to cause a big disaster.

After all, the opponent is Guan Yu, and he is not an ordinary person, Cao Cao is the person who knows Guan Yu's ability to command troops the most except Liu Bei.

Therefore, Cao Cao decided to send Xu Chu to follow Yu Ban to rescue Xiangyang.

On the one hand, Xu Chu's martial arts, Cao Cao is very recognized, and he also has many years of experience in the army, although he has always been guarding his own left and right, but how he handles military affairs, Xu Chu can learn a little even if he just watches from the side.

On the other hand, Xu Chu has followed him for so many years, although he is unable to lead an army alone due to his lack of ability, but as a deputy general, Cao Cao feels that it is still possible, let him also make more contributions, so that he can be called a "tiger marquis" more justifiably.

Since Ma Chao confronted him at Tongguan, he asked "Is the Tiger Marquis here" at the negotiating table, so that Xu Chu's name of "Tiger Marquis" spread throughout the army.

But Xu Chu is not Hou in the end.

The Han Dynasty stipulates that there is no merit and no marquis, not Liu Buwang.

Although it was not Liu Buwang's article that Cao Cao himself destroyed, Cao Cao did not intend to destroy him without merit.

So, Cao Cao thinks that let Xu Chu follow Yu Ban to rescue Xiangyang, on the one hand, Yu Ban, who has old qualifications, will not be bad in the end, on the other hand, he can also take this opportunity to let Xu Chu get some credit, if he can repel Guan Yu, then Cao Cao is to give Xu Chu a real tiger marquis, which is also reasonable.

In this way, Cao Cao ordered that Xu Chu follow Yu Ban to send troops to rescue Xiangyang.

At this time, outside Xiangyang City, in the Yicheng area, Guan Yu and Zhang Xi, who were stationed here, also received a battle report.

This battle report was sent by Liu Bei from Hanzhong.

Again, not good news.

Liu Bei sent Gao Xiang to lead the army to cooperate with Wei Yan to attack Zhang He, and attacked for more than a month, paying great casualties, but still failed to break through Guangshi, which Zhang He was defending, and Xu Huang also got rid of Chen's entanglement many times, and aided Zhang He in time, and the two sides fell into a stalemate in the direction of Guangshi.

Seeing that his efforts were in vain, Liu Bei had to order Wei Yan, Chen Shi, and Gao Xiang to join forces and camp nearby to confront Zhang He, in case Zhang He threatened his grain route.

And Liu Bei confronted Xiahou Yuan for almost half a year in front of Yangping Pass, attacked several times, and still couldn't break through Xiahou Yuan's defense head-on.

Liu Bei had no choice but to ask Zhuge Liang who was sitting in Chengdu for reinforcements, and at the same time, he wrote to Guan Yu and asked him to launch the Battle of Xiangfan in the near future, and he must delay Cao Cao's westward advance and give him time to buy reinforcements.

Liu Bei's order arrived, Guan Yu also repaired the water village, and immediately began to attack Xiangfan according to Liu Bei's instructions.

In Yicheng, Zhang Xi left Zhou Tai and 3,000 men and horses, and asked him to guard the city, as long as Xiangyang did not send a large army south, he did not need to pay attention to them.

Then, Zhang Xi took the remaining 10,000 soldiers and boarded Guan Yu's warship, and went north along the Han River to attack the water village set up by Cao's army behind Fancheng.

This battle was personally commanded by Guan Yu.

There is no way, with the death of Chen Zhuo, the former commander of the Jingzhou Army and Navy a few years ago, now in Jingzhou, the only people who understand the tactics of the Navy are Wen Ping and Guan Yu. Wen Ping couldn't come, so he could only personally command Guan Yu, the commander of the First Army, to personally command the naval army to fight.

There is one thing to say, Cao Jun's water army. It's really rotten.

Facing the enemy on the river, it was almost a touch of collapse, and the rest of the water army retreated to the water village and could not hold out, so that Guan Yu suppressed it with arrows, and then sent a fire boat to burn the water village clean.

This time, the Cao army did not have a chain of iron cables, and after the fire in the water village, most of the warships of the Cao army evacuated the water village.

However, the number of warships of the Cao army itself was small, and there was no protection of the water village, so it was impossible for the warships to beat Guan Yu's army on the river, and soon they either surrendered or the ships were burned, and Guan Yu easily defeated the Cao army's army.

In the middle of this, the defenders of Fancheng were full of favor, and they once tried to send archers to the shore to assist the water village, but after being suppressed by a rain of arrows from the Jingzhou water army, they no longer dared to approach the water village.

Fighting along the waterfront, the maneuverability of the naval warships is extremely high, and the archers on land simply cannot effectively threaten the naval army. After realizing this, Man Pet gave up his support for the water army.

With that force, it is better to retreat back to Fancheng and hold on to it for reinforcements.

Anyway, Guan Yu can't put wheels on the warship and go ashore to attack the city.

Therefore, Manzhong stuck to Fancheng and waited for Cao Cao's reinforcements to arrive.

Full Pet did this, but Guan Yu was a little helpless.

Although the moon formation is good, it also needs the other party to take the initiative to attack. Full of pets can't hold on, but the power of the moon array can't be brought into play.

In that case, stop the boat and go ashore, set up camp, and build a counterweight catapult.

It takes time to build a catapult, and before that, Guan Yu had tried to go to Fancheng to call for a battle, and asked Man Pet to go out of the city to fight, but Man Pet directly refused.

Just kidding, I don't have a pit in my head, I can't stand it if I fight with you Guan Yu, and you come back and have a "general in a million army" or something.

This person is very pragmatic, and he will never go out of the city to fight in the field for a little fame. Besides, he has never had a good reputation on Cao Wei's side.

After all, he was born as a cool official.

Besides, being forced by Guan Yu to close the city and defend it is not a shameful thing do you think it is a shame, then think about Yan Liang.

Full pet is so persistent, Guan Yu can't help it.

Guan Yu is a person who wants to be faced, and it is okay for the general to call the formation, but the general scolds the formation for not doing this, and he loses his identity.

Therefore, Guan Yu asked Zhang Xi if there was any good way.

Zhang Xi thought about it for a while, and said that it really didn't work, so he asked Guan Ping to call the battle.

If he doesn't even play out of Guan Ping's battle, then let Zhang Wei go, and if Zhang Wei doesn't come out of the station when he goes to call the formation, then he will call a small soldier to go and say that he wants to go head-to-head before the battle.

is full of favors, but if you want to make a face, it is estimated that you will not get to Zhang Wei's step.

It is not ashamed to be forced by Guan Yu to close the city and defend it, but it is a bit embarrassing to be called by Guan Ping of the younger generation.

Of course, if the full favor is the kind of person who really doesn't care about his reputation to the last step, the small soldier goes to fight alone, if he doesn't go out again, then he really doesn't want to be an official.

If you do, you will be ridiculed for the rest of your life.

Of course, going out to fight alone will be ridiculed for a lifetime, and the dignified general actually wants to go head-to-head with the soldiers.

Guan Yu felt that this idea was really bad enough, but. Forget it, let Ping'er go.

Before leaving the battle, Guan Yu instructed Guan Ping that if Man Pet went out to fight, then he didn't need to be entangled too much with Man Pet, he only needed to lead him to the camp on the bank of the river, and then Guan Yu personally went out to serve.

Guan Ping made a note of it, and then went to Fancheng to call the battle, and invited the full pet to come out to fight.

is full of pampering, and his face is pale.

Guan Yu is humiliating him, and he knows it.

But in the same way, Man Pet knew that Guan Yu was provoking him to fight.

After all, Guan Yu came from afar, and a quick victory was his appeal, and Manzhong only needed to shrink in Fancheng and hold on, hold Fancheng, and force Guan Yu to withdraw his troops.

Therefore, although Man Chong was very angry and wanted to fight, he finally held back his anger and said to Guan Ping with a smile on the tower of Fancheng City, he Man Chong and Guan Yu are of the same generation, so he will not bully his nephew with a big bully, if Guan Yu thinks that he can capture Fancheng, then come to attack, don't engage in any field battles.

Everyone is a thousand-year-old fox, so don't talk about fasting stories.

Although it is a loss of face in this way, there is a reason for it, and the full favor said that he did not fight because he could not bully the small with the big, but it was said in the past.

But three days later, when Zhang Wei appeared outside the city to invite a fight, Manzhong's whole face was black.

(End of chapter)