Of course, you can't let the full pet go, he's gone, who will guard Fancheng?!

Without Fancheng, how to attract Cao Cao to continue to send troops to support, and how to divide Cao Cao's troops to support the battle of Hanzhong.

If Fancheng is lost like this, then if you want to attract Cao Cao's troops, you can't have to fight Wancheng or Xu Du.

If only that's the case. Well, although the vision is beautiful, it really doesn't have that ability.

After several battles, they had to divide their troops to garrison Linfu and Yicheng, and now the total number of troops in Guan Yu's hands was only about 35,000.

It has been two months since the troops were dispatched in June, and a lot of grain and grass have been consumed, and they can't afford another big war.

Once Fancheng is occupied at this time, Guan Yu's army may be in a situation where the offense is insufficient and the defense is overcharged, and it will not dare to advance north or east on a large scale again.

It is better to continue to use Fancheng as a bait to lure Cao Cao to continue to divide his troops, such an old strategy is better.

But Guan Yu obviously disagrees with such a view.

After a day of division of troops, Guan Yu also gathered a lot of Cao Jun's soldiers, and by the way, he took a little effort to capture Xu Chu back.

As soon as he heard that Zhang Xi was besieging Fancheng with naval warships, he rushed to help as soon as possible.

But soon, Guan Yu found out that Zhang Xi was just encircling, but he was not satisfied with Guan Yu, so he directly took over the command and launched an attack on Fancheng.

At this moment, he almost caught Man Pet off guard, and Man Pet was leading his white horse to the city, ready to kill the white horse in front of many soldiers, and swear to boost the morale of the soldiers defending the city.

As a result, the white horse was directly shot into a hedgehog, and the full favor was because he hid behind the white horse and used the white horse as a meat shield, and the general escaped.

Well. In these days, the life of the white horse is really bad.

Manzhong, who escaped on a white horse, saw that the enemy army was attacking, and immediately organized soldiers to defend and retaliated with arrows.

In the final analysis, the city has just experienced a great flood, the military rations are insufficient, the morale of the soldiers is low, and there is no confidence in whether they can hold it or not.

But fortunately, now the sky has slowly darkened, although Guan Yu attacked Fancheng, but only fought for less than half an hour, as the sky darkened, Guan Yu did not dare to continue the attack, but commanded the ships to anchor on the spot, waiting for tomorrow dawn to attack again.

And then bar. On whether to revise the strategic intent, Zhang Xi and Guan Yu had a second exchange of opinions.

It's really communication, not even conflict.

The current situation is very similar to the historical situation, but it is also different.

Although the same is the same flooding of the Seventh Army, forced to surrender to the ban, and captured Xu Chu alive. But the defender of Fancheng is not Cao Ren, but full of favor.

Cao Ren has a reason to stick to it, but Manzhong actually doesn't.

Again, Fancheng is not as difficult to fight as it was in history.

Regardless of whether there is a big water to help him, to conquer Fancheng is actually not a difficult thing for Guan Yu now.

This is the decisive factor for Guan Yu to change his strategy and rely on Xiangfan.

The formulation of a series of previous strategic objectives, including the encirclement of Xiangfan and forcing Cao Cao to send troops to rescue in response to the battle of Hanzhong, was actually based on the fact that Xiangfan was difficult to fight.

But now Guan Yu has discovered that in fact, Fancheng is really not difficult to fight.

Yu Ban's Seventh Army was flooded, there were no reinforcements outside Fancheng, and there was no grain and grass inside, in this case, if you don't try to fight Fancheng and force Xiangyang to surrender, it is really sorry for such good conditions.

If all of them are based on Xiangfan and look at Jingbei, then Cao Cao will not dare to go all out to support Hanzhong, and must strengthen his defenses in Wancheng and Xudu, and in general, the purpose of supporting Hanzhong has been achieved.

On the contrary, if Fancheng is kept and not fought, and when the water retreats, Cao Cao personally leads the army to support, then the situation will really become complicated.

After all, Guan Yu only has more than 30,000 troops, if Cao Cao abandons Hanzhong and orders Xiahou Yuan to garrison Chang'an, he personally leads an army of 100,000 to the south, Guan Yu really can't say whether he can stop Cao Cao.

But if you have Fancheng and Xiangyang in hand, backed by the power of Nanjun and Xiangyang, and Cao ** has to fight a siege battle, the result is really hard to say.

In the current situation, if you don't conquer Fancheng, there will be more disadvantages than defeating Fancheng.

This is the reason why Guan Yu insisted on taking Fancheng.

Now Zhang Xi finally understands why Guan Yu in history suddenly changed his strategy and turned into a storming of Fancheng, and made wishes everywhere in Jingbei to delay the arrival of Cao Cao's reinforcements.

Indeed, after flooding the Seventh Army, this Fancheng looked too easy to breach.

Even Zhang Xi is no longer meaningless in opposition now, but is considering whether it is feasible to break through Fancheng.

Even Zhang Xi was still thinking about the situation on the Jiangdong side - if Guan Yu had already laid down Xiangfan before Jiangdong launched the backstab, would Jiangdong still launch the backstab?!

Zhang Xi is really hard to judge in this regard.

If you stand in Sun Quan's position, there is a high probability that he will still launch a backstab, after all, Sun Quan's thoughts about Jingzhou are not a day or two, if Guan Yu beats Xiangfan again, he will feel even more uneasy about Guan Yu, and he will still choose to backstab.

But now it's different, isn't Zhou Yu still alive, with Zhou Yu's eyes, can't you see that it is not the best time to backstab Jingzhou now, but should take advantage of this time to go north to Hefei and occupy the land of Huainan to defend it, which is the most in line with the interests of Jiangdong.

In addition, the heavy rain when the Seventh Army was flooded also gave Zhang Xi some not very good premonitions, and Zhang Xi was also shaken in his heart.

The heavy rainstorm that should have been in Jian'an for 24 years was moved to the 22 years of Jian'an, does this mean that this era must follow the original script, and it can't be changed slightly? !

Then what is this God trying to do by allowing himself to cross over again?!

Zhang Xi didn't believe in this evil a little.

Zhang Xi has traveled through twelve years, and it is really not that he has done nothing, he is just at the strategic level and has not made too many changes.

The ten years after the thirteenth year of Jian'an are the ten years of rapid development and growth of Liu Bei Group, during these ten years, Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang and others have done their best at the strategic level, even if Zhang Xi wants to intervene, it is impossible to do better than the two of them.

Therefore, what Zhang Xi can do is to start from the basic level and try to do something that can help Liu Bei consolidate the foundation of his rule.

And these things will not be effective for a while.

When entering Sichuan, Zhang Xi tried his best to help Liu Bei shorten the time of the war and help Liu Bei fight for enough time to recuperate before the Battle of Hanzhong.

During the Battle of Jingnan, in the face of Cao Cao's early attack on Hanzhong, it was the most correct choice to negotiate peace with Sun Quan, and all Zhang Xi could do was to lay some chess pieces in Jingnan, and at the same time keep giving Guan Yu vaccinations, so that he would not underestimate Jiangdong's ambitions.

In Badong County for two years, Zhang Xi came up with paper and engraving printing because Liu Bei already had a stable territory and needed to develop internal affairs.

During his three years in Nanjun, Zhang Xi kept building internal affairs infrastructure, gathering talents, and establishing academies, all in order to buy the hearts of the local people and prevent these people from surrendering when Lu Meng was stabbed in the back.

All this, at the moment, seems trivial and meaningless.

But if it continues for a long time, in another five or ten years, it will show sufficient results.

Because of the spread of paper and the prevalence of engraving printing, the volume of scholars in Shu will definitely rise by an order of magnitude, although it is impossible to reach the level of qualitative change, but it can greatly increase the probability of talents in Shu.

What Pan Jun did in Jingnan could greatly strengthen Liu Bei's group's control over Jingnan, Xu Shu sat in Wuling, which could prevent Jiangdong from backstabbing in the short term, and in the long run, he could subdue the heart of the Wuling barbarians and increase Dingkou and taxes.

The establishment of the academy in Nanjun will help increase the centripetal force of the Jingzhou scholars to Liu Bei, even if Liu Bei is in Chengdu, there is also a bit of kindness added to Jingzhou, and if Yuelu Academy can really continue for a long time and become the cultural center of Jingzhou and even the south, then Liu Bei's rule in Jingzhou will be quite stable.

Zhang Xi really didn't do nothing, he just sat back and watched the development of history, he was just using his own way to make Liu Bei's future path longer.

But now, a heavy rain in the 22nd year of Jian'an has made Zhang Xi begin to wonder whether the things he has done are effective.

If Guan Yu attacks Xiangfan, he is destined to have a heavy rain to help him flood the Seventh Army, so when Lu Meng backstabs Jingzhou in the future, is it destined that the public security guard Wen Ping and Jiangling guard Wang Ji will also open the city and surrender? !

Zhang Xi didn't believe it, and he didn't dare to bet.

Therefore, Zhang Xi planned to make a temptation first.

And this temptation is to capture Fancheng.

Historically, Guan Yu has never captured Fancheng, but this time, if Guan Yu can capture Fancheng and hold Fancheng when Cao Cao attacks in the future, it means that there is no established script in this world, and it can be changed.

Therefore, Zhang Xi did not insist on blocking Guan Yu from revising his strategic objectives this time, but instead agreed to take the capture of Xiangfan as a new strategic goal.

In this way, the purpose of Guan Yu and Zhang Xi's dispatch has changed.

It is no longer just a feint attack made in response to the Hanzhong battlefield, but a second battlefield in Jingbei is officially opened to realize the strategic concept of the north according to the Han Dynasty in Zhuge Liang's "Longzhong Pair".

Guan Yu and Zhang Xi communicated all night, and the two sides reached an agreement.

The next day, Guan Yu began to command the naval ships to attack the city.

Yes, one thing that sounds funny, but at this time, it became possible - naval ships can also be used to siege cities.

The heavy rain is still falling, the water level outside Fancheng is still rising, if it rains for another two or three days, Guan Yu can even let the naval warship get close to the city wall, and directly let the soldiers land on the city wall from the ship to launch a siege battle.

Even siege equipment such as ladders are saved.

Manpet is also guarding very hard now, after all, the height difference has been reduced a lot, and the advantage of the city wall is slowly being weakened, if the heavy rain continues, then Manpet should really consider escaping.

But in the afternoon when Guan Yu launched the siege of the city, the weather that was still pouring rain slowly turned into light rain, and in the end, the weather even slowly began to clear up.

Man Zhong was simply ecstatic, and Guan Yu suddenly frowned.

Zhang Xi's face began to become more and more ugly.

(End of chapter)