As soon as the heavy rain stops, it means that the full pet only needs to hold on for a few days, and the water will slowly recede.

Although it may take more than ten days for the flood to completely recede, for the full favor of the defending side, as long as it is guarded for three or four days, when the water level recedes to a certain extent, Guan Yu must withdraw.

Otherwise, these naval vessels should run aground on flat ground and will not be able to move at all.

Compared with Man Pet, he may not be able to hold on for ten days, but after three or four days, Man Pet feels that there is still hope.

Now that the rain has stopped and the sun is clear, it is good news for Man Pet, but for Guan Yu and Zhang Xi, it is definitely not good news.

Even Zhang Xi's heart was faintly uneasy, and he always felt that the development of this matter would really go back to the old way.

Of course, Guan Yu also knew Manzhong's plan, and he knew that the next three days would be the key to whether he could break through Fancheng.

Therefore, Guan Yu intensified the siege of the city, risked trying to transport the soldiers to the city wall by boat, and climbed the city wall to fight by means of a human ladder.

Such operations continued all morning, but did not work well.

Although the food of the fully favored defenders was flooded, the ordnance was basically still there, and there was no shortage of bows and arrows and ordnance to defend the city for the time being.

Guan Yu ordered the fleet to approach the city wall, and Manzhong asked the soldiers to return fire with bows and arrows.

Although such losses were not small, Fan Cheng still had some condescending advantages, and in terms of range, it was a little farther than Guan Yu's attacking fleet.

The most important thing is that because there is water all around, flooding some trees on the flat ground, Guan Yu can't build siege equipment from local materials, whether it's a ladder or a rushing car, Guan Yu can't build it.

The only way to siege the city was to let the fleet venture close to the city walls and launch a siege by taking a ladder.

However, in the end, the ship is used as a vehicle, and it is easy to lose the center of gravity when riding a ladder on the ship, not to mention that you still have enemy throwing stones and arrows on your head.

Therefore, Guan Yu tried all morning, and found that in addition to the loss of soldiers in vain, the siege effect was not great at all, so he had to let the ships retreat and find another way.

And at this time, Zhang Xi finally decided to fight with God!

Since he has decided to change his strategy, even if there is really the so-called God and fatalism, Zhang Xi does not intend to accept his fate, and must do his best to help Guan Yu attack the city and break this so-called "fate".

After watching it all morning, Zhang Xi can be regarded as understanding, Manzhong is now defending the city, but it is just relying on Guan Yu's army's navy that has no siege equipment, and the two sides are fighting for casualties in archery, and there is no good way.

Manzhong is dragging out time, waiting for three or four days, the water level outside the city drops, he regains the height of the city wall and the advantage of protection, and continues to defend the city.

In this case, Zhang Xi remembered that when he retreated to the ship, the thirteen counterweight catapults in the barracks seemed to have been moved to the ship together.

Of course, ordinary small boats can't fit it, and the ship that can fit these catapults must at least be the Mengchong big ship.

On the one hand, Zhang Xi suggested that Guan Yu continue to maintain pressure on Fancheng from a distance, consuming the arrows of the favored defenders, and on the other hand, Zhang Xi began to transform the ships.

The two building ships and the four Mengchong ships in Guan Yu's naval army were all mobilized, and the six large ships were connected with each other with iron cables and planks to create a wide platform.

All the superstructures on the deck of the building ship and Mengchong were removed to expand the deck area.

Then, all thirteen catapults were pushed onto the wide platform.

It took half a day and a night, and Zhang Xi finally renovated the catapult platform and pushed it in front of the two armies before the siege the next day.

Full of pets, his eyelids trembled.

The power of these catapults is very clear to Man, after all, he has personally been projected.

If it was on flat ground, Man Pet could have risked sending troops out of the city to burn this thing, but now that he was searching the whole city, he could get a few sampan boats out, how could he burn such a big thing.

In the Battle of Chibi, the King of Wei was defeated on the chain of iron cables. With such a lesson from the past, Guan Yu can't be so stupid as to allow a fireship to approach such a big platform, right?!

The only thing that still gives full confidence is probably that the water level has receded.

After all, even if it is this kind of catapult, if it wants to collapse the city wall, it will take at least a few days, but as the water level drops, Guan Yu's fleet will not stay for a few days and must be withdrawn, otherwise the ship will run aground and will not be able to leave.

Therefore, Man Chong felt that although the catapult siege was very powerful and would strongly hit the morale of the defenders, as long as he held on for another two or three days, after the water level dropped, Guan Yu's army would still have to retreat.

But. Full of pets didn't expect that this broken catapult, he can not only throw big stones, he can also throw small stones. Pebbles the size of an egg.

And full of pet even more unexpectedly, this catapult is a counterweight, each time the throwing distance is roughly controllable, as long as the proportion can be controlled, the small stones thrown by this catapult, the scatter error will not exceed twenty steps.

The width of the city wall of Fancheng is almost twenty steps.

In other words, Zhang Xi can ensure that the small stones thrown by the catapult are almost all scattered on the city wall.

What's worse is that this catapult platform, which is built on a boat, in other words, this thing is mobile and easy to move.

Zhang Xi formed this catapult platform not to destroy the city wall, he used it to fight the soldiers on the city wall.

The catapult has a longer range than a crossbow, and the catapult can project small stones at the wall at a distance to kill and injure the defenders of the full favor, and the full of favored soldiers cannot threaten the catapult at all.

Coupled with Guan Yu's bow and crossbow suppression, it is not difficult to create an area with fewer defenders in an area in a short period of time.

On the contrary, the defenders who are full of favors, in the face of such a long-range attack, have no good way except to dodge.

At first, the soldiers of the full favored army still wanted to shrink under the female wall or raise their shields to dodge like they did with arrows.

But the problem is that arrows can be dodged in this way, because arrows cannot cover a large area, there is always an interval between shots, and a mature archer cannot shoot arrows for a long time.

But the catapult can be projected without interruption, and people will not be tired of projecting for several hours.

The soldiers of the full favored army who were suppressed did not dare to rise from under the female wall, let alone fight back with arrows.

And it is useless to raise a shield, a stone the size of an egg, the shield will not last a few impacts at all, and the shield will not last long.

In the past, when there was no flood, the soldiers could still remove the city wall and retreat to the base of the city wall to avoid the attack of this flying stone, but now there is water under the city wall on both sides, you can't hide in the water, right?!

Hide in the water, and then come up, but it will be difficult.

Therefore, the favored defenders could only stand on the city wall and be attacked by the flying stones of the catapults.

After a long time, the defenders are not stupid, and they know to judge the range of the flying stone attack by looking at the direction of movement of this platform. Anyway, the walls are so wide and so big, you only have thirteen catapults, so it's a big deal for me to dodge it, so the stones won't hit me.

The defenders found the trick and began to avoid the catapult's projection range, but the full favor was about to go crazy.

Of course, Man Pet also knows that he can't do anything with this catapult now, but Man Pet also believes that the throwing of this catapult is also impossible to last long.

The flooded city is not easy to find, and the stones that the catapult wants to throw, is it so easy to find?!

Now the catapult can be thrown, but it is just some of the military stocks that were prepared before, as long as it survives today, the full favor does not believe that the other party will be able to maintain such a high density of projection tomorrow.

But now full of favor sees that the soldiers under his command, in order not to be projected by stones, actually began to take the initiative to avoid the projection range of the catapult, can this still be obtained?!

Yes, you can avoid the range of the catapult, but is there anyone who dares to defend within that range?!

In this way, it is equivalent to giving up the defense of a section of the city wall.

At this time, as long as Guan Yu is not stupid. Well, Man Pet has found out, Guan Yu is not stupid at all, he has already commanded the fleet and began to attack the city wall within the throw range of the catapult.

After Guan Yu's fleet approached the city wall, the catapult stopped projecting, and the next step was to grab time to see whether it was the Cao army under the command of Man Pet who would return to the defense in place first, or the soldiers on Guan Yu's fleet who would set up a ladder to climb the city wall first.

This is the time to fight for the quality and combat effectiveness of the sergeant.

Both Man Pet and Guan Yu know, and Man Pet knows even more that his chances of winning are getting smaller and smaller.

First of all, the combat power of Guan Yu's army is not weaker than the defenders in the city, and this is very clear.

The two sides had fought in the field once before, and full of favors knew each other's strength.

Secondly, there is no reserve force in Manchu now, in order to avoid the flood, all the soldiers are on the city wall, and the soldiers also know that they have no backup, once Guan Yu's army has a firm foothold on the city wall, then it is impossible to drive people down.

Finally, and most importantly. The Manchu army is now besieging the city by heavy water, and is besieged by the enemy, with no reinforcements outside, and a lack of food and grass inside, and the morale has fallen to the extreme.

Guan Yu can fail to attack the city once, twice, but as long as he can climb the city wall once, expand the landing area, and hold on to the reinforcements on the city wall, then the full favor may face the collapse of the whole line.

Guan Yu lost it, and he was full of favors, and he really couldn't afford to lose.

Therefore, after Man Zhong commanded the soldiers to block Guan Yu's two attacks, the third time was finally not blocked.

This is really not to blame Manzhong, Manzhong can command the current defenders to fight like this, it is not easy.

You must know that the current defenders of Fancheng have not completely collapsed, and it is still quite difficult to go up to the city wall to kill the enemy.

was able to defend it before, but it was all thanks to all kinds of promises and verbal incentives from full favor, coupled with Cao Wei's strict military law threats, that he could barely stabilize the morale of the army.

But now, the enemy army has attacked the city wall, and has gained a firm foothold in the battle on the wall, and the enemy reinforcements are constantly climbing the city wall. There is no hope in the front, there is no way back, do you still expect these defenders to give you your life to defend it?!

Therefore, when Guan Yu's army officially established itself on a section of the city wall, Cao's army's will to fight fell like dominoes, and in less than a quarter of an hour, the city wall was full of surrendered soldiers.

And full of pets. As early as after Guan Yujun climbed the city wall, he knew that the matter was irreparable.

Taking advantage of the fact that the soldiers on the city wall were still resisting, Man Zhong boarded the boat prepared in advance early, and took advantage of the chaos to abandon the city from the north gate of Fancheng and go north.

Just like Zhang Xi said, Man Chong knew that he would never be captured by Liu Beijun.

Others were captured by Liu Bei, and there may be a way to live, but he is full of favor, and it must be a dead end.

The main general fled, the soldiers had no desire to fight, and soon, Guan Yu's army took control of the city defense of Fancheng.

At this point, Fancheng was breached.

(End of chapter)