Seeing Guan Ping and Zhang Wei attacking the head of Fancheng, Sergeant Cao was defeated and chose to surrender Guan Yu and Zhang Xi when there was nowhere to escape, and they were all relieved.

Guan Yu breathed a sigh of relief because he had finally broken through Fancheng before the water level dropped.

Seriously, if Man Pet can hold on for another two days, and when the water level drops to only four or five zhang deep, then Guan Yu can only choose to retreat in order to avoid the warship running aground, and wait until the water recedes before attacking Fancheng.

In this way, it will give Man Pet at least half a month or so to rest, and it can also allow Man Pet to urgently ask Cao Cao in the north for help, so as to gain time to wait for reinforcements.

But now, Fancheng has been broken, and Guan Yu doesn't have to worry about this problem.

He only needs to leave some soldiers and enough food and grass now, let them guard in Fancheng first, and temporarily lead the naval army to retreat, and when the water retreats, the whole army can go ashore and enter Fancheng.

Anyway, Cao Cao couldn't launch an attack on Fancheng before the flood receded, after all, Cao Cao didn't have a naval army to use.

And Zhang Xi breathed a sigh of relief because he had already won more than half of his bet with "God".

Fancheng has been captured, and the city defense of Fancheng has not been damaged too much.

Although it was flooded for a few days, some of the buildings in the city were somewhat damaged, but the walls were not greatly damaged.

In these years, the construction of military fortresses was still very exquisite, and the rammed earth and masonry were very tightly squeezed.

It's hard to say that it will take a few months and a half to soak it, but in just a few days, if there is a problem with the city wall, then Cao Cao should really check who is responsible for this tofu scum project.

With Fancheng in hand, although Xiangyang behind him has not been completely breached, it already has the capital to stick to the north bank of the Han River.

Zhang Xi didn't believe it, the Cao army of Xiangyang, which did not have the support of the navy, could break through the blockage of Guan Yu's navy on the Han River, and cooperate with Cao Cao to attack Fancheng on both sides.

Therefore, the focus of attack and defense between Xiangfan is the water army, and those who get the water army will get Xiangfan.

However, in order to meet together, Zhang Xi still suggested that Guan Yu should lead Zhang Wei and other 5,000 people to hold on to Fancheng, while Guan Yu himself led the remaining army to land on the south bank of the Han River, contact Zhoutai in Yicheng, and attack on both sides to threaten Xiangyang.

Guan Yu also felt that he couldn't let the defenders of Xiangyang City go, there were still more than 20,000 guards there, and it was better to solve it as soon as possible.

Although, Guan Yu also felt that with the skills of Hu Xiu and Lu Chang in Xiangyang City, it was impossible to make too big waves.

Seriously, if these two have a bit of strategy, they should also send troops to attack Yicheng when Guan Yu and Yu Ban confronted him.

As long as Yicheng is breached, Guan Yu will have to divide his troops to defend the water village outside Yicheng, and the defenders of Xiangyang can even send troops to threaten Dangyang, or even march into Nanjun.

But Hu Xiu and Lu Chang just stayed motionless in Xiangyang City.

Now it's okay, Guan Yu flooded the Seventh Army, and this incident happened under the noses of everyone in Xiangyang City, and Hu Xiu and Lu Chang were both a little frightened.

Hu Xiu and Lu Chang couldn't have imagined that Guan Yu still had the ability to borrow Tianshi.

This matter, in fact, you can't blame Hu Xiu and Lu Chang, these two people are not the kind of people who kill decisively in troubled times, they are the kind of people who are more common in this era.

Of course, it doesn't mean that you are powerless, and the strength of the scholars in these years is generally not low, and it is not so difficult to kill a bandit or something with a sword with him.

Hu Xiu and Lu Chang were frightened, mainly at the level of cognition and values.

In the Han Dynasty, the early belief was in the Huang Lao Doctrine, although later Confucianism became the mainstream of Xianxue, but the market for the Huang Lao Doctrine still exists.

Especially metaphysics, the scholars of these years have somewhat dabbled in it.

The war at the end of the Han Dynasty led to the displacement of the people, which is described in Cao Cao's poem, that is, "the white bones are exposed in the wilderness, and there is no rooster crowing for thousands of miles".

All in all, the perennial war has led to the people's misery, and many scholars have also been affected by the troubled times and have fled the military disaster everywhere.

Some of the more pessimistic people began to get tired of escaping the world, and the study of metaphysics became more obvious in the Wei and Jin dynasties, and the metaphysics of sitting and talking about it once occupied the mainstream position.

Most of the famous "Seven Sages of the Bamboo Forest" in history are people who escape from the world and talk about metaphysics and self-comfort, but they can still get the respect of the world, which shows how the atmosphere among scholars at that time was.

Therefore, the scholars of these years have a certain understanding of metaphysics, and some even specialize in studying the branch of metaphysics, the "prophecy" that the gods and gods are talking about.

For example, Qian Zhou, a lifetime of learning, said that the good thing is to study the stars, and to say the bad point is all on the "prophecy study".

A sentence of "those who represent the Han Dynasty, when Tu Gao", in the past two or three hundred years, has been interpreted by countless self-righteous readers, I don't know how much meaning has come out, as far as two hundred years ago, Gongsun Shu, Liu Xiu, and Yuan Shu a few years ago, all believe in this kind of "prophecy".

Hu Xiu and Lu Chang are very good at studying these metaphysics, and even Hu Xiu is very superstitious about this thing.

It's just that Guan Yu flooded the Seventh Army, it's really too metaphysical.

Hu Xiu and Lu Chang didn't know much about military affairs, so they could only analyze the battle situation on the north bank of the Han River from some detailed works or battle reports.

Judging from the battle report, Yu Ban won successive victories in the early days, and even captured Guan Yu's camp, and he was about to repel Guan Yu and force him back to Nanjun.

But suddenly, it rained heavily from the sky, and the Han River burst the embankment, drowning the seven armies brought by Yu Ban, totaling more than 30,000 soldiers.

Guan Yu broke the Yu ban almost effortlessly, collected tens of thousands of Cao soldiers, and broke through Fancheng in one go.

This is not clear, the destiny is in Guan Yu.

God saw that Guan Yu was about to lose, and hurriedly rained for more than ten days to help Guan Yu turn defeat into victory, do we ordinary people still expect to be able to confront God?!

Therefore, as soon as Hu Xiu and Lu Chang saw Guan Yu leading the naval army to land on the south bank of the Han River, the two of them discussed it slightly, and felt that it was impossible for them to confront Guan Yu, who had the mandate of heaven, so they directly chose to surrender in Kaecheng.

Guan Yu didn't expect that these two cowards would actually put a fortified city like Xiangyang, and they didn't even defend it, so they surrendered directly.

Guan Yu was a little hesitant when he entered the city and was surrendered, for fear that there was some trap. Why did it go down?!

There are more than 20,000 soldiers, there is no shortage of rice and grain in the city, and there are also private soldiers of the big families.

But Hu Xiu and Lu Chang really descended like this, and most of the families in the city did not resist Guan Yu's entry into the city.

Even the wealthy Kuai family in Xiangyang also sent their heirs to take the lead in meeting Guan Yu and greeting each other to have a good relationship.

As for the Cai family, the Cai family has long shifted their focus to the north to develop, and they know very well that as far as Cai Mao did after Liu Biao's death, if the Cai family falls into the hands of Liu Bei, there will be no good fruit to eat, so it is better to go to the north to continue to develop the family.

It's the Kuai family, although Kuai Liang died, Kuai Yue went to Yecheng with Shi Cao Cao, but the Kuai family is a big family in the end, this kind of big family bets separately, is that a thing? !

What's more, isn't the Kuai family also acting as an agent for the sale of paper from Xiangyang to Nanyang, and they also have incense with Liu Bei.

With the help of the Kuai family, Guan Yu's reception of Xiangyang became extremely smooth.

By the way, Guan Yu was also official, in the Taishou Mansion in Xiangyang City, he officially took up the post of Xiangyang Taishou who he had been thinking about for a long time, and wrote a letter to his eldest brother Liu Bei to report the victory.

After doing these things, Guan Yu began to deal with some aftermath.

The first thing was the arrangement of the captives.

Zhang Xi and Guan Ping went north and surrendered about 13,000 prisoners, plus Guan Yu himself marched eastward and surrendered 2,000 prisoners from Xu Chu's department, adding up to a total of 15,000 prisoners.

And to break through Fancheng, the defenders of Fancheng also had 5,000 prisoners, adding up to a total of 20,000 prisoners of Cao's army.

And these captives must not be able to stay in Xiangyang City, there are too many variables.

Therefore, after Guan Yu entered Xiangyang, the first thing he did was to send Zhou Tai to lead 5,000 people and escort 20,000 prisoners to Nanjun and hand them over to Wang Ji and Ma Liang of Nanjun for disposal.

By the way, let Ma Liang hand over the next batch of grain, grass and ordnance to Zhoutai and then transport it back.

Although Guan Yu has already laid down Xiangyang City, the grain and grass in Xiangyang City itself has to shoulder the daily consumption of the people and soldiers in Xiangyang City.

So I still have to ask Ma Liang to adjust the grain.

As for ordnance. This is purely because the second master is used to seeing all kinds of high-quality ordnance forged by the steel filling method, and he looks down on those ordnance in the Xiangyang arsenal.

In the eyes of the second master, all the ordnance in the Xiangyang arsenal should be rebuilt, and all of them are substandard ordnance.

After finishing these things, the second master took the time to meet Yu Ban and Xu Chu.

Although these two people were defeated, their current situation is completely different.

Yu Ban has already been lowered, but as a general, Guan Ping and Zhang Xi don't know how to arrange him, and it just so happens that the second master is also familiar with Yu Ban, so he will hand it over to the second master to deal with.

As for Xu Chu. When Guan Yu saw this unlucky bastard, he had been hungry for two days, and he couldn't use his brute strength at all.

Seeing Guan Yu, Xu Chu still wanted to step forward to fight, but he was dizzy, his legs were weak, and he fell to the ground directly, and was tied up by two small soldiers and escorted to the front of the second master.

The second master really didn't know what to say, and he was actually arrested by two small soldiers.

Arrange for someone to feed Xu Chu some food to let him recover, and then Xu Chu became Guan Yu's captive.

Now, the second master began to think about how to arrange the two of them.

Yu Ban, although he surrendered, but whether Yu Ban can be trusted or not, the second master is not sure in his heart.

After all, Cao Cao was indeed not thin on the ban, and Yu Ban's surrender was also conditional on Guan Ping saving Cao's soldiers, at least in the short term, it was not suitable to arrange his actual position.

Therefore, Guan Yu's idea was to arrange Yu Ban to Nanjun first, find him a place to put him under house arrest, and then wait until the war was over, send Yu Ban to Chengdu, and let the eldest brother be responsible for arranging Yu Ban's next specific duties.

As for Xu Chu. This is a figure who will not surrender.

Really, Guan Yu once went to talk to Xu Chu once after Xu Chu recovered a little strength.

In Xu Chu's words, he was deeply favored by Cao Cao and would rather die than betray, so Xu Chu hoped that Guan Yu would look at his former love and kill him with his full name.

Guan Yu sighed for a long time, and finally did not persuade again.

Thinking about it, Cao Cao may always be a little wary of generals with foreign surnames, but for Xu Chu, the guard, Cao Cao really trusts him wholeheartedly.

If even Xu Chu chooses to surrender, then Cao Cao will be too much of a failure.

Therefore, Guan Yu fulfilled Xu Chu, and after killing Xu Chu, he collected the corpse, and prepared to send someone to Xu Du after the water retreated, and handed it over to Cao Cao, who would be buried.

Tiger Marquis Xu Chu fell.

(End of chapter)