After arranging the matter of Xu Chu and Yu Ban, Guan Yu could finally calm down and think about the next response plan.

After capturing Xiangfan, Guan Yu also realized that now he was more than enough to defend and not enough to attack.

And Cao Cao obviously will not let himself capture Xiangfan so easily, and will definitely take advantage of his unstable foothold to send a large army to conquer, and may even personally lead a large army to conquer.

Of course, the premise is that Cao Ren can solve the rebellion of Wancheng Houyin first.

Therefore, Guan Yu must do a good job of dealing with it.

First of all, he wrote the current situation in Jingzhou into a letter, and sent it to the eldest brother in Hanzhong as soon as possible.

Secondly, it is to inform Wang Ji and Ma Liang of Nanjun to gather the troops of each county and be ready to support the Xiangfan battlefield at any time.

Now Guan Yu has a total of more than 50,000 people in his hands, of which 20,000 are Xiangyang's pawns.

These soldiers can not be fully trusted, once Cao Cao personally led the army to the south, Guan Yu can really trust and use it in his hands is still the more than 30,000 soldiers he brought from Nanjun.

This amount of troops is obviously not enough, so Guan Yu must transfer troops from Nanjun.

But once Guan Yu transferred troops from Nanjun, he remembered the letters from Lu Meng that Pan Jun had forwarded.

On the Jiangdong side, there is really no way to completely reassure people.

Therefore, Guan Yu was also very hesitant.

There are still more than 30,000 defenders in Nanjun, of which 10,000 are distributed in Lingling and Wuling counties, and more than 20,000 people are guarding all parts of Nanjun, including the most important public security and Jiangling.

The defenders were actually quite numerous, enough to deal with any possible reaction from Koto.

It's just that once Guan Yu wants to transfer troops to support the Xiangfan front, at least more than 10,000 people will be transferred, and if the number is too small, it will have no meaning at all for the defense of the Xiangfan battlefield.

Guan Yu carefully calculated that the soldiers of Wuling and Lingling could not be easily mobilized, and the five thousand soldiers under the public security Wenpin must also be maintained. Then troops could only be transferred from Gangneung and the counties north of Gangneung.

There were originally 15,000 people stationed in Jiangling City, and Guan Yu planned to transfer 5,000 people from Jiangling, and then from the three counties of Linfu, Zhijiang, and Dangyang in the north of Jiangling, a total of 5,000 people, and a total of 10,000 people went north.

In this case, there are still 10,000 people in Gangneung City, and there are 5,000 people in the counties southeast of Gangneung City combined, although it seems to be weak, but if you guard against Jiangdong to launch a surprise attack and delay time to wait for your own reinforcements, it should not be a big problem.

But so be it. Because that Zhang Yuanchang was always talking in his ear about what Jiangdong was not credible, Guan Yu heard a lot, and he muttered a little in his heart, for fear that he would really be told by Zhang Yuanchang with a crow's mouth.

Therefore, Guan Yu decided to postpone the transfer of troops, and when the water receded, he could lead his troops into Fancheng, and discuss with Zhang Xi whether to transfer the troops of Nanjun to the north.

At the same time, Liu Beijun in Hanzhong is now facing a critical moment.

Since Liu Bei realized that he could not quickly capture Yangping Pass and occupy Hanzhong with his existing forces, he immediately issued a conscription order to Zhuge Liang, who was sitting in Chengdu, asking Zhuge Liang to quickly organize reinforcements and grain and grass in Chengdu to quickly reinforce himself.

After Zhuge Liang received Liu Bei's mobilization order, he found Yang Hong, the new Taishou of Shu County, and asked for his opinion.

To be honest, this operation is actually quite confusing.

As a key figure in Liu Bei's rear, Zhuge Liang actually consulted others on the issue of whether he needed to support Liu Bei.

But in fact, people who are familiar with the situation in Shuzhong know why Zhuge Liang asked Yang Hong to ask about this.

Yang Hong, the word Ji Xiu, Qianwei Wuyang people.

He and Qin Mi can be said to be the key figures of the Yizhou faction staying in Chengdu at present.

Huang Quan, Wu Ban and other representatives of the Yizhou military generals had already followed Liu Bei to Hanzhong, and their position was beyond doubt.

However, Yang Hong and Qin Mi, representatives of the Shuzhong family faction, still stayed in Chengdu, and their position was not easy to judge.

Zhuge Liang took Liu Bei's order to ask Yang Hong what to do, in fact, the subtext is - the lord wants Yizhou to fully support and win the battle of Hanzhong, are you local families in Yizhou willing to support? !

The families in Yizhou are not stupid, knowing that even if Liu Bei can't win the battle of Hanzhong, Cao Cao won't be able to enter Yizhou in a short time, and they still have to cooperate with Liu Bei after all.

In this case, it may be more beneficial to support Liu Bei to win the battle of Hanzhong and obtain the barrier to defend Yizhou.

At least it will not bear the threat of Cao's army going south from time to time, so as to avoid war in Yizhou itself, which will affect the interests of the Yizhou family.

In the battle for Ba County in the past few years, the wealthy families of Ba County suffered a lot of losses.

As for whether the lord is Cao Cao or Liu Bei, in fact, the Yizhou family doesn't care, anyway, no matter who is the lord of Yizhou, they can't do without the help of the family, otherwise they can't gain a foothold in Yizhou at all.

Therefore, Yang Hong's answer was: Now that the battle of Hanzhong has reached a critical moment, men should participate in the war, women should transport grain, and mobilize all means that can be supported to support Liu Bei to win the battle of Hanzhong.

Of course, what men participate in the war and women carry grain, it is an adjective used by the representatives of the family to express their support for Liu Bei, and whoever is serious is a fool.

Zhuge Liang doesn't need the Yizhou families to really do this, he just needs the Yizhou families not to make trouble when Liu Bei fought the battle of Hanzhong, and they are willing to provide grain and grass support.

With the guarantee of the Yizhou family, Zhuge Liang quickly mobilized grain and grass and reinforcements, and under the leadership of Wu Yi, a famous general in Shuzhong, went to support Liu Bei.

Liu Bei's side, after receiving support, continued to launch the siege of Yangping Pass.

And Xiahou Yuan in Yangping Pass also got good news.

Cao Cao led an army of 120,000 troops and stationed in Chang'an, where he could march west to Hanzhong at any time to support Xiahou Yuan.

It's just that at this time, Cao Cao finally received the battle report in the Xiangfan area, and learned that Guan Yu flooded the Seventh Army and Yu Ban wiped out the entire army.

After waiting for a few days, Cao Cao saw Manzhong, who had fled from Fancheng and ran to Chang'an, and learned the news of the loss of Fancheng.

Cao Cao really didn't dare to continue to lead his troops to Hanzhong.

Last month, Cao Cao was still in Luoyang, and received a battle report from Yu Ban, and learned that Yu Ban had led troops to rescue Fancheng and was confronting Guan Yu.

Cao Cao's idea is very simple, Fancheng is a strong city, and there are 10,000 people in the hands of the full favor who defends the city, and Yu Ban brought 30,000 people, even if Yu Ban and full favor are not Guan Yu's opponents, but Guan Yu wants to break these two people and occupy Fancheng, the difficulty is too great after all.

After all, Guan Yu sent troops, and there were only 30,000 or 40,000 people who died.

Cao Jian believed that Guan Yu was a famous general, but Cao Cao also believed in Yu Ban's level of leadership and the combat effectiveness of his own soldiers.

Therefore, after receiving the news that Yu Ban had arrived at the battlefield of Fancheng, Cao Cao led the remaining 120,000 people to set off, preparing to go to Chang'an to support Xiahou Yuan.

On the way to Chang'an, although Cao Cao also received Yu Ban's "petition for guilt" document, expressing Yu Ban's disagreement with Xu Chu, Cao Cao believed that Yu Ban was a general who knew the general situation, and although Xu Chu had a straightforward personality, he was not the kind of person who was ignorant.

The two people may indeed have some minor contradictions, but it does not affect the two of them to work together and fight against Guan Yu.

And Cao Cao has not received any documents from Xu Chu's complaint, which seems to confirm Cao Cao's speculation from the side.

If the relationship between the two people really reaches the point of incompatibility, Xu Chu will not write a letter to himself.

Therefore, although Cao Cao was a little worried, he did not take this matter too seriously and continued to lead his troops to Chang'an.

When he was about to arrive in Chang'an, Cao Cao received a letter from Yu Ban again, which told about Xu Chu's repulsion of Guan Yu and occupation of Guan Yu's camp.

And Xu Chu still didn't have any letters to Cao Cao.

Cao Cao was completely relieved.

Yu Ban, as the commander of the First Army, will definitely be very sensitive to the matter of being seized by Xu Chu, and it is normal for him to write a letter to complain to himself.

But Yu Ban did not hide Xu Chu's merits in the end, but wrote a letter to tell himself, which shows that although there are some disagreements between Yu Ban and Xu Chu, it does not affect the morale and unity of the army.

Otherwise, it would be impossible for Yu Ban to return the merits to Xu Chu.

And Xu Chu still did not write a letter to complain, which means that Yu Ban did not really embarrass Xu Chu in the camp.

Therefore, there is a high probability that they have a different understanding of military affairs, and the two people are just a little contradictory.

And what Cao Cao is more concerned about is not whether there is a contradiction between these two people, but what Yu Ban said in the letter, Xu Chu repelled Guan Yu and forced Guan Yu to move to camp.

Although Cao Cao still doesn't know the details, judging from this battle report, the Yu forbidden army has the upper hand.

This is what makes Cao Cao the happiest.

In this way, Guan Yu is no longer afraid of attacking Xiangfan, and now he can rest assured that he can boldly go west to Hanzhong and fight with the mat weaver in Hanzhong.

However, Cao Cao couldn't leave it alone, so he personally wrote a letter to Yu Ban, comforting him more, and also wrote to Xu Chu, asking him not to play tricks, obey the arrangement of the boss Yu Ban, and stop grabbing power and merit.

With the credit of repelling Guan Yu and forcing Guan Yu to move the camp, it is enough to give Xu Chu the title of marquis, and then settle down, don't toss anymore.

After Cao Cao wrote this letter, he suddenly felt a lot more relaxed, and continued to lead the army into Chang'an, and after settling down in Chang'an, Cao Cao wrote another letter to Xiahou Yuan, telling Xiahou Yuan to hold on to help, and at most half a month, he would be able to lead an army of 120,000 to rescue Xiahou Yuan.

And then, things take a turn for the worse.

Xiangfan rainstormed, Guan Yu flooded the Seventh Army, and defeated Yu Ban's more than 30,000 troops without any losses.

Immediately afterwards, he lost his favor in Fancheng and ran to Chang'an to meet Cao Cao, and described in detail the course of the battle of Xiangfan, and Cao Cao was dumbfounded when he listened.

The heavy rain that has not been encountered for decades, and the sharp field ability and siege ability of Guan Yu's army all made Cao Cao think about a question - Xu Du, what should I do?!

(End of chapter)