Rewind time to fifteen days ago.

The land of Jingbei, Fancheng.

After losing 10,000 soldiers and horses, Cao Ren joined Xiahou Shang and camped halfway, waiting for reinforcements from Xuzhou.

At the same time, Cao Ren received a letter from Cao Cao, from which Cao Ren learned that Cao Cao had now marched into Hanzhong and confronted Liu Bei.

At the same time, in his letter, Cao Cao also instructed Cao Ren to find a way to leak the news of Jiangdong's imminent attack on Nanjun to Guan Yu.

Cao Ren didn't understand why Cao Cao did this, didn't he let that Guan Yu take advantage of him for nothing?!

But Cao Cao understood Cao Ren after all, so he made a special explanation in the letter.

The purpose of this is to let Guan Yu divide his troops to rescue Nanjun, let Jiangdong and Liu Bei Group fight to the death, and reap the benefits of the fisherman himself.

Even if Guan Yu didn't divide his troops to rescue Nanjun, he would be distracted when using his troops, and he wouldn't dare to deal with Cao Ren with all his might, so he had to always be on guard behind him.

No matter how Guan Yu chooses, it will be beneficial to Cao Jun.

Cao Ren thought about it and felt that what Cao Cao said made sense. So he wrote this on Mu Du, and sent someone to shoot an arrow into Guan Yu's camp.

And after Guan Yu received the news, he was really skeptical.

Historically, Guan Yu thought it was Cao Cao's ploy and chose to ignore it and continue to lead his troops to attack Fancheng.

But now, Guan Yu pondered, he had to discuss it with a certain kid.

Therefore, Guan Yu sent someone to find Zhang Xi, and the two of them met to discuss.

Now that Cao Jun has not come, there is no need for Zhang Xi to stay in Fancheng, and there is still Zhang Wei in the city, if Zhang Xi is not there for a while, there is no need to worry about the city defense.

So Zhang Xi quickly came to Guan Yu's camp to discuss countermeasures.

Guan Yu gave Zhang Xi the letter shot by Cao Ren, and Zhang Xi immediately looked solemn.

"Junhou, there is a chance that this matter is true, and we have to guard against it!" Zhang Xi immediately made a judgment.

Originally, Zhang Xi was not worried about Jiangdong's 120,000 thousand, but now Cao Cao, just like in history, notified Guan Yu of the news that Jiangdong was going to backstab in advance, can this matter be fake? !

But Guan Yu said that there is something strange about this!

"Although the Jiangdong villain is not credible, but now we are holding back most of the Cao army, and Zhang Wenyuan also led the Xuzhou army to help, at this time it is a good opportunity for Jiangdong to attack Huaibei and march into Qingxu, why did he betray the alliance and attack Nanjun?!" Guan Yu frowned and asked puzzled.

This one. God knows what those gangsters in Koto think?!

Please, the current situation is different from history.

Historically, Guan Yu attacked Fancheng in order to prepare for the Battle of Hanzhong and help Liu Bei relieve the pressure.

In fact, Guan Yu basically did it, he went ashore by the Han River, beat Cao Ren violently, and beat Cao Ren to the point that he could only shrink in Fancheng and defend it, not daring to come out.

But who knew that Cao Cao actually took the initiative to admit it, and led his troops to withdraw from Hanzhong after less than three months of confrontation, and at the same time sent Yu Ban, Pang De led the Seventh Army, and more than 30,000 people came to rescue Fancheng.

Originally, at this time, Guan Yu, who got the news, should have retreated, after all, the strategic purpose had been achieved.

But the weather was too cooperative, and in August, Guan Yu flooded the Seventh Army and shocked China.

In this case, Fancheng may be broken at any time, and once Fancheng is breached, Xiangyang can go down without a fight In fact, as the news of Guan Yu's flooding of the Seventh Army reached Xiangyang, Hu Xiu, the assassin of Jingzhou, had already written to Guan Yu and chose to surrender.

In this case, Guan Yu felt that the advantage was in me, so he didn't leave in Fancheng, and was finally defeated by his old friend Xu Huang and his army, coupled with Jiangdong's backstab, he had to defeat Maicheng.

But now history has changed.

Xiangyang and Fancheng are already in Guan Yu's hands, and now it is not Guan Yu who is in a hurry to capture Xiangfan, but Cao Cao is in a hurry, for fear that Guan Yu will go north and enter the hinterland of the Central Plains, so he has to transfer troops to attack Xiangfan everywhere and strive to recapture Xiangfan.

And Guan Yu, what he has to do now is to rely on Xiangfan's defensive system, hold the Xiangfan defense line, and drag Cao Jun to it.

Moreover, Xu Huang also followed Cao Cao in Hanzhong and confronted Liu Bei's army, Cao Cao had no way to send Xu Huang to lead the troops, so Cao Cao could only transfer Zhang Liao, who was guarding in Hefei.

And Jiangdong, because of Zhou Yu's efforts, although Sun Quan was humiliated by Zhang Babai once in Hefei, he was not beaten out of the shadow in his heart, and now Zhang Liao is no longer in Hefei, such a good opportunity, don't you Sun Quan want to grab it, you have to come to Jingzhou to sneak attack?!

Anyway, Zhang Xi really couldn't understand why Jiangdong was so persistent in backstabbing Jingzhou.

Now Cao Cao still sent a letter to remind him that although Zhang Xi couldn't say the reason why Jiang Dongfei wanted to backstab, Zhang Xi could still analyze it for Guan Yu.

"Cao Cao submitted a letter, one is to weaken the strength of our Xiangfan defenders, and the other is to make our army fight to the death with Jiangdong. If the matter of submitting the book is false, then this plan can be broken overnight, so why bother?! Zhang Xi said to Guan Yu.

This matter is just a matter of a fast horse running back and forth, it is meaningless to fake, and Cao Cao can't do such a heartless thing.

"Moreover, Jiangdong wants to stay in Jingzhou for a long time, even if this matter is false, it must not be guarded against!" Zhang Xi continued, "Although we hold on to this place, we can let the entire army of Zhoutai in Xiangyang City stand by, and if Jiangdong really attacks Nanjun, we can also return to the army at any time." ”

Guan Yu thought about it for a while, and felt that it was good to do this, at least be prepared!

It's good that it's confirmed to be a false alarm, but if it's true, then you can respond in time.

Therefore, Guan Yu wrote a letter to Ma Liang, who was stationed in Xiangyang City, and asked him to inform Zhou Tai to assemble his soldiers and stand by at any time.

A few days after this, Guan Yu received two pieces of news at the same time.

One is the news brought back by Tanma, saying that Cao Ren has gathered 50,000 reinforcements from Xuzhou, plus his own remaining 10,000 soldiers, a total of 60,000 people, and marched in the direction of Fancheng.

The other is a letter sent by Jiangling Wangji asking for help, Jiangdong has raised tens of thousands of troops, cut off the Yangtze River waterway, is storming the public security, and may come to Jiangling City at any time.

Guan Yu's face was solemn, and before Cao Ren's army arrived, he called Zhang Xi out of Fancheng again, and the two discussed countermeasures.

After Zhang Xi read the two military reports, his face was also solemn.

First, Cao Ren in the north led 60,000 troops to the south, while Guan Yu and Zhang Xi's defenders in Fancheng were only 27,000 people, less than half of the other party's number.

There is a defense system of Xiangfan as one, Guan Yu and Zhang Xi are inside a city, and a horn outside the city, and there is still a chance of winning a defensive battle, and the troops are definitely not enough to break the enemy.

But at this time, Jiangdong raised troops to attack Jingzhou.

The information in Wang Ji's letter is relatively vague, and the research and judgment of Jiangdong's troops, the current situation and situation are not detailed enough, and there is no judgment on whether it is possible to hold Jiangling, which makes two people who are five hundred miles away, how can they make an accurate judgment?!

The current situation is like this, Cao Cao's troops are pressing, Xiangfan's troops, and defending Cao Ren's army can only be said to be just enough, if the troops are transferred to rescue Jiangling, it may lead to a shortage of Xiangfan's troops.

But what Zhang Xi meant, he still had to send reinforcements to Jiangling.

At the beginning, 10,000 people were sent to Xiangyang to garrison and digest the surrendered troops in Xiangyang City, although they have not been completely digested now, but the work of recruiting the surrendered troops in Xiangyang City has been at least partly carried out.

Zhang Xi's suggestion was to let Zhoutai lead 3,000 soldiers from Nanjun and 7,000 soldiers from Xiangyang to rescue Jiangling first.

These surrendered troops, let them fight in the field, because of the lack of attachment to the people, resulting in the bottom of the combat effectiveness, and the battle is easy to collapse.

But the battle to defend the city is to face the soldiers of Jiangdong, so it won't be so crotch-pulling, right?!

Besides, after the 7,000 troops surrendered to Xiangyang, they only accounted for about one-third of the soldiers defending the city, and even if they made trouble, they would not be able to cause a big mess.

But Guan Yu disagrees that the Jiangling garrison is insufficient, if the 7,000 troops really want to make trouble, even if it may not necessarily lead to the loss of Jiangling, it will also affect the morale and combat effectiveness of the Jiangling defenders.

After all, you can't ask too much of the organization and discipline of the soldiers of this age.

Therefore, Guan Yu meant that even if he wanted to send reinforcements, he would have to send his own people, and he would rather take the risk of letting this group of soldiers who had just received the reorganization stay in Xiangyang City than let them go to the front line to make trouble.

But in this case, Zhang Xi was worried that under the pressure of Cao Ren's army, the group of wall-headed grass families in Xiangyang would incite the rebellion of the troops.

The two of them felt a little difficult to deal with around this matter

In the final analysis, it is still a problem of insufficient troops, but as long as there is a 10,000 mobile force that can be used with confidence, it will not be difficult for two people.

The two of them were thinking of a way, thinking about where they could pick out these 10,000 people Guan Yu glanced at the map and saw a place.

Yidu County.

always wanted to transfer troops from his own hands to rescue, but he forgot that the closest place to Nanjun was actually not Xiangyang, but Yidu County.

Guan Yu thought for a moment and said to Zhang Xi, "Mencius is stationed in Yidu, why don't you order him to send troops to rescue Nanjun?!" ”

Guan Yu pondered about this, in fact, it is not unreasonable.

Meng Da is Yidu Taishou, although Yidu County is a newly established county cut out of Nanjun, the place is not large, but the total strength of the whole county, there are more than 10,000 people to support Nanjun, you can save a lot of things.

But Zhang Xi's eyes glanced at the location of Yidu County, the corners of his mouth twitched, and said, "This person will definitely not send troops to aid Nanjun." ”

Guan Yu was puzzled for a moment and asked, "Why did Yuan Chang say this?!" ”

I still need to ask why, that person is Meng Da.

Zhang Xi sneered and said, "Mencius has the heart to win this person, but he is good at skill, and he can't be grateful for righteousness." They are available, but they cannot be trusted. ”

Guan Yu frowned, and his senses for Meng Da suddenly dropped a notch, after all, Guan Yu was obviously more willing to believe Zhang Xi than Meng Da, who didn't understand.

"Even so, this is a major national event, Meng Da sent troops to aid Nanjun, it is to contribute to the country, how can it be justified?!" Guan Yu still asked a little disbelieving.

Zhang Xi thought about it for a while, and decided to make it clear to the second master that the second master of the province still had unnecessary expectations.

Let's not mention that in history, Meng Da not only did not send troops to rescue the second master, but also persuaded Liu Feng not to send troops to rescue, which incidentally separated the relationship between Guan Yu and Liu Feng.

Let's just say that it's good in reality.

"Mengda Town guards Yidu County, there are few small soldiers in its place, and there are no more than 10,000 soldiers in the whole county, and they are distributed in various counties, so it is difficult to assemble for a while. This is also the reason for rejection. Yidu is the gateway to Shu, now the north of the lord is in Hanzhong, the White Emperor is empty, Yizhou is also empty, if the soldiers of Yidu rescue Nanjun, it will make the soldiers of Jiangdong take advantage of the void to enter, Yizhou is difficult to protect, and the reason for this is also the reason for pushing back. Yidu place, remote place, north of the east three counties, now the south county war, the east three counties will not sit idly by, so the Yidu place is also unstable, the army does not dare to move, this is the reason for pushing back the three also. Of these three, can there be any reason to refuse?! ”

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(End of chapter)