When Cao Cao fainted, and the news that Zhong Miao had ordered the withdrawal of Chang'an reached Ju County, Zhong Miao knew that he could not retreat immediately.

So he reorganized his soldiers and horses, surrounded Juxian County and the surrounding Cao camps, and launched a decisive battle with Liu Bei.

In this battle, Zhong Xuan tried his best, but under Guan Yu's attack, two camps were still breached, and the morale of Cao's army fell to the bottom, and he was not Liu Bei's opponent at all.

The two sides fought for a day, and at night Liu Bei did not withdraw his troops, but fought fiercely all night, obviously intending to eat Zhong Xuan in one go.

In the face of the menacing enemy, Zhong Miao held on for several days, and after paying a heavy price, he finally sent Liu Bei back to the Ganting camp, and then hurriedly arranged the withdrawal of troops and prepared to return to Chang'an.

But he didn't know that this was Fazheng's plan to retreat, and he might have been able to guess it, but he was helpless, even though he knew that it might be a plan, but for various reasons, he had to do it.

At the end of October, Zhong Xuan chose to withdraw his troops, and sure enough, he was ambushed by Liu Bei, and the army was intercepted and killed by Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Ma Chao and other troops on the way.

If it weren't for Zhang He, Cao Zhen, Cao Xiu, Xiahou Shang and others who still had some ability, constantly covering the retreat alternately, using bows and crossbows and terrain to repel the enemy army several times, I am afraid that the Cao army in Juxian County would have been wiped out.

As for the other generals, they were not so lucky, many generals with low level could not control the collapse of the army, and were pursued by Zhang Feima Chao using the mobility of the cavalry, and were defeated and scattered along the way, a large number of Cao troops surrendered on their knees, and even Zhong Yu, the son of Zhong Xuan, was almost captured alive, which shows how tragic this battle was.

After driving the Cao army all the way to Haojing, Liu Bei won a complete victory, beheaded more than 10,000 Cao troops, captured more than 20,000 people, and more than 10 Cao Cao generals with names and surnames, and scattered seven or eight Cao troops, only more than 40,000 Cao troops fled in embarrassment and successfully withdrew to Chang'an.

In the first battle, half of the enemy's troops were wiped out, and it was Cao Cao, whom Liu Bei had always wanted to defeat, which undoubtedly boosted the morale of the army even more, and the morale was extremely high.

However, it is also limited to this, Liu Bei originally wanted to continue the pursuit and chase to the city of Chang'an, but Fa Zheng still persuaded him very rationally, because it was useless to chase under the city of Chang'an.

Chang'an is not as high as Ju County, the city is five or six zhang high, although they have built a lot of siege equipment for this battle, but Chang'an can not be broken by relying on siege equipment, as long as there are heavy guards, this city is really impregnable.

What's more, the most important thing is that their logistical pressure is already extremely great, and it is unrealistic to completely annex the entire Guanzhong region, and the best way is to take it step by step, first get Longyou Liangzhou, and then slowly encroach on Yongzhou Guanzhong.

Therefore, Liu Bei could only accept Fa Zheng's suggestion, and retreated and returned to Ganting.

At this time, Xiahou Yuan had also withdrawn his troops from Wuguan, Shen Chen chased to Danshui, and then killed outside Wuguan, forcing Xiahou Yuan to surrender Liu Kai, the general in charge of the broken rear, all the way to Jingzhao Yinshang County in Guanzhong.

Shang County is actually quite far away from Guanzhong, but Shen Chen did not chase after him anymore, but stood on the hillside outside Shang County, watching Xiahou Yuan's troops withdraw from a distance.

Seeing Shen Chen ordering the soldiers to stop the pursuit, the general Lu Chang wondered, "General, why don't we continue the pursuit?" The king is now in Guanzhong, and it is said that he is attacking Ju County, and if he continues to pursue, he will be able to attack from both sides and kill Xiahou Yuan. ”

Shen Chen smiled and shook his head: "I can't catch up, you may not know how much pressure our logistics is." There has been a rebellion in the rear of Yizhou, and the wealthy Yonghong in the south of Yizhou took advantage of the dissatisfaction in the south to set off a rebellion, and Kong Ming has personally recruited some of the county soldiers left behind in the rear to quell the rebellion, and if they continue to fight, the enemy has not been destroyed, and there are fires everywhere in their backyards. ”

"I see."

Lu Chang sighed: "This is a good opportunity." ”

"Opportunities are created by people, but sometimes for some reasons, we have to give up this opportunity, not to mention ......"

"General, what's more?"

"Nothing."

Shen Chen said softly: "Order the withdrawal of troops." ”

"Yui."

Lu Changwen and other generals were ordered to set off to return to the division.

And looking at the figure of Cao Jun receding like a tide in the distance, Shen Chen said silently in his heart, not to mention that he had to understand the world.

This battle killed Lu Meng and eliminated Sun Jiao, which made Sun Quan frightened. Captured in the ban, beheaded Xiahou, and made Cao Cao's liver split.

The credit is too great, according to the Western Han Dynasty, at least he has to be a king of the opposite sex.

If Xiahou Yuan is slaughtered again, even if Liu Bei is a benevolent and righteous person, and Shen Chen's power is strong, he will not do anything to him, and it will put Liu Bei Shen Chen in a very embarrassing situation.

So Xiahou Yuan can't be killed.

Not only could he not be killed, but he had to be driven to Guanzhong and dealt with by Liu Bei himself.

Because Xiahou Yuan has some connections with Liu Bei Group.

Zhang Fei's wife Xiahou Juan is Xiahou Yuan's adopted daughter and niece, for Xiahou Juan, Xiahou Yuan gave up his young son and supported his deceased brother's orphan daughter.

Even if the hostile camps of the two sides die due to fighting in troubled times, it is understandable that Zhang Fei and his family have to take into account the emotions of the two people.

What's more, Xiahou Juan's two daughters are Liu Chan's queens, and his wife is Liu Chan's sister, speaking of which, Xiahou Yuan still has a bit of a kinship with himself.

If you don't look at the monk's face, you have to look at the Buddha's face, for the sake of Zhang Fei and his wife, Liu Chan and his wife, how can they let Xiahou Yuan go.

Therefore, Shen Chenyi was unstable in the rear, and there was not enough food and grass, so he could not pursue.

The second is to leave the battle exploits to Liu Bei's side, and if you can't kill them all, Liu Bei will be unsealable.

Third, we have to consider Xiahou Yuan's special identity.

Marching and fighting is not about fighting and killing, it is about human feelings.

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At the end of October, Shen Chen's army went north, recovered the entire territory of Nanyang, threatened Henan, and shocked the Chen capital Yecheng.

In the same month, Xiahou Yuan evacuated from Wuguan, just in time for Zhong Xuan to be defeated by Liu Bei, but fortunately, Wuguan belonged to the rear of Chang'an, and he was not affected, and safely withdrew to Jingzhaoyin and garrisoned the Baling in the east of Chang'an.

Although Cao Cao was shocked by the bad news and vomited blood and fell into a coma, he still woke up a few days later, leaving Zhong Miao and Xiahou Yuan to stay in Chang'an, and he returned to Kanto with difficulty to deal with follow-up affairs.

After that, Cao Wei moved the capital again, moved the Chen capital court north to Chaoge County, Hanoi County, and ordered Xu Huang, Zang Ba, and Zhang Liao to guard Henan, guard against Shen Chen, and at the same time put down the rebellion everywhere, stabilize the situation in the rear, and other measures are a later story.

After Shen Chen drove Cao Jun out of Nanyang, he also ordered Lu Changwen to be stationed in Wancheng, and then ordered Zhou Budo to be the Taishou of Nanyang and Cai Du to be the commander of Nanyang County, so that the two of them could handle the internal affairs of Nanyang.

Under their rule, the counties of Nanyang quickly regained stability, and the county magistrates returned to office, and the people of Nanzhang moved back to Xiangyang, Fancheng, and Xinye to organize production.

By the beginning of November, except for Sun Quan's troops, who were still besieged in Xiakou, only a little Jiangdong remnants of Xiling remained.

Shen Chen placed tens of thousands of troops in Nanyang, and ordered Huang Zhong to lead 30,000 troops to garrison Shang County in order to reinforce Guanzhong at any time. He also ordered Wen to hire 50,000 people from Lu Changsha Moke to guard against Henan, and he only took Zhao Yun with more than 10,000 men and horses to attack Xiakou in the south.

But while he was still on the road, he heard the news that Sun Quan had broken through.

Gan Ning and Huang Jie only had 50,000 people at that time, and Sun Quan also had 50,000, the soldiers and horses on both sides were not much different, and they were still stationed in the city, Gan Ning and Huang Jie surrounded Sun Quan was actually relatively reluctant.

At the end of October, Cheng Pu took advantage of the time when Huang Jian relaxed his vigilance, took advantage of the night to break through successfully, and escaped by land from the north of the city.

After that, although Huang Jian rushed to Shaxian as soon as possible and surrounded Gan Ning to prevent Cheng Pu from joining Sun Quan, under the cover of Cheng Pu, Sun Quan still fled north of Shaxian in embarrassment.

Gan Ning killed Cheng Pu in the chaos, and then the fleet followed, chasing Sun Quan, but when Sun Quan ran to the north of Yi County, Huang shot Gan Ning after him, and the two sides fought, and the Jiangdong Army was almost defeated.

In the chaos, Sun Quan's cousin, Sun Jiao's younger brother Sun Huan, put on Sun Quan's clothes and shouted to Sun Quan: "Wu Hou, please take this path, I will take the avenue to lead away the pursuers." ”

So Sun Quan fled from the trail with dozens of guards, and Sun Huan led thousands of remnants of soldiers, and was pursued by Gan Ning with tens of thousands of people, and was finally beheaded by Gan Ning.

When Shen Chen went down the Han River and arrived at Yi County, Xiling County, the war was over, and Sun Quan fled back to Chaisang in a small boat, and then ran back to Jianye by boat from Chaisang.

Gan Ning and Huang Zhu came to plead guilty.

At the wharf outside the southern city of Yixian County, Shen Chen's fleet sailed from the Yangtze River and slowly docked.

The big ship at the front rode the wind and waves, and then began to slow down, and the dock was covered with hay as a buffer, and a large number of wrestlers who pulled the boats had long been waiting for them.

When the boat approached the shore, the wrestlers entered the water, caught the rope thrown from the boat, and dragged the huge ship to the shore.

Soon a wooden ladder stretched down from the deck of the building, and Shen Chen stepped off the ship surrounded by soldiers.

Gan Ning and Huang Jie stepped forward and knelt down on one knee and said, "General, the last general is incompetent, let Sun Quan go, and ask the general to punish the crime." ”

Shen Chen smiled and went up to help the two of them and said: "The two generals hurry up, you have a lot of credit for this battle, I am waiting to play the King of Han, please take credit for the two, what's wrong?" ”

Huang Jie was quite ashamed and said: "The general ordered us to besiege Sun Quan, and after the general went north to repel the Cao army, he went south to exterminate Sun Quan, but he made him escape, how can it be said that there is merit for such a big crime?" ”

Shen Chen shook his head and said: "In this battle, my main force went to the north to fight against the Cao army, you only have 50,000 people, Sun Quan also has so many people, and even more than you, you fought him and returned defeated, killed tens of thousands, captured more than 20,000, and let him flee back to Jiangdong alone, how could it be in vain?" ”

Gan Ning said: "But doesn't this delay the general's plan to destroy Wu?" Sun Quan fled back to Jiangdong, and if he reorganized his troops and horses again, he might not be able to destroy Jiangdong. ”

"It doesn't matter."

Shen Chen waved his hand: "Jiangdong has exhausted its national strength in this battle, a large number of young people have been captured, and Yangzhou's heritage has been eliminated." Now that Sun Quan is going back, he has to face countless people in Jiangdong who have lost their sons and husbands, second, he has to calm the anger of the family, and third, he has to be careful of the Shanyue rebellion. If you are not careful, you will be destroyed by rebellion, let alone my army. ”

"Forehead ....."

Gan Ning Huang Shot was relieved when he heard this.

Because according to Shen Chen's original plan, after they eliminated Lü Meng and Sun Jiao, they no longer needed to care about Sun Quan, who was trapped in the city, but immediately went north to eliminate Cao's army.

Wait until Shen Chen has dealt with Cao Jun and then come back to deal with Sun Quan.

But I didn't expect Sun Quan to abandon a large number of subordinates and flee back to Jiangdong alone, although Gan Ning Huang Shot won a complete victory, but escaping Sun Quan went back, which was undoubtedly a bad plan for Shen Chen, so the two of them were ashamed and uneasy.

However, Shen Chen didn't mean to blame them.

He mobilized a large number of main forces to Nanyang, Jiangxia only had 50,000 people, and Sun Quan was also 50,000 people, and they were still the besieging side, normally speaking, the stalemate lasted for a long time, and even a small defeat was possible.

But Gan Ning Huang Shot not only won a big victory, but also beat Sun Quan to the point that he lost his armor and abandoned his armor, and less than 10,000 people fled back to Jiangdong, which had already beaten Jiangdong not as simple as a great loss of vitality, but a loss of national strength.

After that, Sun Quan was able to organize an army of more than 50,000 people, which was considered a loss for Shen Chen.

Therefore, Gan Ning and Huang Shot were not only without fault, but also meritorious.

The current situation is already clear.

The Sun Quan group has experienced several fiascos in Yixian and Hongkou, and its national strength has weakened.

Later, in order to sneak attack Jingzhou, Sun Quan persuaded the major families to draw out the family's heritage and soldiers and horses, and at the same time recruited a large number of young and strong people to form a new army.

In this way, together with the people who served in the rear, more than ninety percent of the people in Yangzhou were involved, either paying taxes or contributing people, and every household was conscripted into the army.

As a result, now in a war, Sun Quan has lost everything, and the people of Jiangdong will probably swallow his skin alive, and rebellions are likely to follow one after another.

On the other hand, Liu Bei's group, Nanyang won a big victory, and Guanzhong won a big victory, although it also consumed a lot of national strength, but the foundation and foundation are still there, and they will recuperate for three or five months, and wait for the spring of next year, they will be able to attack Eastern Wu and completely eliminate Sun Quan.

As for the question of whether the Cao Wei group will come to Sun Quan's aid, if it was before the battles of Nanyang and Guanzhong, it would definitely be something to worry about.

But what about now?

Cao Wei retreated back to Kanto in Guanzhong except for Chang'an. The Henan region is also heavily guarded, and at the same time, internal rebellions are everywhere, and the border passes are in flames.

After the two major defeats, the civil unrest gradually rose, the political situation was turbulent, and this year became colder and colder, and the northern nomads saw the decline of the Cao Wei group, and they would definitely not let go of this opportunity and take advantage of the situation to sweep the border passes.

After this year, next year, Cao Wei Group itself will also be a mud bodhisattva crossing the river, and it will be difficult to protect itself.

And Cao Cao is dead next year in history, this time he suffered a big defeat, it is difficult to say whether he can survive this year, once Cao Cao falls, the backbone is gone, and there are so many emergencies, Cao Pi can stabilize the situation It would be good, not to mention what to rush to Yangzhou.

So it doesn't matter if Sun Quan is not captured alive this time.

Because Shen Chen has emptied Jiangdong's national strength and beaten Cao Wei, who can rush to Jiangdong's aid in the north, to take care of himself, now Liu Bei's group itself also needs to adjust in time, first rectify the interior, and then send troops to attack Wu.

So when Shen Chen returned to Xiangyang, he immediately ordered the officials who had fled from all over the country to return to their posts, restore the governance of all parts of Jingzhou, and restore the depleted national strength as soon as possible.