Xi Zhong attacked, and Zhou Yu defended.

With Zhou Yu's ability to fight in the water, he can block Xi Zhong's attack.

They were like this, stalemate for about a day, and Xi Zhong still couldn't break into the gap in Fancheng.

With the help of the people in the city, Zhou Yu and they could defend the city, and Xi Zhong also wanted to help Cao Cao win back the hearts of the people, so he didn't dare to fight too hard against the people who defended the city, and the fight was very restricted.

The next morning.

"Sir, Zixiao is back."

At this time, Cao Hong hurriedly ran back and said.

"General Cao is back so soon?"

Xi Zhong was shocked.

Cao Ren is responsible for the garrison of Xinye, delaying Yang Zhao for a while, and coming back so soon means that Xinye is gone, so Yang Zhao must be preparing to kill him later.

He instantly felt very bad, and immediately arranged for someone to go north to investigate Yang Zhao's movements.

The scout left quickly, and not long after, he came back and reported: "Yang Zhao is still about half a day away from Fancheng. ”

"Sir, the situation is getting worse and worse for us, how can we do it now?"

Wei Yan said worriedly.

They have a city, but they can't prevent Yang Zhao, and now that there is no city, they are all outside the city, so it is even more impossible to be Yang Zhao's opponent.

"Regardless of Fancheng, let's go back to Xiangyang."

Xi Zhong thought about it for a long time and had to give up defending the northern part of Xiangyang, because he could no longer hold it.

Yang Zhao's actions and combat speed completely disrupted their plans.

Even Xi Zhong was now caught off guard and could only retreat.

Ma Liang and the others around him heard this, and felt helpless, and at the same time knew that they really couldn't fight, and they couldn't beat Yang Zhao, so they had no choice but to retreat, but to integrate the whole army to leave Fancheng and go back to Xiangyang.

"Gong Jin, Cao Jun has retreated."

Sun Quan was on the tower of the city that had not collapsed at this time, and when he looked down, he saw that Cao's army was packing up his things and retreating in an all-round way, bypassing Fancheng and heading south.

"It should be the lord who is about to chase after him."

Zhou Yu analyzed: "Xi Zhong knows that he is not the opponent of the lord, so he can only retreat. When they retreated, they could only retreat to Xiangyang to continue the defense, and we sent someone to contact the lord. ”

This is indeed the case, Zhou Yu guessed accurately.

They immediately arranged for someone to go north to meet with Yang Zhao.

The people in the city, knowing that Cao Jun had retreated, did not know how happy they were, they were all on the raft, and cheered loudly on the city tower.

Zhou Yu sent people out to contact Yang Zhao, and at the same time, he also led troops out of the city, dug canals, drained floods, and then arranged people to block the embankments of Hanshui and other rivers, and the people in the city went to help prevent floods.

After all, this is their homeland.

Before Yang Zhao came to Fancheng, he saw the soldiers coming out of Fancheng and knew that Fancheng was still flooded in the end, but Xi Zhong had already led his troops to retreat.

"Still can't avoid it." Yang Zhao said that he was thinking in his heart that flooding might be Fancheng's fate.

"Zhi knows that we have already gone south, so retreat, Cao Ren should be in line with Zhi Cai."

Xun You analyzed: "Next, we will go to Fancheng first, take down all the counties around Fancheng, and then send troops to attack Xiangyang." ”

Yang Zhao nodded and said, "Gongda is right, continue to hurry!" ”

It didn't take half a day for Yang Zhao to come to Fancheng.

At this time, the flood that soaked the city was almost discharged.

However, the river embankment that was blown open was not so easy to block, and there was still water flowing over Fancheng, but the problem was not very big.

"Lord!"

Zhou Yu and the others saw Yang Zhao's arrival and hurried out of the city to greet them.

He also reported the battle situation in Fancheng in detail.

Hearing that Zhou Yu had also gathered the hearts of the people in Fancheng, Yang Zhao was surprised.

"From now on, all the people of Fancheng will be exempt from tax for three years."

"Let people go back to Yecheng and send a construction team to help the people of Fancheng rebuild their homes."

"In addition, we will prepare enough food, as well as sheep, and send them to Fancheng to relieve the affected people."

"The ...... of the soaked fields"

Yang Zhao first passed down a series of orders.

The people of Yecheng all cheered when they heard that Yang Zhao was so good to them.

Yang Zhao smiled slightly when he saw them like this, so he increased his soldiers, repaired the river embankment as soon as possible, cleaned up all the stagnant water inside and outside Fancheng, and then went into the city to have a look.

"It's hard work to find and Gongjin."

When Yang Zhao saw the collapsed city wall, he could imagine how difficult their defense was.

When he first conquered Pi and Yecheng, Yang Zhao also attacked with water, and he knew very well how difficult it would be to defend when the city was flooded, and he would have to face the pressure brought by the people in the city.

It's all very uncomfortable.

Zhou Yu smiled: "It's okay." ”

They politely talked for a while, and Yang Zhao gave an order to let the nearby county towns come to Fancheng to surrender, and if they didn't dare to come, Yang Zhao would lead his troops to fight over.

Of course, those people in the county town did not dare not surrender.

Now Cao Cao is like this, in front of Yang Zhao, he can't get any benefits, Fancheng north of Xiangyang has fallen, so they all ran over and surrendered.

You can't do it without surrendering.

They don't want to die.

Yang Zhao stayed in Fancheng to accept the surrender, arranged everything here, and did not call Xiangyang as soon as possible to give Cao Cao a sigh of relief.

——

At this time, Liu Bei's army was almost assembled.

However, the army did not come to Xiangyang, and the envoy Zhang Song had already come to Xiangyang.

When he saw Zhang Song, Cao Cao thought, who are Liu Bei's subordinates? looks so ugly, and he dares to be sent to meet him, but at present, it is important to form an alliance to deal with Yang Zhao, so he doesn't care about anything.

"You king of Hanzhong, when can you bring troops to help me?"

Cao Cao first said: "If I am defeated, you will be the only one left in the world to face Yang Zhao alone, between the two of us, no matter who loses, the other side will not end very well." ”

Zhang Songzuo said: "What Chu Gong said, of course we know that at the current rate, it will take more than half a month for our army to come to Xiangyang. ”

"So slow?"

Cao Cao said unhappily.

Zhang Song said: "It can only be said that Yang Zhao came too suddenly, not that we are slow!" The Duke of Chu must know that it will take us time from gathering soldiers, transporting grain and grass, and then sending troops out of Sichuan and Shu to Jingzhou, and we have done it very quickly. ”

Cao Cao couldn't refute this.

After all, coming out of Sichuan and Shu, the road is far away, and some roads are not easy to walk, but it is indeed fast.

Every time the army is mobilized, there are a lot of things that need to be prepared, and it is not easy to send troops.

"Whether we can defeat Yang Zhao when we cooperate this time is still unknown."

Zhang Song said: "We, the king of Hanzhong, will do our best to help Jingzhou resist Yang Zhao, and I hope that when our Yizhou is in danger, the Duke of Chu can do the same." ”

Cao Cao said solemnly: "Of course! Since it will take more than half a month, we can only try our best to delay Yang Zhao, delay him in Xinye, and send an order to Zhicai......"

However, before he could finish his sentence, Chen Gong hurriedly ran in from outside.

"Lord, it's not good!"

Chen Gong said eagerly: "Xinye is lost, Fancheng is lost, Zhicai and they have retreated!" ”