Lü Meng Beibenhui and Xu Sheng, Jiang Qin. When Xu Sheng arrived, because Gan Ning warned in advance that the Han army besieging Xiangyang should beware, as soon as the Jiangdong soldiers and horses appeared, the Han army immediately retreated and fled into Fancheng to hold on.

Xu Sheng came to Xiangyang City and shouted: "I have defeated Guan Yu's soldiers and horses on the orders of the Grand Governor, and the King of Wei has united with my lord, you can open the city gate, and I will go with our army to recover Fancheng and cut off Guan Yu's retreat." ”

Lu Chang said: "I don't know about this, when I send someone to report to the King of Wei, the King of Wei agreed, and then naturally unite with your army, at this time, please also ask the general to be wronged, temporarily live outside the city, I will send someone to reward the general." ”

Xu Sheng said: "I have killed so many Guan Yu soldiers and horses, does Lu Taishou still doubt me?" ”

Lu Chang said: "This is my duty to defend the land, I have to do this, please forgive me." ”

Xu Sheng saw that Lu Chang refused to open the city, and wondered whether to forcibly break the city, but he was afraid that it would not be wise to offend Guan Yu and Cao Cao again, so he sent someone to quickly report to Lu Meng to make a decision, and build siege equipment outside the city.

Lü Chang stepped up efforts to repair the damaged city walls during the Han army's siege.

As a result, the envoy did not bring back Lu Meng's decision, but brought him with him.

Xu Sheng greeted the somewhat embarrassed Lu Meng into the camp, and said curiously: "Why did the metropolitan governor come so quickly? ”

Lu Meng said: "Liu Bei is out of Sichuan!" ”

Xu Sheng exclaimed: "What! ”

Lu Meng said: "Liu Bei went out of Sichuan, and in turn attacked us, and our army was defeated. Gangneung gains and loses. ”

Xu Shengliang reacted for a long time and said: "In this way, Jiangdong may not be at peace, Liu Bei personally marched, the situation was very urgent, beyond the expectations of our army, our army is here, if Liu Bei goes downstream, the victory or defeat is unpredictable."

For today's plan, there is no intention to fight again, and the military strength will be lost in vain, when the retreat to Jiangxia and the preservation of Jiangxia, Liu Bei will have no chance to take advantage of it, and he will inevitably go north.

When the time comes, Liu Cao will fight in Nanyang, and when the victory or defeat is divided, the two families will be greatly injured, and we can take the opportunity to do great things. ”

Lu Meng said: "I have been thinking for a long time on the road, and I also have this heart. Where is Jiang Qinjun? ”

Xu Sheng said: "After Jiang Qin burned the Ganning grain ship, he fought with Gan Ning and went up the Xiangjiang River, and suffered a little loss, but finally with the well-trained Dongwu naval army, Gan Ning has been forced to retreat, and now he is rooted on the Xiangjiang River. ”

Lu Meng frowned and said: "What kind of loss did I suffer, my Jiangdong Sailor dominates the world, how can I suffer at the hands of a river thief in Ganning?" ”

Xu Sheng hurriedly said: "Gan Ning is familiar with the water conditions, and he is very brave, although the soldiers are not as good as my Eastern Wu Naval Army, they are more than a hundred times stronger than Huang Zu. So I suffered a loss. ”

Lu Meng said: "How many people have been lost?" ”

Xu Sheng said: "About a thousand." ”

Lu Meng was stunned, and then said a little dryly: "How did you fail!" ”

Xu Sheng said: "Gan Ning has been fighting with us for several days, and Jiang Qin can't seize the opportunity to annihilate Gan Ning.

A few days ago, Jiang Qin finally encountered Gan Ning's main force on the river, and immediately urged his troops to fight, preparing to surround them, but it was useless for the two sides to release arrows at each other, and we did not let go of Gan Ning.

Although there were many of us, Gan Ning had already prepared for it, he interlaced thatch and brocade cloth, soaked it in oil, set it on fire and threw it during the battle, and then nailed these weavings to our ships with arrows, so that our sails were set on fire and chaos ensued.

After that, they took the opportunity to get close to us and engage us, and our ship was burned quite a bit, after which they succeeded in setting fire. And we were in a hurry to rescue, adjusted the ship to the downwind, and drove away, after this battle, our morale dropped a little, Jiang Qin also became cautious, and did not dare to attack without full certainty. ”

Lu Meng said tiredly: "I have been defeated, let alone others, let's stop." I have sent an envoy to contact the lord to guard against Liu Bei, and at the same time ask the lord to send troops from Xiakou to meet us.

Let Jiang Qin take good precautions against the Ganning Water Army, we can't be damaged anymore, retreat to Xiakou by water, and then ask the lord for guilt. Go and prepare. ”

Xu Sheng, Zhu Ran, and Zhou Tai wanted to say something comforting, but they didn't know what to say, so they had to take the order to retreat and prepare themselves.

That night, Lu Meng led 20,000 soldiers and horses, boarded the naval warship, and looked south: "How could the 80,000 army take Jingzhou with such a result, God bless Liu Bu me." ”

After that, he boarded the ship and retreated back to Xiakou.

Gan Ning led his troops to retreat into the reeds at this time, and Gan Ning immediately noticed that it was not good after learning that the grain and grass were burned, and immediately sent envoys to Nanyang Guan Yu, Xiangyang Siege Han Army, Shuzhong Liu Bei and even Shangyong Three Counties also reported.

All the soldiers and horses of Fancheng entered the city, and the non-Guan Yu general ordered not to open the door. Although he set up an ambush at a dangerous place to fight Jiang Qin, he knew that the water army would be useless if he left the water source, so he kept maneuvering with it on the waterway, and Jiang Qin was not familiar with the terrain and could not take it for a while.

Gan Ning was shocked and said that Lu Meng was coming from the direction of Jiangling, and he was afraid that Jiangling would be lost. Urgently ordered to listen to the news in the direction of Gangneung.

I didn't want Lu Meng to lead the people to retreat south that day, Gan Ning was only afraid that he would remember, but he just hung from afar, and waited until his subordinates came down to report the news that Jiangdong had completely retreated from Xiakou.

Liu Bei's envoy found Gan Ning, and Gan Ning only knew the cause and effect. However, Jiangdong reinforcements came to respond, and Jiang Qin's naval army was not damaged, and watched Wu's army retreat to Xiakou.

Liu Bei actually didn't plan to fight Jiangdong to the death, and now taking Nanyang is the most important thing, so that Pang Tong, Huang Zhong, and Cheng Ji continue to attack Baqiu and capture Changsha and Guiyang counties.

All the Jiangdong troops were transported to Jingmen Mountain and Huya Mountain, where the terrain was dangerous, and the fortress was built, handed over to Wu Ban for detention, and sent to Shuzhong in batches. Wait until after the big war.

Wu transported Lu Xun, Ding Feng, Pan Zhang, and Li Yi into Chengdu and imprisoned them. The army went north, first broke Xiangyang, and then aided Nanyang.

Liu Bei sent Fei Shi to tell Guan Yu first, and Fa Zheng suggested: "The lord can ask the families of the soldiers and horses in Jiangling City to write a letter to the family and let Fei Gongju take it." lest the rumors of Cao's army attack on Jiangdong hurt the hearts of the army. Liu Bei followed his words.

Guan Yu and Cao Ren confronted each other, clashed with each other, regardless of victory or defeat, after the ban led troops to support, Cao Hong and Xiahou Shang led 30,000 soldiers and horses to help, Guan Yu then built a camp, dug a trench, and widely distributed antlers to resist the enemy.

Full of favor defeated Runan, made meritorious contributions, allocated grain and grass, built equipment, and curbed the thieves who took advantage of the chaos.

Guan Yu set up 12 villages along the river to protect the grain road to the west of the river and connect Nanyang. There are several counties such as Xinye, Jianyang, and Yuyang between Nanyang and Fancheng, and when Guan Yu went north, he took advantage of Cao Ren's attention to focus on Nanyang and divided his troops to capture it.

However, due to the limited number of troops, Guan Yu mainly garrisoned troops to protect the county towns west of Huashui, such as Yuyang and Chaoyang, and cooperated with the camp to protect the grain road, leaving only a few hundred people in Xinye and Jianyang east of Huashui, which were immediately captured by Cao Ren.

Fortunately, thanks to the water, Guan Yu made full use of the water army to quickly transport troops, although there were few soldiers and many villages, the support was very fast, the water army patrolled along the river, and Cao Ren did not dare to cross the river easily.

Guan Yu sent Guan Ping into the city to rectify the defenders of Nanyang. During the confrontation, Guan Yu first received a report from Xu Shu that the military rations had not arrived, and then received news that Ganning was attacked by the Jiangdong naval army.

A few days later, after receiving the news of Liao Hua's defeat, he couldn't help but have doubts in his heart, but Guan Yu never bowed his head until the end, but just asked Xu Shu to investigate, but rumors spread in the army, and Guan Yu ordered Zhao Lei and Zhou Cang to stabilize the army's heart.

When Cao Ren heard this, he took the opportunity to attack the feather. Cao Hong was brave, the soldiers and horses were strong, and he attacked the two villages. Guan Yu personally supported and repelled Cao Hong.

At this moment, first Ma Chao sent an envoy to contact Guan Yu, and Fei Shi came again, telling in detail about the changes in the past 20 days.

Fei Shi said: "Now the general can just break the enemy with peace of mind, Ma Chao and Chen to the reinforcements are almost there." The lord is now in Gangneung. He also asked me to bring letters from the officers and men in the army in order to stabilize the morale of the army! ”

Guan Yu said slowly: "Good, good, good." I know! ”

Xu Shu couldn't stop sweating and said, "Shu also made a big mistake." ”

Guan Yu sighed: "Yuan Zhi reminded him several times. Guan did not adopt it. What does it have to do with Yuan Zhi? Now ask Yuan Zhi's plan to break Cao. ”

Xu Shu said: "Don't dare, when things come to such a field, Shu will not escape."

However, the situation is now stable. On the contrary, it is beneficial to us, Yun Chang, I think Cao Ren must know about this, so he dares to storm our camp.

I'm afraid they've been waiting for us to retreat these days, following in pursuit, so that we can take advantage of the situation to recover Xiangfan. This is a good opportunity to break the enemy. ”

Xu Shu said to Fei Shi again: "Gongju, please contact Ma Mengqi and Uncle Chen to break Cao Jun together." ”

Fei Shi promised, and Xu Shu explained himself. Guan Yu is preparing for a big battle.