Xu Huang besieged Guan Yu. Xu Shang was assigned to command 3,000 cavalry and 3,000 infantry, ambushed outside Weitoutun, and then deceived Guan Yu's army to ask for help, and transferred away from the Weitoutun defenders.

Xu Shang used cavalry to attack to support Guan Yu's reinforcements, and the infantry attacked and took Weitou.

The guard of the Waitou Tun is Guan Ping, the son of Guan Yu. Xu Shang sent people to scam and send three fine people to go.

Guan Ping asked, "Where is my father?" ”

Lieutenant Cao Jun said: "General Guan is besieged in the middle of the road, so the little one came to ask for help, hoping that the young general will go to support quickly!" ”

Guan Ping was worried when he heard this, and he was worried about it, and he didn't think much about it, so he ordered his troops to go, and one of them suddenly said: "Doesn't the young general think it's strange?" ”

Guan Ping saw that it was Yang Yi, Yang Yi was Liu Bei's subordinate to Liu Bei during the Battle of Nanyang, and after Liu Bei talked with him, he appreciated his talent very much, so he left him to serve under Guan Yu's account.

Guan Ping hurriedly said: "What? ”

Yang Yi said: "Guan Junhou is proficient in the art of war, how can he be defeated and besieged so quickly, and there are only four or five thousand defenders in the siege, except for those who are left behind, what is the use of going?"

Junhou's words will definitely let us wait until General Gan arrives to save him, General Gan will arrive in less than a day, Junhou calculates the distance, he should also know, how can we go now?

As soon as this place is lost, Cao's army will be cut off from the reinforcements of Xiangyang and Jiangling, and all our soldiers and horses north of Fancheng will be surrounded and annihilated! Moreover, this person also has problems!

I know the place where the prince was trapped, and it is not a suitable place to hold at all, this person said that he was fighting his way out, I don't know him, I can't even remember the appearance of a person killed from tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, it's unlikely! ”

Guan Ping suddenly said: "If it weren't for Mr. Yang's reminder, I would have almost forgotten!" ”

Guan Ping called Captain Cao Jun and said, "What's your name?"

Captain Cao Jun said: "Villain Xu Fang."

How did Cao Jun know that Guan Yu was proud of his superiors but not bullied, cherished his soldiers, and the soldiers above the rank of commander in the army, and the main generals all knew their names, although Cao Jun had heard of it, he did not take this regulation seriously.

As soon as Guan Ping heard that they were ordered to retreat, Cao Jun also pretended to say: "The young general will rescue as soon as possible, it will be bad if it is too late!" ”

Guan Ping said: "I have my own plans, you don't have to worry about it!" Cao Jun retreated.

Guan Ping said to Yang Yi: "Mr. Yang, these eighty percent are spies, I don't know this name, at least those individuals above the tenth master." ”

Yang Yi secretly thought: I didn't expect that the identity of the young general would have to remember the names of ordinary soldiers.

Yang Yi said: "That's right, you won't even have an official position if you are so skilled!" ”

Guan Ping said: "In this case, I deceitfully made a plan, Mr. guarded the tun, and the thieves attacked back and forth after they came to the city, and the thieves could break the thief army." ”

Yang Yi said: "I just don't know if the thief army ambushed and killed the reinforcements, or broke my fortress first?" ”

Guan Ping said: "Don't worry about it, I only bring two thousand soldiers and horses." There were still 3,000 soldiers and horses in the fortification. ”

Guan Ping took advantage of the night to go out of the city, and then went south, Guan Ping was familiar with the road, walked for several miles, found a place, rested the whole army, waited for an hour, and began to return with all his strength.

There was a shout of killing in the direction of the cantonment. Guan Ping sprinted with all his strength and rushed to the bottom of Weitoutun, Cao's army was struggling to attack under the leadership of Xu Shang, but the deep trenches and antlers around Weitoutun were ten, and the obstacles were extremely tight.

Xu Shang pulled out half of them, Yang Yi was leading the troops to resist, Guan Ping roared, slapped his horse and danced his knife to kill Xu Shang, two thousand Han troops attacked from behind, Xu Shang hurriedly retreated, there were Han troops in front and behind, plus the trenches were heavy, it was even more difficult.

Xu Shang led 3,000 infantry to attack, and the cavalry waited halfway to intercept Guan Ping, but they could not support without receiving news.

Guan Ping drove Xu Shang and Cao Bing into the trench from behind, Xu Shang was defeated, and he was about to overturn in a blink of an eye, and suddenly the drums behind him sounded, and it was Xu Huang who came in person.

Guan Ping and Yang Yi were a little caught off guard, victory was in sight, but they suddenly lost it.

Guan Ping shouted: "Mr. Yang retreats first, and I will break back." "Yang Yi is not polite, this is not the time to be polite. Immediate drawdown.

Xu Huang hurriedly came, the Han army retreated in a hurry, it was inevitable that there was some chaos, Xu Shang saw the reinforcements, and his morale soared under the will to survive, but Xu Shang robbed and killed the Han army and delayed the retreat.

Guan Ping looked at it and said angrily: "The defeated general still dares to speak bravely!" "The knife slashed at him.

Xu Shang parried, Guan Ping made a knife method, the two fought for only ten rounds, Guan Ping suddenly shouted: "Thief general, this is the end!" ”

Xu Shang was struggling to parry, and was shouted by Guan Ping, Guan Ping's big knife wiped his chest, and then slashed his neck.

In the distance, Xu Huang was one step away and failed to come to the rescue, seeing Xu Shang being killed, his anger exploded in his heart, and he bit the Han army to death. Guan Ping turned over to the enemy, Xu Huang was ruthless in order to avenge Xu Shang, and wanted to kill Guan Ping, Guan Ping retreated again and again, and Xu Huang pressed step by step.

The Han army retreated to Weitoutun and had not yet been put in order, and most of the ten-fold antlers were also destroyed! Xu Huang took advantage of the chaos of the Han army, fought and entered, and broke into the tunzhong.

Guan Ping couldn't keep up the soldiers and horses, so he had to abandon the tun and leave, Xu Huang was willing to let go, and the arson chased after him, Guan Ping was defeated, so he had to flee in embarrassment, and entered Fancheng, Xu Huang went straight to Fancheng.

Xu Huang won the bib, but there was no joy at all. If it weren't for his own weighing of the severity and judging that instead of besieging Guan Yu, it would be better to capture the siege and lead the troops to respond, the siege would be another result!

Rao is so, the casualties of Xu Shang and thousands of soldiers and horses are too worthless for him. Xu Huang saw the solidity of Fancheng and abandoned the siege, leaving only a thousand cavalry to bluff.

The army returned and made peace with Lü Jian, who was besieging the four mounds. Guan Yu continued to march towards the four mounds after dawn, the cavalry of the Cao army attacked and harassed, Xu Huang was not there, Lu Jian couldn't stop it, and let Guan Yu enter the four mounds.

After Guan Yu's army entered, Guan Yu and five hundred sword and axe men turned over to challenge, and Guan Yu invited Xu Huang to fight. Xu Huang had just rushed back, and after he had to report, he came to take the battle.

Guan Yu laughed when he saw Xu Huang and said, "Big brother doesn't want to compete with Guan, now you can be separated."

Xu Huang laughed and said, "Okay, I have this intention, but I want to tell Yun Chang one thing."

After that, Xu Huang took out the flag of Weitoutun and threw it in front of the formation and said, "I will accept the weitou."

Guan Yufeng's eyes flashed and said: "I said why didn't I see Gongming when I retreated today, it seems that Ping'er really made Gongming spend a lot of time."

A trace of anger flashed in Xu Huang's eyes, but he immediately disappeared and said: "Guan Ping is very filial, I heard that you were trapped and wanted to save you."

Guan Yu said: "It's a pity, he's still a little tender." It's time for Komeito to do it, you can't always bully juniors. ”

Xu Huang said: "Of course." The two raised their blades, swords and axes intersected, and a fight stopped.

The next day, only 100 of the 1,000 Cao cavalry under Fancheng City returned, and when Xu Huang asked, he learned that it was Gan Ning who arrived and quietly attacked that night.

Gan Ning's troops of 10,000 troops came suddenly, but the result was naturally one-sided, and Xu Huang scolded the people to retreat. Ordered Lu Jian to command 3,000 troops to guard Weitoutun and pay attention to the movement of Fancheng. Xu Huang fought Guan Yu in Shizuka.

Gan Ning arrived in Fancheng, and after attacking Cao's army, he consulted with Xu Shu, Guan Ping, and Zhao Lei.

Xu Shu said: "Cao's army is besieging Nanyang, and it is determined to win, Xu Huang's coming this time is to cut off our support for Nanyang."

Guan Ping said: "My father doesn't know the news yet, what can I do?"

Xu Shu said: "Xu Huang did not besiege Fancheng, which means that Yun Chang is fine." Major generals don't have to worry too much. Guan Ping nodded.

Xu Shu continued: "The wounds after the war have not fully recovered, Gan Ning's 15,000 soldiers and horses and Xiangfan's total of 20,000 soldiers and horses are all the soldiers and horses that can be dispatched, Xu Huang is fierce, not to be underestimated, we must fight cautiously, we can't fail."

Gan Ning said: "Now I'm worried that Yun Chang is a lone army at this time, if Cao Cao sends heavy troops to attack and encircle and annihilate the four mounds, our dragons will be leaderless, and the morale of the army will be lost, it will be bad."

Guan Ping hurriedly said: "Is there a good way?" ”

Gan Ning said: "I have sent a fine person to inform your father and accept his retreat. The major general temporarily guarded Fancheng, and Zhao Dudu blocked the river to ensure the absolute security of Xiangyang and the connection with Fancheng. I led 3,000 soldiers and horses to meet Cao Jun and explore the reality of Cao Jun. ”

Xu Shu said: "I'm afraid that it will be in vain!" ”

Gan Ning said: "It's okay, but let's test it, don't do a deep battle!" ”

Gan Ning led 3,000 soldiers and horses to the north and arrived at Weitou, Lu Jian had already restored the antler trench, and Gan Ning had a headache when he looked at it.

Gan Ning sent an envoy to contact Guan Yu and agreed with each other to accept his retreat. After returning to Fancheng, when approaching Fancheng, Xu Huang learned that the news had sent cavalry to arrive, and after a battle, Gan Ning left half of his soldiers and horses before retreating to Fancheng.

Cao's cavalry showed off their might under the city of Fan, and then returned. After Gan Ning returned to Fancheng, he first treated the injured soldiers.

After that, he killed ten sheep and two oxen, took out fifty jars of wine, and selected ten chiefs of each battalion and one hundred chiefs of one hundred men, and entertained them with fine wine, cattle and sheep.

Gan Ning poured wine in a large bowl, then poured it for the hundred and ten chiefs, picked up the bowl and drank the wine in the bowl. But they saw that no one drank the wine.

Gan Ning asked: "You can eat the cattle and sheep to your heart's content, drink all the wine, and then follow me to attack Caoying, rub its sharpness, and meet the prince of Guan."

Everyone said: "There are nearly 10,000 cavalry of the Cao army, which is not easy to break, not to mention that there are Cao soldiers on the side."

Gan Ning was furious and drew his sword and shouted: "If you receive the grace of the lord, you should sacrifice your life to repay it." I'm not afraid of death, so what worries do you have? I will not be embarrassed if those who are afraid of death take off their armor. ”

Seeing Gan Ning's stern expression, everyone opened their eyes angrily, and they didn't dare to argue, so they had to drink the wine.

Guan Ping originally set up a banquet to entertain Gan Ning, and was about to come to invite him, but he was watching from the back and heard it clearly, and hurriedly sent someone to invite Gan Ning.

After hearing the invitation, Gan Ning said loudly: "The young general can come out and speak."

Guan Ping turned out and came to the front and said: "General Gan, the cavalry of the Cao army comes and goes like the wind, it is not easy to break, this matter should be considered in the long run!"

Gan Ning said: "Young General, do you think I am unprepared? Today, Cao Jun Xinsheng, first of all, would not have thought that we would dare to rush to the four mounds to sneak attack, let alone that I would lead a hundred people to sneak attack.

In order to go first, disrupt the Cao army, the major general led the troops to meet me, and then prepared two soldiers and horses in the waitou, all the way to prevent the Cao soldiers in the weitou from intercepting our retreat, and laid crossbowmen on the retreat road, when we retreated, the Cao army must be unwilling and just ambushed. ”

Guan Ping said: "It's too dangerous!"

Gan Ning said: "As a general, there is no danger in battle. Now what worries me the most is that Cao's army is besieging Yun Chang with heavy troops, and we will make peace with Yun Chang before Cao Cao's army. ”

Gan Ning said to everyone: "You are all going with me when you wait for one side in a hundred miles, do you dare!"

Everyone said: "The general is not afraid of life and death, and we have no worries." Drink good wine and eat cattle and sheep.

During the second watch, 100 people, 100 horses, 100 knives set off, Guan Ping ordered 3,000 soldiers and horses, arranged the crossbowmen, and sent Yang Yi to ambush in the enclosure. Xu Shu guarded Fancheng.

Gan Ning led everyone to wrap the armor title, and when there were more than three more, they arrived at the four mounds, and the east of the four mounds was the Cao army camp, and the camp was divided into north and south to surround the four mounds.

Gan Ning sent a person to report to Guan Yu, and after he saw Xu Huang's banner, he went straight to Nanying, sneaked through the trench, and pulled out the antlers.

Gan Ning shouted and killed into Cao's camp, Xu Huang saw Guan Yu's lone army deep, keenly aware that this was a good opportunity to annihilate Guan Yu, on the same day Xu Huang sent an envoy to kill Xu Shang, Fan Cheng was frustrated and reported to Cao Cao for guilt, asked for reinforcements, and gathered the army to annihilate Guan Yu before Guan Yu was aware of his situation.

Cao Cao immediately sent the general Cao Zhen to lead 20,000 soldiers and horses and the newly arrived 10,000 soldiers and horses to quickly reinforce Xu Huang, and be sure to annihilate Guan Yu. ordered Xu Huang to drag Guan Yu. He also crowned Xu Shang as a righteous general and buried him.

In order to prevent Guan Yu from intercepting the camp, Xu Huang sprinkled exploration horses around Sizuntun and set up an ambush in the north camp to prevent Guan Yu from robbing the camp and put him on strict guard.

Xu Huang did not take off his armor and was ready for various situations at any time, but he never expected that Gan Ning would dare to lead a hundred people over the fence to sneak attack his southern camp.

Gan Ning and other 100 people entered the Cao camp, shouted loudly in the Cao camp, set fire on all sides, robbed and killed Cao soldiers, and beheaded hundreds of Cao soldiers.

Xu Huang got on the horse and brought his guards to fight with him, but Gan Ning didn't fight Xu Huang at all, but just ran around the horse and created chaos.

Xu Huang ordered the Cao army in Beiying to strictly guard against Guan Yu's departure from the tun and come to kill Gan Ning himself, Gan Ning realized that Xu Huang had reacted and immediately beckoned everyone to retreat. 100 people and 100 horses, come and go quickly.

Cao Jun saw that the Han army was about to chase after such a small number of people, Xu Huang immediately stopped and said: Pursuing in the dark, I don't know the enemy's situation, and I will suffer a loss if I attack rashly. Beiying came to report, Guan Yu came out of Sizuntun, Guan Yu took the lead, broke through the blockade of Cao's army, and Beiying soldiers and horses sent soldiers and horses to support, and they couldn't stop it, after all, Guan Yu was nearly 10,000 people.

Xu Huang sighed after retribution: "I actually underestimated the enemy." The chaos in the camp had not yet been cleaned up, so he had to order the cavalry to assemble and start attacking Guan Yu.

After Gan Ning withdrew, he made peace with Guan Ping behind, and Gan Ning said to Guan Ping: "Xu Huang is worthy of being a famous general of the Cao Army, and his reaction is very fast."

Guan Ping said: "General Gan, what should we do now?"

Gan Ning said: "Young General, you can ambush in this direction, I will lure some Cao soldiers over, and your father's pressure will be less."

Guan Ping immediately agreed. The two divided their troops, and Gan Ning led the soldiers and horses to turn back and flank Xu Huang, and after one blow, they retreated.

Xu Huang saw that Guan Yu was beginning to break through and his own reinforcements had not yet arrived, so he divided the cavalry into several teams and kept attacking and harassing, so that Guan Yu's army did not dare to retreat boldly and with confidence.

The infantry occupied some high ground or dense forests on Guan Yu's retreat route to ambush Guan Yu's army, delaying until Cao Zhen's 30,000 living forces arrived.

Gan Ning attacked, Xu Huang divided 4,000 soldiers and horses, only blocking Gan Ning, so that he could not make trouble, but he was not allowed to pursue, only defended. Gan Ning's several seductions ended in failure.

Guan Yu increased the pace of retreat, divided the soldiers and horses into three teams, superimposed retreat, once Cao Bing blocked, the first team blocked, the second team passed through the formation and became the first team. The first team that had originally blocked the enemy retreated under the second team, and then formed a formation. The third team was responsible for the reception, alternating the retreat.

The first team was in charge of Liao Hua, the second team was in charge of Xiang Lang, and Guan Yu was in charge of the third team. Guan Yu learned the lesson of supporting Sizukatun last time, and specially selected five hundred archers with excellent archery skills, and the Cao cavalry rushed a little closer, and they would be shot.

Guan Yu organized all the cavalry of 600 people, divided into two teams, and took the initiative to counterattack the Cao cavalry, but could not exceed the range of the Han army's bow and arrow. The cavalry of the Cao army attacked, the cavalry of the Han army was entangled, and the archer of the Han army would shoot or repel the cavalry at the edge of the Cao army's range, and the cavalry within the edge became a lone army.

Another Han cavalry would come to support and divide the small group of Cao cavalry. Those who wanted to escape were greeted by thousands of arrows. Xu Huang didn't check for a while at night, and when the cavalry returned, Xu Huang found that it was not good, and ordered the attack to be suspended, and he had already lost more than 1,000 people.

The three teams of the Han army covered each other and quickly broke away. Xu Huang saw that Guan Yu was retreating extremely quickly, and he was also a little anxious, and he asked for reinforcements to arrive at noon at the earliest, at this speed, when the reinforcements arrived, it would be too late.

When Xu Huang was about to use Gan Ning to contain Guan Yu, he realized that Gan Ning had disappeared. Xu Huang's heart was crossed, and he was ruthless, and ordered the cavalry and infantry to gather and start to fight with Guan Yu.

Encircling and annihilating Guan Yu, so that the dragons of Jingzhou are leaderless, not to mention cutting off Nanyang, it is not difficult to take Xiangyang and Fancheng.

Guan Yu quickly saw that Xu Huang was going to fight hard. Guan Yu is not worried, it is true that Xu Huang has cavalry, but it is useless to be entangled without a large number of infantry.

Xu Huang's infantry Xu Shang lost 3,000, Lu Jian divided 2,000, and all kinds of battles were folded to 2,000, and now it is only 7,000 infantry, and the strength is not superior? Guan Yu maintained the formation, the cavalry was not easy to defeat, and the Cao army infantry did not dare to enter the battle on a large scale because they were afraid of Gan Ning, too little was useless, and it was useless.

Guan Yu slowed down his pace, straightened out the formation, and then accelerated his pace to retreat. Xu Huang led the cavalry to charge into battle, the infantry was charged, and Guan Yu forced back the Cao cavalry with a spear and returned fire with a bow and crossbow.

Xu Huang's several attacks had little effect, and Guan Yu sent his cavalry to kill the retreating Cao army, and the Cao army's infantry rushed out of a little chaos!

The two armies fought and walked, and after a distance, Guan Ping suddenly appeared, impacting a wave of Cao troops, and retreated with Guan Yu.

When he retreated to a few miles away from Wai Tou Tun, he saw faint smoke in the distance.

Guan Yu shouted: "Our reinforcements are in front, Weitoutun has been subdued, we will go to meet with reinforcements and repel the Cao thief." The soldiers of the Han army were full of joy and promised. Xu Huang hurriedly sent cavalry to take the lead to find support.

It is true that Waitoutun was attacked by the Han army, but it was not recovered. Yang Yi was ordered to command two thousand troops to ambush near Weitou and intercept the soldiers and horses that Xu Huang might have sent to intercept Guan Yu's retreat! Yang Yi didn't know that Xu Huang didn't get reinforcements, his troops were not abundant, and Guan Yu was brave and didn't dare to risk dividing his troops.

The sky is about to dawn, and the scouts report that Cao's army has not moved, and there may not be any soldiers and horses! Yang Yi was unwilling to lie in ambush here, took out the oil and wood prepared in advance, and took advantage of the dark and unbright, and quietly began to fill the trench outside the enclosure with wood, and the ten-layer trench was filled with five layers and was discovered!

Yang Yi didn't hide it anymore, poured oil on the antlers, lit a fire, and sent five hundred men to continue filling in the trenches. Fifteen hundred soldiers and horses will continue to lie in ambush nearby.

Lu Jian saw that the antlers were burned, and the Han army was filling the trench with wood, and the shouting of killing was not small, so he didn't dare to act rashly, and when it was dawn, he saw that there were only a few hundred people, and Lu Jian was a little annoyed, which was played by hundreds of people.

The Han army led by him said loudly: "Our bluff is to let the general not act rashly, lest we find out that we are responding to General Guan's retreat, and block it, so that Xu Huang and this guy can catch up." General Lu is so cooperative, thank you, we all thank General Lu! The Han army thanked him in unison, turned over and retreated.

Lü Jian was furious and wanted to pursue and kill this Han army, and the left and right also asked for battle, so Lü Jian sent 500 people out of the tun to pursue.

When someone was sent out, Lu Jian suddenly remembered why General Xu Huang didn't send someone to ask me to intercept the Han army, nor did he tell me that Guan Yu retreated, but the Han army was ambushed nearby and intercepted General Xu's messenger, which is not good.

Hurriedly ordered the recall of five hundred Cao troops. Soon a hundred remnants of soldiers rushed to confirm Lu Jian's worry, Lu Jian looked at the Cao soldiers under the tun, everyone was embarrassed, everyone shouted in unison that they were ambushed, and thousands of Han troops chased after them.

Lu Jian saw that most of them knew each other, and opened the door to let Cao Bing enter the tun. As soon as the door opened, Cao Bing fought by himself, Cao Jun in Weitoutun didn't know what was going on, Lu Jian shouted that it was not good, there were spies mixed in here, and he hurriedly led troops and horses to clear the spies.

The Han army killed in a blink of an eye, lost the obstacle of the antler trench, and the Han army soon fought with the Cao army at the mouth of Weitou Tunkou.

The two armies fought around the tunkou, and the Cao army climbed on the tun to shoot arrows and threw stones to hit the Han army, and the Han army shot back with arrows, and the two armies were at a stalemate.

Gan Ning found that he couldn't give Guan Yu too much support, so he resolutely retreated from the four mounds. sent people to ask Fan Cheng for support, and Xu Shu sent 3,000 people and Gan Ning to support Guan Yu.

The Han scouts heard that the battle was fierce, and Gan Ning sent a thousand soldiers and horses with a cloud ladder to support. Yang Yi, who got the new force, took advantage of the situation to storm and use the cloud ladder to climb the tuntou, and the Han army in order to confuse the Cao army, so the torches were still in the tunzhong, so it caused the fire and smoke, which was seen by Guan Yu and Xu Huang.

The cavalry of the Cao army came to aid Lu Jian, and was encountering Gan Ning, the cavalry of the Cao army did not fight with Gan Ning, and immediately rushed to Weitoutun, Gan Ning was mostly infantry, and could not keep up with the cavalry of the Cao army.

When the Cao cavalry arrived, Yang Yi had already entered the tunzhong, and Yang Yi was a little panicked about the Cao cavalry coming from behind. Without allowing him to think too much, the cavalry of the Cao army crossed the attack on the scattered Han army, and half of the Han army outside the tun fell.

When Lu Jian saw the reinforcements, his morale naturally doubled, and the Han army began to face the danger of collapse, Yang Yi was anxious but useless.

Lu Jian and Cao's cavalry attacked inside and outside, surrounding Yang Yi's soldiers and horses, Lu Jian shouted: "Yang Yi, you are now discouraged, there are no reinforcements outside, if you continue to fight, the whole army will be wiped out, if you continue like this, you will become a laughing stock when you return to the army, even if you are loyal, what's the use, why don't you surrender early?"

Yang Yi said angrily: "You dare to despise me so much!" After that, he turned over and killed Lu Jian.

The two of them did not win or lose, and the Han army was already routed, scattered, and surrendered. Yang Yi didn't care much, turned over and led four or five people to stand out.

At this time, Gan Ning arrived, and Yang Yi and Gan Ning made peace. Gan Ning didn't talk nonsense, shouted, and led the troops to rush to Weitoutun. Cao Jun didn't dare to think that there were really infantry who took the initiative to attack the cavalry!

Lu Jian didn't react, the battle had just ended in the tun, it was still chaos, most of the Cao cavalry entered the tunzhong, Gan Ning immediately rushed over to block the tunkou, the Cao cavalry could not gallop in the tun, and Gan Ning, who was outside the tun, personally guarded and made Yang Yi fight again.

At this moment, Cao Jun was really a little unbearable, many Cao soldiers did not mention the preparation for the battle at all, Gan Ning commanded the Han army to press towards the tunnei, compressing the Cao army in the tunnei, and the Cao army's cavalry wanted to attack out several times but were carried by Gan Ning.

Gan Ning held the tunkou, so that the cavalry of the Cao army could not charge in a large scale, and a single cavalry attack could not pose much threat at all.

The Cao army in Tunnei was soon completely annihilated, and Lü Jian was defeated by winning the Han army's cloud ladder from Tunshang. Gan Ning recaptured Weitoutun, but the casualties of more than 4,000 people were really not small.

Guan Yu retreated to the bottom of the weitou tun, and couldn't help laughing when he saw his own people's banners, and Lu Jian rushed to Xu Huang in embarrassment to ask Xu Huang for his guilt.

Xu Huang said: "I don't blame you for this, it's because I didn't anticipate the enemy, and I went down to bandage the wound." Lu Jian thanked him and retreated.

Xu Huang knew that he could not annihilate Guan Yu, and it was useless to fight any longer, so he withdrew his troops and retreated. Guan Yu entered Weitoutun, and Gan Ning and Yang Yi came to greet him.

Guan Yu saw that the corpses, canes, and food of the soldiers that had not yet been collected all over the ground had been burned, and he couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "It's just a small barracks that actually put in the lives of 7,000 soldiers of the two armies!" Gan Ning and Yang Yi also had feelings.

Guan Yu said: "Xingba, how many garrisons and horses are there in Fancheng?"

Gan Ning said: "There are still three thousand!"

Guan Yu said: "You can't transfer the soldiers and horses there anymore!"

Gan Ning said: "Cao Cao came prepared this time, I'm afraid this battle will be difficult to fight!"

Guan Yu took a deep breath and said, "How many soldiers and horses can I mobilize in Jingzhou?" ”

Gan Ning said: "All the soldiers and horses that can be mobilized are here."

Guan Yu frowned and said, "There are less than 20,000 left."

Gan Ning said: "Exactly, only 17,000 soldiers and horses. After all, we have not recovered from the great war of five months ago. ”

Guan Yu was silent for a moment and said, "What is Xingba's plan?"

Gan Ning said: "Let's retreat to Fancheng first, waiting for the opportunity to move, after all, our soldiers and horses to support Nanyang can't help but be in the mouth of the tiger, and it has no effect." Yun Chang left me 2,000 soldiers and horses, and I came to guard Weitoutun. ”

Guan Yu said: "Weitoutun is so dilapidated that it is no longer defensible, Xu Huang will not leave us time to let us strengthen the fortification, it is better to retreat to Fancheng after burning it." Regroup your troops and go north again! ”

Gan Ning said: "What Yun Chang said is extremely true, I am ready to use Weitoutun to frustrate Cao Jun!"

Guan Yu said: "What is Xingba going to do?" ”

Gan Ning said: "Please send two armies of soldiers and horses to ambush in the northeast, and immediately rush to the weitou when you see the fire in the perimeter, and the general will also ask me to retreat at that time." ”

Guan Yu said: "Okay, I'll send Guan Ping and Yang Yi to help you." Then Gan Ning said his plan, and the two discussed it and divided their troops.

Xu Huang gathered Cao Zhen's 30,000 soldiers and horses to surround the Waitou Tun, and Gan Ning led 2,000 soldiers and horses to guard the Waitou, and the surrounding area was only temporarily reinforced, and most of the trenches and antlers did not have time to stand up.

Xu Huang and Cao Zhen were also a little puzzled when they saw this scene, what was he doing guarding him like this? It is clear that he will be sent to death.

The two of them didn't think much about it, taking it into Fancheng as soon as possible, blocking Nanyang was the top priority, and letting go of Guan Yu had already made Cao Zhen and Xu Huang a little disappointed and even annoyed, so they threw their anger on Gan Ning, who responded to Guan Yu's retreat.

At first, Xu Huang was afraid that Gan Ning had a plan, so he didn't dare to enter the siege of Fancheng, but only tentatively attacked the siege and observed the movements of Fancheng, after all, Gan Ning was still in the siege, and Guan Yu saw that he did not save him.

Gan Ning's resistance was really fierce, and he came to report that Guan Yu was building a new camp west of Fancheng, and Cao Zhen personally led the cavalry to attack and harass, but he was ambushed by Guan Yu on the way, and lost two or three hundred people.

Cao Zhen was furious and wanted to fight with Guan Yu, Guan Yu was more familiar with the location than Cao Zhen, and quickly relied on the mountain to get rid of Cao Zhen, Cao Zhen did not catch up with Guan Yu, so he had to rush to the place where the Han army built a fortification. The Han army was left with only a remnant of the fortress that had not yet been built.

Cao Zhen had no choice but to return, and the next day, Cao Zhen surrounded Fancheng and completely cut off the connection between Weitou and Fancheng. Xu Huang stormed the siege, Gan Ning desperately resisted, Xu Huang observed it, and saw that Gan Ning was really fighting, so he relieved himself and urged the troops to attack.

A few days later, Gan Ning was defeated and withdrew from the encirclement, and Cao's army poured in. After entering, Cao Jun was blinded, because the outer fortification was breached, and there were three low walls inside, which were very narrowly spaced, and Cao Jun could not exert his superiority in strength at all, so he could only shoot arrows condescendingly in the cantonment.

Gan Ning had already prepared, relying on the shield defense, personally shooting arrows to fight back, the Han army was armed with spears and knives to fight back, and the two armies fought in the low wall until dark.

Xu Huang saw Gan Ning fighting like this, so he changed his cautious strategy and attacked with all his might, if he could kill or capture Gan Ning, it would also be a meritorious achievement.

The Cao army almost took Weitoutun, and there were seven or eight hundred remaining of Gan Ning's two thousand soldiers and horses, and Gan Ning saw that it was almost over, and under an order, the Han army shouted that Zhongxing was a great man, and he served the lord, although he had no regrets about his death.

Then he opened the cellar covering sulfur, dry firewood and other flammable things, opened it, threw in the torches, and immediately ignited a fire in the cantonment, and the Cao soldiers who had entered the cantonment were shocked and hurriedly withdrew from the cantonment.

There is only one small gate in the fortification, and there are low walls on all sides to block it, it is easy to get in and difficult to get out, Cao soldiers pull people, people drag people, people trample on people, trample on people, and countless people die by fire and trampling.

Gan Ning commanded the Han army to calmly clean up the Cao soldiers in the south of Tun, and then opened the tunnel in the corner, and the Han army all escaped from the tunnel, the tunnel was only 400 meters, which was newly dug, not enough to break through the encirclement of the Cao army, but enough for the Han army to get out of the sea of fire.

The Han army that quietly appeared outside the tun was caught off guard by the Cao army outside under the leadership of Gan Ning, and even Xu Huang did not react, when the fire broke out in Tunlai, Xu Huang, who heard the shouts of the Han army, reacted first that Gan Ning wanted to die with him.

Shocked, he didn't have time to think about it and hurriedly ordered Cao Jun to pick up the soldiers and horses in the cantonment and ran out, and soon the news that Gan Ning suddenly appeared outside the tun, Xu Huang was so smart that he immediately realized that it was an authentic.

Deputy General Lu Jian continued to rescue Cao Jun and went to deal with Gan Ning himself, Gan Ning's fire burned more than 3,000 Cao soldiers, counting the dead, which was enough to make Xu Huang, a soldier who came quickly, a little angry, how could it be cheap Gan Ning.

Gan Ning killed Cao Jun by surprise, quickly grabbed a horse, led the Han army out of the encirclement, and came to Fancheng, running wildly along the way, and the Cao army was also in a hurry to catch up.

Suddenly, Gan Ning stopped in a dense forest and shouted: "Listen to Cao Jun, you dare to chase after you, you are not small, brothers in the dense forest, if you don't come out at this time, let alone when, besiege and kill Cao Jun." After speaking, he waved his arms in all directions, as if there was a real ambush.

Cao Jun was frightened by Gan Ning's sudden shouting and shouting, and stopped his horse. Gan Ning took the opportunity to pull his legs and left. Cao Jun didn't dare to be careless, sent people into the dense forest, there was nothing, and then saw that Gan Ning had run far, and couldn't help but be annoyed and angry.

Xu Huang also caught up, Cao Jiang said things simply, Xu Huang couldn't make up his mind whether to chase or not.

The surrounding Cao generals asked for their orders to chase after him, Xu Huang thought about it: Cao Zhen did not report that Guan Yu had any movements, and there was no thief army after inquiry, so it was too cheap for Gan Ning to let him go.

Then he said: "Okay, divide the troops into three teams to pursue, once you encounter an ambush, the first team will entangle the thief army, and wait for the two teams behind to attack the thief army." ”

Quickly divided into three teams, still by the first to chase Cao will be the first team, himself is the second team, the other Cao will be the third team to chase Gan Ning, after chasing a distance at all, Gan Ning's shadow is completely gone, has been chasing close to Fancheng.

Xu Huang suddenly remembered and hurriedly said: "It's not good, Gan Ning won't sneak attack Cao Zhen from behind!" "Hurried to Cao Zhenfan's camp.

Cao Zhen first sent the news, and sure enough, after Gan Ning met Guan Ping and Yang Yi who were hiding in the high mountains and dense forests, a total of 2,000 soldiers and horses, Gan Ning knew that Xu Huang was not easy to deal with, and there would never be any more mistakes after suffering losses, so he decisively returned to Fancheng and inserted Cao Zhen from behind.

Cao Zhen had already made relevant preparations after seeing the fire in Weitoutun, and Gan Ning came suddenly, and did not take any advantage, and retreated to Fancheng under Guan Yu's response.

After dawn, Xu Huang gathered the wounded and buried the dead soldiers, and Cao Cao asked Cao Cao to underestimate the enemy's crime. Cao Cao looked at it, and felt that it was a pity that Guan Yu was not hit hard, and he also understood that Guan Yu was not a good stubble in the first place, so he did not punish Xu Huang, but just ordered Xu Huang to face the battle carefully and complete the purpose of blocking Nanyang and Fancheng.

Cao Zhen led 20,000 soldiers and horses to return and continue to attack Nanyang. The rest of the soldiers and horses were led by Xu Huang and continued to communicate with Zhou Xuan.

After Liu Bei was defeated in Mengda and returned to Nanzheng, he was really taken aback when he learned the news of the loss of the three counties of Shangyong, and immediately ordered the gathering of troops and horses, and summoned Pang Tong, Zhang Fei, Wei Yan, Zhang Ren and others to come to discuss the matter.

Fa Zheng has been sent to Liangzhou to assist Liu Chan to make friends with Qiang, so he is not in Nanzheng, Zhuge Liang returned to Chengdu to sit in the town, so he is no longer in Nanzheng.

General Liu Bei reported that everyone knew, and Pang Tong was a little surprised when he heard it: "Cao Cao's movements are really surprisingly fast, and he has already begun to counterattack." ”

Liu Bei said: "I just don't know if Nanyang is the first or Liangzhou and Longyou are the leaders?" It is also necessary to guard against Cao Cao's sneak attack on Hanzhong, and Xiahou Yuan should not be underestimated. ”

Pang Tong said: "Exactly, the Cao army conquered the three counties of Shangyong, and the eight achievements were to take Nanyang first, after all, it was too close to the Central Plains." Lord, now first recover the three counties of Shangyong, which is an important place connecting Jingzhou, Nanyang and Hanzhong. ”

Liu Bei said: "Exactly, I am a little underestimated by the enemy, thinking that with the steep rivers and mountains I can sit back and relax, Mencius said, 'Solidify the country and do not take the risk of mountains and streams', this is really a lesson in the head." ”

Pang Tong said: "Don't say that, my lord, we have also neglected to check for leaks." The three counties should now be recovered in time. ”

Liu Bei nodded and said, "Yide, you can lead the troops to Shangyong for the vanguard first, and I will lead the troops as backup." Zhang Fei promised.

Liu Bei said to Wei Yan: "Wen Chang, I will lead the troops to attack the three counties of Shangyong, and Chang'an Xiahou Yuan will definitely attack Hanzhong from the Slope Valley and other places, and the defense of Hanzhong will be handed over to you." ”

Wei Yan said generously: "Don't worry, my lord, I will definitely not let Xiahou Yuan step into Hanzhong for half a step." Liu Bei nodded, and gave a warning to the counties of Longyou. After that, Liu Bei led 50,000 troops and attacked Shangyong.

Cao Cao used ladders, crashes and other equipment to storm Nanyang for more than 20 days, and the losses were not small.

Cao Cao ordered people to build a dirt mountain outside the city, and when the earth mountain was higher than the Nanyang city wall, he began to shoot arrows at the head of the city to suppress the garrison of Nanyang City.

Pang De had already prepared, and ordered the people in the city to weave thin rattan into a round shield to defend against arrows, and use cowhide to support them to block the rain of arrows overhead.

Cao Cao let people dig tunnels again, when they were about to dig under Nanyang City, Pang De received a report from his subordinates that the well water has been rippled in a circle for several days, Pang De immediately found that it was not good, buried several large tanks in the ground around the city, observed the ripples, and judged the location of Cao Bing's tunnel, Pang De urgently built Weng City in the city, and arranged defenses.

When the tunnel was dug under the city of Nanyang, Cao Cao ordered an almost non-stop attack during the day, tired of the Nanyang defenders, and at night, selected the brave to enter the tunnel, suddenly attacked the defenders of the city gate from the tunnel, opened the city gate and let the Cao army outside the city enter the city, the cavalry of the Cao army took the lead, and the infantry followed closely and poured in large numbers.

The infantry who entered the city heard only the neighing of the cavalry horses in front of them, both frightened neighing and dying miserable sounds, and the Cao army was puzzled, and the torches lit on all sides answered their questions. Then bows, arrows, and crossbows poured down, and Cao's soldiers were in chaos.

Cao Cao, who was outside the city, looked at Cao Bing who was constantly entering the city, and was a little uneasy, was it too smooth? When the fire on the city started, Cao Cao already knew the answer, and hurriedly Mingjin withdrew his troops.

The Cao soldiers in the city were unable to speak, there were several trenches in front, some of the Cao cavalry were not attentive or sprinted too hard, they could not contain their horses, and fell into the trenches full of spikes, and some were squeezed down by the cavalry behind, many horses fell into the trenches and were not dead, making a miserable neighing sound, and those who collected the horses were suddenly stopped and neighed in fright.

Soon the voices were muffled by a cacophony of shouting, shouting, and wailing. The Han army's bows and crossbows numbly harvested the lives of the Cao soldiers, and the Cao soldiers pushed each other, and even raised their knives to each other, with only one goal, that is, the city gate, and only where was the passage to survive.

Outside the city, the Han army on the Cao Bing City was blocked and unable to meet the trapped soldiers and horses. Cao Cao couldn't help but be very angry when he saw the failure, but he could only accept the reality.

Worse news came, Pang De actually took advantage of Cao Jun's attention at the North Gate, but he sneaked up on the Cao Army besieging the West Gate from the West Gate, where did Cao Jun think that the Han army that was besieged by layers dared to go out of the city, and was killed by surprise, Pang De personally rode a white horse, held a big knife, killed two Cao generals, broke the Cao Army's three camps, seized 100 carts of grain and grass, and 100 cattle and sheep returned.

Cao Cao said angrily after listening to the battle report: What are the generals guarding the camp doing, and now the swords are tense, and the mutual exchange of troops is so slack, take down the guards and deputy generals of the three large battalions for me, waiting for disposal? Left and right to receive orders.

The Cao soldiers in the city gradually withdrew, and there were only seven or eight hundred cavalry and horses left in the four thousand cavalry and horses. Cao Cao secretly felt heartache, but there was no way. Collect the troops and return to the camp.

According to the military law, Cao General was ordered to be beheaded if he did not hold the camp, and the deputy general was dismissed as soldiers, and some of the remaining Cao army generals were demoted, and each of them had 50 military sticks to set an example. Ximen's chief general Cao Ren is heavily responsible. The two Cao generals who died in the war were conscientious and died in the line of duty, and they were sealed and given generous compensation.

After dawn, Cao Cao continued to storm Nanyang without stopping for a moment. Cao Cao also ordered the construction of the tower. The tower is higher than the Nanyang city wall.

On all sides are sturdy planks, with only arrow holes at the top. Cao Jun hid inside, and the Han army's arrows were useless. The Cao army outside the building lure pushed and approached the city wall, and the Cao army on the top of the building began to fire arrows, harassing and killing the Han army.

After getting close enough, the planks were put down at the same height as the Nanyang city wall, and Cao Bing fought out of the building to meet the Han army. Pound saw Lou Lu and smiled: "Although this thing is terrifying, it is slow to move, and it is just trying to die!"

It was ordered to prepare clay pots and fill them with oil. When the building is close, the oil tank is thrown out, and then a torch is used to reduce the building to ashes.

Cao Cao was hit even harder, but he did not retreat, but after seeing such fierce resistance, he pointed to Nanyang and said: "Such a majestic city, it can't be in the hands of Liu Bei, otherwise there will be endless disasters." It was ordered to suspend the oppression of the troops, and the main blow was to shoot arrows from the mountains and bombardment by thunderbolts. The army was supplemented by hand-to-hand combat and siege of the city. In order to shake Nanyang's will to stick to it and weaken its combat power.

Spread the news that Guan Yu's army was defeated, the three counties of Shangyong fell, and Nanyang became a lonely city, and walked into the city, sparing the morale of the people.

Sure enough, under the pressure of arrows raining down and stones flying wildly, the soldiers of the Han army were frightened, and Pang De was fearless, and encouraged the soldiers: "Cao's army has defeated our army in a row, although it is not good for us, but it has sent a message that General Guan has not given up on our assistance, and we have not been given up or isolated.

We are fighting here, the lord is fighting in Shangyong, General Guan is fighting in the south, they have not given up yet, why should we be desperate and afraid. Cao Cao's abandonment of Nanyang was so hateful, how could he not want to retaliate.

Now the softness is the performance of our helplessness, when Yuan Shao's 80,000 soldiers surrendered and were killed, as a soldier who defended the country with a knife and a gun, it was shameful to put down the knife and gun, it was ridiculous to surrender to the enemy, and it was sad to surrender and be killed.

Do you want to be this shameful, ridiculous, pathetic person? ”

The crowd shouted in unison, "We don't want to do this!"

Pound said: "There are only generals who died in battle, and there are no generals who surrendered." The same goes for me Pound. ”

Everyone said: "The general still spares his life, what are we afraid of!" Nanyang City continued to stand tall in the stormy attack of Cao's army.