After Cao Cao received the news that Xiahou Shang had lost Shangyong, he realized that Liu Bei was approaching step by step, and Xiahou Shang lost the battle but did no harm, which was also a rare experience for a general.

Cao Cao was worried that Xiahou Shang and Yu Ban might struggle in the face of Liu Bei's army. I don't want my generals to be damaged, so I send reinforcements, small-scale reinforcements are not useful, and large-scale rescue will reduce the strength of the siege of Nanyang.

After weighing it again and again, Cao Cao divided 10,000 soldiers and horses, led by Cao Hong, and rushed to Fangling to contain Liu Bei's siege.

Cao Cao stepped up his attack on Nanyang. After the news of Hefei being besieged, Cao Cao was dizzy and had a headache, but fortunately it was okay.

Cao Cao scolded: "Sun Quan Xiaoer, it's repeated, Liu Bei can't get cheap, so he came to my Cao Cao!" "Sent someone to Qingzhou to transfer Zang Ba to lead the Qingzhou soldiers to rescue Hefei, and lay in bed for a few days to recuperate.

Nanyang has been cut off inside and outside for five months, Cao Cao intensified the offensive against Nanyang, gave preferential treatment to those who surrendered, and ordered them to shout, as long as they surrendered, they would not be blamed for the past.

Cao Cao piled up the armor, weapons, and banners of Guan Yu's soldiers and horses captured by Xu Huang under the city, further shaking Nanyang's resistance.

Pang De personally soothed the uneasy hearts of the people and soldiers, and felt that the people of Nanyang no longer began to fully support their defense of the city, and there were many fewer people who had transported materials for the Han army to defend the city and rescued the wounded.

The deputy general Wei Kai was worried, for five months, whether it was Guan Yu or Yizhou Liu Bei, not a single soldier came, and even the news was very few.

Pang De sent people several times to convey the news of Nanyang to Guan Yu, but the cavalry of the Cao army was not vegetarian and all of them were intercepted.

Pang De of Nanyang City began to worry, after a long siege, the Tuntian soldiers and horses who followed Hou Yin and Wei Kai to rebel were shaken, after all, they were just peasant soldiers, and they participated in some irregular battles during the war, and if it wasn't for too much exploitation, they wouldn't have rebelled.

When confronted with adversity, they are by no means as determined as regular soldiers. The regular soldiers and horses look at the example of the main general, and the main general is firm, and they will follow the main general and forget to die.

The original Tuntian soldiers, the current Han army hundred commander Qin Wu wavered, and several other wavering people colluded together.

Qin Wuyu said: "We were originally soldiers and horses under the King of Wei, just because Hou Yin and Wei Kai wanted to be rich and noble, and lured us to rebel with him.

The army of King Wei besieged the city, and Guan Yu and Liu Bei could not rush in to support us. If we go on for a long time, we can only sit and wait for death, and when the city is broken, it is when we die. We belong to the king of Wei, and we should return to protect the safety of the people of the city. ”

Everyone is a person who is afraid of death, and after listening to Qin Wu's words, they naturally even claim to be. The crowd then prepared to contact Cao Cao and surrender the city.

Cao Cao's illness has been hanging, and he has not seen any seriousness or improvement. The siege of the city for five months was really uncomfortable, and Cao Cao could not give up, and giving up would make all his efforts come to naught.

Cao Ren entered the account to meet Cao Cao, presented the Qin Wu arrow book, Cao Cao ordered Cao Ren to read it to him, the book first flattered Cao Cao, then self-criticism, deep reflection, and then agreed to atone for his crimes, saying that he would open the east city gate the next day and receive Cao's army into the city.

After hearing this, Cao Cao perked up and said, "Okay, this is a godsend!" Cao Ren, go and give the order, you personally select the elite and break the city tomorrow night! ”

Cao Ren agreed, and then stopped talking, Cao Cao saw Cao Zhen's appearance and said, "If there is any problem, it doesn't hurt to say it." Don't spit out. ”

Cao Ren arched his hand and said, "King, will there be fraud?" ”

Cao Cao said: "I don't think so, Nanyang has only been in Liu Bei's hands for half a year, and the new people have not all returned to their hearts, the reason why they support Liu Bei is just that they are afraid that we will slaughter the city, and now we are cut off inside and outside Nanyang, and the people are naturally panicked." There must be swingers.

What's more, if the stalemate continues now, we will make difficult progress, so it is better to give it a go. As long as there is a glimmer of opportunity, you must think carefully, and maybe it will completely change the situation. Zixiao, you must also guard against fraud, be fully prepared, go! ”

Cao Ren took the order. He personally made the vanguard of the city, Cao Xiu and Cao Zhen ambushed on the left and right, ready to meet themselves, and the other three gates also arranged strong troops, once the situation was not good, they immediately forcibly attacked the city and divided the strength of the defenders in the city.

Cao Xiu advised Cao Ren not to take risks and be a pioneer in breaking the city, but Cao Ren insisted. Cao Xiu and Cao Zhen saw that Cao Ren was so persistent, so they could only prepare separately.

Cao Ren insisted on doing so not because he was willful, nor because he was not robbing the credit, but because he had to do his best to win Nanyang, so that Hefei's dilemma could be solved.

As soon as Cao Cao was happy, his illness might get better, and even if it was not good, he could return to Xuchang to recuperate. Let Cao Xiu and Cao Zhen go to these juniors, Cao Ren is afraid that they will have three longs and two shorts, and they will not be able to rest assured.

I'm afraid the rest of the generals can't afford to take on such a heavy responsibility, after all, Pound is not a good stubble. After thinking about it, Cao Ren decided that it was best to go into battle himself.

When Cao Ren was about to take Nanyang. After Liu Bei gave up forcibly attacking Fangling City, he built a mountain outside the city and began to shoot arrows at the city, shooting Cao Jun, who was not to be outdone and shot at each other.

Liu Bei ordered the Han army to bluff, divided the soldiers and horses into four teams, and took turns pretending to attack the city, exhausting the Cao army in Fangling.

Yu Ban went out of the city several times to attack the Han army, and the camera destroyed Tushan, but was repelled by the Han army, which had been prepared for a long time. Yu Ban and Xiahou Shang saw that the Han army was on guard, so they no longer went out of the city and began to defend the city in turn.

Cao Cao's Cao Xiu led reinforcements to arrive, Liu Bei blocked the attack in the south of the city, and after Cao's army was defeated, he gave up entering the city. In Fangling City, in the choice of favorable terrain to set up a large camp, Liu Bei sent Zhang Fei to look for battle, Cao Hong could not hold out, Liu Bei divided his troops Zhang Fei to monitor this Cao army. The two armies confronted each other for a month, and Liu Bei was stuck in Fangling.

To the south, Guan Yu kept fighting with Xu Huang, looking for a breakthrough, while Xu Huang stared at when Guan Yu would show his flaws. It's four months for two people to fight, and no one can do it!

Militarily speaking, Xu Huang won slightly, and Guan Yu suffered a small loss, which was a draw. From a strategic point of view, Xu Huang won a complete victory, he successfully severed the connection between Nanyang Pang De and Guan Yu, Guan Yu and Xu Huang were not fighting for the purpose, the purpose was to reach Nanyang City to support Pang De.

Xu Huang did not defeat Guan Yu, but successfully blocked Guan Yu's support for Nanyang. Guan Yu couldn't break Xu Huang's blockade, and he was very anxious.

Xu Shu said to Guan Yu: "I wrote a letter and prepared to ask someone to bring it to Pound!" ”

Guan Yu said: "What letter? ”

Xu Shu said: "In case Nanyang falls, how to ensure Pang De's letter of safe return!" ”

Guan Yu didn't ask again, sent a fine person to go, and sent it to Pang De with great difficulty.

After Pound received it, he opened it and saw that Xu Shu wrote:

General Ling Ming, you are very ashamed that you have held on to Nanyang in April, but we are cut off from inside and outside, but we cannot provide effective support. Xu Huang cut off the northern road, and Guan Junhou and General Gan fought nearly 100 battles, but they couldn't make progress after all.

The three counties of Shangyong were broken, and the situation is not optimistic! The first general said that it would be great if Nanyang could turn the crisis into peace.

If you can't, you can leave a useful body to serve your life, and you can go. With Dongligon and other people captured in the past as collateral, they can be safe!

Pound read it and burned the letter. Ask the messenger Guan Yu and others about the situation. The messenger will tell you everything he knows. Pound sorted out his armor, held a big knife in his hand, walked firmly to the head of the city, and continued to hold on!

Qin Wu agreed with more than ten ten commanders to wait for Pang De to finish patrolling the city defense. Quietly opened the east gate, lit the city leader, and Cao Ren, who got the signal, urged his soldiers and horses to enter.

Pang De found that it was not good, the Cao army had already entered the city, because the people of Nanyang rebelled, and the Cao army attacked the city with many casualties.

The fire in Nanyang City was soaring, and Pang De led troops to meet Cao's army. Encountering Cao Ren, the two exchanged troops, Cao Jun had many soldiers and was unstoppable, the Han army was few and panicked, Pang Delian killed dozens of Cao soldiers, but it was useless.

Pang De's personal soldiers didn't see it well, Cao Jun surrounded him, hurriedly put Pang down and retreated, Cao soldiers entered the city and began to take advantage of the chaos to rob, and when Cao Ren found out that something was wrong, he ordered his cronies to stop the rebellion Cao Jun and extinguish the fire, which had suffered heavy losses.

Cao Ren led a large army to pursue Pang De, Pang De was defeated and retreated, and gathered many defeated soldiers, and everyone persuaded Pang De to break through for the time being.

Pang De shouted with a big sword: "I was ordered to protect Nanyang, guard the territory, and appease the people. Fleeing alone, is it what we should do, the matter has come to this, but to sacrifice my life to kill the thief.

If you are willing to kill the thieves with me, but if you are not willing to break through the siege, I am very grateful that you have followed me to defend the city until now. ”

After that, he turned his horse's head and shouted, "Follow me who lives and dies with me." ”

The crowd said: "May I follow the general!" ”

Pound faced Cao Ren who was chasing after him, and killed him unexpectedly, Cao Ren didn't expect Pound to come back and fight hard, after a panic.

Cao Ren quickly regained his disadvantage and gave full play to his advantages of many soldiers and horses to surround the Han army, and the soldiers of the Han army continued to die, leaving only more than 100 people.

Pound rushed forward several times to find Cao Ren to fight, ready to die together, Cao Ren knew very well that Pound, who had turned over and killed, already had the determination to die, and did not fight with him at all, commanding the soldiers and horses to grind.

Pound's own soldiers rushed over and surrounded Pound to break through, Pound's heart was unwilling, extremely angry, but there was no other way, the layers of Cao army seemed to be endless, Pound rushed left and right, unable to break through, and was tripped by Cao Jun's horse and captured alive.

Cao Ren ordered him to be escorted to Cao Cao, and then exterminated the remnants of the army in the city. After dawn, the fire in the city was extinguished, the Han army was either killed or surrendered, and Cao Cao rode into Nanyang.

Cao Ren escorted Pang De, and Cao Cao said with a smile: "The general has been holding Nanyang for nearly half a year, he is really a strong man, and he can be regarded as doing his best for Liu Bei and living up to his trust." Now that the city has been broken, is the general willing to surrender? ”

Pound said: "I am only loyal to the lord, how can I surrender, but kill me quickly." ”

Cao Cao forcibly suppressed the headache, wiped his sweat and said, "Why is the general so stubborn. Ma Teng, Ma Chao and me, you have all served in the past, He Yan is only loyal to the lord. ”

Pound said: "I serve Ma Teng and his son because they are a prince, I have been their subordinate from the beginning, as long as they do not give in, even if I die, what is my fear."

Put it in the service with you, it's just that Ma Chao is in service with you, I just follow Ma Chao, and I can't talk about anything else at all.

Ma Chao returned to Zhang Lu, I was under Zhang Lu, Zhang Lu returned to Liu Bei, I accompanied Liu Bei, Liu Bei treated me far better than others, entrusted me with tens of thousands of elite soldiers, guarding the town, so kind, how can I forget. I have failed the trust of my lord and deserved to die in the line of duty, and I have no other thoughts! ”

Cao Cao said coldly: "Liu Bei must know that he can't hold Nanyang, so he left the general here as a substitute for the dead ghost, you see that he left his brother Guan Yu in Jingzhou, you come to be a shield, how important Nanyang is, only more than 10,000 soldiers and horses are left to guard."

There are 30,000 soldiers here, Guan Yu, Gan Ning, and Zhang Fei are no worse than you, but none of them stayed, and any of them can hold Nanyang but leave you to guard it, which is very strange in itself.

Liu Bei has always been on guard against your old master Ma Chao, this is to kill people with a knife, so as not to threaten his position Liu Bei, don't forget, he snatched Yizhou from Liu Zhang's men, but the general was stupid to send him to death, isn't it a pity! ”

Pang De said: "You Cao Cao is a ** fraud, and you have never trusted anyone, so your mind is full of intrigues."

How the lord treats me very well and trusts me, this is enough, I Pound is just a martial artist, I only know that the soldier dies as a confidant, and the rest is not concerned. Putting it in the rest is not for me Pound to take care of.

How many other people's inheritances have you Cao Cao taken away in your life, and how many people have you killed, you keep saying outside Nanyang City that you are not guilty of the people of Nanyang, but as soon as you enter the city, you start to set fire to loot, and you have no promise! ”

Cao Cao was extremely embarrassed, and asked Cao Ren next to him, Cao Ren said: "The soldiers have been attacking the city for several months, and naturally they have a grudge in their hearts, and the purpose of setting fire is to disturb the soldiers and horses in the city, and looting is a personal act, and the last general did not give such an order!" ”

Pound said: "It's clean, but it's a pity that it can't block the mouths of the people!" ”

Cao Ren said angrily: "The defeated general still dares to be rampant!" Cao Cao raised his hand to stop.

Cao Ren said hatefully: "Piff, you'd better be honest, otherwise I'll break you into pieces first." ”

Cao Cao admired Pang De's loyalty and bravery, and had the heart to persuade him, but when he saw this scene, he knew that there was no hope, and he was a little undecided in his heart.

Jiang Ji next to him stepped forward and said, "Lord, leaving Pang De is a scourge." ”

Pound laughed and said: "Of course I, Pound, am not afraid of death, after I die, dozens of people in Jingzhou will bury me!" ”

Cao Cao said strangely: "Who! Oh, by the way, when I think about it, it seems that these people were captured before, and they are still locked up! They didn't surrender? ”

Pound was silent. Cao Cao said: "You are a loyal and upright person, and there are also loyal and upright people under my command." Well, I'll keep you in exchange for them. "Ordered Pound's arrest.

Liu Bei was stuck in Fangling, and the scouts couldn't find out the news that Nanyang City was broken, Liu Bei was very strange about Nanyang's sudden tightness, and sent scouts to investigate.

After Cao Cao conquered Nanyang, he took a short rest and prepared to continue to march the army, not wanting to relax after Nanyang was recovered, and his headache began to get serious.

Cao Ren persuaded Cao Cao: "The king, Nanyang has been defeated, Liu Bei is discouraged, and the king might as well go back to Xuchang to recuperate." ”

Cao Cao listened and said: "Nanyang did take it back, Liu Bei did not lose heart, and his tens of thousands of soldiers and horses were besieging Fangling, waiting for an opportunity to counterattack." There is also a blue-eyed child besieging Hefei.

On the contrary, we misjudged the situation, but we didn't expect Sun Quan, a child, to be capricious, and in private he actually united with Liu Bei, okay, he put the fault of attacking Jingzhou on my Cao Cao's head. ”

After saying that, he frowned a few times, Cao Ren hurriedly stepped forward to help Cao Cao, and Cao Cao eased up. Cao Ren said carefully: "The king doesn't have to be angry, I should send Cao Zhen to lead the cavalry to rush to support, the terrain under Hefei City is flat, which is conducive to the cavalry to charge." When the time comes, let Sun Quan taste the taste of the fiasco, and let him learn a lesson. ”

Cao Cao said: "Don't expect too much, there is a report on Sun Quan's construction of the camp in the Wenyuan War Report, what do you think the camp is for." ”

Cao Ren thought for a while and said, "Could it be that you are defending against our cavalry?" ”

Cao Cao said: "Exactly, Sun Quan expected that Nanyang could contain my army, and could not send soldiers and horses that threatened him, although the cavalry was strong, as long as the camp was set up properly, the defense would not be a problem at all." ”

Cao Ren said: "Zang Ba still has 40,000 soldiers and horses. ”

Cao Cao said: "Sun Quan has at least 100,000, and for Hefei, Sun Quan is attacking us and defending." But for the reinforcements, Sun Quan is defending us or attacking, Sun Quan only needs half of the soldiers and horses to besiege the city, and half of the soldiers and horses to defend is enough. Cao Ren's face was worried.

Cao Cao smiled: "Why should Zixiao be worried. ”

Cao Ren said: "Hefei is not guaranteed, and the eastern front is uneasy!" ”

Cao Cao said: "The order was issued to recruit Tuntian soldiers to support Hefei, and Zang Ba is also making every effort to move closer to Hefei." ”

Cao Ren's spirit shook and said: "The last general will take the order." ”

Cao Cao said: "Did Liu Bei send someone?" ”

Cao Ren said: "No, but some soldiers came to report that they had encountered Liu Bei's scouts, and they were either captured or forced to retreat." Did we send someone to find Liu Bei? ”

Cao Cao said: "Don't worry, this shows that Liu Bei has no news from Nanyang!" This is just right, see if you can lead out Guan Yu and take Xiangfan! ”

Cao Ren promised. Cao Cao lay down and said: "By the way, kill Wei Kai for me, if it weren't for this person and Hou Yin against the water, why would I have fallen into such a situation." Nanyang, it's too unjust. Alas! I'll rest for a while, and I'll wake me up when something happens. Cao Ren was ordered to withdraw.