"Common enemy?"

Cai Mao frowned and asked: "You mean that under Huang Zu before, the depressed Gan Ning?" I heard that this person came to help from Hanzhong, and also gathered tens of thousands of naval troops, but General Zixiao had already led a heavy army to Fancheng, and he led an army to attack me at this time, Fancheng and Xiangyang must not be protected, and Liu Qi should not let him go. ”

"Definitely."

Lu Meng shook his head and said righteously: "In addition to Gan Ning, there is also Lu Su!" ”

"Lu Su?" Cai Mao was stunned when she heard this, and asked in a deep voice: "Lu Su is not Long Xiang's person?" He should be the Taishou in Wu County, what tricks are you playing? ”

Lu Meng hurriedly explained: "The general doesn't know, Lu Su with a thousand warships and 20,000 or 30,000 sailors mysteriously appeared in the lower reaches of the Han River, and fought with me many times in Jingling, Lankouju and other places, otherwise how could I lead the army here?" It is to report this matter to General Cao. ”

Cai Mao groaned, and after a while, he said coldly:

"Long Xiang and Sun Quan have been at odds for a long time, I heard that they have been buried in development for the past two years, it turned out that he was secretly building warships, he wanted to take all the land of Yangzhou, so he sent Lu Su to destroy you, this matter is reasonable, what do we have to do?"

"My lord has been submissive to Prime Minister Cao, Lu Su's attack on me is equivalent to declaring war with Prime Minister, besides, Guan Yu and Gan Ning have a lot of sailors, if Long Xiang's fleet helps them, then General Cao is not passive in Jingzhou?"

Seeing that Cai Mao did not answer, Lu Meng continued to fight and said: "General, don't hesitate, take me to the bow of the ship to stop fighting, I am really here to help Cao Jun." ”

"The Metropolitan Governor just said that normal people would not choose Liu Bei at this time, could it be that Long Xiang, who defeated the lord, is it abnormal?"

Cai Mao shook her head and sneered, then slowly stood up, and said leisurely: "It's no problem to take you to the bow of the ship, and your life is also recorded, and I will hand it over to the prime minister personally." ”

"It's good, it's good."

Lu Mengxin said that he was in prison and had no intention of going back to see Sun Quan alive, but he wanted to help Sun Quan preserve his strength as much as possible.

The naval army fighting outside is the last old book at the bottom of Sun Quan's box.

If Cai Mao was greatly injured and eliminated by Lu Su, Lu Meng would not be blind even if he died.

With Lu Meng coming forward to stop the fight, Xu Sheng and the others could only retreat with hatred.

Cai Mao blocked the north to the water, the Ganning navy guarded the waters of Xiangyang, Lu Su was chasing the lower reaches of the Han River, and Lü Meng's defeated army seemed to have no way to retreat.

Fortunately, when Xu Sheng was negotiating at the bow of the ship, he heard the final order given by Lu Meng.

Lü Meng asked him to return from the original road of Hanshui, and if he encountered Lu Su's pursuers, he resolutely abandoned the boat and went ashore, and then walked back to Xiakou by land.

There is a high probability that Lu Su will snatch the warship as a trophy, and Sun Quan will inevitably get information to fortify various places on the land route.

As long as he held on for a period of time, when Cao Cao won Jingzhou soon after, he would naturally go down the river to destroy Long Xiang.

And what Lu Meng wants to see the most is that Lu Su goes north to help Guan Yu against common sense, which will completely drag Long Xiang into the water.

Cao Cao may divide his troops to attack Huainan, so that Long Xiang will not have the strength to take Yuzhang.

The problem that Lu Meng could think of, Long Xiang and Lu Su naturally predicted it early.

Lu Su sent troops to Jingzhou for only one purpose, that is, to eliminate Lü Meng and relieve Guan Yu of the siege.

It is impossible to fight Cao Cao in advance and expose it, affecting Long Xiang's plan to sneak attack Xu Capital for several years.

Exactly as expected, Cai Mao did not wait for Lu Su to lead his troops for a long time after Xu Sheng and others retreated, which indirectly confirmed Lu Meng's false analysis.

Song Qian is a dispensable character, and Cai Mao can be killed at will in order to vent.

But after all, Lü Meng was Sun Quan's governor, and it made sense to kill him directly as it was better to dedicate it to Cao Cao, so he was temporarily locked in the prison of Xinye County, and sent people to report to Cao Ren and Cao Cao respectively.

Cao Ren conquered Chaoyang by the way, led the army to Fancheng in the south, and occupied the nearby Deng County.

Chaoyang and Deng counties had neither garrisons nor civilians, and the houses in the two cities were fully furnished, but there was no food left in the treasury and private houses.

Cao Ren faintly felt that something was wrong, but he didn't care about Guan Yu because he was afraid of the soldiers.

Until I entered Fancheng, I found that it was still an empty city.

Cao Ren realized that Guan Yu had set up an 'empty city plan', and obviously wanted to make a fuss about the grain road.

All the generals of the Cao army are good at cutting off the grain road, and I, Cao Ren, can let the red-faced thief cut off the grain?

There are Cai Mao guarding the waters of Xinye, and there are generals such as Xu Huang and Zhang Xiu on land, and tens of thousands of soldiers and horses are led as backups.

Guan Yu relied on Wancheng and West Hubei to ride more than 10,000 steps, and it would be good to be able to defend the city.

Cut off my food channel? It's a dream.

Cao Ren thought this way, and Xu Huang and Zhang Xiu also thought so.

However, only a few patrol boats were moving every day on the warships parked in the waters of Wancheng.

At the end of September, the team transporting supplies was attacked by the Ganning Navy while it was in transit in the waters of Xinye.

Xiangyang's warships are both large and small, and it takes a certain amount of time to mobilize and set up formations, and Gan Ning drove the fast ship to come and go freely, and it was very difficult to face the harassment of Cai Mao on the water.

The grain ships and people could not cross the river smoothly, and Cai Mao immediately asked Lu Xiang upstream for help.

Xu Huang was suspicious of the warships in the river when he heard the news, and he tried to build a pontoon bridge but was not stopped by Guan Yu's navy, so he realized that he had fallen into the plan of the suspicious soldiers, so he and Zhang Xiu led the troops to cross the water.

Xi'e had no soldiers and horses to defend at all, and Wancheng only made a simple resistance, and the defender Pei Yuanshao abandoned the city.

Xu Huang was worried that Cao Ren would lose, so he and Zhang Xiu continued to the south without stopping, and met Pei Yuanshao again in Nieyang in the southwest.

Pei Yuanshao kept the old trick for half a day, but when he evacuated, he was predicted by Zhang Xiu to go to the road, and he was shot several times and died in anger before he reached the county.

When he took Nieyang to recuperate, Zhang Xiu asked Xu Huang curiously:

"General Xu, Pei Yuanshao is obviously stalling for time, what kind of conspiracy are Guan Yu and Xu Shu playing?"

"General Guan used a suspicious tactic to abandon the water warship and transfer all the soldiers and horses, it seems that he is preparing to plan a big thing, from the Xinye waterway grain road was attacked by Gan Ning, it can be seen that he should want to cut off General Cao's grain route, Fancheng and Xi'e are almost empty, if Fancheng and other places cannot be replenished, General Cao's 50,000 army will be in danger of running out of food in less than ten days." Xu Huang frowned and stroked his beard.

Zhang Xiu was stunned when she heard this, and almost blurted out:

"Guan Yu wants to surround the point to help? He only has 20,000 soldiers, and we and General Zixiao will join forces with 80,000 soldiers, is Guan Yu whimsical? Goods like Pei Yuanshao can also stop us? ”

Xu Huang shook his head lightly, "I haven't figured it out either, but General Guan is not very human, and Xu Shu is also a resourceful person, in short, let's take Anzhong and Sui County, and the grain road to Fancheng will be opened." ”

Zhang Xiu smiled contemptuously, and said in his heart that at this time, he was not as reckless as Guandu, Cao Ren was not as reckless as Yan Liang, and Guan Yu was not so easy to recreate myths.

"I estimate that Guan Yu has withdrawn to Guanzhong, and deliberately left people like Pei Yuanshao to break off, you and I will divide the troops into two ways to take the two cities tomorrow, and we have to go south as soon as possible to join General Cao."

"Good."

The next day, Xu Huang's troops entered Anzhong, and Zhang Xiu entered Bingqi County.

Anzhong is an empty city, and Zhang Xiu has hit a wall in Yuxian.

Xu Shu moved the soldiers and civilians of Anzhong and Champion counties to the county to assist in defending the city.

When Zhang Ji died in the middle of the county, Zhang Xiu saw Xu Shu commanding the archers to defend the city and release arrows, and suddenly felt a sense of fate.

Xu Huang and Zhang Xiu were blocked in their southward journey, and Cao Ren, who was in danger of running out of cooking, was also saving himself, thinking that he had food if he had soldiers.

The terrain around Fancheng is low-lying, except for the empty city of Deng County, there is no big city, and the nearest is more than 100 miles away in the northwest of Yin and Hu two counties.

After Cao Ren crossed the river to prevent Guan Ping, he sent his deputy general Niu Jin to lead 20,000 troops to the west to get grain.

Niu Jin marched to the southeast of Yin County, and was suddenly ambushed by Guan Yu's heavy troops.

Guan Yu was like a god descending from heaven, and with the unstoppable male soldiers under his command, he instantly killed the Cao army with more troops.

Niu Jin restrained the rout, but was isolated, and finally was driven to the edge of the pond in a panic.

When struggling to escape, Niu Jin sat down and the war horse was stuck in the mud and could not extricate himself, and was filled with water and captured alive by Zhou Cang, which was very water-based.

(End of chapter)