Although Sun Quan found someone to send a letter of surrender, the sincerity of the surrender was not obvious, so Cao Cao neither supported nor opposed Cai Mao's capture of Lü Meng.

Cai Mao saw that Cao Cao was noncommittal, so he added: "Lu Meng argued that Lu Su helped Guan Yu, but I didn't wait for a long time, I heard that Lu Su finally forced Xu Sheng and others to abandon the ship, completely annihilating Sun Quan's naval army, and now maybe Yu Zhang will go." ”

"Lu Su seized Sun Quan's warship, so the strength of Long Xiang's naval army should be able to fight with Guan Yu now, and now that our army has lost the right to control water in Jingzhou, do you want to find a way to let Huainan help?"

Cao Cao's thinking was obviously deeper than Cai Mao's, but the idea of asking Long Xiang to help him in the battle only flashed in his mind, and then he shook his head and said: "Long Xiang is the most important and profitable, I can only grant him an official title, these may not make him tempted, and it may backfire, this matter has to be guarded against."

"Prime Minister, you."

Seeing that Cai Mao was in a fog, Cao Cao hurriedly asked, "Where is Lu Meng now?" ”

"Imprisoned in my temporary residence, ready to be handed over to the Prime Minister when I see you"

"De Jue is resting on his hard work, so I'm going to bring him here, I have something to ask."

"Huh? Yui"

Cai Mao himself regarded Lu Meng as a gift, and when he saw Cao Cao taking the initiative to ask for him, he immediately hugged his fists and took his life.

An hour later, Cai Mao took Lü Meng to the Prime Minister's Mansion.

When Cao Cao saw Lu Meng in the side hall, the other party was unkempt with his hands tied, and he was embarrassed not like a big governor.

"Loosen the Governor's bonds."

"Prime Minister, misunderstanding, everything is a misunderstanding."

Lu Meng endured the humiliation, just waited until Cao Cao explained.

Being captured by Cai Mao is a fact, but he doesn't want Cao Cao to be angry with Sun Quan, this is the only thing Lu Meng can do for Sun Quan now.

"In the past, I discussed Dong Zhuo with Sun Wentai, and everyone also had a love for the robe, counting Sun Zhongmou is my junior, Jiang Qin's defection to the enemy is irrefutable, I will give you another chance now, I hope that the metropolitan governor will not let me down."

Cao Cao looked at Lu Meng playfully, Xu Du's army was about to go south soon, Cao Cao hoped to use Lu Meng to stabilize Sun Quan, so that he could continue to entangle with Long Xiang in Yangzhou, so that he would have no worries.

Hearing Cao Cao's tone, Lu Meng was relieved, and hurriedly clenched his fists to accompany him to explain carefully, reiterating Sun Quan's sincerity in returning to the enemy, saying that Jiang Qin's defection to the enemy was a personal act, and he pushed the source of the disaster to Long Xiang.

Cao Cao listened very seriously, and finally shook his head and sighed: "Sun Zhongmou, Sun Zhongmou, what are you doing to provoke Long Yunqi?" ”

"Amount"

Lu Meng smiled bitterly and said, "The matter has come to this point, and the only way to turn to the prime minister is to turn to the prime minister."

"Huainan and Jiangdong will be taken sooner or later, but I have to rank after Jingzhou, my million-strong army is about to go south, since Governor Lu Du has come to Xudu as a guest, he will go out with him when the time comes, just rely on the experience of Lingshui warfare."

"Thanks to the prime minister's refusal to give up, Lu Meng is willing to serve the work of dogs and horses"

"That's very good."

Cao Cao nodded happily, and then ordered: "Since Governor Lu is safe and sound, he can repair a letter to report safety to Zhongmou, and tell him to defend the city carefully. ”

"Yui."

Lu Meng is under the eaves, and he has to listen to whatever Cao Cao says.

Paper and pen have been prepared on the side hall case, and Lu Meng wrote a letter to Sun Quan to report his safety, except for praising Cao Cao's insight, the rest of the content is narrated according to Cao Cao's explanation.

In the early morning of the next day, the gate of Xudu had just opened.

A few fast horses in the mist, after leaving the city, parted ways, and went in different directions.

These messengers had different destinations, some of them went to Yuzhang to deliver letters for Lü Meng, and some went to Runan, Qingzhou, Jizhou and other places to deliver orders.

The messenger to Jizhou was Cao Cao's promise to Xun Yu to raise and transfer Hebei materials to the war;

The messenger to Qingzhou was to urge Xiahou Yuan, Zhang Liao and others to put down the rebellion in Qingzhou in October, Cao Cao asked them to hurry up and return to Xudu, and the southern expedition to Jingzhou needed a famous place in the army;

The messenger to Runan, Cao Cao ordered Runan to guard Li Tong and asked the other party to transport the military rations to Fancheng at all costs.

Three days later, Cao Cao took Yu Ban as the general of the festival, and the seven armies such as Niu Gai and Yin Department went first, and converged with Xu Huang, who was stationed in Wancheng.

Prepare to launch another onslaught on the county, without giving Guan Yu a chance to breathe.

Cao Cao thought about it for another two or three months, and Guan Yu's soldiers should be tired even if they were iron men, and at that time, they would go south with the main force, and they would inevitably be destroyed in a battle.

However, Xu Du sent reinforcements, and Liu Bei was not inactive.

In November last year, Liu Bei divided his troops into three routes to take Liangzhou, and his route was the smoothest.

Yang Qiu, who was stationed in stability, was defeated many times with Liu Bei, and wanted to ask Jincheng Han Sui for help, but the other party also asked him for help.

Yang Qiu saw that the general trend had gone and surrendered, and by the summer of the following year, when the two counties of Anding and Beidi were flat, Liu Bei not only did not lose many soldiers, but gained nearly 10,000 soldiers, as well as tens of thousands of cattle, sheep and horses.

Zhao Yun and Pang De took Wudu and Longxi, the two counties had relatively the fewest defenders, but due to the most inconvenient supply lines and the large number of Hu, Qiang, Di and other alien races, the progress was slightly slower than Liu Bei's all the way, but they followed closely and achieved their goal at the end of August.

Zhang Fei and Ma Chao were strong all the way, and the two counties of Tianshui and Jincheng they wanted to take were against Han Sui, the strongest in Liangzhou, and after he annexed several small warlords, his troops and horses expanded to more than 40,000 people.

Ma Chao defected to Liu Bei in front, and Han Sui, as the enemy of the Ma family, has lost the meaning of following the investment, and can only fight Zhang Fei and Ma Chao to the death.

Han Sui relied on his many years of operation in Jincheng, and fought with Zhang Fei and Ma Chao in Yuzhong, Zhiyang, and Yunwu, until Liu Bei returned to Chang'an to save Jingzhou, and the battle in Jincheng had not yet been decided.

Due to Guan Yu's shocking performance, Zhuge Liang did not suggest that the soldiers and horses who had withdrawn to Chang'an should be put into the Jingzhou battlefield, but waited for Zhao Yun and others to return to the division and directly went out of Tongguan to open up the second battlefield.

Liu Bei thought so, so he left Yang Qiu, the general, in Chang'an, and sent Wei Yan and Ma Dai to support Guan Yu.

Wei Yan and Ma Dai took away 15,000 cavalry, of which 5,000 were the cavalry that Liu Bei had been lacking, all thanks to Yang Qiu's contribution, and the two rushed to Sui County before the ban.

There are 15,000 more people, especially the 5,000 cavalry, and Guan Yu's use of the clairvoyant mirror is of great use.

At the beginning of December, more than 50,000 people including Xu Huang, the forbidden governor, made a detour to Fancheng while attacking Yuxian, and wanted to completely besiege Guan Yu in the city with Cao Ren.

In this way, the offensive and defensive forces are easy.

Not only did Fancheng's grain road relieve itself, but Guan Yu also had to be trapped in Yuxian County, but he was sent to help by Yu Ban and Cao Ren.

However, Guan Yu still has amazing moves.

When Yu Ban and Xu Huang's soldiers were in Linqi County, Liu Ye and Guan Ping successively sent suspicious soldiers from Yin and Juan counties, as well as Xiangyang.

Cao Ren had distractions, once the army was moved, the consumption of food increased, after the lack of food, he had killed hundreds of horses, so he did not dare to send troops to the north, he left a heavy army in Fancheng, and only sent 20,000 partial divisions to Sui County.

Yu Ban took a pontoon bridge to cross the river, and Guan Yu did not send troops to stop it.

Until 50,000 soldiers approached the city, Guan Yu used cavalry to divert his attention, and Gan Ning took the opportunity to dismantle the pontoon bridge, and Cao's army's grain road was once again forcibly cut off.

Although Yu Ban realized it, he did not hesitate at all, and immediately ordered to seize the river.

Gan Ning lined up the warships, like a city wall in the river, and Yu Ban had never seen such a battle because he had been fighting in the north all the year round.

The soldiers were forced to go into the water to seize the boat, and the results can be imagined.

Guan Yu saw that the forbidden retreat immediately counterattacked, he used the advantage of cavalry to divide and pinn, and broke through each with infantry legions.

The retreat route was blocked, the grain route was cut off, and there were pursuers behind, and the speed of the army's disintegration was like a landslide.

When the battle was over, except for Xu Huang, with a small number of troops, he took a detour and fled in the opposite direction to Fancheng.

The tens of thousands of reinforcements led by Yu Bandu, together with the partial division sent by Cao Ren from Fancheng, were either surrendered or killed in this battle.

The chaotic scene at that time was full of people as far as the eye could see.

Much like the Huaihai Battle two thousand years later, Guan Yu had endless prisoners and countless heads.

So much so that the small county can't accommodate so many soldiers.

After this battle, the relationship between Guan Yu and Cao Ren has completed the offensive and defensive changes in the true sense.

Later, the history books used five words to evaluate: Yu, Megatron Huaxia.

(End of chapter)