As the city between Fancheng and Wancheng, Yancheng is still a wing city built by Guan Yu two years ago during the "Absolute North Road" to garrison soldiers and horses.

Before it was completed, it was occupied by Cao's army, and then it was heavily reinforced and became a horn with Fancheng.

Because the shape of the city is like the "glaive" in the "Green Dragon Glaive Knife", it is named Yancheng.

In the past two years, the battlefield of Xiangfan has been turbulent and has been fought countless times, so to speak... In addition to Xiangyang and Fancheng, this Yancheng is a neglected "eye of the storm".

Now, the guard of the Cao Wei faction here is called Hu Zhen, which is different from Xinye City, although Chen Jiao is too guarded, but Yu Ban has taken over in private.

The Taishou Hu here didn't even know that Xu Huang was stationed in the nearby Beiyu (shi) mountains.

At this moment, Hu Zhen, a great talent in the Yangtze River and Huai River, has no idea what is about to happen, and he is especially talking eloquently, telling his clerks about his highlight moments.

"Back then, before Zhang Liao and Zhang Wenyuan went to Hefei, there was a conflict with his protector Wu Zhou, General Zhang Liao wanted me to be his protector, but I refused him on the grounds of illness, Zhang Liao was puzzled and came to question me, and I told him, what is 'Guan Zhong and Bao Shuya's friends?' ”

"Take more and know that it is not greedy, run north to know that it is not cowardly, and hear rumors and do not believe it, such a friendship can last for a long time. It is precisely because of my words that Zhang Liao and Wu Zhou reconciled... That's thanks to my words! Therefore, Zhang Wenyuan is powerful and free, and he can't thank me for it! ”

Hu Zhen was quite embarrassed as he spoke, and a cadre of scribes praised again and again: "Taishou is quite a 'stay' style!" ”

Hu Zhen still wanted to sigh for a while, but at this moment, a soldier hurriedly came: "Yu Taishou, the army... There was a night attack by a large army, and now it is besieging the city. ”

Hu Zhen was shocked when he heard this: "Huh? Attack... Besiege? ”

His voice fell, and the shouts outside the door sounded, and Hu Zhen's face changed.

Under the Yancheng, countless Guan family troops have already ascended the city first, this Yancheng was built by the Guan family army, they are too familiar... The city was not high, the walls were not strong, and the enemy army was stationed on the tower with only a dozen men.

Until the Guan family's army, there were already soldiers who had landed in the city first... Cao Jun was late.

Zhao Lei vigilantly watched his surroundings, but whenever there was a disturbance, he would evacuate as soon as possible.

Until there was a "crunch", the city gate was wide open, as if the Guan family army had captured the gate.

Zhao Lei could clearly see the enemy's Taishou Hu Zhen running on the city tower and shouting in panic: "Come, come, meet the enemy... Facing the enemy... Ahh

Zhao Lei saw with his own eyes that Hu Zhen was killed by the Xiandeng warriors of the Guan Family Army, and it was only then that he took off all his defenses.

With a "whoosh", Zhao Lei pulled out his spear: "Rush with me, break the city-"

…

Only fifty miles away from Yancheng, the main village of the Guanjia army, and the Zhou Cang who stayed here, could hear the deafening shouting and killing.

"Who's besieging the city? When did I send someone to attack the city? ”

Zhou Cang frowned, and the soldiers on the side shook their heads again and again, they were also confused.

"Report..."At this time, a scout came to report, "General Zhou, is it General Zhao Lei from Xinye to lead his troops to storm Yancheng?" ”

This...

Zhou Cang touched his head, he was a martial artist, and he didn't turn a corner for a while.

Zhao Lei is stationed in the Guanjia Army military village in the direction of Xinye City? Why did he bring troops to attack Yancheng?

What's going on?

Zhou Cang subconsciously knocked on the door of his head, it stands to reason that he is a martial artist, and Zhao Lei is also a martial artist, he should be able to understand the other party? But now, there are two words written on Zhou Cang's head - outrageous!

It's fast...

Zhou Cang came back to his senses, "No, the second general strictly ordered that the city should not be attacked... Not good, gotta... I have to persuade Zhao Lei to come back! ”

Speaking of this, Zhou Cang hurriedly asked, "Which general is patrolling the periphery today?" ”

"It's... It's Miss Guan San! ”

As the soldier answered, Zhou Cang's eyebrows tightened, and his deep words came out: "Yancheng is on fire, and the city is under siege, Third Miss... I'm sure I'll definitely check it out! ”

Immediately, Zhou Cang thought of a terrible thing.

- "But don't have an ambush!"

Immediately, beads of sweat flowed down Zhou Cang's forehead, and he hurriedly ordered, "Immediately order troops, go to Yancheng, and bring back Zhao Lei and Third Miss——"

…

Yancheng has been broken, Zhao Lei cut off the head of the Cao army guard Hu Zhen, and led the army into the city with high spirits, he came to the city tower, from here you can already see the distant Wancheng boundary.

That's when ...

"General Zhao? Why are you? ”

A female voice came from the steps of the city tower, it was Guan Yinping, and she asked with a blank face: "Isn't General Zhao in the camp of Xinye City?" How did you come to attack this city? Father's order... Wait for the attack, and don't send troops without permission! ”

"Third Miss, don't panic..."Zhao Lei planned to tell him and Guan Xing's investigation in detail, as well as their purpose and motives.

Who would have thought, without waiting for Zhao Lei to speak, Guan Yinping's saber had already been pulled out, and the sword was against Zhao Lei's neck, "General Zhao is offended, you disobey military discipline, I am forced to do this, besides, this is not the time to speak, please immediately order all the soldiers to withdraw from Yancheng and return to Xinye City, if you want to explain... General Zhao still explained to his father. ”

"Third Miss, you..."

Zhao Lei didn't expect Guan Yinping to be so decisive, so he put the sword against his neck in a daze, without a trace of warmth and affection.

"The military orders of the Guan family army are like a mountain, if General Zhao still does not open his mouth to give the order, then the niece can only be dealt with in accordance with military law..."

Guan Yinping's lips trembled as he spoke.

Speaking of which, although the city was broken this time, Guan Yinping always had an ominous premonition.

Even this sense of foreboding became stronger and stronger.

If there really is a mistake, she is in charge of the night patrol, can she escape?

"Okay, okay, okay, I can't withdraw the army..."Zhao Lei waved his hand, "The original intention of me and the second prince is also to try it, if we can't take it, we will retreat, and if we capture it, we can loot the baggage of the Cao army, isn't this all to frustrate the enemy's spirit?" ”

Immediately, Zhao Lei ordered, "All the baggage of Cao Jun should be packed up and all of them should be withdrawn..."

Just when Zhao Lei chanted the word "withdraw", suddenly... He saw countless torches lit outside the city of Yancheng, and they were rapidly enveloping them from far and near.

Zhao Ti was shocked, and subconsciously asked Guan Yinping first: "The third lady brought so many people?" ”

Guan Yinping also noticed it, and a huge sense of foreboding quickly shrouded him, and even the sword that was against Zhao Lei began to tremble, "That... That's not my soldier? ”

"It's Cao Jun!"

At this moment, there were soldiers on the city tower who exclaimed, sure enough... With the influx of the army, the mighty soldiers and horses quickly surrounded it.

There were hundreds of banners that covered the sky, and the torches reflected in the night wind like day, and the sound was monstrous.

"It's Cao Jun..."

"It's indeed Cao Jun..."

"Why are there so many? There must be tens of thousands of people, right? ”

For a while, the soldiers of the Guan family army were frightened and weak, who would have thought that this small Yancheng, this ordinary night, would gather so many soldiers and horses in an instant.

"Boom..."

This time, Guan Yinping could no longer contain the emotions in her heart, her sword fell to the ground, and her crisp voice was full of pathos.

Zhao Lei's eyes were round and huge, and he had a feeling at the moment, they were two thousand five hundred soldiers, no... Counting Guan Yinping, the three thousand soldiers here are afraid that they won't be able to go back!

That's when it happened.

"Hahaha..."

A rampant wild laughter rang out, and among the enemy troops, a general armed with a mountain axe rode out, and he pointed to the city tower and shouted: "I am Xu Huang, the general of the Great Wei Pingkou!" Surrender as soon as possible, Rao Er will not die-"

"Oh no, it's a trick..."

On the city tower, Zhao Lei's entire back was wet, and he sat on the ground like a puddle of soft mud.

Guan Yinping gritted her teeth, and she muttered in her heart.

- "So fast, is this an ambush a long time ago?" So now... I... What can I do?'

Yes, in the face of tens of thousands of Cao soldiers, just a Yancheng? How can it be kept?

However, Xu Huang under the city tower was not flustered, he ordered left and right.

"According to the plan, besiege but not attack, encircle the point and send reinforcements..."

I just blurted out this.

A scout reported: "In Dazhai, the middle army of the Guanjia army, an army of 5,000 people is coming to this side, led by Zhou Cang. ”

As soon as these words came out, Xu Huang did not have the slightest fluster, he stroked his beard lightly, and said lightly.

"Just in time!"

Immediately, he immediately ordered: "According to the formation of the exercise, there is no need to completely annihilate the enemy, and bring that Zhou Cang into Yancheng——"

For a moment, the armies moved rapidly.

During this time, Xu Huang didn't do anything else, so he did two things, one was to hide, and the other was to practice encircling and sending reinforcements.

You know, Xu Huang is extremely good at training recruits.

If according to historical deduction, after flooding the Seventh Army, it was Xu Huang who defeated the invincible Guan Yu and led the Guan family's army.

And his soldiers are just a new army handed over to him by Cao Cao!

——Xu Huang is very good at training recruits, and he is even better at commanding recruits, and the military formation he trains is extremely suitable for recruits to use, and the effect is remarkable!

…

Here, the story of Yancheng develops according to Jia Xu's "poison plan".

Some people may think that Guan Jiajun, or the general of Guan Jiajun, will not be tricked?

Hehe, as an "old poison" and "big fool" Jia Xu, he understands human nature too well, and the biggest weakness in human nature is "greed", that is, "dissatisfaction".

This is like gambling, knowing that nine out of ten bets will be lost, but a person has won five in a row, he still can't help but bet on the sixth, even if he knows that the sixth has a great probability of losing!

There are never a few "gambling dogs" in this world, and many people's ideas can't always be figured out logically.

Undoubtedly, Jia Xu understands human nature better!

Over there, the story of Xinye City is similar, in the face of Guan Xing's siege, Chen Qiao and Yu Ban abandoned the city and fled as soon as possible...

Guan Xing captured Xinye Castle as he wished.

But...

At the same time, he was faced with the same situation as Yancheng... The torches illuminate the entire Shinno Castle as if it were daylight.

Unlike Yancheng, Guan Xing immediately organized a breakthrough when he noticed that something was wrong.

On the contrary, Yu Ban stood on a high place with his hands in his hands, looking at the Jingzhou soldiers pouring out of Xinye City, his face was calm, a cadre of armor soldiers beside him had already bent their bows and arrows, and a team of soldiers holding shields.

The army is neat, and the strict military discipline can be seen in the forbidden soldiers.

Chen Jiao asked Yu Ban: "General, do you want to shoot arrows?" ”

Yu Ban leaned over and took a handful of water, took a sip, and said slowly, "What's the hurry?" ”

Guan Xing looked at the soldiers and horses that were waiting for the battle in tens of thousands, under the torches, the flags were fluttering, even if he was not afraid of the sky, he was a little panicked.

But he still raised the Qinglong Knife: "Break through, kill with me." ”

The soldiers of the Guan family army reined in their timid mood, but the number was too different...

Their sparse charge couldn't shake Yu Ban's military appearance at all.

"Fire, General, Fire..."

A soldier reminded Guan Xing, and Guan Xing realized it...

It turned out that the Wei army did not attack at all, but just surrounded Xinye City, and then set a circle of fire, constantly throwing torches, shooting rockets, the dry and dense jungle in winter burned, and the fire was like a red python quickly swept under the feet of Guan Xing's soldiers and horses, and then quickly rushed to Xinye City, and soon, the gates of Xinye City were burning.

Guan Jiajun was suddenly in chaos, and frightened cries rang out everywhere: "Hurry up and put out the fire, hurry up and put out the fire!" ”

Guan Xing also shouted: "Return to the city first, put out the fire, put out the fire..."

The soldiers of the Guan family army quickly went to fetch water to put out the fire, but found that the river that was supposed to flow into Xinye Castle had dried up and the source had been filled.

This... Guan Xing realized that he personally explored Xinye City and explored the loneliness!

He knew nothing about this blocking of the river.

At this moment, the Guan family army fell into despair, the outer city of Xinye City was already burning, and the voices of those soldiers who were on fire rolled in pain came from everywhere: "Help! Help me! Water... Help me—"

Guan Xing can only lead people to retreat into the inner city...

Now he can't get out, stay, just sit and wait.

At this moment, he realized how naïve his so-called "strategy" was? How ridiculous is his idea? If the fourth brother Yunqi calculated Cao Wei's prediction, then he Guan Xing is that all the predictions have been seen through by Cao Wei!

"I... I..."Guan Xing looked up to the sky and cried, "I, what other faces do I have to see my father, what faces do I have to see my fourth brother?" ”

As he spoke, Guan Xing was about to draw his sword and kill himself.

The guard snatched the sword from Guan Xing's hand: "The second son can't... The enemy did not attack the city, the enemy army did not attack the city. ”

Another guard shouted in surprise: "Outside the city... Reinforcements, the eldest son has brought reinforcements to save us! ”

Originally, it was okay, but when he heard the word "reinforcements", Guan Xing was sad from his heart.

"I... Not only did I hurt myself, I... I also hurt my eldest brother and the entire Guan family's army! ”

Outside the city...

Yu Ban watched the defeat of the Guan family's army, and listened to the scout's report that Guan Ping had brought the Guan family army from Xinye Army Village to save Guan Xing, Yu Ban smiled, and said faintly while laughing: "Rebel? Hehe, not every rebel can become a god! ”

Speaking of this, he commanded loudly: "According to the plan, bring Guan Ping's soldiers and horses into Xinye City as well!" ”

According to the deployment of Zhang Liao, the commander of this battle, Yu Ban and Xu Huang's tasks are the same, just one Guan Xing, one Zhao Lei, and only two thousand soldiers? That's not enough to plug your teeth.

What Zhang Liao wants to do is to force the entire Guanjia army into this city, and then cut off the city's grain route, besiege the city and send reinforcements...

The drunkard's intention is not to drink, Zhang Liao's purpose has always been Guan Yu and Guan Lin!

Not much...

Guan Ping broke into the ambush circle, suffered heavy losses for a while, and the back road was blocked again, so he could only retreat into the burning Xinye City.

Chen Jiao, who was beside Yu Ban, was pleasantly surprised: "Win, we won, Dawei won... Won..."

The fire at the gate of Shinno Castle was reflected in Yu Ban's eyes, and he seemed to see a "big fish" and came to bite the hook!

He even realized that on the battlefields of Xiangfan, Jiangxia, and Huainan, Cao Wei's counteroffensive had begun.

- "The Guan family father and son, hehe, if you eat ours, you have to spit it all out!"

…

…

In Xiangyang City, with a letterhead sent by Guan Ping, it was mentioned that Guan Xing did not obey the military order, but repeatedly made meritorious contributions.

Guan Lin had a different understanding, which also made his mind fall into deep thought.

He groaned for a long time.

Guan Xing didn't obey Guan Yu's military orders, this matter... Guan Lin felt that he was also responsible.

In order to reverse the arrogant temperament of his father Guan Yu, Guan Lin suppressed the master too hard.

In addition, Guan Yu's previous defeat, coupled with Guan Lin's efforts to turn the tide after that huge defeat, played a beautiful counterattack.

Undoubtedly... The consequence of this is that Guan Yu's prestige has declined in the entire Jingzhou, and even Guan Jiajun, while Guan Lin's prestige has risen unprecedentedly.

Originally, Guan Lin didn't think it was anything.

But someone can't stand the deviation and it develops in an uncontrollable direction.

For example, Guan Xing...

If it were placed in the game of his previous life, this fierce general with an intelligence of only sixty and just passed, he would not have had too many ideas under his father Guan Yu.

But Guan Lin's popularity is unprecedented, which makes Guan Xing's brain circuit clear, thinking to the other extreme, and also wanting to follow Guan Lin to do something out of the ordinary.

Then there will be such acts of disobedience to military orders.

Tracing back to the source, this is caused by three aspects:

- Guan Xing's not high intelligence and Qingqi's brain circuit;

- Guan Yu's prestige in the army declined;

- And most importantly, Guan Lin's prestige is at an all-time high.

This...

"Alas..."Thinking of this, Guan Lin couldn't help but sigh, and he didn't know what to do for a while.

The most ideal thing is actually a natural punishment, so that Guan Xing will suffer a loss... This has increased my memory, but I have succeeded in robbing grain five times in a row, which is very strange...

Either Cao Jun is really out of soldiers, or Guan Xing is not as simple as suffering a "small loss".

"Yunqi Gongzi hesitated again and again, what do you think again?"

Zhuge Ke on the side saw Guan Lin sighing for a while, groaning for a while, and pacing for a while, and couldn't help but ask.

Guan Lin spread his hands and said casually: "I thought of an old man's saying..."

"What old man said?"

Guan Lin pursed his mouth and said quite seriously and solemnly: "Say yes... If you can't persuade or stop it, then it's all fate, but if a person desperately refuses to listen to persuasion, it means that he must take this detour, and he must take this lesson in life, because..."

Speaking of this, Guan Lin paused.

"To the hammer, it only has nails in its eyes!"

Guan Lin's words just fell.

"Report—" With a hurried message, Shiwu walked into the study, and he presented two letters, but did not speak.

Guan Lin took the letterhead and was slightly startled when he saw the mark.

"From the north? Three letters? ”

That's right... Three letters from the north.

One was sent by Li Cong, one was sent by Lingju, and one was sent by Sima Yi.

Guan Lin was about to pick up the corresponding engraving, and just found the engraving of "Li Cong" and held it in his hand.

But at this time.

"Report..."I saw Elk Lu crawling into the study, he gasped again and again, as if he was greatly frightened, even if his voice was hoarse and stumbling. No... Oh no, the second son attacked Xinye Castle and was ... Surrounded by enemy troops, the eldest son went to save him, too... I was also ambushed and forced into Shinno Castle! ”

As soon as this statement came out...

With a "snap", the engraving in Guan Lin's hand fell to the ground, and his eyes instantly condensed with endless deep worry!

- "Oh no, there's only a hammer for a nail in my eye... It's still a problem!'

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