After many years of fierce warfare, Guan Yu once flooded the Seventh Army and shocked Huaxia, although he was attacked by Na Lu Meng and Jiangling was almost unsafe, but he still reversed the tide of the war with the prince Liu Chan and his subordinates and kept Jingzhou.

Cao Ren, on the other hand, has changed from a strategic offensive to a strategic defense, and now it has almost become a strategic contraction......

even gave up the heavy defense of the more valuable Xiangyang, which indirectly led to the death of the full favor.

Of course, there are reasons why nearly half of Cao Pi's soldiers and horses are in Wan, but with Cao Ren's qualifications, if he insists on holding Xiangfan, he still has the right to mobilize the defenders of Wancheng to deploy in advance.

Although it is not enough to talk about the change of color, Cao Ren's strategy and tactics have become more and more conservative in the years of war against Guan Yu.

Guan Yu didn't die, and the impact is far from over......

"General, the Jingzhou army has begun to attack the fortifications built by our army along the river!"

"Well, I already know, I'll find out and report later." Cao Ren looked calm and unusual.

He did not stay in Fancheng at this time, since the fall of Xiangyang, in addition to grieving the death of Manzhong, he himself has also transferred from Fancheng strategy to Yuncheng.

Fancheng, Yuncheng, Dengxian, Xinye.

This is the last line of defense in front of Wancheng, once it is broken, until Wancheng will no longer be in danger.

And if the Jingzhou army is allowed to control Xiangfan, it is not easy to defend Xinye under the simultaneous advance of land and water.

Xiangyang was lost, and the Xiangfan defense system was broken, so Cao Ren had shifted the focus of defense to these three lines in order to prevent Guan Yu from crossing the river.

Among the three lines, Fancheng is the bait.

Naturally, it was impossible for him to stay in the bait, and with the strength of the Jingzhou army, the deployment of defenses along the river was only to allow enough time for the delivery of intelligence, and he did not expect to be able to "attack the enemy halfway" and "prevent the enemy from landing on the shore."

The young general on the side, who looked a little similar to Cao Ren, said: "Father, when the enemy crosses the river and lands on the shore, it will inevitably be unfortunate. My son is willing to lead 3,000 elite soldiers to go, find an opportunity to take advantage of the chaos to kill the enemy, and take the head of Guan Yu for his father! ”

It was Cao Ren's eldest son, Cao Tai, who spoke.

"Hehehe." Cao Ren just chuckled a few times and encouraged, "My son has such ambition and courage, and I am very relieved." But how can a fisherman get into the water and chase him away? And don't be impatient. ”

“…… Be. Cao Tai reluctantly retreated with his fists, but glanced at Jiang Ji, who was a member of the military on the other side.

Cao Tai, who was young and vigorous, always felt that his father had changed, and he was not as bold as before, so he shrank back when he started fighting.

But I can't say these words as a son.

Jiang Ji knew what he meant, but he shook his head slightly and didn't make a sound.

This kind of thing can't be persuaded in the first place, it can really be persuaded, and the full favor will not defend Xiangyang alone and the city will be ruined.

And being able to break through Xiangyang in such a short time, coupled with the painful memories of fighting with the Jingzhou army for many years before, Jiang Ji actually didn't think there was any big problem with Cao Ren's strategic policy......

On the contrary, he also thinks that Cao Ren's current style of play is more suitable.

The Jingzhou army was the best at supporting land warfare with warships, fighting along the rivers and rivers like the wind, and the gods were elusive, and the advantage of using their own water control power often allowed Cao's army to be led by the nose.

It is convenient to chase and intercept the speed of water transportation, but if you can't beat the fucking boat, you will run...... made the Cao army, who fought with it in the field, suffer a lot.

Whether it was Cao Ren or Jiang Ji at this time, including his generals such as Changdiao, Zhuge Qian, Wang Shuang and others, they didn't want to fight the Jingzhou army on the riverside anymore.

"He is good at water warfare, the boat division is strong, and it is useless to fight along the river." Cao Ren saw that the atmosphere was a little heavy, and it was rare to open his mouth to explain a few words, "It's better to lure him in, gather and annihilate him." ”

At the beginning, Xu Huang drove straight into the camp and broke the matter of Guan Yu's camp, but it greatly boosted the morale of the Wei army.

It's a pity that it didn't take long for Xu Huang to become a prisoner in Shuzhong, and his life and death are still uncertain, otherwise with this great achievement, he will definitely be able to go further in the future.

And he, Cao Ren, will be like Xu Huang at the beginning, and give Guan Yu a fatal blow in the venue he is good at.

What's more, this arrangement can also maximize the time for the reinforcements that are rushing from Wanxian County.

It's a win-win-win-win

Jiang Ji and the others nodded yes, and Cao Tai didn't say anything more, but the atmosphere was not much lighter.

Lure the enemy deeper, if you can gather and annihilate it, it is good, but in case...... What if not?

……

Rumble!!

A huge stone projectile fell from the sky, and coincidentally hit a fortification along the river that Cao Jun had rammed earth.

"Ah——!h

Several Cao soldiers who were hiding behind them with crossbows and arrows were suddenly dead and crippled.

Shang Neng, who had his leg broken, screamed, and Cao Jun, who was suffocated by a stone on his back, was pressed into the ground......

And the bed crossbow, which was busy shooting at the Han army on the warship, was unfortunately smashed to pieces.

"Hahaha, father, I don't want this Lei Gong Cannon to drive on the building boat, it has such a miraculous effect!" Guan Ping couldn't help but be overjoyed.

This tactic can be successful, and the landing of the Jingzhou naval army in the future can be described as a tiger with wings.

In the past, soldiers could only hide behind the boat gang, use bows and arrows and crossbows to shoot at the coastal defenders through openings, and then put on soldiers and force them ashore.

In this process, if the shore defenders are well prepared, the landing side will inevitably suffer large losses.

And now, after cracking the many secrets of the Jiangdong warship, the building ship produced in Jingzhou was erected with a thunder cannon, which suddenly made the warship a much greater deterrent to the defenders on the shore.

It's a pity that the Lei Gong cannon is too cumbersome, and only the building ship can erect it, and the firepower is still insufficient.

“…… Hehe. Guan Yu stood with his hands in his hands, looking at Fancheng with the city gate closed, and the official road without smoke and dust in the distance, and couldn't help but sneer.

"What is my father laughing at?" Guan Ping thought he had said something wrong.

"Cao Ren wants to use Fancheng as bait to lure you and my father and son to take the bait, and wants to be the fisherman who fishes." Guan Yu squinted.

Guan Ping looked at his father's line of sight, and also saw some clues.

"Then I'll wait......"

"Just act according to the plan, Cao Ren will save us a lot of trouble this time."

It was agreed that Guan Yu and Guan Ping's father and son would personally command the main force of 40,000 to forcibly attack the coastal river defense near Fancheng.

Although Cao's army was quite tenacious, it was unable to prevent Guan Yu's main force from landing on the shore, and if it weren't for the Jingzhou army's intention to control casualties, it would have broken through the defense line long ago.

After holding out for most of the day, the surviving Cao army began to flee towards Fancheng.

Guan Yu's father and son landed on the shore and quickly besieged Fancheng.

On the other hand, Zhao Lei and Fu Wei unified the Ten Thousand Divisions to go up the river, intending to land from the previous embankment and flooding the Seventh Army.

Although the Cao army was also on guard here, but once it was bitten by a snake and was afraid of the well rope for ten years, no one dared to station troops on the site of the ancient city of Pinglu......

Although there is a river defense here, there is no backup, and in the face of more than 10,000 Jingzhou troops, it is completely useless, and Cao's army is also defeated after a little resistance.

As soon as the Jingzhou army changed the style of steady and steady fighting when it fought Xiangyang before, after Guan Yu's main force surrounded Fancheng, it quickly rolled out the battle line, and the army rushed to Yuncheng, where Cao Ren was located.

Zhao Lei and Fu Wei also responded from the west and led their troops north!

(End of chapter)