Guan Yu and Xu Shu didn't know about the changes in Jiangdong, but even if they knew, they didn't care.

After the fleet sailed north through Jiangxia and entered the Han River, Xu Shu built a camp in the east of Dangyang City as he had planned in advance, which was used to transfer supplies, grain, grass and prisoners, in order to avoid Jiangxia's moderation as much as possible.

Of course, there is also a plan for Jiangdong's betrayal of the alliance, but Xu Shu and Guan Yu don't want to be able to use it.

After all, Han'er had bled enough.

This is especially true in the present.

Xu Shu will lament after the war, but these ideas will be discarded during the war.

From the beginning of Cao Ren's announcement of the march, the battlefield of Fancheng has been bleeding incessantly.

As a relative, Cao Ren knew a lot of information more clearly than Yu Ban.

Including the strategy of turning to Guanzhong after a quick victory over Xiangfan, as well as the fact that there is a shortage of grain and grass.

Therefore, from the beginning of the siege, Cao Jun was ordered by Cao Ren to burst out with all his might.

Lejin, who was guarding Xiangyang City, saw the attack and defense of both sides quite clearly.

said that he was guarding Xiangyang, but in fact, the veteran Huang Zhong camped directly not far from Xiangyang City, and did not come to call the city gate every day, so he watched from afar, and used archery to hunt the scouts out of the city.

After a long time, even the scouts were reluctant to go out of the city gate, after all, they all said that they were sticking to it, and the surrounding situation was unobstructed, and no matter how far away they were, what was the point of going out of the city?

After a long time, the defenders of Xiangyang City even forgot that they were also under siege.

After all, the giant ship's attention was also on Fancheng now, and he didn't bother to look at them at all.

Therefore, on the originally unguarded north city wall, the number of soldiers has gradually increased, and you can see the ships coming and going here, and you can see the battle of Fancheng, which is much more interesting than counting ants in Xiangyang City.

Le Jin knew this, but there was no good way, after all, what he was most afraid of was that he would go out of the city to invite him to fight to stimulate morale, and as a result, the sailors on the river only needed to rely south, and they could cut off their back roads in a moment.

Therefore, Xiangyang City is now the soldiers who are interested in watching the attack and defense of Fancheng, and Lejin is looking at the attack and defense of Fancheng with great interest.

From Xiangyang's point of view, they saw that the Cao army wanted to besiege the city on three sides, but the Cao army in the east was wandered by giant boats, and the morale of the understated rounds was broken, and then the Cao army in the west also retreated like a tide.

So the Cao soldiers in Xiangyang could only listen to the earth-shattering shouts from Fancheng boredly, imagining its intensity.

"I bet a hundred dollars, and this Fancheng can't be captured."

"Do you have a bird for your five baht money? I can't spend it. ”

"It is said that Uncle Liu can still use money under the rule......"

"Oh oh oh, then I'm going to bet one hundred and fifty dollars...... Checkmate! ”

Le Jin made two rounds around the city wall, dispersed the soldiers gathered together, and stared at the warship between Xiangfan.

As long as these ships can be lured away, then he can go out of the city and behead the veteran, and then the 30,000 soldiers in Xiangyang will be exhausted, and he can go down to Yicheng to attack Dangyang Denglin, and go straight to the hinterland of Jingzhou, which can solve the Xiangfan crisis.

Fancheng's shouting and killing was still deafening, and Le Jin didn't know who the generals of the Cao army under Fancheng were, but Le Jin was not optimistic.

The siege war is already difficult to fight, and now those who are still driven by the giant boat can only attack one city wall, and it is even more difficult if there is no first general like himself.

But thinking of the first climb, Le Jin remembered that his 6,000 parts folded under Jiangling City were all old pawns who could follow him first, and they were lost in vain.

If there is such a pro-army in Xiangyang City at this moment, the soldiers who confuse the morale of the army like just now will definitely beat thirty military sticks!

In the Chinese military tent under Fancheng, Cao Ren did not have any superfluous expression on his face, staring at the map non-stop.

In the next head, Xu Huang's face turned pale and covered his waist and abdomen, Wen Ping's left arm hung on his chest, and he didn't speak.

The siege has been going on for five days, but Fancheng is still as solid as a rock, Xu Huang and Wen Ping have already led the team to attack before, and the effect is unsatisfactory and there are injuries.

Therefore, Yu Ban suggested building a city on the ground and confronting Guan Yu.

It's the dumbest but least infallible way to play.

But Cao Ren considered the worries of the grain and grass in his heart, so he did not comment, but looked at a scribe beside him:

"What does Master Kuai's book teach me?"

Kuai Yue was quite jealous of the giant ship, so he said slowly:

"The water division is in difficulty in Zefan City, and if you want to try Fancheng, you should destroy the water master first."

Cao Ren rolled his eyes in his heart, do you still need to say this?

But then Kuai Yue put out the thoughts in his heart, Cao Ren frowned and thought, it seems that there is a little feasibility?

On this day, Guan Yu climbed the city wall and saw that the Cao army did not pour out of the nest to attack the city as in the past, but instead stopped the smoke curling up, looking like he was lying flat, and he couldn't help but be full of suspicions.

"If you can't attack it for a long time, you must be looking for the method of the water breaker."

Xu Shu felt that there was only one explanation, after all, Cao Cao had swallowed half of Jingzhou, and there were already many generals who knew the water division, so it was not strange to be able to come up with one or two ways to deal with the water division.

"And if you talk about the fastest way to get results, the only way is ......"

Xu Shu had a strange smile on his face, and just said:

"If it goes well, General Guan may soon have to meet his old friend."

Guan Yu stroked his beard and decided to believe Xu Shu:

"Then Guan will wait and see."

Le Jin couldn't hear Fan Cheng's shouting and killing, but on the contrary, the boats of Guan Yujun's boats came and went more and more frequently.

The Han River between the two cities of Xiangfan is only 300 zhang wide, so Lejin can see very clearly that these boats are full of baggage and materials, and they look like they are going to fight a protracted war.

But Lejin is not optimistic about this move at all, the gap in strength is too big, as long as he can survive the spring famine, the prime minister can completely mobilize an army of 100,000 to besiege Fancheng, and the siege is dead.

However, after more than ten days of stopping the shouting and killing in Fancheng, Le Jin saw with his own eyes that the giant boat took the initiative to retreat downstream.

The departure of the giant boat was soon discovered by the Cao army, so the army surrounded on three sides, and the tragic siege battle began again.

And the Xiangyang Observation Regiment soon had soldiers point out the mystery:

"The water level is dropping! Look at Shazhou in the west, more and more parts are exposed! ”

Cut off the Han River and force the giant boat back.

Immediately, there were soldiers from Jingzhou who said that there was a very narrow place in the upper reaches, and the river was only 30 zhang wide, which was very easy to block.

Only then did Le Jin understand what it meant that Guan Yujun had transported baggage to Fancheng before, which clearly meant that he was going to defend it.

But at any time, a great ecstasy welled up in my heart, so wouldn't my opportunity come?

Cao Ren cherished this hard-won opportunity, so he did his best to attack the city until night.

Use the advantage of troops to oppress the rest time of the defenders of Fancheng, and stay up for two days like this, and the city will definitely be broken!

Cao Ren was already ruthless in his heart, so he didn't notice that Guan Yu, who was guarding the city on the top of the city wall, had disappeared, and was replaced by Xu Shu and Zhao Lei, who were wielding swords and trying their best to restrain their soldiers.

The noisy night prevented the defenders of Xiangyang from getting a good night's sleep, and it also covered up the movement in Hanshui, twenty miles east of Fancheng.

Guan Yu stood at the bow of the boat and closed his eyes to recuperate, and Gan Gui was softly scolding:

Just hang up the brocade sail, and hang a silver bell at night because you are worried that you are not conspicuous enough? Hurry up and withdraw!

Twenty miles away, the sound of killing in the city shook the sky, and Gan Gui turned a deaf ear and had no distractions, carefully guiding the boat to the north and slowly sliding into the water.

Their fleet is a fleet of ships left over from Guan Yu's previous training of sailors, with a long and narrow hull, no engineering modifications, and can only transport troops or jump gangs, but this is enough.

Guan Yu himself, who withdrew from the Fancheng battlefield with the giant boat, berthed at Dangyang Wharf for new ships and old ships, sailors operated the boats, and land soldiers slept soundly in the cabin to recuperate.

Nearly 100 warships were connected together, carrying 8,000 soldiers and slowly moving north along the river under the cover of night and the shouts of siege and killing.

And as the sky gradually brightened, the first person to find Guan Yu and his party was the Tuntian folk of Xinye.

"General Guan, do you want me to get off the boat and ......" Gan Gui gestured, wanting to intimidate and delay the leakage of the news.

Guan Yu shook his head and said:

"Just raise the flag."

Gan Gui didn't understand, but he had always listened to General Guan's words.

So the largest Hanzi flag was raised on the ship of Gan Gui, and the small boats behind each raised two flags, one embroidered with Liu and the other with Guan characters.

Gan Gui found that he didn't understand it any more, and when he saw these Qiantou heads with weathered and numb faces on their faces, his face gradually became excited, and some of them even began to run after the boat.

But their physical strength was weak, and they were destined not to keep up, so only a few voices were handed with the breeze:

"Uncle Liu Huang...... General Kwan ...... General Zhang! ”

"Can you drive away the thief?"

Facing Gan Gui's blank face, Guan Yu turned around, he looked ahead as if he didn't dare to look at the people on both sides, as if he was explaining to Gan Gui, and as if he was saying to himself:

"A few years ago, the people of Xinye were afraid of Cao Cao's murderous name, so they went south with their brother, passing through Xiangfan, and the people of the two cities also fled with their brother, and finally Changbanpo was defeated and the people were all taken back."

Needless to say, Gan Gui understands everything.

Cao Cao has always had only one means for the people, internal migration, tuntian, the tun people of Xinye, must be one of the people who went south with the lord at the beginning.

And it was only at this moment that Gan Gui had a new understanding of his lord.

"General Guan, we will not be defeated this time!"

Guan Yu shook his head:

"You can't be defeated."

When Cao Cao learned that Guan Yu's soldiers were coming to Wancheng, he immediately rushed to the head of Wancheng.

He couldn't understand: how could Guan Yu appear here? How dare you appear here?

The red face and beautiful hair are familiar, and the strange long knife in the hand is unfamiliar.

The mixed thoughts before seeing Guan Yu finally turned into anger:

"Guan Yunchang, do you dare to abandon Fancheng and go into danger, and deceive no one in our army?"

Of course, Guan Yu couldn't hear it, he just threw the scouts out as much as possible, and then began to build a camp and build a fortress, putting on a siege posture.

This made Cao Cao even angrier, but it didn't help.

In order to capture Fancheng as soon as possible, Wancheng has few soldiers to fight, only more than 1,000 guards led by Xu Chu and the noble troops, rather than sending them out to fight with thousands of soldiers and horses, Cao Cao felt that it was safer to wait for the Yecheng soldiers and horses who were already on the road.

And what Cao Cao didn't know was, what was Guan Yu waiting for?

And in just two days, Cao Cao knew.

There is another soldier and horse in the southwest, this soldier and horse is holding the giant flag of "Zhang", and Zhang Fei is smiling very happily under the flag.

Before it arrived, the loud voice sent the voice first:

"Second brother is really one step faster!"

And Cao Cao at the head of the city had a sense that something was wrong.

(End of chapter)