Heavy rain poured in the Jiangling area, and scattered light rain fell in the Jingcheng and Hanjin areas in the north.

Hanjin, Guan Ping has personally led a thousand horsemen to arrive to recuperate.

Behind the cavalry, there was the Longxiang army that discarded its armor and rushed lightly to follow up, which was the new army number that was easier for the original Pingnan army.

Just yesterday, Liu Bei's envoy went to the Yongfang Mausoleum to the Xiangfan battlefield to announce the edict, and Guan Pingjin offered the merit of the Jade Seal of the Spirit Emperor and worshiped General Long Xiang.

Xiahouping guarded the Hanjin baggage, and at this moment, the auxiliary troops of each tun who were mobilized one after another were carrying materials separately, either to Yicheng County in the north or to Dangyang County in the southwest.

Xiahou Ping was worried about the morale of Long Xiang's army: "Will Cao Jun move to Nanyang and Nanyang officials to the Central Plains?" ”

I am afraid that Cao Cao will make another big migration like Hanzhong, and turn the Nanyang Plain into a no-man's land like Hanzhong and Huainan.

Once relocated, more than 10,000 soldiers and horses under Guan Ping, Xiahou Lan and Nanxiang County Shou Guo Mu were discouraged in an instant, and it was difficult to use them again.

"No, it won't."

Guan Ping's words were affirmative, holding warm tea in his hand: "The Cao army has no food and straw, and the people of Nanyang have been relocated to the army. Nor was the father prepared to interfere in the second county in order to maintain a temporary peace. ”

The forced immigration in Hanzhong has almost caused the collapse of the area controlled by Cao Cao, and he has been bloodied by a big knife in Hanzhong and Xiangfan in a row, and now he has no the heart and material resources to maintain the immigration.

Maintaining the existing pattern in Jingbei has become a precondition for a short truce.

Cao Cao got Nanyang, Guan Yu got Nanxiang, and when they each straightened out the problems behind them, they would fight again next year.

Guan Ping said with a little regret: "The food of his army is scarce, Sun Lang stirred Yingchuan to make the Wei army's grain road worrying, and the two counties of Nanyang and Nanxiang are short of food, and it is difficult to support the army. Xu Gongming and Cao Ren were demolishing Fancheng, and they were waiting for the city to be destroyed and retreated to Wancheng to garrison. Sun Lang will also lead his troops to retreat from Yingchuan, only hating the Wu army for betraying the alliance, otherwise...... Alas. ”

Now it is no longer the Wu army that is assembled in Jianye and Weisu to mobilize elites from Hefei to participate in the war in Jingbei, but the logistics system that has collapsed in the Central Plains.

First of all, the people of Hanzhong were relocated for three consecutive years, and the grain reserves of the counties and counties along the way were exhausted, and the levy and conscription were heavy for the relocation of the people and the transportation of grain for war, which in turn affected grain production. More and more civilians are evading forced labor, triggering new public order riots and causing a new round of military waste.

As a result, at the beginning of this year, the local reserves, people's strength, and people's support in Guanzhong and the Central Plains have been exhausted.

Before Cao Cao claimed the king, used the Son of Heaven Festival, and the honor guard continuously caused the old ministers of the Han family to raise troops, and then there was the Wei sarcasm case, which implicated and killed thousands of families before and after.

Most of these thousands of families are the families of officials, or they have in-laws and friendships with other officials, and thousands of families have been killed, which has shaken the control of the grassroots level.

Up to now, although Cao Cao had led his army to leave Luoyang and was about to arrive between Yingchuan and Nanyang, he no longer had the savings to support the expedition of the large army, nor did he lack an effective grain and straw transportation system.

Liu Bei needs to rest, and Cao Cao also needs to rest.

It was the critical moment when you were sick and wanted your life, but Sun Quan, who had always stood still, betrayed the alliance at this time to attack Jingzhou, and it is estimated that Cao Cao would wake up laughing when he dreamed.

And this year, the situation in Jingzhou is not good, everyone's eyes are focused on the great achievements of the Han River surging and flooding the Seventh Army, but few people have noticed the sequelae of this round of super rainfall caused by floods.

After the flood, the new plague has begun to spread, but because the Wu army is about to raise a national army to attack, how can there be manpower and material resources to prevent and block the plague at this time?

The war will accelerate the spread of the plague, which may spread to Yizhou or Yangzhou.

While the two were talking, Guan Ping's 4,000 lightly armed and hurried Long Xiang troops arrived in Hanjin one after another, and immediately began to accept arms.

Heavy rains in the Gangneung area prevented the Wu army from launching an offensive, and the war in Yidu County upstream quickly deteriorated.

The county lieutenant Zhan Yan was killed in the battle guarding Yiling City, and the county guard Fan You fled into Zigui, and more than 3,000 Yi soldiers raised by Wenbu and Deng Kai guarded Zigui, but there was a lack of naval guards, and they were alone, and they had been blocked in Zigui, and there was no chance to return to the Jingzhou battlefield.

Only on the first day of October the next day, Wuling County saw that Yiling City in the west and Gong'an City in the east had fallen one after another, and heard rumors that Jiangling City on the north bank had been occupied by the Wu army, and Wuling County changed banners.

The most incredible thing is that Hao Pu, the guard of Lingling County, as a staunch in the last battle, Hao Pu, who was still reinstated by Liu Beiguan after being deceived into surrendering, announced the change of banner on the second day of October.

Yiling has a spiritual canal built by the Qin state to transport supplies to Lingnan.

This time, the general of the expedition to the south led more than 5,000 troops to wait at the border of Jiaozhou, waiting for the signal to participate in the battle. Before they could enter the war, Hao Pu took Quanling City to change banners.

As a county guard who had surrendered to the Wu army, Liu Bei entrusted him with important responsibilities regardless of his previous suspicions.

But Guan Yu is not so easy to talk there, Mi Fang and Meng Da, who are also county guards, have a hard time, and Hao Pu is not much better.

Only Xi Zhen, the governor and general of the northern part of Lingling, actively prepared for the war, and waited for reinforcements in Zhaoling City, while the officials, Haoqiang, and Tuyi chiefs of Wuling and Lingling counties who were determined to resist converged on Xi Zhen one after another.

Tian Xin's left and right battalions of Mo Chong and Chen Feng also mutinied, and most of the thousands of people in Chen Feng's department were exiled and lost, and only led more than 300 people to join Wuling County to engage in Fan Zhou to move to Zhaoling City.

Mo Chong quickly killed those who were not strong-willed, and led Zuo Yingyi, who had almost no attrition, to abandon the nearby Zhaoling, and decided to cross Wuling County and return to the north bank to participate in the battle, and coerced the Tuyi tribe forces that had raised troops along the way, while the Han Haoqiang forces gathered at Zhaoling in the south.

The situation in Jingnan changed rapidly, and the three county guards did not play their responsibilities, but instead Tu, Han Haoqiang, and the chiefs raised troops one after another.

By the second day of October, the heavy rain in the Jiangling area stopped, and the follow-up army led by Sun Quan arrived with about 60,000 troops.

The main force of the Wu army marched rapidly, and Tian Xin only had time to move the troops in the old city barracks to the city barracks for resettlement.

At about noon, the envoy of the Wu army came to the city of Jiangling again, bringing a heavy plate of official seals, in which the official seals of the Wuling county guard and the county lieutenant were all there.

This time, the envoy of the Wu army did not rap, put down his things and left.

After the heavy rain, the sun was particularly bright, and Yu Ban hurried to the city tower, and saw Tian Xin holding a small drum in his arms, and holding a drumstick in the other hand to repeatedly beat the music in it, knocking out fragmentary drum melodies, all of which Yu Ban had never heard.

Seeing that Yu was seated, Tian Xin stopped: "Old general, God's will is on me." The soil outside the city was soft and slippery, and in less than three days, the Wu army could not attack the city. ”

Yu Ban bowed his hand slightly: "The little general wants to recruit and surrender troops to help in the war?" ”

"No, I'm hesitating right now. If Jiangling is lost, the Han family Sanxing will become a dream bubble. I'm wondering if I should surrender my army in the city to prevent my henchmen from suffering. Even if the kings and princes of the Han Dynasty kill me in the future, the Han family will be revitalized, and the revenge of my clan is hopeful. ”

Tian Xin played with the waist drum in his arms, as if he was playing with a head: "Old general, on my left is the lives of more than 10,000 soldiers, and on the right is the great cause of the Sanxing Han family and the great enmity of my parents, you can't have both, how to choose?" I once heard that during the Battle of Guandu, Cao's army burned Wuchao and captured 70,000 Yuan troops who had lost food. ”

"Cao Cao has no food, so he will kill and surrender the army."

"I also heard that when Cao Cao invaded Xuzhou with his father's vengeance, he killed people so much that floating corpses blocked Surabaya."

Tian Xin's tone was quiet and smiling: "At that time, Cao Cao must have felt something when he looked at the floating corpses in Surabaya, and improvised a poem, called "Artemisia Lixing". This is a catchy phrase, and I have heard it too. The white bones are exposed in the wild, and there is no rooster crowing for thousands of miles; The people are left behind, and the thought breaks people's intestines. ”

Yu Ban's face showed a pleading look, and his lips were faintly pale: "General? ”

Tian Xin turned his head to look to the side: "If I protect Jiangling from loss, the king of Han will punish me, and I will obey." If the king of Han takes away my official status and demotes me to a subordinate, I will be lucky. ”

At this time, a military official strode over: "General, the Wu army has made a move!" ”

Tian Xin got up and walked out of the city tower, and saw that Wu Jun was laying reeds and grass bundles on the slippery ground, or directly dragging the bamboo raft to the shore to form a fast passage.

He raised his eyebrows and smiled: "The thief army is anxious, it seems that reinforcements are coming." ”

Working in the mud in the cold autumn rain, how many of these Wu soldiers can be healthy?

Yu Ban, who followed Tian Xin out of the city tower, hurriedly said: "General, the old man is willing to lead the officials to help!" ”

Tian Xin snorted when he heard this, reached out and took out the silk book from his arms and handed it out: "This Cao Cao's handwriting is also, the old general should know Cao Cao's handwriting." ”