When the guard heard this, he said with a worried face: "Those people are all soldiers of the Wei army, they have just surrendered, and the people's hearts have not yet been completely annexed. ”

"But these people are really useless! General, we only have a thousand people, and we are afraid that we will not be defeated by the Wei army. When those soldiers see that the situation is not good, they will also surrender to the civil service. How about choosing some reliable people to defend the city? The soldier sighed as he looked at the people in the city.

If it is a place where there has been a long war on the frontier, it must be no problem for the people there to defend the city, because they have seen many such scenes, and even participated in many times to assist in the battle.

However, Jingzhou has been stable for too long, and the soldiers have been trained all year round, although they are the elite of the elite, but the people have never encountered this situation, and they have no experience at all, and they are in a hurry to move the ordnance to defend the city, let alone defend the city.

The guard general muttered: "Defend the city with surrendered troops, unless it is a last resort, it is not available, Wen Ping came here by Han Shui, there must be no traces hidden along the way, maybe General Ma's reinforcements are on the way, as long as we hold on for a few days, there will definitely be reinforcements coming."

But what you said also makes sense, so let's go to the city first and select some loyal and reliable soldiers to be prepared, and if you really can't do it, use them to defend the city. ”

"No!" The soldiers surrendered their orders and went down to the city to select a soldier who could be used.

Xiangyang City is surrounded by water on three sides, the south is surrounded by mountains, the city gate that Wen Ping intends to attack is the south gate, the south of Xiangyang City is surrounded by mountains, the soldiers took materials on the spot, and soon built dozens of ladders and carried them over.

Wen Ping was about to order the soldiers to attack the city, but at this moment, the soldiers who were sent to the north to inquire about the news ran over and said to Wen Ping: "General, there are soldiers and horses coming over from Fancheng. ”

Wen Ping's face was overjoyed when he heard this: "Oh? How many centaurs came? ”

The soldier replied, "But three medium-sized fighting ships, it seems that there are no more than five or six hundred people." ”

Generally, medium-sized fighting ships can only carry about 200 people, but there are only three fighting ships from Fancheng, and the number of people is definitely not more than 600 people.

Wen Ping groaned: "No more than six hundred people, but dare to come to the rescue of Fancheng, I'm afraid that only Guan Yu has this courage, if it was more than 20 years ago, I was still afraid of one or two, but now I ......"

Wen Ping smiled, his face was full of disdain, more than 20 years ago, Guan Yu's martial arts were at their peak, Wen Ping thought that he was far from his opponent, even if 10,000 soldiers and horses were against Guan Yu alone, he did not dare to have the slightest contempt.

After all, Guan Yu killed Yan Liang in the white horse among the ten thousand armies, but there was no water.

But now, Guan Yu is over seventy years old and sick, and Wen Ping doesn't take the relationship to heart.

After thinking about it, Wen Ping said: "Let 7,000 soldiers and horses attack the city, and the remaining 3,000 soldiers and horses will follow me to deal with Guan Yu, remember to live, don't let him escape." ”

The living Guan Yu is far more valuable than the dead, if Guan Yu is captured alive, after taking Xiangyang, Liu Chan will definitely come to the rescue when he learns the news. If Guan Yu is killed, Liu Chan gets the news that he may take Nanyang first, and then go south to avenge Guan Yu.

Guan Yu only had five hundred soldiers, so he took three fighting ships, and in addition to the soldiers, there were also war horses.

The fighting ship is second only to the building ship, although it is not as large as the building ship, and it is impossible to make the war horses gallop back and forth on it, but it is more than enough to put a few war horses.

On a fighting ship led by him, Guan Yu stood on the deck, looking at Xiangyang City in front of him, and next to him was a jujube red war horse.

The name of this horse is Red Rabbit, but it is not the Red Rabbit Horse that Lu Bu used before, the old Red Rabbit Horse has long been sick and died, this horse is a descendant of the Red Rabbit Horse, although it is not as good as the old Red Rabbit Horse, but it is also a rare good horse.

One of Guan Yu's personal soldiers said with a worried face: "Junhou, Wen Ping is from Hanshui, he must have managed to smuggle over, and he must not be able to hide from our army's eyes and ears along the way, General Ma believes that reinforcements will be sent over soon." We still stay in Fancheng and wait for reinforcements.

After all, there are more than 10,000 people in Wenpin, even if your sword is not old, you can defeat Wenpin, but if he leads his troops to rush up, I am afraid that he will ......"

Guan Yu waved his hand when he heard this: "The old man has been on the battlefield for decades, can't he even consider this?" ”

The soldier was pleasantly surprised when he heard this: "Do you have other plans, general?" ”

Guan Yu groaned: "There are only a thousand defenders in Xiangyang City, Wen Ping came suddenly, and the soldiers and horses in the city are not prepared, and it is very likely that Xiangyang will be lost." This time, I went to Xiangyang, not to defeat Wenpin, but to delay time and buy time for the defenders in the city to prepare. ”

When the soldiers heard this, they finally relieved themselves, as long as Guan Yu didn't plan to fight Wen Ping. Immediately, the soldiers were worried: "But after all, Wenpin has 10,000 soldiers and horses, we are afraid that we will not delay much time, and if we are not careful, we will ......."

Guan Yu smiled and said: "Don't worry, this general has his own plans, west of Xiangyang, there is a mountain called Atou Mountain, which is the hermitage of Zhuge Junshi back then, it is very precipitous, it can be said that a husband is a pass and ten thousand people are not open, if it is not defeated by Wenpin, our army can retreat to Atou Mountain." ”

It turned out that Guan Yu planned to rescue Xiangyang, not recklessly, but had already considered it, he had been in Jingzhou for more than ten years, and he knew the geography of Jingzhou's mountains and rivers very well, and he had already thought about the way back.

The warship soon sailed to the side of Xiangyang, and followed the moat to the direction of the south gate, and Guan Yu saw the Wei army under the city preparing to attack the city.

"Get ashore quickly!"

Seeing that the Wei army was preparing to attack the city, Guan Yu quickly ordered the warships to dock, and the soldiers set up the jump ship, and the cavalry went ashore first.

There are not many war horses in Fancheng, Guan Yu brought a total of eighty cavalry out, these are his personal soldiers, all can be at that time, in addition to eighty cavalry, there are more than 420 steps, among the more than 400 foot soldiers, there are 220 of them are also his personal soldiers, and the remaining 200 people are the defenders of Fancheng.

When the soldiers and horses went ashore, Guan Yu ordered: "Set up the formation!" Forty horsemen in the front and rear, foot soldiers in the middle, forming a front and rear cone formation! ”

Guan Yu's thinking is very clear, he only has 500 people, and if he wants to compete with the 10,000 people of the Wei army, he must rely on the formation. Moreover, the Wei army came from afar, and the weapons they carried were definitely short weapons such as swords, so Guan Yu ordered the soldiers to carry long weapons such as spears and spears.

An inch long is an inch strong, such as a move between masters, the length of the weapon for the victory or defeat, there is still suspense. But if it is a duel between soldiers and horses, one side makes spears and spears pierce, and the other side uses short knives to slash and kill, needless to say, it must be those with long weapons to have the advantage.

With Guan Yu's order, the five hundred soldiers quickly formed a diamond-shaped military formation, which was composed of two cone-shaped formations, the front cone was used for attack, and the rear cone was used for retreating and breaking through.