Confidence is there, and it is a hundredfold confidence, now most of the world is under Zhang Yan's control, only Jiangdong, Jingnan, Xichuan, are still in a state of separation, with Zhang Yan's current strength, if he can't attack Jiangdong and destroy Sun Quan, then he can die.

However, Zhang Yan was not so arrogant and arrogant, because the moment he did not see Sun Quan's head in person, he would never take it lightly. Historically, when Cao Cao was in high spirits, he was defeated in the Battle of Chibi, and Guan Yu carelessly lost Jingzhou, these are all lessons from the past, and Zhang Yan took them as a warning.

The target of his main attack this time was the four counties of Jingnan, and only by recovering the four counties of Jingnan first, solving Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, and eliminating his worries, could he deal with Sun Quan wholeheartedly, so as to advance by land and water, take Jiangdong in one fell swoop, and eliminate this great separatist force.

In the Junshan Water Village, Huang Zhong, Wei Yan, Li Tong and others went to gather all the officers and soldiers of the naval army, and the matter of guarding the Junshan Water Village was handed over to Xu Huang's subordinates.

All the sailors boarded the boat, and the boats, large and small, were neatly arranged in Dongting Lake, densely packed, and there was no end in sight.

All the warships were hoisted with orange-red military flags with the character "Han", fluttering in the wind on the flagpole on the mast of the ship, and all the personnel were ready, just waiting for Zhang Yan's order.

In the middle of Dongting Lake, there is a huge ship docked, this ship is the largest ship in the entire navy, and it has been remodeled on the basis of the building boat, and from a distance, it looks like a castle standing on the water.

On the top of this ship, in addition to the flag of the Han army. There is also the royal flag of King Yan. A dragon with fangs and claws. Embroidered on the flag lifelike, when swaying with the wind, as if alive, soaring in the air and flying in the sky.

Zhang Yan, Huang Zhong, Xu Huang, Sima Yi, Yang Xiu and other five people were all on this ship, while Wei Yan led the officers and soldiers of the naval army of the headquarters in the front, and Li Tong was in the back, in addition to that. The ten boats led by Ma Jun followed closely behind Li Tong, and more than 800 boats, large and small, began to set off one after another after Zhang Yan's order, along Dongting Lake, all the way to the south, through the Miluo River into Xiangshui, and then directly to Changsha.

Changsha is only more than 300 miles away from Dongting Lake, if you take the land route. An army of 100,000 men had to march for two days. It is much faster to take the waterway than the land route, starting in the morning and arriving at the city of Changsha in the evening.

However, in this operation, Zhang Yan's primary goal was not Changsha, but to occupy Luoxian first, rest there, and then send people to persuade Guan Yu to surrender, if Guan Yu did not surrender, it would not be too late to send troops to attack. This is called saluting before soldiering.

However, according to Zhang Yan's understanding of Guan Yu's character, Guan Yu will definitely not surrender, so he is just making a show, not out of sincerity to persuade Guan Yu to surrender.

The army set off in a mighty way, Zhang Yan officially launched the strategy of Jingnan, hundreds of large and small warships, 100,000 troops, and strong generals, it seems that Zhang Yan wants to swallow Guan Yu in one bite this time, without giving him any respite.

On the way to the warship, Zhang Yan sat in the cabin and was lying on the desk and wrote a few letters by himself, called a few Jinyi guards, handed them a letter each, and then asked them to send the letters to Jia Xu, Zhuge Liang, Pang Tong, Zhang He, Ma Chao and others.

Zhang Yan wanted to launch the most fierce attack on Jiangdong after taking the entire Jingzhou, so he would mobilize elite soldiers and strong generals to the front line, and then eliminate Sun Quan in one go.

The Jinyi guards took the letters, and said goodbye to Zhang Yan one after another, these people, all scattered in the border area of the Han Dynasty, after Zhang Yan solved Guan Yu and took the entire Jingzhou, they must have a rest, in addition, they must also mobilize the strongest army with the strongest combat effectiveness to the front line, so a toss, almost a month in the middle is idle, and in a month's time, even if they stretch out the most remote area, they should be able to reach here.

The fleet rode the wind and waves, sailed smoothly, and sailed all the way to Luoxian.

At the same time, Guan Yu, who was in Changsha, was not idle. The news of Zhang Fei's defeat had reached him, which made Guan Yu very annoyed, blaming Zhang Fei for not listening to his own words and acting without authorization, and as a result, he was asking for hardship. But angry to angry, Guan Yu still sent people to find Zhang Fei, wanting to take Zhang Fei to Changsha and fight side by side with him.

In addition, the armies of Tan Xiong, Pan Zhang, and Ling Cao still have not arrived for a long time, which makes Guan Yu even more worried.

After Zhang Fei's defeat happened, Guan Yu couldn't hold back any longer, and hurriedly sent people to Guangzhou to urge them.

Who knew that the envoy sent had only been gone for an hour, and then he came back, saying that the army of Tan Xiong, Pan Zhang, and Ling Cao had arrived, and it was still about twenty miles away from Linxiang City.

So, Guan Yu took ten of his entourage, rode war horses, and hurried out of the city to greet the arrival of Tan Xiong, Pan Zhang, Ling Cao and others.

In fact, the army of Tan Xiong, Pan Zhang, and Ling Cao arrived in Changsha as early as seven days ago, but because Zhu Ran got in the way, the army of Tan Xiong, Pan Zhang, and Ling Cao died down along the way, rested during the day, and set off at night.

When Tan Xiong, Pan Zhang, Ling Cao and others heard that Zhang Fei was defeated by Zhang Yan's army in Wuling, they realized the seriousness of the problem, although they were Zhu Ran's subordinates, but they were Sun Quan's subordinates.

Because of the last time they attacked Lingling and Wuling, Zhu Ran and Zhang Fei had a lot of friction, and Zhang Fei's letter to Sun Quan made Zhu Ran lose face, and he was also reprimanded by his father Zhu Zhi. Zhu Ran was young and vigorous, how could he swallow this evil breath, and then he thought of using delaying time to embarrass Guan Yu and Zhang Fei this time.

Tan Xiong, Pan Zhang, Ling Cao and Zhu Ran were both brothers and colleagues, and when Zhu Ran proposed to embarrass Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, they all agreed.

However, no one thought about what the consequences of this incident would be, and they could travel from Guangzhou to Changsha in five days at most, but they walked for more than ten days.

Although the period of more than ten days is not too long, a lot of things have happened, which is enough to change the situation on the battlefield.

As soon as the news of Zhang Fei's defeat and unknown whereabouts reached the ears of Tan Xiong, Pan Zhang, and Ling Cao, the three of them felt that they could not escape the blame, so they decisively appeared, led the army, and quickly rushed to Linxiang City to meet Guan Yu.

The three armies have been advancing rapidly, and they have been recuperating for more than ten days, and this movement is indeed very fast.

Ling Cao led the army in the front, Pan Zhang in the middle, Tan Xiong in the back, three armies rushed in, there were more than ten miles away from Linxiang City, Ling Cao, who walked in the front, suddenly saw more than ten cavalry in the middle of the road, one of them had a beautiful beard, Danfeng eyes, lying silkworm eyebrows, face like a heavy jujube, a pair of tiger eyes and bright eyes, it was Guan Yu.

"The whole army stops advancing!" Ling Cao raised his spear high and stopped at the side of the road while reining in his horse.

And just as his voice fell, the soldiers behind him stopped one after another, and the sound of "the whole army stopped advancing" continued to pass backwards.

Ling Cao rode his horse, took a few steps forward, and arched his hand at Guan Yu, who was blocking his way: "Dare to ask Your Excellency, but is it General Guan Yuguan?" ”

Guan Yu nodded, and Chong Ling Cao hugged his fists and said, "It's Guan Mou, I don't know what General Lu Dao should call him?" ”

"in the next place!" Ling Cao replied politely.

"It turned out to be General Ling, disrespectful and disrespectful, Guan heard that you were coming, so he brought people to greet him, but he didn't see the three generals, so he had to make this decision, blocked the way, and hoped that General Ling would forgive me. By the way, why don't you see General Tan and General Pan? Guan Yu said.

Although Ling Cao had never seen Guan Yu before, he had often heard people mention it, and after seeing Guan Yu's appearance this time, he felt that this person should be Guan Yu, so he boldly asked. Facts have proved that he really did not guess, it was Guan Yu who was standing in front of him.

"Oh, General Tan and General Pan are behind the army, and we have come all the way from Guangzhou, because the road is unfamiliar, so we often get lost, and because it was rainy and rainy a few days ago, the road was muddy, and it was difficult for the army to walk, so we delayed for a few more days, and I also looked at General Haihan Guan." Ling Caodao.

Guan Yu said: "It's okay, as long as you can come." General Ling, this is not the place to talk, Guan Mou is leading the way in front, you follow us, and when we get to Linxiang, we will talk to each other. ”

Ling Cao said: "There is General Laoguan." ”

After a simple greeting, Guan Yu turned his horse's head, walked in front of the team, and took Ling Cao and other troops to Linxiang City.

Ling Cao looked at Guan Yu's majestic back and let out a sigh of relief, fortunately, it rained here for several days a few days ago, which just allowed him to use this excuse to prevaricate, otherwise, he really didn't know how to explain to Guan Yu about their delay in the military plane.

The army moved forward again, and after walking less than two miles, Pan Zhang and Tan Xiong rushed over from behind, asking Ling Cao what he was doing just now, and suddenly stopped, and then left again.

Ling Caoyu pointed to Guan Yu's back and told Pan Zhang and Tan Xiong the truth, saying that Guan Yu came to greet them.

Pan Zhang and Tan Xiong hurriedly asked Guan Yu if he blamed them for delaying the military plane, Ling Cao shook his head and said no, no, not only did not mention it.

So, Pan Zhang and Tan Xiong breathed a sigh of relief, and then walked side by side with Ling Cao, followed behind Guan Yu and the others, and slowly walked towards Linxiang City.

There are not many troops led by Ling Cao, Pan Zhang, and Tan Xiong, each of whom brought 10,000 people, and these 30,000 troops are already the limit of the army stationed in Guangzhou, and even the army left under Zhu Ran is only 5,000 people.

It can be seen from this that Sun Quan attaches great importance to this action to support Guan Yu and Zhang Fei.

However, how could Sun Quan, who was far away in Nanchang, know that his attention was delayed, and the consequences of this incident were even more serious...... (To be continued......)