The beginning of the Three Kingdoms Cheng Yuanzhi

Chapter 279
After capturing Guan Ping alive, Sima Yi was about to return to the army when he saw a flying boat approaching from the river, leaning on the bank, and rushed to the next person from the boat, shouting loudly: "General Sima, urgent report from Wuling!"

Sima Yi was stunned when he heard the words, took the letter and looked at it, and immediately sighed: "It's a clever plan, it's really a clever plan."

Wang Shuang poked his head over, hurriedly read the battle report, and said, "Sure enough, you are worthy of being Jiangdong... Jingnan rats are used to doing such dirty tricks."

Sima Yi smiled slightly, and said: "Although the plan is sinister, it is very effective, and it is hard to guard against. I don't know how Liu Bei feels when he hears the news?"

Sighing, he said to the messenger soldier: "After you go back, tell General Wenpin that you must guard Jiangxia and take strict precautions against Sun Quan's attack."

The messenger soldier responded with a "promise", saluted hurriedly, boarded the boat, turned around and left.

Wang Shuang said from the side: "General, now Wuling is in the hands of Sun Quan, and Guan Yu is a tree without roots. We should also speed up our pace, capture Guan Yu alive, and wipe out all the troops he led."

Sima Yi groaned and ignored, muttering something.

After a while, he came back to his senses and ordered: "All generals obey the order, send troops to Fancheng, and capture Guan Yu alive!"

Wang Shuang said again: "A few days ago, our army stood still and violated the military law. Although it is a great achievement to capture Guan Ping alive today, it is hard to hide past mistakes. We should send someone to report to the king and state the cause and effect, so as not to cause disaster."

Sima Yi nodded his head and said: "It makes sense, I will immediately write a detailed list of the battle situation and report it to Your Majesty."

"Come here, fetch pen and ink!"

As soon as the order was given, soldiers already presented pen, ink, silk and inkstone.

Sima Yi immediately splashed ink with his brush and finished it in one go. After drying the ink, he combined the two battle reports into one place and handed them to his confidants to send to Yecheng.

The man didn't dare to delay, chose a fast horse, galloped to Yecheng in a starry night, and presented a letter to the palace of Wei Wang.

After Cheng Yuanzhi read the battle report, he clapped the case and felt furious.

He had heard about what happened in Jingzhou for a long time and had kept it secret until now. After seeing Sima Yi's excuse today, he suddenly couldn't suppress his anger.

Although Sima Yi responded skillfully in the battle of Xiangyang, he still violated the military order of "fighting timidly and defending ourselves, losing ground and losing the city".

If Xu Huang hadn't wiped his ass and blocked Guan Yu with all his troops who had entered Wancheng, Guan Yu might have hit Xudu at this moment.

No wonder that in another time and space, Cao Cao saw through Sima Yi's depth at a glance and told future generations "not to use military power."

Sima Yi did have the bad habit of arbitrarily arbitrarily acting and being the master of the house for his lord.

Such a person cannot be treated without treatment!
But if he was killed because of this incident, I am afraid it would not be convincing.

After all, Sima Yi had made it known beforehand to "act when the opportunity arises."

In addition, Sima Yi is no better than those people who have no foundation. He can kill him whenever he wants.The Sima family is a famous family in the world and a famous family in Hanoi.Sima Yi's brother Sima Lang was the governor of Hanoi. He had outstanding political achievements and was deeply loved by the people.

What's more, although Sima Yi was at fault, this time he defeated Guan Yu (Guan Yu hadn't lost at this time), and he had a great contribution.

Therefore, how to deal with Sima Yi really made Cheng Yuanzhi have a difficult time.

Considering that keeping Sima Yi was of great use, Cheng Yuanzhi secretly decided to hang Sima Yi up for a while after the war was over.

After making up his mind, he sent fast horses to Fancheng and told Xu Huang that if Guan Yu refused to give up the city, he would fight to the death; if Guan Yu abandoned the city and fled, he would not be pursued and let him go.

.........

Fancheng.

Guan Yu didn't know that his old nest had been taken away and his son had been captured. In the face of Xu Huang's repeated attacks on the city, he kept defending but not attacking.

The battle situation was temporarily stalemate.

Since Guan Yu was defending Fancheng, although Xu Huang had many troops, he was helpless for a while.

One day, Guan Yu was thinking hard about the battle situation, when he suddenly saw a soldier rushing into the tent, fell to the ground, and said: "General Guan, two days ago, the young general was captured by Sima Yi, and he lost everything."

"what?"

Guan Yu was shocked, stepped forward, picked up the pawn, raised his eyebrows and said, "Is this serious?"

The soldiers nodded repeatedly, and said with a sad face: "Ten days ago, Wuling was also captured by Lu Meng. Liu Feng fled back to Shu, and Mi Fang led his troops to join the enemy. General, we are homeless."

"What, Mi Fang surrendered to the enemy?"

Guan Yu suddenly froze, let go of his hand in frustration, and suddenly staggered.

The 3 horses he left behind in Wuling didn't even make a sound, so they were taken over by one pot?
Zhou Cang hurriedly raised his hand to support Guan Yu, and urged him earnestly, "General, take care."

On the other side, Xu Huang received the Wuling battle situation and instructions sent by Cheng Yuanzhi from Yecheng, and immediately mobilized all his troops to attack Fancheng.

After a while, when the soldiers arrived at the city, Xu Huang looked back at the generals, raised his arms and shouted: "Today's attack on the city, the three armies will use their lives. Whoever takes Guan Yu's head will be rewarded with a thousand pieces of gold!"

When Guan Yu heard this, he leaned out and said in shock, "Brother, why did you say this?"

Xu Huang cupped his hands and said: "Today, you and I are the masters, and there is only a fight to the death. This is a major national event, and I dare not abolish the public with personal interests."

Having said that, he was about to direct the soldiers to attack in groups, when suddenly a horse galloped up from a distance. Before the man on the horse could get close, he shouted loudly:
"Report——General Sima has taken back Xinye, and he is leading [-] troops across the river."

The shout was so loud that all the soldiers above and below the city heard it clearly.

Guan Yu's heart sank immediately, he knew that Fancheng could not be defended, if he waited for Sima Yi and Xu Huang to join forces, it would be in danger.

Thinking of this, I already had the intention of retreating, and was worrying about how to repel the soldiers in front of me, suddenly Xu Huang's army retreated like a tide, and they were gone in an instant.

It seemed to make room for him to escape.

Guan Yu was puzzled, looked around at the remaining ten thousand soldiers and horses under his command, and secretly made up his mind.

It was three o'clock in the night, Guan Yu ordered people to prepare ships, quietly led his people out from the south gate, crossed the Han River, passed Xiangyang, and turned south, intending to use his troops and horses to recapture Wuling, a shameful act.

He didn't want to go to the Northern Expedition.

At this moment, as long as the Wei army did not pursue him, he would be grateful.

Sure enough, Wei Jun never chased him.

Guan Yu led his army across the Yangtze River all the way, and his soldiers arrived at the foot of Wuling City.

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Yecheng, Wei Palace.

Cheng Yuanzhi and Jia Xu will sit in the side hall and discuss the war in Jingzhou.

Jia Xu frowned, and said in confusion, "Your Majesty, I heard that before the battle between the two armies, Guan Yu often avoided fighting Xu Huang. In terms of martial arts, Xu Huang may not be better than Guan Yu. Why is Guan Yu so timid?"

Cheng Yuanzhi waved his hands and said with a smile, "It's not because he's afraid to fight, but because Xu Huang and Guan Yu are both from Hedong, so Guan Yu avoids fighting."

Jia Xu seemed to have realized something, stroked his beard and muttered: "Guan Yu is quite talented, but his shortcomings are also obvious. It is not difficult to defeat him. Now that his defeat is weak, he has not retreated to Yizhou. , instead marching troops to Wuling, if we go there, we may die without a place to die..."

Cheng Yuanzhi nodded repeatedly, but Jia Xu was still very accurate when it came to people, and he could tell the trend with just one word.

No matter which time and space, Lu Meng is the natural enemy that Guan Yu can't get around.

But when it comes to Guan Yu's shortcomings, there are many, such as arrogance, conceit, etc.But when it comes to fatal flaws, there is only one: love to engage in cliques!
No matter internally or externally, he likes to engage in small circles.

It is "Liu Guanzhang" to the inside, "Guan Ping and Zhou Cang" to the bottom, and "Zhang Liao and Xu Huang" to the outside.

These three circles have exhausted Guan Yu's life in the world.

Childish, short-sighted!
He also likes to engage in small circles, but Liu Bei can take care of talents from all directions.But Guan Yu couldn't do it, and his small circle was regarded by him as a private territory that "cannot be splashed with water or pierced with needles".

Guan Ping and Zhou Cang belonged to Guan Yu's own small circle, and even Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang couldn't get involved.

Guan Yu's behavior of engaging in small circles is extremely harmful. First, it splits Liu Bei's civil and military system, and second, it also makes Guan Yu unable to cooperate with anyone.

Although Mi Fang, Liu Feng, Fu Shiren and others guarded Wuling with Guan Yu, they were often excluded, suppressed and despised by Guan Yu.

You know, Mi Fang is Liu Bei's brother-in-law, and Liu Feng is Liu Bei's adopted son. These two people are not without background.

But even so, Guan Yu still had to take care of himself.

Externally, Guan Yu is the same.

Sun Wu was an ally of Shu Han, but Guan Yu blatantly talked about "Jiangdong rats" and "Jingnan rats" every day, and even Sun Quan could not miss it.

But whenever he met a fellow from the east of the river or even the north, Guan Yu either said "this man has a sense of loyalty" or "brother, why did you say that".

It can be summed up in one sentence: within Guan Yu's small circle, everyone can eat delicious food and drink spicy food; outside the small circle, even Liu Bei's brother-in-law and adopted son should get out and drink the northwest wind.

As a general in command of a place, how can there be no problems in doing things like this?

Therefore, when there was any disturbance, extremely abnormal phenomena such as Liu Bei's brother-in-law Mi Fang rebelled and Liu Bei's adopted son Liu Feng ran away in a hurry.

People are cold, how can the team lead?
(End of this chapter)