The Warriors of the Three Kingdoms

"However, Your Majesty, this matter is of great importance after all, so Guan Yu may not be really fooled, so if we want to proceed with this plan, we must set up a trick step by step to let Guan Yu and his soldiers walk in. "

"Is there a good strategy for filial piety?"

"Luring the enemy to go deep."

"Appreciate further details."

Liu Zheng and Guo Jia immediately showed cheap smiles and began to discuss.

The Battle of the Flooded Seven Armies.

It happened near Fancheng.

Liu Zheng also remembered that when Guan Yu was so powerful in China in history, he thought about it, and immediately made such a plan to counter Guan Yu.

As long as Guan Yu can be tricked, this battle can be won in one fell swoop.

Liu Zheng and Guo Jia discussed for a long time in the room, and finally reached a result that both of them were satisfied with, and immediately ordered Guo Jia to go down and give orders.

There can't be too many people who know about this matter. If there are too many people, it will be easily exposed.

So he didn't tell any generals under Liu Zheng's command.

Just let them do what they are told.

Chapter 1000 Two hundred and eighty

Xinye City.

Liu Zheng first asked Huang Zhong and Tai Shici to lead their respective troops and retreat to Fancheng first.

Only in Xinye City, half of the soldiers and horses remained.

He himself and Guo Jia and others, along with Huang Zhong and Tai Shici's troops, withdrew to Fancheng.

In addition, Gan Ning, who was staying in Xinye City, was given an order that if Guan Yu forcibly attacked the city, he would only make simple resistance, and then start to withdraw, without needing to fight.

Doing so is nothing more than showing weakness to the enemy.

So that Guan Yu, who was attacking Xinye, would fall into the trick and continue to move forward.

Although Guan Yu's troops did not cause much repercussions on Xinye City after a round of catapult bombing, the city of Xinye was beaten without any movement, and Guan Yu still knew clearly that he did not dare to poke his head on the tower easily.

Coupled with Liu Zheng's weakness, after the catapults stopped attacking, he quickly sent people to retreat from Xinye City to Fancheng.

Naturally, this news could not be hidden from Guan Yu.

Guan Yu deployed a large number of spies around Xinye.

Naturally, the actions of these tens of thousands of people cannot be concealed.

Besides, Liu Zheng didn't intend to hide it at the beginning, but let Guan Yu know it on purpose. ,

In this way, after Guan Yu learned that Xinye City had lost a lot of soldiers and horses, some of them were still afraid to attack the city.

Now knowing that there are not many defenders, and there are many more catapults, the confidence has greatly increased.

Not long after Liu Zheng's main force left, a fierce attack began.

According to Liu Zheng's instructions, Gan Ning only brought the remaining 2 troops to garrison here.

After being attacked by Guan Yu, Gan Ning did not give up immediately.

Instead, he took the 2 army he stayed in Xinye City to frantically stop Guan Yu's attack.

However, the number of troops under Guan Yu's command is too large after all.

In addition to the extremely crazy attack, Gan Ning seemed to want to defend but couldn't stop it.

In addition, Liu Zheng had already issued an order before, so that Gan Ning only needed to defend a little before giving up directly.

Therefore, Gan Ning did not defend too much. When he knew that he could not defend, he immediately ordered to retreat, and quickly retreated from the south gate to Fancheng.

After laying down Xinye City.

Guan Yu naturally didn't want it, so he just let these people go.

Immediately let Ma Teng lead his cavalry to pursue in the rear.

He wanted to disintegrate Gan Ning's army so that Liu Zheng would suffer heavy losses.

It's a pity that Ma Teng's team still thinks too highly of themselves.

Gan Ning's more than [-] Zhuge Liannu shooters did not make a move when defending.

But when they retreated, it was already calculated that Guan Yu's soldiers and horses would come to pursue them, and these more than [-] shooters were responsible for breaking the rear.

Several waves of Zhuge Liannu shooters were ambushed one after another on the official road.

When Ma Teng led the cavalry in pursuit, he was attacked by these Zhuge Lianlu shooters.

Tens of thousands of Zhuge Liannu shooters fired tens of thousands of arrows at the same time. On the narrow official road, any cavalry who rushed up would be killed by dozens of arrows immediately.

After Ma Teng ordered his soldiers to charge several times, there was no benefit.

Instead, he lost three or four thousand cavalry under his command.

This made Ma Teng's whole face darken, and he didn't dare to chase after him rashly.

Before the battle was fought, the cavalry under his command had lost almost ten thousand people.

Of the 2 cavalry brought over, there are now only more than [-] left.

In this way, Gan Ning led the remaining soldiers and horses to quickly retreat to Fancheng.

It's just that when they evacuated to Fancheng, Liu Zheng and the others had already evacuated from here to Xiangyang again.

Fancheng is just an empty city.

Liu Zheng's surviving staff told Gan Ning to let his soldiers and horses leave Fancheng directly, and then move into Xiangyang City.

In this way, Fancheng was just an empty city. In less than two days, Guan Yu's follow-up army pursued Fancheng and directly stationed in Fancheng. The [-] troops were distributed around Fancheng.

Xiangyang City.

In just two or three days.

Liu Zheng's soldiers and horses were defeated all the way and lost the entire Nanyang County.

In fact, if the fight is to continue, Liu Zheng's soldiers and horses are still capable of fighting back, at least even if they fail, they will not lose so quickly.

However, Liu Zheng's non-resistance policy made these generals under him very aggrieved.

Gan Ning was the most aggrieved one, after all, he was in charge of the cutoff.

After arriving in Xiangyang City, he immediately ran to meet Liu Zheng angrily, wanting to ask Liu Zheng to understand.

Let's see why Liu Zheng didn't resist, and was willing to hand over the two cities to the enemy.

Gan Ning was in charge of guarding these two cities. Although Gan Ning lost two cities in a row, although Gan Ning was not worried that Liu Zheng would condemn him, but if he lost the battle, other generals would criticize him in private.

He didn't want to be insulted like this.

Xiangyang City, in the government office of the Cai family.

This was originally Cai Mao's government office, but after Cai Mao left, it became the site of a branch of the Cai family.

Later, Liu Zheng captured Xiangyang City, and it became Cai Mao's place again, but Cai Mao seldom lived here.

Now that Liu Zheng is stationed in Xiangyang City, he naturally lives in Cai's place.

Only here is a place big enough to accommodate Liu Zheng and his guards.

Gan Ning hurried over.

Seeking Liu Zheng, Liu Zheng quickly let him in.

As soon as he saw Liu Zheng, Gan Ning couldn't wait to speak to Liu Zheng.

"Your Majesty, why did you retreat without any resistance and surrender Xinye and Fancheng to Guan Yu?"

Gan Ning stared at Liu Zheng, wanting Liu Zheng to give him an answer.

Although Liu Zheng didn't need to tell Gan Ning why he did this.

But seeing Gan Ning's eager look and knowing Gan Ning's temper, if he didn't know the situation inside, he might not be able to sleep well for several days and nights.

Liu Zheng also said a little to him with a faint smile.

"Xingba, don't worry, there is a reason for me to do this. I gave up these two cities directly, in fact, to show the enemy's weakness and lure Guan Yu to go deeper step by step."

"Wait for Guan Yu's army to go deep into our army's hinterland, attack together, cut off his retreat, and annihilate them all near Fancheng!"

Liu Zheng briefly described his plan to Gan Ning, but of course he didn't mention the plan of flooding.

It's not that Liu Zheng can't trust Gan Ning.

But this plan is too important, once it is implemented, the impact will not only be the killing of the enemy.

It will also cause more serious harm, that is, the people in Jingzhou will suffer losses because of this incident.

Even many ordinary people will be killed and injured.

If Liu Zheng proposed this plan on his own initiative, he would definitely be infamous.

So even if he wants to do it, he can't say it directly. At that time, the advisers under his command will take the initiative to propose it, and then Liu Zheng refuses. In the end, he can only accept this method as a last resort for military operations.

Chapter 1000 Two hundred and 81 Entering Fancheng

This is sometimes the emperor can't help himself.

Sometimes you have to think about what you want to do, the reputation in the mouth of the people.

If he really disregarded the life and death of the people, then no matter how well he did, his reputation among the people would not be too high.

Therefore, it is best not to tell your generals about the plan of flooding the seven armies.

When the time comes, the impact of the success of this plan must be that the momentum brought about by the elimination of Guan Yu's 10,000+ army will overwhelm the casualties of the civilians.

Gan Ning understood what Liu Zheng said.

Although he still doesn't understand what the plan in Liu Zheng's mind is.

But as long as they know that Liu Zheng has follow-up plans, their retreat is not useless.

that's enough.

"Since His Majesty has made a decision in his heart, it is not easy for the general to say more."

"Don't worry, it's not that I don't believe that you can't beat Guan Yu, it's just because Guan Yu came in a fierce manner this time, and he brought more than [-] soldiers and horses."

"If I let you guys fight, even if I can defeat Guan Yu in the end, I will definitely suffer heavy losses."

"This is not my style, you have a more important role."

After appeasing Gan Ning, Liu Zheng worried that other generals in the army would have ideas.

He also asked Guo Jia to find the generals stationed in Xiangyang.

Explain the situation to them individually.

So that they don't worry too much.

Fancheng.

Guan Yu led his troops here.

They went directly from Xinye to Fancheng all the way, without encountering many obstacles.

Guan Yu's son, Guan Ping, was quite excited.

This time, his father fought all the way from Wancheng to the current Fancheng, and has already regained the territory of a county for the big man.

As long as you continue to push forward one step further, you will be able to hit Xiangyang City, the seat of Jingzhou, and then occupy Xiangyang. With the advantage of geographical location, the entire Jingzhou can be in your pocket.

Such a situation is simply a good one.

"Father, that's great. Our soldiers and horses finally reached Fancheng, and Liu Zheng's troops were scared by us."

"Now they don't dare to resist us at all, they can only shrink back."

After witnessing the battles of the past few days, Guan Ping regained all his lost confidence.

Originally, he thought that Liu Zheng's side would become very difficult to deal with because of Zhuge Liannu.