Xiangyang has been a military and economic important place throughout the years. It is located between the Qinling Mountains, Daba Mountains, and Dabie Mountains. It is connected to Nanyang in the north and Jianghan Plain in the south. It has been a must-fight place for military strategists since ancient times.

When Liu Bei and Cao Cao were defeated in the Central Plains and defected to Liu Biao, Xiangyang, as the Nanjun County and the county seat at that time, was also the capital of Jingzhou. It was so prosperous. However, after several years, when we arrived in Xiangyang again, the city was still the same, but the four fields were withered, with less popularity, and were full of abandoned fields and manors.

Guan Yu arrived in Xiangyang for six days and saw this scene, and he was also very moved. He ordered his chief clerk Liao Hua to lead 10,000 troops to defend Xiangyang, and asked the Xiangyang defenders not to act rashly. He led 30,000 troops across the Han River and rushed to Fancheng.

Although he was prepared, when he saw Guan Yu personally led a large army to attack Fancheng, Yu Jin was still feeling heavy. Including the navy, Guan Yu's troops were ten times more than his own. This time, he came here with the determination to capture Xiangfan.

If the troops were sufficient, Yu Jinduan would not have asked Guan Yu to cross the river so easily. However, now the troops were insufficient and he could only defend the city. He watched Guan Yu cross the river from under his nose so carelessly.

"Then Yu Jin dared not stop it. It seems that there are not many soldiers in the city." Guan Yu did not rush to attack the city, but set up a camp first, stood on the bracket and watched Fancheng's movements, and smiled at Ma Liang, "But if we transfer our army's siege equipment, there is no need to adjust the well railing. You only need to mobilize twenty catapults, fifty ladders and rushing cars."

Guan Yu deliberately mobilized troops across the river with such a big fanfare to explore the virtual and realities of Fancheng and lead troops to fight. In fact, it may not necessarily be necessary to see it with his own eyes. Experienced generals only need to make some tentative actions to roughly understand the opponent's bottom.

The walls of Fancheng are not high. If the troops are sufficient, they will definitely not be asked to cross the river so easily. However, the defenders of Fancheng chose to remain indifferent and let Guan Yu cross the river. Obviously, the troops in their hands are insufficient, and even the difference between the two sides is huge, so they dare not send troops easily.

Ma Liang smiled and nodded. Guan Yu was indeed very good at leading troops to fight. He looked at the Fancheng city wall in the distance and said with a smile: "Brother Bo Yuan made a well railing too high, so it is indeed inappropriate to use it in Fancheng."

The siege equipment designed by Liu Yi is designed according to Xiangyang City. The catapults, rushing cars, and ladders are fine, and they can be debugged according to the height of the city wall, but there is nothing to do with the well railing.

"Why should we be so troublesome in Fancheng?" Guan Yu nodded and said, "When the siege equipment is transported here, you can ask Wenpin to circumnavigate the river and restrain the troops in the city. Our army will attack Nancheng fiercely, or you can fight down."

"Then Yu Jin is also a famous general of the Cao army, so the king should not be underestimated." Ma Liang frowned when he heard this.

Even if there were few soldiers and horses, Cao Ren had been in charge of the Xiangfan City for several years and was built to fight against Liu Bei. Ma Liang felt that Guan Yu underestimated Yu Jin too much.

Guan Yu stroked his beard and said proudly: "Ji Chang will see how I defeat the enemy!"

Arrogance is one reason. The most important thing is that Guan Yu is quite confident in the siege equipment that Liu Yi helped him build this time. He has personally seen the power. Even the Xiangyang City may not be able to defend for a long time, let alone Fancheng?

Ma Liang smiled bitterly when he heard this and stopped persuading him. He worked with Guan Yu for several years and knew that Guan Yu could not persuade him at this time.

After Guan Yu established the camp, he did not immediately move troops, but began to build fortifications in an orderly manner and dig trenches. At the same time, a large number of siege equipment was transported into the military camp. It was not until the fifth day after Guan Yu arrived in Fancheng that the siege began.

Twenty catapults stopped moving forward when they were 120 steps away from the city wall. They happened to be where Cao's crossbows and artillery stones could not reach. Then, with the rooftop chariots, the strange-style cloud ladder began to slowly approach the city wall, and the soldiers and horses began to slowly push towards the city wall as these siege equipment advanced.

Wen Pin led the navy to cruise on the river surface, restraining Cao's army, and also to prevent the aid of Xiangyang City. The thunderbolt chariots on the city wall kept roaring and hitting the cannon stones at the fleet in the river. Wen Pin ordered the fleet to disperse. At the same time, the catapult carts and crossbows carried on the ship also launched a counterattack towards the city.

The siege ships on Liu Bei's side were all built by Liu Yi. Although there were not many, they were like small fortresses, with extremely strong attack power on the water surface.

The troops siege front-facingly had not yet begun to attack, but the water village had already handed over the fire. Wenpin was proficient in water warfare and has also developed many tactics based on the siege ships over the years. Twenty siege ships attacked alternately, and the boats and the siege ships cruised around to attract the firepower on the city.

Although many ships and boats were sunk, the twenty siege ships were not damaged at all.

Above the south gate, Yu Jin looked at the slowly advancing engineering equipment in surprise.

"Why is there no one to push the ladder??" Several generals of Cao's army were about to wait for the ladder to approach, and ordered people to shoot the soldiers who pushed the ladder. After searching for a long time, the ladder was actually moving by itself. Although it was moving slowly, it was the first time they saw this ladder that did not require human and animal power to push it. They were shocked for a moment.

"Tube oil!" Yu Jin's face was heavy. Although Guan Yu's army was not fast, it gave him the feeling that it was like a mountain moving towards Fancheng. Not only was the appearance of the ladder amazing, but the rushing car was covered with a roof and baffles on all sides. Many of them were bounced away directly. Even if they could be shot into it, they could not hurt the soldiers under him. Such things could only be burned with fire.

"Boom~"

As soon as Yu Jin finished speaking, he heard a harsh roar from the opposite formation. Huge stone bullets fell from the sky, constantly bombarding the city walls, smashing holes. The entire city wall seemed to be shaking. The power, like a meteorite, had not yet officially started to fight, and its momentum had become three points weaker.

The opponent's catapult car had such a long range!

Yu Jin saw that the other party was about 120 steps away from the city wall, and he felt a little chilled. His thunderbolt car had a much longer range than the average casting car, but even with the advantage of the city wall, he could never throw the stone bullet so far.

"Pili Car, Attack!" Gripping his teeth, Yu Jin knew that it was impossible to bomb, so he could only aim the Pili Car at the place where there were many people on the other side to fire. The stone bombs that broke through the air fell from the sky, and the casualties on Guan Yu's side began to intensify. A large number of arrow clusters continued to shoot down here, some were blocked by shields, and many hit the Jingzhou army.

The archers in the back row also began to counterattack, but the range was also much further. Standing outside the land of an arrow, you could attack the defenders at the city. After Guan Yu determined the opponent's range, he sent four thousand-person shooters to stand outside the opponent's range and shoot arrows at the city. Soon, he suppressed the archers at the city so much that they could not raise their heads.

As soon as the war began, the defenders were at a disadvantage. The three-meter-high city wall did not bring too many advantages to the defenders.

Damn it!

Under the protection of two shield hands, Yu Jin looked at the ladder that had already boarded the city wall, and he was a little upset. Fortunately, the opponent's archer saw that he had already received the enemy in front of him. In order to avoid accidental injury, he gradually stopped shooting arrows, giving the soldiers guarding the city a little chance to breathe.

Yu Jin quickly ordered people to fight back, throwing down the wood, rock, turbid oil, no money. From this moment on, the fierce battle seemed to have entered a state of heat in a very short time. On the burning ladder, there were still soldiers from Jingzhou rushing up desperately, and were stabbed or pushed down by several Cao soldiers with spears. The rushing car kept hitting the city gate, and the soldiers responsible for holding the city gate were constantly suffering from repeated blows.

Has there been any fifty ladders ignited? A Jingzhou army in armored guarded the attack of Cao's army, rushed to the city wall, and slashed at the Cao army that was surrounding and suppressed. Although they were quickly strangled, they continued to attack the Cao army's defense line and tore through the city wall.

After killing the soldiers of Jingzhou, Cao's army rushed down the ladder, but just now they emerged and were shot dead by the crossbowmen under the city.

Yu Jin wandered around with his sword, constantly killing the Jingzhou army that rushed up. It was the first time he was killed by the enemy at the beginning of the battle to defend the city. Cao's army, which was originally planned to rotate in the city, was also put on the wall by Yu Jin. Guan Yu's offensive was too fierce. If he still retained his remaining strength, he would probably not be able to defend it for a day.

At the same time, Yu Jin ordered people to move all the turbulent oil in the treasury to the city wall, and burn the damn ladders first.

Seeing that the defenders were constantly using tincture oil to burn the cloud ladder, Guan Yu frowned slightly, but there was no way. At this time, the cloud ladder could not be removed. He could only break the city before the other party burned the cloud ladder.

Not only the ladder, but even the rushing car was not spared. Dozens of pots of boiling tincture oil were thrown at the entrance of the city gate, and then a torch was thrown down. In an instant, the area of ​​the city gate became a sea of ​​fire. Many soldiers in Jingzhou screamed and kept rolling in the sea of ​​fire. The unpleasant burnt stinking began to spread on the battlefield. The city gate could not get close to it for a while. Yu Jin even led his personal guards to kill the Jingzhou army that rushed up the city wall.

The war was fought from morning to evening, and Guan Yu was somewhat unwilling to withdraw his troops and return to the camp. Fifty ladders were burned and the soldiers were damaged by 3,000. Fancheng was unable to fight in one battle. However, Guan Yu could feel that perhaps the more efforts, Fancheng could be broken. However, without the ladders, Guan Yu could only order people to transfer fifty ladders to cross the river. At the same time, he ordered craftsmen to build more ladders overnight. In Fancheng, if this is the case, Xiangyang, the remaining two hundred ladders would not be enough.

Seeing the Jingzhou army retreating like a tide, Yu Jin stood at the top of the city in a daze. After a long time, he sat on the ground along the enemy building as if exhausted. The blood on the ground had dried up and it was very uncomfortable to sit on it, but he didn't want to move at this moment. In just one day, the defenders were more than half lost. Next... how can they defend?
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