The Rebirth of Lu Bu in the Legend of the Heroes of the Later Han Dynasty

Both Cao Cao and Lu Bu were working hard to unify the world, but the Jiangdong nobles south of the Yangtze River only wanted to separate themselves. They did not want to unify. For hundreds of years, the Jiangdong nobles have always regarded themselves as Chu people. They wanted to capture Jingzhou and Jiaozhou and connect the three states into one, which would be equivalent to regaining the old land of Chu.

Sun Quan was also a conservative lord. He did not have the courage to open up territories like his father Sun Jian and his brother Sun Ce. The balance between the military generals of the Huaisi faction and the civil servants headed by the Jiangdong gentry was an issue he was dedicated to solving.

The soldiers in Jiangdong, in addition to the Danyang veterans who followed Sun Ce, are also local soldiers contributed by the Jiangdong gentry. There are also conflicts between the soldiers of these two factions. The current commander-in-chief of the army is Zhou Yu. His extraordinary talents can cover up these contradictions. Once Zhou Yu is gone in the future, these contradictions will explode.

It took three months to build all the warships. Zhou Yu also collected 100,000 shi of grain from Jianye. If officials from the Jiangdong faction collected the grain, it would only take half a month to collect the grain. The Jiangdong gentry still squeezed out the Huaisi faction. general, even though Zhou Yu is now Sun Quan's brother-in-law.

Zhou Yu led his generals to burn incense and pray to heaven, and then swore to go out for battle. Three hundred Jiangdong warships appeared on the water of the Yangtze River, and their flags covered the sky and the sun for a while.

Jiangxia's navy was also preparing for the first battle of its life. Zhou Cang took fifty Jingzhou warships as the vanguard and fought with Jiangdong's navy on the Yangtze River. Both sides shot at each other, causing damage to each other. Although the Jingzhou warship was small, But the speed is fast. Although the Jiangdong warships are large, they move more clumsily than the Jingzhou warships. Although the Jiangdong navy won the first battle, it did not cause much damage to the Jingzhou navy. All fifty Jingzhou warships returned successfully. To Xiakou.

Zhou Cang reported the strengths and weaknesses of the Jingzhou navy to Guan Yu one by one. Guan Yu stroked his beautiful beard and thought about how to deal with it.

There are 30,000 Jiangdong naval forces, and the Xiakou garrison is only 3,000. This is not a simple battle of one against ten, but more like an egg hitting a stone, but how can Guan Yunchang, who is so powerful in the world, admit defeat? He asked Zhou Cang to select a hundred soldiers with excellent water skills, dive into the water, and drill through the bottom of the Jiangdong warship. Then he asked Guan Ping and Liao Hua to take all the warships to fight against the enemy. The situation cannot be seen clearly with the naked eye, and it can almost be confused with the real thing.

After completing the strategic deployment, Guan Yu personally rushed to Jiangxia and asked Liu Bei to send troops to help.

At this time, Liu Bei was leading his army to fight with Cai Mao's army in Xinye. Although Xinye is a small city, it connects Jiangxia, Xiangyang, and Fancheng, and is considered a strategic location in Jingzhou. Otherwise, Cai Mao would not have led the defense in person. His plan had succeeded. At this time, Liu Biao had already gone west. Cai Mao helped Liu Cong become the governor of Jingzhou and personally led 50,000 troops from the four counties. Prevent Liu Bei's army from going north.

Zhang Fei was like a god of war when dealing with Cai Mao's subordinates. He killed eighteen generals under Cai Mao in one day, including Cai Zhong and Cai He. No one could be Zhang Fei's enemy together.

After Cai Mao lost several battles in a row, he withdrew his troops from Fancheng to await reinforcements from the imperial court.

When Guan Yu returned to Jiangxia, he saw the county governor's mansion was covered in white silk and white cloth. After questioning, he found out that Liu Qi had died of illness. Guan Yu remembered that when he first came to Jingzhou, Liu Qi was still a handsome young man, but he passed away a few years later. All this was done by his elder brother Liu Bei. Guan Yu couldn't help but doubt his true intentions. Was it the right choice to leave Cao Cao and choose Liu Bei? His brother has become an out-and-out hypocrite.

After some inner struggle, Guan Yu finally chose to continue to follow Liu Bei. After all, it was more in line with his sense of loyalty to follow Liu Bei.

Liu Feng, who was stationed in Jiangxia, was constantly recruiting civilian men and building siege equipment. Except for Hebei, all civilian men in the world were doing corvee work for free, and they had to prepare their own food, because the food was supplied to the army.

When Guan Yu saw Liu Feng whipping the civilians, he couldn't bear it and said, "Feng'er, why do you need to build so many ordnances? Could it be that the battle on the front line is anxious."

Liu Feng saluted Guan Yu and said, "I pay homage to my second uncle. I have been ordered by my adoptive father to build a hundred siege ladders within three days for the purpose of attacking Fancheng."

Guan Yu said, "That's it. My eldest brother has always been benevolent and righteous. It's better for my nephew not to harm the people of Jiangxia."

Seeing what Guan Yu said, Liu Feng asked his soldiers to stop beating the civilians, and thousands of people knelt on the ground to thank Guan Yu for saving their lives.

Outside Fan City, Liu Bei's army continued to attack the city, but without good results. Instead, they suffered heavy losses. When Liu Bei was worrying about how to break the city, military advisor Pang Tong arrived.

Previously, Pang Tong returned to Nanyang and incited the Nanyang nobles to resist Cai Mao, which achieved certain results. The Nanyang nobles began to stop supplying food and grass to Cai Mao's army. After completing this, Pang Tong returned to Liu Bei and brought a plan to destroy the city.

Liu Bei asked, "What clever plan does the military advisor have to break the city?"

Pang Tong took out an animal skin with his newly drawn map on it. Pang Tong pointed to the map and said, "Look, my lord, Fancheng is low-lying and near the Han River. In a few days, it will be the rainy season in Jingzhou, and there will be heavy rains for ten consecutive days." In a few days, the lord only needs to send troops to dig ravines, divert the Han River from the Hekou River into Fancheng, and then Fancheng will collapse without attack."

Liu Bei nodded and kept praising this plan as a wonderful one, so Liu Bei ordered the army to stop attacking the city and dig canals instead.

When Cai Mao saw that Liu Bei's army had stopped attacking the city, he judged that Liu Bei's food supply was insufficient and was preparing to retreat. Moreover, the rainy season was coming for more than ten days. He did not want to suffer this, so he left Zhang Yun to guard Fancheng while Cai Mao returned to Xiangyang.

The rainy season arrived as expected, and the torrential rains for more than ten consecutive days caused the water of the Han River to rise five to six feet high. In one night, the torrential river water poured into Fan City along the Hekou River, directly breaking through the city gate, and the 50,000 Fan City defenders became Hundreds of thousands of people in Fancheng lost their homes.