On the way back to Jiangling, Guan Yu was ambushed by Lu Meng and was defeated. At the same time, Jiangling's guard Doctor Ren had surrendered to Wu. Guan Yu, who had lost his way of retreat and had his food and grass, was forced to retreat to Dangyang south of Daba Mountain. Then Lu Meng took advantage of the situation to seize Yiling west of Dangyang.

At this point, Guan Yu had the army of the Eastern Wu on the east and west sides, and to the north was a wild mountain that no one could cross. Even in the 20th century later, this wild mountain was still a primeval forest area of ​​Shennongjia that no one could cross on foot. Even if Guan Yu had two wings, he could fly over these numerous mountains and then he could reach the areas controlled by Lu Bu - Fangling and Shangyong.

In Maicheng, Guan Yu stood blankly at the top of the city, and rain fell in the sky again. A large number of Wu soldiers appeared in the distance. "Father, where should we go now? If we stick to Maicheng, we will be trapped by the enemy." Guan Ping asked worriedly.

"Retreat!" Guan Yu only said one word.

"But the Wu army is so close. Once we retreat, they will definitely be caught up by them, and there is no city to rely on."

"Just let us father and son take our personal soldiers to retreat, and the rest of the soldiers continued to defend Maicheng," Guan Yu responded again.

Guan Ping nodded after hearing this. There was no way. Guan Yu had a dozen cavalry escaped from Maicheng quietly and headed west. Guan Yu also expected that there were not many Wu troops in the direction of Yiling, so that he could pass through the Wu army defense zone in Yiling from the gap and then enter the Badong mountainous area, so that he could meet with Liu Bei, who still controlled half of Bashu.

But they had only walked west for less than two hours, and they encountered a large Wu army cavalry, at least 500 cavalry. The other party obviously found them and chased them head-on. When Guan Yu saw that the gap between the enemy and us was too great, he transferred his horse to the north with Guan Ping. The Wu army chased him reluctantly, and only went to Guan Yu and Guan Ping abandoning their horses and drilling into the barren mountains and forests.

Guan Yu and Guan Ping, who entered the deep mountains and forests, got lost shortly after, and could only identify the southeast, northwest and north. Guan Yu decided to go west all the way. On the map, you could reach Badong County in Yizhou by passing through the forest about two hundred miles of the southern foot of the Daba Mountains.

But this is just a march on the map. In fact, if this foothills is so easy to walk, Bashu will not have to connect through the Xiajiang River and Jingzhou. After walking for seven or eight hours, Guan Yu and Guan Ping were completely lost and trapped in the deep mountains and forests and started to make a turn. The hungry and tired Guan Yu and his son were dragging their swords and colliding in the mountains and forests.

Fortunately, the next day was a sunny day, and they didn't even need big swords and weapons. They relied on the direction of the sun to determine the direction of the south and staggered south. Guan Yu thought [they would either walk to the edge of the Gorges River or return to the edge of the Jianghan Plain, which would be better than starving to death in this old forest.]

Suddenly, with a "bang", Guan Yu fell to the ground. "Father!" Guan Ping exclaimed and rushed to rescue. A large net fell from the sky, holding Guan Ping firmly, unable to move. A few dog barkings came from the distance. Soon, three disheveled people stepped out of the woods, holding a large reflexive bow in their hands, a steel dagger inserted into their waists, and a barking hunting mastiff in their hands. These people were the hero hunters deployed by Lu Bu in the mountain area south of Fangling. Guan Yu and his son had unknowingly entered the unmanned forest area of ​​Daba Mountain.

The news that the Eastern Wu conquered Jingzhou and Guan Yu was buried in the mountains spread all over the world nearly a month later. The melee provoked by Guan Yu's Northern Expedition finally came to an end. The biggest winner of this melee was Sun Quan on the surface, but in fact it was Lu Bu. Although Lu Bu had only one city in Xiangyang, the strategic significance of Xiangyang City was not a response, especially for Lu Bu.

The biggest losses were Cao Cao and Liu Bei. Cao Cao from Xudu did not eat for a day, and Xiangyang's loss meant that he had no chance to break through Lu Bu from the Nanyang line. Moreover, after losing the fulcrum of Xiangyang, he would have to increase his troops in Wancheng and Rangcheng areas.

After Liu Bei, who was far away in Jiangzhou, got the news, his lips were trembling with anger. It was not Guan Yu who felt distressed, but Jingzhou, the foundation he had spent most of his life to gain. Zhuge Liang on the side was even more worried and his pressure increased sharply. If he failed in the war with Lu Bu in the later war, he would have to end up losing and not even have a way out.

Over the past year, Zhuge Liang trained his troops day and night, surveyed the terrain of Dongchuan, and prepared for a decisive battle that would come at any time. However, Lu Bu was reluctant to launch an attack on Dongchuan, but instead managed Xichuan with peace of mind, widely farmed farms, and built a large number of ships in the Jialing River and Minjiang River.

The unexpected outbreak of the Xiangyang Battle ensured that Cao Cao and Sun Quan could not attack Lu Bu from other directions in a short period of time. This was Lu Bu's confidence that he was not afraid of the long-lasting battle between Bashu. However, Yan Yan and Wei Yan, who were still locked in the east and west camps, could not afford it.

Their food was almost exhausted, and the reinforcements didn't even have any news. They had made several efforts to break through, but in the face of the solid fortifications of Lu Bu's army, they all lost their troops and returned in vain. Even if there was no food problem, the siege that lasted more than a year would make people crazy, and the Shu army in the two camps became increasingly depressed.

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"Kill!" Wei Yan, wearing double armor, waved his swords and shouted loudly. The two thousand carefully selected elite soldiers followed him and attacked the inner wall of the circular camp of Lu Bu's army.

As usual, arrows were shot like a storm, mixed with stone bombs and fire bombs fired by light crossbows. The elite soldiers of the Shu army rushed forward with casualties and with their shields under the encouragement of Wei Yan. Some of them were shot into the door or fell to the ground by arrows, some were smashed into their heads or their shields by stone bombs, and some were burned by the flames of the fire bombs. In the end, one thousand three to four hundred people rushed to the front of the trench.

This trench had long been filled in previous attacks. Dozens of big men holding giant axes and wearing double armors stepped out from behind the shield. They were going to cut down the wooden fences of Lubu camp. The axes in their hands were created by Wei Yan's craftsmen in the army after smelting abandoned weapons.

At this time, the Mo Dao soldiers stabbed rows of long swords from the gap between the thick logs, and the double armor on the big men could not resist the puncture of the sharp Mo Dao, and they all fell to the ground. The arrows fired from behind the gap and the tower were also concentrated on these axe-holding men.

Accompanied by screams and screams, these big men with axe were killed one by one. Some Shu army soldiers saw this and threw away their weapons, picked up the big axes dropped by these big men and slashed them at the wooden fence, but they couldn't play with these special big axes.

A soldier used his strength to swing a big axe and slashed it on a fence log. The axe blade was half a foot wide. He was trying hard to pull out the axe, and an arrow instantly pierced his body.
Chapter completed!