After returning to the city, Guan Yu ordered Guan Ping: "Immediately send people to our arsenal in Hengli to bring rush vehicles, ladders and other supplies to the front line. Guan will attack Fancheng in the near future and capture Er Xu alive."
When it comes to the ability to command troops, Guan Yu is quite impressive. Historically, the Cao Wei Group's evaluation of the Shu Han Group was in eight words: Shu, a small country, and the famous general Wei Yu.
It can be said that in the eyes of Cao Wei's officials, all the generals of the three armies of Shu from top to bottom are worthless, but Guan Yu is the only one to speak out, which shows that even if they are the opposite, the Cao Wei group cannot deny Guan Yu's ability to use troops.
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There is no doubt that Guan Yu was highly skilled in martial arts. In terms of military skills, he was also a great figure in the late Han Dynasty. He flooded seven armies and captured Pang De. The battle was indeed beautiful.
But in this era, Guan Yu's talent development was restricted due to the butterfly effect, so his fame did not rise. However, the actual situation was not like this.
Today, Liu Bei has become a prominent figure in Jingzhou, and Guan Yu's status has naturally risen. He finally has the time to display his skills. At this moment, he is like a new sword that has just been sharpened, extremely sharp, and eager to
Irrigated with blood.
For Guan Yu, he is bound to win this time in Fancheng.
The young Guan Ping remonstrated: "Father, I see that the city of Fancheng is equipped with a large number of bows and crossbows. If we only rely on rams and ladders to attack, I am afraid that the losses will be considerable. The enemy will be injured one thousand times, and oneself will lose eight hundred."
This is definitely not the best thing to do.”
Guan Yu stroked his three strands of long beard and said: "What my son said is reasonable, but don't worry, my father has also considered this matter. Our army can first send people to pile up a mountain of earth outside Fancheng, and also set up archers on it.
Suppress the strong bows and crossbows on the top of Fancheng City. Nowadays, repeating crossbows are no longer the specialty of the pottery merchants. Our army has also made them extensively, and equipped them with charging chariots and throwing stones to attack them. I believe it will not last three days.
You can go down to Fancheng."
Guan Ping nodded suddenly and turned around to prepare, but Chen Dao stopped him from beside him: "Wait a moment, Major General. This matter may not be so troublesome."
Guan Yu turned to look at Chen Dao: "What did Uncle Zhi mean?"
Chen Dao said to Guan Yu: "Today I was shouting with Xu Rong outside the city, and I found that this person seems to be very concerned about the fact that he was disgraced by Sun Ce. This matter may be a weakness of his."
Guan Yu's hand stroking his beard suddenly stopped, and his Danfeng eyes slowly narrowed.
Chen Dao was also a famous Shu Han general in history. His reputation was not inferior to that of Zhao Yun, and he was by no means an ordinary person in terms of ability.
Guan Yu looked at Chen Dao and said: "If this matter is really what my uncle and nephew said, then it will be easy to handle. Do you want to use the method of provoking the general?"
Chen Dao nodded and said, "You might as well give it a try."
Guan Yu stood up, walked back and forth in the commander's tent, and said, "It's just that Xu Rong was also a famous general after all. How could he fall into the trap so easily?"
Chen Dao chuckled and said: "So what about a famous general? He has weaknesses and pain points, so there is no reason not to fall into the trap! So what is the reason why Xu Rong has been wearing a mask for more than ten years? It's not to hide his shame! For more than ten years
Come on, I haven’t taken off the mask yet, so I’ve made it clear that I still care.”
"That makes sense!" Guan Yu paused and sighed: "In that case, uncle, I will trouble you to do this!"
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The next day, Xu Rong was inspecting the city when he saw Jingzhou troops fighting in a large row below the city wall, shouting and cursing at the city.
When the two armies are fighting, it is a very common way to provoke the other side to come out of the city and fight, and to send troops and yell at each other. There is nothing unusual about it.
But the key is to see what kind of curses the person who curses can come up with.
Xu Rong stood on the city, but after listening for a while, his lungs almost exploded with anger.
The Jingzhou army under the city made it clear that it was intentional and their words were disrespectful!
There are endless personal attacks such as "The one-eyed general, the disfigured hero Sun Ce, and the defeated ugly man from the northwest" and so on.
To Xu Rong's ears, these words were much more unpleasant to hear than "a common man" or something like that.
Xu Rong gritted his teeth angrily and punched the wall with a heavy fist. The skin of his fist was scratched and blood flowed out.
He turned around and seemed to be leaving the city again.
But Xu Huang was following him, and when he saw this, he quickly stopped him.
"Brother, what are you going to do?"
Xu Rong snorted heavily and said: "That army bullied us too much. I must go out of the city today to kill the Guan Yu dog thief with my own hands!"
Xu Huang comforted him and said: "The general is usually good at using troops and is proficient in battle formations. Why can't he see Guan Yu's deceitful intentions? Seeing that Fancheng is strong, he wants to lure the general out of the city. The general is a sensible general, so why can't he bear it? Those bad words he said?"
Xu Rong gritted his teeth and said: "How can I not understand the truth? It's just that the person who said it is not you. How can you understand the feelings in it?"
Xu Huang didn't understand Xu Rong's feelings, but he understood that even if Xu Rong was angry again, he couldn't let him out.
After such a tug-of-war that dragged on for a while, Xu Rong still failed to turn around Xu Huang and gave up the idea of leaving the city for the time being.
The problem is that in the next few days, the Jingzhou army yelled and cursed at the city gate every day, and they kept poking at Xu Rong's pain points in different ways.
Fortunately, Xu Huang stopped him, otherwise Xu Rong would have rushed out long ago.
Xu Huang was very tired these days. While holding Xu Rong back, he also had to inspect the city. In his spare time, he also had to work as a psychiatrist to help Xu Rong's mental illness.
But no matter what, after Xu Huang's enlightenment, Xu Rong's heart calmed down a lot, and he was not so angry at the personal shouting and curses directed at him under the tower, at least he would not go out to fight impulsively.
Xu Huang finally felt relieved and began to prepare for the city with peace of mind.
But omissions happened anyway.
On this day, Xu Huang finished counting the rice warehouses in the city and was very sleepy. He just returned to his residence and wanted to take a nap, but a school captain rushed over and said to him: "General Xu, something happened!"
As soon as he heard these three words, Xu Huang couldn't help but feel excited all over. He felt no sleepiness at all, and an uneasy feeling came to his mind.
"What happened?"
The general swallowed hard and said to Xu Huang: "General Xu led his troops out of the city to confront the Jingzhou Army!"
Xu Huang suddenly felt like the world was spinning.
He calmed down and thought to himself: That's not right. He has been enlightening Xu Rong every day these days. He doesn't seem to care much about the personal abuses directed at him in the city. Why would he still leave the city?
Could it be that I saw it wrong?
Xu Huang looked at the deputy general and said, "Jingzhou Army scolded again?"
The deputy general said tremblingly: "No, no."
Xu Huang frowned and asked in confusion: "How could General Xu leave the city without scolding him?"
The deputy general sighed: "The Jingzhou Army changed their methods today. They no longer abused General Xu, but started a show not far from the city."
"What drama?"
"The Jingzhou soldiers formed a team of two, with one playing the role of Sun Ce and the other playing the role of General Xu. They repeatedly acted out the scene below the city where Sun Ce stabbed General Xu to death in Bianshui."
Not to mention Xu Rong, Xu Huang's lungs couldn't help but explode with anger when he heard this.