Three Kingdoms

Chapter 21
Sun Quan received a letter from Cao Cao and also decided to attack Jingzhou.Sun Quan asked his subordinates how to capture Jingzhou.Zhuge Jin said: "Guan Yu has a daughter who is not yet married. The lord's son can marry Guan Yu's daughter. If Guan Yu agrees to this marriage, he will unite with Western Shu to attack Cao Cao, and if he does not agree, he will attack Jingzhou." Sun Quan thought this was a good idea. , sent Zhuge Jin to Jingzhou to meet Guan Yu.

Guan Yu scolded Zhuge Jin.Zhuge Jin had no choice but to tell Sun Quan verbatim about the meeting with Guan Yu.Sun Quan immediately joined forces with Cao Cao to attack Guan Yu.

Cao Cao ordered Cao Ren to prepare for battle.Cao Ren was stationed in Fancheng and was about to send troops to attack Guan Yu. Unexpectedly, Guan Yu led his army to attack Fancheng first.Guan Yu defeated Cao Ren and captured Xiangyang City.Cao Ren had no choice but to retreat to Fancheng.He hurriedly sent someone to ask Cao Cao for help.

Cao Cao hastily sent Yu Jin as the vanguard and Pang De as the deputy general to rescue Cao Ren with a large number of soldiers from the Seventh Army.

Pang De and Guan Yu were fighting fiercely. Fearing that Pound would lose the first prize, Yu Jin immediately ordered gold to withdraw his troops. Pang De regretted it very much.

Guan Yu took advantage of the heavy rain in August and stationed troops on the Xiangjiang River.When the tide rose, Guan Yu ordered the army to attack.Guan Yu's army rode warships from the upstream to the downstream of the forbidden soldiers.The flood submerged Yu Jin's Seventh Army, and Guan Yu defeated Cao Bing.He was captured alive and beheaded Pound.

At this time, Fancheng was also besieged by floods.Cao Ren refused to surrender.Guan Yu went to the city to challenge him, but Cao Bing shot him in the right arm with an arrow.Guan Yu went to attack Cao Ren regardless of his life.General Guan Pingping stopped him and asked him to recover from his arrow wound before attacking.At this time, the famous doctor Hua Tuo came to visit, and he specially came to treat Guan Yu's arrow wound.

Hua Tuo was afraid that Guan Yu could not bear the pain, so he wanted to tie Guan Yu to the tree stump with a rope.But Guan Yu refused.He stretched out his right arm while playing chess with his subordinate Ma Liang while letting Hua Tuo scrape his bones to heal his injuries.After Hua Tuo healed Guan Yu's arrow wound, he admired Guan Yu's bravery.

Cao Cao adopted Sima Yi's strategy: invite Sun Quan to send troops to attack Guan Yu. If Sun Quan defeats Guan Yu, not only will all Jingzhou territory belong to Sun Quan, but Jiangnan will also be ceded to Soochow.Cao Cao then sent Xu Huang as the vanguard to resist Guan Yu.Xu Huang led [-] troops to station at Yanglingpo.Xu Huang only waited for the battle between Wu and Shu, and immediately sent troops to attack the Shu army as soon as Guan Yu was defeated.

Sun Quan ordered Lu Meng to be a general and lead the army to attack Jingzhou.Lu Meng used Lu Xun's trick to trick Guan Yu into relaxing his vigilance.Lu Meng led his troops to sneak into Jingzhou late at night, and captured Jingzhou in one go.

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