Fancheng.

In the lobby of the military palace, Cao Cao frowned and discussed with the civil and military officials how to deal with Yuan Fang.

Just then, Cao Pixi hurried in and bowed, "Report to his father, Xinye has received good news. His son Xiaoshu used the strategy of subduing Wan to defeat Yuan Fangxiang's troops with fire, and greatly defeated the morale of the enemy."

After hearing this news, Cao Cao was immediately overjoyed, his originally frowning brows and smiled.

The civil and military officials in the lobby were also energetic, and the heavy atmosphere in the hall became much easier because of this good news.

"This elephant soldier is indeed afraid of fire. Yuan Fang won every battle. This time, he finally suffered a loss." Pang Tong nodded slightly, showing some relief.

Cao Cao laughed, and a smile appeared on his brown face, and his confidence reappeared.

"It seems that the myth of Yuan Thief's invincibility has finally been broken. Zixiao is truly worthy of being the number one general of my Cao family. I really didn't expect that Fu Wan, who came to surrender, could come in handy."

This long-lost victory greatly boosted Cao Cao's confidence and became a little energetic.

Just as Cao Cao and his son, the king and his ministers were feeling very pleased, another personal army hurriedly entered and bowed: "Report to the king, Xinye City has just been reported to him, Xinye City has been lost."

"What!" Cao Cao exclaimed, his face full of pride, and the ice disintegration instantly collapsed.

In the lobby, everyone from Pang Tong was mutiny.

Cao Cao was shocked, extremely shocked, even incredible.

Just a moment ago, he had just received Cao Ren's good news and had just enjoyed the joy of defeating Yuan Fang.

The next second, Xinye disappeared, and all his compassion was ruthlessly shattered by Yuan Fang.

Cao Cao was surprised and could not believe that Cao Ren had defeated Yuan Fang's elephant soldiers, but in a blink of an eye, he defeated Yuan Fang Xinye.

"How did Yuan Thief break Xinye? Where is the filial son? Where is Fu Wanren?" Cao Cao shouted loudly in shock.

The personal soldiers then reported the bad news that Yuan Fang shot Cao Ren with an arrow in the fog of wolf smoke, and then took advantage of the cruel fact that the Xinye defenders' morale collapsed and broke the city, and captured Wan alive and beheaded on the spot, and said in a trembling voice.

There was endless thriller in the lobby.

"Zi Xiaohe...he was shot and killed by Yuan Fang?"

Cao Cao was petrified and his face was pale as paper, and endless fear and resentment gushed in his eyes.

After Xiahou Yuan, Cao Hong, Cao Xiu, Cao Chun and Cao Zhang, even Cao Ren, the number one general of the Cao family, was killed by Yuan Fang!?

Xiahou Dun and Cao Ren are different from other relatives. These two are Cao Cao's right-hand man.

Now, one of his arms was beheaded by Yuan Fang.

Moreover, it was cut down for no reason.

Cao Cao never dreamed that Yuan Fang could shoot his No. 1 general through the fog of wolf smoke and mist with an arrow that was unpredictable to gods and ghosts.

"Yuan Fang, ah--"

Cao Cao, who was extremely frightened and angry, had his blood and blood rolled. In anger, he shouted to the sky and squirted blood wildly. Then he fainted.

"Father~~"

"Master~~"

In the lobby, there was an unprecedented horror.

It took a long time to fill the water and pinch the people. After a while, Cao Cao woke up quietly.

"Yuan Thief, I want to take revenge. I want to avenge my son's filial piety~~"

Cao Cao gritted his teeth and his face was as pale as paper, and sometimes gloomy as iron, and he was endless.

"Shiyuan Military Advisor. Shinye has been lost. What should we do now?"

After a while, Cao Cao finally woke up from his anger and remembered how to face this cruel fact.

Pang Tong pondered for a while, sighed helplessly: "Xinye is now lost, and Yuan Fang is very likely to be on the way to Fancheng. With our army's current strength, Fancheng cannot be defended. If you stay here, you will definitely be the one who will be the one who will be the one who will be the one who will be the one who will be the one who will be the one who will be the one who will be the one who will be the one who will be the one who will be the one who will be the one who will be the one who will be the one who will be the one who will be the one who will be the one who will be the one who will be the one who will be the one who will be the one who will be the one who will be the one who will be the one who will be the one who will be the one who will be the one who will be the one who will be the one who will be the one who will be the one who will be the one who will be the one who will be the one who will be the one who will be the one who will be the one who will be the one

In the view of the rule of law, the lord should quickly abandon Fancheng and retreat to the south bank. Relying on the danger of the Han River, and relying on our superior naval army to block Yuan Fang's army."

After a long silence, Cao Cao had no choice but to order Cai Mao, Nan'an, and ordered him to lead a naval warship to quickly come and pick up his army to cross the south.

...

The next day, at sunset, tens of thousands of Cao troops had crossed the river and climbed the water camp on the south bank.

Cao Cao was the last one to step onto the pier and looked at Fancheng who had given up on the north bank, with unwillingness flashing on his face.

"Don't worry, with me, Cai Mao, there is a million troops in Yuan, you can't even cross the Han River." Cai Mao, the governor of the navy, who came up, spoke loudly, with a proud look on his face.

Cao Cao's Jingzhou naval army was divided into two branches, one was the Xiangyang naval army and the other was the Jiangling naval army.

Cai Mao was well-versed in the naval army and was Cao Cao's old friend. He was born into the Cai clan of Jingxiang, and now he has become his brother-in-law. Cao Cao naturally handed over the 10,000 naval army in Xiangyang to Cai Mao.

"Degui, the survival of Xiangyang, the safety of your sister and I depend on you." Cao Cao said earnestly.

Cai Mao raised his head, patted his chest, and said proudly: "Don't worry, lord, Yuan Fang's minions are just helping the ducks, so he will be crazy on the land. If he dares to go into the water, Cai will capture him alive.

I offer revenge to the Lord’s Commodity.”

This is a well-known fact that Yuan Fang has no naval army.

Looking at the battleships of his army in the Han River and listening to Cai Mao’s bold words, Cao Cao then relaxed, and a hint of relief finally showed on his gloomy face.

After sending Cai Mao away, Cao Cao got on his horse and headed straight to Hanchang. Halfway through the road, he suddenly remembered something of concern.

So, Cao Cao called his second son Cao Pi near and ordered: "Although our army has the benefits of the navy, Xiangyang has been threatened after all. Pier, you can move all the famous families near Xiangyang to Jiangling for a while.

Avoid, just in case.”

The support of the powerful clans of Jingxiang was the foundation of Cao Cao's foothold in Jingzhou, and Xiangyang was the place where the great clans lived the most.

In order to prevent these aristocratic races from falling into the hands of Yuan Fang just in case, Cao Cao had to prepare in advance and move them all to Jiangling, which was further south.

"I understand, I'll do it now." Cao Pi's eyes rolled, and he understood Cao Cao's intention, and immediately said goodbye.

Cao Cao then breathed a sigh of relief, climbed to the heights of the dry land, and looked at the north shore from afar, and in his eyes, the cold hatred was burning again.

"Yuan Thief, the Battle of Xinye will be your last madness. This Han River. I tell you that it is hard to overcome."

...

Two days later, Yuan Fang led the victorious army and marched from Xinye to the front line of Fancheng.

Once Xinye was broken, Yuan Fang predicted that Cao Cao would abandon Fancheng, so he did not rush to send troops. Instead, he waited for more than 100,000 troops to arrive in Xinye and then rushed south.

The 250,000 large Qi cavalry easily captured the empty city of Fancheng, and reached the north shore of the Han River, with iron hooves, which were very likely to throw a whip and break the river.

"As long as you pass through this Han River, it will be the core of Jingzhou. Xiangyang is finally one step closer to my great cause of unifying the world."

Looking at the rolling Han River, Yuan Fang was full of energy and was filled with emotion.

However, it is not that easy to get through this Han River.

Seven days later. Fancheng Water Village.

In the central army tent, Yuan Fang stared at the information on the case and frowned.

It had been seven days since he captured Fancheng and his troops arrived at the Han River.

During these seven days, the Cai Mao Shui Army on the other side did not move at all and did not take the initiative to avenge Cao Ren.

This surprised Yuan Fang a little.

In Yuan Fang's original plan, Cai Mao would take the initiative to attack his water camp with his elite navy, and Yuan Fang would take advantage of the situation to lead Cai Mao to the ashore and kill him.

As long as Cai Mao and the Xiangyang navy were destroyed, Cao Cao would be unable to stop him from crossing the Han River.

But the fact is that Cai Mao remained silent, with more than 300 warships and more than 10,000 naval troops entrenched in the Nan'an Water Village. Apart from occasionally sending more than a dozen express ships and small-scale harassment, there was no sign of it.

Signs of active attack.

Only then did Yuan Fang realize that Cai Mao, a waste material, was indeed a bit worthwhile.

No wonder in the Romance of the Romance, when Zhou Yu heard that Cao Cao was commanding the navy with Cai Mao, he was very afraid and had to use a divisive plan to get rid of Cai Mao.

If Cai Mao did not take the bait, Yuan Fang could not take the initiative to launch an attack.

The reason is very simple. He had neither naval warships nor naval soldiers.

Since capturing Fancheng, Yuan Fang has requisitioned all the useful ships along the Han River coast and sent soldiers to build bamboo rafts. In seven days, nearly a thousand rafts have gathered.

But the biggest of his ships and rafts was not as big as the smallest raft of Cai Mao's naval army. If they were to sail on the Han River, they would fall apart by a lightly hit by the enemy's large ship, and they would have no use of any use.

Furthermore, although Yuan Fang's army of 250,000 was large, most of them were landslides. After getting on the boat and raft, they couldn't even stand firmly, so why not fight on the water?

Under all the adverse circumstances, Yuan Fang can only sigh at the water.

"Your Majesty, our army has neither warships nor water soldiers. The Han River cannot be ferried no matter what. If it does not ferry the Han River, there will be no question of pacifying Jingzhou. I think this battle of the southern expedition should be better.

It's time to close."

In front of the account, Fa Zheng analyzed the pros and cons and had to persuade Yuan Fang to withdraw his troops.

"Cough cough." Guo Jia simply said a few times and sighed: "What Xiaozhi said is not without reason. Anyway, the Han River cannot be crossed. It is better to withdraw the troops and let the soldiers rest and wait for winter to lower the level of the Han River.

After that, maybe it can make a comeback.”

Guo Jia also agreed to withdraw the troops, and the counselors on both sides nodded and followed each other.
To be continued...