On his way back to Jiangling, Guan Yu was ambushed by Lü Meng and was defeated.
At the same time, Jiangling's guard, Dr.
Ren, surrendered to Wu.
Having lost his retreat and cut off his food and fodder, Guan Yu was forced to retreat to Dangyang south of Daba Mountain.
Immediately afterwards, Lu Meng took advantage of the situation and captured Yiling to the west of Dangyang.
At this point, Guan Yu was surrounded by the armies of Soochow on the three sides to the southeast and west, and to the north were the wild mountains that no one could cross.
Even in the 20th century, this wild mountain was still the primeval forest area of Shennongjia that no one could cross on foot.
Even if Guan Yu had wings, he could fly over these mountains and reach Fangling and Shangyong, the areas controlled by Lu Bu.
In Maicheng, Guan Yu stood blankly at the head of the city, and it began to rain continuously in the sky.
A large number of Wu Jun figures 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.
"Withdraw" Guan Yu only said one word.
"But the Wu army is already so close.
If we retreat, they will surely catch up with us.
Instead, we will have no city to rely on."
"We, father and son, will retreat with our own soldiers, while the rest of the soldiers will continue to defend Maicheng," Guan Yu responded.
Guan Ping nodded after hearing this, there was no other way.
Guan Yu's dozen cavalry quietly escaped from Maicheng and headed west.
Guan Yu also hoped that there would not be many Wu troops in the direction of Yiling, so that he could pass through the Wu Jun defense zone in Yiling through the gap, and then enter the Badong Mountains, where he would still be able to meet up with Liu Bei, who still controlled half of Bashu.
However, they had only been walking west for less than two hours when they encountered a large group of Wu army cavalry, at least five hundred in number.
The other party apparently also discovered them and chased after them.
Seeing that the disparity between the enemy and ourselves was too great, Guan Yu and Guan Ping adjusted their horses and ran northward.
The Wu army pursued them, but Guan Yu and Guan Ping abandoned their horses and went into the barren mountains and old forests.
After entering the deep mountains and old forests, Guan Yu and Guan Ping soon lost their way and could only distinguish the southeast, northwest and northwest.
Guan Yu decided to keep heading west.
On the map, he could reach Badong County in Yizhou through the mountains and forests at the southern foot of the Daba Mountains for about two hundred miles.
But this is just marching on the map.
In fact, if this kind of foothill area is so easy to travel, Bashu will not need to connect with Jingzhou through Xiajiang.
After walking for seven or eight hours, Guan Yu and Guan Ping completely lost their way and were trapped in the deep mountains and old forests, wandering around.
Hungry and tired, Guan Yu and his son dragged their swords around in the forest in despair.
Fortunately, it was a sunny day the next day.
They didn't even need their swords and weapons.
They relied on the position of the sun to determine the direction of the south and staggered southward.
Guan Yu thought that they would either go to the edge of the Xiajiang River or return to the edge of the Jianghan Plain.
It would be better than starving to death in this old forest.
Suddenly, with a "clang" sound, Guan Yu's whole body sank to the ground.
"Father" Guan Ping exclaimed and rushed to the rescue.
A big net fell from the sky and trapped Guan Ping tightly, unable to move.
Several barks of dogs came from afar, and not long after, three disheveled men stepped out of the woods, holding large recurved compound bows and steel daggers at their waists.
They also held a hunting mastiff that kept barking.
These people are the heroic hunters Lu Bu deployed in the mountains south of Fangling.
Guan Yu and his son had unknowingly entered the uninhabited forest area of Daba Mountain.
Soochow captured Jingzhou and the news that Guan Yu was buried in the mountains spread throughout the world nearly a month later.
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The melee provoked by Guan Yu's Northern Expedition finally came to an end.
On the surface, the biggest winner of this melee was Sun Quan, but in fact it was Lu Bu.
Although Lu Bu only had the city of Xiangyang, the strategic significance of Xiangyang City was extraordinary, especially for Lu Bu. .
The biggest losers were Cao Cao and Liu Bei.
Cao Cao in Xudu had not eaten for a day, and the loss of Xiangyang meant that he had no chance of attacking Lu Bu from the Nanyang line.
Moreover, after losing Xiangyang as a fulcrum, he had to increase the deployment of troops in Wancheng and Rangcheng.
When Liu Bei, who was far away in Jiangzhou, received the news, his lips trembled with anger.
What he felt distressed was not Guan Yu, but Jingzhou, the foundation he had spent most of his life to acquire.
Zhuge Liang on the side was even more worried and his pressure increased sharply.
If he fails in the subsequent war with Lu Bu, he will only end up in defeat without even a way out.
For this year, Zhuge Liang trained his troops day and night, surveyed the terrain of Dongchuan, and prepared for the decisive battle that would come at any time.
However, Lu Bu did not launch an attack on Dongchuan for a long time.
Instead, he calmly managed Xichuan, cultivated fields extensively, and built a large number of ships on the Jialing River and Minjiang River.
The unexpected outbreak of the Battle of Xiangyang ensured that Cao Cao and Sun Quan would not be able to attack Lu Bu from other directions in a short period of time.
This is the confidence that Lu Bu is not afraid of the protracted war between Bashu and Bashu.
But Yan Yan and Wei Yan, who were still locked in the east and west camps, couldn't afford it.
They were running out of food, and there was no news of reinforcements.
Several efforts were made to break out of the encirclement, but in the face of Lu Bu's army's solid fortifications, they all lost troops and returned without success.
Even if there was no food problem, the more than a year-long siege would drive people crazy, and the Shu troops in the two camps became increasingly demoralized.
"Kill!"
Wei Yan, who was wearing double heavy armor, waved his double swords and shouted loudly.
Two thousand carefully selected soldiers behind him followed closely and attacked the inner wall of Lu Bu's army's ring camp.
The arrows were still coming like a storm, mixed with stone projectiles and explosive projectiles fired by light ballistae.
Encouraged by Wei Yanshen's leading soldiers, the elite soldiers of the Shu army charged forward with their shields in spite of their casualties.
Some of them were hit in the face by arrows or fell to the ground on all fours, some had their heads smashed or their shields cracked by stone bullets, and some were set on fire by the flames of explosive bombs.
In the end, 1,300 or 400 people rushed to the scene.
In front of the trench.
This trench had long been filled in during previous attacks.
Dozens of big men holding giant axes and wearing double heavy armor stepped out from behind the shields.
They were going to chop down the wooden fence of Lu Bu's camp.
The axes in their hands were made by craftsmen in the army ordered by Wei Yan to smelt discarded weapons and then make them in the military camp.
At this time, the Mo Dao soldiers thrust out rows of long knives from the gaps between the thick logs.
The double armor on the big men could not withstand the puncture of the sharp Mo Dao, and they fell to the ground one after another.
The arrows fired from behind the gaps and from the towers also focused on these axe-wielding warriors.
Accompanied by pitiful cries and howls, these axe-wielding men were killed one by one.
Seeing this, some Shu soldiers dropped their weapons and picked up the axes dropped by these big men.
They swung their axes to chop at the wooden fence, but they couldn't handle these special axes.
A soldier swung his ax with all his strength and struck a fence log.
The ax blade cut into half a foot.
As he struggled to pull the ax out, an arrow instantly pierced his body.
Wei Yan, who was at the forefront, saw all this and did not want to make any more unnecessary sacrifices, so he ordered a retreat.
A few days later, Wei Yan surrendered to Lu Bu because he no longer wanted to carry it on for Liu Bei.
Three months later, Yan Yan, who had run out of food and supplies, was forced to surrender to Lu Bu
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