However, Guan Yu did not intend to defend Fan City.
He understood that if Cao Cao used that thing that could explode and destroy the city walls again, the city would not be able to be defended.
The huge and thick city walls were like paper in front of Cao Wei's soldiers.
Although Guan Yu did not understand, he understood that Fan City could not be defended.
At this moment, he could only retreat.
In fact, if it was any other time, even if Guan Yu died in battle, he would definitely not turn around and run.
However, Liu Bei had given Guan Yu a death order.
Fan City was the focal point. Once Cao Cao's army attacked, it would be difficult to defend.
Therefore, as long as they could delay for a certain amount of time, Fan City would definitely not be able to be defended.
What they really needed to rely on was the alliance of the few cities behind them.
Only then would they be able to effectively resist Cao Cao's attacks.
After all, Jiangdong and Liu Bei's soldiers added up to more than 400,000!
With so many soldiers, it was not a joke.
With Zhuge Liang's advice, they had a way to form alliances.
It would not be that easy to break through these cities.
However, Liu Bei did not expect that. The first thing Cao Cao did after taking Fan City was not to rest and recuperate, nor to pursue the victory.
Instead, he stayed in place!
It was not for anything else, but to completely subdue Fan City!
There were only two things needed to subdue Fan City.
One was food. There was no doubt about that.
With food, the people of Fan City might choose to follow him.
As for the other, it was the highway.
Cao Cao had to wait for the roads to be built to Fan City before he considered the next step of the attack.
Only in this way could the supply of supplies come quickly, and they would not lose their advantage because the battle line was stretched out.
Moreover, since the roads were going to be built anyway, he might as well take advantage of the time to take down a city and assimilate it.
Otherwise, even if he took it down, without the support of the people, Liu Bei and Sun Quan would quickly counterattack.
Not to mention, the walls of Fan City needed to be repaired.
However, Cao Cao didn't expect that after sending out his troops for so long, only his own Fancheng would be taken down.
However, there wasn't much progress in other areas.
Jingnan's Huang Zhong, Chen Ping and Zhang Fei were extremely fierce. It was not easy to take down their city. Even if they had grenades, they were not afraid. Instead, they used all kinds of tactics to harass the Cao Army.
Lu Xun and Lu Meng of Jingnan were not ordinary people. They had many means to resist the enemy and delay the Cao Army.
Furthermore, the Dong Yue Wu generals would also arrive one after another with their troops. The situation was still very bad.
However, taking down the city was only a matter of time.
With grenades, it would be very difficult for them to rely on the city walls to defend the city.
Without the city walls, in terms of numbers and equipment, the Jiangdong Army was far inferior to the Liu Bei Army.
Anyway, Cao Cao had plenty of time.
After taking down all the cities, he would make some adjustments. This way, he would be able to attack both the city and the people.
That way, the city would not be taken in vain.
Moreover, Cao Cao wanted to take this opportunity to see how much stronger the Sun Liu Army had become.
Just as Cao Cao arrived at the governor's office in Fan City, Bai Feng's letter arrived.
This was Bai Feng's report on the situation of the Warring States.
"Good, good, good!"
"As expected of Sir. Ten thousand cavalry took down a Qiang commander's camp with a hundred thousand men!"
When Cao Cao saw the report, he was overjoyed.
At this moment, the generals present all laughed out loud.
However, there was one person who could not bring himself to laugh.
This person was Cao Pi, the General of the Five Organs of Cao Wei.
When Bai Feng was still in Xuchang, Cao Pi had decided to join forces with Cao Zhi to deal with Bai Feng first.
Who knew that Bai Feng did not even care about the recruitment and directly led his troops to the north to attack the Qiang people.
Their plan fell through.
Although the recruitment this year was good, Cao Cao did not see any god-level generals like Deng Ai and Jiang Wei.
This was because the recruitment this time was mostly civil servants, but most of them were from humble backgrounds.
Cao Cao was very satisfied with the results of this recruitment event.
At the very least, Cao Cao had achieved his goal.
Holding a recruitment event to recruit talents was just a facade.
Cao Cao's ultimate goal was the same as the first recruitment: to weaken the landowning households.
Although Bai Feng was not here at the moment, Cao Cao had also nurtured a few good trusted subordinates of humble origins.
They were all very eloquent and sharp-tongued.
Even many landowning households could not win against them.
Even Yang Xiu was unable to pick out the troubles of these poor disciples.
In fact, it was mainly Wei Emperor who supported them from behind.
Yang Xiu was a smart person and could naturally see this.
At this time, Cao Pi's expression was not good, but he could only put on a forced smile to cater to the various generals.
Even Cao Hong and Xu Chu, who were not on good terms with Bai Feng, could not help but praise him.
Ten thousand against a hundred thousand. Not only did they win, but they also destroyed a hundred thousand Qiang soldiers without any casualties!
This was no joke. Ten thousand against a hundred thousand, and they still had to destroy them without any casualties.
This was a fight on the level of gods.
Was Bai Feng really that powerful?
Cao Pi's killing intent rose again.
This Bai Feng must not be allowed to live!
Cao Pi.
He already had a feeling that Bai Feng would become his greatest rival.
With this kind of ability, even if he and Cao Zhi were to join forces, they would not be half of Bai Feng's value.
If this kind of person entered the Cao Family, Cao Cao might really pass the position to Bai Feng.
Even if he did not pass it to Bai Feng, he might pass it to Cao Jie, but the result would be the same.
The person in power in the future would probably be Bai Feng!
Cao Zhi and Cao Pi had been fighting since they were young.
What was the reason?
It was to inherit the throne!
No one would choose to give up on power.
With power, it was easy to get anything you wanted.
However, if Bai Feng took the throne, everything would be over.
Cao Pi was not stupid enough to think that Bai Feng did not know what he had done to him.
In any case, even if Bai Feng took the throne, he would not have a good ending like Cao Zhi.
The best ending would probably be to be given a territory and spend the rest of his life in a remote place.
Just like Liu Bian, King Hongnong.
However, Cao Pi still had ambition in his heart.
He had to fight for this opportunity.
If he did not, he would live in Bai Feng's shadow for the rest of his life.
He could only live if Bai Feng was happy. If Bai Feng was unhappy, although he would not die, he would not be much better off.
Therefore, from this moment on, Cao Pi had made up his mind.
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