Standing on the head of Dangyang City, you can see the rolling rice waves in the rice fields outside the city. The green and yellow rice waves are wafting with the wind, and if you take a deep breath, you will feel an inexplicable joy filling your heart.

However, this joy was quickly dispelled by the murderous enemy camp outside the city. Fan Chou looked at the enemy camp outside the city and frowned tightly.

The battle has been two days since. On the first day, Cao Cao did not attack desperately. He just attacked a few times and then withdrew his troops back to the camp. However, yesterday, Cao's army began a large-scale attack, and the casualties and wounded from Dangyang City flowed into a river of blood.

Fan Chou's troops did not go through the baptism of large-scale formal wars. The slightly decent one was the battle to attack Jiangling. However, Cai Mao was not strong at that time. After a little fight, Cai Mao withdrew his troops. After that, most of Fan Chou's troops were suppressing bandits and jungle monsters.

Liu Bei's army did not have the rotation system like Youzhou army, so Fan Chou's troops never had the opportunity to go to the front line to train. As a result, Fan Chou's army had poor experience and suffered heavy casualties in the siege the next day. However, the fierce battle also allowed Fan Chou's army to grow up quickly. In the battle on the morning of the third day, the casualties had been greatly reduced, and the exchange ratio between the two sides was also close to a reasonable range.

It's ten days old now, and Cao's army actually retreated for lunch. I really don't understand what Cao Cao was thinking. He could fight so easily in war. Wouldn't he rush to take Dangyang? Seeing that the surrounding fields could be harvested, if Jiangling had not taken them off at the time of harvest, the grain would have been taken away by Liu Bei in vain.

The battle stopped temporarily. The defenders on the city wall also started to have lunch. A group of players gathered together, and the cat was under the battlements of the city walls. Regardless of the blood and fishy smell that had not yet been refreshed around, they just ate and drank while eating and drinking.

"Brother, how much merit is worth?"

"Let me see, uh...two thousand one hundred and ninety-one, the merit value is only eleven o'clock in the morning, darn!"

"Haha, it's already good. I'm only nine o'clock and I can't change a piece of equipment in the day!"

"Cao, I want to change my equipment one day. It's so beautiful!"

"You didn't read the forum. Following Fang Zhiwen and Lu Bu's bird people, there are many who have more than 200 meritorious contributions a day, which is scary!"

"You are stupid. Don't you see how many troops they have. You alone still want to dream about two hundred a day!"

"Haha..." This sentence caused everyone to laugh.

"You are stupid. You haven't even looked at the forum carefully. What I'm talking about is a single person, a great man like a pride, who can do two thousand merit points a day."

"Uh...really?

"There is on the forum. You can read it yourself. Can I still lie to you?"

"Damn. How did you think they have the meritorious value? Didn't they be lucky enough to kill the generals or something?"

"No. The merit value of killing generals is higher. The forum said it is a battlefield merit, just like us, but it is more like killing and completing tasks."

"Damn, look at the task here, it is to defend the city, and it is settled every day. The successful defense of the city has only been ten points of merit. The enemy troops under the city are like ten-layer cattle, and they can't kill a few of them after a long time."

"I think I understand. With a great man like Lu Bu Fang Zhiwen, your attack attribute will be strengthened. In contrast, the enemy's army will be reduced. If you kill more people, the merit value will naturally be higher. Damn, you still have to follow the strong general to do tasks in the future."

"Bad, the last time I followed Zhang Fei to fight the new city battle, I only had less than 100 meritorious achievements a day and a night. The key is to see if the NPC has formed you into the army."

"After you said that, I realized that in fact we were in our own team and were not formed into the entire army, right?"

"Is this because Fan Chou's commander is not enough?"

"No one is enough. Even if Fang Zhiwen comes, it is impossible to form many players to join the army. The key is to look at the grassroots generals. If the grassroots generals are strong enough, then more players can be formed into the army. If you compare with the grassroots generals, it seems that the Youzhou Army is ranked first, followed by the Cao Army."

"Damn! I won't mess with Liu Bei anymore. This guy is really a bit unstoppable. After so many years of fighting for hegemony in the Central Plains, he has not yet launched a strong army!"

"That's what... In fact, some people said on the forum that Liu Bei lacks system and consistency in military construction. Compared with his ability to govern the military, the military governance is really unsatisfactory. It was only after Pang Yuan applied to Liu Bei that he began to pay attention to the cultivation of grassroots generals. It is said that Wei Yan's troops have the best effect. Zhang Fei... This guy doesn't pay attention to these at all. Guan Yu's family background has been washed away several times, and the grassroots generals have almost died for a few rounds. What effect can it be achieved? As for Fan Chou, he was originally a second-tier army, what else do you expect!"

Everyone was silent for a while. In fact, they didn't want to follow Fang Zhiwen and Yuan Shao to fight the battle. The problem is that their level is not high. Even if they get involved, they will probably not be placed at the forefront. They can only run logistics and transport prisoners behind. In comparison, it is a good result to be able to play the main force here.

Of course, the most important thing is that these people are the children of Jing Xiang in reality, so they naturally hope to fight in their hometown.

"Hey, brothers, do you think Fan Chou can block Cao Cao? Why didn't Liu Bei arrive? "

"Reinforcements? Where did reinforcements come from? Nowadays, Xincheng and Nanxiang in the north are fighting, who will support Fan Chou? Besides, Yizhou is huge, with many mountainous areas, and barbarians are rampant. Do you think Liu Bei still has so much energy to take care of Jiangling?"

"According to what you said, Jiangling is afraid he can't defend it."

In fact, everyone knows this issue well, but they just don’t mention it. Jiangling cannot defend it. Unless they change their course and go to Cao Cao’s camp, they will have to abandon everything they have to follow Liu Bei to move to Yizhou, or simply go to the Central Plains and Jiangdong will develop again.

Although they are not rich people, there is still a real estate in the cities around Jiangling, and there are also some people who secretly raise ancient beauties. Now they want to give up all this, and everyone is reluctant to leave it. But if they want to turn to Cao Cao, everyone is unwilling to do it. Traitors are not something that anyone wants to do, especially today when the cost of being a traitor is rising.

"I'll make plans early, everyone, I don't like Fan Chou!"

"I'm not optimistic, right? If you don't have it, you'll go to Sichuan!"

"I think it's better to go to Jiangdong. Look how stable Jiangdong is!"

"Damn, are you here to be safe or take risks?!"

"Two things are: the home is in a stable place and the people are in a dangerous place. Isn't it okay? Haha."

Everyone smiled knowingly when they heard this.

"You guys say that Fan Chou knew he would be defeated, why did he fight so cruelly?"

"I don't know, maybe it's to buy time for the people to retreat. Now, most of the people in Jiangling have responded to the call and started to migrate!"

"No, my neighbors around me have almost all been exposed."

"I heard that even Wuling was starting to evacuate westward. Liu Bei was worried that Cao Cao would take Wuling down in one breath!"

"It's really not good!"

"Haha, it takes strength to strive for success. Now Liu Bei does not have the capital to fight hard with Cao Cao in Jingnan."

"The grass, what we ask is not human!"

"Haha...hehe, the time is almost over. The whole team of Cao's army has sounded. Get ready for the battle. Take this opportunity to change more merit points. Don't change equipment and props this time. Change money. You're going to move!"

"Cao, we fight hard to fight to save money to move, this is a big deal!"

"Ha ha...."

.............

Fan Chou was indeed not Cao Cao's opponent. Although he shouted to the soldiers to defend Dangyang to protect the young elders behind him, he knew very well that Dangyang would definitely be lost, and then Jingling, and then Jiangling, and finally retreated to Xinling, step by step to Wuling, and maybe finally retreated to Yizhou.

Although he knew it was this ending, Fan Chou was still very serious and fought every battle very hard.

Dangyang defended for seven days, of course, there were also the idea of ​​Cao Cao trying to reduce his losses. In the end, Fan Chou was broken through the city wall and voluntarily evacuated Dangyang. Cao's army chased him all the way and chased him to Jingling. Then, the battle of Jingling began.

The same opponents fought the same battle, but Jingling City was not as complete as Dangyang, so it fell after defending for five days. Fan Chou retreated to Jiangling City. Jiangling City had the most complete defense facilities, and Cao Cao's attack difficulty was greatly improved.

However, Cao Cao did not attack at Fan Chou's pace this time, but instead used cavalry to block Jiangling, then built a base at the four gates. Then Cao Cao ordered Le Jin to lead a side army to take Xinling, breaking Fan Chou's retreat.

Fan Chou was stunned. Only then did he realize that he had been paralyzed by Cao Cao. Unfortunately, it was too late to regret. Cao's army was no longer busy attacking, but continued to build high ground outside the city gate to block the passage of Jingling. Cao's cavalry and other fast troops had quickly moved south, preparing to take all the counties of Wuling and Hengyang.

Fan Chou's emergency battle report was delivered to the desk of Liu Bei in Chengdu. Liu Bei held it hard and did not throw the battle report to the ground. This cannot be blamed for Fan Chou. Fan Chou was not enough to take on the great responsibility, but Liu Bei was no one available. At this time, Liu Bei realized that he thought he had a strong general and a good plan, but it was far from enough. Emperor Gaozu often sighed that "why do you have a strong soldier to guard all directions" is very reasonable. There will never be too many talents!

Pang Yuan and Zhang Song looked at each other. They did not see the content of the war report, but they could guess from Liu Bei's face that it was not good news. Now in Jingzhou, any bad news may have a significant impact on the situation in Jingzhou and even the entire situation of Liu Bei. The two of them couldn't help but become solemn.

"Look, Fan Chou was surrounded by Jiangling. Cao Cao bypassed Jiangling and raided Xinling, and had an attempt to go south further."

Unlike Liu Bei, the two of them breathed a sigh of relief when they heard this news. Relatively speaking, the bad news from Jiangling was actually the least influenced by Jingzhou.

Jiangling is no longer important at this time, but even so, there is still room for trouble. (To be continued...)
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