But Cao Liang heard it clearly, the person in front of him who looked like a beggar was sent by Huainan Wang Ling, of course, Huainan Wang Ling has nothing for Cao Liang, the most important thing is that this person reported to his family, saying that his name was Ma Long, which immediately surprised Cao Liang, this Ma Long, is it not the Ma Long who broke the bald hair tree function in history?

Of course, the possibility of having the same name and surname is not ruled out. ∷八∷八∷Reading∷ book, 2∞3o ≠

Cao Liang waved back Lu Chaonan, stepped forward in person, and said with a smile: "It's Cao Liang below, only respecting the words of the driver, he came from Huainan, but he came on the order of Wang Taiwei?" ”

Ma Long's nose is sour, it can be regarded as meeting the main master, for more than a month, he has been sleeping in the open air, traveling long distances, wind and rain, and I don't know how many hardships he has experienced, and now he finally saw Cao Liang, he took out Wang Ling's letter, handed it to Cao Liang, and said: "Wang Taiwei's letter is here, please take a look at it." ”

Cao Liang took the letter and instructed Lu Chaonan to take Ma Long to the mansion to bathe and change clothes, originally he was going out of the mansion to inspect, but now that there is such a thing, then the plan to inspect is temporarily canceled and he returns to the governor's mansion.

While waiting for Ma Long to bathe and change clothes, Cao Liang first opened Wang Ling's letter and read it, Wang Ling reprimanded Sima Yi angrily in the letter, calling him a usurper and a traitor, and made an appointment with Cao Xian to jointly send troops to Luoyang to protect the country.

Wang Ling spoke in the tone of the imperial lieutenant in the letter, and did not talk about the bad situation in Huainan at all, although it was clearly for consultation, but with a somewhat commanding tone, and with the righteousness of the court as the rhetoric, it seems that if Cao Liang did not send troops, he must have failed the holy grace of the imperial court. %∷8%∷8%∷Read%∷Book,≮※o

In this regard, Cao Liang scoffed, don't look at Cao Liang's merger thousands of miles away, but he also has a detailed understanding of the situation in Huainan.

At this moment, Shouchun was besieged by Sima Yi, it has been thirteen or fourteen months, and even Cao Liang admitted that Sima Yi was quite skillful in besieging the city and sending reinforcements, and blocked the attack of Eastern Wu three times before and after, so that Wang Ling and Eastern Wu reinforcements could not converge, so that they could not form a joint force, and were completely broken by Sima Yi.

Now Wang Ling's situation is extremely difficult, although since Sima Yi's army besieged the city, the two sides have not made a battle, but Sima Yi is using this wasteful way, Wang Ling died in Shouchun City, Sima Yi's patience to fight, in the early years in the competition with Zhuge Liang has been sharpened, this time to surround Shouchun City, cut off the internal and external traffic of Shouchun City, even if Wang Ling's soldiers are full of food, but they can only be guarded for a while, can not be guarded for a lifetime, no matter how good the soldiers are, there is a time when they are slack, and there is a time when the food is enough, The final fate of Shouchun City has long been predestined.

In fact, there is no way to break Sima Yi's siege, the answer must be yes, if you change places, Cao Liang is in Huainan, then this battle will be more easily fought, the experience of the battle of the party proves that sticking to a city and a place, can only be controlled by others, passive everywhere, only by giving up the city, giving full play to the mobility and flexibility of the army, annihilating the enemy in the movement, and turning small victories into big victories, can we reverse the pattern of war in which the enemy is strong and we are weak.

The topography of Huainan, with the army of Eastern Wu, it is easier to fight that kind of sports warfare, but unfortunately Wang Ling only has Shouchun in his eyes, delusionally thinking that as long as Shouchun is held, the situation in Huainan can be applauded and held in his hands.

And Sima Yi didn't give him the opportunity to move at all, using deep trenches and high bases to block the breakthrough of the Wu army, and Wang Linggu died in Shouchun City, and when Wang Ling realized that the catastrophe was coming, it was already too late to regret it, Shouchun City was besieged for a year, and the foreign reinforcements had not arrived for a long time, and the internal grain and grass were increasingly exhausted, and the morale of the army had dropped to the lowest, and even the last chance to break through was lost at this time.

Sending Ma Long thousands of miles to ask for help, it was completely a sudden illness and rushed to the hospital, and the state and Huainan were so far apart, even if Cao Liang sent troops, it would be far away and difficult to rescue the near fire.

In the past year, Cao Liang has been busy without a little time, busy with tuntian, busy with army expansion, busy training the army, busy with the dark, but Cao Liang's harvest is solid, intensive cultivation has officially entered the promotion stage, by next year, it is estimated that more than seventy percent of the land in the state can be intensively cultivated, which has a positive significance for the grain reserves and army expansion in the state.

With the establishment of the Left Guard Battalion and Liu Jing's Right Guard Battalion and the formation of combat effectiveness, the mobile corps in Cao Liang's hands has expanded to seven battalions of 70,000 horses, together with the garrisons of various counties in the prefecture, the total number is already close to 100,000, and it is an incredible thing in itself to feed the army of 100,000 with a population of 6 or 700,000 in the prefecture.

As for the improvement of the combat effectiveness of the two new armies, the Left Guard Battalion and the Right Guard Battalion, Cao Liang did not adopt the training method of building and tempering the new army in actual combat.

Pingyang County in the Hedong region became the first target of the Bingzhou army, and it was Cao Liang's defeated general Hu Fen who was stationed in Pingyang County, who was ordered to garrison Pingyang to form a horn with Chen Qian, the Taishou of Hedong, and converged with Chen Tai in Hanoi and Lü Dai in Jizhou to form a complete defense line.

This line of defense can be said to be set up for the purpose of building an encirclement of the annexed states, and when Sima Yi was flawless in the south and looking north, this line of defense could allow Sima Yi to concentrate on the southern line without worries.

In order to break this line of defense, Cao Liang does not yet have sufficient strength, and the main goal of using troops in Pingyang is to train the new army and achieve the purpose of training with battle.

This time, it was not only the left guard battalion and the right guard battalion that went to Pingyang to fight, but Cao Liang also appointed the Changshui battalion and the Xiaocai battalion to assist, increasing the combat effectiveness.

At the beginning of the Battle of Pingyang, Hu Fen also sent troops to deal with the Bingzhou army, but after suffering several defeats in a row, he had to retreat into Pingyang City and could not hold out.

Cao Liang also tried to attack Pingyang City, and used heavy siege equipment such as equipped catapults and hair-stripping catapults, so that Hu Fen almost knelt down, but fortunately, Chen Qian, the Taishou of Hedong, sent troops to help, which was regarded as relieving the siege of Pingyang.

At this time, Cao Liang was still planning to play a big game, and just happened to catch up with Ma Long to ask for help, Cao Liang read Wang Ling's letter, and couldn't help but think about whether he could keep Ma Long, at this time. 11. Reading with quick eyes_