After arriving outside the city of Zishi, after the Wei army set up camp, Cao Liang specially summoned all the captains and strategists to the Chinese army tent to discuss the plan to break the enemy.

Generally speaking, Cao Liang called this plan to encircle the point to send reinforcements, Zishi is the point to be encircled, and the Hun army that is about to return to the aid is to fight, in this plan, the encirclement point is the means, and the aid is the goal, Cao Liang's appetite is not just to take a Zishi city, his eyes are aimed at the main force of Liu Bao's left Huns.

As soon as Cao Liang's plan was launched, it was unanimously approved by the generals, and no one objected, but there were some slight differences and controversies in the specific implementation actions.

These controversies and disagreements are completely normal in Cao Liang's view, and the main controversy is where it is appropriate to ambush the main force of the Xiongnu, this ambush point cannot be too far from Zishi, of course, it cannot be too close, it cannot be the terrain of a horse and a flat river, and it must be a necessary route conducive to infantry resistance.

This disagreement was quickly resolved, you must know that Pei Xiu who joined the army is a well-known cartographer, and the map he drew has become the most classic textbook of this era, Pei Xiu is not only a master of drawing maps, but also has a great understanding of the geography of mountains and rivers, and he proposed to set up an ambush in Lao Yeling, forty miles north of Zishi County, which was unanimously approved by everyone.

The distance of forty miles feels that it will not be too far and not too close to the Zi clan, so that it is convenient for the dispatch and operation of the Wei army, which is one of them.

The second is that although the terrain here is not the kind of dangerous terrain that is difficult to open for a long time, there are high slopes and gentle roads, which are convenient for the infantry to block and the cavalry to charge.

In addition, the most important point is that Lao Ye Ling is the only way from Jinyang to Zishi, if you take a detour, the Hun army will at least walk twice as long, so Lao Ye Ling is stuck in the throat of the main road, Liu Bao back to Zishi, must go here.

After the ambush site is chosen, the next step is to allocate soldiers and horses, according to the Xiongnu prisoners, Liu Bao took away at least 20,000 Hun soldiers, if Liu Bao's whole division returns to help, then for the Pingbei Army, it will be a vicious battle, so the army that sent reinforcements must be indispensable.

In addition to Wang Jun's Changshui battalion, the remaining four battalions will accompany Cao Liang to Laoyeling to ambush Liu Bao, this battle will be a difficult test for the Pingbei army, so Cao Liang is the main force is ready to fight to the death.

Eight thousand people is also the biggest strength that Cao Liang can take out at present.

This time, I went north to quell the rebellion, and there were a lot of battles, and there must be attrition, and there were 1,000 enemy wounded, even if there were no self-losses of 800, there were always 3 or 200.

In order to cope with the attrition situation, Cao Liang over-requisitioned some people when he was recruiting troops in Hedong County, and after the five battalions were full, these people were uniformly placed in Pingyang and listed as a reserve battalion.

The reserve battalion is not in the establishment of the Pingbei Army, and it is not under the direct command of Cao Liang in peacetime, but is attached to the name of the Hedong County Army, but if the Pingbei Army has casualties and attrition, it can draw the quota of Xiangqing from the reserve camp and directly supplement it to the battalions of the Pingbei Army.

After each battle, the Pingbei Army will make such adjustments in order to achieve the purpose of not vacancy in the establishment, so after repeated battles, the Pingbei Army has always maintained an establishment of 10,000 people, no more, no less.

The formation of this reserve battalion can keep the Pingbei Army in a full state of mind, Cao Liang is still well thought out in this regard, otherwise he will go to Bingzhou to fight, and before he has fought a few battles, the army will be disabled first, and with the existence of this reserve battalion, Cao Liang will have no worries.

If you expect the imperial court to send troops to fill the vacancy, you don't know if you will have to wait until the Year of the Monkey.

Of course, the food and salary expenses of this reserve battalion are the same as those of the auxiliary soldiers, and they are not included in the establishment of the imperial court, so Cao Liang has to pay out of his own pocket. In order to avoid being impeached, Cao Liang could only secretly transfer the money and grain to Lin Duwei, and Lin Duwei classified the reserve camp as the county's volunteers, which was in accordance with the regulations in form.

The Changshui Battalion, which was left behind in the large camp outside the city, also included the baggage battalion and the ordnance battalion, with a total of four or five thousand people, but only two thousand people from the Changshui Battalion really had combat effectiveness.

Cao Liang's task to Wang Jun was to besiege the county seat of Zishi without attacking, in the camp tent, set up more banners and tents and war drums, when necessary, to issue weapons to the auxiliary soldiers of the baggage battalion and the ordnance battalion, and line up to go out of battle, so as to confuse the Huns in the city of Zishi, so that they think that the siege was the main force of the Wei army.

The reason why Cao Liang arranged this way was to make the Huns in Zishi City believe it was true, so that they felt frightened and did not dare to easily go out of the city to attack, and second, Cao Liang's purpose was also to let the Huns disclose the news to Liu Bao, so that he mistakenly thought that the main force of the Wei army was besieging the county town of Zishi and would not be wary of the ambush soldiers halfway.

The Yue Cavalry Battalion, the Tun Cavalry Battalion, the Infantry Battalion, and the Shooting Battalion left the camp in the middle of the night and marched quietly and silently in the direction of Lao Yeling.

After entering the Lao Ye Ridge, Cao Liang arranged the infantry battalion and the shooting battalion on the high ground according to the terrain, built fortifications and built defensive positions, while the Yue cavalry battalion and the tun cavalry battalion were arranged by Cao Liang in the valleys on both sides and hidden.

Cao Liang told Deng Ai Shibao that everything was under his orders, and only when the war drums were beating, the Yue cavalry battalion and the tun cavalry battalion could go to war, and there should be no mistakes.

The four lieutenants bowed to the leader's orders and arranged their own arrangements.

The Huns spent a night in trepidation in the city of Zishi, woke up the next day, and rushed to the city wall as soon as possible, the camp of the Wei army outside the city stretched for several miles, the banners were waved, the war drums were rumbling, and the Wei soldiers could be seen from a distance being drilling, densely packed, and I didn't know how many people there were.

However, it seems that for the time being, the Wei army has no intention of attacking the city, which can be regarded as making the Huns in the city breathe a sigh of relief, if the Wei army attacks the city at this time, they still don't know what to do, only with the army in the city, whether it can hold it is still a huge problem.

After all, there was a truce in the battle there, and none of the Huns dared to fight the Wei army head-on.

In the face of such a huge Wei army, the Huns defending the city were wilted, and as for going out of the city to attack the Wei army's camp, they didn't even dare to think about it.

Fortunately, the siege of the Wei army did not attack to give the Huns a chance to breathe, and the relatively loose encirclement of the Wei army also allowed the fast horses sent by the Huns to easily leave the Zi clan and go to Jinyang to report to Liu Bao, so that he could lead the army back as soon as possible. Take a hundred plating to read the latest chapter of "The Last Three Kingdoms 2: Xingwei Claw Book House" for free for the first time.