On the other side of Baimajin, downstream of Yanjin, is Liyang.

Liyang set up the Liyang battalion in the Later Han Dynasty, which was the only standing battalion in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River. There are also Yuyang Camp and Jingzhao Huya Camp with the same specifications. This shows the importance of Liyang in terms of transportation status, and in the same way, it is also the outpost of the decisive battle of Guandu.

Yuan Shao raised troops to attack in various directions, and the main battlefield was in Guandu, but the eastern and western fronts also confronted and attacked the imperial court combined army represented by Cao Cao.

The east-west width of the Guandu battlefield is the area between Yanjin and Baimajin; Downstream of Baimajin and to the east is Yuan Tan's eastern front battlefield; To the west from Yanjin to the west is the battlefield of the Western Front of Gao Gan.

When Yuan Shao raised his troops, Cao Cao led the elite troops to take the initiative to go north, and the counterattack disrupted Yuan's army's plan of division and joint attack. Cao Cao was then repulsed, and the Yuan army began to behave according to plan, while the imperial coalition army was defeated by Cao Cao's army, and morale declined.

Then the Battle of the White Horse began, and Yan Liang was beheaded; Later, it was the Battle of Yanjin, and another general of the Yuan army, Wen Chou, was beheaded, which greatly boosted the morale of the imperial court joint army.

However, Yuan's army first won and then lost and then adopted the method of attrition and confrontation, almost dragging Cao Cao to death.

After all, Cao Cao's side was a combined army dominated by the imperial court, and the purpose of the battle was to resist Yuan Shao's expansion, and if the war was irreparable, it would not be much of a shame to surrender to Yuan's army.

Therefore, although Yuan Jun lost, he still won the game, and fatal mistakes occurred one after another, and he was overturned by Cao Cao.

At the time of the decisive battle of Guandu, Man Chong was only a county-level official.

Now there are not many old people left, but Man Chong sits in Liyang as the general of Zhennan, acting as a bridgehead to resist the northern expedition of the Han army.

How to fight the decisive battle between the Han and Wei dynasties in the future is a topic that has been studied by Manzhong for nearly two years.

In his council hall was a huge sand table, with a model of all the prefectures and counties east of the bend of the Yellow River.

In addition to the six towns of Youyun, the ten towns of Wei include Pingyuan Town, Qinghe Town, Hanoi Town, Hedong Town, Taiyuan Town, Shangdang Town, Luoyang Town, Yangping Town, Beiping Town, and Anping Town.

At present, except for the three guards of the Wuwei Army in Yedu, the other Chinese troops are served by these ten town soldiers in turn.

Among them, Qin Lang's Xiao cavalry belongs to a special case, the soldiers belong to the sixteen towns, but do not participate in the rotation, belong to a mobile emergency force in the country, and are currently the only troops that can quickly pull out from Yedu.

Just when Tian Yu inspected Qingshuikou, Man Chong was also calculating the moves of the Han army.

The Battle of Guandu is the only example that can be referred to at the moment, and I will refer to the Battle of Guandu, and so will the Han army.

Under the premise that Beifu does not participate in the war, the core battlefield is still between Yanjin and Baimajin.

In terms of the disadvantage of the lack of cavalry of the Han army, just like the combined army of the imperial court back then, it was unwilling to fight a field battle with the Wei army.

For example, Cao Cao, who attacked Liyang against the trend, suffered a 'joint battle defeat', and this kind of bad influence naturally had to be erased from the history books, so that contemporary people are a little unclear about the process of the Battle of Guandu.

How terrifying are cavalry?

The Wei army is very experienced, when the heroes are fighting against Dong, more than 20,000 people of Cao Cao and Bao Xin's combined army took the initiative to attack, met an ambush in Bianshuipi, and was almost wiped out by Xu Rong's thousands of cavalry.

How exactly was this battle fought, how many troops did the two sides participate in, and how many losses did they lose...... It has been dealt with, and ordinary officials have no insight into the inside story.

Very simply, Cao Cao, Bao Xin, and Wei Zi jointly marched and encountered Xu Rong's ambush, and the combined army of Cao Cao and Bao Xin, who had been prepared, repelled Xu Rong, and then pursued the whole army, and there were less than 1,000 knights in the combined army, and the fastest pursuit.

During the pursuit, the infantry array detached, and the infantry array was disjointed, and then Xu Rong suddenly turned around and defeated the combined cavalry, drove the cavalry back, and then there was nothing.

After that, it was pressed and beaten by Lu Bu's cavalry, and when the Wei army united with Liu Bei to defeat Lu Bu, annexed and absorbed Lu Bu's military team, he had the quality to fight against cavalry, which was reflected in the battle of Guanzhong with Ma Chao.

Later, Xiahou Yuan and 50,000 veterans were folded in Hanzhong successively, and Cao Cao took the Chinese army to Hanzhong, but he was almost dragged down by logistics before opening the situation. Yu Ban and Cao Ren lost seventy or eighty thousand veterans one after another...... The Standing Army of the Great Wei in the early 200,000s lost half of it in just two years.

Later, the Wei army began to wear and tear up faster, and only now can it stand firm...... At least, in the past eleven months, the Wei army has not suffered another defeat, but has had various expansions and developments.

Therefore, the current battle with the Yanzhou army is a very important battle, if the other side is defeated, it will frustrate the invincible image of the Han army, and lay a morale foundation for a larger-scale decisive battle in the future.

If there is no morale, then the future decisive battle ...... Full of pets is pessimistic.

It is very likely that the generals of various armies on the battlefield will mutiny, rebel, and retreat, and it will become a farce.

It doesn't matter how many Han troops can be captured, what is important is to defeat the Han army, thwart the opponent's counterattack, and boost your morale from the overall situation.

As for whether the victory over the Han army will trigger the suppression of Beifu...... Man Chong felt that it was impossible, and now Beifu's position was very clear, as long as the decisive battle between Han and Wei was not on the verge of annihilation, it was impossible for Beifu to interfere.

Just when Manzhong deduced the possible counterattack tactics of Tian Yu on the opposite side, Cao Lin, the king of Qiao, galloped to the Liyang camp as the defender of Zhennan, and conveyed the news of the southern transfer of the Xiao cavalry army to help the battle, and then asked Manzhong for advice.

The sand table, which has been in preparation for more than 20 months, finally came in handy, and he pulled Cao Lin to analyze it carefully: "Your Highness, the so-called knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent will not be defeated in a hundred battles. The enemy Yanzhou horse herding season is often known for being able to hear the name of the officials, and is good at appeasing the barbarians. There are all barbarians under his command, such as Qingqiang, sudden generals, and flying horses, all of whom are good at running in the mountains and forests. ”

"Tian Yu is cautious and subtle in his use of troops, and he is good at cavalry and has the courage to use risks, so I thought that this person would make a plan to attack the east and the west."

"Striking the West?"

"Yes, it is not only to attack the east and the west, but also to avoid the real and the virtual."

Man Zhong answered truthfully, stretched out his hand and pointed at the sand table, pointing to a grain storage pavilion located on the edge of Baigou fifty miles north of Liyang.

This is not the main grain storage official warehouse, but a grain storage base established nearby for the Zhennan Army.

The grain reserves are not much, and they are not very important in normal times, but if they are suddenly burned, the impact will be very bad.

Cao Lin carefully studied the sand table and tried to imagine and deduce the actual geographical situation represented by the sand table model.

Since Cao Pi ascended the throne, the clan has been in a state of lockdown, and many people could have learned more and grown more, but it was difficult to grow again because of the solidification of personality and insight during the lockdown.

Only now that I have come into contact with actual government and military affairs, how much can I grow...... No one knows for sure.

Full Pet is not sure if the new King is very reliable, after all, everyone doesn't know King Chen. The main reason is that when Cao Pi was emperor, the other brothers were young and had little communication with the outside world, and then they were grounded.

Unlike Cao Pi, Cao Zhang, and Cao Zhi, who are older, they are widely known in the diplomatic world and are known to Cao Wei's civil and military officials.

Seeing that Cao Lin likes to think, has a calm personality and is not impatient, and has a sense of responsibility as a commander, this makes Man Chong feel a little relieved.

Any impatient and radical general is unqualified in his eyes, and this kind of person lacks a sense of responsibility for human life; People with this impatient personality are also difficult to learn and naturally difficult to grow.

In terms of Cao Lin's calm quality, in addition to exercising well, coupled with his extremely high background, how can he take on an independent position in the future.