"The east of Wankou has become a prison."

Tian Xin led more than 100 horsemen to appear on the battlefield of Wankou, with Li Ji by his side, pointing to the location of the second and first eastern battalions of the Wei army and saying: "This is the cutting board, I am the hammer, and Brother Ru is the copper bean on the anvil." Not only Brother Ru's department, but also any foreign army that is not trusted by Cao Wei will be transferred here to consume the sharpness of our army. ”

Li Ji looked at a Li-shaped battle flag fluttering on the second camp of the Wei army, stared deeply, and still lowered his head and sighed: "Your Majesty, my brother's care for the family is by no means a matter of words. ”

"In that case, come with me a little closer, and see how he responds."

Tian Xin did not force Li Ji to persuade Li Xu to surrender, the war had begun, and the Han army sharpened its swords and came, and the first battle was to be won.

If given the choice, armies would prefer to fight with the blade to achieve a victory, rather than a tedious victory by rebellion.

This is the unanimous view of middle and high-level military officials, and it is also the general mentality of middle and low-level officials...... Everyone wants military merit.

Even if they are conscripted auxiliaries, they occasionally have dreams of capturing the enemy.

Fortunately, Guan Yu can still hold it down, and there will be no bad things that refuse the surrender of the Wei army.

If the boss can't suppress it, it is very likely that he will refuse to surrender and deliberately indulge the soldiers to behead and make meritorious contributions.

Although the first-level military merit is equivalent to the raw mouth of the captive...... But in reality, there is a big difference, such as the personal belongings of the army.

Accept the surrender of the other party, and the surrendering army can save their lives, and they can also keep a lot of personal property; If you refuse to accept the other party's surrender and kill the other party, then the military merit will be more valuable, and you can also get all the other party's property.

Trophies such as cattle, horses, livestock, armor, bows, crossbows, and other weapons must be returned to the public, but many small objects are not within this scope and cannot be controlled.

When Tian Xin rode more than 100 horses close to the Great Wall of Wankou for an arrow and a half, just when the Lishui riverbed, which was shallow and could only drown the horses' hooves, Li Xu drew his sword and waved it on the city wall, and the drums were urging, and the rain of bows and crossbows and arrows shot towards Tian Xin, and the arrows fell one after another.

The defenders continued to fire arrows, and Tian Xin retreated along the riverbed to join Ma Chao, who was camping by the dam upstream.

The war horse was bumpy, Yu Zhong took out the bamboo slip from the harness and held it in his left hand, took out the brush in his right hand, the brush was smooth on his lips, he tasted the taste of ink, and wrote: "Before the afternoon of October 25 in the first year of the summer calendar, the public invited to fight, and the guard Li Xu's bow and crossbow refused to fight, and the enemy soldiers were discouraged, and the arrows were weak. ”

Li Xu looked at his younger brother beside Tian Xin, Li Ji led more than ten horses, and there was a 'Li' character back flag behind him, and there was a battalion governor-level battle flag, how could he not recognize it.

Seeing Tian Xin retreating, Li Xu shouted to the military officials around him: "Report victory!" The enemy general Xiahou Xin led a light cavalry attack, I shot with a strong bow and crossbow, and by surprise, he broke away in vain! Our army has won a great victory! ”

The prelude to this decisive battle began, and the first battle would be fought by Ma Chao's left army against Yan Pu, the general of the Wei army's Sipin Zhenwei.

With Li Xu's victory, Yan Pu, the guard general of the Dongda Battalion behind him, Zhang Liao who was stationed in Ye County, and Cao Hong, who was stationed in Mopi, received reports from the flying cavalry.

This kind of flying cavalry is reporting to Cao Xiu in Wuyang, Xiahou Shang in Yuncheng, Cao Ren in Xudu, and Cao Pi in Luoyang at the speed and direction arranged before the war.

Also today, Sun Deng, the prince of Wu, led an army of 3,000 to the north to participate in the war, and he was recruited by the titular father-in-law Cao Pi as a servant and worshiped as the general of Sanpin Huya.

Yan Pu is the general of the eastern battalion of the Wankou defense line, and the only hole in the Wankou defense line is in the east.

This is something that everyone knows to us, it's not that Zhang Liao doesn't want to remedy it, but there is really no way.

The cost of remediation is too high and the cost performance is so low that it can only be compromised.

Since the Eighth Army of Beifu arrived at the Wankou battlefield yesterday, it has appeared on Ma Chao's left flank, blocking Zhang Liao's main force in Ye County here and acting as Ma Chao's western barrier.

Ma Chao's left army had spread out along the Lishui, and successively uprooted the outlying tulou strongholds of the Wei army by attacking and smoking.

The siege equipment is also in place, and it can be used to attack the eastern defense area of the Wankou Great Wall at any time.

Zhang Liao used Yan Pu to defend the first round of the Han army's offensive, Cao Pi was very relieved, and Cao Xiu, Xiahou Shang, and Cao Hong were also very satisfied.

Yan Pu himself was also satisfied, and Ma Chao was also satisfied.

Even Guan Yu and Liu Bei were satisfied and assured, using Ma Chao to fight Yan Pu, Ma Chao was very likely to hit the most brilliant fatal blow.

The defenders in the eastern part of Yanpu were congenitally inferior in defense, and they were in the hands of the Han army because of the upper reaches of the Lishui.

The problem is that Ma Chao's marching speed is a little slow, and Guan Yu forced Tian Xin's troops to the front line, so he can only gamble on luck.

Due to the slow speed of the march, the Lishui has now been blocked by Ma Chao, and the water potential is accumulating, which is different from the dam built by Tianyu in the rear to raise the water depth and facilitate the transportation of grain by his own boats and bamboo rafts.

Ma Chao seems to be purely waiting for the flood, wanting to use the flood to break through the eastern defense line of Wankou to make up for the time lost by his cautious march.

The waterway was the most efficient means of transportation at the moment, and he blocked the accumulation of water potential in Lishui, which also facilitated the transportation of siege equipment, grain and materials of the Han army.

Only three or five people take turns to tow or hold boats, and a boatload of grain or bamboo raft materials can be easily transported to the front line.

The rear water and water are stored in sections under the command of Tian Yu, and each section node sets up a grain storage pavilion, and the pavilion is used as a node to build a dam to store water.

In this way, Li Yan took the Han River from Jiangling to Xiangyang to transport military rations, because of the absolute superiority of the Han army's water division, Li Yan's task of transporting grain was the easiest.

Guan Ping guarded Xiangyang, and the military rations were divided into two from here and continued to be transported to the front line, and part of them were transported to Wancheng by water to supply Liu Bei's army for daily consumption.

Wanchengtun has 300,000 stone military rations, which is the last lifeline of the whole army's front line, which is personally cared for by Liu Bei, and it is a life-saving food that cannot be moved.

Because of the large flow of water and the fact that it is in the heart of one's own side, the task of transporting military rations of 100,000 stone per month is not heavy; Xu Zuo had many light ships, and the transportation of military grain in Wancheng was in charge of the Beifu.

Due to Lu Yi's status as a general, Tian Xin handed over this matter to the left-behind chief Shi Guo Youzhi to be responsible.

The second military grain transportation route from Xiangyang to the front line was in charge of the Nanyang soldiers under the command of Tian Yu, and they connected to Fangshui by Bishui and Lishui, and went straight to Fangcheng Daying.

There were 70,000 front-line troops and 8,000 knights, and the monthly military ration transportation quota was 250,000 stone as the minimum.

It is not only necessary to meet the daily consumption of the front-line army, but also to enrich the grain storage in Fangcheng, and 300,000 stone of military rations must also be stored here for long-term planning.

Tianyu was under great pressure to transport, not only to prevent the destruction of small units of the Wei army and the Wu army, but also to ensure that the military rations could be delivered to the front line on time and in quantity.

The forces and manpower in hand are limited, and they either focus on defense or transportation.

Limited by the lack of manpower, a compromise method was adopted, in addition to leaving the necessary mobile troops, Tian Yu selected the node along the river trend, that is, the Nanyang barracks, but also the residence of the grain store, and also the location of the water storage dam...... It is also the stronghold of the Nanyang Military Tun.

In the Eastern Expedition Campaign, the Nanyang soldiers performed poorly, and this time they were responsible for transporting grain in their hometowns, if this thing was not done well, then the Nanyang Haoqiang Corps could be completely disbanded and replaced with a core to continue to reorganize.

After Tian Yu arrived in Lishui, the military rations were transported in sections because of the shallow water, and the military rations could be transported to the front line almost day and night.

Lishui, Fangshui River section of the pavilion is connected, the downstream pavilion transports five or six boats of grain, transported to the pavilion of this place is also where the dam is, and the way of manual loading and unloading is moved to the dam river, the empty ship is moored here, and the ship continues to transport along the downstream to the upstream pavilion after loading.

During the day, the grain is not transported into the pavilion, and the one station is passed on one by one, and only at night, the grain will be moved into the pavilion nearby for protection.

According to the water level drop, there is a pavilion node in three or four miles, or a pavilion node in one or two miles.

Therefore, the Han army has two grain transportation routes, and there will be two or three military grain hoarding points on the front line, even if the grain in Fangcheng is burned, the army can also get the food supply in Wancheng.

No matter how bad it is, it can also withdraw to Wancheng to regroup, as long as there is food, the current Han army is not afraid of field battles of any scale!

After all, the Wei army, the Wu army still have their own side...... It's basically a face-up play.

Unless Cao Cao crawls out of the soil and uses it as a hole card to join the battlefield with the undead.