Jiexiu is the key pass on the official road leading to Jinyang in Hedong, although it is not the only road to Jinyang, but if you take a detour, not only the road is farther, but also a more serious problem for Sima Jun's supply line, after all, if such a key place is not controlled, Sima Jun's long supply line will be seriously threatened.

Therefore, taking Jiexiu is quite important for Sima Jun, so Sima Yi will gather heavy troops to target the spearhead of the attack at Jiexiu.

Although in the battle of Lingshi, the Sima army suffered heavy losses, but this battle did not affect the combat effectiveness of the Sima army, after all, this time the Sima army brought 170,000 foot cavalry, plus the army stationed in Pingyang, Hedong, the number of people has exceeded 200,000, one out of ten, can only be regarded as a little finger injury, regardless of the overall situation, this time Sima Yi increased 50,000 infantry, plus 50,000 cavalry as backup, the momentum is violent, straight to Jiexiu.

Cao Liang was not careless at all, and transferred another 10,000 garrisons from all over the country to the front line of Jiexiu to reinforce Jiexiu City, so that the number of Jiexiu defenders increased to 25,000.

Although the infantry battalion of the Battle of Lingshi suffered a slight loss, it was only a few hundred people, which was completely negligible. Although the combat effectiveness of the garrison is not as strong as that of the field troops, they are completely tailored for defending the city, and their training in peacetime is basically based on city defense warfare, so the garrison is still reliable in defending the city.

What's more, Cao Liang also specially allocated 100 counterweight catapults, 100 repeating catapults, 200 crossbows, and 1,000 individual crossbows to Yanghu.

And in order to prepare for the war in recent years, Cao Liang upgraded the defense of Jiexiu City, specially built several brick kilns around Jiexiu, fired a large number of green bricks, and demolished and rebuilt the rammed earth city wall of Jiexiu.

Moreover, in the process of this reconstruction, Cao Liang also built a new urn city, added an arrow tower, and heightened the city wall, raising the defense capability of Jiexiu City to a new height.

Obviously, Cao Liang will adopt a different method of warfare in Jiexiu than that of the Shangdang, in which Cao Liang will adopt guerrilla warfare, outflank, maneuver and flexibility, and will not be entangled in the gains and losses of one city or one place, and will mainly attack the enemy's living forces.

But this time in Jiexiu, Cao Liang seems to have abandoned the style of guerrilla warfare, gathered heavy troops in Jiexiu, and prepared to strictly defend and defend the enemy outside the country.

Cao Liang's strategic change has puzzled many people, and it stands to reason that the battle of the party was very successful, and Cao Liang's new tactics have won the unanimous approval of everyone, and in the case of the enemy's strength and weakness, such tactics may indeed create a miracle of defeating the strong with the weak.

It is difficult to understand why Cao Liang gave up the way of playing the party in Jiexiu, and returned to the old road of strict defense, and now Sima Yi's army is pressing, if you only defend it, it is difficult to hold Jiexiu City.

After all, this battle of Jinzhong is different from the battle of Shangdang, the terrain of Shangdang is complex, with many hills and mountains, such terrain conditions, it is undoubtedly the most suitable to fight guerrillas.

The terrain characteristics of Jinzhong are completely different from Shangdang, from Hedong to Jinyang, almost all of them are plains with a horse and a flat river, and the Sima army, which is dominated by cavalry, can completely drive straight in, and the Bingzhou army did not properly bring to fight guerrilla warfare, in order to avoid the Sima army directly killed under the city of Jinyang, so Cao Liang chose Jiexiu to block the attack of the Sima army.

Jiexiu is on the left side of the Mianshan Mountain, right on the Fen River, is the only dangerous place to Jinyang in the east of the river, if Sima Yi wants to ensure that the rear supply line is unimpeded when he attacks Jinyang, then Jiexiu is a key pass that he must take.

Since this is a strategically important point for both sides, it is not surprising that it has become a point of contention between the two sides.

It's just that what makes people a little worried is that Jiexiu is not a big city, he is just a second-class small county town, how can such a small city stop the army of 200,000 Sima?

However, after the battle of Lingshi Pass, this doubt disappeared, and Yanghu used an almost complete victory to tell the world that the huge Sima army was not terrible, and as long as he found his weaknesses, he could also defeat him.

Yanghu has been running this Jiexiu City for a long time, and after the battle of Shangdang, Yanghu was ordered by Cao Liang to enter Jiexiu City.

After arriving in Jiexiu, Yanghu did not simply garrison troops here, but actively participated in the reconstruction of Jiexiu City, and built Jiexiu City into an impregnable fortress city.

Jiexiu is the most important part of Cao Liang's entire defense system in Bingzhou, otherwise he would not have sent such an important force as Yanghu to stationed in Jiexiu, and the state army has three cavalry and six steps, and the cavalry is headed by the Yue cavalry battalion, and the infantry battalion is the leader of the infantry troops, if Jiexiu is just an insignificant second-class county, Cao Liang will not put his trump card here anyway.

Successfully withdrew from Lingshi Pass to Jiexiu City, Yanghu did not go through any rest, he issued an order to the infantry battalion and the garrison of Jiexiu, raising the combat readiness level of Jiexiu City to the highest, and all the defending troops were all according to the original plan, taking turns to go to the city, waiting for battle, and making all preparations for battle.

The enemy has arrived at Lingshi Pass, and there are only thirty miles left from Jiexiu, which is imminent, at this time, Jiexiu's city defense can not be a little negligent, and any bit of defensive leakage is likely to be fatal.

Yanghu was not satisfied with the brilliant results of the battle of Lingshi, it was gratifying to shoot Sun Li, but it invisibly aroused the righteous indignation of Sima Jun, Sun Li is a general, he has excellent popularity in the army, and there are not a few people who support him, and now Sun Li died in the hands of Yanghu, and there are definitely not a few people who want to avenge Sun Li's blood hatred.

If it weren't for this battle of Lingshi Pass, the attack on Jiexiu might not have been so strong, but after Sun Li's death, Sima Jun was furious, and I am afraid that in terms of morale, it was obviously much higher than before, which undoubtedly added a lot of difficulty to the defense of Jiexiu City.

But no matter how difficult it is, it can't shake Yanghu's determination, before he came to Jiexiu, he swore to Cao Liang, vowing to live and die with Jiexiu.