There are more than 80,000 people in this Cao army, they are not partial troops, but the real main force of the Cao army, and the 50,000 people led by Cao Cao are partial troops!

The commander of the Cao army was the military advisor Guo Jia, this Cao army consisted of 30,000 cavalry and 50,000 infantry, and the generals Cao Ren, Xiahou Yuan, Le Jin, and Cao Zhangke were all in this army.

Guo Jia had already bought off some of the Qingzhou military county guards and county orders that defended Lu State and Taishan County, and he did an excellent job of secrecy.

They knew the strength of Li Su's intelligence department, so they were all one-way contacts and sent out a huge amount of gold, silver and jewelry.

Some people were even kidnapped by their families to blackmail them into rebellion.

In short, Guo Jia, Cheng Yu and others have worked hard in this area in recent years, and Cao Jun's spy agency is also very powerful.

At that time, Cao Cao had already established Jin Cao Cao, which was headed by Cheng Yu and was under the jurisdiction of the school officer, who was specifically responsible for intelligence work and counter-espionage work.

Cao Cao had already planned with Guo Jia and others, and if there was a chance to attack the Qingzhou Army in the future, Cao Cao would lead the army to contain the main force of the Qingzhou Army in the front, and Guo Jia would lead the army to raid the hinterland of Qingzhou from the direction of Langxi.

Unexpectedly, the opportunity came so quickly, everything went according to plan, and when they passed through Lu Guo and Taishan County, it was very smooth, and the counties along the way had already been bought.

Moreover, there are many school officials who are responsible for transmitting information and acting as guides, and they also draw a relatively detailed map of Qingzhou.

After they conquered Linyi, an informant in the Qingzhou army sent information, saying that the Qingzhou army had gathered 60,000 infantry in Zhengrong Valley to stop the Cao army.

Guo Jia thought about it again and again, and decided to use the informants in the Qingzhou Army to eat the 60,000 infantry of the Qingzhou Army, so that the Qingzhou Army would have little ability to stop itself from sweeping Qingzhou.

Guo Jia is full of confidence in the army in his hands, this 80,000 Cao army is an elite army, not only the training is strict, but the equipment is also the best.

At the very least, Guo Jia believes that his army is not inferior to the Central Army during the Battle of Tiger Pass.

Langxie County, Zhengrong Valley.

This is the official road of Donghai County leading to Beihai and Donglai, Langxi County has been controlled by the Qingzhou Army for many years, and the official road is at the same level as the post road, wide and flat.

Therefore, the 60,000 infantry of the Qingzhou Army soon gathered here from the nearby counties, and the commanders of each battalion reported to the main general Liao Hua, who was originally the Taishou of Langxi County.

The military training of the Qingzhou Army on weekdays is very popular, and in many areas, it farms during busy hours and trains troops in idle hours.

Since the Qingzhou Army took power in Qingzhou, it has been very stable, and there are few wars, and the people love the Qingzhou Army very much, which is also their hometown!

The scouts sent a lot, and even went fifty miles forward to reconnoiter the enemy's situation, which was also learned from the Qingzhou Army and the Central Army.

There are many officers who have graduated from the Central Military Academy in the Qingzhou Army, and there are even many secretaries trained by the Central Military Academy who are responsible for military discipline and ideological work.

Therefore, the Qingzhou Army has laid a strong imprint of the Central Army from top to bottom, and only a few troops are slightly worse.

is Liao Hua and Zhou Cang, the old men of the Qingzhou Army, they all came from the Yellow Turban Era, and they don't accept those things of the Central Army very much.

In many cases, it was only because of the face of the Tiger Mask Military Division and Tang Zhou, as well as the military discipline of the Qingzhou Army, that some officers and clerks of the Central Military Academy were reluctantly accepted.

Even so, they did not actively cooperate with the work, especially some of the private troops they recruited themselves were very repulsive.

Although the tiger-faced military division had also heard about them, in line with the idea of uniting everyone, he was not too strict, and it also laid the groundwork for future disasters.

Moreover, he did not realize that the management and control of the troops by secretaries and ideological education were so important, after all, he did not study at the Central Military Academy, and his concept was still a little outdated.

According to the essence that the Qingzhou Army learned from the Central Army, defensive operations naturally had to start digging trenches, and the Qingzhou Army dug a trench along the official road to the valleys on both sides, which happened to stop at the mouth of the Zhengrong Valley.

Liao Hua placed his 20,000 subordinates at the end of the defensive formation, and the other 40,000 infantry lined up into two lines of defense, plus Liao Hua's subordinates, it was exactly three lines of defense.

Many people think that 60,000 infantry defend this majestic valley, and birds don't want to fly over, and the crossbows of the Qingzhou army are not decorations.

The Cao army came quickly, and the trench of the Qingzhou army had just been dug and widened, and the vanguard of the Cao army had arrived.

Le Jin served as the vanguard of Cao's army, and he led 5,000 cavalry to tentatively attack the Qingzhou army's defensive line, but the result was to leave hundreds of corpses behind and flee in disarray.

After Guo Jia arrived at the battlefield, he took the generals to the front of the battle to observe the enemy situation, and the 60,000 Qingzhou troops set up a defensive line along the trench to block the Zhengrong Valley tightly. If you make a detour, you will have to go out for hundreds of miles, and it seems that you can only attack it, but Guo Jia is not worried, because there is an internal response in the Qingzhou army.

Cao's army did not attack immediately, but set up camp and rested.

That night, Cheng Yu sent someone to get in touch with the inner commander of the Qingzhou Army, and agreed on the time and signal of the attack, as well as the identification mark.

Guo Jia was convinced of this internal principle and immediately began to prepare.

At the time of the fourth watch, it was the time when normal people slept the most soundly, and many black shadows appeared outside the defense line of the Qingzhou Army.

And this scene was repeated on the entire Qingzhou Army's defense line, more than a dozen open and dark posts were wiped from behind, the Qingzhou Army originally had a perfect alert system, but I didn't expect it to be disintegrated from behind.

After a short wait, Cao Jun saw the red light coming from the Qingzhou Army's defense line, and the regular shaking was the signal sent by Neiying.

Le Jin, Cao Ren, and Xiahou Yuan immediately led their troops to rush to the front and threw the sandbags prepared in advance into the trench.

These trenches were not two feet deep and four feet wide to intercept cavalry under normal circumstances, but were only half-human deep fortifications used by the infantry to hide their figures.

So tens of thousands of sandbags went down, and a long section of the trench was filled.

Le Jin signaled, not to mention the heavy muffled thunder in the night, and soon he felt the ground trembling beneath his feet.

Many Qingzhou troops were awakened from their sleep by this tremor and thunder, and experienced officers shouted loudly, "The enemy is attacking, it is the enemy's cavalry coming up, quickly take weapons and go into the trench to defend!" ”

"Damn sentry, why hasn't anyone sounded the siren horn, blow the horn quickly!"

The cavalry was menacing, like a wind and clouds, and in a blink of an eye, 30,000 cavalry cavalry of the Cao Army came out of the darkness and entered the camp of the Qingzhou Army by the light of fire.

At the forefront was the 5,000 tiger and leopard cavalry led by Cao Zhang, and the 5,000 heavy-armored cavalry rushed into the chaos, as if they were in a no-man's land.

The well-trained Qingzhou Army, under the organization of the middle and junior officers of each battalion, quickly formed a small defensive formation nearby, and echoed each other, flanking the cavalry of the Cao Army.

(End of chapter)