Bianshui, also known as Bianqu, is a branch of the chasm canal system, so when it comes to bianshui, we have to talk about the chasm canal. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

The Gap Canal is a water transport channel built by King Hui of Wei to communicate the two major river basins of the Great River and Huaishui after the Wei State moved its capital to Daliang, and it took more than 20 years to completely open the Gap Canal.

Once the canal was opened, it was destined to communicate the important mission of the north and south, the Quartet, the dispute between Chu and Han had been here to demarcate the border and strike the army, and the two Han Dynasty had repaired this canal many times, making it an important Cao transport channel that "became the lower Caoliang, the east of the river, the south of the Jianghuai, the Fang Gong Committee lost, and the reason for the loss".

The front section of this canal is Bianshui, and the latter section is Gap Water. And the Bianshui in the previous section just passed through the territory of Xingyang.

Sun Tzu has a saying in the Art of War, "A soldier is also treacherous." Therefore, it can be shown but cannot be used, it is not used to show it, it is near and it is far away, and it is far away and it is shown to be near. Profit and temptation, chaos and take. ”

Cao Cao's method of dealing with Xu Rong's false Xingyang conspiracy was to "show that it can't be used, and use it but don't use it", while strengthening the camp, pretending to be strictly guarded, while sending elite men and horses, the sentinel detectives from the chasm water to the Bianshui all the way Dong Jun's virtual reality, and after finding out the range of the other party's scouts, Cao Cao suddenly ordered the whole army, pulled out the camp and marched quickly, with Xiahou Yuan as the vanguard, along the chasm water-Bianshui, bypassing the Putianze and other roads with dense water networks, and driving directly to Xingyang City.

Originally, Xu Rong thought that with the speed of the horse riding in Xiliangjing, he could be the first to arrive when Cao Cao's army pulled out the camp and marched westward, and then calmly arranged to ambush and raid Cao Cao's army halfway.

Unexpectedly, Cao Cao successfully deceived the scouts sent by Xu Rong, making Xu Rong mistakenly think that Cao Cao was still reinforcing the camp and had no intention of sending troops for the time being.

Xu Rong also used this strategy when he was in Yuyuan Pass, but the embarrassment of the soldiers and horses in Yuzhou also lowered his vigilance against the soldiers and horses in the Kwantung Prefecture, Cao Cao was only a small force among the people and horses in the Kwantung Prefecture, and he had not made any achievements in military affairs before, so Xu Rong, who had just won the victory, still despised him in his heart.

Fortunately, at this time, Yan Xing's caution and attention played a role, and the rapid march of Cao Cao's forward men and horses was discovered by the second batch of scouts, and soon, this important information was transmitted back to Chenggao by the fast horse.

Xu Rong, who got this information, although he was shocked in his heart, immediately reacted, and he immediately asked Li Meng to lead 3,000 light cavalry to Xingyang quickly, so as to delay the march of Cao Cao's army and disrupt their original plan to attack Xingyang.

As a result, Li Meng's light cavalry troops were ordered to rush forward.

Just thirty miles east of Xingyang, the light cavalry of the Xiliang soldiers and the Xiahou Yuan troops, the vanguard of the Cao army, encountered, and Li Meng, who led the troops, didn't have time to think about it, so he wanted to use the cavalry charge to directly break the advance of the Cao army.

Unexpectedly, Sima Xiahou Yuan, who led the troops in the vanguard of the Cao army, was also a brave and brave man, and in the face of the impact of the cavalry, he did not panic, and ordered the spearmen to immediately form a formation and defend, while he took a small number of cavalry to counterattack Li Meng's light cavalry.

After a short fight, Xiahou Yuan took the lead in withdrawing from the battlefield with the defeated cavalry, and Li Meng, who was pinned, was unable to decisively grasp the opportunity, and then broke the foot soldiers of the Cao army's forward.

The two sides successively withdrew from the battle, so a confrontation began, Xiahou Yuan stepped up to let the pawns set up antlers to defend against the charge of the Xiliang soldiers, and on the other hand, he also sent flying horses to report to Cao Cao, who was leading the army and was rushing to report the encounter on the front line.

Li Meng's side sent light cavalry to cover the battlefield to prevent the Cao army's forward from escaping and the arrival of the main force of the Cao army, and also sent Xu Rong's army to the rear to report on the situation of Cao's army's advance.

The distance from Zhongmu to Xingyang is more than twice that of Chenggao to Xingyang, if it is according to Xu Rong's original plan, when Cao Cao leads the army westward, he will also personally lead the cavalry to the east, and the cavalry troops of the Xiliang soldiers are more, and the speed and mobility are much faster, and they can arrive at Xingyang within half a day, and then wait for work, set up an ambush in advance, attack the Cao Cao army that traveled long distances in the field, and had no land to rely on.

But now, the whereabouts of Cao Cao's army successfully deceived Xu Rong's scouts, which allowed Cao Cao's army to catch up with Xu Rong's soldiers and horses, and join the battlefield of the encounter between the two sides in the field of Xingyang City in advance.

After Cao Cao received the report that his forward Xiahou Yuan encountered the Xiliang cavalry, although he was a little surprised that the reaction and marching speed of the Xiliang soldiers and horses were much faster than he imagined, but now, his army has poured out, in order to surprise and capture Xingyang City in one fell swoop.

At present, although Xiahou Yuan's forward men and horses were discovered by Xiliang's light cavalry, and also fought an encounter, Cao Cao's army's intention to surprise attack Xingyang City has failed, but Cao Cao is not easily discouraged, not to mention that his own soldiers and horses cannot retreat in such a hurry at the moment, otherwise it will not only greatly damage the morale of their own soldiers and horses, but also once the cavalry of Xiliang's army arrives, their own side will immediately collapse the end of the whole army.

Therefore, after Cao Cao's 30,000 soldiers and horses accelerated their pace and arrived at the battlefield, Cao Cao just sent troops to expel the light cavalry of the Xiliang soldiers who were covering the battlefield, and then led his troops to slowly retreat in the direction of Bianshui in the northeast.

Li Meng saw that after the main force of Cao Cao's army rushed to the battlefield, he neither attacked nor looked like he was going to retreat, he had fought with Cao's army before, and found that the Cao army on the opposite side was not without the strength to fight, so he also put away his contempt. Because he was worried that he would be ambushed by the other party by attacking rashly, the light cavalry of the Xiliang soldiers was only far behind the Cao army, and then Li Meng sent additional cavalry to the rear and asked Xu Rong's main force for support.

After Xu Rong also took his own troops and horses, together with some of the defenders of Chenggao, a total of more than 10,000 cavalry, and felt the battlefield, Li Mengcai, who had been waiting for a long time, joined forces with Xu Rong and prepared to attack Cao Cao's soldiers and horses who had withdrawn to the edge of Bianshui to build a position and wait in formation.

Surrounded by many guards and knights, Xu Rong rode his horse majestically to the edge of Bianshui, looking at the 30,000 horses of the Cao army relying on the defense of the Bianshui formation, Xu Rong couldn't help frowning slightly, but he then smiled again, ordered all the generals under him, and rode his horse to the nearest hill with him, and got a bird's-eye view of the military formation formed by the Cao army on the edge of the Bianshui.

This was originally the place where Xu Rong expected to ambush the Cao army who had traveled a long distance, but now, the geographical advantage has been occupied by the Cao army, which was one step ahead of time, and the attack and defense changed hands, and it became the Cao army's side to wait for work, quietly waiting for the attack of Xu Rong's Xiliang soldiers.

Xu Rong became silent after stationing his horse, raised his eyes and scanned the military formation of Cao's army in the distance, Cao Cao's army was divided into three parts, Cao Cao personally led his 5,000 headquarters men and horses and neighboring new people, as the middle army, and Bao Xin, as the left army, had the most soldiers and horses, he divided 7,000 men and horses, and gathered the 3,000 soldiers and horses of Weizi of the right army to lay out the defense line of the right army.

At the same time, Cao Cao was not worried about Wei Zi's ability to command in battle, although Wei Zi was also famous for his talent and learning, and he was filial piety, but after all, he was a Confucian student, so Cao Cao sent the Xiahou brothers to the right army to assist Wei Zi in commanding the right army.

The three armies were mainly Cao Cao's central army, but they were the least numerous, only 7,000, while the soldiers and horses of the left and right armies, the left army had more than 10,000 soldiers, and the right army also had 10,000 soldiers.

Between each large array, there were countless small formations that were layered on top of each other, Cao Cao used the chariots in the army as the front rejection, and the gap between each chariot was supplemented by a long spearman and halberders, the archers were concentrated in the center of the Chinese army, and the cavalry was scattered behind the left and right armies.

Xu Rong looked at the hill for a while before he slowly spoke:

"The array set up by the rebels is the formation of Yuli, the second and third sons, can they have a plan to break this enemy formation?"

The formation of Yuli was first used in the battle of Xiangge, when Zheng Zhuang Gong fought against the crusade coalition army of King Huan of Zhou. In this battle, the Zheng army gave up the chariot assault that was commonly used in the Central Plains vassal states in the past, and the chariot battle formation that the infantry kept up with, and instead arranged the infantry on the left and right and rear of each chariot.

On the surface, this formation seems to weaken the attack power of its own formation, but in fact, because of the closer coordination of infantry and vehicles, the attack power of the Yuli formation has not only been significantly improved, but also more solid than the traditional vehicle battle formation in terms of defense.

Therefore, in the battle of Xiangge, the Zheng army, which adopted a new type of battle formation, successfully defeated the Zhou coalition army that came to crusade, and the king of Zhou Huan, who was pro-conquest, was also hit by an arrow in the shoulder, and the only remaining face of the Zhou royal family was also defeated in this battle.

Cao Cao is now in a formation with his back to the water, and he has laid out the Yuli array, just to rely on the Bianshui behind him and the chariot that is rejected in front to offset the advantage of the Xiliang Iron Cavalry in frontal impact and roundabout outflanking when facing the foot soldiers.

Because he led his troops to join the battlefield in advance, he was able to calmly arrange them at this moment, and the large and small formations of the Cao army, in front and back, left and right, echoed each other, like the momentum of a dignified array.

Xu Kun had been observing the formation laid out by Cao Jun, and after he heard Xu Rong's inquiry, he was the first to speak up and said:

"General, you see that although this rebel army is in formation, there is still an open space behind its formation, and this is the only flaw in its formation. If our army can mobilize most of the soldiers and horses that are mounted in front to contain the rebels, and then select the elite cavalry, and make a roundabout rear, the general flag of the rebel army is located, and the rebel army is mostly archers, and it is difficult to resist when we are charged by our iron cavalry. ”

"As soon as the Chinese army was broken, the left and right parts of the rebels were cut off by our cavalry. In this way, our army will be able to take advantage of the situation and press the whole army, break through the enemy formation, and defeat the rebels! ”

Xu Kun's strategy was obviously something he had thought about after some consideration, and Xu Kun, who was quite proud in his conversation, said it reasonably, and some of the generals around him also nodded while listening, and they almost praised the good plan.

However, after Xu Rong listened, his face was expressionless, but he shook his head and retorted directly:

"This is a child's view, since ancient times, the method of arranging the formation, the most taboo is to guard to the death, the kind of formation that is laid into a tortoiseshell-like formation, is a dead formation, not a moment of critical survival, can not be implemented, otherwise there is no need for the enemy to attack, the two armies face off slightly, and the party that arranges the formation is trapped and trapped."

"This Cao Mengde, although he did not know the name of the soldier in the past, but in terms of the formation laid out in front of him, he is a person who is proficient in military strategy, the open space in the rear, our cavalry can break through, and the cavalry of the other side can not assemble in advance, compared with the two, our army's elite cavalry is outnumbered, and it is inevitable that there will be more defeats and fewer victories, and it is not feasible to go around the rear!"