After Yuan Shang built a strategic defense on Liyang's side, he naturally would not forcibly attack the defensive line built by Pang Yan and Zhuge Liang in Chaoge.

Therefore, Yuan Shang only left a partial army to garrison Dangyin to prevent the Zhu Wei army of Pang Yan's department from sneaking up on Yecheng, and then marched the main army to Liyang to garrison.

In the end, the Yuan army assembled by Yuan Shang in Liyang was about 100,000 main elites, and other auxiliary troops and young and strong civilian troops recruited from various places were roughly 60,000 or 70,000.

At the same time, Yuan Shang took Liyang County as the core base camp on the north bank of the Yellow River, arranged the camp of his garrison all the way to the north bank of the Yellow River, and even built a naval army village on the north bank of the Yellow River to prevent Zhu Wei's army from crossing the river and fighting here.

Of course, Zhu Weijun did not necessarily need to cross the Yellow River Valley, where Liyang was located, so Yuan Shangjun put on such a defensive position, in fact, he also relied on the natural danger of the Yellow River as his back to avoid being flanked by Zhu Weijun.

Although Zhu Weijun's Ganning Jiangjiao battalion now controls the Yellow River waterway, it is not easy for Zhu Weijun to cross the river in the Yellow River basin where Liyang is located.

At the same time, Yuan Shang could also force the Yellow River to avoid the pursuit of Zhu Wei's army when the battle in front was unfavorable, which could be regarded as leaving a way for Yuan Shang to retreat.

Of course, at this time, Yuan Shang's military intentions had already been clearly understood by Zhu Wei's side.

Originally, Zhu Wei was also a little puzzled when he received an urgent report from Pang Yan and Zhuge Liang, and then checked the movements of the Yuan army through the Three Kingdoms game map, but now that Yuan Shang has made such a strategic decision, several military advisors and strategists on Zhu Wei's side have studied and discussed it, but they also have corresponding countermeasures.

Jia Xu even set a clear Northern Expedition strategy for Zhu Wei, since Yuan Shang was ready to start a decisive battle with Zhu Wei's army in Liyang, it could satisfy his wishes, and when Zhu Wei's army went on a northern expedition, he could completely eliminate the main force of Yuan's army in Liyang in one fell swoop.

Therefore, in the face of Yuan Shang's military arrangement in Liyang, after Zhu Weijun officially held the Northern Expedition ceremony in Puyang City, the army also crossed the Yellow River directly in the Yellow River valley north of Puyang, with the assistance of Ganning's Jiangjiao camp and naval army.

Subsequently, Zhu Wei asked Gan Ning's Jiangjiao camp to return to the Yellow River valley on the Liyang side, and blocked Yuan Shang's water camp on the north bank of the Yellow River, which could be regarded as cutting off Yuan Shang's retreat across the Yellow River.

But then, Zhu Weijun did march to Liyang first.

On October 24, 199 AD, Zhu Weijun's Northern Expeditionary Army came to Liyang, and the final decisive battle between Zhu Weijun and Yuan Shaojun finally kicked off.

With the forward troops of Zhu Wei's army, after a certain defense of Yuan Shangjun in Liyang was carried out at the forefront, the main army in the rear also began to build a camp about five miles away from Yuan Shangjun.

In this way, there was nothing to say on the first day, and on the second day, Zhu Wei personally led the main force of the army and came to the camp that Yuan Shang had built about three miles outside Liyang.

As Zhu Wei's army stabilized its position, Zhu Wei sent a loud herald to let Yuan Shang come out to speak, and the two sides were to have a pre-war conversation as usual.

However, Yuan Shang's side obviously had no intention of talking, so the herald sent by Zhu Wei shouted several times, but only got a cold arrow response.

It was also thanks to the great life of this herald that he quickly lay back, dodged the feather arrows that came at his eyebrows, and then turned around and fled back to the formation of his own army.

Zhu Wei was naturally furious when he saw this, and immediately ordered the army to go into battle and break through Yuan Shangjun's peripheral military village, and for a while, Zhu Wei's Tai Shici's divine arrow battalion was pushing various equipment in the direction of Yuan Shangjun's military village and slowly approached the past.

"Knock knock, knock knock......"

A deafening drum sound sounded in Zhu Wei's army, and each drum seemed to accompany the advancing footsteps of Zhu Wei's soldiers, and the ground of the entire battlefield seemed to shake slightly with the footsteps.

However, Yuan Shangjun's military village was still quiet, and he could only see the Yuan soldiers on the wall of the military camp coldly watching Zhu Weijun advance, and he could also see that the archers of Yuan Army were also bending their bows and arrows on the arrow tower behind the camp wall, ready to shoot feather arrows outward.

Obviously, Yuan Shangjun did not have such a device as a catapult, so the defensive weapons that Yuan Shangjun could use so far were mainly feather arrows and crossbow arrows.

It's just that this kind of formation put on by Yuan Shangjun also has a bit of a strange taste, Zhu Wei was on the command platform of the army in the rear, frowned slightly, and asked Jia Xu who was standing next to him, "Wen Hegong, what kind of idea does this Yuan Shang have, this seems to be a little wrong!" ”

"Or there is a trick in front of the camp, lord, you need to guard against traps!"

Jia Xu was also a little inexplicable at first, this Yuan Shangjun put on such a posture, it was really weird, and suddenly he looked at the ground in front of Yuan Shangjun's camp that seemed to be gentle, and there were no obstacles such as wooden pillars and antlers, as if he saw something from the vibration of the dust on the ground.

When Zhu Wei heard this, he hurriedly came, and asked the whole army to shout three times to remind Tai Shici who was fighting in front, so the tens of thousands of soldiers who stayed in the rear immediately shouted together, "Be careful of trapping!" Beware of pitfalls! The former army beware of trapping! ”

This shout rushed forward like a tidal wave, which naturally made the commander Tai Shi Ci who was fighting in front of him hear it, so Tai Shi Ci also hurriedly rushed forward, slowing down the charge of the army in front.

After a while, the herald rushed to the vanguard army at the front pushing the tiger cart knife wall, "The general has an order, be careful of the pit, let people come forward to investigate!" ”

"No!"

At the forefront of the vanguard was Bao Long, the commander of the Divine Arrow Battalion, and at this moment he immediately sent more than a thousand sword and shield men, rushed forward quickly, raised his hand shield in the forefront, and carefully stepped on the ground with his feet to detect possible traps.

As a result, about fifty paces away from the wall of Yuan Shangjun's camp, a long row of traps was found, on which the bark of a wooden frame was used as a cover, and then sand was sprinkled to cover it.

In fact, this is the defensive chasm dug by Yuan Shangjun, almost across the front of the camp.

No wonder Yuan Shang refused to come out and talk to Zhu Wei before the battle, if he came out, he would inevitably need to build a drawbridge over the chasm trap, then this trap would be completely meaningless.

Originally, Yuan Shang still thought that after the forward of Zhu Weijun fell into the trap, it would inevitably cause chaos in the front army, so he opened the camp gate and lowered the drawbridge, and sent a cavalry to rush and kill, which could naturally defeat the first attack of Zhu Weijun.

Yuan Shang was able to win the first battle between the two sides, which could greatly improve the morale of his own side and weaken the morale of Zhu Weijun, which could be regarded as a clever strategy to kill multiple birds with one stone.

It's just that Yuan Shang didn't expect such a strange reaction from his side, which made Zhu Wei suspicious, and he actually saw through the trap gap he placed in front of the military village, so Zhu Weijun naturally wouldn't fall into the chasm and cause chaos in the military array......