Early the next morning, Lu Su, Zhao Yun, and Tai Shici sent someone to report.

Among them, Lu Su and Zhao Yun were both in the established position and ready to be deployed, and Tai Shici said that the reinforcements of the past 15,000 troops had been properly placed.

After Zhao Feng read the news, he turned his head to look at Xiong Da: "Go and inform Wei Yan that he will be in charge of training for the time being with 50,000 recruits and 30,000 cavalry." ”

Xiong Da bowed his hand to Zhao Feng: "Huh! ”

After speaking, he turned around and withdrew from the Chinese army's big tent.

In the past, the recruits were all trained by Lu Su, and the cavalry was also supplemented by Zhao Yun and Wei Yan, who were responsible for training.

Now that Lu Su and Zhao Yun have left with their troops, the task of training new recruits can only be entrusted to Wei Yanlai.

Before nightfall that day, a sentry rode into the big tent of the Chinese army and bowed his hand to Zhao Feng: "Lord Qi, General Taishi asked his subordinates to report." ”

"Cao Jun has already appeared in Yin, Henan, and at noon tomorrow, the army will be in the city!"

Zhao Feng nodded: "I know, let Tai Shi Ci pay attention to the city defense." ”

The sentry knight bowed his hand to Zhao Feng: "Huh! ”

After speaking, he turned around and withdrew from the Chinese army's big tent.

The next day, a sentry cavalry ran into the big tent of the Chinese army and bowed his hand to Zhao Feng: "Lord Qi, General Zhang asked his subordinates to come down and report." ”

"The Cao army outside Liangxian County has only more than 10,000 people!"

After Zhao Feng heard this, he was stunned for a moment, but he didn't expect that the army that attacked Liang County would actually have more than 10,000 people.

In this way, not to mention that there are still 15,000 cavalry of Huaxiong in Yangrenju, even if there is no cavalry of Huaxiong, it is impossible for the army of more than 10,000 people to take Liang County, where Zhang Yan is stationed.

In this respect, Cao Jun looks as if he is doing useless work.

But if it is to attract attention, there is no need for the more than 10,000 troops to show their heads to let Zhang Yan know the specific troop situation.

At least without Zhao Feng's knowledge, Huaxiong's cavalry will still be stationed in Yangrenju to make a response.

And now that he knows the specific situation, Zhao Feng has the idea of transferring Huaxiong back to Mi County.

Just thinking about it, Cao Cao can't do useless work, so what is the purpose of the deployment on the Liang County side?

After a while, he couldn't figure it out, and Zhao Feng waved his hand: "I know, let Zhang Yan guard Liang County." ”

The sentry knight bowed his hand to Zhao Feng: "Huh! ”

After speaking, he turned around and withdrew from the Chinese army's big tent.

After noon, a sentry rode into the big tent of the Chinese army and bowed his hand to Zhao Feng: "Lord Qi, General Taishi, let your subordinates come to report." ”

"Cao Jun's army of about 100,000 is already about to enter the city!"

After Zhao Feng heard this, he groaned.

Cao Cao's army attacking Xinzheng was about 100,000, even if it was 12 or 30,000, plus more than 10,000 troops in Liang County, it would be 140,000 or 50,000 troops.

In the spring of this year, Cao Cao led an army of 120,000 to attack Yin in Henan, and Cao Pi's army of more than 30,000 to attack from Liangxian.

If you count the 50,000 or so troops of Xiahoudun and Xiahou Yuan, there should be about 200,000 troops in total.

Now, even if he throws out some large army numbers, Cao Cao still has more than 50,000 troops, and he doesn't know where to hide.

If there is not much discrepancy in the current number of troops, then Cao Cao still has an army of about 80,000 and does not know where to go!

In addition to Changshe and Xudu, it is inevitable to arrange some large armies to sit in the town in case of accidents, at least 40,000 troops are lurking somewhere.

Zhao Feng spread out the map and carefully looked at every place on the map.

Then imagine that he is now in Cao Cao's position, and he still has 40,000 troops in his hands, where he should be dispatched, so as to achieve the effect of taking him by surprise and attacking him unprepared.

But after analyzing a circle, Zhao Feng found that there should be no obvious shortcomings on his side.

In other words, even if Cao Cao asked these 40,000 troops to attack Dongjun, Jiyin County, Shanyang County, Donghai County, and Xiapi County, it would not have much impact on Zhao Feng.

After all, in these counties, Zhao Feng also garrisoned the garrison army.

Not to mention that it can completely resist the attack of these 40,000 troops, but at least it can hold on for a long time.

And with Cao Cao's current situation, he should want to win quickly and delay time, which is not good for him.

In addition, Zhao Feng wished that Cao Cao would divide his troops to attack other places.

Because elsewhere, it simply won't play a critical role.

It's just that Zhao Feng watched for a long time, and he didn't notice how Cao Cao would dispatch another 40,000 troops.

After no result, Zhao Feng put away the map and looked at the sentry horse: "Go back and tell Tai Shici to guard Xinzheng." ”

The sentry knight bowed his hand to Zhao Feng: "Huh! ”

With that, he turned around and exited the chamber.

After dark.

A sentry rode into the big tent of the Chinese army and bowed his hand to Zhao Feng: "Lord Qi, General Taishi asked his subordinates to send an urgent report!" ”

After speaking, he put the emergency report in his hand and presented it with both hands.

Xiong Da walked directly to the sentry horse, took the paperwork with both hands, and then handed it over to Zhao Feng.

After Zhao Feng opened the paperwork, he just glanced at it, and then frowned deeply.

The content of Tai Shi Ci's urgent report is that a large number of catapults appeared in the Cao army and were besieging the city.

Today is only an afternoon, and our army has suffered heavy losses.

Of course, because of the adequate preparation of the city defense, Cao Jun did not get any benefits.

But after all, there is a huge disparity in strength, and Xinzheng has less than 20,000 defenders, while Cao Cao's side is five times that of Xinzheng's defenders.

If 10,000 people were killed in the same battle, half of the troops were lost here, and Cao's army was also lost.

Of course, because the battle was fierce and went on until it was almost dark, Tai Shi Ci sent someone to send an urgent report, and there was no statistics on casualties for the time being.

But since it was a heavy loss, it was obviously about thirty percent of the army killed and wounded, that is, about five thousand casualties!

It's just an afternoon.

According to this situation, within three days, Xinzheng would not be able to hold on.

After Zhao Feng finished reading it, he rubbed his temples, this situation is really difficult to deal with.

In the past, although other princes used catapults, they were only used on a small scale.

And like Cao Cao, this is the first time that such a large-scale use has been made.

After all, there are few catapults, and aside from the effect, as long as the cavalry raids once, the catapults can be destroyed, and the real effect is limited.

In addition, the training of catapult personnel is also time-consuming.

After all, the current catapult basically only uses a simple lever principle, and if you want to throw the stone relatively accurately, the cooperation between soldiers is very important.

Otherwise, in the case of different forces, maybe the stone will fall on your own head.

Therefore, while destroying the catapult, as long as it effectively kills and injures some catapult soldiers, it will take a while for them to resume the effective use of the catapult.

And this time, Cao Cao relied on his own soldiers and catapults, Zhao Feng really wanted to send cavalry to destroy it, and he didn't know how many cavalry would be killed or wounded.

The point is that it is also a question whether all the catapults can be destroyed in the end.

After all, Cao Cao had this army of about 100,000 on his side, so it was obviously impossible to sit back and watch the catapult being destroyed!