In Yangzhou and Yuzhou, Cao's army was completely powerless to resist the New Han army. Especially compared with the New Han Army in Xuzhou, Qingzhou, and Jizhou, the battlefield in the south seems to have more troops of the New Han Army, and the generals of the New Han Army are gathered. It can be said that the famous generals have gathered.

Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Huang Zhong, Huang Xu, father and son, Ma Chao, Wei Yan, etc., Sun Ce, Zhou Yu, and all Jiangdong generals on the Jiangdong side, in addition, Gan Ning once led the naval army to participate in the war in the south.

In this way, Cao's army is incomparable in terms of generals, troops, and weapons and equipment. Now, Cao Hong's troops ransacked Shouchun City, which also caused Cao's army to lose the hearts of the people on the southern battlefield.

In just half a month after the incident in Shouchun City, the New Han Army recovered almost the entire area of Yuzhou and Yangzhou.

At present, in the southern battlefield, the New Han Army has begun to govern the locality, and the army is mobilized, assembled and rectified a little, and then begins to advance to Yingchuan, Yingyin and other towns.

On the battlefield in Xuzhou, because only Gan Ning led the naval army to occupy Xiapi City, Gan Ning's naval army actually only dispatched about 200,000 military horses. Moreover, now Gan Ning has to be responsible for escorting grain and grass and other materials to the north by sea to support Gongsun Du's army who crossed the Bohai Sea from western Liaoning to seize Shandong. Therefore, after Gan Ning captured Xiapi, in fact, in a short period of time, it is unlikely that he will immediately send troops to attack Xuzhou City. Only a part of the military horses can be dispatched, with Picheng as the center. Attack the surrounding towns.

Originally, the military horses of Gan Ning's department had to wait until the New Han Army on the Beihai side of Qingzhou went south to enter Xuzhou before developing around. After all. There are still quite a lot of Cao troops who stayed in Xuzhou, and in terms of generals, there are also many generals who were once prominent. Many of the old generals of Yuan Shao and Lu Bu actually voted for Cao Cao, and most of the generals were sent by Cao Cao to Xuzhou to guard various towns. Therefore, Gan Ning also had to consider when he sent his troops and horses out to attack the cities of Xuzhou. Will Cao's army concentrate its forces to attack all the way, so that his own military horses may cause damage.

In fact. The generals of the Three Kingdoms, Liu Yi divided them into first-class, second-rate or super-first-class, this is actually just Liu Yi's personal opinion, and. Basically, it is only based on some accounts of later generations and their own likes and dislikes. Purely by force, it is divided into several ranks. But in fact, there are not so many military generals on the battlefield who are heads-up, and not every war must have a heads-up general.

Therefore, sometimes, there are resourceful generals, and even strategists. It is possible to use a strategy to kill the super general.

Besides, don't look at the battle between the New Han army and the enemy. Such as Zhao Yun, Tai Shici, Dian Wei, etc., when the two armies were fighting, they single-handedly entered the enemy's large array at every turn. In fact, this kind of combat method is very dangerous. No one can come and go freely in the midst of thousands of troops. Every time they rush into battle like that, in fact, they can only be so powerful under a specific environmental condition.

Under normal circumstances, it is to lead the army to charge into battle, and there will be his own soldiers and generals behind to cover him. Otherwise, the enemy's morale is low and he has no intention of facing the enemy, or if he strikes, he will kill the enemy soldiers nearby in fear and dare not come closer. But no matter what, the reason why the generals who rushed into the formation dared to enter the enemy formation was that the key was a punching word.

It must be fast, so that it is difficult for the enemy archers to aim, because it is fast, so when you charge into battle, you are not facing too many enemy soldiers, just the enemy in front. In the past, Zhao Yun single-handedly rushed into the Yuan Shao army to kill Luoyang, which was the case. The morale of the enemy army is already low, and among its coalition forces, they are pulling each other's hind legs and not working together. When Zhao Yun broke into the enemy formation, he was extremely fast, and he went directly towards the enemy's main general, killing the current enemy general who was invincible, so that when his main general avoided his edge, it led to the chaos of the entire army, and no one still had the heart to resist.

In the past, when Guan Yu and Zhang Fei were fledgling and met with the huge Yellow Turban army, it was almost like this, as soon as they struck, they first killed the main general of the enemy army, and then directly entered the enemy formation in the most aggressive way, rushing back and forth, so as to ensure that they would not fall into the enemy formation and be besieged to death by the enemy.

Moreover, Liu Yi has also tried many hard battles in the enemy formation. The most dangerous thing is the fierce battle when they met the Wuhuan army in the Daxing'an Mountains in the north. At that time, there were hundreds of thousands of enemy troops, and Lewi was single-handedly trapped in the enemy position. However, although there were many enemy troops, due to the limitations of the mountains, there were not too many Wuhuan troops and horses who really participated in the siege of Liu Yi, only tens of thousands of people on the slopes of the mountains. In addition, the only enemy soldiers who can really attack Liu Yi are those who are close to Liu Yi. Then, Liu Yi barred a big tree pole and used brute force to inflict extremely tragic damage on the enemy soldiers, which directly scared the enemy.

However, in such a vicious battle, the strength in Liu Yi's body was consumed very quickly, if the army of Wuhuan had high morale and boiling fighting spirit, and everyone launched a continuous attack on Liu Yi regardless of life and death, and went forward to kill one after another, then Liu Yi would not be able to withstand it. You will definitely be surrounded and killed by the enemy's army.

You know, how many enemy soldiers did Liu Yi kill in total? It was only a few thousand people, and it was only a few thousand people who were killed that made the whole army frightened. This is really Lewi's luck.

Therefore, the current Cao army is not quite the same as the military horses of the Wuhuan alien race at the beginning, and even the military horses of the rest of the princes of the Han Dynasty. The Cao army dared to fight, and when the battle began, it was also quite crazy, and everyone did not want to die in the onslaught. In this way, if there are men and horses of the New Han Army who are surrounded by the Cao army, then it will be more than lucky.

This is also the so-called knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent, so Gan Ning did not rashly let his military horses scatter to attack the city and plunder the land.

Similarly, the New Han Army of Gongsun Du in Qingzhou, also considering that the Cao army in Xuzhou had a relatively large number of troops, did not dare to easily wave the army into Xuzhou. Of course, Tai Shi Ci also had this concern when he went to help him seize the North Sea. I mentioned it to Gongsun Du earlier, and asked him not to be greedy for merit.

Even now, Cao Jun has quietly retreated. The military horses of Xuzhou were withdrawn to the area of Mangdang Mountain to be deployed. However, in the towns of Xuzhou, in fact, there are still a certain number of Cao troops left in the town, and not all of them are withdrawn all at once.

However, because after Cao Hong's plundering of Shouchun spread to Xuzhou, the situation was different.

The people of Xuzhou heard that Cao Jun had committed some atrocities. I noticed that the Cao army in Xuzhou also showed signs of withdrawal, which made the people of Xuzhou panic. They are worried that the Cao army in Xuzhou will also be like the Cao army in Shouchun, and will plunder them at a temporary time.

In this way, under the secret contact of some local scholars and families, as well as the leadership of some local celebrities. For some towns where the garrison is already weak. The people revolted. led the military horses of the New Han army into the city and rebelled against Cao Cao.

Gan Ning and Gongsun Du in Qingzhou sensed this situation in Xuzhou, and they all felt that the opportunity could not be lost, this fighter plane was fleeting, and if they could easily capture some towns in Xuzhou, it would definitely be much better than them to capture them one by one. In this way, Gongsun Du's new Han army. Officially drove into Xuzhou, and Gan Ning's military horse. It also began to recover many towns in Xuzhou.

At this point, although Xuzhou City is still in the hands of Cao Jun, the land of Xuzhou is actually equivalent to the control of the New Han Army.

However, the situation in Yanzhou Jinan is different.

After Zang Ba surrendered to the New Han Dynasty. Cao Ren, who commanded the army in Yanzhou, did not wait for Cao Cao's order, he knew the importance of Jinan to the overall situation.

Therefore, he worked day and night, drawing troops from the Yellow River defense line and quickly transferring them to Jinan. In addition, Zhang He was also invited to rush to Jinan with him to engage the New Han army that had been killed from the mouth of the Yellow River through Mount Tai.

The Yellow River is surging, and it is indeed a little difficult for the New Han Army to cross the river to attack.

Tai Shici and the generals discussed it seriously, and they all felt that if they forcibly crossed the Yellow River, their own casualties would be relatively large. Therefore, after Gongsun Zan and Gongsun Du seized Qingzhou, Tai Shici felt that it was better to transfer troops from Mount Tai to attack Jinan. Advance along the Yellow River all the way to conquer and break through the defensive line laid out by Cao's army in Yanzhou.

Tai Shici's decision should be said to be relatively wise.

The Yellow River and the Yangtze River, these two big rivers, are natural hazards. Since ancient times, it has been used as a dividing line between some forces, and each other has ensured that their foundation is not lost according to these great rivers and natural risks. How many ancient battles took place around the Yellow River and the Yangtze River? Not to mention it far away, let's just say that in the early years of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Battle of Guandu and the Battle of Chibi, these two wars are battles related to who finally wins the world.

Therefore, seeing that it was difficult to cross the river to attack Cao Cao, Tai Shici decisively crossed the river at the mouth of the Yellow River, and the army and Gongsun Zhan's army and horses converged and launched an attack on Jinan City together.

Cao Ren and Zhang He, who were also elite, stationed a large army in a town more than 20 miles north of Jinan City, intending to fight the invading New Han army for a while.

Cao Ren and Zhang He, with a total of 400,000 troops, camped on a north-facing hillside in front of the city.

The barracks of the 400,000-strong army are layered on top of each other, covering a radius of dozens of miles.

In fact, Cao Cao's orders before and after were a bit contradictory. At the beginning, after learning that Zang Ba had returned to the New Han Dynasty, Cao Cao attached great importance to Yanzhou Jinan and ordered Cao Ren to ensure that Jinan was not lost. In particular, Cheng Yu came back to report and informed Cao Cao that although Zang Ba was subordinate to the New Han Dynasty, in this war, Zang Ba considered the relationship with Cao Cao, and out of a certain amount of guilt, agreed to the condition that the two would not help each other. Therefore, Cao Cao hoped that Cao Ren and Zhang He could hold the territory of Jinan for him and the rear of Yanzhou for him. If the New Han army could not cross the Yellow River and could not enter Yanzhou from the Yellow River port, it would mean that Cao Cao could still keep his one-third of an acre of land and still have a chance to deal with the New Han Dynasty. In this way, Cao Cao did not need to rush to make a final decisive battle with the New Han army.

However, now the situation is becoming more and more unfavorable for Cao Cao, and the battlefield in the southeast direction has been defeated and retreated, and Xu Dulai will soon be killed. Therefore, Cao Cao no longer had the luxury of hoping to be able to hold Yanzhou, so not long ago, he gave another order, Cao Ren and Zhang He saw the opportunity to act, and when the situation was not good, he withdrew his troops back to Dongjun and prepared for a final decisive battle with the New Han army.

The problem is that at present, the New Han army has reached Jinan, and it has already confronted Cao Ren's military horses, and he wants to withdraw, but he can't withdraw for a while.

What's more, now Cao Ren and Zhang He, the position of the two armies seems to be beneficial to their Cao army. Because they happened to hold the only way for the New Han army to pass, they took the lead in occupying favorable terrain. In this way, even if the New Han Army wanted to attack them, it was only a point, and it could not directly attack Jinan City.

In fact, if you look down from the air, you can see very clearly that Cao Cao's military horses, like two pincers, blocked a dangerous pass from Mount Tai to Jinan City.

On the side of the New Han Army, it was equivalent to coming out of a mountain pass, but there was not much room left for the New Han Army to set up a formation, just a few miles of open space outside the mountain pass. This made the New Han army, even if it had more troops, but it was not all put on a battle with the Cao army.

At this moment, Tai Shici and Gongsun Zhan, as well as a group of generals, looked at the Cao army camp with battle flags from a small hill outside the mountain pass.

"Annoying! The cavalry led by General Ben had actually passed through a hilly area in front of him one step earlier, but Cao's army had already prepared and arranged too many accompanying obstacles, making it difficult for our cavalry to rush directly to the past. Otherwise, how could Cao Jun limit the attack of our army? Gongsun Chan said a little indignantly.

Tai Shici patted Gongsun Zhan on the shoulder and said with a smile: "Brother Gongsun, don't worry. There will definitely be a way. However, looking at Cao Jun's formation, it seems that it is not simple. Our scouts have heard it clearly. The commanders of the Cao army were Cao Ren and Zhang He. Well, Cao Ren is Cao Cao's leading general, he has always been reused by Cao Cao, all these years, he has been guarding Yanzhou, and the entire Yellow River defense line has been managed by him to the fullest, and now facing him head-on, we also have to be careful, don't fall for his scheme. ”

"Well, be careful, indeed." When Gongsun Zhan heard this, he said thoughtfully: "Not only Cao Ren, but Zhang He can also be regarded as General Ben's old opponent, Zhang He was under Yuan Shao's account in the past, and General Ben also suffered a lot of losses in his hands. This time, General Ben wants to make him look good! ”

It is true that they are all old opponents, when Gongsun Zhan fought with Yuan Shao, many of his generals were killed by Zhang He. Gongsun Zhan himself was also defeated by Zhang He, and the battlefield was chased by Zhang He for dozens of miles.

Of course, in the past, Gongsun Zhan's overall strength was indeed weaker than Yuan Shao's, but now, after submitting to the New Han Dynasty, Gongsun Chan has never worried about his own troops.

Therefore, he really wants to try it now, chasing Zhang Helai to fight, that really isn't too cool! (To be continued.) )