The solution is forced.

At the beginning, Yuan Shao was forced to have no choice, desperate to survive, and resolutely took the initiative to attack, slightly frustrating the offensive momentum of the New Han Army, which gave him the opportunity to arrange the defensive line, so that the New Han Army did not have a rush to attack for the time being, and gave him a breathing time.

Xin Ping was sent to assist Han Meng in guarding Maocheng.

Xin Ping has voted for Yuan Shao for so long, and from time to time he will be sent by Yuan Shao to preside over the internal affairs of some places. In fact, as a strategist, we must not only seek government, but also war. Therefore, which strategist, they will definitely pay close attention to the terrain of the forces they are in.

For the Maocheng area, Xin Ping is naturally very familiar. At the beginning, he also went to Maocheng as an official, although the time was very short, but it was enough for Xin to have a certain understanding of Maocheng.

Xin Ping knew that a Mao city that was not too big, if it was in normal times, its strategic location was not too important. Historically, Maocheng has not been a military town.

Because to the west, is the continuous Taihang Mountains, the north is the Zhao State, and the east is the plain after a mountain range. To say that it is important, it is only relative to Handan in the south, during the Warring States Period, Maocheng briefly became an acropolis in the north of Handan City, but that was just a decoration, because, the enemy from the north is unlikely to attack and kill Maocheng.

However, if you look at it in front of you, Maocheng is particularly important. Because once Maocheng falls, then the soldiers of the New Han Army can directly kill Handan. And Handan, not far from Yecheng, the ancient capital of Handan, although it has been dilapidated. But now, it has also become Yuan Shao's current sphere of influence, except for Yecheng. The most important city.

If you want to hold the line of defense set up by Yuan Shao to attack the New Han Army from the north, you must hold Maocheng and Handan. Others, if the cities of Guangping and Yangping were lost, there were several rivers blocking the plains behind them, which could barely be used as Yuan Shao's defense line to resist the attack of the New Han army. But if Maocheng was lost, then the New Han army could pass directly from the upper reaches of those rivers. bypass the river and kill directly to Handan and Yecheng.

So. Maocheng can't afford to lose!

In fact, in history, it seems that there is really no precedent for being attacked by enemy troops from the direction of Maocheng. But this time, karma will. For the first time, Maocheng seemed so important.

Yuan Shao naturally knew the importance of Maocheng. In the small Maocheng, Yuan Shao left 100,000 military horses, and the about 50,000 defenders who remained in Handan could also gallop to the aid of Maocheng at any time. Also, this time Xin Ping came, Yuan Shao sent another 20,000 military horses for Xin Ping to bring with him.

So. The strength of Maocheng reached 120,000 horses. With the addition of Handan's military horses, there are about 170,000 military horses.

The layers of mountains give Xin Ping, who rushed to Maocheng, a lot of imaginable space.

Originally, after Han Meng went through several battles and survived by almost death, his spirit had been frustrated. He was ordered to defend Maocheng, and he only thought about defending the city, and did not dare to take any more risky actions, even if Yuan Shao had explicitly encouraged the generals, so that they could judge how to fight the war according to the shape of the battlefield. But Han Meng was no longer brave and didn't think much about it.

When Xin Ping arrived, he gave Han Meng a head start, and told him that if he defended Maocheng, Maocheng would be lost. But if you can follow his plan, there may be a glimmer of life.

Xin Ping is not alarmist, because the New Han Army's ability to attack fortifications and the means of attacking fortifications are no longer a secret. Now, the defenders of the city are most afraid of the incessant bombardment of the trebuchets of the Xinhan army, the kind of momentum that will not stop if you don't collapse your city wall, which makes people smell and change.

Han Meng is just a brave and unscrupulous general, and after being woken up by Xin Ping, he naturally obeys Xin Ping's words.

Xin Ping's plan was to exploit the strengths and avoid the weaknesses, and use the advantages that his army could use to attack the shortcomings of the New Han army.

What are the shortcomings of the New Han Army? Before, Yuan Shao had already proved it with some facts.

The first point, that is, no matter what, the New Han army must not be allowed to transport the baggage under their walls. Because trebuchets are the main weapon of the New Han army to attack the city, without this threat to the city wall, the New Han army will never attack the city wall as in the general conventional siege warfare, and will not use the tactics of crowds to fight siege warfare.

Second, it must not be fought head-on with the New Han Army. Because, in the face of the cavalry or infantry of the New Han Army, they were all self-defeating. There are many reasons for this, such as weapons, the reason why the sergeants are well-trained, and the fact that in the military formation of the New Han Army, if there is a bed crossbow for long-range killing, then it will really kill yourself head-on with the New Han Army.

The third point, which has something to do with the second point, is that in the battle with the New Han Army, you must not face the bow and arrow array of the New Han Army, especially never enter the range of the bow and arrow of the New Han Army.

According to various circumstances, it can be concluded that they can only adopt some methods to engage the New Han army.

After such a calculation, the tone of the battle with the New Han Army can be basically determined.

First of all, the New Han army could not be allowed to send the baggage to the city they were defending, which means that if you want to hold Maocheng, you can only take the initiative to attack, find the baggage transport team of the New Han army, and then attack and destroy.

Secondly, if you want to defeat the New Han Army, you must ambush the New Han Army under favorable terrain, and when ambushing, you must first consider the factors that are unfavorable to yourself, and if you are a little unfavorable to your own difficulties, it will be easy for the New Han Army to fight back, such as on the battlefield of Texas, the New Han Army will destroy their 300,000 troops with a fire, and this kind of thing must not happen again. Also, combat is also very important, and you must not get caught up in a real entanglement with the New Han Army. This is also Yuan Shao's proof with blood and tears, whether it is a frontal battle or an ambush battle, as long as they fall into a pinch battle, in the process of hand-to-hand combat, the strong soldiers of the New Han Army will let them see what it is to kill the gods, and they will regret it.

To sum up, Xin Ping concluded that it is the word harassment. Take advantage of the favorable terrain and give the New Han army a blow. Then, with one blow, before the New Han Army counterattacked. Withdraw immediately, and then look for an opportunity to attack.

This, in fact, is a bit of a way of guerrilla warfare in later generations, and it is also the attack method of alien rangers, but the tactics that Xin Ping thinks of are a little more complicated. Because of the various reasons for promoting strengths and avoiding weaknesses. When it comes to it, there are a lot more restrictions.

But this is a glimmer of life in Maocheng, Xin Ping and Han Meng. There is no choice left.

Therefore, in this layered mountain, Yuan Shao's 100,000 army is actually hidden.

Of course, the terrain is limited. Xin Ping is very clear about it. It is impossible for him to concentrate 100,000 military horses together to carry out a large-scale attack on the New Han Army, because the spies of the New Han Army are everywhere, and the slightest movement will cause them to be discovered by the New Han Army. If they are discovered by the New Han Army, they will lose the meaning of the ambush, and they will have to worry about being counterattacked by the New Han Army.

Zhao Guocheng is not too far from Maocheng, but it is more than a hundred miles away.

Zhao Yun and Zhao Guocheng set off. I didn't walk more than half of the distance, and there were still dozens of miles to reach the city of Maocheng. But. What made Zhao Yun feel solemn was that this march had already been ambushed by Yuan's army several times.

Of course, the casualties of Yuan Jun's ambush on his own army were not large, and the impact was not too great, and it can even be said that Yuan Jun's ambush on his own army was just a joke. Because, the Yuan army that ambushed himself did not have many troops, and the most time was only hundreds of men and horses, they were hiding in the mountains, and in the process of their own army, they suddenly launched an attack on their own army, and the method of attack was very obscene, just pushing down some rolling stones and trees from the mountain, or casting cold arrows on their marching army on the mountain. Then, regardless of whether they inflicted any damage on the Xinhan army, they immediately fled as soon as they succeeded in the blow, so that their army could not catch up.

There are dozens, hundreds of people, but never more than a thousand. It was impossible for Zhao Yun to send a large army to carry out a large-scale mountain search attack on those small Yuan soldiers.

In this way, Zhao Yun felt that the situation was a bit strict.

The scout spies of the New Han Army actually released the marching army of the New Han Army several miles away, and if there was an ambush of the enemy, the New Han Army would definitely be the first to notice it. However, the scouts have reconnaissance, but only for the enemy's army, only for those specific terrain, whether there will be enemy troops lurking, with the intention of attacking and ambushing their own army. It was impossible for them to conduct a careful search of the surrounding areas where their troops had passed. For a mountain, there are dozens or hundreds of enemy soldiers lurking, this is really difficult to detect.

Therefore, only those small Yuan troops could succeed in the ambush and leave with one blow.

Such tactics are really quite obscene.

And Zhao Yun felt a little solemn in his heart, that is, when would Yuan Jun have such a new tactic against his new Han army? Moreover, when did the soldiers of the Yuan Army have such courage to ambush their own army with such a small amount of troops?

Zhao Yun knew that such a situation must not be allowed to go crazy. If once Yuan Jun knew that such an attack method seemed to make the New Han Army helpless against them, then they really thought that they would be able to seize the weakness of the New Han Army in this way, and they would be able to rely on such tactics to deal with the New Han Army. In fact, the Xinhan Army is no stranger to this kind of attack, and Liu Yi has told them many times about this kind of attack.

This type of attack can be considered unsolvable in certain terrains. Zhao Yun was a little worried, if the Yuan army was allowed to proceed like this, in the future, which force and princes would learn such tactics, then it would bring a lot of trouble to the New Han Army, at least, it would cause many soldiers of the New Han Army to lose their lives for no reason.

Of course, for such an attack, the New Han Army is not without a way to deal with it. Really speaking, the New Han Army's use of such tactics can be said to be the ancestor of the Yuan Army.

However, Zhao Yun thought that if he wanted to crack Yuan Jun's attack method in particular. Then his army will be dragged in this mountain range, and for a while, I am afraid that it will be difficult to attack and kill under Maocheng. In this way, it is contrary to the action plan discussed by Xi Zhicai, Tai Shici and others. Unable to launch an attack on Yuan Shao's defensive city at the same time as them on time.

Zhao Yun raised his hand to stop the army in front of a mountain road facing mountains on both sides, and did not immediately lead the army into Tongguò. Because, for the time being, although there is no scout return, on the mountains on both sides, whether there are ambushes of the Yuan army, but intuitively, Zhao Yun believes that it is inevitable that there will be a small number of ambushes of the Yuan army on the mountain, at this time. They must be ready to attack their own military horses at any time.

Zhao Yun immediately stood in front of the two mountain gorges, frowning and pondering.

Zhao Yun was considering at this moment that although he led 50,000 troops and horses first. But there was a large army to follow, and there was a baggage team. Among the baggage team, there are many mobilized Zhao people, if the baggage team is attacked by a small number of soldiers of the Yuan army, causing casualties, all the way to Maocheng, I am afraid that it will accumulate a lot. Even. Zhao Yun was a little worried about whether this would affect the morale of his New Han Army and whether it would affect the image of the New Han Army among the people.

I am afraid that it is not appropriate to continue the march in this way. If it is difficult to even calm the road, it is difficult to have safety at all, and let your soldiers and people make senseless sacrifices, then what is the point of taking Maocheng? This is the road from Zhao to Maocheng. It's definitely not going to be a march. In the future, countless military horses will go to this road every day. If you keep being attacked by the Yuan army, it will make your New Han army and the people miserable.

That's it, Zhao Yun made a sudden decision and immediately summoned his generals to order. He ordered someone to immediately send a fast horse to Guangzong to inform the military division of Xi Zhicai and explain to him the situation encountered by his army. Sue Sù Xi Zhicai that he temporarily stopped his attack on Maocheng. First clear the mountainous areas from Zhao to Maocheng.

Immediately, Zhao Yun immediately ordered that the Xinhan army no longer march on the normal marching route, and immediately took battalions and tuns as units, small enough to be a hundred people, immediately scattered, searched and advanced to the surrounding mountains, and swept out the Yuan army lurking between the mountains, and killed them. In addition, it is necessary to keep an eye on it at all times to see if there is a large army of the Yuan army hiding in the mountains, and if there is a large army of the Yuan army, immediately send a signal to light the beacon fire, and then, all the new Han army will converge at the place of the beacon fire, seeking a chance to compete with the Yuan army.

The 50,000 mixed army that Zhao Yun transferred to Tai Shi Ci just came in handy, and these infantry troops were especially good at mountain and forest warfare, and they could be used to search the mountains and forests.

Of course, there is a New Han Army infantry searching on the mountain, and there will be cavalry of the New Han Army at the bottom of the mountain to respond. In this way, as long as there were Yuan soldiers hidden on the mountain, it would be difficult for them to escape safely.

Therefore, many times, I am afraid that the New Han Army will be serious. It's not that the New Han Army can't help them, it's that the New Han Army attaches importance to them and whether they will destroy them immediately.

At this time, the soldiers of the Yuan army were miserable.

It also made Xin Ping think that such a targeted attack on the New Han Army would receive wonderful results, but he soon found that what he received was only a bitter fruit, and it was not easy for him to recall the 100,000 military horses scattered in the mountains and forests.

A group of Yuan soldiers numbered about two hundred.

They carefully searched for a hidden place.

It's a small, bare hill with a top that isn't very high. A small hill is connected to a slightly taller mountain.

On one side of the mountain mouth, there is a small cliff, and below the small cliff, there is a mountain road leading to Maocheng. On the top of the small cliff, they can have a glimpse of the situation under the mountain road, and on the top, they can attack the new Han army on the mountain road with a rolling stone, and they can shoot the new Han army below with bows and arrows on it, but the new Han army can't help them.

They were particularly proud of the fact that the bare summit of the hill did not seem to be conducive to ambush, and below, it was not easy to notice that there was a cliff platform above. In addition, there is a natural cave that can hide more than 100 people.

In the cave, they had already avoided the reconnaissance of the scouts of the New Han army.

"Head, I heard that many of our brothers in front of us have already succeeded in attacking. Killed a lot of New Han troops. ”

", don't listen to the nonsense that escaped. They just attacked indiscriminately, turned around and ran, where did they see if they killed the New Han Army? According to me, the New Han Army is not so easy to kill. ”

"Don't grow others here to be majestic, be careful of Lao Tzu beating you! What's wrong with the New Han Army? I don't believe that if we fall from above, their heads will be harder than our stones. ”

"No, how can the New Han Army allow us to attack them like this? What if they are going after us? You must know that I heard that the marching column of the New Han Army has at least tens of thousands of horses, stretching for several miles, and you can see all the end. I said, "Head, what if we attack and the New Han Army pursues us?" ”

"Stupid as a pig, brother in front, didn't he escape safely? We attacked only once, pushed all the stones down, shot ten arrows each, and ran up the hill at once. ”

"Yes, yes, anyway, I can't stay here any longer."

"What's the noise? Who's that, look at it now, have the scouts of the New Han Army gone away? Let's see if the army of the New Han Army has arrived? The bird cave has been hidden for a day and a night, let's hurry up and run away! ”

A big man with a bit of anger stood up and kicked those who were talking nonsense one by one.

The top of the mountain is bare, but there are still some verdant trees on the bank overhanging.

The entrance of the cave happened to be blocked by the branches and leaves of a miscellaneous tree, which made it difficult for the scouts of the New Han Army who climbed the mountain to reconnoiter roughly to find that there were two hundred Yuan soldiers hidden.

However, they didn't know that at this moment, the Xinhan army was already under Zhao Yun's order, and the army began to carefully search the mountains and ridges they had passed through.

A sharp-faced Yuan Bing, a ghostly person who drilled out of the hole.

I looked left and right, but I didn't find anything, so I went back and reported.

But I didn't want to, but I was seen by a team of new Han army soldiers who were about to climb the mountain. (To be continued......)