When Cao Cao's troops arrived outside Liang County, Xu Huang had asked for orders to fight, but Tian Feng did not allow it.

When the news that Cao Jun sent people to dig trenches to intercept the inside and outside of Liang County reached Luoyang, Tian Feng recruited Xu Huang to inform: "The autumn grain is not ripe, Cao Cao will move the troops first, and the army should be short of food, and it cannot be held in Liang County for a long time." Now surround Liang County with ravines, I am afraid that I will be trapped and ride inside, and the army will be in the hinterland of Henan! ”

Xu Huang asked for battle: "Yang Zhai battle, there is a lot of loss of Dangkou, although there are only 3,000 horsemen in the two schools of a certain and Deng Xian, but there are still 1,000 soldiers in the general department of Gu Bi, and nearly 5,000 troops in Luoyang, please help Gu Bi generals, go south with all their might, and you can also desperately solve the siege of Zilong!" To relieve the siege of Liang County, the two combined troops can be the enemy of Cao Cao! ”

Tian Feng shook his head and said his plan: "Yuan Cao is in alliance with each other, Yuan Benchu has destroyed Gongsun and Montenegro, and Yan Rou has to take Beirong for use, and the foreign enemy is only Sizhou; Cao Mengde occupies the land of Yanyu Xu, there is a moat in the south to rely on, and Sun's Liu Biao is difficult to invade each other, and there is no other concern for the time being, only to the east. These two enemies have no external worries, so they can try their best to try our state, and they will be defeated for a while, and our army will be damaged by many people, and it is difficult to make up for the soldiers, but Yuan Cao will come back again after a little rectification, and it will be useless. Si Liang is now trapped in three wars, although he is not yet lost, but the people are tired and tired, and it is not good to fight for a long time! In my opinion, we should seek a big victory all the way and break this deadlock! ”

There are similarities between Xu Huang and Tian Feng's words today, Sizhou really can't be like this for a long time, Xu Huang nodded in agreement, and then asked: "Does the military advisor have a plan?" ”

Tian Feng hesitated a little: "Xiliang and Shangdang are fighting outside, and there is no change." Only Henan is the root of Mu'an, and there are many people who can use it, and the general is not allowed to go to aid Liang County before, which is to show weakness! If Cao Cao doesn't know whether he is alive or dead, he really enters my hinterland, and he should gather people to annihilate his army. ”

Xu Huang somewhat understood: "The military advisor wants to do the strategy of the three guards. So that the people surrounded the Cao army? However, it is okay to defend the city with the people, but if it is used in field battles, the dead and wounded are not what the lord wants! ”

Tian Feng sighed lightly, and then shook his head: "Although the Cao army is more than the Henan army, it is also limited, and it has not reached the time of exhaustion. Not so much. I only recruit the army, not the people! ”

Hearing him say this, Xu Huang was puzzled: "In the land of Sizhou, where is there still an idle army?" If Wu Ning is used, Bishui Pass will no longer be guarded, and it will be made. The number of its parts is also insufficient. ”

Looking at Xu Huang, Tian Feng said slowly: "Definitely! In my opinion, recruit young people who are over 16 years old in Henan and can join the army to temporarily become an army, and use the general to dominate them, and break Cao Cao first! Only the hope of Sizhou Ming is two years old. Don't dare to lose too much! ”

Recruiting junior high school boys? Xu Huang was surprised.

It's normal to think about it, before Deng Ji changed the age of being selected for the army, he had already been recruited into the army at the age of sixteen.

Henan is the fundamental place of Deng Ji, where the essence is, although there are only ten counties, the population is close to 700,000. After seven or eight years of living in peace, it has reached the harvest period of the selective soldier policy, and the last few years have been the blowout period when their own teenagers join the soldiers. The number of new recruits in a county of Henan is about five or six thousand per year, which is more than the counties of Si and Liang combined!

Deng Ji postponed the age of selection of soldiers to eighteen years old, and now how many sixteen or seventeen-year-old teenagers are accumulated in the folk of Henan?

These teenagers will not be able to join the army until a year or two later. The martial arts and riding skills are enough, and the battle formation knows more than the civilians, and it is no problem to gather together and form another army, and with only a little practice, the combat effectiveness is only slightly worse than the old four armies such as Huya and Dangkou!

The conundrum is. Cao Jun has already invaded the border, and it will take some time to gather the young people of the whole county. Moreover, Tian Feng's intention was to make it a miracle soldier, not to make Cao Cao vigilant. You still have to avoid the Cao army scouts who have infiltrated Henan!

Tian Feng's hesitation was also very clear, Xu Huang understood why his tone was heavy, this was a risky fight, using Henan's soldiers in the next two years to gamble on today's victory, if he unfortunately suffered a fiasco, there will be very few soldiers who can be replenished in the next two years.

It is indeed not easy to defeat the Cao army without causing too much damage to the young army. Led by himself, the burden is on his shoulders, but now the situation is grim, and he can't shirk the slightest, Xu Huang gritted his teeth and said: "Be careful, don't make a big loss!" ”

With Xu Huang's consent, Tian Feng patted him on the shoulder: "The general has always been calm, and the lord also sees him differently, so he should live up to this great hope!" I ordered General Gu Bi to cross the Luo River with Deng Xian's soldiers, and when Cao's army entered, they waited for the enemy, and fought and retreated, luring Cao's army to go deeper! ”

Xu Huang nodded, and Tian Feng said again: "Today, the general is convenient for picking up one hundred and ten old soldiers in the army, and the soldiers are examined and supervised, and they will go to Hangu Pass to live temporarily. I have secretly ordered all counties to make the young man of sixteen or seventeen go to Hongnong! This is only a temporarily formed army, I don't know how many days the general needs to drill before it can be used? ”

Xu Huang thought about it for a while: "The young people in the county have a lot of wars, and they can be rough in five days!" If it's urgent, it's barely available for three days! ”

Tian Feng pinched his fingers and calculated: "If the young people from all counties enter the Hangu East, it will take six or seven days without delay, one or two days to select soldiers, and five days for the generals to drill." So, within fifteen days, there will be another army available! ”

The two agreed, Xu Huang took the warrant, said goodbye and went out, first selected 100 old soldiers from the school under his command, and 100 people from his own guards, and the rest and Deng Xianxiao ordered to be led by Gu Sheng, and then he took the soldier examiner, supervisor, etc., and went to Hangu Pass first.

Now Hangu is in the hinterland, and there is only one tun of men and horses stationed on weekdays, which also belongs to Gu Sheng's command. When Xu Huang and his entourage arrived at the gate, they showed Tian Feng's warrant, closed the door, and only allowed people to enter the customs to Hongnong, and were not allowed to leave the customs and return to Henan.

On the second day, there were teenagers from the three counties of Gucheng, Henan, and Pingyin, which were close to each other, and Han Song also hired more than 3,000 people to send military rations and ordnance out of the customs.

Within a few days, the roads in Luoyang, Pingxian, Yanshi, Gongxian, and Henan counties were full of young men in a hurry, riding horses, or walking, in groups of three or five, all going to Hongnong County.

The government order was vague, only allowing men over 16 years old and under 18 years old to rush to Hongnong within six days, the teenagers did not understand the reason, they were all confused, but they were the most law-abiding, and most of them left home after the order.

As soon as the teenagers came out of the gate, they saw that a large military camp had been set up in the open space outside, and some sergeants ordered them to wait to select soldiers in the camp.

Only then did I know that I had to select soldiers in advance, temporarily form an army to attack Cao's army, and I was timid to look forward to the joy of the selected young people, and I knew that sooner or later there would be this day in this troubled world.

In addition to the sword and shield pawn, the young man selected enough 100 people to enter the register to form a tun, and selected one person among the old pawns to serve as a hundred generals, and led them to receive the halberd hard bow. Then teach the battle formation and queue, and when you understand a little, you will immediately start the drill under the leadership of the hundred generals.

In order to prevent the news from leaking, the losers were not allowed to go back for the time being, and stayed in the army together with the people from Luoyang.

The officials of the military horse farm, which were scattered in several places, also arrived one after another. Nearly 10,000 horses of all sizes entered the customs, smoke and dust were everywhere, and they would be scouted by Cao Jun, but the military horse farm had a unified order before moving the horses: in order to avoid the war, the military horse farm was moved to Hongnong.

There may have been a shrewd scout who was suspicious, but he couldn't find out the exact news. Will Cao Cao pay attention to such doubts after they are reported?

By the seventh day, there were more than 18,000 young men who had been ordered to pass through Hangu Pass, and Xu Huang had more than 11,000 soldiers.

The young sword and shield pawns were separated to drill, and the remaining three categories were 8,000 young soldiers. They were given to war horses and equipment, but unfortunately there was a great shortage of fish scale armor.

He also appointed a fake military marquis and a fake captain, and this temporary army was formed, and began to practice the formation of the queue back and forth in front of Hangu Pass, simulating the enemy, and waiting for Tian Feng's order.

There was a lot of movement in Henan County, and there were indeed scouts who were aware of it, but they couldn't tell the reason, so several scouts were guarding in the wilderness outside Hangu Pass.

Cao Cao's army and Gu Sheng are fighting in the wilderness of the new city.

Zhao Yun was trapped in the city. Liang County's autumn grain was mostly destroyed in the war, and the rest was all obtained by Cao Cao, and Tian Feng had ordered the people of Xincheng County to abandon grain and defend the city. The government will compensate for the damage, and the rest of the counties will step up the autumn harvest.

Cao Cao led the army into the territory of Xincheng County, and all he saw in Siye was a heavy and unattended Suihe, and he urgently ordered the sergeants to rush to collect the military rations, but it was not two days. Gu Sheng has led the army to fight.

The Sizhou army that came to help was less than 5,000, and most of the horses ridden by Gu Sheng's headquarters were inferior horses. Cao Cao was overjoyed, thinking that Henan was also poor.

But the army in front is cunning. didn't fight with him, just harassed back and forth, and retreated when he saw Cao's army lined up.

The disturbance of the army collecting grain was not serious, and a few days later, when the army had enough to use for March, Cao Cao ordered the army to go north and prepare to cross the Luoshui River to attack Luoyang directly.

Cao Jun went north, and Gu Sheng also went north, harassing him along the way.

Deng Ji went north to fight against Yuan Shao, the cavalry was trapped in Liang County, Gu Sheng did not dare to fight, there was almost no soldier in Luoyang, this opportunity was really rare, to race against time, Cao Cao intended to make the sergeant immediately build a raft to cross the river.

Le Jin once followed Xiahou Yuan to break Liang County, and knew that the people of Henan were fierce, and said to Cao Cao: "Deng Ji has ruled Henan for a long time, and the people are willing to die for it." The scouts reported that although there were no defenders in Luoyang, it was probably not possible to go down in one or two days. If the army crosses the river and fights for a long time, Deng Ji leads the army to rescue, Luoshui breaks the road, and Gu Sheng is behind, and he is trapped! Don't worry, wait for the bridge to be built and cross again, and stay behind to guard the bridge, thinking that the army is returning! ”

Cao Cao knew that it was safe to advance, Fang was groaning, and Xu Yu objected: "Wen Qian is more worried, there are no soldiers to protect Luoyang today, Tian Feng will make the people defend the city, and it can be broken in one or two days, and today's soldiers are fast!" If the bridge is built and crossed, the city of Luoyang is more prepared, and it takes a long time to take it, Deng Ji heard that Henan was in a hurry, and abandoned the party to save it, which is not good! ”

Whether he can make a quick decision and take Luoyang in one fell swoop, Cao Cao is also a little unsure, Guo Jia said: "Xu Ziyuan and Le Wenqian's words are reasonable!" In this case, how about the army crossing first, and then leaving the partial division to build a bridge to garrison and protect the return of the army? ”

Cao Cao was embarrassed: "If there are few troops, I am afraid that I will not be able to defeat Gu Sheng!" ”

Xun Yu reminded: "Liangxian is criss-crossed, Zhao Yun is difficult to clash again, two thousand tigers and leopards are enough!" ”

The essence of Henan County is even west of Luoshui, and if it can be taken, it will not take long for Cao Cao to arm more than tens of thousands of troops. And you have to take Luoyang as soon as possible, or you can stick to Xiongcheng and Dahe, and then get Yuan Shao's foreign aid, so Deng Ji will come back to the rescue, and Zhao Yun will not be afraid of the conflict regardless of the casualties, so it seems that the more than 5,000 tigers and leopards who stayed in Liang County are indeed a bit wasteful, Cao Cao, Guo Jia and others all woke up: "Yes! ”

So he ordered Xiahou Yuan to hurry back to Liang County, and asked Xiahou Yuan to send 3,000 tigers and leopards to ride for him, and then return to Luoshui to guard against Gu Sheng.

Xiahou Yuan came and went, the army had built a raft, Cao Cao led the army to cross the river, and Liule Jin and Li Dian led 3,000 steps to die next to Luoshui to continue to build bridges.

When Cao Jun's raft crossed the river, sixty or seventy small boats from the Sizhou Navy came to intercept it. Seeing that Guan Cheng led less than 1,000 sailors, which should have been the last resort, Cao Cao ordered Lu Qian to lead 3,000 archers to shoot back along the riverbank with a rain of arrows. (To be continued)