The Kuangting cavalry battle can be regarded as a turning point in the early stage of the war, in this battle Cao Ying, who suffered heavy losses, gave up the established strategy, began to gradually shrink his forces, lost the containment and harassment of the tiger and leopard cavalry, and the advance speed of the Qingzhou army increased significantly, and soon swept the north bank of Pushui, and began to advance towards the hinterland of Chenliu.

In front of the army, the first to bear the brunt is the ancient city of Fengqiu!

"Cao Ying has suffered a lot, it seems that he doesn't plan to carry out the cavalry battle to the end and change it to fortress tactics, but he is also changing the soup and not the medicine, and he is still fighting the idea of delaying time." Wang Yu rubbed his chin with one hand and groaned. Cao Ying's strategy is already obvious, but I don't know what he has to wait for.

"Maybe there is also an opportunity to consume the sharpness of our army and attract you to come up with more killer features." Zhuge Liang reminded from the side.

Wang Yu nodded, what Cao Ying used was a strategy that the weaker side would often adopt in war, and the calculation of a head-on duel victory was too low, and he could only exchange time for space. Especially in the current situation, Qingzhou has to face the princes of the five roads at the same time, and any mistake in any link may become a fatal flaw, and then form a chain effect.

While procrastinating for time, it is of course best to have some additional effects.

"Is there any news from Wen Yuan and Han Sheng?" Wang Yu did not have an in-depth discussion on this topic, and his guess about Cao Ying's true intentions was just prepared, not to mention that the intelligence was limited, it was difficult to piece it together, even if it was really speculated, it would not have much impact on the current battle situation, and the most important thing at the moment was to see the actual progress of the soldiers and horses from all walks of life, whether they could keep up with the established plan.

"The main force of the Thunder Army invaded the territory of Dongping on November 28, Guo Gong refused to accept the conditions of our army, and did not dare to go out of the city to meet the battle, but on the one hand, he ordered the fortresses to be strictly defended, and on the other hand, he asked for help from the Xiahou Yuan Department of the Cao Army, Wen Yuan and Han Sheng discussed, and decided to divide the troops into two routes, and Han Sheng led the main force from Fucheng, Zhangxian, and Wuyan all the way to Shouzhang, and Wen Yuan led the light cavalry to attack the counties southeast of Dongping......"

Jia Xu, the military division, is equivalent to the intelligence hub of the whole army, and all the information will be summarized into his hands, sorted out, analyzed, and then conveyed to Wang Yu.

Now that Qingzhou is at war on all sides, and the northern Xinjiang side has not completely stopped, all kinds of intelligence have been gathered like a sea of information, and Jia Xu has no time to take the initiative to report. Unless it is a major military situation, it can only be asked by Wang Yu, and then he will summarize and report the relevant information.

The progress of the Eastern Front can be described as smooth sailing, and there are no obvious hidden dangers, this kind of information is far from important, Wang Yu's attention has been focused on Cao Ying recently, Jia Xu naturally will not take the initiative to share his mind with these idle things.

Wang Yu smiled and said: "It's really Wenyuan's style, if Ben General guessed correctly, Dongping Kingdom should not be able to stop them, no matter how fast Xiahou Yuan rescues, I'm afraid he can only build a defense line in Rencheng and even Shanyang." ”

"The lord is wise." Jia Xu echoed with a smile: "Guo Gong has neither far-sightedness nor ambition, nor does he have much vision in military strategy, and he is not even the master of Shoucheng, but he just relied on his family background and reputation, and took advantage of the confrontation between the lord and Cao Ying, and took advantage of the loophole." His strategy seems to be similar to Cao's army, but in fact it is very different, and he evenly distributes his forces among the key passes......"

He may have thought that this would slow down the pace of our army, but he didn't expect Wen Yuan's strange soldiers to stand out, and he directly copied the flank. As a result, those counties in the rear were confused by his deployment, and they were not ready to meet the enemy at all, and they were connected to Kegang County, Ningyang and other important towns by Wenyuan Sanyue, which caused a great uproar in Dongping County, which in turn shook the morale of the defenders on the front line. ”

Jia Xu rarely made a joke at the military meeting, which attracted all the generals to be Wan'er, and Wang Yu also shook his head again and again.

No wonder I haven't heard of this Guo Gong's name at all, it's really too wasteful, as long as he is a military general above the level, when he meets this opponent, he is purely giving points.

Cao Ying's space for time is not a passive defense, but a defense and attack. Whether it was in the cavalry battle in the early stage, or now preparing to rely on the city defense to resist, Cao Ying's main army was always within a distance of two hundred miles. This distance is not close, it is not far, and a rapid march of three days is enough to cross, and if you are not careful, you will be pounced on by him and bite it.

Although the retreat of Cao's army step by step damaged morale, it was necessary for his side to conquer the fortified city and beware of Cao Ying's main force, and the mental effort was also indispensable, and the current advantage was still far from victory.

But this Guo Tingshi is purely delivering food, and he put on a posture of holding his head and being beaten and waiting for rescue at the beginning, giving up the initiative. made the morale of the army sluggish, and the momentum was all about it, and it completely exposed its weaknesses.

When such a noodle melon meets a military general who is so good at grasping fighters as Zhang Liao, of course, there is only one dead end. At the same time as entering the country, he decisively divided the troops, Zhang Liao obviously completely understood this opponent, and even felt that it was a waste of time.

I don't know if this Guo Thorn Shi has the surname of a pit teammate in addition to vegetables, if there is, then Xiahou Yuan is afraid that he will also be unlucky. Speaking of which, Huang Zhong and Xiahou Yuan are also a pair of enemies in history. Before the veteran set out on the expedition, he didn't use the method of agitation, and I don't know if he would stage the drama of Dingjun Mountain?

Putting aside these miscellaneous thoughts in his heart, Wang Yu looked at the map hanging on the left side of the handsome case. The situation on the eastern front was very favorable, Zhang Liao's light troops took a detour, swept half of Dongping Kingdom, and by the way, he also captured the easternmost city of Shanyang County, controlled the Surabaya line, and cut off the road for the enemy army in the south to go north for reinforcements.

As long as Huang Zhong captured Shouzhang, the Eastern Front Army could move southward in a big way, echoing the Puyang Army that was attacking Dingtao. At that time, Xiahou Yuan will face the embarrassing situation of being attacked on three sides.

Wang Yu flexed his fingers, knocked a few times on the table, and said with a sense of ease: "In this way, the Eastern Front is likely to become the first decisive point. ”

Cao Ying's current army assembled to meet the battle is called 500,000, which sounds very scary, but in fact there are certainly not that many, and the judgment of the Intelligence Department is that the real combat effectiveness of Cao's army should be about 100,000.

Because of Cao Ying's strategy of targeting Qingzhou and forming allies, on the eve of the war, he could basically concentrate all his forces in the confrontation on the Yanzhou battlefield without thinking about the back road.

The 100,000 soldiers were generally distributed in 352, 30,000 soldiers and horses were gathered in Hujiao Pass with Xiahou Dun as the main general, 50,000 soldiers and horses led by Cao Ying were gathered in Chenliu, and then there were 20,000 soldiers from Xiahou Yuan's eastward advance.

It seems that the forces of Luoyang are relatively weak, but at present, the pass is broken, Luoyang is already the first male city in the world, and there are Xiongguan such as Tiger Prison Pass to rely on, and the Jingzhou army can go north to reinforce at any time, which is also difficult to take lightly.

Therefore, Wang Yu decided to attack Chen Liu at the beginning and forced Cao Ying to carry out the main decisive battle, otherwise he would completely cut Cao Ying's territory from Chen Liu into two parts, making him lose one and lose the other, and mess up.

But the battle has been fought so far, Cao Ying's determination and battle are very strong, Wang Yu is worried that even if he continues to attack all the way, Cao Ying may endure to the end, and as a last resort, he will simply give up the territory east of Chenliu, and directly let Xiahou Yuan retreat south and take refuge in Yuan Shu's territory.

If that's the case, things get a little tricky.

Wang Yu's strategic concept was to focus on the defensive in the two major battlefields of Bingzhou and Jianghuai, and then break through them after the decisive battle in the Central Plains. But if Cao Ying is determined to refuse to fight a decisive battle, and just blindly consumes, even if the losses of the hussars have always been much lower than Cao's army, it will inevitably make the war protracted and protracted.

The longer the battle is fought, the greater the damage to the Central Plains, and the higher the possibility of unpredictable variables in the battle situation, which cannot be considered by Wang Yu without careful consideration.

"In this case, we should be able to change the strategy......" Wang Yu's words resonated with the staff, and everyone got up, gathered around Wang Yu, and stood in a circle around Yutu, and a new plan slowly took shape.

The next morning.

As soon as dawn broke, the desolate sound of the horn echoed on the land ......of the Heluo Plain.

"What's going on?" Li Tong woke up suddenly, and hurriedly looked around, the armor leaves of the fish scale armor collided and rubbed against each other, making a burst of gold and iron sounds.

It had been six days since the cavalry battle in Kuangting, and after that battle, Li Tong was transferred from the establishment of the tiger and leopard cavalry by Cao Ying, and sent Fengqiu as a guard.

On the surface, this is an opportunity to make meritorious service and atone for his crimes, but Li Tong has been fighting on the battlefield for so many years, and he doesn't know how many battles he has experienced.

Although the history of Fengqiu City is very long, it can be traced back to the time of the Yellow Emperor, but no matter how long the history is, it will not help to improve the defense power. Compared with Luoyang and Tiger Prison Pass in the west, Puyang and Rencheng in the east, Fengqiu is far from being called a male city, and the city is in disrepair for a long time, and it is somewhat dilapidated. Many of the new weapons of the Qingzhou Army can be used to siege cities.

If it weren't for Cao Ying's order to hold on for half a month, instead of sticking to it, Li Tong might not even be able to see the last trace of life.

Of course, holding on to fifteen days is also a very difficult proposition, after Li Tong entered the city, he also cheered up his full spirit, and for the first three days he almost never stopped inspecting every corner of the city defense, and after a short rest, he also lived on the city wall without disarming his clothes, and made every effort to prepare for war. When the Qingzhou army came to the city, Li Tong could be said to have one eye open even when he slept, and he didn't dare to have any negligence.

He reflected on it many times afterwards and came to the conclusion that he didn't have a chance at all. The tactics of the Wind Cavalry are traceable, and if they have a discerning eye, they will not be defeated so badly, even if they cannot win a big victory.

If your eyesight is not good, you can make up for it with diligence, the task of sticking to fifteen days is a catastrophe, and when it passes, you will open the sea and the sky, and you can't get by, at most, you will exchange the life you picked up, and there is nothing to regret.

"Will ...... General, the army of Qingzhou is about to attack the city! The guard's answer was trembling, not like he was frozen, and he sounded like he was frightened.

"Wait for a certain view!" Li Tong pushed away the guards, and looked far away from the city, his body suddenly stiffened, and it took a long time to relax, and when he turned his head to look at his son Li Xu, his face was already full of misery: "Today, you and my father and son died here!" ”