After some secret discussions behind closed doors, everyone decided on a strategy to meet Kebineng and various contingency plans. According to Guo Jia's suggestion, Liu He divided the entire northwest defense line into three defense areas, of which the southern defense area from Banshi to Gaoliu was commanded by Zhang He, the central defense area from Gaoliu to Ningcheng was personally commanded by Liu He, and the northern defense area from Ningcheng to Baishan City was commanded by Zhao Yun.

The southern defense area concentrated 15,000 Youyan Army and 5,000 Wuhuan reinforcements, the main general Zhang He, the deputy general took the lead, the military division Tian Chou was all in place, and Wei You and Han Heng were specially responsible for raising the army and logistics and supplying military supplies.

The central defense area is dominated by 10,000 infantry and 3,000 light cavalry of Longhuwei, although the strength is slightly insufficient, but in wartime it can get the cavalry support of the north and south defense areas, and the infantry equipment of Longhuwei is at the head of all armies, and the overall combat strength is actually not inferior to the Youyan army. Liu He, as the chief general of the Dragon and Tiger Guard, took the military advisor Guo Jia and the deputy generals Sun Li and Murong Ping into battle in person this time, and Liu Fang, Xu Miao and others were responsible for logistics supply and propaganda and agitation, and the team lineup was extremely luxurious and powerful.

The northern defense area is dominated by the 15,000 cavalry of the Xiaocai Guard and the 5,000 tribal coalition troops under the Baishan Governor's Mansion, with the main general Zhao Yun, the deputy general Xiahoulan, and Cheng Xu responsible for raising the army, Du Qi responsible for the supply of logistics equipment, Yan Rou assisting from the side, and Mijia acting as a puppet. Although the cavalry guards have experienced a series of battles in the past few months, with more than 3,000 people reduced, after more than a month of rest, all the vacant places have been filled.

For example, after a heavy cavalry dies in battle, soldiers with excellent performance will be selected from the light cavalry battalion to supplement the heavy cavalry battalion, and the vacant light cavalry quota will be selected from the cavalry battalion of the training regiment, and sometimes it can be directly selected from the Wuhuan cavalry recruited.

The salary of the Xiao Cavalry Guard ranks first among all the armies in Youzhou, although the risk of death of the soldiers who enter it is very high, but now this troubled era. Who can live unharmed, so there are still many Han children and Wuhuan young people who come to sign up for the army. At this time, the martial style of the Han people still exists, not as cowardly and afraid of death as after the cliffs and mountains in later generations, people are proud of dying on the battlefield, and Liu He's pension for the soldiers who died in the war is extremely generous, and the families of the soldiers who died in the war are also trying their best to take care of and raise them, so many young people who can't see the way out are willing to go to the battlefield at the cost of their lives to fight for themselves and their families a future.

This time, the cavalry guards lost 3,000 people, and temporarily recruited soldiers urgently, and a total of 1,600 Han soldiers were recruited from Daijun and Shanggu, and 1,400 soldiers were recruited from the Wuhuan people. If not subject to availability. It is easy to recruit 5,000 people. Although the newly recruited soldiers lack combat ability and experience, actual combat is the best teacher, as long as they follow the veterans of the cavalry guard to survive this battle, they will not lack any experience in the future.

The time soon came to February, and Bingzhou Kebineng, who had not seen any movement, finally made a move. And he really didn't let Liu He "down", after a winter of dormancy and preparation. As soon as it was shot, it was a big scene.

Kebineng ordered Helian to leave 5,000 soldiers and horses in Shuofang County to watch his home. The remaining 15,000 soldiers and horses on the west road rushed to Yunzhong to join the army on the middle road, led by Kebineng himself, and converged together in the direction of Qiangyin in Yanmen County. Only 5,000 soldiers and horses were left in the headquarters of Kebineng to garrison Jiuyuan County and Yunzhong County, and the remaining 25,000 soldiers and horses all participated in the battle.

Kebineng led an army of 40,000 to Qiangyin to join the Yu Zhuqi Department on the East Road, and the force swelled to 60,000. He sent people to Zhongling County in Dingxiang County to meet with Feng Ji, the governor of Yuan Shaojun's North Road, and said that this attack on Youzhou needed to take advantage of Pingcheng. Therefore, Yuan was asked to withdraw a hundred miles south and retreat to the vicinity of Mayi. Yan Liang, the former general of Feng Ji's account, was furious when he heard this, and he wanted to slash the messenger sent by Kebineng at that time, but was stopped by Feng Ji.

Kebi could make such an impudent request. In fact, it was to force Yuan Shao to give up Dingxiang County, because he was now fearless, and he was not afraid of the 30,000 North Route Army under Yuan Shao stationed in Dingxiang County.

After Kebineng's envoy left, Feng Ji comforted Yan Liang and said: "General Yan is angry, now that Kebineng is powerful, we will temporarily avoid the south, so that he can lead the army to attack Youzhou with peace of mind." If Kebi can successfully attack Youzhou, then he will abandon the barren and desolate northern counties of Bingzhou, and we can take over the lost territory without spending a single soldier; If Kebi can be defeated by Liu He, the consumption of both of them will definitely be very huge, and when our army is dominant, we can also force Kebi to withdraw from the state. ”

Although Yan Liang admitted that Feng Ji's calculation was safe and feasible, he still felt panicked in his heart. I don't know when it started, and the battle between Bingzhou and Youzhou actually needs to look at Hu Ren's face? The Han people compete for the world and care about the Hu people and birds? The Xianbei people were just lowly slaves raised by the Huns at the beginning, and now they dare to come to the land of the Han people to be powerful! As the commander of the Han Dynasty, Yan Liang still understands the truth of "brothers are on the wall and resist their insults", and now he has no bottom line to retreat, blindly praying for the Hu people to send troops to Youzhou, no matter how you look at it, it doesn't seem like a way to occupy the truth and righteousness.

Although Yan Liangzhi was dissatisfied, he was not the commander of the Northern Route Army, and Feng Ji ordered the troops to retreat in the direction of Mayi, and he could only follow the retreat sullenly.

Kebi Neng learned that Fengji withdrew to Mayi and completely lifted the threat to the four northern counties of Bingzhou, so he left 10,000 soldiers and horses near Qiangyin, led by Yu Zhuyu to stay behind, and he himself led 50,000 soldiers and horses to enter Pingcheng and came to the upper reaches of the water control, looking at the posture to prepare to attack the Ban Shi and Beipingyi line in the lower reaches of the water control.

The direction of Youzhou paid close attention to Kebineng's every move, and when Liu He learned that Kebineng did not choose to attack from the direction of Daqingshan, he couldn't help but feel a little regretful, because the meeting gift he prepared for Kebineng could not be sent out for the time being. Liu He was worried about the shortage of troops in the southern defense area, so he immediately asked Murong Ping to lead 5,000 Dragon and Tiger Guard infantry to Beipingyi for reinforcements, and Zhao Yun, who was located in the northern defense area, also sent 5,000 cavalry to the south to urgently go south to Macheng to fill the gap in the strength of the central defense area after Murong Ping left.

When Zhang He learned that Kebineng chose to attack from his own defense area, he was not afraid at all, but looked forward to it, and he stationed all the infantry under his command in front of Pingcheng, only 30 miles away from Kebineng's army, and the remaining 8,000 cavalry were on both flanks of the infantry, relying on Banshi City and Beipingyi to assist in the defense.

Kebineng commanded the troops to launch two rounds of tentative attacks on the Youzhou troops defending in front of him, and Zhang He's command was determined and resolutely beat the Xianbei people back. Murong Ping soon arrived with 5,000 reinforced infantry, and the morale of the defending side was even higher.

Although there were many soldiers and horses brought by Kebineng this time, they could not be fully deployed because of the terrain restrictions, and the defending Youzhou infantry could meet the enemy in batches with the help of the cover of the city, so they did not fall behind on the scene.

Kebi could see that the defending Han army was well-organized and had no gaps to take advantage of, so he gathered all kinds of large-scale siege equipment, shot wildly at the city wall garrisoned by the Han army, and then sent 5,000 fierce clansmen who were not afraid of death to launch a crazy attack on the city wall defended by Zhang He.

In the face of the enemy soldiers pouring up like a tide, Zhang He's face was as calm as water, and he gave an order decisively and calmly: "Concentrate all the large stone-throwing trucks and throw them at the enemy's stone-throwing vehicles and well railings; Concentrate all bed crossbows and attack enemy ladders and rammers; All crossbowmen scatter freely, regardless of arrow loss; Pikemen and sword and shield bearers work together to bring down all the enemy soldiers who climb up to the top of the city! ”

Zhang He's order was quickly passed on, and the city, which had been silent, suddenly flew with thousands of stones, and the rolling stones as big as a millstone smashed on the catapult position of the Xianbei people like hail, and dozens of catapults were smashed to pieces in an instant. The super bed crossbow developed and produced by the Youzhou Ordnance Division was pushed up to the city by the soldiers, and the huge bed crossbow arrows like rafters made a whining roar, and rushed to the enemy's forward position five hundred steps away one after another, smashing the ladder car and the city crash car that the Xianbei people had not had time to move into pieces.

Zhang He looked at the expanding results, and sneered to himself: "Hmph, a group of bearded barbarians who drink blood are just a group of barbarians who want to emulate the sharp weapons of my Youzhou, even if they are made by you and others to build a stone-throwing truck and a well fence, it is still a group of local chickens and dogs!" ”

The soldiers holding longbows and crossbows at the head of the city, at this time, seemed to have eaten too much chicken blood and sheep kidneys, and one by one they fired arrows frantically towards the city with red eyes and no money.

At this moment, the defenders of Youzhou finally stopped being forbearant and low-key, they showed all the sharp weapons that they had carefully prepared for several years, and Kebi, who was originally full of confidence, was already shocked after watching the counterattack of the Han army in the city, if he was not carefully hiding in the distance, the stone throwing cart and the giant crossbow with the amazing range of the Han army in the city were likely to kill him.

In fact, Zhang He did have this plan, he had roughly discovered Kebineng's location through the clairvoyant mirror, if it weren't for Kebineng's standing outside the range of the giant catapult, Zhang He didn't mind dropping hundreds of giant stone projectiles on Kebineng's head as soon as he came up.

Most of the 5,000 Xianbei soldiers were weakened by the sharp and ferocious counterattacks of the Han army, most of them were killed by arrows, a few died by spears, and none of them could stay at the head of the city for more than ten breaths, because the pikemen defending the city would pierce several sharp spears into the enemy's chest the next moment they spotted the enemy.

Kebineng was a little dazed by Zhang He's counterattack, and he hurriedly ordered his troops to retreat ten miles, temporarily stopping the strong attack. (To be continued......)