Cao Cao's words were just a small measure, just a small test.

More importantly, he showed enough respect for the matching. This is not only a respect for the powerful generals, but also a trust in their abilities.

This is an embryo that can train troops, command troops, and have wisdom and foresight that are not inferior to first-class commanders.

After everyone sat down, the military discussion officially began.

The first to speak was Qi Zhou, the thorn captain of the Plains Army system.

From the conflict to the present, almost all of the situation in Pingyuanjin is the responsibility of Qi Zhou. Now, as the host, it is natural for him to take the initiative to explain the current conflict.

He got up and said to Cao Cao quite respectfully:

"Ten days ago, the Taishan Army of Pingyuanjin rushed to reinforcements, and its lord will be Ding Sheng, the commander of the five major commanders of the Taishan Army. His people are the old thieves of the Taishan Army, quite brave, as soon as they come, they will strengthen the river defense and carry out counterattacks, and our army will suffer a small setback. ”

After speaking, Qi Zhou did not shy away from it, and told Cao Cao about the battle in the past few days.

It turned out that since June 20, Ding Sheng, the former army marshal stationed in Guangzong, received an edict from Yecheng, ordering his commander's 10,000 people to go south to the Pingyuanjin area to help.

Previously, Zhang Chong combined Ding Sheng's battle report and the intelligence of the Feijun's foreign army's own reconnaissance, and judged that the Han army on the Qingzhou side might try to use the Pingyuanjin area as a battlefield to test the Taishan army.

So, after Zhang Chong consulted with Yang Mao, Tian Jun and others in the Privy Council, he decided to let Ding Sheng fight back forcefully.

Even though this stage was an important stage in the development of internal affairs of the Taishan Army, Zhang Chong still decided to fight.

Because if you can fight with one punch, you can save a hundred punches.

So, after getting the edict, Ding Shengtong commanded 10,000 people and rode 2,000 south to the plains.

This strategic maneuver directly increased the intensity of the conflict in the Pingyuanjin battlefield.

Originally, the actual intention of the side of the plain was not to fight, after all, one of these people was a defeated general of the Taishan army.

For the strength of the Taishan army, they are naturally very clear.

Although the trial and others absorbed a large number of remnants of Han soldiers from the south of the Fuhe River in Hebei Province in the plains, they were also considered strong soldiers. But it was still cowardly to have a hard encounter with the Taishan army.

Previously, it was not so much a political encounter as a political encounter to achieve their military goals.

It was a "skirmish" created to make Cao Cao's northern division famous. But who knew that the Taishan army was like the tiger's ass, and it couldn't be touched.

I didn't fight much, and you sent an army? It's also too bullying.

But the matter has come to this point, and the trial and others can't retreat.

In the words of the book to Liu Yu:

"Pingyuanjin is the gateway to the plain, and the plain is the gateway to Qingzhou. The thieves are based in Qingzhou, extending in all directions, and they can be safely guarded everywhere. ”

So, on the one hand, he and Liu Yu continued to ask for reinforcements, and on the other hand, they began to take the battle in front of them seriously.

For Ding Sheng, the trial is still very well understood.

This is his old rival, and this person was stationed on the battlefield on the Qinghe side of Guangzong's side before. But it is precisely because of understanding that the trial has a normal heart for Ding Sheng.

In the opinion of the trial, Ding Sheng is just a talented person who succeeds because of people, and he can mix with the five marshals of the Taishan Army, either because he has any great merits, or because he is Zhang Chong's cronies.

Although in the end, the Qinghe army was driven across the river by Ding Sheng, but the trial still believed that this was not a war, but a last resort under the overall situation of Hebei at that time.

So, full of confidence, the judge began to attack Ding Sheng.

On June 22, the day Ding Sheng had just arrived in Pingyuanjin, the trial took the initiative to launch an attack on Pingyuanjin.

But on the day the trial was launched, he was hit on the head.

It turned out that when Ding Sheng set off, he ordered Ma Bao to lead the Tiande army to raid from the lower reaches of the river to the area of the country.

At that time, Cai Yingzheng, the captain of the country, was rushing to the aid of the Pingyuanjin battlefield with his subordinates on the order of Liu Yu.

How could he have expected that there would be enemy cavalry in his rear, so he was caught off guard, his main force was gathered and annihilated, and his men were also beheaded.

Now the strength of the Taishan army is even stronger. In the past, the scale of 500 cavalry was not enough to deal with the large corps operations, but as the Taishan army penetrated deep into Hebei, absorbing the good horses of Saibei and the knights of Beidi, the entire establishment doubled.

With a scale of 1,000 cavalry, each army can already cope with the needs of any level of battlefield.

And this time was the first battle after the expansion of the military system, and the results were indeed achieved.

Cai Yingbu, who was annihilated by Ma Bao, is still half of his own people, and he was originally one of the small canal commanders who gathered yellow turbans in the plains, and was called Cai Motian during the uprising.

But later, the incident fell into a trough, and this Cai Ying surrendered to the Han soldiers of Pingyuan County with his subordinates, and later participated in the suppression of fellow brothers many times, so it can be said that his hands were stained with the blood of his colleagues.

There are many people like Cai Ying, and Taiping Dao is not an organization with ideals as the background after all, and it is full of all kinds of people with different intentions.

The news of Cai Ying's annihilation reached the hands of the judge, and the judge was very sad, after all, this kind of traitor soldier was the most reassuring to use.

But what made the trial even more unsettling was that the enemy cavalry that annihilated Cai Ying's troops disappeared again, and no one knew where they had moved.

In this case, the trial can only entrust Gai Tong to take the Youzhou Raider to find this raid, and be sure to annihilate it south of the river.

After that, according to the original plan, the trial began to launch an attack on Hiraharatsu.

At that time, under the garrison of Captain Jinquan, Pingyuanjin had been expanded into a large battalion and ten outer dock walls to guard the river.

At the beginning, Jiao Min, the commander of the trial and distribution battalion, led 1,000 ironclad soldiers to attack the Dongpo Mountain on the outer defense line of Pingyuanjin, and then ordered Zhao Rong and Xianrong to attack it from the left and right.

The Taishan army of Dongpo Mountain is a town garrison of Qinghe, although it has also been trained for a long time, but it is still not as good as the elite ironclad soldiers who are judged, and the battle is unfavorable, and its battalion owner will be wounded and break through, ready to retreat to the camp wall behind.

But on the way, the remnants of his army encountered the ambush of Zhao Rong and Xianrong, and finally defeated the army.

After Jiao Min attacked the eastern slope wall, he did not stop, on the one hand, he passed on the good news in the trial, and on the other hand, he fought again.

But in the subsequent attack, Jiao Min, Xianrong and Zhao Rong did not achieve any results together.

It was because when they attacked the ramparts behind them, there was always a wave of cavalry cruising around their perimeter to deter them.

After discussing with Jiao Min, the three of them decided to accept it as soon as they saw it and maintain the current results.

It's a pity that they overestimated the order of their retreat, and in their retreat, the three divisions planned to retreat alternately, but the coordination of the three divisions was not so close, and it was a surprise attack to be seized by the Taishan army cavalry.

In the end, the three divisions lost more than 300 soldiers before they retreated safely to the east slope wall.

The battle was at a stalemate that day, but the trial in the camp received a letter from Liu Yu from Ande asking for help.

Ande is now Liu Yu's station, and the county seat of Pingyuan County was in the plains, but this county is too close to the big river and too dangerous.

Therefore, the new army was stationed in the plain and was responsible for the river defense of the plain, while Liu Yu and other civil and military personnel retreated to Ande, two hundred miles to the east.

Liu Yu said in the letter that now the traces of the cavalry of the Taishan Army can be seen outside the city, and the city is in a panic, so he asked the trial to quickly allocate reinforcements to drive away the thief cavalry.

In the letter, Liu Yu didn't know who to listen to, and said that it was also dangerous to judge now, because he was now under the threat of a pincer offensive inside and outside the Taishan Army, and he wanted him to give up the river defense and return to Ande.

In this way, you can not only jump out of the encirclement, but also solve the danger of Ande.

But after reading the letter, the judge was too disappointed with Liu Yu. Because where is the current situation to the point where reinforcements are needed? How many cavalry could break through the river defense? Besides, how can the cavalry attack the city?

On the contrary, once he gave up the river defense to return to the rear, regardless of the loss of the river, the plain and even Qingzhou would not be safe in the future, not to mention that if he encountered an enemy ambush on the road, it would be dangerous.

No, not a possibility, but an ambush by the enemy that the enemy will definitely hit.

The trial can be seen clearly, and now he has unconsciously lost the initiative on the battlefield. This was the consequence of the lack of cavalry maneuver.

But there is no shortage of trials, and there are 3,000 horses in Youzhou, which is more than the opposite.

But it's one thing to have, it's another thing to be able to use it.

This Youzhou Raid, it's difficult to mobilize.

Therefore, in the current situation, the trial can only continue to attack the Taishan army.

And he doesn't have high requirements for Gai Tong's Youzhou Assault Cavalry, he doesn't want you to pull the net to search for the enemy Assault Cavalry, as long as you can protect our supply line.

Once the trial made up his mind not to return, Liu Yu in the rear really stopped urging. But in the days that followed, the trial became more and more anxious day by day.

Anyone in the camp who looked at the river full of ships coming down from the enemy army should be anxious.

The Taishan Army's Daqi is built on the Yonggu Bridge of Pingyuanjin. On the east bank of the great river there are ten walls, and on the west bank there are walls for storing grain.

So in other words, the Tarzan army completely controlled the traffic of the Great River.

As a result, boats and boats from Wei County, Puyang and other places in the upper reaches of the river were constantly transporting grain and straw supplies to the plains and Jinda camp.

There are also armed boatmen cruising on the nearby waters, and no one knows where the opposite side will suddenly land.

And what about the trial side? Just look at the black smoke that rises from time to time to know what kind of blow his supply lines are facing.

In such a situation, how to prevent the judgment from thinking day and night, sleeping and eating are wasted.

You must know that the current strength of the army is about 20,000 people, and the amount of food needed for such a huge force is huge.

But it was in this situation that Cao Cao's support came.

Supplies from the direction of Jinan were constantly being sent from the rear, and Cao Cao used the most stupid method to accomplish the most effective thing.

With the supplies sent by Cao Cao, the army was able to regain its confidence in battle.

But now he was no longer in a hurry to attack Ding Sheng's camp on the east bank, because he knew that it would have no effect.

After seeing the endless stream of boats on the river, the judge soon realized that he would still lose this battle if he did not seize the river traffic.

Because people can replenish grain in the most efficient way, and they can also move anywhere.

He had never understood how the other side had brought the assault to the rear, but now it seemed that it was a boat.

This taught a lesson to the judge, it turns out that the navy can still be used like this.

But where is the troll? So he set his sights on Le'an next door. There is no him, because this is the only county in Qingzhou that has a boat and a boat division.

This place in Le'an is the mouth of the big river and Jishui, and it is the real thoroughfare of the lake and the sea. He has both sea ships that can pass through the Bohai Sea, and can connect the river, and the business travel is prosperous, and it is a first-class boat country in the north.

So if you want to get a water master, only this Le'an can get it.

But the trial is still a little famous in the north, and no one knows anyone in Le'an, and he can't save a boat master on his own.

So he wrote to Liu Yu in the rear and asked him to help, and he said in the letter:

"And from above the eastern county, and below the plains, where there is no great river. Today, the thief ships follow the great river, and they come and go to the plains endlessly. If you want to break through the plains, you must guard against the thief's boat division, so you must have the help of the sailor. I hope that the king will be anxious to be safe and secure, and if you have a water division, then the thieves of Pingyuan Jin will be easy to suppress. ”

But Liu Yu also seemed helpless, and finally transferred it to Cao Cao and asked Cao Cao to think of a way.

Cao Cao did have a sailor, and he received it from the Le Ancheng system. He has also been using Jishui to transport grain and straw to Jinan to support the war.

But Cao Cao kept pressing this water division, so that after his army drove to Pingyuanjin, he would let him join the battle.

In this way, without the help of the water master, the trial can only use his energy to encircle and suppress the Taishan army in the territory.

It took Gai Tong as the main general, leading its headquarters Youzhou to ride 2,000. In order to be able to pull the net large enough, the trial also allocated another 5,000 infantry troops to cooperate with Gai Tong.

In this way, Gai Tong used a huge force of 2,000 cavalry and 5,000 infantry to sweep the net to search for Ma Bao's 1,000 Tiande troops.

The scale of the thousand horses actually couldn't be hidden, and they were quickly caught by Gai Tong.

The two sides encountered each other on the plain fifty miles northwest of Ande, and in the second fierce battle, Ma Bao's army was unfavorable and could only break through to the north.

Because the Tiande army was equipped with many military horses, its army quickly broke through.

Gai Tong, who failed to completely annihilate the Tiande army, no longer pursued, but left part of his troops to garrison several dock walls on the Mache River to prevent the Tiande army from moving south again.

After that, Gai Tong returned to Pingyuanjin again and waited for Cao Cao's arrival.

In the days that followed, several more skirmishes broke out between the two sides, and the Han army suffered more defeats and fewer victories, but still generally maintained the defensive line until Cao Cao joined Pingyuanjin with an army of 20,000.

……

After listening to Qi Zhou's account of the war in the past few days, Cao Cao still smiled and groaned.

Qi Zhou couldn't figure out whether Cao Cao was confident or a joke about the Plains Army, he frowned and probably talked about the deployment of the Taishan Army in Pingyuanjin.

After Ding Sheng led the army to arrive, the strength of the Taishan army here was about 14,000 troops. Among them, the former army marshal's headquarters had 8,000 infantry and 1,000 cavalry, and the local garrison had 5,000.

And the strength of this 14,000 army was almost clarified after many days of reconnaissance.

Of these, 8,000 are on the east bank and 6,000 are on the west bank, and the two sides are connected by the plain bridge. On the east bank there are ten ramparts, of which five are large and have 1,000 soldiers each, and 5 are small and 500 soldiers each.

Then, Qi Zhou successively introduced the situation of each battalion general.

This said that it was nightfall, and it was still open when Liu Jaw woke up.

Looking at the camp that was still brightly lit, Liu Qian saw that there was no one around, and couldn't help muttering:

"It's all my life as a slave, what kind of life do you play."

After muttering, he poured himself another meal, and got drunk until dawn.

(End of chapter)