When Cao Jun rushed to Pingyuanjin, Ding Sheng, who was standing on the watchtower, also saw it.

He saw the smoke and dust everywhere, and countless fine armors under the sun entered the various Han army barriers, and his heart was a little heavy.

But on the face, he still laughed.

He scolded Shi Chenqin, the army commander on the side, with a smile:

"What do you say is the matter with this Qingzhou Han army, why is it the same as stabbing the honeycomb, all of them came to this plain Jin. That Cao thief is too, you are a Jinan minister, and you didn't beat you, what kind of energy do you mix. ”

Chen Qin replied with a smile:

"Isn't it that my Taishan Army is too famous in the Northland? Now the Han army has come out, saying, 'Mount Tai is less than 10,000, and 10,000 are invincible.' Now the number of our army is more than 10,000, and Liu Yu on the opposite side is naturally afraid. I can't let that Cao Cao help. ”

Hearing Chen Qin talk about Cao Cao, Ding Sheng smiled contemptuously:

"This Cao Cao has such a big reputation, and the king asked my army to pay more attention to this person, but I don't think he can be better."

Chen Qin wondered, thinking that Ding Sheng had some unique opinions, so he asked:

"Why did Ding Shuai say this."

Ding Sheng will jump off the watchtower and say this truth:

"Yes, just looking at his experience, it is indeed indomitable, and there is a spirit in it. But everything depends on the result, I only saw his people in the Changshe fiasco, Yingyang rats collapsed, Qi Shui broke his hair, and Cuihan stumbled. Can this gentleman win a battle? The latest uprising seems to occupy a lot of space, but what kind of stinky fish and rotten shrimp are there. ”

Chen Qin was silent, and only said to Ding Sheng after half a day:

"Ding Shuai should not be taken lightly, if the hero is judged by success or failure, things in this world are simple. Now, anyway, with the arrival of Cao's army, the Han army on the opposite side is almost three times as large as ours. At this time, it is better to be cautious. ”

Ding Sheng patted his chest, waved his hand and said:

"Don't talk about it, go back to the camp first."

Chen Qin has cooperated with Ding Sheng for a long time, and he also knows this military commander very well. knew that he was knowledgeable from the outside, so he didn't say more.

On that day, Ding Sheng discussed the military strategy with the generals under his command and decided on tomorrow's defense. He put Jinquan in charge of tomorrow's outer defense line, and then he sat in Daqi and prepared for the whole army.

After the generals retreated, Ding Sheng chatted with Chen Qin and other staff and logistics officials for a long time, and then went to rest.

As soon as Ding Sheng returned to the back of the screen to rest, he saw his tooth keeper Chang Diao walk in.

Chang Diao is Ding Sheng specially from the king's collision team, he has always valued it very much, this time he saw him enter, Ding Sheng's clothes did not fit, so he walked outside the screen and asked what was the matter.

Changdiao Hug Fist:

"Marshal, when the general was patrolling the camp just now, I heard a lot of officials complaining about the cold night tonight, and they wanted to drink some wine to keep warm."

Ding Sheng frowned and shook his head:

"There is strict discipline in the army, it's not for you and me to come indiscriminately. This wine is absolutely impossible to give, so you can ask those people in the logistics department to send two more bundles of firewood to each account in the outer camp, and burn some broth, as well as keep warm. ”

Speaking of this, Ding Sheng was also muttering:

"It's a strange day now, it's a strange month to be hot, but it's cold to the bones at night!"

Thinking of this, he said to Chang Diao again:

"Later, you will give a lecture to the logistics officer, see if there is any cloth for the materials sent from the rear, and then you will take time out of work to make a set of summer clothes for the brothers, and wear them on top when it is cold."

But after saying this, Ding Sheng also saw Chang Diao's pestle there, so he scolded:

"If there is anything else, I told Naigong about it."

Chang Diao knew that Ding Sheng had such a temper, his lips moved, and he still confessed:

"Zhang Chou's kid is muttering again, saying that he wants to enter tomorrow's selection and wants to do big things."

After hearing this, Ding Sheng's temper came up directly, he slapped the table and scolded:

"The big thing of the dry bird, is he still the one to choose the striker? When you go to the battlefield, you have to urinate, and I have already let him take care of the forage business, and this matter is big enough, no matter how big it is, he can't hold it. ”

Chang Diao still said:

"I also told Zhang Chou about this, but he complained that he had some ambitions, and he didn't want to shame the Zhang family in Dasangli, saying that it was not a hero's work to cut grass with others."

At this time, Ding Sheng was already not angry, he only asked Chang Diao:

"This person is looking for you to deliver a message?"

Often carved the head, no more words.

Until this time, Ding Sheng understood that Chang Diao was coaxed, thinking that this person really had anything to do with the king.

So, Ding Sheng directly lifted the old bottom of this person and said to Chang Diao:

"Don't believe this man's words. Although his surname is Zhang and he is also from Dasangli, he is not a member of the royal family, and his family is only a matter of one or two generations in Dasangli, and it has nothing to do with the Wang's family. This man has coaxed me before, saying that he is a cousin of the king, but can he coax me? Which of the king's people, relatives and friends, do I not know? Zhang Xiaodad regards me as a nephew, Zhang Dan and I call him a brother and a brother, and Zhang Zhen is also respectful to me, and he is called a third brother. So he can only rely on those of you who don't know the details. ”

Seeing Chang Diao suddenly, Ding Sheng was not angry:

"This Zhang Chou is a hooligan, and he always says how much he is appreciated by the king, and what kind of elite of the Zhang family is in the big Sangli. This dog and donkey can also blow the atmosphere, and he is the one who is most cowardly on the battlefield. Originally, even if he wasn't a relative of the king, he wouldn't have gotten mixed up to this extent just because he was from Da Sangli. It's all because this person doesn't have much ability, but he loves to fight for merit. The good thing is to grab the sharpened head. If you encounter a slight difficulty, you will retreat vigorously. This killing is also a dog, we fought with the Langya thief in the Yimeng Pass. The grandson had a stomachache and disappeared. Later, we broke the Langya thief, and this person came back. That's it, do you still want to be a striker? I also want to do big things. Eat. ”

Chang Diao understood, and didn't mention this Zhang Chou matter anymore.

After Chang Diao went out of the tent to do things, Ding Sheng was about to lie down and rest, but suddenly heard a boiling in the distance, and the sound of killing shook the sky.

Ding Sheng flipped up all of a sudden, rushed out of the tent with his boots on, and then saw the east direction where the outer military fortress was located, and the firelight burned through the night sky.

Ding Sheng scolded:

"Cao thief still dares to fight with us at night? Be so daring, come here, put on my armor and raise the account. ”

So, on this night, Cao's army began the first great siege of Ding Shengjun.

……

No one expected that Cao's first attack would be placed that night.

On July 2, when the ugly time, Cao Ren, Shi Huanshuai's fierce generals, Cao Ren and Shi Huanshuai's strong troops moved at the same time, and the two divisions dispatched a total of 5,000 or 6,000 troops, and successively entered the battle, concentrating on the Daqi on the eastern slope.

This is the easternmost salient of the Pingjin defense line, and sits on a riverbank soil slope. Originally, there was a small fortress around it, but it had been captured by the plains soldiers a few days ago.

Dongpo Daqi has a thousand soldiers, and its battalion generals are Wang Dang and Zhang Suo, all of whom are subordinate to the Jinquan Department.

In the face of the siege of Cao's army, the two generals responded calmly. But in the end, he lost the opportunity, so Cao Renbu rushed through the two trenches outside the barrigate and reached the foot of the bar.

Cao Renbu is the Tiger Infantry Army of the Cao Army, and the people selected are all brave and extraordinary.

It has a small general's eyes, roaring to the city, killing several Taishan soldiers on the wall, because he is wearing heavy armor, knives and axes do not avoid, it is really a desperate fight.

Fortunately, at this time, the king who was guarding this side saw that he took his life with an arrow, and he was at peace for a while.

Generally, if the first person is killed, how can the officials not be angry? But the Cao army under the city is not, they are under the supervision of Cao Ren, they have been fighting several times, and they do not avoid the arrows and stones at the head of the city at all, which can be described as dead.

Wang Dang is also a fierce general, and he doesn't know how many battles he has fought after joining the Taishan Army. But it is also the first time that the Han army can have such a person who is not afraid of death.

However, Wang Dang is not easy to get along with, although he has few troops, but he still has a degree of defense, and the Cao army under the city has failed to succeed in attacking several times.

Don't look at Wang Dang, who has always been in the assault system before, this time to the former military system, also to be able to lead a one. But looking at its generalization, there is still a bit of discipline, and he is a general.

Cao Ren saw that he hadn't been able to rush forward on his side, and he wasn't annoyed, because this was in the plan.

Just when Cao Ren was attacking on this side, opposite him, Shi Huan had already led his troops to sneak to the west gate of the military fortress, preparing for a surprise attack.

This tactic is very similar to the tactic used by Dong Yu when he attacked Juyong Pass at night last year.

But the guard camp on this side Zhang Suo had already arranged bamboo sticks and antlers under the city, and Shi Huanbu fell into the pit before he could hide under the city, wailing and screaming.

The archers of the Taishan Army, who reacted at the head of the city, threw torches directly downward. The fire shone on the Han army below, and then a rain of arrows covered it.

This Zhang Suo is also a member of the Da Sangli clan, but his ability is much stronger than that straw bag named Zhang Chou.

Cao Ren and Shi Huan's hopeful night attack on both sides was frustrated, so they really gave up the tactics of strong attack and began to dig a long trench outside the wall, intending to trap the Taishan army inside this wall.

This provoked Wang Dang's sneer, and at this time, Wang Dang stood on the head of the head, looking at the busyness below:

"Why do you bother doing this useless work, when this is really a place where you can come and go freely? Immediately, there will be a sudden horse to suppress Er and wait, so that Er and others will not return. ”

But what Wang Dang didn't know was that after following Cao Ren and Shi Huan out of the night attack, Cao Cao also took Xu Chu and other cavalry generals and led the leopard to ride a thousand horsemen and secretly went out of the Qi.

At the bottom of the slope of the eastern slope, Gai Tong was already waiting in the dark with two thousand Youzhou turquoise horses.

Cao Cao met Gai Tong, and then waited quietly in the dark night with three thousand horsemen.

I don't know how long it took, but the cavalry general Yin Department ran over with several horsemen and said to Cao Cao:

"My lord, the thief has left the camp and is in the northwest."

Cao Cao nodded, pointed his horsewhip to the northwest, leaned on the horse and sang:

"The enemy is in the northwest, and he will make contributions with me."

After speaking, Cao Cao clamped the horse's belly, and then led three thousand horsemen straight to the northwest under Xu Chu's command.

The scale of the three thousand cavalry is so huge, how can the dark night not hide the earth-shaking sound of horses' hooves, the king on the eastern slope directly changed color, he looked at his east in surprise, and his heart was clouded with an ominous premonition.

The cavalry army of this size is not its own, and the cavalry army under the jurisdiction of the former army marshal department is a total of 2,000 cavalry, of which 1,000 cavalry are arranged to the rear of the plain, and only 1,000 cavalry remain in the army. So it is clear that this is a huge cavalry army belonging to the Han army.

In a flash, Wang Dang immediately realized that the enemy army was going to fight his own reinforcements.

It's funny to say, encircling the point to send reinforcements is the usual tactic of the Taishan army, but Xu has been fighting with the plain soldiers for a long time, and the opposite side has never used this hand, so the Taishan army has also formed a conditioned reflex.

In the past, whenever the Plains soldiers attacked the East Slope, the Taishan Army would send a cavalry army to cruise on the periphery of the battlefield to deter the Plains soldiers at all times.

And this time, the cavalry general obviously didn't realize what was different this time, and subconsciously took the rider out of the camp.

The sound of fighting in the northwest was repeated, and even in the westernmost Taishan army camp, it was heard.

Ding Sheng, who had been messing around, would stand on the watchtower and look solemnly at the darkness in the northwest.

He did not know exactly how many raiders had come out of the camp to help the eastern slope Qianqi. Ding Sheng hoped that the number of people would be small, so that the losses would be small, and that the number of people would be large, hoping that they would be able to defeat the ambush.

At this time, Ding Sheng's hands were full of sweat, and he knew very well the importance of the sudden cavalry to himself.

The original Pingyuanjin defense line was divided into two places, east and west of the river, which were connected by Pingyuanjin and defended by the Dahe Water Division.

And the ten walls in the east of the river can be divided into two pieces of inner and outer parts, the inner wall is almost connected with the big camp, and the outer wall is arranged on several soil slopes on the east bank of the river, as an arch guard.

And the traffic protection of the inside and outside is almost guaranteed by the sudden ride. If the Turquoise cavalry suffers heavy losses here, then the communication between the inner and outer bars will be blocked, and then there will be no reinforcements to support the outer bar, and it will be dangerous.

So, Ding Sheng went to rescue the assault riders in the northwest as soon as possible.

But Chen Qin, who was the chief historian at the time, stopped Ding Sheng's impulse. He advised Ding Sheng:

"Shuai should not be in a hurry to raise a division, so as not to fall into the calculations of the Han army. If it is dark today, even if the enemy ambushes the supporting turks, they will not be able to destroy them. And once our Chinese army is dispatched, do you know that this is the real intention of the enemy army? Therefore, please calm down and trust the general's own judgment and ability. ”

was persuaded by Chen Qin like this, and other generals in the Chinese army, such as Zhao Rong, Ding Wu, and Huang Yong, also came to persuade them.

They all mean the same, that is, now the main commander of the outer wall is Jinquan, he is the general of our Taishan army, I don't know how many battles, even if he is ambushed, he has his own judgment.

And what if the Chinese army comes to the aid and encounters an enemy ambush? Do you know that the elite of the new army has not been dispatched until now? You have to guard against this hand.

After a few words, Ding Sheng had calmed down, he paced back and forth, and finally made up his mind.

He said to Chen Qin and others:

"No, this soldier is still going to come out, so that although we are stable, we will be passive."

Seeing that Chen Qin wanted to persuade him, Ding Sheng calmly analyzed:

"That's the opposite. Your analysis, will the enemy army not know? A person like Cao Cao, although I don't despise it, but I also know that this person has some wisdom, he wants to ambush my army, and he must have expected that our army will see through this strategy, and then his people can calmly pull out my outer defense line. ”

The more Ding Sheng thought about it, the more he felt right, and he said to Chen Qin:

"They think that if our army doesn't come out, our army will come out, and they will be caught off guard."

Chen Qin was also analyzing this possibility, but after thinking about it, he still said:

"The risk is still too big, what if the other side is not as complicated as we think, that is, it is simply to ambush us? When we go out of camp in this way, are we not in the middle of an ambush? ”

Dante Sheng still shook his head:

"That's why I'm going to send troops one after the other. In a while, Zhao Rong and Ding Wu will take the two captains' departments and 4,000 out of the two lieutenants, and then I will take the ballista battalion of the army headquarters and Huang Yong's department to set off again. If Zhao Ding and the others are ambushed, they will form a formation, and when our reinforcements arrive, they will attack inside and outside, and they will break the thief army. Then our army went to the northeast to rescue the turrets. ”

Chen Qin is still opposed:

"Then my Chinese army camp will be empty, if Cao Cao is here to attack my camp, how can we deal with it."

Ding Sheng still insisted on his own ideas:

"There are still garrisons on the periphery of the Chinese army, and they are defended by strong and sharp blades, so what is there to fear? In addition, after a while, you will take my military card and order Han Hao on the west bank to lead troops to help, and it will be foolproof. ”

In this way, Ding Sheng still persuaded everyone in the end, and this reinforcement still came out in the end.

Is Ding Daqi's judgment right?

(End of chapter)