Cao Cao had actually lurked to the left of this hilly land.

At the mouth of the hills covered by sparse forests, a cavalry of about 1,000 people was silent.

Could it be that the Taishan army failed to detect Cao Cao because they had been lurking here for the past few days?

This is not true, more than 1,000 people and horses, not to mention people eating and chewing horses, even the dung accumulated every day can smell the wind for miles, how can it be hidden?

The reason why Cao Cao's army was able to hide was not because they were lurking, but because they were constantly moving.

In fact, when the Tarzan army was wandering around, they did not see several falcons hovering in the sky above them.

And this is the fundamental reason why Cao Cao was able to avoid the Taishan army every time.

Falconry is not the strength of the Han people in the Central Plains, it was first used by the Huns, and this kind of falcon tamers are exclusive to the Xiongnu royal family.

But after that, the Xiongnu were divided into two parts, and then they were also occupied by the Xianbei people at all. These special skills, which used to belong to the royal family, also began to flow into the royal courts of the grasslands.

Among them, the Xianbei and Wuhuan people in the east, who occupy the vast Xianbei Mountain, have a more realistic demand for this kind of talent, because there is Haidongqing known as the Divine Eagle in Xianbei Mountain.

And Cao Cao met two such falcon tamers from the Youzhou Raid in Pingyuanjin, they were recruited into the army because of the Han family, and then Lu Zhi's army was defeated in Zhongren Pavilion, and the way home was blocked, and they could only go south to Qingzhou with the Youzhou Raid.

With the help of these eagles and falcons, Cao Cao's road to the south was like a tiger's wings.

Since he received a letter from Xun Yu on July 10 saying that Licheng had been lost, although he was not alarmed, because he felt that Xun Yu could stabilize the rear.

Sure enough, on the second day, Cao Cao received Xun Yu's second letter, which talked about his arrangements for the situation behind, saying that the troops in the Qi area were speeding up the return of reinforcements, so that Cao Cao still focused on the front line of war.

But by the third day, Cao Cao had no longer received letters from the south, and by this time he knew that something must have gone wrong with Dongpingling.

At that time, Cao Cao was ready to withdraw his troops and return to Dongpingling.

But how easy is it to withdraw?

Not to mention that Ding Sheng on the other side should be the reason for receiving Guan Yu's letter, the attacks in the past few days are like a different person, and they are beaten and entangled.

The defense lines of the Cao army and the Taishan army have long been staggered, and once Cao Cao orders the withdrawal of the army, the entire Pingyuanjin defense line will inevitably collapse.

It is precisely for this reason that the plain generals such as the trial and matching will not approve of Cao Cao walking away like this.

Of course, Cao Cao was unwilling, he had already walked ninety-nine steps, and seeing that the hearts of the people of the plains were about to be conquered, how could he fall short?

So Cao Cao changed his method, he selected 1,000 elite horsemen from the cavalry of the whole army, including the Youzhou cavalry, with six days' rations, and went south overnight in one night.

By the evening of the second day, Cao Cao traveled 400 miles a day on horseback and rushed to the left of Dongpingling.

At that time, the outer city of Dongpingling had been broken, and when all the cavalry generals wanted to ask for battle, Cao Cao chose not to help despite public opinion, and still cruised in the north of Dongpingling.

Even in order not to be discovered by the endless wandering of the Taishan army, Cao Cao was stationed in one place and was in charge of cleaning up horse manure.

Even Cao Cao had to dig a pit with his own hands to bury the dung of his crotch.

But don't say it, BMW is BMW, and even the doesn't stink. And people are different, no matter how beautiful people are, the they pull is also stinky.

Then Cao Cao relied on the falcon in the sky, moved flexibly in advance, and forced him to lurk nearby for five or six days without being discovered.

But today has come to an end, and the dry food they carry with them has been eaten, and if they can't catch the fighter today, then they won't be able to survive in the field.

However, the sky lived up to his wishes, and finally let Lao Cao seize the opportunity.

The enemy army was really cunning, and he didn't know why he judged and chose to evacuate Dongpingling, and in the process of retreating, he was preparing to ambush Chen Deng's Xuzhou army going north.

Cao Cao hadn't met Chen Deng, but that didn't prevent him from getting to know him.

As the children of the Gong family, Chen Deng's grandfather Chen Qiu and father Chen Qi are all famous in Kyoto. At that time, Chen Qi died for the country, and Cao Cao also wrote a eulogy for Chen Qi.

Now look at Chen Deng's heroic posture and hard work, when the Xuzhou army is not moving, he is the only army to the north, showing the heroic spirit of Jianghuai.

So even a proud person like Cao Cao, seeing that the Chen family has a son like this, has to sigh enviously:

"Give birth to a son like Chen Yuanlong!"

And now Chen Deng is fighting with the ambush soldiers of the Guan Yu Department outside the hills in front of him, shouting to kill the heavens, and even he can hear the valley here.

And compared with Chen Deng, his brother-in-law Bian Bing is pure rotten wood.

First, he led an army of more than 10,000 but could not break through the thief's defense line, and then made an appointment with Chen Deng to send troops together, but at both ends of the snake and mouse, he planned to consume friendly troops.

It's not impossible to do this, but what Bian Bing did was too low-level, which would only make Cao Cao disgusted.

At this time, Cao Cao's face was full of stubble, and he had already been embarrassed after many days in the wild, but his withered body did not affect his excitement at the moment.

He kept swaying back and forth on the earth and rock, listening to the fierce fighting sounds wafting in the distance, and his fingers clenching the horsewhip turned white.

He suddenly felt that the sound of battle in the distance was more intense than before, and he hurriedly looked up to look outside the valley, and sure enough, a heroic horseman rushed towards him.

The person who came was Cao Chun.

Cao Chun didn't have time to get off the horse, Cao Cao had already rushed over and asked:

"Whose reinforcements are you coming from outside the mound city?"

Cao Chun hurriedly took a breath and said quickly:

"Is it Zang Ba's?"

Cao Cao wondered:

"Zang Ba? Isn't it Guan Yu? ”

Of course, Cao Cao knew that Zang Ba, the Langya thief, was the watchdog of Xuzhou, he thought that this person was just a first-class grass coward, but he didn't expect that he would choose to send troops to help Chen Deng.

But the result brought by Cao Chun was not what Cao Cao wanted.

He has been lurking here for so many days, has endured so much hardship, and filled so much horse manure, but he can't annihilate a few fish belly miscellaneous generals.

Just when Cao Cao was thinking, Cao Chun had already jumped off the war horse and asked:

"Big brother, do we want to send troops? Just now I looked at the battlefield from afar, that Chen Deng is not an opponent at all, Taishan thieves participated in the ambush of a total of two captains, only one school, has already defeated Chen Deng's department, I am worried that there will be Zang Ba in the back of the battle, I am afraid that I can't beat it. ”

Cao Cao gasped and said in disbelief:

"I'm afraid it can't, the two captains of the Taishan Army are 4,000 soldiers, and there are 5,000 soldiers in Chen Deng's department before, how can it be so bad? And how many people are there in that Zang Ba? ”

Cao Chun roughly estimated it in his heart and came up with an approximate number:

"I'm afraid of more than four thousand."

Cao Cao covered his forehead, realizing such a terrible fact for the first time.

That is, the Taishan army turned out to be stronger.

He had only fought with Ding Sheng's thief twice before, so he one-sidedly thought that the combat power of the Taishan Army was like this.

It is indeed higher than the combat power under his command, but at most it is similar to his core Tiger Step combat power.

But what about now? The two lieutenant departments of Guan Yu's department could match more than twice as many soldiers, which he did not expect at all.

Until now, Cao Cao suddenly thought of Guan Yubu's full name:

"The Marshal Department of the Left Army of the Taishan Army."

If you can be the left of the army, you must be the crown of the whole army! It turns out that people have already told themselves.

So now there is such a problem, that is, the original plan to use the battlefield outside the mound as a bait to lure out Guan Yubu is not valid.

Yes, two lieutenant departments can cope with the battle, so why do you need more reinforcements? And if Guan Yubu doesn't appear, then it makes no sense for him Cao Cao to continue to sneak here.

So, Cao Cao thought for a while and decisively ordered:

"Go out to the army and follow me to support Chen Yuanlong!"

The riders responded loudly, and then the thousand riders rolled up to the level.

……

Or on the battlefield outside the hills.

As Zang Ba's army suddenly appeared on the battlefield, the reactions of the officers of the Taishan army and Chen Deng's army were mixed.

In addition to continuing to fight the front line, Chen Guang, who was preparing for the whole army, also left three divisions in the rear, so he was the first to see the Zang Ba division coming from the south.

Chen Guang's heart froze, but he was not panicked, he and Guo Mo chose to line up and fight, and naturally they had already thought about this situation.

The enemy has reinforcements, don't I have them?

As a result, Chen Guang ordered the messengers around him to decisively shoot three cloud-piercing arrows into the sky.

The sharp whistle pierced the sky, making Chen Deng on the battlefield suspicious, and the joy of seeing the source of Zang Ba's army was also diluted a little.

Then, Chen Deng's eyes narrowed, and he saw a black mass appear from a mountain pass in front of him, and then this black mass gradually enlarged, and soon spread out on the hill line in front.

Chen Deng's body shook, and his hands supported the whole person on Che Xuan before he reluctantly stood up.

He saw clearly the banner on the opposite side, and the word "Gao" was written on it, which was the elegant department he had been looking for before.

He should have thought a long time ago that since the Noble Ministry had arrived here one step ahead of him, it must have been close to the left.

And just when Chen Deng's mood took a sharp turn for the worse, the various departments under his command were diametrically opposed.

On the new defense line composed of Chen Duan and Chen Shi, these Jianghuai soldiers naturally have no vision, and they are blind on the battlefield like Guo Mo's troops who are entangled on the opposite side.

But they could hear the wild cheers of the robes behind them.

I heard them shouting:

"Reinforcements have arrived!"

These four short words have given these Jianghuai children infinite strength. In fact, it is precisely by relying on these four words that they have supported until now.

This battle is too bitter, really too bitter.

Is Chen Deng's legion weak? No, on the contrary, they can be said to be the most top-notch existence in the Jianghuai region.

You said that the Danyang soldiers were proud of the southeast, but Chen Deng's army did not fight with these people and won the battle. From the formation of the army to the present, over the past year or so, they have had enough food and soldiers, received the kindness of the Chen clan at the top, and formed a contract with the robe and the same deed, so it can be said that their combat experience, material equipment, and spiritual will are all sufficient.

Let's talk about Chen Deng's 200 rides, don't look at the number of them, it doesn't seem to be much, but they are criss-crossing the Jianghuai River, and they are fighting for the prestige of "Jianghuai Riding Hard".

There are no horses in the Jianghuai region, and the Chen family can support these 200 horses, which shows how much financial resources and resources were spent.

But, but why did this battle come to this?

Shoot as far as the enemy, pierce as long as the enemy, even if close hand-to-hand combat, the opposite side is all ironclad soldiers wearing armor and fighting gear, and they are mostly light leather armor with Jianghuai characteristics.

Even when it comes to the will to fight and the skill to fight, they are far inferior.

The thieves on the opposite side can use bows and arrows at a distance, lances at close range, swords, and even some of them have their own fighting equipment, in short, each of them is a good old soldier.

And if the above is only the gap between soldiers, then the grassroots tactics displayed by the Taishan army made Chen Dengjun feel even more desperate.

The Taishan army marched in unison, and the generals commanded outside.

Once the general is killed in battle, he will be replaced by a military officer to maintain the command of the front. And if the whole thing collapses, they will not withdraw because of this, but will form a formation in threes and threes, interspersed with attacks.

I really don't know how they solved the problem of wartime command. They are also officials, why would he listen to another equal.

It's incomprehensible.

In addition, some Jianghuai military officials also discovered why there was such a big gap between the two sides in the continuity of the fighting.

In fact, up to now, Chen Deng's army has dispatched at least six divisions, close to 3,000 people. And the other side has only dispatched less than 2,000 people so far, how can they be so durable?

It turns out that the gap between the two sides is in the rescue of the wounded.

Although the Chen Deng Regiment chose Jianghuai soldiers to form an army, it followed the military system of the Han Army in both organizational construction and military law design, and did not exceed this era.

And what is the undertone of this era? That is, the people are divided into three, six, nine and so on, and the most important in the army is naturally the first and foremost military officials at all levels, so once these people are injured and fall to the ground, half of their subordinates must protect their own military officials and withdraw to the rear.

This leads to such a result.

Every time a Han general fell to the ground, there were at least five soldiers in the whole Shi to escort the general to the rear.

And what about the Tarzan Army? All the top and bottom of the army are equal, and the generals and the front-line officials only have a distinction of duty and no difference in the importance of life.

Shi will be wounded and fall to the ground, and he will be replaced by the commander of the left army, and his people will also be the auxiliary soldiers behind him to retreat to the rear.

The general officials were injured and fell to the ground, and they would first be pulled back to safety by the rear robes, and then the rear auxiliaries would be carried back to the rear for treatment.

Where is the difference between the two?

The generals of the Taishan army were very thieves, and the crossbows in their hands were specially used to shoot the soldiers on the front line of the Han army, and they were wounded but not killed. Therefore, the Jianghuai soldiers on the front line often only reduced their personnel by one or two people, and all of his soldiers had to be withdrawn.

And what about the Tarzan Army? You can do six or seven deaths in a row, and you can still maintain an offensive posture.

So the result is this:

That is, even if the Jianghuai soldiers are sharp and dare to die, but they are not resistant to war.

It can be said that such a high efficiency in the use of force as the Taishan Army is rare in the world.

In fact, both the people and the power are constantly growing, but the Han army that fought fiercely with the Taishan army in Hebei in the past was either annihilated or captured.

The Han soldiers in the Qingxu area had never fought such a high-intensity battle with the Taishan army, so naturally they could not learn from the experience of defeat.

And now that Chen Deng's Jianghuai soldiers are there, if they can survive this battle, there is no doubt that a stronger Jianghuai army will stand in the southeast, which is bound to have a far-reaching impact on the pattern of the southeast.

But only if they can live!

This is the secret of the cold weapon war, which is the essential reason why an army will collapse after one-third of the casualties.

In wartime, if you can't deal with the distribution of manpower to rescue the wounded, then don't talk about resilience.

(End of chapter)