Three days later, Shi Min led 80,000 Zhao troops and 50,000 Liang troops from Guzang to confront each other on the Quliu River.

Neither Shi Min nor Xie Ai dared to act rashly.

This is like a duel between two martial arts masters, the strength of the two is equal, but once someone makes a flaw, the winner will be divided!

Just when Zhao Liang's two armies were facing each other at the Quliu River, the news of the defeat of the Zhao army came from Shafu.

Shi Min was gathering the generals in the big tent of the Chinese army to discuss matters, and suddenly a small colonel ran in, knelt down on one knee and said: "Report - general, Shafu is urgent!" Yesterday, a cool army suddenly appeared in the southeast direction, it was Yang Kang who came out of the Han Dynasty to lead the army to attack, attack Liu Ning's department, beheaded more than 2,000 people, and now General Liu Ning has led his troops to retreat and stationed in Jincheng! ”

Liang Jun moved?

Hearing this, the generals thought that Shi Min would be furious, and he would scold Liu Ning angrily at the worst, and his face became ugly.

But he didn't think about it, when he received the news of Shafu's defeat, Shi Min was smiling, and he seemed to be so happy that he couldn't close his mouth!

Is the general crazy?!

"Hahahaha! Okay, good! ”

Shi Jian was startled, and hurriedly pulled Shi Min's arm and said, "General, aren't you stunned?" ”

"Nope. I'm really happy. ”

"Why?"

The generals were puzzled.

Shi Min walked to the sheepskin map placed in the middle and pointed to the Quliu River: "Everyone, please see, now our army is blocked on the line of the Quliu River. Xie Ai built a barrier on the opposite bank to lead the army without fighting, and our army could not cross the river if it wanted to, and the war was already in danger of stalemate. But now Yang Kang is out of Caohan, and then attacks Shafu, just breaking this deadlock! ”

The two thousand soldiers of the Zhao Army who died died well, and their deaths were very valuable!

"What do you mean by that?" Shi Jian said with a puzzled expression.

"Look." Shi Min pointed to several locations on the sheepskin map, squinted his eyes and said, "This game of chess is completely alive!" Yang Kang must have acted without Xie Ai's consent. Yiyang Gong, let me ask you, what is the purpose of our war? ”

"Capture the land of Helong and unify the north."

"Not bad."

Shi Min bowed his head and said: "If you want to capture Helong, Caohan is the place you must take!" There are tens of thousands of Liang troops stationed in Caohan, easy to defend and difficult to attack, the last time Yiyang Gong led 80,000 soldiers to surround the moat of Caohan, the cloud ladder tunnel, all roads are advancing, tens of thousands of dead and wounded, but still can not take Caohan! But this time it's different. ”

Hearing that Shi Min intended to capture Caohan, the generals couldn't help but nod frequently.

The last time Shi Jian led an army of 80,000 to attack Caohan, but the final result was a nose of ashes, killing and wounding tens of thousands of soldiers, but he still returned with a feather - Zhang Ju burned the equipment of the Zhao army's attack, and Shi Jian had no choice but to lead the army to retreat to Great Xia.

Why did Shi Min say that this time was different?

First, the general stationed in Caohan last time was Zhang Ju, the captain of Ningrong, who has both humanities and martial arts, and has more than 10,000 elite soldiers and strong generals.

Second, the defense of Caohan has been empty, and most of the elites of the original Caohan City have been brought to Quliu by Zhang Ju, and the remaining old, weak, sick and disabled are not to worry.

Before Niu Xuan led the remnants of the army to defeat Caohan, Shi Min was worried at that time, and did not dare to lead the army to attack Caohan, so as not to end up with Shi Jian, kowtow to the head and bleed, and be embarrassed if he couldn't get anything.

And now Zhang Jun has removed Niu Xuan's position and reappointed Yang Kang as the chief general of Caohan.

If you want to blame Liu Ning for being unlucky, Liu Ning's troops are stationed in Shafu, and the city wall of Shafu is low, and there is almost nothing to defend except for a wall. Originally, Liu Ning thought that his Zhao army was so powerful that the Liang army would not dare to fight and take the initiative to attack.

However, Yang Kang didn't play according to the routine, and directly attacked Shafu, forcing Liu Ning to abandon Shafu and defeat Jincheng!

Shi Min pointed to the location of Zaohan, and said in a firm tone: "Zaohan, I've got it!" ”

"Qu Liu, we don't want it. Send an order to Sun Fudu and Liang Li, let them lead 20,000 foot cavalry to join Ma Qiu's army, under my banner, drive straight in, cross the Yellow River, and the Tun army is the most! ”

"No!" The herald immediately ran out of the tent of the Chinese army.

"Give me a momentum to retreat!"

"No!"

Shi Min arranged tasks for the generals one by one.

When all the generals retreated one by one, Shi Min looked at the sheepskin map for a while, and muttered to himself: "Sure enough, it's better to advance step by step." ”

At the same time, Xie Ai also received the news that Yang Kang led his army to defeat Liu Ning's Zhao army in Shafu and beheaded more than 2,000 people.

finally achieved a big victory, which should have been a celebration of the generals of the Liang army, but Xie Ai was always worried, his brows were tightly locked, and he was very worried.

Alas! Yang Kang is confused!

"Newspaper—"

Not long after, a small colonel broke into the Chinese army's big tent.

"What?"

"Governor Dadu, the front is looking for Malay, the Zhao army on the other side is already gathering camp tents, banners, antlers, grain and other marching things, and at the same time beating drums and gathering troops, arranging troops, and retreating!"

"Zhao Jun wants to withdraw?"

At this moment, all the generals in the tent were stunned without exception.

Before this battle is fought, the enemy army is about to retreat?

Xie Ai was still pondering, and at this time, Don't put Zhang Mao out loud and said, "Metropolitan Governor, what should we do now?" ”

"Bring me the map."

Xie Ai took the map, carefully studied it over and over again, and finally frowned and said, "Is it Caohan or Shafu?" ”

Xie Ai couldn't guess what Shi Min's strategic intentions were, whether it was Shafu or Caohan?

Where is the real purpose of the Zhao army?

Think about it from another perspective, if Xie Ai is Shi Min, if he wants to expand the results of the battle and pursue the victory, he can only take the two places of Caohan or Shafu, whichever of the two is taken, and Zhao Jun will benefit a lot.

In the case of Yang Kang breaking the deadlock, the main force of the Zhao army led by Shi Min went south and attacked Shafu, which could annihilate the more than 10,000 Liang troops under Yang Kang. Once even Shafu's Liang army is wiped out, it will undoubtedly be worse for the Liang army, which has been defeated again and again at this time, and the morale of the Liang army will fall to the bottom!

And Shi Min is the one who is best at fighting this kind of war of annihilation!

And the capture of Caohan is of greater strategic significance to the Zhao army.

This place has always been a thorn in the eye of Zhao Guo.

Caohan is located in the center of Helong, the junction of the north and south on both sides of the Yellow River, and if you take Caohan, the Zhao army will be able to completely take all the territory south of the Yellow River, and completely take the entire Hexi and part of Longyou, which is of great strategic significance!

Although it is an important military town, in this world, there are no impenetrable barriers and cities!

Once the Zhao army captures Caohan, the situation will be extremely unfavorable to the Liang country, and when the Liang army wants to turn defeat into victory and recover the lost territory, the difficulty will be greatly increased, and it may lose part of Hexi and Longyou!

No matter what, stop the main force of the Zhao army from going south!

"Someone! Drumming and gathering! ”

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Chapter 0174: Sword Finger Han