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Wang Ping's swordsmanship was neat and fought with Wei Yan for more than 20 rounds, but there was still no flaw. However, at this time, several spear troops of the Han army had rushed to the ashore. They held shields and spears in their hands, effectively resisting Cao's bows and arrows, covering more and more troops to cross the river. Seeing that the situation was unfavorable, Wang Ping sold a flaw, turned his head and fled, shouting: "Retreat quickly."

The Cao army crossbowmen in the woods followed Wang Ping to retreat. Wei Yan was worried that the other party would have ambushed in the woods, so he stopped his subordinates from chasing. Then he ordered the soldiers to cross the river. This time there was no enemy disruption. The Han army only took a quarter of an hour, and the two thousand spear troops all crossed the Yangshui River and quickly assembled the entire squad on the shore.

Wei Yan led two thousand troops to rush towards Cao Cao's defense line on the north bank. At this time, a fierce archery battle broke out on both sides of the Yangshui River. The crossbowmen of the Thousand Han Army fired arrows at random, suppressing the Cao army left behind the bunker, so that the Cao army could not fight back.

At this time, Wang Ping led the five Cao troops back and shouted: "Retreat and return to the camp immediately."

The Cao army hid behind the bunker ran north one after another, dozens of people ran a little slower, and were shot by the Han army's arrows and fell to the ground screaming. The other soldiers ran desperately and followed Wang Ping to retreat to Heipongzhai.

But Wei Yan led his army to quickly arrive from the east and caught up with some Cao's soldiers. Yu Cao's soldiers were so scared that they were gone and kneeled down to surrender. Wei Yan was hated and refused to accept the surrender and ordered the soldiers to massacre. In just a moment, Yu Cao's soldiers were everywhere and were stabbed to death by spears.

Wang Ping was also frightened and did not dare to stop. He led the remaining eight soldiers to escape to Hei Songling.

The ambush on the other side had been cleaned up, and Zhao Yun ordered the bridge to cross the river again. In just one hour, the Han army built a floating bridge. Eight thousand soldiers quickly crossed the Yangshui River, merged with Wei Yan's army, and continued to march towards Heisongling.

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Just the day before Liu Jing's army began the northern expedition, Cao Cao also led 60,000 troops to Jicheng, Tianshui County. Although the Han army was also found to be active in Chencang Road, Cao Cao still transported supplies from the Han army to Wudu County on a large scale, and judged that the main force of the Han army must have gone north on Qishan Road.

To conquer Guanzhong, at least more than 100,000 troops are needed, which requires mobilization of a large amount of food and supplies. There may be some small strategies in specific combat, but in terms of strategy, Liu Jing cannot use a strategy, so it is undoubtedly true to go to Qishan Road.

At this time, Cao Cao had deployed 120,000 troops on the front line of Qishan Road, and almost all his elite troops were mobilized here. Moreover, Cao Cao had a strong confidence in this battle.

In the Yaneitang of the State, Cao Cao was discussing the battle strategy with his advisers Xun You and Chen Qun. In front of them was a medium-sized sand table, one meter long and one meter wide, clearly showing the terrain of Guanzhong and Hanzhong. This was also the production took Cao Cao half a year to capture Hanzhong, and finally came in handy.

"I'm considering whether we will continue to march and capture Hanzhong in one fell swoop if we defeat Liu Jing's army in this battle."

Chen Qun is only over 10 years old this year and is upright and has always been known for adhering to principles. Although he was punished for angering Cao Cao several times, Cao Cao immediately pardoned him after his anger dissipated and apologized to him. From beginning to end, he attached great importance to Chen Qun. In this battle in Guanzhong, Chen Qun actually served as deputy military advisor.

When Chen Qun heard that Cao Cao wanted to continue to take Hanzhong, he immediately said, "If some prerequisites are met, I think it is not impossible to seize Hanzhong, but the most urgent task now is to improve the defense of Qishan."

The implication is that it is too early to conquer Hanzhong. Cao Cao was a little unhappy and asked, "What conditions should be met? You might as well explain it clearly."

"Weichen refers to the condition that we can completely defeat the Han army and at least annihilate more than half of its troops. If this condition is not met, we will rashly go south and will be surrounded and counterattacked by it, which will eventually affect the gains and losses of Longxi."

Cao Cao was silent and asked Xun You again, "What do you think Gongda thinks?"

Xun You smiled slightly, "Frankly speaking, I support the Chief's opinion. If this battle reaches a certain point, there is indeed a possibility of seizing Hanzhong, then it is not a must to fight with the flow, but now... the Prime Minister is indeed a little far-reaching."

In order to respect Xun You's opinion, Cao Cao said that even he said so, maybe he really thought too much, so he laughed dryly and turned around and asked Chen Qun: "I just said that I should improve the defense of Qishan. Is there any loopholes in my defense of Qishan?"

Chen Qun said openly and honestly: "The current Qishan defense is planned by Zhang Gong, and he did not seek much opinions from the general. Moreover, I firmly oppose it, but Zhang Gong does not listen. Now I hope the Prime Minister can find the problem."

Cao Cao's face immediately became gloomy, "Let's talk about it in detail, what's wrong?"

Chen Qun picked up the wooden pole and pointed to the Qishan area: "The Qishan defense deployed by Zhanggong is divided into four pieces. Yu Jin is responsible for the south of the Qishan Mountains, Zang Ba is responsible for the east of the Qishan Mountains, Li Dian is responsible for the west of the Qishan Mountains, Hao Zhao led 10,000 troops to be deployed north of the Qishan Mountains, but not to support the south, but just to defend against the Jicheng City. In this way, 40,000 troops were thrown out and they were in their own formations, but can they really prevent the Han army from heading north?"

Before Chen Qun finished speaking, Cao Cao punched the sandbox hard, "This evil deed almost ruined my big deal."

After Cao Cao's battle, he could see at a glance the problem in this deployment, that is, it is easy to be defeated by the enemy's concentrated forces. It can be said that this deployment is a taboo for military strategists.

Chen Qun continued: "Of course, there is a reason for Mr. Zhang to deploy like this, because General Xiahou had deployed this way before, and it was difficult to garrison large-scale troops in the dangerous areas of the Qishan area. This is also the truth. Therefore, I did not say that it was wrong, but said that it still needs to be improved."

Cao Cao also knew that Chen Qun was for him, after all, he was his own son. Xiahou Yuan's deployment was to prevent the small-scale army in Hanzhong from going north to support Ma Chao. It was OK to deal with about 10,000 troops, but now they are facing the main force of the 70,000 to 80,000 Han army, so it is obviously impossible to deploy like this.

Cao Cao waved his hand, "You don't have to talk for him. It's okay for me to go to the north to fight the Huns. He is not suitable for commanding such a large-scale battle. I know it well, so I rushed to Tianshui County in person."

Cao Cao was slightly angry and asked Chen Qun again: "Tell me your plan."

"Weichen's plan is to cancel the defenses on all sides of Qishan, but to set up a defense point with 20,000 people north of Qishan. No matter how many troops Liu Jing has, it is impossible for them to go north without pulling out this defense point, otherwise there will be problems with his logistics support."

Cao Cao nodded. He realized very early that the biggest weakness of Liu Jing's army in the north was logistics and food support, and he had to use the other party's weakness to make a secret.

He glanced at Xun You again, and Xun You smiled slightly, "Actually, the Prime Minister blamed the Second Duke for the second Duke. The Second Duke was my suggestion to him."

Cao Cao and Chen Qun were both stunned. How could it be Xun You's suggestion Cao Cao asked in confusion: "Why did Gongda teach him such a soldier? It's clear..."

Xun You smiled faintly, "The so-called soldiers never get tired of cheating, and if you don't give Liu Jing some sweetness, how could he be so excited about his confidence to go north? Does the Prime Minister understand what I mean?"

Cao Cao nodded, "I understand what Gongda means. He is to tempt Liu Jing to go north to cooperate with the chain of plans, so that he can underestimate the enemy. So what should we do now?"

“Very simple”

Xun You stroked his beard and smiled, "I ordered Yu Jin to burn all the food and supplies, and immediately withdrew the troops north to go north to lengthen the Han army's grain supply line, especially Yu Jin, and ordered him to immediately abandon Hei Songzhai and go north to go north."

Cao Cao knew that if Yu Jin abandoned the camp at this time, he would definitely be pursued by the Han army and might be wiped out by the entire army, but Xun You's strategy was very clear that Yu Jin's army was just a bait. Cao Cao made a quick decision and said, "Send Xiahou Yuan to see me quickly."

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Zhao Yun launched two tentative attacks at Hei Songling, both ended in failure. The terrain of Hei Songling is easy to defend and difficult to attack and the 5,000 defenders have made the Cao army firmly occupy a defensive advantage, and at least 20,000 people are needed to conquer the Cao army camp.

After losing nearly a thousand attacking soldiers, Zhao Yun stopped the attack and set up a camp on the north bank of Yangshui, waiting for the arrival of the main force of the Han army. The queen of heaven and Liu Jing crossed the Yangshui and entered the camp.

So far, Liu Jing is still very satisfied with Zhao Yun's record, especially capturing Licheng at the cost of not killing a soldier, which is even more admirable for his brilliant strategy. Of course, this is mainly due to Pang Tong's contribution, and Zhao Yun did not take any credit and gave the first contribution to Pang Tong.

In the central army tent, Liu Jing was discussing military information with everyone and listening to Zhao Yun's report. Zhao Yun praised Yu Jin's deputy general Wang Ping, and praised him for being brave and resourceful, and as a promising young general.

Zhang Ren next to him smiled and said, "I also know Wang Ping. He is from Ba County. He was once a famous swordsman and ranger in Ba County. Later, he wanted to join the army as a general, but Liu Zhang did not like his identity as a ranger, so he did not allow him to join the Yizhou Army. Later, he heard that he went to the north and probably joined Cao's army."

Liu Jing nodded and said, "Since he is from Bajun, you can fight for it. Liu Zhang doesn't want it. I, Liu Jing, want it. This matter takes time. Let's take a moment to slow it down. Now I want to see the deployment map of Cao Cao's army in Qishan."

Zhao Yun quickly took out a drawing and handed it to Liu Jing, "This is a summary of the information from several scouts to the deployment of Cao's army. Please check the provincial governor."

Liu Jing took it and looked carefully for a while. He walked to the sand table again, and according to the map sign, he inserted several blue flags into the corresponding position of the sand table. After looking for a moment, he couldn't help but smile and said to everyone: "It's very interesting to see Cao's deployment."

Everyone gathered up, and Fa Zheng smiled and said, "Stationed in four places, at least dozens of miles apart. Isn't this let us defeat each one?"

Pang Tong also said on the side: "As far as I know, this should be Cao Zhang's deployment, continuing the previous Xiahou Yuan's approach, but increasing the number of troops. I think if it were Cao Cao, he would never have made such a deployment. It is said that Cao Cao has arrived in Longxi, so is there any possibility of Cao's army redeployment?"

As soon as he finished speaking, a personal guard reported at the door: "You have reported to the governor of the state, and the scout has important information."

"Let him in"

After a moment, a scout tent leader quickly walked into the tent and knelt down on one knee to report: "Qi Bingzhou Governor, just this morning, the Cao army stationed in the east and west of Qishan had retreated north, and all the materials and supplies that could not be taken away were burned."

This news made Liu Jing laugh at Pang Tong and everyone and said, "This news came in time. It seems that Cao Cao had the power to defend and denied Cao Zhang's deployment."

Pang Tong pondered for a moment and said, "This must be Cao Cao's shrinking the defense line, so the camp in Hei Songling is no exception. Yu Jin should have received the order. If I was not wrong, Yu Jin will withdraw his troops tonight and retreat quietly."

Zhao Yun next to him hesitated and said, "But Cao's camp in Hei Songling is indeed easy to defend but difficult to attack. It would be a pity to give up like this. Perhaps Cao Cao would consider Yu Jin's truth and order him to stick to the camp."

Liu Jing shook his head, "Long, you are wrong. The Hei Songling Camp is indeed difficult to capture for your 10,000 vanguard army, but if it is a 40,000 army, I will not attack the mountain road, but attack from the other side of the ridge. At most two hours, the Hei Songling Camp will be broken, and the five thousand Cao troops will be wiped out. I understand Yu Jin, and he will never put himself in a desperate situation. Therefore, I agree with the opinion of Military Advisor Pang. Yu Jin will inevitably withdraw his troops at night tonight."

Zhao Yun did not insist anymore, and he was not sure. After pondering for a moment, Zhao Yun said again: "Since that's the case, I will immediately send a scout to investigate the information and keep abreast of the movements of the imperial army at any time."
Chapter completed!