However, the soldiers of Jingzhou Army in the city should be more serious and responsible for guarding the Qingqi Camp. The soldiers rode horses and approached the city from time to time, and then when the defenders of Chengtou put arrows, they turned their horses and flew away from them. They did not laugh and tease Chengtou to be nervous, but silently observed the Zhongjun camp outside the city wall and moat.
It seems that the Zhongjun camp is well guarded, and there are many soldiers with flags. It is not enough for Chengyi to play with the horse. The second commander Ma Chao turned against each other and led troops into the city. The spy of the special guard camp has reported to Liu Cong that Ma Chao led the cavalry out of the camp and camped more than ten miles northeast of Xudu. For them, there are almost no secrets outside Xudu.
Most of the people outside Xudu have fled to other places, and few people choose to stay at home. However, these people soon found that the Jingzhou army was not as terrible as Tingchang said, and of course it was not too kind. However, it was overjoyed for these poor people to ask these Jingzhou soldiers not to kill and plunder at will.
The atmosphere in the city is quite depressing, and many people secretly speculate that this time, bretz will not return it like the previous two times.
Bretz’s invasion of Xudu this time is still under the banner of "Sweeping away thieves and welcoming heaven", but it is not difficult for those ministers in the imperial court to guess the hidden meaning behind this banner. Some people have already planned to hold Bretz’s thigh tightly, and there are many people who have held Cao Cao’s thigh before.
Although bretz hasn’t besieged the city yet, these people are all experienced speculators, and sometimes they are very accurate in judging the situation. Don’t say that bretz now has four states, and this strength is higher than that of Cao Cao. If it is possible to meet Jingzhou again, who else can compete?
What’s more, I thought that if I could support Emperor Liu Congdi, I would become a national hero myself. Wouldn’t it be better than this day? These people have racked their brains to find ways, but how can they be as big as dozens of cronies who are just guarding the home without military forces? Even if they are linked, who can say that they will succeed?
This agitation has long been closely watched by Cao Hong, but Cao Hong doesn’t want to start work on them at this time. I’m afraid it’s only Cao Hong who knows when it’s appropriate.
On the second day after arriving outside Xudu City, Liu Cong led his troops to send an envoy to Jingzhou Army Camp outside the city. The envoy was none other than Kong Rong.
It’s a pity that bretz didn’t buy it this time and didn’t see him. Kong Rong Kenai can return to the city.
I didn’t see Kong Rong because bretz didn’t want it to be too complicated, so it was boring to attack the city with so many realities.
However, before the siege, Liu Cong must also solve the problem of Zhongjun or Ma Chao. After all, there are still tens of thousands of elite cavalry in Ma Chao. If the decisive battle is won, the losses of both sides will be very heavy.
It seems that it is still very difficult to achieve such a strategy without fighting.
Ma Chao has set up a camp dozens of miles outside the capital city. Liu Cong clearly knows that it is necessary to give full play to the advantages of the cavalry and at the same time gain strategic depth by pulling its own distance.
In this way, if Jingzhou Army attacks Xudu, Ma Chao can fight from behind, harass and disrupt the attack rhythm of Jingzhou Army, weaken the strength of Jingzhou Army, and put great pressure on itself while maintaining high mobility and initiative.
So what if we attack Ma Chao first and then besiege Xudu? This is somewhat similar to the situation faced by the former Kunyang, except that the candidate was replaced by Ma Chao, but Ma Chao was not scared to retreat into the city as easily as the candidate.
If we consider that the battle of tens of thousands of troops led by Cao Cao is not easy to fight, if it takes too long, the Jingzhou army has not broken Xu Du after Cao Cao cleaned up Liu Bei, and I am afraid that it will be in a difficult situation of long-term stalemate at that time. After all, for the Jingzhou army, the invasion of Xu Du is going deep into the enemy’s territory, and neither public support nor grain transportation can be compared with the Jingzhou line.
Based on comprehensive factors, Liu Cong thinks that we should either attack Xudu quickly or destroy Ma Chao first and then clean up Xudu later.
Compared with attacking the city first, it seems less difficult, but it risks being attacked by Ma Chao’s troops when attacking the city. However, if Ma Chao attacks heavily first, it may not be able to defeat him. After all, Ma Chao’s cavalry is very mobile. If Ma Chao does not choose Jingzhou Army to attack, but constantly changes its stationed place, it is likely to make the various parts of Jingzhou Army attacking Ma Chao fall into a continuous pursuit and finally be dragged out.
Jia Xu’s opinion is to attack the city first. Since our army is not sure to annihilate Ma Chao’s cavalry in one fell swoop, the best way to attract the initiative to attack us is to attack Xudu.
Since the strategist also agrees with the first strategic plan, there are indeed many things to come. The staff officers of the General Staff Office will carry out overnight sand table deduction, and the ministries will also participate in the camp. Otherwise, the Zhongjun big account will not be so spacious, and there will be so many five big and three thick distribution schools.
Participating in the deduction, the ministries and universities not only watched, but also made many suggestions according to their own experience and ideas, such as how to cooperate with each arm when attacking the city, when to adopt what tactics and how to guard against cavalry raids in Ma Chaozhong.
Some of these suggestions were adopted, while others were abandoned because they were not suitable. However, it was precisely because various ministries and schools participated in the whole war plan that they gradually improved. When the dawn dawned, everyone was surprised to find that it was almost dawn …
☆, Chapter one hundred and sixty-two Attack camp Iraq flame.
In the morning, the mist quietly dispersed, and the deep and long horn sounded from the Yuanmen of each camp, as if several wild animals woke up from their sleep, and blue smoke rose and floated across the walls of the village, with rows of spears, halberds and flags of all colors.
For many soldiers of Jingzhou Army, it’s just an ordinary autumn morning. They queue up for washing, eating breakfast and talking and laughing with each other at dinner, as if the coming battle doesn’t scare them. This optimism can infect each other, and even recruits who join the army soon will soon integrate into this atmosphere.
Compared with many cities, Chengtou was shrouded in gloom.
"Jingzhou Army is bound to win this time," said Cao Hong, with heavy eyebrows and frowning towers, holding the guardrail in his hand. Cheng Yu beside him also looked serious and heard a slight nod. "Liu Cong’s refusal to meet the special envoy of heaven is no longer obvious!"
Cao Hong eyes flashed a kill meaning twist a head to freeze low way "those people have become more and more rampant recently".
"hinder!" Freeze sneer at a also lower their voices to Cao Hong said "and they are rampant for a few days".
What he and Cao Hong said about "they" is naturally that the ministers in the DPRK do not belong to Cao Cao. What Cao Cao has been waiting for for these people is that when this time is not enough, Cao Cao will give it to Cao Hong and Cheng Yu for decision.
"But someone has secretly recruited the dead to prepare for the battle of weapons." Cao Hong said to Cheng Yu with some concerns. "Eye Jingzhou Army besieged the city, that is, someone was afraid that these people would suddenly start their hands on us …"
Freeze shook his head interrupted Cao Hong "general don’t worry! Even if those people are upset, they will never rush if they are in the lead, and according to the spy, they are not huddled together. "
"That’s true," Cao Hong nodded with a little confidence. "Now they all have their own ideas, both to seize the sky and to take refuge in Jingzhou, and even some people want to go to Liu Bei."
Cheng Yu’s face showed a contemptuous expression to Cao Hongdao. "It can be seen that they are not as dangerous as when the time comes, general …" He said here to shut up and not to say that he stretched out his right palm and split it to Cao Hong. When he saw it, he smiled, but it looked quite ferocious.
"Sir, will Jingzhou Army attack the city first or attack Ma Chao’s men first?" Cao Hong turned his head to look at the Jingzhou army camp outside the city, but he was worried about Cheng Yu and asked.
For this problem, Cheng Yu had already pondered the smell speech and said to Cao Hong, "It seems that Jingzhou Army will attack the city first to attract Ma Chaoling to attack."
"Well, that’s what I think," said Cao Hong Shen. "Bretz’s children have always been treacherous and afraid that Ma Chao is not an opponent."
Cheng Yu laughed. "Wouldn’t it be better to lose both sides?"
Talk to see Jingzhou army camp in the people out of the village. Cao Hong’s heart is fiercely ordered by various ministries to wait for Chengtou. Suddenly, it is noisy to manipulate the thundercar gunners. The city is nervous to prepare for the recruitment of civilian workers, scolding and whipping numbness, carrying all kinds of ordnance. Bundles of arrows are hoisted from the city. Several iron horses are desperately pulling carts to transport rolling stones to Chengtou.