PS: Corrected later

This situation has changed radically, first of all, Cao Liang recruited Xiang Yong, not to cobble together temporary defense forces, but to train these people as regular troops.

The weapons and equipment that Cao Liang equipped with for the Xiangyong were all the same as those of the regular army, whether it was cavalry or infantry, and the training method was no different from the regular army.

Therefore, the Xiangyong of Bingzhou is actually not much different from the regular army.

This recruitment, Cao Liang took advantage of this loophole in the imperial court, expanded the establishment of the army, borrowed the name of Xiang Yong, but also to avoid impeachment in the court, after all, this Xianbei attack, the enemy is current, the existing army in the state alone is not enough to resist, and it is reasonable to recruit Xiang Yong.

In three years, Cao Liang successively recruited more than 30,000 people, excluding those who died in the battle with the Xianbei people, and the available troops also reached more than 25,000 people, which also made the total strength of the Pingbei Army reach 50,000.

has 50,000 soldiers, which also gives Cao Liang the capital to fight back against the Xianbei people. And after three years of baptism of war, these recruits have gradually grown up, and Cao Liang is basically ready now, just waiting for a suitable time.

And the entire battle situation in the north of Jin has also undergone subtle changes, if you use one drum and then decline and exhaustion to describe the Xianbei people, it seems to be more appropriate.

In the first four years, the Xianbei people first entered the northern part of Jin, menacing, the momentum was very fierce, the offensive was extremely strong, all the way to the gallop, raging in the northern parts of Jin.

However, in the second year, the momentum of the offensive was not as strong as the first year, and it seems that the previous year's lack of success in the previous year had caused a big shadow on their psyche. This year, the Xianbei people fought more honestly, they changed the previous year's headless flies like a random attack, this year, they almost concentrated all their forces, the northern line focused on attacking Yanmen Pass, the southern line focused on attacking Jiuyuan, hoping to open a breakthrough in the north and south.

But it backfired, the Wei army's tenacious and solid defense made the Xianbei people still return in vain, and Xianbei's retreat before the onset of winter seemed to be dejected.

Compared with the low morale of the first five years, the Xianbei offensive in the first six years of the first six years was even more sluggish, and they were originally engaged in the offensive in February, but it was not until mid-March that they were late.

This time, Tuoba Liwei gave up attacking Yanmen Pass, and in the previous three years, the most important target of the Xianbei people's attack was Yanmen Pass, this time giving up attacking Yanmen Pass, it is also equivalent to Tuoba Liwei admitting that Yanmen Pass is unbreakable, and if it continues, it can only increase casualties.

This time, Tuoba Liwei put the focus of the attack on the iron triangle of northern Jin, and the Xianbei people attacked Jiuyuan, Dingxiang and Yuanping at the same time, so that the Wei army could not care about each other and lost the opportunity to help each other.

If Tuoba Liwei had adopted this method of play two years earlier, it would have been very possible to break through this iron triangle, because at that time, the main force of the Wei army was concentrated in Yanmen Pass, and there were only a small number of garrisons in the three cities of Jiuyuan.

But Tuoba Liwei finally missed this opportunity, and when he changed his strategy and abandoned the north to attack the south, Jiuyuan and other three cities had already strengthened their combat power by recruiting Xiangyong, and when the Xianbei people came to attack, these three cities were completely solid as a rock, and the Xianbei people might not be able to break through these three cities even if they used their strength to eat.

And this time Tuoba Liwei also made a great mistake, he thought that attacking three cities at the same time could make the Wei army difficult to take care of, and could not reinforce each other, but in the same way, the Xianbei soldiers were divided into three ways, and they committed the taboo of the soldiers, and they may not be able to beat people by concentrating on the power of a fist, and now they are divided into three forces, which itself seriously weakens the ability to attack, and in the face of the increasingly strong Wei army, the Xianbei people can only sigh at the city.

The strategist Fan Jian gave Tuoba Li a slight idea, asking him to bypass Jiuyuan and directly attack Jinyang in the south, Jinyang is the state of the state, and its prosperity and wealth are not comparable to all the other cities combined, if the Xianbei people can take Jinyang, it is bound to be able to reverse the current unfavorable war situation.

As soon as he heard this idea, Tuoba Li was slightly moved, this time he attacked and merged with the state, the ultimate goal was of course to take Jinyang, but now the Xianbei army is trapped in the cities of northern Jin, and it is not allowed to advance an inch, if the Xianbei army bypasses Jiuyuan and attacks Jinyang in the south, not to mention that the defense of Jinyang City will definitely not be lower than these cities in Jiuyuan Dingxiang, just the long logistics supply line of the Xianbei army is a matter that makes Tuoba Li Wei extremely headache.

The supply line of four or five hundred miles long is very vulnerable to the sneak attack and attack of the Wei army, and in the past few years, the uncanny cavalry of the Wei army has attacked the transport convoy of the Xianbei people many times, bringing a lot of losses to the Xianbei people, and the already extremely difficult logistics supply is even worse.

Moreover, this is still a situation where the supply line is relatively short, and if the supply line is extended another two or three hundred miles to the south, its vulnerability will be even more overwhelming.

Therefore, Tuoba Li hesitated again and again, and finally did not adopt Fan Jian's suggestion.

Jinyang as the state city of the Wei army, its city wall is much stronger than Jiuyuan and other cities, the strength of the defense is more, with the current Xianbei people's ability to attack, these cities in the north of Jin have not been taken down, to break through the more difficult Jinyang City, is tantamount to wishful thinking.

Although Jinyang is good, but the siege has to come step by step, if you don't take Yanmen Pass, you don't take Jiuyuan, you will never be able to open the door to Jinyang.

To this extent, maybe Tuoba Liwei has already secretly regretted it, it is not appropriate to let the grassland overlord go, he has to run to the Central Plains, and he encounters such a nose of ash, he really doesn't hit the south wall and doesn't look back!

It's August, autumn is crisp, and the climate is extremely pleasant. However, Tuoba Liwei may not feel it, and his current mind is already on withdrawing troops.

Autumn is coming, is winter still far away, Tuoba Liwei seems to have seen the arrival of winter, this four consecutive years of marching towards Wei, has also emptied his Tuoba Xianbei Department of many years of savings, but the result is nothing.

This winter, will undoubtedly become the coldest and most difficult winter of the Tuoba Department, although there are still two months before the winter, but Tuoba Liwei seems to be unwilling to wait, he issued an order to withdraw the army, requiring the Zhulu Xianbei army to withdraw from the north of Jin as soon as possible and return to the prairie.

As for whether to attack next year, Tuoba Liwei himself has not thought about it.