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In late October of the fourth year of Hongwu, the whole south seemed very calm, and the war in the north of Jingzhou had receded for more than half a month, and as Cao Cao thought in the past, Shu Han immediately withdrew his troops and sued for peace after receiving the news that Jinghan's capital had been breached.

As for Jiangdong Wu, it also reached a peace agreement with Wei for a short period of time, and the three kingdoms of Wei, Shu and Wu did not fight again.

Cao Cao's people are not in Xiangyang at the moment, but in Jiangling, which is close to Jingzhou in the south, and the generals around Cao Cao are Ma Chao, Dian Wei, Xu Chu, Gan Ning, Zhao Yun, Cai Mao, Zhang Yun, and the strategist is Guo Jia, as for Cao Ren, Tai Shici and others were left in Xiangyang by Cao Cao, and at the same time, there were 50,000 elite main forces of the Wei army, and a third of the sailors.

At present, the Wei army gathered in Jiangling has 100,000 soldiers, 100,000 state soldiers, and 50,000 sailors, a total of 250,000 troops.

On this day, Cao Cao was discussing with the generals in the Jiangling County Guard's Mansion.

"Zhuo Fan!" Cao Cao shouted.

An ordinary-looking middle-aged man came out to promise, this Zhuo Fan belongs to the thousands of households in the intelligence agency system, that is, the Jinyiwei system, and is the person in charge of the north and south of Jingzhou.

"What is the current situation of the southern puppeteers?" Cao Cao asked.

Liu Qi, a small immortal Xiaoqiang who inherited the skills of his ancestors in the past, had fled to the south of Jingzhou a few days ago and regrouped. Of course, this so-called regrouping is true or talked. Then it's up to you.

Jinyi Wei Qianhu Zhuo Fan replied: "Back to Your Majesty, eighty percent of the current military strength of the puppet Han is concentrated around Changsha and Wuling counties. At the same time, a puppet Han army is currently approaching Rongling. ”

Cao Cao nodded, and then asked, "Is there an exact situation in Wuling or Changsha?" ”

At present, there are about 100,000 puppet Han troops stationed in Wuling, and the leader of the army will be Huang Zhong, Wang Wei will be the deputy general, and Yi is the military division. However, these 100,000 puppet Han troops are all new troops who have never been in battle! ”

Cao Cao said: "Even so, you can't be careless!" Zilong! ”

"Your Majesty!" Zhao Yun made a promise.

"I ordered you to lead 50,000 soldiers to garrison Jiangling and be responsible for all the defense of Jiangling! Remember, don't be careless! ”

"Yes!"

Cao Cao asked Guo Jiadao: "Fengxiao, when do you think we will attack the south and completely eliminate the puppet Han?" ”

Guo Jia arched his hand and said: "Your Majesty, the current strength of our army is far more than that of the puppet Han, and the overall combat strength is far above the puppet Han!" In Yichen's opinion, our army should take advantage of the fact that the puppet Han has not yet completed the defensive deployment this year to attack the south with lightning speed! ”

Cao Cao nodded thoughtfully, and then raised his voice: "Pass the order." Tomorrow, we will go south and completely eliminate the pseudo-Han! ”

The generals' eyes lit up and they promised in unison.

Early the next morning, Cao Cao led an army of 200,000 to leave Jiangling and head south. Ma Chao led 20,000 Wei troops to march first.

In the evening of the same day, the iron cavalry led by Ma Chao approached the city of Rongling, and then the scouts came to report. It is said that the reinforcements of the puppet Han are already more than ten miles north of Rongling.

Ma Chaohu's eyes lit up, and he immediately ordered: "Pass the order." The whole army catches up with this Cao army! ”

"General, Your Majesty has given us the task of fighting the front station! How could a general attack on his own? The adjutant general beside Ma Chao persuaded.

Ma Chaohu was dumbfounded: "The so-called general is outside." I am a striker general, of course, I have the right to make decisions on the spot! Don't be wordy, go down and give orders! ”

"Yes!" The adjutant general had no choice but to clench his fists and promise.

About half an hour later, Ma Chao led 20,000 Wei iron cavalry straight to the north, and a moment later, the Cao army defenders on the wall of Rongling were horrified to find that a Wei cavalry unit was bypassing them and heading north, what made them even more frightened was that these cavalry wore helmets that covered the upper part of their faces, wrapped in dark heavy armor, and wore dark cloaks, murderous and majestic, which was clearly the equipment only the most elite iron cavalry of the Wei army.

"General, look, it's the cavalry of the Wei army!" The captain pointed to the elite cavalry of the Wei army outside the city and shouted with a frightened expression.

Beside the lieutenant wearing heavy armor was the Rongling guard general Pang Ji, but he was far less famous than Pang Tong, who had the same surname as him.

Pang Ji frowned and muttered, "Look at it like this, they must be going for General Zhang Hu!" ”

"What are we going to do, General?"

Pang Ji pondered: "There are only 20,000 defenders in the city, and you can only hit stones with eggs when you go out of the city!" The order is to go down, close the four gates and guard it tightly, and no one is allowed to enter or leave without the order of the general! ”

"Yes!" The lieutenant answered the promise and went to give the order.

"Wait!" Pang Ji suddenly stopped him: "Immediately send a scout to report to General Zhang Hu!" ”

"Yes!"

At the same time, Zhang Hu and Chen Sheng were leading 50,000 Jing Han elites to hurry towards Rongling, and both of them looked very anxious.

Not long ago, the upper echelons of Jing Han, that is, Liu Qi and Zhuge Liang, received an urgent report from the spies lurking in Jiangling, saying that Cao Cao had led the main force south into the Long River, and Liu Qi and Zhuge Liang realized Cao Cao's purpose, so they notified Rongling to step up their defenses on the one hand, and sent Zhang Hu and Chen Sheng to lead 50,000 elites to aid Rongling on the other hand.

Five thousand of the 50,000 elites are Jing Han's iron cavalry of the Yulin Army with his old book, originally Jing Han relied on strong financial resources, in the heyday of Liu Biao, a total of 20,000 Yulin Army Iron Cavalry was formed, but after the loss of this time, at this time, after using up the last financial resources, only about 5,000 were left.

Of course, not only the troops, Jing Han's civil and military affairs can be said to have withered a lot, in the Liu Biao period, Jing Han Wen has Jing Liang, Jing Yue, Yi, Zhuge Liang and others, Wu Youwen Ping, Huang Zhong, Gan Ning, Cai Mao, Zhang Yun, etc., can also be said to be strategists like clouds, fierce generals like rain!

But at this time, Jing Liang, Jing Yue betrayed, Wen Ping died in battle, Gan Ning, Cai Mao, Zhang Yun and others surrendered to Wei, resulting in almost no generals for Jing Han at this time, even Zhang Hu and Chen Sheng, who were almost middle and low-level before, were just ordinary water thieves, and the weakness of Jing Han can be seen from these two aspects.

"How long will it take?" Zhang Hu asked.

Chen Sheng replied, "It's just ahead, you can arrive before sunset!" ”

At this time, a scout rushed from the front, came to Zhang Hu and Chen Sheng, and hurriedly reported: "There are enemy troops in front of the two generals of Qicha!" (To be continued......)