If Cao Jun is allowed to successfully recover various parts of Youzhou, wipe out or integrate the remnants of Gongsun, and drive them out of Youzhou area, then no matter how hard Ding Ling people put in, they may not be able to capture Youzhou. After all, they will attack the city and seize the pass.

Different from the battle in the grassland and desert, the more people defending the city, the harder it is to fight.

Although Gongsun Du has repeatedly stated that he still has people in Youzhou and can even contact some people from Liaodong to come over, but the leader of the Ding Ling people believes that Han people are Han people. Who knows whether these people will change their minds, and they still have to rely on themselves.

The Ding Ling people gathered together and began to attack fiercely. The leader Ding Ling gathered the news from various ministries and determined that Cao Jun's troops were not as large as they had shown before. This made some Ding Ling people who had been deceived by Cao Jun become furious all day long.

He talked about Cao Jun's shamelessness and wished he could drag Cao Jun up and down and kill them all in the next moment.

Compared with the Han people under the tricolor flag, the Ding Ling people did not value Cao Jun more. This is not to say that the Ding Ling people think that Cao Jun has no combat effectiveness, but compared to the power of the Han cavalry under the tricolor flag on the grassland, Cao Jun naturally declined.

A level of opponent.

There are no Han people with the tricolor flag in Youzhou now, so what are you afraid of?

After Ding Ling saw through Cao Hong's suspicious tactics, Cao Hong's limited troops were unable to withstand the men and horses surging down like a tide. In addition, some counties in northern Youzhou were almost exhausted in terms of city defense and reserves.

In July and August, especially at the beginning, some important passes in Youbei were not in the hands of Cao's army, which made it very difficult for Cao Hong to defend and had to abandon some of the counties he had just acquired and withdraw his troops.

The Ding Ling people quickly captured some counties in northern Youzhou, including Yuyang, and opened up the communication lines between western Liaoning and eastern Liaoning, and rescued Gongsun Kang who was on the verge of death. However, Liu Yimo was captured by Cao Jun and did not know whether he was alive or dead.

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In Yuyang City.

This time, we have a total of 50,000 troops... The leader of the Ding Ling people looked around and said in a deep voice, currently, according to our estimates, there are at most more than 3,000 Han troops left in Cao's army in Jixian. Tomorrow, we will gather

We will use all our forces to launch an all-out attack and choose Jixian as our main attack direction. As long as we capture it, the northern part of Youzhou will basically be ours.

The commander-in-chief glanced at Gongsundu slightly, because a lot of the internal information of the Han Dynasty came from Gongsundu. Including the geographical mountains, rivers, important towns and passes, etc., it was basically all information provided by Gongsundu.

It is precisely because of this that Gongsun Du's status in Ding Ling's army has been somewhat improved.

From a dispensable dog to a somewhat useful dog.

At this moment, Gongsun Du showed his six-toothed smile to cater to the gaze of the big boss Ding Ling, just like he would do it even if the big boss Ding Ling asked him to stick his butt out at the next moment.

In this military operation, Gongsun Du of course suffered a lot of losses, and it can even be said that the losses were quite large, so Gongsun Du coughed lightly, saluted to the leader Ding Ling, and then said to the other leaders Ding Ling with a smile.

: Once you capture Jixian, you can consider whether to divide your troops and go south, or continue to go south together... To the south of Jixian, there are Anci, Yongnu, Quanzhou and other counties to the east, and to the west there are Liangxiang, Zhuoxian, Fangcheng, etc.

Wait, they are all good places...

Just my personal suggestion, after defeating Jixian County, it would be better to divide the troops and give each person a county seat... Gongsun Du smiled, after all, it is July now. If we attack them one by one, it will be too slow. Wait until we reach the later ones.

By that time, Cao Jun might have finished harvesting the surrounding crops, so...

Hmm! Marquis Gudu arranged it well. How about letting you arrange everything?

Commander Ding Ling suddenly coughed. Gongsun Du's expression immediately changed, and then he assumed a more humble posture, lying on the ground, saying he did not dare.

The Ding Ling leaders in the big tent looked at each other one after another, and then laughed.
Chapter completed!