Therefore, Cao Jun claims to be a million, but it is not too outrageous to be praised...

The number of people is a key factor in war, but not an absolute factor. War is not simply a competition of the number of people. Otherwise, both sides only need to pile up the number of people, and then we can decide the outcome?

When the Qing Dynasty attacked the Ming Dynasty, I guess I could not have imagined that the Eight-Nation Alliance came to attack.

A temporary win or loss is also not an inevitable condition that determines the final direction of the war. When Da Chou fought against Da Yuan, he almost always won. Well, at least he won in Da Chou's official propaganda, but he lost in the end. A big defeat was a complete defeat...

Cao Hong's forward was a little worried, but it only damaged the fur, so Cao's army would inevitably continue to march. When Cao's army moved forward, the supply line was lengthened, and the supply line was lengthened, which means that labor would go further and take longer.

Although the Cao army in the middle route could transport food and grass through the river, the Cao army's naval force was not strong, at least not strong in the area of ​​Yuzhou, Jizhou, and the Jingzhou naval force could not jump over the river and go to the river, so the sky could only be used for transportation and could not be used for attack.

And there are naval troops in Tongguan.

Previously, Fei Qian trained the navy and built the tower ships in the Xuanwu Pond in Chang'an, which seemed to be for today's battle...

Even if Cao's army took Hangu Pass, it would be difficult to conquer Tongguan head-on. If he attempted to attack Shaanxi and Tianjin to bypass Tongguan, he had to fight against Fei Qian's navy and his troops in Shaanxi and Tianjin.

So what exactly does Cao Jun do?—

Two days later.

After Cao's army packed up the wreckage of Hangu Pass, Cao Hong moved his base forward and moved to the place of Hangu Pass.

The "conquest" of Hangu Pass basically included most of Hongnong County as a whole into the big family in Shandong, even if there was not much warm embrace...

This is naturally considered to be the merit of Lao Cao's expansion of territory and regaining mountains and rivers.

Cao Cao's army also set off from Luoyang and came straight to Hangu Pass. He did not hesitate and acted as a direct attack on Tongguan, even if he did not obtain any specific information about the Tongguan defense system.

Only a rough map.

Because most caravans from Shandong are not allowed to go to Shangtongguan City, and they are not allowed to enter the military area of ​​Tongguan City. They can only transport goods to the top of the earthen plateau through cranes in Xiatongguan City, and then transport them to the inner plateau by Chang'an horse team, or board a ship from Tongguan and travel backwards to the inner wall through Fenglingdu. Therefore, even if Cao Cao sent spies to explore the internal defense system of Tongguan, the isolation layout of military and commercial causes the inability to obtain detailed information in Tongguan.

While preparing for the attack on Tongguan, Cao Cao's army moved forward and became more powerful and also tentatively attacked Shanxian County and Jin.

Wei Yan gave up the first line of defense in Shan County, and also ignited the remaining fortifications. Then he confronted Cao's army on the second line of defense for three days. After consuming part of the Cao army's vitality, he evacuated from Shan County, crossed the floating bridge, retreated back to the northern bank of Shaanxi and Jinjin, burned the floating bridge on the river, and controlled the Shaanxi-jin ferry.

Cao's army built a shield chariot and pushed it to the shore to block the shooting of Wei Yan's navy and the archers on the northern bank of Shaanxi and Jinjin. They also built earth walls to cover the shooting of archers and Wei Yan, and tried to build a floating bridge.

Both bows and arrows caused some damage, but they were not enough to determine the decisive direction of the battle.

Unlike on the land of Shaanxi County, Wei Yan, who retreated to Shaanxi and Tianjin, had an absolute advantage and repelled Cao's army's attacks many times in succession. Cao Cao divided several forces to restrain Wei Yan with heavy troops. At the same time, he sent some of his troops to move upstream and downstream of Shaanxi and Tianjin, as if to try to find a suitable place to build a floating bridge, but Wei Yan also sent a flexible mountain troops to move upstream and downstream with Cao's army's armor, and cooperated with the watercraft to prevent Cao's army from building a floating bridge...

The initial contact between the two sides was not fierce, and there were not many casualties. Many times, when Cao's army saw that it could not achieve the expected results, they retreated frankly. Although it was somewhat futile, the Cao army had a large number of soldiers, and they did not lose much physical strength after taking turns. Wei Yan had relatively few soldiers, so he could only rely on geographical advantage and naval forces to narrow the gap.

Overall, Cao Cao lost some soldiers' lives and Wei Yan lost some soldiers' physical strength.

But Cao Cao wanted to make Wei Yan lose more, so Cao Cao put on a coquettish posture...

Come and make it!

But when Cao Xiu yawned and walked out of the ambushing place listlessly the next day, he could not see Wei Yan.

Could it be that it is not coquettish enough?

Can't it be considered a seductive figure?

Cao Cao looked at the other side of the river and fell into thinking.

"Fengxiao, Wei Yan and Wei Wenchang, didn't you say you like to use surprise attacks and Su Xi attacked at night?"

Cao Cao asked.

"Ming Gong, this Wei Wen was good at Sichuan and Hanzhong, and won many surprise attacks..." Guo Jia replied awkwardly, because of the strategy of seducing the enemy, he also agreed, and in his opinion, the success rate was at least 70% to 80%, but now...

Wei Yan did like to attack surprises in his previous battles, using small to win big, and using weak to defeat strong, especially in dangerous places, but for some reason, Wei Yan did not come this time.

Maybe I didn't catch up?

Maybe I went somewhere else?

Cao Cao had no intention of blaming Guo Jia, because no one could guarantee that all strategies could be 100% successful.

Guo Jia is very smart, but Guo Jia is not a god.

『Teat the enemy again…』 Cao Cao made a decision, 『Send someone to curse and yell…』

So, Cao's loud voice soldiers stood on the south bank of Heda River and slapped the north bank. Later, they simply took off their pants and exposed their butts to insult Wei Yan, clamoring and ridicule, but soon Cao's soldiers stopped doing this...

Well, that's right, it's too cold.

The cold wind is like a knife, and the pain of exposed little chirping in winter is not something that ordinary people can tolerate.
Chapter completed!