"Oh, Sima Shi's move is really crazy." Cao Liang received a report from Jizhou and said with a smile.

Since taking over the seven counties of Youzhou, Cao Liang has been busy integrating the counties of Youzhou and promoting the successful experience of Bingzhou to Youzhou. Especially at this critical moment of spring plowing and preparation, it is related to the harvest of the year. Cao Liang dare not be careless. Only by allowing the people to eat and wear warmth can they truly support you.

The conditions in Youzhou are more difficult than those in Bingzhou. This kind of bitter and cold place makes the lives of the people more difficult. In addition, Youzhou borders the Hu tribe, and Hu cavalry continue to come to rob, which makes it even worse.

When Wu Qiu Jian was alive, he could still suppress the Hu tribes with his prestige. Now that Wu Qiu Jian died, the Youzhou regime changed, and those Hu people were like wild wolves who smelled the fishy smell, constantly entering the border, causing wars to spread everywhere.

Cao Liang hated these Hu people deeply and had ordered the army to fight back. He must be merciless in attacking those Hu people entering the Passerby.

However, Cao Liang's focus is on Jizhou. The Bingzhou army is stationed in Youzhou, and is preparing to fight to the death with Sima Shi.

But judging from the current situation, Sima Shi admitted his defeat. He had no idea of ​​regaining Youzhou. Instead, he recruited a large number of troops in Jizhou to defend the city and prepare for war, strengthen Jizhou's defense to prevent the Bingzhou army from moving south.

Huan Fan said: "The newly formed cavalry of Sima Shi has not yet had the power to fight, so he did not have the courage to counterattack Youzhou. However, his approach to recruiting troops in Jizhou was somewhat unexpected. Such a powerful military force can only make the people resent. If the lord leads his troops south at this time, it will be a good opportunity to attack Jizhou."

Cao Liang shook his head and said, "We have just gained a foothold in Youzhou. There are still remnants of Wei Guan and Wang Qi in the east. The Xianbei Wuhuan in the north are constantly disturbing again. If we attack Jizhou at this time, these powerful enemies will take advantage of the opportunity and Youzhou will be difficult to preserve. Judging from the current situation, Sima Shi has completely given up Youzhou and is determined to defend Jizhou. Taking advantage of this opportunity, we will first solve our worries and then attack Jizhou again."

Cao Liang has always had a clear strategic idea, which is to first north and then south, and solve the worries behind him, so that he can go south to fight against Sima Shi.

After the Battle of Bingzhou, the Sima army lost most of its cavalry, so the Sima army had to take a defensive stance and avoid field battles with the Bingzhou army as much as possible. The news from Luoyang was reported that Sima had great determination to rebuild the cavalry. The scale of the newly built cavalry was no less than before the Battle of Bingzhou. Moreover, all workshops were working hard to build high bridge saddles and double-sided stirrups. It is estimated that the Sima army's cavalry could be formed in less than a year.

This result was completely expected by Cao Liang. After all, the technical content of things like Takahashi saddle and bilateral stirrup are not high. As long as there are samples, any craftsman can create it. Therefore, Cao Liang has always mastered this technical secret before, just to prevent this technology from leaking in advance.

During the Battle of Bingzhou, Cao Liang took it out, which indeed caused serious damage to Sima Jun. After paying the expensive tuition, Sima began to realize the importance of the high bridge saddle and the bilateral stirrup, and began to imitate it on a large scale.

Cao Liang could naturally foresee this, but this matter cannot be abandoned because of the choke. It cannot be said that in order to prevent leakage, Cao Liang took the initiative to give up the innovation of weapons and equipment. They wanted to copy and copy, but Cao Liang could not stop it. However, in the field of technology, Cao Liang believed that he would always be at the forefront. They could always imitate, but they could never surpass it.

In the field of cavalry, Cao Liang was already at the forefront and had already seized the opportunity. Sima's division realized the importance of new horse harnesses, but it was easy to form a new cavalry, and it would take at least two years to form combat effectiveness. In the past two years, Cao Liang didn't know how many steps he would take.

Sima Shi has been chasing him, but it is so difficult to catch up with Cao Liang's pace.

At this time, Sima's army was not only not formed, but even the infantry were stretched. Otherwise, he would not have recruited new recruits in Jizhou. Sima's army was indeed ruthless this time. People were not strong enough to come to join him. Using the tactics of the sea of ​​people to defend Jizhou, recruiting 300,000 soldiers was equivalent to killing all the young and strong men in Jizhou. Next, Jizhou's defense problems were solved, but the sequelae brought about by this were endless. Without the young and strong men, the land in Jizhou would be abandoned in large quantities, the people would live in poverty, the people would complain, and the people would be full of resentment. The result of this would be that it would be more than worth the loss.

In this case, Cao Liang would not take the initiative to attack Jizhou. Although the newly recruited army does not have much combat power, guarding the city does not require too high quality. In general city defense battles, they will temporarily recruit the people in the city to help the battle. As long as they can pull the bow and shoot archery, they can go to the city to defend the enemy. It doesn’t matter if they can’t even draw the bow. As long as they have some strength to move the rolling wood and rocks, they can still play a role.

Therefore, the starting point of Sima Shi is very simple, which is to use the advantage of large populations to strengthen the defense capabilities of each city to prevent the Bingzhou Army from siegeing the city.

But he seemed to have ignored one thing, that is, Cao Liang might not have the intention to go south at this moment. Sima Shi recruited 300,000 people to defend the city, but in the end he found that the Bingzhou army did not come, which was embarrassing.

Three hundred thousand people are only three hundred thousand mouths, and the food consumed every day is a very astonishing amount. If a war really starts, no one cares about this. Everyone is more concerned about the safety of the city and the gains and losses of Jizhou.

But before the enemy arrived, the daily expenses seemed to be a little unbearable, but you couldn't know when the enemy would come, so the recruited army could not be easily disbanded. During this long waiting process, it was a bit difficult to get on the verge of riding.

After Cao Liang knew about the situation in Jizhou, he would not go south easily. After a year or two, Jizhou's economy would be completely collapsed, the morale of the army was disintegrated, and the people were all lost. What combat effectiveness could be said for such an army. By then, if the Bingzhou army marched south in large numbers, it would be easy to take down Jizhou.

So Cao Liang decided not to move Jizhou for the time being. Anyway, with the combat effectiveness of the troops in Jizhou, it would not pose any threat to Youzhou. What he should consider now is whether to attack Wei Guan and Wang Qi stationed in Linyu Pass, or to eliminate the threats from the Hu people from the north first. With the current strength of the Bingzhou army, it is difficult to take into account both, so he can only choose one of the two.
Chapter completed!