The troops guarding the city often collect human feces and pour them into a large pot for heating and boiling. The feces and urine are already smelly and smell even more sour after heating. The soldiers who operate can only cover their mouths and noses, so that they can avoid being smoky to death.

However, people have a rich imagination. Such a disgusting thing has a nice name: "gold juice". Those who don't know it would think it is something like gold or brass. However, after boiling this thing, the taste is not satisfactory, but the color is golden, which is not disappointing.

Add toxic substances such as arsenic and mercury to the golden juice. This thing is not only fishy and odorous, but also after scalding, the wound is deep and toxic, and it is difficult to heal. Without any debridement and disinfection technology, this spoon will basically be a life.

Therefore, in general battles to defend the city, gold juice has become a regular weapon, with damage value much higher than other weapons. Of course, the Bingzhou Army will also be fully prepared. As long as everything that is beneficial to defend the city is in the reserve ranks.

The Sima army attacked fiercely, while the Bingzhou army defended tenaciously, and the two sides fell into a stalemate. The war was delayed and it took more than ten days to pass.

Chen Tai also showed helplessness on his face. He was originally full of confidence in this siege. He had so many troops and the huge rewards to inspire morale. If Chen Tai didn't believe it, he would not be able to take a small Jingxing Pass.

Unfortunately, things went against their wishes. Even though Chen Tai mobilized his troops and launched continuous attacks day and night, the Sima army had all the advantages in the scene, but they could not attack. No matter how fierce their offensive was, they could always be resolved by the Bingzhou army, and all their efforts were in vain.

Chen Tai was also secretly anxious. He knew that Sima Shi had high hopes for this battle, and also knew that Sima's army was ready at the moment and was waiting for Bingzhou Army to come to rescue him. However, Jingxing Pass could not open up the situation, and Bingzhou Army did not need to send reinforcements at all. Sima Shi's plan to fight aid may go bankrupt.

But no matter how anxious it is, it is useless. He has used all the tricks Chen Tai can think of, but Jingxing Pass, a strong city that lies across the Sima army, cannot be broken. Although Chen Tai is still working hard, judging from the current situation, it is impossible to conquer Jingxing Pass in a short period of time.

Although Sima Shi did not urge Chen Tai, he would send special envoys to supervise the battle every day and report the situation to Sima Shi in a timely manner. This invisibly doubled the pressure on Chen Tai. He could only grit his teeth, dispatch troops, and continue to increase the intensity of the attack, hoping to capture Jingxing Pass as soon as possible.

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Everything that happened in Jingxing Pass could not be hidden from Cao Liang's eyes and ears.

The reason why Cao Liang appointed Qian Hong to guard Jingxing Pass was that he knew that people were good at it. He knew that this position was Qian Hong. Facts proved that Cao Liang's judgment was the most correct. Qian Hong did not disappoint Cao Liang's expectations and firmly guarded Jingxing Pass, dragging more than 100,000 Sima's army near Jingxing Pass, unable to advance or retreat.

Cao Liang knew very well that Sima's army attacked Jingxing Pass was not the intention of the drunkard. He distributed some of his troops to attack Jingxing Pass, while the other main forces were waiting in the Zhending area, waiting for him to get into it.

The importance of Jingxing Pass is self-evident. Once it is lost, the Sima army can march straight into Bingzhou, so the Sima army chose to attack Jingxing Pass as bait, trying to force Cao Liang to send troops to rescue Jingxing Pass, so he could easily intercept it halfway.

Sima Shi rushed his troops northward and was eager to fight the Bingzhou Army, trying to overwhelm the Bingzhou Army with his superiority in military strength. However, Cao Liang chose to avoid fighting. Sima Shi was helpless. After all, Jizhou was vast and the Bingzhou Army did not need to guard the city. As long as they were scattered and moved and deliberately avoided, the Sima Army really had no choice but to do anything to them.

That's why Sima Shi came up with such a way to surround the points and attack the aid. Once Jingxing Pass is in an emergency or fall, Cao Liang will definitely not sit idly by. As long as he leads his troops to rescue him, he will step into the ambush circle of Sima's army. This is the result that Sima Shi wants most.

But no matter how well Sima Shi Ruyi planned, Cao Liang was helpless, and he was not fooled. Of course, the most important thing was that Chen Tai's attack was unfavorable, and he failed to conquer Jingxing Pass or posed a considerable threat to Jingxing Pass. Cao Liang had no worries and certainly would not send troops to him.

Since Cao Liang chose to guard Jingxing Pass, he naturally had great confidence in the defense of Jingxing Pass, so how could he be willing to be Sima Shi? On the contrary, Cao Liang was planning a counterattack plan and a plan to completely destroy Sima's army.

Although the Sima Army's military was extremely powerful and powerful, with 100,000 infantry and 70,000 cavalry. This formation alone was already fierce, no matter how large the army was, it still had weaknesses. The Sima Army was eager for quick success and short-term profits, and the long-distance attacked, went deep into the army alone, and the long supply line became its fatal weakness.

Although Sima's command attached great importance to the logistics supply line, every time he escorted grain and transported grass, he would send a large number of troops to escort it, and would not give Bingzhou troops any chance to attack.

However, even if the supply line that stretches for thousands of miles is strictly guarded, there will be some omissions. As long as Cao Liang is willing, he can still send cavalry to attack Sima's grain transport team, constantly intercept Sima's grain transport to the front line, and also eliminate the team that escorts grain transported to the food and grass.

However, Cao Liang was not concerned about these small-scale acts. After all, Sima Shi had already brought a lot of food and grass when he went north this time. Even if the food channel was cut off, the Sima army would not immediately fall into the food shortage. They still have plenty of time to launch a counterattack. Only after falling into a long-term protracted war can the gains and losses of the food channel be taken seriously.

Since he felt that the interception of grain halfway had little impact on Sima's army, Cao Liang did not act rashly, but instead summoned all the strategists to discuss matters with the generals of the future to discuss the counterattack plan.

After negotiation, everyone agreed that the most ideal way to fight against Sima Army head-on is not very likely to win, and it is better to detour to the rear of Sima Army and encircle it.

In fact, Cao Liang had a killer move. After the main army entered Jizhou, there was another force secretly dormant in Bingzhou, namely Wang Jun's Changshui Camp and Liu Jing's Youwei Camp. These two armies have been stationed in Shangdang. Now it is time for them to attack.
Chapter completed!