Although Qiao County is not small, most of its areas are plains, so it is not easy for the Sima Army to hide. Bingzhou Army cavalry four times, and six major cavalry battalions cruised. Once any movement is discovered, each cavalry battalion can arrive in the shortest time. Therefore, if Sima Lun's Huainan Army really stays in Qiao County, they can dig out even if they dig three feet into the ground.

After the news that the Zhongjian was ambushed by the Sima army in Ku County reached the various battalions of the Bingzhou Army, all the soldiers were very indignant and vowed to avenge the brothers of the Zhongjian Camp. However, the entire Qiao County was almost plowed, but no trace of Sima Lun's Huainan Army was found. Not only that, even the original Yuzhou army was missing. It seems that the Sima army has completely withdrawn from Yuzhou and returned to Huainan territory.

Although the Bingzhou cavalry had reached the north bank of the Huai River, no one had the courage to cross the Huai River before the general order. After all, fighting across Huainan is another concept. Before the Bingzhou army was ready to cross the river, no one dared to act rashly. After all, Yang Fen's lessons were still in front of him. Even though they knew that the other side was Simalun's army, they could only wait for orders.

The attack on Huainan was originally under Cao Liang's plan. After taking over the four prefectures of Yan, Qing, Yu and Xu, the Bingzhou army would follow the trend and push Huainan to the sky and seek a detour to attack Luoyang.

Because Sima digged the Yellow River embankment in the jujube, the Yellow River flooded and flooded, and the dozens of miles wide areas in Yanzhou and Yuzhou became a yellow spill area. Such a vast ocean also blocked the Bingzhou army's route to Luoyang westward, so if the Bingzhou army wanted to march into Luoyang, it had to open another road.

If you want to bypass the Yellow River Flood, you must go from Huainan to Jingzhou or Yuzhou, and then go north and detour to Luoyang. Although you have to make a big circle, during the process of going around, Cao Liang can pacify the prefectures and counties along the way. When the Bingzhou army approaches Luoyang, most of the world of Cao Wei is in Cao Liang's hands.

However, it is not as easy as before to cross the Huai River now. Originally, the Huai River was a big river with abundant water. Now that the Yellow River has seized the Huai River into the sea, the water level of the Huai River has increased by more than doubled. The river water flooded and the land on both sides was flooded. The entire Huai River system was vast and turbulent, and the difficulty of crossing the river was several times higher than usual.

Cao Liang did not rush to cross the river. Now it seems that Sima Lun is a very cunning person, with a brain and wisdom. The more he is such an opponent, the more he should not be underestimated. Even if he is a teenage child, if Cao Liang did not pay attention to it, he would suffer a greater loss.

The lessons of the Zhongjian camp were already profound enough. Cao Liang did not want to fall twice in the same place. Therefore, after the army arrived at the north bank of the Huai River, Cao Liang ordered the soldiers of each battalion to cross the river without following the military order. The army temporarily stationed near Xiacai and waited for the order to cross the river.

Xia Cai was originally a major defense center in Huainan, opposite to Shouchun. It has always been under the jurisdiction of Yangzhou. It is the bridgehead from Shouchun to the Central Plains and the most important fortress in the Shouchun defense system. When Zhuge Dan rebelled, he followed Cai as a stronghold and personally led his troops to station.

I thought Sima Lun would attach great importance to Xia Cai’s defense and would send heavy troops to garrison here. However, after Bingzhou Army arrived in Xia Cai, it found that the fortress was empty and completely abandoned. This made people wonder what Sima Lun sold in the gourd?

He was able to travel hundreds of miles to set up an ambush to Kuxian County, but he completely gave up the barrier fortress of Shouchun and always had unexpected actions. Such an opponent was really unpredictable.

The more this happens, Cao Liang becomes more cautious. Now that the Yellow River captures the Huai River and wants to cross the Huai River, it is equivalent to crossing the two major rivers, the Yellow River and the Huai River at the same time. The difficulty of building a floating bridge is much greater than normal.

When the Bingzhou Army crossed the Yellow River on Baima, it took nearly a year and a half to prepare for nearly a year and a half, and carefully created a powerful crossing tool like the crossing of the crossbow flying stone ship to successfully cross the Yellow River. If the Bingzhou Army wanted to cross the Huai River, which was twice as large as the Yellow River, if the Bingzhou Army was not fully prepared, it might not be able to cross it easily.

Cao Liang did not act rashly, but decided to send a scout to sneak across the Huaihe River to investigate the situation of the Huainan Army. Only by grasping the real situation of the Huainan Army can Cao Liang make corresponding plans.

The scouts did not send a group of soldiers, but sent several groups one after another, because the difficulty of cross-river reconnaissance is far greater than that of ordinary reconnaissance. After crossing the river, the scouts would fall into an isolated and helpless state. If the Huainan Army strictly blocked the river, it would become extremely difficult for these scouts to get ashore.

In order to successfully break through the blockade line of the Huainan Army, Cao Liang specially sent several more scouts to sneak across the Huaihe River. If these scouts were intercepted halfway, they would be brighter in the east and west.

These scouts set out late at night. They rowed small boats and quietly approached the south bank. To be on the safe side, these scouts crossed the river separately to increase the success rate of smuggling through the Huai River.

At night, the Huai River was pitch black and almost unable to see its fingers. The Bingzhou Army's scouts were carefully rowing the boat's oars, for fear that the noise would be too big, so they were discovered by the patrol soldiers of the Huainan Army.

The river sections they chose were basically far away from the ferry. Most of these sections were overgrown with weeds and desolate, and were not ideal places to land. However, the scouts were all talented and brave. They deliberately crossed the river from these remote places to avoid patrol soldiers.

The entire smuggling operation went unusually smoothly. After the Bingzhou Army's scouts arrived on the south bank, they found that there were no Huainan Army patrol soldiers there at all. This was really strange.

Logically speaking, if the Huainan Army wants to rely on the Huaihe River defense line to block the Bingzhou Army, it must make a big fuss on the Huaihe River line. At least it will send a large number of troops to station in the critical section of the Huaihe River. For other non-important sections, it will also adopt patrol methods to ensure that they can discover the enemy's movements at the first time, and report to the main general in a timely manner, and obtain reinforcements from a large number of troops.

But now these river sections are not only without troops, but even the most ordinary patrol soldiers are missing. Such an important river section is empty. Could it be that Sima Lun took the initiative to give up the Huaihe River defense line?
Chapter completed!