If Liu Jing took the Bingting, the first contribution in the Battle of Xiling would not be able to escape. Shi Bao would have no chance to get involved. So when Cao Liang appointed Liu Jing as the vanguard, Shi Bao was still a little worried and thought to himself that Cao Liang was too kind to the other. Liu Jing had just won the seven counties of Jingnan, and he really made a great contribution. Now he has become a vanguard officer and goes to attack Xiling. This is clearly a chance to make contributions!

Shi Bao and Liu Jing were both deputy governors of the Right Army, one was the General of the East, the General of Zhendong, the other was Yiyang Duke, and the other was Yiyang Duke. Their status was comparable and they were on par. Within the Right Army, the two were both cooperative and competitive.

Since it was a competitive relationship, Shi Bao saw that Liu Jing was valued by Cao Liang twice, so he could not help but secretly complain that Shi Bao was a Yuan Cong clan and had already followed Cao Liang before Cao Liang's rebellion. Liu Jing was a subordinate of Cao Liang's father Cao Yan. When Shi Bao was first elected by Cao Liang to serve in the Cavalry Camp, Shi Bao was a Sima of another department, and Liu Jing was already a captain at that time.

Later, Cao Liang had his own team and became the Yueqi Captain, and summoned Deng Ai and Shi Bao to his post. It can be said that Deng Ai and Shi Bao were Cao Liang's earliest confidant and direct descendants. They even integrated into Cao Liang's team earlier than Cao Liang's brother-in-law Yang Hu.

Liu Jing was relatively late and followed Cao Liang to rebel from Luoyang after the Gaopingling Incident. At that time, Cao Liang had already gained a firm foothold in Bingzhou and took over the Five Northern Army Camps under his command.

In Shi Bao's feeling, since he was Cao Liang's confidant, he should naturally get more opportunities. This time he let Liu Jing take the lead everywhere, and he was really a little angry.

In fact, this is just Shi Bao's own feeling. In fact, in the previous battles, Cao Liang relied on him. Although he and Liu Jing were both deputy governors, Shi Bao, who was born as a general of the Tunqi, was basically responsible for the cavalry and was the cavalry governor.

Since the main attack force of the entire Right Legion is the Tunqi Battalion, Shi Bao is the vanguard in most of the battles involved in the Right Legion.

Even this time when he was chasing Lu Kang, Cao Liang arranged for Shi Bao to lead the team to fight, but Shi Bao himself did not seize the opportunity. If he could defeat or capture Lu Kang earlier, there would probably be no battle in Xiling at all.

Of course, Cao Liang was not angry with Shi Bao because he was unable to catch up with Lu Kang. Victory and defeat were common in military affairs. Victory and defeat were happy and defeated. This time he didn't fight well, and the next time he fought well was.

The reason why Cao Liang arranged for Liu Jing to attack the 李ting this time was that he did not have any idea of ​​favoring one or the other, but started from actual combat. Although the Wei army can now combine the forces of each battalion according to the needs of the war, he still started from the aspects he was good at and played out the characteristics of each general.

It is not difficult to find that the reason why Cao Liang valued Liu Jing was because Liu Jing had always served as the position of infantry supervisor, and the terrain of the pavilion was dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the cavalry was useless here. Therefore, Cao Liang let Shi Bao, who was good at cavalry combat, assist, and Liu Jing, who had rich experience in infantry combat, take on the main attack task.

There is no saying that people are nepotism here. No matter who they are sent to fight, Cao Liang will make arrangements based on actual circumstances.

After listening to Du Yu's suggestion, Cao Liang just pondered for a moment and said, "The terrain on Guiniupo is dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack. It is reasonable that Liu Jing cannot take it down. It is not very meaningful to send Shi Bao to reinforce it. It is better to ask Shi Bao to divert the route to fight Huya Mountain. Although Huya Mountain does not go directly to Xiling, as long as Huya Mountain is taken down, it can threaten the wings of the Qiting Pavilion and achieve the goal of assisting Liu Jing."

Du Yu bowed and said, "Your Majesty said so, so I will go and arrange it."

The attack on Huya Mountain was also within Du Yu's plan, but for the Battle of Xiling, the 杨 Pavilion was more important, so the strategy formulated by Du Yu took the 杨 Pavilion as the priority. At this time, Cao Liang proposed to ask Shi Bao to lead his army to attack Huya Mountain, which was also a good way to break the deadlock of the 杨 Pavilion, and Du Yu accepted it happily.

Immediately Du Yu ordered Shi Bao to lead Youweiying and Tunqiying to turn around to Huya Mountain.

Shi Bao was only fifty or sixty miles away from the front line of the Qiting Pavilion at this time, but he could not act without permission before receiving the order, so Shi Bao led his army to station here, looking anxious and anxious.

Especially after receiving the news that Liu Jing failed to attack Guiniupo, Shi Bao could no longer hold back and asked Du Yu for a fight. The meaning was very clear. Liu Jing couldn't do it, so let me do it!

If Du Yu led his troops to fight alone, then all military affairs of all sizes would naturally be decided by Du Yu. After all, a letter of court was reported to the nine heavens, and it was thousands of miles away. Du Yu could not ask the court for instructions and report them one by one. Otherwise, what would he do if he was the governor?

But now Cao Liang is in Jiangling, and although Cao Liang does not interfere with the military affairs of the Right Army, many things are handled by Du Yu himself, when such important strategic and tactical arrangements are involved, Du Yu does not have the courage to act under Cao Liang's nose.

So even though Du Yu was inclined to let Shi Bao fight, he did not dare to make a decision. Instead, he hurriedly asked Cao Liang for instructions. With Cao Liang's order, Du Yu felt much more at ease.

Shi Bao received the order from Du Yu to send troops. He thought Du Yu would arrange for him to go to the ping, but unexpectedly, Du Yu actually asked him to send troops to Huya Mountain.

Although Huya Mountain is not a necessary road to Xiling, it is also a very important strategic fulcrum. The gains and losses of Huya Mountain are related to the safety of the flanks of the Qiting Pavilion. Once Huya Mountain is lost, the Qiting defense line will face the dilemma of being attacked from both sides, which will make the Qiting defense line, which is already very severe, even worse.

Therefore, Jiang Wei attached great importance to the defense of Huya Mountain and specially sent Xiling Governor Infantry to lead 20,000 troops to guard Huya Mountain. Huya Mountain and the Qingting formed the defense line system on the east side of Xiling. The two are mutually supportive and the lips and teeth depend on each other, and they cannot tolerate any loss.

Shi Bao snorted lightly, disagreed with this order. At this point, they still focus on Liu Jing and asked him to fight Huya Mountain. It was clearly used by him as a partial master.

However, since it was the order from the top of the mountain, Shi Bao did not dare to disobey the order, so he set up camp and led his troops to divert the route and rushed straight to Huya Mountain.
Chapter completed!