After arriving outside Zishi City and the Wei army encamped, Cao Liang specially summoned the lieutenants and counselors to the Chinese army's tent to discuss strategies to defeat the enemy.

In layman's terms, Cao Liang called this plan to encircle a point for reinforcements. Zishi is the point to be surrounded, and the Huns army that is about to return for reinforcements is the reinforcement to be attacked. In this plan, encircling the point is the means.

Reinforcement was the purpose. Cao Liang's appetite was not just to capture the Zishi City. What he set his sights on was Liu Bao's main Xiongnu force on the left.

As soon as Cao Liang's plan was launched, it was unanimously approved by all the generals, and no one had any objections. However, some slight differences and disputes arose during the specific implementation actions.

These disputes and disagreements are completely normal in Cao Liang's view. The main dispute is where is the appropriate place to ambush the main force of the Xiongnu. This ambush point cannot be too far from Zishi, and of course it cannot be too close. It cannot be a flat terrain.

, it must be a necessary route that is conducive to infantry blocking.

This disagreement was quickly resolved. You must know that Pei Xiu, who joined the army, was a famous cartographer. The maps he drew became the most classic textbooks of this era. Pei Xiu was not only a master of map drawing, but also a master of mountain and river geography.

Extremely understanding, he proposed to set up an ambush at Laoye Ridge, forty miles north of Zishi County, which was unanimously approved by everyone.

With a distance of forty miles, it doesn't feel too far or too close to the Zi family, which makes it easier for the Wei army to plan and plan. This is one of the reasons.

The second is that although the terrain here is not the kind of dangerous terrain where one man can block the way and no one can get through, there are high slopes and gentle roads, which are convenient for infantry to block and cavalry to charge.

Another most important point is that Laoye Ridge is the only way from Jinyang to Zishi. If they take a detour, the Huns will have to walk at least twice the distance, so Laoye Ridge is stuck at the chokepoint. Liu Bao returned

If you want to help the Zi family, you must go here.

After the ambush location was selected, the next step was to allocate troops and horses. According to the confessions of the Huns captured soldiers, Liu Bao took at least 20,000 Huns soldiers. If Liu Bao's entire division returned to support, then for the Pingbei Army,

, it will definitely be a fierce battle, so this reinforcement army is definitely indispensable.

Except for Wang's Changshui Battalion, the other four battalions will accompany Cao Liang to Laoye Ridge to ambush Liu Bao. This battle will be a difficult test for the Pingbei Army, so Cao Liang will send the main force

, prepare for a desperate fight.

Eight thousand people is the greatest strength that Cao Liang can currently draw.

This time we went north to put down the rebellion, and we went through a lot of battles. If we fight, there will inevitably be attrition. The enemy suffered a thousand casualties, and even if he didn't lose 800 to himself, there would always be 300 or 200.

In order to cope with the attrition situation, Cao Liang over-recruited some people when recruiting troops in Hedong County. After the fifth battalion was full, these people were uniformly placed in Pingyang and listed as a reserve battalion.

The reserve battalion is not part of the Pingbei Army. It is not under the direct command of Cao Liang in normal times. Instead, it is under the name of Hedong County Soldiers. However, if the Pingbei Army suffers casualties and attrition, it can be transferred from the reserve battalion.

The quota of Xiangqing will be directly added to each battalion of Pingbei Army.

After every battle, the Pingbei Army will make such adjustments to ensure that there are no vacancies in the establishment. Therefore, after repeated battles, the Pingbei Army always maintains an establishment of 10,000 people, no more and no less.

The establishment of this reserve battalion can keep the Pingbei Army at full strength. Cao Liang has carefully considered this aspect. Otherwise, when he went to Bingzhou to fight, the army would be crippled before even fighting a few battles. With this reserve battalion,

If it exists, Cao Liang will have no worries.

If we expect the imperial court to send troops to fill the vacancies, we don't know that we will have to wait until the year of the monkey and the month of the horse.

Of course, the food and salary expenses for this reserve camp were the same as those for the auxiliary troops, and were not included in the imperial establishment. Cao Liang had to pay for it out of his own pocket. In order to avoid being targeted for impeachment, Cao Liang could only secretly transfer the money and food to Captain Lin.

, and Lieutenant Lin designated the reserve camp as the volunteer camp of the county, which was in compliance with the regulations in form.

The Changshui Camp that stayed behind to guard the main camp outside the city also had a total of four to five thousand people, including the baggage camp and the ordnance battalion. However, only the two thousand people in the Changshui Camp had real combat effectiveness.

The task given by Cao Liang to the king was to besiege Zishi County without attacking. In the tents, many flags, tents and war drums were set up. When necessary, the auxiliary troops in the baggage camp and ordnance camp could be given weapons and lined up to confuse the troops.

The Huns in Zishi City made them think that the main force of the Wei army was besieging the city.

The reason why Cao Liang made this arrangement was to make the Huns in Zishi City believe it, so that they would be frightened and not dare to leave the city for a sneak attack. Secondly, Cao Liang's purpose was also to let the Huns reveal the news about this to Liu Bao, so that he could

They mistakenly believed that the main force of the Wei army was besieging Zishi County and would not be alert to the ambush halfway.

The Yueqi Battalion, Tunqi Battalion, Infantry Battalion and Shesheng Battalion left the main camp at midnight and quietly drove towards Laoye Ridge.

After entering Laoye Ridge, Cao Liang arranged the infantry battalion and Shesheng battalion on the high ground according to the terrain, built fortifications and constructed defensive positions, while the Yueqi battalion and Tunqi battalion were arranged by Cao Liang in the valleys on both sides.

among them, hidden.

Cao Liang told Deng Ai Shibao that all orders must be obeyed. Only when the war drums are beating, the Yueqi camp and the Tunqi camp can go into battle without any mistakes.

The four captains obeyed their leader's orders and made their own arrangements.

The Huns spent a night in Zishi City in panic. When they woke up the next day, they rushed to the city wall as soon as possible. The Wei army's camp outside the city stretched for several miles, with flags fluttering and war drums rumbling.

I saw that Wei soldiers were training, and they were so densely packed that I didn’t know how many people there were.

However, it seems that the Wei army has no plans to attack the city for the time being. This can be regarded as letting the Huns in the city breathe a sigh of relief. If the Wei army attacks the city on a large scale at this time, they don't know what to do. With only the army in the city, they can

Not being able to hold on is still a huge problem.

After all, the battle of Youjie Xiu was there, and no one among the Huns dared to fight the Wei army head-on.

Facing such a massive Wei army, the Huns defending the city withered. As for leaving the city to attack the Wei army's camp, they did not even dare to think about it.

Fortunately, the Wei army's encirclement and failure to attack gave the Huns a chance to breathe, and the relatively loose encirclement of the Wei army also allowed the fast horses sent by the Huns to easily leave the Zi family and go to Jinyang to report to Liu Bao and let him
Chapter completed!