But Cao Liang heard it clearly. The person in front of him who looked like a beggar was actually sent by King Ling of Huainan. Of course, King Ling of Huainan was nothing to Cao Liang. The most important thing was that this person reported himself to his family and said that his name was Ma Long, which immediately surprised Cao Liang. Is this Ma Long the Ma Long who once defeated the function of a bald tree in history?

Of course, the possibility of a double name and surname is not ruled out.

Cao Liang waved Lu Chaonan and stepped forward in person, bowed with a smile, "I am Cao Liang, who is here to listen to the words of the emperor, came from Huainan, but came at the order of the Taiwei Wang?"

Ma Long's nose felt sore, and he had met the real master. For more than a month, he had been sleeping in the open, traveling for a long distance, and traveling through wind and rain. I don't know how many hardships he had experienced. Now he finally saw Cao Liang. He took out Wang Ling's letter and handed it to Cao Liang, saying, "The letter from Wang Taiwei is here, please check it out."

Cao Liang took the letter and ordered Lu Chaonan to take Ma Long to the mansion to take a shower and change clothes. He originally wanted to go out to inspect the mansion, but now that there is such a matter, he temporarily canceled the inspection plan and returned to the governor's mansion.

While waiting for Ma Long to take a bath and change his clothes, Cao Liang first took Wang Ling's letter and read it. Wang Ling angrily scolded Sima Yi in his letter, calling him a rebel who usurped the country and made an appointment with Cao Liang to send troops together, and to fight against the thieves and protect the country.

In the letter, Wang Ling spoke in the tone of the Taiwei of the dynasty, and kept silent about the bad situation in Huainan. Although it was a clear discussion, it had a somewhat orderly tone and used the righteousness of the court as a rhetoric. It seemed that if Cao Liang did not send troops, he would have to betrayed the court's grace.

Cao Liang sneered at this. Although Cao Liang was far away from Bingzhou, he also had a detailed understanding of the situation in Huainan. Wang Ling, a governor of Yangzhou who defected to the Eastern Wu, had changed his flag and had accepted the title of Eastern Wu. He was still talking about the righteousness of the imperial court here. It was simply a big laugh.

At this moment, Shouchun was besieged by Sima Yi for thirteen or fourteen months. Even Cao Liang admitted that Sima Yi was very skilled in besieging the city and fighting aid, blocking the attack of the Eastern Wu three times, making it impossible for Wang Ling and the Eastern Wu reinforcements to join. In this way, they could not form a joint force and were completely defeated by Sima Yi.

Wang Ling is in extremely difficult situation now. Although the two sides have not fought a battle since Sima Yi's army besieged the city, Sima Yi used this wasteful method to waste Wang Ling to death in Shouchun City. Sima Yi's patience in fighting was already sharpened in the battle with Zhuge Liang in his early years. This time, he surrounded Shouchun City and cut off the internal and external transportation of Shouchun City. Even if Wang Ling had enough soldiers and enough food, he could only defend for a while. No matter how powerful the soldiers were, he would be slack. No matter how good the food was, he would be ate all. The final fate of Shouchun City was already destined.

In fact, is there a way to break Sima Yi's siege? There must be a answer. If Cao Liang is in Huainan, the battle will be more eased. The experience of the Shangdang Battle proves that defending one city and one place can only be controlled by others and passive everywhere. Only by giving up the city, giving full play to the mobility and flexibility of the army, annihilation of the enemy in the movement, and gathering small victories into big victories can we reverse the war pattern of the enemy being strong and we being weak.

The terrain of Huainan is easier to fight that kind of mobile war with the army of the Eastern Wu. Unfortunately, Wang Ling only has Shouchun in his eyes, and he imagined that as long as he guards Shouchun, the situation in Huainan would be held in his own hands.

Sima Yi did not give him any chance to move. He used deep trenches and high bases to block the Wu army's breakthrough and killed Wang Ling in Shouchun City. When Wang Ling realized that the disaster was coming, it was too late to regret it. Shouchun City was besieged for a year, and foreign aids had not arrived for a long time. The food and grass for the internal army were increasingly exhausted, and the morale of the army had dropped to the lowest level. At this time, even the last chance to break through was lost. It is impossible to say that Wang Ling chose the wrong strategy, which eventually led to this situation.

Ma Long was sent to seek help from thousands of miles away, and he was completely in a hurry to seek medical treatment. Bingzhou and Huainan were so far apart, even if Cao Liang sent troops, it would be difficult to rescue the near fire.

Over the past year, Cao Liang has not had any time to do military farming, expand the army, and train the army. He is so busy that it is dim and dark. However, Cao Liang's harvest is real. Essential farming has officially entered the promotion stage. By next year, it is estimated that more than 70% of the land in Bingzhou can be sedate, which has positive significance for Bingzhou's grain reserves and military expansion.

With the establishment and formation of combat effectiveness of Qian Hong's Left Guard Battalion and Liu Jing's Right Guard Battalion, Cao Liang's mobile corps had expanded to eight battalions and 80,000 troops. Together with the garrison soldiers of Bingzhou counties, the total number of people was close to 100,000. It is incredible to support a 100,000 army with a population of 600,000 to 700,000 Bingzhou to support a 100,000 army.

As for the combat effectiveness of the two new armies, the Zuowei and the Youweiwei, Cao Liang did not use the training method of building a closed-door train, but adopted the use of war instead of training to build and temper the new army in actual combat.

Pingyang County in Hedong region became the first target of the Bingzhou Army. The defeated general Hu Fen of Cao Liang was stationed in Pingyang County. He was ordered to station Pingyang, forming a horn with Hedong Prefect Chen Qian, and joining Chen Tai in Henoi and Lu Dai in Jizhou to form a complete line of defense.

This line of defense can be said to be set up to build an encirclement of Bingzhou. When Sima Yi was flawless in the southern expedition, this line of defense could allow Sima Yi to concentrate on the southern line without any worries.

In order to break this line of defense, Cao Liang did not have enough strength yet. The main goal of using troops in Pingyang was to train the new army and achieve the goal of leading training through battle.

This time, the Zuowei Camp and the Right Guard were not only the Zuowei Camp, but Cao Liang also appointed Changshui Camp and the Xiaoqi Camp to assist, increasing their combat effectiveness.

At the beginning of the Battle of Pingyang, Hu Fen sent troops to deal with the Bingzhou army, but after several consecutive defeats, he had to retreat to Pingyang City and could not stand.

Cao Liang also tried to attack Pingyang City, and used heavy siege equipment such as equipped catapults and continuous catapults, which almost knocked down. Fortunately, the prefect of Hedong Chen Qian sent troops to help, which was considered to be the removal of Pingyang's siege.

At this time, Cao Liang was planning to play with a big one, but happened to catch up with Ma Long to ask for help. After reading Wang Ling's letter, Cao Liang couldn't help but think about whether he could keep Ma Long, it was now.
Chapter completed!