I heard Liu Bei talk about what happened between Cao Cao and Guo Jia four hundred years ago. I didn't ask Liu Bei for details at that time, because I knew what happened at that time. After Han Xin despicably conquered Qi, his adviser Kuai Tong persuaded him to make a
A true gangster, he supported his own troops and restrained Liu Xiang. However, Han Xin felt that Liu Bang had shown him kindness and did not follow Kuai Tong's advice. As a result, he lost the opportunity to stand as a tripartite and embarked on a path of no return.
Four hundred years later, when Cao Cao met Guo Jia again and thought of the past, he naturally felt guilty for this man who used to be Kuai Tong and is now Guo Jia. No matter what, he had to let him express himself well.
For Guo Jia, Cao Cao only left hundreds of thousands of troops in Chenliu, but put all his two million main troops in Puyang. In addition to Guo Jia, Cao Cao also had his subordinates Yu Jin, Li Dian, Le Jin, and Dian Wei guarding Puyang.
, Xu Huang and other generals. Among the two million main force, Cao Cao's 500,000 tiger and leopard cavalry, who would become famous all over the world in the future, were enough to compete with the trapped camp of Gao Shun, Yan Liang, Wen Chou, Zhang He and others.
On Tian Feng's side, not only were Gao Shun and others trapped in the camp, but there were also half a million Gongsun Zan's white horse volunteers, who were also elite cavalrymen in hundreds of battles. While Guandu's army was attacking Luoyang, Gongsun Zan had already conquered the four areas north of the Yellow River.
All the millions of Hebei troops led across the Yellow River. In the Puyang area, the ratio of Hebei troops to Cao troops was five to two, giving them an absolute advantage.
Puyang's terrain faces rivers on two sides, and the other two sides lead to Beihai and Xiaopei respectively. From the east, you can get the support of Zhuge Liang, which has been blocked by Robinson; from the south, you can get the support of Sun Shangxiang, because Liu Bei and Sun Quan have surrendered, so Sun Shangxiang remains
Neutral, Zhuge Liang planned to support Cao Cao through Xiaopei, but Cao Cao rejected it. But no matter what, the east and south are no longer a problem for Guo Jia. There is no road to the west, and Guo Jia only needs to block the north.
From the time when Yan Liang Wenchou attacked Baima, Guo Jia has been working day and night to repair the fortifications from Puyang to Baima. Now, the area from Puyang to Baima is almost completely covered with trenches, and there are traps everywhere. In the first trench
Behind, hundreds of well gates were arranged to closely monitor the situation in front of the trench. And in the middle of every two well gates, there were even more archers.
Seeing the layout of Guo Jia's first line of defense, Tian Feng couldn't help but cheer in his heart. He was worthy of being Cao Cao's chief strategist, and his grasp of the initiative on the battlefield was really good. Yan Liang, Zhang He, Wen Chou and others had an instinct for this line of defense.
Fear. They still remember that when I defeated the Xiongnu, I relied on a similar defense line to block the one million Xiongnu army with 50,000 people, and finally annihilated the entire Xiongnu army. At that time, I had not used wells and had to guard against the Huns.
Cavalry shooting. Now there are hundreds of wells behind the opponent, which undoubtedly increases the difficulty of attacking.
Guo Jia used trenches to defend, which meant giving up the super attack power of the 500,000 tiger and leopard cavalry. However, this paid off. The trenches also limited the mobility of the 150,000 trapped camp and the 500,000 white horse volunteers.
Don't let Tian Feng give up the idea of using these experienced soldiers to attack. Among the five million troops brought by Gongsun Zan, more than one million of them are cavalry. Due to the current offensive restrictions, the Hebei Army suddenly only has more than 300 soldiers.
Ten thousand troops are available. After excluding the more than one million infantrymen who transport food, there are only 2.5 million troops left.
Now Tian Feng must rely on these 2.5 million troops to attack Guo Jia. As for Guo Jia, in addition to 500,000 tiger and leopard cavalry, there are still 1.5 million troops. Even with these 2.5 million
The troops broke through the heavy defense lines and attacked Puyang City, and 500,000 tiger and leopard cavalry could still participate in the defense. At that time, it is uncertain how many people will be left in the 2.5 million army. Or Tian Feng will have to send nearly 200
Using ten thousand cavalry as infantry is not worth the gain.
I have taken away the 200,000 Jinglan troops and the 200,000 stone-throwing troops, and Tian Feng's only long-range attack is bows and arrows. If we shoot against Cao Jun like this, we will definitely suffer.
Faced with this situation, Tian Feng was not in a hurry and ordered his sergeants to pile up a mountain of earth in front of Cao Jun's first line of defense in Puyang and erect small hills. The archers of the Hebei Army either stood on the mounds or hid behind them.
Between the mounds, they exchanged fire with Cao Jun.
Tian Feng's change in strategy immediately put pressure on Guo Jia. You must know that there are millions of archers in the Hebei Army. Now the Hebei Army's archers are condescending, and the power of Jinglan has been greatly offset. And those archers have been greatly offset.
The archers between the wells are also within the shooting range of the archers on the opponent's mound, so the situation is very passive.
The mounds also have some advantages over the wells. There are few archers that can be accommodated in the wells, but there are many archers that can be accommodated on the mounds, so when they come and go, Cao's army must suffer.
Regarding the current disadvantage, Guo Jia sneered slightly and ordered the wells and archers to withdraw from the opponent's range and only create a deterrent in the trenches. At the same time, he sent cavalry and infantry to build mountains and rearrange the defense line like the Hebei Army.
After Guo Jia's change of formation, Cao Jun's archers, like the Hebei Army, also had earth mounds as a support. Cao Jun even moved the wells to the mounds again, and once again gained control of the air.
Tian Feng secretly praised again. However, Tian Feng had already had countermeasures and kept raising the mounds. Eventually, all the mounds became continuous and their heights continued to increase. When a line appeared in front of Cao Jun's first line of defense,
After the small mountain range, the situation became unfavorable to Cao's army again. Air supremacy was regained by the Hebei army.
Of course, Guo Jia is happy to see this situation come to fruition. As long as both sides adopt this kind of defensive stance, Cao Jun, whose victory is a draw, has no more extravagant hopes. Therefore, Guo Jia is still the same as Tian Feng, and will
The original mounds were raised and connected, and the back of the defense line was also connected into a small mountain range.
Tian Feng didn't seem to mind, and he still just raised the small mountains connected by the mounds. Guo Jia just followed him to raise the height. But after doing it a few times, Guo Jia discovered the problem. If he continued to raise the mounds and mountains in this way, he didn't seem to mind.
Not only that, the trench will gradually leave the shooting range of Cao's archers, and Tian Feng can send his sergeants to quickly pass through the trench. With the suppression of the opponent's archers, it will be difficult for Cao's archers to rush down from the mounds and mountains, forming an effective attack on the trench.
defense.
Guo Jia understood that after the first line of defense was broken through, the Hebei Army would repeat its tactics and continue to break through the remaining lines of defense. Therefore, how long the first line of defense can hold out now will directly determine how long it can defend in the future.
So Guo Jia made a major change, completely abandoning the first trench and focusing instead on the newly formed mound mountains. Instead of raising the mound mountains, he made the tops of the mountains move backwards.
Move until completely out of the range of the archers on the opponent's mound mountains. At the same time, Guo Jia began to build fortifications on the mound mountains, focusing on defending the Hebei sergeants after passing through the trenches.
On the surface, it seems that Guo Jia is about to lose the first trench. But the first trench is just a line of defense. The trench is lost, a by-product of trench defense, but the new line of defense, mounds and mountains, is there. Guo Jia does not suffer.
Seeing Guo Jia's actions from a distance, Tian Feng was once again filled with admiration. After so many days of confrontation, although the trench in front of him was about to be captured, a new line of defense appeared, and his efforts for so many days seemed to be in vain.
However, Tian Feng is not a discouraged person. He knows that although the first line of defense has not been completely broken this time, Guo Jia's trench tactics have failed. The next step is to break Guo Jia's earth-mountain tactics and they can go one step further.
Guo Jia had just made preparations, and Tian Feng had already made a tacit agreement to send infantry and archers to kill him, digging a hole under the mound to hide his body.
After the Hebei Army entered Cao Jun's Tuqiu Mountains, they did not launch an attack on Cao Jun. They just continued to dig tunnels day and night, intending to penetrate the mountain and directly reach behind the Tuqiu Mountains.
Guo Jia had not seen the movement of the Hebei Army under the Tuqiu Mountains for several days, and he knew it in his heart. He withdrew half of his archers and closely monitored the movements of his side under the mountain. The Hebei Army had just drilled through the mountain, and several sergeants were shot into pieces as soon as they showed their heads.
The hedgehog was killed. The other sergeants had to temporarily guard the entrance of the cave and did not dare to attack easily.
Tian Feng hurriedly ordered a large shield to be sent over, and the sergeants in the cave were to hold the shields and attack. Over there, Guo Jia had already anticipated Tian Feng's move and sent tiger and leopard riders to patrol the entrance of the cave. Although the sergeants holding the shields escaped from the bows and arrows,
, but could not escape the iron hooves of the tiger and leopard cavalry.
