Chapter 994

At the same time that Huangfu Chaobo sent troops to Jiyin from Chenliu, Zhang Ying's army in Puyang City also began to send troops to the south. Zhang Ying's army included 25000 soldiers from the fifth school of Shenwu camp, 20000 guards and 10000 craftsmen. It was a total of 55000 troops, known as 80000 troops.

Apart from Zhang Ying, the main general of Shenwu camp, and min Chun, the deputy general, there were also demoted general Le Jiu. Huangfu Chaobo sent Tian Zheng, Tian Feng's eldest son, to join the army.

Luoyang was handed over to the Deputy General of Huben camp to keep two school soldiers, while Chenliu city had only twenty thousand guards of Zhou Cang, the capital of Chenliu. As for Puyang City, it was handed over to one school soldier of Xiong Quying, the Deputy General of Hongnong, and ten thousand guards of Puyang City.

On the evening of the same day, Cao Cao's spies who were lurking in Chenliu sent the news to Changyi. Seeing the news from Chenliu, Cao Cao was stunned. Then he laughed and said that the heroes had the same ideas. He wanted to attack Chenliu, so he sent out his troops.

Cao Cao wanted to send troops to attack. In this way, he could use the cities of Jiyin to restrain the main force of the eastern expedition and buy time for the war of Xia Houyuan in Qingzhou.

Later, Cao Cao did not order the army to send troops to Dingtao. He had already deployed 30000 troops in Dingtao, among which there were 10000 elite soldiers in Jiyin and Shanyang counties, 10000 elite soldiers in Cao Cao's headquarters, and there were 10000 soldiers in Dingtao. In Cao Cao's plan, Dingtao could last at least a few months. When the veterans of the eastern military division were tired, Cao Cao would be bigger Army, give them a back and forth attack.

Originally, Cao Cao's people agreed that the number of troops to be sent to the East should be about 100000, but they did not expect that Chen Liu's troops alone would have reached 100000. According to the information from the spies, Chen Liu's troops should be the main force of the eastern expedition. In addition to the banner of the generals of Huangfu Chaobo's guards, there is also the banner of Huang Zhong, the number one general of Huangfu Chaobo.

In addition, there are other general flags among them, so it can be judged that all the elite troops who went to Henan county of the eastern army have been sent out.

In Puyang to the north, there are nearly 100000 Zhang Ying troops. According to the information from spies, in addition to the Zhang Ying troops of Chen Liu and Puyang, there are also the banners of several generals in Hebei. So many generals appeared in the two armies, which made Cao Cao's army all hit the tongue secretly.

However, it was just like this that Cao Cao's army thought that in order to attack their own side, the eastern expedition had almost come out. Unfortunately, no matter Yuan Shao in Hebei or Lu Bu in Bingzhou, they are no longer willing to attack the Zhengdong army. In their opinion, the Zhengdong army is a tortoise, no matter how hard they fight, they can't say. Instead of wasting time on this, it's better to concentrate your energy on doing things you are more sure of while there is no time and energy here.

When he got the news of the East conscription army, Cao Cao immediately sent people to check the ice flood situation near the river. On the one hand, he also informed Xia Houyuan that he was ready to send troops.

Two days later, Zhang Ying's army arrived at Lihu city. At this time, Cao Cao's army had been informed that it had already closed the city gate, but Lihu had 3000 garrisons, which served as a warning to the north of Dingtao city in Jiyin. Therefore, neither Cao Cao of Changyi nor Ren Jun, the governor of Dingtao City, had any plan to send troops to rescue. The 3000 garrisons of Lihu city were in Zhang Ying's army Under the fierce attack, the city was broken after only two days.

One thousand soldiers of three thousand prefectures were killed in the battle, and hundreds of them were injured. All the others were captured. County magistrate and county captain were killed while guarding the city. The casualties of Zhang Ying's army were only the hundreds of civilian soldiers who were killed and injured in the first day's trench filling and the hundreds of elite soldiers who were killed and injured in the second day's siege. Among them, only 300 Minfu and more than 100 halberds and ordinary soldiers died, and more than 500 people were injured, of which more than half were Minfu.

This was the decision made by Zhang Ying and Tian Zheng after discussion. Both of them agreed that as the first battle of the eastern expedition to attack Cao Cao's army, they should strike each other with a thunderbolt. If they can beat down with one drum, it will have a great impact on Cao Cao's army.

On the first day of the attack, Zhang Ying just sent someone to fill the moat away from Fox city. Then he launched only a tentative attack and hastily stopped. In the second day's attack, Zhang Ying ordered min Chun and le to lead one school soldier to attack from the East and west walls, but Zhang Ying himself led 5000 halberds to attack from the north city.

Li Hu's general didn't expect that Zhang Ying would be so unconventional. In the second round of attack, he sent out the most elite three schools. Caught off guard, the Zhengdong army attacked Lihu city in the first wave of attack. Lihu city county captain died on the spot, and the county magistrate also died in the chaos.

Then the garrison was in chaos. After more than a thousand people were killed and injured, the soldiers put down their weapons and surrendered one after another. The whole war lasted less than an hour.

Later, Zhang Ying's army did not enter Lihu, but arranged 1000 guards to enter Lihu to take over the city, and then arranged all the wounded to enter the city. The army camped outside the city for a rest day, and the next day began to move south again.

On the same day that Zhang Ying's army began to attack Lihu, the governor of Yuzhou and the general sun CE also announced to send troops to attack Cao Cao.On that day, the Yuzhou army was divided into two groups, each with 60000 or 70000 troops. They started to attack Qiaojun and Liangguo respectively. Different from the two groups of Huangfu Chaobo and Zhangying, the two groups of Yuzhou army were obviously low-key. Not only the number announced to the outside was less than the actual number, but also the banners in the army were the general flags of some unknown generals. Moreover, the advancing speed of Yuzhou army was much slower than that of Zhengdong army in the north.

Sun CE's army in Huainan was different. On the day of the announcement, sun CE led 50000 troops directly to the West Quyang County occupied by Cao Cao's army, while Sun Jing's army in Guangling also sent troops directly to Huaiyin, ready to cross the river and attack huaipu.

As for the behavior of sun CE Jun of Yuzhou army, Cao Cao's army thought they had a good command of it. In their opinion, although Yuzhou had a close relationship with the eastern expedition army, they were not willing to be the vanguard of attacking themselves, because although Yuzhou army had been trained by the eastern expedition army for more than a year, they still did not have the confidence to fight with their own side.

Therefore, the Yuzhou army is determined that once the eastern army gains an advantage in the north line, Cao Cao's army will certainly send troops to the north to support it. Only when Qiao County's troops are empty can the Yuzhou Army take advantage of it.