Yingchuan, Dingling.

Yuan Shao's army's attack on Dingling has never stopped. The difference is that the offensive is more intense or eased. Dingling and Runan are the throats of Cao Cao's going eastward and Yuan Shao's going westward. Even if Yuan Shao doesn't attack, Cao Cao will expand eastward if he recovers.

Dingling City is composed of three close-to-city clusters of Dingling, Kunyang and Wuyang. Li Jin, Li Dian and Cao Hong respectively stationed the three cities to support each other. There were a total of 120,000 cavalry guards and 20,000 cavalrymen. The attackers were the Shenpai Army, Zhang He Army and Pan Feng Army, with a total of 130,000 infantry, more than 20,000 cavalrymen, and tens of thousands of auxiliary soldiers.

The headquarters of Shenpei is in the direction of Zhaoling in the east of Dingling, Pan Feng is in the direction of Xiangping in the north, and Zhang He is in the direction of Xiping in the south. It is both an attack and a defense.

The three of them each set up camp in these three directions, and there were cavalry contacts between the three camps. Every day, they would take turns to attack Dingling, whether true or false at the same time.

Shen Pei once thought about using earth to build trenches, but the manpower was a little insufficient. If the defense line was too scattered, and he was worried that Cao's army would attack and defeat each other, so he was always just making a fuss on the one-sided attack. Nearly a year later, Shen Pei and others actually built three more city blocks on the periphery of Dingling, and both sides relied on the city blocks to attack and defend.

Cao's army is not blindly defending. Once Shen Pei reveals any flaws, Li Jin will launch a counterattack and take the opportunity to take advantage of the situation. What's more lively is naturally the alien troops of both camps.

The city camps on both sides issued a large number of high-priced reward tasks, all aiming to strangle the stranger and scouts of the opponent's camp. Yuan Shao even issued a large number of infiltration and harassment tasks, the same is true in Runan City, with the goal of attacking Cao Cao's logistics channel through the Tongbai Mountains.

The competition between the two sides is concentrated in these two directions. One is the northern passage from Wuyang to Wuyin, and the other is the southern passage from Runan to Pinglin. The number of players who die every day in Tongbai Mountain, one south and one north passage is quite considerable. The breaking and counter-breaking attacks around these two passages are also crucial battles, and both sides have paid enough attention.

"Captain, are we still setting up an ambush on the front line today?"

"Of course not. Can you use your brain? If you ambush others there every day, others will not set up an ambush there and ambush us? The soldiers are inconsistent. We cannot let our opponents grasp our rules. I don't understand this at all?"

"Uh...it's a pity that the terrain is so good!"

"This is not a jungle monster, do you still want to get stuck? Cut it!"

"Captain, don't pay attention to him. This guy has a problem with his brain. The scout in front of him heard news that there seemed to be signs of someone moving on the hill to the north, not like a friendly army."

"It's not like a friendly army, without the identification mark of today?"

"Yes, but the mark is wrong."

"I didn't expect that there were hidden traitors here. Damn, Yingzhou is about to collapse completely. These guys are still unrepentant. It's really damn!"

"What do you think of repentance or not? Captain, it's just for money. Anyway, you can't find anyone if you sell some news."

"Fortunately we still have a hand. Since that's the case, let's see if we can use the trick to fight a counter-ambuster. Just how can we find the location where they ambush?"

"This... seems to be really helpless, so I can only find it with people, otherwise I will rely on luck."

The captain pondered for a while. Now the enemy must be ambushing nearby and waiting for the rabbit. He might have entered the other party's sight. No, he must have entered. If the traces left on the top of the mountain are bait, they have no reason not to pay attention to the top of the mountain. They want to deeper and leave traces on the top of the mountain to paralyze themselves and make themselves think that it is safe to have their own friendly activities in the north. Then they will continue to go west along the valley and ignore their vigilance towards the north. In this way, the enemy must be ambushing a little further north.

"Everyone come here, we are like this..."

A team of more than 100 people led by more than a dozen players moves slowly at the bottom of the valley. This marching method is a method summarized by the guys fighting in the mountains. Once an attack occurs, the scattered formation is easier to avoid attacks. The bad thing is that it will reduce the formation bonus of the team.

The deep forest was very quiet, and only the birds hiding in some unknown place were chirping in response to each other.

Suddenly, a strange bang broke the tranquility of the valley. The soldiers and players walking at the bottom of the valley almost subconsciously squatted towards the grass on the side, and the shield was raised to the top of their heads. The reaction was extremely fast, but behind the crossbow arrow was followed by a large piece of paper talisman. Judging from the position where the paper talisman was thrown, the enemy's hidden location was also scattered and not far away.

"Get back, back back, there is an ambush!"

"No, there is an enemy behind it that cuts the road!"

"Get forward into a formation!"

"Beware of possible traps ahead!"

The ambushed was in chaos. When the ambushed player saw it, he immediately pressed forward. They could see their running figures from the woods covered with mountains.

"Form a formation and attack the way it comes!"

Suddenly, the player who was still in a panic just now quickly formed the shield formation and rushed towards the way he came. There were not many ambushers blocking the road. Seeing these players suddenly formed a formation and returned, they were a little panicked. At this moment, a rain of arrows suddenly flew from behind, and suddenly knocked down the ambushers who were preparing to form a formation and block the road.

It turned out that the captain had just divided some of them with high shooting skills and snipers who were good at hiding were attached behind their team. When the opponent tried to block the road and annihilate him, the hunters in this team immediately played an important role.

Under the front and back attacks, the team blocking the road was immediately defeated by the front scattering and the ambushers became ambushers. Seeing that the situation was not good, the players immediately stopped rushing downwards and turned to flee along the hillside. The players who successfully counterattacked immediately pursued along the valley bottom.

However, the ambushers had already scattered and fled, and the remaining scattered soldiers who had lost their master were arrested.

Similar things are happening repeatedly in the entire Tongbai Mountain Area every day, and both sides have their own victory or defeat. In this fierce confrontation, there is not only the risk of losses, but also the joy of harvest. Some upgrades and some are downgraded. More importantly, everyone has trained the ability of mountain combat, as well as combat technology under complex terrain, especially command technology. The tug-of-war in Tongbai Mountain Area over the past year has really trained several tactical masters among the players.

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At the end of July, Yuan Shao personally arrived at Zhaoling and prepared to go into battle barefoot to try to capture Dingling.

All generals who participated in the Battle of Dingling were summoned to Zhaoling for a meeting, and Yuan Shao's own team of staff were also present.

Shen Pei introduced the battle situation in the Dingling area and the northern passage of Tongbai Mountain to you in detail, giving everyone a comprehensive understanding of the situation in front of you.

"...The battle in the northern passage is particularly fierce. Of course, this is inseparable from the lord's established strategy. Although there is no obvious advantage in the competition in the mountainous areas, the attack of Yiren still caused some interference to the logistics line of the Cao army. The scale of the battle is not large and cannot be reflected for the time being. However, if our army launches full force to attack, the Cao army will inevitably increase troops to Dingling, and the problems on its logistics line will become more and more serious."

Yuan Shao nodded with satisfaction while stroking his beard. He was still very proud of the fact that he had decided to use Yi Ren to harass the north and south passages of Tongbai Mountain. In fact, these harassing tasks seem to have high rewards, but not many people can actually complete the tasks in full. The main targets for the merit values ​​accumulated by Yi Ren are skill cards, summoning cards and other things. These things will also be produced when Yuan Shao's troops trained and swiped the dungeon. As for his troops, they can slow down a little.

"Where is the movement of Cao's army?"

"Ju Su's army was confined to the Xicheng, Xiahou Dun and Xiahou Yuan were in Wuling, Xun You's army was in Shangyong, Ji Ling was stationed in Wan County, Chen Deng was stationed in Runan, Cao Cao's main army, including Cao Chun and Le Jin, a total of 100,000 were moving towards Wuyin, and Ji Ling's main force was also moving towards Ye County."

Pang Ji immediately reported Cao's army's movements concisely. Yuan Shao nodded with a smile, as if he was very satisfied with Cao Cao's reaction.

"Everyone, the main purpose of this battle of Dingling is not to capture Dingling."

When the generals heard this, they were stunned. Yuan Shao stroked his beard proudly and glanced at everyone with a smile. However, seeing Xu You twisting his goatee and squint his eyes, Yuan Shao felt a little bored and smacked his lips. Yuan Shao continued: "The purpose of the Battle of Dingling is to attract and restrain the main force of the Cao army. The more Cao army invests in the direction of Dingling, the more likely we will be to achieve a breakthrough in other directions. Therefore... this battle is to fight steadily."

"Lord, is it Runan the other direction you are talking about?" Shen Pei didn't know Yuan Shao's specific plan. Yuan Shao's idea itself is fine, and it is feasible to mobilize Cao's army, but is Runan's direction really so easy to take?

Yuan Shao smiled: "Runan? Well, our army will increase its efforts in Runan and send more senior officials. Lu Xiang's two legions went south to assist. If they could make a breakthrough in Runan, it would naturally be a good thing. Even if it doesn't work, as long as it can further attract Cao's army's troops, the goal will be achieved."

Shen Pei was stunned for a moment, thought about it carefully, and then looked at the map for a while, but still couldn't figure it out. Zhang He and Pan Feng were also confused. Xu You raised his eyelids and raised the corners of his mouth proudly.

"Haha, you don't have to guess or ask. You will know naturally when the time comes. What you need to know is that our army will not seek success in attacking Dingling, but we will not lose money. Just don't have the idea of ​​being greedy for achievements."

Yuan Shao waved his hand proudly, no longer talking about this matter, but began to assign tasks in detail. The generals didn't have time to ask questions, so they had to temporarily suppress the doubts in their hearts, but everyone was not expecting Yuan Shao's tricks. (To be continued...)
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