Mi Han

Chapter 253 The advantage is obvious
At the end of September in the first year of Zhangwu in the Han Dynasty, Cao Pi, the emperor of Cao Wei, personally led an army of 20, claiming that [-] arrived in Wancheng.

As the [-] Wei army began to appear in Nanyang County mightily, in the hearts of those loyal to Cao Wei in Nanyang County, the worried heart was finally let go.

They even felt rejoicing in their hearts.

Fortunately, there was no rash surrender before.

Before Cao Pi personally led the army into Nanyang County, news of his personal conquest had already spread throughout the Central Plains.

So when the emperor's royal flag belonging to Cao Pi was planted all over the city of Wancheng, most of the county magistrates in Nanyang County sent their envoys to Wancheng to greet Cao Pi.

It is not only a greeting, but also an expression of one's loyalty.

Even Cao Tai and Sima Yi who were outside Wudang City quickly withdrew their troops from outside Wudang City and returned to Wancheng after learning the news.

They had been wandering outside Wudang before, just because they were worried that Mi Yang would march forward bravely to attack Wancheng.

Now that Cao Pi has personally led the army to Wancheng, they naturally don't have to worry about the safety of Wancheng.

In this case, and in Nanyang County, they are considered to be the people who know the situation of Wudang City best, so they should return to Wancheng as soon as possible and tell Cao Pi what they know.

Otherwise, how can it show what efforts they made before the arrival of Cao Pi's army?

After all, in the eyes of the world, Cao Tai and Sima Yi just led [-] Wei cavalry troops wandering outside Wudang City. Except for capturing a few Han army scouts, they never fought a single Han army.

The speed of the cavalry was very fast. After Cao Tai and Sima Yi left some scouts outside Wudang City, they led most of the cavalry back to Wancheng.

When they returned to Wancheng, they found that in addition to the emperor's imperial flag representing Cao Pi, there were also many flags of Cao Wei ministers on the top of Wancheng.

Looking at those familiar flags, Cao Tai and Sima Yi's eyes froze.

"Jiang", "Dong", "Liu", "Wu", "Guo", "Sun", "Chen", .
The owner of any flag that is qualified to be placed on the city head will be at least a high-ranking official of two thousand shi.

Looking at the number of flags, Cao Tai and Sima Yi were a little dumbfounded.

In order to deal with Mi Yang, did His Majesty move the entire Luoyang center here?
Although surprised in their hearts, Cao Tai and Sima Yi soon came to Wancheng to meet Cao Pi at the Mansion of the General Chaqi.

When Cao Tai and Sima Yi arrived outside the lobby of the General's Mansion, Cao Pi was discussing military affairs with the generals.

Cao Pi, who was discussing military affairs, heard the eunuch report that Cao Tai was waiting outside the lobby for an interview, and a look of grief immediately appeared on Cao Pi's face.

He asked the eunuch to quickly summon Cao Tai and Sima Yi to come in.

When Cao Tai entered the hall under the leadership of the eunuch, all the civil and military officials in the hall looked at him with sympathy.

The moment Cao Tai saw Cao Pi, tears also appeared on his face.

He knelt down a dozen steps away from Cao Pi, and then walked five steps in front of Cao Pi's throne step by step, bowing his head to Cao Pi and saying:
"I hope Your Majesty will avenge my father!"

Cao Tai's pleading sound resounded in the huge hall instantly.

Seeing Cao Tai's tearful appearance, the faces of Cao Wei's civil and military ministers in the lobby showed unbearable expressions.

The unbearable look on Cao Pi's face became even stronger.

As the son of heaven, he beckoned Cao Tai to move forward regardless of the etiquette between the monarch and his ministers.

When Cao Tai came under his throne, Cao Pi's face was already covered with tears. Cao Pi stroked Cao Tai's hat and said:
"Don't worry Zi'an, I will definitely avenge my uncle."

For Cao Wei, Cao Ren was a chariot general with a very high status.

For Cao Pi, Cao Ren taught him martial arts since he was a child, so Cao Pi has feelings for Cao Ren.

Cao Pi is the eldest in the second generation of Cao Wei.

Now Cao Tai's father, Cao Ren, is dead. As the saying goes, an elder brother is like a father, and Cao Pi is Cao Tai's king.

Therefore, when Cao Pi stroked Cao Tai's crown hat, which was not much different from him in age, not only would it not make people feel disobedient, but it would make people feel that Cao Pi loved and cared for the clan.

This made a kind of civil and military ministers present feel warm in their hearts.

Unlike later generations, cronyism was sometimes a kind of political correctness in ancient times.

Because a monarch is not good to Yuan Cong and his clan, so it is easy to create an image of being mean and ungrateful.

The psychology of the ancient people was that if they didn’t even love Yuan Cong and clan relatives, how could they still love people who were neither relatives nor relatives?
Therefore, Cao Pi's behavior is partly out of his true feelings, and partly out of his desire to appease people's hearts.

The war is imminent, and people's hearts are the most important.

But after all, there are differences between monarchs and ministers, and it is time to discuss military affairs, so after being caressed by Cao Pikuan for a while, Cao Tai slowly retreated from Cao Pi's throne.

When Cao Tai stepped back from Cao Pi's throne and sat down in his seat, Sima Yi stepped forward and reported the current situation outside Wudang City to Cao Pi.

Under the narration of this minister who had just returned from outside Wudang City, together with the news reported by the Wei Jun scouts, the ministers in the lobby all roughly understood the specific information of the current Mi Yang army.

The most important thing in intelligence is the number of enemy troops.

Before Mi Yang withdrew [-] troops from Wudang City, he couldn't hide it from Cao Tai and Sima Yi who were wandering outside Wudang City all day.

In addition, according to the evidence obtained by the spies Cao Zhen sent from Hanzhong before, it proves that Mi Yang currently has no more than [-] troops inside and outside Wudang City.

When the total number of troops in Mi Yang's hands was almost deduced, all the ministers present who knew the soldiers all deduced almost instantly the number of real soldiers in Mi Yang's hands.

It should be around [-].

And if the total number of troops in Mi Yang's hands is only [-], then the number of soldiers in the Han army is only [-] at most.

The inferences of all the ministers of Cao Wei here are not drawn randomly, but are inferred according to the common practice of this era.

In historical records, the ancient army and civilian husbands are often clearly distinguished, so many people mistakenly think that the army is basically a soldier, and the logistics tasks are almost all undertaken by civilian husbands.

This is actually an inaccurate view.

The real situation is: In every army with a high degree of regularization, there are many logistics soldiers who are responsible for logistics support, called auxiliary soldiers.

The proportion of soldiers accounts for roughly [-]% to [-]% of the entire army;

If it is a cavalry unit, the proportion of logistics troops will be higher; if it is an overseas expedition, the proportion of logistics troops will be even higher.

In addition, the civilian husbands who escorted the food and grass were counted separately, and it was impossible to rely on them for the logistics work of the entire army.

It's not even as ordinary people imagined, the number of civilian husbands must be several times that of the entire army.

Moreover, the civilian husbands would follow the army and usually live in the barracks.

Otherwise, there are countless examples of wars in which tens of thousands of soldiers were mobilized in Chinese history.

If the civilian husbands who accounted for several times the number of soldiers lived in the barracks on a daily basis, then once the enemy army came to attack at night, it would cause the barracks to roar.

It is entirely because the number of common people's husbands is so much higher than that of soldiers. Faced with this situation, they will definitely be extremely panicked.

At that time, the entire barracks will collapse without even needing enemy troops to invade the camp.

No matter how stupid the general is, he also knows the horror of Ying Xiao, so he rarely does this.

Moreover, the civilian husband is mainly responsible for transporting grain and grass.

For a large army, food and grass will always be less and never more.

Therefore, once the civilian husband transports the grain and grass to the camp, the auxiliary soldiers in the military camp will be responsible for the handover, and most of the civilian husbands will return to the original road to continue transporting the grain and grass.

Because civilian husbands also consume food and grass, so from an economic point of view, it must be the most cost-effective to let civilian husbands be in the process of non-stop transportation of food and grass.

For a large army, the ratio of the number of civilians is not simply calculated by multiples, but many factors must be considered.

For example, is the place where the army is stationed close to your own granary, whether the road traffic is convenient, etc.

Just like Jiangdong, because of the existence of the Yangtze River, as long as there is enough food and grass, he can send an army of [-] at every turn.

The difference between auxiliary soldiers and civilian husbands is that auxiliary soldiers have certain combat capabilities, and even participate in certain military training in military camps.

Although the number of civilian husbands is not certain, the number of auxiliary soldiers in the army is clearly recorded.

"Cao Cao's Notes on Sun Tzu's Art of War": "A chariot drives four horses, ten riders and one heavy. Two people are raised to take care of the family, one person is responsible for guarding the clothes, two people are responsible for raising horses in the stables, and there are five people.

The infantry consisted of ten men, and they drove oxen with carts.Raise two people to take care of the family, one person to take care of the clothes, and all three. "

From this record, it can be known that Cao Cao's soldiers and horses under the Han and Wei Dynasties, the logistics troops of the cavalry accounted for about one-half of the entire army, and the logistics troops of the infantry troops also accounted for about [-]% of the entire army.

Moreover, it can be known from Cao Cao's records that when the army goes out, the auxiliary soldiers escort the baggage carts to follow the army.

This is also the reason why some armies will not collapse immediately even though their food supply is cut off, and they can hold on for a while.

At present, of the 5 troops brought by Cao Pi, the actual number of soldiers is only more than [-], and the rest are all auxiliary soldiers.

And because Luoyang is not far from Nanyang County, and both places are located in the hinterland of the Central Plains, the traffic conditions are not bad, so the number of civilians used is not very large.

Just like Cao Ren's [-] army before, even with the presence of Hanshui, Cao Ren saved a large number of civilians when he set off, but the number of soldiers in his [-] army was only [-].

The remaining 2 are auxiliary soldiers.

It was precisely because Cao Ren's [-] troops were not all soldiers that his mentality collapsed quickly under the attack of the raging fire.

Judging from the military strength of the enemy and us, Cao Pi's fear of Mi Yang eased a little.

His strength is obvious.

As time passed, Cao Pi also learned more and more about the First World War in Xicheng.

At that time, Cao Ren's nearly [-] troops were in ambush and surrounded by Han troops who were not far behind him in strength, which led to the annihilation of the entire army.

Now that there is danger in Hanzhong, and Mi Yang may leave some of the army in the town to garrison the west city, so the current strength of the Han army in Wudang city is less than half of his.

If he doesn't fall for the trick, Wei Jun still has a great advantage.

It's just that Cao Pi fought with Cao Cao when he was young, so he knew that if it was a field battle, he would have the advantage.

But now Mi Yang is likely to stick to Wudang City, so his military advantage is not so obvious.

Just as Cao Wei Junchen and his ministers in the lobby were learning more accurate information about the strength of the Han army and thinking about countermeasures in their hearts, Sima Yi reported another heavy news to Cao Pi.

That is Liu Bei proclaiming himself emperor.

After hearing the news, Cao Pi's originally joyful face suddenly showed great anger.

He couldn't help saying angrily: "How dare you weaving mats and selling shoes!"

It was not long ago that Liu Bei proclaimed himself emperor and restored Han in Chengdu, so Cao Pi, who had just arrived in Nanyang County from Luoyang, didn't know about it.

Even Sima Yi only learned about this not long ago.

After learning about this, Sima Yi was not too surprised.

Because of the existence of the great victory in Xicheng, and the fact that there was no great Han Zhengshuo in the world before, it is reasonable for Liu Bei to become emperor.

But Sima Yi was not surprised. When Cao Pi heard the news, his reaction was very strong.

When Cao Pi's angry voice came out, all the ministers of Cao Wei in the hall bowed their heads and dared not look directly at Cao Pi.

The reason why Cao Pi was so angry was that Liu Bei was proclaiming himself emperor at this time, and he was blatantly provoking Cao Wei's status as the Zhengshuo of China.

The legal system of Cao Wei established by Cao Pi originated from the abdication of Emperor Liu Xie of the Han Dynasty.

Now that Liu Bei is proclaiming himself emperor in Chengdu, isn't that telling the world that he established the Great Wei by usurping the throne?
Even Liu Bei's big man was built by stepping on the body of his Great Wei Chariot General!

The legal authority of the dynasty was threatened, how could Cao Pi, as an emperor, not be angry.

In history, after Cao Pi learned the news that Liu Bei proclaimed himself emperor, he might feel dismissive because Liu Bei only had one place in central Shu at that time.

But in this world, Liu Bei's proclaiming himself emperor was based on the power of a great victory, so Cao Pi felt a threat at this time.

Cao Pi stood up in anger, he looked at the officials in the hall and asked:

"Liu Thief dares to seek rebellion and proclaim himself emperor today. If I don't attack him, then what will my Great Wei Tianwei do?"

"If you want to defeat the Liu thief, you must first destroy the Mi thief. Do you have anyone who wants to be the vanguard of our army?"

When Cao Pi's angry words were spoken, frowns appeared on the faces of most of the ministers in the hall.

But it is not that there are no belligerents among the ministers.

For example, Xia Houba, the general of the Wei Dynasty who had just been transferred by Cao Pi.

Xiahouba, courtesy name Zhongquan, was the second son of Xiahouyuan, the former general who conquered the West, and his mother was the younger sister of Cao Cao's wife, the Ding family.

In the 24th year of Jian'an, Xia Houyuan was beheaded by Huang Zhong in the Battle of Dingjun Mountain. Xia Houba often gritted his teeth after learning about this incident, determined to avenge his father Xia Houyuan.

In addition, Xia Houba has a fierce personality, so after listening to Cao Pi's words, he immediately said to Cao Pi:
"The minister is willing to take the sharp soldiers and the tigers to Wudang, and he will be successful if he breaks the mistletoe. If he has no ministers, His Majesty will not worry about it."

Hearing that Mi Yang, who was about to attack Wudang, came out to ask for a fight, Cao Pi's angry face showed some joy.

Today's powerful enemy is in front of him, what he needs is this kind of minister of tiger and wolf!
(End of this chapter)