Mi Han

Chapter 260 Everything is ready and I am confused

Chapter 260 Everything is ready and I am confused
As time went by, more and more Wei troops gathered in Wancheng from all directions.

In order to stabilize the situation in Nanyang County as soon as possible, Cao Pi first led tens of thousands of troops to Wancheng.

But the huge Cao Wei must have more than those troops.

Cao Wei's army is divided into two categories: the central army and the local army.

In the central army, it is divided into the central army and the foreign army.

The Chinese army is relative to the foreign army.

After Cao Pi proclaimed himself emperor and established the Wei Empire, one of his most important reform measures was the further systematic division of the national army.

He set up many governorships in units of states or frontiers.

When Cao Cao was still in power in the early days, the division of the army under his command was not meticulous, and he usually commanded an army in person to conquer everywhere.

After Cao Cao defeated Yuan Shao and obtained the prefectures of Ji, Bing, and Qing, his ruling area gradually took on the scale of a country.

At this time, the situation is getting worse, and it is no longer possible to lead a main force to fight everywhere like in the past, which will also consume a lot of rations.

So under Xun Yu's suggestion, Cao Cao began to adopt the method of keeping troops in various places.

After the Battle of Guandu, every time Cao Cao pacified a place, he would leave a part of the Chinese army to garrison there, and appoint one person as commander to command all the troops in the area.

But in that jurisdiction, it is not only the part of the Chinese army left by Cao Cao.

The governor in the jurisdiction will use the Chinese army left by Cao Cao as the backbone to recruit soldiers in the jurisdiction to form a sufficient number of troops.

This is the Cao Wei foreign army divided from the central army. For example, after Cao Cao pacified Hanzhong, Xia Houyuan was the general who conquered the west, and he adopted this military model.

The generals and soldiers led by the governor who stayed outside are called foreign troops;
The army directly under the Central Government is called the Chinese Army.

But whether it is Cao Wei's central army or foreign army, they are essentially the army trained by Cao Cao himself, so the combat power is very good.

Because of this special military model, among Cao Wei's military positions, the military positions of four expeditions and four towns began to become the military positions with the highest power and status.

"In the first year of Huangchu, a special governor was appointed to supervise the military affairs of the states, and the title of general of the four expeditions and four towns was added, and the general was appointed to supervise the Chinese and foreign armies, and he was appointed as the Taiwei."

In addition to the Chinese army and foreign army, Cao Wei also had state and county soldiers as local soldiers.

In the early years of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Emperor Guangwu stopped soldiers to recruit soldiers, and the military strength of the county was very weak.

When Cao Cao unified the north, the large and small separatist armies were either eliminated or incorporated, and the states and counties often had only the central army left in the village, but no local armed forces.

At that time, Sima Lang, the chief secretary of the prime minister, suggested that all the prefectures and counties should establish local armed forces, so as to "prepare the barbarians from the outside, while the power from the inside is not in order."

Under Sima Lang's suggestion, Cao Cao restored the old system of the Western Han Dynasty, "Since Sima Lang's words, he ordered the prefectures and counties again, but did not appoint a lieutenant, and he was appointed as the prefect or the governor and commander."

Cao Wei's state and county soldiers are responsible for guarding their own states and counties, and they should also be dispatched when necessary. However, the status of state and county soldiers is lower than that of the Chinese army and foreign troops.

In addition to the Chinese army, foreign army, and local state and county soldiers, Cao Wei also had a huge special army, that is, the Tuntian soldiers.

Cao Wei's garrison was divided into two types: Mintun and Bingtun. Although most of the Bingtun was set up in the border areas, Cao Wei regarded Mintun as the country's fundamental economic policy.

Under this kind of compulsory economic policy, the millions of young and strong people in the villages all over the country are the natural and continuous source of soldiers for Cao Wei's army.

The end of the Han Dynasty was not a certain Song Dynasty. All men in the Han Dynasty were martial arts.

As long as weapons are distributed to the men in the late Han Dynasty, after a little training, they will instantly become a powerful army.

Such a military system has miraculous effects in guarding the frontier.

Under the military system of this system, if there is an early warning on the frontier, the rulers of Cao Wei can take advantage of the convenient transportation conditions in the north and command the Chinese army to personally support the frontier.

On the other hand, the ruler of Cao Wei can order the major governors in the world to lead their own troops to support the attacked governors.

Under the summoning like a snowball, Cao Wei's army will often break through the [-] mark soon.

In this way, on top of a strong force, the enemy can feel a sense of despair.

It can be said that although Cao Wei's economy is in a mess, the Cao Wei military system reformed by Cao Cao, a military master, is currently the most advanced system among the three major forces in the world.

However, in order to prevent the local military power from being too heavy, Cao Cao and Cao Pi continued to strengthen and directly controlled the strength and elite level of the Chinese army in their hands.

When Cao Pi came to the throne, the Luoyang Central Army directly in his hands had reached tens of thousands.

This army of tens of thousands is the most elite, best armored, and best trained army among all the troops of Cao Wei.

These tens of thousands of troops were left by Cao Cao to Cao Pi, the most powerful guarantee to deter the local area.

Later, Cao Wei's Chinese army even reached more than 20 people, and Cao Wei's Chinese army alone could launch a battle to destroy the country.

In history, there have been continuous rebellions in the Cao Wei area, the most famous of which is the Huainan Three Rebellions.

The reason why Sima Sanhei was able to successfully quell the Huainan Three Rebels was essentially a crushing situation of the Cao Weizhong Army against the local army.

In history, during Zhuge Liang's Northern Expedition, Cao Rui handed over the command of a part of the Chinese army to Sima Yi in order to resist Zhuge Liang's army.

Many people think that the fundamental purpose of Zhuge Liang's Northern Expedition was to capture Longxi, but in fact Zhuge Liang had another purpose, which was to find an opportunity to completely eat the Cao Wei Zhongjun under Sima Yi's command in the wild.

As long as Zhuge Liang can defeat Cao Wei's intimidating Chinese army, then Cao Wei will fall into a great crisis in an instant.

During the Battle of Lucheng, Zhuge Liang was only one step away from his goal, only one step away!
It's a pity that Li Yan, a rebellious boy, appeared in the rear.

And because the Cao Wei Zhongjun suffered heavy losses in the Battle of Lucheng, Sima Yi later avoided fighting, because he knew very well that if he lost all the remaining Cao Wei Zhongjun, the consequences would be absolutely catastrophic.

When Cao Pi set off from Luoyang with tens of thousands of Chinese troops, he never thought that he could completely defeat Mi Yang with the tens of thousands of troops in his hands alone.

Cao Pi knew very well what his own advantages were, so when he led the army from Luoyang, he had already issued an imperial edict to the major governors, asking them to summon soldiers and horses to meet in Nanyang County.

Later, when Cao Pi received Cao Tai's report and learned that Guan Yu had indeed sent troops to attack Fancheng as Jia Xu deduced, Cao Pi's edict urging all places to send troops became more urgent.

As time went by, after Cao Pi's emperor's decree spread to various places, governors or generals from all over the place brought troops to Wancheng to join Cao Pi.

Among them, Jia Kui, the governor of Yuzhou, and Wang Ling, the governor of Yanzhou, were undoubtedly the closest to Nanyang County.

Yuzhou and Yanzhou are the most elite parts of the Central Plains, so their production resumed the fastest.

The grain and grass harvested in these two states this year alone can support the own state and county for their own use, and they can leave a lot of grain and grass to support other states and counties.

So when these two frontier officials led the army to Wancheng, the Wei army currently in Nanyang County had exceeded [-] including the auxiliary soldiers.

One hundred thousand Wei troops gathered in Nanyang County, which made Cao Wei's ministers in Nanyang County, the confidence in their hearts is constantly increasing.

The most important thing is that there are currently about [-] Great Wei Zhongjun in Nanyang County.

The [-] Chinese army was trained by Wei Wudi Cao Cao, and its combat effectiveness can be said to be the best in the world.

In terms of quantity, the Wei army is far above the combined forces of Guan Yu and Mi Yang, and in terms of elite level, they are also stronger than the enemy.

This makes the ministers of Cao Wei how can they not have self-confidence in their hearts.

Regardless of whether it is Mi Yang or Guan Yu, they are constantly sending spies to investigate the movements of the Wei army inside and outside Wancheng.

News of the arrival of a large number of Wei troops quickly reached Guan Yu's hands.

Compared with the heavy thoughts of the generals of the Han army after hearing the news, Guan Yu's expression was not the slightest bit nervous.

This scene was as early as he expected.

This is a huge gap in national power between the big Han and Ni Wei, and there is no way to make up for it in a short time.

But Guan Yu no matter how many foreign troops and state and county soldiers Cao Wei has come, he has only one goal after raising troops, and that is the Cao Wei Zhongjun brought by Cao Pi's personal conquest!

In the big tent, Guan Yu asked Wang Fu, "Guoshan, what are the losses of our army recently?"

Currently in the big tent, all Han generals and officials are present, seeing Guan Yu asking about this matter, the heavy expression on Wang Fu's face became more and more dignified.

He came out to pay homage to Guan Yu and reported:

"In the past half month, whenever our army's grain ship escorting grain and grass appeared, the bandit army wandering on the north bank saw this scene, and often followed our army's grain ship with thousands of cavalry, harassing and firing rockets from time to time.

And whenever our army's soldiers pulling fibers on the south bank were washed to the north bank by the torrent, they were killed and wounded by the bandits.

Once our army's grain ship docks, and the escorted grain truck comes towards the camp, the bandit army will use cavalry to attack our army's grain team.

And whenever our army sends troops to attack on the north bank, or sends reinforcements from the camp, the bandit army will immediately retreat, and when our army retreats, the bandit army will come back.

In the past half month, hundreds of soldiers have been killed or injured in our army, and there are not a few food and grass burned by the bandit army. "

After talking about the above, Wang Fu said in a more emphatic tone: "The actions of the bandit army have dealt a great blow to the morale of our army."

After hearing what Wang Fu said, everyone in the tent frowned deeply.

Perhaps because of the timely rescue of the Han army, the number of soldiers and food lost is not too much.

But the behavior of the bandit army constantly harassing the grain road like flies is really disgusting.

This was a big blow to the morale of the Han army.

Compared with the frowns of the generals, there was no sullen look on Guan Yu's face.

He was born in the north, and he has fought with the Wei army for many years, so he is very clear about the tactics of the cavalry army.

Now Wei Jun's response is roughly the same as what he had guessed before.

In fact, the Han army did not have countermeasures against the harassment tactics of the Wei army cavalry.

That is to deploy layers of heavy troops on the main food and grass of the Han army to form an array to resist the attack of the Wei army's cavalry.

But such countermeasures are very costly.

The current situation that the Han army is facing does not allow them to spend their troops so much.

Now the Han army is facing not only the tens of thousands of cavalry troops of the Wei army, but also the tens of thousands of Wei troops in Fancheng and Yancheng.

Although the Han army has passed through the barriers and besieged Fancheng in the past month.

But no matter how well the barriers are arranged, if they are not guarded by strict soldiers, they are just dead objects that are allowed to be destroyed.

Once the Han army draws most of its troops to guard the grain road, the protective force in the barrier is bound to be greatly reduced.

At that time, if there is a change in the Wei army in Fancheng and Yancheng, the Han army's efforts in the past month will be wasted, and it will easily fall into the situation of being attacked by the enemy.

So now the Han army is in a dilemma.

In this dilemma, Liao Hua tried to make a suggestion:
"Can you set up an ambush on our army's food road?"

When Liao Hua made this suggestion, no one echoed Liao Hua.

Because Liao Hua's proposal did not agree with the actual situation.

The two cities of Xiangfan are located on both sides of the Han River, and the outside of the city is an open plain area. There is no terrain to bury an ambush on the grain road for more than ten miles.

Seeing that his proposal was not echoed by the generals, Liao Hua realized the omissions in his proposal the next moment.

So he silently stopped speaking.

Compared with the silence of the generals, Guan Yu didn't have much worry in his heart.

Guan Yu first let all the generals retreat, and then he left Zhao Lei alone.

After all the generals retreated, Guan Yu asked Zhao Lei, "Have all the equipment been prepared?"

Facing Guan Yu's question, Zhao Lei hurriedly cupped his hands and replied, "Everything is ready."

Seeing what Zhao Lei said, a smile finally appeared on the face of Guan Yu who was still solemn just now.

Before Ma Liang served as governor of Jingzhou, Zhao Lei was actually the chief steward of Guan Yu's army.

After using Zhao Lei for many years, Guan Yu subconsciously asked Zhao Lei to do some things.

Now that you are ready, you can start to act.

Wudang is just upstream of Fancheng, with the presence of the Han River, and Ma Liang's messenger soon arrived in Wudang City.

Because of Ma Liang's sealed diploma as evidence, Ma Liang's envoy was quickly received by Mi Yang.

Now Mi Yang is listening to Wang Hong's briefing.

Mi Yang currently has many official positions. After he was worshiped by Liu Bei as General Zuo, his original post of prefect of Hanxing was not replaced.

Therefore, in addition to handling Yibei's military affairs, Mi Yang also had to remotely command the government affairs of Hanxing County.

It happened that Wang Hong came to Wudang City today and reported to Mi Yang personally about his reforms in Fangling.

As Wang Hong is the county magistrate of Fangling, he would have sent a small official to report these matters to Mi Yang.

However, as Mi Yang's status rose, Wang Hong felt deeply that his choice of going south to the police was correct, and on the other hand, he became more determined to hug Mi Yang's thigh tightly.

People are subject to change. Perhaps Wang Hong's original intention of defecting to Mi Yang was to avenge Cao Wei's blood.

But after gaining power, Wang Hong's heart also began to change.

In his view, there is no conflict between revenge and enjoying glory and wealth.

Wang Hong knows very well that everything he has now is obtained by Mi Yang.

Therefore, with more and more talents under Mi Yang's command, Wang Hong, who did not have much talent himself, was very worried that one day he would be squeezed out of the core circle of Yibei officials headed by Mi Yang.

Under this kind of thinking, whenever Wang Hong had the opportunity, he would go to Wuzhong in person and report the government affairs to Mi Yang himself.

The purpose is to show more face in front of Mi Yang.

Originally, Mi Yang and Wang Hong were discussing the next reform measures of Fangling, but when Mi Yang received the letter from Ma Liang's envoy, Mi Yang's face immediately showed a heavy look.

Guan Yu, is your health in danger?

But before the old man wrote to him to discuss how to crack the cavalry method, and he drew a picture for him based on the memory of later generations, how could he suddenly get sick?
 There will be another chapter in a while.

  
 
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