The preparations of the Southeastern Corps were in full swing and quite quickly.

This is not the first time that everyone has mobilized for war, and the wartime general mobilization regulations have to be memorized in full from the history of assassins to the head of a village, so that they are familiar with it.

Within a month, preparations for war had been preliminarily completed.

According to the mature calculations of the team of officials, they believed that in about half a month, 60 percent of the war mobilization force would be able to reach the predetermined location, and the minimum logistical support standard for the Wei army to start a war would be reached.

As long as Zhang Liao feels that it is almost there, he can start a war.

But Zhang Liao is not in a hurry, he is waiting.

At the beginning of June, Guo Jia had already arrived for half a month with the festival, and Zhang Liao had been granted the title of temperance to control the armies, and the various sequences of the southward campaign of the southeast corps had been completely prepared, the senior generals and commanders were all in place, the armies had arrived at the starting point, and the war preparations had been completed by more than 60 percent.

At this time, three ships came to Hefei New Town.

The three transports carried 300 sets of heavy cavalry equipment, as well as 300 strong soldiers selected from the 300 Tiger Guards, and 300 tall horses.

These 300 Tiger Guards were led by a captain and collectively visited Zhang Liao.

"Captain Wei Yanwen, the subordinate Huwei pro-military academy, meet the general."

As the commander of the 300 heavy cavalry, Wei Yan was exceptionally awarded the post of captain of the Huwei pro-military colonel, and this time he led the 300 heavy cavalry originally formed to Hefei to participate in the battle to destroy Wu, trying to establish meritorious service in this war to prove the value of the heavy cavalry.

"Okay."

Zhang Liao was very happy: "Sure enough, everyone is very strong, this battle, you can show your hands and feet and prove your bravery to the king." ”

Zhang Liao took Wei Yan and other 300 people to Hefei City, looked at the set of very well-forged armor on the way, picked up a set and weighed it, felt the heavy weight, and immediately sighed.

"The materials of this set of armor can make about ten sets of light armor, and what the king said is true, the cost of heavy cavalry is really unimaginably high."

"But when I wait for the battlefield, I can also defeat ten with one."

Wei Yan raised his head, with a hint of arrogance in his words: "We all have the heart to fight to the death to repay the king's kindness, for us, what the king's hand refers to is where we fight to the death!" On the battlefield we are waiting for, we can only advance, not retreat, until we die! ”

"Till death rest!"

Three hundred Tiger Guards shouted together.

"The Tiger Guard's soldiers are all elite, and Ben will never doubt this."

Looking at such a fierce tiger guard heavy horse, Zhang Liao nodded: "This time, it is your first battle, the king and the general have great expectations for you, you and be ready, at the critical moment, you must go to the battlefield." ”

Zhang Liao's expectations are naturally true, and Zhang Liao wants to know how far the cavalry army that he has never seen can play.

Guo Peng's side only sent 300 high-headed horses, and then asked Zhang Liao's side to select another 300 war horses according to the standard of these 300 horses.

Then feed these war horses with a concentrate feed composed of forage, beans, and eggs, so that the war horses are full of food and strength.

Then the Tiger Guard Heavy Knights were given meat and dry rice to ensure that they had enough oil, water and protein to ensure their combat effectiveness and that they had enough strength to support the heavy armor.

Looking at their food standards, Zhang Liao smacked his tongue.

Guo Peng is really generous, and he also treats ordinary soldiers very preferentially, and the soldiers of the Wei army no longer eat vegetable porridge, but can eat dry rice, but treat these heavy cavalry, such a standard is better than that of ordinary middle-level officers, and it is more preferential......

He understood more deeply why Guo Peng said that building heavy cavalry was throwing money.

Aren't these 300 fierce heavy horses just thrown out of money?

If you can't get a reliable record and amazing combat effectiveness, you don't want heavy cavalry.

After discussing with Guo Jia, Zhang Liao probed the defenses and war preparations of the Wu army on the other side, and learned that the Wu army used a large number of high-mobility small warships as the main force, and abandoned the use of large building ships as the main warships.

According to this, Zhang Liao analyzed that it may be that the trebuchet destroyed Sun Wu's large warship before, which impressed the other party, especially Zhou Yu, very deeply.

In order to prevent such a thing from happening again, Zhou Yu abandoned the slow-moving and large-target building ships, and used a large number of small warships to resist the attack of the Wei army, so that the advantage of the Wei army's trebuchets was minimized.

"Zhou Gongjin is indeed talented, no wonder the king will denounce the entire Zhou family to Youzhou for Zhou Gongjin's defection to Sun Bofu, now it seems that Sun Bofu is dead, but Zhou Gongjin is still alive, Zhou Gongjin is our biggest obstacle."

Zhang Liao said.

"That being said."

Guo Jia's face was full of confidence: "Can Zhou Gongjin stop the advance of our army?" What's more, our army has no intention of fighting him here to the death, the real decisive soldier is not here, when Zhou Gongjin finds out, will he cry or laugh? ”

Guo Jia looked at Zhang Liao with a wicked smile on his face.

Zhang Liao pondered.

"He would never have imagined that we would launch a surprise attack from the sea, pick a place he couldn't predict at all, land in a place he couldn't predict, and directly copy his back route, and when he was attacked from front to back, I don't know what he would think."

Zhang Liao and Guo Jia's predictions were correct.

Although Zhou Yu knew that Guo Peng had built a naval division, he did not know that this naval division was a large naval division built with cross-sea landing operations as the standard, with a large number, extremely strong carrying capacity, and a huge scale.

The fundamental purpose of the establishment of this naval division was not to fight a water war with Sun Wu's naval division on inland rivers, and Guo Peng did not intend to defeat Sun Wu's naval army in inland water warfare at all, it was unnecessary.

His goal was very clear, that is, a sharp knife directly stabbed Sun Wu in the gut, causing Sun Wu's regime to bleed locally and lose its resistance.

Directly on the front line, he destroyed Sun Wu's head and main force, and then pushed all the way to the south, bringing the entire Jiangdong under his rule.

Zhou Yu was still preparing for a fierce offensive and defensive battle with the Wei army along the Yangtze River, and he believed that the Wei army would definitely use a large number of ships to break through his defense line head-on, and he was ready to fight to the death.

As for the aftermath......

Cross-sea landing operations or something don't seem to be within Zhou Yu's understanding.

Of course, it was not within the scope of the Wei army's command level, it was Guo Peng who directly commanded Tai Shici to do this, and asked Zhang Liao to choose some troops with strong combat effectiveness to land with Tai Shici's navy, and strive to gather enough 20,000 people to attack from the water.

To this end, Guo Peng also requisitioned a large number of civilian sea ships for military use, carrying soldiers, war horses and strategic materials, and opened a second front.

Attacking Sun and Wu on two fronts, the main battlefield was demarcated within the scope of Wu County and Danyang County, and the main force of the Wu army in Wu County and Danyang County was dealt a devastating blow.

As long as Wu County and Danyang County were conquered, the Sun-Wu regime was basically destroyed, and the remaining three counties were just flat pushes.

The same is true of the strategic intelligence that Zhang Liao obtained.

Zhou Yu concentrated the main force in Wu County and Danyang County, the main forces were along the river, and the river was densely covered with the warships of Sun Wu's army.

In Zhang Liao's view, this is just a bluff, they are not that strong at all, once they are landed by the Wei army, the Wu army will not be able to compete with the Wei army in a field battle on the frontal battlefield.

What Sun Ce couldn't do at the beginning, Zhou Yu can't do now.

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