Thousands of war horses, and that's all they brought back? Liu Yi took Liao Hua to count the gains of this war, and looked at the war horses in the stable, but Liu Yi was a little puzzled.

According to Liao Hua, the thousand-man cavalry team under Cao Ren was almost wiped out, but there were only more than 100 war horses brought back, and the gap was too big.

"On the battlefield, how can you care about horses?" Liao Hua said with a wry smile: "The cavalry of the thief army rushed in, and the soldiers almost all rushed to the horses first, and they stayed in the army to rampage, which would only mess up the military formation, and most of these war horses had never rushed into the formation." ”

Liu Yi nodded when he heard this, he had never experienced fighting with cavalry, the only time he fought with cavalry was to go back to the road to Xuchang back then, and coincidentally, he also met Cao Ren that time.

However, at that time, Cao Ren's military formation was almost disrupted by his own donkey cart, so make some chariots to deal with Cao Cao's cavalry?

Liu Yi looked at these war horses and shook his head silently, the chariot must be done, but it cannot be used as the key to turning the tide of victory, because the cavalry of the Cao army in Nanyang is actually not much, and before the scale of stirrups, the frontal combat effectiveness of the cavalry is actually not as terrifying as that later generations will see, and the cavalry really dominates the battlefield in the era of cold weapons after the popularization of horseshoes, stirrups and saddles, in this era, the biggest advantage of cavalry is its mobility.

As for the horseshoe, stirrups, and saddles, it is not difficult to make them, Liu Yi's will be equipped with these harnesses immediately, but even if it is promoted on a large scale, Liu Bei does not have an organized cavalry here, and a number of war horses are mostly rationed to generals, and it is not Liu Bei who benefits from the promotion of these things, but Cao Cao and the nomads in the north.

Before Liu Bei's side could not form a large-scale cavalry, Liu Yi was not ready to take out these three things, in terms of cavalry in this year, even if it was a foreign ethnic group that was good at cavalry and archery, it was difficult to bargain in front of the Han army, so at present, Liu Beijun's side still focused on infantry combat effectiveness.

"Find some soldiers who can drive." After thinking about it, Liu Yi said directly, the lethality of the chariot on the battlefield dominated by infantry is still quite amazing: "You must be good at driving." ”

"Whoa!" Liao Hua agreed when he heard this, said goodbye and left.

Liu Bei arrived in Xinye on the third day after Guan Yu's defeat of Cao Ren, compared to the tens of thousands of elites in the rear of the Cao army, Liu Bei brought only more than 1,000 guards this time, and the soldiers and horses that could be mobilized on the Xiangyang side were basically put into the Nanyang battlefield, and the soldiers and horses responsible for attracting the Cao army also rushed to Xinye one after another in these few days, and opened the defense line mainly in Xinye and Chaoyang counties under Guan Yu's arrangement.

It's just that after nearly a month of land battles, the 30,000 horses sent at the beginning are now only about 23,000, and the 20,000 troops brought by Guan Ping are only 18,000 this time, which is still because Guan Ping is relatively cautious.

The strength of 40,000 is facing Cao Cao's army of at least 80,000 people, and the difference in strength is doubled, compared to the Battle of Chibi, this gap is much smaller, but it is also at a disadvantage, which is not something that Guan Yu can reverse with a victory, which is also an important reason why Liu Yi opposed Guan Yu to go into battle in person.

If you win, it won't actually be much good, but if you lose, once Guan Yu folds, the morale of the Jingzhou army will be too great.

"What's going on in Koto?" After the handover of the soldiers and horses, Liu Yi finally calmed down, Xinye's fortifications have been completed, and then only need to wait for the cement to dry up, and then you can use the height difference between the old city wall and the new city wall to form a three-dimensional fortification, Cao Jun wants to attack again, it is not easier than attacking Xiangyang in the past.

"At the end of last year, Sun Quan gathered 100,000 troops in Jiangdong and stationed troops in the mouth of the river, and now I heard that it has occupied several counties, and Sun Quan personally led the main force to Hefei, this battle, this Jianghuai land, is not owned by Sun Quan!" Pang Tong sighed, Sun Quan's momentum this time is very large, Lu Meng and Zhu Ran each lead the way, Sun Quan personally led the army, and there are more Jiangdong generals such as Gan Ning, Ding Feng, and Xu Sheng.

At least in the eyes of Pang Tong and others, when the main force of the Cao army and even Cao Cao were contained by them in Nanyang, Sun Quan had such a big advantage, it was impossible to lose, you know, on the Jiangdong side, there were thousands of siege equipment built by Liu Yi himself.

"Sun Quan personally led the troops?" Liu Yi looked at Pang Tong in some surprise.

"Not bad." Pang Tong nodded, a little strange about Liu Yi's reaction: "Something?" ”

"I can't tell." Liu Yi shook his head and said, "It's just that I have never heard that Sun Quan has the ability to command troops before!" ”

This is a big problem, the more wars he comes into contact with, the more Liu Yi understands the importance of an excellent general, not to say how fierce the martial arts are, but to control the soldiers and horses.

Take Liu Yi as an example, although he often leads troops to fight, but most of his generals are leading, and Liu Yi himself, more often than not, is to make a few bad moves or make some siege equipment to assist, to determine the direction of the attack, if Liu Yi directly to lead the troops, he can play thousands of people is good.

But what about Sun Quan?

It is not denied that there are geniuses in this world, but no matter how talented the characters are, it is impossible to really be born to know, this thing is not something that can be played with by reading a few military books, the emotions of Cao Xing's soldiers, the cooperation between various departments, how to make the order reach the whole army at the fastest speed, if there is no such ability, it is better to sit honestly in the rear, or like Liu Yi, don't worry about the matter of commanding the army to fight, just be responsible for decision-making and logistics, but the problem is, Sun Quan is such a monarch, Is it really possible to do nothing without asking?

It's not that Liu Yi underestimates Sun Quan, but he knows very well that when a person's status reaches a certain height, his ability will be mythologized by the people around him, and over time, even he himself can't see it clearly, feeling that he can do it no matter what he does, but in fact, it really can't.

Don't look at Liu Bei and Cao Cao, who also often recruit in person, the two of them have fought all their lives, have no talent, and their experience is enough for people to be able to govern the army in an orderly manner, in the area of military strategy, Liu Yi feels that Sun Quan can't be compared with Liu Bei and Cao Cao.

"Not really." Pang Tong shook his head, think about it carefully, although Sun Quan is a good monarch, he will also discuss military affairs with Zhou Yu and Lu Su for a long time, but if you think about it carefully, it seems that Sun Quan has always been strategizing in the rear, at the beginning Zhou Yu commanded the Jiangdong soldiers and horses, and then Lu Su, and now Lu Meng, it seems that Sun Quan has experienced many major battles, but in fact, Sun Quan has no real combat experience.

This battle...... Koto won't kneel again, right?

When Liu Yi heard this, he had some bad premonitions in his heart, in fact, for Liu Bei Group, if Jiangdong can capture the land of Jianghuai this time, it will be the best result for Liu Bei Group, so that Jiangdong's strategic vision will gradually shift to Jianghuai, and will not keep staring at Jingzhou, this result is conducive to the solidity of the Sun-Liu alliance.

If Sun Quan is defeated, then next, Liu Yi is very worried that Sun Quan will hit Jingzhou again, it is not impossible, especially if Liu Bei can successfully capture Nanyang this time, for Jiangdong, Cao and Liu are both big enemies, and the stronger Liu Bei is, it is equivalent to compressing Jiangdong's development space.

Liu Yi looked at Pang Tong, Pang Tong also looked at Liu Yi, the two were relatively speechless, for a long time, Liu Yi said: "Or, write a letter to remind Sun Quan?" ”

"How so?" Pang Tong smiled bitterly.

Do you want to tell Sun Quan that you are not capable, or go back to Jiangdong obediently, hand over the battlefield to capable people to go to the ward, you just need to wait for good news in the rear and lie down to win?

"No solution!" Liu Yi rubbed his temples with a headache, right now they are too busy to take care of themselves, and they have to worry about the battle situation in Jiangdong, and most importantly, even if they see Jiangdong's shortcomings, it is not easy to point them out directly.

"I'll go and ask the lord later." Pang Tong thought for a while and said, "You can let Zilong go to Jianghuai and help that Sun Quan." ”

If you really lose, at least don't lose too badly.

When Liu Yi heard this, he nodded and said, "It's feasible, but this needs to be communicated with Jiangdong first." ”

Even if it is out of good intentions, but such a straightforward past, it is inevitable that Sun Quan will feel well-intentioned or feel that they look down on Jiangdong, after a series of defeats, Liu Yi found that Jiangdong Wenchen is not easy to say, but the generals are somewhat glassy, really make them feel that they are expected to lose and send Zhao Yun over, it is estimated that they will have to make trouble again.

Not only to avoid Jiangdong from suffering a big defeat, but also to make Jiangdong not feel that he was interested in helping them, this requires very superb means, Liu Yi and Pang Tong sat together and thought about it for a long time, but they couldn't think of a way to get the best of both worlds, and finally decided to throw this problem to Liu Bei.

This kind of thing related to human relations is what Liu Bei is best at.

"And one more, we don't have enough troops, right?" I don't think about Jiangdong's problem anymore, my own problem has not been solved yet, Liu Bei and Cao Cao's side have a huge difference in strength.

"This Bo Yuan rest assured, at the end of last year, General Yide had already sent troops from Langzhong, although the journey is long, but it should be possible to reach Zhuyang in March." Pang Tong shook his head and said with a smile, Shuzhong has stabilized a lot in recent years, and it is completely possible to draw out some troops to support Jingzhou, as for the soldiers and horses of Wei Yan in Hanzhong, they can't be moved lightly, and Xiahoudun is still eyeing Chang'an.

"How many soldiers and horses are there?" Liu Yi is more concerned about this issue, Cao Cao has more and more soldiers and horses, if there are too few, it will be a drop in the bucket for Liu Beijun.

"Thirty thousand." Pang Tong smiled and said, the road from Jiamengguan to Nanzheng built by Liu Yi before came in handy at this time, otherwise, it would be good to be able to transfer 10,000 soldiers and horses, or go directly to Jiangling by water, but the time to change the waterway from Langzhong to Shu County is not short, and the road built by Liu Yi not only reduces the marching time, but also reduces the cost of logistics transportation.

"Enough!"