Nanyang, Wancheng.

Zhao Guang walked quickly into the Taishou Mansion, and in the lobby, Pang Tong was catching up with the people of Nanyang Taishou Pang Shan.

Pang Shanmin is Pang Tong's cousin, in fact, he did not serve Liu Bei, but took refuge in Cao Cao, and has been helping Cao Ren to govern internal affairs under Cao Ren.

Although it is not as good as Pang Tong as a top strategist, but it is definitely not weak, after being persuaded by Pang Tong to surrender, he stayed by Liu Bei's side for a period of time, Liu Bei cherished his talents, and after Ma Liang and Guan Yu were transferred to Chang'an, he ordered Pang Shanmin to serve as Nanyang Taishou, for more than half a year, Nanyang has been quite prosperous under the governance of Pang Shanmin, of course, there is also the foundation left by Ma Liang at the beginning.

"Prime Minister, Mansion Jun!" Zhao Guang saluted the two of them and said: "A beacon fire was lit in the area of Juan City, and soldiers and horses of the Wei army appeared. ”

"Finally ready?" When Pang Tong heard this, he said with a little smile on the corner of his mouth.

"Shi Yuan, now there are only 20,000 troops in Nanyang, how many people have you brought this time?" Pang Shanmin looked at Pang Tong with some concern, the original garrison of Nanyang is now mostly stationed in Luoyang, if there are no reinforcements, even if there is a defense system made by Liu Yi back then, Nanyang is still very difficult to defend, the Great Wall alone must have 10,000 people stationed, otherwise it will not be able to take care of it, it is best to have 20,000, not to mention other Baidushan camps, Shizigang camps and Shicheng and other important roads to defend.

"An army of 100,000." Pang Tong shook the feather fan lightly and said with a smile: "Brother, don't worry, I came this time to deal with Cao Wei, Dingguo can lead the army to be responsible for the defense of the Great Wall, as for the rest, don't worry, Xingguo and Anguo have already gone to deploy." ”

Liu Yi personally ran all over the mountains and rivers of Nanyang back then, made the most meticulous sand table, and then designed various Guancheng, which was supervised by his disciples, providing an effective defensive circle for Nanyang.

"Whoa!" Zhao Guang agreed and took the order.

Although he took over the defense of Nanyang, it is naturally impossible to be like when Guan Yu was in charge of Nanyang, with Guan Yu as the mainstay, and in terms of status, although he is not under the control of Pang Shanmin, he is not as high as Pang Shanmin, not to mention that Pang Tong is here at this time, and he has taken over the Nanyang military with full authority.

Hearing that there are 100,000 troops, Pang Shanmin breathed a sigh of relief, although the Han Dynasty is thriving at the moment, but with the capture of Guanzhong, there are many places to be guarded against, at that time, the 200,000 troops in Sichuan were arranged in all sides of the border, Chang'an must also retain enough troops in case of emergencies, after all, the two capitals have not yet been built, and there must be enough troops around the imperial court to guard, even if it is impossible for any force to bypass the important places garrisoned by the Han army during this period of time and enter Chang'an, but it must not be ignored.

After all, the Son of Heaven is there, if the garrison force is not enough, and the Son of Heaven has an accident, this newly rising Han may be caught in a dispute again.

The reason why the transfer of rights from Liu Bei to Liu Chan was smooth was because Liu Bei had already designated Liu Chan as the heir, announced in front of the ministers, and with the assistance of the five of them, the transfer of rights was relatively smooth, and there was another point, Liu Chan had no competitors, and his younger brothers were still children, how to compete with Liu Chan for the position of heir? But if Liu Chan has any accident now, this is not easy to deal with, not to mention that the hundreds of officials in the DPRK and China are bound by their own interests, even the five of them, I am afraid that they may not be able to work together to support one master, and the blow will be absolutely devastating for the big man who has just improved a little.

Being able to mobilize 100,000 troops to Nanyang is probably already the limit of the Han Dynasty, and it is no wonder that Sun Quan came to attack, and Pang Tong did not react here.

Pang Tong is waiting for the attack of the Wei army.

Looking at Pang Shanmin, who breathed a sigh of relief, Pang Tong shook his feather fan lightly, if he told Pang Shanmin that among the 100,000 troops, including the 30,000 troops of the second general Guan Zhang stationed in Ba County, I don't know how his cousin would feel.

But for now, the 70,000 troops he brought plus Zhao Guang's 20,000 soldiers and horses and the Guancheng built by Liu Yi's disciples, Pang Tong felt that these were enough.

"The victory in this battle is not in Nanyang." Pang Tong shook his feather fan and stood up, shook his head and sighed.

"Where is that?" Pang Shanmin looked at Pang Tong puzzled, this is the main force of the Han and Cao Wei, and it is also the main battlefield of the two rivalries.

"In the Loop!" Pang Tong said with a smile: "Bo Yuan is doing something now, if he can succeed, then the Hetao will be owned by my Han, and the Hetao will be threatened by the state and Youzhou, and Cao Wei can not take out too many troops to defend this area, this game is very wonderful, the place that determines the outcome is outside the chessboard!" ”

"Shiyuan has talents, but he can't take the Wei army?" Pang Shanmin wondered.

"The Wei army is menacing this time, the troops are strong, although our army is strong, but the enemy is outnumbered, it is okay to occupy the location and defend the city, but if the troops are sent to fight, it ......" Pang Tong shook his head and sighed: "I'm afraid it's not easy." ”

Not only the problem of troops, but also the reason for the types of troops, Cao Wei's cavalry ratio in the army is not low, although the Han Dynasty has won Xiliang, and there is also a horse source, but the time is still short, it is difficult to form a cavalry to fight against Cao Wei, if you abandon the city and do not defend, take the initiative to attack, the difference in strength is huge, and there is a lack of restrictions on the cavalry arms, Pang Tong is not sure to win.

"So, Shiyuan is going to defend the mainstay?" Pang Shanmin smiled bitterly.

"Hmm." Pang Tong nodded, before the Han Dynasty appeared enough cavalry, the Central Plains battlefield would still suffer a lot, which was also an important reason why they said that it would be difficult to pacify the Central Plains in a short period of time.

Only after making up for one's own shortcomings can the time for the real unification of the world.

Liu Yi?

Pang Shanmin can't say whether he likes or dislikes Liu Yi, after all, there is not much intersection, but a craftsman can come to this point, and even affect the pattern of the world, from this point of view, Pang Shanmin still admires Liu Yi.

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Shicheng, Guan Xing looked at the wolf smoke that was constantly burning in the distance, his expression was very calm, over the years, he has experienced countless battle formations, failed, and even been captured, of course, there are more times to be proud, and because of this, after the initial bloody impulse was smoothed out, what precipitated was a calmness that would not appear in ordinary people of this age.

People's temperament is generally related to experience or experience, the more experienced, the experience will naturally have, although Guan Xing is young, but the experience of these years is much more wonderful than others.

"General, the enemy army is now less than thirty miles away from our army, and the strength cannot be liquidated for the time being, but it will definitely be tens of thousands!" The general came over and bowed to Guan Xing.

"Surely tens of thousands?" Guan Xing frowned and looked at the general: "How much is tens of thousands?" Twenty thousand? Thirty thousand? Or 100,200,000? Your first day as a general? ”

The Han army is very rigorous in the collection of intelligence, and now the art of war courses in various academies, the first lesson is the importance of intelligence, this kind of problem will not appear in the generals sent by the academy, but the generals of this level in the army are now served by experienced generals, at least so far, no disciple from the academy has reached this level.

"I'll go and find out!" Hearing this, the general hurriedly said.

"Remember, don't be deceived by tricks like the other party's increase and decrease of troops, if you don't know how to probe, find a few generals from the academy." Guan Xing glanced at him and said.

"Whoa!" The general nodded hurriedly, then got up to leave.

"Wait!" Guan Xing suddenly remembered something, looked at the general and said, "Send someone to inform General Zhang Bao, and say that the main force of the Wei army has appeared in the area of Shicheng." ”

General Pi was a little puzzled, but he didn't want to ask too much, so he immediately agreed and turned to leave.

As for why Zhang Bao was notified? Help?

That's naturally not, now the two of them are responsible for guarding, each has 20,000 soldiers and horses with them, and they are defending the city, and this confidence is still there.

The two are brothers, but they are also compared to others from childhood to adulthood, and even they themselves will compete with each other, when facing the enemy, the two can cooperate tacitly, but if they are separated like now, they will inevitably compete with each other, and now they send someone to inform Zhang Bao There is no other meaning, just tell Zhang Bao that he wants to win the first merit in this battle!

It was a kind of goodwill demonstration, which was a common occurrence between the two of them.

When the sky was about to get dark, General Pi came to report again: "General, it has been found out that the person who came is the vanguard army of the Wei Dynasty, and the main general is Zhang Hu, with a strength of 10,000 troops, and the error is not more than 1,000." ”

The word error came out from the generals of the academy, generally learning the art of war, you must first learn mathematics, the first three volumes of Tiangong Kaiwu are basically mathematics, these three volumes are the three volumes that must be read to learn the art of war, the word error also flows from here, and now it is bound to be used when stating in the army.

"You guard the city for me!" Looking at the sky, Guan Xing said directly: "Inform the Tengjia army to assemble and go with me, last time my father released that tiger and a horse, this person dared to appear, this time, I can't complain about it!" ”

After all, in a very short period of time, the enemy cannot see the weakness of the vine armor army at once, so Pang Tong and Zhuge Liang both think that the vine armor army does not need to gather in one place, and now they are scattered among the armies, and there are not many of them, like Guan Xing and Zhang Bao This time, there are thousands of vine armor troops under their command, in order to be able to play a role in raiding or breaking off when necessary, as for the frontal battlefield, this kind of army is easy to be seen through the drawbacks, It is not suitable as a workhorse.

"Whoa!"

Guan Xing raised his big sword and went down the city wall, a thousand rattan armor troops have been assembled at the gate of the city, the battle formation of thousands of people looks a little thin, but at this moment it gives people a sense of suffocating oppression, can become a rattan armor army, must be brave and good at fighting in the army, the momentum of thousands of people, not to mention ordinary people, even ordinary generals may not be able to withstand it.

"Let's go!" Guan Xing turned over and got on his horse, didn't say much, raised his arms and shouted, and a thousand people came out of the city gate, facing the vanguard of the Wei army coming from afar!