Sima Yi then spoke, "Wen Ze is very right, we should learn about the opponent's troop deployment through the intelligence department, fight the weak against the strong, and then concentrate the superior forces, severely damage the enemy's weak brigade, and finally concentrate all our strength to deal with the enemy's main force." ”

Lu Bu nodded frequently, this was actually his idea, and it was really the same as the hero.

In the end, it was decided that the 3rd Division of the National Defense Force, the 1st Garrison Division of the Western Regions, and the 1st Division of Rongyi pretended to be the three divisions of the Royal Forest Army, and all uniforms and flags were exchanged.

Because the Imperial Guards wore the traditional crimson uniform of the Great Han, which was different from the black uniform of the Wehrmacht.

And for the sake of realism, Lu Bu sat in the middle army and commanded the three divisions of the Royal Forest Army to invite the royal guards of the king of Bodiao.

Lü Bu deliberately sent a war letter to King Bo Tiao, challenging his royal guards with his own royal guards, and the two sides set up the battlefield to attack and defend each other.

Subsequently, with the 11th Cavalry Division and the 6th Cavalry Division, plus the three major servant armies, as well as Kangju's cavalry, they rushed to Marakanda, and this cavalry was led by Ma Chao himself, which is also a project that Ma Chao is good at.

It was to disrupt the order in the rear of the Kushan Empire and cut off their logistical supply lines.

The real main force was commanded by Sima Yi, who chose the right time to deliver the final blow to the enemy.

After receiving the war letter written by Lu Bu himself, the king of Bo Tiao was a little unexpected, and it was written in the war letter that in order to avoid a protracted stalemate between the two sides here, resources were wasted and their respective enemies were cheapened.

Lü Bu was willing to let the main force of the Han army have a duel with the Kushan army of the king of Botiao, and the two sides agreed on a fixed decisive place and invested equal forces to duel each other.

If the Han army wins, the Kushan Empire retreats to its original borders and is responsible for the losses of the other side in the war.

If the Kushan wins, the Han army will also return to the territory of the Western Regions to compensate the Kushan Empire for its losses in this war.

The content is very simple, the conditions are very clear, King Botuo thinks this is a good idea, at least he will not suffer, and have the opportunity to see the main force of the Han army.

He didn't think that with the same number of people and the same site environment, the army of the Kushan Empire would be worse than the Han army, and the various defeats in the First Han-Guizhou War were due to various reasons.

The most important thing is that during the first Han-Guizhou War, the Han army had firearms, but they didn't, and now it's different, everyone has firearms, and they are back on the same starting line.

And the king of the wave is not a decent gentleman, who will really abide by what happens after the duel?

Moreover, Lu Bu said in the war book that he would personally lead the main force of the Han army to participate in the duel, hoping that the king of Bo Tiao would also be able to agree to the same agreement.

Isn't this also an opportunity to deal with Lu Bu? I heard that the Han people have a saying called "capture the thief and capture the king first", how to take Lu Bu by themselves, the result of this war is self-evident.

Therefore, he wrote back to Lu Bu, agreeing to have such a duel with Lu Bu, and generously set the duel venue and the number of troops participating in the duel by Lu Bu, and also agreed with Lu Bu's handling of the duel results.

In the end, the two Majesties agreed that they would each lead a main army of 50,000 men to fight a decisive battle in a plain not far from the border between Khorasan and the Kushan Empire.

During the decisive battle, if the king of one side withdraws from the range of the decisive field, it will be regarded as losing the game, or one side will be completely annihilated.

The number of participants is limited to 50,000, and before the game, each side sends inspectors to count the number of each other and jointly inspect the venue to prevent either side from tampering.

There is no limit to the length of the decisive battle, until the winner is decided, and neither side shall increase the army or supply any materials in the middle of the decisive battle, otherwise it will be regarded as a violation and will be judged as a loss.

The king quietly went to check the venue of the decisive battle, just a very ordinary Central Asian plain, with some rolling hills and a small river.

The scope of the decisive battle was fifty miles in length and width, and the space was limited, so the king and his generals agreed that there was no need to send cavalry, and all hoplites armed with muskets should appear.

Anyway, the range is fixed, there is no need to go back and forth, it is better to pay attention to the protection performance, and sixty artillery pieces have been mobilized to participate in the battle, and these artillery pieces are almost all the artillery of the Kushan Empire at this stage.

King Bo decided to personally command the battle, after all, the army of the Han Dynasty would also be personally commanded by their emperor Lü Bu, and he could not afford to lose the scene.

The 50,000 infantry who participated in the decisive battle were all drawn from the main divisions of the Kushan Empire, including the Bactrian infantry, the Gandhara infantry, the Peshawar infantry, the Punjabi infantry, and the most elite royal guards.

All heavily armoured, armed with the finest flintlock pistols, and even a small number of front-loading rifled guns, the Kushans were also made up of good marksmen.

Three days later, the armies of the two empires assembled on the edge of the predetermined battlefield and waited to be inspected by each other.

A circle of eye-catching red flags has been planted at the decisive battle site, marking the area of 50 miles in length and width.

Each side sent a 100-member supervisory officer corps to check and check the number of participants of the other side, and determined that it was 50,000, no more, no less.

They also inspected the equipment and materials carried by both sides, mainly to prevent the other side from hiding people in them, and in disguise, they also found out the equipment situation of the other side.

The Han army found that the Kushan army really only dispatched sixty artillery pieces, which was consistent with the intelligence, and all of them were hoplites, equipped with a lot of large shields, and the armor was very sophisticated, and it seemed that they were all the main elite.

The supervision regiment of the Kushan army also carefully inspected the equipment of the Han army, and the results of the inspection shocked them very much: there were 100 large-caliber field artillery pieces alone, 2,000 artillery pieces alone, and dozens of carriages were loaded in artillery boxes.

However, the two sides only limited the number of people, but not the number of artillery, let alone the amount of ammunition.

The Han army participating in the war not only loaded dozens of trucks with artillery shells, but also had many boxes of grenades and mortar shells, and a larger number of bullet boxes, and the Han army alone transported ammunition and took up several thousand people who participated in the battle.

They also discovered that the Han army did not wear heavy armor like their Kushan soldiers, and that the vast majority of troops wore only armor that looked like leather and unusual helmets.

Only the guards around Lu Bu were heavily armored cavalry, which was the same as the king of Botuo, who also entered the battle with three thousand royal heavy cavalry.

It seems that both sides have the same view, and both feel that the space is limited, which is more suitable for infantry combat than cavalry mobility.

After inspecting the personnel, supplies and equipment, the monitoring teams of both sides surveyed the decisive battle site together, carefully probed all the corners, and made sure that there were no pre-ambushes and traps, and that everything remained the same.

In the end, the monitoring teams of both sides came to the top of a small hill slightly higher than the surrounding plains outside the decisive battle venue, and the view overlooked the entire decisive battlefield.

Then the cannon salute for the beginning of the decisive battle was fired, and the troops of both sides immediately swarmed into the field, choosing their own suitable terrain.