Liu Feng's elite soldier policy, at the beginning of the Pang Tong, Zhao Yun and Ma Chao and others were quite uncomfortable, in this era, human life is not so valuable, soldiers with more than civilian income, naturally have to use their lives to fight.

In this era when cold weapons and armor are not complete, quantity is often the factor that determines the victory or defeat of a battle, the side with the advantage of numbers can often win the final victory, and the small number of examples that can be written into the war book in history are all battles in which the weak defeat the strong and the less wins the more, because it is too difficult to achieve such a result, which is why the Battle of Chibi directed by Zhou Yu will have such a great repercussion in the long history of thousands of years.

But Liu Feng is relying on the advanced ideas brought in his mind, so that the soldiers under his command gradually believe that quantity is not the only way to win, in the face of the real elite, the sergeants with a numerical advantage in addition to consuming more food, there is no real advantage at all, and this tough battle is a good opportunity for Liu Feng to completely establish his own thoughts.

When Liu Feng mobilized his courtiers in Xiangyang, Cao Zhi was not idle, in order to supervise the war, although he did not personally take command of the expedition, but he also moved to Luoyang, and all the 2780000 troops he raised were hoarded in Luoyang, known as 300,000 troops, and the troops went straight to Luoyang, but obviously, Nanyang was not Cao Zhi's goal, his goal was the entire Jingzhou, or even deeper places.

Although Cao Cao led an army of 800,000 before but it was still a well-walled halberd and sunk into the sand, Cao Zhi had made a very detailed analysis of this battle, and he came to the conclusion that the main reason for the defeat of Cao Cao's 800,000 army under the guard of less than 100,000 sailors under Zhou Yu was not how Zhou Yu schemed, but two other reasons.

One is that the people led by Cao Cao are all people who are not good at water warfare, people who are not good at water warfare, even if there are millions, it is in vain, and it is precisely because the people under Cao Cao's command are not good at water warfare that they can only listen to the words of Huang Gai, who deceived Jiangdong, and use iron cables to link the warships together, otherwise, how can Zhou Yu's fire attack be effective?

And the second is that according to Cao Zhi's understanding of the people who followed Cao Cao after Cao Cao's death, he learned a secret that when Cao Cao wanted to complete his efforts in one battle and invaded Jiangdong, Cao Cao's 800,000 army broke out for some reason A destructive infectious disease broke out, and the infected sergeants not only infected each other, but also had a very low cure rate, and tens of thousands died in a few days.

It was under such conditions that Cao Cao was in a dilemma, and Huang Gai's timely appearance helped Cao Cao make up his mind, which led to the one-sided Battle of Chibi. After learning about this, Cao Zhi boldly guessed in his heart that it was very likely that Cao Cao did not want to talk about those soldiers who were very likely to be sick and brought back to Wei, fearing that a greater plague would occur in Wei, so he still did so knowing that he might be tricked.

Under such speculation, Cao Zhi did not think that Zhou Yu or the original Sun-Liu coalition army had great resourcefulness, and he was able to defeat the more than 800,000 troops led by Cao Cao, completely because of the luck brought by this kind of natural disaster.

In this thought, Cao Zhi naturally thinks that this time he attacks Jingzhou, he does not need a naval army, Nanyang and Xiangyang, and even Jiangling and other places can lead a large army to drive straight in, and this 300,000 army is his biggest reliance, he has calculated according to these territories owned by Liu Feng, Liu Feng can mobilize and fight against him in front of the Nanyang Formation will definitely not exceed 100,000 troops, such a quantitative gap, almost crushing.

So in his heart, he was ninety percent sure that he would win this battle, and after his victory, Liu Feng could only retreat in Yizhou, waiting for him to destroy Zhuge Liang first, and Liu Feng had to bow down to himself.

This time, Cao Zhi still took Yang Xiu, who had just won a big victory in Liangzhou, as the commander, and the responsibility of the vanguard was handed over to Xu Chu, who was placed by Liu Feng in Luoyang before, and Xu Chu at this time was holding his breath in his heart, so Cao Zhi wanted to use Xu Chu's breath to give Liu Feng a dismount, after all, Xu Chu's bravery, even if it was Zhao Yun, Ma Chao could not easily defeat it before the battle, so with Xu Chu as the vanguard, if he did not attack rashly, he was already invincible.

Not only did he send Xu Chu to the vanguard position this time, Cao Zhi also sent Xu Huang as the deputy vanguard in order to prevent Xu Chu from making any bad moves against the provocation of Zhao Yun and others.

In addition to the vanguards, Zhang Liao, Li Dian, Le Jin, Yu Ban and other generals who are now Cao Zhi's reuse followed Yang Xiu to capture Nanyang, a total of more than 20 generals of all sizes who became famous in the Wei State, and there were hundreds of deputy generals. Now all of them have arrived outside Luoyang City, stationed not far from Luoyang City, from a distance, the army is almost impossible to see at a glance, obviously, the Central Plains since the Battle of Chibi after the largest battle is close at hand.

This time, Cao Zhi didn't want to use any strategy to break the enemy, but he was not afraid to let Liu Feng know his position in advance, he just wanted to put huge pressure on Liu Feng and let Liu Feng know that strength is the only factor that determines who is the king and hegemon in the world.

According to Cao Zhi's previous arrangement, he would swear outside Luoyang in the early morning of the next day, and then Xu Chu and Xu Huang would lead an army of 80,000 to Nanyang.

On this day, he was discussing the attack with Yang Xiu, Zhang Liao, Xu Chu, Xu Huang and others, when suddenly someone under his command came to report that Liu Feng had moved his court from Chengdu to Xiangyang, and was now transferring the families of his courtiers to Xiangyang.

Hearing such news, Cao Zhi didn't say anything for a long time, and then sighed slowly and said: "We must be fully prepared for this battle, even if Liu Feng's troops are insufficient, I think he will not easily let us capture Nanyang, he dared to move his court from Chengdu, which has always been safe and stable, to Xiangyang Chengzhong, which will bear the brunt once our army breaks Nanyang, which is enough to see the determination in his heart to resist us outside Nanyang......"

Even though there are thousands of reasons, Cao Zhi also knows that Liu Feng is powerful, so he always has some bad premonitions in his heart after hearing about this. He knew it was going to be a hard-fought battle.