Liu Yi had already set the tone for the New Han Dynasty to send troops to attack the Central Plains, and in any case, he would send troops in a month. In such a situation, there is no need to talk about the righteousness of sending troops.

If you really want to talk about this matter, I'm afraid you don't have to do anything, just rub shoulders with Xu Du's court.

Moreover, after Cao Cao sent people to make such a fuss, even Xun Yu felt that there was no need to send Xu Du again. As a strong party, there is no need for the New Han Dynasty to run to Cao Cao to say more, but it is Cao Cao who wants to make peace now, not the New Han Dynasty.

Who told Cao Cao to send someone to disgust everyone? Because of Cao Cao's disgusting behavior, all the ministers clearly realized that Cao Cao was unlikely to surrender to the New Han Dynasty at all, and there was no point in talking to him about peacefully resolving the affairs of the two courts.

In the hearts of the ministers, it was impossible for them to accept the possibility of Cao Cao being a vassal, but they would exist independently as a prince. So, in the end, you can only fight, as Liu Yi said. Since you want to fight, then why bother to say anything more to Cao Cao? Give him a month to think about it, and he didn't send troops immediately, which can already be regarded as giving Cao Cao face.

Liu Yi said to the ministers: "A month later, if Cao Cao does not surrender to our New Han Dynasty, our New Han Army will use the banner of crusading against Cao Cao and rescuing the emperor to return to the court, publicize the world, and launch an attack on him." ”

"That's how it should be, my lord, then, according to the plan and strategy we have been arranging, do you start to transfer the generals to the military horses?" Xi Zhicai asked.

"Well, take out the big map of China we drew and let all the civil and military courtiers in the court take a look. What is the final territory of our Chinese Han Dynasty, this map of the whole country of China. Only a part of the population knows, now. It's time to make it public. Liu Yi said to Min Gong.

"Yes!" Min Gong took the order and left.

When arranging combat missions, Liu Yi was also used to taking out the map, but this time the map was a large map of China.

After a while, Min Gong led the guards in the palace and hung a huge map on the court, which was a large map drawn with white cloth sewn into a length and width of more than ten meters.

"What? This is the full topographical map of our Chinese Dahan? Oh, my God! Is it that big? ”

"Is this the full picture of our current Han dynasty? Let me see...... Tsk, this is Luoyang, where we are? Is this the only big thing in Luoyang? ”

"This is the Yangtze River. This is the Yellow River...... Lord, it seems that our Luoyang seems to be the center of the entire map of China. No wonder, why did our Han Dynasty set up its capital in Luoyang, it turns out that there is a fixed number in the dark. ”

"You see, this is the Qinling Mountains, this is the Taihang Mountains that separate Bingzhou from Jizhou, is this Xiliang? Oh, west to north. How could it be that big? ”

"No, no, my lord, this is Xuzhou? This is Ryukyu? Is it all the ocean down there? There is no painting out of this sea below. How big is it? ”

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As soon as the big map was hung out, everyone in the court and the central government was amazed.

One of the ministers was amazed that he suddenly came up with such a magnificent map of China for this silence.

The second is. Although they have seen the old map, they have also seen it. It turned out that the map drawn by the Han court was too rough. It is far less elaborate and detailed than the maps drawn today.

Moreover, the method of drawing the map is the new drawing method taught by the academy of the New Han Dynasty, this method has an accurate degree of measurement, has a relatively correct proportion, and on this large map, the place names marked basically include the entire Han region, the familiar town-level places, some of the more famous villages, are actually marked on the map. This is a large map that has never been seen before in the history of China.

To everyone's amazement, it is said that the distance between each place on the map is a proportional standard distance, and those who know how to read can completely follow the map and calculate the speed and time of the march between each place.

For the commander who leads the army, such a map can be said to be a priceless treasure.

"Okay, okay, don't be amazed yet, this map will be hung on the court in the future, who of you likes to look at it, you can usually look at it at any time, you can come to study, now, let's take a look, what are the areas of our New Han Dynasty now? Generals, first find the location of your current garrison, and after a while, I will give you an order, asking you to arrive at the designated area within a certain time in the place where you are stationing, and then launch an attack on Cao Cao in the Central Plains within the agreed time. Of course, how to fight at that time will depend on the details of you, the generals of the army and your military divisions. I am only responsible for giving you a fixed time to attack and ensuring your military rations. Liu Yi asked all the courtiers to be quiet, and asked the generals who commanded the army to come up and look at the large map to find out where their respective garrisons were.

On this large map, Liu Yi's people drew a map from the whole of China, and did not distinguish the sphere of influence of the New Han Dynasty and the Xu Imperial Court. Because, according to the satellite maps of later generations, and then according to the mountain and forest special forces to explore all parts of the country, record the names called in various places now, etc., with cooperation, he ordered the top students of Xinmin University to gather hundreds of people to sew and draw a large map. Well, the names of places, rivers, roads, etc., are all embroidered and hung on the court as permanent maps. So, if it is not necessary, nothing will be added to it.

For this map, the manpower and material resources spent are enormous.

Liu Yi picked up a long pole, walked to the bottom of the map, and used the long pole to draw a big circle on the map, encircling the Central Plains region and said: "Everyone, everyone has seen it, in fact, the current situation in the world has been clear at a glance, I believe you all have a feeling that the general trend has been achieved, and the Central Plains region is in essence." It is already under the siege of a large area of our New Han Army. ”

After Liu Yi said this, he didn't know much about it. The civil and military forces who have not heard what Liu Yi said are a little fluctuating at the moment. It turns out that the Central Plains region is now just under the huge encirclement of the forces of the New Han Dynasty.

"Ahem...... " Xi Zhicai coughed twice and stood up and said: "Everyone, if you don't say that you don't know, you know the current general trend of the New Han Dynasty, as early as ten years ago, our lord has already begun to lay out." At that time, our strength was not good. However, Cao Cao has always been the most difficult to eliminate a prince, so we avoided the strong and attacked the weak, first destroyed the other princes, and finally, fought a decisive battle with Cao Cao. And the current situation has long been expected by our lord. ”

Xi Zhicai said a little proudly: "Our Dazepo base in Youzhou is for us to seize Youzhou and Jizhou. Facts have proved that it is precisely because of the existence of this base that we can always control the situation in Youzhou and Jizhou. Whether it is General Gongsun Chan. Even Yuan Shao failed to remove the nail we planted earlier, which ensured that we now have a basic basis for unifying the north. And at this base in Dongting Lake New Island. The importance of what happened is needless to say, now. The reason why we have been able to develop so fast is because of this base in Dongting Lake New Island. With the naval army of the New Han Army that we formed in Dongting Lake, our capture of Jingzhou and the capture of the Jiangdong area were all due to this base and the naval army of the New Han Army. ”

"It can be said that only I and the first to follow the lord know the lord's eloquence, and now, all the layouts have been completed, and it is according to the lord's plan, one step at a time, I have to deeply admire."

Xi Zhicai's admiration for Liu Yi is overflowing.

All the courtiers looked sideways, and they all felt that Liu Yiqizhi was like a demon.

"Alright, don't talk nonsense." Liu Yi said to the map: "Look, let's start from the north." In the northern prairie, there are now the military horses of Gongsun Chan and General Gongsun Du, as well as a part of the headquarters of the New Han Army that did not return with General Zhao Yun, the headquarters of General Tai Shici, plus the absorption of Wuhuan captive soldiers, and some tribal military horses of the northern minority ethnic groups, in addition, the military horses of the original Xianbei tribe. These military horses, according to the establishment given to you by the New Han Dynasty, how many troops do you have now? ”

Liu Yi personally ordered the reorganization of the New Han Army, which originally only had forty armies, just one million troops, and later, when the army was reorganized, Liu Yi didn't ask any more questions, and the drama should be the clearest, because as a consolation, he was in charge of the president's military horses.

According to the establishment of the New Han Army, every 25,000 men were an army. In this way, it is possible to clearly calculate how many troops are in the north.

Let's talk about Gongsun Chan first, after he returned to the New Han Dynasty, his original troops, excluding some old, weak, sick and disabled, totaled about 100,000 headquarters troops, divided into four armies. Later, two new armies were added, which were converted from reserve armies to full-fledged military horses.

Gongsun Du is also about the same, just these two generals, the army and horses in the headquarters have about 300,000 troops. These do not include local officers and soldiers.

After the minority ethnic groups in the north submitted to the New Han Dynasty, including the Wuhuan tribe, a total of about four armies were organized, that is, 100,000 horses. The main reason is that Liu Yi didn't want those Wuhuan people to have a chance to revive and retreat, so he didn't use those Wuhuan people, and now, more Wuhuan captured soldiers are still only existing as servitude. The Xianbei people also only kept their 100,000 military horses, but their 100,000 military horses could not act independently, and could only act together with the New Han Army, and in the future, they could not return to the area where their Xianbei troops were placed. The matter of letting the tiger return to the mountain, Liu Yi will not do it

In this way, the official establishment of the northern military horses, excluding the military horses left by Zhao Yun and Tai Shici, has about 500,000 troops.

For the time being, the Goryeo Peninsula region, as well as a few areas with high mountains and dense forests, have not yet been completely captured, and it is necessary to leave some military horses to continue to clear those Goryeo sticks. Therefore, it is estimated that there are about 400,000 military horses that can be dispatched.

The 400,000 military horses were divided into two, with Gongsun Zan and Gongsun Du as the main generals, and the soldiers were divided into two ways to attack Qingzhou first.

All the way through Youzhou, led by Gongsun Zhan, about 300,000 horses, those 200,000 cavalry of small nationalities, all under the command of Gongsun Zhan, plus Gongsun Zhan's headquarters 100,000 horses. In addition, the two armies were left in the north to guard against the rebellion of the minority ethnic groups who had returned to the New Han Dynasty. Gongsun Du left 50,000 troops and Zhao Yun and Tai Shici's military horses left in Goryeo to fight in Goryeo together. He led 100,000 troops and horses, crossed the Bohai Sea by water, and directly landed on the Shandong Peninsula to fight.

The two generals of Gongsun led their generals to attack the Qingzhou region, forcing Yuan Shang to surrender or destroy him. Then, in conjunction with the other New Han Army, they attacked Xuzhou or Yanzhou.

Under the accounts of Gongsun Zan and Gongsun Du, there are many military generals from a small number of ethnic groups, and the two of them are naturally able to deal with Yuan Shang in Qingzhou.

Next, there is the Jizhou side.

On the Jizhou side, heavy forces will be assembled to attack Yanzhou on the south bank of the Yellow River. With Tai Shici as the main general, Gao Shun, Pan Feng, Geng Wu, Guan Chun and other generals led the army to attack.

After seizing Jizhou, Yuan Shao's countless generals and soldiers were recruited, with a total of about 400,000 horses, plus the military horses of other generals, as well as the military horses of the minority nationalities in the Bingzhou and Shangdang regions, plus the military horses of the minority nationalities in the northwest desert, such as the Lanling tribe, the 100,000 cavalry of Queen Yi Qian who had returned from the north, etc., the total strength is estimated to reach more than 700,000 horses, which is almost equal to the total strength of Yuan Shao in his heyday.

In this way, in the north alone, there were almost 1.2 million total troops to launch an attack on Qingzhou and Yanzhou.

These military horses will also be responsible for killing Xuzhou.

This was followed by the mid-lane army from the direction of Tiger Pass.

Liu Yi transferred Zhao Yun back, with Zhao Yun as the main general, and Dian Wei, Xu Chu, Yan Liang, Wen Chou, Hua Xiong, Xu Rong and other generals, led the army out of the tiger prison, and the army approached Cao Cao's Xu Capital.

The military horses in this area include the garrison of Luoyang, the military horses of Guanzhong, and some of the military horses of Xiliang Machao, in addition, more than 100,000 cavalry of the Xiliang minority ethnic group were also transferred to participate in the battle.

It is estimated that the number of troops will be around 500,000 horses.

This was followed by the military horses of Jingzhou and Jiangdong.

Guan Yu was the main general, Zhang Fei, Ma Chao, Wei Yan, Chen Dao, Huang Quan, etc., they led the military horses of Jingzhou Army, Hanzhong, Yizhou and other places, and part of the military horses of Xiliang Ma Chao, a total of about 500,000 horses, launched an attack from Jingzhou to Yuzhou.

In addition, Huang Zhong and his son left one person to fight with the barbarian army in the southwest, and one led a military horse back to participate in the decisive battle of the Central Plains. It is up to the father and son to decide who will return. (To be continued.) )