If it is war, there will inevitably be sacrifices, and this point, no matter how carefully Liu Yi carefully builds the New Han Army, cannot be avoided. In every battle, it is impossible for Lewis to achieve zero casualties, and occasionally there will be victories with zero casualties, but very rarely.

However, this time, if Liu Yi was asked to take 2,000 men and horses to death in vain, Liu Yi really couldn't do it. After crossing the river, Liu Yi himself could escape by taking advantage of the Yellow River, as long as he jumped into the Yellow River, Liu Yi was like a fish, and he could escape in the river. But what about the sergeants? They will face tens of thousands of enemy troops chasing them.

However, if for the soldiers who participated in the attack on crossing the river, they were not sent to death in vain, and there would be a glimmer of life in addition to the adventure, then Liu Yi could also harden his mind and take them to take a risk.

This is also the so-called not entering the tiger's den, how can you get the tiger?

Obviously, if Liu Yi didn't take this risk, he would lead the army back to the Tiger Prison Pass with Xun Yu. Then, if Cao Cao and Yuan Shao want to plot their own conspiracy, there is no way to talk about it. In this way, Cao Cao and Yuan Shao may be very disappointed. However, this undoubtedly means that Liu Yi has lost a chance to annihilate Cao Cao's 300,000 elite army.

The reality is that Cao Cao is temporarily at a disadvantage in the form of the battle with Liu Yi, so Cao Cao hopes that there will be an opportunity to reverse the unfavorable shape. But compared to Liu Yi, don't you also hope that there will be an opportunity to defeat Cao Cao in a big way?

Anyway, the general trend of today's Han world is actually really a dispute between Liu Yi and Cao Cao, so. No matter what actions each side makes, they are always calculating each other.

In the past, Cao Cao wanted to get rid of the state. When he fought Yuzhou and Yangzhou, didn't Liu Yi seek benefits from them and make trouble from them? Even when Cao Cao wanted to kill Lu Bu, Liu Yi was still holding Cao Cao hostage alone, and always jumped out to do something at some critical moments, so that Cao Cao would not be too happy.

Relative. What kind of actions did the New Han Dynasty have, and Cao Cao didn't want to drag Liu Yi back? Even when Liu Yi sent troops to the desert for the sake of national righteousness. Didn't Cao Cao make a lot of moves? He wanted to use his prestige several times to call on the princes of the world to discuss Liu Yi's affairs, but Cao Cao was not so lucky and failed to succeed as successfully as Dong Zhuo.

Anyway, between Cao Cao and Liu Yi. There is already no peace in the true sense of the word. It is impossible to take each other seriously as non-aggression.

The core of it is to treat each other as great enemies, and they are calculating each other all the time.

Therefore, Cao Cao is calculating Liu Yi, so Liu Yi must also calculate Cao Cao.

This time, Cao Cao calculated Liu Yi and prepared to raise troops to destroy the New Han Dynasty. The premise is that Liu Yi first fell into his and Yuan Shao's strategy. In the case of Liu Yi being killed and killed, it is possible that Cao Cao really waved his army to attack the New Han Dynasty.

Lewi's will be calculated. It is to fake his death first, so that Cao Cao thinks that the New Han Dynasty has lost its backbone, and makes Cao Cao think that the New Han Army is in turmoil because of the loss of Liu Yi, so he dares to really send troops to attack the New Han Army. And only if Cao Cao really attacked the New Han Army, Liu Yi could have calculated Cao Cao's 300,000 elite military horses.

Well, Liu Yi thought about it and felt that the current situation was really a little similar to when he denounced Jingzhou.

At that time, Cao Cao had openly formed an alliance with Liu Biao, and openly wanted to send troops to fight against his own New Han army.

Now, Cao Cao is secretly colluding with Yuan Shao and secretly making himself bad.

Since Cao Cao is calculating himself, how can Liu Yi be indifferent?

Liu Yi no longer listened to Xun Yu's persuasion and decided to implement this plan.

After discussing some details with Xun Yu, Liu Yi decided to choose a sergeant to cross the Yellow River with him as bait.

Of course, here, Liu Yi is still selfish. All the officers and men of the First Army, Liu Yi does not plan to be recruited, and he will not let the officers and men of the First Army take this risk of death with him.

Although 2,000 people would not be too many, Liu Yi did not want to follow him to fight in the north and south, and the soldiers who had followed him to fight for so long would take this risk with him.

In the end, Liu Yi decided to cross the Yellow River with him from all the military horses out of all the military horses.

In fact, Liu Yi could have transferred some unimportant people to serve as dead soldiers who crossed the river to attack Yuan Shao's Yellow River crossing, just like the Jingzhou army that had been captured before, and it was completely possible to send those Jingzhou soldiers who were not ready to return to the New Han Dynasty to die. But Liu Yi didn't want to do this, at least, this time to attack Yuan Shao's Yellow River crossing, to make it more realistic, to make Cao Cao and Yuan Shao difficult to suspect.

The 100,000 cavalry of the aliens, Liu Yi also drove out. Because there are so few desert aliens who are proficient in water, there is no need to choose dead soldiers from these cavalry.

The selection of two thousand elite dead soldiers was not hindered at all, and Liu Yi gave an order, and almost all the officers and men of the army rushed to participate. At this moment, which of the soldiers of the New Han Army is unwilling to die for Liu Yi?

However, there are conditions, because Liu Yi considered that after crossing the Yellow River, it was the beginning of the victorious escape of these dead soldiers, so all aspects of their factors had to go through a certain assessment.

For example, the first point is that it is necessary to be proficient in water. Second, it is extremely important for them to be able to climb mountains and mountains. Third, they must be skilled in bowing and horses. Because, after Liu Yi faked his death, in the process of fleeing, if they were not good at riding, they would not be able to do it, because it was difficult to guarantee that they could not capture Yuan Jun's war horse, and if they put the war horse but could not ride, it would be equivalent to missing an escape opportunity to quickly escape from the battlefield. Fourth, these two thousand dead soldiers are required to be brave, not to say anything about one enemy or ten, but one dead soldier, facing three or more enemy soldiers, requires them to win the battle, and to be fast. This, it is also conceivable that if Liu Yi fakes his death, the army of the Yuan army will inevitably launch a crazy onslaught against them, and when the time comes, they can only flee into the mountains, and the Yuan army will inevitably disperse the army and horses to search for them. When Yuan's army dispersed, when they met Yuan's small number of soldiers in the mountains, if they could not win the battle, then there was only one way to die.

It can be said that Liu Yi's selection of these two thousand dead soldiers is almost equivalent to selecting special forces. At least, the two thousand dead soldiers selected are not far behind the combat effectiveness of the mountain and forest special forces of the New Han Army.

Of course, it is impossible for Liu Yi to announce to the army for the time being, and he is ready to deliberately fake the plan of Cao Cao and Yuan Shao, except for Xun Yu and several generals, the rest of the people do not know yet.

Now the selection of 2,000 dead soldiers was made in the name of preparing to cross the river to attack Yuan Shao.

When selecting the two thousand dead soldiers, the 100,000 cavalry troops of the First Army and the aliens who did not know about it, their soldiers were more excited, and many times the generals came to meet Liu Yi and asked for excitement, and they also wanted to send people to participate. For this reason, Liu Yi spent a lot of effort to explain to them, and finally had to give an order to ask them not to ask for their lives on this matter again. In this way, those soldiers who did not participate in the battle of crossing the river did not ask Liu Yi to participate in the war again.

The morale of the army was available, and the New Han Army was happy when it heard about the war, which directly proved the loyalty of the New Han Army to the imperial court and to Liu Yi.

The 2,000 dead men were assembled, and Lewi took them to a separate barracks to speak, so as to avoid spying on them.

Two thousand dead soldiers, lined up in the barracks, neatly forested, solemn and dignified, and a little murderous.

They are all tigers and bears, and the dragons are fierce and fierce.

As soon as Liu Yi appeared, the two thousand dead soldiers knelt on the ground and shouted the lord.

Liu Yi flattened his hand, let the soldiers stand up, and said: "Brothers, you are all the most elite men and the most brave and fearless heroes of our New Han Army. Tonight, rest the night at this camp, everything we will bring is ready, and we will leave tomorrow morning as soon as it is dawn. ”

This section of the Yellow River, the current is too rapid, the waves are turbulent, if you cross the river at night, it is estimated that it is difficult to find the beachhead ferry provided by Huaxin to land. If you drift downstream, the plan has failed.

What's more, Liu Yi still deliberately let Yuan Shao and Cao Cao's people see that it was Liu Yi who crossed the river himself. In this way, when they want to fake their deaths, Cao Cao and Yuan Shaofang will believe it.

Therefore, Liu Yi finally decided to set off at the beginning of the day, and when it was dark, he could just reach the secret beachhead ferry on the other side.

But before that, Liu Yi decided to explain the situation to the soldiers first, so that they could be mentally prepared.

Therefore, Liu Yi paused for a moment and said to the two thousand elite dead soldiers: "Brothers, before we prepare to cross the river to attack Yuan Shao's ferry, there is a little situation, and I, Liu Yi, have to make it clear to you. If you don't want to cross the river with me and risk attacking Yuan Shao now, then you can withdraw now. But after Liu Mou said it, you can't quit lightly, at least, after you hear the truth, even if you don't want to cross the river with me Liu Yi, you can't leave this military camp for the time being, you will be strictly guarded by our Xinhan Army, if you want to regain your freedom, you have to wait for me Liu Yi to come back, and then you will return your freedom, how to choose, you have to think about it yourself. ”

Liu Yi really didn't want to deceive these soldiers to send them to death. So, give them one last option.

"Swear to follow the lord to the death, go to the soup and go to the fire, and don't hesitate to break your bones!"

As soon as Liu Yi's words fell, the 2,000 dead soldiers collectively shouted their loyalty, and none of the soldiers were willing to quit.

"My lord, what should we do, just ask my lord to give an order. We, the New Han Army, have never had soldiers who are afraid of death. What's more, the fact that the lord chose us has already shown that we are dead soldiers, and we are waiting to sign up for this operation, which will put our lives on the line. It is our honor to be able to serve the Lord and die for the Lord and to die! ”

"Good!"

Liu Yi couldn't help but be moved by the loyalty and pride of these soldiers. (To be continued......)