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Liu Bei made a big plan that night, and early in the morning, he only ordered Zhao Yun to leave Fankou with a hundred personal soldiers, in addition, he only brought Sun Qian and Fang Shao, two civil officials, and the group took a fighting ship, and Sun Wu's navy went upstream, and went to seize Chibi in the starry night.

Two days later, the coalition forces successfully reached Chibi.

At this time, the exploration was carefully reported, Cao Ying's land and water army was still more than 100 miles away from Chibi, and there was still time to do so, so Zhou Yu ordered to camp on the south bank of the Yangtze River according to Chibi Mountain, and divided a part of the infantry army to seize all the dangers on the south bank to prevent the Cao army from advancing on the south bank by land.

This time Sun Wu sent troops, in addition to Zhou Yu and Cheng Pu were assigned to the left and right governors, there were still many outstanding generals under the account, such as Zan's military academy to comfort Lu Su, Gan Ning, Hengye Zhonglang's general Lu Meng, Zhonglang's general Han Dang, the vanguard commander Huang Gai, the left guard Chenglie's commander Ling Tong, Fenwei school's comfort Quanzong, Yichun's chief Zhou Tai, Wumeng's captain Pan Zhang, and the operation of the capital governor Fuyi general Zhu Zhi.

After the camp was completed, Zhou Yu convened the generals to discuss the matter that night, and Liu Bei, as one of the nominal leaders of the coalition army, was also invited to the big tent to discuss the matter.

When Liu Bei, accompanied by Fang Shao, hurriedly entered the tent, most of the generals of Eastern Wu had already come, and Zhou Yu, who was discussing with everyone, saw that Liu Bei was also coming, and his face couldn't help but be slightly surprised, and said in front of everyone: "I summoned the generals to give a lecture, why did Liu Yuanjun come uninvited." ”

Liu Bei looked stunned, he didn't know what to do for a while, and said secretly in his heart: "Didn't you Zhou Yu call me here, why did you say such things again, could it be that you were deliberately teasing me again." ”

Liu Bei has not yet spoken, but Cheng Pu, the right governor of the seat, arched his hand slightly, and said with a smile: "I invited Liu Zhijun to come, we are discussing the strategy of dealing with Cao Ying, I think Liu Zhijun has been fighting with him for many years, he must know his method of using troops, and he wants to be able to put forward some beneficial strategies, so he took it upon himself to invite Liu Zhijun to come, and I hope that Gongjin will not be strange." “

Zhou Yu deliberately wanted to put Liu Bei aside, but Cheng Pu paid attention to Liu Bei, and invited Liu Bei without consulting him in advance

"Hmph, I knew there would be such a thing."

Zhou Yu was dissatisfied, but on the surface, he looked indifferent, and said: "It's okay, since Liu Yuanjun is here, please give me more advice." “

Liu Bei hurriedly said: "I don't dare to give teaching, I just know Cao Ying better, but if the governor asks, he must know everything." “

Zhou Yu only said a few polite words to him and then said no more, after a while, seeing that all the generals were gathered, he said in a loud voice: "Everyone, according to the scout's report, the Cao army's water and land army will arrive on the Chibi River in the early morning of the day after tomorrow at the latest, and the big battle is imminent, I know that you are all worried about the number of Cao troops, here is a copy of the Cao army intelligence that has just been collected recently, you can circulate it and take a look, I think you will feel at ease after reading it." “

What Zhou Yu showed everyone was a very detailed information on the deployment of Cao's troops.

According to the current intelligence analysis, Zhou Yu divided Cao Ying's men into three routes, namely the North Route Army, the West Route Army, and the East Route Army.

Among them, the Northern Route Army was headed by Zhao Yan, Fenwei General Cheng Yu, Prime Minister Jun Jiu Du Xi, Yuan Yu, and his subordinates Huwei General Yu Ban, Dangkou General Zhang Liao, Pingdi General Zhang He, Pinglu General Zhu Ling, Po Cap General Li Dian, Yangwu General Lu Zhao, General Feng Kai, each of these seven people led 5,000 soldiers and horses in their headquarters, under the cover of 20,000 Xiangyang Naval Army of the vanguard of the Navy, the rebel general, and Jiangxia Taishou Wenpin, a total of 50,000 horses and horses, attacked Xiakou along the Han River.

In order to contain the attacking troops, the East Route Army attacked Wu County with more than 5,000 people led by Pingdong General Chen Dengsuo to attack Danyang, General Weilu, and Xuzhou Assassin Shi Zangba, and Yangzhou garrison troops attacked Lujiang County from Shouchun and Hefei, totaling more than 15,000 people.

In addition to these two routes, there are still the troops of Xu Huang, the general of Hengye in Fancheng, the department of Cao Ren, the general of Zhengnan who stayed in Jiangling, and the troops of Xiahou Yuan, the commander of the transportation of military rations, and Li Tong, the Taishou of Runan, and other troops, with more than 20,000 people.

"Cao Ying's elite Central Plains Army, at most 1560,000, plus Jingzhou's surrender army, the total strength is not more than 220,000, excluding a few people in the intelligence, Cao Ying's West Route Army that fought with us this time is no more than 100,000, and among these 100,000 horses, only the Jiangling Jingzhou Navy led by Cai Mao, Zhang Yun and others plays a decisive role, and there are only 40,000 people when they are full. Ladies and gentlemen, my Dongwu Navy is across the Yangtze River, with the strength of Huang Zu's Navy back then, it was also defeated by us, and now there are 30,000 elite Navy troops, are you afraid of Cai Mao's 40,000 unstable troops under the mediocre people? ”

Zhou Yu analyzed it with pride, and in a blink of an eye, Cao Ying's army of 800,000 was reduced to 100,000.

At this time, Cheng Pu said: "Gong Jin, this battle is a big deal, and it should be safe." I agree with you dividing the Cao army into three route armies, but is it a bit taken for granted that the strength of each group is geometric. ”

Although Cheng Pu's words were direct, they were not unreasonable, and everyone was suspicious for a while.

Zhou Yu's brows furrowed slightly, and while he was still thinking about how to respond, Liu Bei on the side said: "Cheng Lao Dudu, judging from the experience of preparation, Zhou Dudu does not seem to have any intention of reducing the number of Cao's main forces, on the contrary, Bei feels that Zhou Dudu may be a little overestimated." ”

Liu Bei's opening, in addition to Fang Shao, who accompanied him, even Zhou Yu was quite surprised, but he didn't expect that he would stand on his side and confront Cheng Pu.

"Liu Bei is really strange, I deliberately snubbed him like this, and I actually spoke for me, hey, interesting."

Zhou Yu then said: "Liu Yuanjun is most familiar with Cao Ying's arrangement, so let him explain it to you." ”

Liu Bei got up and bowed his hand very politely to the generals of Eastern Wu, and said lightly: "Actually, preparation is just a one-sided word. According to the Bei Institute, in Cao Ying's command system, his elite men and horses in the north are directly commanded by his relatives and famous generals who are close to him, such as Cao Ren, Cao Hong, Xiahou Yuan, Xu Huang, Le Jin and other generals, each of whom personally leads about 5,000 elite soldiers, and Cao Ying commands all his troops by commanding these people. The so-called generals do not know the soldiers, and the soldiers are not familiar with the generals, which is a taboo for the soldiers, and Cao Ying is proficient in the art of war, so he will never leave the generals with the troops in one place, and lead all the people and horses he leads by himself. Therefore, as long as you find out who will lead these people, you can calculate the specific number of their troops. “

Liu Bei's words can be regarded as a thorough analysis of Cao Ying's command system, and the generals of Eastern Wu present originally regarded Liu Bei as a repeatedly defeated general, and there was a lot of contempt in their hearts, but now after listening to Liu Bei's analysis, they can't help but be impressed by him.

Even Zhou Yu was slightly surprised between his eyebrows, and said in his heart: "I have always looked down on this surnamed Liu, but when I see it today, it seems that he is still a little capable, not all of them." ”

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