Chapter Seventy-Nine: Preparing for War

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At the beginning of October, Cao Cao defeated Zhang Chao, recovered Yongqiu, and finally took the whole of Yanzhou into his hands again. Now that the war has just ended, he did not rest, but unusually gathered the army, which immediately attracted Liu Bei's attention.

Everyone was stunned, and Sun Qian asked, "Lord, do you know their goal?" ”

Liu Bei shook his head and said, "The goal can't be determined, but it's certain to go south!" ”

Zhuge Jin thought for a moment and said, "Lord, will they be coming for us?" ”

Liu Bei said: "It's possible! The forces in the south, in addition to us, also have Yuan Highway! Yuan Highway is strong, it is estimated that Cao Mengde will not fight him! It should be us! ”

Tian Fan shook his head and said, "Lord, it shouldn't be us!" We now have 100,000 well-equipped soldiers, although there are more than 30,000 recruits, and the combat effectiveness is not strong, but it is not considered a new soldier, and Cao Mengde may not be able to win the main army of 30,000 in Guangxiapi! Besides, there are also 12,000 people in Xiaopei's Fengxian, of which 4,000 are still Bingzhou Iron Cavalry! Everyone nodded in agreement.

At this time, Chen Deng said: "My lord, will it be to attack Yuzhou?" Yuzhou doesn't have any decent strength, and the only Yellow Turban remnant, Liu Bi, is relatively weak, so it should be easy to fight! ”

Liu Bei's eyes lit up, and he said again and again: "What Yuanlong said is reasonable!" Everyone nodded.

Jian Yong asked Liu Bei, "Lord, what should we do?" ”

Liu Bei looked at everyone and said, "Everyone talk about it!" ”

Zhang Fei roared: "Fight! His Cao Mengde's strength is not as good as ours, he can fight Yuzhou, why can't we? We fight too! ”

Tian Fan said: "Lord, General Yide is reasonable! Let's take advantage of the current vacancy to make a time difference with Cao Mengde and take the land of Yuzhou first! Well, let's not take them all, let's just take the eastern part of Peiguo and Liangguo! To the north of Yuzhou is Cao Mengde and Yuan Benchu, and to the south is Yuan Highway, if you take them all, the pressure will be too great! ”

Sun Qian said: "Not bad! Bo Guang has a point! Let's take these two places first, so that the position of Pei County is not so high, connecting Pei Guo and Liang Guo together! This will make Xiapi a solid rear for us! ”

Seeing that Liu Ye, Lu Su and the others didn't speak, Liu Bei said: "Zijing, Ziyang, you can also talk about it!" ”

Lu Su glanced at everyone and said, "Lord, the two of us have no opinion!" These two places can be taken, but ...... It's better that we don't lose too much! Some time ago, he and Liu Ye did a survey of the army in Xuzhou and found that the situation of the army was still not much, so they also supported it. However, there are only more than 60,000 soldiers available in Xuzhou, and the other 30,000 recruits have not been trained for a long time, and they are not ready to fight, so they also advocate taking Peiguo and Liang Guo and not attacking other places.

Liu Ye said: "Not bad! If our losses are too great, then the future war will be quite passive! ”

Everyone knew the strategy of the two of them, and they had heard their worries about the future of Xuzhou, and they also agreed.

Siege warfare has always been a mode of warfare that all forces try to avoid, especially in the initial stage of this force. This form of warfare has always caused huge losses to the besieging side, and sometimes, some of the gains outweigh the losses.

Chen Deng groaned: "There shouldn't be much loss!" First of all, the strength of He Yi, He Man, Huang Shao and other Yellow Turban remnants is not strong! It's about a few thousand people gathered in each group, and besides, they can't train or equip well, and there have always been many old and weak people in the Yellow Turban Army, so their combat effectiveness is also very weak! I think it will not be difficult for us to mobilize a large army and take it down with lightning speed! ”…,

Tian Fan also said: "Lord, don't forget, Zhou Yuanfu was also in Yuzhou, I don't know these people!" In my opinion, we can send someone to persuade us to surrender first, if it succeeds, it is good, even if it fails, there is no loss! ”

Everyone nodded again and again, and Liu Bei said: "Since this is the case, according to what Boguang said, send Yuanfu to persuade him to surrender first!" ”

Zhou Cang hurriedly listened to the order! He said: "Lord, I don't dare to guarantee others, but I am still sure of He Yi and He Man!" I think when we were in the Yellow Turban Army, we were good brothers, but later we were ...... After Zhang Jiao's death, the Yellow Turban Army was defeated too quickly, and we were separated! Don't worry, I will do a good job! ”

Liu Bei nodded and said, "There is Lao Yuanfu!" You go and prepare, well, give you ten days, and if they don't surrender after ten days, I'll send troops! ”

Zhou Cang agreed, and went to prepare without mentioning it.

Liu Bei groaned: "Since Yuanfu said that he only has the confidence to persuade He Yi and He Man to surrender, then we still have to fight!" Since you have decided to fight, hehe, what you said...... Even if they all surrender, we still have to fight, and most of those cities need to be fought a dozen! Since it is going to be fought, who will lead the troops and who will defend the city? ”

Lu Su pointed to the map and said: "The lord can take General Yunchang to send 30,000 soldiers from Xiao Pei out of Liang State, and after defeating Liang State, he will go south to take Pei State!" Boguang, Yuanlong (Chen Deng), Ziyang (Liu Ye), and the next four assisted the lord, and General Zhang sent 10,000 troops from Guangling County to the west to coerce Huainan Yuan Highway to keep it from moving. In addition, General Xuangao (Zang Ba) can be ordered to lead an army of 10,000 to follow the lord westward. General Xuangao is good at guarding the city, and after taking the Liang State, General Xuangao will defend the Liang State, and the lord will go south. Gongyou (Sun Qian), Zizhong (Mi Zhu), Ziyu (Zhuge Jin), Changwen (Chen Qun) and others guarded Xiapi and supervised the transportation of grain and grass, and the rest of the people had their own missions. ”

As soon as he finished speaking, Zhang Fei quit! The guy shouted, "I'm not going to do it! It's easy to have a chance to fight, but let me hide in the corners to contain others, Mr. Lu, what kind of heart do you have? ”

Liu Bei hurriedly reprimanded: "Yide, how do you speak?" Sit down! ”

Lu Su smiled: "Hehe, General Yide, don't worry! This is just a small battle, and there may not even be a decent battle, so I won't let you take care of it! Also, who says your tasks aren't important? In case Yuan Highway has ambitions for Xiapi, doesn't he want you to be the vanguard? ”

As soon as he said this, he persuaded Zhang Fei's restless heart back. Zhang Fei thought to himself, too, a few thieves-like characters, I really can't look down on them, so let the second brother move his muscles, although the second brother doesn't say it, I'm afraid I'm in a hurry!

In the end, Liu Bei decided to take Lusu Liu Ye as the military advisor, Chen Deng as the main book, Tian Fan as the army, Guan Yu as the general, Zhou Cang and Chang Feng as the deputy generals, and send troops ten days later, and Zang Ba will set off after being ready!

When the deliberations were over, the people dispersed. Tian Fan, who was about to go to see the shadow and the night, was stopped by Zhang Fei. Zhang Fei patted Tian Fan's shoulder with a big smile and said, "Boguang, please eat, you have to go, you have to go, you have to go!" ”

Tian Fan smiled and said, "Yide invites dinner, how can there be a gift not to go?" When? ”

Zhang Fei smiled and said, "How about tomorrow?" Boguang also knows that I was born to kill pigs, and tomorrow I am going to kill a pig to entertain you! Hehe, let you taste my pig-killing rice! ”

When Tian Fan heard this, he immediately agreed! Zhang Fei's pig-killing rice, that's a must! It's just that with the rise of Zhang Fei's status, not everyone can eat it now.

After the decision was made, the two separated.

At this time, it was already noon, and he hurried to the training base for the dark night and shadows. mixed a meal and talked a few words with Cao Yong and Wang Zi. Yes, it's just idle nonsense, as the training of Shadow and Dark Night gradually deepens, the opinions he can put forward are decreasing, and the rest of the things are up to Cao Yong and Wang Zi to explore, he just came here to ask them what they need to do. …,

Not to mention, it's really coming! The personnel of the shadow have been streamlined, and now there are only more than eighty people left, and the quality of these people is also very high, Wang Zi, Zhu Yuan, and He Xi really don't know which one to exclude, and they are thinking of asking Tian Fan's opinion to leave them all behind! Tian Fan thought about it, in this era, the idea of special operations does not exist at all, even if there are a few levels that are slightly worse, their quality is much higher than that of ordinary soldiers, and they can simply stay!

Tian Fan nodded and said, "Since you think it's feasible, then keep it!" It's just that you must train well, your task will be quite heavy in the future, and you must not be held back by one person! ”

The three of them hurriedly agreed. Wang Zi said in an uncertain tone: "My lord, our training has now entered the substantive stage, and there are coaches for swimming, diving, mountain fighting, forest fighting, rock climbing, etc., but ...... Can you help us find someone with great archery skills to be our archery instructor? We couldn't find the right ......."

Tian Fan was stunned for a moment and asked, "There are so many generals in the army with superb archery skills, haven't you looked for the lord?" Wang Zi said helplessly: "I found it, but after several expansions, our Xuzhou Army itself is relatively short of generals...... Among the generals in the army, General Zhang is the first to have the highest archery skills, followed by General Chen Shuzhi, they all have their own duties, and they can't pull away! What the lord means is that it is better if we can find one ourselves! ”

Tian Fan nodded, pondered for a while and said, "Okay, I want to find a way!" The lord is right, it's better to find some hunters or something! "The archery skills that Shadow has to practice are not exactly the same as those used by the generals, they are often required to act as assassins, and they are required to kill with a single blow, which is more similar to the snipers of later generations, and the generals fight on the battlefield, and the requirements are not the same thing at all.

Thinking of a suitable archery coach, Tian Fan left the compound. I wanted to go to the craftsman camp to have a look, but it was too late, so I had to give up.