After listening to Guo Youzhi's words, Liu Hou felt that this matter was more important, and I was afraid that it was not something that the two of them could say clearly in a few words, so he asked Xuan Sima Yi, Deng Zhi and Bu Qi and others to go to the imperial study to discuss. He and Guo Youzhi drank tea for a while, and estimated that a few people should almost arrive, so they moved to the imperial study together to hold a "cabinet meeting".

After discussing for a while, several people basically agreed with Guo Youzhi's two strategies, but they had some different opinions on some specific details. According to Guo Youzhi's idea, it is to let the Xianbei people divert to the west, go directly to the Tiger Prison Pass to wait, wait for the army to assemble, and then detain the pass together, sweeping the entire Guanzhong.

Sima Yi proposed that it was useless to gather too many men and horses under the Tiger Pass, that narrow terrain could not be formed at all, and the Xianbei people were cavalry, and there was no use in the face of a Xiongguan like the Tiger Pass, so they should find another way to give full play to the advantages of their cavalry.

Liu Hou knew that this guy was as cunning as a fox, and his tactics were often extremely vicious, and as his enemy, he often had a headache to deal with, but as his own person, he simply loved his intrigues and tricks. Hearing Sima Yi say that he had a clever plan, Liu Hou hurriedly asked for advice, and Sima Yi was not hypocritical, and brought his thoughts one by one.

Sima Yi's idea was not to let the Xianbei people squeeze into the Tiger Prison Pass again, let them enter Bingzhou from the north, go to Jinyang to join the first division, and then cross the Yellow River south with the first division to invade the Guanzhong area.

In this way, they can avoid the world's famous Xiongguan such as Tiger Prison Pass, Hangu Pass, Tong Pass, etc., and go straight to Hanzhong as a surprise army. Using this path to enter Guanzhong, the only natural danger is the Yellow River, the Wei River and its tributaries Jing River, Luo River and other rivers.

It is conceivable that the Wei army will definitely defend against the enemy from the north. However, the whole river was so long that no matter how many troops the Wei army had, it could not defend it, and it was always possible to find a place to cross the river.

Originally, it was a big problem for cavalry to cross the river, but now it is winter, and it is easy to cross the river in the winter in the north, for the simple reason that the winter in the north is very cold, and the river will freeze, and it will be very thick with ice.

The thick ice is not to mention the horses stepping on it, even if it is a bulky big truck. Of course, tens of thousands of cavalry could not rush up in a swarm, as long as they crossed the river in a certain order, there would be no danger.

Therefore, Sima Yi's trick of avoiding the real and attacking the false is indeed very clever, avoiding the attack on the strong and tall Xiongguan, and he can easily break through into the Guanzhong area, making the "Maginot Line" carefully arranged by the Wei State completely ineffective.

Sima Yi also proposed that in order to create an opportunity for them, they could gather heavy troops outside the Tiger Prison Pass and pretend to attack the city on a large scale, so as to attract the main force of the Wei army and create more favorable conditions for this strange army.

Everyone thinks that this method is good, although the Tiger Prison Pass, Hangu Pass, and Tongguan may not be able to hold up in front of the fierce artillery fire of the Hong Army, but if you can avoid brute force, try to avoid brute force, and try to save as much effort as possible, this is Liu Hou's philosophy of life, and it is also one of the guidelines of the Hong Army's behavior.

Several people discussed the specific details and completed the plan. The plan is as follows: Eastern Front: The second and third divisions will feint and attack Wei from the direction of Tiger Pass, of course, if it is a feint, the drama must not be too fake, otherwise, it will not be able to achieve the goal of attracting the main force of the Wei army.

Their principle of warfare was to inflict as much damage as possible on the enemy and their installations, without sacrificing or sacrificing as little as possible their own human lives. Specifically, it is to use more long-range strike weapons to bomb, and more explosives ~ explosives to explode, that is, not to let people die to pile up.

On the northern front, the 1st Division and 50,000 Xianbei cavalry quickly and covertly bypassed the pass city in the north, infiltrated the Guanzhong area, and directly took Chang'an. Of course, the words swift and concealed are a bit contradictory, and it is difficult to achieve concealment, especially for large troops of tens of thousands of people.

Therefore, speed is a priority, as long as the speed of the advance is not much slower than the speed of the enemy's transmission of information, so that the enemy does not have much time to prepare, it can be regarded as a disguised achievement of the purpose of concealment.

The Xianbei people are all cavalry with one person and two horses, and the speed is naturally no problem, but the first division is infantry, and it carries a lot of equipment, what if the speed can't keep up with them?

In this day and age, there was no good way but to ration them all horses and turn them into cavalry. The first division captured the Xianbei royal court in Danhan Mountain, and the second division burned the Kebineng department, and many war horses were captured in both battles.

In particular, the second division destroyed the Kebi Neng Division, although it seemed that everything in the Xianbei people was burned on the surface, but in the end, Kebi Neng brought tens of thousands of people to the inner Great Wall in the south to ask for surrender, and these people also carried a large number of war horses.

After they surrendered, the people were organized into construction corps and pulled to mine, and their horses were naturally intercepted and became the trophies of the Hong army. Coupled with the 30,000 war horses paid tribute by the Suli Ministry, Liu Hou suddenly had more than 100,000 war horses in his hands.

Liu Houzheng has a headache about how to raise these more than 100,000 war horses, which are needed by the first division now, and they are just allocated for them. Originally, Liu Hou wanted to use these 100,000 war horses to form a huge cavalry force, and even the instructor candidate was selected, which was Zhao Yun.

He wanted Zhao Yun to train a cavalry according to Bai Ma Yicong's standards, and then he could crisscross the grassland. However, the plan can't catch up with the changes, and now the war against Wei is about to begin, and these horses should be used by the first division first, and then we will talk about it after this battle.

There are only more than 20,000 people in the second division, and it stands to reason that only more than 20,000 horses are enough, even according to the standards of the Xianbei people, one person and two horses, 50,000 horses are enough.

However, the second division has a lot of baggage, guns ~ artillery fire ~ medicine These are not light things, as well as rattan armor, grain, etc., which makes the transportation task very heavy.

In the past, the Second Division used a large number of vehicles to load and transport the army, but now it has changed to use horses to transport camels, and the transportation efficiency is naturally greatly reduced. Now with more than 100,000 war horses, almost one person and four horses to transport, marching is actually not much at all.

In this way, the first division can have the approximate marching speed of the Xianbei cavalry, which is approximate, but it is actually much worse, after all, the Xianbei people have grown on horseback since they were children, and they are all skilled in riding, and their speed on horseback will naturally not be low.

However, most of the men in the 2nd Division still did not know how to ride horses before, and it was not until they defeated the roots of Budu and captured a large number of war horses that they began to use these horses to learn to ride in turn. After this period of training, everyone has basically learned to ride a horse, but it can only be said that they can ride horses, not to mention any riding skills.

After all, the training time is too short, and they can only trot on the horses without falling off, and it is still not possible to let them drive the horses at high speed like the Xianbei people. Many people will fall off if they run too fast, and even if they can hold on to it, their bodies can't stand it after running on a horse for a long time.

Riding a horse looks majestic and fun, but those who have tried it know that it is definitely a very tiring job, not only the body will be turned upside down, but even the feet that clamp ~ the horse's belly can not stand it. Many people ride a horse for a while, and when they get off the horse, their feet are weak and they can't get up on the ground, because their feet are too tired and sore.