At the end of September of the first year of Han Zhangwu, Cao Pi, the son of Cao Wei, led an army of 80,000 and arrived in Wancheng with 200,000.

As the 80,000 Wei troops began to appear in Nanyang County, the hearts of those loyal to Cao Wei in Nanyang County finally let go of their worries.

Even they were glad in their hearts.

Fortunately, he did not surrender hastily.

Before Cao Pi personally led the army into Nanyang County, the news of his personal expedition had already spread throughout the Central Plains.

Therefore, when the imperial flag of the Son of Heaven belonging to Cao Pi was planted all over the head of Wancheng, most of the county magistrates in Nanyang County sent their envoys to Wancheng to greet Cao Pi.

It is not only a greeting, but also a sign of one's loyalty.

Even Cao Tai and Sima Yi, who were outside Wudang City, quickly withdrew their troops from outside Wudang City and returned to Wancheng after learning the news.

They had been wandering outside Wudang before, just because they were worried that Mi Yang would bravely march to attack Wancheng.

Now that Cao Pi has personally led the army to Wancheng, then they naturally don't have to worry about the safety of Wancheng.

In this case, coupled with the fact that they are currently in Nanyang County, they are the people who know the situation in Wudang City best, so they must return to Wancheng as soon as possible and personally inform Cao Pi of the news they know.

Otherwise, how can it be reflected what efforts they made before the arrival of Cao Pi's army?

After all, in the eyes of the world, Cao Tai and Sima Yi only led two thousand Wei cavalry to wander outside Wudang City, and they never fought with a Han army except for a few Han scouts.

The speed of the cavalry was very fast, and after Cao Tai and Sima Yi left some scouts outside Wudang City, they led most of the cavalry back to Wancheng.

When they returned to the outside of Wancheng, they found that in addition to the imperial flag of the Son of Heaven representing Cao Pi, there were also many banners of Cao Wei's ministers on the head of Wancheng.

Looking at those familiar flags, Cao Tai and Sima Yi's eyes froze.

"Jiang", "Dong", "Liu", "Wu", "Guo", "Sun", "Chen"、.......

The owner of any banner that is qualified to be placed on the head of the city will be at least a high-ranking official of two thousand stones.

Looking at the number of those flags, Cao Tai and Sima Yi were a little dumbfounded.

In order to deal with Mi Yang, did Your Majesty move the entire Luoyang Center?

Although there was surprise in their hearts, Cao Tai and Sima Yi soon came to Wancheng's Che Cavalry General's Mansion to meet Cao Pi.

When Cao Tai and Sima Yi arrived outside the lobby of the General's Mansion, Cao Pi was discussing military affairs with the generals.

Cao Pi, who was discussing military affairs, heard the eunuch's report that Cao Tai was waiting outside the lobby to receive him, and Cao Pi's face immediately showed grief.

He asked the eunuchs to summon Cao Tai and Sima Yi in.

When Cao Tai entered the hall under the leadership of the eunuch, all the civil and military officials in the hall looked at him with sympathetic eyes.

And the moment Cao Tai saw Cao Pi, tears instantly appeared on his face.

He knelt down more than ten steps away from Cao Pi, and then walked to Cao Pi's throne five steps in front of him, and bowed his head to Cao Pi and said:

"I hope that Your Majesty will avenge my father!"

Cao Tai's pleading voice instantly resounded in the huge hall.

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Looking at Cao Tai's tearful appearance, the face of Cao Wei's Minister of Culture and Military Affairs in the lobby showed unbearable expression.

And the unbearable look on Cao Pi's face was even stronger.

As the Son of Heaven, regardless of the etiquette between the monarch and the minister, he beckoned Cao Tai with his hand to continue to step forward.

When Cao Tai came to his throne, Cao Pi's face was also covered with tears, and Cao Pi stroked Cao Tai's crown hat and said:

"Zi'an, rest assured, I will definitely avenge my uncle."

For Cao Wei, Cao Ren is a chariot general with a very high status.

And Cao Ren taught Cao Pi martial arts since he was a child, so Cao Pi has feelings for Cao Ren.

Cao Pi was the eldest in the second generation of Cao Wei.

Now Cao Tai's father Cao Ren is dead, and the so-called eldest brother is like a father, plus Cao Pi is Cao Tai's king.

Therefore, when Cao Pi made the action of stroking Cao Tai's crown hat, which was not much different from him, not only would it not make people feel a sense of disobedience, but it would make people feel a sense of Cao Pi's love and care for his relatives.

This made a kind of warmth appear in the hearts of the ministers of civil and military affairs present.

Unlike later generations, cronyism was sometimes a form of political correctness in ancient times.

Because a monarch is not good for Yuan Cong and clan relatives, it is easy to create a mean image of unkindness.

The psychology of the ancient people is that even the Yuan Cong and the clan relatives don't love it, so can they still love those who are not relatives?

Therefore, Cao Pi's move is partly to reveal his true feelings, and partly to appease people's hearts.

The great war is imminent, and people's hearts are the most important thing.

But after all, there is a difference between monarchs and ministers, and it is now the time to discuss military affairs, so Cao Tai slowly retreated from Cao Pi's throne after being carocated by Cao Pi for a while.

When Cao Tai stepped down from Cao Pi's throne and sat down in his place, Sima Yi stepped forward and reported to Cao Pi about the current situation outside Wudang City.

Under the narration of the minister who had just returned from outside Wudang City, plus the news reported by the Wei army scouts before, the ministers in the hall under the summary generally understood the specific information of the current Miyang army.

The most important thing in intelligence is the number of enemy troops.

Before Mi Yang withdrew 10,000 troops from Wudang City, he couldn't hide Cao Tai and Sima Yi, who were wandering outside Wudang City all day.

In addition, according to the information obtained by the spies sent by Cao Zhen from Hanzhong before, it is proved that at present, inside and outside Wudang City, Mi Yang has no more than 30,000 troops in his hands.

When the total number of troops in Mi Yang's hands was almost deduced, the ministers present almost instantly deduced the number of real soldiers in Mi Yang's hands.

It should be around 20,000.

And if the total number of troops in Mi Yang's hands is only 20,000, then the number of soldiers of the Han army is only 15,000 at most.

The inferences of the ministers present here are not arbitrary, but are based on the common practice of this era.

In historical records, the ancient army and the people are often clearly distinguished, so many people mistakenly think that the army is basically a soldier, and the logistics tasks are almost all undertaken by the people.

This is actually an inaccurate view.

The real situation is that in every army with a high degree of regularization, there are many logistics troops who are responsible for logistics support, called auxiliary troops.

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The proportion of soldiers is roughly two to three percent of the whole army;

If it is a cavalry unit, the proportion of logistic troops will be higher; In the case of an overseas expedition, the proportion of logistics troops is even more ridiculously high.

In addition, the people who escorted the grain and grass were counted separately, and the logistics of the entire army could not rely on them.

Not even as ordinary people think, the number of people must be several times more than the entire army.

Moreover, the people would follow the army and live in the barracks.

Otherwise, there are countless examples of tens of thousands of soldiers dispatched in Chinese history.

If the civilians, who occupy more than several times the number of soldiers, live in the barracks every day, then if the enemy attacks at night, the camp will be roaring.

It is completely that the number of ordinary people is so many more than the soldiers, and in the face of this situation, they will definitely panic to the extreme.

At that time, there will not even be any need for the enemy army to storm the camp, and the entire camp will collapse.

No matter how stupid a general is, he knows the terrifying nature of Ying Xiao, so he rarely does this.

Moreover, the main responsibility of the people is to transport grain and grass.

Grain and grass will always be less and not more for a large army.

Therefore, once the people transport the grain and grass to the camp, the auxiliary soldiers in the military camp will be responsible for handing it over, while the people mostly return the same way to continue transporting the grain and grass.

Because the people also have to consume grain and grass, so from the economic point of view, it must be the most cost-effective to let the people be in the process of constantly transporting grain and grass.

The proportion of the number of people, for a large army, is not simply calculated by multiples, but many factors have to be considered.

For example, whether the garrison of the army is close to one's own granary, such as whether the transportation on the road is convenient, etc.

Just like Jiangdong, because of the existence of the Yangtze River, as long as there is enough food and grass, he can move an army of 100,000 at every turn.

The difference between auxiliaries and civilians is that auxiliaries have a certain combat ability, and even participate in certain military training in the barracks in peacetime.

Although the number of people is not necessarily, the number of auxiliaries in the army is clearly recorded.

"Cao Cao's Note on Sun Tzu's Art of War": "The chariot drives the horse, and the pawn is ten horses and one heavy." Raise two people to cook the family, one person to keep the clothes, two people to raise horses, and five people.

Ten infantrymen, heavy in carts to drive oxen. Raise two people to cook the family, one person to guard the clothes, and all three people. ”

From this record, it can be seen that between the Han and Wei dynasties, Cao Cao's soldiers and horses, the logistics of the cavalry unit accounted for about half of the whole army, and the logistics of the infantry unit also accounted for about 30% of the whole army.

Moreover, from Cao Cao's records, it can be seen that usually when the army went out, the auxiliary soldiers escorted the baggage carts to follow the army.

This is also the reason why some armies will not collapse immediately and can hold on for some time even though the grain route is cut off.

At present, the 80,000 army brought by Cao Pi has only more than 50,000 soldiers, and the rest are all auxiliaries.

And because Luoyang is not far from Nanyang County, and both places are located in the hinterland of the Central Plains, the transportation conditions are not bad, so the number of people used is not very large.

Just like Cao Ren's 50,000 army before, even with the existence of Han Shui, Cao Ren omitted to carry a large number of people when he went on the expedition, but there were only 30,000 soldiers in his 50,000 army.

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The remaining more than 20,000 were auxiliaries.

It was precisely because the 50,000 troops led by Cao Ren at that time were not all pawns, so under the invasion of the fire, the mentality would collapse quickly.

Speculating from the strength of the enemy and us, Cao Pi's fear of Mi Yang in his heart was somewhat reduced.

His superiority in strength is obvious.

As time passed, Cao Pi also learned more and more about the Battle of Xicheng.

At that time, Cao Ren's army of nearly 50,000 was under ambush, and was surrounded by the Han army, which was not too inferior to him, which led to the annihilation of the entire army.

Now with the danger in Hanzhong, and Mi Yang may still stay in the town to garrison some of the army in Xicheng, so the current strength of the Han army in Wudang City is less than half of his.

If he doesn't get it, the Wei army still has a great advantage.

It's just that Cao Pi followed Cao Cao to fight when he was young, so he knew that if it was a field battle, he would have an advantage.

But now Mi Yang is likely to stick to Wudang City, so his military advantage is not so obvious.

Just when Cao Wei Junchen in the lobby learned more accurate information about the strength of the Han army and was thinking about how to deal with it in his heart, Sima Yi reported another blockbuster news to Cao Pi.

That is Liu Bei as the emperor.

When he learned the news, Cao Pi's originally somewhat joyful face suddenly appeared with great anger.

He couldn't help but say angrily: "The weaver of mats and shoes dares! ”

It was not long ago that Liu Bei was called emperor and restored Han in Chengdu, so Cao Pi, who had just arrived in Nanyang County from Luoyang, did not know about it.

Even Sima Yi only learned about this not long ago.

After learning about this, Sima Yi was not too surprised in his heart.

Because of the existence of the great victory in Xicheng, and the existence of the Han Zhengshuo in the world before, it is reasonable that Liu Bei will be called the emperor.

But Sima Yi was not surprised, when Cao Pi learned the news, his reaction was very big.

When Cao Pi's angry voice came out, all the Cao Wei ministers in the hall lowered their heads and didn't dare to look directly at Cao Pi.

The reason why Cao Pi was so angry was that Liu Bei was proclaimed emperor of the Han Dynasty at this time, which was a naked provocation of his Cao Wei's status as the Zhengshuo of Huaxia.

The Cao Wei legal system established by Cao Pi was derived from the Zen Command of the Han Emperor Liu Xie.

Now that Liu Bei is in Chengdu to restore the Han Dynasty and proclaim himself emperor, isn't that telling the people of the world that he established the Great Wei by usurping the throne?

Even Liu Bei's big man was established by stepping on the corpse of his Great Wei chariot general!

The legal system of the dynasty was threatened, how could Cao Pi, as the emperor, not be angry.

After Cao Pi in history learned the news that Liu Bei was proclaimed emperor, he probably felt disdainful because Liu Bei only had one place in Shu at that time.

But in this world, Liu Bei's title to emperor is due to the power of a great victory, so Cao Pi felt a threat at this time.

Cao Pi stood up in anger, he looked at the ministers in the hall and asked:

"Now Liu Thief dares to rebel and claim the emperor, if I don't crusade against him, then how can I have Great Wei Tianwei?"

"If you want to kill the thief, you must first break the thief, can you have someone who wants to be the vanguard of our army?"

When Cao Pi's angry words came out, a frown appeared on the faces of most of the ministers in the hall.

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But there were not no warmongers among the ministers.

For example, Xiahou Ba, the general of the Great Wei Dynasty who had just been transferred by Cao Pi.

Xiahou Ba, whose name is Zhongquan, is the second son of Xiahou Yuan, the former general of Zhengxi, and his mother is the younger sister of Cao Cao's wife, Mu Ding.

In the twenty-fourth year of Jian'an, Xiahou Yuan was killed by Huang Zhong in the Battle of Dingjun Mountain, and Xiahou Ba often gritted his teeth after learning about this, determined to avenge his father Xiahou Yuan.

In addition, Xiahou Ba has a strong personality, so after listening to Cao Pi's words, he immediately turned to Cao Pi and said:

"The minister is willing to take the sharp pawn and the tiger step into the martial arts, break the self-effect, and everything will be successful. If he has no ministers, His Majesty does not need to think about it."

Hearing that Mi Yang, who had just wanted to attack Wudang, a general of the clan came out to ask for battle, and some joy appeared on Cao Pi's angry face.

Now that the strong enemy is in front of him, what he needs is this kind of tiger and wolf minister!