As time passed, more and more Wei troops converged to Wancheng from all directions.

In order to stabilize the situation in Nanyang County as soon as possible, Cao Pi first led tens of thousands of troops to Wancheng.

But the huge Cao Wei is definitely more than those troops.

Cao Wei's army was divided into two categories: the central army and the local army.

In the Central Army, it is divided into the Chinese army and the foreign army.

The Chinese army came relative to the foreign army.

After Cao Pi established the Wei Empire, one of his most important reform measures was to further systematically divide the country's army.

He set up a number of prefectures and prefectures on a state or frontier basis.

In the early days of Cao Cao's reign, the division of the army under his command was not detailed, and it was usually him who personally commanded a large army to conquer everywhere.

After Cao Cao defeated Yuan Shao and took the states of Hebei, He, and Qing, his ruling area gradually took on the scale of a state.

At this time, the situation is big, and it is no longer possible to lead a main army to fight everywhere as in the past, and the consumption of military rations is also very great.

So at Xun He's suggestion, Cao Cao began to adopt the method of keeping troops in various places.

After the Battle of Guandu, Cao Cao pacified a place every time, that is, a part of the Chinese army was stationed there, and one person was appointed as the commander to command all the armies in the jurisdiction.

But in that jurisdiction, it was not only the part of the Chinese army left by Cao Cao.

The governors in the jurisdiction will take the Chinese army left by Cao Cao as the backbone, and recruit a sufficient number of soldiers in the jurisdiction to form a large army.

This is the Cao Wei foreign army divided from the Chinese army, for example, after Cao Cao pacified Hanzhong, Xiahou Yuan was the general of the expedition to the west, and this military model was adopted.

The soldiers led by the generals and governors who remained outside were called foreign armies;

The army directly under the central government is called the Chinese army.

But whether it is Cao Wei's Chinese army or a foreign army, the essence is that Cao Cao personally trained the army back then, so the combat power is very good.

Because of this special military model, among Cao Wei's military positions, the military positions of the four expeditions and four towns began to become the most powerful and high-status military positions.

"In the first year of the early Huang Dynasty, he specially placed the capital to supervise the military of the states, sought the name of the general of the four expeditions and four towns, and placed the general to supervise the Chinese and foreign armies, and he was the captain."

In addition to the Chinese army and foreign armies, Cao Wei also had state and county soldiers as local soldiers.

In the early years, Emperor Guangwu of the Eastern Han Dynasty called off the army to recruit soldiers, and the military strength of the county was very weak.

When Cao Cao unified the north, large and small separatist forces were either eliminated or absorbed, and the prefectures and counties often only had the central army of Liutun, but no local armed forces.

At that time, Sima Lang, the prime minister's chief secretary, suggested that the prefectures and counties should establish local armed forces to "prepare for the four provinces externally and the internal authority is unscrupulous".

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At Sima Lang's suggestion, Cao Cao restored the old system of the Western Han Dynasty, "from Sima Lang's words, he reinstated the state and county soldiers, but did not place a lieutenant, and Gai Taishou or assassinated the history and commander." ”

Cao Wei's state and county soldiers were to garrison their own state and county, and they should also be transferred to the army if necessary, but the status of the state and county soldiers was lower than that of the Chinese army and foreign army.

In addition to the Chinese army, foreign armies and local state and county soldiers, Cao Wei also has a huge special army, that is, the Tuntian soldiers.

Cao Wei's tuntian is divided into two types: Mintun and Bingtun, although most of the Bingtun is set up in the border area, but Cao Wei regards Mintun as the country's fundamental economic policy.

Under this coercive economic policy, the millions of young and strong people in Cao Wei's Zhongmin Tun across the country were born with a steady stream of soldiers in Cao Wei's army.

The end of the Han Dynasty was not a certain Song Dynasty, and the men of the Han Dynasty were all martial.

As long as the men of the late Han Dynasty were given weapons, then after a little training, they would instantly become a powerful army.

This kind of military system has a miraculous effect when guarding the frontier.

Under this system of warfare, if the frontier was warned, the rulers of Cao Wei could take advantage of the convenience of transportation in the north and command the Chinese army to personally support the frontier.

On the other hand, the rulers of Cao Wei could edict the major prefectures of the world to lead their own troops to support the attacked prefectures.

Under the snowballing summoning, Cao Wei's army would often break through the 100,000 mark soon after.

So that on top of the strong forces, the enemy feels a sense of despair.

It can be said that although Cao Wei's economy is in a mess, the Cao Wei military system, which was reformed by the military master Cao Cao himself, is the most advanced system among the three major forces in the world.

However, in order to prevent the local military from being too powerful, Cao Cao and Cao Pi continued to strengthen and directly control the strength and elite of the Chinese army in their hands.

When Cao Pi ascended the throne, the Luoyang Chinese army, which was directly in his hands, had already reached tens of thousands.

These hundreds of thousands of troops are the most elite, the most armored, and the most trained army among all Cao Wei's troops, and there is no one.

These hundreds of thousands of troops were the most powerful guarantee left by Cao Cao to Cao Pi to deter the locality.

Later, Cao Wei's Chinese army even reached more than 200,000 people, and Cao Wei's Chinese army alone could carry out a war to destroy the country.

Historically, there have been constant rebellions in the Cao Wei region, the most famous of which are the Huainan Three Rebellions.

The reason why Sima Sanhei was able to successfully quell the three rebellions in Huainan was essentially a crushing posture of Cao Wei's central army against the local army.

During Zhuge Liang's Northern Expedition in history, Cao Rong handed over part of the command of the Chinese army to Sima Yi in order to resist Zhuge Liang's army.

Many people think that the fundamental purpose of Zhuge Liang's Northern Expedition is to capture Longxi, but in fact, Zhuge Liang has another purpose, that is, to find an opportunity to completely eat the Cao Wei army commanded by Sima Yi in the wild.

As long as Zhuge Liang can defeat Cao Wei's Chinese army that shocked the world, then Cao Wei will fall into a great crisis in an instant.

During the Battle of Lucheng, Zhuge Liang was only one step away from his goal, only one step away!

It's a pity that there is an anti-bone boy Li Yan in the rear.

And because of the heavy losses suffered by Cao Wei's Chinese army in the Battle of Lucheng, Sima Yi avoided fighting later, because he knew very well that if he lost the remaining Cao Wei Chinese army, the consequences would be absolutely catastrophic.

When Cao Pi led tens of thousands of Chinese troops from Luoyang, he never thought that he could completely defeat Mi Yang by relying on the tens of thousands of troops in his hands alone.

Cao Pi knew what his advantages were, so when he led his army from Luoyang, he had already issued an edict from the Son of Heaven to the major prefectures, asking them to gather troops and horses to join in Nanyang County.

Later, when Cao Pi received Cao Tai's report and received that Guan Yu had indeed sent troops to attack Fancheng as Jia Xu had inferred, Cao Pi's edict urging troops from all over the country became more and more urgent.

With the passage of time, after Cao Pi's edict of the Son of Heaven spread to various places, the assassins or generals from all over the country led troops to Wancheng to join Cao Pi.

Among them, the closest to Nanyang County are undoubtedly Jia Kui of Yuzhou and Wang Ling of Yanzhou.

Yuzhou and Yanzhou are the most elite parts of the Central Plains, so their production has recovered the fastest.

The grain and grass harvested in these two states this year alone can be used by their own states and counties, and a lot of grain and grass can be left to support other states and counties.

Therefore, when these two feudal officials led the army to Wancheng, the Wei army currently in Nanyang County, including the auxiliaries, had exceeded 100,000.

100,000 Wei troops gathered in Nanyang County, which made the ministers of Cao Wei who were currently in Nanyang County feel more confident in their hearts.

The most important thing is that there are currently about 50,000 Great Wei Chinese troops in Nanyang County.

These 50,000 Chinese troops are the army trained by Cao Cao, Emperor Wu of Wei, and their combat effectiveness can be said to be the best in the world.

In terms of numbers, the Wei army was far above the combined forces of Guan Yu and Mi Yang, and in terms of elite, they were also stronger than the enemy.

This made Cao Weizhong's ministers how could they not have confidence in their hearts.

And whether it was Mi Yang or Guan Yu, they were constantly sending spies to investigate the movements of the Wei army inside and outside Wancheng.

The news of the arrival of a large number of Wei troops soon reached Guan Yu's hands.

Compared with the heavy thoughts of the generals of the Han army after learning the news, Guan Yu's expression was not half nervous.

This scene was expected by him.

This is a huge gap in national strength between the Han Dynasty and the Wei Dynasty, and there is no way to make up for it in a short period of time.

But no matter how many foreign troops and state and county soldiers arrived in Cao Wei, Guan Yu had only one goal after he raised his troops, and that was Cao Wei's Chinese army brought by Cao Pi himself!

In the big tent, Guan Yu asked Wang Fu: "Guoshan, how have our army lost recently?" ”

At present, in the big tent, the Han generals and Han Chen are all there, and when Guan Yu asks about this, the heavy look on Wang Fu's face becomes more and more solemn.

He came out to bow to Guan Yu and reported:

"In the past half a month, whenever our army's grain ships escorting grain and grass appeared, the roaming bandit army on the north shore saw this scene, and often followed our army's grain ships with thousands of cavalry, and from time to time attacked and harassed with rockets.

And every time the soldiers of our army on the south bank of the army, some of them were washed to the north bank by the torrent, they were killed and wounded by the thieves.

If our grain ships dock and escort the grain wagons towards the camp, the thieves will attack our food convoys with cavalry.

And whenever our army sends troops to attack on the north bank, or sends reinforcements from the large camp, the thief army will immediately retreat, and when our army retreats, the thief army returns.

In the past six months, hundreds of soldiers have been killed and wounded in our army, and there are not a few grain and grass burned by the thief army. ”

After saying the above, Wang Fufu said in an accentuated tone: "The thief army's move has dealt a great blow to the morale of our army. ”

After hearing Wang Fu say this, the brows of everyone in the tent furrowed deeply.

Perhaps because of the timely rescue of the Han army, the loss of soldiers and grain and grass is not too much in terms of quantity.

But the thief army's constant attack on the grain route like flies is indeed disgusting.

This was a big blow to the morale of the Han army.

Compared with the frowns of the generals, Guan Yu's face did not show an angry look.

He was born in the North, and he had fought with the Wei army for many years, so he was very clear about the tactics of the cavalry.

Now all the responses of the Wei army are roughly the same as he guessed before.

In fact, the Han army did not have countermeasures against this attack and harassment tactics of the Wei cavalry.

That is to arrange layers of heavy troops on the main grain and grass of the Han army, and form a formation to resist the attack of the Wei cavalry.

However, such countermeasures are very labor-intensive.

The situation facing the Han army now did not allow them to spend so much of their troops.

Now the Han army is facing not only the tens of thousands of Wei cavalry, but also the tens of thousands of Wei troops in Fancheng and Yancheng.

Although the Han army has besieged Fancheng through the barrier for a month.

But no matter how well the walls are arranged, if they are not guarded by strict soldiers, they are just dead things that can be destroyed by people.

Once the Han army drew up most of its forces to guard the grain route, the protective force in the fortress was bound to be greatly reduced.

At that time, if there was any change between the Wei army in Fancheng and Yancheng, the Han army would waste all the effort it had spent in the previous month, and it would be easy to fall into the situation of being attacked by the enemy on its back.

So now the Han army is in a bit of a dilemma.

Under this dilemma, Liao Hua tried to make a suggestion:

"Can we set up an ambush on our army's grain road?"

When Liao Hua's suggestion was put forward, no one echoed Liao Hua.

Because Liaohua's proposal does not conform to the actual situation.

The two cities of Xiangfan are located on both sides of the Han River, and the outside of the city are open plains, and there is no terrain to lay ambushes on the grain road for more than ten miles.

And Liao Hua saw that his proposal was not echoed by the generals, and he also realized the omission in his suggestion the next moment.

So he silently ceased to speak.

Compared with the silence of the generals, Guan Yu did not have much worry in his heart.

Guan Yu first asked the generals to retreat, and then he left Zhao Lei alone.

After all the generals retreated, Guan Yu asked Zhao Lei, "Are all the equipment ready?" ”

Facing Guan Yu's inquiry, Zhao Lei hurriedly replied: "Everything is ready. ”

Seeing Zhao Lei say this, a smile finally appeared on Guan Yu's face, who was still solemn.

Before Ma Liang served as the assassin of Jingzhou, Zhao Lei was actually the big butler in Guan Yu's army.

has used Zhao Lei for many years, so there are some things Guan Yu will subconsciously let Zhao Lei do.

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Wudang is located in the upper reaches of Fancheng, with the presence of Han water, and Ma Liang's messenger soon reached Wudang City.

Because of the diploma of Ma Liang stamped with the seal as evidence, Ma Liang's envoy was soon received by Mi Yang.

Now Mi Yang is listening to Wang Hong's resignation.

Mi Yang currently has many official positions, and after he was worshiped by Liu Bei as General Zuo, his original position as Hanxing Taishou was not removed.

Therefore, in addition to dealing with the military in Yibei in peacetime, Mi Yang also has to remotely command the government affairs of Hanxing County.

Today happened to be Wang Hong's arrival in Wudang City, and he personally reported to Mi Yang that he had implemented reforms in Fangling.

Wang Hong was the magistrate of Fangling County, and he could have sent a small official to report these things to Mi Yang.

But with the rise of Mi Yang's identity, Wang Hong felt that his choice to go south to the public security was correct on the one hand, and on the other hand, he strengthened his determination to hold Mi Yang's thighs.

People are changeable, perhaps Wang Hong's original intention of defecting to Mi Yang at the beginning was to avenge Cao Wei's blood revenge.

But as he took power, Wang Hong's heart began to change.

In his view, there is no conflict between revenge and the enjoyment of glory and wealth.

Wang Hong knows that everything he has at present is obtained by Mi Yang.

Therefore, as there are more and more talents under Mi Yang's command, Wang Hong, who has not much talent himself, is very worried that he will one day be excluded from the inner circle of Yibei ministers led by Mi Yang.

Under this kind of thinking, Wang Hong will go to Wuzhong in person as long as he has the opportunity to personally report government affairs to Mi Yang.

In order to show his face more in front of Mi Yang.

Originally, Mi Yang and Wang Hong were discussing the next reform measures of Fang Ling, but when Mi Yang received the letter from Ma Liang's envoy, Mi Yang's face immediately showed a heavy color.

Guan Yu, is there anything wrong with your body?

But before the old man wrote to him to discuss how to crack the method of cavalry, and he also drew a picture for him based on the memories of later generations, how could he suddenly get sick?