Liu Bei was not surprised when he learned about the situation in Bingzhou, which was already in his expectation.

So, he replied to Man Chong, asking Man Chong to properly handle the affairs of the state, and told him not to worry, the imperial court will definitely provide them with sufficient money and food, and what Man Pet needs to do at present is to prepare for logistics and transportation.

As a professional civil official assassin history, Man Pet needs to be the first in the world, set an example for the world's assassination history, and do professional things well, so that "the art industry has a specialization".

Similarly, in Hedong County, the new Hedong County Taishou Han Dang also received Liu Bei's task to renovate the logistics and transportation channels in Hedong County, comprehensively repair roads and bridges, and build and repair storage warehouses along the grain road at the same time.

Even from mid to late December, Liu Bei began to requisition the army and auxiliary troops in the Luoyang area and began to transport grain to warehouses on the logistics route for the war, so as to prepare for the subsequent war.

According to Liu Bei's plan, each section of the army must send people to find out the specific hydrology and road conditions in advance, and then summarize it to the base camp in Luoyang, so that the base camp can formulate the optimal marching route, and then set the corresponding passage time and material ratio according to this route.

An emergency reserve station is set up every 10 miles, and a rest post for a large army is set up every 30 miles, and corresponding logistics personnel and logistics materials will be arranged for each distance of the army's operation.

On top of this, it is also necessary to take into account the occurrence of unexpected situations, such as sudden rainstorms, heavy snowfall, sudden temperature drops, and so on.

If there is a problem in any part of the march, it may lead to problems with the speed of the army, which will affect all aspects of the follow-up, bring additional losses to the imperial court, and even affect the battle situation.

Therefore, for a commander-in-chief, the specific battle should be considered later, and the first consideration is to send the army from the assembly area to the combat area steadily and punctually.

Liu Bei's requirements for logistics are extremely strict, and once there is a problem, according to military law, it is to be beheaded, leaving no mercy.

It is difficult to achieve this target in operations outside the national border, and there is no way to do it, but the marching and conquest within the national territory should be configured in such a way as to minimize the possibility of non-combat attrition.

Liu Bei has always paid attention to accumulation in wars, and without sufficient logistical supplies, he would rather not fight.

In terms of logistics for this operation, the Hedong County Government, Henan Yin, and the General's Mansion worked together, with Liu Bei as the overall person in charge, taking charge of the logistics supply and providing sufficient logistics supplies for the operation in the prefecture.

After everything is ready, it will be the turn of the specific army arrangements.

In terms of the army, Guan Yu and Zhao also screened the army in Bingzhou, and finally screened out more than 13,000 qualified soldiers from more than 20,000 soldiers, and all the others were paid and dismissed back to their hometowns.

I have to say that the individual soldier quality of the soldiers in the state is still very good.

After Liu Bei got the news, he ordered the more than 13,000 soldiers from the state to be gathered and transferred to Luoyang together to enter the recruit camp for training, and then used as a supplement to the main army and the establishment of the new army.

Liu Bei does not like to fight with an army that has not been reorganized, just as most of the generals under his command are unwilling to use an army that has not been reorganized, and the army that has not been trained in the "Military Training Drill Code" cannot even be regarded as an army in the eyes of Liu Bei's generals.

That is the grass platform team, civilians with weapons, gangsters fighting in groups on the street, pretending to be okay, if you really want to do it, you don't use it.

Only the soldiers who came out of the Luoyang training camp could be regarded as decent soldiers and deserved their command.

Over the years, the generals under Liu Bei have generally agreed on a concept.

One soldier who came out of the training camp could be compared to five or six untrained soldiers.

One soldier who came out of the camp for wounded soldiers could compare to five or six soldiers who had just come out of the training camp. What every general under Liu Bei cares about is the number of veterans in the army who have walked back from the wounded and sick camp, the more veterans, the more combat experience and combat effectiveness there are, and the fewer veterans, it is an unreliable army.

From this point of view, Guan Yu thinks that his army is far more reliable than the Qianniu army.

Because the Tianwei Army itself is an old subordinate of Liu Bei in Liangzhou, and in the past two years, in addition to guarding Liangzhou, there have been more than ten battles against bandits and counterattacks against the invasion of small Xianbei tribes, and the proportion of veterans is extremely high.

The Qianniu Army was mainly established by recruiting troops from Shudi.

In the Qianniu Army, only some veterans are officers, and the rest are Shu soldiers, although there are a considerable number of guests, but in the end there is no richer combat experience, and there are only some small fights and bandit operations over the years, and the land of Sichuan and Shu is stable as a whole.

There is a lack of experienced veterans under his command, which is the deficiency of the Thousand Niu Army.

However, Zhao Zhao didn't think that the army under his command was worse than Guan Yu's Tianwei Army, and the Thousand Niu Army was also trained by him, and when he was training, he cared more than anyone else, and he also knew how hard his subordinates worked in training.

Therefore, he didn't think that the Thousand Niu Army would not be able to undertake the combat mission of the whole way.

According to the original military plan, the first phase of the war was divided into two action plans, the first plan was the plan for the mountain bandits and the Southern Xiongnu to respond to the call of the imperial court, and the second was the plan for them not to respond to the call of the imperial court.

If they respond to the call of the imperial court, it will naturally be the best, at that time Guan Yu will lead the Tianwei army and the cavalry troops of the Southern Xiongnu to move all the way, enter Shangjun through Xihe County, and then go to Shuofang County, sweeping all the way through the local Xianbei, Xiongnu and other tribes to regain the territory.

The Qianniu Army led by Zhao Zhao moved all the way with the mountain bandits in Bingzhou, and went to Yanmen County, Dingxiang County and Yunzhong County to fight the Wuhuan tribe there and defeat all the Wuhuan people.

If the two armies move well, they should meet at Wuyuan County to complete the first phase of the battle to merge with the state.

And if the Southern Xiongnu and the mountain bandits did not respond to the military action of the imperial court, then the mode of operation was changed, and the army did not act in two ways, but acted together.

The army can start from Taiyuan County, enter Xihe County, and then go to Shangjun and Shuofangjun, kill one back and forth, and finally return to Taiyuan County.

During this period, the Tianxing Army led by Han Dang will go to Taiyuan County as a strategic general reserve for strategic deterrence, if there is any change between the mountain bandits and the Southern Xiongnu, Han Dang needs to act immediately, and send the news to Luoyang as soon as possible, so that Liu Bei knows.

In this case, Liu Bei would send Zhang Fei's two cavalry armies as the main general to the north to support him, and if the situation was even worse, he would consider dispatching it himself.

The requirements for Guan Yu and Zhaozhao are still very high for the entire combat deployment, and whether it is the first plan or the second plan, the two armies of Guan Yu and Zhaozhao are required to complete the elimination of the Xianbei people and Wuhuan people.

Therefore, before they sent their troops, Liu Bei also added two thousand additional commanders to each of them, and strengthened the army under their command.

In this way, according to the standard configuration, they can command at least 3,000 cavalry to fight, which is not a small number for a combat operation. qs

Although there are many Xianbei people and Wuhuan people, they seem to be quite capable of fighting, but Liu Bei has already made a thorough analysis of them, so that the subordinates will understand these tribes to a higher level.

This is a group of seemingly powerful but incomparably weak guys, just a group of armed beasts, acting according to instinct, dominated by primitive desires, and only a few people can transcend them, so they don't deserve to be opponents at the strategic level at all.

They did not form their own systematic culture and system, did not form a civilization, did not have a vision for long-term development, and in the face of the weak central court of the Han Dynasty, it took them more than 100 years of hard work to slowly erode the northern part of Bingzhou, which is enough to prove that they are not real worries at all.

Moreover, whether it is the military system, the production system, science and technology, etc., they are all lagging behind the Han Empire in all aspects.

In the face of such a group of enemies, if the Han army could not defeat the prestige of the Han Dynasty and Wuhu, then Liu Bei would have reason to suspect that his subordinates were prevaricating themselves, and the problem was not the enemy, but himself.

This kind of simple self-confidence, through years of war, has basically become the consensus of the Han army, so even the Southern Xiongnu were not taken into Liu Bei's eyes, because they were all "rootless duckweed" in the right way.

What is really difficult to deal with is the hundreds of thousands of "mountain bandits" entrenched in the Taihang Mountains, they are not rootless duckweed, but the "masters" rooted in the Taihang Mountains.

These people who were forced to flee to survive under the influence of the harsh government of the Han Empire just entered the mountains in order to survive, and most of them were just trying to eat even now, and they had no lofty ideals at all, so Liu Bei couldn't bear to use troops against them.

But if such a large force is left alone and manipulated by Zhang Yan and others, it is not the right thing to do.

It would be best if they could use political means to slowly dissipate their power and let those who want to return to normal life leave the mountains and return to the land.

But to do it, it is very difficult.

After tasting the taste of power and domination, the bandit leaders, large and small, would not easily accept the peaceful evolution policy of the Luoyang Imperial Court, and few of them would be willing to return to the peasant life, and they would inevitably become a major obstacle to the political offensive of the Luoyang Imperial Court.

Therefore, Liu Bei convened the think tanks to brainstorm together, wanting to find the possibility of solving the problem of bandits in Liangzhou in a political way through their policy victories in Liangzhou.