Xuande

Chapter 618
After Liu Bei learned of the situation in Bingzhou, he was not surprised. This was in his expectation.

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

As a professional civil servant governor, Man Chong needs to be the first in the world, set an example for the world's governors, and do a good job in professional things, so that "there is a specialization in the art industry".

Similarly, in Hedong County, Han Dang, the new governor of Hedong County, also led Liu Bei's task to renovate the logistics and transportation channels in Hedong County, to carry out comprehensive repairs on roads and bridges, and to build and repair the storage warehouses along the grain road simultaneously. .

Even from mid-to-late December, Liu Bei began to recruit troops and auxiliary soldiers in the Luoyang area to transport food to the warehouses on the logistics route for the Bingzhou battle to prepare for the subsequent battle.

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

An emergency reserve station is set up every ten miles, and a large army rest station is set up every thirty miles. Corresponding logistics personnel and logistics materials will be arranged for each distance of the army's movement.

On this basis, the emergence of emergencies must also be considered, such as sudden heavy rain, heavy snowfall, sudden drop in temperature, and so on.

Any problem in any link of the march may cause problems with the marching speed of the army, which will affect all aspects of the follow-up, bring additional losses to the court, and even affect the battle situation.

Therefore, for a commander, the specific battle should be considered later. The first thing to consider is to transport the troops from the assembly point to the combat area steadily and on time.

Liu Bei's requirements for logistics are extremely strict. Once there is a problem, according to the military law, it will be cut without any sympathy.

It is difficult to achieve this target in operations outside the borders, and there is no way to do it, but marches and expeditions within the borders should have such configurations to minimize the possibility of non-combat attrition.

When Liu Bei fights wars, he always pays attention to accumulation and accumulation. Without sufficient logistical supplies, he would rather not fight.

In terms of logistics for this battle, with the cooperation of Hedong County Mansion, Henan Yin and the General's Mansion, Liu Bei served as the general manager and took charge of the logistics supply to provide sufficient logistics supplies for the battle in Bingzhou.

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

In terms of the army, Guan Yu and Qianzhao also screened the army of Bingzhou, and finally selected more than 2 qualified soldiers from more than 3000 soldiers, and all the others were paid and sent back to their original places.

I have to say that the individual quality of Bingzhou soldiers is still very good.

After Liu Bei got the news, he ordered the gathering of more than 3000 Bingzhou soldiers, transferred them to Luoyang together, entered the recruit camp for training, and then used them as supplements to the main army and the establishment of a new army.

Liu Bei doesn't like to fight with an army that has not been reorganized, just as most of his generals are unwilling to use an army that has not been reorganized to fight. In the eyes of Liu Bei's generals, an army that has not been trained in the "Military Training Code" is even Neither is an army.

That is the grass-roots team, civilians with weapons, and gangsters fighting in groups on the street.

Only the soldiers who came out of the Luoyang training camp were serious soldiers and worthy of their command.

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

One soldier who came out of the training camp was comparable to five or six untrained soldiers.

One soldier who came out of the wounded camp was comparable 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 returned from the wounded camp. The more veterans, the richer the combat experience and the stronger the combat effectiveness. Reliable army.

From this perspective, Guan Yu believed that his army was far more reliable than the Qianniu Army recruited.

Because the Tianwei Army itself is composed of Liu Bei's old Liangzhou subordinates, and in the past two years, in addition to guarding Liangzhou, there have been more than a dozen battles, large and small, to suppress bandits and counterattack the invasion of small Xianbei tribes. The proportion of veterans is extremely high .

The Qianniu Army was established mainly by recruiting soldiers from the Shu region.

In the Qianniu Army, only some veterans serve as officers, and the rest are soldiers from Shu. Although there are quite a few of them, they have no richer combat experience after all. In recent years, there have only been some small-scale bandit suppression operations. , the land of Sichuan and Shu is generally stable.

The lack of experienced veterans under his command is a deficiency of the Qianniu Army.

However, Qianzhao doesn't think that the army under his command is any worse than Guan Yu's Tianwei Army. The Qianniu Army is also trained by him with painstaking efforts. When training, he cares more than anyone else, and he knows his own strength. How hard the subordinates worked in training.

Therefore, Qianzhao does not think that the Qianniu Army cannot undertake the combat mission alone.

According to the original military plan, the first phase of the Battle of Bingzhou was divided into two action plans. The first plan was that the Bingzhou bandits and the Southern Huns responded to the court's call, and the second was that they did not respond to the court's call.

If they respond to the imperial court's call, that is naturally the best. At that time, Guan Yu will lead the Tianwei Army and the cavalry troops of the Southern Huns to move all the way, enter Shangjun through Xihe County, and then go to Shuofang County, sweeping the local Xianbei, Huns and other tribes all the way , to retake the territory.

The Qianniu Army led by Qianzhao, together with the bandits in Bingzhou, went to Yanmen County, Dingxiang County and Yunzhong County, fought against the Wuhuan tribe there, and defeated all the Wuhuan people.

If the two armies move smoothly, they should join forces in Wuyuan County to complete the first phase of the battle to merge the state.

And if the Southern Huns and Bingzhou bandits do not respond to the court's military actions, then the combat mode will be changed. The army should not act in two ways, but gather together to act.

The army can start from Taiyuan County, enter Xihe County, then go to Shangjun and Shuofang Jun, 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 to carry out strategic deterrence. If there is any change between the bandits in Bingzhou and the Southern Huns, Han Dang needs to act immediately and send the news to the army as quickly as possible. Luo Yang, let Liu Bei know.

In this case, Liu Bei will send two cavalry armies headed by Zhang Fei to quickly go north to support them. If the situation is even worse, he will consider dispatching himself.

The entire combat deployment has high requirements for Guan Yu and Qianzhao. Whether it is the first plan or the second plan, Guan Yu and Qianzhao are required to complete the removal of the Xianbei and Wuhuan people.

Therefore, before they dispatched troops, Liu Bei also added an additional commander of [-] cavalry to each of them, and reinforced the army they commanded.

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

Although the Xianbei and Wuhuan people are numerous, they seem to be quite capable of fighting, but Liu Bei has already done a thorough analysis of them, which has given his subordinates a better understanding of these tribes.

This is a group of seemingly powerful but extremely weak guys. They are just a group of armed beasts who act according to their instincts and are dominated by primitive desires. Only a very small number of people can transcend them, so they are not worthy of being strategic opponents at all.

They did not form their own systematic culture, system, civilization, and long-term development vision. Facing the weak Han Central Court, it took them more than a hundred years to slowly erode the northern part of Bingzhou. This is enough Proof that they are not real worries at all.

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

Facing such a group of enemies, if the Han army can't play the prestige of a Han as a five-hu, then Liu Bei has reason to suspect that his subordinates are prevaricating himself. The problem is not with the enemy, but with himself.

This simple self-confidence has basically become the consensus of the Han army after years of war, so even the Southern Huns were not taken seriously by Liu Bei, because they are all serious "rootless duckweeds".

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

These people who were forced to flee under the influence of the tyrannical government of the Han Empire entered the mountains just to survive. Even now, most of them are just to make a living and have no lofty ideals at all. Therefore, we must use troops against them. Liu Bei couldn't bear it.

However, if such a large force is left alone and allowed to be manipulated by Zhang Yan and others, it is not the correct approach.

It would of course be the best way to 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 it is very difficult to do it.

After the big and small bandit leaders have tasted the taste of power and dominance, they will not easily accept the peaceful evolution policy of the Luoyang court. Few of them are willing to return to farm life, and they will inevitably become Luoyang court political leaders. A major hindrance to the offensive.

Therefore, Liu Bei summoned his think tanks to brainstorm together, hoping to pass their previous policy victory in Liangzhou, and find the possibility of solving the bandit problem in Bingzhou through political means.

(End of this chapter)