I will be the master of Xuande

Chapter 784 There is Kong Ming on Ziyi’s boat
Cao Cao's actions were known to everyone on the north coast, but they were not a big deal to Liu Bei and Guan Yu.

Liu Bei and Guan Yu organized large-scale military exercises to express their determination to conquer Jiangdong.

This time, the court was serious.

Once Liu Jian made up his mind which enemies he wanted to destroy, he would definitely destroy them. This is an irrefutable reality.

Liu Bei and Guan Yu knew this well.

Since he raised his army, there has been no enemy that he cannot defeat. Most of Liu Jian's enemies have long since turned into dust and disappeared in the long river of history.

Only Cao Cao and Yuan Shao were left.

Cao Cao deeply understood this truth and the danger of this battle.

Therefore, he must unite the hearts of all the generals and troops participating in the war before the war. Once the war begins, the army only needs one voice and no other noises.

To this end, Cao Cao convened a military meeting, attended by senior generals in Cao's army.

The extremely powerful national power of Liu Jian's regime will be poured out on Jiangdong. Whether Jiangdong can withstand it is really a question.

Lu Fan's words were very intimidating and completely broke everyone's illusions.

"If this is the case, this battle will be really difficult to fight."

His speech was also very targeted.

Then, he added: "It's just that our current status is not enough. After all, Liu Jian occupies the orthodox position."

"What he is thinking about now is not the gains and losses of the county, but to expand his power and reputation as quickly as possible. He wants to be emperor and govern the country! He will definitely fight with us until death. Everyone, please give up your inappropriate illusions immediately. This battle is a battle of life and death!”

Zhou Yu said: "In this case, we can only use the death of the late emperor to attack the Liu bandits."

Both of them are very willing to fight hard and will never show weakness.

Zhou Yu punched the table in front of him: "No matter what, we have no way out. We all fought to the death with Liu Jian. If we don't win this battle, the Han Dynasty will not survive, and we will also die." Death without a burial place!”

Dong Xi was quite accomplished in water warfare, and his words held great weight.

The general trend of the world has reached this point. Liu Jian has defeated most of the heroes and is full of ambitions to unify the world. How can he accept the current situation of neither superior nor inferior?
Unification was imperative to him.

At the core military meeting, Cao Cao told his senior generals the most terrifying outcome he expected, which made everyone change their minds.

Yu Jin frowned and said: "Originally our troops are not enough. If Liu Bei and Guan Yu make up their minds to attack Jiangdong, their troops will far exceed ours, whether it is food or materials, we can stop them for a while, but not for a lifetime. Lord, we are too disadvantaged." Big."

Of course, there is also the reason for Xiahou Dun's death.

Dong Xi also supported Xia Houyuan's opinion.

"No matter how good they are at water warfare, they will never be better at water warfare than us. Duke Cao has set up many naval camps along the coast and deployed warships to meet the enemy. Once the Northern Navy navy is dispatched, we can quickly launch a counterattack. I I don’t believe they can defeat us on a warship!”

They felt that what Zhou Yu said made sense.

Once a war is launched, Jiangdong will face a storm of blows from Liu Jian's regime, with almost no pause.

Before the battle even started, the two senior generals showed their timidity.

So Zhou Yu also stood up and gave the final word.

After the unification, with such prestige and power, and a young emperor Liu Xie and Liu Deran, would they still be Duke of Zhou?

They immediately realized that if Liu Jian was coming, he meant it.

"Yes, this battle is difficult to fight."

Zhou Yu's intention was to blame Liu Jian for Liu Bian's death.

"I think this is not a question of whether to fight or not, but a question of having to fight."

"I have waited ten years to establish a foundation in Jiangnan, how can I give it to others in one day?"

"The situation has been like this. Liu Jian has wiped out the heroes in the north and there is no future trouble. Anyone who has such an advantage since ancient times will try to dominate the world. Jiangdong will definitely covet Liu Jian. Everyone, this battle is a battle of defense!"

"We don't want to fight, will Liu Jian let us go?"

This concept has long been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people in the North.

"Are we just going to do nothing and just surrender?"

Zhou Yu's words deeply stimulated the hearts of the generals.

He is fearless and moves forward bravely, and will not get depressed just because he lost a battle. From this perspective, Xia Houyuan is more courageous than many people.

Cao Cao and Zhou Yu's predictions were absolutely correct, and the situation was even much worse than the worst case scenario they had imagined.

Then, Lu Fan spoke.

Cao Hong also nodded: "During this period, Guan Yu also recruited many ships in Huainan, and it is said that he also trained some soldiers who are good at water warfare. Once our advantage in water warfare is offset, it will be even more difficult to fight ashore. , During the previous battle in Huainan, everyone knew that the Northern Army was invincible in land battles. "

Xia Houyuan was very unhappy about this.

"In this battle, Liu Bei and Guan Yu came with bad intentions. I heard that the amount of grain accumulated in Xuzhou was enough to support Liu Bei and Guan Yu's two-year campaign. He must have accumulated grain for so long to completely capture Jiangdong."

Only in this way can they identify Liu Jian as a Han traitor who wants to usurp the throne, and Cao Jun is the guardian of the Han Empire, not a rebel as Liu Jian claimed, and their struggle is just.

The generals present felt awe-inspiring in their hearts.

Although everyone in the world knows that Liu Bian's death was because of Yuan Shao, they have no other reason now.

Although Xia Houyuan was defeated by Liu Jian, his will to oppose Liu was still very strong.

The total strength of the 30,000 troops directly controlled by Guan Yu and the 30,000 troops led by Liu Bei in the Huainan region has exceeded 60,000.

Not only that, the Southeast Front Army is a unit that Liu Jian attaches great importance to.

Therefore, the armies of Guan Yu and Liu Bei were the focus of the formation of the Han Dynasty.

From the first year of Jian'an to the present, the excellent ordnance achievements of the north have been placed on the Southeast Front.

The infantry used the best weapons.

The high bridge saddle, double stirrups, and horseshoes were three major pieces of cavalry equipment that immediately increased the combat effectiveness of the cavalry in the southeastern Han army.

The legs do not need to use a lot of strength to clamp the horse's belly, nor do they need to try hard to balance the body. The hands are completely free, and they can use weapons with both hands to fight. Ordinary cavalry can also perform many horseback movements that were originally considered difficult.

From then on, mounted combat was no longer the exclusive preserve of generals and elite cavalry.

Guan Yu was very satisfied with the equipment of the new cavalry. Coupled with the popularity of heavy weapons such as maces and axes in charge battles, the southeastern army has stronger plains combat effectiveness and more tactics.

As long as the Northern Army is allowed to land in Jiangdong, the Jiangdong Army will undoubtedly die.

Soon, Liu Jian learned that the main force of Shanyue was destroyed, and a small number of them were still fighting scatteredly, but it was no longer the case.

The powerful forces in the five counties of Jiangdong and the Shanyue forces were severely hit and almost collapsed. Cao's army's morale recovered and it has taken root in Jiangdong more firmly than before.

In order to achieve this goal, Cao Cao used forced marriage to force the Jiangdong gentry and the high-level Cao family to marry, achieving the effect of forced cooperation and trying to make himself the orthodox regime of Jiangdong.

They also killed all the powerful families who joined the rebels, wiped them out, and seized their supplies and population...

Liu Jian was actually quite happy.

Because of what Cao Cao is doing now, he will definitely do it again when he arrives in Jiangdong in the future.

Now that Cao Cao has done it, to be honest, it has saved him a lot of time.

It seems that Cao Cao can be regarded as a foundation for China to move forward.

If he could cooperate with him, perhaps the Han Dynasty would advance even faster.

Liu Jian sighed at this.

Although he was a little moved by the tacit understanding between him and Cao Cao, the battle still had to be fought.

Now that Cao Cao has completed all his work as a tool man, it's time to destroy him and he can't stay any longer.

Liu Jian was in Jingzhou, but he gave Guan Yu and Liu Bei military orders to start taking action.

Liu Jian ordered Xuzhou Mu Liu Bei to serve as the commander-in-chief of the battle to destroy Cao, and to lead the entire army. All the armies in the southeast, including the navy under Taishi Ci, must obey Liu Bei's orders.

He made Guan Yu his deputy commander to assist Liu Bei in fighting.

Zhuge Liang and Lu Su joined the army and participated in politics.

Assisted coach Liu Bei in the battle to annihilate Cao Cao's regime.

Xu Sheng, Cheng Pu, Han Dang, Gao Shun and others served as auxiliary generals.

He also ordered the envoy to give Liu Bei the Jie Yue on his behalf, and ordered Liu Bei to use it to command the entire army. If anyone disrespected the military order, he would be killed directly without reporting.

From this, the battle to destroy Cao officially began.

With Liu Jian's order, the two prefectures of Qingzhou and Xuzhou, as well as the counties of Lujiang and Jiujiang, will unconditionally provide Liu Bei with the military rations and various military supplies he needs, and all auxiliary troops will be mobilized.

He also ordered Liu Ji, the current governor of Yuzhou, to mobilize 100,000 civilians to help allocate resources from the Central Plains region to the south for supplies.

Preparations for war are proceeding rapidly everywhere.

After receiving the order, the county guards, county magistrates, and country folk in various places started working at high speed, mobilizing all the grassroots in various places, and quickly entered the wartime system, just like every previous war.

With a grateful heart, the villagers from all over the country who had received Liu Jian's kindness to stay alive and well fed set foot on the battlefield to deliver rations, military supplies and other necessities to the front-line regular troops fighting on the front line.

The mobilization power that the population should have is fully mobilized. The larger the population, the greater the mobilization power.

The Han Dynasty finally restored the prosperity it should have had!
The officers and soldiers of the Han army received higher security for the war. They could eat well at every turn and did not have to worry about hunger. They were fully equipped. They did not have to worry about not having good weapons and being killed on the battlefield. They also did not have to worry about the war dragging on for a long time and the weather turning cold and leaving them without clothes. wear.

The big man has been able to do this. Once the battle begins, there will be no problems with logistics and no problems will be allowed.

If there is a problem, Liu Jian will definitely get to the bottom of it, then pull out the carrot and bring it out of the mud, beat the relevant officials to the bottom, and throw them all into the abyss to maintain his mobilization power.

The Third Discipline Inspection Department was established to deal with corruption and other issues!
The preparations of the Southeast Corps were in full swing and quite rapid.

Within a month, war preparations had been initially completed.

According to the estimates of local planners, they believe that in about half a month, 50% of the war mobilization force will be able to arrive at the scheduled location, and the logistics support will be sufficient to launch a full-scale attack.

As long as Liu Bei feels that it's almost done, he can start a war.

But Liu Bei was not in a hurry.

Because this was Lu Su's advice to him, first find out the other party's movements and figure out the other party's intentions.

Following Lu Su's suggestion, Liu Bei investigated Cao Cao's movements, learned about the other party's defenses and war preparations, and learned that Cao Cao's army used large-scale and large-number high-mobility small warships as the main force, and abandoned the use of large-scale ships as the main force. The condition of the ship.

It seems that they are worried about their own trebuchets and thunderbolt cars.

"Cao Cao and Zhou Yu are indeed not ordinary people!"

Liu Bei said.

"Having said that."

Lu Su said: "Cao Cao and Zhou Yu don't know after all. It seems that we put all our focus here, but in fact it was General Taishi's ship that really took his life!"

Liu Bei thought about it for a while.

"He would never have imagined that we would launch a surprise attack from the sea, land at a place he could not predict, and directly steal his retreat. When he is attacked from both sides, I don't know what he will think."

Although Cao Cao knew that Liu Jian had built a navy, he did not know that this navy was a large-scale navy built based on cross-sea landing operations. It was large in number, extremely carrying capacity, and large in scale.

The fundamental purpose of establishing this navy was not to fight water wars with the Jiangnan Navy in the inland rivers.

Cao Cao and Zhou Yu were still preparing for a fierce offensive and defensive battle with the enemy along the Yangtze River. He believed that the enemy army would definitely use a large number of ships to break through his defense line head-on, and he was already prepared for a desperate fight.

As for what's behind...

Cross-sea landing operations and other operations seem to be beyond the scope of Cao Cao and Zhou Yu's understanding.

Of course, it was originally not within Liu Bei's understanding.

He had never really thought about this kind of thing before.

Attack Jiangnan from two fronts, delimit the main battlefield within the scope of Wu County and Danyang County, and carry out a devastating blow to the main force of the Wu army in Wu County and Danyang County.

As long as Wu County and Danyang County are captured, Cao Cao's regime will basically be declared destroyed, and the remaining three counties will just be pushed aside.

Liu Bei asked Lu Su, "Should we wait for news from Taishi Ziyi now?"

Lu Su replied: "In my opinion, although Kong Ming is on Ziyi's ship, we should still launch a full-scale attack, involve the energy of Cao Cao and Zhou Yu, prevent them from reacting, and buy time for Ziyi and Kong Ming. Go deep behind enemy lines."

(End of this chapter)