After Liu Bei learned about the situation in Bingzhou, he was not surprised. This was what he expected.
So, he replied to Man Chong, asking Man Chong to properly handle the affairs of Bingzhou, and told him not to worry, the court would definitely provide them with sufficient money and food, and what Man Chong needed to do now was to prepare for logistics and transportation.
As a professional civilian governor, Man Chong needs to be the first in the world, set an example for the world's governors, and do professional things well so that he can "specialize in his profession."
Similarly, in Hedong County, the new Hedong County Governor Han Dang also took over Liu Bei's task and made every effort to renovate Hedong County's logistics transportation channels, comprehensively repair roads and bridges, and simultaneously construct and repair storage warehouses along the grain roads.
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Even starting from mid to late December, Liu Bei began to recruit troops in the Luoyang area, and the auxiliary troops began to transport food to warehouses on the logistics route for the Bingzhou battle to prepare for the subsequent war.
According to Liu Bei's plan, every section of the road that the army passes through must be sent out in advance to find out the specific hydrology and road conditions, and then summarize it at the Luoyang base camp, so that the base camp can formulate the optimal march route, and then set up corresponding marching routes based on this route.
Through the allocation of time and materials.
An emergency reserve station is set up every ten miles, and an 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 operations.
On this basis, we must also consider the occurrence of emergencies, such as sudden heavy rain, heavy snowfall, sudden drop in temperature, etc.
Problems in any part of the march may cause problems with the marching speed of the army, which will affect all subsequent aspects, bring additional losses to the court, and even affect the war situation.
Therefore, for a commander, the specific battle should be considered later. The first thing to consider is to send the troops from the assembly area to the combat area steadily and on time.
Liu Bei's requirements for logistics are extremely strict. If there is a problem, according to military law, he will be killed without mercy.
It is difficult to achieve this target for operations outside the country's borders, and there is no way around it. However, marching operations within the country should have such a configuration to minimize the possibility of non-combat attrition.
When Liu Bei goes to war, he always pays attention to accumulation and preparation. Without sufficient logistical supplies, he would rather not go to war.
In terms of logistics for this battle, Hedong County Government and Henan Yinhe General Mansion worked together. Liu Bei served as the general person in charge and took control of the logistics supply to provide sufficient logistics supply for the Bingzhou operation.
After everything is ready, it is the turn to make specific military arrangements.
In terms of the army, Guan Yu and Qianzhao also screened the troops in Bingzhou, and finally selected more than 13,000 qualified soldiers from more than 20,000 soldiers. The others were all paid and sent back to their hometowns.
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I have to say that the individual soldier quality of Bingzhou soldiers is still very good.
After Liu Bei got the news, he ordered the more than 13,000 soldiers from Bingzhou to be gathered together and transferred to Luoyang to enter the new recruit camp for training, which would later be used to supplement the main army and establish the new army.
Liu Bei does not like to fight with troops that have not been reorganized, just as most of his generals are also unwilling to use troops that have not been reorganized. In the eyes of Liu Bei's generals, an army that has not been trained in the "Military Training Code" is even
They can't be considered an army.
Those are the grass-roots cadres, civilians with weapons, gangsters fighting in groups on the streets. They can pretend to be just fine, but if they really want to take action, they are of no use.
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 on a concept.
One soldier who comes out of the training camp is as good as five or six untrained soldiers.
One soldier who comes out of the wounded soldier camp is as good as five or six soldiers who 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 injury camp. The more veterans, the richer the combat experience and the stronger the combat effectiveness. The fewer veterans, the less effective an army.
A reliable army.
From this perspective, Guan Yu believed that his own army was far more reliable than the Qianniu Army he had recruited.
Because the Tianwei Army itself is composed of Liu Bei's old subordinates of Liangzhou, and in the past two years, in addition to guarding Liangzhou, they have also carried out more than ten battles to suppress bandits and counterattack the invasion of small Xianbei tribes. The proportion of veterans is extremely high.
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The Qianniu Army was mainly established by recruiting soldiers from Shu.
In the Qianniu Army, only some veterans serve as officers, and the rest are soldiers from Shu. Although there are quite a few people, they have never had richer combat experience. In recent years, there have only been some small-scale bandit suppression operations.
, Sichuan and Sichuan are generally stable.
The lack of experienced veterans under his command is a shortcoming of the Qianniu Army.
However, Qianzhao doesn't think that the army under his command is any worse than Guan Yu's Tianwei Army. He also trained the Qianniu Army with great pains. When training troops, he cares more than anyone else, and he also knows that his own
How hard your subordinates work in training.
Therefore, Qianzhao does not think that the Qianniu Army cannot undertake the combat mission of a single line.
According to the original military plan, the first phase of the Bingzhou Campaign was divided into two action plans. The first plan was to defeat the Bingzhou Bandits and the Southern Huns to respond to the imperial court's call, and the second was their plan to not respond to the imperial court's call.
It would be best if they responded to the imperial court's call. At that time, Guan Yu would lead the Tianwei Army and the Southern Huns' cavalry troops to move all the way through Xihe County, enter Shang County, and then go to Shuofang County, sweeping through the local Xianbei, Xiongnu and other tribes.
, regain the territory.
The Qianniu Army led by Qian Zhao and the Bingzhou Bandits moved together to Yanmen County, Dingxiang County and Yunzhong County to fight with the Wuhuan tribe there and defeat all the Wuhuan people.
If the two armies move smoothly, they should join forces in Wuyuan County and complete the first phase of the Bingzhou Campaign.
And if the Southern Xiongnu and Bingzhou bandits do not respond to the imperial court's military action, then the combat mode will be changed. The army will not move in two directions, but will act together.
The army can start from Taiyuan County, enter Xihe County, then go to Shang County, kill Shuofang Jun and go 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 Bingzhou Bandits and the Southern Huns, Han Dang needs to act immediately and send the news to them as quickly as possible.
Luoyang, let Liu Bei know.
In this case, Liu Bei will send two cavalry armies led by General Zhang Fei to the north quickly to support. If the situation becomes worse, he will consider dispatching himself.
The entire battle deployment still has very 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 elimination of the Xianbei people, Wuhuan people, etc.
Therefore, before they sent out troops, Liu Bei also gave each of them two thousand additional cavalry command troops to reinforce the troops they commanded.
In this way, according to the standard configuration, they can command at least three thousand cavalry in combat, which is no longer a small number for a combat operation.
Although the Xianbei and Wuhuan people were large in number, they looked capable of fighting, but Liu Bei had already made a thorough analysis of them, which allowed his subordinates to understand these tribes to a higher level.
This is a group of guys who appear to be powerful but are actually extremely weak. They are just a group of armed beasts that follow instinct and are dominated by primitive desires. Only a very few people can transcend it, so they are not worthy of becoming a strategic opponent at all.
They did not form their own systematic culture, system, civilization, and long-term development vision. Facing the weak central court of the Han Dynasty, it took them more than a hundred years to slowly erode the northern part of Bingzhou. This was enough
Proof that they are not real worries at all.
Moreover, in terms of military system, production system, science and technology, etc., they all lagged behind the Han Empire in all aspects.
Facing such a group of enemies, if the Han army cannot display the majesty it once had when one Han acted as the five barbarians, then Liu Bei would have reason to suspect that his subordinates are trying to frustrate him. The problem lies not with the enemy but with himself.
This simple self-confidence has basically become the consensus of the Han army after many years of war, so even the Southern Huns were not taken seriously by Liu Bei, because they were all serious "rootless duckweeds".
What is really difficult to deal with are the hundreds of thousands of "bandits" entrenched in the Taihang Mountains. They are not rootless duckweeds, but "masters" rooted in the Taihang Mountains.
These people who were forced to flee for survival under the influence of the harsh rule of the Han Empire entered the mountains just to survive. Most of them even now are just for a living and have no lofty ideals at all, so we must use troops against them.
Liu Bei couldn't bear it.
However, it would not be the right approach to leave such a large force alone and allow Zhang Yan and others to manipulate it.
If we can use political means to slowly dispel their power and allow people who want to return to normal life to leave the mountains and return to the land, it is of course the best way.
But it is extremely difficult to do it.
After the bandit leaders, large and small, have tasted the taste of power and dominance, they will not easily accept the Luoyang court's policy of peaceful evolution. Few of them are willing to return to farm life. They will inevitably become political leaders of the Luoyang court.
A major obstacle to the offensive.
Therefore, Liu Bei gathered his think tanks to brainstorm together, hoping to use their previous policy victory in Liangzhou to find the possibility of using political methods to solve the problem of mountain bandits in Bingzhou.