Cao Cao's expression was calm and solemn. After inspecting and observing the expressions and morale of the generals, he ordered as cold as iron:

"Liu Bei has many soldiers and a wide range of generals, and is strong and powerful. He cannot be defeated by gathering the power of the princes of Guandong. Therefore, in today's battle, we are both for our own safety and for the court's worries.

But no matter how powerful the enemy is, we must show our determination to fight against rebellion to the death. When we attacked Dong and then Yuan Shu fought, we will fight now. The world is up to me. You must not be afraid of the enemy, nor underestimate the enemy."

Cao Cao's words are similar to "strategically despise the enemy and tactical attention to the enemy." Because the enemy is indeed powerful, people's hearts cannot be unified without saying these words. Before fighting, they should emphasize publicity.

Then, Cao Cao changed his mind and began to emphasize that "although the enemy is strong overall, we still have an advantage in this local battlefield at this moment."

In order to make his words more credible, he did not boast about it, but instead started to talk to military advisor Guo Jia.

Guo Jia hung up a map in front of the generals and explained to everyone: "My generals, although Liu Bei is powerful, especially since he has expanded his troops continuously in two consecutive years last year, he claims to train 180,000 troops in Nanyang County in batches, expanding the troops that Liu Bei can use for expeditions to 500,000.

However, it is precisely because of Liu Bei's Nanyang training plan that although Nanyang opposite is called the county with the largest number of troops stationed in Guanxi, the preparation force of the war zone is not the strongest.

Nanyang was still the land of Yuan Shu three years ago. It was originally densely populated and had a small population. It was also plundered by Yuan Shu for years of tyranny. People's livelihood was withered, the treasury had no surplus grain, and the people had no storage.

Although Liu Bei occupied Nanyang for more than three years, he only resumed production, which was not enough to accumulate military supplies in Nanyang. Li Su was stubborn, greedy for merit and made rapid progress, and urgently built the canal, and used the new army to be trained to be trained to be served by the way. This made Liu Bei's rear finally transported Nanyang's materials to be consumed immediately and could hardly be saved.

Therefore, among Liu Bei's 500,000 soldiers and horses, almost none of the elite veterans who had more than three years of military experience and participated in bloody battles were stationed in Nanyang. Nanyang's food and grass were only enough for those soldiers and horses to be trained for daily use. The remaining 300,000 soldiers were responsible for Hebei, Jiangdong, Jingchu, and even dealing with the Hu people and the Southern Barbarians in the northern border.

All the more than 100,000 people in Nanyang have been in the army for less than two years, and their elite level is far inferior to our army.

Among them, only 80,000 people had barely seen blood. They were either captured and renovated from Yuan Shao and Sun Ce's old subordinates, or they followed Li Su to destroy the Sun family in Jiangdong last fall, and the rest had no combat experience.

The last 100,000 new recruits had never fought a single battle. They claimed to have been training for more than half a year, but in fact they only spent at most two months to barely train the training queue, emphasizing military discipline.

All the rest of my time was digging rivers and working hard labor, and I had never practiced martial arts at all. Therefore, although the Nanyang War Zone claimed to have 180,000 enemy troops, it was not worth fearing, and this was one of them.

Secondly, no matter how weak these 180,000 people were, the lord attacked after the snowfall in the middle of winter, and these 180,000 troops were unable to enter the battle, which provided our army with a great advantage.

As we all know, Li Su secretly dug the Nanyang Canal, but has not been dug until now, so it is not known whether it has been dug halfway. Therefore, most of the Nanyang garrisons are usually stationed in Wancheng, and even the more convenient rearward Jingyang, Xinye, and Xiangyang, in order to minimize the loss of military rations and supplies for the army.

You are all famous generals who have fought for a long time. You should know how much extra waste there will be when the army is stationed for a long time, away from the river transport waterway. Kunyang and Ye County are not connected to the water transport network behind Liu Bei. The military rations garrison here must be transported by land one or two hundred miles by land, and in the middle, you have to cross the pass valley of Tongbai Mountain in Bowang.

Therefore, Gao Shun usually only stationed 20,000 to 30,000 troops in Kunyang and Ye County to prevent accidents. After our army was really threatened, Gao Shun put 150,000 troops from Wancheng, Xinye and Xiangyang in the rear to support them in batches. In this way, when there is no war, the main station does not need to stay away from the waterway in advance.

Gao Shun did this normally, because he was sure that even if there was a change in Kunyang, 20,000 people could hold on for a month. Even considering that our army now has mastered the leverage catapult created by Li Su, Kunyang Energy's time to hold on is reduced, but it is still okay to hold on for ten or eight days.

Bowang has only 200 miles to Kunyang, and Wancheng has 300 miles to Kunyang. Ten and eight days are enough to reach the main force of Gaoshun Line to come up to support it. But now, it happens that the mountain is blocked by heavy snow. There are dangerous mountain roads everywhere in Tongbai Mountain and it is no longer possible to march. The lowest and easy-to-go Bowang Pass is also easily blocked.

Therefore, our army was given the opportunity to defeat each of our soldiers in Kunyang Ye County! As long as the battle ended before the snow melted in spring, our army would win!”

After listening to Guo Jia's incisive explanation, the generals also greatly boosted their morale. Although Liu Bei was very strong, they still felt that they were OK again.

Seeing that Cao Cao had already understood the spirit of deployment before the war, he officially began to allocate troops: "Since everyone understands it, I will be assigned the task. Xiahou Dun!"

Cao Cao assigned tasks very formally, and he directly called him a name, no matter whether he was familiar with it or not.

"The last one is here!" Xiahou Dun, with his eyes intact, roared out of the line, full of energy.

"You, Li Dian and Du Xi, led 20,000 troops stationed in Dingling, Wuyang, Yancheng and other three places, totaling 60,000. Before the war in Kunyang began, they rushed to the back of Kunyang and Ye County to block the Bowangpo, the key pass of Tongbai Mountain.

I don’t want you to find the enemy to fight decisively. Just look for the most dangerous place on both sides of the Tongbai Mountain Pass and set up ambush to ensure that after Kunyang and Ye County are in danger, Gao Shun’s main force in Wancheng cannot support the front line through the pass. In this way, you will be the first to be with the generals who actually command the siege!”

"No!" Xiahou Dun took the token and returned to the team. Li Dian and Du Xi also quickly responded to the order and served as Xiahou Dun's deputy general and military officer.

Cao Cao also cared for Xiahou Dun to listen to the advice of wise generals like Li Dian and be cautious in using troops. If the snow accumulates thicker and thicker, it is difficult to set up an ambush, then camp as the road to ensure that the enemy reinforcements can be cut off.

After Cao Cao's explanation, military advisor Guo Jia did not forget to add a reminder: "General Xiahou, the land of Bowangpo, according to our detailed investigation, it happened to be where Li Suxiu canal passed. After more than a year of construction by Li Su, the terrain may change from previous years.

The location of the river in the middle of the valley should be dug lower and deeper, and the army will be easier to pass, and the impact of heavy snow sealing the mountain will be reduced. But since it is a canal construction site, there must be a lot of digging of earth and stone. If it is not easy to defend, the general can use the canal materials built by the enemy to temporarily and conveniently build a pass fortification. In this way, it will be easy to block the mouth."

Xiahou Dun said that he knew, and he would adapt to the situation at that time.

Cao Cao then began to deploy specific siege missions: "Xiahou Yuan! Le Jin! Cao Xiu, Cao Chun, Xiahou Shang!"

Xiahou Yuan and others took the list: "The last one will be here!"

Cao Cao: "Xiahou Yuan, you lead 80,000 main force. After Bowangpo is blocked, you besieged Kunyang step by step. Lejin, you lead 30,000 partial troops to besiege Ye County.

Cao Xiu, Cao Chun, Xiahou Shang, led the remaining 30,000 reserve teams, either stationed in the camp behind Yancheng, supporting various places, or rotating and dispatching them to search for the route along Tongbai Mountain with a clever cavalry tour.

Although during the heavy snow in winter, the enemy was unable to cross Tongbai Mountain from outside Bowangpo. However, under Liu Bei's tent, there was Wang Ping's Wudang Fei Army, and I heard that there were also mountain troops of the Manchu Shamoke, so we must be careful.

Our army searched along the mountains with elite cavalry to prevent Gao Shunyan Bowangpo from reinforcements after Xiahou Dun failed, and he rushed to jump over the wall and forcibly cross the mountains from other places. As long as our army is prepared, we can use the enemy's weakness of the speed of climbing mountains and concentrate superior forces to encircle and annihilate the enemy's troops over the mountains."
Chapter completed!