At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

Obviously it was Sun Ce's death that caused the disturbance, and the fear of Wei Jun was hard to dispel.

Han Dang was very unhappy about this.

"Should we just surrender like this without doing anything? Is this worthy of Wen Taigong and Bo Fu?"

Although Han Dang was also defeated by Wei Jun, he was still very strong.

He is fearless and courageous, and he will not be slumped because of a defeat. From this perspective, Han Dang is more courageous than many people.

Huang Gai also supported Han Dang's opinion.

"No matter how good they are at water warfare, they will not be better at water warfare than us. The governor has set up many naval camps along the coast, and set up a wide range of warships to meet the enemy. Once the Wei army navy is dispatched, we can quickly launch a counterattack. I will I don't believe they can defeat us on a warship!"

Dong Xi and Ling Cao's qualifications are lower than these four senior generals, but they also belong to the generals who survived the previous battle by chance, and their status is still there.

The two men recalled the scene of their lucky escape before, and at the same time they felt sorry for each other, but they were also full of resentment towards the Guo Wei regime.

These two are very willing to fight hard and will definitely not show weakness.

Then, Lu Fan spoke.

Lu Fan is Sun Ce's good friend, as friendly as Zhou Yu. He is most distressed by Sun Ce's death. After Sun Ce's death, he assisted Zhou Yu in persuading Sun Ce's old department who was about to leave. He contributed the most, had the best effect, and stayed the most people.

His speech is also very targeted.

"I think it's not a question of whether to fight or not, but whether to fight or not. Guo Peng presumptuously became king, and his heart of disobedience was clearly revealed. Now he is the king of Wei. As a general of the Han Dynasty, he is actually a traitor of the Han Dynasty. One day he will usurp the throne and proclaim himself emperor.

Now what he thinks is not to muddle along, but to expand his power and prestige as soon as possible. Our Wu country is his best target, and he will never die with us. Everyone, please give up the illusions that you shouldn't have. This battle is a battle of life and death to defend our Han! "

Lu Fan's declaration was very deterrent, and he actually directly put forward the slogan of defending the Han Empire.

What he means is that Guo Peng is a traitor of the Han Dynasty and wants to usurp the throne, but we are the guardians of the Han Empire, not the rebellion that Guo Peng claimed, and our struggle is just.

The generals present felt awe-inspiring.

They felt that what Lu Fan said made sense.

The general trend of the world has reached this point. Guo Peng swept away all the heroes in the north and became the King of Wei. It is the time when he is full of ambition to dominate the world. How could he accept the current situation of being indifferent?

Unification, great unification.

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

After the great unification, with such prestige and power, plus a young emperor, Guo Zifeng, do you still want to be Duke of Zhou?

So Zhou Yu also stood up and made a final decision.

"The situation is already like this. Guo Peng wiped out all the heroes in the north, and there is no future trouble in the north. That's why he boldly entered the throne and assumed the title of king. Since ancient times, no one who has occupied such an advantage has tried to dominate the world. Jiangdong must be coveted by Guo Peng, everyone. , This battle is a battle to defend the Han Dynasty!"

Zhou Yu slammed his fist on the table in front of him: "In any case, we have no way out. We have fought Guo Zifeng to the death. If we cannot win this battle, the Han Dynasty will not exist, and we will die too. No place to die!"

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

They immediately realized that Guo Peng was coming for real.

Once a war is launched, the state of Wu will face a torrential blow from the Guo Wei regime, and it will hardly stop.

The extremely powerful national power possessed by the Guo Wei regime will be poured on Wu Guo in one breath. Whether Wu Guo can bear it is really a question. I'm afraid it's really gone.

Zhou Yu's prediction was not wrong at all, and the situation was even worse than Zhou Yu's worst prediction.

In addition to the [-] troops under Zhang Liao's direct control and the [-] troops led by Yu Jin, the Southeast Front Army now includes the Qingzhou Navy with [-] troops, and the total strength has exceeded [-].

More than that, the Southeast Front Army is the first army that Guo Peng will launch a war after the cavalry reform.

Therefore, all the results of the cavalry reform carried out in nearly half a year from October of the first year of Jian'an to the end of April of the second year of Jian'an were placed in the southeast front army.

Originally, the Wei army had only 40 cavalry with [-] troops, while Zhang Liao had only [-] cavalry. This time, it was directly expanded to [-].

After half a year of special training, another 3000 people under Zhang Liao's command were successfully transferred to cavalry, using brand-new harnesses.

Takahashi saddle, double stirrups, and horseshoes, the cavalry three artifacts, the number of cavalry immediately surged, and the combat effect was particularly good.

Zhang Liao personally tried a horse equipped with harness and tried to fight on such a horse. He was surprised to find that he could do actions that he didn't dare to do casually before, and he could use heavy weapons that he didn't dare to use casually before.

The legs don't need a lot of strength to clamp the horse's belly, and they don't need to try their best to balance the body. The hands are completely free, and they can use weapons with both hands to fight. Ordinary cavalry can also make many tactical actions on horseback that were originally considered difficult.

From then on, cavalry combat is no longer the monopoly of generals and elite cavalry.

Chapter 717 720 Six Cavalry Revolution

Zhang Liao was very excited about this cavalry revolution.

Like Zhang Fei, he used a mace and danced with his hands while riding on the horse. The dancing was so vigorous that the soldiers applauded loudly.

Yu Jin couldn't help seeing such a majesty, put on his clothes, rode on a horse equipped with harness, and brandished a spiked iron club to confront Zhang Liao on the horse.

The two of you come and go, and then simply let the horse stop, sit on the horse and use weapons with both hands, go around the circle and fight with the mace, you can even wrestle on the horse as soon as you find me, so intense The cavalry battle made the soldiers mesmerized and applauded loudly.

If Guo Peng was present at this time, he would definitely recognize it. This is the reappearance of the specific link between the Three Kingdoms and Lu Bu in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms.

Fang Tian painted a halberd, double-strand sword, Qinglong Yanyue knife, Zhangba snake spear, and the generals at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty wielded heavy weapons that were only available in the Song Dynasty to fight against each other on horseback.

Such a situation would only be possible with a well-groomed man if he were not of great strength, gifted and well-trained.

Only in this way can the hands be truly liberated, and one can use all the strength to wield the weapon without struggling to balance the body.

In a short period of time, the tactics and tactics of the Wei Army cavalry underwent revolutionary changes.

Zhang Liao and Yu Jin brought together a group of Bingzhou generals from the original Lu Bu army, and a group of generals who were well versed in cavalry tactics to study new cavalry tactics and the strategic position of cavalry under the new situation.

While Guo Peng sent cavalry equipment and facilitated the cavalry reform of the Southeast Corps, he also sent a cart of bamboo slips to Zhang Liao.

What is written on the bamboo slips is the new cavalry tactics he researched from a professional point of view.

Guo Peng is undoubtedly a military expert, which is recognized by everyone in the world.

Zhang Liao carefully read the bamboo slips of this cart, and felt that Guo Peng's insights were very novel, and the tactics of the Grand Cavalry Legion he described were very eye-catching.

In particular he mentioned a tactic.

It is to use a tactic that not only focuses on heavy armor, but also puts heavy cavalry on horses in a line, and then forcibly impacts the infantry formation.

Guo Peng believed that such a tactic would allow the cavalry to tear apart the enemy's infantry formation head-on, achieving the effect of breaking through the formation at a high speed that infantry and light cavalry could not achieve, avoiding the fierce battle before breaking the formation, greatly reducing the casualties of the army, and deterring the enemy. The morale of the enemy.

At this time, a large number of cavalry in light armor and leather armor will then attack, use heavy weapons to rush into the enemy's formation to kill the infantry, high-speed maneuvering and condescending, it is easy to completely defeat the enemy's infantry that has lost the protection of the army formation .

Once the army formation is lost on the battlefield, the infantry is a living target for the cavalry, let alone the three magic weapons of the cavalry, it is the same when there is no cavalry.

The army array is the life of the infantry, and it is the standard equipment on the battlefield, and it must not be absent.

For such a concept, Zhang Liao didn't even dare to think about it in the past, but now seeing the birth of the new cavalry under the blessing of the three artifacts, and feeling the sense of security, Zhang Liao felt that it was indeed feasible.

If the cavalry can have the ability to charge into battle instead of the original state of only riding and shooting to defeat the enemy, then the cavalry can directly evolve into a battlefield killer and become an important unit that can stand up to the infantry. It can be the main force instead of just play support.

However, such cavalry seems to only exist in Guo Peng's bamboo slips.

Guo Peng said on the bamboo slips that he was trying to build such a cavalry.

In Yecheng, he planned to select [-] elites from the Tiger Guards to try to form a heavy cavalry. The first batch of [-] such cavalry was to test the waters. If it was really feasible, he would continue to expand the scale.

Steel torrent or something, with the national power mastered by Guo, it is still barely enough to raise one.

What Guo Peng said about testing the waters naturally meant using the Jiangdong battlefield to test the waters.

Whether it can be fought, whether it will be effective in actual combat, whether it will make the enemy panic, whether the army will collapse at a high speed, whether it can reduce the casualties of the army, and indirectly reduce the cost of war for Guo, these are all Guo's concerns matter.

Zhang Liao was also looking forward to the appearance of such cavalry.

However, such cavalry had not yet arrived, but Zhang Liao learned that Zhou Yu had successfully quelled the Jiangdong civil strife and wiped out the main force of the Jiangdong rebel army on the first day of May.

He was surprised, and immediately sent the news to Yecheng, but before him, Jia Xu had already sent the news to the north by boat day and night.

On the sixth day of May, Guo Peng heard the news from Jia Xu in Yecheng.

He learned that Jia Xu successfully abandoned the Jiangdong rebels, and then Zhou Yu put down the news of the rebellion. He learned that the main force of the Jiangdong rebels was destroyed, and a small number of them were still fighting sporadically, but it was no longer a problem.

The tyrannical forces and the Shanyue forces in the five counties of Jiangdong have been severely hit, and they are almost devastated. The Sun Wu regime has taken root in Jiangdong more firmly than before.

In order to achieve this goal, Guo Peng even learned that Zhou Yu used forced marriages to force the high-level marriages between the Jiangdong gentry and the Sun Wu regime to achieve the effect of forced cooperation, trying to make the Sun Wu regime an orthodox regime in Jiangdong.

Moreover, Zhou Yu also learned from Guo Peng, annihilating all the powerful families who participated in the rebel army, sweeping them up, seizing their supplies and population, and doing what a certain Guo had done.

Zhou Yu really worked hard for Wu Guo.

Guo Peng was amazed by this.

Although he was a little bit moved by the friendship between him and Sun Ce, people still wanted to be killed.

Now that the Sun Wu regime has completed all the work as a tool man, it is time to eliminate it, and there cannot be more.

Guo Peng officially ordered the war on the eighth day of May in the second year of Jian'an, and declared Wu as a rebellion of the Han Empire by the emperor's edict, and ordered Han General and Wei Wang Guo Peng to crusade against Wu to put down the rebellion.

There is a legitimate reason to send troops south.

Guo Peng then ordered Zhang Liao, the general of Wei Guozheng Nanzheng, to be the commander-in-chief in the battle to destroy Wu.

Order Yujin to be the deputy commander to assist Zhang Liao in the battle, and lead the [-] soldiers of the Donghai Camp to follow Zhang Liao's command without any mistakes.

He also ordered Guo Jia to go south to hold the Jieyue to serve as the general of the military division, and to assist the coach Zhang Liao in the battle to wipe out the Sun Wu regime.

He also ordered Guo Jia to grant Zhang Liao the Jieyue on his behalf, and Zhang Liao was ordered to command the entire army. If anyone disobeyed the military order, he would be killed directly without reporting, but Zhang Liao needed to be supervised by Guo Jia.

Thus, the battle to destroy Wu officially began.

Guo Peng ordered that the two prefectures of Yuzhou and Xuzhou, as well as the two counties of Lujiang and Jiujiang, would unconditionally provide Zhang Liao with the military rations and various military supplies he needed, and all the auxiliary troops were mobilized.

He also ordered Yuzhou Governor Manchong to mobilize [-] civilian husbands, and Guo Peng himself served as Xuzhou Mu, so he ordered the counties of Xuzhou to organize [-] civilian husbands for backup.

Everywhere preparations for war are apace.

After receiving the order, the county guards, county magistrates, township chiefs and village chiefs in various places started to operate at high speed, mobilized all the grassroots in various places, and quickly entered the wartime system, just like every previous war.

Thanks to Guo Peng's endowment, the village residents who lived and fed themselves turned into tool people with gratitude, and set foot on the battlefield to deliver military rations, military supplies and other necessities to the front-line regular troops.

Under the leadership of Guo Peng, the greater mobilization power that a larger population should have has been fully mobilized. The larger the population, the greater the mobilization power. Guo has vigorously wiped out the benefits brought by the expansion of power by political opponents. Also revealed.

The generals and soldiers of the Wei army have obtained higher guarantees for war. They can eat every day, and they can eat meat before and after the victory. They don’t have to worry about being hungry. Get cold and have no clothes to wear.

When Yuan Shu was conquered, one of the reasons for Yuan Shu's failure was that the logistics could not keep up, and he was not prepared for the sudden cold snap, so that a large number of soldiers froze to death innocently and lost their combat effectiveness.

Once the soldiers of the Wei army start fighting, there will be no problems with logistical support, and no problems will be allowed.

If something goes wrong, Guo Peng can definitely investigate it to the bottom, then pull out the carrots and bring out the mud, and drive the relevant officials to the bottom, and drive them all into the abyss, so as to maintain their mobilization power.

If you dare to attack Guo's mobilization power, that is to dig out Guo's lifeblood. Whoever dares to dig out Guo's lifeblood, Guo will chop off his claws.

Chapter 718 720 Seven Wei Yan and Tiger Guard Heavy Cavalry

The preparations of the Southeast Corps were in full swing, and quite quickly.

It is not the first time that everyone has mobilized for war. The general mobilization regulations in wartime are all memorized in full by the governor down to the head of a village, so that they know it by heart.

In just one month, preparations for war have been initially completed.

According to the mature calculations of the accounting staff team, they believe that in about half a month, 60.00% of the war mobilization force will arrive at the scheduled location, and the minimum logistical support standard for the Wei army to start the war will be met.

As long as Zhang Liao feels that it is almost done, he can start the war.

But Zhang Liao was not in a hurry, he was waiting.

At the beginning of June, Guo Jia had already arrived for half a month, and granted Zhang Liao the Jieyue to control the troops. All the sequences of the Southeast Corps' southward expedition were fully prepared, all the senior generals and commanders were in place, and all the armies had arrived at the starting point. , the war preparation has been completed more than 60.00%.

At this time, three transport ships came to Hefei New Town.

The three transport ships carried [-] sets of heavy cavalry equipment, strong soldiers selected from the [-] tiger guards, and [-] tall horses.

The [-] Tiger Guard soldiers were led by a school lieutenant, and they met Zhang Liao collectively.

"Your subordinate Huwei Pro-Military Captain Wei Yanwen, pay your respects to the general."

As the commander of [-] heavy cavalry, Wei Yan was exceptionally awarded the post of Lieutenant of the Huwei Pro-Army. This time, he led the initially formed [-] heavy cavalry to Hefei to participate in the battle against Wu, trying to establish a Merit, to prove the value of heavy cavalry.

"it is good."

Zhang Liao was very happy: "Sure enough, everyone is very strong. In this battle, you can show your hands and feet and prove your bravery to the king."