Chapter 984

"Otherwise," Guo Jia retorted, just as Pang Tong had said, "it's too bulky to divide the attack into two routes, with more than 100000 troops in each route. Moreover, Cao Cao's army is quite adjacent to our army. It's better to divide the army into four routes, with about 50000 troops in each route. Each battalion of our army is equipped with a large number of cavalry, so that every two routes of troops can echo each other. In this way, Cao Cao Cao's forces can be dispersed And it can be a better threat to Cao Cao's army. "

Guo Jia's words also attracted Lu Su's opposition. After nearly half a year in the eastern expedition, Lu Su had completely adapted to the style of discussion of Huangfu Chaobo, so he immediately got up to refute Guo Jia's suggestion. In Lu Su's view, more than 200000 troops are divided into four routes, with only about 50000 troops in each route. The troops are too thin and too risky.

The rest of the people also talked about their own ideas in one word. They all discussed how to dispatch troops and how to allocate troops one by one.

After nearly a day's deliberation, it was finally decided that the soldiers should be divided into two groups: the guards, Huben camp and Hubu camp, with a total of 60000 or 70000 soldiers. In addition, tens of thousands of guards and craftsmen recruited from various cities, with a total of more than 100000 troops, attacked the state of Liang from two directions.

The second army consisted of three armies, 70000 soldiers, 30000 guards and 20000 craftsmen. They attacked Qiaojun from chenguo and Runan respectively.

In this way, each army has more than 100000 troops, but it is also divided into two routes, and the two routes echo each other. In addition, there is a school of cavalry in each combat battalion, so there are at least two or three schools of cavalry in each route. Once Cao Cao's army is found to have a track of encircling and annihilating a certain army, the other army will quickly approach the rescue.

Later, Huangfu Chaobo announced the selection of the chief General of the two armies. Zhang Ying was the chief General of the North army, and Huang Wudi was the deputy general. As for the selection of military strategists, Huangfu Chaobo and Guo Jia would follow the army, so they did not directly appoint military strategists.

However, Zhang Ying and Huang Wudi will send troops separately, so Huangfu Chaobo temporarily sent Lu Su to Zhang Ying's army to give advice for him. In addition, Tian Zheng, the eldest son of Tian Feng, accompanied the military counsellor, and Huangfu Chaobo sent le to Zhang Ying's army to help.

According to the plan, Zhang Ying's army will set out from Puyang and move southward to invade the state of Liang. His troops are 25000 soldiers of Hubu camp, plus 20000 guards and 20000 auxiliary soldiers. A total of 65000 troops, known as 100000 troops. The defense of Puyang City will be taken over by Li Li, the Deputy General of xiongquying, who leads a school to occupy soldiers. In addition, there are already 10000 garrison soldiers in Puyang City, and a total of 15000 troops will defend.

The guards and Huang Wudi's Army started from Chen Liu's direction, and the rest of them led 15000 Huben battalion and 17000 guards of Huangfu Chaobo, plus 20000 guards and 20000 auxiliary soldiers, with a total of more than 70000 troops, known as 100000 troops.

On the other hand, Huang Zhong served as the main general, Wang Ran and Huang Fuli as the deputy general, and Dong Zhao as the commander.

Like the North Route Army, the South Route Army is divided into two groups. One group is led by Huang Zhong himself. He sent troops from Runan and led the seven schools of Shenwu battalion, with a total of 35000 soldiers. In addition, the number of guards is 20000 and the number of craftsmen is 20000, with a total of 75000 troops.

On the other hand, Huang Fuli and Wang Ran led the 25000 troops of the five schools of Zhenwu camp, together with the 10000 troops of the two schools of Fenwu camp, 20000 guards and 20000 craftsmen, which were also 75000 troops.

At the same time, Lu Ling, the second son of Huangfu Chaobo Luzhi, was sent to the Li army of Huangfu to accompany the army as a counselor. Yuan Shujun's Jiang Li Feng and Ji Bao were also sent to the South Road army.

More than that, for the sake of this war, Huangfu Chaobo specially used another trump card of his own, which was the special branch of the Dugu brothers, the digging army, because he knew that it was not so easy for him to attack many cities in Yanzhou, especially several counties.

The five thousand troops of the Dugu brothers were divided into two. Dugu Xiong led two thousand troops to Huang Zhong's army, while Dugu Ba and Dugu Tian led three thousand troops to Huangfu Chaobo. These two generals are Huangfu Chaobo's trump cards in this battle. According to the shadow intelligence, there are at least two cities under Cao Cao's rule that need to consider using digging troops to enter and dig tunnels to attack. One is Qiao County, where Cao Cao first started, and the other is Changyi City, Yanzhou's governing place.

Of course, there are several other cities that are also very strong, such as Linzi city of Qingzhou and Tan county of Xuzhou. However, it is estimated that these two cities were not able to be occupied by the expeditionary army in a short period of time.

After determining the strategy of sending troops, the route of attack, and the arrangement of the general's forces, he then discussed the time of sending troops. After much discussion, Huangfu Chaobo decided to set the time of sending troops on March 12. The reason for this arrangement is that spring ploughing has ended on the 10th, and the time of sending troops at this time will not affect the summer grain planting in Yanzhou. After all, this is not the time Some places will be occupied by the expeditionary army in the future. Moreover, before the harvest of summer grain, it is also the time when the territory is in the most shortage of grain. If the war is delayed, the problem of grain can be solved.

Although Huangfu Chaobo also wanted to solve Cao Cao as soon as possible, he did not dare to have the luxury of quick war. After all, the strength of Cao Cao's army was there. If Cao Cao Cao's army could be solved within one to two years, it would have been a blessing. You know, it took nearly two years for yuan Shujun, who was only in four counties, to be defeated.In addition, Huangfu Chaobo ordered Lujiang County to restore normal order as soon as possible, and tens of thousands of Yuan Shujun prisoners also needed to be transformed and absorbed as soon as possible. Not only that, under the rule of the counties are ready again, ready to dispatch elite troops to the war to support.

Fortunately, after several years of development, the Zhengdong army has had a complete army training process. The supplement of the zhanbingying is to recruit elite veterans from the garrisons around the country, while the vacant garrisons recruit new soldiers from the local area. This is a step-by-step process. Today, there are 220 city level territories under the rule of the Zhengdong army. If 500 elite guards are selected from each of them, they can form 110000 battalions. The support for the war will be huge.

The deployment of 500 soldiers in each city does not have much impact on the defense forces in the city. The only thing we need to do is to recruit 500 recruits to join the garrison, and 500 recruits to join the garrison. With the old to lead the new, we can quickly form combat effectiveness.

Of course, it's just an emergency measure just in case. Now the number of troops of the eastern expedition army has reached a relatively high level. No matter how much, it will be very unfavorable for the sustainable development of the eastern expedition army. This is just a plan in case of emergency.