Subsequently, Sima Xu Shu of the General's Mansion summarized the battle. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The Central Plains War was a major war of unprecedented scale, and both the Northern Xinjiang Army and the Coalition Army invested unprecedentedly powerful troops.

In terms of the Northern Xinjiang Army, in the seven-month battle, the Northern Xinjiang Army successively invested 208,000 infantry soldiers in the second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh six legions (of which 10,000 were Jizhou garrison soldiers who were used to supplement the battle losses of the third and fourth legions in the early stage), 30,000 infantry soldiers of the Qingzhou Army, 78,000 cavalry cavalry of the first, second, third, and fourth cavalry corps and the general's personal guards, 72,000 cavalry of the five ethnic groups such as Ding Ling and Jiankun, and 70,000 cavalry of the Hu nationality such as Xianbei, Wuhuan, and Xiongnu. The total strength of the infantry reached 428,000 troops.

In terms of coalition forces, including Yuan Shao, Cao Cao, Liu Bei, Liu Biao, Jiangdong Sun and Yangzhou Yuan Shu, a total of six major forces, the number of troops participating in the war reached 10,000. Among them, the army of Yuan Shao before and after the battle was as high as 230,000, the army of Cao Cao's force reached 170,000, Liu Biao's force was 150,000, Liu Bei's force was 80,000, and Ji Ling of Yuan Shu's force had 10,000 horses to participate in the war, Liu Xun also led 10,000 horses to participate in the war, and Sun Ce of Jiangdong sent 10,000 horses. In other words, the total strength of the alliance of princes in the war reached 660,000.

Although the number of troops participating in the war was 230,000 less than that of the coalition army, it won the victory of this battle beautifully and achieved brilliant results by virtue of the superiority of cavalry, better equipment and better training of infantry.

So far, more than 50,000 infantry riders of the Northern Xinjiang Army have suffered casualties, including more than 13,000 killed, more than 12,000 seriously wounded, and about 30,000 lightly wounded.

At such a price, the Northern Frontier Army achieved the result of destroying about 450,000 enemies, of which about 345,000 were captured. The battle loss ratio between the two sides even exceeded 1:8. This was all brought about by the strong cavalry, well-equipped and well-trained cavalry of the Northern Frontier Army.

Yuan Shao accounted for a full third of the approximately 450,000 troops lost by the coalition forces in battle, and the 230,000 troops who participated in the battle eventually lost 150,000.

Of course, the most miserable is actually Cao Cao, mainly because the battlefield is basically in his original sphere of influence. In the end, less than 50,000 of the 170,000 Cao troops who participated in the war were left. In this battle, Cao Cao not only lost more than seventy percent of the army, but also basically fell, and it can be said that he almost lost his pants.

Liu Bei's ending was not much better than Cao Cao's, and he lost about 50,000 troops on the battlefield before and after, and Xuzhou, the old nest, now also fell under Cao Cao's control.

Liu Biao's losses were equally heavy, and the 150,000 troops he brought to the Central Plains were eventually left with just over 50,000 people.

In addition, Ji Ling's 10,000 horses and 10,000 troops in Jiangdong were all wiped out.

For this war, the imperial court requisitioned about 1.8 million people, more than 70,000 baggage carts, more than 3,000 ships, and the consumption of various materials such as grain, grass, livestock, and ordnance was even greater.

Xu Shu then made a report on the deployment of troops and the battle situation in each battlefield.

After the 140,000 Hu cavalry returned to the desert and the border fortress, coupled with the huge losses in the course of the great battle and the defensive strength of the newly occupied areas, the strength of the Central Plains battlefield was only about 200,000 foot cavalry.

Now on the battlefield in Henan, Guan Yu's Second Infantry Legion, Zhang Fei's Third Infantry Legion, Zhang Yan's Fifth Infantry Legion, Zhao Yun's First Cavalry Legion, Gao Changgong's Third Cavalry Legion, and Lu Bu's Fourth Cavalry Legion, each of the seven infantry cavalry corps, totaled about 120,000 infantry cavalry troops.

On the battlefield of Hanoi, there was the 4th Infantry Regiment of Tai Shi Ci and the 1st Army of the 2nd Cavalry Army of Yan Rou, totaling about 35,000 troops.

The southern counties of Yanzhou have Gao Shun's Seventh Infantry Corps, two corps of the Sixth Infantry Corps led by Wei Yan and Guan Hai, and part of the Qingzhou Army, totaling more than 40,000 troops.

On the battlefield in Henan, the fighting had basically stopped because both sides were exhausted.

On the battlefield of Hanoi, the army commanded by Tai Shi Ci and Li Jing was attacking, and Huai Cheng had already been conquered, but in the process of attacking Pingao, due to the constraints of troops, grain and grass, and other reasons, the army was seriously hindered, and it seemed that it was impossible to take Hanoi completely before the beginning of October.

On the battlefield of Xuzhou, the two attacking armies of the Northern Xinjiang Army were all blocked. Cao Cao's retreat to Xuzhou was very fast, far exceeding expectations. In mid-September, Chen Gong and Wu Dun withdrew to Rencheng. In late September, Zang Ba's attack on the East China Sea was blocked, and he had to retreat to Langya.

"Ziyi does he have the latest battle report?" After Li Yi listened to Xu Shu's report, he immediately asked.

"General Taishi asks for reinforcements." Xu Shu glanced at Li Yi and saw that there was no look of annoyance on his face, so he explained the situation on the battlefield in Hanoi, "On the battlefield in Hanoi, there are Liu Bei's Xuzhou army, Gao Gan's Yuzhou army, and Gao Rou and Zhang Nan's Hanoi army, the three armies together have at least 50,000 people, and we have no advantage in terms of strength. Although we won the Central Plains War, the morale of the coalition army was low, but the loss of Hanoi meant that Luoyang was under our troops, whether it was Yuan Shao or other generals of the rebels, they all knew that Hanoi could not be lost at this moment, so after Liu Bei retreated to Pinggao, with the support of the rebels on the other side of the Yellow River, he held the city and was very difficult to fight. ”

Li Yi turned his head to look at Li Jing and asked, "Pharmacist, when will the 200,000 captives be used?" ”

After the Battle of Pingyangting, Li Jing and Pan Zhang led two corps of the Sixth Infantry Corps to withdraw from the front line and began to take charge of the reorganization of prisoners.

Of course, these captives were all newly surrendered during the war. The third line of the coalition army was defeated, hundreds of thousands of troops were running around, the Northern Xinjiang Army had limited strength, only collected about 200,000 people, and the rest of the 100,000 or so rout troops fled, and finally were collected by Yuan Shao, Liu Biao and others.

Li Jing shook his head and said to Li Yi: "Lord, for the sake of safety, it is better not to use these captives for the time being. ”

Li Yi frowned and said, "In any case, we must take Hanoi before winter comes." What do you do? ”

"Now Yuan Shao is sticking to Henan, Liu Biao is sticking to Yuzhou, Cao Cao is sticking to Xuzhou, the rebels are scattered, and the grain and grass are insufficient, so we can't pose a threat to us." Xu Maogong said after a little muttering, "Draw troops from the Henan battlefield to support Hanoi. ”

Li Yi thought for a moment, nodded, and said, "Then let Yide go." ”

Then he pointed his finger at Li Jing and said, "Among the captives, how many Yanzhou soldiers are there?" ”

"About 20,000 people." Li Jing asked worriedly, "The lord wants to send them to the battlefield in Hanoi?" ”

"Don't be afraid, use it boldly." Li Yi said with a smile, "Yanzhou is now in our hands, you don't have to worry about them defecting and running to Luoyang." In addition, He Yi was asked to go with 8,000 Jiujiang troops. ”

Li Jing nodded and said, "Then let Wen Qi be responsible for training the rest of the soldiers, and I will personally lead the army to Hanoi." ”

"No, you still stay in Dingtao with Kong Ming to train and surrender soldiers, and go to Hanoi to fight, I ...... it" Li Yi smiled and looked at Sima Yi who was sitting on the side, "Zhongda, how about handing over these 30,000 horses to you?" ”

Sima Yi was stunned, almost unable to believe his ears, and only came back to his senses after a while, pointed to his nose and asked, "Lord, are you ...... Say me? ”

Everyone in the tent turned their eyes to the young Sima Yi, with praise, doubt, and envy.

In the Northern Xinjiang Army, those who can command tens of thousands of troops at the age of 20 are Zhao Yun, Zhang Fei, Zhang He and Mu Guiying when they were young, and the only one is Sima Yi today. But who are the rest? Zhao Yun and Zhang Fei are the sworn brothers of the lord Li Yi, Mu Guiying is the wife of the lord, and the last Zhang He is also the descendant who followed the lord from the beginning.

"You go and unify the army, don't stay with me." Li Yi waved his hand at the excited Sima Yi and said indifferently, "On the battlefield of Hanoi, generals such as Yide, Ziyi, Wen Ze, and Zhongli are all fierce generals, follow them and study hard, you will be inexhaustible for life." ”

For Sima Yi, Li Yi's attitude was a little contradictory in the morning, because this guy had a criminal record in another time and space, although he didn't do anything to change the dynasty, but the Cao family had actually become a puppet when he was in his time. So Li Yi had always been skeptical of him before.

However, Li Yi did not uproot the Sima family early like the protagonists in many other Three Kingdoms novels. First, Li Yi believes that today's Sima family does not have the ability to cause devastating damage. After the prairie was completely conquered by him, the threat from the north had long been eliminated, as long as Li Yi himself did not make a fool, at least in thirty or fifty years, the Hu tribe on the grassland could not become strong again. As for thirty or fifty years later, these alien races have long been assimilated by the Han Chinese. This is like 30 years after the founding of the People's Republic of China, the situation in Inner Mongolia and Western Xinjiang is similar.

Besides, although the Sima family has a certain responsibility for the tragedy that led to the chaos of the Five Wants, it is also unfair to attribute it completely to the Sima family, which is the inevitable result of the development of the gate valve at that time. Even if the Western Jin Dynasty was not established by the Sima family, and someone else established a country, under the background of the times at that time, such an outcome was still inevitable.

Therefore, after the final weighing, Li Yi did not intend to suppress Sima Yi, but let it develop naturally, and give him proper guidance, after all, it is better to block than to slacken.

This is mainly because Sima Yi is indeed a rare talent, his five-dimensional attributes are very good, commander 98, force 65, resourcefulness 98, politics 96, charm 90, the sum of the five dimensions is as high as 447, even if you add the talents summoned by Li Yi, his data can now be ranked in the top five. Second only to Xiao Sui, Li Jing and Xu Da. Such a top talent, Li Yi does not want to stifle it because of some prejudice.

Sima Yi turned over and bowed down again, wanting to say a few words of gratitude and allegiance, but because he was so excited, his mind went blank and he forgot what he wanted to say.

"Get up, get up......" Li Yi beckoned, "I'll leave tomorrow." When you arrive in Hanoi, lead the army to fight well, and think carefully about everything. Your every move now is directly related to the lives of 30,000 soldiers, so you must stop being willful. ”

Sima Yi was taught again. (To be continued.) )