It has been more than eight years since he ascended the throne, but for the first time Liu Xie, who held military power, personally took charge of the army and led his army to the expedition.

For a moment, the world shook.

This expedition was dominated by Qingzhou soldiers, with a total of 20,000 troops. Liu Bei was the chief general, Ren Jun was the deputy general, Sun Gan, Jian Yong and others were used as minions, and Liu Bei's original Danyang remnants were responsible for sending orders to the personal guards.

Soldiers are elite soldiers in a hundred battles, and generals are indeed famous generals of the world. With a little reorganization, there is no way to tell that this is a team that has just been snatched from others and has unstable morale.

The central army was the Yulin Army and the Huben Guard led by the emperor himself.

The Yulin Army was based on the Yulin Guard with the help of Xun Yu, and quickly recruited a new army of 10,000 people in Yingchuan County. It was nominally controlled by Zong Ji, but in fact, Zong Ji did not match the military strategy after all, and the command power gradually fell into Guan Yu's hands after going to war.

But there was an emperor in charge of the top of Zhong Ji, so Zhong Ji, the nominal commander, could only do the work of a staff member and military advisor, and give advice for Liu Xie.

But the problem is that Zhong Ji himself was actually the first time to command a large army to fight. At least his experience is not much better than Liu Xie. Even if Liu Xie really asked him something, he would not dare to answer randomly. However, his theoretical knowledge was even worse than Sima Yi, who also went on the army for the first time. Therefore, although he looked like an aide and military advisor, his job was actually a mascot.

As for the soldiers, it can be said that the Yingchuan Shi family really gave Liu Xie a face. In such a short time, each family sent out all the servants, tenants, farmers, etc., and was led by the broken Yulin Guards. These Yulin Guards originally came from the Yingchuan gentry, so they were actually equivalent to everyone in charge of each family and knew them.

This is also the reason why this army of more than 10,000 people can be formed in just two days and can really barely be able to command.

However, this is not an army that has been experienced for a long time, and most of them are young people who have never been on the battlefield. Yingchuan is not as good as the Three Rivers. It is a place where people respect literature but not martial arts. Military literacy cannot be mastered suddenly by simple practice. Even if Guan Yu comes to command it himself, Guan Yu himself is not from Yingchuan. He, the Yulin General, had a lot of plans, but he didn't really take it as a long time.

It really only achieved the point of being able to command simply. In the words Liu Bei complained in private, giving him a cavalry of one thousand people would not take half a day to destroy this so-called emperor's personal army.

Of course, Liu Xie was still following the Hu Ben Guard. The Hu Ben Guard, mainly the children of Yanzhou, can still be called the four words of elite troops in hundreds of battles. If something really happens, the Hu Ben Guard with about 700 people is enough to protect Liu Xie's safety.

Therefore, this central army with 10,000 people is just to train soldiers. The emperor is the emperor. If he is the emperor, he will not be able to really go to the battlefield to kill the enemy unless he has to. He will let the emperor concentrate on dispatching troops and generals in the back and move his mouth. The real tough battle is to let Liu Bei of the front army fight.

It just so happened that Liu Bei's front army set out three days earlier than the emperor's rear army, so it was natural to act as a vanguard. He opened the road and met the water to build a bridge. The emperor only needed to lead the troops to stroll around, arrive in Wancheng smoothly and safely, and then stay in Wancheng to wait for Liu Bei's good news.

If you win, it is naturally the emperor who has good command and wins a great victory on the first expedition.

If you lose, you will naturally be Liu Bei’s uselessness.

In fact, this was the case when wars were fought in the Eastern Han Dynasty, and there was no problem at all. Liu Biao was the same. He was also in charge of Xinye, leaving Huang Zhong to the front gate.

What are the famous scholars? The feather fan and the scarf, and the masts and oars are gone as they are chatting and laughing. This is the style of a famous scholar.

This seems a bit different from what Liu Xie thought. At least, it is quite difficult to get himself caught by Liu Biao alive.

But all the ministers opposed him running to the front army, so he had no choice but to do good. At least in this way, if Cao Cao suddenly ran back, he could avoid Cao Cao.

The rear army is the rear army, at least it is a large army of more than 10,000 people. It is the first time he has led so many people in two lifetimes. Although these Yulin soldiers are not good at military literacy, at least when they line up in military formations, they still look very majestic.

Is this considered to be the power of the world?

So after getting on the road, Liu Xie rode the horse directly to the front of the team, looking back from time to time, feeling happy.

For a moment, Liu Xie even had the idea that it would be good if he could really take back the power and stay in the Eastern Han Dynasty as a promising emperor, and not abdicate or go back.

I kept walking and walking until the sun was west. Liu Xie was a little tired when he walked. Finally, he saw a city far away from the official road. Liu Xie was overjoyed and hurriedly ordered his personal guards to ask if he had arrived in Wuyang?

As a result, not long after, the personal soldiers came back with a strange expression and reported: "Your Majesty, we are in Xiping."

"Xiping?"

Liu Xie was stunned for a moment. He had specially checked the road map before he went to war. Why didn’t he remember that there was a place like Xiping?

And Sima Yi, who followed him, made great contributions to the killing of Cao Hong, actually served as a staff member, had a very strange expression when he heard this. He opened his mouth and said to Liu Xie for a while: "Your Majesty, we are coming to Runan."

"Oh...well??? Are you saying I'm going the wrong way?"

Sima Yi nodded helplessly.

The best route from Xudu to Nanyang is to go to Wuyang and Ye County, and attack along the Lishui River. Cao Cao fought three times and entered this route. He had already experienced a lot along the way. Many camps used by the garrison have not even been demolished, so they can be used directly when they arrive.

This road is located southwest of Xudu.

Xiping, which is close to the direction of the south, is the boundary of Runan.

To be honest, although Runan is also the territory of the court in name, it is Yuan Shao's hometown. The Yuan family in Runan has been operating here for a long time and has great influence.

Moreover, the Yellow Turban Remnant Party here is also very powerful and very arrogant. The Yuan family of Runan secretly talked with them, and they were both exaggerated and secretly gave them a lot of funding, which caused a special headache for the court.

In short, they came to the enemy-occupied area.

Liu Xie walked in front and led the way too much, so he was wrong.

Sima Yi, Guan Yu, Zhong Ji and others have never been to Wuyang, nor to Nanyang. The emperor walked in front with such confidence and joy, and they followed them with great joy all the way, and they did not consider whether this path was right or not, such a low-level issue.
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