Jicheng, the yamen of the military department, and the staff department, there was a deathly silence, and more than a dozen staff officers stood against the wall, all of them looked at their noses and noses, and they didn't dare to take a breath. A person seems to want to cough and gargle, but he desperately covers his mouth, and his face is red. The staff department, which was originally very spacious, is now full of big people, and the person sitting in front of the huge sand table in the middle of the room is none other than the king of the Han Kingdom, Gao Yuan.

The terrain on the sand table is around Pengcheng, but now it is full of large and small flags, the blue one represents the Chu army, the red one represents the Han Dynasty, and now the blue flag representing the Chu army is planted all over the sand table, and the red flag is surrounded in the middle.

"Let's talk about the specifics!" Gao Yuan looked at the flag in the sand table, and there was no joy or anger on his face, but those who were familiar with him knew that Gao Yuan's expression meant that he was really angry.

Ye Zhong glanced at Zhao Yi'an, the director of the General Staff Department, Zhao Yi'an was the first batch of high-achieving students who graduated from the Staff Department, and after graduation, he was sent to Bai Yucheng's Qilu Army, where he participated in the planning of all the battles of the Qi State, after the Qi State was captured by the Han Dynasty, Zhao Yian was also transferred back to the Military Department and was promoted to the director of the General Staff Department because of his merits.

"Wang, now according to the information we have received, the new First Army is surrounded by the Chu army in the area of Sixi and Pengcheng, for the time being, the losses of the new First Army except for the third division Dong Zhuang, the first and second divisions and the army headquarters have not yet been fatally hit, the Chu army has formed a triangular ambush circle with three points of Pengcheng, Tucheng and Sixi, and has gathered more than 100,000 troops, and they are all the main forces of the Chu army. The commander is Qu Wan, who was defeated by us in the Qi Kingdom." Zhao Yi'an held a wicker rod in his hand and pointed on the sand table.

"In other words, with their own strength, they are powerless to break through." Gao Yuan said in a deep voice.

"Yes." Zhao Yi'an's face was heavy, "The defense line of the Chu army is very thick, and the military strength is twice that of mine, and more importantly, the new First Army has fallen into the trap of the opponent, and a month has passed, and their food and grass have been in an emergency, and the army has no food, so their hearts are unstable."

Gao Yuan turned his head and looked at Ye Chong, "Who is the closest unit to them?"

"Your Majesty, the closest force to them is Xu Yuan's Northern Field Army Group, but Xu Yuan has just sent an urgent report, and the Qin general Tan Feng opposite him has been dispatching troops for a period of time, and he has the intention of attacking on a large scale, and he is afraid that he will not be able to mobilize troops to rescue." Ye Chong said: "And Bai Yucheng is too far away from them, I am afraid that when Bai Yucheng arrives, the new army will not die in battle, and they will starve to death."

"Sure enough!" Gao Yuan closed his eyes slightly. Qin Chu really colluded together, this matter was a big trap from the beginning, good, good, I underestimated the heroes of the world, from the very beginning, they were calculating us, but our eyes were covered by the enemy's pride and pride and did not see the true purpose of the enemy's series of actions."

"Your Majesty, this is a dereliction of duty on the part of your courtiers." Ye Zhong said in a low voice.

Gao Yuan smiled hesitantly, "The dereliction of duty of the courtiers is not my dereliction of duty." He slowly stood up, looking deeply at the red flags that were surrounded in the middle, and those small red flags seemed to turn into big Han soldiers, who were now struggling under the attack of the enemy and the threat of hunger.

It was a huge conspiracy from the beginning, and now that the matter has come to an end, Gao Yuan has finally figured out the cause and effect.

From the moment Tan Feng began to plot to kidnap Mao Wei, this conspiracy began to unfold step by step.

In this era when cold weapons are king, with an earth-shattering explosion in Kangping City, it was announced that the new weapons were officially unveiled on this continent, and the explosives were used and the battlefield showed amazing destructive power, which immediately attracted everyone's attention.

Tan Feng's kidnapping of Mao Wei, an extremely important researcher at the Yizhen Research Institute, successfully attracted everyone's attention, and completely attracted the intelligence agencies of the Han Kingdom. The Inspectorate invested a lot of manpower and material resources to capture Mao Wei or kill him in order to protect the interests of the Han Kingdom, and such a large-scale investment also made them ignore other information.

And in the second step, in order to escape the pursuit of the Han people, the Qin people took the Chu State, and the two sides who cooperated sincerely in advance seemed to have a problem, Mao Wei was detained by the Chu people in Jiangzhong County and did not let go, and the Qin general Zhou Yu immediately raised troops brazenly, broke the Chu army in Suizhou in one fell swoop, and occupied Suizhou in Chu.

Qin Chu seemed to have turned his face into an enmity because of the huge temptation of explosives. This was the second step in the success of the Qin and Chu dynasties in confusing the Han Dynasty. Qin sent troops, in order to recapture Suizhou, in order to deal with the sudden invasion of Qin, the whole country was mobilized, and troops were dispatched on a large scale. The Chu people were deploying troops on a large scale, not to deal with the Qin people, but to target themselves.

The sudden confrontation between Qin and Chu successfully attracted the attention of the Han State, and also aroused his own greed, and the idea of taking the opportunity to make a fortune filled his heart, and the generals on the front line could not resist the thought of making a contribution, Zhang Hongyu wanted to take Pengcheng and cut off Xuzhou from the Chu State itself.

Qin Chu's calculations are not only military calculations, but also people's hearts.

And the Great Han Kingdom, up to Gao Yuan himself, down to the Wenchen military generals, were all counted by the opponent.

"Since then, I dare not underestimate the heroes of the world!" Gao Yuan sighed, since he started the army, although there have been some ups and downs, but on the whole, it can be regarded as smooth sailing, basically did not suffer too many setbacks and tribulations, this is his first complete failure, burying his entire front army.

When everyone thought that Qin Chu wanted the explosives that the Great Han Kingdom had just successfully researched, what the other party wanted was a big victory over the Han Kingdom.

The goal of the Chu people was achieved, they successfully surrounded the new first army, so that it fell into a desperate situation, the victory of this battle, so that the Han had achieved several battles against Chu in the strategic advantage of the previous era, the destruction of tens of thousands of troops, will greatly change the Han and Chu power balance above the border, the Chu state finally got a respite.

As an ally of the Chu people, Qin State, in this conspiracy, not only got Mao Wei, but more importantly, the success of the Chu people will make the Han have to look more at the southern powers, and redeploy troops to achieve a strategic balance with the Chu people, which is the measure that has to be taken.

The Han Kingdom will set its sights on the Chu State, and the Qin people will also get a chance to recuperate in the aggressive offensive of the Han State, and the Han Dynasty will mobilize troops to the Han and Chu borders, and the pressure on the Qin people will inevitably decrease.

It has to be said that this time Qin Chu's strategy has achieved unprecedented success.

"Your Majesty, at present, the new first army is facing a desperate situation, but what makes me wonder is why the Chu army, which has achieved absolute superiority on the battlefield, did not take an offensive, they just besieged our army, do they want our army to starve to death or wait for our army to surrender?" Zhao Yi'an said with some uneasiness that if the new army was forced to surrender, it would be an absolutely unbearable blow to the morale of the entire army of the Han Kingdom.

Takato is known as the undefeated god of war, has been in a hundred battles, and has never lost once, but now it seems that this title will be over.

"They're waiting for us to negotiate with them, to negotiate. They will not attack and completely annihilate the new army." Gao Yuan stretched out his hand, pulled up the flags on the sand table one by one, and threw them to a corner.

"The Chu people are very clear-headed, they will not launch a final attack on the New First Army, if they really destroy the New First Army, they will lose the capital to negotiate with us, so they are just besieging, not attacking." Gao Yuan pulled out all the flags, turned around, and looked at Wu Qi, who was discussing politics behind him: "Wu Yizheng, let's go for a trip and start negotiations with the state of Chu."

"Yes, Your Majesty, what is the bottom line of our negotiations?" Wu asked with a bow.

"My bottom line is to bring back all the new soldiers alive in their entirety, and as for the rest of the soldiers, you can talk about it." Gao Yuan waved his hand and said.

"And if the adversary has territorial claims?" Wu Qi hesitated for a moment, but still asked.

"This is conceivable, they must have requirements in this regard, we want their Pengcheng, they want our Suiyang, occupy Suiyang, Pengcheng will be worry-free, so Suiyang is to be given to them, in addition, we can also retreat from Daba Mountain and return to Linyi!" Gao Yuan said: "Give them everything they want, I just want my soldiers to come back."

"Yes, Your Majesty, I see!" Wu Qi bowed and said, Gao Yuan gave him great autonomy and bottom line, as for how to talk about it, what Cheng dù to talk about, it depends on his ability.

"You all go out, I want to be alone!" Looking at the sand table that had been completely emptied by himself, Gao Yuan waved his hand.

"Your Majesty!" Ye took a step forward and wanted to persuade a few words.

"Get out!" Gao Yuan didn't look back, just accentuated his tone and repeated.

Ye Zhong sighed silently, waved his hand at the staff officers by the wall, and was the first to step out of the door of the staff department, and after a while, all the people left the house, and the door closed silently, leaving only Gao Yuan alone in the house.

"My lord, is that really it? Negotiating with the Chu people, isn't this a surrender to the opponent? If all the cavalry in Beijing is mobilized, it will take less than ten days to rush to the battlefield, and this battle will not be without a chance of recovery!" Zhao Yi'an looked at Ye Zhong and asked in a low voice.

"What you can see, isn't the king still invisible? But in this way, the tens of thousands of soldiers of the new army will be finished. After we send out our troops, the Chu people will immediately launch a decisive battle against them, do you think the new army still has the strength to fight now?"

"But as long as Pengcheng is captured, the Chu army will still be a big defeat." Zhao Yi'an emphasized.

"If you give up the lives of tens of thousands of soldiers of the new army in exchange for victory, the king will never do it, the king said earlier, if you lose land, you will gain people, you will lose people, you are now the director of the staff department of the Ministry of War, and you are a senior general of the Ministry of War, you must firmly remember this sentence of the king."

"Yes, my subordinates have written it down." (To be continued......)