Chapter 054: When to Plan for a Rainy Day
Meng Tian wrote all the appointments into a book, entered the palace with Han Xin and Zhang Han, and gave Emperor Ming Fusu. Knowing that Meng Tian asked to see him, Fusu sent someone to inform Wei Yu and other important ministers and Xiao He to go to the imperial study to discuss state affairs.
After everyone sat down, Fusu praised Han Xin first. Han Xin, who was born in cloth, is now prominent in the world, and he is grateful, tearfully expressing his allegiance to defend the country. Later, Meng Tian explained to the crowd in detail the contingency plan they had discussed in the shogunate.
Wei Yu answered: "Now that the war in the four directions has begun, my Great Qin troops are seriously insufficient, so I have to take a defensive position, and the minister agrees with the deployment of the general." β
Xiao He, who was beside Meng Yi, seemed to have something to say, and arched his hand and said, "Your Majesty, the minister has a different plan. β
"Hey, this guy actually sang against General Meng?" Luo Chang pondered, "Damn, success is also Xiao He, defeat is also Xiao He, he won't be here to stir up the situation, right?" β
Because Luo Chang is the order of the CRRC government, it is inconvenient to express his opinion, so he can only listen quietly on the sidelines.
Fusu and the others were all surprised, and they all looked at Xiao He.
Fusu smiled and said, "What strategy does Xiao Aiqing have?" Please. β
Xiao He continued to arch his hand: "Obey!" Then he took out a map of Daqin from his sleeve and hung it on the big screen behind Fusu.
He held a cane and pointed to the map: "Master Chencong's uncle, Sun Tong, has been in politics for more than a year, and he knows a lot about the mountains and rivers of Daqin, and everyone thinks that in the bitter cold Yan Zhao's hometown, there are two incomparably huge plains, even several times larger than the Qinchuan River in Guanzhong. Therefore, the nobles of Han, Zhao, Wei, Qi, Yan and other nobles had a lot of slaves, and these people were all crowded in the small cities of the Central Plains, and they did not follow the laws of our Great Qin to cultivate and fight well, and there was not enough land to allocate to them. The minister suggested that His Majesty send tens of thousands of cavalry generals who were capable of conscription and warfare to sweep away the rebels such as Zhao Wangxie, who were entrenched in Yan Zhao's hometown, and forcibly ordered Han, Zhao, Wei, Qi, Yan and other nobles to release their privately hidden slaves and send them to the vast plains bordering Yan, Zhao and Qi to open up wasteland and cultivate. Our Great Qin government issued clothing and one year's rations to slaves, and they were exempt from tax for two years from the year when the grain was ripe. β
"Encourage the people of Han, Zhao, Wei, Qi, Yan and other places to migrate to the past, the government also provides the best help, the minister estimates that the migration is not less than a million people, so as to cut off the root of the rebellion of the five countries of Shandong, they do not have the support of the people, they do not need to send troops, can also be pacified."
Although it was winter and extremely cold, Xiao He said that he was sweating and nervous. All of you here are wise men, and of course you feel that this is far from being extremely grand, and this move will bring earth-shaking changes to the Great Qin Empire, and you are deeply intoxicated by it.
Xiao He stopped talking, but everyone hadn't come back to their senses. Xiao thought that everyone could not understand and would oppose it vigorously, and he was very frightened in his heart.
Fusu (Jiuxiong) thought for a while, and was very happy: "Xiao Aiqing's strategy, if it can be implemented effectively, it will be no less than Shang Jun's work in changing the law, and I will play it accurately!" β
Everyone was enlightened and congratulated together: "Your Majesty Shengming! Lord Xiao is a great talent! β
Fusu immediately issued an order: Feng Mengyi was the right prime minister, Xiao He was the left prime minister, and Xiao He was responsible for the migration of the people of the five countries of Shandong to the bordering plains of Yan, Zhao, and Qi, and officials from all over the country must cooperate closely; Li You was responsible for migrating the people of Guanzhong to Hedong and other places to farm.
Xiao He sweated and knelt on the ground to receive the order of thanksgiving, and retreated to Meng Yi's side. After listening to Xiao He's immigration strategy, Meng Tian put forward his own opinion, he planned to immediately send an order to Li Xin, and began to prepare to meet the Xiongnu according to his deployment, and he immediately went north to Jiuyuan to lead the army. The Central Plains War was handled strategically by Han Xin in cooperation with Xiao He.
Everyone also knew that the Huns would go south to rob at the beginning of spring next year, and the best person to lead the cavalry to fight against the Huns at present was Meng Tian, so they agreed without objection.
Therefore, Fusu decided to temporarily add Han Xin as a former general to control all the Great Qin troops east of Hangu Pass, and the rest of the defense was temporarily implemented in accordance with Meng Tian's plan, and then adjusted when Han Xin had a new plan.
Han Xin hurriedly came out of the case and knelt down to thank Long En. And they dispersed, and went to their own work.
After Meng Tian returned to the shogunate, he immediately sent an order to Li Xin with a letter eagle, and sent a fast horse messenger to Shangjun and Jiuyuan to send an order to mobilize the army. He also prepared for two days by himself, and after handing over troops with Wei Yu, Yang Duanhe and other generals who stayed in Xianyang, he set off for Jiuyuan.
After more than a month of traveling, Meng Tian's chariots and horses finally appeared in the shogunate of Jiuyuan County, and Li Xin and other generals ceremoniously greeted Meng Tian and congratulated Meng Tian as a general.
Li Xin also introduced the generals of the army at this moment: Li Xi (Li Xin's youngest son), Cheng Zhiyi (the young herdsman of the Jiuyuan Army), Bai Long (the descendant of Wu Anjun Baiqi), and the rest of the generals were all Mengtian's old tribesmen, most of whom were Mengtian's clansmen and Wang Qian's clansmen.
Li Xin carried out the order of the flying eagle and secretly set up an ambush three hundred miles north of Yinshan. At the same time, the cavalry regiment of Shangjun also arrived in Jiuyuan, and Jiuyuan had another army of 300,000.
Meng Tian inspected the 100,000 cavalry newly trained by Yue's Shan Yu Kunyue, and only practiced for more than a year, although it was not as elite as the Jiuyuan cavalry, Meng Tian was already very satisfied. He ordered the scouts to be sent to the north of Yinshan for five hundred miles, and once they found signs of the Xiongnu, they would report back immediately, and the generals would be ordered.
Meng Tian spent two months in Jiuyuan, and it was spring in a blink of an eye. During these two months, Meng Tian also expanded the straight road from Jiuyuan to Yanmen Pass outside the Great Wall and built a double road, and these military operations were carried out in secret.
After the beginning of spring, Meng Tian sent a special order to Xin Sheng, asking him to secretly lead the army to move, and secretly told Zhang Han in Xianyang to secretly pay attention to the movements of Sanguan and Xiaoguan, and the scouts of these two passes explored the military situation within 500 miles every day.
Meng Tian felt the pressure and sent a table to Fusu, requesting that a large number of crossbow arrows and Qin crossbows be transported to Shangjun for military supplies.
It has been more than ten days since the beginning of spring, and the scouts have sent back news intensively, and a large number of Hun scouts have been explored. Meng Tianzhi issued an order: do not directly clash with the Xiongnu scouts 500 miles outside Yinshan, and start hunting and killing after reaching 400 miles.
Subsequently, Meng Tian secretly practiced the actions of the Jiuyuan barracks, during the day, the major battalions were covered with flags, camouflaged in the camp to practice, but at night he secretly transported the army out of the north of Yinshan, and many chariots were also dismantled and transported away on horseback.
The news of the Xiongnu's southward movement came back to Xianyang, and Fusu summoned Wei Yu, Yang Duanhe and others to discuss: "In the past, General Zhenhe led 300,000 cavalry and more than 300,000 crossbow arrowmen to ambush and kill more than 500,000 Xiongnu in Yinshan, causing the Xiongnu to dare not go south to graze horses for more than ten years. Now that my Great Qin army is insufficient, the general only has 300,000 cavalry, and he is facing a million Huns army that is twice as large as that year going south, how do you think you should deal with it? β
Wei Yu responded: "The general's talent is no less than that of the late general Wang Qian, Your Majesty has no need to worry." Recently, we have complied with the general's order and transported more than 3 million crossbow arrows and more than 200,000 Qin crossbows to the Shangjun and Jiuyuan military camps. β
The cavalry commander next to him, Qiang Diao, arched his hand and said: "The last general will come back to Xianyang for two months, and General Zhang Han trained soldiers, there are more than 30,000 soldiers who know a little about equestrianism, and the minister is willing to lead to Jiuyuan to help the general break the enemy." β
Fusu said: "Although the troops are small, and they are new troops, they can't be regarded as cavalry, but they can also have more troops, I hope to help General Meng, quasi-play!" β
The crowd discussed it again, and the discussion dispersed. Qiang Diao and Zhang Han went back to prepare, and the next day the two also ordered 30,000 troops and set off in the direction of Jiuyuan.
Meng Tian had secretly transferred the shogunate to some caves where Yinshan had been ambushed. These caves can play a big role, when Li Mu operated the Tibetan Soldier Cave to fight against the Xiongnu. Meng Tian widened and deepened the cave a lot, ambushed 300,000 crossbow archers in the cave, and shot more than 100,000 Hun cavalry.
Meng Tian can receive the news of the Huns going south every day, from the situation reported by the horses, the Huns are less than five hundred miles away from Yinshan, the team is overwhelming, more than the previous estimate of one million people, and also carried countless cattle, sheep and horses, this time the Huns are determined to invade the land of Daqin, but it is not as simple as the previous plunder.
In order to be on the safe side, Meng Tian moved the ambush site to the north of Yinshan for 300 miles, in view of the fact that he personally ambushed in Yinshan more than ten years ago, killed more than 500,000 Xiongnu horses, and wiped out the Hu people. This time, the Xiongnu may have scruples, and it is possible to bypass Yinshan and attack other places, among which Yanmen Pass is very likely to be the first target of the Hu attack.
The leader of the Xiongnu to the south was Mao Dunshan Yu, who was in the prime of his thirties and was ambitious, and annexed Yueshi and Donghu with astonishing speed and iron-blooded means. Before sunset, this group of fierce Hu cavalry arrived five hundred miles north of Yinshan.
Mao Dunshan gathered the generals in the big tent of the rear army, and instructed the generals on their tasks and methods of warfare.
"More than ten years ago, the ancestor led more than 50 people who controlled the strings to the south, and was ambushed by the Qin general Meng Tian in Yinshan, killing only 1,000 horsemen to return to the grassland. Recently, Meng Tian returned to Jiuyuan to defend, and secretly transported many soldiers and horses to Yinshan, and wanted to ambush again to deal a fatal blow to my Great Huns. Mao Dun bit a leg of mutton fiercely, "Meng Tian is my old enemy of the Huns, if I don't kill him, my hatred will be hard to get rid of!" β
When the generals heard this, they were amazed: "Ah! Then how do we cross the Yin Mountain and attack Daqin? β
Seeing that everyone was puzzled, Mao Dun pretended to be unfathomable and said unhurriedly: "Ben Dan Yu has led you to fight for many years, but have you ever been defeated?" β
Everyone hurriedly patted their ass: "Da Dan is wise and martial, and the king of the grassland is invincible!" Conquer it all! β
Flattering his subordinates, Mao Dun was very intoxicated, and laughed: "Ben Dan Yu has already figured out a way to bypass the Yinshan ambush, and we can directly enter Xianyang, the capital of Great Qin." When the time comes, we can enjoy the flower world of these Nanren casuallyβ"
As for Mao Dun Shan Yu, he thought of a clever plan to bypass the path of Yin Mountain, strike at the Qin army, and decompose it next time.