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Because in the letter, Shu Meng said that when he was treating Empress Xiao recently, he happened to hear the visiting princess Yang Luoqi, and sighed: "After the end of this expedition against the Turks, my father will no longer worry about the threat from the north." He can sleep peacefully and deal with the bandits in the country with all his might. ”

Shumeng immediately keenly felt that Yang Guang might be unfavorable to Liaodong. Because a few days ago, she also heard from Empress Xiao that the saint had been worried that the tail of the Liaodong army would not fall off, and he couldn't sleep well for several nights, so how could he no longer worry about it after the expedition to the Turks?

Therefore, she thought that Yang Guang might clean up Liaodong by the way during this expedition to the Turks.

And she was very worried about the safety of Yu Ming and Red Sleeves, so she sent Lao Wu to tell Yu Ming about the unexpected situation she discovered. She believed that with Yuming's wisdom and the ability of a group of generals under her command, she would definitely be able to see through Yang Guang's strategy.

"Lao Wu, thank you! You and Miss Lyric have helped us a lot this time! Yuming has always been a little skeptical about Yang Guang's decision-making, but he can't be completely sure that the information sent by Shumeng this time confirmed his worries from one side! Yang Guang's deal with the Turks was fake, it was just a bluff. And the real purpose is to deal with Liaodong.

He immediately said to Guo Yi: "Send Lao Wu down to rest, and reward ten taels of gold!" In addition, Lord Du, Lord Wei, Lord Hu, the main generals in the army, and a lady are called together, and the commander will hold an emergency meeting! ”

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In the hall of the Marshal's Mansion in Liaodong City, a group of the most outstanding talents of the Liaodong Army had gathered at this time, in addition to the eldest grandson Wuji, who was still governing the two counties of Ji and Silla on the Korean Peninsula, other officials and military generals, including Li Xiuning, the eldest grandson Wujian and the wife of Yuming such as Red Sleeves, were all present.

Yuming knew very well the importance of this meeting, which was related to the life and death of the Liaodong Army. In order to avoid the leakage of the contents of the discussion, there was not a single servant within fifty zhang around the hall, and even the guards could only guard fifty zhang away, and the entire marshal's palace had been completely isolated.

At this time, in the conference hall, there was a huge sand table with a radius of more than ten zhang. This sand table only includes the sand table of grassland, Hetao, Hedong, Hebei, Liaodong and other places. There are also eight other large sand tables in the camp. If the nine sand tables are pieced together, it is a complete map of the distribution of mountains and rivers in the world.

In addition, for some specific combat areas, the high command has also specially made special sand tables in case of emergency.

As a traverser, Yu Ming is very unaccustomed to looking at the maps of ancient people, and it feels too rough and intuitive. But the sand table is different, on a sand table with fine craftsmanship, the topography and topography, as well as the mountains, rivers, passes, and cities are clear at a glance, which is very suitable for the staff and generals to discuss the war, conduct advance deductions, and formulate battle plans.

In fact, the sand table is not a new thing, in ancient times, someone made a sand table very early, with dough, with soil and sand, it is said that the earliest sand table was made by Qin Shi Huang when he destroyed the Six Kingdoms. It's just that the previous sand tables are only the most primitive and elementary sand tables.

And the sand table that Yuming is making now is very precise. Jinyiwei spent more than half a year for this, mobilized countless people, collected county records from all over the country, and invited many map masters to survey and map a collection of maps.

Finally, according to military needs, many sand tables of different sizes and proportions were formulated. Since this thing was made, the generals at all levels in Liaodong no longer looked at the map, but began to analyze the sand table every day to simulate war deduction.

The huge sand table now placed in the military conference hall includes the terrain of grassland, Hetao, Hedong, Hebei, Liaodong and other places. The content is as detailed and precise as possible, with mountains, rivers, lakes, and plains all available.

The generals found that on the large sand table in front of them, there were not only the symbols of grasslands, lakes, rivers and mountains, but also small flags of different colors in many places.

"Husband, this blue flag represents the Sui Army, right? The green banner should be the Turks, and the yellow banner from the sand table is probably the Suyantuo people...... That red banner should be our Liaodong Army, right? Li Xiuning asked with a pair of big beautiful eyes. It was the first time she had seen such a detailed sand table, and she was very curious. However, she had only just come from the grassland, and she knew a little about the situation of the various departments on the grassland.

Yu Ming smiled and said, "That's right, Xiuning, you can see it very accurately." Each color of the flag represents a faction, and each flag represents a force, and the larger the flag, the greater the number of the troops. Judging from the information we have now, Yang Guang will mobilize 500,000 troops to attack the Turks in the north, and at the same time let us send troops to Liaodong to attack several tribes in the steppe that have temporarily submitted to the Turks. ”

"Now Shibi Khan is going to lead 400,000 Turkic cavalry to the south, and the Holy Lord is also going north to attack the Turks? Wouldn't that be in sync with the Turks? But do we really have to listen to the Holy Command? Eldest Sun Wujian also asked in surprise.

"Innocent, the saint's actions don't stop there, he dispatched so many troops and made such a big noise, in fact, he just wanted the Turks to understand that he had already prepared. Wanted to scare the Turks away. Then his main force swung eastward, bypassing the key points of our defense in Zhuojun and Liaoxi, and slammed in from the grasslands of northern Liaoning, leveling our Liaodong Army in one fell swoop! Yu Ming said lightly.

Immediately, he turned to Red Sleeves and said, "Sister Red Sleeves, tell everyone about the information you sent back by Jinyiwei, so that everyone can have a number in their hearts." ”

Red Sleeves nodded, and then told the generals the news that Shu Meng overheard, and also attached the grain, grass, weapons and maps prepared by Jinyiwei for the transfer of the Sui army.

As a result, Jin Yiwei found that among the combat maps prepared by the Sui army, there was no map of the Western Turks at all, but there was a map of Liaodong. Moreover, a large number of siege equipment was prepared, and the soldiers were mainly infantry, and there were few cavalry. This is obviously to attack a place where there is a city, and it is impossible to attack the grassland at all.

Around the Great Sui, there were a large number of cities, and the place that did not belong to the jurisdiction of the imperial court was only Liaodong. In this way, Yang Guang's real combat purpose is about to come out.

The generals only reacted at this time, it turned out that Yang Guang was playing a plan to attack the east and the west, he ostensibly promised Liaodong's support for the army to stand on his own, and also named Yuming as the Duke of Zhou. In fact, he wanted to paralyze the Liaodong Army. Then, under the pretext of attacking the Turks, a large number of troops were transferred to the east of the river and attacked the steppe. In the end, it was a false shot, waving his army to the east to solve the Liaodong Army.

"! This emperor is also insidious! To use such a conspiracy! Cheng Yanjin immediately scolded his mother with righteous indignation.

It is not surprising that Yang Guang can make such an arrangement, after all, if he forcibly attacks from Zhuojun and Liaoxi, he will suffer a big loss in front of our army's Liaohe defense line, and the casualties will inevitably be heavy. That's why he wanted to make a detour to attack us! Hu Sizheng sighed: "It's just that he arranged so many troops to detour through the grassland, and it is impossible not to be discovered by us." If our army is well prepared, waiting for work, and when they attack far away and have just arrived in Liaodong, give the Sui army a head-on blow, then the defeat may be the imperial army. ”

"Hmmm! Yang Guang must have understood this, so he came to a plank road to repair the plank road and secretly crossed Chen Cang. In the name of attacking the Turks, it is justified that he mobilized a large army to the north, and even if we knew that he had transferred troops, we would not pay attention to it. After all, on the surface, he didn't target us, and he still regarded Liaodong as an ally, so let's join forces together. Du Ruhui also said.

Wei Zheng also thought deeply and said: "When Yang Guang was conquering Goryeo before, he played a trick to lure the snake out of the hole, pretending to attack Goryeo, but in fact, the main forces were in Hedong, Hebei, and Xiliang, just waiting for the Yuan clan and the Dugu clan to sink out of breath, thinking that it was an opportunity to rebel, so they couldn't wait to jump out, but they were wiped out one by one by Yang Guanghui's division. This time, the Holy Lord is just a repetition of the old trick. Fortunately, Miss Lyric found out in time, otherwise we would have been tricked! ”

At this time, the red sleeve party picked up a slender stick and pointed out it on the sand table.

"Generals, according to the intelligence collected by our Jinyi Guard from all sides: Yang Guang has gathered the government soldiers from Guanzhong, Henan, Hebei, Jianghuai, Hedong and other places to the Eastern Capital, although the government soldiers of the Twelve Guards have fled and lost a lot, but the total strength is still more than 500,000, except for some old, weak, sick and disabled, and the troops who must stay for defense, Yang Guang has mobilized a total of 270,000 people to follow him north. The other 200,000 people have long been handed over to Li Jing, Wang Rengong, Qu Tutong and Luo Yi to lead. ”

"If we are not miscalculated, Yang Guang should have led the palace concubines and the Imperial Forest Army to Hedong by now." Red Sleeves points the stick to the original path.

When everyone saw the four small blue flags from Dunhuang and Fengzhou to Mayi and Beiping, they were a little worried. After all, Li Jing, Qu Tutong, Wang Rengong, Luo Yi and others are all famous generals of the Great Sui, and the officers and soldiers under them are also war divisions. There are also as many as 200,000 such famous generals. If you come to attack Liaodong, I am afraid that these half-pulled recruits in the camp will not be able to resist.

Red Sleeves pointed to the blue banner on the map and continued, "Yang Guang's strategy should be to subdue the Turks with an army of 500,000 first, force them to return north to the grassland, and maybe even negotiate with the Turks to attack Liaodong together. Even if there was no agreement with the Turks, his main force had reached the steppe, and it was already very close to Liaodong. ”

At this time, it is possible that Yang Guang used a part of the partial division to attract the Turks, and then the main force galloped eastward, from the steppe into Liaodong. At that time, any place in the county of Aoki, Buyeo, and Heishi, the Sui army may appear. If Yang Guang enters from the north, then he can completely avoid our current Liaohe defense line, and from the top of the Liaohe defense line in the north, cross the defense line, and enter the hinterland of Liaodong. At this time, the small stick in the hand of the red sleeve happened to fall on the sand table in Liaodong's position, making a slight "poof" sound.

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