Knowing the situation in front of Lin Hu in front of him, Zhao Xing felt confident in his heart: "I understand, now we are in a disadvantageous state for the military operations of the rebels. But don't be discouraged, as long as we fight for a respite and let the Hetao region provide us with a steady stream of food and grass, we can attack the capital again and regain the initiative in the war. ”

King Lin Hu heard Xiang Bang Zhao Xing say this, but he sighed: "What Xiang Bang said is very reasonable, but we can't do it, Bendu keeps going south, wanting to attack my root Hetao region." As long as he attacks, we must send troops to intercept it, and in the winter when the river (Yellow River) freezes, they attack in a big way, disrupting and destroying our foundations, so that we have no respite. ”

Zhao Xing smiled: "This is where our passivity lies, because of our military defeat." ”

"Who's to say it's not, but we fought with Pontus, we fought small battles, we won and lost each other, and once we fought a big battle, we were inferior to Pontus in numbers, so we often lost miserably. For this reason, I had to avoid fighting him at the decisive level as much as possible in order to preserve our strength. But the initiative of the war is on the side of Pontus, and if you want to avoid a big battle, if you want the war to stop, you can't take a breath. ”

Zhao Xing really felt aggrieved for the high-spirited King Lin Hu back then. In just two years, how did you get mixed up in this field?

Zhao Xing looked at the embarrassed King Lin Hu, and still needed him to continue the chaos and add time to himself, so he acted aggressively: "If the king gives up, I ask the king to send an envoy, relying on the king's ability to fight, as a threat, please reward a piece of land for retirement." ”

King Lin Hu hated Bendu to the core, and when he heard this, Bo Ran was furious: "Whatever the gang says, even if this king is defeated and commits suicide, he will never bow to that bastard." ”

Zhao Xing clapped his hands: "As long as the king is so determined, then I have a way to let the king get a chance to breathe and let the king make a comeback." ”

Hearing this, King Lin Hu dropped the wine jug at that time, his cloudy eyes brightened again, and he grabbed Zhao Xing's hand: "I know that there is definitely a way to crack it, help each other, come quickly, I will do it with respect." ”

Zhao Xing felt that King Lin Hu's hand was greasy and greasy, cold and sweaty, and he was trembling uncontrollably. According to the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, this is called severe alcoholic liver, kidney damage, stomach deficiency and coldness, heart inaccessibility, spleen muscle weakness, and neurasthenia. That is, the person is terminally ill.

It's just that the spiritual pillar of hatred for Pontus has not fallen, so it has not fallen with a bang. It seems that he really has to let him cultivate and recuperate, let his army of 50,000 complete training, and then die after destroying Zhongshan.

Pulling out the hand that was caught, Zhao Xing said confidently: "I don't know when the rebels in Pontus will launch a large-scale attack on us?" ”

King Lin Hu frowned and replied: "In the summer, the water of the big rivers is so high that it is difficult for boats and boats to cross, as long as we hold a few important crossings, we can stop them from moving south." The key lies in winter, as soon as winter arrives, the herdsmen in Mobei have the habit of migrating south for the winter, and they can go south in a big way, cross the ice of the big river, and launch an attack on us without deliberately gathering men and horses. ”

Zhao Xing nodded: "In this case, I can prevent the rebels in Pontus from going south to destroy our foundation with just one fire breaker." In this way, within three or two years, we can recharge our energy and launch a counterattack. ”

King Lin Hu and Qin Mo opened their mouths in surprise, they couldn't understand why Zhao Xing could stop hundreds of thousands of rebels from roaring south with a single fire break.

Zhao Xing said his plan: "In the summer, we stubbornly guarded a few ferries to prevent the rebels from crossing the river. And once autumn comes, after the autumn grass has withered and yellowed, we will burn a huge barrier along the north bank of the Yellow River with this little fire fold, so that there is no grass in that area, and then I will see how the Pontic rebels dare to cross this barrier and kill into our Hetao area. "Funny

As soon as this strategy came out, King Lin Hu and Qin Mo glanced at each other, and once again opened their mouths in surprise.

But this time the mouth was not the same as the last time, and then the two of them slapped their palms violently, and they had to admire the great wisdom of this help.

King Lin Hu laughed again, this was the happiest laugh he had since the rebellion, and he really laughed heartily. "In this way, we will be relieved of our dead knot difficulties, and from this moment on, what we are worried about is that it should be the capital." ”

The reason why King Lin Hu is so happy is because he knows his family's affairs best, and Zhao Xing's small fire break just burned the most vulnerable tendon of the Pontus rebels.

The reason why the nomads launched a war was relatively simple, one was their cavalry superiority, whistling back and forth, so that the Central Plains army, which was dominated by infantry, could not catch up and could not be caught, and could only be passively beaten.

Another point that is very critical is their logistical supply.

The people of the Central Plains launched a war, one soldier in front of them fought, and at least five or more people were needed to engage in logistics and transportation in the back, and often the defeat of a war was not because the soldiers on the front line did not fight bravely to kill the enemy, but because they were dragged down by the huge logistics consumption.

And it has always been believed that nomads have almost no logistics, and their solution to logistics is looting. In fact, this is a big mistake. Because people with a little bit of military acumen can soberly realize that relying solely on robbery to ensure the logistics of tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of troops is simply a fool's dream and self-destruction.

The war of the nomads also has logistics, but their logistics is very simple, that is, after following the army, a large number of cattle and sheep are marched. They marched with the army and grazed along the way, which was the ration of life. And the robbery is only a slight addition.

Zhao Xing's method hit the soft underbelly of Pontus.

To the north of the Yellow River, in autumn, when the weather is dry and dry, the grass withers and yellows, and a wide enough isolation zone is burned. Then the rebels in Pontus, the war horses will be left without hay, they will be hungry and lose their combat effectiveness. And the cattle and sheep flocks that accompanied the army's activity rations also lost their fodder.

The war horse has no combat effectiveness, and the cattle and sheep in logistics can't keep up, how can this battle be fought?

And King Lin Hu, who became excited because he saw hope, suddenly felt refreshed at this moment, and all kinds of intractable diseases on his body seemed to disappear in a blink of an eye.

This is the reason why traditional Chinese medicine advocates that there are five or five points between spirit and medicine, which is what people often say, it is a truth that good medicine cannot cure people who seek death.

As soon as the spirit is good, his thinking will become quicker: "This plan can not only block the southward movement of the rebels, but also prevent the herdsmen on the grasslands in the south and north of the desert from moving south to spend the winter." Then he sneered, full of resentful curses: "You guys who betrayed me, your cattle, sheep and horses, will die in groups on the barren Gobi in the desert north and south where there is no pasture, and your old people, women and children will shiver and freeze to death in the irresistible cold winter." Hahaha, in less than three years and five years, you don't need this king to punish you, and the immortal heaven can make you die completely. Then he stood there and pointed to the north: "Pontus, when you don't have the support of the herdsmen, when your rebel tribes are dead, what are you going to do against me?" You're dead. ”

Zhao Xing also smiled and nodded in agreement with this statement, but said in his heart: "Waiting for the herdsmen north of the Yellow River to die, you, the great King of Linhu, will also die." ”