Under Li Guorui's vigor, he is also sharp!

No matter what happens in the rear, the things ahead, entrusting the coach is the way to respect and trust.

The imperial court appointed Li Guorui to be the commander, but he always interfered with his decision, interrupted his decided strategy for one reason or another, and threatened to remove his post, raid his home, remove his office, and even kill his head, such a decision, if Li Guorui was really willing to lie down, he wouldn't even dare to complain, he would not be the supreme commander of these hundreds of thousands of troops!

"Li Shumi, please speak." Chen Changde showed shame on his face, and hugged his fists and said: "But the last general can only promise to do it hard, and I can't guarantee what it will be." ”

Li Guorui's face was grim, he nodded lightly, and said: "I have more than 100 troops here, from Hebei, Jingying, Jibei, Hedong, Qinfeng and other roads, all of which are the elite of the border army, with about 240,000 people. The Donghu cavalry, divided into five divisions, is under the command of the five Nayan, each Nayan is 50,000 households, every 10,000 households is 10,000, nominally 250,000, in fact, we all know that the Donghu thousand households are not enough, some of the 1,000 households are more, up to more than 1,000 people, most of the 1,000 households only have 5,600 to 7,800 people, and the main force of its army is about 210,000 people. Over the years, Donghu and Beilu have been in cahoots, not only an ally, but in fact, Beihu has gradually become dependent on Donghu, and the decline of Beiyu's strength has not been a day. He went south with Donghu, robbed the money and grain wealth of our Great Wei Ding, and plundered everything, and the northern captives have also strengthened themselves over the years, but their strength is still not comparable with the Donghu people. The two join forces, in fact, there is no need to care too much, the only thing to worry about is that the Donghu people were originally fishing, hunting and grazing, and their soldiers, thirty years ago, more than half of them were walking with the war horses. Even if they are all horseback, they are divided into heavy horses, fine horses, bow horses, light horses, and several types of mounted infantry. Its 200,000 soldiers, the most elite is one of the five departments directly led by the Great Khan, known as the palace tent army, all its heavy cavalry and elite cavalry, most of them are in the palace tent army, and the rest of the departments are a small number of elite cavalry and bow cavalry, as for the light cavalry, it is just a spear and a bow, used to communicate, sentry, sometimes attack our Wei army's grain road, harass the rear, if looted in the territory of our Great Wei, these light cavalry are the most numerous, scattered but the greatest harm, as for the northern cavalry, almost all of them are this kind of light cavalry. ”

Although Li Guorui said a long word, everyone was impatient, especially a few civil officials and Chen Changde, who were not too familiar with these Donghu matters, and they all listened attentively.

Chen Changde is also very admired in his heart, the DPRK and China hate Donghu, hate it to the bone, and want to get rid of it a lot. But although there are many people shouting and shouting to kill, the person who can understand the Donghu people to such a point, and knows the entire structure, troops, command, and tactics is afraid that it is the privy deputy envoy in front of him.

It's no wonder that after Han Zhong killed Liu Zhiyuan, he never attacked Li Guorui, always because of the rarity of talents.

Li Guorui continued: "Hu cavalry 200,000, heavy cavalry more than 10,000, elite cavalry 30,000 or 40,000, the rest are archers, light cavalry, or mounted infantry, and when they encounter the enemy, they dismount and fight in formation. Our army of 240,000 people should be dispatched with the whole army, and only a few soldiers will protect the flank grain routes, which is really overwhelming. If our army is not fully dispatched, then there will be no chance of victory in a joint battle with the enemy, I should dispatch the whole army, rush and fight violently in a violent manner, and do not give the enemy a chance to calmly set up a formation to find our loopholes and gaps. Originally, I was going to spend time in Ningyuan until the autumn, and in the early winter I calmly entered the army, and picked the Donghu Iron Cavalry to attack me with a defensive array, I set up a square array, polished their sharpness, and grinded off their flesh and blood, to the next spring, the military castle outside Jinzhou City was repaired, and on the side of Yushui, I chose a site to build a city, and then built roads, built forts, and Jinzhou formed a defensive trend, and in the autumn and winter, then forced Yingzhou, repaired Xianzhou, so that the defense was bound to be successful, and then our army was invincible. ”

Only then did everyone know Li Guorui's complete plan and tactics, Chen Changde shook his head slightly, not only can this tactics not be able to fight now, but also not in the autumn and winter, and even next year, they will not fight, they will slowly advance, build cities, and wear out.

"I'm not going to do it all at once." Li Guorui said with a cold face: "In the past three years, the national strength of the Donghu people has been consumed, their blood and sharpness have been exhausted. After that, it is a long lock lock Jiao, which is slowly grinding to death and trapping to death. Donghu only left Liaodong, less than a million people, like how many small countries in general, when the rise, there are a lot of outstanding people, a few decades later, the heroes are gradually gone, the ambition is exhausted, the country is small and the people are poor, then there is no harm. Just like the Sui and Tang dynasties destroyed Goguryeo, its country was once a big country across Liaodong, and it already threatened the Central Plains. I, Da Wei, should have three years of patience, and then I can ignore its existence and sit back and watch its defeat. Now this situation, there is no other way, only with sharp spirit against sharp spirit, more than 400,000 people in the melee, if the mandate of heaven in Wei, Huaxia luck is not lost, our army can repel Donghu, build Jinzhou City Yushui City, after this battle, no matter whether the official family keeps me, whether the two governments still believe in me, I will resign and return to my hometown, and no longer ask about military and political affairs. ”

Only then did everyone know Li Guorui's plan, which was to use all the main forces to fight a decisive battle with the Donghu people on the side of Yushui. If he wins, Donghu will retreat in embarrassment, and of course it will not be a problem to build a city, and if he can't win, he will also have to fight with the Donghu people to the point where both sides have suffered heavy losses.

"Therefore, our army wants to follow-up, one is to protect the grain road, and the other is if the main force and Donghu fight and do not retreat, if the Hu cavalry does not retreat, the follow-up army will come slowly, forcing the Donghu people to retreat!"

After Li Guorui finished speaking coldly, Yue Zhi, Mai Jitong, Liu Guoding, Li Youde and many other generals were all in deep thought.

The army will fight with the enemy, and the decisive battle is, of course, to win. But now Li Guorui's strategic battlefield victory is still secondary, and the most important thing is to build a city.

It can be said that this battle is based on the construction of the city, everything is for the purpose of building the city, and even the victory or defeat of the army is only secondary.

As long as you can lead the main force to fight with the main force of Donghu with indomitable spirit, even if you can't win, you will also have to wear down the spirit of Donghu and knock off the foundation for the other party to continue fighting.

As a result, even if more than half of the main army of more than 200,000 people is killed, as long as the follow-up soldiers and horses can keep up, they can build Jinzhou City and Yushui City, and complete the construction of the city with supporting defenses, just like the long lock casting, forming a great suppression of the Donghu people, just like the long lock lock Jiaolong, although the Great Wei is also suffering heavy losses, especially the elite forbidden army is the elite tempered by years of border fighting, from ordinary soldiers to low-level military attachés, intermediate and senior generals are experienced in a hundred battles, and loyal to the Great Wei court...... None of this matters, the most important thing is the success of the city!

As long as the siege is built, although the Wei army is defeated and wins, Yushui and Jinzhou are all critical places to hold the pass, the danger of the terrain is better than that of thousands of troops and horses, and the forbidden army of 50,000 or 60,000 foot soldiers with 20,000 or 30,000 cavalry is enough to block the 200,000 cavalry in the heyday of Donghu, and after the battle, the Hu cavalry is also seriously damaged, and it is already beyond its strength to pull out Jinzhou and Yushui City.

"Therefore, the troops and horses led by the Left Route Army and Li Enmao cannot stay outside Yuguan, and when they enter the pass, our army will set off."

Li Guorui was categorical, and finally offered a price.

There were more than 60,000 people in the Left Route Army, plus the soldiers and horses led by Li Enmao, which happened to be 100,000.

Although the strength of the soldiers and horses is composed of the Beijing battalion soldiers and Langwei, and the combat effectiveness is much worse than that of the border troops on Qinfeng Road, Hedong Road, Hebei Road, and Jibei Road, the equipment and training of the forbidden army are roughly the same in the whole country of the Great Wei, and there is not much difference, what is the difference is the implementation of military discipline and the level of military attachés who lead the team.

Most of these soldiers were stationed along the front line of the Great Wall for more than half a year, during which they fought several encounters with a small group of northern captives.

In terms of equipment, the Beijing Forbidden Army is still slightly higher than the border army, with more strong crossbows, more iron armor in armor, slightly more chariots, and small artillery and two-bow bed crossbows that accompany the army.

Its equipment can slightly make up for the lack of experience, the concern lies in Lang Wei, fortunately, there is Li Enmao, who is also a battlefield general, although it is a bit of a fluke to rank as a captain, but the combat merits and qualifications are barely enough.

As for Li Jian, although he is the dog of the Son of Heaven guarding the household, he has a career as a military attache for 30 years, and he has participated in many wars, so he will not do stupid things as a layman.

Li Guorui hopes that Li Enmao and Li Jian will lead an army of 100,000 to Ningyuan Houzhen, and when the main army fights with Donghu, there will be a large army to cover the grain route and retreat behind it, so that the main army can move forward and fight with the enemy without distractions.

"Songshan, Tashan, I have built all the forts, and I will hold them in the key and steep places." Li Guorui said to Chen Changde: "As long as the army is deployed one after another, cautious and careful, the armies are connected to each other, the communication is continuous, with the help of the mountain to strictly defend the fortress, and my army has no worries about the grain road behind the road, then I still have a fifty percent chance of winning this battle, otherwise, the odds of winning are not even thirty percent, I would rather resign than do it, and be escorted to Xishi to be beheaded, rather than lead the army to die, and defeat the Great Wei, the head of the family, in a battle......

It is not an exaggeration to say that it is the last belongings, you must know that although there are 600,000 people in the Great Wei Forbidden Army, the more than 340,000 soldiers and horses gathered here at this time are the elite of the elite, and the border army is the most elite and dares to die, and has the most actual combat experience. is not only an ordinary soldier, but also from the officer to the head of the capital, and then to the battalion commander, the military marquis, the commander, the commander of the army, the deputy commander, the commander of the box, the military attache at this level, all of them are killed in the sea of blood in the corpse mountain, and most of them are the elites of the generals from all walks of life.

The remaining 300,000 forbidden troops also have quite a considerable elite border army, but to defend against Xiqiang and Beiyu, scattered on the border defense line of thousands of miles, their companions were all transferred to the battlefield of western Liaoning, and the remaining forbidden army can no longer be drawn into an army of this size in front of them.