Liu Xun had already left Penglai Pavilion, and the ministers began to withdraw in an orderly manner.

Liu De was still sitting in his position, digesting the matter of this court meeting.

"Hexi should have already engaged in the battle, right?" He thought, "It's just...... I don't know if it's the direction of the wheel platform or the direction of Lingju......"

But no matter which side it is, fighting on two fronts will always be at a loss.

Troops, materials, and morale will all have an impact and restrictions.

Especially in the Hexi Corridor, the special geographical environment made it much more difficult for the Han cavalry to march in it.

Although Liu De has never been to Hexi in his past or present life, he does not know the specific situation there.

Liu De just thinks about it, even if it is the idol Huo Quai, it is only in two times that he took Hexi, I am afraid that the traffic environment in Hexi has obstacles that even Huo Quai, the pride of the sky, and the unparalleled god of war cannot overcome!

In other words, in fact, a two-front battle is very unfavorable to the Han army.

"I hope that Chang Hui can effectively implement His Majesty's edict, appease the Qiang people, and suppress the Yueshi ......"

At this time, Prime Minister Huo Guang took his subordinates and began to get up.

Liu De was also about to leave and talk to Han Zeng or Huo Guang, but just as he got up, he heard Huang Xie's voice: "Zongzheng, please stay, Your Majesty invites the general to enter the forbidden palace to play!" ”

Liu De frowned slightly when he heard this, looked at Huang Xie, and nodded: "Got it!" ”

But there are some doubts in my heart.

Staying for this kind of thing is equivalent to the end of the meeting of the leaders of later generations, and when the meeting is announced, they suddenly call so-and-so to stay and talk.

Generally, it is either to be promoted, raised, and burdened, or to be scolded.

Considering the current situation, Liu De felt a little hairy in his heart.

After admonishing his subordinates and others, Liu De followed Huang Xie and came to Liu Xun's dormitory.

"Your Majesty!" Liu De walked in and saw Liu Xun half-lying, leaning on a bamboo chair, and looking at a pair of Kanyu hanging on the palace wall.

Kanyu is wooden, and Liu De's perspective is not very clear.

However, judging from the color and material, it should be some years.

"Your Majesty, are you looking at Hexi Kanyu?" Liu De asked softly.

"Hmm!" Liu Xun nodded, his eyes still on Nakanyu.

Although he has never been on the battlefield in this life, he has never personally commanded and commanded a large army in battle.

However...... In military affairs, especially in strategic deployment and planning, he is a genius!

From Gaozu to the present, every major military action of the Han family is a military task strategically deployed by the Son of Heaven.

In the matter of war, the Son of Heaven is the one who absolutely has the right to speak!

"Does the general know the geography of the four counties in Hexi?" Liu Xun asked softly.

Liu De hurriedly bowed his head and replied: "Your Majesty, the minister is stupid, and I have only heard of some ......."

Liu Xun smiled and said: "The four counties of Hexi, the first two counties, Wuwei and Jiuquan are also!" ”

He stood up, held up a lantern that had been placed beside him, and walked over to the wall, illuminating the wooden kenyu depicted in lines.

"At first, it was just because of the mountains, west of Qilian Mountain, it was Jiuquan, and east of Qilian Mountain was Wuwei!"

He pointed to both sides of the Kanyu and said: "Later, because of the war on Dawan, I divided Jiuquan land, placed Dunhuang County, and became the Xiongnu, and took land from Jiuquan and Wuwei to place Zhangye County, and changed Yongzhou to Liangzhou, and built the Liangzhou Thorn History Department, to govern the four counties of Beidi, Longxi, Zhangye, Jiuquan, Wuwei and Dunhuang!" ”

"And the four counties in Hexi are placed because of the river!"

"Dunhuang is dominated by the Duanshui Basin, Jiuquan is dominated by the Qianggu Basin, Zhangye is dominated by the Hunu Basin, and Wuwei is in ......the Zhushui Basin."

Liu De listened, looked at Nakanyu, and in his heart, compared these ancient rivers with the rivers of later generations.

He found that the so-called Jiduanshui should be the Shule River in later generations, while the Hunu Water should be the Shiyang River, and the Qianggu Water should be the Heihe River.

These are all river systems that originate from the Qilian Mountains.

It is also the source of life in the Hexi Corridor and the fundamental lifeblood of Hexi's agriculture and animal husbandry.

The Han family's strategy of ruling by the river is correct.

But......

Looking at Nakanyu, combined with the geographical common sense in some textbooks retrospectively, Liu De couldn't help but ask: "Your Majesty, the minister is stupid, and the minister looks at it, Qilian Mountain, crosses the connection between Lingju and Juyan, if there is something in the direction of Juyan or Yumen, if our army wants to move from the north of Qilian Mountain to Shanxi, it must go around hundreds of miles, and vice versa!" ”

"Indeed!" Liu Xun nodded with a smile, pointed in the direction of Lingju, and said: "At the beginning, the hussar general first invaded Hexi, from the north to Zhangye, and the Hun evil king would hunt in Gaolan Mountain......"

When Liu De heard this, he was in awe, and said: "The minister has also heard that the battle of Da Sima Gaolan Mountain, the story of breaking the backbone of the Huns!" ”

Today, or in the future, the source of all the examples of a Han and a Wuhu began with the bloody battle of Gaolan Mountain!

Before the battle of Gaolan Mountain, the arrogance of the Huns was very high.

Even if they lost the loop, they still didn't feel that there was anything wrong with them.

In his eyes, he is the first in the world of labor and capital, and he is very arrogant!

often through the desert and grassland, harassing and invading the Han family's border fortress.

Sometimes, it comes dozens of times a year.

However, after the battle of Gaolan Mountain, the frequency of the Huns' invasion of Hanse became lower and lower, and after the decisive battle of Mobei, there was no royal court in Monan.

And this battle was fought extremely fiercely!

Huo Quai's main force, after fighting this battle, withdrew from the battle and withdrew to Longxi by the same route.

Legend has it that after the battle, only two adults of the three commanders who served as the vanguard were still standing.

Huo Quai's personal guard Yao Lieutenant Department, in the end, only less than a hundred people could still walk.

The losses of the Han army set an unprecedented record!

The 10,000 elite cavalry and thousands of cavalry who participated in the battle suffered more than 50% of the battle losses unprecedented in the classical era!

However, their sacrifice was worth it.

Because, in Gaolan Mountain, they completely annihilated the three ace tribes of the Huns!

Moreover, it was head-to-head, and in the case of no superiority in numbers and no geographical advantage, the white-edged charge trampled the Hun cavalry under their feet and completely shattered their backbones!

After this battle, the following year, Huo Quai's illness and then cut down Hexi, the momentum was like a bamboo, almost no resistance was encountered, and even performed a miracle show that single-handedly made tens of thousands of people lay down their arms and surrender to the Han family!

"The Reborn Financial Giant"

It was also since then that the slogan of Yihan as Wuhu began to spread.

But aside from this aura, everyone is

will know a fact: Hexi is the only place where Huo Qubing needs to take it down twice!

Even Huo Quzhi, who is the best at fast interspersing and dislikes frontal toughness, has been forced to have a head-on decisive battle with the Huns in Hexi, the main force duel, and the most brutal white-knuckle fight.

As you can imagine, the geography and environment of the Hexi region.

That's not a flat place, and it's not a place where you can maneuver quickly.

Especially, this is especially true when it is necessary to cross the Qilian Mountains!

Liu Xun didn't say much, just looked at Na Kanyu and muttered to himself: "I know that the general of the second division wants to make a great contribution and prove it to me and the world!" ”

"And this is indeed a good opportunity!"

Chang Hui, the general of the second division, is a general who he personally helped up and cultivated.

From Chang'an's relatives and gentlemen, to the generals of Biansai and the marshal of Hexi, Liu Xun knows Chang Hui's efforts and achievements.

In the two Dawan Wars, the Battle of Tianshan and the Battle of Yuwushui, Chang Hui's performance became more mature each time.

To be reasonable, if it weren't for the rise in front of him, Liu Xun believed that Chang Hui would prove himself to the world sooner or later.

Pity......

The rise of General Ying Yang caused him to have to come up with results as soon as possible.

And he also acquiesced, and even supported, Chang Hui to plan this war.

If it weren't for this, Liu Xun only needed to send a random envoy to Hexi to supervise and supervise, and Chang Hui would have been pushed back to Juyan long ago.

He doesn't have the space to manipulate those little movements!

Thinking of this, Liu Xun also sighed slightly.

He knew that, in fact, he was also responsible for the way things turned out.

Because, Liu Xun also hopes in his heart that Chang Hui can show his results to slap the faces of those guys who ridicule him as 'just an old friend of the prime minister' and 'His Majesty pulls out seedlings to help them grow'.

It's not preference, it's selfishness.

After all, Chang Hui proved himself in all the Han army actions in later generations.

However, if he did not make any achievements and did not achieve a big victory that shocked the world, he was replaced by others.

Isn't it tantamount to proving the slander of those gossip parties?

Isn't he telling the world that he, Liu Xun, has also lost his eyes?

This is absolutely unacceptable!

Therefore, he connived at Chang Hui, the generals in Hexi, and the prime minister.

Thinking of this, Liu Xun turned back and looked at Liu De: "I listened to the general's words today, and I was also touched......

"Fighting on two fronts, there may indeed be problems......"

It was something he knew from the beginning.

This is the intuition of strategists.

It is the experience of decades of governing career!

Back then, when the Han family was in its heyday, it was also necessary to solve the rebellion of Wei Manchu Korea, South Vietnam, Minyue and Southwest Yi in order.

Never have an appetite to settle all at once.

But......

Liu Xun looked at Liu De with a smile and said, "The reason why I agreed is because there is a general!" ”

"If there is an urgency, the general will go into battle, and I can rest easy!"

"Moreover, the Hexi army, there are more than ten thousand, even if there is a small setback, it will not hurt!"

This matter, in the eyes of His Majesty, is completely fine.

Chang Hui performed well and won a big victory, so everyone was naturally happy.

Even if he gets out of the basket, isn't there someone in Chang'an who can rush over to wipe his buttocks?

Liu De listened, but was dumbfounded.

Such a major military event involves the safety and death of countless people, how can it be child's play?

But think about it carefully, isn't this big man still a young man?

Some of them are willful and stubborn, open-minded and intelligent, selfish and self-interested, but at the same time affectionate and petty bourgeois romance.

The Son of Heaven of the Great Han is a polyhedron of contradictions.

It is impossible to see through and be incomprehensible.

They are like this in the history books, and they are like this in reality.

The Son of Heaven of the Han Dynasty can be angry for the sake of a sycophant of the Huns, and Longyan Dayue can also be furious for a petty official on the border who was killed, dispatch a large army, regardless of the Huns, advance by sea and land, and destroy and defend Korea.

Just like Emperor Xiaowu can write poems such as 'Xiao drums and songs, joy and sorrow are ......', but when he turns his head, he can give the birth mother of the first emperor to death for the country.

With this majesty's temperament, if in the future life, he must be the kind of player who goes to the wind and waves casually, and fights carefully against the wind.

Thinking of this, Liu De sighed.

But there is no way, who calls this majesty his own boss?

………………………………

At the foot of the Tianshan Mountains, countless craftsmen from the Western Regions were 'invited' here by the Huns.

Mostly, they are carpenters.

As soon as they arrived, they were gathered and then under the command of some 'Qin people', they began to cut wood and chisel.

After several days of endless work, and with their efforts, the huge, clumsy wooden instruments gradually took shape.

This is very simple and very primitive trebuchet.

But......

Every Xiongnu nobleman looked at these instruments with a pilgrim-like look.

Because......

They have already experimented with a 'gun carriage' that can throw a piece of rough stone weighing more than ten catties onto a mountain several zhang high hundreds of paces away.

And it's very powerful!

Seeing these 'gun carriages' being slowly manufactured, the sage's expression became extremely excited.

"By tomorrow, these gun trucks will basically be ready for use!" He said excitedly: "From now on, the fortified fortress of the Han Dynasty is no longer an obstacle of my Great Huns!" ”

In the past, the Huns were basically not good at attacking fortifications.

When encountering the fortress of the Han Dynasty, it can only rely on the stupid method of ant attachment, digging the root of the wall, and throwing hook and claw to attack.

And the defense of the Han Dynasty is very strong, and the firepower is sufficient, if you want to capture it, you have to take your life to fill it!

Not to mention, the Fan Lady City established by the Han people in the hinterland of Mobei has given the Huns a headache for more than ten years.

Every time, the Xiongnu could occupy the city of Lady Fan, basically relying not on the siege of the army, but on the rapid change of the climate in Mobei, and there was a severe drought or extremely cold weather.

The Han people couldn't stay on their own and took the initiative to give up.

And in the second year, when the conditions improved, these Han people fought back to the fortress under the cover of cavalry.

Even if the Huns were destroyed, it didn't matter, they could basically rebuild the city walls and fortresses in just one month.

A city, back and forth like this, disgusted the Huns for more than ten years.

Others, such as Guanglusai, Surrender City, and Luntai City, are even more disgusting and uncomfortable.

But now......

The Huns finally have a reliable means of attacking fortifications!

Finally, he has the ability to shake the enemy's fortified city!

This is a moment in history and a breakthrough!

In the eyes of the sages, this is even the hope of the Huns!

Because......

With them, even if they still can't win against the Han people in the future, the Huns also have the means to bully others.

For example, Nadawan......

In the past, Dawan relied on the fortress of Jiancheng, and if he didn't bird the Huns, the Huns couldn't do anything about them.

But now......

Hehe, there's another place to fight the autumn wind and suck blood!

In Lingju, the Liao general Fan Minh Woo and the Juyan general Chang Hui respectively reported on the observed and estimated number of Qiang people arriving at the border wall.

The former estimates that the total number of Qiang people who come to attack is about 150,000 to 170,000, involving three major species and seven small species of Qiang people, including the Qiang people's feudal Qiang, prison sister Qiang, and Xianling Qiang.

The latter reported that there had been traces of the Yue's cavalry appearing in the Qiang ranks.

And no matter who it is, in its report, they are urging Chang'an, reinforcing the front line, and increasing efforts!

The report in the direction of Lingju did not cause any splash in Chang'an.

Except for a few, there are simply not a few people who are willing to waste time on the Qiang and Yue.

Because, most people think that the side wall guarded by the elite of the Han army is foolproof!

With the ability of the Qiang people and the Yueshi people, let alone shake it.

I'm afraid that if I am close to the range of the side wall for fifty miles, I will be beaten into a pig's head by the king!

What really caught the public's attention and attention was the report from Juyan and Yumen.

Captain Juyan reported that the scouts reconnoitred and found that in the periphery of Juyan, in the area of Puchanghai, a large number of cavalry divisions appeared, and even cavalry from the Pu countries.

The number is about three thousand to five thousand.

When they attempted to pass through Bailongdui, they were intercepted by Captain Han Loulan stationed in Loulan and Captain Loulan's own Che Division.

There was a brief battle between the two armies, and after leaving behind about fifty corpses, the Che Shi men withdrew to the back of Pu Changhai.

In the direction of Yumen, in the direction of Duanshui of the Han family, the scouts found traces of Hun cavalry activities on the south side of Duanshui.

In the direction of Mingze, traces of the activities of the Hun cavalry were also found.

At the same time, Luntai Duwei also reported that he had received information from Wusun that the Xiongnu's Rizhu King Daxu had reached the foot of the Tianshan Mountains south of Qiuzi.

At the same time, the main force of the Xiongnu in the Western Regions was also gathering.

The armies of more than a dozen kingdoms, such as Qiuzi, Shache, Yuli, Weisu, Yanxu, and Jingjue, were all requisitioned by the Huns.

It is estimated that the strength of the Hun cavalry and its servant army assembled at the southern foot of the Tianshan Mountains may have approached 50,000, or even more!

Suppose it is said that before, the Han court was still suspicious, and the Huns might not come.

After all, they were in the confrontation with the main forces of Fox Lugu last winter and this summer, and they suffered a lot of losses.

Under normal circumstances, they would curl up for two or three years to recover.

But now, everything proves that the Huns will definitely come.

Moreover, their goal is Luntai!

The Han family, which hangs alone outside the Yumen Pass, is an important town in the Western Regions!

There is no doubt about the importance of the wheel.

It is the only base of the Han dynasty in the Western Regions, except for Loulan, and it is a fortress that can directly threaten the heart of the Xiongnu in the Western Regions.

At the same time, it is also the greatest guarantee for the Han family to protect the nobles of the Western Regions and show their influence in the Western Regions!

It can be said that if the wheel platform is lost, the Han family's Western Regions strategy will have to cut off an arm.

The Han family will directly lose the communication channel with the Dawan subject country and Wusun, and the Silk Road will also be closed by the Xiongnu.

This is tantamount to announcing that the efforts of the Han family in the past ten years and the sacrifice of the two generals of the second division of Dawan have been in vain!

Therefore, after learning of this, Chang'an immediately rushed with 800 li, and urgently ordered the Gaoque army, which is currently stationed in Zhangye, to rush to Yumen immediately and join the Yumen lieutenant stationed in Yumen to jointly reinforce Luntai.

At the same time, according to Chang Hui's deployment, he withdrew to the two cavalry commanders south of Juyan, quickly left Juyan, entered Loulan, and joined the Han army in Loulan, ready to launch the Battle of Bailongdui at any time to contain the Hun cavalry stationed in Bailongdui and the northern province of the Western Regions.

In addition, the county soldiers of Dunhuang and Jiuquan have also responded quickly in accordance with the previous order and moved closer to the direction of Yumen Pass.

According to the original plan, Chang Hui should also lead the army at this moment, from Lingju to Yumen Pass, and he will rush to Yumen in about five days and command the Battle of Luntai.

The affairs of the Lingju direction will be entrusted to Fan Minh You, the captain of Huqiang Colonel, and Zhao Xindi, the general of Chang Hui.

The Northland cavalry under the command of the Taishou Guanfeng of the Northland County will arrive at the periphery of the Lingju three days later and participate in the coordinated defense.

From this, the Han Chamber will bloom in two directions in Lingju and Yumen-Loulan six days later at the latest.

The Lingju cluster and the Yumen-Loulan cluster were formed respectively.

Most people are very optimistic about the direction of Lingju, but they are worried about the direction of Luntai.

After all, Luntai Stopper, far away from the border wall of the Han family, is located in the heart of the Western Regions.

When the Hun army is finished, Luntai will be bloody.

On the other hand, Lingju is just a group of rookies.

As long as the Han army plays normally and takes it seriously, whether it is the Qiang people or the Yueshi people, they are just here to send people's heads.

Liu De didn't think there would be any problems with Lingju.

After all, whether it is Chang Hui, Fan Mingyou, Yang or Zheng Ji, or Guan Feng, who is about to rush to Lingju, they all have real talents and real learning.

Maybe it's Zheng Ji, sometimes he will go up.

But it is covered by a side wall, backed by the support of Wuwei, Zhangye, and Jiuquan.

It should be able to block Qianghu's attack.

Liu De himself did a sand table wargame deduction, and the result was that no matter how bad the direction of Lingju was, it would not collapse completely.

However, the direction of the wheel platform made Liu De sweat.

Zheng Ji and Chang Hui gambled a bit big this time!