After the discussion, Lu Yuan returned to the camp, on the one hand, let Uncle Fei continue to send sentinels to spy on the surrounding enemy situation, especially in the direction of Liangxiang and Zhuozhou; On the one hand, through the information provided by the liaison station on the appearance of the Qing army in various places, the staff of the General Staff Department worked together to calculate the next intention of the Qing army.

Lu Yuan admits that he is not a military genius, so in this kind of war, he can only rely on the institution of the General Staff to make up for his personal shortcomings in military command through collective wisdom and efforts.

Other officers and soldiers are also preparing for this big battle.

Guan Ningbing was naturally reluctant to fight with Jiannu, so he was unwilling to go to the main battle of Jiannu with Lu Xiangsheng's Xuan soldiers.

Therefore, the generals of Guan Ningbing have been active in the capital at this time, wanting the imperial court to transfer him back to Guanwai, or send him elsewhere, or even want to transfer Lu Xiangsheng away.

And at this time.

Lu Xiangsheng and his Xuanda soldiers were actively preparing for war, and the sentinels of the Tianxiong army were everywhere, and there had been many confrontations with the Jiannu sentinels.

"Official, I just got the news that Zhuozhou City was broken by Jiannu, and Jiannu plundered the city for three days, and now it has gone south."

Yue Changgui and the six babies ran in, and among them, Yue Changgui said a word to Lu Yuan first.

Lu Yuan couldn't help frowning after hearing this, and muttered, "This Jiannu is really going south to plunder. ”

After Lu Yuan said that, he let Yue Changgui and Liuwazi retreat, at the moment he was only a capital division, and he couldn't command all the officers and soldiers of King Qin in the imperial court, so even if he knew that Zhuozhou was conquered by Jiannu, he couldn't do anything, he could only wait for the order of the military department.

Soon.

The sound of horses' hooves kept coming from the barracks.

Lu Yuan took a look at the camp tent and saw Yang Tinglin enter Lu Xiangsheng's Chinese army tent, and he could guess that Yang Tinglin was going to tell Lu Xiangsheng the news of the fall of Zhuozhou.

But next.

There was no news from Lu Xiangsheng's Chinese army tent.

Lu Yuan only saw that Lu Xiangsheng's Chinese army tent was shining with candlelight all the time.

At that time.

It's already a sub-hour.

It was gradually snowing.

The icy wind swept through the barracks.

Some of the officers and men on duty on the night vigil were so cold that they stamped their feet and rubbed their feet.

Lu Yuan couldn't help but shudder, and he didn't know why the imperial court military department didn't allocate some charcoal for the army.

There were nearly 100,000 officers and soldiers in the entire Qinwang, and they were all huddled on the frozen soil of Changping Prefecture like homeless refugees at this time.

Of course, with the exception of Lu Yuan's mighty army, because there was a liaison station to prepare in advance, although there was no charcoal, every field officer and soldier of the mighty army had their own thick quilts, and it was naturally not a problem to resist the cold.

Moreover, the medical staff also prepared hot ginger tea, and every day they must let the whole army drink a cup to ward off the cold.

"Childe, it's cold outside, you better go back to the tent."

Xiao Wu reminded at this time.

Lu Yuan couldn't help sneezing, he didn't dare to suffer from a cold at this time, so he nodded and returned to the tent.

As soon as Lu Yuan came in, Yue Changgui immediately took a cup of ginger tea from Jing Ya's hand and handed it to Lu Yuan.

Lu Yuan took it, glanced at Jing Ya's flushed face, and asked Yue Changgui: "Did you secretly make love behind my back just now?" ”

Lu Yuan's camp tent is the largest in the entire mighty army, not only the two guards Xiao Wu and Liuwazi live here, but also the three staff officers and medical soldier Jingya of the entire staff department also live here.

In this way, you can not only take care of Lu Yuan's diet and daily life, but also help Lu Yuan to make suggestions at any time.

Now that Lu Yuan asked, Jing Ya hurriedly shook her head, and Yue Changgui was also busy saying: "Back to the official master, no, there is absolutely no small one." ”

"No, why are you so red?"

Lu Yuan said with a smile, and then asked Yue Changgui: "Did the staff predict it, what might be Jiannu's intentions next?" ”

"The three of us discussed it for a while, thinking that since Jiannu entered the customs this time did not intend to conquer the capital division to destroy my Ming Dynasty, but to plunder in the south, then it would definitely be arranged between the canal and Taihang Mountain, east of Taihang Mountain, west of the canal, are all flat land and few rivers, Jiannu iron cavalry can wantonly plunder, and if our Ming officers and soldiers pursue, it will be like looking for a needle in the sea, and even when our officers and soldiers are tired, these Jiannu iron cavalry will only gather together to surround us, and wait for work to catch us off guard."

Yue Changgui hurriedly returned.

Lu Yuan nodded, he admitted that Jiannu is mainly cavalry, once he enters the customs and comes to the North China Plain, the enemy advances and I retreat, the enemy is stationed and I disturb, the enemy is tired and I fight, and the enemy retreats and I chase after the fighting method, it will be difficult for the Ming official army to hold this Jiannu.

"If you come to command the officers and troops of King Qin, how will you deal with it?" Lu Yuan asked.

Lu Yuan often asked the staff officers of the General Staff Department to consider themselves as the supreme commanders of the imperial court, so Yue Changgui was also used to thinking like this, and said busily: "We believe that we should fortify the walls and clear the wilderness, let the people of Baoding, Zhending, Hejian, Tianjin Wei and other places move into the fortresses in advance or go directly south, and arrange heavy troops to guard the fortresses, so as not to let Jiannu have the opportunity to grab food. Its momentum naturally declined, in addition, it could also force Jiannu to fight a war of attrition with the official army in various fortified cities, so that the Jiannu cavalry could not give full play to its advantages, and then the imperial army could gather these Jiannu and annihilate them. ”

Lu Yuan nodded, secretly thinking that in this kind of 100,000-person general battle, if you want to defeat the enemy, you really need to rely on the support of the entire imperial court and the local government, after all, the strong wall Qingye is not so simple, this needs to be agreed by the military department to unify which cities to defend, how long to defend, which cities can be abandoned, and then the cities that need to be abandoned, how long does the local government need to move the people everywhere, in addition, the gathering and annihilation of Jiannu also has to cooperate with the officials and armies of all Qinwang and obey the unified command.

Lu Yuan asked himself if he couldn't command such a general battle now, after all, he couldn't command other officers and troops, and he couldn't mobilize the local government in the entire Beizhili region.

Therefore, even if Lu Yuan knew such a coping strategy, he could only keep it in his heart for the time being.

Early the next morning.

There were bursts of drums from the Chinese army camp.

Obviously, the governor Lu Xiangsheng wanted to convene the generals to discuss the matter, and the fall of Zhuozhou told him that Jiannu's intention might not be to conquer Jingshi, and he, as the official of the imperial court governor Qinwang Bingma, naturally had to make a countermeasure.

Lu Yuan, who had not slept well all night, hurriedly sat up, and after being served by Xiao Wu and putting on his armor, he rode his horse to the camp of the Chinese army.

When Lu Yuan walked in, there were already some generals in the Chinese army camp, and among them was a young guerrilla.

The young guerrilla walked towards Lu Yuan: "General Lu, not only Ning Yuan guerrilla Wu Sangui, but recently heard that General Lu is heroic and brave, and he has defeated the edge of Jiannu twice in a row, Wu really admires, I don't know if General Lu can tell Wu what magic weapon your department has to defeat the enemy." ”。

"Without him, he is not afraid of death."

Lu Yuan said with a smile, he naturally knew Wu Sangui's name, but he would not really tell Wu Sangui all about his mighty army, after all, he could not guarantee whether Wu Sangui would defect to the Qing army again in the future