Before Dong Wen left, Wu Yuanzhao's head was brought to give orders. The emperor will not go to examine people's heads and faces, and his heart will be uncomfortable, and he will say that it is unlucky, provoking evil spirits, Dong Wen has been fighting for many years, and he is naturally fearless, but looking at a sudden turn of blue, his eyes are scattered, and he seems to be a little stunned, and the blood stain under his neck is still there, like a lot of black and red viscose, remembering that he was still in the same hall yesterday, he suddenly vomited. He also understood what the emperor said about "killing chickens and respecting monkeys", and he wanted to mention many propositions in his heart, but he couldn't help mentioning them.

The guards took away the head and showed it to the public, Dong Wen secretly thought that others must be as surprised and afraid as himself.

He said: "The envoy of the Eastern Xia entered the camp, and everyone shouted that they should negotiate peace, but the original peace was not agreed or not, and it was not suitable for war, and the border army said that the unfair distribution of food and salary was making trouble, and there was no major offensive. ”

The emperor said coldly: "Now you have made up your mind? I've already made up my mind, and you know now? Those who are lucky and incapable of fighting under your command should be dealt with like me. ”

Dong Wen nodded, said goodbye and left.

He walked in a hurry.

It's not that he is really in such a hurry, but that he didn't fight well after the rumors of peace, the soldiers had no intention, and he himself had no intention, and he couldn't let the emperor feel that he was dragging on without a war at the moment.

Leaving the emperor's palace, he had a headache.

Morale is low, food and salary are gradually lacking, and the emperor mentioned it, the emperor said, low morale, that is Dia Bird's heart attack, hurt you, and then Huairou, if you win the battle, morale will naturally be high. If there is a shortage of food, distribute the daily amount, and if there are many empty salaries in the border army, you will give them half of it. Now it's half off, and half of it is for their border army to eat empty salaries, but who admits that they eat empty salaries? It's all about making trouble.

Zhu Tianyu couldn't stand it, broke through the blockade of the Dongxia people and ran to Baishan Mountain, and now whoever doesn't look for it will look for the general.

Dong Wenwen came to pinch the handle of their empty salary, but he didn't expect a few generals to go to the camp and take a look, except for the battle dead, all of them were full...... He saw that the emperor deliberately mentioned it with words just now, and he originally wanted to talk to the emperor about it, but the emperor didn't think so, and he didn't ask, so he didn't say it after all. Zhang Huaiyu is a cool general, and he has set the rules with one hand, and the generals can find a way to get rich by pulling a piece of wasteland and tuntian, and they can also occasionally do business, but the two conditions cannot be broken, the first is empty salary, and the second is weak soldiers.

He has been gone for a while, but the rules have been set, and the soldiers have become accustomed to it.

Zhu Tianyu, who took over, saw that he had solved the chaos of the border generals, and had already arranged this way out, which was conducive to his own domination, so he naturally followed and promoted it.

This is really a fear of dissatisfaction when you are fighting, and a lot of complaints when you eat.

Returning to his own line, at first glance, there was no border army at this time, and he was overjoyed for a while, and immediately went to the line to call all the staff, and brewed several major offensives.

The characteristics of Dong Wen's operations are somewhat similar to those of Eastern Xia in a certain point.

He is a staff officer, he has a huge staff group, once a war is fought, it is to rely on calculations, while fighting while counting, while counting and redistributing.

However, because of the heavy staff officers, it is far away from the generals, and when a small member of the army goes down to the barracks, he will often give instructions to the generals.

This time, he rolled out his staff again.

Most of the people who joined the army were children of families, and the scene was messy, and they were all gossiping. He walked in, but his voice was not stopped, and everyone said, "General." Not right now. The border army said that a bowl of water was uneven, and they were all on the field battle, and now they didn't contribute at all, and the Imperial Forest Army couldn't move to protect the emperor, and whoever took the lead didn't go...... What's more, when the fight is exhausted, what should I do if Dia Bird opens his mouth to ask the emperor to fight hard? ”

Dong Wen was taken aback: "What nonsense, you don't know what kind of person the emperor is?" How could it be possible to hand over loyal and daring generals to Dongxia. ”

He hurriedly said, "Don't you understand? The emperor let him go to war, that is, he would not make peace, and the old minister Wu Yuanzhao was beheaded by the emperor because he advocated peace. ”

The staff fell silent.

They began to get into the groove, and soon a staff member came with a piece of paper in his hand and said, "According to the statistics of the number of military offices of Dia Bird, there are about thirty-one military offices participating in the war. ”

Another staff member came up, handed over a piece of paper, and said, "This is the number of people in his military government." The second-class military government has the smallest number of people, the first-class military government is generally close to twice that of the second-class military government, and the third-class military government has the largest number of people. During the war, the second-class military government is usually full, and the number of people should be close to that of the first-class military government. According to preliminary calculations, Dia Bird's strength is at least more than 150,000...... Probably 200,000 people. ”

The words landed, and everyone fell silent.

That's a bit scary.

The combat effectiveness of the Eastern Xia soldiers is strong, and the 200,000 troops are there, even if it is less than 150,000, they are already a great enemy.

What is the enemy?

Historically, the tribal khans on the steppe have disturbed the border, and their main army is only about 100,000, and the rest are all made up, with young people over 12 or 3, and old people in their fifties and sixties...... It is claimed that 300,000 or 500,000 is counted, and I am afraid that the heads are counted, and the livestock are still counted.

Tuoba has been majestic for many years, and the main army composed of the descendants has not exceeded 100,000 combined.

The army of his descendants was usually the number one enemy on the side of the imperial court.

Dong Wen didn't speak either.

If Wu Yuanzhao hadn't died, he would have sued Emperor Sù for these analyzed things, but now, he could only bite the bullet and give everyone an explanation, even if it was to coax. It took him a long time before he said, "Is it a bluff?" Heaven only knew that he only had a few military offices in Dongxia, and he felt that his army might increase to about 100,000, half of which belonged to the kind of C-class military government you said, and he came to make up the numbers. ”

But another staff member stepped forward, handed over a piece of paper, and said: "This is an analysis of combat strength, the C-class military government of Eastern Xia has fought with our army many times on the battlefield, and compared with our elite army, it has the upper hand. ”

Dong Wen was furious.

A bunch of stuff you don't know.

He slapped the case in front of him and shouted: "If Dongxia is really so powerful, he Dia Niao can endure loneliness, he has 100,000 elite soldiers, and he would have already raised troops to the south." Now, if he has 150,000 or 200,000 troops, can he still take the initiative to negotiate peace with us? Annihilate us. ”

When all the staff members saw him angry, they stopped silent.

Dong Wen demanded: "The situation of the border army's refusal to go to war has to be taken into account, so it's good, the Royal Forest Army will also send a part, especially the first formation, how many border troops, how many Royal Forest Army." I don't care about this, before dawn tomorrow, I must come up with a plan and attack and fight. ”

One staff member said, "Night raids are the best." ”

The staff also said: "What we want is not to defeat the Eastern Xia army, what we want is to be able to get through Baishan Mountain." ”

Dong Wen thought for a moment and said, "Okay." As far as I can come up with a plan, I will present it to His Majesty. ”

The staff were busy.

His heart was worried and anxious, and Gimpo's evaluation of him was revealed.

He had a headache, he was worried, he couldn't bear it a little, this came out and tightened his cloak, and he said sadly: "It's getting colder and colder every day." ”

A voice sounded next to him, and someone said, "General." Cold weather is especially proportional to us. ”

Dong Wen turned his head and saw that it was Lu Gong in military and political affairs.

He never had a good impression of Lu Gong, and sneered: "What are you doing here?" The border army has a lot of empty salaries, and it is your idea to halve it according to consumption. ”

Lu Gong did not shirk his responsibility, and said with a smile: "That's right. It's mine. But if I don't, will the rations last a few more days? If you think that you can break Dia Bird in one day, Xiao Gong naturally has nothing to say, and asks you, can you? He stood beside Dong Wen and whispered, "You and I are both being pushed by the shape of shì." I'm making a scapegoat for you, maybe the side army is clamoring and opening his mouth to ask for my head. Wu Yuanzhao was killed, I already know that the emperor wants to fight to the death with Dia Bird, which no one can persuade. ”

He added: "You're right, it's cold, I've been on the grassland, maybe it's going to be frost in the next few days, and when I say it's snowing, it's snowing." ”

Dong Wen asked him rhetorically: "I fought with the champion Hou in Chenzhou, don't you know?" ”

Lu Gong nodded, but still showed goodwill, and said softly: "General, you can look down on me, but you can't underestimate my talent, you have to believe that Dia Niao didn't fight well at all." ”

Dong Wen was shocked by him, and said with a strange look: "This is the number of your Zongheng family?" ”

Lu Gong smiled: "You should be, that is." But Dia Bird did not fight well, what he did was like testing his own army, he still had to dig trenches, arrange gun walls, great general, haven't you heard of the camel city? Cows, sheep, camels, and camels hula form a barrier, and if you are tied up with iron chains or ropes in the middle, if you drive forward, they will loosen and run like a thousand pounds, and you are an elite army, you can be scattered by them. But he didn't use it, why? In this way, thousands of livestock would die, and he was afraid of bringing losses to Dongxia. ”

Dong Wen's face became solemn, and he asked, "You came to persuade me to bring up yì and again?" ”

Lu Gong shook his head and asked rhetorically, "Can you still mention it?" ”

Dong Wen sighed and said, "I feel this way too. But the road to peace has been blocked. ”

Lu Gong whispered: "Actually, there will be no food in five days." ”

Dong Wen's eyelids jumped violently as if he had stepped on his tail, he turned around and pointed to Lu Gong and asked, "Does the emperor know?" ”

Lu Gong shook his head.

Lu Gong said: "Grain is an imaginary number. In order to maintain the morale of the army, I only went around preaching that food could be supplied for ten days and half a month, and I didn't tell His Majesty because I was afraid that His Majesty would pressure you to fight. And in any battle, you will lose, and in the end, either we will get away with it, and you and I will be in the prisoner car, or we will be prisoners of Dia Bird. ”

And he said, "I come." I'm afraid you're going to fight. ”

Dong Wen asked him: "Speaking of which, there is only one way to go." ”

Lu Gong whispered, "It is so." Neither is it. Unless you go out and get through the white mountain. But there can be a turnaround in peace. False reporting of war exploits. Say you won. ”

Dong Wen was stunned.

He said, "Lie to yourself? ”

Lu Gong sighed and said, "The general is confused. You shouted that you had won, and then you mentioned it, and the messenger of Dia Bird came again. The emperor was willing to make peace. ”

Dong Wen flatly refused: "This is impossible. ”

Lu Gong smiled: "Are you worried about the conditions that Dia Bird talked about? ”

Dong Wen nodded.

Lu Gong said: "I know a little bit. These conditions are very simple, open a field, cut the land, and lose money, the emperor can't accept it, right? Pull a substitute for the dead, deceive. All yes. After solving the current crisis, the emperor returned to Baishan Mountain, you know, the emperor didn't know at all, the man carried it on his own back, and asked Dia Bird to find him to ......"

When he saw Dong Wen staring at him, he was taken aback and said, "Don't think about me." ”

Dong Wen sneered and said, "Who would be so stupid to come forward and do something that will surely die after being exposed?" ”

Lu Gong laughed, and then said with a stern face: "Those true loyal ministers. ”

Dong Wen was amused and said softly: "The implication is that you are a traitor." ”

Lu Gong denied it: "I am a capable minister. ”