Beihai County, by the Bochang Jishui River, at the foot of She Mountain.

Wang Bo saw Pei Changcai and Shizihe's two thieves who fled in defeat, and he looked at the two in front of him in disbelief.

"Lost, lost 20,000 horses?"

Pei Changcai said with some shame, "I didn't expect that Zhang Sutuo to be so good, especially that Zhangqiu City, which is worthy of being Luo Cheng's base camp, operating like an iron bucket, it seems to be weak, but in fact, the hidden dragon and Crouching Tiger, secretly buried an elite, we waited for the investigation to be unknown, and ventured into the city, and fell into a big trap." ”

Wang Bodang strode over and unceremoniously exposed the lies of the two thieves.

"Hidden elite soldiers, hidden dragons and crouching tigers? The two of them don't make excuses for their failures, Changbai Mountain is only 200 soldiers, Zhangqiu City only has 50 soldiers, plus 3500 county soldiers and townsmen, and they are all old and weak. Wang Bodang spoke very politely, "Outside Zhangqiu City, Zhang Xutuo's six horsemen rushed at your thousand troops, but you couldn't leave anyone, even one person couldn't stay, let Zhang Xutuo kill seven in and seven out in your formation, and finally retreated, you said that even if Zhang Xutuo is good again, but your thousand horsemen can't surround the six horses, this is always unreasonable." ”

He sighed, and he tried his best to run around Henan and Hebei to contact the Quartet Righteous Army. This time, it was not easy to persuade several rebel armies to surround Qi County from all sides, originally according to the plan, a total of more than a dozen rebels will meet under the city of Qi County, and then the rebel army will wave 100,000 troops, and it is not easy to break Qi County.

But this damn Pei Changcai and the two thieves of Shizihe did not act according to the plan and entered Qi County early, but now they are not only wiped out, but also startled the snake.

Even if it is 20,000 pigs, the officials and soldiers under Zhangqiu City will have to catch them for a few days. However, the more than 20,000 men of the two thieves were defeated overnight.

More than 2,000 were beheaded under Zhangqiu City, tens of thousands were captured, and the rest were scattered in a hurry, and in the end, there were only more than 100 horsemen who could follow the two thieves all the way to Bochang in Beihai.

More than 20,000 people, thinking that more than 20,000 people would be defeated overnight, Wang Bodang couldn't wait to swing his sword and cut these two people, incompetent, straw bales.

"Wang Sanlang, it's really not that our brothers are incompetent, it's really that Zhang Sutuo is too cunning, there are by no means only three or five hundred old and weak villagers in Zhangqiu City, at least thousands of elites, otherwise my brothers would not have suffered such a fiasco." Pei Changcai was still looking for excuses for his failure, but Wang Bodang was no longer interested in talking to them, so he waved his hand and asked people to take the two of them to settle down.

"San Lang, why do we have to fight Qi County?" Wang Bo asked.

Uncle Wang said, "This is arranged by my teacher, do you know the situation of the mountains and rivers in the world, which can be divided into four corners and four sides plus a heart?" ”

"Is there such a division?"

"Of course, the golden horn and silver edge grass belly are talking about the benefits and disadvantages of the horn belly here."

Of course, these are also what the teacher Li Mi said to Wang Bodang, and the teacher Li Mi once told him that the pattern of the world, especially from the perspective of military geography, is actually an irregular chessboard.

On this irregular Go board, Guanzhong, Hebei, Jiangdong, and Sichuan and Shu are its four corners, Hedong, Shandong, Jingxiang and Hanzhong are its four sides, and the Central Plains is the central hinterland.

Although the territory of China is vast, it is still the nine regions that can play a decisive role in the wars of the past dynasties.

In the great wars related to the unification or division of the world and the rise and fall of dynasties, the competition for these nine regions is particularly crucial.

Since ancient times, the city of mountains and rivers has been emphasized, and generally speaking, in those places where there are both mountain dangers and rivers and waterways that can be relied upon, strategic places will be formed.

Several columns of mountains and rivers in the east-west direction and several columns of mountains and rivers in the north-south direction crisscross and divide the hinterland of China into several relatively independent areas, such as Taihang Mountain, an important dividing line between Hebei and Hedong, Yinshan and Yanshan, an important dividing line between the north and Saiwai, Qinling, the dividing line between Zhongzhong and Guanwai, Tongbai Mountain, the dividing line between Jianghan and Jianghuai, and Dabie Mountain, the dividing line between Jianghan and Jianghuai.

For example, the Yellow River, the Yangtze River, the Huai River, and the Han River, all of which also play a role in geographical segmentation.

These mountains and rivers divide into unique geographical areas.

The significance of the mountain range is to block it, but the most important thing is that there are holes to pass through.

The significance of the river lies in its circulation, and it is also valuable in having a stronghold to hold it.

Generally speaking, the lowlands formed by the fault zones of the mountains or the river headwaters through the mountains are convenient for traffic channels through the mountains. For example, the four stops in Guanzhong, the passage choked by the Taihang Eight Mountains, and several plank roads through the Qinba Mountains are like this.

Rivers are mainly used as transportation routes for human and material resources. With rivers as a barrier, it is also necessary to establish strongholds at important crossings or at the confluence of tributaries and main streams to ensure control of these rivers. For example, Mengjin and Pujin in the Yellow River, Guazhoudu and Quarshidu in the Yangtze River, Yingkou, Whirlpool, and Sikou in the Huaihe River were all accompanied by the formation of important military bases.

If there are dangers in mountainous areas, it is easy to establish a base area in a chaotic situation, form a local order, and accumulate strength; If there are rivers and waterways that can circulate, it is convenient to project power to the outside, to expand outward, and to intervene in the overall situation. Most of the nine strategically important locations mentioned above have these conditions.

"In the geography of the world, the most urgent ones are the four sides. For example, the danger of the four stops in Guanzhong, and the thousands of miles of fertile fields in the middle plain, make Guanzhong the top strategic point. ”

Wang Bo has also fought, but his previous status was low, and he couldn't get in touch with this kind of overall thinking at the strategic level, but as long as he dialed it a little, he still opened his mouth.

"But why should we fight for Qi County?"

"Because the eastern part of Henan, as one of the four sides, also has its own uniqueness. The eastern part of Henan is very prominent in the large plains of the entire Kanto region, where the terrain is characterized by low mountains and hills in central and southern Shandong, and plains on three sides. In the eastern part of Henan, there are many important military points, which are distributed on the four sides of these low hills. ”

"The Yellow River runs through the east and west in the north, and is the key point of traffic between the east and the west, and after the opening of the Grand Canal, it will connect the Yangtze River and the Yellow River, communicating the north and the south. The eastern part of Henan is at the intersection of these two key traffic points. ”

Wang Bo shook his head, "No, if you want to say that it is at the intersection of the two key points, it should also be Luoyang or Xingyang, right?" ”

Wang Bodang said, "Luoyang and Xingyang are indeed more at the intersection of key points, but the two places actually lack defensive support. One horse is flat, easy to attack and difficult to defend. The eastern part of Henan is different, there are hills here, although it is not as good as Qinling and Taihang, but it is also a strategic point on the Kanto Plain of Yima Pingchuan. ”

He pointed out the importance of the location of Qi County, "especially Qi County, there are Taishan Mountain, Changbai Mountain, there is the Yellow River in front, there is Jishui in the back, and there is a canal on the west side, here is the real strategic point, who controls Qi County, who can really control the Central Plains, control the two major water transport strategic nodes." ”

In Li Mi's plan, the battle for Kwantung is very important, after all, Guanzhong and Luoyang, which are both places controlled by the imperial court, it is quite difficult to get involved easily, and since the battle of Liao, Henan and Hebei have been the most affected, and the people's complaints are also the highest, the fire has been ignited, and what Li Mi needs his student Wang Bodang to do is to integrate the rebel armies from all over the country and seize the highland Qi County in eastern Henan, and operate accordingly.

Entering can cut off the canal water transportation throat of the eastern army, or you can encircle the eastern capital Luoyang, and retreat to the rich Jianghuai in the south, so as to avoid the most elite northern army soldiers of the imperial court.

"I see, I said why do you have to fight Qi County, but now that Pei Changcai and the others have been defeated, do we still want to continue to march into Qi County?"

"Of course, Qi County must be captured." Wang Bodang said in a deep voice, this is also the task given to him by the teacher Li Mi, no matter what, he must find a way to take Qi County.

Laying down ten Beihai is not as effective as laying down one Qi County.

"But Zhang Xutuo is in Qi County, and it is not easy to defeat Qi County." Wang Bodao.

"No matter how powerful Zhang Xutuo is, he is only one person, he is now short of major generals under his command, let's unite the righteous army from all walks of life, and pile up people to kill him."