In the next few days, Liu Yong ran to Lichun Palace after finishing his court politics to see his little princess, and he was very happy. At this time, he also received news from Pingliang Prefecture that the fortifications outside Anzhou City to the mountainous area north of Pingliang Prefecture had been completed. Just waiting for him to inspect it.

This is undoubtedly another good news for Liu Yong. The excerpt also describes the captured Tatar messengers. Liu Yong also learned that the Tatar slaves were indeed short of food now.

After getting the news, Liu Yong was in a good mood, but he still planned to drag it back when he went to Pingliangzhou, he was ready to wait for Princess Yongle to be full moon, and take the little princess and Maria together. In this way, Mary can go out for a walk, which is also a reward. He knew that Mary loved to wander around. suffocating her in the palace every day suffocates her enough.

made up his mind, and personally wrote an edict to Gao Tang and Chen Cheng, ordering them to continue their previous strategy and keep the hard-won results. He also talked about the decision to go to Pingliang Prefecture to delay it for half a month.

When Gao Tang and Chen Cheng received Liu Yong's edict, they both knelt down to accept the order. After taking it, I opened it and looked at it, and I knew it in my heart.

Gao Tang said: "Your Majesty has a little princess, and it will be later to come to Pingliangzhou." ”

Chen Cheng said: "General Gao, this is better." We continue to identify and close the loopholes in our defenses. ”

Gao Tang said: "Brother Chen, the main defense is now outside Anzhou City, and this Pingliang Prefecture is a little empty. ”

Chen Cheng said: "General Gao, this situation is also very normal. ”

Gao Tang nodded and said, "Well, this is indeed a normal situation. Brother Chen, in the future, you will be in Anzhou City. ”

Chen Cheng said: "General Gao, please rest assured, I will definitely be able to hold Anzhou City." ”

Gao Tang nodded and said, "I think the artillery that the imperial court wants is about to arrive, and it will be deployed under the stone wall when the time comes." In this way, our defense can be said to be impregnable. ”

Chen Cheng said: "Okay, General Gao. ”

After the two said a few words, Chen Chengcheng went to Anzhou City. Anzhou City and Pingliangzhou City are separated by more than 30 miles. It took Chen Cheng more than an hour to arrive on horseback.

Since then, Gao Tang has been in Pingliangzhou as the commander-in-chief, and Chen Chengcheng has been in Anzhou City as the frontier defense. During this period, the Tatar army never tried to attack again, but a large number of troops were sent to Huangzhou to the east of Anzhou, and the troops were stationed between Huangzhou and Anzhou, and some simple fortifications were also built. But these fortifications could not withstand the attack of Han artillery. It's just an confrontation between the two armies, or an attitude of the Tatar army's Han army's defense.

Gao Tang knew about this, but just smiled, and he and Chen Cheng deduced that the Tatar army would not attack Pingliangzhou again. At least in the near future, it is unlikely to be offensive again.

Chen Cheng's inference is that the Tatar slaves should have given up Pingliangzhou. Although Gao Tang also had some objections to this, he still agreed with Chen Cheng's opinion.

Although it is agreed, the strength of the defense here cannot be changed.

In this way, the Tatars sent a large army to guard the road where the Han army could advance eastward, and confronted the Han army more than 20 miles away. They began to build not only simple fortifications, but also simple barracks. For this reason, more than a dozen large military camps were built from north to south.

"It seems that this confrontation should be long." This is Gao Tang's idea.

"This also shows that the Tatars have given up the idea of reclaiming Pingliang Prefecture." This is Chen Cheng's idea.

Both of them were right. That's true. In the Dayang court, the emperor and the prime minister Lunta reached a strategic agreement. That is, not to attack Pingliangzhou, but it is not that Pingliangzhou is not to be attacked, the purpose of this strategy is to give up Pingliangzhou and wait until there is a very good opportunity to fight for it.

However, both Na and Renta seem to know that this very good opportunity may not exist. Unless, they can cross the Tianjiang River from the east and let them go around to Gyeongju behind Pingliangzhou, then it is possible to capture this Pingliangzhou. Back then, it was this method that won Pingliang Prefecture, but the losses were also very heavy.

As he and Lenta studied this strategy, a lot of remorse rose in their hearts. One of these regrets is that after retreating to the north of the Tianjiang River, he did not take Pingliang Prefecture to heart, and the defense was not strong enough. Otherwise, even if the Han army crossed the Qin Mountain, it would not be easy to take Pingliang Prefecture.

And this Han army crossed Qinshan Mountain, which was a point of remorse. But this remorse seems to have no reason, because no one would have thought that the Han army could come over the mountains. I just thought that as long as I held Gyeongju by the river, everything would be fine.

Actually, that's right. Qinshan is a natural danger, and no one can cross it in a hundred years, so it is impossible for the Han army to come from Qinshan. In this way, if a large number of people are stationed under Qin Mountain, it will be a bit of a snake. Moreover, it will occupy a large number of soldiers.

In the eyes of everyone, Qinshan is the best defense, the natural Great Wall.

Another point of regret is that he knows that Pingliang Prefecture is a place that is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and he is still reckless, and he has to recapture Pingliang Prefecture, which leads to the current situation.

The last point of remorse is that he mistakenly believed in Bata and asked him to serve as the general who captured Pingliang Prefecture, not only lost 200,000 horses, but also became a deserter.

Na stunned has already sent people to look for it in the desert, as long as he finds it, he will send troops to kill them all.

Just these few points of remorse made him anxious. Fortunately, there was also Renta on the side to persuade and dispel some hatred. But these mistakes were indeed made by one of his supreme rulers.

Once the two reached a strategic unity, action was inevitable. And the men and horses sent to Huangzhou arrived on the third day. With the addition of the original people, there are 300,000 people in total.

That's almost three percent of all their soldiers and horses now. Now, the entire Great Yang Dynasty, add up all the soldiers and horses, and there are still thousands of them. This number is more than the Han army. Liu Yong's army was only 800,000. And that's not counting the more than 300,000 military horses lost by the Tartars.

In fact, the total number of Tatar troops was about 1.2 million. Of course, this also includes the Imperial Forest Army guarding the Imperial City, as well as some troops in the desert. In fact, the one that is often called is 700,000, which is less than that of the Han army.

But no matter what, the Tatar army was still too large to be underestimated.

Liu Yong had done an investigation into the overall strength and number of the Tatar slaves. The results he learned through the Divine Machine Gate were about the same as this real number. According to the investigation of the Divine Machine Gate, there are now a total of one million military horses in the Tarslaves.