"You seem to be upset? It's amazing. ”

Mi Jiang looked at Zhao Hongrun's eyes with a little surprise.

It is no wonder that Zhao Hongrun, who swore in front of the tribal patriarchs that he would win this battle, was full of sadness afterwards, sitting on the edge of the blanket sleeping bunk in the felt tent with his forehead in his hand, which made Mi Jiang feel very incredible.

You must know that in Mi Jiang's heart, Zhao Hongrun, a little man, is quite conceited, and it is rare for him to be so worried.

"It's about to be a war with the Horn people, and this king is worried about the situation of the war, what's so strange about this?" may have been interrupted by Mi Jiang's interjection, Zhao Hongrun said a little unpleasantly.

Hearing this, Mi Jiang was even more surprised, and couldn't help but say: "Last year, you led more than 30,000 Wei soldiers, but you defeated Xiong Tuogongzi and Xiong Hu's 160,000 Chu troops with small losses. …… The 160,000 troops of my Chu State, although it is said that they have only been trained for less than three months, are they more difficult to deal with than those slaves of the Jiaojiao people outside the city, right? ”

"That's different." Zhao Hongrun shook his head and said with some irritability.

Mi Jiang frowned slightly when he heard this, and said unhappily: "Do you mean that the soldiers of my Chu State are not as good as the slaves of the Qiangjiao people?" ”

"You ......" Zhao Hongrun raised his head and said angrily: "Can it be the same to command an army to fight a single battlefield war with the enemy, and to fight a war with multiple armies and the enemy army at the same time?" These are two completely different concepts! ”

"Tell me about it. …… Anyway, if you're so anxious at the moment, you probably can't think of any clever plan. ”

"......" Zhao Hongrun glared at Mi Jiang, and sighed helplessly after half a sound: "Okay, you said it." ”

After that, he organized a vocabulary and explained: "When he fought with the state of Chu last year, this king fought all the way, and it was only a battle on a single battlefield, so this king can be dispatched. But this time, there are three battlefields at the same time, and the battlefield on the side of Ruocheng can be grasped by the king, but the Dangshan army and the Chenggao army ...... Sima An and Zhu Hai were the two generals who were dispatching on the spot, their intentions, and their ways of employing troops, and the king knew nothing. ”

"You don't believe those two generals?"

"It's not that you don't believe it, why can't you understand it?" Zhao Hongrun glanced at Mi Jiang and patiently explained: "On the battlefield, local wars often affect the whole body and affect the entire situation. …… For example, the Dangshan army is approaching the front line, and when the king learns of this, do you want to cooperate? In case General Sima An thought that the king would send troops to help, but in fact the king did not send troops to help, it seems that this kind of judgment is poor, and it will often bury an army and directly affect the entire battle situation. ”

Zhao Hongrun is not exaggerating in this statement, after all, commanding a battle on a single battlefield is actually only a "general" at best, and any general who can take charge alone can deal with this kind of situation well.

Although there are many things involved, in summary, it is nothing more than "insight into opportunities, timely repair of your own loopholes, and always keep an eye on the enemy army to find flaws in the enemy army".

However, if you command several armies at the same time, and engage several enemy armies in several battlefields, this is the category of "marshal".

And in this category, there will be a lot of unstable factors, after all, strategy is dead, and the general in charge of the front-line battlefield is alive, although "emergency response" is one of the criteria for whether a general is qualified to be called a famous general, but this also makes it much more difficult for the "boss" to plan the overall situation.

So much so that if a general thinks it is a correct judgment and arbitrarily changes the established tactics, while the coach is kept in the dark, it is very likely that there will be a loss in the overall situation.

Therefore, Zhao Hongrun's mind at the moment is not actually on the side of Yucheng, on the contrary, he is more concerned about the movements of the Dangshan Army and the Chenggao Army.

After Zhao Hongrun explained, Mi Jiang finally understood the concerns in the former's heart, and asked in confusion: "Since you know that there will be such drawbacks, why do you want to let the Dangshan Army and the Chenggao Army leave Luocheng?" Wouldn't it be good to work together to defend the city? ”

"Then you will definitely lose this battle." Zhao Hongrun shook his head, and Zhengse said, "The reason is very simple. First of all, this city is too small, only less than two miles in a radius, converted, a city wall to accommodate about 4,000 soldiers, this is already the limit, if there is no need to increase, it will only compress the space for the soldiers on the city wall to dodge and move, but will increase casualties. …… There are 4,000 people on one wall, and only 16,000 people on four walls. What will the rest of the soldiers do? can only stare at the city as a reserve. …… In other words, except for the 16,000 soldiers, the rest of the soldiers did not play a role at all, which was a waste of troops. ”

“……”

"Secondly, if the Dangshan Army, the Chenggao Army, and the Shangshui Army are all trapped in the city, then it will be easier for the Jiaojiao people to deal with us, nearly 300,000 soldiers and horses, or even more than 300,000 people, they can only surround the city on all sides, and they can make the city a lonely city. …… A lonely city that has been cut off from water and grain and grass transportation cannot be defended. ”

"Secondly, since ancient times, no war has been won by passive defense. If you want to win the other party, you must seize the lifeline, death hole, and weakness of the enemy army at a critical time, and take the initiative to attack. …… Therefore, in this battle, the king and the merchant army will turn into a "shield" and drag the footsteps of the Qiangjiao people here, so that they cannot get close; And the Dangshan Army and the Chenggao Army are the two "sharp spears" of this king, the sharp spears that pierce the hearts of the people of the Horn! ”

"In other words, the key to winning this war lies in the Dangshan Army and the Chenggao Army?" Mi Jiang suddenly said.

"You've finally got it." Zhao Hongrun let out a long breath and said with a wry smile: "Now you should understand, why this king is so anxious, right?" ”

Mi Jiang nodded silently, and then asked curiously, "What about sending out the sentry horse?" ”

"I can't break through the encirclement of the Qiang people." Zhao Hongrun shook his head and said in a deep voice: "As long as the Jiaojiao people are not fools, they will cut off the connection between Yucheng and the Dangshan Army and the Chenggao Army, and forcibly send sentry cavalry to exchange news with the two generals, just to send the soldiers of the Lun clan and the Meng clan to death in vain." …… At this point, it can only be guessed. ”

I have to say that Zhao Hongrun's prediction is very accurate, since the army of the Qiangjiao tribe besieged Luocheng, Zhao Hongrun has completely lost contact with the Dangshan Army and the Chenggao Army, and now he can only judge the actions of the Dangshan Army and the Chenggao Army from the movements of the Qiangjiao Army.

For example, in the early morning of August 16, about the fourth watch, the soldiers of Shangshui guarding the city wall noticed the fire from the south and faintly heard the sound of shouting and killing.

Wu Ji, the general of the Shangshui Army, hurriedly informed Zhao Hongrun of this matter.

It's a pity that when Zhao Hongrun got up from the sheepskin sleeping bunk and hurried to the southern city wall of Luoyang to try to look at the fire in the south, the war there seemed to have stopped, and the fire disappeared.

In this case, Zhao Hongrun had no way of knowing whether it was the Chenggao army that attacked the Chenggao army or the Chenggao army that attacked the Chengjiao army, he only knew that the two armies had already clashed once, and the rest had to depend on his judgment.

"It shouldn't be the Qiangjiao Army that is going to attack the Chenggao Army...... The Horn Army had just arrived at this place after a day and night trek, and it stands to reason that they should have established themselves first...... Yes, the patriarch of Kakao, Rabittu, that arrogant guy didn't even show off his might under the city, which means that the army of Kakaku should not have all arrived here...... At this time, most of the Qiangjiao army would not be so anxious to attack the Chenggao army."

"In other words, it was General Zhu (Hai) who took the initiative to attack?" Looking at the southern hills that had long since died down, Zhao Hongrun muttered to himself.

In fact, the Chenggao army is also good at mountain warfare, after all, they guard the Chenggao Pass all the year round, but the "goodness" of the Chenggao army is not the same concept as the "goodness" of the Dangshan army.

You must know that the Dangshan Army does not have a definite garrison task, and placing the Dangshan Army in the Dangshan Army is not so much to guard against the Suiyang Army of Nangong, the general of the Song Kingdom, but rather a deterrent and a statement to the latter.

But the Chenggao army is different, this army shoulders the heavy responsibility of garrisoning the Chenggao Pass, many times the soldiers are very boring standing on the wall of the pass, taking turns to serve as guards, therefore, the soldiers of the Chenggao army, a considerable part of the time is fulfilling the accusations entrusted to them by the state and Wei Tianzi, and the frequency and degree of soldier training are completely incomparable with the Dangshan army that is almost "idle" all year round.

Not to mention that, as Wu Wu said, during the war, the Qiang people were a people who did not touch the ground and ate and drank Lazar on horseback, and wanted to sneak attack such an army where "soldiers sleep with their eyes open", to be honest, even Zhao Hongrun was not sure.

"Success? Fail? Succeed? Fail? …… It's a failure, right? General Zhu Hai attempted to launch a sneak attack while the people had just arrived here and had not yet established a foothold......

Zhao Hongrun closed his eyes and projected the terrain of the southern part of the land in his mind one by one, and finally fixed it in Yaling.

"If it's just the Chenggao army sneaking up on the Qiangjiao people, there is no need for both sides to set fire...... Since there is a fire, this means that it ...... The Chenggao army was defeated, and they were forced to abandon the barracks. Yes, if the Qiangjiao people occupy the military camp of the Chenggao army, they will definitely take it for their own use, in other words, the fire was set by the Chenggao army, and the purpose is not to give up their own military camp for nothing...... After setting fire to the camp, there is a good chance that the Cheng Gao army will retreat to Yaling, and on the side of the Karma Kok army, the speed at which the fire was extinguished is extraordinary, presumably the Karma Horn army participated in extinguishing the fire......

Based on only those few signs, Zhao Hongrun simulated the battle between the Chenggao army and the Qiangjiao army in his mind, and predicted and inferred the retreat route of the Chenggao army, as well as the follow-up actions of the Qiangjiao army.

In all fairness, Zhao Hongrun really doesn't like this, he really hates to fight a war that actually relies on "guessing".

Because there are so many instability in it.

At that time, Zhao Hongrun stood on the south city wall of the land for a long time, and stood until the sky gradually sprouted a few rays of light. (To be continued.) )