At the meeting, Huang Guo first informed everyone of some basic information he had learned. Then Huang Zide said: "I've been waiting for so long, and I've finally waited for them!" Let's talk about how we entertain them. ”

As soon as Huang Zide's words fell, Liu Jiexuan continued: "What else is there to discuss?" What have we been doing day and night? Aren't they all busy with how to deal with them? Big brother, you already have a strategy there, why don't you just take it out and take a look? ”

During this time, the soldiers under Huang Zide were indeed not idle. Some of them were busy reorganizing the army according to the newly issued drill code, while others were looking at the map every day, or going to the field to study and formulate various contingency plans. The situation is not going beyond what was planned.

"Zuo Liangyu is known as an army of 500,000. The actual number of people is definitely not that much. But exactly how many, we don't know for sure. Huang said, "But his real strength should still be some, five thousand family ding." Plus twenty or thirty thousand soldiers. Recently, he has made a lot of money following Zhang Bingzhong, and the number of soldiers should also increase, but in any case, it will not exceed 60,000. At present, our army has six battalions of core combat strength that can use the mandarin duck array to charge into battle, and excluding the auxiliaries, a total of 6,000 people can go into battle to fight. The rest of the soldiers, who had only completed their primary training, had a total of twenty battalions, and could use the simplest spear formations, and each battalion also had 1,000 soldiers excluding auxiliaries. Then there are the cavalry, a total of five cavalry teams, each team has a different number of men and horses, but everyone knows that our cavalry and horses are not good enough. Therefore, the cavalrymen could not wear armor, so they could only be used for reconnaissance and pursuit, and it was better not to use it for charging into battle. In this way, the enemy army is still much more numerous. ”

Speaking of this, Huang Guo stopped and glanced at Liu Jiexuan and Xuan Yi and said: "According to the current situation, the marshal, as well as the military division and Director Liu, have formulated such two plans together, and today's meeting is to decide with you which plan to use." The first option is ......"

The imperial court believed that Huang Zide was seriously injured at this time. In general, the main general will be seriously wounded, which will definitely hit the morale of the army hard. Therefore, most of the imperial court, including Zuo Liangyu, will feel that the "Huang Zide Gang" must be demoralized at this time, and as long as a little pressure is exerted, it will collapse without a fight. So the first plan was to use Zuo Liangyu's idea to first make it look like he was going to escape, attract Zuo Liangyu to pursue, and then use Sun Bin to increase his troops and reduce the stove back then, and finally ambush Pang Juan, who only pursued lightly in Malingdao, in an ambush, defeated Zuo Liangyu in an ambush.

The advantage of this plan is obvious, that is, once Zuo Liangyu is fooled, the price that the revolutionary army needs to pay to defeat him will be very small. But there is also a problem with this plan, that is, this plan requires Zuo Liangyu's cooperation. If Zuo Liangyu is not fooled, he will come steadily, but this plan will distract his own forces and bring a series of troubles to the later operations.

The other plan is much simpler, that is, wait in Zhongmu, wait for Zuo Liangyu's army to approach, and then directly drag the army out, and have a battle with Zuo Liangyu on the great plain outside Zhongmu City. and directly defeated Zuo Liangyu's main force in the battle, and then chased him all the way to Huguang. Compared with the first plan, there is no need to worry about whether Zuo Liangyu will be fooled, but in other aspects, it has more problems, first of all, the revolutionary army must defeat the officer army with numerical superiority in a frontal battle. If you can't defeat others, but are defeated by others, then you will really have to go back to the pre-liberation period overnight. In contrast, the first plan, as long as Zuo Liangyu is fooled, it is almost a must-win. Even if he hadn't been fooled, the revolutionary army would still have room to continue fighting, but according to this plan, everyone was gambling with their lives, and there was no way out.

But Liu Jiexuan obviously prefers this plan. After Huang Guo introduced these two plans, he was the first to stand up and said: "My attitude, my eldest brother knows." I think we should stay in Zhongmu and fight with Zuo Liangyu to win or lose. First of all, although Zuo Liangyu has a little more soldiers, we also have a lot of soldiers. And we have been committed to improving the combat effectiveness of the army since Shangluo Mountain, and now, although we have not proved the combat effectiveness of our army in any tough battles, we are all veterans of leading soldiers, and our soldiers today are far more able to fight than before, this should be something that everyone can be sure of, right? ”

Liu Jiexuan's words were generally agreed. Underground He Zhangqi said: "What General Liu said is that I think that the 1,000 people under my command now can at least beat the 10,000 under my command before." ”

"In the past, there were 1,000 officers and soldiers, can they beat you 10,000?" Liu Jiexuan asked.

"It depends on the situation, if a thousand officers and soldiers are all family members, maybe it will work." He Zhangqi said, "The 10,000 people I mentioned before are also talking about soldiers. ”

"Fart." Liu Jiexuan said, "When did your kid have 10,000 soldiers before?" Lao Tzu has never had it under his hands. ”

Everyone burst out laughing when they heard this. Huang Zide couldn't help laughing, but he immediately said, "Lao Liu, don't make things crooked." We're talking about serious things. ”

When Liu Jiexuan heard this, he said: "Big brother, let's not talk about it, according to the Zhangqi brothers, he thinks that the soldiers under his command now are comparable to the family members of the imperial court back then, right?" If you want to find this calculation, there are 6,000 families on our side, which is more than Zuo Liangyu's family. Moreover, the decline of the combat power of the imperial court officials and troops over the years is also very clear to everyone. Therefore, the family in Zuo Liangyu's hand is much worse than the previous family. In the past, his family had to be called Xibei goods. Besides, the second-class soldiers on our side will not be worse than his Zuo Liangyu's soldiers. Especially Zuo Liangyu's soldiers are very right, and they are also newly recruited. So although we are a little less in numbers, but in terms of actual combat effectiveness, I think we should be stronger. So I think we have a better chance of winning this battle! Besides, Zuo Liangyu marched hundreds of miles, and we waited here at ease; Zuo Liangyu doesn't know anything about our strength, and he must still think of us as if we were the original. With so many advantages, we don't dare to play a tough game with them directly, is that still a man? ”

"Don't play agitation! It's all your own brothers, what are you doing with this trick? Huang Zide shook his head and said.

"Big brother, the radical method was originally used against his own brother, wasn't it? You see in "Three Kingdoms", Zhuge Cheng used the method of agitation against Huang Zhong, so Huang Zhong slashed Xiahou Yuan with a knife in Dingjun Mountain. Liu Jiexuan said.

Huang Zide shook his head, but ignored him, but turned his head to the others and said, "What do you all think?" ”

Some of the people below support Liu Jiexuan, but there are also those who support the use of "increasing troops and reducing stoves", such as Huang Guo, he thinks that it is better to increase troops and reduce stoves. It's just that among those important generals in the army, there are still more people who support Liu Jiexuan.

Huang Zide noticed that Tian Xiucheng had been silent, so he asked, "Lao Tian, what do you think?" ”

Tian Xiucheng saw that Huang Zide called his name, so he stood up and replied: "Little brother thinks that it is better to use the method of Ma Ling Dao." This will save a lot of deaths. ”

Hearing this, Huang Zide also nodded secretly. He then turned his face to Xuan Yi and said, "What do you think of the military advisor?" ”

Xuan Yi also stood up, and said with a wave of dust in his hand: "Poor Dao is a Taoist priest, and of course he doesn't want to die more." ”

"Hey, Dao Chief......" Liu Jiexuan's eyes widened suddenly.

"Lao Liu, let the Taoist chief continue first." Huang Zide said.

"However, it is precisely for the sake of fewer deaths, Poor Dao is more in favor of the second approach, that is, to fight Zuo Liangyu directly under Zhongmu City." Xuan Yi continued slowly.

"Oh, Dao Chief! You panting ......," Liu Jiexuan said.

"What do you mean by that?" Huang Zide asked again. Then, without waiting for Xuan Yi to answer, he turned his head to Liu Jiexuan and said, "Lao Liu, I found that there are still some shortcomings in our code of conduct, and we need to make up some content." ”

"What's the content?" Liu Jiexuan suddenly became energetic.

"Meeting Norms." Huang Zide said.

"Ah......h

Huang Zide no longer paid attention to Liu Jiexuan, turned to Xuan Yi and said, "Daoist continue to speak." ”

Xuan Yi smiled and nodded, "Do you know about the Battle of the Hunhe River?" ”

The Battle of the Hunhe River was a bloody battle that took place in Liaodong more than 20 years ago. At that time, the most elite 5,000 white pole soldiers and 3,000 Zhejiang soldiers of the Jokhang Imperial Court (the remnants of Qi Dashuai's Qi family army) fought a decisive battle with tens of thousands of Jin troops in the Hunhe River, and after a day of the battle, the whole army was annihilated, and the Jin army also lost thousands of people. If it weren't for the help of artillery, it might not even be able to move the 7,000-strong Zhao army.

The story of this battle is known to the generals here.

Xuan Yi continued: "At that time, although the white pole soldiers and Zhejiang soldiers were elite, they were all infantry. The Dazhao officials and troops around them had long been afraid of the enemy and did not dare to come to meet them. At that time, the wolf lord of the Jin Army was still the Mandate of Heaven Khan. Although this man is a barbarian, he is really good at fighting. Doesn't he know that if he besieges them, cuts off their supplies, and besieges them for a little longer, he can win the victory at a much smaller cost? Besides, how many people are there in their tribe? Isn't it distressing to have thousands of people die at once? But why did the Heavenly Destiny Khan, who was fighting an old war at that time, have to choose such a way of fighting, and he must eat these 7,000 people? ”

Everyone was silent.

Xuan Yi continued: "Because he wants to use this battle to fight his prestige and crush the morale of the Zhao army. He wants to let the Jokhang officials and soldiers see that even the most capable of fighting among them will be defeated by him from the front! Up to now, wherever the Jin army went, the Jokhang officers and soldiers only dared to hide behind the city walls and tremble, and few people dared to come out to fight with them in the field. 'Husband, courage too! This battle has not yet been fought, and everyone in the army from top to bottom is afraid to death, and when the fight starts, it is natural that ten percent of the strength will not be able to use two or three percent. Since then, the official army of the Jokhang has always collapsed at the touch of a pair as long as it is against the Jin army. No matter how many officers and soldiers the Jin army faced, it didn't kill so many people like the Battle of the Hunhe River. If our army adopts the technique of increasing troops and reducing the focus of ambushes, even if Zuo Liangyu is fooled and easily defeated by us, can we let the officers and soldiers see the banner of our army in the future, just like they see the flag of the Jin army, and flee in fear of the wind? On the contrary, if our army can quickly defeat Zuo Liangyu's main force head-on under the condition of numerical inferiority, then from now on, the officers and troops will be equally afraid of us when they fight with us, and they will tremble when they see us, and it will not take two or three percent of the cost. In this way, we will be able to capture Huguang more quickly and with fewer deaths. ”

Huang Zide listened, nodded, and asked everyone again, "Do you have any other opinions?" ”

Everyone said together: "Please make a decision, marshal." ”

"That's good!" Huang Zide slowly stood up and said loudly, "Then we will be under Zhongmu City and defeat Zuo Liangyu openly!" ”