In the official office in the center of Guizhou City, Li Nan looked indifferently at the special military map hanging on the wall.

This map was depicted by Li Nan bit by bit according to the high-definition satellite maps of later generations, and even any mountain range and river near Guizhou City was marked extremely clearly.

In this temporary command room, in addition to Li Nan, Lin Chong and others, a large number of generals and staff officers also gathered, and it can be said that 60 percent of the important people in Zhennan are concentrated here.

Looking at the relatively flat preset battlefield outside Guizhou City on the map, Li Nan could fully imagine how tragic the upcoming battle would be.

The Western army of the Great Song Dynasty was different from those of the van armies that were overwhelmed, and these soldiers were not only impressively powerful, but also had a large number of cavalry to restrain the musketeers.

That's right, the Song Dynasty had no place to produce war horses, so the number of cavalry in the Song Dynasty was greatly reduced. In the early period of the Song Dynasty, the Song Dynasty had been buying war horses through various channels. By the time of Song Renzong, on the books, the Song Dynasty had 200,000 cavalry. However, the strength of the Song Dynasty has always been very large, and the number of cavalry in the Song Dynasty is about 100,000. And it has 100,000 cavalry, not 100,000 war horses.

Almost all the cavalry of the Great Song Dynasty were concentrated in the Western Army and the Hebei Army, and this time Tong Guan brought 30,000 well-trained cavalry among the 150,000 elites of the Western Army.

Pointing to the map, Li Nan asked lightly, "When will the Song army arrive at the battlefield?" ”

"According to the speed of the Song army, tomorrow will come." The Minister of Intelligence in charge of the entire Zhennan Kingdom, the eight-clawed spider Varys from the world of ice and fire, replied.

"Hmm." Li Nan nodded, looked at the many generals and subordinates at the table, and asked with a smile, "Are you all ready?" ”

"You will annihilate the enemy, and you will not disgrace your life!" Lin Chong, Spartacus and the others shouted in unison.

Li Nan applauded and praised: "Good! If this battle is won, then no one in the Song Kingdom will dare to stop the pace of our Northern Expedition, and then this king will personally celebrate your Aiqing! ”

The generals were so inspired to fight that they went out to arrange their own troops, leaving only Li Nan's many wives and concubines and lovers, as well as the little demon Tyrion who was in charge of planning the battle.

In fact, many women around Li Nan were a little dissatisfied with this battle plan, because they used themselves as bait to attract the 200,000 troops of Tong Guan and Zhang Shuye to Guizhou for a decisive battle, which was too risky.

According to the current development speed of Zhennanguo, as long as it continues to maintain a steady and steady momentum, and firmly hold on to Jiaozhi, Dali, and the newly occupied Shu land, it can develop slowly.

A few years later, no matter in terms of troops or equipment, the Song State, which continued to decline, would not be the opponent of Zhennan, but Li Nan chose the most risky and urgent way.

Knowing the minds of the women, Li Nan said to Tyrion, "You can explain it to them." ”

"Yes!" The diminutive Tyrion jumped out of his chair, picked up the thin wooden stick on the table, pointed to the current territory of Zhennan Province outlined in red pen on the map, and asked, "Can you see our current shortcomings?" ”

Li Shishi, Li Tianxin and Pan Jinlian and other women are not proficient in martial arts, Pang Qiuxia, Wei Xiangman and others are superb in martial arts, but they can't see through the macro situation, only a few women such as Hu Bing can vaguely see some clues.

Everyone here is his own people, so Tyrion didn't sell it, and explained straightforwardly: "Zhennan is not long in the country, and the territory is sparsely populated, although the prince is planning everywhere and using various means to increase the population of the country, but after all, the time is still short, and the number of soldiers and civilians is our biggest weakness. This is also the reason why the prince hated the people of the Ming Sect deeply, but he also recruited the 200,000 desperate Ming Sect members. ”

The wooden stick in Tyrion's hand slashed across the territory of the map from left to right, and continued: "If our army continues to hold on to its place, then the 200,000 troops led by Tong Guan and Zhang Shuye can attack any city in Zhennan at will, and we will fall into a very passive situation. That's why the prince and I talked all night and discussed this battle plan with himself as bait. ”

After hearing Tyrion's words, the women understood the current situation and Li Nan's thoughts, and those small emotions in their hearts suddenly disappeared.

Although Li Nan's troops are a little smaller, his subordinates are full of strange people.

The shapeshifter Wa Er released a flying eagle to patrol the air, and with this special reconnaissance plane, as long as the Song army came to the vicinity of Guizhou City, there would be nothing to hide.

There are still many people of the Great Song Dynasty who did not flee with the officials in Guizhou City, among which there are many people who are interested in the Great Song Dynasty and Zhang Shuye and others who have left detailed works, but with the White Queen Emma who can probe people's hearts, these people have been arrested one by one.

At this time, the soldiers under Li Nan's command were united, and a large number of soldiers and civilians were busy digging trenches and erecting barbed wire fences outside the city, preparing for the upcoming battle tomorrow.

The next day, as the sun rose high in the sky, a little dark shadow appeared in the distance, and the first to arrive was naturally the 30,000 iron cavalry of the Western Army, and then the army of more than 100,000 slowly marched.

Few people will see the scene of hundreds of thousands of people gathering together, it is really an overwhelming formation, Li Nan, who was standing at the head of the city, looked at more and more Song troops in the distance, although he was well prepared, but he was still a little panicked in his heart.

This was a field battle that was not considered a siege battle, because the two legions of the Zhennan Army did not defend the city and fought on the side of the city, relying on the high city walls, but all lined up in the north of the city.

Seeing the formation of the Zhennan army, Tong Guan, who had been in battle for a long time, and the generals of the Western Army showed joy on their faces, after all, no one wanted to attack the city, and the other party planned to fight a field battle with the Western Army with cavalry, which seemed to them to be a stupid act of looking for death.

Tong Guan was able to make countless military exploits in the northwest, and then became the first person in the Great Song Dynasty military, not because he had the resourcefulness and command ability of Zhuge Wuhou, and he was not a peerless general, but he was a qualified official, because he had the ability to know and use people.

The Great Song Dynasty, from the emperor to all the civil officials, looked down on them from the bottom of their hearts and did not trust those military generals, so every time they fought as the main generals, they were civilian officials, and no matter how capable the generals were, they could only exist as deputies.

Tong Guan is very self-aware, he knows that he can't command the battle, but he knows how to make good use of people, uses people without doubt, and will give some credit to those heroes, in contrast, he can get the support of many generals of the Western Army.

After observing the formation of the Zhennan Army, Tong Guan hurriedly summoned the deputy general Liu Yanqing to inquire about the strategy of meeting the enemy.

Liu Yanqing, a security soldier of the Northern Song Dynasty, was born in the Great Song Dynasty Liu Jiangmen, fought with the Western Xia, and moved to the head of Yanlu and the deputy commander of the Ma Army.

In the war between the Northern Song Dynasty and the Western Xia, the Northern Song Dynasty used a large number of local pro-Song minorities in Shaanxi to confront the Western Xia, resulting in a lot of Jiangmen families, such as the Liu family, the Yang family and the Zhe family.