The gate of Yewang City slowly opened, and he looked at the leader of the Zhao Kingdom's ranks, and the leader on the horse seemed to be familiar, so he called out from afar: "Mr. Fuding, it's been a long time. ”

Fu Ding smiled at Sima Qian next to him, who nodded and motioned for everyone to dismount. Fu Ding drove a few steps, walked in front of Zhang Kai, and saluted: "My lord came to greet him from afar, and I was terrified, how could I work and wait here for you?" ”

"Han and Zhao are not only of the same origin, but also a state of marriage. When the king heard that the king had passed by, he was expected to go straight to the beam. It just so happened that a certain person was also appointed by the king to go to the beam to offer condolences, so he came here to wait for you. ”

The two exchanged pleasantries for a while, and they didn't want to let them go into the city together.

Li Zhuo and Su Qin followed behind the team, looking at the banners on the city wall, as well as the horse walls that would appear every other distance, and the bed crossbows that would appear almost sixty or seventy steps on the city, and huge doubts rose in their hearts.

When he entered the city and looked closely, he saw that there was something else inside the city wall.

"Hey, there is still a Fang City in this city?"

The so-called square city, that is, a small section of the city wall protruding from the city wall built outside the main gate of the city, the protruding part of the city wall and the main city wall are connected, but there are no stairs extending to the ground, and there is also a female wall, and soldiers directly enter from the main city wall. On the front is a wide city gate, and a straight road leads to the main city gate. Once an enemy army has attacked, the defenders will lower the jack gate of the city gate, forming a closed section, and because it is impossible to climb everywhere, the enemy troops trapped in it have little chance of resisting and can only wait for death. Li Zhuo once served as an envoy to Xinzheng, and he saw this kind of design there, and he was shocked at that time, because that kind of design could not be seen in other countries.

If Zhao Yong could also see it, I am afraid that he would say another well-known name in Fang Cheng: Wengcheng.

"Yewangcheng has a heavy status in the hearts of Koreans, and I am afraid it is second only to Xinzheng." Su Qin was surprised when he saw him, so he explained his confusion for him, "You asked me before why Shangdang was surrounded by the Wei State, but you didn't care at all. Without him, it is only because Yewang City is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and it is a strong fortress itself, so it is so relieved that South Korea is so relieved. ”

Li Zhuo thought about it, then nodded.

In fact, along the way, Li Zhuo is more and more surprised, I really didn't know before, the terrain of the Shangdang is steep, the Taihang Mountain is tall and dangerous, and it is indeed a place where soldiers must fight, Su Qin said that Han Cheng is also on the party, when it is to control this place, it is equivalent to holding the throat of the Three Jin Dynasty, making it very difficult for Zhao and Wei to expand and occupy the south, and he obtained two important basins for cultivation by the way; And defeat is also to the party, I am afraid that it is such a throat place, it must be the fat that everyone wants to eat when they see it, and if South Korea does not have a certain strength, it will not be able to keep this family business.

The rivers and estuaries that extend from the Shangdang Heights have become necessary factors to control the Shangdang Heights. When Korea built a city in Yewang, it just controlled Danshui and Taihang, which led to the hinterland of Shangdang, thus ensuring that they would not be made dumplings in Shangdang's city. even did not hesitate to build Fangcheng to strengthen the defense for this purpose, it can be seen that if anyone dares to move Yewang City, the Koreans will definitely fight hard.

"Oops!" Su Qin suddenly knocked on his head, "I figured it out." ”

"Figured it out?" Li Zhuo asked suspiciously.

"Of course it's something that I can't figure out." Su Qin said confidently.

Le Yi put the chess pieces representing the cavalry on the sand table, Pang Cong stood not far from him, watching his calm layout, and Niu Qian, who had just been recalled by Zhao Yong from the generation, also stood on the side of the sand table, watching Le Yi place the chess pieces.

Since the last time Le Yi arranged the Northern Expedition, Niu Jian has put down a lot of prejudices about Le Yi, although he has not nominally commanded any army, but Le Yi's grasp of the battlefield situation is still very insightful. At least among the existing army generals of Zhao State, he can be regarded as outstanding. If it is extended to the generals of other countries, it can be regarded as a leader.

"Alright." Le Yi stood up, looked at the chess pieces he had placed again, and then said to Zhao Yongqi, who was kneeling on the top of the main hall: "Your Majesty, the situation between us and Lou Fu and Lin Hu is probably like this, please take a look." ”

Zhao Yong nodded, walked down the hall, looked at Niu Jian for a long time, looked at Niu Jian and asked, "Old General Niu is from the North, do you think the situation between the two sides has been reflected in this sand table?" ”

Since Zhao Xi was bedridden, Niu Jian and Li Yan have acted as agents of military affairs on behalf of the county. It's just that Niu Jian is mainly responsible for combat, while Li Yan is responsible for training and handling general affairs. At the beginning, he was still a little dependent on the old and betraying the old, and Li Yan also had a lot of respect for the old general, but later he felt that Li Yan did have some ability, so he gradually became polite to him.

"When Shangqing deployed the chess pieces just now, the old man had already seen it. The Hu people have been living in the grass and have no fixed residence, so they can only be said to be active within certain ranges. Niu Jian said, walking to the sand table. Pointing to the sand table, the "river channel" representing the Yellow River said, "The range of activities of Lou Fu and Lin Hu is about the northwest of the Infinity Gate, on both sides of the river. The north bank is at the southern foot of Daqing Mountain, near the Dahei River Valley, where most of the buildings are located; On the south bank of the river, near the plateau, and south to the border of the Qin State, the forest is dense here, and Linhu is entrenched here, which is also the origin of the title "Linhu". ”

Although during the Three Kingdoms War in Yanzhao and Zhongshan, Niu Jian was ordered to pretend to sweep away the Hu people in the northwest, but he was not idle, and sent multiple cavalry to the north along the river, surveying the terrain, drawing maps, and some even went south to the territory of Yiqu, and roughly figured out the location of the twenty-five cities of Yiqu before returning. The sand table in front of him was made according to the map presented by Niu Jian and became the second set of sand tables in the White Tiger Hall.

"The big river crosses Helan Mountain and is blocked by the plateau to the north, and encounters the eastward movement of the Yin Mountain, and the road is dug in the Luliang Mountain and goes south, so that this place is irrigated by the river, and the northwest is a number of waterways in parallel, the southwest is the mountain forest highland, during which the plains and grasslands are widely distributed, it is really a godsend land, do not take the blame." Pang Cong admired while watching, he had lived in the Central Plains for a long time, and he really didn't know that in his impression of the bitter cold land in the northwest, there was such an excellent place.

"Jiuqu Yellow River, only one set of wealth, this place is the land of Guanzhong of my Zhao country, the country of abundance. Zhao Guodang should be prosperous with this. Zhao Yong looked at the range of activities marked on the sand table with Lou Fu and Lin Hu, and his eyes lit up. This is not another place, it is the Hetao Plain known as "Plugging the Jiangnan" in my own time! It's just that at that time, the ecological environment had deteriorated, and the woodland on the south bank of the Yellow River almost no longer existed, but now it is luxuriant. If he could really possess this place, what Zhao Guo would get was not just a piece of grassland, but a big granary!

"Sets?"

"Yes, you see." Zhao Yong pointed to the sand table and said: "The big river is like a rope sleeve here, the first bend should be the west set, and the second bend and the third bend should be the east set." The latter two can also be divided into the back cover and the front set. ”

Everyone followed Zhao Yong's pointing, and it was really as he said.

"Here, although there is no Guanzhong Qinchuan in general, it is easy to defend and difficult to attack, but there is a winding river in the southeast that leads directly to Guanzhong, and there are vast forests to form a defense line, and the southwest terrain is high, although I don't know what it is, but it is certainly not suitable to go deep." Niu Jian said.

"What's more, there is also an old rival of the Qin State entrenched here, and even if the Qin State wants to go north, it has to worry about a fire in the backyard. The most important thing is that most of this place is Hu people, and the Qin State may not be willing to go north, but it can also be worth occupying. Pang Cong also analyzed.

"The question is, how much does my army have to prepare soldiers, horses, food, and grass? How many ways are the soldiers divided? What are the results? "Le Yi is to the point every time, to the point, and never wants to say a word of nonsense.

"Soldiers, horses, grain and grass, the county has accumulated 20,000 or 30,000 stones, which can be enough for 10,000 troops to support two or three months." Niu Jian said. Theoretically, the cost is more than that, but when the cavalry enters the grassland, there is no need to prepare hay, there are grasslands everywhere, and where you hit, you can trim it there, but the degree of human use still has to be calculated.

"Although Handan has tens of thousands of grains in stock, if it sends troops from Daijun, it will definitely cost some hardships for transshipment. The consumption is also large, and it seems that some of the gains outweigh the losses. ”

"Therefore, the early purpose of the war should be to try to find one or two cities and fortresses as a transit place for the army, first, to contact the country, so that the news will not be undeliverable; The second is to solve the problem of grain turnover, so that the transportation of grain and grass will not be too complicated. Le Yi said.

Everyone nodded, "In this case, should you divide the troops and break them down, or should you gather them in one place and focus on attacking?" Pang Cong asked.

"It depends on what you want to achieve." Le Yi looked at Zhao Yong.

Zhao Yong had thought about this question several times, he stretched out his hand, drew a circle on both sides of the river, and then went down the river until he stopped at the west set that Zhao Yong said, looked at everyone and said: "Drive the tiger, swallow the wolf." ”

Several people were people with extremely high military qualities, and they understood what Zhao Yong meant in a moment: to drive the people of Lou Fu and Lin Hu from the Dongtao Plain to the Xitao Plain, and let them compete with the Yiqu people south of the Xitao Plain. It can not only consolidate the security of the Hetao area, but also hinder the Yiqu people from going north, which is really a clever plan.

"Even so, I'm afraid that the people of Lou Fu and Lin Hu may not be willing to agree." Niu Jian said worriedly, he has lived in the north for a long time, and he gets along with the Hu people a lot, knowing that they are used to being free and casual, and he can't stand the constraints and constraints the most, and it is not so easy to make them surrender.

"Since ancient times, there has never been a principle of serving first and then winning, and for the Hu people, there are two things that have always been adhered to."

"Please show me." The three of them answered.

"First, first subdue, then surrender. For the Hu people, only by defeating them first can they be converted. ”

"Second, for the subjugated Hu people, one must be deterred, the other must be gentle, suppress the small with force, educate the people's hearts with culture, or communicate with each other, it is also necessary. The combination of rigidity and softness should be invincible. ”

The three of them understood and obeyed orders.

"The way of the king is the same as that of a new master from the Academy." Pang said with a smile.

"Oh? Lone has been riddled with trivial matters recently, but he rarely listens to lectures, but he didn't expect a new master to come to the school palace, I don't know which sage it is. Zhao Yong smiled and said, he had nothing to do before, except for going to the Guanzi to pay respects, that is, to go to the school palace to listen to the lectures, and other students in general, even the words at the door of the school palace were all inscribed by him, nothing more than hoping that this place would be inclusive, and by the way, the effect of a thousand gold city bones would be obtained.

"This master calls himself Ji, Meng, Mingke, and Ziyu, and according to the dog, he is the master of Confucius's general school."

After listening to this, Zhao Yong almost fell down, obedient, others don't know, this name is like thunder, but the legendary "Yasheng"! Be sure to pay a visit another day.

"Wait," Niu Jian said suddenly, "Didn't the king summon the old man here to discuss border defense issues?" Why is everything that is said in this period all the troops Hu people? Moreover, the old minister heard that the king intends to contact the six eastern countries to attack Qin, and at this time, if he sends troops to fight against the Hu people, I am afraid that the national strength of Zhao will not be good. ”

Zhao Yong and Le Yi looked at each other and smiled, and the latter said with a slightly mischievous smile: "How could the king have the intention of conspiring with Qin? ”

"What? Isn't the king ready to join forces with Qin? Then why do you want me to wait for the funeral of King Wei and speculate about the Korean Wei State to attack Qin? Isn't that redundant? Su Qin stood up from his seat and looked at Fu Ding and Sima Qian in surprise, believing that if it weren't for the capital Liang of Wei State at this moment, he would definitely go to Handan to ask Zhao Yong for an explanation.

Seeing everyone's feedback today, I was taken aback, and I couldn't help but itch to post another chapter. In addition, the specific age of the urn city is no longer known, but in February 2017, experts excavated the city gate and the ruins of the urn city in the archaeological excavation of the ancient city of Zheng Han. Earlier historical research suggests that the earliest use of urn cities in China was in the Western Han Dynasty, but this archaeological discovery may correct this view.

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