Zheng Zhi finally landed on the top of the city, and the Jurchens outside the city were huge, and hundreds of thousands of troops crowded outside the pass, and they also occupied the field of vision. It is not more open than the grassland or the northwest, the left and right are not open, the left and right are only a dozen miles of ground, and the mountains are like this, and you can see far to the north.

As soon as the generals of the army followed Zheng Zhi to the head of the city, it was the injured Yue Fei, who was also standing at the head of the city.

Zheng Zhi glanced at it for a long time, frowned and asked, "One of the Jurchens went north last night?" ”

Shi Jin hurriedly replied: "The scout came to report, saying that on the top of the mountain, I saw that one of the Jurchens went north, and it was not real, but there were a lot of people. The scout followed him for more than twenty miles, and then he came back to report it. ”

Zheng Zhi nodded when he heard this: "Go north for more than twenty miles?" These Jurchens were cautious. To the north is false, to the west is true. ”

Zheng Zhi doesn't need to analyze much, can the Jurchens go north at this time? The method of dividing troops is of strategic significance only if we go westward and westward.

Shi Jin also nodded when he heard this: "I think so too, those Jurchens probably went west." To the west, I want to enter Yanyun. ”

Zheng Zhi asked again: "Are there people in the beacon towers along the line?" ”

"The beacon towers to the east and south have sent people, but the beacons to the west have not all the way to naturalization and Datong." Shi Jin replied that Shi Jin only needed to send a message to Yanyun before the head, so the city walls and towers on the ridge were mainly sent to the east and south.

"Send men to the west quickly, and put all the beacons in the manpower. In the letter to naturalize and Datong, let them send more rangers to strengthen their vigilance, but if there is an enemy situation, they will report it quickly. Even the Ganhan and Suhan tribes will also send rangers to patrol the east. Go as far as you can. Zheng Zhi opened his mouth and ordered.

Wu Yongben also took out a pen, recorded orders, and wrote official documents.

The people looked at it for a while, and then they came down from the city and entered the urn city, where there were no buildings, and the place of discussion was also a big tent that had been erected.

In the big tent, the formal deliberations begin.

Zheng Zhi opened his mouth and said: "In this big battle, the battle situation has lost the initiative. The Jurchens are outside the pass, and we should rely on the city to defend it. But you can't really let the Jurchens lead the way, what can you do to break the enemy? ”

As soon as Zheng Zhi's voice fell, Wu Yong had already gotten up, obviously confident, so he waited for Zheng Zhi to ask this sentence, and hurriedly replied: "Your Highness, we are connected to the Jurchens not only by land, but also by sea. ”

As soon as Wu's voice fell, he waited for Zheng Zhi to react.

Zheng Zhi frowned when he heard this, thought for a moment, and asked rhetorically: "What the pedant said is feasible, but what are these more than 10,000 soldiers going to land in the north?" Sneak attack on the Jurchen city? Attack on the Jurchen court? Or an attack on the Jurchen tribe? ”

Zheng Zhi asked three rhetorical questions, and Wu Yong looked pensive. Today's Jurchen is not a country with a territorial court in the actual sense. Although the city is a Jurchen, but the Jurchen people do not attach much importance to those cities, the Jurchen court, the central organ is with the army, where the emperor goes, where the army goes, the central organ of the court will also go.

Wu Yong thought for a moment and said, "Your Highness, you can sneak attack the Jurchens' grain routes and attack the Jurchen tribes." If the Jurchen tribe is attacked, the Jurchens will inevitably lead troops to rescue them. This battle can be won. ”

Unexpectedly, Zheng Zhi still shook his head and said, "The Jurchens are fighting, how can there ever be a grain road? Why did you need support from the rear? The Jurchen tribes are all in the jungle of the white mountains and black waters, how to attack? If you enter the mountains and forests, you can't catch up, so why not attack? ”

Again, the Jurchen at this time was not a country in the actual sense. It's not the big gold of the later generations, the Jurchens are still wartime at this time, and they haven't really thought about running a country, and everything revolves around war. The Jurchen tribe, that is, the family members of Wanyan Aguta, are also in the jungle. It is unrealistic for a large army to go into the jungle to attack the Jurchen tribe.

From landing on the beach to the jungle to find the Jurchens, the process here is extremely difficult and long, even if the Jurchen tribe is found, it is difficult for these Han people to go to such a jungle to hunt down the Jurchens. The Jurchens climbed over the mountains and mountains as if walking on the ground, and these Han soldiers were afraid that they would not even be able to catch up with the figures, and they might even be beaten by the Jurchens and suffered heavy losses.

If it was the Dajin Kingdom in later generations, the families of the Jurchen soldiers and Han people all moved to the city, became Jurchen nobles, and really lived the life of slave owners, so it would make sense to sneak attack.

As for grain and grass, since the Jurchen cavalry came out of the jungle, there has never been such a thing as grain and grass. Nor can the fruits of the jungle be able to sustain such an army. At this time, the livestock in the Jurchen camp were the grain and grass of the Jurchens, and everything that should be robbed in Goryeo was robbed, and in the Guanwai Prefecture capital, everything that should be robbed was also robbed. The Jurchens do not care about the lives and deaths of others. Then there was no such thing as grain and grass.

The army that landed in the rear of the Jurchens did not even have a single combat goal. There is no point in occupying some cities, and it is necessary to divide troops to defend them, and the Jurchen thousands of cavalry will come back to help, and the outcome of a major battle will not be difficult to predict.

Including all the grassland tribes fighting, most of them have no food and grass, and they bring everything they can bring, and the rest depends on grabbing. Even if it is a Mongolian expedition and set off with some tribes, the tribe and the army are the same thing. Even in battle, the tribe and the army are not far away.

Grain and grass are only a big deal in the Central Plains Dynasty. For fishing and hunting nomads, the more they have no food and grass, the more they have to fight, because to fight is to find food and grass. If it is the great gold of the later generations, then it will need grain and grass to fight, and the Jurchens at this time do not have a grain road at all.

Even if there is nothing to eat, the Jurchens still have the last ration, which is human flesh. Later generations may sound appalling, but in this era, cannibalism has never been fake. Not to mention that nomads eat human flesh, even Han Chinese also eat human flesh.

History clearly records that after Jingkang, many Han people in the north rebelled against the Jurchens, and a few fought well, and there were no grain and grass in the rebel army, so there were many people who ate human flesh. One of them boarded the ship from Shandong, retreated back to the Southern Song Dynasty, and arrived in Hangzhou, and the soldiers still carried bacon jerky made of human flesh. These hundreds of thousands of Goryeo people are not food and grass for the Jurchens.

In Yue Fei's "Man Jianghong", Zhuang is hungry for Hulu meat, but it is not just talking, and there are not one or two people in Yue Fei's army who have really eaten Hulu meat. This is also why the Water Margin always depicts those heroes eating human flesh, which is also well-founded. In the early years of the Northern Song Dynasty, the famous general Li Chuyun, the history of the Song Dynasty clearly recorded that there were dozens of obese prisoners, and they directly ordered the left and right soldiers to kill and eat. As for the others, there are countless who deliberately eat human flesh.

Han people can eat human flesh like this, let alone Jurchens. There is a term in history for "two-legged sheep", which actually refers to people who are used as food. The cruelty of war can be seen, men are constantly going into battle to fight, there is no labor, food is getting less and less, and the war requires food, and the food is forcibly attributed to the army, which is a vicious circle. The idea that the Great Song Dynasty could not be destroyed by war was Zheng Zhi's foresight.

Wu Yong heard Zheng Zhi's words, and he also understood where the joints were, nodded and said: "Your Highness is right, landing in the north of the Jurchen does not have much strategic significance. ”

Unexpectedly, Zheng Zhi shook his head a few times and said: "It's not meaningless, landing at this time is naturally meaningless, and when it comes to winning the decisive battle, it may also be a miracle move." The matter of landing, and with the situation of the war, will be discussed later. ”

The land outside the pass is mostly Khitan people, and when it landed, with the changes in the battle situation and the name of the Great Liao Emperor Yelu Yanxi, it may really have a miraculous effect.

Zheng Zhi's words, Wu Yong's face looked a lot better.

Zheng Zhi stared at the map, and said: "Send fast horses to the west again, and let the generals and yamen from all over the country quickly report the significance of the gaps that can pass through the army, so that we can predict where the Jurchens will probably enter Yanyun from." ”

Wu Yong hurriedly looked for a pen and paper to write an official document.

Everyone followed Zheng Zhi's words and looked at the map.

This war, whether it is for Zheng Zhi or Jurchen, is a bitter battle, and it is all anxious. Both sides seem to know that the decisive battle will be held at this Gubei Pass. But they are all thinking of other ways to break the game and increase their chances of winning.

The Jurchens had the means to be, and even put into action. Zheng Zhi's means of breaking the game seem to have reached an impasse.