"Yu Hou of the Yanchuan Independent Regiment, Jing Hai, the training envoy of the Xiazhou Regiment of the Inspection School, report to the Dusi!"

Jing Hai stood straight in front of Shen Chen, whose beard had grown on his face, and looked the old boss up and down with a slightly surprised gaze while signing up. It's only been more than ten days, and it's really surprising that the No. 3 person of the Eighth Route Army is haggard.

Shen Chen waved his hand to signal him to sit down, but the wooden ruler in his hand was still slowly moving on a map of mountains and rivers, his brows were tightly locked, and he didn't say a word.

Jing Hai sat down cross-legged in the standard sitting position of the Eighth Route Army, turned his head and said hello to Di Huaiwei, who was also sitting on his right side.

In terms of qualifications, Di Huaiwei is a veteran officer of the Eighth Route Army, and he was one of the first group of commanders that Li Wenge first came into contact with when he first joined the C team. Now among the veterans, Shen Chen and Wei Xun, who have been promoted faster, have become important members of the Eighth Route Army's command, and even Yang Lilingpu, who is slightly less qualified than Di Huaiwei, has now become regimental commanders.

All this is just because Di Huaiwei is a gambler.

Because of this problem, not only Li Wenge, but even Zhou Zhengyu, the No. 2 person of the Eighth Route Army, who has been caring for Di Huaiwei, is full of doubts about this old brother. And Di Huaiwei seems to have lived up to Zhou Zhengyu, and in the battle of Ten Trees, he used his solid record to prove that Zhou Zhengyu's recommendation was not wrong, and at the same time changed Li Wenge's opinion of him.

Li Wenge naturally employed more people than Zhou Zhengyu and others, the Yanchuan Independent Regiment was hastily formed, and there was a great shortage of experienced officers, and with a stroke of General Li's pen, Di Huaiwei was promoted from Du Zheng, who commanded 100 people, to the commander of a battalion of 500 people.

Regarding this appointment, Shen Chen and Wei Xun on the Yanzhou side have no opinion. Only Zhou Zhengyu quietly asked someone to bring a message to Li Wenge, suggesting that he should be cautious in the appointment of Di Huaiwei.

All this makes Di Huaiwei always cautious in the army. Don't dare to go over the beaten path, as a veteran of the Middle Army, as a veteran of the army. He has always been a man with his tail between his legs, whether in the Liutao Pavilion or in the actual command position, and has maintained a very rare humble attitude. Even in the face of Jing Hai, whose qualifications were far shallower than his own, Di Huaiwei nodded very politely.

Jing Hai was the officer in the Eighth Route Army who had been promoted most rapidly in recent times.

Last year, when the defense of Luziguan was fighting, Jing Hai was only a chief, and he served as the deputy of the team when he attacked Yinzhou, and returned to Yanzhou to study in Liutao Pavilion after escorting Li Wenge out of Tongguan, and officially began to serve as the team leader after leaving school.

On the eve of the Battle of Gyeongju, Jing Hai and Di Huaiwei were promoted to infantry Duzheng, and at the same time were promoted to battalion commander of the Yeoncheon Independent Regiment.

Now, Jing Hai is already the training envoy of the Xiazhou regiment of the inspection school. If you don't consider the word "inspection", he is already an officer from the fifth grade.

Di Huaiwei squeezed his eyes at him: "Don't count on it, it's still not ...... fight."

Jing Hai looked at Di Huaiwei, and a wry smile appeared on the corner of his mouth: "Are you still going around***?" ”

Di Huaiwei lamented in a low voice: "We are still good. It's hard to seal them carefully, and the horse's legs are about to run thin! ”

Jing Hai sighed softly: "My lord's side is too, and I never mention the matter of going east!" ”

Di Huaiwei glanced at Shen Chen, leaned closer and asked, "Haven't you been recruiting troops and horses?" How's it going? ”

Jing Hai pursed his lips: "What kind of recruitment, it's all a rabble, all of them are as thin as one-legged chickens, and they are panting in the dark when they run for two miles." After half an hour of blowing the assembly trumpet, the people are still sparse and uneven, if such soldiers can also go to the battlefield to fight, the old sow can go up the tree! ”

"How many people have been recruited?"

Jing Hai looked up in amazement, it wasn't Di Huaiwei who could speak. Instead, Shen Chen, who had been studying the map with his head down.

Jing Hai pursed his lips. He replied: "My lord gave Xiaguan the establishment of three battalions, but unfortunately they are still empty shells at the moment. Fundamentally dissatisfied. After collecting more than a dozen villages in the distance and near 100 miles, a total of less than 800 people were gathered, and a large village in the southwest valley was besieged in the past two days. ”

Shen Chen raised his head in surprise: "So many people? "Huh?" Jing Hai was stunned.

Shen Chen said to himself: "In such a desolate mountainous area, how can you still recruit so many people? ”

Jing Hai smiled bitterly: "It's useless to have too many people, the training time is not even half a day every day, and you have to allocate people to hunt and graze, and there are not enough weapons, let alone armor." In a huge mountainous area, the adults have drawn out the territory of three counties in a row, and sealed the three county masters, all of whom are bitter haha. It is said that it is under the control of the subordinate officials, and the subordinate officials have a hard time talking to them every day, and they have to gather so many people, and they have to train and fish and hunt, and the subordinate officials really can't do these troublesome things......"

Shen Chen raised his head and glanced at him, lowered his head and continued to look at the map, and said sullenly, "Haven't you always been with you?" ”

"My lord doesn't care about what to ......do," Jing Hai said aggrievedly, "The whole burden is on the shoulders of the lower officials, and the adults hide in the village every day, and take turns to summon those fat old men, and when they ask, they don't know what to ask!" ”

Shen Chen raised his head, his brows furrowed slightly, and he lowered his head again after a while, but he no longer looked at the map, but looked at Jing Hai, and gave a rare comfort: "It's hard for you, you did a good job!" ”

Jing Hai sighed and couldn't help but ask, "Commander, when will the war start!" After walking for half a month, and wandering around the mountains for more than half a month, wasn't the original plan to plunder the ten thousand cities? How long will it take? ”

Excited for a moment, Jing Hai did not call Du Si, but blurted out the old name.

Shen Chen looked at the map, and replied lightly, but asked rhetorically: "I copied more than a dozen villages, how was the harvest?" ”

Jing Hai grinned again: "There are more places to eat than grain, and some cattle and sheep are also too thin to look good, and they are all sent to the system." ”

Di Huaiwei interjected: "Besides, those sheep are so old that they can be boiled for an hour and a half." The meat that was fished out was still torn and bitten, chewing so much that the cheeks hurt, and a sheep was fifteen pounds. There are fourteen pounds of bones, I really don't know how these natives shepherd! ”

Jing Hai was speechless.

Shen Chen sighed: "The materials are insufficient, and the grain is insufficient. The enemy army of Tongwan City is holding on to the death, such a situation, except to continue to maneuver in the Qiwu Mountains, we have no choice! ”

Jing Hai frowned and asked, "If it is discovered by the enemy army, wouldn't it be troublesome?" ”

Shen Chen raised his eyebrows: "Do you think we're playing around for a while?" The cavalry brigade and the left battalion were constantly roaming around the mountains for a while, on the one hand, patrolling and arresting those herdsmen and slaves who were heading east to prevent news from leaking. On the other hand, it is to constantly improve our big map and be familiar with the geographical situation. This mountainous area is unfamiliar to us, and neither is the enemy. In the unlikely event that the enemy discovers and a battle breaks out in the mountains, whoever takes advantage of the territory will take advantage. This advantage cannot be taken by the enemy. Since we came first, we need to make the most of this time to do our homework. Every peak, every valley, every river in the Qiwu Mountains. Even every tree, every grass, every stone, every mouse, we have to be familiar with it. Didn't you study at Liutao Hall? The first priority of an external battle is to use all possible conditions to turn the outer line into an inner line, and this is a compulsory course, right? ”

Jing Hai's face turned red, and he opened his mouth but did not argue.

Shen Chen raised his head, looked at the dark clouds in the distance, and continued: "You already have a thousand people in your hands, don't take it seriously." These soldiers are weak. Really fight up. They are familiar with the ground, even if they are holding the enemy by the nose and turning ***. and more than we foreign soldiers. Now although we are in Xiazhou, in this Qiwu Mountain, we are the master, and Tuoba Yi Yin is the guest! ”

Jing Hai smiled bitterly: "The original lord has all been locked up by us, and there are two or three hundred people in more than a dozen villages, and these adults are not allowed to kill, and the trials are endless all day long." These people don't like us much, so what if we make a fuss? ”

Shen Chen glanced at him: "Your battalion has allocated an infantry to go out to practice, isn't there still an infantry master from the four capitals who personally control it?" ”

Jing Hai nodded: "Two days ago, another team was dialed over, and now there are seven teams of infantry in the hands of the adults, about three hundred and fifty people!" ”

"With this army, the safety of adults should be safe!" Shen Chen said lightly, "It makes sense for adults to ask more carefully, only by knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent can one win a hundred battles!" ”

"What's there to ask about these ragged houses, these people probably haven't been to Tongwan City in their lives......" Di Huaiwei muttered quietly from the side.

Shen Chen glanced at him and shook his head slightly: "In this kind of big battle, all the enemy situations, no matter how big or small, the more you know, the more you will be sure." Knowing more means fewer deaths. The major affairs of the country of soldiers, the way of life and death, this truth could not be simpler! ”

Jing Hai nodded lightly, although he couldn't understand it for the time being, he also knew that Shen Chen had a point.

Shen Chen lowered his head again to look at the map, and asked, "Jing Hai, can you allocate some of the manpower in your hand in the near future?" ”

Jing Hai asked hesitantly, "How many people?" ”

Shen Chen estimated it and said, "Three or four hundred is enough!" It is estimated to take five or six days. ”

Jing Hai thought for a while: "When the southwest village is built, it can be allocated, but now the daily fishing and hunting are not stopped, and the whole army can barely be satisfied, if three or four hundred people are divided at once, I am afraid that the fishing and hunting ground will not have enough manpower, and the training time will be compressed, these soldiers are already weak, and the training can not keep up, let alone be counted on!" ”

Shen Chen smiled: "I didn't expect your soldiers to go into battle to kill the enemy. ”

He thought for a moment and said, "You prepare, give me 400 people in five days, you have to be strong enough to do heavy work, I will be useful!" ”

Jing Hai nodded and didn't ask.

Shen Chen thought for a while and said, "How many horses, mules and cows do you have in your hands?" ”

Jing Hai estimated it and replied, "There are twenty-four horses, less than forty mules, and about sixty or seventy cattle!" ”

Shen Chen closed his eyes and silently estimated in his heart.

After a while, he opened his eyes and said to Jing Hai: "When will you go back?" ”

Jing Hai said: "I was ordered by the adults to report to the commander about the establishment of the regimental training, and I will rush back overnight tonight, there are too many things over there, and the adults don't care about things, I can't stay for too long!" ”

Shen Chen said: "You wait a while, I'll explain a few words." I'll go with you to see the adults! ”

Jing Hai was stunned for a moment, and Shen Chen lowered his head to look at the map again: "Tuoba Yi Yin is a hero in troubled times, it seems that this strategy of attacking the east and west will be difficult to work in the near future." We're going to base ourselves on this mountainous area and fight this battle with the strength we have at hand......"

Jing Hai and Di Huaiwei were both taken aback: "Use this little force in your hand to shake the Ten Thousand Cities?" ”

Shen Chen raised his head and looked at the two of them, and smiled: "I mean to use the forces at hand to fight this battle." It's not hard to say......"

"Suizhou has been completely lost, Yinzhou is now in danger, the enemy forces in the north and south are about to meet, once the Zhejia, the Yang family and Li Wenge join forces, the situation on the eastern front will be irreversible. Now it seems that the Yinsui front line is the direction of attack of the enemy's landlord, there should be no doubt! Chu Weiyan pondered the words and said to Tuoba Yiyin.

Tuoba Yi Yin didn't say anything, and raised his head to look at King Luo: "Uncle, what do you think?" ”

King Aro did not speak.

Tuoba Guangyuan on the side interjected: "I don't know what a big plan is, but this time it's not for us to beat people." It's people who come to beat us. If we fail in the attack on Luzi Pass, we will have to withdraw our troops, and now that someone else occupies our state and county, we will withdraw our troops if we can't do it, right? To be withdrawn. Where to retreat? The Yang family and Li Wenge have joined forces, and there are tens of thousands of soldiers, where do we retreat? Could it be true that waiting for others to come to the nest? ”

King Ah Luo raised his head and glanced at him: "It's not a big deal to retreat to Tongwan City, these people are outsiders after all." When you send troops to fight, you need food and grass. How many families does Li Wenge have? With such a toss, how much advantage can he take advantage of? Although the eastern front is lively now, I am afraid that if we fight for another month or two, the soldiers in Yanzhou will run out of food. How long can they hold out without eating the ground? ”

Tuoba Guangyuan was obviously not convinced, but he did not dare to argue with King Luo. Silence.

Tuoba Yi Yin smiled: "Guangyuan is not necessarily a bad general. But when it comes to the general trend, it's better for you to keep your mouth shut. Uncle and Mr. Chunqiu are both experienced people. If the light is there, I am afraid that I will also be advised to be cautious! ”

King Arrow sighed: "Maybe I'm really an old land, and my eyelids are always jumping these days." The weather was also unusual, with only two rains in the spring, and the first rain in the summer fell seven days ago, and it didn't rain much. Yesterday I went out of the city to investigate, and the depth of the water was less than three feet, and the wet riverbed was exposed. Although the drought did not affect us much, the weather was abnormal, which always made people feel uneasy. I am not afraid of Li Wenge when I go into battle to kill the enemy, but the current situation is by no means something that can be solved by slashing and killing indiscriminately. If the light were, he might have an idea. But this time he went to the Central Plains again......"

Tuoba Yi Yin smiled: "The battle has been fought so far, the situation is clear, even if you don't have this head planning, you can see it clearly!" ”

Several people looked up at him at the same time.

Tuoba Yiyin took a breath and said, "Last season's tribute, the heads of all families have sent it, I counted it, and there is only a shortage of ...... from those poor relatives in the mountains in the west."

Everyone was stunned, Chu Weiyan frowned, and Tuoba Guangyuan said: "It doesn't matter, those people just have a Tuoba surname, and we have never been all the way, they are stingy on weekdays, and the tribute is always dragged and refused to be paid, it's not a big deal, and now we don't lack their little bit!" ”

"It's not surprising that a family doesn't come or is in arrears...... It's strange that several families pretend to be deaf and dumb together, which is unconventional! Chu Weiyan said immediately.

"Exactly!" Tuoba Yi Yin nodded approvingly, "In the past few days, I have sent three batches of messengers into the Qiwu Mountains in a row, and I have not come back all the way so far, what does this mean?" ”

"Li Wenge's trick!" King Arrow slammed his fist on the table.

Tuoba Yi Yin sneered: "The Han people's art of war is called Shengdong attacking the west, Li Wenge must have lurked a partial division in the western mountains, waiting for us to send troops to rescue the eastern front, as long as the main force of our army leaves Tongwancheng, this partial division will immediately sneak attack, end up our hometown, and plan so poisonously!" ”

Tuoba Guangyuan opened his mouth wide, and only after a while did he say, "Where did Li Wenge conjure up this army?" How many soldiers can he have? ”

Tuoba Yi Yin sneered: "This army will not exceed the number of a thousand, this is the limit of Li Wenge's strength!" ”

As he spoke, he stood up and said, "I have already sent three messengers all the way west along the desert to persuade the Feng family in Shuofang to send troops to Gyeongju in exchange for the Feng family's return to threaten Li Wenge's back road at the cost of a thousand cattle and sheep and a thousand horses. All the way along the Yellow River all the way to the north, to the Khitan for help, the Yang family and the Central Plains court connected into one, which is the Khitan royal court never wants to see the land; The third way east crossed the Yellow River to Taiyuan, to the Northern Han lord for help, as long as the Northern Han can send troops to Linzhou and Fuzhou, it will be difficult for the Zhiyang coalition army to stay in Yinzhou for a long time, as long as they can't go south with peace of mind, we can concentrate our forces to deal with Li Wenge! ”

"Tell me about it, master! How to fight? Tuoba Guangyuan bloomed his body.

Tuoba Yi Yin sneered and said: "It's still the old rule, use the strong to attack the weak, and break the enemy army separately!" We gathered the main force, took advantage of the shallow water to wade, crossed the river to the north on a certain day, and camped a hundred miles northeast of the river. Uncle led the new conscription soldiers to stay in Tongwan City, once attacked by the enemy, immediately lit a beacon fire at the head of the city, a distance of 100 miles, for our army is just a night scene, in order to annihilate Li Wenge's partial division under Tongwan City. Then we can turn around and deal with the enemy on the Eastern Front......"

As he spoke, he pressed his hand on the case, stared at King Luo with two eyes, and said: "For a day and night, the city of Tongwan is a strong city in the world, and the uncle should be able to defend it, right?" ”