"This is Ye Jun, the word Zhongying, Lin Zhenren, Captain Zhiguo, and now I am in my Central Military Inspection School Commander Wailang." Li Wenge pointed to the young man who was talking in front of the wooden map and introduced it to Zhao Kuangyin.

"I've seen Ye Zhiguo!" Zhao Kuangyin politely bowed to Ye Jun with a fist, he himself served as an east-west class, a seven-grade martial artist, Ye Jun's military rank was a fruit captain, and it was also a seven-rank martial arts, logically speaking, it was a flat level, but Zhao Kuangyin served in the Gyeonggi Forbidden Army, and he was close to the emperor's military attaché.

Zhao Kuangyin understands that although the name of this "inspector of the school is unheard of", he can be valued by Li Wenge, and in this room, in front of the military generals of the Eighth Route Army, he points to the wooden diagram to explain the soldiers, this Ye Zhiguo is naturally not an idle person, and his position class may not be insignificant, but his department must be a confidential matter related to the core of the Eighth Route Army military town.

Ye Jun returned the salute, but the expression on his face was faint, he had been the commander of the Eighth Route Army for half a year, and he had already cultivated a calm mind that was indescribable to be moody. At this time, Zhao Kuangyin was still a small seven-rank martial artist after all, Ye Jun was not a traverser, so he naturally couldn't imagine that it was the future Song Taizu who was giving him a salute.

Originally, today's military meeting was a Mutu deduction, and the protagonist should be Qin Haoran, who had been officially appointed as the Operational Advisor, but for the deployment of troops in Hedong, Li Wenge and Qin Haoran unanimously asked him, a small captain of Zhiguo, to explain, of course, this does not mean that he is the protagonist of today's meeting, and no one among the generals sitting in the festival hall thinks so, although it is him who is the main speaker, the object of Zhe Yuqing and others is still Qin Haoran, It seems that Qin Haoran, the chief of operations, is the first person under Shen Chen, the capital of the Chinese army, although the operations research department and the military department belong to the two major institutions that stand side by side in terms of responsibilities, strictly speaking, Qin Haoran is not the direct commander of the military department.

No matter how much the army is reformed, it will still be. It is about seniority and military exploits. is also in charge of a second-level division, Qin Haoran can directly serve as the operations director with the rank of guerrilla general, and Ye Jun can only be the inspector of the seventh rank of Captain Guo, as a newly promoted officer, although he has completed a full year of military courses in the Liutao Pavilion, and his professionalism is probably better than that of the generals in the Jietang, but in any case, he cannot hope to stand side by side with Qin Haoran, who has been following Li Wenge since the days of the former battalion.

"We are deducing the movements of the Liu clan in Hedong, Yuan. Is Lang interested? Li Wenge didn't mention Zhao Kuangyin's mission at all, and after introducing the people in the room, he asked the envoy with a smile.

Zhao Kuangyin's curiosity rose. Bearing a heavy responsibility, but seeing that it was not the time to speak, since Li Wenge was not in a hurry to speak, he would follow the host, and immediately arched his hand: "Taiwei doesn't think we are vulgar, Kuang Yin dares to disobey?" ”

"Happy-" Li Wenge praised, Wei Xun and the others looked at Zhao Kuangyin's eyes. The light suddenly became different.

Simply neat, not pretentious, after all, a military general is a military general, there is no Beijing division. The kind of reserved bad habits of civil officials.

Li Wenge turned around and pulled a chair for Zhao Kuangyin. Without any modesty, after thanking him, he sat down and happened to sit next to Yu Qing.

He could see clearly, in . Behind Ye Jun, there was also an empty seat; In other words, these people present here today do not have a courtesy, and everyone has a seat; Since Li Wenge has such rules in the army, he naturally has no choice but to follow the customs of the villagers, otherwise he will be too polite, and he will suddenly make these generals from Qiu Ba despised.

Li Wenge raised his chin at Ye Jun: "You go on!" ”

Ye Jun nodded, he returned to the side of Mutu, and said: "At present, all departments of the Han army are under the supervision of our company, and the transfer of grain and straw by its soldiers and horses has no secret to me. Fang has already said that among all the departments, only Zhang Yuanhui's department is an elite soldier, so as long as the Han army intends to go south, it is inevitable to mobilize this army, or to increase troops for its department, so we have deployed six groups of people in the Tuanbai area, which is the top priority, and its movement information is reported every day, and until last night, the letter is still 'safe'! That is to say, on the second day of the first month of this month, there was no change in the Tuanbai garrison. ”

Li Wenge looked at Mu Tu, muttered and did not speak, and Zhi Yuqing clapped his hands: "Taiyuan tried to Jinzhou the year before last, and touched a nose of ash in front of Wang Xiufeng, and the Lan army in the north was cleaned up by Daddy, there is only a little territory in total, thirty or forty thousand households, it is good to lick the wound at this moment, and dare to come out and beg for a beating?" I don't believe it......"

Zhao Kuangyin looked at Li Wenge, who was standing in front of the wooden map and pondering, his heart was turbulent, the old emperor was newly mourned, this northwest festival town was mourning while his eyes were firmly staring at the Liu family of the Northern Han Dynasty, is this a great loyalty or a great traitor?

Li Wenge didn't pay attention to Zhao Kuangyin's thoughts, and the opinion of Zhe Yuqing represented the opinion of the majority of the military, the Northern Han Dynasty had so much territory, and the army was only a handful, and it was just a remnant of the Khitan to survive, even if Liu Zhiyuan was able to hold this acre and three points of land, where would he still have the strength to take the initiative to harass the Central Plains? Li Wenge was a little disappointed, it would be good if Shen Chen was here at the moment, there are many generals under his command who can fight, but there is only one who has strategic vision and is still able to actively learn fresh military ideas and military skills as a general, but unfortunately the war in Lingzhou is not over yet, and he can't be transferred back.

He nodded at Ye Jun, Ye Jun put down the wooden stick and sat back, Li Wenge's eyes turned to Qin Haoran, Qin Haoran stood up, came to Mutu and picked up the wooden stick, pointed to the area of Longzhou and said: "The result of the deduction of the Operations Research Division, if the Han Lord wants to move troops, the strategic offensive direction that can be chosen is nothing more than two, one is to threaten Jinzhou from Qinzhou out of the Yin Pass, this is the old road two years ago, the imperial court is currently guarding Jinzhou is the old general Yao Yuanfu, but others are in Beijing, and the actual commander of the troops is Wang Wankang, the twelve battalions of the Jinzhou garrison, three thousand peopleAlthough there are not many soldiers, they are the soldiers of the Jiushu border defense, most of whom participated in the battle of Jinzhou the year before last, and also guarded the exit at the southern end of the Bird Mouse Valley, occupying the geographical advantage, so if Liu Chong wants to choose the western front to send troops, even if he can gather absolutely superior troops, it is difficult to carry out on the front line, although the Jinzhou army is not enterprising, it is more than enough to hold the main road, as long as the geographical advantage is not lost, the Wang patrol inspectors are well fed, and it is more than enough to hold for one to two years, the national strength of the Northern Han Dynasty is limited, and the war has been stuck for so long, and it has been dragged to death! Therefore, the pressure on the western front may not be great, and eighty percent of the main force of the Han army will be located on the eastern front......"

With his introduction, the eyes of the generals in the festival hall unanimously turned to the direction of Longzhou on the wooden map.

"Gather troops in Tuanbai, out of Huangze Pass to attack and disturb Luzhou, although Taihang and Taiwu are not suitable for cavalry mobility, but as long as they control the main road, they are not completely impassable, and the obstacle to the infantry is smaller, as long as the troops are sufficient, it is difficult for Li Shuai, the Zhaoyi Army who is guarding Luzhou, to fully fortify, unless the imperial court can enter the first line of turbidity and Zhangshui in advance, otherwise if Liu Chong's troops come, Li Shuai's most correct choice is to shrink his troops to Luzhou Shangdang, and stand in danger and wait for help. As long as Shangdang is not lost, the initiative is in the hands of the imperial court, with the strength of the Han army, there is more than enough to invade Luzhou prefectures and counties, but it is not easy to conquer Shangdang, so the actual threat of the eastern front is limited to Xiangyuan, Tunliu and other counties in the north of Luzhou, and it is meaningless for the Han army to swallow these counties, as long as the army retreats, these counties will always have to be spit out obediently, so the conclusion deduced by the Operations Research Division is that whether it is the western front or the eastern front, it is difficult for the Liu family to bargain for anything......

Li Wenge nodded, he glanced at Qin Haoran, Qin Haoran showed a trace of hesitation on his face, his lips moved, as if he wanted to say something, but he held back. Li Wenge sighed secretly in his heart, turned his face to look at the generals, Liang Xuanlingpu and the others had no different colors on their faces, obviously quite according to what Qin Haoran said.

He turned his head to look at the fine seal Minda: "What do you think?" ”

The fine seal didn't look at the wooden map: "If I want to fight, I would rather choose the western front, only use a cavalry regiment out of the Bird Mouse Valley as the vanguard, open up the direction of Jinzhou, as long as I defeat that Wang Wandang, I can use the cavalry to make a big detour, copy Jiangzhou and Zezhou, threaten the back road of the Zhaoyi army, and force Li Yun to abandon the party, as long as the action is fast enough, in two months, the north of the river can be ......settled."

Qin Haoran smiled bitterly: "The Han army does not have a cavalry as strong as us, and the Wang Inspection Department is also a capable army, and it is not easy to break it with one blow!" ”

The fine seal pursed his lips: "That is also stronger than sticking to Luzhou, the eastern front seems to have a favorable geographical advantage, but we must always be on guard against the western front of the royal department threatening the flank, the danger of going to the party, it is a poison that drags down morale, and the victory can not be won by a state, once defeated, how to gather the system in the vast mountainous area?" The rout is scattered, and the south of Huang Zeguan is all enemy territory, not to mention cleaning up the mess, I am afraid that I will not be able to escape back! ”

Li Wenge smiled, as a traverser, of course he knew that what Xi Feng Minda said was not bad at all, and the embarrassment of the person in Taiyuan City was indeed like this not long after.

He looked at Zhi Yuqing, and Zhi Yuqing shook his head again and again, obviously it was still that point of view, no matter how you looked at it, the possibility of the Northern Han sending troops was not very large.

"Yuen Long, they are all brothers in the army, don't you see outside, talk about it, what do you think?" Li Wenge's eyes looked at Zhao Kuangyin, whose eyes had never left Mutu, and asked in a gentle tone.

Wei Xun and the others were slightly surprised, and then relieved that the rules and systems of the "military **" in the Eighth Route Army were not divided into upper and lower levels, so naturally there was no distinction between relatives and relatives, near and outside.

Only Li Wenge understands that he has not yet been open-minded to that extent, and today he simply wants to weigh the weight of this future Song Taizu.

Zhao Kuangyin hesitated, after all, this is the festival hall of the Eighth Route Army, in the face of these border county officials, it is already generous to be able to sit together and listen, and it is inevitable that he will be a little ignorant when he speaks, although Li Wenge is polite and courteous to himself, it is just for the sake of the emperor, but he can't do without this self-knowledge.

He was about to excuse himself, but Li Wenge waved his hand: "Don't say insincere words, the deliberations in the army must not be false, if you are not careful, you will be tired of the three armies, you will say whatever you want, just don't talk nonsense......"

Zhao Kuangyin's words of resignation were forcibly blocked by Li Wenge, he had to stand up with a wry smile, glanced at Qin Haoran, who was still standing in front of Mutu, and hugged his fists: "This person is up and down, but I don't know how the troops on the northern front will be mobilized once the troops are started?" ”

As soon as the words came out, everyone was stunned.

Li Wenge has mixed feelings, Boss Zhao is Boss Zhao after all, although the edge is still in his sleeve at this time, the strategic vision that he has cultivated after following Guo Wei for so many years is real, who said that the Zhao family's country was stolen? Don't have a few brushes, ordinary people steal one to try?

Qin Haoran glanced at Zhao Kuangyin, there was no anger in his eyes, but more surprise and admiration.

He slowly moved the wooden stick to the north of Taiyuan, and said: "According to the deduction, if the Han army wants to go south, it must raise the country's troops, otherwise it will be difficult to gather superior forces on the southern front, so it is definitely not enough to only transfer the Jinyang forbidden army, and the three armies on the northern line must be transferred to the south at least two." There is only one question that I have not yet figured out, in the face of the threat of our army, the Zhe family and the Yang family, how many soldiers will be left on the northern front. This is not only to consider the reality of the Han army, but also to count the strength of the Khitan......"

Zhao Kuangyin nodded: "The general can be said to have no last resort, but if the puppet Han is the whole country to the south, shouldn't he borrow troops from Hulu?" ”

Li Wenge smiled and looked at the reactions of the generals under his command, Ling Pu frowned, Liang Xuan pouted and seemed to disagree, Zhen Yuqing stared at the Hutuo River Valley on the wooden map, his eyes were rolling back and forth, obviously thinking nervously, but the fine seal Minda closed his eyes in his arms, as if he was asleep, Zhou Zhengyu stretched out his cigarette pouch and glanced at the room tiredly, Wei Xun swept around with his vigilant eyes on Zhao Kuangyin, Ye Jun stared at the wooden map blankly, but his face was full of shame.

Li Wenge coughed lightly: "Does Yuen Long think that today's Khitan will send troops to help the Northern Han?" ”

Zhao Kuangyin replied respectfully: "Tai Lieutenant, to be honest, this topic is too big for Kuangyin to answer!" ”

Li Wenge immediately realized that his question was wrong, and when he was rewording, he heard a person in the corner say: "More than ten counties north of Shangdang let the Khitan fight grass valley be allowed to be used, and its benefits are enough to convince the Liao main soldiers!" ”

Zhao Kuangyin turned his head to look, but what he saw was a green-robed official sitting in the corner, among the soldiers in uniform in the room, his civilian official attire with his feet and heads was particularly eye-catching.

"This is the secretary of my Jiedu Mansion, Qinghe Cui Bao, the word goes wrong!" Li Wenge smiled and introduced Zhao Kuangyin.

Cui Bao didn't answer Li Wenge's words, turned to Ye Jun and asked, "The deployment of the Khitan Xijing Mansion's troops, has the result ever been investigated?" ”

Ye Jun got up, and said with a shameful face: "It has been less than three months since the dispatch of detailed scouts to the Khitan side, and the number of soldiers and reports obtained is limited, and the lower officials are ashamed!" ”

Li Wenge waved his hand: "I don't blame you, before the establishment of the Hetao Military and Political Division, no one would have thought that he would deal with Liaolu so quickly, you began to deploy the Khitan military affairs at that time, and the reaction was quite quick and agile, don't blame yourself, no one is an immortal, you just say that you have the situation now." ”

Ye Jundao: "The garrison of Jingdao in western Liaoning is mainly divided into two parts, one is the West Kyoto Deployment Division, the other is the Southwest Recruitment Division, and the jurisdiction of the Southwest Deployment Division is bordered by the Hetao Military and Political Division of our army, and it has jurisdiction over another county in Ningbian Prefecture and Yunnei Prefecture. The West Kyoto Deployment Division is adjacent to the Han Dynasty in the northeast of Hedong, and has jurisdiction over the eight prefectures of Qinshengzhou, Guihua Prefecture, Khan Prefecture, Fengsheng Prefecture, Ulzhou, Yingzhou, Shuozhou, and Wuzhou, a total of 19 counties, and the garrisons include the Wuding Army, the Xiongwu Army, the Qingping Army, the Jinyang Army, the Zhongshun Army, the Zhangguo Army, the Shunyi Army, and the Xuanwei Army, and the specific strength is not yet known......"

Zhao Kuangyin suddenly admired this number one military intelligence leader under Li Wenge: "Being able to say this in a hurry shows that Ye Zhiguo has done enough homework on the Khitan on weekdays!" ”

Ye Jun shook his head with a wry smile and said, "I'm ashamed! ”

Li Wenge said with a smile: "Don't be polite in Yuen Long, say what you want to say, don't twist and pinch, be careful of the old fists of the brothers!" ”

Zhao Kuangyin also smiled, but he felt quite warm in his chest, he took a deep breath and said: "The Liao soldiers are messy, the military system is not even, and there are many tribes forming an army, most of the so-called military numbers are false, but they are just given by the tribes. And the West Kyoto Deployment Division is different, the states under its jurisdiction are mostly the hometown of the Han family, and the south is adjacent to the puppet Han, for the Liao lord to win the Central Plains West Road to send troops to the front line, so there are heavy troops, the backbone of which is the Wuding Army, this army has 10,000 fine cavalry, is the main force of the West Kyoto Deployment Division, the rest of the armies are unequal, are no more than 10,000 people, and the Han and Hu are mixed, the tribes are mixed, although fierce, the combat power is average. According to humble estimates, the total military strength of Xijing Province is not more than 50,000 or 60,000 people, if you go to its old and weak women and children, then the soldiers who can fight are 20,000 or 30,000, among which the most worrying person is the Wuding Army, which is 10,000 iron cavalry, the Khitan Wuding Army is called Yelu Enemy, the Han name Yang Gon, and the Xijing Provincial Government Order, this person is the important minister and general of the Liao Lord's commission to the west of the dictatorship, which should not be ignored. ”

Li Wenge turned his head and looked at Qin Haoran: "How?" If this person led the army south to Jinyang, what is the probability that the Han army will take the opportunity to go south? ”

"Very ——!" Qin Haoran replied without hesitation, "If the Khitan is willing to fight, then the total strength of the Han and Liao forces is nearly 60,000, which is enough to form an overwhelming advantage in any strategic direction, even if it is still not easy to besiege the dangerous and fortified city, but whether it is to encircle the point to send reinforcements, or to outflank it, its strength is more than enough to deal with the front-line garrison of the imperial court, if you do not consider the coordination between the two armies, the prefectures and counties north of the river are in danger!" ”

Li Wenge then asked: "Western Front or Eastern Front?" ”

"It's still the Eastern Front!" Qin Haoran replied affirmatively, "The addition of the Khitan army is not much help to open up the Bird Mouse Valley, but there is no such concern about Luzhou Zezhou, which can be slowly penetrated, the Han army is in front, compressing the Luzhou defenders of the imperial court to the south, and the Khitan infantry can safely follow up, Li Shuai has nothing else to do except to defend the party, the Han army can calmly surround the party and cut off its back road, with the Khitan army in the back to prepare, the strength to send reinforcements is more than enough." ”

"How will the Han army be deployed?" Li Wenge looked at Mutu and asked.

Qin Haoran pointed to Luzhou and said: "If the main purpose of the Han army is to annihilate the military strength of the imperial court, then the main force should be assembled in the south of Shangdang and north of Zezhou, and the tactics should be mainly ambushes!" If the Han army aims to eat Luzhou, then the Khitan cavalry should be invited to go south to shield the south of Shangdang, and they will concentrate the main force to besiege Shangdang. If the main force of the forbidden army of the imperial court cannot cross the river quickly, the north of the river will no longer be owned by the imperial court! ”

A sneer appeared at the corner of Li Wenge's mouth: "If the forbidden army crosses the river and the Han army goes south, where will the battlefield be located?" ”

Qin Haoran put away the wooden stick, leaned over and stretched out his hand to go south along the turbid Zhangshui, past Shangdang, over Changping, and pointed directly at the northernmost point of the river, and resolutely spit out six words: "Provincial grievance valley, Gaoping Pass!" ”