Using the big river as a natural barrier and guarding the river, the key is to have a stronghold on both sides of the river and cut off the river. Even if the Yellow River freezes in winter here in Lanzhou, as long as a small city is built on the opposite bank, it is as solid as gold. The army besieged the city, and the most feared being cut off by the opponent was that the back road would be cut off, and the grain route would be cut off, and no matter how many troops there were, they could only be scattered.

Xu Ping shook his head and said to Sang Yi: "Building a city on the other side of the river is a matter after we have enough troops to occupy Lanzhou, so don't care about it now." Now as long as we hold Yuzhong City and the party comes to attack, we can only station troops on the left side of Lanzhou, and we may be cut off at any time. Moreover, it is the most cost-effective to hold here, with fewer troops used. If we want to defend, we will occupy Yuzhong, and if we want to attack, we will go to occupy Lanzhou City. Now that the communication between Lan and Hui has been cut off, we will go all out to attack Hui State. ”

Zhanhui Prefecture attacked the Western Shoujian Military Division, which was conducive to a quick battle and a quick decision, and approached the core area of the party. Occupy Lanzhou and attack Hexi, then slowly try to weaken the strength of the party little by little. Xu Ping is now quite confident and tends to make a quick decision and quickly destroy the party.

A pair of large binoculars were set up at the head of the city to observe the situation on the other side, Xu Ping stepped forward, but he couldn't see anything clearly in the wind and snow. Raising his head in disappointment, Xu Ping said to Sang Yi: "Taking advantage of the fact that the party has not yet sent a large army to come, you have to send someone to investigate the geography of the surrounding mountains and rivers in detail, every mountain, every river, every ferry, all of them must be well understood, including the Lanzhou area opposite." When the war breaks out, we will have a clear idea of what to do. Fighting a war with thousands of troops and horses does not depend on the fact that the main general dares to fight and rush, but on how to rationally deploy troops. With the help of time and geography, it is the main thing to do to make one person in our army use two or even several people, and several people in the enemy to use one person. ”

Sang Yi promised: "What the marshal said is true. It is like a cow that cooks a cow, according to the principles of heaven and its skills, in order to be at ease. just blindly slashed and killed, and fell behind, and 100,000 soldiers had to be 10,000 soldiers. ”

"Yes, Xiucai, if you say this, you will be enough to take charge of yourself! The snow seems to be getting tighter and tighter, I'm afraid I won't be able to live for a while, let's drink two glasses of wine and enjoy the snow together! ”

The fine snowflakes are getting bigger and bigger, fluttering down, and the surrounding stars are all shrouded in earthy yellow, and the heaven and earth are covered in silver makeup, becoming a world of Qiongyu. The eyes are all white, and you can no longer distinguish the mountains and rivers.

Yuzhong City is newly built, it is purely a barracks, there is no garden, and there is no grand scene, and it looks particularly solemn in the wind and snow.

Zhang Kang instructed the army to prepare wine, lit a stove and put it at the head of the city, cooked a pot of mutton next to it, and invited Xu Ping with Sang Yi. While drinking, admiring the snow, and talking about miscellaneous things.

Watching the snow fall heavier and heavier, Xu Ping drank a glass of wine and said: "I think that more than ten years ago, I was still a rogue boy farming in Baisha Town, and it was also this kind of snowstorm day, and I went with Xiucai to catch two Luodi Jinshi who were doing medicinal silver in the surrounding area. It's really a change in the world, today the two of us are drinking in the city, overlooking the party traitors from afar, and the two who make medicine and silver have become the guests of the Hao thief. ”

"Who would have thought that there is today!" Sang Yi took a glass of wine and slapped it on the table. "The two Jinshi who were Yaoyin at that time have now changed their names, one is Zhang Yuan, and the other is Wu Hao, who is very proud of the party. Hao thieves use soldiers, the state is lacking, it is said that these two people are being reused to collect money for the party. At that time, I knew that there was today, so I slashed two thieves with one sword! ”

Xu Ping said with a smile: "Why bother to kill them, let them collect money for the party, it may not be a bad thing for us." Since the beginning of the war, we have sold fine salt at low prices in Zhulu in Shaanxi, and the party has eliminated the sales of Qingbai salt, and now their life is not easy. What are Zhang Yuan and Wu Hao's ability to conjure money out of thin air? Could it be that you can still give Hao thief pharmaceutical silver? ”

Zhang Kang said: "The party is barren and the people are poor, and they have no green and white salt money, where else can they get money?" The tea and silk silk used by their rich people are all from this dynasty, and there is no place to buy them now, to see how long they can support it! ”

"That's why the thieves want the party members to restore the old customs of Fanqiang, clothes and fur, and hair without crowns, otherwise they won't have to wear clothes! We feel that it is difficult to fight, but in fact, their lives are even harder. Zhang Yuan and Wu Hao can help the thieves make money, what good way can they do? It's nothing more than killing chickens and taking eggs, and the sad days of the party are still ahead! ”

After Xu Ping finished speaking, Zhang Kang nodded again and again: "I heard that Zhang Wu and the others found the two fugitives who fled there in this dynasty, and they were involved in a big case by defrauding loans in the capital, and they want to learn to issue banknotes in this dynasty, and they don't know whether they will succeed or not——"

Xu Ping raised his glass and said with a smile: "Cheng, they must succeed!" As long as paper money is implemented in the party, there will inevitably be chaos in a year or two, and we will sit back and watch its achievements. Come, have a drink together, and wish these people a great career in the party! ”

Sang Yi and Zhang Kang were not familiar with coins and goods, and they didn't understand why Xu Ping said this, but Xu Ping had served as the third envoy for many years, which created the current situation of sufficient national use. Since Xu Ping wishes the party success, it must not be a good thing.

The three of them drank wine, looked at the heavy snow around them, and Xu Ping said: "In fact, if you want to make the Hao thief ruined, it is not necessary to fight and kill him, as long as Linfu, Yan Yan, Qin Feng, and Jingyuan are on the east and west lines, each of them makes a posture, causing the party army to go back and forth several times, and then cut off their financial route, the Hao thief naturally can't support it." It's just that now the four roads are fighting separately and can't be connected as one, so it's difficult to coordinate. Each sent troops, and as soon as the military order was not strict, it was easy for the thieves to break through. ”

Now that it is clear that the party army is not on the western front, Xu Ping's troops pointed to Huizhou, and he also wrote a letter suggesting that Jingyuan Road should go out from the front of the Zhenrong army and make a feint to the area of Tiandu Zhai to see if it can lead the party to reveal its flaws. It's a pity that Xia Zhu strictly ordered Cao Congjing's original soldiers and horses not to cross the front line of the Zhenrong army, for fear that a mistake would affect him, so he had to give up.

Even if you lose your way in the grassland desert, the places where you are now fighting with the party, including the route where the party's domestic army moves, are all half-cultivated and half-pastoral. In this way, he could not grasp the movements of the party's army, and he cowered, and Xu Ping really didn't know how to evaluate his other colleagues. The soldiers and horses of the four roads in Shaanxi combined, the forbidden army alone was almost twice as large as the party, occupying an absolute advantage. But as soon as it comes to sending troops, there are insufficient troops in each direction, and the coordination ability is really rotten to the extreme.

In fact, the Great Song Dynasty did not need to attack Xingqing Mansion, as long as the eastern front gathered troops near Xiazhou, confronted the party, and made an offensive posture, the party had to be saved. At the same time, the Jingyuan Road army went forward again, making a posture of going out of Huluchuan, and the party still had to come over to help. These two places are thousands of miles apart, and the party cannot divide the troops, so once a year, both sides run out, and the party's money and food are exhausted. It's a pity that Xu Ping put it forward, but the Privy Council has no confidence in the strength of his army and does not dare to implement it.

Now the party's western front is empty, Jingyuan Road is not moving forward, Xu Ping's troops are insufficient, and he does not dare to attack the party's hinterland. With 30,000 or 40,000 soldiers and horses to deal with the two military supervision divisions of the party, as well as the nearby army that could be mobilized, Xu Ping was not sure at all, so he could only sit back and watch the opportunity slip away in vain. Now that the Eastern Front is foggy, the Western Front is calm, and there is something really dangerous there.

Zhang Kang was good at wine, drank a few glasses, and the wine came up, loosened his robe, and said in the cold wind blowing: "Fan Jieshuai of Yan Yan Road behaved at a loss, and he couldn't see a rule in his use of soldiers until now, but he was afraid that he would be taken advantage of by Hao thieves." We are thousands of miles away, how can we help them? When the two defeats were eaten, the court naturally understood. At that time, we had enough food and drink, and it was not too late to fight the thieves! When Sichuan and Shu recruit troops back, I will lead the troops myself, and when the time comes, the commander will let me lead the troops to attack Huizhou! ”

"Rest assured, at that time, we will count the army together, and no one will be idle. With 100,000 soldiers in hand, we don't think about him in a head-to-head confrontation with Hao thieves, so we don't have to look forward and backward like this year. ”

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