In general, Shanshan City is now dilapidated, the Yue people and the Han Dynasty have competed in Luntai twice, and Shanshan City has also been broken four or five times, if it weren't for the fact that both sides have sent their temperament, chasing back and forth, and both sides need Shanshan City to be a logistics base, and there is no such thing as slaughtering Shanshan City, otherwise it is still a problem whether there are people living here now!

The streets of Shanshan City are full of soldiers, and most of the shops on the street are closed, and occasionally a few people come and go, and they all hurry by with their heads down, not daring to stay. Shanshan City is already a veritable military city.

However, in response to that sentence, the most dangerous place is the safest. Shanshan City is the only place between Moshan and Wusu that can be used for the army to rest, whether it is the Yue clan or the Han Dynasty, they are reluctant to destroy it, and Shanshan City itself does not have the conditions to hold on, and the important places are in Luntai City, which also ensures that no matter who is in charge here, the people who live here will be treated well.

When I arrived in Nancheng, the baggage of the Han army was arranged here. This neighborhood is quite prosperous, and a small market with a scale of several thousand people has been formed, and the business is done by the local residents of Shanshan City. Again, there is a special model in a special place. Although Shanshan City has been through several wars, its special location has ensured its own safety and sound, and the people here have come out to do some small business for the soldiers in order to earn some property to survive.

Of course, this deformed prosperity also has the credit of allowing merchants to participate in the transportation of the Han army's baggage.

From the time of the Holy Ancestors, merchants were allowed to participate in every operation of the Han army, and while ensuring the accurate delivery of military supplies, these merchants were also allowed to participate in the trade, which included slaves, seizures, and ...... A great deal of light and dark wealth circulates here. In this way, the merchants transported logistical supplies, saving the Han army's military expenditure. It also creates profits for businessmen, killing two birds with one stone.

Of course, in addition to these, the Holy Ancestor, a traverser, also invented a variety of ways to accumulate wealth such as national debts and war debts, and handed them over to merchants to operate, so as to quickly accumulate social wealth and provide funds for the war. I won't go into detail here.

The only thing worth saying is that this model is also applicable to the Western Xinjiang Front, such as the Northern Xinjiang Front, which needs to go deep alone, and the Northern Xinjiang itself has no wealth to speak of. The motivation of businessmen is not so high.

And this time, it is not only the Yan family that participates in the delivery of logistics materials. Yan Zhun is the president of the Han Chamber of Commerce, and after Shen Yun's operation, he has kept the lifeblood of the Yan family, and the Yan family has to independently undertake the logistics supply of the entire counterinsurgency army. Correspondingly, the oil and water in the logistics supply were naturally given to the Yan family.

The Yan family is not stupid. Such a huge supply of supplies. The resources and manpower required are amazing, and while obtaining such a large amount of oil and water, the pressure on the Yan family is also extremely huge. It is the instinct of businessmen to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages and pass on the crisis. After preparing a large amount of military supplies at the beginning and providing them to the military for free, the Yan family cooperated with other big businesses in the follow-up. Everyone earns money, and this pressure is naturally borne by everyone.

From the end of 1001 to August this year, the Yan family actually earned back all the money they had paid before.

So the overall math is down. Not only was the Yan family not crushed by the huge debts, but if this battle lasted for another two or three years, the Yan family would still be able to make some hard-earned money. If it works properly, making a lot of money doesn't seem like a dream either.

In view of this, the Yan family paid special attention to the logistics and transportation support of the Western Xinjiang Front, and specially sent their only son out to escort them. The importance of this is evident.

Yan Ruyu arrived at the edge of the southern city, and a huge camp that stretched for several miles covered the inside and outside of the southern city, which was the baggage camp, with a total of six camp gates, and the military regulations in the camp gate were strict, and there were soldiers patrolling from time to time. Outside the camp gate, however, there were many people peddling goods. There are locals and foreign merchants.

Of course, for safety reasons, business can only be done at noon, and there is still a curfew in the whole city in the evening. At the same time, the place of business must not be too close to the camp gate, and must be outside the land of three arrows.

This is Shanshan City, and there are houses around the camp, but many of them have been temporarily requisitioned or even demolished, leaving a large area of open space as a buffer area. And on the edge of the buffer zone, the dilapidated houses are the most lively. The obscene voices that come from time to time inside clearly express that these places are commonly known as secret prostitutes and half-hidden doors.

Yan Ruyu has a secret guard waist card, and even more military identification, I was going to walk into the camp to look for the Yan family Chamber of Commerce, but I didn't expect that when I just walked outside a shack covered by a dirty blue cloth curtain, I was suddenly hit by a man who came out of it.

"Where did the beggar woman come from so unsightly that she dared to bump into your Uncle Yan?!" The man who bumped into Yan Ruyu stumbled, but he screamed back.

Yan Ruyu was stunned, looked up, but saw that this man who had obviously just come out of the secret prostitution den and had vain steps was the brother Yan Cheng he was looking for.

Yan Ruyu wore makeup, otherwise how could she travel thousands of miles to send information here from such a delicate girl's family?

Yan Cheng really didn't see that the sloppy and goosebumpy "beggar woman" in front of him could actually be his beloved sister, until the "beggar woman" stretched out her hand, accurately grabbed his ear, and scolded in a familiar voice: "Uncle Yan? Uncle Yan? There's a kind of you call the old lady here to try! ”

In the Yan family, although Yan Ruyu is one year younger than Yan Cheng, but because the girls are more precocious, and Yan Cheng and Yan Ruyu have grown up together in Qingzhou since childhood, Yan Ruyu has always been Yan Ruyu with this "little brother", so Yan Cheng loves his sister, but also is quite in awe of her. Since he was a child, he has not been reprimanded by Yan Ruyu.

As soon as Yan Ruyu spoke, Yan Cheng's eyes widened, as if looking at this "beggar woman" in disbelief, Yan Ruyu's eyes widened, and she glared at her brother viciously, and her heart was secretly refreshing: Look at you, you still dare to murder me, don't hurry up and apologize to me!

Unexpectedly, after waiting for a long time, Yan Cheng suddenly hugged Yan Ruyu and cried, crying and howling: "My poor sister, which king and eight lambs sold you here?" actually ruined my sister into a seventy or eighty-year-old wife, my poor sister, you are only eighteen years old, which son of a son is so ruthless...... Don't let me find him. If I find him, I have to chop it up and feed it to the dogs...... Ah, my sister! ”

When Yan Ruyu heard this, she couldn't help but pat herself on the head: Alas, I forgot that my little brother is a master with a brain that does not turn......

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When Yan Ruyu explained to Yan Cheng with a stinky face, dozens of people also came in Yigong's tent.

"Your Highness, all the two hundred and thirty-seven members of the staff have arrived, please give instructions to Your Highness." Led by an officer with the rank of major, he saluted cross-ribly.

Compared with Hu Gong's direct staff department, which only has dozens of people and four squads, Yigong's direct staff team is quite impressive. There were two hundred and thirty-seven staff officers, of whom twelve were major staff officers. There are only two life counselors. The more than 200 people belong to ten squads, each of which is responsible for different tasks.

For Yigong, this is still the time when the number of people in his staff is smaller. When there was no war in Beihai Prefecture, Yigong's staff headquarters was more than 500 people! As for where these people are going now, hehe. Just look at Yigong's overall control over the Western Xinjiang Front - they were all sent to the troops of various divisions, towns, brigades and regiments as operational staff officers, which is also the reason why Yigong commanded the army smoothly.

Of course. The staff status of these people is temporary. Once the war is over, it is necessary to withdraw to prevent the army from becoming a private army. Even if these people want to stay in the place, they must no longer have anything to do with Yigong, otherwise the threat to the imperial power will start from this situation, and other officers have the right to play.

Seeing that everyone had arrived, Yigong nodded. Standing in front of the map unfolded by the guards, he pointed to the markers on the map and said: "Ben Shuai has received the latest information, there are 150,000 Yue rebels in front of him, and it is the Ili Legion of the Yue Clan rebels who are facing my Han across the Dylan River. 35,000 people, fully staffed. Facing our army across the Tarim River is the Donor Legion, which is in its early 30,000s and has a complete establishment. Later, the information of their commanders and commanders at all levels and town commanders will be sent to you, and you will carefully study them, and then each of them will submit a battle plan. Be quick, Ben Shuai must see the battle plan in two hours! Got it? ”

"Whoa." All the staff officers saluted in unison.

After taking the information, the staff officers hurriedly returned to their positions to participate in the study. But one of them walked up to Yigong and said in a low voice, "Your Highness, isn't the previous plan executed?" ”

The person who approached was called Wu Chuan, and the word Sizhou. And the state people. It's an old subordinate of Yigong. He had proposed a combat plan to Yigong before, and the plan was well designed, and Yigong decided to adopt it at that time. But now suddenly saying that he wants to redo the plan is a bit difficult for Wu Chuan, who has been seeking the position of the first staff officer under Yigong, to accept.

Yigong glanced at Wu Chuan, and he still admired this Wu Chuan in his heart, but he was a little young man's impatience, and it would not be an exaggeration to say that he was eager for quick success. The previous plan would have been best if there had been no news from the Dark Guard. But now......

Yigong was silent for a moment and said to him: "Sizhou, you can take a look at the information first." ”

Wu Chuan didn't dare to say more, and bowed down.

Back in his small tent, the team had gathered, and they all looked at Wu Chuan with blank eyes, hoping that he would give an answer. The previous plan was the result of the collective hard work of their team, and now they will cancel it, and everyone wants an explanation.

Wu Chuan was also quite helpless, handed over the information to a captain, and said, "Don't look at me like that, Your Highness, let's take a look at the information first." ”

After reading the information, the captain suddenly gasped and said, "Sizhou, fortunately, Your Highness did not adopt our plan, you see, the one north of the Tarim River near the Che Division is actually the first-class legion of the Yue Clan's rebels." If you follow your plan of attacking with Violent Bear, I'm afraid it will be dangerous! ”

Wu Chuan hurriedly took a look, and was immediately taken aback, walked quickly to the map, and carefully studied it. After a while, he said: "This gap in strength is more than twice as much as what the scouts gave!" ”

Everyone was silent.

In fact, don't look at the holy decree given by the emperor before, which was that Yigong "controlled the armies of the five states of Gansu, Su, Yong, Liang, and Ning, and all the regiments of A, B, and C were all subject to dispatch", on paper, there were 1.6 million horses, but like the Northern Xinjiang Front, the regiments that could really be deployed to the battlefield could be counted on their fingers.

Among the nine guards of Yulin, the Flying Cavalry Guard and the Liewu Guard were transferred to the battlefield in the northern frontier, and the trapping guard and the Flying Eagle Guard were sent to the western frontier. Later, the northern frontier was tight, and the Flying Eagle Guard was sent over, so now there is only one first-class legion on Yigong's side, that is, the trap guard of pure infantry.

On the side of the second-class corps, the three disabled corps of the former Gansu and Su prefectures also joined the Western Frontier Front. The three legions were replenished with the newly recruited soldiers in the spring conscription, and the number of troops was neat, but the combat effectiveness was about to be discounted. In addition, Yongzhou and Ningzhou each sent two second-class corps, of which the second corps in Yongzhou was responsible for logistics support, and only the first corps of Yongzhou and the first and second corps of Ningzhou were on the front line. And these three legions were sent to Yumen Pass by Yigong because of their combat effectiveness, attacking from Ruoqiang and Jingjue's southern front, and now they have retreated to Yumen Pass, and they have not yet arrived at Shanshan.

Other words. The army that can be mobilized now under the command of Yigong is actually a first-class army trapped in the formation, and three third-class army corps in Gansu and Su prefectures that have been disabled and have just been replenished for less than half a year! It's only 150,000 people, which is the same as the strength of the Yue Clan's rebels!

Of course. There is also the fact that the combat effectiveness of the Han army is generally higher than that of the Yueshi rebels, and the equipment, morale, logistics and other conditions are better than the Yue's considerations. However, in the previous scout's reconnaissance. The strength of the two armies should be 150,000 for the Han army and about 70,000 for the rebels. It is an absolute superiority in the ratio of forces. But now I suddenly received news that the enemy army actually had 150,000 men. Moreover, the intelligence shows that these 150,000 people are fully loaded, and their weapons are no different from the equipment of the regular Han army, and their morale is even stronger - after all, they are the troops of the Yue Clan's puppet king.

This shocked Wu Chuan and the others.

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Two hours passed quickly, and Wu Chuan and the others gathered again in the Yigong tent.

This time, the teams have already agreed on the same opinion. Three main combat plans were submitted. Yigong picked it up and reviewed it carefully, nodding his head as he looked at it. Finally, he put it down and said, "Sizhou, you can tell me about your plan." ”

Wu Chuan's heart was overjoyed, and he immediately walked to the map and said, "Your Highness." Ladies and gentlemen, the plan drawn up by my team is to defend instead of attack. Ladies and gentlemen, please see, Luntai City is stationed at the confluence of the Dylan River and the Tarim River, the Dylan River is only fifty steps, and there are three stone bridges connected to it, and the Tarim River is one hundred and sixty steps apart, and must be based on the Luntai Ferry. This is the support point of our army's fortification. As long as you keep these four points, you can protect Luntai City without loss. On the premise of ensuring that Luntai is not lost, our squad is willing, with the front division of the First Army Corps in Ganzhou as the vanguard, Shanshan crossed the river in advance, arrived at the Cheshi Castle, relying on the wide meadow outside the Cheshi Castle, looking for an opportunity to lead the enemy here, and then take the trap guard as the forerunner to fight the enemy here. ”

After Wu Chuan finished speaking, Yigong asked, "Do you have any objections?" ”

"Your Highness, your subordinates are suspicious."

"Speak!"

Out of the list is Du Wei, a native of Xiangjun, who is also a confidant of Yigong, and the word is drapery. Captain rank. He said: "Everyone knows that the trapped guards are invincible, and the Yue clan is a rebel army of the Han Dynasty, so they must know the prestige of the trapped army. The subordinates judged that the Yue Clan's rebels would definitely not choose to fight a decisive battle with our trap guards on the plains. ”

Yigong glanced at Wu Chuan, who was unhappy, and said, "Weiting, then you can take out your team's plan and talk about it." ”

"Whoa." Du Wei stepped forward and pointed to Luntai City on the map and said: "The subordinate plan is quite similar to Brother Sizhou's, but it is not a defense instead of attack, but a comprehensive defense. ”

As soon as these words came out, the staff officers suddenly had a little bit of discussion. Obviously, they could not understand this phrase. Wu Chuan showed a look of disdain, and said in his heart: What are you kidding, full defense? I am a dignified Han army, am I afraid of the Yue rebels, so I can only defend?

Although many people did not speak, there was no doubt that the expression was scornful.

Du Wei was unmoved, and continued: "The subordinates set up four defensive lines based on Luntai City, which extended to Moshan. Among them, the First Army Corps of Ganzhou, the First Army of Suzhou, and the Second Army of Ganzhou are the main defensive forces. At the same time, the troops of Yongning and Erzhou were immediately ordered to turn back quickly, striving to block Moshan before the enemy broke through the fourth line of defense. And during this time, the trap guards must shrink with all their might, and are not allowed to fight, in order to prepare for the final decisive battle! ”

As soon as Du Wei's voice fell, the staff officers were in an uproar and asked one after another. Of course, the tone is not very good.

Yigong looked at the scene of the crowd and sighed slightly. Looking at Du Wei, who was standing in the crowd, foaming at the mouth of all his comrades, and still looking unchanged, his heart was at ease.

In fact, Fang Cai's plan, Yigong's favorite is Du Wei's plan. Other people's proposals, including those that were not handed in, were not very satisfying. Because their plans are all filled with one thought, and that is to attack! No matter how many so-called whimsical ideas such as roundabout advances are included in this idea, or even the absurd idea of using cavalry to cross the desert and raid Dihua, it cannot hide their inner desire to attack!

And now, what Dahan lacks is an offense?

No, it's not.

After repeatedly considering the information of the secret guard, Yigong felt more and more that there was a hint of conspiracy in it.

Although Yigong didn't know how to guide the ideological trend of the people of Dayue Prefecture, he had a natural acumen in military strategy. Especially after the Northern Frontier Front Army fell into an embarrassment, Yigong had completely faced up to the opponent of the Yue Clan. The puppet king of the Yue clan was able to take the position of a third-grade member in the imperial court, and then forbearance for so many years before breaking out, how could it be easy to be with him? (To be continued......)