The time of four days passed quickly, due to the proper training in peacetime, the army was quickly assembled within four days, and according to the deployment of troops from the military department and the general staff, the East Route Army quickly assembled in the area of Hejian and Zhending, and the West Route Army quickly assembled in the area of Wuyuan County and Jiuyuan County, and Hua Wolf and Ghost Cavalry had already set off on the day the order was issued, and went to Jin and Liao respectively to carry out military reconnaissance and sabotage missions for the war

Whether it is the ancient art of war, or modern warfare, winning time is equal to winning the war, the construction of the cement avenue, so that the march speed of the east and west roads has become extremely fast, whether it is the army, or the grain and grass materials, on the cement avenue rain or shine fast forward, there is no need to worry about the muddy road and affect the march

Now it seems that my decision to order the construction of the cement avenue was so wise and powerful that it made me laugh coquettishly

This time, I didn't go on a personal expedition, but I'm not sure if I would suddenly intervene when the war came to an end, not because I didn't trust the supreme commander at the front, but because my hands were itching

"Your Majesty, the eastern and western armies, as well as the accompanying Hua wolf and ghost horsemen, sent an eight-hundred-mile urgent military report at the same time." After the briefing, Zhou Tong, the secretary of the military department, hurriedly came to the imperial study and said to me

"Oh? Take it to me quickly. I excitedly took the military newspaper in Zhou Dong's hand

The more I looked at the military report in my hand, the more confused I became, and then I said to Zhou Tong: "The army has just set off for three days, and I can't imagine that the forward troops of our Eastern Route Army have already had such a fierce battle with the enemy. What I don't understand is why there is no battle situation in the military report of the Western Route Army, the seed master said that its forward troops have entered the Baidafan grassland of the Liao State, except for a few old and young women and children who have killed them, the rest are all traces of ghost horse slaughter and burning, can it be said that the Liao State has given up a large part of the western territory? ”

Zhou Tong was also puzzled by what I said: "Long live Hui, the minister also wonders, even if the Liao State and the Jin State have gone through a war for nearly five years, it stands to reason that the Liao State will not abandon a large area of territory in the west." ”

"Tell him to send a thousand ghost shadow light cavalry to the west to Jinshan to reconnoitre, if the Liao State really gives up those territories, I will immediately order the Ministry of Industry to send people there to build a cement fortress, I want to fill the entire grassland with nails, no matter who it is in the future, I will not want to steal the grassland from the hands of my Great Song Dynasty."

"The old minister obeys."

"While ordering the master to breed the Tao, he also asked him to pay attention to those nomads in the north of the Liao Kingdom, such as the barbarians, the Kereh, and the Wang ancient people living on the Baidafan grassland, they should also be extra careful."

"Yes, Your Majesty, the old minister has written it down." …… Cutting saws......

Zhending Mansion, the camp of the marshal of the East Route Army, and Lu Junyi, the marshal of the East Route Army, are surrounding the sand table with the generals of the army, analyzing the battle situation, because the war came suddenly, the military reform has not yet been formalized, so all the modes of the war still retain the original appearance

Lu Junyi's big hand was on the sand table, and he said to the generals: "Based on the information that has been reconnoitred by Hua Wolf and passed on, we know that a total of 150,000 troops of the Jinliao Coalition Army have been gathered in the sixteen states of Yanyun, and they are mainly concentrated in the four cities of Yingzhou, Ulzhou, Yizhou and Zhuozhou, while Yingzhou and Mozhou, under the leadership of Shi Wengong's general, are now in our hands, while the four cities of Yingzhou, Ulzhou, Yizhou and Zhuozhou are just above the main road of our advance, like a fish in the throat. However, according to the military report of the marshal of the Western Route Army, a large part of the western grasslands of the Liao State has almost been abandoned by it, so the combined forces of the Jin State and the Liao State should be desperate and decide to fight a decisive battle with us as soon as possible. ”

After Lu Junyi finished speaking, Wu Yong followed Lu Junyi's words and said to him: "Marshal, through the results of the analysis, the rear of the two countries of Jin and Liao will inevitably be empty, we might as well order to launch an attack and disturb the war, turn the rear of the entire Jin country upside down, and by the way, investigate the movements of the emperor of the Jin country, if we can assassinate the emperor of the Jin country with one sentence, then the entire Jin country will not attack and collapse." ”

"Where is Shi Wengong's vanguard now?" Lu Junyi asked

"Back to the marshal, the deputy marshal's current vanguard army is currently confronting the enemy army outside Zhuozhou City." Said one of the generals who accompanied the army

"Immediately order Deputy Marshal Shi Wengong to launch an artillery bombardment on Zhuozhou, to create a false impression for the enemy that the main force of our army is pressing the border, and then after General Shi begins to attack, we will carry out a full-scale attack, so that the enemy can't figure out which side is the chaos of our main force, but only with Vice Marshal Shi's 30,000 people, it will definitely not be able to meet the enemy head-on, so sooner or later the enemy will notice our real movements, tell Shi Wengong, let him improvise, be sure to disturb the enemy's thinking, And our side must hold back the 150,000 people of the Jinliao coalition army, and when the Western Route Army joins us, we can wipe out the last combat strength of the Jinliao and Liao countries in one fell swoop. Do you all understand? ”

"The last will obey."

"The generals listened to the order, the soldiers were divided into four roads, the first road Dong Ping, the commander of your elite light cavalry 10,000, cavalry artillery 200, mortars 1,000, with you set off overnight, out of the Great Wall of Daizhou, the front of the soldiers pointed directly at Shuozhou, Huanzhou. Shuozhou, Huanzhou garrison force is only 5,000 people, this commander ordered you to continue to bombard these two cities, to buy time for the army. ”

"The last will obey."

"The second road of 30,000 foot cavalry is led by Situ Jianghai and directly attacks Ulzhou, the third route is personally commanded by the commander himself, attacking Yizhou with the largest number of troops, and the fourth road is Shi Wengong's vanguard army, attacking Zhuozhou, breakfast at three o'clock tomorrow morning, pulling out the camp at one o'clock at a certain time, and before sunset tomorrow, the armies will arrive at the designated battlefield."

"The last will obey."