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Lee Min Ho wears armor and sits on horseback with a straight waist, and if it weren't for the few gray whiskers under his chin, people would not believe that he is a 53-year-old veteran.

He is a native of Busan, and before he was an adult, he encountered the Imjin War, and his family fled north in a hurry; When Li Hui, the king of Guanghai, informed King Qin, Li Minho, who was 17 years old at the time, joined Rong and became a member of King Qin's righteous army; From the twentieth year of Wanli all the way to the twenty-sixth year of Wanli, he was also promoted from an ordinary pawn to the left guard rate of the prince Yiwei; After Guanghaijun ascended the throne, he was promoted to the general of the Janissary Battalion from the second rank because of his merits; After the palace coup d'état was staged by Lee Ho, Lee Min Ho, a confidant of Gwanghae-kun, was naturally purged and exiled to Jeju Island that year.

Lee Min Ho rose step by step in the battle with the Japanese army, and if you talk about actual combat experience, none of the many exiled generals on Jeju Island can catch up with him, so Chu Fan has been taking him with him this time to survey the battlefield.

After Li and Yang talked with Chu Fan that day, the military discussion lasted for two more days, and finally determined the general policy of "repairing the Yuan Palace, rescuing the Han slaves, expanding the Liao army, and making every effort to prepare for war"; After that, Chu Fan issued a series of orders, including assigning Chen Shangren to be fully responsible for the restoration of the Yuan Palace, assigning Song Xiance to transfer veterans of the Liao Army to be responsible for the reorganization and training of the Shan*dong group of bandits, assigning Zhu Liangchen to be responsible for the rescue of the Han Nu with the regimental training camp as the main mountain*east group of bandits, assigning Li Guozhu to Guangludao to negotiate iron ore mining matters, and assigning Yang Tiansheng to be responsible for recruiting new soldiers, etc., the entire Ushido Island and even most of Jeju Island suddenly became busy like a disturbed ant nest.

After the military discussion, Chu Fan did not sit idle, but took Liu Zhongwen and Li Minho to start exploring the terrain under the protection of a company of the cavalry battalion to prepare for the big battle in a few months.

They set out from Susan Mansion and traveled through the mountains and rivers of central and eastern Jeju Island in a few days. Finally, today we arrived at Jeju Fortress in the north.

At this moment, Chu Fan and Liu Zhongwen, one red and one white, stood on an unknown hill in the southeast of Jeju City, and the cavalry guard at the foot of the mountain was spread far away for more than a mile, causing cannons to be fired from time to time on the city, and bursts of green smoke rose up, and they were immediately blown away by the howling north wind.

Jeju Fortress is slightly smaller than Wongaung Palace. A square is a standard square; About 3 miles northeast of the North Gate is the wharf of Jeju City. About 2 miles east of the wharf, a small river called Hebeichuan flows into the sea from south to north.

"General Li, if you are Izumi Zhinan, how will you arrange it after landing?" After Chu Fan stared at Jeju City for a while, he turned his head and asked Li Minho behind him - he was still quite polite to these rogue officials.

"Thanks to Gongzi's question, Min Ho should know everything," Lee Min Ho held his horse whip and pointed to Hebei Chuandao, "If I command the army." When a large village is built on the west bank of this river, as the foundation," he pointed to the road under his feet, "and form a small village in this place, and the cavalry will be stationed here, so that the two villages and one city will become horns, which can be attacked and defended, and advance and retreat freely!" ”

Chu Fan looked at it following his instructions, thinking in his heart how to attack such a defensive system - it was obviously not advisable to attack from the east. The water surface of Hebei River is very wide, and it is never advisable to cross the river in front of the enemy; And to attack from the west, you must first go around a big circle, not to mention. What is more important to face is the high walls of Jeju City, and the cavalry in the small village can easily cut off the supply line of the Fuliao army, and this direction is obviously impossible; In the end, the only way to attack was from the south.

Attacking from the south meant that the Liao army would first have to camp at the northern foot of the eastern hill of Halla through the mountain road that Kim Yongtai had walked through, and then attack Xiaozhai through the undulating hills. It is likely that the final battle will be fought to the south of this hill bag.

"Your army is small and strong, the rebels are large and weak, and the terrain here is so complicated that if you make a slight mistake, you will be overthrown. Therefore, it is definitely not a good strategy to take the initiative to attack," Li Minho seemed to understand Chu Fan's thoughts, and opened his mouth to persuade, "In my humble opinion, it is better to sit in the Yuanxing Palace and lead Quan Zhi south to the south, and then set up an ambush on the way...... It's just Quan Zhinan, I've heard of his name for a long time, and he is the most cautious and calm in using soldiers, and it may not be easy to ambush him...... However, even if the ambush fails, your army can still confront the rebels with a fortified city...... At that time, the rebel army had more than 100 miles of grain routes, and even if Quan Zhinan was cautious, it was difficult to cover it thoroughly, so that our regimental training camp could wait for the opportunity to move and choose its weak point to attack it...... As soon as the grain road is cut off, the rebels are in chaos, and your army can go out of the Yuan Palace to cover it...... The defeat is complete, your army is chasing the north, and Jeju City can be defeated in one go! ”

After all, he is a veteran of a hundred battles, this plan seems to be unremarkable, but it is precisely the right way to use troops, coupled with Li Minho's calm and cautious comments on Quan Zhinan and the intelligence brought back by Ling Ming, which finally gave Chu Fan a general idea of the future battle - he has given up the initiative to attack the idea of fighting the other party with an unstable foothold, and instead tends to fight the Korean army under the Wonhang Palace Castle.

After some exploration, the group followed the most likely route of Quanzhinan's march towards the Yuanxing Palace—but instead of taking the mountain road at the eastern foot of Halla Mountain, they headed east from Hebeichuan, along the parallel line of the coast to a small village called Xiandri, and then turned south, and finally arrived at the foot of the Yuelang Peak, which was six miles north of the west of the Yuanxing Palace.

As soon as he walked here, Lee Min Ho nodded again and again and exclaimed, "The geography here is excellent, if I am Quan Zhinan, I must choose this place as the location of the camp!" ”

The ability of this army to set up camp, not to mention Chu Fan, even Liu Zhongwen, who is familiar with military books, only has a vague concept, and now when they heard Li Minho say this, the two took the opportunity to ask for advice.

Lee Min Ho didn't hide his secrets, and explained in detail why he chose to camp here, so that the two of them suddenly realized.

Originally, to the north of this place was a moonlit peak full of pines and cypresses, which could not only provide camp wood and firewood, but also serve as a barrier to the north; At the foot of the mountain, there is a small lake, which not only solves the problem of drinking water for the army, but also makes it impossible for the Fuliao army to sneak attack from the west; Although the south side looked like a flat river, there was a deep ditch that was intermittently hidden, hidden in the sparse bushes, which posed a great threat to the cavalry galloping across the country, and only a few patrols were placed to be well guarded; Only to the east is the endless prairie, which extends to the west gate of the Yuanxing Palace, which is the perfect place for a decisive battle.

After listening to Li Minho's introduction, Chu Fan was still not at ease, and ran back and forth a few times with the veteran within a radius of more than ten miles, until finally Li Minho repeatedly said that "if Quan Zhinan doesn't come, he will choose to camp here" before giving up.

Only then did Chu Fan be satisfied and led everyone towards the Shuishan Mansion, and when he entered the door, he was full of smiles, and a bold and surprising plan in his heart had gradually taken shape.

[It's about to be 515, I hope to continue to hit the 515 red envelope list, and the red envelope rain will be able to give back to readers and promotional works on May 15. A piece is also love, and it must be better! (To be continued.) )