Luoyang, near the Imperial Palace, has a large compound that is not good-looking. However, outside the compound, there are heavily armed soldiers guarding it, and there is a sign at the intersection outside that reads "Military Restricted Zone", and anyone who wants to get close to it will be persuaded to leave, and if they want to break in, they will only be shot.

This is the Privy Council Military Administration, and it is also the location of the base camp of the Great Jin Army during the war. After the start of the war, all the roads near the General Staff were under martial law, and no one was allowed to approach them except for those who had orders from the emperor and special passes issued by the Military Service Department, otherwise they would be punished for espionage.

In the war room of the Military Administration, there is a huge sand table, which is the landform of the whole country of the Great Jin Dynasty, with small red and blue flags on it, marking the specific situation of the Great Jin army and the northern Hu army. On the walls, too, there are large maps, and busy members of the army will come in at any time to change these markers to show the latest developments.

Sima Shu stood in front of the huge sand table, his mood surging. The 300,000 men of the Great Jin Army and all the equipment and materials have all arrived at the front line, and the battle against the Hu people in the north is about to begin. This will be the fateful battle of the country, which makes the top brass of the empire very nervous.

"Your Majesty, the Privy Council is making General Zu Ti, the two Privy Council Fellows Meng Guan and Li Te, arrive in Yecheng, Chang'an, Hejian and other places, and officially take over the command of the three major theaters of Central Plains, Guanzhong, and Liaodong, and are responsible for commanding all the troops in Yongzhou, Sizhou, and Jizhou. The Governor of the Northwest and the Assassin of Liangzhou, Zhang Liang, also arrived in Guzang and was fully responsible for all military operations in the Northwest Theater! Junglang General Tao Kan also arrived on the Samhan Peninsula yesterday. Full responsibility for operations in the Liaodong Theater of Operations. Zhang Bin, the secretary of the Ministry of War, said to Sima Shu. In addition to serving as the first assistant to the cabinet, Zhang Bin also served as the secretary of the Ministry of War, and was responsible for the logistics deployment of the army during this war, and fully supported the front-line operations.

Sima Shu nodded, and then asked, "When will the attack start?" ”

"The weather has been very nice these days. The snow in the Liaodong region has melted, the road surface has dried out, and it will no longer affect the attack! The specific time of attack is a week later in the morning. After an hour of artillery preparation, the infantry and cavalry will attack! Zhang Bin replied. A week later. On March 15 of the fifth year of Hongwu, the Great Jin Xiang Army was the time to launch an attack.

"How are the Hu people preparing everywhere?" Sima Shu asked.

Although he knew that the Hu people were brave and good at fighting at this time, coupled with the large number of people, he wanted to fight against the elite Jin army equipped with firearms. It's still a little insufficient. For the empire to be able to rise. Since the reign of Sima Shu. The investment in the military is very large. The economic strength and industrial strength of the Great Jin Dynasty have far surpassed those of other countries in the world today. So, if nothing else is happening, this battle is not unexpected. Before the war even began, the outcome was already decided.

"Your Majesty, the Huns are constantly strengthening their forces in the Taihang Mountain area. At present, there are more than 200,000 Hun cavalry gathered in the southern counties of Bingzhou. And this number continues to increase. According to the information we have received, the Huns' ally, Tuoba South, is still sending a steady stream of reinforcements from the Hetao region. It's just that the Xianbei people, who have just experienced civil strife, have a worrying combat capability! Zhang Bin replied.

"That's good! If there is no accident, the box army will attack on time. We can't be passive defense, we have to keep the enemy out of the country! Spread the flames of war to the land of another country, not the land of the Empire! Sima Shu said.

Although, there will be a great advantage in local combat, but this is also a sign of weakness and helplessness. The war is fought on its own soil, and only the people of their own country are injured.

In the eight-year War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in later generations, didn't the Chinese people also pay a huge price? There is no way to force it, the disparity in national strength is too great, and only that method can be adopted, otherwise who wants to fight on the mainland.

"Yes, Your Majesty!" Zhang Bin replied. The cabinet very much agrees with Sima Shu's idea of overseas operations. They had all experienced the Rebellion of the Eight Kings and knew the destructiveness of war, knowing that it took the imperial court five years to gradually heal the damage caused by the war to civilians.

In order to ensure the victory of this war, the three senior leaders of the Privy Council, Zu Ti, Meng Guan, and Li Te, went to Yecheng, Chang'an, and Hejian respectively to sit in town, so that they could understand the dynamics of the front line in time and make corresponding responses. For the Imperial Army, this battle can only be won, not lost. Now, the armies have completed their preparations, and the Huns have almost completed their final combat readiness.

Yecheng, a compound provided by the Jizhou Governor's Office, has been guarded by elite soldiers. Now, it has become the headquarters of the Central Plains Theater. The Privy Council envoy Zu Ti personally sat here to direct the battle of all the Xiang troops and government soldiers in Sizhou.

Zu Ti stood in front of the large map, and the comparison of the strength of the enemy and the enemy, as well as the possible changes on the battlefield, were all in his mind, as if he was in rehearsal.

"Record the order!" Zu Ti said suddenly.

"Yes, General!" The officers who joined the army who followed Zu Ti immediately took out paper and pen.

"Order the front-line units, and the battle will start in a week! Gou Xi led 30,000 Xiang troops from Pingyang County to the north along the Fenshui River to attack the Xihe State of Bingzhou, and the other two routes were flanked by Commander Xu Chao from the west and south to attack the main force of the Shangdang Hu cavalry. The artillery supported the battles of the various units, and the cavalry of the Xiang Army was responsible for the long-distance attack on Wuxiang to cut off the connection between the Shangdang Hu people and Jinyang. ”

The main task of the Central Plains Theater is to block the southward movement of the Hu people in the north, to gain time for the Guanzhong troops to cut off the way for the Hu people to flee north, and once the Guanzhong Jin army occupies Yanmen, it will quickly go south and cooperate with the Central Plains troops to annihilate the Hu people in Bingzhou in one fell swoop.

"Tell the ministries that after the battle starts, it is necessary to block the Hu people in the territory of Bingzhou, and never allow a single Hu person to cross the Taihang Mountain into the territory of Sizhou. After recovering Xihe and Shangdang, the main force of the army quickly moved towards Jinyang, striving to compress the Hu people around Jinyang and then annihilate them in one fell swoop. Zu Ti said solemnly.

The officers recorded all the orders, and as soon as they were sure that there were no other orders, they communicated the orders to the three major attack groups at the front. The atmosphere in the command was a little tense, and everyone knew that the big war was about to begin.

At the same time, in the headquarters of Chang'an, Li Teh was also doing the same thing, issuing combat orders to the army in the Guanzhong Theater.

"A week later, first of all, artillery preparations began. An hour later, the infantry attacked, trying to tear through the Huns' defenses in the shortest possible time. Zhang Fang commanded an army of 30,000 cavalry, responsible for breaking through the Xiongnu defense line and attacking Yanmen. The other 50,000 infantry cavalry troops immediately marched to the front line of the Great Wall, responsible for blocking the reinforcements of the northern Tuoba tribe from the south. I hope that everyone will cooperate sincerely, and we must completely annihilate the 350,000 Hu cavalry troops in the state! Leeter ordered.

At present, 350,000 troops have been gathered in Bingzhou, of which 150,000 are deployed on the front line of Shangdang and Changshan, and the other 100,000 are in the hinterland of Jinyang to guard the safety of Jinyang. Another 50,000 were on the front line of Yanmen, and since the alliance with the Tuoba tribe, the Hu people of Bingzhou have reduced their garrison in Yanmen. At the same time, the Tuoba tribe was sending a large number of troops to Bingzhou to prepare to support the Huns in the war.

The second battlefield is the Northwest Battlefield. The newly formed Northwest Governor's Office, which was reorganized by the troops in the Liangzhou area, commanded 100,000 troops of the Hu-Han coalition army, and was ready to do so. Once the war began, they would cross the border and attack the Xianbei people entrenched in the Hexi Corridor area.

Hexi Xianbei's troops were not many, and it was foreseeable that they would not be able to resist the attack of the Great Jin army at all. However, because Hexi Xianbei is backed by the desert, there is a lot of room for maneuver, and they can completely flee north to the depths of the desert when they see that the situation is not good, which shows that the northwest battlefield is also not easy to fight. Unlike the Huns in Bingzhou, they can only wait for death in Bingzhou, once they are surrounded by the Great Jin army, what awaits them is only the end of the dead and the annihilation.

The last battlefield is the Northeast Battlefield, with Meng Guan in charge of the command of Hejian State. However, due to the particularity of this battlefield, Meng Guan was actually only responsible for commanding the 100,000-strong army to attack from Changshan County to the eastern part of the state, and he would also assume the defense of the northern side of Jizhou. However, due to the existence of Murong Diao, the pressure on the northern defense line is not great.

Once a breakthrough is made in the war of Merging Prefectures, Meng Guan will turn his horse's head and go north to attack the counties in the northwest of Youzhou, which are all under the control of Yuwen Xianbei, and their task is to completely drive these Yuwen Xianbei out of the territory of the Great Jin.

The northeastern battlefield on the peninsula direction will be commanded by the Zhonglang general Tao Kan, who will be responsible for uniting Murong Xianbei through the Goguryeo Kingdom. In addition, tens of thousands of naval officers and soldiers participated in the landing operation, and the landing site chosen by the navy was on the Liaodong Peninsula, and then under the support of the Murong tribe, the Duan clan Xianbei in Pingzhou was attacked.

With the deployment of troops from both sides, the clouds of war in the northern region are getting thicker and thicker. Both sides have deployed a large number of troops on the border, and anyone with a discerning eye knows that war is about to break out.

In terms of the Hu people, Liu Yuan, the emperor of the Xiongnu Han Kingdom, Duan Wumuchen, the leader of the Xianbei clan of the Duan clan, Yuwen Mogui, the leader of Yuwen Xianbei, the leader of the Xianbei of Hexi, and the leader of Tuoba Liuxiu in the south of Tuoba raised a total of 600,000 Hu people, preparing to compete with the Great Jin.

In this war, the most important battlefield is the battlefield of merging states. After all, the strength of the Huns accounted for more than the average of the Hu coalition army, and the main battlefield was on his territory, no matter what, as long as the Huns could be completely eliminated, even if the Great Jin won more than half of this war, the rest of the people would not have to worry.

In order to resist the attack of the Great Jin, Liu Yuan appointed his son Liu Cong to be in charge of the Shangdang front, another son Liu Yao to be in charge of the Xihe front, the eldest son Liu He to be in charge of the defense of Yanmen, and his general Shi Le to be in charge of the Changshan front. (To be continued......)