In the Pingyu Hall of Weiyang Palace, Prime Minister Yuan Ang and Tainong Ling Cao Luan were standing behind Emperor Jing, looking at the huge sand table in the courtyard with flushed faces. According to the continuous transmission of reports from the front lines in various places, the attendants in the palace constantly moved the war games and flags used to simulate actual combat in the sand table. Seeing that the dark banner representing the Han Dynasty had been planted in the northwest line of Yandi, approaching the Great Wall of Qin, everyone in the hall was happy.

"Your Majesty, General Zhi of Zhengbei has an urgent military situation to submit!" Sun Quan, the eunuch with palm prints, bowed slightly, and presented a secret box sealed with fire paint to Emperor Jing with both hands.

"Oh?" Emperor Jing raised his eyebrows, suppressed the excitement in his heart, glanced at Yuan Ang and Cao Luan, who were full of curiosity, and waved his hand: "No need to shy away, read it quickly!" ”

"No!" Sun Quan bowed down and agreed, took the sharp blade handed by the guard, carefully scraped off the fire paint, opened the secret box, took out a scroll of silk book, and read aloud: "Your Majesty, the Huns have abandoned the city in the clouds, and led their five thousand Hun iron cavalry to break through and flee to Wuyuan. The three county foot soldiers led by the minister have now been stationed in the clouds. The Hu cavalry general Gongsun Xiao led 8,000 Hu cavalry to inspect the Great Wall of Yunwai to the Yellow River day and night. The minister has ordered 50,000 elite soldiers to forcibly seize the Great Wall Pass, the Xiongnu have never been good at defending the city, and most of the Great Wall passes are abandoned. The minister arbitrarily conscripted 100,000 border people out of Yanmen, to the clouds, and rebuilt the pass. The minister is now guilty of sin, and swears to guard the road to the south of the Hun Shan Yuting Department, God bless the Han! God bless my emperor! ”

When Emperor Jing heard this, his sword eyebrows flew, and he laughed loudly: "What is the crime of being in a hurry?!" Quickly issue an edict and encourage the generals of Zhidu, wait for the class teacher, and then reward! ”

"No!" Sun Quan then obeyed his promise and left.

The clever chamberlains hurriedly readjusted the war games on the sand table according to Zhidu's military report. Emperor Jing's eyes were shining, full of excitement. Now east of Yunzhong and west of Youbeiping, the Huns who can fight a war are only the 5,000 iron cavalry sent by Hun Yuxiao to rush to the aid of Yandi, but they are also dragged by the 60,000 foot soldiers of Youbeiping and Shanggu counties. Now Yandi can be described as a flat river, and no one can stop the Han army.

"Your Majesty, now that Hun Yu has led 5,000 Hun iron cavalry to retreat to Wuyuan, if more than 10,000 iron cavalry under the command of the Aries King converge, wouldn't it be a great increase in strength?" Yuan Ang asked cautiously with a look of worry on his face.

Emperor Jing waved his hand and said confidently: "It's okay, I just want them to join forces together." Even if you add the nearly 10,000 iron cavalry stationed in Shuofang by the King of Lou Fu, it is only 25,000 cavalry, and when I am surrounded by several armies, ten times the number of people, why be afraid! ”

Yuan Ang frowned, feeling that Emperor Jing was a little carried away and too blindly optimistic, so he hurriedly persuaded: "The royal court of the Xiongnu Right Xian King is only a few hundred miles away from Shuofang, and nearly 100,000 people under his command can rush to the aid of Shuofang at any time, so I have to guard against it!" ”

"The prime minister is too worried, Taiwei Dou Ying has led a border army of 150,000 half a month ago, along the Longxi Great Wall to the north, and now I want to come to the west of Henan The hundreds of miles of the Great Wall have been occupied by our Han army." As soon as the crown prince Liu Che walked upstairs, he heard Yuan Ang pouring cold water on the emperor's father, and then responded with a smile.

Yuan Ang was stunned when he heard this, his eyes were full of doubts, and he obviously didn't know anything about Dou Ying's dispatch of troops. Liu Che couldn't help but sigh at the caution of the emperor's father, and he didn't even show the slightest tone to the most loyal ministers. The emperor's heart, as deep as the sea, will leave a hand on anyone.

Emperor Jing didn't seem to want to continue the topic, stroked his beard, and smiled: "The emperor has brought me good news?" ”

Liu Che shrugged his shoulders with his surname, and did not shy away from Yuan Ang and Cao Luan, and replied quietly: "Qishan sent a message that the Xiongnu had a famine last winter and looted livestock and grain from the Han people in Henan. Now there are ten rooms and nine empty places in Shuofang, Henan, and the few Han people who are difficult to leave their homeland are also hungry, afraid that they are about to change their children and eat. ”

When Emperor Jing heard this, he frowned, but he didn't pretend to be compassionate. Although Emperor Jing loves the people like a son on the surface, he is a ruthless character who is pragmatic to the point of cold-bloodedness. As early as Emperor Jing and Liu Che planned last year and spread the plague in the steppe, they knew that in order to survive the famine, the Huns would definitely make a move against the Han people in Shuofang, Henan. Even in Emperor Jing's thoughts, the local Han people should have rebelled en masse, causing many riots to occur in Shuofang, Henan. But now it seems that these Han people, who had been ruled by the Huns for decades, have completely lost the courage to fight. Since they no longer have blood surnames, and they have the intention of leaving their homeland, and refuse to flee to Hanjiang to seek refuge, Emperor Jing will not pity them at all.

Liu Che also deeply believes that since the founding of the Han Dynasty, he has always taken more care of the Han people who are willing to return to China, and gave them fertile land and farm tools in the border counties to use to defend the border. Even in later generations, this policy was considered the most generous. Helplessly, Shuofang Land in Henan Province has been an important place for the Qin Dynasty to garrison Tuntian since the beginning of the Qin Dynasty's Mengtian Chen Bing Wuyuan. Most of the local Han people were descendants of the border army of the Qin Dynasty, and they were faintly resistant to the Han who replaced Qin, and most of them were reluctant to return to China. Liu Che has no good impression of this kind of diehards who would rather rely on foreign races than solve the internal contradictions of the nation, and it doesn't matter if he dies.

However, Prime Minister Yuan Ang was surnamed Geng and was loyal, and pleaded with anxiety: "The tiger poison has not yet eaten children, and the people of Henan are now in such a difficult situation, and I hope that Your Majesty will be generous and help the people, so as to declare the virtue of loving the people like children." ”

Emperor Jing waved his hand and said disapprerovitically: "This matter is not in a hurry, it is not too late to discuss it when the land of Henan is restored." ”

Seeing that Yuan Ang was still arguing, Emperor Jing was a little impatient, and replied: "If the prime minister is anxious, fortunately, the Tainong Order is also there, you can discuss with Cao Luan slowly." ”

Cao Luan saw that the emperor had transferred the trouble to him, and immediately smiled bitterly. His Majesty's intention is obvious, if Cao Luan promised Yuan Ang to help those victims, he must take out money and grain from the treasury and Taicang. Now most of the grain and grass in the counties are stored in Changping, which is actually in the hands of His Majesty, and His Royal Highness controls the millions of stone grain and grass of the "Royal Reserve Administration", and Cao Luan will not be allowed to interfere at all.

In this expedition, all the grain and grass of the army of the seven counties of Gyeonggi were supplied by Taicang, which was equivalent to the use of "state-owned wartime reserves" in later generations. Although Taicang has a large amount of grain in stock, hundreds of thousands of border army grain and grass need to be transferred from Taicang every year, and the money and grain needed for disaster relief in various places must be immediately allocated the same amount of money and grain to fill the gap of the regular liquidation once the local permanent liquidation is opened. In a word, the landlord's family has no surplus grain, and now if he wants Cao Luan to take out the grain from Taicang, it is better to ask for his life.

Yuan Ang couldn't hear Emperor Jing's prevarication, but he knew that he couldn't provoke His Majesty, so he had to sigh, tried his best to suppress his thoughts, and thought about changing his words and discussing with Cao Luan carefully.

Emperor Jing didn't pay any attention to Yuan An, and when he saw Liu Che looking at the sand table and pondering for a long time, he couldn't help but ask curiously: "Does the emperor have another plan?" ”

Liu Che came back to his senses and nodded slightly: "Well, Erchen suddenly had some ideas, but he hadn't thought about it yet. ”

"Emperor, besides, I may be of some help to you in detail." Emperor Jing said with interest.

Liu Che pondered for a moment and said slightly: "Now that Zhidu controls the Great Wall Pass in the north of Yunzhong, the military ministers are unable to rush to the aid of Shuofang, as long as Captain Dou guards the Great Wall in the northwest and restrains the 100,000 iron cavalry under the command of King Youxian, the land of Henan will be like a bag." ”

"Your Highness is exaggerating, isn't it? Even if the military minister Shan Yu couldn't go south from the clouds, wouldn't he go west to join forces with the Right Virtuous King? At that time, hundreds of thousands of Hun iron cavalry, even if the 150,000 new troops under the command of Captain Dou have a dangerous pass, I am afraid that they will not be able to resist it. It is necessary to know that the Taiwei can be regarded as a lone army, and the cavalry general Qin Yong is now in the county, and before the capture of Xihe and Shuofang, he cannot rush to the aid of the Taiwei. At that time, the 150,000 new army of the Taiwei can be said to be under the enemy's back, and it will not be able to fight for a long time! Yuan Ang didn't wait for Liu Che to finish speaking, and immediately shook his head and retorted.

Liu Che raised his eyebrows, faintly impatient, this Yuan Ang said that his nerves were on the wrong line, why do he always pick thorns? Talking about military affairs with these civilian officials is really helpless, Liu Che suppressed the depression in his heart, and explained: "Shan Yuting and the right side of the Xiongnu are separated by the Yinshan Mountain Range, which stretches for thousands of miles, and it is difficult to cross, and now the ice and snow on the Yinshan Mountain are beginning to melt, and it is even more dangerous. If the military minister wants to go north to bypass Yinshan after being frustrated in the clouds, how many hours will it take? At that time, my Han soldiers have already recovered the land of Henan, with the natural danger of the Great Wall, coupled with a steady stream of reinforcements, even if the Huns come to attack, how can they bear me? ”

Yuan Ang was irrefutable, so he had to be silent.

Liu Che then turned around and pointed to the sand table, and continued: "The only thing that should be guarded against now is the Xiongnu Zuoxian King, although the left royal court is located in the Wolf Mountain thousands of miles away, but once the Zuoxian King moves south, now the 60,000 foot soldiers sent by Shanggu and Youbeiping are not vulnerable at all in the field. ”

When Emperor Jing heard this, a trace of worry flashed on his face, and he agreed with his jaw: "The emperor is right, this is also the situation I am most worried about, now Yandi seems to be in a good situation, but in fact it is sinister and abnormal!" ”

"It's not that there is no way, it depends on whether my father is willing to take risks."

Emperor Jing's eyes lit up, and he hurriedly said, "Oh? If the emperor has a plan, but it doesn't hurt to say it, I will think about it carefully. ”

Liu Che said meaningfully: "Now Shanggu and Youbeiping only send the county lieutenant to lead the county soldiers to the battle, but nearly 100,000 border troops are still stationed in the border fortress of the two counties, and they dare not move lightly, which is really a bit of a waste." ”

Emperor Jing was shocked when he heard this, and said in a lost voice: "Does the emperor want to use the border army of the two counties?" Now the Huns of Yandi have not been destroyed, and there are 5,000 iron cavalry sent by Hun Yu Xiao to help, if the border army of the two counties is exhausted, the Huns will attack the upper valley and the right Beiping, and go south, not only the lives of the people will be ruined, but my army of tens of thousands will also be cut off. At that time, the Xiongnu Zuoxian King will come with his army, and the dozens of troops will all be buried in Yanbei! ”

Liu Che said in a deep voice: "You can order the counties under the two counties to send county soldiers to the border to take over the defense, and the commanders of the three counties of Zhuo County, Yuyang, and Liaoxi will lead the county soldiers under their command to go to the county at night, and be sure to rush to Shanggu and Youbeiping within ten days to take over the defense from the county soldiers." ”

I have to say that Liu Che's idea is very bold and even crazy, which is equivalent to using the police/inspector of later generations to replace the regular army garrison for ten days. When everyone in the hall heard this, they were all shocked and silent, waiting for Emperor Jing's holy judgment.

(Whew, third update!) It's a lot late, but it's still yesterday. Thursday is still two shifts, and Friday and Saturday draw three shifts a day to make up for the chapter owed last night. It's not easy to write this chapter, I refer to a lot of ancient ways of marching, because I'm afraid that the brothers don't understand the terrain, and I have revised it many times...... Whew)

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