Chu Zhaofu and several other ministers of the Privy Council glanced at each other, and then at Leng Yi, but they didn't speak, Chu Zhaofu smiled and said: "We are civil ministers, we really don't understand military affairs, and we still listen to the queen's mother, the prince and several generals." ”

Empress Hua Rui smiled and said, "You guys will be lazy, but the mourning family thinks that Lord Leng and General Cao are reasonable." ”

Zhao Yuanzuo heard the queen say this, knowing that today's matter is only afraid that it will be difficult to achieve the goal, no matter what, 100,000 people are enough for the time being. As long as they take advantage of the opportunity to kill their father, when the time comes, they will have the holy decree of the blessed father and the military talisman of the Sanya to transfer troops, and they will have no excuse to prevent them from transferring troops. As long as you have soldiers in your hands, you are not afraid of them turning the sky! When the time comes, it really won't work, and you can also unite with the Liao State to counterattack, and it's a big deal to allocate the north of the Yangtze River to the Liao State. Thinking of this, Zhao Yuanzuo smiled: "Okay!" Since the queen has said so, 100,000 is 100,000. Let's transfer the upper four armies of the Ma Army's Guard Division, exactly 100,000 people! ”

Unexpectedly, Leng Yi still shook his head and said, "The prince can't take the horse army, he can only take the infantry army." ”

In the forbidden army, although the front division of the palace is known as the elite of the elite, the front division of the palace is actually equivalent to the armed police force of the Rongwei in the capital, although the combat effectiveness is strong, but because of the requirements of the duties, the equipment is not the best in the three ya, so the overall combat effectiveness is not the strongest. On the contrary, the Ma Army is equivalent to the rapid reaction special forces in the modern army, and the heavy cavalry of the Fourth Army is equivalent to the tank armored force, which has the strongest combat effectiveness in ancient cold weapon combat. is the real elite of the elite. Leng Yi naturally would not hand over such an army to him and take it away.

Zhao Yuanzuo naturally knew the difference between the combat effectiveness of the horse army and the infantry army, and now he was angry, and pointed at Leng Yi and said, "What do you mean?" Don't you want me to lead troops to rescue my father? Do you really want to rebel? ”

Leng Yi gently blocked his finger and said: "First, the prince and General Cao led the troops to Yizhou this time, which is to respond to and lure the enemy into the depths of the block, not to go to the rescue, the official family is not in danger at present, there is no problem of rescue; Second, the secret decree of the official family has made it very clear that this time they will secretly go to the Yizhou area to assemble. The so-called secret visit means that it cannot attract attention. If the prince led 100,000 cavalry, my Great Song Dynasty was already short of horses, and 100,000 iron cavalry drove from the capital to Yizhou, how could it not alarm people? Third, once the official family succeeds in luring the enemy into depth, when we close the siege, the enemy army is most likely to turn over and break through. Therefore, the prince's 100,000 soldiers served as a blocking war, a positional war, not a movement war. Infantry in resistance warfare is better than cavalry. Finally, once the siege is closed, we need to use fast cavalry to rush to the Yizhou area to reinforce the prince to block, to ensure the total annihilation of the Liao army, if there is no fast cavalry, it is impossible to rush to reinforce the prince in time, once the enemy breaks through successfully, the whole plan will be in vain. ”

The privy envoy Chu Zhaofu and the others still did not speak. Empress Blossom nodded frequently and said, "Commander Leng is extremely right. The prince led the troops this time, and he couldn't bring cavalry, otherwise he would startle the snake, and it would affect the overall plan. ”

The queen mother stood on Leng Yi's side again, and Zhao Yuanzuo had no choice but to glare at Leng Yi with a resentful gaze. Gritted his teeth and said, "Okay! The infantry army is the infantry army! ”

Hua Rui smiled and said: "Since the discussion has been properly discussed, then Ming said that the prince and General Cao will send troops." ”

Cao Bin bowed down and said, "Weichen takes the order." However, in this transfer, according to the prior deployment of the officials, for the sake of concealment, it was necessary to go under the pretext of building a northern canal for water conservancy and transferring Minzhuang from Jinmingchi, and all soldiers had to wear Minzhuang's clothing. Go to it in secret. It needs to be ordered by the mother. ”

"This is reasonable, then tomorrow morning the mourning family will make an order, and you will set off in the afternoon."

Cao Bin and Zhao Yuanzuo bowed down and agreed.

Looking at Zhao Yuanzuo and hurriedly leaving the hall with a cold face, Shi Shouxin and Leng Yi glanced at each other, Shi Shouxin said in a low voice: "Thank you, Lord Commander, for letting me know the truth, so that I won't be a ghost who died unjustly." ”

Leng Yi smiled and said: "Whatever the general says, it is all for the Great Song Dynasty, and in the future, there are many places where you still need to rely on the general!" ”

Shi Shouxin clenched his fists and arched his hand: "The last general is only the leader of the horse!" ”

"Good! Thanks a lot! ”

Shi Shouxin said to Leng Yi: "Judging from today's situation, the dog's case must be related to Zhao Yuanzuo, please be sure to investigate this case." I don't dare to say that the dog is innocent, but even if the Nine Clans are destroyed, it will also make Shi die clearly! ”

"Don't worry! I'm going to get to the bottom of it. ”

"Shi's family, grateful!" Shi Shouxin hesitated for a moment, and then said in a low voice: "Shi still has some ideas to talk to adults about going to Yizhou to answer." ”

"Let's not talk about it, it's all settled." Leng Yi smiled and said, "Besides, you go back first to rest and rest, and there will be no problem with the prince personally leading the troops." ”

"This time the official family is very dangerous, and the prince has no combat experience......

Leng Yi waved his hand, signaled him not to speak, lowered his voice and said, "The general is concerned about the official family, I know." However, the way the prince is now, does the general think it can be changed? ”

Shi Shouxin was stunned for a moment, shook his head in frustration and said nothing.

Because Shi Shouxin's case has not yet been concluded, Leng Yi sent him back to prison.

On the way back, Leng Yi squinted at Yang Ye, and saw that he was riding a horse and following him without saying a word, so he smiled and didn't speak.

When he arrived at the door, Leng Yi said to Yang Ye: "General Yang, come to my house and talk." ”

Yang Ye seemed to already know that Leng Yi had something to say, so he didn't ask much, nodded, and followed Leng Yi into Leng Mansion.

Leng Yi took Yang Yejing to the study of the inner house, Zhuo Qiaoniang and the others saw them like this, they must have had a confidential discussion, and they withdrew after serving tea in person, and did not let anyone come over to disturb them.

Leng Yi said: "What does General Yang think, how is today's matter?" ”

Yang Ye glanced at Leng Yi and said, "Does Commander Leng want to listen to the truth?" ”

Leng Yi nodded.

Yang Ye stood up, clenched his fists and said: "First of all, please rest assured that no matter what happens, my Yang family will obey the command of the adult, and I will not give up!" If there is a disobedience, God will punish it! ”

Leng Yi stood up solemnly, and also returned the salute with his fists: "Leng can be assisted by Yang Lao Linggong and the generals of the Yang family, it is really God's favor, Leng will share the glory and disgrace with the Yang family, and treat each other with all sincerity!" If there is a disobedience, God will punish it! ”

The two high-fived as an oath. looked at each other and smiled, and then took off their robes and sat back in their positions.

Leng Yi said: "Please make it clear to the old Linggong." ”

"Good!" Yang Ye leaned forward slightly, lowered his voice and said, "The last general thinks that what the commander wants to do is too risky, and there is no certainty of victory!" ”

Leng Yi raised his eyebrows: "Oh? The general already knows what I'm going to do? ”

"Borrow a knife to kill!" Yang Ye said lightly, "The Lord Commander obviously already knows that Zhao Yuanzuo is against it, but he doesn't break it, and he doesn't report it to the official family. Obviously, he just wanted Zhao Yuanzuo to meet the expectations of adults. ”

Leng Yi smiled and looked at Yang Ye.

Yang Ye sighed and said, "However, today, this move is very dangerous. The commander only gave Zhao Yuanzuo 100,000 infantry to answer, and for various reasons, he could only deceive a half-grown child like Zhao Yuanzuo, and he couldn't deceive others. Chu Zhaofu and they are all scheming, and it is impossible not to hear the true purpose of the adults. And if this purpose is known to the Lord, I am afraid that the plan of the adults will be troublesome. ”

Leng Yi nodded slowly: "Clever!" Yang Lao Linggong is worthy of a generation of heroes, and he is really very smart. ――The general thinks I'm not good enough? How to make up for it? ”

Yang Ye said: "It's not a matter of not being good enough, but it can only be like this, because Zhao Yuanzuo didn't give adults more time to prepare in advance, and it's very rare for adults to be able to do this." Now, what is lacking is the absolute allegiance of the forbidden army. According to the understanding of the last general, the prestige of the general among the generals and soldiers below the battalion level is still relatively large, thanks to the re-selection of the previous adult, most of the generals below the battalion level have been replaced, and the newly promoted generals are very grateful to the adults. However, this is only a kind of gratitude, not to mention awe, if you want to reach the level of awe, you must come from the battlefield, only when you have established a number of military exploits and led the troops to achieve a certain number of achievements, this prestige will naturally be raised. ”

Leng Yi nodded: "I already understand Lao Linggong's words, what Lao Linggong means is to let me lead the Northern Expedition and conquer the Liao State?" ”

Yang Ye nodded slowly and said, "I have dealt with the Liao State all my life, they have been fighting for many years, and they have a large number of outstanding generals, which is not as simple as I imagined for the officials. To be honest, I don't think the official family's plan to lure the enemy into depth can be realized. ”

"Oh?"

"His plan is too simple to see through at a glance. Moreover, his method of driving straight into the army with 200,000 vans is not what he should do to lure the enemy deep. He should lead at least 200,000 forbidden troops, set up a decisive battle with the opponent, lure the opponent to dispatch the main force, and after the decisive battle, then retreat to lure the enemy to pursue. Like now, he drove straight into Youzhou and killed Youzhou, but instead we were lured into the enemy. ”

Leng Yi nodded frequently and said, "As far as Lao Linggong can see, what will happen to the Liao army next?" ”

"Outflank Zhuozhou and cut off its retreat. Surround and annihilate! ”

"Old Linggong thinks that the official family didn't notice this?"

"The official family must know. However, the official family is too big. His idea should be to break through to the city of Youzhou, when the enemy outflanks Zhuozhou, and then reflexively break through, if the breakthrough is successful, then lure the enemy deeper. If it is blocked, let the forbidden army gathered in Yizhou respond, flank the front and back, and annihilate the encircled enemy in Yizhou. Retreat back and lure the enemy deeper. This plan seems to be perfect, but there are two fatal points: first, the combat effectiveness and mobility of the 200,000 Xiang troops of the official family are too poor, and the last general has led troops to fight with them, and it is not an exaggeration to say that they are vulnerable. If it weren't for the Northern Han lord's repeated orders to let me withdraw my troops to defend the capital, I would have been completely sure to lead 20,000 elite soldiers to resist or even defeat them. (To be continued.) )