Liu Yu glanced at the black-faced general, he didn't know it, but at a glance, he knew that Lu Dao was the general of the original border army, and he belonged to the arrogant kind. Liu Yu has so many generals under him, it will be difficult for him to get acquainted with them in a few days, and he doesn't like to deal with these people at all.

Liu Yu didn't bother to ask the name, and asked directly: "This general, do you know which one is the best of the Turkic cavalry?" ”

The black-faced man said disdainfully: "Isn't it the Iron Wolf Guard?" In the first year, wasn't we beaten all over the ground looking for teeth? ”

Liu Yuxin said, I should have been beaten all over the ground looking for teeth, how does it have anything to do with you?

"This general, you only know one thing and you don't know the other." Liu Yu said to everyone earnestly, "This Iron Wolf Guard rarely fights with our Great Shun Dynasty, and that is because it is difficult for them to give full play to their advantages in the battle with the Great Shun Dynasty. We guarded the gates, and they plundered, and with light cavalry...... That is, cavalry equipped with a small amount of armor fights in sports warfare, so that the effect can be reaped. And the Iron Wolf Guard, that is an out-and-out heavy cavalry, equipped with heavy armor, the sword cannot pierce, and the gun cannot penetrate. With such cavalry, how can we break the enemy? ”

The black-faced general thought that Liu Yu was just a second-generation official who talked on paper, General Zu Yin. When Liu Yu said this, he was a little anxious and argued: "In that year, why didn't the Iron Wolf Guard equip thick armor?" I think you're just hearsay. ”

Liu Yuzhen doesn't know what to say about him, some secrets that can't be considered secrets, these soldiers have to fight you to the death, in fact, the Iron Wolf Guard is mainly used by the Turks to deal with other disobedient friends on the grassland, cavalry against cavalry, heavy cavalry has an obvious advantage in the encounter. Because the border army of the Shun Dynasty almost never took the initiative to attack, it was impossible to ask the Turks to hit the wall with heavy cavalry. Therefore, they chose light cavalry to attack when fighting against the Shun Dynasty.

Min Shaoqing said: "What General Liu said is true. The Iron Wolf Guard of the Turks. It is indeed a thick-armored cavalry, when we signed a military alliance with the Hui, the Huihui people were most afraid of this iron wolf guard, and the envoy at that time, Prince Dadu, also described in detail the scene during the battle, every iron wolf guard soldier was like a city wall, and arrows could not shoot through. Unexpectedly, the Turks did not come out of the Iron Wolf Guard, and the Hui were still destroyed. ”

The black-faced general stopped talking, and the other border generals suddenly felt blind.

Originally at war with the Turks. They are experienced, and they should know more than these two military generals who were civil officials in the imperial court, but they never thought that they would be compared to Liu Yu and Min Shaoqing's knowledge.

Liu Yue thought about it, Min Shaoqing was not so useless, at least he knew how to understand the internal situation of the enemy. Because the heavy cavalry never appeared on the battlefield of the war with the Central Plains Dynasty, all the military books and historical materials have not been recorded, and even the border army officers and soldiers do not know the way, let alone those pampered historians. Liu Yu only investigated it based on his understanding of historical common sense.

Min Shaoqing looked at Liu Yu and asked, "General Liu, when you first sent out the army." The subordinates set up their main camp in Jinyao City, also to prepare for encounters with the Turkic thick-armored cavalry in the wild. Only with the city can there be a backing, and the soldiers and horses will not be scattered by the thick-armored cavalry. ”

Liu Yu nodded in agreement, and Min Shaoqing continued, "You stationed the camp outside the city, and your subordinates originally thought that you didn't know about the thick-armored cavalry, but now it seems that you are fully prepared to arrange this?" ”

Liu Yu spread his hands and said, "Do you need it?" Today's topic is the position of the Turkic royal court, what are you doing with all this uselessness? ”

Huo Yi next to him accosted and said, "Can you, or do you want to come?" ”

Min Shaoqing took a step back, not daring to ask Liu Yu about the strategic arrangements so aggressively. After losing the battle, he was already a criminal minister, and if Liu Yu hadn't sent troops in time, he would have already drunk soup in Naihe Bridge. Now that Liu Yu is the head coach, he really doesn't have anything to criticize.

The other soldiers saw Liu Yu's strength, and they didn't speak, since Liu Yu didn't give them face, they also felt that they didn't need to give Liu Yu face, and as a result, a military meeting, nothing was discussed, and there was still no whereabouts about the Turkic royal court.

When the meeting was dispersed, and Li Mi and Sui Yi and other Liu Yu's henchmen were left in the big tent of the Chinese army, Liu Yu put away the arrogance just now and sat on the chair in a sullen voice.

"Brother Liu, why are you in such a hurry to find the Turkic royal court?"

Liu Yu took a sip of tea and said: "There is no reason, first, it is curiosity, and secondly, it is to find something to do for those generals." It's official meeting time, pick up the military map. ”

Li Mi and Sui Yi still have Huo disease, so they knew that Liu Yu was acting just now. However, in addition to the three of them in the account, there is another one, that is, Hua Ji'an, Hua Ji'an didn't expect that he would get such an honor, and was treated by Liu Yu as his own person.

"General Hua, please come closer, otherwise how can we discuss things?" Liu Yu looked at Hua Ji'an in a friendly manner.

Hua Ji'an smiled awkwardly and took two steps closer, he didn't know why he was left by Liu Yu just now, but now he understood that it was because of Liu Yu's trust.

"To put it simply, the Turkic Iron Wolf Guard, about 20,000 heavy armored cavalry and 10,000 light armored cavalry, will arrive in Jinyao City tomorrow. And the 20,000 cavalry of the Turks, who have just destroyed the Hui, will also arrive a hundred miles southwest of us after noon tomorrow. Liu Yu pointed to the military map and said, "The time to start the war, tomorrow night at the earliest, and the day after tomorrow at the latest." ”

Sui Yi and Li Mi glanced at each other, obviously not expecting the Turks to come so quickly. These days they have nothing to do, and they thought that the battlefield was nothing more than that, and now they feel the tension of the imminent war. Hua Ji'an on the side still looked calm, for him, he was used to this kind of scene, so he didn't feel anything, while Huo Yi was excited and eager to try.

"The Turks are between 100,000 and 110,000 soldiers, and we have a total of 53,000 men. The Turkic cavalry of more than 100,000 is all light cavalry and heavy cavalry, while our cavalry, the total number of cavalry does not exceed 20,000, which is the limit of the cavalry that the Great Shun Dynasty can mobilize. Liu Yu summed up the soldiers and horses on both sides and said, "General Hua, what do you think of this battle?" ”

Hua Ji'an was silent for a while, in his opinion, this was a war with no chance of winning at all, and he did not understand that the imperial court would take the initiative to attack the Turks. Although the imperial court had just won the battle of King Huai, and there was a trump card of new firearms, on the grassland, it was the level of cavalry, and there were only one or two thousand lancers in the army who were good at riding and shooting. This requires a long-term training process.

"The subordinates believe that this battle cannot be fought unless there is an improvement in the tactics of war!" Flower set Antao.

Liu Yu nodded, and said in his heart that Hua Ji'an deserved to be the representative of the young generals of the Huai Army, although he was a little conceited, but he was not conceited to the point of being hopeless, and his prediction and grasp of the battle situation was very accurate.

"If it remains the same, encountering the enemy, flanking the left flank of the Chinese army, and the infantry forming a cavalry attack, then our defeat will be basically decided. I might as well say bluntly that the location of the three-mile pit in front of us is the key to whether or not this encounter can be won. ”

Sui Yi was surprised: "Brother Liu, what do you mean?" ”

Li Mi said: "Is General Liu in this three-mile realm, like when we were in the Kwai Shui River, there was an ambush?" ”

"Pretty much." Liu Yu said with a smile, "It's just that the buried things are much more advanced than at the beginning, not just digging a few traps to bury some tung oil, not only in this three-mile area, but also in some places around that seem to be unmoving." ”

"What is it?" Sui Yi asked curiously.

Liu Yu said: "Let's call him a landmine first." The biggest advantage of this kind of thing is that if you don't touch it, it may be okay to bury it for more than ten years, and you will touch it...... Bang exploded, the power is strong, even if it is the heavy cavalry of the Turks, there will be no return! This is also the reason why soldiers are not allowed to train and patrol in front of us these days, on the one hand, so that the Turks think that we are slack in defense, and on the other hand, we cannot blow up our own people, and the mines are a welcome gift for the Turks. ”

Several people in the tent were very interested after hearing this, and they had never heard of this peculiar "landmine". At this point, Hua Ji'an is the most frightened, it explodes when it is touched, and it does not need to be ignited by human factors, is such a powerful killing weapon also researched by Liu Wenyan?

Li Mi was relatively cautious and asked, "General Liu, this seems to be inappropriate, if the Turks don't meet us from this side, or if they have already noticed it, what if they attack from other directions?" Especially last time they suffered our loss in the Kwai Shui River, they may not be fooled this time. ”

"That's what I thought."

Liu Yu sat down and said, "It's best for them to send it to the door by themselves, and it saves a lot of trouble." In fact, this is also the best result. Because the cavalry charge is all about doing it in one go, since they are going to fight a decisive battle with us, they should take the road from the front, and there are no mines in the area three miles away, even if they send sentinels to investigate, nothing will come of it.

If they don't come, they choose to turn around to meet us, and they themselves will lose to us in momentum. Don't forget, we not only have mines, muskets, but also artillery, tonight, a batch of artillery will be shipped, these are much better than the earthen cannons we used in Jiangjiang, continuous artillery fire, enough to deal with a few days! ”

Li Mi and Sui Yi also had joy on their faces, and their original worries were swept away.

"Externally and internally, this matter must be kept secret for the time being, and it must be made to look like it cannot be supported, find some people to pretend to be deserters at night, and make some appearance to show those Turkic whistles, so that they will think that our army is disheartened, so that they will not suspect fraud!"

After Liu Yu finished speaking, several people went back to make their own arrangements.

At night, some people in the military camp pretended to be deserters, Liu Yu deliberately fanfare people to chase, and "beheaded" several people to deter the people in the barracks, and even the generals of Shun Chao believed that this was a sign of failure, but he did not expect that Liu Yue ordered to be beheaded only by the captured Turkic stragglers.

The next day, Liu Yu specially transferred the soldiers in several camps and announced that he had escaped. The whole army fled, and many had lost their confidence and were ready to join the side of the deserters. It's a pity that at this time, the Turkic Iron Wolf Guard has already passed Jinyao City, and the war will start at any time. (To be continued......)