Lored stayed in Pazar for two days, and visited the city's workshop area, border free trade market, garrison camp, city residential area and other places, during this process Qin Dong accompanied the whole process, after which Lorid had to go to Plov and Dirmit and other towns to continue to circulate, because Qin Dong also had to prepare for the expedition, so he could not accompany the whole process, arranged Pethius and other people as guides and was responsible for communicating with the consuls of the local towns.

Qin Dong then began to be busy preparing for the expedition, and at the same time busy setting up a new official department, the news of his promotion to captain has spread, and the officials below are very happy, which means that they can also go further, but Qin Dong has no plans to give the following officials a full promotion now, the official position is a good thing, but it is generally a radish and a pit, if the pit is occupied, then others will have no chance, at least not for a short time, And the person who occupies the pit is also unmotivated in a short period of time, so to promote someone, this person must also have merit and talent, otherwise promoting someone for no reason will cause dissatisfaction among other officials, so the leader is not so easy to be.

Qin Dong summoned all the high-ranking officers together to discuss the expedition, and this time, except for Muren, who needed to defend the southern land he had just captured, several other major generals such as Su He, Tuolong, Ma Li, Duoyin, Affard, Faisal, Maas, Liu Yang, Zheli and others were all called.

"Master Wanfu has arrived-" A guard outside the door shouted, and the generals in the room all stood up and stroked their chests and saluted, this is the etiquette that Qin Dong has long prescribed. Junior officers must stand up and salute when they see their superiors.

Whether it is in the civilian system or in the military system, whether it is ancient or modern, there is etiquette. This is a kind of culture, but also a way to strengthen the authority of the leader, using various etiquette to make the subordinates have to salute when they meet their superiors, so as to establish the prestige of the leader, so that the subordinates obey the superiors from the spirit and subconscious, Tong guò This etiquette helps the leader to command the subordinates, Qin Dong came from later generations. Nature knows the importance of etiquette and therefore pays special attention to the construction in this area.

After Qin Dong walked to the main seat and sat down, Batu next to him shouted loudly: "Sit down!" ”

The generals sat neatly and did not squint. During this period of time, the training in etiquette has achieved good results, Qin Dong nodded secretly with satisfaction, and said: "I called you here today because I have something to report, someone from the royal court has come." And it's a big single henchman. You also know that I am a person from Da Shan Yu, and I also know that Da Shan Yu fell out with a few of his brothers some time ago, and it is a matter of time before the swords face each other, Da Shan Yu's special envoy Lord Lored came this time to convey Da Shan Yu's order, and the most important task at this stage is to clean up the internal instability dìng factors, Lord Lorid will stay here to personally supervise the implementation, you are all pulled up by me, there is no problem that needs to be cleaned up. However, four of the thousand commanders under Commander Modova were not under his control, so his side was the focus of the cleanup. The other day in Saidika, I asked the envoys, Lord Lorid, and Lord Modo, for an errand to help Lord Modo deal with Marcus in the southwest and Moldor in the northeast! ”

Qin Dong's words stopped at this point, and the generals sitting opposite the audience immediately whispered, and Duoyin got up and saluted to express his opinion: "My lord, if we send troops to Marcus and Mordo at the same time, it will be equivalent to a two-front battle, and two-front combat is very taboo in military affairs, because it not only requires a large number of troops, but also has a lot of pressure on logistics, and it is now approaching March, and it will soon be the rainy season, if the war drags on is very unfavorable to us, please think twice!" ”

Duoyin was a Roman general in the past, and was influenced by orthodox Roman military thought, and his military literacy was relatively the highest among these generals, and he was also very reasonable.

Liu Yang also wanted to get up and persuade Qin Dong not to fight on two fronts at the same time, but he still held back, after all, Qin Dong was able to take the initiative to ask for these two errands from Lorid and Modo, which showed that Qin Dong was thoughtful, and he decided to wait and see.

Qin Dong got up and walked over to the topographic map of the sand table model next to him, "Come here!" ”

During this period, there was no sand table in Europe at all, it was Qin Dong who ordered craftsmen to make more maps, and made them under his guidance, and the earliest sand table in history was in the period of Qin Shi Huang, when Qin Shi Huang built a mausoleum, he built a large terrain model in his mausoleum. In addition to mountains, hills, and castles, the model also uses mercury to simulate rivers and seas, and uses mechanical devices to circulate mercury.

After Qin Dong ordered the craftsmen to make this combat sand table, it immediately aroused the amazement of his generals, with this thing will be of great help to them in commanding the battle, so they all like it very much, and the terrain shown by this sand table is the terrain of the entire Balkan Peninsula, so the fine Cheng dù is not high, if you want to carry out small battles, you must make a more fine sand table.

The sand table has the characteristics of strong three-dimensional sense, intuitive image, simple production, economy and practicality. It is mainly used by military commanders to study the terrain and combat plans, as well as to drill tactics.

In order to make a very realistic sand table model, it is necessary to train map operators, and someone must specially calculate the scale, first of all, prepare on the map, determine the horizontal scale and vertical scale of the sand table (usually the horizontal scale is smaller than the vertical scale), calculate the size of the sand table, pile up the landform, set up features and military conditions. Among them, the main thing is to pile up the landform, the method is to select the lowest contour line and related landform feature points, and transfer their positions from the topographic map to the sand surface, calculate the height of the insertion at the top of the mountain, the saddle, the foot of the mountain, etc. according to the vertical scale, and pile it up against the topographic map. There are a lot of talents needed to make a simple sand table, and as long as a period of time passes, Qin Dong's side can gather a large number of military talents.

The generals all got up and gathered around the sand table model, and Qin Dong said: "Of course I know the risk of fighting on two fronts, but this opportunity is rare, I have just been promoted to the commander of the ten thousand commanders, but the actual territory is only half the size of the territory that ordinary commanders can control, and it is impossible for us to expand to the south or east in a short period of time, because we can't fall out with the Eastern Roman Empire yet, and we don't have the strength to start a full-scale war with the Western Empire, so if this battle can be smooth, then we can control the territory of the two thousand commanders more." Therefore, we must end the fighting before the rainy season arrives, which requires us to defeat Marcus and Moldor as quickly as possible and take full possession of their territory! Do you have any good ideas? If there is, you can talk about it, whatever you want, even if it's not right, it doesn't matter! ”

Speaking of combat strategy, among the people here, only Duoyin and Su He, who followed Qin Dong for a comparative time, are better at it, and the others still need to improve in terms of strategy, just now Duoyin has actually expressed concern about the two-sided battle now, even if he has an idea at the moment, he can't say it anymore, Su He has always wanted to be like Muren, and he can have the opportunity to lead the army alone, and this time he will conduct a two-front battle, so someone must lead the army along the way, Muren is far away in the south, and Qin Dong cannot transfer it back, Therefore, the main general of one of the roads must choose one from the people on the scene, and Su He said his thoughts without hesitation.

"My lord, I thought that Moldor in the northeast could directly approach with a large army and force him to fight a decisive battle, with our current strength and army combat effectiveness, as long as he fought a decisive battle with us, then he would definitely be defeated, his territory is only so big, even if he uses cavalry to go around in circles with us, we also have cavalry, he will not last long, if he does not fight a decisive battle with us, then he can only leave his territory with a large army, pass through the territory of Modo's commanders to reach the north, cross the Danube and join Enek, And this must also be done carefully, if he is ambushed, he may suffer heavy losses, but in any case, this road will at least guarantee his chances of survival. Of course, he has a third way, and that is to surrender to the adults! ”

Su He's analysis of Moldowa in the northeast is very good, the generals present all nodded and whispered words of approval, Qin Dong also admitted that what Su He said was right, "Indeed, Moldo's territory is mostly plains and grasslands, basically there are no mountains and hills, and there are few rivers, which is suitable for large-scale cavalry charges, and can also be mobile and roundabout, but in the case that we also have elite cavalry, and the combat effectiveness is much stronger than his cavalry, his chances of winning are very slim, then, for Marcus in the southwest, Do you have any good ways to deal with him? ”

Su He saw that Qin Dong agreed with his battle strategy, and immediately came to the spirit, he stretched out his hand and pointed to Marcus's territory in the southwest of the sand table and said: "My lord, please see, Marcus's territory is mountainous, hilly, and gorgeous, and the traffic roads are difficult, this place is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and his army is almost all cavalry, if it is in the plains, we still have to worry about his cavalry, but here his cavalry basically can't be used, so his cavalry can only become infantry, and there were no defense facilities behind him before, But now Da Shan Yu has fallen out with his brothers, so he may also realize that he is in a dangerous situation, so he should now be preparing to build defenses to block possible attacks from behind, but even so, it is not easy for us to take his territory, there is only one word that can be done here, and that is a' Quick', in such a terrain, only with a quick assault with infantry, before Marcus could react, to hit Chusten, as long as we surround Chusten, the battle can basically be said to be over, and their food and drinking water in the mountains can only last for a few days at most! (To be continued......)