Wang Jian made a long speech, and the head of the story was the truth, almost explaining all the strengths and weaknesses of the Yu army, and also made the ministers present clearly understand what kind of enemy they were about to face.

After Wang Jian finished speaking, Wang Yongji added: "Just now, Lord Wang, I basically told you about the situation of the Kingdom of Qiu, and I will add one more point here, in history, our army and the army of Qiu officially fought each other, note that the formal battle I am talking about here refers to the two armies dispatching more than 10,000 regiments to fight, and in history, there are twenty-one such battles. ”

"How's the outcome?" Li Hongdao.

"Of the twenty-one battles, our army won seven times and the Qiu army won fourteen times. Wang Yongji said with a solemn face.

"That's nothing, this place is far away from the center of the imperial court, and it is very close to the kingdom of Qiu, and it is nothing to win or lose more. Li Hongchang breathed a sigh of relief.

"Lord Li, our army has won seven battles because the number of troops dispatched by our army far exceeds that of the Yu army, and the closest one, the number of our army is also twice that of the Yu army. Wang Yongji said with a heavy face: "In history, on the frontal battlefield where our army and the Yu army fought, our army has never defeated the Yu army in a similar number of people, which shows the strength of the Yu army. ”

Yes!

After Wang Yongji finished speaking, the ministers present finally understood that they may have attached importance to Yu Jun before, but in fact, they still underestimated Yu Jun.

"How can there be such a powerful army?" asked Li Hong.

Wang Yongji said: "This is determined by the geographical conditions of the mountains and rivers of the country of Qiu, the country of Qiu has many mountains and forests, under this geographical conditions, the people of the country of Qiu live very hard, and this makes the people of the country far beyond our country in terms of physical fitness, and the country of the wolf for many years ambitions, harsh to the people, but the army is much more tolerant, it can be said that the country of the country

Wang Mang waved his hand to ask Li Hong not to ask, but said: "At present, the Yu army has gathered 200,000 horses, and our army currently has 600,000 horses. ”

After Wang Mang finished speaking, the faces of the ministers in the yain softened slightly, and Li Lan spoke at this time: "Your Majesty, I just received a report from the spies that the rebel Wang Xi has gathered 50,000 remnants of the army and has joined the Yu army, but judging from the convergence situation, Wang Xi and the Yu army seem to be a little unhappy, Wang Xi's remnants were all thrown to the rear by the Yu army, and even the commander of the Yu army, Wang Xi and others have not been able to meet, according to the spies hidden in the rebels, the Yu army openly humiliated Wang Xi and others as lost dogs!"

Loser?

The ministers in the yain were stunned, and Wang Jitang was even more expressionless, he completely thought that if he hadn't surrendered to the court decisively, he might not be as good as Wang Xi now.

Wang Mang nodded, signaled that he knew, and said: "Ladies and gentlemen, why does the army dare to humiliate the rebellious thief Wang Xi so much? That's because Wang Xi has no backer, he originally had hundreds of thousands of troops as backers, but as soon as I came, Wang Xi's hundreds of thousands of army backers were gone, and Wang Xi, who had no backers, did he think that he could make his allies respect him by signing some treaties that humiliated the country?" It's a dream, in this world, only people with equal status are qualified to sit at the same table and eat, and there is no doubt that Wang Xi, he has been eliminated, and you should take it as a warning. ”

"Ministers should remember His Majesty's teachings!" Wang Jitang was the first to kowtow to Wang Mang to express his submission, and he knew that among the people present, most of what Wang Mang said was for him to hear.

Everyone else also followed and kowtowed, they saw Wang Xi's fate clearly, the more clearly they saw it, the more they felt chilling, a Great Qin prince with a population of one million and hundreds of thousands of troops, but in a few days, he had fallen to this point, which really made people think deeply.

After thinking deeply, Wang Jian said: "Your Majesty, this may not be an opportunity for us, the rebel thief Wang Xi's department was so insulted by the army, I am afraid that many people are resentful, in this way, as long as our army sends people to contact them, I think they are very willing to take advantage of the situation from behind the enemy army at a critical time, and let them catch fire in their backyard, so that our army can calm the army without much effort." ”

"What Aiqing said makes sense, you can handle this matter. Wang Mang nodded, disapproving, he had the right to take multiple strategies, if he could really succeed, he would also let his subordinates suffer fewer casualties.

Wang Yongji said: "Your Majesty, the Yu army has the intention of setting up camp on the front line, it seems that they are no longer ready to continue to march towards Shenshui County, so, what should our army do, should we take advantage of the great victory to pacify Shenshui, take advantage of the victory to pursue, or wait for the army to rest and recuperate, and then carry out a decisive battle?"

"What do you think should be done?" Wang Mang is a layman in the military, and he thinks he should listen to the opinions of experts.

"The minister thought that he should take advantage of the victory to pursue. Wang Yongji said: "Your Majesty knows that the army is now 200,000 people entering the country, and another 200,000 troops in the territory of the country have been assembled, and are advancing to the army of entering the country, ready to converge, once the two armies converge, the army will have 400,000 people, and the combat power is quite extraordinary, so our army should take advantage of the victory to pursue, and first destroy part of the existing army, so as to reduce the pressure of our army and the army in the future." ”

"What do you think?" Wang Mang looked at the others.

Zhu Dao: "The ministers feel that what Wang Shangshu said is very reasonable. ”

Seeing that everyone did not object, Wang Mang looked around at the ministers in the ya, and finally his eyes fell on Wang Jian and said, "Aiqing, I'm glad you can run away." “

"Obey. Wang Jian was stunned for a moment, and then nodded.

Although Wang Mang doesn't understand military affairs, he also knows that this kind of time is not the time to train troops, and it is necessary to shoot a veteran to suppress the formation, and looking at the whole army, only Wang Jian and Wang Yongji can do this job, Wang Yongji himself has other uses, so he can only let Wang Jian go.

Wang Jian himself understood, so he said: "The minister here brings 200,000 people, including the 150,000 vanguard army of General Wang Jitang, a total of 35 people to pursue the remnants of the rebel Wang Xi, if the army of Yu hands over the remnants of Wang Xi, the minister will set up camp and wait to join His Majesty, if the army does not hand over Wang Xi, then the minister will fight with the army and try to annihilate the living force of the army." ”

is worthy of being a veteran general who has been fighting for many years, Wang Jian is indeed scheming, and everything is on the point, Wang Mang has nothing to disagree with, so he ordered to allocate 200,000 people to Wang Jian, plus Wang Jitang's 150,000 people, a total of 350,000 troops are fully equipped and set off for the garrison of the army.

Waiting for Wang Jian to leave with the army, Wang Mang thought about it, although he didn't feel that there was anything wrong, but he still said: "Go and call Zhang Han over." ”

Zhang Han had already stepped down from the Nanyang Order to enter the Ministry of Households, this time Wang Mang drove the personal expedition, because Zhang Han had served as the Nanyang Order for many years, he appointed Zhang Han as the north-south transfer envoy, responsible for the transfer of grain and grass for the army, and at this moment Zhang Han just escorted a batch of grain and grass to arrive.

Hearing Wang Mang's summons, Zhang Han hurriedly dropped the work at hand, trotted to Wang Mang's side, and kowtowed: "Minister Zhang Han sees the fight!"