"Unbelievable...... This is the Western Regions? Is there really so many countries here in Anyanghou? Emperor Eldest Sun Liu Jin's gaze fell on the location of the Western Regions on the sand table, which was marked by Huo Guang with more than 30 countries.

"Huh...... Why is there a Wuhuan here? And this Qiang is close to the southwest Yi, how come I have never heard of it, there is such a large territory, it is almost the same size as our Han. The fat man Liu Kang's gaze was a little different, what he saw was the Wuhuan in the northeast corner of the sand table, and the southwesternmost piece of the sand table was raised high, accounting for almost one-sixth of the size of the entire sand table, a place marked as Qiang.

"Wuhuan is a feud of the Huns, now the Huns have fled thousands of miles to the north, Wuhuan has been subordinate to the Han Dynasty, and now nomadic herders in the five counties on the edge of the border outside the Saiwai, they have no fixed city, and live a life of chasing water and grass, which is the frontier barrier of our Han against the Huns." Huo Guang approached the sand table and pointed to Wu Huan's location and explained.

The so-called five counties on the edge of the border refer to the five counties of Shanggu, Yuyang, Youbeiping, Liaoxi and Liaodong.

"As for this Qiang, they are also nomads. This place looks very large, but almost eight or nine times out of ten belong to the plateau area, its air is thin and most of the people and animals are difficult to adapt to the harsh conditions there, so their people mainly live in the west of Shu County, Guanghan, and Longxi counties. Huo Guang continued to point to Qiang on the sand table and explained. This area roughly included Tibet, Qinghai, Ningxia, Gansu, and parts of Sichuan and Yunnan.

"What is the second uncle doing with this so-called sand table?" Huo Yan asked curiously, but he asked everyone's thoughts. These people all knew that Huo Guang would not just let them see the territory and topography of the Han Dynasty and the situation of the neighboring countries.

"Of course, the sand table is just one of them, and you see this thing." Huo Guang suddenly opened a wooden box, which was placed next to the sand table, but at first everyone was attracted by the sand table and didn't notice the wooden box.

I saw Huo Guang open the wooden box, and there were countless puppets neatly placed inside, these puppets looked like cavalry, some looked like sword and shield soldiers, and there were thirty or forty large or small ones.

Huo Guang first picked up a puppet of a sword and shield soldier and placed it in the position of Yelang Kingdom. Then he picked up two sword and shield puppets that were one size smaller than before, and placed them in the southwest of Qiongdu and Zhendu. At the same time, Huo Guang said while placing the puppet: "This big one represents 30,000 infantry, and the small one represents 10,000. These three places are the Yelang King, Qiongjun and Zhenhou who have not yet completely surrendered to the Great Han, as well as several other smaller barbarian tribes. Huo Guang said and placed a few of the smallest sword and shield puppets in other locations in the southwest. In the entire area of Southwest Yi, the large and small infantry puppets together represent more than 100,000 people.

Seeing these large and small puppets appear in the position of Nanyi, everyone in the classroom took a deep breath, and their faces showed deep worry.

"How many soldiers and horses does the Han have in the three counties of Hanzhong, Shu County, and Qianwei?" This time it was Zhao Yinhua who asked the question, and the three counties she was talking about were the three counties located in the southwest, and even Shu County and Qianwei County themselves were surrounded by the southwestern Zhuyi.

Huo Guang looked at Zhao Yinhua and nodded with satisfaction, he didn't know what Zhao Yinhua had last night, but she continued to appear here today, and it seemed that this stubborn girl was not so fragile. And to be able to quickly find the key to the problem on this sand table, Huo Guang also has some recognition of Zhao Yinhua, at least in Huo Guang's eyes, this girl is not blindly willful and stubborn!

"Shu County is a large county, with more than 10,000 cavalry and 20,000 infantry. Hanzhong County can also recruit about 20,000 foot soldiers, and as for Qianwei County, at most 5,000 foot soldiers can be made. Huo Guang picked up a few puppets representing 10,000 cavalry and 20,000 infantry and placed them in the position of the three counties, but Huo Guang only inserted a wooden stick in the position of Qianwei County, because in Huo Guang's design, the smallest puppet represented 10,000 both cavalry and infantry.

"50,000 against 100,000, if you defend the city, it is not without the strength of a battle, as long as the soldiers and horses of the three counties can hold out for half a month, the soldiers and horses of the land of Gyeonggi will be able to reach any place in the southwest." Liu Jin frowned and thought for a moment, then stretched his brows slightly and said.

Unconsciously, in front of this sand table, these teenage children, under the guidance of Huo Guang intentionally or unintentionally, actually started the war deduction.

Judging from the sand table, the closest to Southwest Yi turned out to be left and right Fufeng and Jing Zhaoyin. In terms of the current situation of the Han Dynasty, only the land of Sanfu can gather about 50,000 soldiers and horses in a few days, and these 50,000 soldiers and horses can be regarded as elite divisions.

"Anywhere in this area, the Qiang can quickly assemble up to 100,000 cavalry in three days. And these Qiang people have lived on horseback since childhood, and their cavalry combat power is not weaker than that of the Hun cavalry. Just when everyone was inadvertent, Huo Guang suddenly placed the two largest cavalry puppets in the southwest direction of the border between the Qiang people and the Han people.

"This ......." Qiang people, a name that is rarely known by the Han Dynasty, was naturally ignored by everyone at first. When Huo Guang said that these Qiang people could gather more than 100,000 cavalry in any position in three days, an existence that was no weaker than the Xiongnu's threat to the Han was recognized by a group of gentlemen for the first time.

Everyone didn't expect that there were so many strong enemies around the powerful empire that everyone knew.

However, all this was far from over, I saw Huo Guang pick up a special wooden frame, put the largest cavalry puppet in the northernmost Xiongnu Forte, and then put down the second ...... Third ...... Fourth ........ Fifth ....... Five of them represent a full 250,000 cavalry who appeared in the Hun Forte.

"There are at least 250,000 Hun cavalry here, their nation is different from ours, they put down their weapons and are just herdsmen who live by water and grass, but they can pick up arms and be the most ferocious cavalry." Huo Guang put down the five puppets representing 50,000 cavalry and said in an unusually serious tone.

"And in Dingxiang, Yunzhong, Wuyuan, Shuofang, and Beidi, and even the two counties of Jiuquan and Wuwei in Hexi. On this long border, how many Han troops are there? Huo Guang asked, pointing to the northernmost counties of Dahan.

Everyone fell silent, maybe they didn't understand, and they didn't know how many Han troops there were in these places that Huo Guang said. But whether they know it or not, they understand that there will definitely not be too many troops in these places.

"Jiuquan and Wuwei counties in Hexi have 30,000 elite cavalry of Zhao Ponu, and there should be a total of about 50,000 soldiers in the county. However, it mainly faces the countries of the Western Regions, and there is also a threat from the Xiongnu in the north, and now it seems that the Qiang people in the west can also threaten here. As for the other counties, in the perennial war with the Xiongnu, the population has been sharply reduced by more than half, and now the counties are also based on the big cities, in fact, if the Xiongnu continue to go south, as long as they bypass a few counties to govern the big cities, they can even easily threaten the places of Shangjun and Taiyuan County. Liu Jin stared at the sand table and seemed to say to himself.

As the eldest grandson of the emperor, he naturally knows more than ordinary people, and he originally had no intuitive understanding, and he couldn't analyze these things. But now that he sees this sand table and puts some of the information in his mind into the sand table, Liu Jin can even see the horror of the Hun army when it goes south.

"Fortunately, the Marquis of Anyang destroyed South Vietnam and East Vietnam, as well as Jilan. Otherwise, our big man would be embattled now! Liu Kang, the fat man who had been silent for a long time in the sand table, suddenly sighed. Everyone followed Liu Kang's words and looked at the south of the sand table, where now there are only nine southeastern counties and no Nanyue.

"Actually, Ben Hou made this sand table to simulate on this sand table, if you are allowed to lead the troops to fight, how you will face these enemies. Let's find out about it today, and then go back in the evening to think about it, and let's express our opinions tomorrow! Huo Guang told his plans and intentions, he didn't plan to tell these people directly what to do, in fact, even if Huo Guang faced such a situation now, there was no perfect way.

In the following time, Huo Guang did not arrange anything, nor did he teach anything to these disciples. Just let these people observe the sand table, and then deduce how to fight in their own minds. As these teenagers and girls began to deduce, there were naturally countless different opinions, and then endless arguments.

For these young people and girls who are red-faced, Huo Guang is also happy to see it, after all, the more you think about using this sand table deduction, the better, these people can find problems in the debate, and then avoid the problem is naturally a good thing.

"Why don't you go?" Huo Guang stood from a distance and watched, but found that Liu Xijun was also some distance from the sand table, and he was not standing directly next to the sand table like others.

"I....... Xijun thinks it's too difficult, Xijun won't ....... Moreover, so many people must have a lot of food to fight, and tens of thousands of troops are on an expedition, and I don't know how much logistics are needed. These numbers are too large for me to calculate......." Liu Xijun said with a slightly lowered head and a look of annoyance.

"Huh? Can you even take that into account? Who taught you this? Huo Guang never expected that when these gentlemen were still arguing about how many troops to use to fight first and where to fight later, Liu Xijun, a child in his early tens, had already taken into account the logistics, food and grass of the army.

Liu Xijun buried her head lower, as if she thought of something that made her unbearable past, and then she mustered up the courage to say: "Back then, my father rebelled, and I started to prepare half a year in advance, although my father only gathered 20,000 or 30,000 people, but there were nearly 100,000 people recruited. Those blacksmiths worked day and night to build weapons and armor, and all the craftsmen did not have a moment to spare. The grain and grass transported from all over the country have been stored in countless warehouses, and there is no end in sight........ But at that time, I secretly heard my father and his subordinates say that these are too little, and they are far from enough........"

"Uh......." Huo Guang was a little speechless, he didn't expect Liu Xijun to think of logistics, it turned out to be because he had witnessed Liu Jian's preparations before the rebellion, and all this left a lingering memory in this child's heart.

"That's right....... Logistics....... Sometimes this determines the final outcome of a battle, if you only talk about the number of troops, I am afraid that the Huns have already dominated the world! Huo Guang said with some emotion, although the sand table deduction has many advantages, it is difficult to reflect the logistics support on the sand table.

In this era, logistics support has not yet been valued by most people, and even many generals in the army have not yet realized the importance of logistics, and most generals are still only pursuing a simple strong army.

When Huo Guang returned to the mansion again, it was already the beginning of the lanterns, and the attraction of the sand table today was beyond Huo Guang's expectations, and the disciples of the cadre class worked tirelessly on the sand table all day long, and finally saw that the sky was getting dark, and these people reluctantly left Taixue.

"Master Hou, there is news from the palace again." As soon as Huo Guang returned home, Huo Tang appeared in front of Huo Guang, and this time Huo Tang's expression was extremely solemn.

Huo Guang was a little puzzled, but he didn't ask directly, he remembered that he had also received news from the palace yesterday, which also talked about that Jiang Chong secretly spying on him, but even with such news Huo Tang still looked relaxed, and even made a few jokes with himself. Huo Guang knew that today's events were probably not trivial, so he only said: "Follow me to the study."

In the study, Huo Tang took out a piece of letterhead from his shirt on his chest and handed it to Huo Guang. When he got the warm letterhead in his hand, and it exuded a faint smell of body fragrance, Huo Guang was slightly stunned at first, and then glanced at Huo Tang. It was also the first time Huo Guang had seen Huo Tang so careful, and he was even more curious about the content of this letterhead.

Huo Guang looked down at the content on the letterhead, there was not much content on it, only a simple sentence. That is to say, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty has secretly summoned two people four or five times in a row in the past two days, one of these two people is called Zhao Zhou, who is the current crown prince, and the other is Shi Qing, who is the former prince and prince, but the latter is now at home.

"Second brother, will the prime minister and the imperial doctor be these two?" Huo Tang asked curiously, as soon as she got the letterhead, she couldn't help but think so in her heart, but when she thought of the identities of these two people, Huo Tang felt that it was unlikely, so she wanted to hear Huo Guang's reply.

"Nine times out of ten, it's them." Huo Guang put the letterhead on the candlestick and lit it, and then threw it into a copper basin on the ground and said.

"It's just that the identities of these two people ....... Fear? Huo Tang was puzzled and continued to ask.

Huo Guang looked at Huo Tang, and said with a smile on his face: "Hehe, the prince is still young, and our majesty is at the peak of the Spring and Autumn Period. Acting like this kills two birds with one stone, and only our majesty has the courage to act like this! ”

With the crown prince and the prince as the imperial historian and even the prime minister, this is reasonable. However, the Imperial Doctor and Cheng were the prince's teachers at the same time, which has never happened in the past. But this is indeed as Huo Guang said, it is the practice of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty to kill two birds with one stone. One of them makes the people of the world completely reassured, which shows the emperor's trust in the crown prince. The second is also to reassure the crown prince and Wei Huo's relatives, the emperor has arranged it like this, and this throne will be yours sooner or later.

"But...... Your Majesty's prime minister is not so easy to do....." After a long time, Huo Guang suddenly looked out the window and said with a sigh.

Zhuang Bu said without a shortage

It is necessary to correct a mistake in the previous article, as mentioned above, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty has sent Zhao Ponu and others to the four counties of Hexi, and the four counties need to be changed to the two counties of Hexi, which are the two counties of Jiuquan Wuwei. Whether it is the official history or this book, the separation of the four counties should be a few years later. In addition, it can be revealed in advance that the last place where the protagonist runs is the Western Regions. As for the relationship between the protagonist and Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and the relationship between the emperors after Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty will be completely different from the official history