In view of the important surname of the plan, I also want to know what Ling Tianfang, who is far away in Jinzhou, thinks about this plan, but because Jinzhou is now mainly relying on him to preside over the overall situation, I am worried that if he leaves Jinzhou, there will be any accidents, and after thinking about it again, I feel that it is better to let Ling Tianfang stay in Jinzhou, and at the same time, I also wrote a letter about my thoughts and the reasons for the formation of my thoughts and ordered the fast horse to send them to Ling Tianfang, Jinzhou, asking him to think carefully, and come up with his views as soon as possible to repay me.

The pre-war military meeting was held in the conference room of the Chengshou Mansion as usual, and in addition to the officers above the deputy division commander of the army, Xiao Tang, Mo Lun, and Su Minshun were also invited to attend. Prior to the meeting, I had made the necessary adjustments to the personnel of the army according to the needs and agreed to Cui Wenxiu's recommendation and appointed the former commander of the First Wing of the Qingyang Second Garrison Division to be promoted to deputy division commander to replace the vacancy vacant after Kamapov's transfer; and agreed to the recommendation of Liang Chongxin and Mu Lige, and appointed Sang Sheng, former commander of the First Wing of the Qingyang First Garrison Division, to be promoted to deputy division commander to replace the vacancy after Mu Lige's transfer.

Due to the change of my position, I also changed my personal guard team to the guards, and the establishment was also expanded from a brigade to a wing, with Kang Jianguo as the captain of the guards wing, and the two proud disciples of the original [***] gate, Yue Shan and Wei Chibin, won my affirmation because of their successful performance in the Jinzhou Campaign, and after I had a commendatory conversation with the two, they served as deputy wing commanders and directors of the logistics department respectively.

When the twelve participants entered the conference room, they were all attracted by the layout of the conference room. In addition to the large map arranged by Ling Tianfang in the last meeting, which is still hanging on the wall, a large wooden platform is placed in the center of the conference room, and a lifelike miniature model of the terrain is placed on the platform, with mountains, rivers, forests, flat land, hills, slopes, and roads, which are obviously a miniature model of a specific place. This is also inspired by the detailed map prepared by Ling Tianfang last time, considering that if a three-dimensional model can be made according to the location of the battlefield, wouldn't it be more intuitive to show the geographical environment of the battlefield? In this way, it will also be more conducive to the battlefield commander to make decisions based on the characteristics of the terrain. So I asked Zhan Bei Xia to find a few craftsmen to vividly simulate the location I chose to prepare for the decisive battle with the Luope people according to the situation reported by my comprehensive intelligence officer, combined with the map.

In fact, as early as two months ago, I was thinking about a war with the Luope people, since a war with the Luope people was inevitable, it was necessary to plan as soon as possible, so on the one hand, I asked the intelligence department to collect all aspects of intelligence, and on the other hand, I was also considering whether to conduct a field duel with the Luope people or use the strong city defense facilities of Qingyang Mansion City for defensive operations.

These two combat methods have their own advantages and disadvantages, the use of city defense facilities for defensive operations, can avoid the enemy's superior arms - ironclad cavalry, the Luope ironclad heavy cavalry is the most conducive to fighting in the flat terrain, whether it is light infantry or heavy infantry in the face of large-scale ironclad cavalry impact, will inevitably suffer great losses, and even be broken through the defensive line, causing a rout. Although I have succeeded in forming a hoplite division mainly composed of Gaoyue people, after all, the training time is still short, and whether I can resist the impact of the ironclad cavalry of the Luope people remains to be tested by the facts. Moreover, the enemy's strength far exceeds that of his own side, and in the event of defeat, the enemy's cavalry superiority will also be fully utilized, and his own side is even in danger of being completely annihilated.

If you choose a field battle, you can determine the place of the decisive battle on your own side, and you can choose the place of war at the border of the country, so as to avoid the damage to the local economy caused by the war. And if you choose to fight defensively, the rest of the city outside the city will inevitably be ravaged by the invading army of Luopei, and the economy that I have worked so hard to develop will suffer heavy losses, which is also something I extremely do not want to see. Moreover, the enemy came prepared this time, and also purchased a large number of siege weapons from foreign countries in advance, the Famini Empire has always been founded on infantry, the country has advanced science and technology, developed industry, and the siege weapons produced are of high quality and high price, and the surname can be outstanding, which is a great threat to the defending side. In this way, it will also increase the difficulty of your own defense to a large extent, and the price you pay will be much greater.

But there are many advantages to choosing defensive operations, first choose defense, you can make full use of solid city defense facilities including a variety of defensive weapons, can greatly kill and injure the attacking side, now the offensive battle, the general offensive and defensive force losses are more than 2:1, if the defending side has a strong defensive capability, this proportion will be higher. This percentage decreases if the attacking side has an advantage in siege facilities.

In short, there are advantages and disadvantages to choosing field warfare and urban defense warfare, which makes it a bit difficult for me to choose. Choosing defensive operations, although the Luope people have the advantage of troops, although they have also purchased a large number of advanced siege equipment, but Qingyang's city defense construction is not what it used to be, after more than a year of updating, strengthening and improving, I dare not say that it is indestructible, but if you want to capture, I am afraid it is not easy, not to mention that the strength of my army is not Wuxia Amon, so if you choose defensive operations, I myself have absolute certainty to repel the attack of the Luope people, but the economic and military losses in Qingyang are certainly not a small number.

If we can resist the onslaught of the superior ironclad heavy cavalry of the Luopes, we will have the initiative. However, the enemy's cavalry advantage is too obvious, although there are not many hoplites, but they can rely on the numerical advantage of light infantry to make up for it, and our cavalry is still a certain gap with the Luope people in terms of quality and quantity, so even if it resists the impact of the opponent's cavalry, the outcome of the war is still unknown.

It was not until a large amount of intelligence feedback from the intelligence department that a vague idea gradually formed in my mind, and although this idea was a bit risky, it also had a certain basis, and it could give full play to the advantages of our army and win by surprise, but whether it was feasible or not needed to be debated at the meeting.

While everyone was speculating about the model on the desk, I motioned for everyone to be silent and asked Mo Lun to give a detailed introduction to the information he had recently gathered, and a brief introduction to the upcoming war, and finally I turned my attention to the officers of the army, "In view of the importance of this battle, I hope that everyone can express their opinions and speak freely, without any scruples or constraints. "Almost every time I have a meeting, I hope that my subordinates can give full play to their own subjective initiative, consider the problem from their different perspectives, and present a situation where a hundred schools of thought are contending, only in this way can different opinions exist, and they can also find their own shortcomings.

As soon as I finished speaking, everyone in the room began to think or discuss with their neighbors.

"My lord, I would like to start by saying what I think. "It was Mulig who spoke, and I nodded and motioned for him to continue," I tend to engage in field battles with the Rope people in the field for three reasons: first, our army's hoplites have been trained and mature, and I believe that they can withstand the test of any country's heavy cavalry, and the Rope people's eastern crusade army has been supplemented with a large number of new soldiers, especially the infantry camp, and the combat effectiveness will definitely decline, as long as we withstand the enemy's cavalry onslaught, our cavalry can break through their infantry defense line, and we will be able to win the initiative; second, intelligence shows that the enemy has purchased a large number of equipment to attack the city first, and the number of infantry is huge, and if we take defensive operations, our losses will definitely be not small; third, we will adopt defensive operationsWe can only passively use the defense facilities of the city of Fucheng for defense, and we need to abandon other areas outside the city of Fucheng, which is also a major blow to our economic development and the prestige we have established among the people, and I believe that no one can ignore this. Mulig had clearly thought it through to say this, and at the same time, his words also revealed the strength of the hoplites he had trained.

Mu Lige's words immediately won the support of his deputy Shan Gen and Xiao Tang and Su Minshun, Shan Gen is naturally of the same mind as his own commander, not to mention that he also has the same confidence in the hoplite division composed of his own people, and Xiao Tang and Su Minshun don't know much about military affairs, but they also know that fighting in Qingyang will inevitably have a huge negative impact on the local economy, so they also agree with Mu Lige's idea.

But the people present did not agree with Mu Lige's idea, and Kamapov also put forward his own opinion: "My lord, my subordinates do not agree with the opinion of the commander of Mu Lige's division, and think that it should be necessary to use the strong city defense of the city to carry out defensive operations, for the following reasons, the enemy has a strength of as many as 200,000 people, whether it is cavalry or infantry, it has maintained an absolute advantage over our army, if it is a field battle, it will be a bitter battle, first of all, can our infantry resist the iron-clad heavy cavalry of the Luope people? The strength of the heavy cavalry of the Luope people is obvious to all, and the main force of our army for defense - There are only 15,000 hoplites, and the army has been in existence for less than a year, and it is not possible to make a conclusion lightly as to what kind of strength it is; this is one thing; the number of cavalry in our army is only 30,000, and the number of heavy cavalry is only 15,000, while the enemy's light infantry has 100,000 and 10,000 hoplites, which is almost four times the cavalry we attack。 If we take defensive operations, we can make full use of the city's defense facilities and weapons to greatly kill and injure the enemy's vital forces, and our troops have already had the experience of the last Qingyang defense battle, this war will be more handy, and the people in the city will unite to support us, with our current strength, we should be able to defeat the invading enemy. As for the invasion of the Luope people, it will bring great losses to the local economy of Qingyang, which is also a helpless thing, the war is cruel, and it will inevitably bring losses of people and property, so it can only be minimized. ”

As soon as Kamapov's words fell, Su Minshun, who was a little emotional, stood up: " Commander of the Kamapov Division, I remember that someone once told me that at that time, Master Li had publicly promised the people at the meeting to celebrate the victory of the Qingyang Defense War the year before that he would do his best to protect the lives and property of the people of QingyangMaster Li, do you say?"

I didn't expect Su Minshun to point the finger at me in the end, and he also took advantage of the situation to take advantage of my army, Kamapov also looked a little embarrassed, he didn't expect that his military proposal would be caught by Su Minshun on the line, so he didn't know how to explain it. I also understand Su Minshun's feelings, it took a lot of money and energy to develop Qingyang's economy decently, and now he has to give up completely, except for the construction of more than 20 rural market towns in Kaifucheng, it is possible that it will be destroyed in one fell swoop, and the Luope people suffered huge losses the year before last, and this time they will definitely have to redouble their revenge, so that it is possible to return to the way they were three years ago, which is something that a local official is unwilling to accept in any case.

Liang Chongxin was more inclined to Mu Lige's view, believing that he could use the advantage of hoplites to attract the enemy's main cavalry, and then use his own cavalry camera to break through the enemy's weak link; Cui Wenxiu agreed with Kamapov's view that using strong city defense facilities for defensive operations could effectively preserve strength and defeat the enemy. Naturally, the officers were divided into two factions and engaged in fierce arguments, and neither could convince anyone.

I listened carefully to the opinions of both factions, which were actually similar to my thoughts, each with its pros and cons, and finally I stood up, motioned for everyone to remain silent, and walked to the topographic model in the desk, "Guys, can anyone tell what kind of place this is?"

Everyone was quiet, everyone's attention returned to this terrain model, Xiao Tang observed carefully for a long time, and finally asked with some doubts: "My lord, this doesn't seem to be the terrain in our Qingyang territory, right?"

A word woke up the person in the dream, Mu Lige first reflected, he is a native of Yinchuan Prefecture, and he is also familiar with the geography of the northwest region, "My lord, this seems to be the Jiantoupo area on the East Tengger Grassland, I passed by this area with my uncle several times when I was young. Could it be that the adults want to ...... there, but it is still hundreds of kilometers away from us, and it has already penetrated deep into the East Tengger Prairie!"

As soon as Mu Lige's words came out, everyone's eyes looked at me, shocked, puzzled, and puzzled, which contained all kinds of meanings.

"Yes, I just planned to set up an ambush here, and I was surprised and caught off guard by the Luope. As the saying goes, if you don't enter the tiger's den, you will get the tiger's son? The most dangerous place is also the safest, and it is precisely because we are deep in the enemy's territory that we will not attract the enemy's attention and can we achieve the goal of winning by surprise. I have also made a careful analysis of the two plans you discussed just now, but after thinking about it again, I feel that it is unsatisfactory and there are always shortcomings that cannot be overcome, so I put aside these two plans and come up with this plan again to discuss with you. I nodded slowly and said what I thought.

"However, my lord, the enemy's main army is as much as 200,000, and even if we want to ambush us, we will have to mobilize a large number of troops, how can such a large-scale troop operation avoid the detection of the enemy's spies? Choi Wenxiu first raised questions. This is also the biggest question of everyone here, if you want to defeat the 200,000 enemy army in one fell swoop, even if it is an ambush and a surprise attack, you must have a considerable army, otherwise you will not be able to crush the main force of the enemy, and how can the large-scale movement of the army, especially in the enemy's territory, achieve the purpose of secrecy?

"Everyone," I turned their attention to the big map, "I am going to have a part of the troops set off immediately, disguised as horse thieves, and enter the East Tengger Grassland, that is, along this area to carry out continuous burning, killing and plundering, to drive away the Luope herdsmen in this area, and to vacate a marching route, which the Luope people have no garrison in this area, which is not difficult to do." In this way, our army can sneak in, and of course we must do a good job of secrecy. As soon as I said my idea, it immediately surprised everyone in the room, but they all felt that it was indeed an excellent method of secrecy.

"Let's look at the terrain of Jiantoupo again, the enemy's general marching route will definitely be along the flat land on the south bank of the river, and the flat land on the south side of the river is a shallow hill to the south, which is densely covered with forests, we can arrange our main cavalry here, the enemy's 200,000 army, at least stretching for several miles, we will ambush the main hoplites in the forest here around the slope of Jiantoupo, and when the enemy's main ironclad cavalry arrives here, they will be intercepted here, and at the same time, the cavalry lying in the forest on the shallow hill will condescendingly attack the infantry and baggage troops in the middle of the enemy's army, scatter them, drive them back to retreat, and then pursue, taking advantage of the enemy's chaotic army to disrupt the deployment of the enemy's rear army, we take advantage of the victory to attack and completely defeat them, remembering that it is a defeat, not an elimination, and we do not have that much strength to destroy them. As for the enemy ironclad cavalry in the front, after encountering the sniping of our hoplites and spearmen, it is estimated that they will not have much combat effectiveness, even if they escape, it has nothing to do with the overall situation, and our light infantry will follow closely to clean up the battlefield. ”

I stood in front of the terrain model, pointed to the various places on the model, and analyzed them one by one, "I also analyzed the strength of the enemy's army and the commander of this eastward invasion, although the enemy has a large number of troops, but because of the large number of new recruits, its strength does not have much advantage, especially the infantry. And because he had only adjusted the garrison area, he was not familiar with the situation in the east, and although the commander Uller was known as the first fierce general of Luobei, he was only brave in battle, and his personal martial arts were strong, and his command ability was not outstanding, and there was also the weakness of pride and conceit, which was of great advantage to us. As long as we do our work well, I believe that this war will end in our great victory!"

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