The man took out a long thin wooden stick and pointed on the map: "The Northwest Defense Region governs an area of 1,000 miles to the northwest, with Jiayuguan as the center and scatters 500 miles to the surroundings. Where the scout camp is located, it has 10,000 horses, 100 miles to the northwest is the northwest battalion, 100 miles to the southwest is the southwest battalion, each with 10,000 horses, and the Gongwei headquarters, which is 100 miles west of the women's battalion, with 10,000 horses, responsible for spying on intelligence and patrolling the front line, and 100 miles east is the Guannei battalion, which has jurisdiction over 10,000 horses, and is responsible for guarding the rear. The Hu people are scattered everywhere, without a fixed organization, and it is rumored that they have a headquarters in the Qilian Mountains, but our scouts have gone to explore several times, but have not found any traces. ”

In a broad sense, the Hu people generally refer to the people of the Sixteen Kingdoms of the Western Regions. However, the other fifteen countries are still maintaining a superficial peace with the Xia State, but the Jingjue Country adjacent to the border of the Xia State has already declared war with the Xia State, so the Hu people habitually referred to in the Xia **** population usually only refer to the exquisite people adjacent to the border of the Xia State.

Boyan nodded, and then said to the deputy commander-in-chief: "Boss Qin, you tell everyone about the recent movements of the Hu people." ”

Boss Qin's name is Qin Chonghai, who was born in the army from the bottom of the army and became a deputy marshal with military merits, and has always been a representative of the big and rough in the army. Grandma's, a month ago, there were Hu people's rangers harassing my northwest battalion, and the generals of our battalion fought back and killed more than 30 of them, they retreated, and then turned to harass my southwest battalion, and were beaten back by the southwest battalion, and the women's battalion in the west also fought with them a few times, I don't know where these stragglers came out, suddenly appeared, suddenly disappeared, and everyone was nervous, as if they were fighting with the spirits. ”

Boyan frowned and said: "In the past, the Hu people also harassed my border, not as often as the previous month, could it be that these Hu people have some conspiracy?"

Qin Chonghai said: "Their brains are all straightforward, what kind of conspiracy can there be." It's just that I don't know who taught them such a guerrilla method, and they keep harassing us, but it's annoying. ”

Boyan said to everyone: "If you have any high opinions, you might as well talk about it and listen to it." ”

Everyone didn't dare to speak, but when Boyan saw that everyone was restrained, he named and said: "Scout camp, you have the most dealings with the Hu people, you can talk about it." Seeing that he could not hide, the head of the scout camp said: "According to the following opinion, the Hu people just came to harass us on a whim, and wanted to disturb us, seeing that we had an empty place, and when we were unprepared, he would attack." Let's just respond to all changes with the same, do a good job of defense, and don't let him take advantage of it. The generalissimo is wise and powerful, and all the generals work together to prevent him from happening. This is a beautiful statement, but it is also the same as not saying it. Boyan was noncommittal, and ordered a few more people, and several of them were all general remarks, with nothing new.

Seeing that everyone couldn't discuss something, Boyan saw Wang Yangming pondering in the crowd, so he said, "There is a new lieutenant Wang in the service camp, so I asked him to talk about it." ”

Wang Yangming himself was surprised, he didn't know why this boss let him speak, and the others were even more strange, Wang Yangming was just a lieutenant from the seventh grade, they didn't know each other very well, and the commander-in-chief actually called Wang Yangming's name. Zhuang Juxian was even more strange in his heart, thinking that even if the boss asked me about the service camp, he should have asked me first, but why did he ask the deputy manager directly.

Wang Yangming saw that he had to say, so he said cautiously: "I just listened to everyone's opinions, and I think it is very reasonable, but there is one thing that everyone doesn't seem to notice. ”

When the people heard what he said, they listened intently to what he had to say.

Wang Yangming plucked up his courage and continued: "This place that everyone didn't notice was that the Hu people had a small group of soldiers and horses disturbing the side, and the point seemed to be extremely accurate, first hitting my northwest battalion, then my southwest battalion, and then beating my women's battalion, all three times they went straight to the camp, without the slightest delay in the middle, and left without stopping after a fight, and they didn't feel sorry for the number of dead and wounded. It's weird. He fought with a force of 100 men, and naturally knew that he could not beat us, but he ran to send us to death, and the way to send him to death was also clear. So, I guess, they're tempting. ”

He said it seriously, but it caused laughter, Wang Yangming didn't know why, but he heard Qin Laodao: "This kid is really telling the truth." Hu Ren is obviously a temptation, three-year-old children can see it, and use you to say, hahahaha. ”

Boyan didn't smile, looked at him as if encouraging, and said, "Tell me how it is a temptation." ”

Wang Yangming saw his eyes, his heart was a little calm, and he continued: "I see that the Hu people's offensive route is launched from a hundred miles away, but that is the farthest distance that our scouts can probe, and the Hu people's base camp must be even farther than this, they traveled hundreds of miles away, but they accurately found our three camps and launched a suicide attack, which shows that they are very familiar with our defense position, and it is not even ruled out that someone will lead the way for them." Second, they attacked, rushed into the camp and killed people, but they were quickly defeated, and even if we killed thirty or fifty of them, one or twenty of them would flee, and when these men were gone, they would bring back our forces and arrangements, and they would send them to their deaths in order to spy on us. ”

The people listened to him and laughed at him no more. Wang Yangming's confidence increased greatly, and he continued: "So I speculate that if those of them have fled back to their headquarters now, their headquarters has already known the troop configuration and deployment location of the three battalions in front of us, and if the Hu people can gather 20,000 troops and break through the three camps one by one, our Northwest Army headquarters will be in danger." ”

Boyan nodded, and said to Qin Laodao: "How many troops can the Hu people muster at most?"

Boss Qin calculated for a while and said, "A force of 20,000 is a decisive plan, but if you count those Hu people who are herding sheep and horses, with a little training, it should be no problem to make up a team of 15,000 people." ”

Boyan said: "Even if there are 15,000 people, the Hu people have grown up on horseback since they were children, and their riding skills are not comparable to us, they are good at riding and shooting, mainly cavalry, we are the majority of infantry, and we suffer losses in terms of troops, and they know our deployment situation, if these 15,000 people come to attack, we will definitely not be able to bear it." ”

When he saw that everyone was listening carefully, he said solemnly: "I have called you here today to explain this situation. Adjutant Wang is right, our armament has been exposed under the noses of the enemy. If we don't hurry up and think of a way, I'm afraid that soon the Hu people will attack in a big way. At that time, our Northwest Army went wrong, and the Hu people drove straight into Chang'an, and it was only seven days away from Chang'an. ”

The crowd listened to him seriously, and did not dare to speak easily. Boyan said: "Deputy Lieutenant Wang, you just explained the situation, so now you can tell me what you can do." ”

Wang Yangming said: "I think there are two things that need to be done as soon as possible, the first is to change the armament, disrupt the configuration of the three major battalions outside the Guanwai, and temporarily change the location and number of people in the defense area, so that the previous spying of the Hu people will be invalid." The second is to send scouts to find the enemy's lair with all their might, gather forces to destroy the enemy in one fell swoop, and do not engage in useless fights with him. ”

Boss Qin retorted: "What you said is easy to say, but difficult to do. Changing the defense areas of the three major battalions involved countless personnel transfers and the demolition and construction of fortifications, and the search for the enemy's lair was something that we had not been able to do for more than ten years. Therefore, neither of these two can be achieved in the short term. ”

Wang Yangming just thought whimsically, and when he heard Qin Chonghai explain the difficulties, he could only be helpless, and he was speechless at the moment.

Boyan said slowly: "It is not easy for Deputy Lieutenant Wang to have such a response. But I have a way, which is easy to implement, and I can gather all the Hu people and catch them all. ”

Everyone looked at him, wondering what good ideas this general, who was known for his wit, could come up with. But he heard Boyan say: "I will use myself as bait to lure the Hu people out of the nest, and then lay our net outside the encirclement of the Hu people, before the Hu people kill me, you kill the Hu people, I can survive, and the Hu people can be wiped out." ”