Eight hundred vehicles, four thousand people, even if you remove the two drivers in each car who cannot always remain in combat condition, then there are still 2,400 fighters left.

In the face of the torrent of steel, the cavalry that represents the pyramid of today's combat effectiveness is a little insufficient.

If the technology is not in place, then use the stupidest way to solve the problem.

The driver's control room is tightly enclosed, and the area that cannot be closed is also fixed with steel wire mesh, and the sword has no effect at all for a while.

At the beginning of the design, Liu Ponu intended to use these trucks as multi-purpose combat vehicles.

No matter what kind of car it is, the safety of the driver is particularly important.

As long as the driver is okay during the battle, he can ensure his own mobility, and even if the people in the back compartment are hanged, the driver can pull their bodies back.

On the part of operational thinking.

If there were no trucks and flintlock pistols, Liu Ponu might not even be as good as a military marquis.

But now with these things, Liu Ponu can already shout without modesty, Lao Tzu is the best in the world!

Early the next morning.

Liu Ponu took the initiative to convene the Chang Dynasty for the first time, and it was only three days since the last Chang Dynasty.

In the past few months, Liu Ponu has not been in vain, at least he is already familiar with some basic operations of the imperial court.

For example, in the current matter, it stands to reason that this is not an urgent matter that burns the eyebrows.

Li Guangli has already led the army back, although there is not one out of ten, but now is not the situation of the battle, so when dealing with it, the imperial court will have more time to deal with it calmly.

According to the normal procedure, the emperor should first convene some henchmen to discuss this matter, in fact, the emperor said what he meant, and the henchmen judged whether it could be done according to the emperor's will, and what should be done in this matter is the most reasonable.

After the two sides are confirmed, the emperor will not immediately order to do it, but will let his henchmen leak this matter first, one is to probe the tone of other ministers, and the other is to let them prepare in advance, in other words, to tell you this matter in advance, so that you don't have nothing to do at the court meeting.

It's hard to say what happened to Liu Ponu as a whole in ancient times, but the Han court, who has been trained by Liu Che, still hasn't said anything about this matter.

Before the war begins, the ministers of the DPRK and China may have all kinds of thoughts, but once the war begins, whether they agree to the war or not, they will have to support it at this time.

Seeing that the people participating in the court meeting had already arrived, and yesterday had already made people leak to the outside world, so Liu Ponu didn't go to talk about it, but came up and cut directly to the topic.

"You all know about Li Guangli, right?"

The ministers looked at Liu Che, who was sitting below Liu Che's position, and nodded in a complicated mood.

"An army of 30,000 can starve to death of 267,000, Li Guangli has really made the palace rise and insight......" Liu Ponu said directly without hesitation.

"Your Highness, the minister thinks that this matter is not all General Li's fault!" In the crowd, a military general with gray hair and not too many wrinkles on his face stepped forward.

"Then according to General Gongsun's meaning, Li Guangli's defeat is His Majesty's fault?" Liu Ponu squinted slightly and stared at Gongsun Ao.

"I Have a Catalogue of Ghosts and Gods"

Gongsun Ao, like Gongsun He, was a general who followed Wei Qing to the Xiongnu several times.

The difference is that Gongsun He, who has been killed, really has military exploits, no matter what, he is also a man who captured the Hun King alive, plus a tough background.

And Gongsun Ao is the man who really relied on Wei Qing to make his debut, if it weren't for saving Wei Qing in his early years, he wouldn't have participated in the rest of the matter at all, cough cough, this is the legendary lost general in front of him.

Because on the front line, you either lose the battle or get lost, or you go to the front line to play soy sauce.

Therefore, after the last expedition in the fourth year of Yuanzhan (119 BC), Liu Che confiscated Gongsun Ao's military power and let him hold an idle position in the court.

"How can this be Your Majesty's fault?" Gongsun He glared at him.

"It's not Your Majesty's fault, it's not Li Guangli's fault, is it difficult or your General Gongsun's fault?" Liu Ponu felt a burst of hehe, and the spearhead was pointed at Gongsun Ao.

He didn't have the idea of attacking those old ministers, but the premise was that the old ministers should look like old ministers, and don't always come out and beep because of their seniority.

"Your Highness doesn't know, marching and fighting is not a question of who is right and who is wrong, many times everyone is not wrong, but the result is unsatisfactory, so the minister thinks that Li Guangli's defeat this time, the court should analyze the reasons, in order to prepare for the next expedition, to avoid repeating the mistakes of the past again." Gongsun Ao was full of unconvincing words, a little kid who has been on the battlefield twice as a big soldier, although the old man has been losing battles all his life, but even so, the old man has won more wars than you have participated in.

"Then I will bother General Gongsun to analyze it, and this palace will listen to you!" Liu Ponu smiled.

"The Western Regions are remote, far away from the border of the Han Dynasty, and the Gobi Desert is all on the way, once the army leaves the Yumen Pass, it will not be able to get any supplies from the imperial court, and since then the army's food and drink have to rely on the completion of supplies in various parts of the Western Regions."

"And the Western Regions are not the grasslands in the north, if you can't beat the Huns, you can still find their logistics to fight a dozen, so you won't find anything to eat."

"There are many cities in the Western Regions, although the city is small and not strong, but it is difficult to break through it quickly if there is no siege equipment, General Li has not thought of a way, but after breaking through a few cities, he found that the gains outweigh the losses, and the food obtained is not as much as the food consumed during the siege, and if it goes on like this, it can only accelerate the food consumption of the army, so this idea is dispelled."

"The root cause of this problem is that the Xiongnu moved westward, which had a huge threatening impact on the countries of the Western Regions, causing the deterrence of the Han army to plummet, and the countries of the Western Regions had to refuse to provide grain and grass for the Han army because they were worried that they would be liquidated by the Xiongnu afterwards."

"And some of the words that came back from the front line, it is not difficult to analyze the high-pressure policy implemented by the Xiongnu against the countries of the Western Regions, which also led to the fact that the countries of the Western Regions did not have more food."

"And the army is on the southern route, and most of the countries on the southern line live on farming, and the nomads don't need to say much about the threat to agricultural civilization, everyone knows in their hearts."

"So although the Huns did not participate in the war, but the defeat of General Li was caused by the Huns, if the imperial court cannot solve the hidden danger of the Huns, I am afraid that General Li will repeat the mistake of the Houns!" Gongsun Ao analyzed unceremoniously, and what he said was the truth, which made many people feel very reasonable when they heard it.

The powerful Han people of the Xiongnu are not unexperienced, and although the countries of the Western Regions are extremely numerous, they are all small countries.

Even the population of a county in the Han Dynasty is more than the total population of several Western Regions countries combined, and the Han Dynasty, which is countless times stronger than them, was overwhelmed by the Huns at the beginning, not to mention those small countries in the Western Regions with only a few hundred troops in one country, and their troops were not even enough to fill the gaps between the Huns.

Even to put it mildly, people can just send a scout team to destroy a small country in the Western Regions.

For Gongsun Ao to be able to analyze the essence of the problem, Liu Ponu was not surprised at all.

It's not good to fight, I've been in the court for more than ten years, and if I can't even see this problem, then these ten years will really be in vain.

"As the main general, let nine out of ten soldiers be starved to death, no matter what the reason, this is his fault!" The analysis was in place, but Liu Ponu just didn't listen.

The situation on the front line is dire, but so what?

Is there no way to get supplies from the rear?

The era of cold weapons is not the era of hot weapons, and there is really no way to run out of bullets and not replenish them.

There is no problem with weapons or anything, why can't food be available?

As a civilization in the Central Plains that started by relying on infantry, it was unexpectedly dragged down by the cities of a small country in the Western Regions for so long, to put it mildly, I was 30,000 troops directly besieging the city and scared them to not move.

Even if those small countries don't have much grain in stock, they know that their grain and grass are not enough to support them to return to Dahan.

So knowing that without doing anything, it will lead to a large number of soldiers starving to death, and you still don't think of a way to solve the problem?

Whose fault is it that he would rather watch his soldiers starve to death than go to the Huns to fight?

Although Liu Ponu didn't know what was going on on the front line, just by a few words, he could roughly guess that Li Guangli was still cowardly, or that he was a bully who was afraid of the hard, but he didn't expect that the soft persimmon he thought was suddenly hardened, and then directly broke his teeth.

Gongsun Ao snorted and didn't know what to say.

I tried my best to build a crooked building, but I didn't expect Liu Ponu to straighten the crooked building in one go, looking at Liu Ponu, who was determined to deal with Li Guangli, Gongsun Ao could only retreat silently.

Although he received the benefits, he also worked hard, and he would not implicate himself because of that little benefit.

"This palace is not here to listen to your opinions, you can not support the actions of the Han people, but you can't stop the Han people from acting, whether it is the Huns or the people of the Western Regions, no one can stop the progress of the Han people, and no one can make the Han people lose face!" Liu Ponu slowly concluded.

This was said to the Huns and the people of the Western Regions, but they couldn't hear it if it was too far away, so it should be said to these ministers.

Do you understand the insinuation?

"This palace knows what you want to say, but this palace doesn't need you to say it!" Liu Ponu looked at everyone and continued: "Han Yannian, immediately take the new army to the Western Regions, this battle this palace has only one requirement for you, if you meet a disobedient person, let him be well-behaved and obedient, and if you meet someone who feels that his head is iron, then let him try it to see if his head is really ......iron enough."