It's just that Zhao Kuo wants to make a perfect connection, but it's not so easy. Without him, just when King Zhao, Lou Chang and others were calculating how to force Zhao Kuo to return to the army, Zhao Kuo was also giving the order to attack in Sangan City, the front line of Daijun.

In the Chinese military tent, a large sand table has been arranged in place, Zhao Kuo naturally stood alone at the head, and on the right hand side of Zhao Kuo is the newly promoted popular spicy chicken - General Li Mu, on the left hand side of Zhao Kuo is the main general of the original land Chen Xun, Sun Gu and Zhou Qi The two generals are behind Li Mu and Chen Xun respectively.

These five generals are already all the generals of this military conference. Small meetings are often the most important meetings.

The so-called small will do big things, and the conference will do small things, and this has been the case since ancient times. Even, the reason why Chen Xun appeared here was just because Zhao Kuo reluctantly shouted after considering the mood of the generals on behalf of the land.

In fact, he is not among the main characters this time. Of course, Chen Xun, as a veteran, is still very suitable to play the role of the Seagod Needle in Sanggan City.

The eyes of the five people were all staring at the sand table in front of them, and even Chen Xun was very excited at this time.

No way, last night to the general

The words of "Kou can go, I can also go" are too burning, although he also knows that he is destined to not be the protagonist in this battle, but it is a great luck to be able to witness it with his own eyes and bow to its prosperity!

On the sand table that everyone was staring at, it was the deployment of the forces of Zhao and Beihu that were scattered everywhere.

On the red side is the Zhao State, which still uses the three cities of Macheng, Sanggan and Dangcheng as the support points of the front, during which dozens of hundreds of fortresses connect the three cities into a bow-shaped line.

There are two differences from the previous layout: First, Macheng, which originally had only more than 8,000 troops, that is, the westernmost city of Dai County where Li Mu was originally stationed, Zhao Kuo increased his troops to more than 14,000 people, almost increasing his combat power by more than half.

The reason is also very simple, one is because of Li Mu's transfer, which is a weakening of Ma Cheng's defense, and the other is to deal with Hu Ren's offensive layout this year.

The second, and biggest difference, lies in the Daicheng in the rear and the place where Zhao Kuo and others are now - Sanggan City.

The 20,000 cavalry troops that were supposed to be on standby in Daicheng were all transferred by Zhao Kuo to the frontline of Sanggan City, and together with the 10,000 horses that Zhao Kuo brought from Shangdang County and the more than 12,000 soldiers and horses who were already stationed there, more than 36,000 soldiers and horses have now gathered in Sanggan City.

So many soldiers and horses gathered in Sanggan City, obviously not to defend the city. In the rear of the city, there are only a few thousand people left to cope with the unexpected needs.

Such a heavy deployment of troops, especially the practice of not leaving enough reserves, is obviously a wave of despair.

Even Chen Xun, who had been persuaded by Zhao Kuo, couldn't help but be shocked by Zhao Kuo's courage to fight hard when he saw Zhao Kuo's final troop deployment.

It's just that, to be honest, Chen Xun still feels that there is a little risk in his heart, maybe it would be a better choice to withdraw 10,000 cavalry to Daicheng as a strategic general reserve.

After all, this battle is not to destroy Hu, but to try to eliminate the difference in strength between the two armies, and there is really no need to work so hard.

Putting fewer troops on the front line is nothing more than breaking a few tribes, but if there is a slight accident...... In Chen Xun's vision, as long as we hold on, we will either expand the army or reinforce it in the coming year, and our army will definitely win the final victory.

seemed to see through Chen Xun's doubts, Zhao Kuo just said lightly, which made Chen Xun, who still wanted to persuade him, obediently close his mouth-

"If we don't have the courage to make a desperate bet today, in the coming year, where will we be able to go, and where can we have the confidence?" Of course, this is just Zhao Kuo's agitation method in order to block everyone's cranky thoughts.

The actual situation was that he had received information that the Yan army was about to move south, and he had to reduce the combat strength of the Hu people to a minimum before the Yan army arrived in Handan and the king of Zhao recalled him, so low that the Dai Di garrison could hold it with only 40,000 men.

For this reason, Zhao Kuo even decided to open one of his hole cards! Compared with the relatively concentrated Zhao army, the formation of the Hu people was a little chaotic.

The largest force was far in the northwest, and it was Beihudanyu and its vassal tribes, with a strength of about 70,000, and the direction of its march was to the westernmost Macheng.

Scattered tribes and soldiers were incorporated into it. It is expected that by the time they arrive at the city of Macheng, the number of troops will reach nearly 80,000 to 90,000.

And in the direction of the north of Sanggan City, Xu is because of the non-main direction of attack, and even the various tribes have not yet formed a joint force, almost east and west, the largest tribe Zuo Xianwang is about more than 20,000 soldiers and horses, is gathering various tribes along the way, towards Sanggan City, it is expected that after arriving under Sanggan City, the total strength will reach about 40,000 to 50,000.

As for the northeastern part of Sanggan City, it was the headquarters of the Hu people's Right Xian Wang, and their march was a little faster, with more than 30,000 soldiers and horses combined, and there were several tribes of thousands of people on the way, and it was obvious that their goal was the easternmost city.

And the total strength of this Hu people should also be between four and fifty thousand. From the above, it is not difficult to see that after several years of exploration, even the Beidi Hu people who have not read the art of war have gradually gained some experience and changes.

The most important embodiment is the choice of their offensive direction, from the reckless action of advancing at the beginning, to the main attack in the middle to try to smash Huanglong, and then to today's focus of attack on Macheng, which is the most distant from Handan and Daicheng.

Being away from Handan and Daicheng also means that the supply line is lengthened, which means that for every grain transported to Macheng, three grains of grain need to be spent on the road, or even more.

This is one of the reasons why the walls of Horse City are so narrow, but they have not been expanded. Not only the city walls, but also the bows, crossbows, arrows and other ordnance materials, Horse City is almost the least of the three cities.

Fortunately, there is a good general in Macheng, Li Mu, who used materials far inferior to those of the two cities to block the attack of almost the same enemy.

Although the block is blocked, however, a few classes are as strong as Li Mu, and there is no way to make the Hu people not see any flaws, after all, the Hu people have eyes, as long as they have seen the city walls of Macheng and Sanggancheng, they will soon know the gap, whether it is width, length or height, Macheng is much inferior.

And three years is enough time for the Hu people to know which city is the weakest. I have to say that even the Hu people are constantly improving, from blindly fighting recklessly to learning to concentrate troops, from rushing for quick success to learning to find the weaknesses of their opponents, it took three years for the Hu people in the north and the lives of hundreds of thousands of warriors.

It's just that I don't know, after this battle, what will the Hu people learn from Zhao Kuo? Fortunately, Zhao Kuo has already increased a large number of troops in Macheng, and the last thousands of soldiers in Daicheng are also ready to rush to the aid of Macheng at any time.

Coupled with the perfect defensive system left by Li Mu, Hu Ren wanted to break through, but it was not so easy.

The masters present are all battle-hardened generals, just looking at the sand table, they have roughly guessed Zhao Kuo's strategy, but there is no need for Zhao Kuo to explain more, it is nothing more than that

The strategy of "Tian Ji Horse Racing" is just to use his own horse against the enemy's horse. And the winner of the war was whether Zhao Kuo broke the Hu people first, or Ma Cheng was first broken by the main force of the Hu people.

It's just that what everyone doesn't know is that Zhao Kuo's appetite will be so big! Now that the strategy is clear, the next step is nothing more than tactics.

"Zhou Qi." Zhao Kuo then began to point out.

"The end will be." Zhou Qi immediately agreed.

"How's the heavy armor training?" Zhao Kuo continued to ask.

"The three thousand heavy armored cavalry have completed their preliminary training, and the riding formation has been passed, but the battle armor is not available, and it has not been able to form sufficient combat power for the time being." Zhou Qi replied fifteen-ten.

Zhao Kuo nodded and continued to ask, "How many sets of battle armor have you sent?" ”

"More than three hundred." Zhou Qi immediately replied, as if he was afraid of Zhao Kuo's punishment, and hurriedly added: "General Zhao Wei has stopped the production of Mo Dao and made every effort to build the heavy armor of the cavalry, but it is just ......" Zhao Kuo heard this, and sighed slightly in his heart, the difficulty of building heavy armor was obviously a little unexpected by Zhao Kuo.

However, Zhao Kuo was a little lucky, glad that he adjusted his strategy in time, if he followed the previous plan, he would have to destroy Hu this year, I am afraid he would suffer a big loss.

Three hundred, not too much, no less. It may not be possible to completely destroy the enemy in a large-scale battle, but it is obviously not a big problem to use it to cut through the barriers.

In this way, you may be able to keep a little bit of your other hole card.

"Three hundred." Zhao Kuo muttered and repeated: "Select three hundred cavalry, form a charging group, carve out the enemy formation for our army, and inherit the order of the vanguard." ”

"Yes." Zhou Qi immediately agreed. Immediately, Zhou Qi asked with some hesitation: "General, the heavy cavalry naturally needs to be equipped with stirrups, and the rest of the cavalry?" Zhao Kuo hesitated a little when he heard this, three hundred cavalry with stirrups, covered with armor, he was not afraid of the Hu people finding out, but if the rest of the cavalry also tied the stirrups, there were many people, it would be difficult to control, in case this sharp weapon was learned by the Hu people, I am afraid it would bring unimaginable difficulties to the Hu people in the next year...... No, if you see a Hu tribe, you can destroy a Hu tribe, then it will really be a sea of blood and hatred, and you will never die, which is obviously not consistent with Zhao Kuo's combat ideas of assimilating the Hu people and eliminating culture.

What's more, in the vast grassland, how difficult it is to annihilate them all.

"The rest are temporarily guarding the Chinese army." After thinking about it for a while, Zhao Kuo decided to hide another hand a little, expecting that another 300 heavy cavalry would cut through the enemy formation, and the 20,000 cavalry and 10,000 foot soldiers in the follow-up should be enough to tear apart all the resistance forces.

"Yes." Zhou Qi replied again.