"The Huns are coming?"

"There are more than a dozen strands that have crossed Yin Mountain and entered Shuofang County?"

"In addition, 30,000 elites appeared more than six hundred miles west of Jilusai?"

Listening to Zhang Anshi's words, Yang Chuan groaned several times, glanced at everyone in the audience, and suddenly smiled: "Come in." ”

As he spoke, he got up and walked into a very spacious secret room in the back hall, but it was the 'war room' that he had specially cleaned up for himself.

On the wall of this chamber hangs a large and detailed map, full of lines, circles, and triangular symbols of different colors such as red, yellow, blue, and black, which at first glance looks a little confusing.

However, when everyone approached and took a closer look, they were not only surprised.

The 'military maps' of the Han Empire were very frenzied, often using simple folds as mountain ranges, a curved line to represent rivers, at most some cities, fortresses, etc., and some simple lines and arrows to indicate the offensive routes of each other, which was too simple in Yang Chuan's view.

It is no wonder that Li Guang, the 'Marquis of Elk', and even Zhang Qian, the 'living map' of the Han Empire, will lose their way in the Mobei grassland in several major wars.

It can only be said that it is not a crime of war.

Time is also fate.

In order to completely change this situation, Yang Chuan, a cook, had to do his best and work the drawing of the map, and finally achieved something.

The map of the northern border counties of the Han Empire in front of me is one of them.

"Yes, that's great!"

Huo Quzhi, Cao Xiang, Dongfang Shuo and others have all seen the fineness and accuracy of Yang's map, but there is no big reaction; Only Sima Qian, although he was once shocked by Yang Chuan's 'Shuofang County Reclamation Map'.

However, when he was faced with the map in front of him, he was shocked again.

He was like a countryman with little knowledge, his mouth was full of sighs, and he stood in front of the map and just said yes again and again: "Yang Chuan...... Uh, Marquis Changning, can I rub a copy of your map? ”

Yang Chuan mercilessly refused: "This is a military secret, you don't want to die?" ”

Sima Qian reacted at this time, his big red face turned red, and he smiled with an embarrassed expression: "I still want my life, but I can always look at this map for a while, right?" ”

Yang Chuan smiled, no longer paying attention to Sima Qian, but pinched a small boxwood stick, and pointed on the map: "This is Guyang Mountain, you can enter Wuyuan County through a large canyon, the passage between Wuyuan County and our Shuofang is only a stone barrier, there are 3,000 infantry troops stationed here, plus the city wall is strong, easy to defend and difficult to attack, there should be no problem." ”

"In the eastern front, Yunzhong, Dingxiang, Yanmen, and Daijun, although there are large armies of Li Guang, Li Xi, Lu Bode and others stationed, but Ben Hou estimates that they should only hold on to the city, and at most they will drive away, which is useless for the small Hun troops who are wandering around and committing crimes."

"Therefore, once the Huns break through the eastern front, after plundering the area around Shangjun, it is very likely that they will turn westward and enter our Shuofang County through Hanging Leisai, Yuanting, Huxuan and other places."

"In other words, we not only have to face the Huns from seven or eight passages in Yinshan, but also fight against the 30,000 elite Hun cavalry who attacked Gao Yun and Jilusai."

"At the same time!"

Yang Chuan took a deep breath, looked at Huo Quzhi, Cao Xiang, Sima Qian and others with a solemn expression, and said coldly: "At the same time, we also have to guard against the twenty or thirty Hun cavalry flowing from the counties of the Eastern Front. ”

"The situation in our Shuofang County is different from other places."

"Yanmen, Dingxiang, Yunzhong, there are strong cities, coupled with this year's drought, it is estimated that at the same time as the Huns attack, a large number of people will hide in the city, and give up all the crops that have no harvest, or even burn them with fire, to a strong wall to clear the wilderness."

"However, in the ten counties of our Shuofang, in the 1.2 million acres of irrigated land, wheat is being harvested, and others such as melons, fruits and vegetables, mulberry hemp, cotton, flax, rape, etc., are growing just right, which should be the main target of the Huns this time......

Yang Chuan signaled and asked Zhang Anshi to step on the ladder and draw twenty or thirty arrows on the map, indicating that the Hun cavalry that might enter Shuofang County.

"Go to the sick, you are the captain of the Yulin Military Academy, and you are also the general who is the best at fighting among us, talk about your thoughts."

Yang Chuan looked at Huo Quai.

Huo Quzhi stood in front of the giant map, his face was tilted, his two sword eyebrows were slightly furrowed, and in Danfeng's eyes, there seemed to be a small flame burning, and the whole person seemed to exude a very strange aura, which made people feel a slight chill in their hearts.

For a long time, for a long time.

Huo Quzhi took the boxwood stick from Yang Chuan's hand, pointed to the map, and said: "In the direction of Jilusai and Gaoyun on the western front of Shuofang, there are 12,000 men and horses of the imperial court border army stationed there, and it should be fine for a while, but a bitter battle should not be avoided; If Yi Zhixian had been clever, he would have made a feint attack on the Great Wall, but his main cavalry would have made a detour to the north or south;

The cavalry going north could cross the Yin Mountain and enter Shuofang directly;

The southward cavalry can forcibly pass through the Ulan Buhe Desert and the Alxa Desert, bypass the Helan Mountains, and directly attack Lingwu, Lingzhou, Wuhai and other places, so as to directly enter the most important tuntian land in Shuofang;

Once the main cavalry of Yi Zhixian and the soldiers and horses of the Right Xian King converge and attack the line of Lingwu, Lingzhou, and Wuhai, it will naturally become a field battle, and our little strength is not enough to see ......"

Huo Quzhi's vision is naturally not bad, and he suddenly said the key point-

The Huns, who would not die in front of a Great Wall pass, would definitely find a way to attack Shuofang County from other places.

Shuofang County, which had just started Tuntian, was almost a huge sieve, full of loopholes, and any Hun cavalry rushing in could cause extremely bad damage.

Fight, not afraid.

I'm afraid of the 1.2 million acres of newly reclaimed farmland!

This is like Wei Qing, Li Xi, Gongsun He, Su Jian, Li Guang and other generals, when they seized the Hetao Plain in the 'land of Henan', they sounded very uplifting, and people couldn't help but be enthusiastic, and they couldn't wait to pick up their guns and horses to fight.

In Yang Chuan's words, at that time, the barefoot people were not afraid of you wearing shoes, anyway, the Hetao area once belonged to the territory of the Huns, and hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses of the Han Empire were rampant, killing and killing, and most of the dead and wounded were Huns, and the seriously damaged was the Xiongnu royal court after all.

But.

Today's Shuofang County is a county of the Han Empire, its own territory, its own fertile land, homes and pastures......

I'm a madman!

He uncharacteristically mobilized 70,000 Hun cavalry, plus 30,000 elites under the royal court, divided the troops into seven or eight routes, and attacked Yunzhong, Dingxiang, Yanmen, Jiuyuan, Gaoyun and Wuquan at the same time; Every cavalry, the siege of the city is fake, and the wanton looting is real, intending to teach the Han Empire a painful lesson.

Ostensibly, the goal of the Huns' actions was to rob the Han Chinese of summer grain.

As a matter of fact......

It should have come to Shuofang County, which had just begun to be reclaimed, and several people present quickly reached a consensus on this.

"As I said, the court of the Huns is not full of fools," Yang Chuan was lying on a rattan chair, staring at the giant map on the wall with his eyes hooked, half-squinting, and said leisurely: "Last time, Dachangmen Cui Jiu said that the big traitor Zhongxing was dead, and Ben Hou said that he was not dead.

Look, this is the strategy and means of the Han people. ”

Yang Chuan pondered for a long time, and asked Huo Quzhi again: "Go to illness, how should this battle be fought?" ”

Huo Quai's face was embarrassed, and he said: "If you don't care about our more than one million acres of newly cultivated land, this battle is too easy to fight, draw a gourd according to the scoop, put all the Hun cavalry in, and then close the door and beat the dog, which will definitely make Yi Zhixian regret it;

However, seeing that our crops are about to be harvested, those wolf Riha obviously concluded that we dare not and do not want to let them in.

Besides, I don't know how the emperor and my uncle thought about it......"

Yang Chuan looked at Huo Quai's illness, and while he was very pleased, he also felt a little regretful.

Huo Qubing in the history books never cares about any good fields, crops, and harvests, but only wants one victory after another that is enough to go down in history; But now it seems that the current Huo Quai, who is sick, has begun to think about the people's livelihood issues, and he doesn't know whether it is good or bad?

In short, Yang Chuan's two butterfly wings have begun to quietly change the people and things around him.

In the same way, the trajectory of history seems to have begun to undergo some kind of unknown shift......

……

Early the next morning, in the Weiyang Palace of Chang'an City, Liu Che urgently summoned Wei Qing.

"Brother-in-law, our plan may be two months in advance."

As soon as they met, Liu Che said a little impatiently: "Yi Zhixian gathered 100,000 cavalry and launched a war on the northern front at the same time, according to the secret letters sent by Yang Chuan, Qu Zhi, and Cao Xiang, the target of the Huns should be the more than one million acres of tuntian in Shuofang County. ”

Wei Qing nodded and said, "Weichen also received an urgent report from Li Guang, Li Xi and others, and a large number of unknown Hun cavalry also appeared in Yunzhong, Dingxiang, and even Shanggu, Yuyang and other places in Youzhou.

Weichen judged that Yi Zhixian wanted to do something big this time, not only to destroy Shuofang County's Tuntian plan.

Your Majesty, please see. ”

Wei Qing took out a scroll of maps from his sleeve and presented it with both hands.

"Brother-in-law, you can say it directly," Liu Che spread out the map and looked at it carefully, "I think Yi Zhixian's move is very strange, knowing that there is a great drought in the north, as long as they don't break through those cities, they won't be able to grab much food." ”

Wei Qing said: "Your Majesty's judgment is correct. ”

"Yi Zhi is ostensibly assuming a posture of going south and plundering wildly, but in fact, he has three goals."

"First, taking advantage of the fact that our army is not ready for the third battle of Henan, let the Right Xian King attack the Lingwu and Lingzhou lines, and let the Zuo Xian King attack Shanggu, Yuyang, and Youbeiping; The main force of his own royal court attacked the front line of Dingxiang, Yunzhong, and Shuofang in a big way, which was to set up a maze array with us, so that the main force of our Han army was surrounded and intercepted on all sides, and he was exhausted. ”

"Second, whether it is the western front, the northern front or the eastern front, as long as they can break through one place, they can be regarded as taking advantage, and after burning, killing and looting, many of our counties are estimated to be scorched earth;

Shuofang County, in particular, is the only place that can have a bumper harvest this year, and more than one million acres of watered land are enough to make those wolves crazy. ”

"Third, and most importantly, the point."

Wei Qing took a step forward and said in a low voice: "Whether Yi Zhixian occupies the land of Youzhou or recaptures the Hetao area, we can find a way to fight back."

However, if his goal is ...... What about Chang'an City? ”

Liu Che was stunned.

Immediately, his face became solemn, leaned over to check the map presented by Wei Qing, scolded in a low voice, and muttered: "I feel that this matter is a little strange, brother-in-law, the two of us really thought of one place." ”

"Yi Zhixian is this dog, you want to play a big game of chess with me?"

Wei Qing smiled and said, "If you want to play a big game of chess with Your Majesty, he is not qualified enough; However, if it is really similar to what we expected, at the cost of launching a full-scale war on the eastern, northern, and western fronts, the ultimate goal is Ganquan Palace and Chang'an City, and it can only be said that there must be a master in the royal court of the Huns to guide him. ”

"You mean the Bank of China said that castration?" Liu Che looked up and asked.

"It is rumored that the last time Yi Zhixian poisoned Da Dan, the Bank of China said that he was killed by the rebels," Wei Qing frowned and said, "However, Yang Chuan sent a secret message saying that the information from the nail he left on the Mobei grassland showed that the man was not dead; On the contrary, now that the tide is rising, he has become the great military advisor of Yi Zhixie, and I heard that his status is even higher than that of the high priest of the royal court. ”

Liu Che waved his hand and chuckled: "It doesn't matter if he is dead or alive, he must be killed when he turns around anyway." ”

Wei Qing nodded, but did not speak.

In order to assassinate Zhongxing, Dachangmen Cui Jiu personally went to the Mobei grassland three or four times, and it is said that one or two hundred embroidered messengers were lost, but they returned in vain; As the saying goes, 'cars have lanes, horses have roads', in the court and in the harem, it is best not to know a lot of secret things, so as not to invite any strange cause and effect to yourself.

Liu Che was very satisfied with Wei Qing's performance, but laughed and said: "Brother-in-law, you are good at everything, but why do you become more restrained the more you fight?" This is not good, as a general, how can you not have a little sharpness? ”

Wei Qing bowed down and said, "Weichen keep it in mind. ”

Liu Che felt a little bored.

He waved his hand and said, "Let's talk about how to fight this battle." ”

"You're a general, you have the final say."

Wei Qing groaned a few times and said, "Weichen has three strategies. ”

"The best strategy is to follow Yi Zhi's style of play, just like the second battle of Henan, put all his 100,000 elite cavalry in, and then close the door and fight the dog again;"

"The middle strategy is to order Li Guang, Li Xi, Lu Bode, Yang Chuan and others to defend to the death, launch a blockade along the Great Wall of the northern line, gradually consume the sharpness of the Hun cavalry, and then send a group of soldiers and horses to detour behind it, and attack back and forth, which will definitely annihilate the main force of the Huns in one fell swoop;"

"The next strategy is ......"

Wei Qing was about to continue, but Liu Che suddenly waved his hand and said with a chuckle: "Brother-in-law, I just said that you, a great general, are fighting, how can you become more and more restrained.

Look, what did I say?

Your strategy, it is estimated that he will fight him, we will fight ours, while the Great Wall of the Northern Front is being blocked, our army will go straight to Longcheng and sweep the Mobei grassland, right? ”

Wei Qing was silent for a long time, nodded and said, "Yes." ”

Liu Che laughed: "So, the strategy you mentioned is actually the real best policy in my opinion......

(End of chapter)