"But who's going to fight Datong?" Baoshan frowned.

He didn't want his brothers to touch this hard bone again, of course, if Zhao Ye gave a death order, he could only do it.

But this is not a good decision.

"Well, I don't quite understand what you're saying.

But I still understand the general meaning, Lao Zhang, what you mean is that blocking this piece will make it easier for us in the future.

But according to the meaning of the Baoshan brothers, now that it is blocked, we have to fill in a lot of people, right? ”

The old grandson opened his mouth at this time, he took a dry cigarette in his mouth and smoked it without a match, and a pair of eyebrows were twisted into a ball.

"Well, I said can we besiege without attacking?"

The old grandson's proposal made both sides prick up their ears.

I saw the old grandson pointing to an area depicted on the map.

"You see, Datong is a strong city, right?

The old man has been to this thing before, tsk, it's not me who said, the thickness of the city wall is not comparable to that of Wucheng.

It is an ancient city again, and several turrets and pillboxes were built nearby.

It's not that the old man underestimates our brothers, but if I really want to attack, it's not easy for many people to smash in.

Unless the enemy is short of ammunition and manpower, it is impossible to take Wucheng as easily.

But you see, this ghost place is geographically very advantageous, and it is just sideways between Jindi and Chahar.

The fastest route to Datong here is nothing more than the way, Huai'an, Tianzhen, and Yanggao County.

In this way, we can reach Datong, although there is another avenue, but that can only come from Suiyuan.

The second is to go after the deer, and then to the mountain path in Yangyuan County.

Either way, to enter Jindi, you need to go through Datong.

Unless we walk on the road, which is time-consuming and labor-intensive.

Therefore, the important geographical location of Datong does not need to be said, and it must be taken down, otherwise the door will not be closed, and it will be very troublesome.

Once the enemy counterattacks, there is no need to take the mountain path, and it is completely possible to reach Wucheng quickly.

But the advantages of Datong are obvious, and the disadvantages are not also obvious?

This Datong is not a pass, although it is a city in the middle, but we can besiege it without attacking it.

You may not know much about Datong, but I know a lot about the old man, who I have been in for a while.

There is not much water in this place, and the season is not very good now, and the water is only afraid of being very expensive.

Besides, isn't Yan Shuai leviing taxes and grain?

How much food does Datong have left at the moment? ”

What Lao Sun Tou said earlier, most of it is nonsense, everyone has looked at the map for so long, and they still know the importance of Datong. But the last sentence woke everyone up.

"That's right! It's completely possible to besiege without attacking! ”

Baoshan slapped his thigh very excited, anyway, as long as it wasn't a strong attack, he would agree very much.

But Zhang Kai frowned and said, "I don't know about the situation in Datong, Datong is really short of food?" Who among you can guarantee that?

Besides, in such a city, why is there no grain reserve in the city? Eating for a few months isn't a problem, right?

Besiege without attacking? I think we can't afford it first! ”

Zhao Ming didn't reject Lao Suntou's proposal so much, and today he was brainstorming.

"Wang Er, you have inspected the situation around Datong on the spot, tell me about the situation in Datong!" Zhao Ming looked at Wang Er.

Wang Er nodded, and said with a straight face, "Actually, I agree with Elder Sun's proposal.

According to my investigation, in fact, this year Datong is fine, there is no drought. However, last year, and the year before that, Datong and most of Jindi experienced a severe drought.

This is similar to the situation in Guanzhong, but Guanzhong is still suffering from drought.

Similarly, there was a great famine in Datong and north of Jindi, and in addition, Zhao Ye, and you, I thought of the newspaper I saw before.

In fact, not only Shaanxi, Jin, but also Ludi, just last year and this year to the present, no less than one million people have starved to death.

Combined, more than millions of people have been killed or injured.

In addition, Yan Shuai drew grain to fight, so he humbly felt that Datong had food, but not much.

And Datong has a large population, if there is no surrounding county as a supply, at most one month, the grain will be exhausted! ”

Hearing this, Zhao Ming glanced at Wang Er approvingly, this kid really listened to persuasion, let him read the newspaper often, this kid really listened.

He knew more about what Wang Er said, such as the situation in Ludi was even worse.

There were not only floods, droughts, but also locust plagues, and now the great war in the south is also very deep.

Tens of millions of people have been affected alone.

The situation in Yudi is also not optimistic, as one of the main battlefields, it is even more difficult for the people to make a living.

In contrast, although the war in Shaanxi has subsided a lot, and the main battlefield is not in that area at present, but there are fewer military disasters, but the drought and the exploitation of the war still make the people at the bottom extremely miserable.

As for Jindi, it is the least affected of these places, but it is just a comparison.

Lao Yan also doesn't have a good face for his own people, it is true that he spent money to run schools and engage in people's livelihood before, but when it comes to power struggle, he would rather the people suffer more crimes than settle things because of this.

Zhao Ming still agrees with Wang Er's analysis very much, and he definitely talks more about January.

If it is less than half a month, and more than a month, it will be up to the sky, and Datong City will have to lack food.

After all, this kind of city itself is not self-sufficient.

In these years, although each city has the habit of hoarding grain, it is also divided into times.

Moreover, water resources were scarce in these years, and if you look at the old photos at that time, you can see that the surroundings of Datong at that time looked extremely empty, like a Gobi.

There are also some scattered trees as embellishments.

In many places, even the bark of the tree was peeled and ground by the people outside the city and eaten into their stomachs.

It is better to eat the bark of a tree than to eat the soil.

"Still not! We can't afford to put it off, not even for a month and a half. ”

Zhang Kai still shook his head.

"Guys, don't I still want to take Suiyuan? If you besiege the city, a thousand people will definitely not be enough, at least one or two brigades, right?

No matter how you say it, it takes 10,000 people to do it, so that while besieging Datong, you can defeat the invading Jin army reinforcements.

Secondly, the large army is stationed in a siege, which puts great pressure on logistics, not to mention the need to use a battalion of manpower to transport supplies for this army for a long time, right?

In this way, how many people can I send to Suiyuan? ”

Zhang Kai's words silenced everyone again.

Time waits for no one, but that's true.

Not only Datong, but they also need to use troops in Xuanhua, not only Xuanhua, but also the scattered counties nearby.

Of course, Wucheng fell, and these counties probably won't resist much and surrender.

Anyway, for the local army in the county, it is commonplace to change banners frequently.

But there's no denying that these require manpower.

With the current manpower, it is impossible to support them in using troops in many places.