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Chapter 534 Argument of Northern Border
More than half a month later than the normal climate, Xiangguo finally ushered in the moment when the ice and snow melted, but the temperature did not rise due to the melting of ice and snow, on the contrary, the melting of ice and snow brought low temperature to people.

About sending a fleet to invade the southwest peninsula was almost two months ago. Liu Yan, who is in Xiangguo, not only pays attention to the official documents, but also checks through the "map" in his mind when he is free.

Originally thought that the invasion of the southwestern peninsula would go smoothly, but the process was full of twists and turns. Not only Fu Wei, who was the frontline commander, did not expect it, but Liu Yan, who was in Xiangguo, was also surprised.

Unfamiliarity with the weather and environment in Nanyang brought quite a lot of trouble. Fortunately, after paying some price, it finally started to pay off. After the first harvest, there will be a second time, so Liu Yan can turn his attention again. to northern Xinjiang.

The Han Kingdom has been paying attention to the white disaster situation in the grassland recently. The intelligence shows that Mobei suffered heavy losses, and the Dingling tribe, which was ravaged by the white disaster, continued to move southward.

Those Ding Ling people went south to the border of Shijie Zhao State. There were tribes incorporated by Shi Hu, and there were also tribes that harassed Shijie Zhao State. The situation seemed relatively complicated.

The Han country sent manpower, not only to collect intelligence, but also to go deep into the grasslands to find the Dingling tribe.The main purpose of the Han people who went to the Dingling tribe was to make it hard for the tribe to get along with Shijie Zhao. Their actions were not very smooth. The main reason was that the Dingling people did not know that a new overlord had risen in the Central Plains.

This year's spring weather is a bit abnormal. The icy and snowy season is not suitable for military use. The Han army has no offensive actions for the time being, and is just preparing for some big battles.

Three generals of the four-level conquest were appointed, and a new round of reorganization of the army began. The troops directly under the shogunate have been planned again.

The shogunate of General Zhengbei consisted of six armies in total. Considering that the war against Shijie Zhao would be a battle of cavalry, the Huben Army and Habayashi Army were placed under the establishment of the shogunate.

At present, Li Tan, General of Zhengbei, is already in Jingling, and will preside over the next battle.The location of the Jingling Mausoleum is currently relatively special. The northeast is Jicheng, which is facing the Zhao army led by Shi Xuan, and the northwest is Zhongyang, which is facing Fu Hong's army.

"The melting of ice and snow in Bingzhou has not yet started. Considering that even the melting of ice and snow will make the roads muddy, the start of the war will be about a month after the melting of ice and snow." The soldiers are fighting, and their main authority is to stay in the center and act as the chief of staff: "Currently, four armies have entered the battle position. The plan after the war starts is to first target the enemy forces in Yangyi."

Yangyi is the point where the Shijie Zhao army stationed troops facing Jicheng. Yangyi is currently the most important barrier in Jinyang, the capital of Bingzhou.

According to intelligence, the Shijie Zhao army in Yangyi should have a scale of [-] to [-], and Donggong Gaoli, one of the elite Shijie, is among them. Di, Zahu and the like.

"Not counting the imperial guards, including the Huben Army and the Habayashi Army, we will deploy four cavalry armies on the northern front, and the other two will be infantry armies." Xu Zheng was speaking, and some officers would represent the ranks they belonged to. The flag is inserted where it should be on the sand table.He clicked on some positions and continued: "Considering that the battle of Bingzhou needs to conquer several fortified cities, the rear and flanks of the main force must also have enough troops. A sufficient number of servants."

The reason why Shijie Zhao State abandoned the Central Plains and retreated to Bingzhou and Shuozhou was due to the current situation. It is because the Hu people are not used to city offensive and defensive warfare.

Shihu concentrated the elite part of the population to a big migration, which really bankrupted Liu Yan's plan to wipe out Shijie in the Central Plains. The confrontation between the two sides will no longer be as fast as before. If Jie doesn't want to fight, it is difficult for the Han army to carry out any annihilation battle.

At present, the reason why Han and Shijie Zhao are in a confrontation in Bingzhou is that Liu Yan wants to create a phenomenon that makes Shijie mistakenly think that some cities can be defended, and mobilize more troops to garrison the cities, so that there is a chance for Han The army wiped out more Shijie Zhao troops in the city's offensive and defensive battles.

Xu Zheng has already mentioned how likely Shi Xuan and Fu Hong will stick to the city. The point of view of the Weiwei Department is that if something goes wrong, neither Shi Xuan nor Fu Hong will stick to the gains and losses of the territory, and will not care about the city. changed hands.

"The barbarian's old line is to use a large enough space to fight when he can, and to escape if he can't fight." Xu Zheng pointed to the northwestern and northern parts of Bingzhou on the sand table, and said: "These areas are important for Shijie. Ideal combat space."

It doesn't matter what the northwestern part of Bingzhou looked like during the rule of the Han family. It is now a piece of desolation. Although there are mountains, most of the area is flat. Decades of desertion have long been turned into grassland landforms.

The northern part of Bingzhou is actually Yanmen County, which has never undergone much development. During the rule of the Han Dynasty, the Guancheng was built by using the terrain. The biggest barrier against the southward invasion of the grassland barbarians is the Great Wall.

Whether it is the Great Wall built by various countries in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, or the Great Wall built during the Qin Empire, or even the Great Wall built during the Western and Eastern Han Dynasties.With the passage of time, the Great Wall has actually been dilapidated to the point of disrepair, the towering walls have become ruins, and some parts of the Great Wall have even been razed to the ground. Unless it is being built or repaired, otherwise it no longer has military capabilities. value.

"Considering that both Shi Xuan and Fu Hong may abandon the city to fight in the field, our army may easily capture various cities at the beginning of the war, and even capture Jinyang without paying much." Xu Zheng pointed at a representative of Jinyang. The model of the city said with a smile: "This will become the next bridgehead for the confrontation between the big man and the Shijie, and it has the value of being rebuilt as a garrison point and a material reserve."

"Does the Taiwei Office have an estimate? To what extent will Shihu persist in Bingzhou?" Liu Yan really used the Taiwei Office as a staff department. Before Xu Zheng could answer, he continued to ask: "The next step Is there a plan for the Battle of Shuo?"

"How long Shihu will persist in Bingzhou depends on how much Shi Jie loses." Xu Zheng confirmed with all his subordinates that Shi Jie has regained the nature of a barbarian, who doesn't care about the gains and losses of the territory, but cares about the subordinates.He looked at the position of Heshuo on the sand table, and said: "Heshuo in the pre-Han period has not changed much from Heshuo today. I looked through the classics, mainly referring to Meng Tian's battle to recover Henan and Wei Qing's battle to recover Hetao... ..."

Liu Yan naturally remembered how the Qin Empire and the Han Empire captured Heshuo. The situation in different periods was different, and the situations they faced were also different, but there must be something to learn from in terms of terrain.

Without exception, whether it is the Qin Empire or the Han Empire, the scale of troops dispatched to the Hetao area is very large, and at the same time, they did not attack all the way.

Mengtian fought the battle of Henan, the main force was to attack from Yanmen, and he deployed partial divisions in the north, adopting an offensive with two arrows that complement each other.

The Qin army attacked Hetao. At that time, the Huns in Hetao did not realize that the Qin Empire would suddenly go to war. At the beginning of the war, Qin Jun appeared unexpectedly and wiped out some unsuspecting Hun tribes. Waiting for the Huns to react, Meng Tian had already led It was not until the army attacked Beihe that the Xiongnu began to prepare for war.

The decisive stage of the Qin Empire's battle to recover Henan was not fought in just one place. It was fought in Yinshan and Helanshan highlands, and in Gaoque, Yangshan, Beijia and other places. After many bloody fights, the Huns Realizing that they could not compete with the Qin army, the Huns fled in a panic to the northwest after more than [-] people were wiped out.

The war that the Han Empire fought against Heshuo had many similarities with Mengtian's dispatch of troops, and the Xiongnu also did not take precautions.Compared with Meng Tian's victory in annihilating the enemy, Wei Qing's victory in annihilating the enemy was only killing and injuring thousands of Xiongnu and capturing more than 5000 people....

The battle against the Xiongnu commanded by Wei Qing often killed thousands of thousands. The battle of Mobei with the greatest victory was the annihilation of more than 9 Huns.And Meng Tian wiped out more than 20 Huns in just one battle, maybe... that's why Meng Tian is known as the number one warrior in China?
"Of course we know about this." Xu Zheng was asked by Ji Chang just now, and he said that the two defeats of the Xiongnu in Heshuo were without relevant combat preparations. Shijie was not the Huns who were not prepared.He was not annoyed, so he said: "Compared with pre-Qin and pre-Han, the situation faced by the great Han is different..."

Shijie had never been the overlord of the grasslands, they directly turned over their masters in the Central Plains, the Huns, and became the rulers of the Central Plains.

It is precisely that the rise of Shijie is a turnaround to be the master. The areas where they can fight in a roundabout way are Bingzhou and Shuozhou. Rouran Tribal Alliance and Murong Xianbei.

If Tuoba Xianbei and Murong Xianbei could keep Tuoba Xianbei and Murong Xianbei from interacting with Shijie in Shuozhou, which was occupied by Shijie in the Han Dynasty, the Han Dynasty would not have so many constraints.

"However..." When it comes to diplomacy, Ji Chang is qualified to speak: "Tuoba Xianbei has become an enemy country, and it is impossible for Murong Xianbei to sit back and watch the big man attack Shijie."

What is the meaning of cold lips and cold teeth? Anyone who is not stupid knows what it means, especially the aggressiveness displayed by the Han Kingdom under Liu Yan's rule is a bit scary. , will do everything possible to increase or support.

"Tuoba Xianbei is outside Yanmen County, and the big Han will only border it after it captures Yanmen County." Xu Zheng had someone push over the wooden frame on which the map of mountains and rivers was hung, pointing to the grassland outside Yanmen County, and said : "The border bordering Jieshi is in these positions. If the Guancheng can be restored efficiently, the big man will not need too many troops to stabilize it."

If Xu Zheng remembers correctly, at the beginning of the war between the Han Kingdom and the Shijie Zhao Kingdom, the Han Kingdom was able to quickly build a city wall every time it hit a land, especially the ten-mile-long city wall on the Liaodong side was the most impressive. It only took one month to build the ten-mile city wall.

"The big man does not intend to take a defensive position." Liu Yan's views on the Great Wall are very complicated, and he also knows that the Great Wall cannot stop the Hulu from going south.He looked at Lu Yi and said, "What can Hongru Hall do?"

As a Dianke, Lu Yi is responsible for diplomacy, but he has not played much as a Dianke, for example, he has done very little in the face of enemy countries.

The reason why the Hongru Museum can't play a role in the enemy's country is that Lu Yi has a hard time and can't tell. The Han country encounters the enemy "do" is just a word. When the enemy wants to use diplomacy, the enemy doesn't trust it at all. It can only be used to bully those vassal states.

"This..." How else could Lu Yi answer?He could only say with a wry smile, "I will definitely do my best."

The Tuoba royal family is Liu Yan's in-laws, but the marriage between countries is only useful when both parties get along well. If they really feel threatened, the marriage will not hinder the killing at all.

Seriously speaking, the situation will turn out to be like this is entirely because the Han Kingdom is too tough, and it is for the supremacy of the Han family. It is on the table to fully recover the old land of the Han family. Shi Jie, Zhao Guohe, who was originally an enemy Needless to say, Murong Yanguo, Tuoba Daiguo and Zhangshi Liangguo also turned against Han Guo successively.

"The time to start a war against Shijie, I think two months later is the most suitable time." Xu Zheng seemed not to expect to use diplomacy to stabilize Tuoba Dai or Murong Yan, and said directly: "At that time, Bingzhou and Shuo The muddy conditions on the roads in the state will not be so serious, and Youzhou should be in the muddy stage when the ice and snow have just melted."

Then there is nothing wrong, the earth is an ellipse, the North Pole and the South Pole are at the two ends, and Youzhou is closer to the North Pole than Bingzhou and Shuozhou, which leads to the melting of ice and snow in Youzhou later than Bingzhou and Shuozhou.

There is a lot of water on the ground, and it will become muddy when stepped on. It is extremely troublesome to walk or march on horseback, but it is not only troublesome to face the mud in the carriage loaded with baggage.Under the premise that it is difficult to transport luggage smoothly, any military operation is not feasible.

"Two months later..." Ji Chang had the account book in hand, and nodded his head: "The southward invasion has already harvested nearly 300 million stones, grain and fodder, which can be used for the war on the northern and northeastern fronts."

That's right, if you want to attack the country of Shijie Zhao, you must take action together with Murong Yan. Avoid fighting on two fronts.

However, Liu Yan thought of more. On the one hand, the harvest of food and fodder for the southwestern peninsula can solve the urgent need. He is most gratified that most of the domestic families have taken action.Under his instruction, Yu Yi and Sang Yu have already started to set up a joint business firm, and there are many families involved, which makes him feel that turning the southwest peninsula into a "hunting area" is a perfectly correct decision.

(End of this chapter)