More than half a month later than the normal climate, Xiangguo finally ushered in the moment of melting ice and snow, but the temperature did not rise because of the melting of ice and snow, on the contrary, the melting of ice and snow brought low temperatures. \ Regarding the dispatch of a fleet to invade the Southwest Peninsula nearly two months ago, Liu Yan, who was in Xiangguo, not only paid attention to the official documents, but also checked it through the "map" in his mind when he usually had time. originally thought that the invasion of the borderless Southwest Peninsula would be smooth, but the process was a bit twists and turns, not only did Fu Wei, who was the front-line commander, not expect, but also Liu Yan, who was in Xiangguo, was surprised.
Unfamiliarity with the weather and environment of the South Seas has brought quite a bit of trouble, but fortunately, after paying some price, it has finally begun to pay off, and with the first harvest there will be a second time, so that Liu Yan can turn his attention to the northern Xinjiang again.
Recently, the Han State has been paying attention to the situation of the White Plague in the grasslands, and the intelligence shows that Mobei has suffered heavy losses, and the Ding Ling tribe that has been ravaged by the White Plague has continued to move south.
Those Ding Ling people went south to the border of Shiqi Zhao Kingdom, there were tribes that were absorbed by Shi Hu, and there were also tribes that attacked and disturbed Shiqi Zhao Kingdom, and the situation was relatively complicated.
The Han side sent people, not only to collect intelligence, but also to go deep into the grassland to find the Ding Ling tribe.
The Han people who went to the Ding Ling tribe, their main purpose was to make the tribe and the Shiqi Zhao State unable to get along, and their actions were not very smooth, the main reason was that the Ding Ling people did not know that a new overlord had risen in the Central Plains.
This year's spring climate is a bit abnormal, the icy and snowy cold season is not suitable for the use of troops, the Han army has not taken action to attack for the time being, but is only making some preparations for a big battle.
Three generals at the level of the Four Expeditions were appointed, a new round of reorganization of the army began, the Northern Expeditionary Corps and the Southern Invasion Corps were abolished, a large number of non-commissioned soldiers were retired, the three shogunates of the North, the East, and the South were established, and the troops directly under each of them were planned.
The shogunate of the northern expedition was a total of six armies, and considering that the war against the Zhao kingdom of Shiqi would be a war of cavalry, the Tiger Army and the Yulin Army were placed under the structure of the shogunate.
At present, Li Tan, the general of the expedition to the north, is already in Jingling and will preside over the next big war.
The location of Jingling is currently relatively special, the northeast is Jicheng that confronts the Zhao army led by Shi Xuan, and the northwest is Zhongyang with the Fuhong army.
"The melting of the snow and ice on the side of the state has not yet begun, and considering that even the melting of the snow and ice will make the roads muddy, the start of the war will be about a month after the ice and snow melt."
After Xu Zheng became a lieutenant, he could not go out to directly lead the troops into battle, and his main authority was to stay in the center as a chief of general staff: "At present, four armies have entered the position of standby, and the plan after the war starts is to target the enemy army in Yangyi first." ” Yangyi is the point of the Zhao army of Shijiao that confronts Jicheng, Yangyi is currently the most important barrier in Jinyang, the capital of Bingzhou, which is under the control of Shi Xuan, the prince of Shijiao, and assisted by Li Su, the general of Shijiao.
According to the intelligence, Yangyi's Shijiao Zhao army should have a scale of 1230,000, and Donggong Gaoli, one of the elite Shijiao, is among them, and the Shijiao clan should also have 30,000 or 40,000, and the rest are Qiang, Di, Zahu and the like.
"Excluding the Praetorian Guard, including the Tiger Army and the Yulin Army, we will arrange four cavalry corps on the northern front, and the other two are infantry corps."
As Xu was talking, an officer planted the flag representing his number in the position where the sand table should be.
He nodded to some positions and continued: "Considering that the war in Bingzhou needs to conquer several fortified cities, the rear flanks and flanks of the main force must also have enough troops, and the county soldiers from all over the northern front need to be mobilized to the north, and a sufficient number of servant troops will also be transferred. ” The reason why the Zhao State abandoned the Central Plains and retreated to Bingzhou and Shuozhou was forced by the current situation on the one hand, it was not that the Hu people were not used to the offensive and defensive battles of the city.
A big migration of the population of Shihu's concentrated elite part really made Liu Yan's plan to annihilate Shijiao in the Central Plains bankrupt, and the confrontation between the two sides was no longer as fast as before, Shijiao had a more flexible detour space, as long as Shijiao didn't want to fight, it was difficult for the Han army to carry out any annihilation war.
At present, the reason why the Han State and the Shiqi Zhao State are facing each other in the state is actually that Liu Yan wants to create a phenomenon that makes Shi Yan mistakenly think that some cities can be defended, and mobilize more troops to garrison the city, so that there is a chance for the Han army to eliminate more Shiqi Zhao troops in the city attack and defense battle.
Xu Zheng had already talked about how likely Shi Xuan and Fu Hong would be to hold on to the city, and the opinion of the Taiwei Department was that if the situation was wrong, neither Shi Xuan nor Fu Hong would be confined to the gains and losses of the territory, and would change hands regardless of the city.
"The old business of the Hu people is to use enough vast space to fight if they can, and they can't rely on mobility to escape."
Xu Zheng pointed to the northwest and north of Bingzhou on the sand table and said, "These areas are ideal combat spaces for Shijiao. ” It doesn't matter what the northwestern part of Bingzhou looked like during the reign of the Han family, and now it has long been a desolate area, although there are mountains, but most of the area is flat terrain, and decades of desertion have long become grassland landforms.
The northern part of Bingzhou is actually Yanmen County, which has never undergone much development, and during the reign of the Han family, it was to use the terrain to build a fortress, and the biggest barrier against the southern invasion of the Hu people in the grassland was the Great Wall.
Whether it is the Great Wall built by the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, or the Great Wall built during the Qin Empire, or even the Great Wall in the Western Han Dynasty and the Eastern Han Dynasty.
With the passage of time, the Great Wall has actually fallen into disrepair, with its towering walls in ruins, and in some parts of the Great Wall even razed to the ground, unless it is being built or repaired, or it is no longer of military value.
"Considering that both Shi Xuan and Fu Hong may abandon the city to fight a field battle, at the beginning of the war, our army may be able to capture various cities very smoothly, and even capture Jinyang without much cost."
Xu Zheng pointed to a model of a city representing Jinyang, and said with a smile: "This will become the next bridgehead for the confrontation between the Han and Shijiao, and it has the value of being renovated as a garrison and material reserve." ” "Can the Taiwei Department have an estimate, how far will Shi Hu hold out in Bingzhou" Liu Yan really used the Taiwei Department as a staff department, and without waiting for Xu Zheng to answer, he continued to ask: "Is there a plan for the next battle of Heshuo?"
"How long Shi Hu will hold out in Bingzhou depends on how much Shi Hu loses."
Xu Zheng confirmed with his subordinates that Shi Qian had regained the temperament of the Hu people, and he didn't care about the gains and losses of the territory, he cared about the subordinates.
He looked at the location of the Heshuo on the sand table and said, "The Heshuo in the early Han Dynasty has not changed much from the current Heshuo.
The minister flipped through the classics, mainly looking at the battle of Meng Tian to recover Henan and the battle of Wei Qingguang's recovery of Hetao" Liu Yan naturally remembered how the Qin Empire and the Han Empire captured Heshuo, the situation in different periods was different, and the situation faced was different, but in terms of terrain, there must be something to learn from.
Without exception, whether it was the Qin Empire or the Han Empire, the scale of the troops to the Hetao area was very large, and at the same time, it was not a single attack.
In the battle of Henan, Meng Tian's main force was to attack from Yanmen, and then to deploy partial divisions in the north, and to adopt an offensive with two arrows complementing each other.
The Qin army fought the Hetao, at that time the Xiongnu in the Hetao did not realize that the Qin Empire would suddenly start a war, at the beginning of the war, Qin Jun appeared unexpectedly, eliminated some unsuspecting Xiongnu tribes, and waited for the Xiongnu Shan Yuting to react, Meng Tiandu had already led the army to attack the Beihe Xiongnu before they began to prepare for war.
The decisive stage of the Qin Empire's battle to recover Henan was not fought in one place alone, but in the highlands of Yinshan and Helan Mountain, and in Gaoque, Yangshan, Beijiao and other places, after many bloody battles, the Huns realized that they could not compete with the Qin army, and the Huns fled in panic to the northwest after being annihilated by more than 200,000 people.
The war in which the Han Empire fought Heshuo had many similarities with Meng Tian's troops, and the Xiongnu also did not take precautions.
Compared with Meng Tian's results in annihilating the enemy, Wei Qing's results in destroying the enemy were only killing and wounding thousands of Huns and capturing more than 15,000 people.
The battles against the Xiongnu commanded by Wei Qing were often the kind that killed thousands, and the battle of Mobei with the greatest results was the annihilation of more than 90,000 Xiongnu.
And Meng Tian wiped out more than 200,000 Huns in just one battle, perhaps that is why Meng Tian is known as the first warrior in China "Of course I know this."
Xu Zheng was just asked by Ji Chang, saying that the two defeats of the Xiongnu in Heshuo were without relevant combat preparations, and Shi Qian was not a Xiongnu who was not prepared.
He was not annoyed either, and said: "Compared with the pre-Qin and pre-Han dynasties, the situation faced by the Great Han is different" Shi Liang did not be the overlord of the grassland, they directly manipulated the master in the Central Plains, and the Huns turned over and became the rulers of the Central Plains.
It is precisely the rise of Shi Qian that is a turnaround to become the master, and the areas where they can fight in a roundabout way are also Bingzhou and Shuozhou, and the area further north, the northwest side is the territory of the Ding Ling people, and the northeast side has Tuoba Xianbei, Rouran Tribal Alliance and Murong Xianbei.
If Tuoba Xianbei and Murong Xianbei do not interact with Shijiao, the Han State will not have so many directions to contain it.
However, when it comes to diplomacy, Ji Chang has the qualifications to speak: "Tuoba Xianbei has become an enemy country, and it is impossible for Murong Xianbei to sit idly by and watch the Han attack Shijiao." ” Lips and teeth are cold or something, if you are not stupid, you know what it means, especially the aggressiveness of the Han State under Liu Yan's rule is a bit scary, Tuoba Xianbei and Murong Xianbei will definitely not watch the Han State eliminate the Shiqi Zhao State, and they will do their best to block or respond.
"Tuoba Xianbei is outside Yanmen County, and it will only border Yanmen County after the Han Dynasty captures it."
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Xu Zheng had already asked people to push the wooden shelves where the maps of the mountains and rivers were hung, pointed to the grasslands outside Yanmen County, and said: "The borders of Jieshi are in these locations, and if the Guancheng can be restored efficiently, the Han Dynasty will not need too many troops to stabilize it." ” If Xu Zheng is not mistaken, in the early days of the war between the Han State and the Shiqi Zhao State, the Han side could quickly build a city wall in every dozen places, especially the construction of the ten-mile city wall in Liaodong was the most impressive, and it only took a month to build the ten-mile city wall at the beginning.
"Dahan is not going to be on the defensive."
Liu Yan's views on the Great Wall were complicated, and he also knew that the Great Wall could not stop Hu Lu from going south.
He looked at Lu Yi and said, "What can the Hongru Pavilion do here?"
Lu Yi is responsible for diplomacy as a pawn, but he has not played much as a pawn, such as doing very little in the face of enemy countries.
The reason why the Hongru Pavilion can't play any role in the enemy country, Lu Yi can't say it, the Han State encounters the enemy's "dry" is a word, and when the enemy wants to use diplomacy, the enemy doesn't trust it at all, so the Hongru Pavilion can only be used to bully those vassal states.
"This," Lu Yi could not answer, he could only smile bitterly and said, "The minister will definitely do his best." ” The Tuoba royal family is Liu Yan's in-laws, but the marriage between the country is only useful when both parties get along well, if they really feel threatened, the marriage or something does not prevent killing at all.
Seriously, the situation will be like this is completely because the Han State is too tough, and what is put out is for the supremacy of the Han family, and it is a matter on the table to fully recover the old land of the Han family, not to mention the Shiqi Zhao State and Murong Yan Kingdom, which were originally enemies, and the Tuoba Dynasty and the Zhang Liang Kingdom have also turned their faces with the Han State.
"The timing of the war against Shi Qian is the most suitable after two months."
Xu Zheng didn't seem to expect to be able to use diplomacy to stabilize the Tuoba Dynasty or Murong Yan Kingdom, and said directly: "At that time, the muddy roads in Bingzhou and Shuozhou will not be so serious, and Youzhou should be in the muddy stage of the ground where the ice and snow have just melted. ” Then there is nothing wrong with saying that the earth is an oval, the North Pole and the South Pole are at both ends, and Youzhou is closer to the North Pole than Bingzhou and Shuozhou, causing the ice and snow to melt later than Bingzhou and Shuozhou.
The ground is so wet that it becomes muddy when stepped on, and it is extremely troublesome to march on foot or on horseback, and it is more than just a trouble to face the mud in a carriage loaded with baggage.
Under the premise that it is difficult to transport baggage smoothly, any military operation is not feasible.
"Two months later" Ji Chang had the account book in hand and nodded: "The southward invasion has already harvested nearly three million stone grains, which can supply the war on the northern and northeastern fronts. ” There is no mistake, if you want to fight the Shiqi Zhao State, you must act together with the Murong Yan State, and in turn, if you want to fight the Murong Yan State, you must also fight the Shiqian Zhao State together, and the Han State wants to attack which country in the north cannot avoid a two-front battle at all.
Liu Yan thought more, the grain harvest that invaded the southwest peninsula in the south could solve the urgent need on the one hand, and he was most pleased that most of the families in the country took action.
Under his instruction, Yu Yi and Sang Yu had already begun to start a joint trading house, and there were many families involved, which made him feel that turning the Southwest Peninsula into a "hunting area" was a very correct decision
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