Using the big river as a natural barrier and guarding the river is the key to having a basis on both sides and cutting off the river channel. Even if the Yellow River is frozen in winter in Lanzhou, as long as a small city is built on the other side, it will be as solid as a god. The army besieged the city, most feared that the opponent will cut off the retreat and the food route will be cut off. No matter how many troops there are, they can only scatter birds and beasts.

Xu Ping shook his head and said to Sang Yi: "Building a city on the other side of the river is the matter after we have enough troops to occupy Lanzhou. Now we don't care about it. Now we just need to defend Yuzhong City and Dangxiang attack, we can only station troops near Lanzhou, and the rear route may be cut off at any time. Moreover, defending here is less force, which is the most cost-effective. To defend, we occupy Yuzhong. If we want to attack, we will occupy Lanzhou City. Now that Lanzhou and Huizhou are broken, we will attack Huizhou with all our strength."

The attack on the Xishou Military Supervisory Office of Huizhou was conducive to quick battles and decisions, and approaching the core area of ​​Dangxiang. The attack on Hexi in Lanzhou was slowly aimed at it, weakening Dangxiang's strength one by one. Xu Ping is now quite confident and tends to fight and decide quickly and destroy Dangxiang quickly.

A large telescope was mounted on the top of the city to observe the situation opposite. Xu Ping approached, but couldn't see anything clearly in the wind and snow. He raised his head disappointedly. Xu Ping said to Sang Yi: "Ride as Dangxiang has not sent a large army yet, you have to send someone to check the surrounding mountains and rivers, every mountain, every river, and every ferry, you must understand everything, including the Lanzhou area opposite. When the war starts, we will be clear about what to do. When thousands of troops are fighting, it is not the main general's daring to fight and rush, but how to arrange troops reasonably. With the help of the heaven and time, our army will be used as two or even several people, and the enemy will be used as one person. This is what the main general wants to do."

Sang Yi replied: "Jing Shuai said, "It's like a cook who cuts a cow, and it's based on the laws of nature and magical skills, so that he can be at ease. Just chop and kill, and then he will fall into the inferior position. One hundred thousand soldiers has to be used as ten thousand soldiers."

"Yes, scholar, if you say this, you will be alone! The snow looks tighter and tighter, I'm afraid you won't be able to stay for a while. Let's drink two glasses of wine and enjoy the snow together!"

The fine snowflakes are getting bigger and bigger, fluttering down, and the yellowish color of the surrounding stars is covered with silver makeup. The world is covered with silver, forming a world of jade. The eyes are all white, and you can no longer tell the difference between mountains, rivers and rivers.

The newly built Yuzhong City is purely a barracks, without gardens and no grand scenery, and it looks particularly solemn in the wind and snow.

Zhang Kang ordered the army to prepare wine, put a stove on the top of the city, cooked a pot of mutton next to it, and invited Xu Ping with Sang Yi to drink wine, enjoy the snow, and talked about some chores.

Seeing the snow getting heavier and heavier, Xu Ping drank a glass of wine and said, "I thought more than ten years ago, I was a scoundrel boy who farmed in Baisha Town. It was also the day of heavy snow and snow. I went with the scholar to catch two Jinshi who made medicine silver in the surrounding area. Things really changed. Today, we were drinking on the top of the city and looking at the Dangxiang rebels. The two of us who made medicine silver became guests on the throne."

"Who could have thought that today would be there?" Sang Yi drank a glass of wine and slapped the wine glass on the table. "The two Jinshis who made medicine silver at that time have changed their names, one is Zhang Yuan and the other is Wu Hao, who is very proud of Dangxiang. Hao thieves use troops and lack national use. It is said that they are using these two people to make money for Dangxiang. If they had known that today, they would have killed two thieves with one sword!"

Xu Ping smiled and said, "Why kill them and let them make money for Dangxiang people? It may not be a bad thing for us. Since the war started, we have sold fine salt at low prices in Shaanxi, and have lost the sales of Dangxiang green and white salt. Now their life is not easy. Zhang Yuan and Wu Hao have what kind of skills to make money out of thin air? Could it be that we can still give Haozi Pharmaceutical Silver?"

Zhang Kang said: "Dangxiang is poor and the people are poor. If the Qingbai salt road is lost, where can they get money? The tea and silk used by their rich people all come from our dynasty, and there is no place to buy it now. Let's see how long it will be supported!"

"That is why the Hao thief wanted to restore the old customs of the Fan Qiang people, including fur and hair, and no crowns, otherwise they would not have to wear clothes! We feel sad when fighting, but their days are actually even harder. Zhang Yuan and Wu Hao, two of them, helped the Fan Qiang make money, what good ways can they do? It's just killing chickens to get eggs. Dangxiang's sad days are still coming!"

After Xu Ping said that, Zhang Kang said, "I heard that Zhang and Wu found two fugitives who fled there in this dynasty. They were cheating loans in Beijing and led to major cases. They had to learn from this dynasty's issuance of paper money, but they didn't know if it would be successful."

Xu Ping raised his glass and smiled and said, "Finish, they must succeed! As long as the banknotes are implemented in Dangxiang, there will be chaos in one or two years. Let's sit and watch their achievements be done. Come and drink a cup together. I wish these people a great cause in Dangxiang!"

Sang Yi and Zhang Kang were not familiar with coins and wealth, and did not understand why Xu Ping said that. However, Xu Ping served as the three officials for many years, which created a situation where the country is sufficient. Since Xu Ping wished Dangxiang to succeed, it must be not a good thing.

After drinking, the three of them looked at the heavy snow around them, Xu Ping said: "In fact, if the Hao thief is destroyed, it is not necessary to fight and kill him. As long as the Lin Mansion, Fu Yan, Qin Feng, and Jingyuan East-West Lines, each made their own posture, which led to the Dangxiang army running back and forth several times, and then cut off their financial paths. The Hao thief naturally could not support it. However, now the four routes are fighting each other and cannot be connected together, so it is difficult to coordinate. Each sends troops, and once the military order is not strict, it is easy for the thief to defeat each other."

Now it is clear that the Dangxiang army is not on the western front, Xu Ping's army is pointing to Huizhou, and he has also written to recommend that Jingyuan Road come out of the Zhenrong Army and pretend to move towards the Tiandu Village area to see if it can trigger Dangxiang to reveal flaws. Unfortunately, Xia Xu ordered Cao Cong to not be allowed to cross the Zhenrong Army line, for fear of mistakes and implicating himself, so he had to give up.

It would be fine if you lose your direction in the grassland and desert. Now the places where you are fighting with Dangxiang, including the moving routes of the Dangxiang army in the country, are all semi-cultivated and semi-pardoned areas. In this way, you cannot grasp the movements of the Dangxiang army and shrink timidly. Xu Ping really didn't know how to evaluate his colleagues from other groups. The troops of the four Shaanxi routes combined were almost twice that of the Dangxiang army, and he had an absolute advantage. But once you said that the troops were short of troops in each direction, and the coordination ability was really bad.

In fact, the Song Dynasty did not need to attack Xingqing Prefecture. As long as the Eastern Front gathered troops near Xiazhou, confronted Dangxiang and made an attack, Dangxiang had to rescue him. At the same time, the army on Jingyuan Road came forward again and made a stance of going out of Huluchuan. Dangxiang still had to come over to rescue him. The two places were thousands of miles apart, and Dangxiang could not divide his troops. They ran away once a year and used up all the money and food of Dangxiang. Unfortunately, Xu Ping proposed that the Privy Council had no confidence in the strength of its own army and dared not implement it.

Now the western front of Dangxiang is empty, Jingyuan Road does not move forward, Xu Ping is short of troops and dares not attack Dangxiang's hinterland. He uses 30,000 to 40,000 troops to attack Dangxiang's two military supervisors and the nearby Fanluo army. Xu Ping is not sure and can only sit and watch the opportunity slip away in vain. Now the eastern front is foggy, and the western front is calm, and there is really a bit of danger there.

Zhang Kang had a good wine, and after drinking a few glasses, he came to his stomach, let go of his robe, and said to the cold wind that came: "Fan Jieshuai, who was on the road of Fuyan Road, was at a loss. He could not see any rules of his military use, but he was afraid that he would be ridden by the Hao thief. What can we help them thousands of miles away? When we were defeated two times, the court would naturally understand. At that time, we were well-trained and had enough food, so it would not be too late to decide the victory and defeat with the Hao thief! When Sichuan and Shu recruit soldiers, I will command my own troops. At that time, the commander asked me to lead troops to attack Huizhou!"

"Don't worry, at that time, we have to go out in several troops, and no one will be idle. We will not hate him when we face the Haozi head-on battle with 100,000 soldiers, so we don't have to look forward to it like this year."
Chapter completed!