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The Hexi military generals and players have been broken into pieces and divided into multiple military observation groups to enter the grassland.
The main target of these military observation groups is the tribes scattered from Mobei to Modong.
Yuchixin summoned the heads of various military observation groups and said:
"Does everyone know the strategic goal this time?"
Pang Yawei said with a smile: "Yuchi, this has been discussed on the forum. Isn't it a roundabout tactic? Our goal is to find a safe way to the three towns in Hebei."
Yu Chixin nodded and said: "The army needs a spacious road to advance, and it also needs guides and supplies along the way."
"We need to support tribes that can assist our army along the way. This cannot be achieved by force alone."
"This time the military observation group, in addition to exploring roads and determining the march route, must also actively contact the tribes in Modong to submit to our Longyou."
"If necessary, I can also provide additional assistance to those tribes that take refuge and are reliable."
The heads of many military observation groups nodded and showed tacit smiles.
Seeing the smiles of these guys, Yu Chixin knew that they had already had a sneaky idea.
Those who choose to become generals must be the most adventurous players.
In other words, this is a group of crazy players.
After the Battle of Zhangye, several more battles were fought here and there.
After the Tubo people scattered in Hexi were finally wiped out by the players, the players began to sigh.
The Uighurs have been defeated, and Tubo has now lost Tuyuhun.
Seeing that there are no opponents nearby, these general players are left to give advice on the forum every day.
What kind of hero is useless?
Why attack Fengxiang Mansion and capture the Dog Emperor alive?
The bellicose atmosphere on the forum puts even the war criminals of P Agency to shame.
Originally, Li Yan was troubled by the fact that these players had nowhere to vent their energy, until Xu Jun came up with the big roundabout strategy.
Li Yan had also seen this great detour strategy on the forum.
At first, he just regarded it as the crazy words of the player's whims.
You must know that this group of players has been clamoring all day long to conquer the Byzantine Empire and shouting that they want to hang the Doge of Venice.
In comparison, this strategy of going around from the grassland to the rear of the puppet Yan rebels is actually quite conservative.
But when the staff office presented the entire strategy, Li Yan became serious.
The players in the staff office are not those who talk about it, they have actually discussed the feasibility.
Li Yan just took a brief look and asked Xu Jun, his chief of staff:
"Is it possible?"
Xu Jun immediately said: "The staff department has done several war games and it is absolutely feasible!"
"Your Highness! For the sake of the war in the Central Plains, the Puppet Yan has mobilized all the soldiers from the border to the front line."
"In our grand detour strategy, we can first concentrate our forces to attack Pinglu."
Li Yan looked at the map and asked: "Pinglu is the farthest from our Longyou, why should we attack Pinglu first?"
Pinglu is today's Liaodong region, which is also the Jilin region of the three eastern provinces.
Among the three towns in Hedong in the Pseudo-Yan Dynasty, Hedong Town is the closest to Longyou, separated only by Shuozhou area.
Therefore, An Qingxu asked Shi Siming to return to Taiyuan Prefecture and sit in Hedong to prevent Datang from attacking his hometown from Shuozhou.
Next is Fanyang, which is the Beijing-Tianjin-Tangzhou region in later generations.
An Lushan started its business when Fan Yang was appointed as Jiedushi. It has been operating here for the longest time and is also the rear area of the Puppet Yan.
However, the player's large roundabout tactics first attacked Pinglu Town, which is the furthest away from Longyou.
Xu Jun said: "Because of the Great Wall."
After saying this, Li Yan suddenly realized.
Since the results of the Spring and Autumn War, the land of Yanzhao has often faced invasions from foreign tribes from the north.
When the First Emperor swept away Liuhe, he also built the Great Wall of Qin on the northern border.
Hedong Town and Lulong Town both relied on the Great Wall to defend against the foreign tribes in the north.
Xu Jun said: "The puppet Yan's troops in the rear are tense, but Shi Siming still has a large army stationed in Taiyuan Prefecture."
"Although the Great Wall cannot stop our march, once it attracts the attention of Shi Siming's army, subsequent attacks will be passive."
"Among the three towns, Hedong Town is an important town of the Puppet Yan. It is guarded by Shi Siming. The land of Hedong is a dangerous area with eight mountains, one water and one farmland. Guo Ziyi led Shuofang elites to fight for half a year, but they failed to capture it.
An important city east of Hedong."
"Extreme Spiritual Chaos Jue"
Li Yan nodded, Hedong was the Shanxi region in later generations.
The geography of Shanxi is full of mountains and rivers, and only the Jinzhong Plain can accommodate the passage of large armies.
Therefore, the location of Taiyuan Prefecture, which guards the Jinzhong Plain, is extremely important.
But if you want to attack Taiyuan Prefecture, you have to climb over the mountains, and the defenders of Taiyuan Prefecture can wait for their work.
Taiyuan Prefecture is the Hedong barrier, and Hedong is the Central Plains barrier.
In the later Song Dynasty, after losing Taiyuan Prefecture, the Central Plains fell quickly.
Now that Taiyuan Prefecture has a general like Shi Siming guarding it, it is indeed not a suitable target.
Xu Jun added: "Fan Yang is the nest of An thieves. They are loyal to the puppet Yan court. If we spend too much time on an expedition to Fan Yang, we will fall into a quagmire."
Li Yan also had to nod.
An Lushan's rebellion was not just his personal choice.
It is the common choice of Fanyang and even the three towns in Hedong.
Even after the Anlushan Rebellion was settled, Fan Yang did not return to the imperial court.
The resentment of these border military towns against the central court was the same as the rebellion of the six towns in the Northern Wei Dynasty. It was the opposition of the border troops who had been barbarized for a long time in the border areas to the increasingly corrupt central court.
When those who guard the border for the country do not get fair rewards, when the central ministers randomly order the soldiers in the border towns to die, and when those who cannot stand out in the central government join the border towns, this contradiction will never be alleviated until the day when the entire dynasty
perish.
Xu Jun finally said: "Among the three towns, Pinglu Town is the farthest from Longyou, but Pinglu is vast and sparsely populated, and the winters are bitterly cold, while Bohai and Silla are respectful to Pseudo-Yan, so Pseudo-Yan is located in Pinglu Town.
There are not many troops stationed."
"The Puppet Yan captured Hu Hu in Pinglu and sent him to the front line to serve as a soldier, but it was an important source of soldiers for the Puppet Yan."
"We capture Pinglu. As long as we capture Xiayuguan, we can cut off the connection between Pinglu and the other two towns."
"When the time comes to accumulate troops, we can descend the mountain and take Fanyang and Hedong Town directly!"
Xu Jun's strategy is a replica of the two major battles.
First take the outside of the pass and conquer Liaoshen, then occupy the passage outside the pass and develop in the north.
After the accumulation of troops is completed, another ferocious tiger will come down from the mountain and start the battle of Beiping and Tianjin.
After understanding Xu Jun's strategic vision, Li Yan nodded.
As expected of the staff department, it can be said to be quite reliable.
Looking at the map, Li Yan's eyes fell on the easternmost point of the battle line.
Li Yan asked:
"The most important thing is Yuguan, right?"
Xu Jun smiled and said: "Your Highness is wise!"
Li Yan has traveled through time and is no longer the ordinary person who didn't understand anything at the beginning.
Whether it's players' discussions or various suggestions, he will read them carefully and absorb the essence.
As the ruler of Longyou, he naturally does not have to do everything personally.
But if he wants to control his group of players, Li Yan needs to constantly improve himself.
The troops that can be mobilized by the grand roundabout strategy are inevitably limited, and if these troops are to block the counterattack of the puppet Yan rebels stationed in the Fanyang area, they must occupy dangerous passes.
Yuguan is the most important passage to northern Xinjiang.
This pass had a more famous name in later generations - Shanhaiguan!
Yuguan was built by Emperor Wen of Sui Dynasty, and then Emperor Yang of Sui Dynasty and Emperor Taizong of Tang Dynasty used Yuguan to conquer Goguryeo.
It can be said that Yuguan is an important passage from North China to Northeast China.
According to the plan of the staff office, they followed the Qin Great Wall around to Pinglu and captured Xiayuguan first.
Defend Chongqing Pass, contact Bohai State, and control the entire Pinglu area.
After you have established a foothold and accumulated enough supplies, you can continue to increase your troops to Pinglu.
Create a strength advantage and attack Fanyang Town and Hedong Town like a mountain tiger.
I have to say that this strategy is quite feasible.
Li Yan nodded and said: "However, I am still worried. The situation in Modong is complicated. If the army wants to cross Modong safely, a good foundation must be laid."
Li Yan continued: "Longyou's time is running out."
What Li Yan was talking about was the process of counterinsurgency in the Central Plains.
According to historical development, in September, the Tang army destroyed the main force of the puppet Yan in the Gyeonggi area at Xiangji Temple.
In October, the Tang Dynasty regained the two capitals. When the Tang Dynasty regained the two capital areas, the rebels would inevitably withdraw to the north.
If the rebels return to the north, this grand detour strategy will be ineffective.
Li Yan also understood that the reason why he was able to do whatever he wanted in Longyou and brazenly annexed Hexi did not result in any response from the court.
The main reason is because the world is currently uncertain.
When the imperial court regains control of the two capitals, it will inevitably regain power from the local governments.
Li Yan also read a lot of Tang history, and unlike what later generations imagined, even in the late Tang Dynasty, the imperial court still had huge control over many feudal towns.
Although the imperial court could not influence Longyou after conquering the two capitals, it could still do so by ordering the governors of Shuofang and Hehuang to besiege Longyou.
If the imperial court issued an edict asking Li Yan to return to Chang'an, would he follow the edict or not?
If Li Yan openly rebels and has no righteousness, even if he takes the throne, there will be wars everywhere.
Li Yan, who had seen the tragedy of the people during the Anshi Rebellion, did not want the Tang Dynasty to experience such turmoil again.
In order to successfully succeed to the throne! Li Yan also formulated a development plan in his heart.
First, when the imperial court put down the Anshi Rebellion, it occupied the northern part of the empire.
As long as we occupy the line from Longyou to Shuofang, connecting Fanyang and Pinglu in Hedong, we can form a deterrent posture against the imperial court in Guanzhong.
At that time, even if the situation of the dynasty changed, as long as the troops were sent southward, just like the Jin invasion of the Northern Song Dynasty, they could advance directly into Guanzhong through multiple routes and quickly complete the great task of unifying the south from the north.
Xu Jun cupped his hands and said: "Your Highness, the General Staff has a timetable and we can go to Pinglu Town within a month!"
"But please also ask Your Highness to set up an outpost in Liaodong!"
The so-called outposts are the birth and resurrection points.
Li Yan nodded. Since he wanted to conquer Liaodong, he naturally had to set up a spawn point on the front line.
Looking at the map, Li Yan said: "Then let's set it up in Tongliao!"