Song Qing thoroughly enjoyed the pot of tobacco in his hand and stared at Mr. Liu with curiosity and fear.
"I'm a little curious now. If you were your junior brother Huyan Yunyao, how would you plan to resist the strong attack of the dragon this time?"
Liu Mingzhi glanced at Song Qing faintly, hesitating whether to express his thoughts.
However, thinking of having nothing to do, I was originally sitting in the study to discuss the offensive and defensive layout of the troops from all sides. Let's talk about it.
Liu Mingzhi walked towards the stove, picked up the teapot and put it on the stove, preparing to make a pot of fragrant tea.
“You should be familiar with the saying that to capture the thief first, capture the king.”
Song Qing clasped his chin and muttered for a while. The third brother asked what the meaning of this sentence was, and nodded thoughtfully.
"Of course they are not strangers. Do you mean to capture Commander Yun to intimidate the three armies? This time I really want to refute you. If you want to capture Commander Yun, the commander-in-chief of the three armies, out of a million troops, it is just to threaten Dalong to retreat.
It’s just whimsical.”
Liu Mingzhi curled his lips and smiled, looking at Song Qing in amusement as he pursed his lips at the position of the sand table.
“It seems that you don’t really understand the true meaning of the king in my mouth. Go and have a look at the sand table. I think you will understand.”
Song Qing was startled for a moment, then walked toward the sand table with doubts, and looked at the sand table again that he had already seen hundreds of times.
Song Qing lowered his eyes and realized that the location on the flash drive had already been filled with flags representing Turkic soldiers and horses by his third brother.
Song Qing slowly examined the position of the flags and speculated on the purpose of these flags.
From the initial curious look, Song Qing's face gradually turned serious, and in the end, his forehead was even covered with fine beads of sweat in this slightly cold weather in northern Xinjiang.
The Turkic flag spread from the location of the Turkic Royal Court to the location of the Moro River fifteen miles outside Songzhou, the border city of the Jin Kingdom.
Then the flag representing the soldiers and horses was divided into three, and went all the way north to Xingzhou, all the way to the outside of Songzhou City, and finally went to the Huda tribe. However, it went all the way to the old Peruvian tribe and went straight to one of the six cities in the northern border of Dalong.
of Yunzhou.
Yunzhou’s flag radiated all the way south to Dingzhou, Qianzhou, Luozhou, Tongzhou and Mingzhou, and finally settled on the capital, the heart of Dalong.
Young Master Liu was carrying two cups of brewed tea, one cup was brought to his mouth to taste briefly, and the other cup was held in his hand as he walked towards the sand table.
“Do you understand what I mean?”
Song Qing, who was staring at the sand table in a daze, suddenly turned around and stared at Young Master Liu: "When you say capture the thief first, do you mean His Majesty?"
Major Liu handed the other cup of tea to Song Qing and shrugged playfully.
“Isn’t it obvious enough?”
Song Qing took the teacup handed to him blankly: "But but"
“But where can the Turks have so many troops to dispatch, right?”
"Um."
Liu Mingzhi placed the tea cup on the edge of the sand table and leaned over the Turkic grassland to examine it.
“Compared with the number of troops sent southward many times, the Turks are passively defensive this time. It can be said that the whole country has soldiers. Don’t forget that the Turks are a nation where men, women, old and young can mount a horse and fight.
When they marched south to invade the border, they needed to retain some of their elite troops to guard the base camp to prevent sudden changes. However, this was their home battle, so all their troops would naturally be mobilized.
In my estimation, the current real elite strength of the Turks is around 300,000 at least.
You must know that the current Turkic tribes, including men, women, old and young, have a population of just over four million.
Even if 90% of the old, weak, sick, disabled, and women are removed, they will still have more than 300,000 elite troops."
Song Qing also leaned over the sand table and examined it, thinking carefully about what Mr. Liu had just said in his mind.
“Even if it is as you said, the Turks still have 300,000 truly elite cavalry, but once the troops are divided into three groups, how many troops will be able to detour south to attack our Dalong Capital Division?
They may not pay attention to the powerful soldiers in various state capitals in the hinterland of Dalong, but the capital city has 100,000 elite guards and 40,000 auxiliary soldiers in each battalion?
Even if the Turks detach 200,000 soldiers and horses to attack our dragon, it would be impossible for the Turks, who have no artillery but only cavalry, to capture the capital in less than two months.
And the Turks are famous for their cavalry. As for their experience in siege warfare? Am I not looking down on them? They may not be able to compare with our miscellaneous soldiers.
Especially in the south of the Yangtze River, there are still 100,000 naval garrison troops who can move north along the river to support the capital in less than a month.
If the soldiers from various state capitals receive the imperial edict from King Qin again, they will immediately rush to the capital to rescue him.
No matter how incompetent the government troops are, there are still 400,000 of them, and they will be exhausted to death even if they are tired."
Liu Mingzhi casually played with the ring on his hand and looked at Song Qing narrowly.
“How do you know that my junior brother can’t get siege weapons like artillery from the Kingdom of Jin?”
"this"
“What if the troops that went to take a detour to attack the capital were in the name of elite soldiers, but they were just old and weak Turkic cavalry? What if the other two separate teams were also old and weak troops that were forcibly formed?
It’s no problem if you can’t defeat him? Aren’t you still able to escape? Aren’t you going to involve the dragon’s troops in attacking the Jin Kingdom’s city?
Without a real confrontation, who knows whether the Turks' military strength is only the elite division?
Still the same sentence? The Turks are a nation where men, women, old and young can be enemies on horseback.
Which of those old Turks didn’t follow the Western Turks southward and repeatedly invade our Dalong border?
Their combat prowess has deteriorated to the point where it is not as good as that of young generals, but their riding and shooting skills have also deteriorated."
“If I take what you said? Where will the Turks’ real 300,000 elites be placed?”
Liu Mingzhi picked up the tea cup and tasted it carefully and swallowed slowly.
“You can surround the spot and support it. Why don’t others surround the spot and support it?
It’s not just Mr. Yun? Even me, the king? The first reaction after receiving the news was to think about how to help the king.
However, the war outside the Pass is in a stalemate, and if King Qin wants to come to his rescue, naturally he can only allocate a small number of troops to rush to the capital.
What do you think will happen if 300,000 long-awaited Turkic cavalry suddenly appear from the north of Shanhaiguan while reinforcements are rushing to the capital?
After finishing the reinforcements that supported the capital, they waited for two days and then released a message that the crisis in the capital had been resolved by a hundred thousand forbidden troops, soldiers from various places and the Jiangnan Navy.
At this time, the Turks put on the armor of the dragon generals and pretended to be the reinforcements returning from the pass and returned to the battlefield outside the pass, catching the army by surprise.
Who would have thought that his former comrades would kill him.
The problem of scouts is simply a minor problem. There are too few Turks who can speak Chinese.
Where can the million troops scout come up and recognize it and solve it. For the time being, no one can immediately notice the wrong.
At the speed of the cavalry, they would not be given a chance to react.
I think everyone knows what choice to make at the expense of old and weak troops in exchange for the enemy’s elite troops.”
Liu Mingzhi drank the tea in one gulp, crossed his arms across his chest and looked at the stunned Song Qing with a faint smile.
“How about this, how about substituting flowers and trees, substituting the best of the best and changing the weather to obtain the art of war?
In other words, it’s okay to build the plank road openly or build the warehouse secretly!”
Song Qing came back to his senses and looked at Liu Mingzhi blankly, his expression extremely complicated.
“Why do I think that a million-strong army that makes the Turkic Jin people dizzy and sleepless is so vulnerable in your hands?”
“No, please don’t say that, I’m not so conceited that I can’t even look down upon a million-strong army.
The method I mentioned is only slightly stronger than the current defensive strategy of the Turks and the Jin Kingdom.
To be defensive blindly is to wait for destruction.
And the best defense is exactly offense.
By using offense as defense, only then can the two countries have a glimmer of hope!"