"Please give me the commander's orders on how to send out troops?"
Liu Mingzhi stared at the huge sand table in front of him with a calm expression and began to think deeply.
“Daddy?”
"Um?"
Liu Mingzhi raised his eyes and looked at the little cutie who was standing in front of the tent, and chuckled twice: "Yue'er, why are you here with daddy?"
“Yue’er misses you. Can Yue’er come in?”
“Smelly girl, come in, you’re not going to be your mother’s little spy, are you?”
The little cutie wrinkled the tip of her nose and walked into the big tent carelessly.
"No, Yue'er is afraid that you are thirsty and hungry, so why don't you come and bring you tea, water and cakes?"
“Okay! That’s all right! Just watch from the sidelines and don’t make a sound, okay?”
“If I can’t hum, I won’t make a sound!”
A group of generals looked at the father and daughter bickering, and the tense atmosphere suddenly relaxed a little, and they laughed and hugged each other.
“We have met Her Royal Highness the Princess!”
“There is no need for etiquette, no need for etiquette, uncles, hurry up and get rid of the etiquette, don’t dare to be a Yue’er!”
“Thank you, Princess, please sit down, Your Highness!”
“Yeah, yeah, you guys can get busy, just look at the moon!”
Liu Mingzhi turned the ring on his thumb and was silent for a long time. He picked up the bamboo pole with a hook with a solemn expression, lifted the Xiaoguo Guard flag embedded in the stone base, and placed it on the sand table at the Hetao grassland.
“Send the order, Xiaoguo’s 43,000 soldiers and horses were sent out, and it took three days to rush to the Hetao Grassland and assemble with Shuofang’s 40,000 defenders!”
“Get the order!”
The first of the ten messengers ran towards the outside of the camp holding the flag in his hand.
“Vice Marshal Song, with the Commander-in-Chief’s order, the entire Xiaoguo Guard army was dispatched, and it took three days to rush to the Hetao Grassland to gather with Shuofang’s 40,000 soldiers and horses.”
Song Qing nodded, took down the Xiaoguo Guard flag in front of him, leaned forward and placed the flag at Heshuo.
Tang Ru and Zhang Kuang spread out a military book in front of everyone.
Nangong Ye wrote down it.
“The layout of our army’s troops and the actual situation of weapons and equipment have been verified and recorded by your commander-in-chief. Please take a look!”
Huyan Lianlu, Yeluhu and others looked at the military register in front of them, instinctively glanced at each other, and their expressions couldn't help but become nervous.
At this moment, our troops and horses have not made any movement, and the opponent has already begun to make arrangements.
Such a contrast that our troops couldn't tolerate it and had to become nervous.
Before the generals of Jin and Tu could recover, another dragon messenger ran in.
“Vice Marshal Song, with the order of the Marshal, Long Wuwei and the trapped army totaled 70,000 troops. It took a day and a half to rush to Yunzhou to join forces with the Huben Army!”
"Um!"
Long Wuwei, the flag of the trapped army was directly moved to the position of Yunzhou by the Song and Qing Dynasties.
Before Huyan Lianlu and Yeluhu could panic, the messengers from Jin and Tu also ran in one after another.
"General Yelu, the king of Zhenzhen has ordered to kill Polang. The black wolf is riding on armor and riding three guards. A total of 53,000 troops and horses will take three days to rush to Songzhou. The Fengming Stream between Daizhou is on standby!"
"Princess, the Great Khan has given an order. It took one day for 70,000 soldiers and horses from Dulu and Shibi to rush to the old part of Peru on the east side of Heshuo Grassland, and the tribes stood ready to wait for orders."
The generals of the two countries, Jin and Tu, breathed a sigh of relief and began to move the flags in front of them.
Our commander finally gave the order. Although he was one step behind the dragon, at least he no longer had to be passive.
Huyan Lianlu and Yeluhu, like Zhang Kuang and Song Qing, began to ask Song Qing and others to review the military register and record the actual situation of the duel.
After each other's business was finished, everyone's eyes were fixed on the several hourglasses in front of the sand table and they waited.
An hourglass represents the time of a day.
When the three hourglasses have finished flowing, it means that three days have passed, and someone needs to be sent to reply to one's own commander to report the results of the battle.
“Vice-Commander Song, the commander-in-chief has ordered that the Western Region Protectorate and the allied forces of the Western Regions have 230,000 cavalry and rush to the Hetao Grassland in seven days!”
"OK!"
Song Qing began to move the flag again, then stared at the sand table and waited.
While waiting for the results, everyone was anxious, fearing that their side would lose in the first wave of confrontation.
“Time’s up, reply with results!”
In the Dalong Army tent, Liu Mingzhi and others gathered around to watch the recorded battle results.
"Huh, it seems that the junior brother knows very well that the biggest threat to them is the Shuofang troops and horses planted on the grassland. When they follow them, they can rush to the Ganzhou troops in Heshuo. Two groups of troops have been dispatched in advance to the old Peruvian troops.
I want to wait and see.
But what does this old fox like Wanyan Chizha mean by this move? Instead of directly stationing in the important border city, he gave up his advantage and sent troops into Fengming Stream between the two places to stand by.
I don’t understand!”
Young Master Liu’s uncle, Yunchong, raised his head and glanced at the location of Fengming Stream on the sand table.
“General, the Fengming Stream between Daizhou and Songzhou, with water on the left and mountains on the right, is a dangerous place that is easy to defend but difficult to attack.
Especially Fengming Stream is deep and dangerous, with a series of twists and turns.
This old fox should have combined the lessons learned from the fall of the Jin Kingdom last time and abandoned the heavy troops to defend the city, but instead used dangerous terrain to deal with our army.
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Fengming Stream is one of the important passages directly to the capital of the Jin Kingdom.
Look at the terrain on the sand table, with twists and turns and different widths. We can only rely on infantry and horses to attack here. If artillery opens the way, the rocks on the cliff on the right will be shaken by the explosion of artillery, which will give our troops a chance to attack.
The horse was severely injured.
Most importantly, the Jin Kingdom also had artillery.
If they saw the defense failed and bombarded the cliffs with artillery, the Fengming Stream passage would be blocked by falling rocks.
Our soldiers and horses must either carry stones to clear the way under the rain of arrows fired by the enemy from a favorable position, or we must take a detour.
If we take a detour, they can more quickly rush to the next favorable terrain to make defensive arrangements based on the scouts' reconnaissance.
Either outcome will cost a lot of money and take a long time.
The personal experience of the last national war made Wanyan Chizha cautious. He chose such a dangerous terrain where he could advance and attack and retreat and defend and deployed a large number of troops."
Liu Mingzhi raised his eyes to observe the location of Fengming Stream, held his chin and nodded thoughtfully.
“Yes, uncle, you can see clearly that this old fox may waste our time based on food and grass, so we have deployed heavy troops here.”
"What should we do? Why don't we take advantage of the fact that our troops have not taken the Fengming Stream route to attack the Jin capital, and directly bypass Songzhou and Jinzhou to attack? From the southwest of the Jin capital, Luoyue Valley, attack the Jin capital.
how?"
“No, as you said, every move we make will be detected by the scouts.
What’s more, the detour consumes too much time. We will make a big detour while they advance straight ahead. If they sneak attack our tired troops halfway, the gain will not be worth the loss."
"so what should I do now?"
“Don’t worry, don’t worry, let me think about it.”
Liu Mingzhi thought for a while while holding the tea, with a faint smile in the corner of his eyes: "Although Wanyan Chizha has learned the lesson of the disastrous defeat in the last national war, he has ignored it. The troops and horses of the Jin Kingdom now are not the five or six soldiers he had before.
The Jin Kingdom with a hundred thousand elite troops.
With only 300,000 mixed troops, he dispatched more than 50,000 elite troops at once, and other local troops were overwhelmed.
Didn’t he want to guard Fengming Stream? Even if we guessed his intention, we did not change the route and directly gave him a knock on the mountain to shock the tiger.
Send the order, Bai Zhan, sharp warriors, and the Flying Eagle Guard, with a total of 130,000 infantry and cavalry, and march directly to Fengming Stream!
The order was sent to the Xiaoguo Guard, and the Shuofang soldiers and horses were divided into two groups and spent a day to encircle and suppress the Turkic forces of Shibi and Dulu.
Sent an order to the troops of the Protectorate of the Western Regions, and the allied troops of the Western Regions were divided into two groups. They made a large detour all the way to the Relic Division and cooperated with the Xiaoguo Guard troops to complete the encirclement and suppression of the two Turkic troops of the old Peruvian army.
We penetrated all the way to the Bahan tribe to launch a feint attack.
If they want to unite against me alone, then defeat them one by one.
Let’s start with the Turks.
Junior brother knows the movements of our army with just a few sticks of incense.
But according to the time difference based on the sand table deduction rules, even if he quickly conveyed the order with a falcon, it would still take two to three days.
And my commander's order can be transmitted to the hands of the Xiaoguo guards in one day.
The Dulu and Lu tribes who were unable to receive his orders in time could only become the food of our Xiaoguo Guard troops!
In this case, let’s take two soldiers and horses to beat the teeth and sacrifice them.”
“Send the order, Yunzhou falls into battle, Longwu, Huben and the other three guards leave the city and go straight to the Moro River on the border between the Jin and the Kingdom of Jin.”
“Get the order!”
“Commander, is it a little too smooth?
How will the general feel that they are really luring the enemy deeper?"