In the conference hall next to the Political Affairs Hall, Zhao Zhen and a group of prime ministers listened to Li Zhang's discussion on Xu Ping's combat strategy in Longyou after the autumn.

Li Zhang pointed to the huge map of Tiandu Mountain hanging behind him and said, "At this time, the Five Army of Longyou, Zhang Kang and Tian Kuang were stationed in Yuzhong County to monitor the Hehuang Fan tribes and the Hexi bandits to ensure that the western part of Qinzhou is worry-free and will not participate in the war in Tiandu Mountain after the autumn. Sang Yi and Ming Hao were stationed in the valley north of Huizhou. During spring and summer, they attacked the bandits many times, and the grain and grass in Xing and Ling states could not be transported to Tiandu Mountain. After the autumn, they changed to monitor the bandits Xishou Military Supervisory Office. Whether to fight or not, they should be determined as appropriate. Liu Jian Ji and Zhong Shiheng's troops were stationed in Huizhou City. At this time, the city was complete. After autumn, they went out of the Triangle City area, occupied the ferry, protected the banks of the Yellow River, and ensured that other troops were worry-free in the rear, forming a horn with Sang Yi's troops. Gaodaquan, Jingtai troops stationed in Triangle City. When they started fighting with the thieves in the autumn, they mainly used their troops to advance to Daluo City. Cao Keming and Zhang Sheng's troops stationed in Huichuan to the valley of Zulichuan River in Huizhou, and continued to renovate the roads in their spare time, and went out to Huizhou to support the various troops if necessary."

Lu Yijian pointed to the map and asked, "The Longyou Protectorate is in Lan, and the two states have concentrated 100,000 troops. Why is only Gao Daquan and one of them involved in the war? Hao thieves have a large army in Tiandu Mountain, and the number of people is quite large. Is Gao Daquan's army a little smaller?"

Li Zhang crossed his hands: "Go back to Shuxiang, go from Huizhou to Tiandu Mountain. The roads are full of mountain valleys, with ravines and ravines, and the roads are extremely difficult to move forward. The ground there is small, and no matter how many people there are, it is difficult to carry out. The early war can only accommodate Gao Daquan's army. When it is captured, Liu Jianji's troops will follow and form a ladder to advance in turn."

After saying that, Li Zhang unfolded another map and hung it up, saying, "Your Majesty, my goodness, this is the terrain around Daluo City. In the past few months after occupying the Triangle City, Gaoda built cities and roads on one side, accumulated food, grass and military supplies in Triangle City, and fought with the thieves to build four passes. At this time, this dynasty and the thieves each occupied half of the geographical advantage around Daluo City."

Lu Yijian and Li Di stood up, sued Zhao Zhen, took out their reading glasses and went up to see the terrain around Daluo City.

Most of the passes in the mountains are not a single city, but a city formed with a large number of military key areas around the surrounding area. The village and fort were formed into a defense system. According to the records, it was a village or a city, and it was wrong to think that only one place was left. Often, there were several or even dozens of forts under one city and one village. In the past, Dangxiang's defense was quite rough, and he only built a city in order to build a sloppy place, and the surrounding small passes were not defended. After Zhuoluo City was attacked by Xu Ping once, he learned his good deeds. He saw the name of the battle in Huizhou and began to learn to occupy the military points near the city. After Gao Daquan occupied Triangle City, he occupied the surrounding key points with the Dangxiang Army in Daluo City, and built villages and forts, forming a situation of intertwining. If the Dangxiang Army had not seized these important areas in time and were occupied by Gao Daquan, there would be no suspense in the war after the autumn, and it would have become a dead end.

The Tiandu Mountains are mostly earthen mountains, with lush water and grass, and bamboo and wood are abundant in the mountains, which is different from the general northwest mountainous areas. Most of the hillsides there can be grazed, the mountain valleys can be cultivated, and the people and households are more prosperous, and the Ling and the two states are denser. In order to simplify the war, Gao Daquan moved all the population in the area it occupied south and became a complete military zone. Moreover, because of the recent economic difficulties after the bursting of the Dangxiang paper money bubble, many Han households in Dangxiang voluntarily surrendered to the Song Dynasty, and the population there was rapidly decreasing.

Li Di and Lu Yijian looked at almost every small valley on the map, and the roads were complicated. When the two armies were connected, they could hardly see the line between them. This was the first time they had an intuitive understanding of the frontline war and realized that the real war was very different from what they had previously understood. The small villages and forts in the mountains were small and could not have many people stationed. Many of the roads they defended were only allowed to pass by one person, and they could not walk ten miles a day. The number of people fighting in this kind of place was limited to death by the terrain, and the army was useless. It was not that if you saw that the enemy had only one hundred people, then I would definitely win if I sent one thousand people. But if you abandon these small strongholds, the opponent would penetrate the defense line and the carefully constructed strongholds would be useless. This is to sprinkle pepper on the troops, but you had to sprinkle them.

After seeing around, Lu Yijian and Li Di looked at each other, took off their reading glasses and returned to their seats. They now know why Xu Ping set up a large number of officials in the army, greatly increasing the number of officers. This kind of war command was too complicated, and the imperial guards in the past could not handle it at all. Even Dangxiang was forced to drive the ducks on the shelves. Now Daluo City has a very difficult time dealing with it.

The mountains are very sensitive to the climate. They will not dare to start a war rashly without waiting for the rain after autumn. Otherwise, a heavy rain or a flood will determine the war, and it would be meaningless to bet on luck with God. If it weren't in Tiandu Mountain, but in the desert grassland further north, Xu Ping would not have been waiting for a summer honestly, and the war would have been a long time ago.

After seeing everything, Lu Yijian held the scepter to Zhao Zhen and said, "Your Majesty, as I see, Xu Ping's arrangements at Longyou are roughly fine. The thieves rely on the geographical location in Tiandu Mountain and set up defenses at all levels. They can only go step by step to force the thieves to the Hao thieves. The Nanyuan of Tiandu Mountain relies not only on Tiandu Mountain, because there is a valley road connected to Huluchuan, and the French army north of Tiandu Mountain is actually connected into one, not occupying the Nanyuan of Tiandu Mountain and connecting with Jingyuan Road. This dynasty can only deal with this. The key to this year's war is still to look at Jingyuan Road and Huanqing Road. As long as they can withstand the thieves, at least they will not lose it. Longyou can go deep into Tiandu Mountain and change the situation with the host and guest of the thieves."

Li Di said: "If we talk about military and horses, Jingyuan and Huanqing have more than Longyou, and their money and grain are several times that of them. Moreover, Longyou attacks, and those two routes are defending, but they are the minimum. If they can attack the thieves and go forward to build cities and villages north of Zhenrong Army, and cut off the road between Tiandu Mountain and Weizhou, it would be a great good thing."

Zhao Zhen nodded: "What the two ministers said is very true. Xia Shouyun's troops are good and have enough food, but they are not as weak as thieves."

As the strategic center of gravity moved westward, the elite troops of the Three Yas were transferred westward, concentrated in Huanqing and Jingyuan. In terms of the number of people alone, their main force reached 150,000 and most of them were elite troops of the Three Yas. It can be said that the elite troops in the world gathered in two routes. The treatment of these troops was good, and Xu Ping's five armies were far from comparable to them. The money and grain were several times higher than that of Xu Ping's troops. Now the Three Yas are in sufficient finance, and there are various means such as the mailing department to transport materials to Shaanxi. The military supplies and grains are distributed in full, and the amount is quite considerable.

At this time, the importance of efficiency was revealed. The military rations of Jingyuan and Huanqing were transported from Guanzhong. There was no big problem, but the money still had problems. The investment of the three departments caused the economy of the two departments to be in chaos, and prices soared, and the degree of harshness was slightly better than that of the Party Encyclopedia that printed money randomly. The imperial guards held generous military pay, but could not buy what they needed. The living benefits actually deteriorated, and there were complaints in the army. Moreover, compared with the Longyou, where all military supplies were standardized and unified management, some of the two imperial guards were kept by the soldiers themselves, and even had to buy them themselves, which further worsened the situation of the soldiers.

However, the court did not have a clear feeling about all this. Han Qi and Wang Yan did not stay in the letter, saying that the war was approaching and the army gathered in both directions, causing difficulties in the people's livelihood. Xia Shouyun wrote a letter saying that the army had sufficient money and food, and everyone asked for battle, waiting for the thieves to be defeated in the autumn. There was a comparison between Xu Ping in Longyou, and the court also believed that the two road conditions were not much worse when they spent more money, and they were optimistic.

After saying that, Li Zhang unfolded the maps of Jingyuan and Huanqing Roads to introduce the military deployment there.

Zhao Zhen and the ministers all changed color when they looked at the map. Zhao Zhen asked sternly: "It has been a few months, why is it still like this!"
Chapter completed!