Where is there any way for Su Jin, if the 100,000 Western Xia army attacks Weizhou, it will be useless to increase the height and width of the city wall, and there will be a time when it will not be able to hold on.

Looking at Han Fan and the others gloating, Su Jin suddenly smiled: "I can't help it, if the Western Xia army really comes towards Weizhou, I only have one way to go." ”

Han Qi said: "That way? ”

Su Jin said: "Abandon the city and leave." ”

Everyone is in a circle, and they run away before the battle is fought, what kind of way is this?

"The emperor just issued an order to reward you, and you abandoned the city and fled, isn't this a slap in the face of the emperor? Besides, you are the prefect of Weizhou, and now you are the deputy envoy of Jingyuan Road, if you dare to abandon the city and flee, no one will be able to save you, and you will definitely be dealt with by military law. Han Qi said annoyedly.

Su Jin said with a sad face: "That's no way, it's better for me to die alone than to slaughter more than 100,000 soldiers and civilians in the city for the Western Xia army, I originally wanted to simply tie myself up and send it to Yuan Hao to kill, but I was afraid that even if I died, I would still fall into the stigma of surrendering to the enemy, so I could only choose to retreat." ”

Han Qi scolded: "What words? The emperor has a lot of expectations for you, and this is how you serve the court? ”

Su Jin stretched his hands and shrugged his shoulders to say that there was nothing he could do, Han Qi's beard was blowing high, and before he could reprimand, Fan Zhongyan suddenly laughed.

Han Qi said angrily: "Brother Xiwen, you don't say a word, Master Su is too unspeakable, you are still happy to come out." ”

Fan Zhongyan's dark and thin face wrinkled into orange peel, and said with a smile: "Han Shuai was deceived by him, so he won't abandon the city and flee." ”

Han Qi was surprised: "How can you see it?" Didn't he say it himself? ”

Fan Zhongyan said with a smile: "You and I accompanied Gonggong Huang to this city, don't you remember what you heard and witnessed?" The people of the whole city are busy, the wood and stone in the city are piled up, and the urn city is still being built outside the north city gate. Han Shuai lied to him. ”

Han Qi suddenly turned to Su Jin and said unhappily: "Master Su seems to have played me Han Qi as a monkey, I want to inform Lord Sansi about this matter, ask him to comment on it, I want to ask Yan Shu Lao'er, is this disrespectful to the elders is he taught." ”

Su Jin hurriedly got up and saluted, and said with a smile: "Han Shuai is not to blame, but this can't be blamed on me, the two ridiculed me Su Jin first, I just learned and sold now." ”

Fan Zhongyan laughed and said, "When will I tease you?" ”

Su Jin said: "Since the two adults came to Weizhou to talk to me about this matter, how can they have no rescue plan, but they came to ask me what to do, isn't this a joke?" ”

Fan Zhongyan said: "You have a good calculation, do the old man and Han Shuai have a plan to retreat from the enemy when they come here?" Stop dreaming. ”

Su Jin was stunned and said, "Didn't the two adults send troops to help me defend the city?" ”

Fan Zhongyan said: "All this is speculation, although the capture of Jianxi inquired about your position and revealed the western thief's attempt to march, but the western thief is cunning and treacherous, do you know if it is not a plan to divert the tiger from the mountain?" What if I drove the army of Yanyan Road and Huanqing Road to Weizhou, and the western thieves suddenly attacked the front line of Yanzhou and Gyeongju? The cavalry of the Western Thieves is swift and flexible, and it is completely possible to feign an attack on Weizhou, and if our army drives to Weizhou, if they turn around and go east, they will be able to attack the city of Gyeongju within two days, and at that time our infantry will have to save them for four or five days, and they will be lost in Gyeongju when they rush back. ”

Su Jin didn't think that Fan Zhongyan was joking at all, in fact, the battlefield is ever-changing, and the two armies will go to great lengths to win, Su Jin is a person who has read the Three Kingdoms, and the various schemes on it are unguardable, there is no doubt that the IQ of the ancients is not inferior to that of later generations, especially in military affairs.

"Han Shuai can help you, but Qin Fenglu has only more than 40,000 men and horses, and it is impossible to come out, six or seven cities under his jurisdiction must be guarded by soldiers, I estimate that Han Shuai can support you at most about 10,000 soldiers and horses, Han Shuai, what do you say?"

Han Qi nodded and said, "I've thought about it, I can probably send about fifteen thousand, and no more." ”

Su Jin scratched his head and said: "Fifteen thousand plus 20,000 in the city is only 35,000 people, and since the western thieves are attacking Jingyuan, it is very likely that they will attack Weizhou and Jingzhou at the same time, even if they don't divide their troops to attack other state capitals, I will definitely not dare to send troops to help, in case the western thieves besiege the city and send reinforcements, my infantry will intercept them halfway, and there is no danger to defend, then I dare not think about the consequences." ”

Fan Zhongyan said solemnly: "You understand, it seems that you have some understanding of the combat methods of the West Thieves, and now the West Thieves want us to face them head-on, and the old man emphasized that the strategy of sticking to the counterattack is to overcome the enemy's strength with his own strengths, once the fight starts, unless you are completely sure, the old man does not recommend going out of the city for field battles or long-distance assistance; Even if you can detect the enemy's movements in advance, it is not possible, because the speed of the western thieves is several times faster than ours, and once they are bitten, they may suffer a big loss, so you have to be more careful in the distribution of troops in the capital of Jingyuan Road. ”

Su Jin thought for a while and suddenly shouted, "Come on, take the sand table." ”

Fan Zhongyan and Han Qi didn't know what the sand table was, but they saw two Ma Jun guards walking in carrying a wooden plate the size of a tabletop, covered with a red cloth, and placed on the desk.

Su Jin stretched out his hand to uncover the red cloth, but saw that the wooden plate was densely covered with high and low sand dunes, like a map.

Su Jin explained: "Two adults, this is a topographic map of Jingyuan Road that I have consulted dozens of local hunters and medicine farmers in the city, the red flag is the garrison of my Jingyuan Road Prefecture, the blue flag is the location of the Western Thief Army who is scouting, the white note is the river, the high place is the mountain peak, and the location is the plain, which can be seen at a glance." ”

Fan Zhongyan raised his fingers and praised: "Yes, good way, you can figure it out." ”

Han Qi also shook his head repeatedly, his eyes staring at the sand table back and forth: "This is indeed a good way, it is more clear than the map, the old man also asked someone to make a Qinfeng Road topographic sand table when he went back." ”

Su Jin didn't know that there was no such thing as a sand table in this era, he was a map blind, and he often couldn't distinguish between the southeast and northwest when he looked at the map, so he learned from the scenes in the war movies in later generations and made a sand table, but it inadvertently became a personal patent.

"Two adults, please see, from the perspective of the topography of Jingyuan, the west of Longshan is surrounded by lofty mountains, and Liupan Mountain is continuous and steep, so there is no danger of attack in Lanzhou, Hezhou and other counties in the south of Shanshan, and east of Longshan is Weizhou, Jingzhou and Yuanzhou are arranged in a zigzag shape, among which it seems that Yuanzhou is the northernmost and seems to bear the brunt, but I think the western thieves will never attack Yuanzhou."

Fan Zhongyan said: "How can you see it? ”

Su Jindao: "Yuanzhou is the closest to the two states of Huanqing where Fan Shuai is stationed, and it is even a little closer than the distance to Weizhou, and the rescue is also the most convenient. Of course, this is just speculation, but if Fan Shuai makes some adjustments, he only needs to pretend to mobilize a small part of Yanzhou's soldiers and horses to be stationed in Gyeongju City, and the enemy army will definitely stay away from Wonju after learning about it, and he will never dare to attack Wonju. ”

Han Qi nodded and said: "That's right, this trick is called sharpening knives on the edge of the pigsty, and it's strange that the pigs are not afraid." ”

Fan Zhongyan said: "Then what is the benefit of doing this? After abandoning Yuanzhou, the preferred target of the attack is Weizhou, Jingzhou is behind Weizhou and Yuanzhou, and there is the Jing River separating it, so they will definitely not go far to attack Jingzhou. ”

Su Jin nodded and said: "What Fan Shuai said is, I just want to simplify the complicated situation, at present we can't determine the direction of the enemy's attack, this is the biggest problem, I want to force the western thieves to have no other target for attacking, so that they can only attack Weizhou City, so that the situation can be clear, and other state capitals don't need me to worry about how to assist in defense, just take care of myself, I can deploy and respond to the battle wholeheartedly here; Although the western thieves have the ability to maneuver, unless they don't come, they can only come to Weizhou. ”

Fan Zhongyan clapped his hands lightly and said, "Yes, this idea is very good, and it can indeed make the situation clear." ”

Han Qi frowned and said, "But in that case, wouldn't you force these 100,000 troops to storm Weizhou?" Can Weizhou stop it? ”

Su Jin said: "If you can't stop it, you have to block it, no matter where the 100,000 army attacks, who can be sure to stop it?" Originally, I also pinned my hopes on Lord Fan to lead the troops to help, but what Lord Fan said made sense, in case it was a plan for the western thieves to deceive and attack the west, then the big thing would be done; Therefore, the soldiers and horses on Huanqing Road on Yanyan Road could not move, and they could only rely on the 15,000 soldiers and horses supported by Han Shuai and the 20,000 soldiers and horses in our Weizhou City to resist. ”

Han Qi shook his head and said, "If Weizhou is lost, won't the situation be very bad?" ”

Su Jin said: "It's not so easy to lose, Weizhou City has the strongest city defense among the frontier border cities, with the strong city to defend to the death, even if the city is lost, how many percent of the 100,000 army of the Western Thieves can be left?" Once the enemy army becomes a remnant, won't Lord Fan come to clean up the mess? As long as the fight starts, Lord Fan can send troops to help, at that time, the main force of the enemy army will appear, and the two roads around Qing and Yan will not be attacked by the enemy, will Lord Fan stand idly? ”

Fan Zhongyan looked at Su Jin worriedly: "But my old man's reinforcements must come very late, and when the enemy's strength is greater than mine, the old man will not risk encountering him in the wild; And the old man can only take a detour to come to support from the south, I'm afraid you won't be able to bear it. ”