Chapter 72: The Pre-War Conference
Geographically speaking, Zhangye is really a choke point.
Mountains and plateaus in the south, hills and deserts in the north. Sandwiched the East Lake Kingdom like a sausage in the middle, Zhangye is the core of this sausage. And the head and tail of the sausage are Jiuquan and Wuwei (for the convenience of the modern name here, Jiuquan is after Huo Qu's illness.) It is hereby declared)
The prosperous Han Dynasty and trade in the Western Regions fattened the already plump sausage, and now the Huns began to think about swallowing it in one gulp.
100,000 horses, 100,000 horses. One ride after another can be connected to Chang'an City, and it is not easy for more than 16,000 people to eat them.
Yunxiao is democratic, and the genes brought by later generations have made him know how to mobilize the power of the masses. So Yun Xiao sacrificed the only magic weapon of brainstorming - a meeting.
There were a lot of participants, and in a popular phrase, we came from all over the world and came together for the same purpose.
Wei Qing, who had always been proud, saw Yun Xiao who was well-behaved like a kindergarten child, Gongsun He, who participated in such a meeting for the first time, sitting on the side and looking curiously at the map on the wall that could not be more detailed. And Luan Xiong, who was ignored, obviously didn't adapt to this atmosphere, sitting in an unoccupied corner, his fingers kept stirring, and there were words in his mouth.
Only the Yun family's home will gather on the edge of the big map, and it was already their inherent habit to look at the map before the war. Yun Xiao's request to them was to imprint the terrain deeply in their minds.
So this meeting became an internal meeting of the Yun family, because all the people who spoke were people from the Yun family.
"There is so much difference in the number of people. Only outwitted. If we rush to rescue Zhangye, the result can only be the annihilation of the whole army. ”
The goshawk stared at the map and was the first to speak.
"Yes, I'll go and rescue Wu Wei first. The small city wall of Wuwei City is not high, and we can still rely on sprinkling water and splashing ice when we are on duty, but the problem is that the weather is ...... Maybe now Wuwei has fallen. ”
Canghu pointed to Wu Wei at the end of the sausage.
"I also agree with fighting Wuwei first, so that the fleeing Huns will spread the news of our arrival to Zhangye. To the north of Zhangye are hills and the Gobi Desert, if the Huns want to rebel north. It must be through guò Wuwei or Jiuquan.
They passed by Wuwei but did not capture, indicating that they were in a hurry to go to Zhangye and break through Zhangye City. The route of the Huns must have passed through Jiuquan. Maybe there is still the idea of robbing the Great Moon Clan and other countries in the Western Regions again.
We attacked the Xiongnu soldiers besieging Wuwei. Make the momentum bigger. The Huns had only two ways to go, one was to give up the siege of Zhangye for many days, and take a detour back to the Xiongnu along Jiuquan to the Western Regions. The second is to leave the soldiers to besiege Zhangye and lead the army to a decisive battle with us.
Over here. It is 100 miles away from Wuwei. The name of this place is Yongchang. Here the ravines are criss-crossed. It was difficult to play to the advantage of cavalry. If we preset an ambush here. So ......"
Dai Yu made a gesture with both hands to close the bag.
"Well, the plan works. However, the team does not need to be exaggerated, just attract twenty or thirty thousand Huns. If it attracts 100,000 Hun soldiers. I'm afraid it will burst our stomachs. How big a belly to eat, how much to eat, greedy to chew too much, will make your stomach hurt. ”
Yun Xiao was very interested in Dai Yu's strategy, and used the favorable terrain as a preset position. Ambush the Huns, this is the most suitable dispatch at present. As long as one of the Huns is eaten, the Huns will shake. If they can't capture Zhangye again, they can only retreat to Jiuquan. Then follow the passage of the Western Regions back to the grassland.
There was only one loophole in this strategy, and that was the determination of the Huns. If the Huns waved 100,000 troops to kill Yunxiao, then Yunxiao would only have to run, and with this more than 16,000 miscellaneous army to fight against the 100,000 Hun army, it would be either a battle or a death.
Gongsun He was stunned when he saw Yun Xiao actually discussing military aircraft with his generals. The generals of the Han Dynasty never discussed these things with their subordinates, and it was the general's business to march and fight and formulate military aircraft. There is only one way to be a subordinate, and I didn't expect to be invincible in the Han Dynasty. will actually listen to the words of a general, and in a consultative tone.
And Luan Xiong obviously doesn't care about the battle plan, he only cares about what Yun Xiao wants him to do and whether he can do it well. How much benefit can I get for the Luan family by going back, and what if the perfume thing leaks out. Because when I first arrived in Chang'an, I once clapped my hands to find Aunt Wu, but it turned out that Aunt Wu's family had evaporated, and now this is still a mystery in Chang'an City.
Wei Qing stood on the side and listened very carefully, he was used to seeing these words on paper before Ping Suli Yunxiao set out for the battle. Wei Qing, who was only fourteen years old, certainly understood the importance of this kind of paper talk, and the biggest difference between the Yun family and other armies was the thorough formulation of the battle plan.
Yun Xiao's arrangement of the plan was like a well-functioning machine, but such tactical actions could only be completed by well-trained Yun family guards. I am afraid that even the elite of the Northern Army will find it difficult to complete such a combat mission.
The night in early spring was not very cold, and the guards of the Yun family were holding a clay bowl with a large head and eating noodles. Each person has a fist-sized piece of beef in their bowl, and there are no green vegetables. When the cook passed by the nearby county seat, he bought several large truckloads of cabbage, but he didn't have time to cook it. I pulled out the skin, cut it casually, and stuffed it to the guards.
The combination of meat and vegetables has always been a tradition of the Yun family, whether it is a cold winter or a scorching summer. The Yun family has always been short of food and clothing when they go on expeditions, and although too much accompanying will cause inconvenience to the team, a large number of four-wheeled carriages solve this problem.
The people of Yulin were overhauling the wagons, and their camp was set up the fastest. Unlike the Yun family, everywhere he goes, he seems to be a starving ghost reincarnated, busy making a fire and cooking.
The rangers were tiredly setting up tents in groups of five, and almost all of them drooled and looked in the direction of the Yun family. From time to time, there was a commotion and a quarrel in the camp, followed by a fight between two people or two groups. Luan Xiong has had to settle disputes in person several times.
After the cook's meal was ready, he was even more scolded, this guy didn't have the cooking skills of the Yun family's cook. There is also no canned spiced beef, and this guy also bought cabbage. However, he cooked cabbage noodles and fresh meat together.
The boiled thing is similar to snot, and there is not a single leaf to pick out in it, and there is a large piece of meat with bones. However, the Luan family makes soy sauce after all, and this guy is not stingy and pours a big pot of soy sauce into a pot.
When the rangers arrived at the pot, they were surprised to find that the pot was a pile of yellow, black, and unattractive batter. The eyes are so heavy that they are outrageous, and the taste is so heavy that they want to kill the cook's whole family.
The rangers' camp was a mess, and of course the core of the group was the cook. This poor cook's head is swollen like a pig's head, and he proves a truth with facts, it is dangerous to be a cook for the underworld.
So much so that when they hit the road the next day, the rangers received double portions of bread. And the poor cook directly lost a chance to go abroad for an investigation and stayed at the border to recuperate.
The long procession marched through the Hexi corridor, and the Yun family guards entered battle mode. The scouts were sent out five miles, while those with two horses were sent farther away to reconnoiter Wuwei.
Scouting, scouting. Before the big war, it is necessary to reconnoiter repeatedly, this is what Yun Xiao constantly admonishes his subordinates.
"Goshawk, take someone to the Qiang people. Sue them and let each tribe of the Le Sister Qiang contribute 200 cattle and 2,000 sheep. It was not in vain that they were given the weapons of the Huns captured after the war. ”
Yun Xiao gave up his plan to recruit the Qiang people, and these wild people did not have much combat effectiveness. And the lack of weapons is also very powerful, if there is a strong Le Sister Qiang who can barely fight against the Jingqiang people just now, there are a large number of casualties. The idea of plunging the plateau into infighting would have gone bankrupt.
"No" goshawk took the guards and left on horseback. He had the most dealings with the Qiang people, so he naturally knew how to find them.
There were still a hundred miles away from Wuwei, and the team stopped. The scouts in front reported that Wuwei City had not yet been breached, and there were only thousands of Hun cavalry besieging Wuwei.
The Wuwei guards, who were greedy for life and afraid of death, did not dare to go out of the city to face the battle, and Yin Yin had been in power in Donghu for a short time. Zhangyecheng was only appeased, and he was powerless to clean up the remnants of these Sabulhei.
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