"Han... Gang... Want... Come... Zhang Xiaojie paused word by word, and his deep tone seemed to be under great pressure.

"That's not right." Xiao Shisan shook his head, his face as black as iron, "It's already here!" ”

"Is this news true?" Zhang Xiaojie couldn't care about the prime minister's demeanor, and asked urgently, "Where did you get it!" ”

Xiao 13 handed the letter in his hand to Zhang Xiaojie, "This was found by intercepting a messenger outside Taiyuan City...... They went to the south. ”

Zhang Xiaojie took the letter stamped with the seal of Taiyuan Mansion and hurriedly swept it, what the letter said was only to reconfirm Han Gang's previous promise, and pleaded for reinforcements as soon as possible, and even said that many Liao troops had caused damage to the city by attacking the city. God knows that there are not necessarily more than ten arrows shot at the head of Taiyuan City now.

"Twenty days ......" Zhang Xiaojie clenched the letter paper in his hand, sweat came out of his palm, soaking the paper.

"Judging from the letter, Han Gang said that reinforcements would arrive in twenty days, which was already three or four days ago." Xiao 13 counted the time, "Even if it is calculated in three days, there are only seventeen days left." Seventeen days later, the forbidden army of Song Jinggi was about to arrive in Taiyuan. ”

"How did it come so fast?!" Zhang Xiaojie couldn't figure it out. The speed of the Song people's advance was recorded in the past, and it should not be possible to be so fast.

Xiao 13 said: "Hedong is a matter of the survival of the Song Kingdom, and Tai Principle is a matter of the survival of Hedong. Seeing that Taiyuan was lost, the Song people must have rushed over desperately. ”

"But that's more than a thousand miles away!" Zhang Xiaojie still has an expression of disbelief.

How can tens of thousands of foot soldiers advance at a speed of eighty, ninety, or even a hundred miles a day? It will be dragged down in three or five days. Even if it is a cavalry, if it is not one person and three horses can be rotated, it will not be able to sustain such a speed of marching - can there be 5,000 cavalry with one person and three horses in Gyeonggi of the Song Kingdom?

"But that's what Han Gang said." This is the most convincing sentence, Zhang Xiaojie was speechless.

In any case, even if the aura of the so-called Medicine Master Wang Buddha's disciple is stripped away, in the rumors of the Liao State, Han Gang is also the kind of famous minister of the Southern Dynasty who does not lie about it. He said that reinforcements would arrive in 20 days, so there would definitely be reinforcements to Taiyuan within 20 days.

“…… Where is Hangang now? Zhang Xiaojie suddenly asked.

Xiao Shisan shook his head: "I don't know the way, I just think it should be in Tongyu County." ”

“…… Tongluo County? Zhang Xiaojie had a map of Hedong in his hand, and when he opened it, he learned about several main roads in and out of Hedong, "Can the leather room army capture Tongluo County?" ”

"How many forbidden troops are there in Tonglu County?" Xiao Shisan asked rhetorically, this determines the key to how difficult Tongluo County is.

"The Wasion Army's garrison forbidden army is only two commanders." Zhang Xiaojie not only has a map in his hand, but also a living confession, and he basically understands the military affairs of the states in Hedong.

"As long as there is Han Gang guarding there, a thousand people must be used as at least three thousand. If you want to capture Tongyu County, you need at least 20,000 soldiers and horses. ”

"There aren't so many soldiers." Zhang Xiaojie wrung his eyebrows in distress, "Xinzhou hasn't been beaten down yet." ”

The Song army in Xinzhou has already persevered to the end, and even its morale is inexplicably high, which makes the Liao army feel very tricky, and they are afraid of it like facing a hedgehog.

"And Taigu County also has two conductors." He continued.

"Although there are many soldiers and horses in Taiyuan Prefecture, most of them have been transferred to Hebei, leaving only some soldiers and horses in other counties, only some old, weak, sick and disabled. No worries. Xiao Shisan said, "According to me, it is better to seize Taigu County first, and the road to the south is also good-looking." ”

"What if the Western Army goes north from Hezhong Mansion and comes out of Fenzhou?"

"Send troops from Taiyuan and Taigu County to encircle and suppress," Xiao 13 paused, "as long as you can beat Taiyuan and Taigu"

"If you send troops from Taiyuan and Taigu County, it will completely make the northbound and western army suffer a big loss, but is there that opportunity?" Zhang Xiaojie also shook his head and said.

In the four places of Taiyuan, there are roads passing through the southeast and northwest, and the troops must be divided to guard. But this is the least good job of the Liao army.

If it is on the plain, you can make full use of the speed of the cavalry and jump out of the encirclement directly, but in the east of the river, which is surrounded by mountains and has only a few roads leading to the outside world, the greatest advantage of the cavalry cannot be brought into play at all.

However, Xiao Shisan's face was that Yelu Yixin's attitude was to accept it when he saw it, but now in addition to some of the palace army and the leather room army that have entered Taiyuan, there are also many head troops. The army under the names of these nobles failed to catch up with the opportunity to reap the benefits in Daizhou, and at this time, the more prosperous Taiyuan Mansion was in front of them, and it was impossible for them to put down the fat in front of them and turn around and retreat without seeing the Song army kill with their own eyes.

If those nobles and their subordinates are forced to return north, they will believe that it is to save their lives that there are ghosts, and they will inevitably shout for compensation. If they were left behind and returned north, with or without warning, the wrath of the people would arise when they returned to the kingdom.

"Looks like we're going to have a fight." Xiao Shisan was silent for a moment, and then said, "Actually, this matter is not difficult. ”

Zhang Xiaojie nodded in agreement, "It's really not difficult." ”

The two exchanged a look, and nodded at the same time: "Let the Song army who came to help be buried near Taiyuan!" ”

The Song army's reinforcements from all directions were urged to rush to Taiyuan, but it was impossible to arrive at the same time, and this time difference was an opportunity. As long as you have a little military knowledge, you will not be ignorant of the benefits of breaking through the various paths.

It can be said that it is luck, and it is good that it is in those 'twenty days'!

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"Since the founding of the country, the internal and external system has been designated as a country, and Beijing does have heavy troops, but in fact, due to the endless border troubles, in order to guard against Liaoxia, the military strength on the border, whether it is Shaanxi or Hebei, is not inferior to the capital."

Han Gang's marshal's mansion has been set up in Taigu County, and Huang Sheng and other officials of the government office have also arrived one after another, helping him to prop up the entire shelf of the envoy department. In order to fight to the death with the Liao army that entered the army, the top and bottom of the system envoy were desperately preparing. In the past few days, the daily party hall has been solemn without exception.

Only Han Gang looked very leisurely, and he also had the pros and cons of the current situation of raising a military system, "But other than that, whether it is the south or the north, the vast area is extremely empty. ”

"The difference in strength is only one aspect. In the books of the Privy Council, the number of armies of all walks of life is not small, even if there is no forbidden army, there are also a full number of army armies, which seems to be quite considerable on paper, but in reality, the northern border army usually has only seventy or eighty percent of the actual strength of the troops, while the rest of the troops can have five or five achievements, and in the south, even three or four percent. When I went to Guangxi back then, there were even a few local soldiers who were less than 20%.

And when it comes to military equipment, whether it is a military village or a city, it is obviously in disrepair. It's just that in the Qingli period, because the imperial court increased taxes in order to fight against the Western Xia, the country was full of thieves, and the defense system of each military state had to be greatly repaired. This legacy left by Emperor Renzong has been eaten until now. ”

Han Gang talked to his staff about the past, and he had many opinions about the current military system. If we want to sum up lessons and lessons and correct past mistakes, the fall of half of Hedong this time is the best opportunity.

"But there are some things that can only be learned through failure. Previous victories will be many. The faults are all covered up, so there is today's failure. As long as you can get it back afterwards, you can't lose it. ”

Han Gang's tone was relaxed, just talking about how to sum up the lessons learned, this attitude made the few officials who had just been seconded and didn't know him feel a little relieved.

In terms of benefits, this is a major explosion of the army's accumulated shortcomings. Taking this opportunity, Han Gang could propose a major reform of the army, rather than tinkering with the law of generals. At the very least, the system of promotion and training of non-commissioned officers should be put on the table and implemented.

As Han Gang was talking, a letter came from outside, and it was from Kaifeng. Everyone's eyes were focused on the letter, whether it was Wang Anshi or Han Jiang, or other Zaifu's orders.

Han Gang opened the letter in front of everyone's eyes, looked at it, and then smiled at the officials in the hall and said, "Uncle Jia's book is just a few days ago, a few days ago, a small child was added to the family. ”

The officials were stunned at the same time, and they really didn't know what kind of expression Lu Dao should have. Should I congratulate you? But the time doesn't seem right, if you don't say goodbye, I'm afraid you will offend Han Gang, it's really a dilemma to think about.

And now is the time to talk about it?

When Fu Bi was an envoy in Liao, he saw the letter and burned it directly, saying that it was in vain. Now that the Liao army has occupied Daizhou and besieged Taiyuan, Han Gang, who is the envoy of the system, is here to say that he has another son.

But I don't know what to do, but the tense nerves of the officials in the hall are relaxed.

"Don't talk about irrelevant gossip." Han Gang finally pulled the direction of the discussion back to the topic, and picked up a booklet in his hand, Huang Shang and other staff members all knew that this was Han Gang's work day and night for several days, but the content was not known yet, Han Gang had been keeping it a secret until now.

"Dare to ask the cardinal vice, what is that?" Huang Shang asked.

"How to develop a guide book for the war of resistance behind enemy lines." Han Gang smiled, "You can't let the Beiyu obediently grab money and food, and then come to confront our official army." It should be made public, and every prefecture and county should engrave and spread it as much as possible, so that all the people in Hedong would know how to fight against the northern captives. ”

"Do you want to use village soldiers, archers, and armor?!"

"The northern captives are raging, and the people of Hedong are all suffering, so it is natural that the whole people should resist the war and everyone take up arms." Speaking of this, Han Gang pursed his lips, "Of course, the real main force against the Liao army is still the official army, and if you take that military salary, you should do things, and you can't put the responsibility on the township soldiers who don't have military salaries." ”

"But if according to what the cardinal deputy said, every state and county comes to engrave and take a walk, it will definitely fall on the ears and eyes of the Liao people."

"It's good for the Liao people to see it. I'm hoping to get the word out. ”

Huang Shang's eyes lit up: "But can you be scared to go to the north?!" ”

Han Gang shook his head with a smile, "I can't scare away." ”

It's no longer time to be high, and you can use deception to deceive the enemy army. Since then, the art of war has developed for seventeen hundred years, and it is the most stupid thing to underestimate the enemy intellectually.

Huang Sheng was a little regretful and disappointed, Han Gang saw it in his eyes and shook his head secretly. He, a staff member, still didn't get rid of his sour anger after all. Literati always have the bad problem of loving to use tricks, and always want to be able to make a decision. But the real way to defeat the enemy is to fight steadily and suppress people with momentum.

What Han Gang wants is this 'potential'!