"Your Highness, you mean to deal with the barbarians alone?"

Qian Dafu looked incredulous. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Xiao Ming nodded, "That's right, this time this king wants to protect his fiefdom by himself, and no one can rely on him in these years, so he can only rely on himself." ”

The affairs of the Wang family, the calculations of Princess Pingyang, and the secret plans of King Wei, everything is telling Xiao Ming that the wolves around him are looking around, and there is no one worthy of trust.

The only thing he could count on was himself.

"Your Highness, this is not child's play, the Great Yu Kingdom has poured its strength into the country, and it has still ceded land and paid compensation all these years, does Your Highness expect that these six states can deal with the barbarians?" Qian Dafu continued to persuade.

For as long as he can remember, the name Barbarian has been as terrifying as a ghost, and when he was a child, the family grandmother used to scare him by taking you away. ’

This shows the image of the barbarians in the hearts of the people of the Great Chongqing people.

Qian Dafu's reaction was expected by Xiao Ming, and the events of three years ago left an indelible terrifying memory for Qian Dafu.

At that time, the city of Cangzhou was broken, and the iron cavalry of the barbarians poured into the hinterland of Liuzhou, burning, killing and looting, doing everything, and they could see the corpses lying in pools of blood on the way to Chang'an.

Many of the corpses had no heads, this was because the barbarians used their heads to record their military exploits, and many barbarians wantonly slaughtered the people for military merit.

This memory is very clear in Xiao Ming's mind, which shows how deeply this incident left a deep impression on the predecessor Xiao Ming.

It is precisely because of this invasion that the vitality of the land of Liuzhou has been greatly damaged, and it has not slowed down for three years.

"This king only needs to hold Cangzhou and not let the barbarians step into this king's fiefdom."

At this stage, Xiao Ming can only do this, and it is basically impossible to counterattack the grassland, because the current comprehensive strength of Qingzhou is not enough to support him to take the initiative to attack a grassland empire whose national strength does not belong to the Great Chongqing State.

After all, the base of the population is here, the army is limited, the food is limited, and the silver is limited.

"But can you hold it?" Qian Dafu was a little anxious, "Your Highness, stay in Qingshan without worrying about running out of firewood." ”

"Rich money!" Xiao Ming suddenly became impatient, "This is the king's fief, without the fief, the king is nothing, go back to Chang'an, not to mention my father, will the other princes let me live for the rest of my life?"

"This ......" Qian Dafu stopped talking, Xiao Ming's words are right, since the Great Chongqing Kingdom, there have been many heirs of each generation of kings, but there are few princes who can survive in the end.

Take the prince of Xiao Wenxuan's lineage as an example, there is only one King of Wei and one King Kang who are still alive now, and the other ten princes have all turned into dust.

Almost every generation of princes is like this, and now this fate is Xiao Ming's turn.

"The old slave understands." Qian Dafu's expression suddenly became firm, "Concubine Zhen once instructed the old slave to protect His Highness, if His Highness stays in Cangzhou City to resist the barbarians, the old slave will go with His Highness." ”

"Well, that's what the king's people should say." Xiao Ming said.

This time it's not that he's stupid and bold, it's not that he's blindly confident, and for a while, he's trying to figure out a problem, that is, he has no way back.

If you want to survive, you can only carefully manage your own fiefdom, and the barbarians now want to touch their own cake, of course this can't.

This incident happened suddenly, and Xiao Ming didn't have the heart to stay in the palace, but went to the governor's mansion.

At this time, Pang Yukun was talking to a young official.

Seeing Xiao Ming coming, Pang Yukun said, "Your Highness, aren't you discussing medical skills with Doctor Sun?" What's wrong with it? “

"The barbarians are going to attack Cangzhou at the end of this autumn."

Qian Dafu also followed, and without waiting for Xiao Ming to speak, Qian Dafu hurriedly said.

The young man standing beside Pang Yukun chuckled and asked, "Since the barbarians want to attack Cangzhou, it must be an extremely secret matter, why did they let His Highness know in advance." ”

Pang Yukun seemed to mean the same thing, but when he remembered something, he said to Xiao Ming: "Your Highness, this is Zhan Xingchang that I mentioned to you." ”

Xiao Ming glanced at Zhan Xingchang and said, "You are Zhan Xingchang?" Pang Changshi said that you are resourceful and decisive, why don't you talk about how this king should deal with it. ”

"Only by knowing each other and knowing oneself can one win a hundred battles, first of all, how did His Highness learn the news?" Zhan Xingchang was neither humble nor arrogant, and asked.

Glancing at Qian Dafu, Xiao Ming said that Hongyun came to him and mentioned the matter of the Wang family.

Pang Yukun frowned and said, "Your Highness, a Qing. Lou Woman's words may not come true, is Your Highness hasty? ”

"I'd rather believe it than believe it, Pang Changshi can forget about the barbarian cavalry last year? When those cavalry arrived outside Qingzhou City, I am afraid that they did not mean it, but it seemed that they had taken the wrong road to get to Qingzhou City. Xiao Ming said.

Zhan Xingchang said: "So now send people disguised as caravans to the grassland to spy on intelligence, and pay close attention to the movements of the barbarians. ”

"That's one thing, but what if it's confirmed?" Xiao Ming asked again.

"Your Highness should know better than me, you should defend Cangzhou City to protect the safety of the six states."

"What if the king wants to regain the lost territory in the north?" Xiao Ming asked.

"Of course not, we should also build a fortress and clear the wilderness, which is the so-called art of construction." Zhan Xingchang still looked as usual.

Pang Yukun stroked his beard with satisfaction and said, "Xingchang, you should carefully explain what this is the art of entering the building." ”

Zhan Xingchang continued: "The most important thing to attack the grassland is the grain route, and at this time, the grain route is very dangerous in the face of the powerful barbarian cavalry, so we should build a fortress every other day, so as to ensure that the baggage can be transported to the fortress. ”

"Second, the steppe cavalry is not good at attacking the city, and defending the city is our advantage, the distance between the fortresses is short, we can quickly support each other, if the barbarians bypass the front fortress to attack Cangzhou, you can send the army in the fortress to cut off the barbarians' grain routes, and be invincible."

Xiao Ming nodded, this Zhan Xingchang really has two brushes, and the best way to deal with the nomads is to advance the fortress tactics, and at the same time, the barbarian cavalry will not be fed.

However, this tactic also requires the Qingzhou Army to have enough field combat capabilities to ensure it, otherwise how can the fortress advance?

"Let's not talk about the art of building for the time being, now we still have the ability to attack like this, let's talk about how to defend the city." Xiao Ming said.

Zhan Xingchang said: "Only the city is strong, the torch." ”

Xiao Ming narrowed his eyes slightly, this kind of thing has been used in the Great Chongqing Kingdom, which is basically equivalent to the first generation of artillery, but it shoots stone bullets, and the range is not far, so it is really not valued at all.

However, Zhan Xingchang proposed the defense of the torch, which can be said to be a very advanced idea in this era, and this torch is the first generation of artillery.

Nowadays, with the ability of Xiao Ming's Iron and Steel Workshop, a precision gun cannot be made, but there is still no problem with an earthen cannon like a fire barrel.