The operational deployment and mobilization of the grassland war should be carried out in accordance with the prior plan, whether it is smooth or not is not something that can be changed by Lu Zhe whether he goes to the nearest attention or not, and the choice of the route of the patrol is purely a gesture, and the emperor and the center attach importance to this battlefield.

This war is deep into the grassland, the deepest distance will be more than 1,500 miles, and the number of troops participating in the war, including deep into the grassland and related logistics maintenance, is more than one million, no matter what, it is a great war.

In fact, the number of participants in the battle is more than one million, and it is impossible for so many troops to actually enter the battle, for example, the cavalry that has penetrated more than 1,500 miles will not exceed 5,000 people.

"The plan of the Taiwei Department is to completely control Monan in about ten years and drive the Hu people to Mobei." Lu Zhe looked at his eldest son: "This time the grassland war will be a relatively long process. ”

Of course Lu Yi understands. He knew very well that the war with the steppe Hu people was not the same as the civil war in the land of China, and the steppe Hu people were nomadic people.

Nomads are a very nomadic group, unlike agricultural peoples, who stay in one habitat and chase after fertile pastures with the change of seasons. Such a national characteristic will be destined to one thing, the nomads do not have the reluctance and remembrance of the land of the farming people, the nomads attach importance to their cattle and sheep and other livestock, only the livestock is the most important to them, and the choice of what kind of land to inhabit also depends on the stocking conditions of the livestock.

"The Hu people have learned their lesson many times, and they will not fight us head-on again." Lu Yi was still leaning against the wall of the car without sitting, and his face was also smiling: "It's not easy to use one or two decisive battles to determine the winner or loser." ”

Lu Zhe didn't show too much surprise when he heard his eldest son's remarks, and the impression that Lu Yi gave him was that he was smart since he was a child, and he was a little too smart. However, although he had a lot of speculations, he didn't think to delve into it, after all, Lu Yi was his blood and bones.

Truly. The empire is not going to deal with the Hu people immediately this time, to put it bluntly, gathering so many troops is just a large-scale combing operation, and it can catch as many Hu people as it can, and if it can't catch it, it will drive the Hu people far away.

"In addition to the 150,000 National Defense Forces that entered the Western Regions at the meeting, the troops from the first line in Liaodong to the first line in Hetao, their biggest task is to consolidate the grassland areas that have been occupied." Lu Zhe laughed twice, and then continued: "The troops that are really invested in the depths of the grassland will not exceed 50,000, and they will basically be interspersed with small forces. ”

"Thousands of miles away." Lu Yi moved his buttocks, and his eyes were also rolling: "The cost is small, change from passive to active." Multi-way attack without worrying about excessive attrition. It's a good tactic. ”

The maximum number of cavalry is 5,000 and the minimum is 1,000 cavalry, which is really not large in terms of scale. Such tactics still have logistical dependence, but as the number of people decreases, logistical dependence is also reduced to a certain extent, and the most important thing is that the main force is the extremely mobile cavalry, and then the battlefield can be withdrawn without dragging the mud and water.

The first person in history to use the "Thousand Miles Rush" tactic was Bai Qi, that is, the "Qin Army Flying Cavalry" in the Battle of Changping. Bai Qi's use of cavalry to carry out a rush destroyed the logistics supply lines of the Zhao army, laying the foundation for Qin's victory in the Battle of Changping.

Coincidentally, in the subsequent history, the Zhao general Li Mu also used the same tactics in his battles with the Huns. In response to the approach of the Xiongnu, he sent the Di people as the main cavalry. The Di cavalry only dispatched 2,000 people, and they made a detour to attack the herdsman's brigade hanging behind the Xiongnu army, killing and dispersing a considerable number of cattle and sheep with few casualties, forcing the Xiongnu army that invaded Zhao to retreat.

The third case is more famous. It was Huo Quai's thousand-mile attack, he led a small number of Han cavalry to rush thousands of miles, and carried out the great cause of sealing the wolf Juxu that went down in history, not only capturing many shamans of the Huns in the wolf Juxu Mountain. It also brought back the various gold and memorial utensils used by the Xiongnu to the Han Empire.

Some of these examples are well known, some are hidden in history, and some have already happened. Some of them haven't happened yet. The three fathers and sons sitting in the king's car, if they knew what they were recalling in their minds, it was estimated that the name "Huo Quzhi" appeared in their minds.

Lu Yi took advantage of Lu Zhe talking to the people outside the window, and he secretly said to his brother Lu Qi in a low voice: "If I were older, I would do this thing!" ”

Lu Qi's reaction was to laugh. They are all nine years old now, not only do they not have their share in this patrol, but as their princes, they want to lead an army alone in military operations full of unknown risks, such as logistics and deep behind enemy lines, it is estimated that no general of the unified army dares to let them do such an extremely dangerous thing.

The patrol team went out of Nanling, first walked to the North Avenue, turned at a fork in the road, and then walked along the national highway for another eighteen miles and entered the boundary of Yiling.

Yiling is a mountainous terrain, it is surrounded by mountains on three sides in the north, south, and south, and only the east is plain. Where is the east side of Yiling? Isn't it the direction of Nanling?

More than ten years ago, Lü Zhe raised troops in Yiling, where he fought with the rebel forces of the Six Kingdoms and the Qin army, and fought the most with the Baiyue people, leaving traces on the battlefield from Yiling County to the surrounding places.

More than ten years have passed, and the former Jin Ge Iron Horse has long since passed away with the wind, and the smoke of the past can not be seen, only the natural scenery has been left with the change of seasons.

"We fought against tens of thousands of Guiyue people on the shore at the beginning, right?" Su Lie rode a tall horse, and the horsewhip was far away: "I remember that you were ambushed on the shore with a crossbow army, and Your Majesty personally led the brigade to block it head-on?" ”

Mei Kai also seemed to fall into memory, nodded, and said: "Yes, the current First Fleet Zhonglang General Liang, at that time, he took my place to command the bow and crossbow troops in front, and I was ambushed in the reeds on the shore with Wei Han and Xu Zhi. ”

If there is no mistake, that battle was also the only time that Lu Zhe personally fought in person, and it seems that people did not kill many people and were injured. Since that time, Lu Zhe has never fought in person.

Those soldiers who followed Lu Zhe to rise from Yiling, many people who were originally grassroots officers, they have now become middle and high-level generals in the military, and some people who were originally soldiers have now become officers, it can be said that as long as they are not killed in the process of rising, even if they are disabled, they can be transferred to other places for development. And it's developing quite well.

If according to the urine nature of other dynasties, the place where "Taizu" rose is basically called the land of Longxing, and then there will be countless people who will draw a "circle" on a certain piece of land, write a slogan or set up a monument, and come to a "Taizu was here XXXXXX", which may particularly emphasize the difficulties at that time, and then tell who has how difficult it is today.

In fact, that's what it should mean, and it's not all for propaganda or anything, it can play an allusion role in spiritual sublimation.

The original Yiling had become a white land after the rebellion of the Six Kingdoms, and a fire turned the already dilapidated Yiling into complete ruins. Later, it was Lu Zhe who ordered the rebuilding to regain his vitality.

The current building of Yiling has basically been rebuilt, and after more than ten years of spring, summer, spring and winter, the former new house has traces of time, and the people who live here are actually not the people who lived before the rebellion.

"Since His Majesty set the Martyrs' Garden in Yiling, Yiling has undergone a new re-planning, and almost all the people who originally lived here have moved to Nanling, leaving behind the people who take care of the cemetery." Mei Kaiyao pointed to the people waiting quietly on both sides of the avenue, and he also pointed to one of them, and his face seemed to be mocking: "See? ”

Su Lie squinted his eyes. said, "That guy? Let him slander the military, and deserve to be transferred to guard the spirit. ”

Who are they talking about? It was the Confucian Zhuang Qing who jumped out of the triumphal ceremony a little earlier to make waves.

Zhuang Qing and many Confucian scholars who made trouble during the ceremony at that time were not actually killed, not because of how merciful Lu Zhe was or because of the generosity of the military, but because the actions of these Confucian scholars were not criminal from the legal level. How to kill or imprison?

There is no killing, and there is no imprisonment, it does not mean that those Confucian students will be fine, I don't know how many military or nobles have said that they will clean up these Confucian students. In the end, Shusun Tong and others asked Lu Zhe for a favor, such as Zhuang Qing was transferred to guard the Martyrs' Garden, and the rest of the Confucian students also had their own arrangements.

Slander the military. Then he was arranged to guard the Martyrs' Garden, although the military was not satisfied with such a treatment, but it was very relieved to think about it. That's what the military thinks, isn't Zhuang Qing slandering the military? There is nothing more ironic than guarding the place behind the object of defamy for the rest of your life.

The king's car stopped, and Lu Zhe took the hands of his two sons left and right to get out of the car together.

The emperor appeared, and the people who stood and waited quietly all bent down and saluted, and shouted: "See Your Majesty!" ”

Lu Zhe didn't need to deal with the saluting person, he let go of the hands that grabbed his two sons, and his gaze wandered over an old man dressed in Taoist clothes.

It must be explained that there is no Taoism in this year, some are the Huang Lao School, and the Huang Lao School is not equal to Taoism, so there are absolutely no Taoists, and if there is, they are also warlocks.

In addition, it must also be solemnly stated that what is popular now is "Wu", and some members of the sect ~ religion do not wear Taoist robes and hold a peachwood sword to recite words, but should be wearing animal fur and tattered clothes, holding a kind of silk and flag, dancing a kind of Nu dance with the posture of learning from animals, and also know how to sing a song called Nu Song.

The old man dressed in Taoist costume was the chief person in charge of the Martyrs' Garden, and his name was Lu Sheng.

Who is Lu Sheng? He is a native of Yandi. Don't know yet? Let's talk about an incident, a warlock once said to the First Emperor that "Hu the Dead Qin", which directly caused the First Emperor to entangle an army of 300,000 to conquer the Xiongnu in the north. This Lu Sheng is the warlock who spoke to the First Emperor.

How did such a person become the general person in charge of the Yiling Martyrs Garden? In fact, it was Lu Sheng who went to Nanling to recommend himself, and he met Lu Zhe through Zhao Gao's recommendation.

At that time, Lu Zhe didn't know who Lu Sheng was...... It's not that Lu Zhe didn't know about the famous "Hu of the Dead Qin" incident, it's that Lu Zhe didn't connect the Lu Sheng he saw with that incident.

Lu Sheng is very eloquent, and before introducing his name, he had a lot of nonsense with Lu Zhe. It is the south and the north, that is, it is not limited to regionality, and it is said that it is where it is, and it shows that it is well-informed.

In ancient times, transportation was not convenient, and many times the danger of traveling far away was far more serious than imagined, and the road could be attacked and killed by robbers or become the mouth of fierce beasts, so it was really not a simple thing to travel around.

Lu Zhe was surprised by Lu Sheng's rich experience, and he also knew what it meant to have such rich experience under limited conditions. He also asked Lu Sheng's name, and when he heard the word "Lu Sheng", he finally connected some historical events.

Lu Sheng saw the change in Lu Zhe's expression, and said something at that time, he said that he was a Yan person, and he actually did many things purposefully, which is the so-called "friend and foe are different", which means that he pretended to be a ghost and had no choice but to do so, like taking out the proverb of "Hu of the Dead Qin", in order to consume the national strength of the Qin State.

A very simple explanation is nothing more than that the camp decides the position, and there is an explanation for everything above the confrontation between the enemy and the enemy, as if "the enemy of the other, my hero", there is no right or wrong in things, only the enemy and me. Then it makes sense, there are so many people in the Six Kingdoms who are anti-Qin, Lu Sheng is one of them, what he has done, no matter how he is criticized, it is also on the need to oppose Qin.

The establishment of the empire was based on the collapse of the Qin state, and in some ways the empire was also one of the beneficiaries, and the ruler of the empire, Lu Zhe, had no position to accuse Lu Sheng of some pretending to be ghosts.

Lu Sheng followed up with a burst of remarks, and finally talked about the situation of the Yiling Martyrs Garden, and recommended himself to say that he was very famous in Fangshu, and came up with quite a lot of reasons to persuade Lu Zhe to appoint.

Lu Zhe may have agreed to Lu Sheng's self-recommendation out of the starting point of controlling Lu Sheng, or some other idea, and Lu Sheng became the general person in charge of the Yiling Martyrs Garden.

A few years have passed since the establishment of the Martyrs' Garden, and Lu Sheng has been conscientious since he became the director of the garden, and he has never made a mistake in some things, and what makes Lu Zhe most satisfied is that Lu Sheng is not as active as before, and he can't make a prophecy or something at every turn.

"Your Majesty!" Lu Sheng walked forward quickly and saluted: "The ceremony has been prepared, are you ......?" ”

Lu Zhe came out on patrol to pay tribute to the fallen soldiers, and also to show a gesture to the military, to boost the morale of the army again before the war. However, this visit is not a sacrifice, it can only be regarded as a kind of remembrance, but it is enough.

In ancient times, it was not possible to be casual when it came to memorials, after all, "national events are in the sacrifices" is by no means a joke, and if anyone jokes about this kind of thing, the end will never be better than that of the king...... (To be continued.) )