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Continuing to maintain the previous "prison tactics" is Liu Yuan's established policy, although now the Shu army is divided into three routes, making the implementation of this prison tactics difficult, but sticking to important passes, blocking the contact of the Shu army in various places, is still the biggest goal of the Huns at present, although the loss of the Hanshan fortress once shook Liu Yuan's determination, but then Liu Yuan found that if you want to completely eliminate the Shu army, you must also rely on these pass fortresses.

Now the Shu army is divided into three roads in Shangdang County, and the area occupied is also between the mountains and mountains, if you really want to completely eliminate the Shu army, for Liu Yuan, the difficulty is quite large, these mountains are natural barriers, and the Huns who are accustomed to galloping on the grassland desert are born with a headache for these mountains, and enter the mountains to fight, but the weakness of the Huns.

However, if the Shu army is allowed to develop wantonly in the deep mountains of Shangdang, it will always be a huge threat to the Huns, and if the Xiongnu want to expand externally, if they want to enter Hanoi, Jizhou or even Luoyang, they must have a solid defense, and now the situation in Shangdang makes Liu Yuan flawless to draw troops, and the goal of entering the Central Plains to seize the world will be shelved indefinitely, which makes Liu Yuan secretly anxious.

Originally, Liu Yuan did not regard the Shu people as a threat at all, he thought that the biggest opponent had always been the Jin State, but since the Shu army crossed the Yellow River to the east and entered the state, it turned the world upside down in the state, which made Liu Yuan gradually pay attention to Liu Yin's opponent.

Now Liu Yin's style of play makes Liu Yuan have a headache, it stands to reason that Liu Yuan is also familiar with the Han people's military books, and has studied the art of war of famous generals in the past dynasties, but Liu Yin's style of play is really unprecedented. Since it was unprecedented, Liu Yuan couldn't expect to find a way to crack it from those military classics.

The only method that Liu Yuan can use now is to control the county towns and transportation arteries of Shangdang, because the strength of the Huns can only do this, as for the encirclement and suppression in the mountains, Liu Yuan has also tried a few times, but in the deep mountains, the Shu army is like a fish in water, and if you want to catch this slippery fish, Liu Yuan asked himself if he has that ability, and if he is not careful, the Hun army that enters the mountains to encircle and suppress will be bitten by the Shu army a few times, and suffer heavy losses.

How to fight the next battle, Liu Yuan is a little helpless.

At this time, Cui You offered advice to Liu Yuan again: "King, the autumn harvest is coming, if the Shu people are allowed to harvest grain in the mountains, then the Shu people will definitely gain a firm foothold in Shangdang County, and it will not be easy to expel them again."

Ear. ”

It is August, that is, to the season of grain millet harvest, the millet of the party is famous all over the world, it is from the terraced fields all over the mountains, if these grains are harvested by the Shu army, there is no doubt that the Shu army has the capital to base itself on the party, and then want to drive the Shu people out of the party, try to be more difficult than ascending to the sky.

Of course, Liu Yuan knew the importance of grabbing grain, but these terraced fields were distributed between the lofty mountains and mountains of Shangdang, even if the Huns went to grab one mountain after another, at least they would have to grab it all before the end of the year, and this time was long enough for the Shu army to calmly collect grain.

"This king also knows the importance of grain and grass, but at this time, the Shu people are hiding in the deep mountains, and every time our army attacks, they will deliberately dodge, and they will never be able to find their main force for a decisive battle."

Cui You smiled slightly: "The king intends to compete with the Shu people for food, and the progress is naturally much slower, if the king sends troops into the mountains and only sets fire to the mountains, how can he use a lot of time?" ”

Liu Yuan suddenly realized and said: "Doctor Cui really has a clever plan, this time we send troops into the mountain, just put a fire, we can burn all the wild grass and jungle all over the mountain, including the millet valley, in this way, this king wants to see how the Shu people spend this winter?" ”

The reason why Liu Yuan didn't think of this at the first place was because the Huns also needed grain and grass, after all, they were not as brutal as the Xiongnu people were to the point of feeding on people, although the supply of grain and grass for the Huns did not necessarily need to be obtained from Shangdang, but if they could get grain and grass from the local area, they would naturally be able to reduce the pressure of transportation a little more than from other places. However, it takes a certain amount of time to harvest grain and grass, and even if the Huns mobilize all their soldiers and horses, they may not be able to guarantee that all the grain distributed between the valleys and ravines will be grabbed.

And after Cui You's slight mention, Liu Yuan suddenly understood that for the Shu army in the mountains, these grains and grasses are life-saving food, without these grains, they will not be able to survive, but for the Hun army, it is dispensable, although it is important, but it has not risen to the point where it is necessary, as long as the Hun army sets fire to these grains, the situation of the Shu army will become difficult.

Cui You continued: "King, after several months of preparation, our army is already full of troops and ready to go, we can take this opportunity to launch a comprehensive encirclement and suppression of the Shu people in the south, west and east of Shangdang, and use the tactics of burning, killing, and robbing to encroach on the territory occupied by the Shu people step by step, even if we can't wipe it all out, in the next cold winter, it will make the Shu people completely starve and freeze to death." ”

Liu Yuan laughed and said, "This king has this intention. ”

Therefore, Liu Yuan joined the Xiongnu army with the large army transferred from Taiyuan and Hedong, gathered 13 or 40,000 men and horses, divided the troops into three routes, and launched a comprehensive encirclement and suppression operation against the three base areas occupied by the Shu army.

In order to prevent being broken by the Shu people, Liu Yuan asked the Huns who were attacking from all walks of life to maintain contact with each other, and all the men and horses from all walks of life were all marching step by step, and no light troops were allowed to advance, and any of the people and horses were surrounded, and all other roads must be quickly helped, and the whole army should advance in groups, and every place they arrived at was to set fire to the mountains, whether it was the weeds growing on the mountains or the crops in the terraces, they were all set on fire.

Liu Yuan also ordered that after entering the mountainous area, whether it was the Shu army or the Han people, as long as they were alive and panting, they would all be killed, leaving no one alive, even chickens, ducks, pigs and dogs, all those who could be snatched away would be snatched away, and those who could not be snatched away would be killed, and the goal of the Huns was to create a no-man's land in the Shangdang Mountains. (To be continued.) )