After listening to Shen Tujia's speech, Liu Che slowly raised his arm.

Revenge on the Xiongnu is also the political correctness of the Han dynasty.

Since Liu Bang, this mission has been deeply engraved in the marrow of the Han dynasty.

None of the emperors dared to openly renounce the war of revenge against the Xiongnu.

In fact, no emperor would give up revenge on the Xiongnu.

The reason is simple.

There can only be one boss in this world, and one mountain cannot tolerate two tigers!

Therefore, Liu Che could not refuse the generals' proposal.

Liu Che stood up, looked at the ministers, and said loudly: "Emperor Gao's legacy is the worry of Pingcheng, and Empress Lu is alone in the book, and I dare not forget it for a day!" ”

This attitude must be expressed.

It is also the cornerstone of maintaining the relationship between monarchs and ministers.

"The revenge of the ninth generation of Xianggong in the past is great!" Liu Che continued: "Zhong Ni once said: The enmity of the tenth generation can still be restored, because since I ascended the throne, I have rewarded soldiers, appointed virtuous generals, opened examinations, opened up the way of speech, recruited talents, lightly punished meagrates, encouraged agriculture and mulberry, and persuaded farming as the key, in order to come to Japan, raise troops to the north, execute in front of Yu Yu's emperor, and sacrifice prisoners in Gaomiao!" ”

Liu Che's words can be regarded as speaking to the hearts of the ministers.

Going north to the fortress, defeating the Xiongnu, the shame of Xuelu, and the revenge of the trapped city of Fuping, this is the mainstream opinion of the current Han military and the consensus of the people.

In the Battle of Pingcheng sixty years ago, the Han family did not know what the Huns thought.

But anyway, the Han family is not convinced, and it is not reconciled.

Obviously, it is a five-five game, but it is limited by economics and politics. can only bow his head and admit cowardice, and sign a humiliating peace treaty. I also want to watch the Huns show off their might in front of them, any person with dignity and backbone. will not be comfortable.

Not to mention that in the next few decades, the Huns will come to provoke the Han Dynasty every once in a while.

Fourteen years ago, the Xiongnu burned back to the middle palace, and five years ago, they plundered the border counties, and thousands of soldiers were killed and wounded.

From Yunzhong to Youbeiping, from Yuyang to Handan, there are countless Han subjects who have blood feuds with the Xiongnu.

And the North and South armies. More than seventy percent of the soldiers and officers come from these places.

This is what makes the main battle faction of the Han family have the most stable basic plate.

No one can ignore the voice of this enormous force.

Listening to the words of the Son of Heaven, the main battle faction rejoiced and was full of spirit.

But Liu Che changed the conversation and said: "It's just that Sun Tzu said: The Lord should not be angry and raise a teacher, since ancient times." The conquest of major countries is based on the temple first, and the one with more temples wins! ”

"If you want to destroy the Huns, you must arrange the temple. Look at friend and foe! As a parent of the people, I must not help but plan for the lives of my subjects! ”

These two sentences made the originally somewhat sad Lord and faction hold their heads high for a while.

As for the ministers and generals of the main battle. I was a little apprehensive.

But no one can argue with the Son of Heaven's claim.

Since the Spring and Autumn Period, the temple has been arranged. It is the most important link in military operations at the national level.

After the development of sages such as Sima Xianghe, Sun Wu, Wu Qi and Sun Bin, the temple was counted at this time. It has become an indispensable part of military operations.

The so-called temple calculation was originally an act with serious feudal superstition.

During the Xia, Shang and Zhou periods, every military operation had to divination, sacrifice to the heavens, ask ghosts and gods, and get good signs before sending troops.

However, after the invasion and annexation of the countries during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the art and level of Chinese warfare continued to improve.

Today, the temple has faded most of its superstitious colors and has become synonymous with the national strategic layout.

A typical example is the Battle of Changping between Qin and Zhao, in which both sides deliberated and rehearsed the war countless times before and during the war.

The Qin court mobilized almost all the forces of the whole country, and mobilized every village, every population, and every grain of rice.

In order not to let Zhao Guo know about the arrangement of the Qin court, the Qin State even issued a strict order: If anyone dares to leak Wu Anjun to kill the general, there will be no forgiveness!

Zhao is no exception.

The famous story of the war on paper is a good illustration that at that time, Zhao Guo already attached great importance to strategic arrangement.

In the Han Dynasty, the temple layout has developed to a new peak.

Three years ago, Wu Chu rebelled, and before Zhou Yafu led the army to quell the rebellion, he first discussed with Liu Che's emperor father for several days, and the monarchs and ministers confessed to each other, explained their respective requirements and bottom lines, and deduced the possible development direction of the war.

It was this kind of pre-war estimation and budget that played a huge role in the process of counterinsurgency, and the Wuchu Rebellion was pacified in March, and the temple was arranged, which occupied a large factor.

Otherwise, if Liang Guo was in a hurry, Zhou Yafu would be forced to save Suiyang, and Wu Chu's rebellion might not be what it would become.

Liu Che, on the other hand, wants to go further.

The mechanism of the joint staff meeting of later generations was introduced into the Han Dynasty.

The word temple is re-understood in a more detailed and in-depth way.

So, Liu Che clapped his hands, and Shaofu ordered Liu She to immediately comprehend and ordered someone to carry a huge paper map into the hall.

This is the first map ever made on paper material.

It consists of two huge wooden scrolls rolled together.

The two wooden shafts were seven feet long, and the paper rolled together was a thick skin paper developed by the Shaofu side, which was thicker and coarser than the current white paper, but it was very suitable for drawing maps.

But in this way, the map becomes very heavy.

It was carried into the temple by four men.

Liu Che waved his hand, and Liu She asked people to open the map.

The two eunuchs pulled the two axes of the map and slowly spread them out.

So, what appeared in front of everyone was a behemoth that was more than ten feet long and about seven feet wide.

Above, the mountains and rivers, the city lake, unobstructed view.

The majestic Great Wall, which runs along the lines of the mountains, divides this map in two.

The Han Dynasty was on the left, and the Xiongnu were on the right.

One after another wooden dolls, arranged by the officials of the Shaofu, appeared on the map.

Liu Che walked up to the huge map and looked at it. Very satisfied.

This map should be the most advanced and clear military map in the world.

Many new mapping techniques and new standards are used on this map.

Such as. Contour lines, scale bars, and interpretive annotations of various symbols appeared.

And that one puppet. It represents a military force supporting both Han and Hungary.

On the side of the Han Dynasty, south of the clouds, the hedgehog gathered a large army.

The main field army of the Han Dynasty, Juzhu, Flying Fox, Beidi, Xiliu, Bashang, and Jianmen were lined up in turn, while the garrison troops of the Great Wall, relying on the defense line of the Great Wall, were scattered on the border for thousands of miles.

On the Xiongnu side, limited to the sources of intelligence and information, they could only arrange the currently known Xiongnu clan and their approximate strength and location on the map.

But. Alone, it is also a feared armed force.

In and around the Hetao alone, the Xiongnu had six puppets watching each other, and near the long border from Youbeiping to Yunzhong, there were more than a dozen puppets, walking around the grassland.

In the depths of the heart, the huge cluster of the Xiongnu is daunting.

Liu Che picked up a puppet chess piece and said, "Sentence Note Army." There were soldiers, 11,700 and 5,000 cavalry, all of whom had changed their outfits last year. However, the sentence is noted in Yanmen, and it is important to be guarded. Therefore, only a maximum of three thousand cavalry can be mobilized! ”

"The Flying Fox Army has 8,700 soldiers. Among them, there are 3,000 cavalrymen, and the costume change will be completed in April this year! Liu Che picked up the puppet of the Flying Fox Army behind the sentence note again: "Yes." The flying fox is the fortress of the world, bearing the weight of mountains and rivers, and it is easy to move! ”

Liu Che then put the doll down.

The station of the Flying Fox Army is the famous Guangchang County, and in later generations, this place is called Baoding.

As early as when Chu and Han were fighting for hegemony, Li Shiqi had suggested to Liu Bang: I am willing to rush back to the army, collect Xingyang, according to Ao Geng's Su, stuff into Gao's risk, Du Daxing (Taihang) Road, away from the mouth of the fox, guard the white horse's Jin, in order to show the princes to implement the momentum of the system, then the world knows what to do.

The importance of the flying fox can be seen.

Until there is a critical moment, the garrison here will not be mobilized.

Three years ago, during the Wuchu Rebellion, the Flying Fox garrison did not move a single soldier.

Liu Che shifted his gaze to the north and put it on Beidi.

There is the largest and strongest cavalry cluster in the Han Dynasty.

Beidi County and its surrounding Longyou, Daishang, and the Han dynasty had more than twenty horse farms there, as well as as as up to 30,000 cavalry.

The most important thing is that this army has always been the reserve force of the Han family.

In other words, he is always mobilized, he is always in combat readiness.

Two months ago, Yizong was ordered to go to Yunzhong, passing through the Northland along the way, and then Yizong reported back to Liu Che: The Northland generals are well-trained and well-equipped, and they must use the Northland Army if they have national affairs!

Facts have also proved that the Beidi Army has always been the trump card in the military power of the Han family.

From the Wuchu Rebellion, to the conquest of Korea, and even the battle between Xiaozhu and the Xiongnu in history, the Northland Army was active in it.

Even, Liu Che's current armed forces of the Su Guard, more than fifty percent of the officers in the two armies of Huben and Yulin, were drawn from the north.

Historically, Beidi County and Longyou County, as well as the military aristocratic group of the dynasty, were active in Chinese history for thousands of years, dominating the rise and fall of dynasties.

Liu Che picked up the doll and pushed it to Cloudsdale.

"Beidi, Longyou and Daishang, 20,000 cavalry can be dispatched!" Although gritting his teeth, it is not impossible for the Han family to mobilize a military force of 50,000 people in this place.

But in that case, it would be tantamount to killing the chicken and taking the eggs, and no sane ruler would do such a stupid thing.

War horses, soldiers and officers must leave seeds before they can have a future.

"As for the fine willows, Bashang, Thorn Gate, and the northern and southern armies, there can be another 15,000 cavalry!" Liu Che said.

The three armies of Xiliu, Bashang, and Thornmen, because they were stationed in Guanzhong, were not enough cavalry to be large.

Because there are not many suitable places to raise horses in Guanzhong, it is difficult for delicate war horses to be stocked on a large scale in Guanzhong.

As for sending the infantry to the grassland, Liu Che is not crazy.

Li Guang and Cheng don't know and Li Ling's lessons, which is enough to prove that no matter how elite the foot soldiers are, they can't compare to the worst cavalry when they go to the grassland.

"I can send 10,000 troops to the subordinate country, the general of the five senses, and the cavalry of the county country!" Liu Che said lightly: "At present, my Han family can mobilize up to 50,000 cavalry and live in the clouds!" ”

Liu Che turned his gaze back to the Hetao.

There, the Huns were like a hedgehog, making it difficult to swallow.

"The Hutu tribe has more than 40,000 mouths, the Kunxi tribe has more than 30,000 mouths, and the Loufu tribe has more than 40,000 mouths.

"I want to remind you here that Lu Hou and Zhelan are no worse than the Aries King!" Liu Che said solemnly.

In the history of the Han Dynasty, the Lu Hou Department can be regarded as the old rival of the Han Dynasty.

But since fourteen years ago, the leader of the Luhou tribe, the Nan clan, was punished by Lao Shangshan for instigating the Youxian King to provoke a war with the Han Dynasty, and went to Gaonan Mountain to play mud with the Zhelan tribe, and it has not appeared in the Han records for 14 years.

But for this old opponent, everyone knows very well that he is powerful.

The Luhou tribe, even among the Huns, was known for being savage and aggressive.

It's just that this tribe is more unlucky, with the wrong master, since the military minister came to power, it was put into another book, originally, the Han courtiers thought that they would never deal with this brutal tribe in their lives, but they didn't expect that the military minister actually let it out.

As for the Zhelan tribe, everyone is not impressed.

But since the military ministers mobilized it, then its combat effectiveness should be beyond doubt.

And Liu Che knows even more how strong the combat effectiveness of the Zhelan tribe is.

Historically, after the Battle of Rouge Mountain, Huo Qubing swept across the entire desert, but in the Battle of Gaonan Mountain, he suffered a big loss.

Although in the end, they completely annihilated the main forces of Lu Hou and Zhelan, and also captured the Tianjin people of the Xiutu tribe.

But Huo Qu's disease headquarters also lost more than 5,000 people's living force.

As a result, Huo Qubing had to withdraw from the army and return to the Han border to recuperate, and it was not until the second year that he re-emerged.

can make Huo Quzhi bite it, and almost break his teeth, the combat effectiveness of the Zhelan tribe can be imagined.

You must know that when the Zhelan tribe fought against Huo Quai, they used weapons made of stone and bone.

"Counting the two tribes of Luhou and Zhelan, as well as the five Xiongnu tribes of Rouge Mountain and Gaonan Mountain, in the Hetao area, within a month, the Huns can gather more than 100,000 people!" Liu Che said.

Of course, 100,000 people and 100,000 troops are two different things.

It's just that the Huns are all soldiers, and when they fight, all the tribes, from the old to the women and children, will become part of their war machine and serve as logistics staff.

So under normal circumstances, when calculating the strength of troops, those old and weak should also be counted.

Just like the Han family, although the cavalry mobilized is 50,000, it is necessary to mobilize at least 100,000 people for the food, drink, Lazar and other logistics support work of these 50,000 people and the war horses.

On the whole, in terms of the source of cavalry combat troops, the Han family has the upper hand.

The 100,000 population of the Huns, according to past experience, the combat strength was probably between 30,000 and 40,000.

Moreover, they were scattered across the vast steppes that stretched for thousands of miles, while the Han family could concentrate their forces.

In general, in terms of the pre-war comparison of forces, the Han army has the absolute upper hand at present.

But the thing of war, where is the simple game of competing forces and numbers?

If this were the case, Cao Cao would not have the defeat of Chibi, and Fu Jian would not have the defeat of Feishui. (To be continued......)