From Qian'an to Jizhou, there are almost 280 miles, and from Jizhou to Zunhua, there are about 120 miles, so the army has to travel a total of 400 miles. If it is not far in terms of distance, if you march 400 miles in a hurry, you can reach it in three days and three nights.

However, the problem is that if you want to take this road, you will have to pass through two important towns that have been occupied by the Tartars, Yongping and Shimenzhai. If you rush to Zunhua quickly, then the army can't consume too much time in these two places. Of course, you can't consume too many troops, otherwise it will be meaningless to go to Zunhua.

But compared with the heavily guarded Santun camp, it is obviously safer to go to Jizhou for a detour.

So Qin Shuhuai said, "Ben Hou thinks that General Zhang's words are reasonable, what do you think, let's discuss it." ”

Seeing that his proposal was approved, Lai San'er said excitedly, "What Lao Zhang means is what I want to say." Hehe, let's hurry up and discuss, anyway, I think it's better for us to go back. ”

He Kegang groaned and said, "The last general also thinks that this plan is feasible, but it is best to make a detour without knowing it, so as to play the effect of a surprise soldier and catch the Tartars by surprise!"

Zu Dashou also said, "The last general seconded the proposal." It is recommended to place a large number of outposts between Qian'an and Santun camps, as well as between Yongping and Shimenzhai, to prevent the Tartar horse outposts from reporting the news. ”

Qin Shuhuai thought for a while and said, "This can be done." The large and small passages between Qian'an and Santun camp, the Jinfeng Village entrenched in this area should be extremely familiar, let the people of Jinfeng Village lead the way, and we will send a thousand Dongchang fans to set up bright posts and secret posts in this area, which can be sealed. And from Yongping to Shimenzhai, there is only a big road in Jizhou, and there is a small road in Hengling, and it is enough to send a thousand brocade guards to ambush on those two roads. ”

The entrance of the trail in Hengling is near Yutian, which is the road where Qin Shuhuai led people to ambush Huang Taiji and achieve a great victory in Hengling last time. However, that road is not easy to walk, the army used to be very slow, and it was not as fast as taking the official road from Jizhou, so the coalition army still chose to take the official road from Jizhou. But for Ma Whistle, it was easier to take that trail, so I had to guard against it.

Zu Dashou said, "What Hou Ye said is extremely true, if there is no other road, there should be no way for Tartar to notify Shimen Village." ”

In addition to these two roads, if the Tartars of Yongping must notify Shimenzhai, then they can naturally cross the mountains, which the coalition forces have no way to defend. However, going over the mountain means that you can't ride a horse, and the time it takes is much slower than that of the coalition army walking on the avenue, and it is estimated that when he informs the coalition army, he will go to Shimen Village.

Everyone added it in a gossipy, and the basic strategy came out.

Qin Shuhuai immediately ordered that a thousand Dongchang Fanzi should set off immediately, with the people of Jinfengzhai as guides, and set up multiple points on all the large and small roads between Qian'an and Santunying, completely cutting off the connection between the two.

At the same time, the army immediately assembled and prepared to set out overnight.

In the middle of the night, the army was assembled. According to Qin Shuhuai's opinion, not a single soldier was left in Qian'an City, all of them were taken away, and if the Tartars wanted to divide their troops to attack, then give it to them - this war was not originally aimed at fighting for territory, but for the purpose of annihilating the main force of the other party!

At this time, Meng Wei came to ask, what to do with those soldiers and Tartar soldiers who surrendered?

The total number of Tartars and soldiers who surrendered was about 5,000. Leaving them in Qian'an City is to let the tiger return to the mountain, and it may not be too convenient to take them on the road. And now the grain and grass in the entire Ji Town are very tight, although the coalition army is now full of grain and grass after replenishment, but considering that it may not be replenished for a long time in the future, it also has to save some use, and it seems to be a bit of a waste to give these people precious food to eat, so Meng Wei asked this question.

Qin Shuhuai asked without thinking, "What do you say?"

Meng Wei saw that Qin Shuhuai's face was gloomy, and he knew what to do, and said, "The last general knows." ”

If he had been before, he might have hesitated, but after so many battles, Meng Wei's heart was already harder than iron-because the enemies he saw never talked about "benevolence and righteousness".

Before the army set off, Meng Wei led 2,000 men to murderously rush into several temporary prisons where prisoners of war were held, and without saying a word, they began a massacre.

In less than a quarter of an hour, nearly 5,000 unarmed prisoners of war with their hands tied were killed. However, according to Qin Shuhuai's previous style, Meng Wei still left more than 20 "pure-bred" Tartars, and letting these Tartars live can allow the coalition forces to put on a posture of "surrender but not kill", which is used to persuade surrender and fight psychological warfare.

After following Qin Shuhuai for a long time, Meng Wei also knew Qin Shuhuai's routine.

Subsequently, the army immediately set off and rushed to the first destination, Yongping.

For Yongping's 8,000 Tartar elite soldiers, Qin Shuhuai's original idea was to ignore him, bypass him directly, and then send people to monitor, and now that they are out of the city and follow them, then ambush them and eat them, so as to save time and reduce the consumption of troops - after all, ambush is always less consuming troops than siege.

However, Zu Dashou, He Kegang, Zhang Xiao and others immediately raised questions, that is, if they ignore them, Yongping's 8,000 Tartars will probably immediately abandon Yongping and go to Qian'an or go straight to Santun Camp when they see that the coalition army has returned the same way, so that not only will they lose a good opportunity to annihilate them, but they may also tell Santun Camp the whereabouts of the army, and Santun Camp will quickly inform the Tartars everywhere, then it will not achieve the effect of surprise soldiers.

Although they raised questions, they still thought that Qin Shuhuai must have other intentions in doing this-after all, Hou Ye "used soldiers like a god", how could he make such a low-level mistake?

So these people all looked at Qin Shuhuai, hoping that he could explain everyone's doubts.

Qin Shuhuai was embarrassed, how could he have any other intentions? It's just a matter of course, okay? Now he doesn't have many soldiers in his hands, as a dick, he wants to save money when he has no money, and he wants to save troops when he has no soldiers, so he looped himself in it and said such a thoughtless idea.

To put it bluntly, as a double lover of Ming history and war history, with his understanding of various major historical events of this dynasty and historical figures, sometimes he can indeed come up with strategies that amaze the world with a flash of inspiration, but in terms of marching and fighting, he is really incomparable with these generals.

However, he is also self-aware, he only sets the general policy in almost all battles, never directly commands the army, and most of them carry his sword into battle and act as a "brave man". Even if he has less time to play in person recently, he is only "sitting in charge", and the specific command is still handed over to professional generals.

In order not to affect his "glorious image", he still pretended to think calmly, and then said, "Since everyone wants to take Yongping first, let's do it." Well...... It should not affect the overall situation. ”

It's as if the strategy was changed in order to accommodate everyone's ideas.