Wow!
A large stack of urgent military reports were scattered on the court hall.
Zhao Duan's face was gloomy, and with uncontrollable anger in his eyes, he looked at the people below and yelled:
"The hundreds of thousands of troops east of Hedong could not even hold out for five days before the Huns broke through and entered?
When the Xiongnu seized control of Daliang City, the upper and lower levels of the military in the city actually got into a fight, allowing the Xiongnu to take advantage of the situation.
What do you do for food?
Who can tell me what this is all for! "
There was silence in the court, everyone bowed their heads and remained silent.
No one could have imagined that the Huns broke through the border crossing even after five days.
The barrier was broken so quickly that no one could react.
Once the city of Daliang and the three cities of Hetong and Suyun that were guarding him were destroyed, a gap three hundred miles east and west of the city of Daliang was created, ruthlessly tearing a hole in the originally solid border defense line. The Xiongnu also followed suit. Come on in!
Now, in just half a month, everything in Hedong was in crisis. Urgent reports from various cities asking for help poured into the capital like snowflakes, filling Zhao Duan's desk.
After waiting for a while, everyone spoke. Zhao Duan became even more angry. He stood up and walked off the throne, picked up an emergency report, walked under the imperial steps, came to Zhang He, and gently held the memorial. Patting Zhang He's old face, he asked:
"My Prime Minister Zhang, look! Shuofang City is in emergency. Fifty thousand Huns outside the city are besieging the city. Twenty thousand soldiers and civilians in Shuofang City are defending the city to the death. However, the Xiongnu are arresting the people and driving them to attack the city, which consumes the remaining strength in the city. Shuofang City is in emergency and requests the court to mobilize troops as soon as possible. support!
You tell me? How can I save you?
How to save! Where do the soldiers come from? "
Then he picked up another book and walked to the Minister of the Ministry of War, picked up his hand and put the memorial in his hand, and sneered: "Shang Shu, the Minister of the Ministry of War, I hope the east city is in danger! Thirty thousand Huns outside the city are besieging the city and driving hundreds of thousands of people to attack. There are only ten thousand soldiers and civilians in Wangdong City, and they can no longer resist. Please ask the imperial court to send troops to support quickly!"
The Minister of War's head bowed even lower.
Zhao Duan ignored him, picked up another one and walked to the next court official. Just like that, soon all the third-rank officials in the court had an emergency report in their hands, and there were still a large number of them scattered on the ground. emergency report.
Zhao Duan turned around and sat back on the dragon chair. He leaned on the dragon chair with his head in one hand and asked the officials:
"How is it? My dear friends, you all passed the imperial examination and were selected from thousands of troops.
Now I'm just asking you to come up with a strategy to stop the Xiongnu. This can't happen.
"No way, right? The lowest level of my dear friends are all Jinshi, so it's not like you can't even solve this problem, right?
You are all our great talents in the Song Dynasty! "
The officials remained silent.
Zhao Duan laughed angrily: "When we are fighting for power, aren't you all very talkative? Now that the court has encountered a problem, you have nothing to say.
talk! Express your opinions so that I can hear your opinions? "
After a while, Zhao Duan sneered: "If you don't tell me, you bastards will fight among themselves. When the court needs you to follow the rules, you will work hard, but when the court needs you to work hard, you will You're all speechless! If you can't give me any ideas, then why does the imperial court support you? Are you just for free food?"
"I am ashamed!"
Baiguan finally responded this time.
But Zhao Duan smiled disdainfully, and then coldly snorted:
"This is a critical moment for your problem, and I will come back to you when the time comes.
Now, who will tell me where the Huns have reached?
Facing the Xiongnu, whether my court is blocking or retreating, where have they been?
If we block it, where should we reset the defense line, and where will the defensive strength come from? "
Is it possible for Hedong County to give up like this? Is it possible for all the millions of soldiers and civilians in the thirty cities in Hedong to give up?
Zhao Duan raised five issues that are urgently needed to be resolved now.
All the officials whispered among themselves and began to discuss. Zhao Duan did not stop him, he just sat quietly on the dragon chair and waited.
After a while, after being recommended by all the officials, Zhang He stood up and replied: "Back to Your Majesty, according to the latest news, due to a big war between the Huns last year, the Huns themselves were extremely short of food. Once they entered Hedong, in addition to dividing their troops to attack some important cities, , the Xiongnu Chanyu Tila took his 200,000 troops to personally go to Heyuan City, an important grain-gathering city in the east of Hedong!
Facing the Xiongnu, we naturally cannot allow them to plunder. "
Zhang He first stated his position. This was political correctness. Anyone who dared to say that he gave up resistance would be secluded from the world.
He will be despised by the whole world. Even if he is the prime minister, he cannot bear this kind of sin.
Then I heard Zhang He continue: "According to the current situation, the imperial courts in the other cities in Hedong have no spare power to save them, and they are beyond their reach.
The most important thing now is to gather all the people and materials in the small towns into the big city to achieve the purpose of strengthening the walls and clearing the country, and prevent the Huns from obtaining supplies by looting those small towns. "
In this way, the personnel and materials in major cities can also be greatly supplemented to better resist the Huns' attack.
And we can rely on the Heyuan city point to re-mobilize heavy troops and set up defense lines around it. Among them, the area east of Hedong near Shuzhong County is blocked by the Shuzhong natural barrier. We can concentrate all our forces on the defense line from Hedong to Guanzhong without worrying about it. .
I have already made an accounting with the Minister of War and the Minister of Household Affairs. By giving up some cities that do not need to be defended, concentrating the troops, and using Heyuan City as the front line of defense, the imperial court can at least mobilize 200,000 troops to form a new defense line.
Immediately, we recruited some local Hunan troops from Guanzhong to supplement. In a month at most, we will be able to rebuild a new defense line with 400,000 people in Hedong.
Last year's harvest was good, and our country's several major granaries have sufficient grain storage. We can rely on sufficient troops and food supplies to keep the Xiongnu out of Heyuan City.
Your Majesty is also requested to dispatch two imperial troops to the east of Hedong, and make way for Yumen Pass through the Hedong Corridor. Now Yumen Pass is still in our hands, and we can sneak attack the Xiongnu's rear city and burn their food and grass.
Although the Xiongnu have a large number of people, they also need a lot of food and grass. As long as we clear the country thoroughly and continuously attack the rear of the Xiongnu, the food and grass they carry will definitely be exhausted quickly. When their food and grass are in crisis, and their retreat is blocked, The threat will definitely go away on its own. In this way, the danger of the Xiongnu invasion will be resolved! "
Zhang He was worthy of being the prime minister. After knowing that the current strength of the Song Dynasty army could not confront the menacing Xiongnu head-on, he immediately thought of using the comprehensive strength of the Song Dynasty to use huge manpower and material resources to consume the Huns and defeat them. Use strong walls to clear the field so that the opponent cannot obtain supplies.
At the same time, he sent troops from the city still under his control to the rear of the Huns, sneak attacks on the opponent's grain routes, and disturbed the opponent's retreat to force the Huns to retreat.
At present, this is indeed the most suitable method for Da Song Dynasty.
But in the final analysis, all strategies ultimately require people to execute them. The most important point of this plan is whether Heyuan City can be defended?
Can we buy enough time for the court to make arrangements?
There is a lot of food and grass accumulated in Heyuan City, enough to feed an army of 500,000 for the first half of the year.
If Heyuan City is destroyed, all bets are off!
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(End of chapter)
