"Commander, please give me an order on how to send troops?"
Liu Mingzhi stared at the huge sand table in front of him with a calm expression and began to think deeply.
"Daddy?"
"Um?"
Liu Mingzhi raised his eyes and looked at the little cutie standing in front of the tent with his head peeping out, and chuckled twice: "Yue'er, why are you here with daddy?"
"Yue'er misses you. Can Yue'er come in?"
"Stinky girl, come in, you're not going to be your mother's little spy, are you?"
The little cutie wrinkled the tip of her nose and walked into the big tent carelessly.
"No, Yue'er is afraid that you are thirsty and hungry, so why don't you come and bring you tea, water and cakes?"
"Okay! That's all right! Just watch from the sidelines and don't make any noise, okay?"
"I...hum...if I don't make a sound, I won't make a sound!"
A group of generals looked at the father and daughter bickering, and the tense atmosphere suddenly relaxed a little, and they laughed and hugged each other.
"We have met Her Royal Highness the Princess!"
"No gifts, no gifts, uncles, please forgive me, Yue'er doesn't dare to do it!"
"Thank you, Princess. Your Highness, please take a seat!"
"Yeah, yeah, you guys just get busy, just watch Yue'er!"
Liu Mingzhi turned the ring on his thumb and was silent for a long time. He picked up the bamboo pole with a hook with a solemn expression, lifted the Xiaoguo Guard flag embedded in the stone base, and placed it on the sand table at the Hetao grassland.
"With the order, Xiaoguo's entire army of 43,000 soldiers and horses was dispatched. It took three days to rush to the Hetao Grassland and assemble with Shuofang's 40,000 defenders!"
"Got the order!"
The first soldier of the ten messengers ran towards the outside of the camp holding the command flag in his hand.
"Deputy Commander Song, with the commander's order, the entire Xiaoguo Guard army was dispatched. It took three days to rush to the Hetao Grassland to gather with Shuofang's 40,000 soldiers and horses."
Song Qing nodded, directly took off the Xiaoguo guard flag in front of him, leaned over and inserted the flag into Heshuo's position.
Tang Ru and Zhang Kuang spread out a military book in front of everyone.
Nangong Ye wrote and recorded it.
"The deployment of our army and the actual status of weapons and equipment have been verified and recorded by your commander-in-chief. Please take a look!"
Huyan Lianlu, Yeluhu and others looked at the military register in front of them, instinctively glanced at each other, and their expressions became nervous.
It was only a moment of tea, and there was no movement from our own troops, but the other side had already begun to make arrangements.
Such a contrast made our own troops nervous.
Before the generals of the two countries, Jin and Tu, could recover, another dragon messenger ran in.
"Vice-Commander Song, the commander-in-chief has ordered that Long Wuwei and the trapped army have a total of 70,000 troops. It will take a day and a half to rush to Yunzhou to join forces with the Huben Army!"
"Um!"
Long Wuwei, the flag of the trapped army was directly moved to the Yunzhou position by Song Qing.
Before Huyan Lianlu, Yeluhu and the others could panic, the messengers from the Jin and Tu countries also ran in one after another.
"General Yelu, the king of the town has an order to kill Polang. The black wolf and the three guards in armor will take a total of 53,000 soldiers and horses to rush to Songzhou in three days. The Fengming Stream between Daizhou is on standby!"
"Elder Princess, the Great Khan has given an order. It will take one day for 70,000 soldiers and horses from Duolu and Shibi to rush to the old part of Peru on the east side of Heshuo Grassland, and stand ready for the tribes."
The generals of the two countries breathed a sigh of relief and began to move the flags in front of them.
The commander-in-chief of our side finally gave the order. Although it was a step slower than the dragon, at least he didn't have to be passive everywhere.
Huyan Lianlu and Yeluhu, like Zhang Kuang and Song Qing, began to ask Song Qing and others to review the military register and record the actual situation of the duel.
After each other's business was finished, everyone's eyes were fixed on the several hourglasses at the front of the sand table and they waited.
An hourglass represents the time of day.
When the three hourglasses have finished flowing, it means that three days have passed, and someone needs to be sent to reply to one's own commander to report the results.
"Vice Commander Song, the commander-in-chief has ordered that the Western Region Protectorate and the coalition forces of the Western Regions have 230,000 cavalry and it will take seven days to rush to the Hetao Grassland!"
"OK!"
Song Qing began to move the flag again, then stared at the sand table and waited.
While waiting for the results, everyone was anxious, fearing that their side would lose in the first wave of confrontation.
"Time's up, reply with results!"
In Dalong's military tent, Liu Mingzhi and others gathered around to watch the recorded battle results.
"Huh, it seems that the junior brother knows very well that the biggest threat to them is the Shuofang troops and horses planted on the grassland. When they follow, they can rush to the Ganzhou troops in Heshuo. Two groups of troops have been dispatched in advance to enter the old Peruvian army. I want to wait and see.
But what does Wanyan Chizha, an old fox, mean by this? Instead of directly stationing in the important border city, they gave up their advantage and sent troops into the Fengming Stream between the two places to stand by.
I don’t understand! "
Young Master Liu's uncle, Yunchong, raised his head and glanced at the location of Fengming Stream on the sand table.
"Commander, the Fengming Stream between Daizhou and Songzhou, with water on the left and mountains on the right, is a dangerous place that is easy to defend but difficult to attack.
In particular, Fengming Stream is deep and dangerous, with a series of twists and turns.
This old fox should have combined the lessons learned from the fall of the Jin Kingdom last time and gave up heavily on guarding the city, but instead wanted to deal with our army in dangerous terrain.
Fengming Stream is one of the important passages directly to the capital of the Jin Kingdom.
Look at the terrain on the sand table, with twists and turns and different widths. We can only rely on infantry and horses to attack here. If artillery opens the way, the rocks on the cliff on the right will be shaken by the explosion of artillery, which will give our troops a chance to attack. The horse was severely injured.
The most important thing is that the Jin Kingdom also has artillery.
If they saw the defense failed and bombarded the cliffs with artillery, the Fengming Stream passage would be blocked by falling rocks.
And our soldiers and horses must either carry stones to clear the way under the rain of arrows from the enemy's advantageous location, or take a detour.
If we take a detour, they can more quickly rush to the next favorable terrain to make defensive arrangements based on the scouts' reconnaissance.
Either outcome will cost a lot of money and take a long time.
The personal experience of the last national war made Wanyan Chizha cautious. He chose such a dangerous terrain where he could advance and attack and retreat and defend, and deployed a large number of troops. "
Liu Mingzhi raised his eyes to observe the location of Fengming Stream, then nodded thoughtfully while holding his chin.
"Yes, uncle, you can see clearly that this old fox may waste our time based on food and grass, so we have deployed heavy troops here."
"What should we do? Why don't we take advantage of the fact that our troops have not taken the Fengming Stream route to attack the Jin capital, and directly bypass Songzhou and Jinzhou to attack? From the southwest of the Jin capital, Luoyue Valley, attack the Jin capital. how?"
"No, as you said, every move we make will be detected by the scouts.
What's more, the detour consumes too much time. We made a big detour while they marched straight ahead. If they made a sneak attack on our exhausted troops halfway, it would be more than the gain was worth the loss. "
"so what should I do now?"
"Don't worry, don't worry, let me think."
Liu Mingzhi thought for a while while holding the tea, with a faint smile in the corner of his eyes: "Although Wanyan Chizha has learned the lesson from the disastrous defeat in the last national war, he has ignored it. The troops and horses of the Jin Kingdom now are not the five or six soldiers he had before. The Jin Kingdom with a hundred thousand elite troops.
With only 300,000 mixed troops, he sent more than 50,000 elite troops at once, and the other local troops were overwhelmed.
Doesn't he want to guard Fengming Stream? Even if we guessed his intention, we would not change the route and directly give him a shock.
Send the order, fight a hundred battles, warriors, and the Flying Eagle Guard, with a total of 130,000 infantry and cavalry, and march directly to Fengming Stream!
After sending an order to the Xiaoguo Guard, Shuofang's soldiers and horses divided into two groups and spent a day to encircle and suppress the Turkic forces of Shibi and Tulu.
An order was sent to the troops of the Protectorate of the Western Regions, and the allied troops of the Western Regions were divided into two groups. They detoured all the way around the Relic Department and cooperated with the two groups of Xiaoguo Guard troops to complete the encirclement and suppression of the two Turkic troops of the old Peruvian army.
Interspersed all the way to the Bahan Department to launch a feint attack.
If they want to work together to deal with me alone, then defeat them one by one.
Let’s start with the Turks.
Junior Brother knows the movements of our army with just a few sticks of incense.
However, according to the time difference based on the sand table deduction rules, even if he quickly conveyed the order with a falcon, it would still take two to three days.
And my commander's order can be passed to the hands of the Xiaoguo Guards in one day.
The Duo and Lu troops, who were unable to receive his orders in time, could only become the food of our Xiaoguo Guard troops!
In this case, let's take two soldiers and horses to make a tooth sacrifice. "
"Send the order, Yunzhou falls into battle, Longwu, Huben and the other three guards leave the city and go straight to the Moruo River on the border between the Jin Kingdom and the Kingdom of Jin."
"Got the order!"
"Commander, is it a little too smooth?
Why do the generals think that they are really luring the enemy deeper? "
Liu Mingzhi suddenly looked at Zhou Baoyu.
"Tell me carefully what you mean?"
