Chapter 705 The Danger of Solidity

"I have understood the meaning of the general. Please ask the general to make it clear where the soldiers and horses are going to attack."

The generals consciously kicked the ball to Song Nan. Everyone has learned to be good. They can't compare with this young general in wisdom and IQ. Originally, many people thought that Song Nan was lucky to be able to walk peacefully. It is said that Liu Liu, Liu Qi, An Hua Wang and others are confident that they can handle those things by themselves, but they just let the Marquis Song pick up the leaks. It was not until then that they realized that this kind of calculation and analysis were all subtle. Song Nan's credit was not readily available, and it was by no means a reputation.

"Please come here to let you express your opinions. I said alone, won't it be a word?" Song Nan smiled.

"You don't have to be polite, the general. With the general's strategy in front of us, it's better for us to save. The general ordered that we will follow it. The generals said one after another.

Song Nan rolled her eyes. It seems incredible that one person ruled the world and the whole country was loyal to him, but looking at the appearance of these people now, it is clear that personal worship is so simple.

Song Nan doesn't want to be too entangled in these matters. If they don't want democracy, he has to engage in dictatorship. Moreover, he has indeed made a detailed analysis and has already come to a conclusion. Today's meeting is just an explanation and then implement it.

"Please take a look." Song Nan grabbed a wicker and pointed on the sand table with the two pointed young leaves in front of him and said, "As we just said, there are three ways for the Tatars to choose from, but it is unlikely that they will face us directly. They will either go east or north, and only these two roads can go."

The generals stared at the sand table, and the situation was clear.

"To know which direction the Tahri wants to attack, we just need to put ourselves in another's shoes. Assuming that we are Tasars, now we have gone deep into the hinterland of other countries and have lost the sharp weapon to attack the city. With only 40,000 cavalry, where should we go? If you can think about these problems, you can figure out the direction they are about to attack.

"What does the general mean... the Tari will go north to attack Lingzhou? Then seize Ningxia Town to open up the passage back to the Hetao area?"

"General Xu Tai reacted fast enough, not bad." Song Nan praised it.

Xu Tai scratched his head with some embarrassment and said, "Inspiration from the general, the humble position seems to understand something."

Song Nan said, "Then it's up to you to explain the reason."

Xu Tai arched his hand and said, "Yes." After saying that, he stepped forward and pointed to the sand table and pointed out, "The general said that he would put himself in another position. I just regarded myself as a Tatar commander and thought about the situation. Although 40,000 cavalry is a large army, after losing the supply line and the siege eagle cannon, the survival ability of these 40,000 soldiers and horses is actually very worrying. The little prince of Tatars must now understand a truth. He has invested more than 100,000 soldiers and horses in Shaanxi. With the 40,000 cavalry at hand, I'm afraid it will be difficult to make a tree.

Everyone nodded one after another, and Jiang Bin said, "That's right. 40,000 soldiers and horses can make trouble. Unless my Ming generals are all mud, what can he do?"

Xu Tai nodded and said, "Yes, if the Tartans do not attack Guyuan at the same time, their intention must be to penetrate into the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty; but in fact, even if they break through Guyuan, the Tartans will fall into a siege. The soldiers and horses of Taiyuan Datong have dispatched seven guard stations to Qingyangfu, which is very likely to collide head-on. If once we are dragged down and we come from the rear with reinforcements, the 40,000 soldiers and horses of the Tahs will be explained. What if they can break through Qingyang? There are still tens of thousands of soldiers and horses in Shanxi, and there are more than 100,000 elite Beijing camps near the left of the capital. They are looking for death to the east.

Why can't they attack south after capturing Guyuan? After taking Pingliang Fengxiang, you can attack the land of Bashu or enter the area of Henan and Hunan, which is a weak area of our troops. A general asked.

Xu Tai looked at him contemptuously and said, "Is General Zuo blind? Bashu has many mountains, Hunan and Henan has many waters, and the 40,000 cavalry of the Tarats are as mobile as the wind. Do you mean they are going to abandon their horses and walk as infantry? If they dare to attack south, I'm afraid they will be caught up by us if they can't reach Fengxiang. At that time, they will still destroy the road.

The general surnamed Zuo took a look at the terrain on the sand table and immediately shrank back in shame, regretting that he had exposed his IQ.

Song Nan nodded with a smile and said, "The analysis is very reasonable, but what is the significance of attacking Lingzhou for the sartes? There are more than 10,000 soldiers stationed in Lingzhou. After taking it, they have to cross the river to attack Ningxia Town. Aren't they afraid that they can't take the time to be caught up by us?

Xu Tai said: "General, I don't know if the Tartans have a clever plan to capture Lingzhou, but the only way back to the river is their only idea at present, otherwise they will all die here. Although Ningxia Town in Lingzhou is difficult to attack, they can escape once it is attacked. Under the desperate situation, anyone will risk it. It's a risk."

Xu Tai has basically clarified what Song Nan wants to say. This person still has military talent. If he is determined to be a general in time, he is at least much smarter than these generals in front of him. So far, Song Nan hardly needs to explain more, just give orders.

Song Nan ordered to divide the army into two ways, so that Xu Taijiangbin led nearly 40,000 soldiers from the Beijing camp and three local guards to march in Lingzhou, so that he could rescue them in time when the Tart attacked Lingzhou, while he led the Shenshu camp and the remaining guards to stay in place to prevent the Tart from turning back to attack.

In this way, Song Nan only has 30,000 soldiers and horses. If the Tart learns of the news of the Ming army's early action and turn back to attack, it is still a trouble. For this reason, Song Nan has to take the method of confusing the enemy, leading 30,000 soldiers and horses to take the initiative, and at the same time let the soldiers and horses led by Jiang Bin and Xu Tai take advantage of the rear of the side. At night, he detoured along the Great Wall defense line in the west of Lingzhou to Lingzhou. Even if it was delayed for a day or two, it was better than to be recognized by the Taran.

The approach of Song Nan's army really made the baldness a little nervous. At this moment, he has indeed reached the point where he had to choose to attack. The strategy of the Ming army's strong walls and clear fields has seen results. At first, he galloped a hundred miles and took several small counties and villages. The food supply could still keep up, but with the vast land, there was no one there. Smoke, who attacked the next town, found empty, and the grain, cattle and sheep were all dragged away. The survival problem of this cavalry suddenly became prominent.

In the middle of summer, the horse's grain and grass are not worried. The grass all over the mountains can barely maintain the horse's physical strength, but the bean cake dregs fed to the horse has become the main food of the soldiers; the horse can eat grass, but people can only watch it. A sense of panic and despair is permeated in the army. The baldness can realize that all the previous ambitions have turned into illusions, and the most practical problem now is to get out of China quickly.

During the more than ten days of stay, although the Ming army did not attack, it must have sent troops to besiege them in all directions. While the soldiers and horses still have the strength, they must make a decision immediately.

Bald Mengke also held a meeting of generals above thousands of chiefs. Everyone was silent and morale was very low. Bald Mengke did not shy away from telling the current situation frankly. The short meeting quickly made a decision and immediately went north to attack Lingzhou and then captured Ningxia Town. At the speed of the Ming army's deployment, Ling I'm afraid there are not many soldiers stationed in the state area. In addition, a hundred cavalry sent the best dry food and horse food to the north at night, bypassed the towns and garrison of the Ming army with bald and fierce orders, crossed Helan Mountain and returned to the north of the mountain. Urusborot, the second son of Ulanbaatar, was ordered to carry all the remaining troops in the country. Laflatin gathered 100,000 troops and rushed to Ning immediately. North of Xia Town, Liying took Ningxia Town together.

Although the bald man knows that there are actually less than 30,000 soldiers and horses in China, and his second son Urus led these soldiers and horses to prevent the tribal leaders in the territory from taking advantage of his absence, but now he has no time to take care of these. As long as he can take these 40,000 back to Beiyuan, everything is worth it.

Although the situation is critical, I still played some tricks before the action began.

In the early morning of July 25, Yang Yiqing, who was stationed in Guyuan, just got up and came to Guyuan with him to bring red bean porridge and steamed buns on a small table for Yang Yiqing to have breakfast. Yang Yiqing had to take care of defense these days and worry about the resettlement of 70,000 people who poured into the city and slept every day. It's late and I have a bad appetite. But his daughter's hand-made red bean porridge and hot steamed buns made him appetizing and eating with relish.

However, a bowl of porridge has just been eaten, and only most of the steamed bread in his hand has been bitten. His footsteps are pounding outside the inner courtyard, and the guard shouted at the door: "Your Excellency, it's not a big deal."

Yang Yiqing was shocked and almost choked. He quickly swallowed the steamed bun that was blocked in his throat and got up and said, "Come in and talk."

A personal guard hurried in, knelt down on one knee and arched his hand and said, "Your Excellency, General Peng Yuepeng, the commander-in-chief of Guyuan, please go up to the west wall quickly."

Yang Yiqing asked in surprise, "What?"

"Your Excellency, the Tak soldiers have come down to Guyuan City."

"Ah?" Yang Yiqing put down the steamed bun in his hand and left.

Yang Koo'er stamped her feet and shouted, "Dad, let's go after eating. I haven't eaten for a few days."

Yang Yiqing didn't have time to reply, and he didn't go back.

Yang Koer stood for a while and frowned and said to herself, "Has the Carthor come to Guyuan? Then Brother Song and others must also follow him. Maybe they will see him soon. In the past two days, he has to learn a few special dishes from his mother to cook for him. I'm afraid he hasn't eaten stable food when he led the soldiers to war.