Datang New Order

ps: Thanks for the rewards of Youyuyang and Zhaozhaomumu, and thanks to the brothers for their monthly tickets for encouragement.

As a local snake who actively attached himself, it was not the first time that Li Dutou of Dongyang Capital had participated in the military council. He would be summoned basically for any issues related to the terrain and generals in Luzhou and Zezhou.

This time he was assigned to attack with Zhao Zaili's cavalry and captured Li Congke alive, and Li Dutou also made a contribution.He had just returned from Xijiayan Village to the camp of the Youyan Security Army, when he was quickly taken to Pingqiu Camp by the Chinese Army's messenger.

When Zhou Kan saw Li Dutou, he didn't have time to greet him, so he started by asking, "Is there a detour in Shiyu to Xiangyuan?"

Li Dutou saw that the atmosphere in the tent was extremely serious, so he knew that this matter might be of great importance, so he recalculated silently in his heart, and then replied with absolute certainty: "No!"

"Think about it again, is it true?" Li Xiaoxi asked from the side.

"Indeed not!" Li Dutou replied firmly, seeing that all the generals in the tent seemed to be relieved, so he added: "From Shiyu, there is indeed no trail to Xiangyuan, which I dare to guarantee with my head ! Unless it is Licheng..."

Everyone in the tent was breathing hard immediately, Li Dutou hurriedly smiled and said: "Don't be nervous, generals, the enemy army sent troops from Shiyu, no matter what, they will not be able to attack Xiangyuan by surprise. If you have to find a trail, you must first pass through Li The city, and this trail is also impassable from Shiyu..."

Zhou Kan immediately walked to the half-built sand table, blasted away the low-level soldiers who were busy making the sand table, and greeted everyone: "Everyone come here. Li Dutou, please speak carefully, and you must speak clearly!"

Surrounded by the generals, Li Dutou took a small bamboo stick from a soldier, arched his body and pointed to the mountains in the east of Xiangyuan, saying: "This is Xiantang Mountain, this is Huangyan Mountain, and between the two mountains is Zhuozhang Mountain. river……"

"The Zhuozhang River Valley? Didn't it mean that the two banks are steep. Is it impossible to walk?" Marquis Yu Chen, surnamed Chen, stared at Li Du and asked.

Li Du nodded like a chicken pecking at rice: "Chen Yuhou, don't worry, someone said that this river valley is impassable, and there is no problem with that. Going up the river valley, here, Li Beipo, is stuck in the Zhuozhang It is a sharp bend in the river. It is impossible to go downstream from here, but it is possible to go upstream. The trail that someone said starts here. Instead of going through the Zhuozhang River Valley, it turns from Libei Slope to the south. There is a The mountain road can lead to Licheng, so if you want to attack Xiangyuan, you must pass through Licheng first."

Li Dutou's words reassured the senior Yu Hous. If there is a problem here, they will also bear the responsibility.

Zhou Kan stared at Li Beipo for a while and asked, "Continue to say, Li Beipo's north is the upper reaches of the Zhuozhang River? Is there a road to connect to Shiyu?"

Li Du shook his head and said: "No! People and horses can indeed pass along the Zhuozhang River upstream. But the road is very steep. Mr. Zhou, please look, go north through the Huangyadong trail to Longquan, and then follow the village water to the west .It has already gone to the north, which is Wu Township, which is too far away from Shiyu..."

"Wuxiang?!" Not only Zhou Kan discovered the problem, but Li Xiaoxi, Gao Xingzhou, Zhao Zaili and others all exclaimed in unison.

A possibility immediately appeared in everyone's mind: Li Siyuan attracted the attention of the Yan army in Shiyu.Li Sizhao and Zhou Dewei sent surprise soldiers from Wuxiang to attack Licheng!

Next, whether it is going west to Xiangyuan.Even going one step further, continuing to go south to Luzhou will cause great chaos in the entire defense system of the Yan army!

Sweat was already on Zhou Kan's forehead.

When Li Dutou spoke up to this point, he himself also realized that something was wrong, so he hurriedly said: "The defense of Licheng must be strengthened! Generals, don't be sloppy!"

Chen Yuhou said angrily at the side: "Say it earlier!"

Li Dutou was deeply regretful, and raised his hand to slap himself twice on the face.

Zhou Kan didn't bother to reprimand Li Dutou, and hurriedly asked left and right: "Is there any military newspaper in Licheng these days?"

Chen Yuhou personally rushed to the attached tent, and not long after, he rushed back to the big tent with a stack of military newspaper texts in his arms. Several soldiers surrounded him, quickly flipped through the books, and didn't care to clean them up. One, and another.

A low-ranking officer wandered timidly outside the big tent, looking into the big tent from time to time, but Liu Yuhou saw it, and said to Zhou Kan: "General Manager, that is Zhu Ya Ya, who is in charge of the military newspapers in Licheng and Dongyang." The first review."

According to the combat command system of the Yan Army, military newspapers and news from all directions on the battlefield will be divided into pieces, which will be reviewed by different staff officers. If there is any military situation that needs to be dealt with, it will be sent to a higher-level officer for a second review. ; Those who join the army who are in charge of the second review are responsible for identifying the importance of military newspapers, and send them to various divisions and departments for direct processing within the scope of their powers; Senior military officers are handled by them, either directly, or reported to the weekly magazine for decision, or proposed for discussion in the army council.

The Zhu Yaya mentioned by Liu Yuhou is the staff officer in charge of the first review of the military newspapers in Licheng and Dongyang. He has archived dozens of military newspapers in Licheng and Dongyang every day. All of them were the paperwork for declaring safety, but he didn't want Chen Yuhou to come to ask for it in person today, and take them all away without saying a word, with a very anxious expression.This made Zhu Yaya very uneasy, so he followed, but he couldn't get close to the tent, so he could only wait far away.

Zhou Kan waited in no hurry for Chen Yuhou and others to look through the copies, and immediately passed Zhu Yaya in and asked if there was anything unusual in Licheng.

Zhu Yaya said that the direction of Licheng was very stable, and there was no abnormal situation, but it was reported a few days ago that the Zhuozhang River was flooded, and there was nothing else.

Zhou Kan calmed down a lot, waved Zhu Yaya to leave, and continued to wait.After a while, Chen Yuhou and others looked through the military newspaper in Licheng, saying that there was no change, and then picked out the copybook on the flooding of the Zhuozhang River and read it aloud.

As of yesterday, there was no accident in Licheng, which made all the generals in the tent calm down, so they started talking again.There is no abnormality in the direction of Licheng. There are two possibilities. Either the Allied Forces of the Three Kings did not plan to attack Licheng at all, and everyone was just a false alarm, or this trail is very difficult to walk, coupled with heavy rain and rising river water, the sneak attack The enemy army has not arrived yet.

Different possibilities have different countermeasures. The former possibility only needs to properly strengthen the investigation of Libeipo, Huangyadong, and Longquan, and remind Licheng guard Zhang Long to be alert at all times, but the risk is very high. The latter possibility requires dispatching reinforcements to Licheng, which undoubtedly should be given priority in terms of the safety of the army's battlefield, but this will take up a lot of combat resources and weaken the Yan army's siege of Shiyu.

Chen Yuhou and Liu Yuhou personally led a few soldiers to quickly calculate, and with the assistance of Li Dutou, they quickly came up with a plan to deploy troops to support Licheng.

The calculation of Chen Yuhou and Liu Yuhou made Li Du almost dizzy on the spot. At the beginning, he could keep up with the two Yuhou's train of thought, but later, his mind became a pot of porridge. The two Yuhou asked Whatever, he racked his brains to remember what.These questions include: How wide is the widest and narrowest trail in the Zhuozhang River Valley, how many rows the Hedong Army is used to marching in, the daily meal intake of the Hedong Army, when the Hedong Army is used to getting up and when to rest, and how many different levels The position when commanding the march, the customary distance between the ministries, the utensils used by the sergeants of the Hedong Army, and even whether they defecate collectively or freely... These questions are so detailed that Li Dutou has no idea what it has to do with fighting. relation.

During the questioning that made Li Du completely puzzled, Chen Yuhou and Liu Yuhou calculated a conclusion: They predicted that if the Allied Forces of the Three Kings attacked Licheng by surprise, according to the traffic capacity and transportation capacity of the Zhuozhang River Valley, Starting from Wuxiang with 3000 people, it will take about 20 days to reach Licheng; if it is a surprise attack with 6000 people, this time will be extended to one month; if it is 8000 people, the time and consumption will double.Therefore, in order to achieve the greatest results, the most suitable sneak attack force should be around 6000 to [-] people.

Compared with the time when Li Siyuan set up camp in Shiyu, combined with Li Dutou's general knowledge of the marching speed of the old Hedong Army, and the factor that the heavy rain caused the water level of the Zhuozhang River to rise, Chen Yuhou and Liu Yuhou came to the conclusion The conclusion is: if the Allied Forces of the Three Kings send troops to attack Licheng, the optimal force configuration is 6000 to [-] people, and the position they will arrive at this moment should be between Huangyadong and Libeipo!

Now it's time for Zhou Kan to make decisions, and he needs to choose a coping method, which is the combat thinking that Li Chengzhong instilled in the Yan army-the army chief only needs to make decisions, and the rest is left to the staff to complete.

According to the normal mentality of a commander, Zhou Kan undoubtedly wanted to choose a simple response. He reminded Zhang Long, the defender of Licheng, to be vigilant, and at the same time sent scouts to investigate the trails in the Zhuozhang River Valley. This would not disrupt the Yan army's siege of Shiyu overall deployment.

Zhou Kan, the temporary commander-in-chief of the Luzhou battlefield, has more than 1 troops in the Youyan Security Army, Li Cunxu's remnant army of 5000, Liaodong Security Army of more than 40, and Guizhou Army of 2. There are 2 combat soldiers, in addition to more than [-] battalions of supplementary soldiers stationed in Luzhou, more than [-] people.However, there are still [-] combat soldiers with actual combat experience and the ability to combine them. More than [-] supplementary soldiers can only be used as a supplement to the loss of troops, and cannot be pulled into the battlefield as a whole. Moreover, the main direction of these supplementary soldiers is the main battlefield. Gao Ping.

Relying on these troops, Zhou Kan needs to be responsible for the defense of the three fulcrums of Luzhou, Xiangyuan, and Licheng. At the same time, he has to besiege the Han army camp in Shiyu. Let the battle against Shiyu be stretched.Moreover, Li City is far away from the main battlefield. Once the main battlefield needs emergency troops, it will be difficult for the reinforcements sent to arrive in time.Finally, what if they had no plan to attack Licheng at all?Didn't all the arrangements become a huge waste!

But the danger is very likely to exist, because Li Siyuan set up camp in Shiyu himself gave strong evidence, so Zhou Kan was very embarrassed and hesitated for a while. (To be continued..)