While everyone was talking and laughing, they entered Yuanyang City unknowingly.
"Your Majesty, do you want to take a rest first?" Li Mu said with his hands in hand.
"No need, let's discuss the matter directly." Zhao Kuo waved his hand and ordered someone to get a map and asked, "What's the situation outside the wall? How many troops do the Hu people have?"
Zhao Kuo's northern frontier and the Hu people were bounded by the Yin Mountains. The border was extremely long and it was difficult to effectively defend it. Therefore, Zhao State built two Great Walls thousands of miles long along the winding direction of the mountains.
When Zhao State was strong, it used the Great Wall as a base to attack the Hu people from the north. When Zhao State was weak, it used the Great Wall as a defense line to defend against the Hu people who invaded from the south.
It is precisely because of the existence of the Great Wall that the State of Zhao can firmly occupy Yunzhong, Yanmen and Daijun.
"Your Majesty, the Xiongnu, Loufan, Hufan, and Donghu have all sent their troops southward. Among them, the Xiongnu has about 200,000 troops, Loufan has about 50,000 troops, Xiongnu has about 50,000 troops, and Donghu has about 300,000 troops. The Xiongnu, Loufan have about 300,000 troops.
"The Hu people are mainly attacking the Yunzhong, Yanmen, and Daijun front lines of our Zhao State, and the Donghu are mainly attacking the Yan State front lines. In addition, the Hu people in the Hetao area are also gathering large armies, and there is no sign of attacking our Zhao State yet." Li Mu
He pointed at the map and said.
Zhao Kuo looked in the direction of Li Mu's finger and found that the Hu people in the northern part of Zhao State were mainly Xiongnu, Loufan, Huru and Donghu.
The most powerful ones are the Donghu and the Xiongnu, occupying the two grasslands on the east and west. Loufan and Hao are sandwiched between them, and their strength is relatively weak.
Among them, Loufan is divided into two groups, one living in the north of Dai County and Shanggu County, and the other living in Yunzhong, Yanmen and other places. After the latter was defeated by King Wuling of Zhao, most of them integrated into the Zhao Kingdom, and a few fled.
To Henan.
The same is true for the Xiu people. Some of them sought refuge with the State of Zhao, and some fled to the north of the Great Wall, forming the current Xiu people.
Donghu is mainly the enemy of Yan State and rarely attacks Zhao State.
"The Xiongnu, Loufan, and Xiongnu not only attack our Zhao Kingdom, but also attack each other. Occasionally, our scouts can even see that various tribes within the Xiongnu are also attacking each other, but the overall situation is within control." Li Mu continued.
The Xiongnu, Loufan, Xiuzhai, and Donghu were not centralized countries like the Central Plains, but loose tribal alliances. Each tribe was independent of each other and would only unite when encountering a powerful enemy.
It is common for tribes to be annexed and leaders to be killed.
"By the way, now that the number of Hu people is large, a war cloud will automatically form. Our ordinary soldiers have no advantage against the Hu people. Moreover, the more soldiers there are, the thicker the war cloud will be and the stronger the suppression will be. The Yan State once wanted to attack the Hu people.
Donghu implemented a beheading plan and sent five thousand troops to attack Donghu's central army. In the end, not one of the five thousand elites escaped." Li Mu reminded.
After the Yan State was defeated by the Zhao State, it lost most of its elites. It was difficult to resist the 300,000 Donghu army, so they came up with a way: beheading.
With 5,000 elite troops, they attacked Donghu's central army and beheaded the king of Donghu. The Donghu army retreated without attacking.
If this method had been used three years ago, there would indeed be a small chance of being realized, if King Donghu fought hard and refused to escape.
The result now is that five thousand elites rushed into the Donghu army without even emerging...
"In this battle, we will use our elite as the main force." Zhao Kuo said. "What have been the losses of our army during this period?"
"Our army has always been focused on defense and has not taken the initiative to attack. The losses were not large. Thousands of people were injured, and less than a thousand people were killed in the middle of the battle." Li Mu said.
"Thank you for your hard work." Zhao Kuo nodded and looked around, "Let's discuss how to attack the barbarians."
"Your Majesty, the general thinks that we can just march out of the Great Wall and crush them with absolute strength." Yan Xiong said loudly.
After hearing this, all the generals nodded. Although the numbers of the Zhao and Hu people seemed to be about the same, and even the Hu people had a slight advantage, everyone was confident that they could defeat the Huns and would not pay a high price.
"Defeat? Then what? Send a large army to garrison the Great Wall as before? Are they invaded by the Huns every year?" Zhao Kuo said loudly, his face darkening.
The generals were stunned for a moment, not knowing what to say.
"I don't know, Your Majesty.
Plan?" Le Yi said with his hands in hand.
"Let all the barbarians stay in Zhao State forever, north of the Great Wall, and return them to Zhao State to herd horses." Zhao Kuo pressed his palms on the map and said in a deep voice, "No matter how tall the Great Wall is built, no matter how dangerous the passes, as long as it is defensive, it will always be
It will be conquered one day. As long as it is conquered once, our Zhao country will suffer heavy losses and even fall. Only by completely destroying the Xiongnu can our Zhao country never have future troubles behind it."
Le Yi and others were silent. Everyone understood that it was easy to defeat the Huns, but it was difficult, even impossible, to annihilate them completely.
The grassland is extremely vast, and the Huns are all soldiers, and everyone is on horseback. Even ten times the force is difficult to intercept, not to mention that Zhao's military strength is only about the same as that of the Huns.
"You go down and think about it first. Anyone who has an idea can tell me. If you say something wrong, there will be no punishment. If you say something right, there will be a reward." Zhao Kuo waved his hand and said.
"I'm going to leave." Everyone looked at each other and silently left.
"General Le Yi, your Majesty doesn't really want to destroy the Xiongnu, right?" Lian Po said in a low voice.
"Do you think the king is joking?" Le Yi glanced at Lian Po. Since last year, Zhao Kuo has said that he would develop the Loop and has been making preparations. How could it be a joke now?
Lian Po shook his head repeatedly, and then sighed: "General Yimo, it is really impossible to completely annihilate the Xiongnu, unless we use big rivers and mountains as barriers. But the grassland is flat, how can there be big rivers and mountains."
Meng Wu saw the two talking and leaned over without leaving any trace.
Before the expedition, Tian Dan and Meng Ao told him that he should learn more from the two generals Le Yi and Lian Po, and he could ask if he didn't understand anything. Neither of them were stingy people.
"What do you think, General Xiao Meng?" Le Yi looked at Meng Wu.
"Du Pingjun once said that the time, place, and people are favorable, and those who occupy one can win, but if you want to keep all the enemies, you need to occupy all three. I think that regardless of the time of day, our army will only occupy the people and the people.
, the Xiongnu occupies territory, so it is difficult to inflict heavy damage on the Xiongnu, and it is even more impossible to annihilate them." Meng Wu said.
"General Xiao Meng is right." Le Yi nodded, "But it may not be impossible for our army to occupy the favorable location."
"Oh? I hope you guys can tell me quickly." Lian Po asked quickly, while Meng Wu stared at Le Yi closely.
"Yinshan." Le Yi pointed to the north and said.
There are the undulating Yinshan Mountains, which together with the Yanshan Mountains form the defense line of northern China, blocking the southward march of the northern nomads countless times.
Just when Meng Wu was confused, Lian Po shook his head: "The news of Zhao Jun's support will spread to the grassland in a few days. Unless the Huns are fools, they cannot easily cross the Great Wall. Even if they cross the Great Wall, they will send
Small army reconnaissance."
"What if the Xiongnu knew that there was no Zhao army there?" Le Yi asked with a smile.
"You mean..." Lian Po suddenly realized.
"It depends on how the king operates." Le Yi said.