After a night's rest, the next day, Zhang Yi climbed to the 30-meter-high Zhenbeitai, surrounded by a dozen generals including Shi Gandang.
Zhenbeitai is known as the first tower on the Great Wall. It is a huge square beacon tower. It was built in the Ming Dynasty and has been completely preserved. It has become the command center of the northern defense line.
Zhang Yi saw that the Great Wall stretched between the Loess Plateau and the Mu Us Desert. Wherever he looked, there were bare mountains and dry river beds, which were extremely desolate.
According to the northern generals, this section of the defense line is more than 1,000 kilometers long and has more than 500 outposts. There are dozens of troops stationed at small outposts and more than a thousand troops stationed at large outposts.
It turned out that General Liu Guangda led 100,000 troops to garrison the northern border to deal with the intrusion of nomadic tribes. Although it was a bit stressful, he could still cope with it.
What worries the generals is that Tan Ma has detected that hundreds of thousands of troops from the Tsarist Empire are approaching. They are overwhelming like locusts. With only tens of thousands of troops, it is impossible to hold on.
Zhang Yi learned that in two or three days, the enemy's forward troops would reach the foot of the Great Wall, and that they would be divided into seven groups and distributed over a thousand kilometers.
This was just as King Liu Kai expected. After Wu Rui betrayed the enemy, he betrayed the intelligence of our army. The Tsar assembled a large force in an attempt to break through the defense line and surround the main force of our army, and fight an encirclement and annihilation battle in the north.
Zhang Yi thought silently and determined that his judgment was correct. The enemy's logistics were under great pressure, so they sought a quick victory. The strategy of the Tsar and Wu Rui must be to eliminate the main force of our army in the north and then quickly move south to capture Chang'an.
, control the entire Kingdom of China.
In this way, they can solve the food and grass problem.
"Master Chief Assistant, General Shi has conveyed your instructions and asked us to prepare for retreat. Do you mean that we will hand over the Great Wall to the enemy?" One of the generals said in confusion.
"My lord, please let me lead my troops to stay in the north. We would rather die together with the enemy than abandon our country!" another general shouted.
"Master Chief Assistant, the king has worked hard to build this line of defense when the country's strength is tense. How can you just throw it away? We know that the king is recuperating. We can't help but guess whether the king understands your battle plan.
?" Another general asked doubtfully.
The generals spoke very directly.
The big men in the northwest have always been bold and magnanimous, and expressed their distrust of Zhang Yi. After all, they were far away from the frontier and had little information.
In addition, the violent and turbulent political struggle also made them dizzy. General Liu Guangda rebelled and was personally killed by Zhang Yi, Prime Minister Wu Rui defected to foreign countries, and the king's illness seemed to be very serious, which made the generals uneasy.
Zhang Yi turned around and stared at this group of generals. They were tall and strong, and they were all fierce generals who had experienced hundreds of battles. Each of them had dark skin, rough skin, and full beards. In order to protect the peace of the country, they stayed in the bitter cold land all year round.
He can be called the pillar of the country.
"Why, you dare to doubt the Chief Assistant?" Shi Gandang said in surprise, "The words of the Chief Assistant are the words of the King! The Chief Assistant is brave and resourceful, and we will do as you are told!"
The generals were full of complaints and lowered their heads in silence.
They met Zhang Yi for the first time and heard about his legendary deeds. However, this war will determine the life and death of the country. Can young Zhang Yi shoulder the heavy responsibility of commander-in-chief?
Zhang Yi waved his hand to stop Shi Gandang from talking.
He led the generals to the fortress and sat down at a simple long wooden table.
"Generals, please take a seat."
Zhang Yi asked the generals to sit down, then took off the jade seal from his waist and held it in his hand.
The generals who had just sat down on the wooden chairs jumped up as if they had been electrocuted, looking at the jade seal of the kingdom in astonishment.
"Before leaving, my father passed on the jade seal to me and entrusted me with military affairs. My father listened to my strategic plan. In fact, it was my father who pointed out that the tsarist army, led by the traitor Wu Rui, planned to attack
The northern border surrounds the main force of our army, so we can only abandon the northern border, lure the enemy deep into the country, and eliminate the enemy's army in the hinterland of our country." Zhang Yi said.
thump!
More than a dozen generals knelt on the ground and had no more doubts. In fact, King Liu Kai recruited Zhang Yi as his son-in-law. Many people knew that the king intended to pass on the kingdom to Zhang Yi. Now that he also gave the jade seal to Zhang Yi, it only confirmed that people
speculation.
The officers and soldiers all admired King Liu Kai very much. They were all trained and promoted by the King himself. Seeing the Jade Seal was like seeing the King.
"Master Chief Assistant, we are all rough men, but we are loyal to the king. If the king trusts you, then we will trust you!"
"Ashamed, your Majesty is still smart enough to point out the pros and cons. From now on, we will obey the orders of the Chief Assistant wholeheartedly, and we will do whatever it takes to go through fire and water!"
"The words of the Chief Assistant are the words of the King!"
In fact, with the jade seal in hand, Zhang Yi has become a new generation of kings, but he just didn't have a name.
Zhang Yi gave kind words and encouragement to these loyal and brave generals.
Shi Gandang beamed. Yi Ge won the unconditional support of the generals. Yi Ge turned out to be the leader of a country. It was like a dream. Shi Gandang didn't know about the king's death. He didn't know that Yi Ge had a deep secret hidden under his firm and calm appearance.
Deep sorrow.
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Unfolding the military map, Zhang Yi explained the battle plan to the generals.
The current total strength of the northern border is about 50,000 troops.
Among them, more than 10,000 troops were scattered among hundreds of outposts.
These outposts are ready to be abandoned.
When the enemy arrived, the defenders lit beacon fires and fired arrows. When the enemy attacked the city wall, they "escaped" after a little resistance.
The stored grain, grass, supplies, etc. were moved to nearby mountains in advance, and the defenders also hid deep in the mountains to avoid the enemy.
When all the enemy troops enter our territory, the defenders return to their posts to cut off the enemy's logistics and block the subsequent defeat of the enemy troops.
The enemy troops were divided into seven groups, with the main attack direction being Zhenbeitai, which guarded the main north-south route. Targeting the other six groups, our army gathered 2,000 troops in each group. Zhang Yi sent six generals to implement the plan of hiding and cutting off the retreat.
The remaining 38,000 troops concentrated on the Zhenbeitai position and set up the Sun, Moon, Star and Tuanlong flags to further attract the enemy's main force to attack.
Zhang Yi would lead the enemy's main force to Chang'an, ambush all the way, annihilate the enemy's effective forces, and finally defeat the enemy in one fell swoop.
Among them, Shi Gandang had to undertake a major task, and Zhang Yihui told him the details of the battle one by one.
After listening to this, all the generals nodded excitedly, and the chief minister played a big game of chess, which was as powerful as King Liu Kai back then.
At that moment, the six generals mounted their fast horses and rushed to their respective positions.
Each person brings a few fast horses and can run hundreds of kilometers in a day. The generals can be in place to command operations before the enemy troops arrive.
Immediately, Zhang Yi, Shi Gandang and other generals began to discuss how to launch the battle of Zhenbeitai. There was still a battle to be fought, and it was best to weaken the enemy's spirit!
Only then can the good show of "escape all the way" be staged.