Yue Ze was stunned by Tang Yin's incomprehensible words, with a puzzled expression on his face and muttering in his heart: What is the fish scale array? What does it mean?
However, Bai Qing's face showed admiration, and she raised her hands and said: "His Royal Highness Feng Wang has good eyesight. Huan Jun's main camp, branch camps, and fortresses are arranged according to the fish scale formation. It can be seen that Huan Jun wants to strengthen his defense...
"
Before she finished speaking, Nie Ze sneered and said, "The fish scale formation is not only a defensive formation, it also has other wonderful uses."
Bai Qing frowned and looked at Nie Ze. The two parties had made a brief introduction before, and she also knew that the person who was laughing at her was none other than Nie Ze, a famous general from Zhen Kingdom who switched to Feng Kingdom.
She suppressed her anger and asked: "The Fish Scale Formation is not for defense, why can't it be used for offense? It's a joke!"
Nie Ze did not look at him, but looked down at the layout of Shapanhuan Camp and said, "Who said that the Fish Scale Formation cannot be used for offense?" Bai Qing was about to speak when Nie Ze continued: "I have used the Fish Scale Formation before.
Offensive formation. It’s just that there are conditions for using the fish scale formation as an offensive formation. Our own side has an overall advantage and the enemy has an overall disadvantage. It seems that the Huan army is now ready to advance in an all-round way and will annihilate your army in one fell swoop!"
He was just telling the truth, but it was extremely harsh in the ears of Bai Qing and other Anjun generals.
The Huan army on the opposite side has nearly 300,000 troops, but the An army has more than 200,000 troops, and it is still increasing. Comparing the two sides, they are equally powerful. Why does the Huan army have a comprehensive advantage?
Advance?
Bai Qing said with a serious face: "Then let Huan Jun come, if they want to die!"
Nie Ze ignored her angry words and turned to Tang Yin in a low voice: "Your Majesty, judging from the future, the number of troops deployed by the Huan Army on the border is probably far less than 300,000. It is very likely that there will be a large number of troops.
Hidden in the dark.”
Tang Yin frowned when he heard this and looked at the terrain shown on the sand table. The border between Huan and Chizhou was indeed mountainous and deep, with crisscrossing ditches, making it easy to hide troops. If it was true as Nie Ze said, Huan's army was hiding in the dark.
With a large number of troops, once a war breaks out, the seemingly powerful An army will fall apart in an instant if they are surprised and unprepared. However, are there any generals in the Huan army who are so good at using troops and scheming? In Tang Yin's mind, the combat power of the Huan army was
At best, he is only slightly stronger than An Jun.
He pondered for a moment and asked Bai Qing: "General Bai, tell me what kind of person Lu Chen, the commander of the Huan Army, is."
At this time, Bai Qing was deep in thought. Nie Ze's words about hiding soldiers also startled her. She had never considered this before. If this were the case, the consequences would be disastrous.
Seeing that after Tang Yin finished asking, Bai Qing didn't answer for a long time, as if he had lost his soul, Yue Ze was anxious, frowned, glared at Bai Qing, coughed heavily, and said in a deep voice: "General Bai
, Wind King is asking you something!"
Bai Qing finally came back to her senses, looked at Tang Yin, raised her hands and said, "What did His Highness Feng Wang just ask?"
Tang Yin smiled and asked again: "What kind of person is Lu Chen?"
Bai Qing straightened her face and said: "This man is a famous general of the Huan State. He is proficient in the art of war and good at strategy. Among the many generals of the Huan State, he can be regarded as the best." After a pause, she continued: "Back then, the West
The barbarians gathered an army of 400,000 to invade the Huan Kingdom, and Lu Chen led an army of 200,000 to resist. It was originally a battle with huge disparity in strength, but the Huan army defeated the barbarians in the desert. Lu Chen also became famous with this battle!"
The national conditions of Huan and Zhen were similar. They were both located in the west of the Haotian Empire. Their western borders were adjacent to Fan states, and they were often invaded and harassed by Fan states.
Tang Yin and Huan Jun had many contacts. When Sichuan and Zhen teamed up to fight Feng, Huan Jun was one of the accomplices. As a result, they were beaten to a pulp by the Sanshui Army and the entire army was wiped out. Then in the battle of Fazhen, Tang Yin
He also fought side by side with the Huan Army. The Huan Army suffered heavy losses every time they faced the Zhen Army. After several battles, they were beaten to a pulp. Therefore, it makes sense for Tang Yin to think that the Huan Army was not strong.
In fact, the Huan army was not so vulnerable. Otherwise, it would have been invaded by the western countries long ago. How could it still survive until now?
At the beginning, whether it was the Battle of Defeating Feng or the Battle of Exterminating Zhen, the Huan Army dispatched the country's elite divisions, but none of its well-known generals participated in the war. Therefore, in these two wars, Huan Army's battles were obviously
He was very brave and determined to be destroyed rather than destroyed, but the command of the entire army was a mess, especially in the battle to destroy Zhen. The Huan army was directly commanded by Li Xin, but the monarch was greedy for life and fearful of death, and was short-sighted and short-sighted.
This directly led to a sharp reduction in the combat power of the Huan Army.
The current situation is completely different from the previous two wars, and the Huan Army under Lu Chen is also different from the previous Huan Army.
Of course, Tang Yin did not understand these situations. As far as Feng Jun was concerned, the only person who knew and was most familiar with Huan Jun was Nie Ze.
After Bai Qing finished speaking, Nie Ze continued: "In terms of the ability to lead troops to fight, the general does not think that Lu Chen is inferior to the general, but in terms of individual soldiers and overall combat power, the Huan army is indeed inferior to our army."
If it was just Bai Qing praising Lu Chen, Tang Yin would not take it seriously. Now that even Nie Ze has such a high opinion of Lu Chen, it has to arouse Tang Yin's vigilance.
He murmured: "Looking at it from this point of view, it is indeed possible for the Huan army to hide its troops along the border."
"Based on my understanding of Lu Chen, this is very possible. Lu Chen has always been good at using suspicion tactics to make people confused." Nie Ze said with a shrug.
He said it easily, but Yue Ze beside him was sweating coldly.
The fighting strength of Huan's army is already in Anjunzhi, and now there is such a powerful commander as Lu Chen. How can we be their opponent? He asked anxiously: "General Nie, then...then what can our army do?"
A good way to deal with it?”
Nie Ze smiled and said: "Your Highness King An, don't worry. You only need to continue to increase the army and go to the border. Even if the Huan Kingdom hides heavy troops, as long as your army has enough troops, it will not be difficult to resist!" After a pause, he stopped smiling again.
, said seriously: "But there is something I must remind His Highness King An. Now that Huan Guo has made it clear that it is fighting a national war with your country, not a local war. If His Highness King An cannot dispatch heavy troops to the border in time,
If you still have the mentality of fighting a small battle, I'm afraid you will suffer a big loss!"
When Yue Ze heard this, he took a breath. He originally thought that the Huan army only had less than 300,000 troops on the border, and that his own army of 300,000 troops would be enough to deal with it. Now through Nie Ze's analysis, it seems that this is not the case at all.
That's what happened.
He nodded repeatedly and responded: "Yes, yes, yes, what General Nie said is reasonable. I must immediately send a message to the capital and transfer the main force of the Central Army from the capital to Chizhou for defense..."
After a pause, he asked uncertainly: "Is this... going to be a bit of a fuss?"
So many Central Army troops left the fields around the capital and went to Chizhou to garrison. They spent a lot of money every day. If the Huan army did not hide troops on the border, wouldn't the money and food consumed by them be in vain?
?
"This is by no means a fuss. Even if all the available troops of your country are transferred to Chizhou, the generals will worry that there will be insufficient!" Nie Ze said: "After all, this battle will not end in one or two days or even one or two months.
His Highness Prince An will not be satisfied with just winning a war on the border. Your army will be transferred westward sooner or later, sooner rather than later!"
"Yes!" After hearing what Nie Ze said, Yue Ze also felt that it made sense. He nodded and said, "Just follow General Nie's idea!"
Listening to the questions and answers between the two of them, Bai Qingke was a little confused. Why is it not enough to win a war on the border? Is it necessary to continue fighting after the border dispute is resolved?
She looked at Yueze with a puzzled expression and asked, "Your Majesty..."
Yue Ze suddenly remembered that she didn't know anything about the previous discussion between him and Tang Yin, and grinned: "This time, I have already discussed with the younger brother of the King of Tang, not only to defeat the Huan army, but also to swallow up the Huan country in one go and secure the country for me.
Eliminate future troubles forever."
After Bai Qing heard this, three black lines slid down her forehead. The cause of this war was already the fault of Anguo, and now they want to turn around and annex Huanguo. Don't you think this is excessive and unethical?
It's just that she didn't dare to say these words, so she had no choice but to respond without saying anything else.
Based on the distribution of the Huan Army's camp, Nie Ze speculated that the Huan Army might take the initiative to attack Chizhou in an all-out manner. His countermeasure for the An Army was to increase troops and hold on, and not to consider counterattacking the Huan Army for the time being, waiting for the Huan Army to attack first and defeat the An Army.
After defeating the Huan Army's attack, they took advantage of the situation to counterattack and shifted the focus of the war to the territory of Huan State.
Yue Ze, who did not understand war, had no independent opinion, but he also understood that Nie Ze was a famous general and was on his side, so his countermeasures must be correct and must be beneficial to his own side.
Bai Qing also felt that Nie Ze's tactics were good. They were steady and steady. They seemed passive, but they were a good way to stop with silence.
After several days of military deliberations, Anguo decided on its tactics and first assumed a stand-alone stance to fight the Huan army within its own territory.
After that, Tang Yin also had to return to Zhenjiang. After all, the mobilization of the Feng Kingdom army still needed to be handled by him personally.
With Tang Yin in Meicheng, Yue Ze had full confidence in his heart. Now that Tang Yin was leaving, it seemed as if his soul had been taken away with him. He felt empty in his heart, as if the Huan army on the border might attack the city at any time.
Although Tang Yin had repeatedly expressed his attitude to him, he would be back soon and would not leave him and An Guo alone.
On the way to send Tang Yin back to his country, Yue Ze grinned with a grimace on his face and sighed at Tang Yin: "My dear brother, please hurry back to Chizhou as soon as possible. The Huan army is fierce. If my dear brother comes back late, I'm afraid...
…It’s unclear whether we can see Brother Yu for the last time…”