Zhao Zhen led several prime ministers to look up at the sand table in front of the map. The sand table was extremely large, starting from the four counties of Hexi in the west and reaching the Yellow River on Hedong Road in the east, basically including the entire Dangxiang. The above is still the most detailed Qinfeng Road, with various mountains and rivers, forts set up, roads built, bridges and ferries. The military deployment of the Qinzhou Army and the Tiandu Mountain Dangxiang Army, which city passes were there, how many troops were stationed, how many people, households, food and grass were clearly clear. The other three routes were much simpler, with only cities, passes and the Dabao Village with heavy troops stationed, the details were not clear. For example, the Jinming Village, the gateway of Yanzhou, is actually a large fortress group, and the dozens of forts under the command, but it is just one place on this sand table. This is not Li Zhang's carelessness about it, but the information reported to the Yanzhou General Administration Office to the Privy Council is like this, it is not a system and there are no details.

Looking at the front of the sand table for a long time, Zhao Zhen said: "The enemy is in my eyes, and the thieves are already in control!"

Lu Yijian and Li Di together with the ministers said, "If it is the mountains, rivers, geography, and the deployment of troops can be as detailed as Qin Feng Road, how to deal with the prevention of autumn, what is the difficulty of the Shufu prosecuting a strategy? It is planned in the tent and won thousands of miles away. The ancients did not deceive me, but they should understand it so well."

"The enemy is in my eyes" is what Emperor Guangwu of Han conquered Wei Xiang in Longyou in the third year of Jianwu. When Ma Yuan gathered rice into a valley and pointed out the geography of mountains and rivers to him, Emperor Guangwu said. At this time, the Qinzhou area ruled by Xu Ping was where Ma Yuan wanted to march. However, the sand table made by Li Zhang is much more refined than Ma Yuan's work, and the information above is more detailed, and the offensive and defensive situation between the enemy and us was clear at a glance. Zhao Zhen was moved, and he also wanted to build the majesty of the Later Han Dynasty again.

Xu Ping's two big victories last winter gave Zhao Zhen the confidence that his military strength was not inferior to Dangxiang. This time, after Li Zhang captured Huizhou in Qinzhou, he returned to Beijing to report and demonstrated the front-line war to him, which gave him a clear understanding of the military situation for the first time. After listening to Xu Ping's analysis of Dangxiang's strategy described by Li Zhang, he read various maps and Zhao Zhen first had an intuitive understanding of how to fight Dangxiang's battle. Today, he looked at the sand table and at least he had a clear understanding of the war on the Western Front.

Several priests met the sand table, corresponding to their previous understanding of the war. After a while, they suddenly realized and sometimes shook their heads secretly. The front-line memorials of the Song army were quite detailed, but they were not systematic. People who have read various memorials could still make sense when the war was focused on a narrow area. Once it expanded to the scope of several states, smart people could only make a rough idea. The Song army's own intelligence is not short of information, but the analysis of intelligence is blank. How can it be done by relying solely on the personal intelligence of officials?

War is a process of rapid movement between the enemy and us in a short period of time, and the situation changes rapidly. The information involved is huge, and the requirements for decision-making are extremely high, and its complexity is far greater than that of ordinary affairs. Genius generals can make accurate judgments with their keen intuition and thus win the victory of the war. But the reason why geniuses are geniuses is that they are hard to come by, and the life and death of a country cannot be relied on. At this time, Xu Ping spent a lot of manpower and material resources to format the intelligence analysis and decision-making process of the war, and everything was spread to the table, which was much more reliable.

Lu Yijian called Li Zhang and asked him about the recent battle in Huizhou according to the situation on the sand table. This was a recent war. Xu Ping's report has always been detailed. Lu Yijian is also very talented and can never forget it. At this time, Li Zhang explained to the sand table, which confirmed one by one with the Qinzhou memorials he received a few days ago. Many questions were suddenly solved.

After hearing Li Zhang's words, Lu Yijian thought for a while and said to Zhao Zhen: "Your Majesty, according to the mountains and geography here, and according to the military situation reported by Qinzhou a few days ago, I already know how to prevent autumn in Qinfeng Road. What is urgent now is to ask Li Zhang to send it to other strategic departments in the format of Qinfeng Road to report the military information of both sides. If they understand the military information signs of both sides like Qinfeng Road, then there will be rules to follow the promulgation orders issued by the Shufu Prefecture."

The only military general, the prime minister Wang Yiyong, said: "What the Prime Minister said is good, but if you want to report military information like Qin Fenglu, the army will spend a lot of manpower, and it will not be a matter of overnight. It is probably not true to force the generals to report it."

Princess Zheng, the daughter of Emperor Taizong of Wang Yiyong, was originally the grandson of Wang Pu. Princess Shang was later promoted and changed her name to Yiyong, and became the same generation as her uncle Wang Yiqing. He was a relative of the foreign minister and was a famous minister. Although he was a military general, he had never led troops to fight wars and could sit in the Privy Council. He was more polite and had no disputes with others. Although he had never fought a war, he had been a military position for many years and was much more familiar with Wang Yiyong's situation in the army than the other civil servants. Looking at the sand table on the press, Fenglu's military situation was clear and everything was simple and clear, he knew very well that it was not easy to do this. According to the system of the imperial guards of the three yamen, there was no assistant in the army, and all affairs were subject to the commanders. In this case, it was not easy for the commanders at all levels to know how many people they had under him. It was absolutely impossible to let them sort out the military information according to Qin Fenglu. If they were forced to do it, the military information reported was probably a mess.

Du Yan, the political assistant next to him, said: "Since a few years ago, Xu Ping had to march in the army to reform. The military reform was nothing more than setting up the military officers in the army and rebuilding the military officers who had been stripped out of the army after they had collected elite soldiers of the vassal states. At that time, the generals of the three yamen chatted endlessly, distorting the old system of the imperial guards, for fear that they would not be able to use when they encountered war. Now when they really encountered war, Xu Ping's army could fight, but the elite soldiers of the three yamen led by the generals were defeated one after another and did not make any contribution! Now the Privy Council wants them to report military information, but because there is no auxiliary soldiers and no one, they can't even report military information! To destroy the thieves, it seems that they are afraid that the imperial guards will still change the old military system and collect some of the power in the hands of the commanders!"

After Du Yan finished speaking, the several prime ministers did not say anything. Now the situation is clear. Xu Ping changed the old military system, and even did not even attack the traditional three border forces, and his combat power has increased. There is no need to doubt whether the new military system is useful. The resistance to preventing the promotion of the new military system is no longer whether the new military system is good or not, but whether the old generals of the three yamen agree or not.

Military generals do not take precautions for national affairs, and civil officials do not take precautions for military affairs. The Privy Council is in charge of military orders, and the real military affairs is in the hands of the three yamen. Even the local military affairs department stationed in the imperial guards, the military affairs department is in charge of various military positions, and the military affairs department is still in charge of military orders. Qinfeng Road is a special situation. The Military Affairs Department combines military affairs and military orders.

Now it is wartime, and the mainstream opinion in the court is to give all the commanding ministers greater authority, so naturally tolerate Qin Fenglu doing this. Even the other routes, the commanding officials also increased their authority. They did not integrate military and political affairs like Qinzhou because the commanding officials did not have the ability to manage military and political affairs, rather than the court not allowing them to manage them. However, wars are still problems that must be faced, whether it is the emperor's concern that the throne is stable or the civil officials for the purpose of controlling the major policies of the court, military and political affairs are not allowed to be controlled by military generals, and military orders are all controlled by military generals, and even more so, they are not allowed to be integrated into one yamen.

At the central level, the pattern of the Privy Council and the Three Yas will not change. No matter how much Xu Ping made in Qinfeng Road, the central military system reform must be carried out under this large framework. If the military system reform is to be promoted to the whole country, Xu Ping must also give a path of how to adapt to the Privy Council. The three Yases are in charge of military orders and military affairs. It is like the Political Department, and it is impossible to integrate the orders.

What Li Zhang did at this time was actually limited to the Privy Council's adaptation to the new military system, and the three yamen did not involve it. The prime ministers were cautious about the new military system, which was also for the same reason.
Chapter completed!