It is early winter, and the cold wind blowing from the desert grassland roars across the earth, pounced on the woods and houses, making noises. Although Triangle City is only a few hundred miles away from Qinzhou, it is much dry, giving people the feeling that the interior here is even more hurtful.

There were several pots of charcoal fires in the lobby of the city's Protectorate, and the place was warm. A sheep was placed on the pile of firewood at the door, and the oil dripped into the fire, crackling sounds. There were several tables in the hall, a few fruits on the table, and various colors of pickled melon, vegetables, meat and fish. The fire was warmed, and the rich aroma of wine was refreshing.

Several great men from the Longyou Protectorate were gathered together, drinking and eating meat while listening to Wang Kai’s recent situation.

After talking about the battle situation on the front line, Wang Kai left the huge map and said to everyone: "Now the Xishou Military Supervisor's Office is progressing smoothly. It is only one big battle that can end the war there. Dou Weiji, the commander of the thief, no longer has the fighting spirit and is hesitant to surrender or not."

Zhang Kang, who came from Yuzhong County, said: "I can't believe the thief's words. Dou Weiji said he wanted to surrender, but he was afraid that he would delay time. In my opinion, don't worry about him. The whole collection will be released, and he will be defeated when he comes back!"

Wang Kai glanced at Xu Ping sitting in the middle, and said to Zhang Kang with a smile: "The protector's meaning is that if Dou Weiji really wants to surrender, he will give him a chance. If everything goes well, the thieves are unable to compete with this dynasty after the battle in Tiandu Mountain, and there may be no major wars. At that time, in order to advance quickly, we should try not to fight any wars that we can fight, and we should go to Xingling and the two states as fast as possible. If we delay for too long, variables may occur. Let Dou Weiji set an example and we will enter the foreign country smoothly."

Cao Keming touched the white beard under his chin and said in a deep voice: "What variables will appear? There is no more army of Dangxiang outside Tiandu Mountain."

Xu Ping sighed: "Khitan! We fought for more than a year, and the two sides were in a stalemate, and the Khitan watched the tiger fight. As long as the winner was a point, the Khitan would definitely intervene and get a share of the pie. I just don't know whether they would support Dangxiang to restrain the dynasty in the northwest, or tore down the dynasty, and tear a piece of meat from the dying Dangxiang. Hao thieves used 70,000 troops to guard against the Khitan. Although most of them were local soldiers and horses in the military supervisory department, they could still save tens of thousands of soldiers when they gathered together. Once Tiandu Mountain was defeated, Hao thieves would not be able to control the long-term and would have to transfer those local soldiers to come here. At that time, the direction of the Khitan was empty, so how could they sit idly by?"

The place where Dangxiang and Khitan bordered was the front of the Hetao in what Xu Ping mentioned in his previous life, and the Wuyuan County of the Qin and Han Dynasties was also a place with fertile land. However, it was not developed in this era, and the area was full of deserts. The Hetao Plain was developed by irrigation by the Yellow River water. There were no ditches and no land reclamation, and it was a vast desert. Dangxiang used the desert terrain of that area, and there was no heavy troops to guard the border, so it was difficult for the Khitan to attack.

However, the difficulty of attack is just a difficult problem, not that it is impossible to attack. Once Dangxiang shows signs of being destroyed, the Khitan will never sit idly by. Whether it is military use or threatening, it will be a headache to take some benefits. Of course, what is even more troublesome is that when Dangxiang insists on it, the Khitan will send troops to help them directly, and it will inevitably take more trouble to do so at that time.

Therefore, at the end of the Battle of Tiandu Mountain, the Song army must quickly go forward to grab the fruits of their own victory and not give the Khitans the opportunity to attack. In this era, the traffic was underdeveloped, and it would take a few months for the war here to reach the Khitan. If the operation is done properly, the Song army will be enough to use this time to make everything come true.

When talking about the Khitan, the hall fell silent as soon as it entered. Several big victories against Dangxiang gave the Longyou army confidence. Now they no longer took Yuan Hao seriously. Everyone thought it was a matter of course to defeat him. But when facing the Khitan, the generals still had no idea. There was no way, who made the Song army always win less and lose more against the Khitan, and was beaten to Chanzhou.

Whether it is the generals on the front line or the officials in the court, they actually have no clear understanding of their opponent's strength, and even a thousand years later, they are different. After the Battle of Sanchuankou, when talking about Dangxiang and Yuanhao, the court was afraid of him like a tiger, as if he was a rare strong army and could not be defeated. When several battles in Longyou were fought, this fear naturally disappeared. Now Yuanhao in the eyes of the court is like a clown.

Whether against Dangxiang or Khitan, the Song army never had a disadvantage in the face of war. The failure or failure depends on the inappropriate strategy and poor combat command. When fighting these two countries, the Song army has always attacked the enemy's strengths with its own shortcomings. In this case, it can still form a rough balance of power, which shows that the Song army has an absolute advantage in actual military capabilities.

As long as the strength is exerted, the Song army will have the upper hand, but it is not easy to exert its strength!

Xu Ping had gained a thousand years of experience and had begun to realize this problem through the war with Dangxiang, and was not afraid of the Khitan. After all, the Khitan was just a Dangxiang that had developed for more years, and there was nothing to do if one fights, and then another fight. As long as the Song army straightened it out, the surrounding nomadic peoples did not have the strength to compete.

Seeing that everyone was not talking, Xu Ping smiled and said, "The Khitan matter is too far away. Let's not talk about it for now. Let's talk about Tiandu Mountain first. Now the thief is still fighting to trap beasts. I'm looking for you to work together and think about a solution."

Sang Yi said: "No matter how Hao Thief wants to break the deadlock, it always takes time. Now that the two armies are in war, as long as we quickly attack Tiandu Mountain, he will have no choice! For the current plan, the faster the better!"

Xu Ping nodded: "The scholar said it is right. Now the faster the attack, the more fierce the attack, the less the thieves can do. However, sometimes manpower is poor, and fighting is just a war. It is not that we can't stand it if we want to attack faster. Now it seems that Hao Thief uses the tens of thousands of troops in his hands to block the road to capture the Rong army. I can't afford to be quick. Let me say that if you are Yuan Hao now, think about how to have the best ending possible. Remember, in addition to our attack on Tiandu Mountain, Hao Thief can also attack Jingyuan Road, Huanqing Road, and abandon Tiandu Mountain to Weizhou."

Everyone was silent for a moment and thought quietly. They were facing local battlefields, without time, energy, and insufficient intelligence to consider the overall war. Xu Ping asked this, then he had to consider it from another direction.

Holding up the wine glass, Xu Ping said: "Think slowly, today we will come up with a result, we will not return without getting drunk!"

After saying that, he drank it all with everyone.

With the development of the war, Xu Ping had to consider how to end this battle and how to achieve the greatest result. After defeating Tiandu Mountain, Yuan Hao escaped with his main force, and annihilated them in Tiandu Mountain was another result. He had to fight for the latter possibility, annihilated the main force of Dangxiang in the Tiandu Mountain area, and a battle would determine the universe.

Xu Ping had a rough guess about Yuan Hao's possible movements, but he was afraid that he would have missed something, so he invited the rest of the world to discuss it together. War is science, which follows objective laws, not a trick that comes up with a clue. When the information that confuses the public is eliminated from the complicated clues, it may be close to the possible result.
Chapter completed!