Three days later, Tong Guan led 100,000 infantry and cavalry and 70,000 corvee labor. With the expectations of Song Huizong and others, he embarked on the northwest journey in a mighty way. Wen Shen led 2,600 modern special infantry and more than 6,000 Yizhou people and Tong Guan's army behind, which was not very eye-catching.

After more than 20 days and nights, the army arrived at Lanzhou City, Lanhuang Road, Xihe on August 22. Lanzhou City was at the forefront of the Song and Xia War, connecting Huangzhou to the west, Hezhou to the south, Xizhou to the east, Huizhou to the east, and Xixia to the south, Zhuolo Henan Military Office in the north, and was an important military center of the Song Dynasty.

Lanzhou City is about eight miles in circumference, with an area of ​​only a thousand acres of land. The heavy city walls tightly wrap Lanzhou City. At this time, Lanzhou City was like a large military camp, with 300,000 people and various materials stuffed on a thousand acres of land.

That night, in Lanzhou Prefecture, Tong Guan and Wen Shen were sitting on the throne chair in the north, with a row of generals on both sides of the hall. On the left was a thick man in his thirties with a beard and a fierce look, and on the right was a thick eyebrows and big eyes, with a slightly white hair and beard, about fifty years old.

After Tong Guan glanced at everyone, he said to the men on both sides: "Two strategies, what do you think of the two of you who attacked Li Xia this time?" The older man on the right bowed and said: "Sir, the lower official believes that we should take every step and adopt the erosion strategy." The vicious man on the left said like a broken gong: "Sir, we should concentrate our forces to kill Xia army completely."

With a "puff", Wen Shen laughed and said, "This master has a good idea." The man heard the praise of Deputy Privy Councilor and said with joy: "To deal with a small country like Xia, we must destroy its vitality and leave him unavailable."

"This is the noble surname?" Wen Shen asked. The man clasped his fists and said, "The lower official Liu Fa, the governor of the Lanhuang Road of Xihe." The man in the right hand also clasped his fists and said, "The lower official Liu Zhongwu, the governor of the Qin Feng Road. If he is eager for excellence and is cut off by the Xia army, the consequences will be unimaginable."

Tong Guan smiled and said, "Everyone doesn't know that this time the national teacher brought new equipment to kill the Xia army and fled." Liu Fa's eyes lit up and asked, "Is it the group of strangely dressed soldiers holding the musket in their hands in the afternoon?" Wen Shen smiled and said, "That thing is much more powerful than the musket you mentioned." After looking at Tong Guan, he said, "Mr. Tong, I think this is not the case. Let Liu Zhongwu lead the army to defend Huizhou, and Liu Fa lead the army to Huangzhou. You are in Lanzhou. "

Tong Guan thought deeply for a while and said, "This method is very good. I wonder where your troops will attack first?" Wen Shen laughed and said, "Everyone wait a moment." After that, Wen Shen picked up the intercom and said, "Xiao Wang, bring the map."

Not long after, the guard Wang Cheng came to the hall with a huge map and hung it on the wall. At the same time, Wang Cheng took out an incandescent lamp, fixed it in the upper left corner of the map, and connected the battery with wires.

The incandescent lamp, like a small sun, shone the whole room as if it was daylight. Looking at the surprised expressions of everyone, Wen Shen smiled slightly, took out a teaching stick in his pocket, pulled his hands, got up and came to the map, and said, "Generals, please look at the map drawn, can you see?"

Everyone stood up and went to the map to take a bath and watch. Liu Fa looked at it, and muttered: "Lanzhou, Huangzhou, Xiningzhou, Huizhou, Zhuoluo City in Xia Kingdom, Renduoquan City..." Liu Fa became more and more excited as he looked, and his eyes distinguished the places he had been to.

Suddenly, Liu Fa looked at Wen Shen excitedly and said, "National Master, how is this map drawn? How is it so clear and visible at a glance." Wen Shen took the teaching stick and knocked on the map, saying, "This map is not very clear, and many villages and forts are not marked."

"This is not clear. If this is not clear, wouldn't we use a map worse than dog shit?" Liu Fa shouted. Wen Shen smiled and said, "This is just a map of the precise city, and the terrain and rivers of each city need to be surveyed and mapped."

Liu Zhongwu looked at the map and smiled and said, "What the national master said is reasonable, but it is also very valuable to be accurate to this level."

Tong Guan glanced at the map and saw that the distribution of Song Xia and Qiang people was clear at a glance. He couldn't help but agree to Wen Shen's attack arrangement. So he said, "National Master, please talk about the offensive targets of your troops."

Wenshen used the instruction stick to knock hard at the location of Renduoquan City on the map, and said, "The first target of our unit's attack is here."

With a "swish", everyone turned their eyes to the position where the teaching stick pointed. "Renduoquan City? National Master, are you right?" Tong Guan frowned and said with a confused look on his face.

Wen Shen smiled and said, "After fighting Renduoquan City, then Liangzhou, and then in Xi Ganzhou, Suzhou, Guazhou, and Shazhou, I want to sweep the rear of Xia Kingdom." In fact, Wen Shen had his own idea of ​​fighting like this. Although Wen Shen's troops were extremely advanced and the soldiers were trained in place, they had never fought in actual combat. In order to avoid unnecessary casualties, Wen Shen thought it would be better to start from the back of Xixia, which could not only train troops but also weaken the strength of Xixia.

Everyone was excited when they heard this, and they wiped their hands, feeling that this place was already the territory of the Song Dynasty. Liu Fa shouted: "Okay! I have had this idea for a long time. In addition, before attacking Xia, the Qiang people around Huangzhou should be cleaned up. Over the years, the Qiang people stabbed us in the back."

Tong Guan thought to himself that although the army belonging to the national division has advanced equipment, the number of people is too small. Attacking Xia State mainly requires testing himself. As for where the national division wants to fight, he will go. Thinking of this, Tong Guan smiled and said, "I think the national division's strategy is feasible, so as the national division said. Liu Zhongwu led his troops to garrison Huizhou, and Liu Fa led his troops to 150,000 to assist the national division in attacking Li Xia's rear. I will support you in Lanzhou."

"Get orders!" the generals shouted loudly with their fists.

"By the way, in order to facilitate the contact between the departments, I have arranged a few telegraphers for everyone." Wen Shen held both ends of the teaching stick and pressed it hard in the middle. The teaching stick shrank to the size of a pen. Tong Guan heard this and said happily: "That's good."

Liu Zhongwu said in confusion: "Telecom? What is telegraph?" Tong Guan told everyone about the function of telegraph with high interest. After hearing this, everyone was very surprised and thought that there was such a strange thing in the world.

Looking at the expressions of everyone, Tong Guanxin smiled with satisfaction and said, "Okay, don't make such a fuss. In the future, there will be more new equipment and troops." Then he asked Wen Shen: "National Master, there is no extra map yet, give all the generals one."

Wen Shen smiled and said, "I've been ready for a long time. The telegrapher will take it together tomorrow." Tong Guan bowed and said, "It's still the national teacher who thinks it thoroughly."

...

After the meeting, Wenshen arranged for telegraph soldiers to report to various troops. After the arrangement, he returned to the camp to wash his clothes and slept with his clothes. The next morning, as soon as he got up, he heard the guards outside the tent shouting loudly: "Report!" Wenshen frowned and whispered: "Come in." Seeing the guard bureau coming in, he asked: "What's going on early in the morning?"

"When I go back to the commission, Lord Tong has something important to discuss with the commission." The guard saluted. "Oh, I don't know what Tong Guan has to discuss with him?" Wen Shen thought to himself.

Wenshen washed the grass and came to the prefecture. Seeing Tong Guan sitting on the chair with anger on his face, and the generals with frustrated faces stood below, Wenshen felt something was wrong, so he asked, "Sir Tong, why did you make your Lord so angry?"

When Tong Guan saw Wen Shen enter the door, he hurriedly stood up, sighed, and said, "The national master doesn't know anything. He just received a report. Li Eyi rebelled against Song and joined forces with the Xia army to siege Dingyuan City. Just under the eyes of my 300,000 army, I did such a thing... I was really angry."

Wen Shen was stunned and asked, "I don't know what Lord Tong is going to do?" Tong Guan said calmly, "I have sent Liu Zhongwu to lead his troops to 50,000 to Dingyuan City." Hearing this, Wen Shen looked around and found that Liu Zhongwu was indeed not here. He asked, "Then did the strategy we agreed on last night need to be adjusted?"

Tong Guan thought for a while and said, "No, the national teacher, you and Liu Falu can drive to Huangzhou today. Li Eyi is not careful yet." Wen Shen bowed and said, "Okay, then Liu Fa and I will prepare and we will go out of Huangzhou."

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In the afternoon of that day, Wenshen and Liu Fa led their troops to Huangzhou. Most of Liu Fa's troops were stationed in Huangzhou. Now there are about 10,000 troops around him, basically cavalry. Most of Wenshen's here are infantry, and the bumpy official road in the northwest caused the tractor to be very slow.

Liu Fa walked around the tractor and smiled and said, "This thing is quite powerful, but it runs a little slow. I don't know when I can get to Huangzhou when I drive like this." Wen Shen smiled and said, "It's better, Liu Jingluo, you should lead your troops first, and I will lead your troops to follow."

Liu Fa scratched his scalp, smiled and said, "What is the national master saying? Let's march slowly, and we won't be able to reach Huangzhou in a long time."

A group of people from Yizhou who followed Wenshen stayed in Lanzhou. Those who continued to travel west were young and strong men and strong men. A total of more than 3,000 people each carried steel knives made in Yizhou to protect themselves.
Chapter completed!