Chapter 1385

"Someone, it's said that general Pingbei came to see gu!" Standing in front of the map and thinking for nearly half an hour, Huangfu Chaobo finally made up his mind and turned to the waiting guard road at the door;

"Promise!"

Soon, someone left in a hurry and went out of the palace to find Zhao Yun.

When Zhao Yun hurried to Jinyang palace, Huangfu Chaobo was still buried in the map. He got up when he heard the message from the waiter outside the palace.

"Zhao Yun, meet my king!"

"Well, Zilong, don't be polite. Get up." When Zhao Yun entered the palace, Huangfu Chaobo waved back all the waiters and maids. Now there are only two of them left in the whole palace.

"Thank you, king, but the gifts of kings and ministers cannot be abolished!" Although no one else was present, Zhao Yun still made a formal salute, and then thanked him and got up.

Huangfu Chaobo was a little helpless, but he didn't speak any more. There was no way. Zhao Yun was such a person. To put it bluntly, he belonged to the same class as the old stubborn Tian Feng, but Tian Feng was more upright, but Zhao Yun was a little more smooth.

"Now Bingzhou is newly settled, but the aliens in the North seem to be ready to move. I don't know what Zilong thinks to do?" With that, Huangfu Chaobo handed the news from the north to Zhao Yun.

Zhao Yun stretched out his hands, took the memorial delivered by Huangfu Chaobo, read the contents carefully, and bowed to Huangfu Chaobo for a long time. "The king won't give up, and the minister is willing to defend the northern Xinjiang for the king, but if he has a rest, he won't let Hu Lu step through Yanmen pass!"

"In Zilong's opinion, how many troops and horses do you need to refuse to be captured outside the country?" Huangfu Chaobo did not immediately answer Zhao Yun's request, but continued to ask;

"The land of several counties in Bingzhou, north of Yanmen, starts from Qiangyin in the East and reaches jilushai in the West. It is about a thousand miles long. If you want to defend these places, if you want to follow the same special cavalry with white horse righteousness, you need at least 30000. If you want ordinary cavalry, you have to be more than 50000. Plus the garrison of dozens of city passes, the total force will not be less than 80000."

"80000, including 50000 cavalry!" Huangfu Chaobo couldn't help taking a breath after hearing Zhao Yun's words.

You know, in the whole state of Tang, there are nearly 40 cities like Runan, with a population of more than 1 million. There are only 40000 soldiers, including only 10000 cavalry. In the whole state of Tang, the total number of cavalry is only 200000, which is a great burden.

You know, the cavalry of the state of Wei like Yuan Shao is less than 30000, while the state of Qi of Cao Cao and the state of Wu of sun CE are pitifully few. Originally, Huangfu Chaobo also planned to reduce the cavalry slightly after returning to Luoyang this time. He didn't expect that Zhao Yun needed 50000 cavalry as soon as he spoke. If this is calculated, there is no possibility of reduction at all.

Today, the state of Wei has established contact with the Hu people outside the Great Wall. It can be imagined that in the next time, Yuan Shaohui, who is not short of money, will expand his cavalry. In this way, the cavalry advantage of the state of Tang over the state of Wei will be greatly weakened.

The number of war horses in the state of Wei increased. As his ally, Cao Cao's war horses had a stable source, even sun CE in Jiangdong.

In this way, like dominoes, the chain reaction will come.

Another point is that there are a large number of alien tribes in the north of Yinshan. That is to say, Yunzhong, Wuyuan and Shuofang counties in the south of Yinshan are already under the threat of alien cavalry. In the next few years or even longer, the state of Tang is cautious about invading the north at any time.

Thinking of this, Huangfu Chaobo couldn't help feeling big for a while. Originally, he wanted to solve Lv Bu, and then concentrate on dealing with several other princes. Unexpectedly, he killed the tiger, but attracted a group of wolves.

"What does Zilong think he should do about the war with other races?" Huangfu Chaobo asked again;

"Take attack as defense. Whether it is Gongsun Zan of King Yan or Lv Bu of King Zhao, they all do so." Zhao Yun said without hesitation: "just..."

"Just how?"

"When cavalry troops go to war, they also need the support of a large number of grain, grass and baggage. Otherwise, they will be militaristic like the previous practice of King Lv Bu of Zhao."

"What about the arrangement of troops? How should we arrange them?"

"If the king gives his minister 50000 fine cavalry, he will arrange 10000 cavalry in Guangmu and Jiuyuan respectively, under the command of a deputy general, and the other 30000 cavalry will be led by his minister in person to garrison in the clouds and defend the attack from the west to the East."

Huangfu Chaobo looked at the map and immediately understood Zhao Yun's idea. In fact, it is still very easy to defend in the West. The army only needs to guard the four closed cities of jilussai, gaoque pass, Wujiahe city and Manyi Valley pass, so it can basically be said to resist the enemy outside the gate of the country.

However, the clouds in the East are different. Although the big green mountain in the north blocks the passage between the grassland and the Central Plains, there are still several valleys that can connect the north and the south in this section of the continuous big green mountain. Another point is that the army should not only prevent the foreign cavalry army from going straight from the north to the south.

It is also necessary to prevent them from detouring from the front line of tanchan mountain and Bai mountain in the East. Of course, this must have been secretly approved by the state of Wei. Therefore, Zhao Yun's 30000 cavalry should defend not only the north, but also the East.

After listening to Zhao Yun's words, Huangfu Chaobo had some thoughts in his heart, but he could not be completely determined now. He had to wait until he returned to Luoyang and discussed carefully with a group of civil and military personnel before he could finally make a decision.

"In that case, Zilong should go down and have a rest first!" Thinking of this, Huangfu Chaobo waved to Zhao Yun and said;

"Promise! I'll leave!" Zhao Yun heard the speech and said no more. He bowed and saluted, and then left the hall.

For a long time, Huangfu Chaobo took his eyes away from the map and turned to look outside the hall: "come and tell Gu's will to make Gao Shun's trapped camp and Dianwei's iron wall camp patrol Yanmen with Gu. Among the generals, except Huangfu Jianshou, who had stayed in Jinyang, all his generals walked with him."

"Order Anyi general Tian Yu to arrange the defense of Shuo Fang, and lead all the generals to Yanmen pass to see gu!"

"Order general Zhang Yan to arrange the defense of Tumen pass and go to Yanmen pass to meet him!"

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Since he was going to return to Luoyang, Huangfu Chaobo decided to go to Yanmen pass to inspect the places first, and then lead the army back. Of course, this time, there were only a few soldiers of the guards, and the arrangement of the remaining hundreds of thousands of troops could only be decided after he went back to discuss.

As Huangfu Chaobo's orders came out, several fast horses quickly rushed out of Jinyang city and ran towards the north and West. The soldiers and horses in Jinyang city quickly prepared for the expedition.