Chapter 123

"Your Highness, do you mean to deal with the barbarians alone?"

Qian Dafu has a look of confidence.

Xiao Ming nodded, "that's right. This time I want to protect my fiefdom by myself. Nobody can rely on me these days. I can only rely on myself."

Xiao Ming was told everything about the Wang family, Princess Pingyang's calculation, and the king of Wei's secret plan. The wolves around him looked around, and there was no one to believe.

The only thing he can count on is himself.

"Your Highness, this is not a joke. The great power of the state of Chongqing is still making reparations. Do you expect the six states to be able to deal with the barbarians?" Qian Dafu continued.

As long as he can remember, the name of barbarians is as terrible as ghosts. When I was a child, my mother often used barbarians to catch you and scare him. "

This shows the image of barbarians in the hearts of the people of Dayu.

Qian Dafu's reaction is expected by Xiao Ming. What happened three years ago left him an indelible memory of terror.

At that time, the city of Cangzhou was broken, and the barbarian cavalry swarmed into the hinterland of Liuzhou, burning, killing, looting and doing everything. On their way to Chang'an, they could see the bodies lying in a pool of blood.

Many of the corpses have no heads. This is because the barbarians use their heads to record their military achievements. Many barbarians slaughter their people for military achievements.

This memory is very clear in Xiao Ming's mind. It can be seen that this incident left a deep impression on his predecessor Xiao Ming.

It was precisely because of this invasion that the vitality of the six states was greatly damaged, and it did not slow down for three years.

"The king only needs to guard Cangzhou and keep the barbarians from entering his fiefdom."

At this stage, Xiao Ming can only achieve this level, and it is basically impossible to counter attack the grassland, because the comprehensive strength of Qingzhou is not enough to support him to take the initiative to attack a grassland Empire whose national strength does not belong to the great Chongqing state.

After all, the population base is here, the army is limited, the food is limited, and the silver is limited.

"But will it hold?" Qian Dafu was a little worried, "Your Highness, I'll leave the Castle Peak without worrying about firewood."

"Money is rich!" Xiao Ming was impatient. "This is the fiefdom of our king. Without the fiefdom, our king is nothing. When I go back to Chang'an, will the other princes let me live my whole life?"

"this..." Qian Dafu doesn't speak any more. Xiao Ming is right. Since the founding of the state of Dayu, there have been many princes in every generation, but few princes have survived.

Take Xiao Wenxuan's Prince for example, what's alive now is a king of Wei, a king of Kang, and the other ten princes are all turned into dust.

Almost every generation of princes is like this, and now it's Xiao Ming's turn.

"I understand." Qian Dafu's face suddenly became firm. "Princess Zhenfei once told the old slave to protect his highness. If his highness stayed in Cangzhou City to resist the barbarians, the old slave would go with his highness."

"Well, that's what the king's people should say." Xiao Ming said.

This time, it's not that he is stupid and bold, nor that he is blind and confident. During this period of time, he wants to understand a problem, that is, he has no way back.

If you want to survive, you can only manage your own fiefdoms carefully, but now the barbarians want to move their own cake, which of course can't.

All of a sudden, Xiao Ming did not want to stay in the palace, but went to the governor's house.

At this time, Pang Yukun was talking to a young official.

Seeing Xiao Ming coming, Pang Yukun said, "Your Highness, aren't you discussing medical skills with doctor sun? Why are you here? "

" the barbarians will attack Cangzhou at the end of autumn this year. "

Qian Dafu also followed him. Without waiting for Xiao Ming to speak, Qian Dafu said in a hurry.

The young man standing beside Pang Yukun asked with a smile: "since the barbarians want to attack Cangzhou, it must be a very secret thing. Why did they let his highness know in advance?"

Pang Yukun seemed to mean the same thing, but when he remembered something, he said to Xiao Ming, "Your Highness, this is Zhan Xingchang that I mentioned to you."

Xiao Ming took a look at Zhan Xingchang and said, "are you Zhan Xingchang? Pang Changshi said that you are resourceful and judgmental. It's better for you to say how we should deal with it. "

"Only when you know your enemy and friend can you win a hundred battles. First of all, how did your highness get the news?" Zhan Xingchang was neither humble nor arrogant and asked.

When he looks at Qian Dafu, Xiao Ming brings Hongyun to him and talks about the Wang family.

Pang Yu Kun frowned and said, "Your Highness, the words of a young lady may not come true. Is your highness rash?"

"I'd rather believe it than not. Did Pang Chang Shi forget about the barbarian cavalry last year? I'm afraid the cavalry didn't mean to go outside of Qingzhou City, but it was like they were looking for someone to go the wrong way before they got to the bottom of Qingzhou City. " Xiao Ming said.

Zhan Xingchang said: "so now we should send people disguised as caravans to the grassland to spy on intelligence and closely watch the movements of the barbarians."

"This is one of them, but what if it is confirmed?" Xiao Ming asked again.

"Your Highness should know better than me that he should stick to Cangzhou City and protect the six states.""What if I want to take back the lost land in the north?" Xiao Ming asked.

"Of course not. We should also build fortresses extensively, strengthen the walls and clear the wild. That's the so-called technique of building." Zhan Xingchang still looks the same.

Pang Yukun stroked his beard with satisfaction and said, "Xingchang, you should talk about the art of building carefully."

Zhan Xingchang continued: "the most important thing to attack the grassland is the grain road. At this time, facing the powerful barbarian cavalry, the grain road is very dangerous, so we should build a fortress every other day, so that we can ensure that the supplies can be transported to the fortress."

"Second, grassland cavalry are not good at attacking cities, and guarding cities is our advantage. If the distance between the fortresses is short, they can quickly support each other. If the barbarians bypass the front fortress to attack Cangzhou, they can send out the troops in the fortress to cut off the barbarians' grain road and remain invincible."

Xiao Ming nodded. Zhan Xingchang really has two brushes. The best way to deal with the nomads is to push forward the fortress tactics. At the same time, the barbarian cavalry can not get supplies because of the strong wall and the clear countryside.

However, this tactic also needs the Qingzhou army to have enough field ability to guarantee, otherwise how can the fort be promoted?

"Let's not talk about the art of building. Now we still have the ability to attack like this. Let's talk about how to defend the city." Xiao Ming said.

Zhan Xingchang said: "only the city is strong, the fire tube."

Xiao Ming narrowed his eyes slightly. This kind of thing has been used in the state of Dayu, which is basically equivalent to the artillery of the early generation. However, what he shoots is a stone bullet, and the range is not far. In fact, it is not valued at all.

But Zhan Xingchang put forward the idea of firepower defense, which is very advanced in this era. This firepower is the artillery of the early generation.

Today, with the ability of Xiaoming iron and steel workshop, precision guns can't be made, but the local artillery such as fire tube still has no problem.

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