Now, it's getting colder again.
Han Shizhong was concerned about the overall situation and was worried that if the current confrontation continued, the main force of the Jin army would gather first, and the Song army would fall into logistical and manpower difficulties in a short period of time, thus being forced to seize the opportunity and quickly engage in a decisive battle.
However, Li Yanxian really didn't want to say this, and he didn't agree with it.
"What Prince Han means is that if the Jin army gathers its forces first and we are unable to arrive in full force, we should quickly gather tens of thousands of cavalrymen and imitate King Xiang's desperate battle of breaking his pots and burning his bridges, force our way through the tunnel, divide and surround all the armies, and win the battle in one go?" Li Yanxian thought about it and said this for Han Shizhong.
"We really have to be on guard."
Han Shizhong thought about it and simply admitted it.
"I didn't think it would come to this." Li Yanxian looked at him seriously.
"Are you saying that I am worrying too much?" Han Liangchen, who had studied in Chang'an for several years and was naturally eloquent, still did not look at Li Yanxian. "Or do you want to say that Balisu is not as brave as King Xiang? You must know that King Xiang fought ten with one, while Balisu might be outnumbered."
"I'm not saying that Balisu can't defeat the outnumbered, but Prince Han is indeed worrying too much... and in my opinion, the prince is not only narrow-minded, but also blinded by a single leaf and unable to see the big picture." Seeing that the other party was still arrogant, Li Yanxian finally got a little angry.
It was still early and not many people came at this moment.
But under the slightly swaying banner, the two of them seemed to not need the generals to come over to create atmosphere... After a long pause, the Hedong Marshal finally turned his head and looked at the soldiers in the imperial camp beside him. They all looked at each other in unison:
"Is Mount Tai under your feet?"
"I'm not Taishan. I mean that Balisu will not fight here! Even though he should have someone in the Kingdom of Jin who can make the decision and contact him." Li Yanxian tried to ignore the other party's ridicule, and his words were quite decisive. "And the Prince of Han must have had a military loophole like I did that day, either because he was careless or underestimated the enemy, anyway, he overlooked it!"
Han Shizhong stared at the other party in a daze. After confirming his seriousness, he asked, "Why do you say that Balisu will not fight here?"
"The reason couldn't be simpler." Li Yanxian sighed. "Prince Han... At Tieling Pass, we certainly have some logistical problems because of the sudden arrival of General Manager Ma and the obstruction of the Shanzhou River, but doesn't the logistics of Balisu also need to be sent from Taiyuan? That's 500 miles... Even if it's a wide road, how can it be easier than ours?"
Han Shizhong was silent for a moment, but still shook his head: "How do we know their logistics? The war is hasty, no one knows anyone, maybe they have a large warehouse in Linfen all the time!"
Having said that, Han Shizhong was slightly shaken, because he knew that even if the Jin army in the north might have no logistics problems, what about the southeast?
Even if the Jin army had a large warehouse in Mengzhou on the other side of Chenguan Pass, even so, there was a narrow road of 180 miles along Chenguan Pass. Now that the Jin army in the direction of Longde Prefecture was blocked in Chenguan Pass, how could they arrange the logistics for 40,000 people?
Of course, there is a way. As long as the Jin army decides to attack, the Jin army in Longde Prefecture can temporarily come from Mengzhou.
But to do so would undoubtedly be to risk everything, otherwise it would be suicide.
However, just when Han Shizhong thought that the other party was going to talk about Chenguanxing and Longdefu, Li Yanxian unexpectedly nodded and said, "The prince is right. We started the war in a hurry. How can we know the logistical situation of the Jurchens? We should be lenient with the enemy."
Han Shizhong was surprised for a moment.
But then, Li Yanxian's next words silenced Han Shizhong: "So, why do the Jin army think they can gain an advantage by holding out here? We only realized in the past two days that the Shanzhou River restricted our logistics. How did they know that we had logistics difficulties?"
The wind was howling, Han Shizhong remained silent for a long time, and Li Yanxian was also calm.
As the two sides were at a stalemate, Han Liangchen could no longer bear it when he heard several generals coming up while chatting and laughing. He turned back and said to Wang Shixiong: "Block the stairs and let them wait downstairs."
Wang Shixiong did not dare to delay and left in a hurry.
When it was quiet again below the pass and only the sound of the wind could be heard from behind, Han Shizhong slowly spoke: "What Taishan said makes sense."
Li Yanxian was speechless... This guy is even more petty than me!
But now is not the time to worry about this.
On the other side, Han Shizhong immediately asked again: "If this is the case, then Balisu is indeed a little strange... Maybe it's just like you said, there is a loophole in us that he has seen through."
"There can only be one loophole." Li Yanxian blurted out. "For us, the advantage of the Jin Kingdom is always in cavalry... There is Luotuo Ridge on the left of Tieling Pass and Jiangshan on the right, which stretches over 200 miles and is a natural division... He bypassed Jiangshan before, which caught me off guard for a while. Now he must be involved in the front to cover the back, and wait for the reinforcements to arrive, and then join forces with a 10,000-cavalry army from the west to repeat the same trick!"
"Taishan thinks I'm you?" Han Shizhong was disdainful again after hearing this. "Before I came, I left 20,000 troops to Wang Sheng under Hedong City to lock the city, and another 8,000 troops to attack various places. After the various places were taken, Li Qiong took over Anyi City. They naturally went to block the gaps in our west early... As long as we take precautions against those passages and slightly attract a few people, so that the Jin people won't be able to break through them at once, they will be useless."
This time it was Li Yanxian's turn to feel uneasy: "That being said, the Jin people only have this one plan... Generally speaking, since Balisu didn't know that our logistics were in trouble, he didn't have the courage to send a hundred thousand troops to fight a decisive battle in this mountainous area... Since he didn't dare to fight a decisive battle hastily, he still stationed four Wanhu here to confront us. Why?"
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