Second day of the Chinese New Year, light snow.
In this era of lack of entertainment activities, especially in the winter, Yun Zheng really can't find too many entertainment activities except for the affairs between men and women and listening to music in brothels.
Fortunately, Yun Zheng is a person who can stay at home.
Even if he was lying in the room watching Ye Zi and Jia Yao play chess, he didn't feel bored.
"You should come!" Ye Zi lost another round and looked back at Yun Zheng who was resting his head on Miao Yin's legs. "I am no match for Jia Yao."
Yun Zheng shook his head and smiled, "It's better for me to play chess with her than with her..."
Having said this, Yun Zheng suddenly stopped.
"Pervert!"
Several women cast "disdainful" glances at him, secretly cursing the bastard for being shameless.
Jia Yao's face also turned red, and she glared at Yun Zheng shyly.
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...
"You are all perverts!"
Yun Zheng's body trembled, and he sat up suddenly. "What are you thinking about? I suddenly thought that we could have a war game!"
Soldiers... war games?
The women were stunned and looked at Yun Zheng suspiciously.
Did Yun Zheng set a trap for them on purpose, or did they really have the wrong idea?
On purpose!
Yun Zheng must have done it on purpose!
Facing their gazes, Yun Zheng cried out in his heart that he felt wronged.
I swear to God, he really didn't think about those decadent and beautiful things.
Yun Zheng secretly pleaded for himself, and then ordered Ye Zi, "First send someone to tell Qin Qihu and Yu Shizhong to come to the palace after noon!"
"good!"
Talking about business, Ye Zi immediately stopped joking and stood up.
"Let's go to the backyard!"
Yun Zheng immediately called them to go to the backyard, and ordered the servants to call Chen Luoyan and Yun Cang over.
When Chen Luoyan brought Yun Cang to the backyard, Yun Zheng had already begun directing the servants to sweep the snow into one piece.
After completing the preparations, Yun Zheng began to build a sand table with the snow. Others came to help, and even Yun Cang came forward to meddle.
Yun Zheng did not scold the child. Instead, he stopped and built a sandbox with Yun Cang.
This can also be considered a parent-child activity, right?
Thanks to their efforts, a sand table with a length and width of more than two meters was piled up.
In order to facilitate viewing, Yun Zheng found some branches and made some simple modifications to make the various terrains on the sand table more intuitive.
After noon, Qin Qihu and Yu Shizhong arrived one after another.
Yun Zheng called everyone to the sand table in the backyard, and Wei Shuang and the others, who had nothing to do, also came to join in the fun.
"How many troops does Your Highness plan to send to attack the Le Dynasty this time?"
Yu Shizhong was the first to ask.
Yun Zheng answered without hesitation: "The logistics supply line is too long. Counting my personal guards and the Blood-clothed Army, there are at most 40,000..."
After the spring, the grain and fodder were first escorted to the border between Beihuan and Zhenhe, and then civilians were conscripted from Zhenhe and Menghu to help escort the grain and fodder.
Yu Shizhong thought for a moment, then asked Yun Zheng: "Can the navy warships help escort the military rations? If we escort the rations from the sea, it will definitely be much faster and the loss will be much less."
"Don't think about that for now." Yun Zheng shook his head. "The navy's warships are just icing on the cake at best."
It had been nearly two years since they began building the warship.
Due to reasons such as materials and craftsmen, they were able to build nine warships.
There were two tower ships and two treasure ships, and the rest were horse ships and grain ships.
As for small ships like battleships, he didn't build any at all.
Although this thing is somewhat useful, it cannot withstand the wind and waves at all. If the weather is slightly bad, it can only be used to feed fish.
Jia Yao: "Actually, there is another way to solve the problem of long supply lines, but it is extremely risky."
"Tell me about it."
Yun Zheng smiled.
Jia Yao replied: "Prepare more dry food. Bei Huan can set up supply points along the way in advance."
"Then the army will march quickly and capture Juncheng as quickly as possible!"
"If the Le Dynasty is willing to surrender, then provide us with food and fodder. If the Le Dynasty is unwilling to surrender, then we can use war to support war!"
"However, we don't have that much food. You must supply us with food from the supply points along the way."
Hearing Jia Yao's words, everyone's eyelids couldn't help but jump.
“It’s really too risky.”
Shen Luoyan said seriously: “If we can’t take Juncheng in a short time, it will be troublesome.”
"right."
Qin Qihu, Yu Shizhong, Wei Shuang and others also nodded in agreement.
Jia Yao’s idea is good.
But it was too risky.
If there is any mistake, those tens of thousands of troops will be doomed.
Yun Zheng looked at Jia Yao with a smile: "Are you pinning your hopes on explosives?"
"right!"
Jia Yao nodded and smiled, "If I have the help of your explosives, I think 40,000 soldiers are too many. As long as 10,000 elite troops quietly cross the Danshui River, it should be enough to capture Juncheng!"
"Don't put all your eggs in one basket." Yun Zheng smiled, "Taking Juncheng is just the beginning, we still have to consider what's next..."
Explosives are not a panacea.
What if the explosives get damp or something else happens?
If we only want to capture Juncheng, 40,000 troops are definitely too many.
But they were able to use their large army to force the Le Dynasty to surrender or completely defeat it.
They wanted to let the Le Dynasty know that they only had 10,000 troops, and no one would pay any attention to them when they sent people to persuade them to surrender.
Even if you want to scare people, you have to look scary, right?
"I know!"
Jia Yao glanced at Bai Yunzheng and said, "You didn't understand what I meant! What I meant was that we only needed about 10,000 people to attack Juncheng, and the ones behind are our reinforcements!"
Yun Zheng was speechless, then realized: "Let the enemy think that we only have 10,000 troops, and then continue to attack and consume the enemy's manpower? Then try to force the enemy to surrender?"
"right!"
Jia Yao nodded: "To be honest, I think the possibility of taking Juncheng to force the Li Dynasty to surrender is very small! In the end, we still have to rely on fighting!"
After listening to Jia Yao's words, everyone nodded in agreement.
This is indeed true.
Even if Yun Zheng's reputation spread to the Le Dynasty, it would be impossible for the Le Dynasty to surrender just because of the loss of a city.
"Well, this is a way to deplete the military strength of the Le Dynasty."
Yun Zheng agreed with a smile, "Let's do this for now! Next we will formally deduce how to take down Juncheng!"
"I still think that what I discussed with General Yu before is that it would be more appropriate to attack in winter!"
Jia Yao raised his hand and pointed at the sand table. "I heard from Luntai that the navy of the Li Dynasty seems to be very powerful! If we attack at other times, the enemy navy in Xiongjin can sail into the Dan River, blocking our retreat and making it difficult for us to continue to supply food and grass..."
As he spoke, Jia Yao stepped forward again, drew a line on the sand table with his hand, and used a branch to simulate the enemy's navy to seal the Dan Water.
"This problem should be relatively simple." Yun Zheng smiled, "We can just sink the ship to block the river!"
"Why didn't I think of that!" Jia Yao looked at Yun Zheng with surprise.
Miaoyin smiled and said, "Beihuan has never fought a naval battle, so it's normal for you to ignore this."
Yu Shizhong thought for a moment and said, "Your Highness, this is a good idea. However, Zhenhe doesn't even have many large ships to help us transport soldiers and food. They probably don't have that many ships to block the river, right?"
You can't use that kind of small fishing boat to block the river, right?
Yun Zheng: "Then just do both!"
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