Theoretically speaking, for Beigui, the inhuman terrain, as long as the guard is not careless, the whole process is a rhythm of being a one-man who can't keep his guard away. The problem is that for some guys, the moment you encounter is destined to ignore something.

That's right, it's Xun You. Xun You's spiritual talent can cover certain things, making people naturally ignore the covered things.

This kind of covered thing can be a human, an army, or even a strategic key. However, the tragedy of Xun You is that even if you have this kind of talent that is against the sky, you can't beat Chen Xi in the Central Plains. It's not about the problem of restraint, but Chen Xi's method, which cannot be solved by this means of stealing the family.

So even though he is clearly the top talent, he can even make the other party ignore his own strategic key points, but he has no effect at all in the Central Plains.

"Can you cover it?" Cao Cao looked at Xun You and asked.

If a legion can be completely covered, the difficulty of attacking Herat will be reduced rapidly. After taking Herat, the situation will no longer be the situation where Kushan blocks the Kabul River Valley and can attack the Cao family at any time. Instead, Cao Cao blocked the entrance to the Kabul River Valley, and the Sestan area behind it will completely turn into a safe area.

"I have covered some of the legions. As long as I am careful, it is unlikely that Kushan will notice it, but that's all, it's not enough." Xun You said expressionlessly, "We must have a legion crossing the Hindu Kush Mountains next to Herat."

The place Herat belongs to the third largest city in Afghanistan in later generations. It is one of the key locations to enter India from the north. It is located outside the Hindu Kush Mountains, in the middle of the Heli River, and the Heli River belongs to the Helmand River water system.

The reason for this water system is that as the main channel to enter India, the river valley that was crossed in the first half was not actually a valley formed by the Kabul River, but a valley of the Helmand River. However, since Kabul is at a critical point in traffic, it can be said to be an important channel to enter the Indian plains, and generally it is called the Kabul River Valley.

In fact, if you really want to say, the length of the Kabul River Valley is only five or six hundred kilometers, while the length of the Helmand River Valley is more than one thousand kilometers. Although that area is not big, because of the many mountains and the winding detours of the valley, the total length of the winding detours is 2,000 kilometers.

This is a collapsed logistics line. If it weren't for the waterway that could really transport grain, Alexander wouldn't have been able to get in even if he cheated.

By the way, the reason why India did not build a city wall here before was that the 2,000-kilometer logistics line could really drag people to death. Even if the waterway could transport grain, the direction of the water flow was doomed to the degree of the logistics explosion. Generally speaking, it would die if it dragged.

It can be said that Herat is the first focus of the strategy of this road, but this place is too far for Kushan itself. Even if it can transport grain through water, the distance is still very devastating, especially this involves a very headache-inducing place, that is, the area between Kandahar and Herat is directly a desert!

This desert is called Lezistan Desert in later generations. It is not big, and it is not even mentioned in most world-class deserts. But even so, this thing is a desert that is more than 300 kilometers long. What's worse is that this desert is surrounded by a bunch of mountains several thousand meters high, with mountains in four directions surrounding it, and then it successfully encircled it into a basin...

The only oasis in this desert is Kandahar, which is about one thousand meters above sea level. Moreover, the Hindu Kush Mountains to the north and the Suleiman Mountains to the south. It can be said that to fight Kandahar, you must first rush through the desert and then fight at the corners of the mountains. Logistics and morale are all problems in the middle.

After passing these two levels, continue walking along the river valley and walk to a relatively wide area where you can farm is Kabul.

This is the terrain of Afghanistan called the Empire Cemetery, and who will die. It can be said that any empire that failed to win a key point in one go and without any twists and turns in the middle will all withdraw from this broken place in a mess, because it is too difficult to fight.

This is also the reason why Xun Yu insisted on taking every step after seeing the terrain. If he had a strong attack, as long as he failed once, it would basically mean that all his previous efforts would be wasted. Moreover, this terrain was super unfriendly to the attacking party, and there were only three places where he could rest.

If you take down any key point, you will either cross mountains and ridges for hundreds of miles, then cross hundreds of miles of deserts for a strong attack, or you will go around the river valleys, cross mountains and ridges for nearly a thousand miles, and then fight against your opponent who is waiting for it.

It can be said that the reason why Alexander was named the God of War was not that he simply dealt with Darius III, but that he made a concerted effort to attack Kandahar from Herat, and then gathered elite troops to capture Kampul, and then divided his troops into two groups, breaking through Kyber, attacking Bactra in the north, and all of them were captured in a short period of time.

To be honest, the operation can no longer be said to be a magical operation, but a real god-like operation. If you don’t look at the terrain, it will be a long-distance raid and strengthen the breakthrough. However, with the collapsed terrain, it can only be said that gods and immortals will always be gods.

Now Cao Cao attacks the Kabul River Valley. On the one hand, Cao Cao is not as crazy as Alexander, and on the other hand, Beigui is not the miscellaneous fish of the Brahmins before, so he can only take it step by step. If you want to be fast, you may be caught in a few strokes.

"After all, Herat is too far away from Peshawar, and the road is rugged, and the logistics pressure is too great for Beigui, so they will not have too many troops. Eighty thousand people should be the limit. Although it was claimed to be 200,000 before, we would not do such a thing even." Cheng Yu explained coldly.

Even if the Han Dynasty had money, Chen Xi would be careful when investing troops everywhere. After all, although opening up the source is very important, reducing expenditure is also one of the very important tasks.

Although Kushan has no shortage of food, it can transport grain through river valleys. After 2,000 kilometers, even Kushan will collapse. More importantly, both the Helmand River and the Kabul River retain the unique river state of Central Asia, which means that the carrying capacity is not large.

In this case, how crazy is Kushan to choose to deploy 200,000 troops on the outermost Herat.

"The Hindu Kush Mountains on the outside are not too high. If you cross directly, the height of 4,000 meters is not too outrageous, and it is not too difficult to walk around." Xun You said halfway through estimates. In fact, this height is already very exaggerated. After all, what you want to cross is not a mountain, but a mountain.

"Are you attacking front and back?" Cao Cao nodded. The method is very simple and easy to be exposed. However, with Xun You there, there is no need to worry about the exposure. It is not that easy to block tens of thousands of Kushan elites.

"As long as Kushan is not stupid, Herat's troops are more tempted. The real battlefield should be Kandahar. After all, it is indeed a bit too deadly to cross a few hundred kilometers of desert and then fight against Kushan who is waiting for work in the oasis." Xun Yu said in a loss.

The group of advisers under Cao Cao did not care about the difficulty of the Herat region. Their biggest headache was Kandahar and Kabul.

"Take Herat first and remove the opponent from attacking us at any time." Cao Cao said with a solemn expression. They are now on the periphery of Sestein, and are actually within the attack range of the Kushan soldiers in the Herat region.

Moreover, compared with the Kush Mountains in Kushan, the place where Cao Cao squats now is said to be a plateau, but in fact it is a very flat plateau, and it is also a famous abandoned irrigation canal in later generations. It is one of the essence areas in the eastern part of Anxue.

"Okay." Xun You said silently. He has been suppressed at home and can finally show his skills abroad. As long as the other party is not careless, it will be difficult for the Han Dynasty to exert its strength even if it has several times the advantage of military strength.

However, with Xun You's strange talent, there is a lot of room for operation.

The movements of the Han Dynasty in the Sestan area were soon received by Sessikapier, who was in Hetra. Yes, Sessikapier pulled the Kushan army spirit legion, four royal guards legion, and Barak, who was stationed at the Khyber Pass, to the Hetra area.

Of course, Cao Cao also estimated that this possibility was achieved, but on the one hand, to this extent, Cao Cao was no longer likely to avoid it. On the other hand, the Han Dynasty was not a vegetarian. Except for Gao Lan who withdrew from Sizhao City, the elite troops who had attacked and opened the Burr Pass were all here.

After all, Chen Xi really dared not neglect the collapsed terrain here. With Cao Cao's combat power alone, Chen Xi was really not relieved. Therefore, he pressed all the two military souls here, at least he would not suffer any loss in top combat power!

As for other aspects, it is mainly operated by Cao Cao. After all, Cao Cao himself will continue to grow in the war. With Cao Cao's talent, as long as he is not frivolous, it is not a big problem to become the commander of the large army.

"Han army has taken action?" Kapil said, looking at Barak sitting in the main seat.

"Yes, the Han army is really as you guessed, ready to attack Herat." Barak pointed to the position and signaled Kapil to take his seat. In fact, if he really wanted to say, Kapil was actually the commander-in-chief. However, after being transferred from Beigui, Kapil handed over his position as a commander-in-chief to Barak, and more to assist Barak as a staff officer.

"It's too far away. This place is actually not suitable for us to defend. Even if the terrain has absolute advantages, the logistics is too long and it's okay to face rest, but the Han Dynasty..." Kapil said with a headache, "But this battle is inevitable."
Chapter completed!