Chapter 23: Conspiracy
The short meeting within the Mayi City Mansion did not reach any conclusion, and the individuals dispersed one after another, preparing the army, preparing for battle, and waiting for the exact news to come back from the front again, and then deciding whether and how many troops to send troops......
After a while, Fang Jun sent someone to call Li Siwen, Zhang Daxiang, and Qu Tuquan over.
Xue Wanche is a bad person, and he is a good hand at commanding him to go into battle to kill the enemy, but his mind is simple and unpredictable, and it is easy to be tricked out of his mind, and some hidden things cannot be said to him.
In contrast, he trusts his friends more......
Zhang Daxiang sat down and asked, "Just now Erlang was halfway through his words, I don't know what the intention is?" ”
Among them, this person is the only one who is delicate and thoughtful.
It's just that the character has some Buddha nature, no fighting, no grabbing, no greed, no possession, anyway, there is the exploits of Daddy Zhang Gongjin there, enough to grace several generations, ordinary just enjoy themselves, never fight with others too much, and most of the fame and fortune are not in their eyes......
This in history is the lord of Zou Guogong, the official to the household servant, the official reputation is honest, good to others, the family has been prosperous for generations, and outstanding descendants have emerged in endlessly, although they have not been noble, but they are blessed.
This is an extremely intelligent man......
Fang Jun pondered, organized his words, looked at a few people and said slowly: "What is placed in front of us will be an excellent opportunity to go down in history, should we take it or abandon it?" ”
Li Siwen has an impulsive personality, Qu Tuquan is brave and unparalleled, and neither of them understands the meaning of Fang Jun's words.
Even if he wins a big victory in the war with Xue Yantuo, how can he be called famous in history with such a little merit?
What's more, if you start a war without Your Majesty's will, which affects the situation in Liaodong, and misses Your Majesty's plan to conquer Goguryeo, and is still meritorious, it is a fate not to be cut off by the angry emperor......
Zhang Daxiang thought about it carefully, changed color and said, "Erlang, should you be...... Are you going to block Bai Daochuan? ”
Fang Jun said in a deep voice: "Either you don't fight, if you fight, just blocking Bai Daochuan is just eating this part of the people and horses set up by Dadu, what is the use of not itching?" It's better to do one thing and keep going, directly cross the Baidao River, insert it into Mobei, and go straight to Yu Overseer Mountain! ”
"Hiss......"
"!"
Several people were stunned......
That's crazy, isn't it?
At present, the Tang army of Shuozhou in addition to the border army of Mayi City, only the right military guard and the right tun guard, the two guards and horses together are only more than 70,000 people, it is impossible to completely annihilate the Dadu station, the Baidaochuan in front of them can not pass, Xue Yantuo people can only retreat, and then in the vast Eile River, if it is really according to what Fang Jun said, it is necessary to divide a part to guard Mayi City and Dingxiang City, in case the Turks are blocked by Baidaochuan and have no way back, crazy destruction.
Then the people who can be mobilized into Mobei can only have more than 20,000 people when they are full.
With 20,000 troops, he raided the mountain of Yu Overseer in the middle of winter...... Do you think you're Huo Qubing or Li Jing?
Zhang Daxiang's head shook like a rattle, and he said again and again: "No, this move is too risky, and the whole army will be wiped out at every turn, and it is absolutely not advisable!" Although Xue Yantuo will inevitably lead the army into Monan because of his generosity, it will inevitably lead to the emptiness of Mobei, but Yu Dujun Mountain is where the tooth tent of Yinan Khan is located, and his eldest son Bazhuo must lead a large army to defend it, so as to prevent his ambitious tribes in the country from taking advantage of the weakness. Tens of thousands of horses, how can they defeat the more than 100,000 iron horsemen in Yu Du Jun Mountain? If we can't capture the tooth tent of the Yinan Khan, then even if we cross the entire Mobei moraine, it will be useless, and it will be like scratching the itch in our boots. And if it is hard to shake more than 100,000 Xue Yantuo's iron cavalry to guard the Yu Governor Mountain...... How is it different from hitting a stone with an egg? ”
decisively refuted Fang Jun's delusions.
That's right, in his opinion, this is simply an opportunity to go down in history, but an idea that could not be worse......
Qu Tuquan also said: "Not to mention whether it can be directly smashed into Yu Du Jun Mountain, there are not a few days before the beginning of spring, the Eastern Expedition has already begun to operate, hundreds of thousands of soldiers on the border of Liaodong, and the grain is like a mountain and an iron horse is like a cloud, if we blatantly invade Mobei at this time, it will inevitably lead to Xue Yantuo and the Tang Dynasty completely tearing the skin, and the surface harmony is gone, Xue Yantuo's eastern border borders Liaodong, in case the Yi Nan Khan is angry and brazenly sends troops to assist Goguryeo, it will inevitably lead to the obstruction of the Eastern Expedition, and Your Majesty will pinch all our eggs......"
It's rough, but it's not rough.
At present, His Majesty Li Er's heart and mind is to set foot in Goguryeo, incorporate it into the territory of the Tang Dynasty, achieve unprecedented achievements, and lay the most solid foundation for his grand hegemony.
Whoever dares to destroy it is the mortal enemy of His Majesty Li Er!
It's light to pinch and pop the eggs, and if you change to another general, you can simply give you the three clans......
Fang Jun was a little annoyed, and sighed lightly: "Your Majesty is confused by the obsession of the 'Emperor of the Ages', and his heart and mind are all about conquering Goguryeo, what is so rare about that broken place?" The steppe desert, that is the threat that the empire should always put in the first place! ”
In fact, with the exception of emperors such as His Majesty Li Er, who had ulterior motives for the capture of Goguryeo, many dynasties in history disdained this piece of land.
First of all, it is too far away from the center of the dynasty to be controlled.
Most of the Central Plains Dynasty was set in Guanzhong or Jiangnan, all of which were in the hinterland of China, and Goguryeo was either separated by the vast sea or the mountains of Liaodong, and the geographical isolation made it difficult to control and manage the entire territory of Goguryeo.
Moreover, Goguryeo was poor......
Goguryeo was sparsely populated and had a bitter cold climate, and if it was to be occupied, it would have to be garrisoned by a large army, and it would have to be stationed on patrols along the long borders and coastlines, and the military expenditure would be enough to bring down any empire.
As for collecting taxes?
Sorry, Goguryeo's poor Dingdang is chaotic, and there is no tax to collect at all.
The nobles of Goguryeo can unscrupulously exploit their people, scrape the ground and knock out the bones, but if the foreign empire wants to do this, the consequences can only be a mess everywhere, and the gains outweigh the losses.
Although the Western Regions are far away from the Central Plains, there is at least a rich Silk Road, as well as the most scarce war horse resources in the Central Plains, which is also the reason why many dynasties in history would rather spend troops and resources to conquer the Western Regions, but disdain Goguryeo.
Goguryeo's geographical environment is very poor, surrounded by the sea on three sides and the region is long and narrow, there is no strategic depth at all, once it has the ambition to covet the territory of the Central Plains, the Central Plains Dynasty can be annihilated and destroyed in minutes by sea and land, so why bother to incorporate it into the territory and strengthen its rule?
As long as he nominally submits to the Central Plains Dynasty and does not add to the chaos, he will be able to take a corner of peace and be the king......
Moreover, Fang Jun, who came from later generations, knew that the inhabitants of this peninsula were ignorant and narrow-minded, arrogant and inferior, and on the one hand, they were eroded and conquered by the Han culture, but on the other hand, they shouted that "the first class on the earth", with a superficial and obscene personality, hypocrisy and lack of ambition, and could never be the henchmen of the Central Plains Dynasty.
Such a nation is not unworthy of conquest, but it is not necessary to take it in your eyes, free your hands in your spare time, and eat it up little by little in minutes, instead of galloping with great fanfare, forcing them to fight against the water and resist to the death.
Compared with Goguryeo, the nomads who rose and fell one after another on the grassland were the henchmen of the Central Plains Dynasty.
Inurong, Xiongnu, Turkic, Hui, Mongolian, Manchurian...... These barbarian peoples who have emerged one after another are the existence that can endanger the lifeblood of the Chinese foundation!
In history, Xue Yantuo did not cause too much threat and harm to the Tang Dynasty, but the Hui who blessed under Xue Yantuo's wings finally sucked flesh and blood on Xue Yantuo's torso and gradually became stronger, unified the Tiele tribes, dominated the desert grassland, and covered thousands of miles, and even invaded the Central Plains for a time, burning, killing and looting, bringing endless trauma to the Tang Dynasty!
The three emperors of the Tang Dynasty, that is, the true princess, married foreign relatives and relatives, all of which occurred after the rise of the Hui Khan......
The Turks fell, and now the Hui, Khitan, Murowei, and Heishui Ya, which grow on the grassland, are the natural enemies of China!
It's just a Goguryeo, what are you doing with him?
Just like Emperor Yang of Sui, the loss of troops for Goguryeo will shake the country's capital, and the gains outweigh the losses......
Several people were a little silent.
How can this be refuted?
They are all courtiers, and they talk about the rights and wrongs of the emperor behind their backs, which is what the most stupid people do, Fang Jun said with emotion, it is already excessive, and everyone will naturally not continue.
Zhang Daxiang shook his head and dissuaded: "Erlang, don't be greedy for merit, even if Your Majesty will not punish us, is it enough to smash Yu Overseer Mountain with only 20,000 or 30,000 troops?" It's too sinister to be taken. ”
Fang Jun was speechless.
What can he say?
To say that he was convinced that his troops, armed with firearms, had a natural advantage over the cavalry?
The musket is still a little worse, but the right guard cavalry with earth-shattering thunder is enough to tear apart all the cavalry units in front of them?
Even if it's just a complete annihilation of this one, it will be a vigorous feat!