Chapter 150: Becoming an Emperor (2)

Guo Rong held his chin and fell into deep thought. After listening to Wang Pu's words, he thought of another question, Murong Yanchao of Yanzhou. Murong Yanchao is still in vain with his father, neither rebellious nor honestly obedient, this person is Liu Zhiyuan's younger brother, his "nature" is rude, and he thinks very highly of himself, and he is definitely not a straw bag like Liu Xin who hanged himself when he saw Zhou Jun. This is a cancer in the Great Zhou Dynasty and must be cut off, but this Yanzhou is next to Xuzhou, and Feng County and Pei County to the west of Xuzhou are still under the control of Wang Yanchao, but Teng County to the north is said to have been occupied by 3,000 Chu troops. There are 3,000 people stationed in a small county town. . . This Chu Jun and Murong Yanchao also have no collusion.

If the Chu army and Murong Yanchao were in collusion, it would be necessary to quickly strengthen the defense of Yizhou (now Linyi, Shandong). This Yizhou is located in the east of Xuzhou and Yanzhou, east of the sea, south of Haizhou, Xuzhou, west of Yanzhou, strengthening the defense of Yizhou, can effectively contain the Chu army in Haizhou and Xuzhou, so that they do not dare to act rashly when the Great Zhou Dynasty exterminated Murong Yanchao.

Guo Rong thought about it carefully again, and said: "Well, Xuzhou is so important, and we can't take it by force, so should we strengthen Yizhou's defense now?" ”

Wang Pu smiled: "Lord Wang, the current world can be said to be a confrontation between the north and the south. The combat effectiveness of the Southern Army is not weak, and Ma Yun is not a mediocre master, but he has just swept the south of the Yangtze River, after all, there is not enough popularity; And what about our Great Zhou, there are more than 300,000 armored soldiers, due to years of war, the people have been displaced, and the national strength is exhausted, plus, the Chu State basically has no forces in the south that can threaten the Chu State, and there are Khitans in the north of our Great Zhou, and Liu Chong in Hedong and we are even more incompatible. Our environment is much worse than that of Chu State! Jiangnan lacks war and chaos, has a large population, and the fields and markets recover quickly. Fighting a war, in the final analysis, is not about fighting money and food, and without money and food, you can't do anything. For Da Zhou, it is not difficult to sweep away Murong Yanchao, while exterminating Yanzhou, it is not difficult to prevent the Chu State from getting benefits, in fact, it is not difficult, but the difficult thing is how to find a way to make the Chu State chaotic, or let the strength of the Chu State be consumed by us, let his development slow down, create a few burdens for him, and let them carry it well. ”

Wang Pu paused and said: "Your Majesty's reluctance to send troops to fight for Xuzhou must also be because he recognizes the fact that Chu is strong and Da Zhou is slightly weak. The Great Zhou is not afraid of fighting, nor is he afraid of being defeated by the Chu army under the city of Xuzhou, what he is afraid of is that the Chu army with a small number of its own troops, without the army of the Great Zhou, will fight for a long time, the Chu army will become stronger and stronger, and the Great Zhou will become weaker and weaker. Strengthening Yizhou's defense is a double-edged sword. Yizhou cut off the back road of Yanzhou, if the imperial court once stationed a large army in Yizhou, then Murong Yanchao of Yanzhou immediately understood that the imperial court was dealing with him. He was powerless to resist the imperial court, so he could only take refuge in the Chu State. If Murong Yanchao changes his banner once he changes his banner, our Great Zhou will once fall into a dilemma. In the war, the Chu army could not hold on, wasting grain and grass, and if it didn't fight, where was the majesty of the country? This is just like the reason for the rebellion of the frustrated people in the Korean War on the border during the Northern and Southern Dynasties. The state of Chu obviously did not have the spare strength to send troops to the Central Plains, otherwise, they would have already gone on a northern expedition under the banner of the Han Dynasty. But our Great Zhou doesn't have enough strength to defeat the Chu army, so we have to worry about it. ”

Guo Rong was silent about strengthening the defense of Yizhou, apparently pushing Murong Yanchao of Yanzhou to the state of Chu. If Murong Yanchao offered Yanzhou to the State of Chu. This bad debt, Da Zhou may have to eat the consequences.

"Isn't there a way to deal with the Chu State?" Guo Rong asked.

"Well, I can't say no, the game between the two countries is like a master playing chess, between seeing the moves, whoever is negligent, I am afraid that he will suffer. The Chu army followed the system since the late Tang Dynasty, that is, specially recruited a group of people to be soldiers, did not have to do anything, and was only responsible for fighting all day long. This kind of army is highly combative, assembles quickly, and reacts quickly. However, there is a place in the state of Chu that does not use this kind of military system. Wang Pu blocked a stroke, he did not answer Guo Rong's words from the front, but talked about the military system of the Chu army.

Guo Rong was stunned: "Could it be that Mr. Wang is talking about Shannan Dongdao?" "Ding Sijin, the capital of Shannan Dongdao, first of all, not only has 30,000 regular Chu troops, but also 50,000 township soldiers.

"Yes, I have an idea, maybe I can deal with the Chu State. At present, Chu Guo and we seem to have the intention of tearing their faces. We can wait until the summer harvest and autumn harvest, and deliberately put on a false impression of marching into Shannan, so that Ding Sijin of Shannan Dongdao will inevitably gather an army and arrange prevention, so that Shannan Dongdao will suddenly lose so many young and middle-aged laborers, and the summer harvest and autumn harvest will inevitably be delayed, hehe, according to the regulations of the Chu army, if it is delayed, the Chu government will inevitably compensate, so that the Chu State will invisibly increase the burden, and the people in Shannan will rely on the Chu State government to support them in vain. That's a lot of burden. Moreover, compensation, there are always some people who are satisfied, and some people who are not satisfied, hehe, let's stir up one or two from it, I'm afraid this Shannan will be unstable. ”

"Sir's clever plan, if we do this two or three times, I'm afraid that the Chu State will no longer be fooled, and when we do such a thing again, the Shannan Chu army will ignore it, just so that we can sneak attack Shannan! Sure enough, it's killing two birds with one stone. Guo Rong praised.

"Moreover, we can secretly dispatch horse teams, sneak into Xuzhou and Haizhou, burn, kill and loot, and completely destroy Xuzhou and Haizhou, so that Chu can get Haizhou and Xuzhou, but they are like chicken ribs, and the food is tasteless. Let them carry this burden again. What does the world depend on? One is financial resources, but human resources. This manpower is related to the population, and what is the location of the population? At the moment, Wu Yue is obviously already a meal on the plate of the Chu State. And our Great Zhou is too strong, and it is definitely not a small country that can win in one battle. If the state of Chu still wants to expand, its eyes will definitely shift to the west and stare at the state of Shu. ”

"Well, what does Mr. mean is that we want to capture Shu in front of Chu State, and if it is not good, we will divide Shu State equally with Chu State?" Guo Rong asked.

Wang Pu smiled and shook his head: "What the minister means is that it is better to set up a set in Shu and let the Chu army consume part of its strength in Shu." Of course, that's all for later. Chu and the Great Zhou, in fact, have their own advantages, the advantage of the Chu State lies in the sea, the Chu army's naval division is strong, it is said that it can reach the South Seas in the south, and the sea sales activities are extremely developed, and our advantage of the Great Zhou lies in the west, we can be in Guanzhong Tuntian, and at the same time have a good relationship with the party departments, exchange for the shortage of horses from them, and then take the thousands of miles south of the Yellow River as the battlefield to compete with the Chu army. ”