"What is the essence of war?" Li Yuanjing then raised a simple question, but it bothered countless people.

Some say it's profit, some say it's dignity, some say it's the future, some say it's power, and so on, but none of them can be accepted by everyone, even though it has been happening for thousands of years.

Li Yuanjing noticed Xue Li, who was standing at the door with a pile of papers, and said directly: "Come in!" ”

"Uh...... Your Highness! In fact, the lowly position is here to hand in the information......" Xue Li showed the information in his hand, indicating that he did not intend to eavesdrop on the content of the high-level meeting.

During this time, he often came here to hand in the information, and the specific time was not fixed, basically every time he perfected a detail, he would hand it in once.

Xue Li originally planned to submit it after completing it all at once, but Li Daozong, who couldn't wait, asked him to list the whole thing in a framework first, and then slowly improve the details, and later asked him to submit it every time he perfected a detail.

And Xue Li never thought that writing a post-war summary was so tiring, it was even more tiring than asking him to fight.

But I have to admit that in this report-style review, Xue Li is also growing with the words he writes, and now he can accurately find out the mistakes he made before, and what can be done better, if he is given a chance, he feels that he can do better.

"Put it down and find a place to sit yourself!" Li Yuanjing nodded, for the horse boy he hand-picked, Li Yuanjing naturally would not be stingy with it.

"For emperors and officials, it is interests, whether it is to maintain national dignity or to safeguard the integrity of the country, it is to sum up the interests. But for ordinary people, it is a burden, everyone wants to live a good life, everyone wants to live in a peaceful and prosperous world, there is food to eat, meat to eat, money to spend, new clothes to wear, children to read, officials to do in the future, no need to pay taxes, just live in peace and stability.

You can't say right or wrong in everything, and if you stand from different angles, there will be different points of view!

From the aspect of the essence of war, the emperor wants interests, but generals cannot focus on interests, for a general, to do his best is actually to maximize interests.

In the same war, if you lead a unit that loses 500 and annihilate 5,000 enemies, and your colleague loses 1,000 and annihilates 5,000 enemies, the reward may be the same for both of them, but the future of these two people will definitely be different.

It's okay to be like this once or twice, but what about eight times out of ten? A general who always manages to win at the minimum cost, no one does not like.

But how easy is it for the general to do this? In addition to the strength of his own army, it is more necessary to rely on the general's mind to decide, take this counterinsurgency as an example, if the king did not send a small team to infiltrate in advance, everything is according to the normal process, not to mention more, there should be two or three thousand battle losses, right? Li Yuanjing said unhurriedly, in fact, he was instilling in them an idea that the army's combat thinking should be changed.

In the face of Li Yuanjing's question, several people did not have too many doubts, if there was really a battle, the battle damage of two or three thousand people would be considered small, and the battle damage would be nearly 10,000 if it was not guaranteed.

You must know that Hou Junji's 20,000 soldiers are old soldiers, all of them are old people with rich combat experience, and although they have 50,000 people under their command, they are only 10,000 family soldiers who are experienced, and the other 40,000 are all rookies and have no actual combat experience.

So how do you do that? How can we do this on a regular basis and make this a regular result? Li Yuanjing continued, this time it's really fun, no matter what your identity is, now you have to sit down and listen to the lecture honestly.

"Actually, this king doesn't know, but this king knows that he should boldly test some new ideas, or take this counterinsurgency as an example!

First of all, Hou Junji only had 20,000 government soldiers under him, and it was impossible for the government soldiers to follow him to death, and the other was that 20,000 people were categorically impossible to occupy the entire Silla, although the Silla army had been disbanded, but the Silla people must hate Hou Junji to the core, and even to the Tang Dynasty.

This means that Hou Junji's troops will definitely not be single-minded, even if Hou Junji uses a lot of methods to try to redeem it.

On the other hand, Hou Junji only has 20,000 people, and 20,000 government soldiers who have left their hometowns and abandoned their wives and children, so judging from the overall situation, Hou Junji's rebellion this time is unlikely to succeed, even if the Tang Dynasty does not send troops, it only needs to continue to exert pressure, and within a year or two, it can disintegrate the combat power of these 20,000 government soldiers without a fight.

But the imperial court could not wait so long, and it was impossible to wait so long, and at the same time it needed to keep Silla as much as possible.

Therefore, the two known factors, Hou Jun could not integrate the climate, and it was impossible for the imperial court to let go of Silla.

Then according to these two factors, the next thing is the opportunity for the front-line generals to play, Hou Junji's weakness lies in the instability of the army's morale, so he can focus on taking advantage of this, so this king informed Xue Li of the target requirements and asked him to choose the personnel he thought were suitable to carry out this task.

On the one hand, it is necessary to investigate the station, personnel, and other conditions of each military camp, and learn as much information as possible, whether it is useful or useless, and the other is to decide whether to rebel against a certain general according to the judgment of the known situation.

As a result, you already know that a fellow villager association involved nearly 6,000 troops, and Fang Yiai and they directly accepted 3,000 people, and through the influence of these people, it was so smooth in the subsequent persuasion to surrender.

So let's talk about this special team under Xue Li, Uncle Wang said that there are traces of the water supervisor before, in fact, this king thinks it is more appropriate to describe the scout and the water supervisor together, the scout is responsible for the investigation and the drive operation when necessary, and the water supervisor is responsible for the collection of intelligence, rebellion, and secret assassination when necessary.

And this squad is to avoid combat as much as possible, let alone assassination or something, after removing these two items, it is the role of this squad to integrate the rest.

It is mainly decided based on the actual situation, after all, it is not realistic for them to enter the enemy formation alone to assassinate the enemy general.

The Silla incident was only a preliminary test for them, and the next Goguryeo incident was the real test, because the situation between the two was completely different, and this time there was no task to rebel. As he spoke, Li Yuanjing set his eyes on Xue Li.

The Silla counterinsurgency was because the target was the Tang Army, and there was nothing wrong with these grassroots soldiers, they were all Han Chinese, and if they could be recovered, they would be recovered, so the main strategy adopted was to rebel.

But Goguryeo is different, after all, the army comes out and costs a lot, so you can't just go back without fighting a war, right?

"Therefore, this king will personally take charge, and you will continue to select a hundred people from the army to supplement the team, and their next task is to find out the details of each military camp in the demarcated area as soon as possible, as well as the location and situation of various mines. In addition, this time this king will give you an additional army of the mansion, and if the opportunity is right, you can directly and secretly kill the main characters of the other party......" Li Yuanjing ordered directly.

War, in fact, is about intelligence, and this army under Xue Li can only be regarded as half an army. Thing. Report. Bureau, now with the soldiers of a government can be regarded as a complete organization, of course, all this is still in the exploration, what can be done depends on Xue Li's ability.

"No!" Xue Li pursed his mouth, a little bitter in his heart, but he still agreed, anyway, isn't he now gradually progressing from a recruit to a captain who can master the strength of the upper government?

Looking at Xue Li's departing figure, Li Daozong couldn't help but feel a little regretful: "This is a handsome talent, you just let him do the work of the water supervisor?" ”

"No, it's because he's a handsome guy that this king let him do this first!" Li Yuanjing looked at Li Daozong with a smile, and couldn't help but say, "Uncle Wang, why don't you make a bet?" Ten years later, he will definitely be able to surpass Uncle Wang's command ability......"