Gao Fangping received the news of Goryeo's defeat in the first battle in mid-February.

It was sent by Uncle Zhang's henchmen, and it was accompanied by a handwritten letter from Lao Zhang asking Xiao Gao for advice.

In addition to stating military affairs, Yu finally expressed Lao Zhang's worries and desire for help, and said that the plan to send troops to Goryeo has been suspended.

"Because the situation has changed, Xiang Gong is not going to give up the hundreds of forbidden troops who survived, but he is worried that when the preparation is not sufficient, there will be consequences that my Great Song Dynasty cannot accept, and he is worried that the Great Song Dynasty will bet too much and cannot afford to lose."

The guy with a scar on his face clenched his fist at Gao Fangping and explained what Uncle Zhang meant. His name is Tuku.

This is a letter sent by Uncle Zhang, Gao Fangping didn't lift the table even if he was annoyed, just crumpled the letter into a ball, pinched it in the palm of his hand and frowned and thought.

Tu Ku was a little embarrassed and a little dissatisfied, seeing that he treated Uncle Yegong's letter like this, he didn't know what to say.

Of course, I can't say anything, I can only wait for the Great Demon King to respond. Because Uncle Yegong was also roasted on the fire under his eyes, he had no choice but to think of finding pork flat to solve the problem.

After thinking for a long time, Gao Fangping sat down again and said, "Since we have already fought, we can't stop sending troops." It is not a question of winning or losing, it is a question of the national character of a responsible great country. You go back and tell Shu Yegong that no one is a god, there is no perfect certainty in war, the battlefield is changing rapidly, and many problems can affect the outcome of a battle. This requires the spirit and will of the army, self-improvement and correction, and adaptation to the new situation. ”

After a pause, Gao Fangping said: "Local sacrifices are acceptable, anyone starts from scratch, and fighting is no exception." If you don't fight if you suffer a loss, the dead person will be blind, and my Great Song Emperor's text is. But if you can learn from the losses and go forward, then it is called experience points. We are never afraid of mistakes and problems, and as long as we learn to avoid and correct them, we can rely on our national strength to achieve ultimate victory. ”

“？” Tu Ku felt that the Great Demon King didn't seem to say anything.

After Gao Fangping put pen to paper and wrote the above rhetoric, he added: "The tone of the troops remains unchanged, rest assured, the sky will not fall yet." At the same time, however, it is necessary to have a clear understanding of the new operational needs under the new situation. As far as I know, Hubu Li Gang does not advocate sending troops to Goryeo during this period, not that he will drag his feet, but the cognitive error in his mentality will make him subconsciously hinder the run-in between Hubu and Zhongshu to a certain extent. Zong Ze of the Ministry of Industry supports sending troops, but he will be influenced by his favorite protégé Li Gang, in addition, He Zhizhong's attitude is unclear, and the influence on the Ministry of Industry through his son He Zudao is still deep, and these political inconsistencies have caused some problems in logistics coordination. This is the reason why the original plan to form an effective defensive line in Kaijing at the end of February has become a joke. This is the disunity of the front and values, not that there is really a national thief and the life of my Great Song Dynasty soldiers. ”

"There is no doubt that those who died are martyrs. But the times require dedication, and war requires sacrifice. Don't be afraid of death, don't shrink your head when you lose a battle, and don't start thinking about whose pot it is when there is a problem. When the imperial court is caught in the question of 'who is behind the blame and whose fault is it', it is called fighting in the nest, it is called political incorrectness, and it is called the front is not unified. The military is a derivative of politics, and politics is incorrect, can this war be fought well? ”

At this point, Gao Fangping knocked on the table, and even Uncle Zhang scolded with an attitude of criticism: "So this is still an ideological problem, not a war crime." ”

"......" Tuku is about to collapse, and he doesn't know much about the situation, and he doesn't know if this is a transformation of the Great Demon King?

Gao Fangping got up and concluded: "The root problem is in the first three rows, some people, he thinks there is no need to send troops, and some people, he looks down on that group of Jurchens, thinking that I am really killing chickens with a knife when I go to scare women." ”

At this point, he slapped the table angrily and said: "At this point, even Zong Ze and Li Gang are not exempt from vulgarity, you bring my words to the Ministry of Household Industry, and bring them to Liang Zimei in He Zhizhong, let them review their own thoughts, and let them realize that the death of hundreds of my soldiers is just the beginning, don't look down on the savages." The first problem is that after the emperor issued an edict to send troops, they should think about it from the perspective of front-line soldiers, how to protect them, those people are not cannon fodder, they are people who were sent to fight for my Great Song Dynasty after their mother was born. If you can think about it from this angle, people's hearts are flesh and blood, why can't this front be unified? ”

Tuku was fluted.

Gao Fangping continued: "Tell them that if they find it difficult to review themselves, and if they feel that this front cannot be unified, let them come to Chengdu, and I will go back to the imperial court and see how I teach them how to fight." ”

Tu Ku thinks that this sentence is the core, now including Shu Yegong, no one wants to get the Great Demon King back, with his brains and means, let him dominate the military and government with peerless prestige in the wartime state of the whole country, then everyone will wash and sleep.

"The humble position understands that he will truthfully convey the thoughts of the senior minister to the uncle and the important members of various ministries, and the front will definitely be unified." Tuku military salute half-kneeling......

Under the lights at night, Sister Liang was waiting for pen and ink beside her, and Gao Fangping was writing at length.

In a letter to Liu Fa and Shi Wengong, Gao Fangping wrote:

"It's hard to win. The previous resumes and superior equipment have caused everyone to despise the opponent's mentality. It's a must. The underestimation of the topography, the underestimation of the climate, and the underestimation of the strength of the opponent caused the defeat of the Lin Chong Division. Don't feel sorry for yourself and don't wonder about the move. The sacrificed people did not die in vain, and this is a lesson and lesson, and we must be good at summing up and clearly understanding the new operational needs in the new situation. ”

So what are the new needs? It is necessary to recognize the characteristics of the group of people who came out of the black waters of Montenegro and were not afraid of death. Now, they are characterized by their adaptation to the terrain and climate. It is the extremism of personal force. They are obviously good at special assaults and sports warfare in order to wear down the will of their opponents. This characteristic means that they are not good at group operations, and their organization, overall situation, and political outlook are their shortcomings. ”

"Then you have to be good at dragging them into a group war while protecting yourself. The root cause of Lin Chong's losses was that he did not recognize the characteristics of the Jurchens when the climate and geography were not adaptable, and he wanted to coerce nearly three to one troops to confront them. This is called misuse of tactics. The five hundred elite cavalry of the Sticky Han Department dare to call for 1,200 cavalry, do you really think he is a pig's brain? Damn, you've been ambushed, under unknown circumstances, you can't win, you can run, you martial artists box, don't you have to take back your fist and attack again? After following me to the south and the north for all these years, why haven't you summed up these essences? ”

"Maybe you want to ask, where did the Jurchen group warfare come from with thousands of guns?"

"Believe me, I said yes, it will happen sooner or later. This is because sooner or later the Liao State will intervene. So soon you will face a new combat situation, facing the Jurchen cavalry who have been rearmed after receiving the support of the Liao State. ”

"Don't have any worries, the tone of the Volunteer Army's dispatch to Goryeo remains unchanged, this is the will of the Great Song Dynasty, the will of the emperor, and the political demand of the rise of a great power. We should continue to review our own mistakes, have a clear understanding of the situation, and speed up the deployment of the Kaijing defense line. The landing deployment operation was not moving. Don't be afraid of being attacked by the special warfare of the Sticky Han Department again, don't listen to Zhang Shuye's, push forward the defense line, and then regain the lost ground. You must clearly understand that the current Jurchen tribe does not have the ability to destroy the country of Goryeo. The only reason why they have the ability to enter the Kaijing territory and raid is that there are few people, they don't have to defend the city, they don't have any worries, they just need to complete the special operation mission to attack the will of our Great Song Dynasty. This is called throwing off the burden and traveling lightly. ”

"Is there a way to deal with it? Of course there is, let them come, there are too many people to do light attack, there is nothing new, that is called group warfare, it is a hard-core exchange of war energy, and their dead end is logistics. Believe me, if Lin Chong was raided by the same number of elite cavalry, one thousand against one thousand, although Lin Chong could not win, he would not be defeated so badly, because he was cautious before the battle, and prudence can make people recognize the situation, and it is not easy to suffer losses if they recognize the situation, which is an immutable law for eternity. ”

"Then it is counter-deduced from this, the current Jurchen, only the ability to rely on special tactics to reach Kaijing. This tactic determines that the number of people will not be large, since there are not many, why fight him, you have the logistics to afford it, what about them? If you can't win, you can defend it, and if you can't hold it, you can pull the team away, give them the land of the city, the land of Sanhan is so big, and the Jurchen people can manage ten miles alone, can he manage it? If you really manage it, three little children can kill a Jurchen Tartar and recapture those ten miles of land, which is the core of the protracted war. ”

"So I ask you, don't be disturbed by their special raid tactics, don't pay attention to it, you should go to the sea and the sea, you should be armed, they are cavalry, you too, if you have a four-to-one advantage in adapting to the terrain and climate, then eat him, you can't fight a decisive battle."

"There is a way that your army of thousands goes around the elusive hundreds of savages, which is called being led by the nose and losing your advantage."

"Maybe you want to ask again, let them burn and loot, and the dragons everywhere don't see the head but the tail, what are you doing with the troops in Goryeo?"

My answer is that the territory of Samhan is so big, and he will give them the land, the villages, and the cities if he wants. He gave him food and supplies if he wanted, and he only had a few hundred men and horses to see how much he could eat and how much he could take. In the process, the people of Sanhan were accumulated, helped them evacuate their homes, and gave material support, and the productivity of the Great Song Dynasty was their backing. Go deep into the grassroots, spread the responsible ideas of the Great Song Dynasty, help them solve practical problems, and gain their trust. Believe me, without the support of the local people, you will only be exhausted with five times the number of troops. The real meaning of the entry of the volunteers into the DPRK lies in the export of values. Instead of chasing hundreds of poorer savages than you! ”

"The unification of the front is not limited to the Great Song Dynasty, but also to care for and guide the united front of the people of the three Koreas in the Goryeo theater. The idea of setting up the Kaijing defense line led by me, but Zhang Shuye is so happy that he wants to push forward? It's not that my Great Song Dynasty really only has the ability to defend Kaijing, and can't resist the Jurchens along the line of the Yalu River. It's because there's no need at all, they're not Liao, they're Jurchen. I am really stupid to stretch the battle line so long, with a national strength of 100 million people, to chase thousands of savages. That would be a strategic mistake. ”

"The establishment of the Kaijing defense line is to form the Jurchens into arrogant soldiers, so that they think that they are invincible in the world, and the contraction of our front is conducive to our defense, and then form mourning soldiers. The arrogant Jurchens, with the political and material support of the Liao State, will officially change from the tactics of 'looting' to the strategy of 'destroying the country'. In other words, the ultimate strategic goal of our Gao Fangping in Goryeo is to end the hegemony of the Liao State that lasted for a hundred years in one fell swoop without destroying the situation of national strength against national strength and volunteer army against volunteer army without destroying the alliance of Lanyuan, so that it is willing to sit down and expand the Song-Liao trade route. ”

"Yes, the real purpose of the Goryeo battlefield is to wrestle with the Liao State. Now that Wu Yashu is not in good health and is about to die, Ah Guda, the envoy of the Northeast Liao, is eager to hand over the letter to the Liao Emperor to vote, which will make the Liao State, which no longer dare to fight, see the opportunity to go down in history, annex Sanhan in one fell swoop, and reshape its hegemony. Therefore, the result of the Jurchen vanguard army was 'the area west of Kaijing', which could make Goryeo frightened, further rely on our Great Song Dynasty, and also allow the Liao State to send troops to grab food, so the real decisive point is the future Kaijing defense line. ”

"There is a saying that a hungry person can continue to be hungry, but once he is full, he does not want to be hungry. In this new situation, there will also be new war needs, and the significance of the alliance lies in the fact that it has long pointed out that Song and Liao will no longer have the need for border wars, and if it is not for the extreme moment, the two armies of Song and Liao will not have the need for harassment through the line. Therefore, the focus of the operation in two to three years is to open the Beijing defense line, ignoring the harassment and robbery of the Jurchens, and opening the Beijing defense line to prevent the future Liao State million clusters. ”

"The task of the first phase of 10,000 volunteers is not to fight, but to build the Kaijing defense line, establish the mass base of the Great Song Dynasty in Goryeo, and build the hearts of the people. It's a daunting task, and I won't give you much time. The mass foundation is not stable enough, and the defense line is not stable enough, which will affect my confidence in the decisive battle in two years, and my Great Demon King will not invest millions in the untrustworthy defense line in Kaijing. ”

"The line is clear, the position is firm, do not forget the original intention, and if you persist, you will have the final victory. I'm optimistic about you, you will definitely be able to support my Great Demon King to finish this big game of chess, right? In order to successfully complete this game of chess, in the next issue, I will try my best to mobilize the political commissars of the junior army to enter Goryeo to carry out the political and ideological construction of the army and the pro-Han mentality of the people of Samhan. ”

At the end of the letter to the two generals, Gao Fangping signed: On the night of February 19 in the third year of the Great Song Dynasty, Gao Fangping wrote.