Wen Hao's coquettish appearance is cute, and he couldn't help but hug her and be a little confused, "Xi red lips." Thinking in her head: Tang poems and Song lyrics, she knew before the Northern Song Dynasty, then there were only those who memorized the Southern Song Dynasty, and there were many famous poets in the Southern Song Dynasty, like Li Qingzhao, 6 You, Xin Qiji, Jiang Zuo, Wen Tianxiang, etc., fortunately, his uncle was not only proficient in traditional Chinese medicine, but also loved ancient poetry, and he let himself recite it when he was a child. I still remember some in my stomach, and it won't be a problem to deal with a few. Then he said: "Okay, I'll be respectful and obey my fate."

But when it comes to the future, I'm really not good at reciting poetry, so don't be too hard for me. I can't do it, and I can't laugh at me. ”

Gao Taojiu clapped his hands and laughed: "Hmm! Then let's decide, don't play tricks! ”

"That's nature, a gentleman's word, a quick horse."

"Okay, you still have to play the piano with me!" Gao Jiujiu excitedly hugged him and said with a pretty face.

"Playing the piano? I don't know how to play the zheng, the piano, or the pipa, maybe it's okay to play cotton! ”

"Who told you to play the piano!" Gao Yiyi grinned, grabbed the sword at his waist, pressed the blade spring, made a loud sound, pulled out half of it, the cold light flashed, and it was sent back to the sheath with a bang: "I play the piano, you dance the sword!" ”

"Dancing swords?"

"You're a great general. Don't tell me you can't dance the sword? ”

Du Wenhao really hadn't learned swordsmanship, so he learned a set of staggered grappling skills from Lin Qingdai. However, with Lin Qingdai, a martial arts master, he took the time to learn one set or two sets, and he should be no problem to practice and cheer up. reminds me of the falling leaves in the movie "Qin Warriors", and the beautiful women play the piano. The scene of the general dancing the sword, I didn't feel a heat in my heart, and nodded: "Okay!" You play the piano, I dance the sword to cheer up! ”

"Good, good!" Gao Yiyi excitedly said three times in a row, "It's a pity that it's dark now, otherwise, I really want to start right away!" ”

"Huh. I want to build a listening rain hall first, and I have a good view. I have a good mood. ”

That's right. Tomorrow I'll count and let them work. Completed in half a month! ”

"yes, okay."

Gao Taojiu saw that the sky was gradually darkening, the scenery outside the pavilion was no longer clear, and the rain was gradually getting heavier. Kiss him on tiptoe.

Du Wenhao hugged her little waist and kissed back, and a pair of devil claws were also caressing her convex **. When the two parted with a deep kiss this time. It was completely dark. All around was the sound of drizzling rain.

Gao Tao's face was blushing, and he gasped: "As I said last time, our funeral is over." Find a time to travel and rest for a few days. Where do you think we're going? ”

"You decide, I'll go with you wherever you want." Du Wenhao held her tender pretty face and said softly.

"Well, let me think about it, alas! I'm afraid I can't go now."

"What's wrong?"

"Prime Minister Wang Jia said that there is a lot of backlog in the past month and waiting for me to review and decide. As soon as I listened to the government, I ran out to play, but I was afraid that the impact would be bad, and it would also delay the right business. Or wait, wait until you're busy for this time, okay? ”

"Okay. I'm glad that you can take national affairs first. In the future, the Great Song Dynasty will be in the palm of your hand, and you will have to put national affairs first. The love of children can only be let go first. ”

"I don't!" Gao Jiuyi twisted his petite body in his arms and said coquettishly: "I not only want to deal with state affairs, but also have a relationship with your children, I want you to accompany me when I review the folds, anyway, you are not allowed to leave me!" ”

Du Wenhao kissed her: "Okay!" I am reluctant to leave you. If you don't let me leave, then I'll stay with you all day long and grind with your sideburns, okay? ”

"Hmm!" Gao Huojiu happily hugged him and kissed him, cut the piece, and sighed lightly: "However, you are all inspected by the three ya." You have to be responsible for the whole ** team, and there are a lot of things to deal with, but I'm afraid that I won't have so much time to accompany me. ”

"That's okay, don't you have a deputy position, I can't finish it if I do it alone

Gao Taojiu covered his mouth with his right hand and said angrily: "Don't talk nonsense in the future!" ”

"Good!" Du Wenhao kissed her hand and said with a smile: "However, birth, old age, sickness and death, the law of nature, as a general, once the war is ignited in the future, I will have to lead the troops to the battle." As the so-called generals died in a hundred battles"

"Don't say it, you still say it! If I say anything else, I'm going to punish you! Takjiu immediately gagged him with his mouth. kissed it, and said coquettishly: "Besides, I don't allow you to leave me, and I don't allow you to lead troops to the battle, it's all right?" ”

Du Wenhao said with a smile: "Okay, anyway, I don't know the art of war, leading the troops to the battle, there is a chance that you will lose the battle and lose your face." ”

"Why don't you know the art of war, the first emperor praised you for leading the troops well, being familiar with the art of war, fighting with Tubo Xirang, winning more with less, and fighting beautifully. In the future, he will lead the troops to the battle, and he will be a victorious general! ”

Du Wenhao smiled and shook his head: "Jiuhan, to be honest, I've been in Sanya for so many days. I also know a little bit about the situation of Sanya. As our Great Song army is now, it is really not easy to win the battle and defeat the Western Xia and Liao. ”

Gao Taojiu has always lived in the harem before, never asked about political affairs, did not understand the army, and did not understand the art of war. Now the little emperor is only ten years old, and there are still seven or eight years before he becomes an adult, Gao Tao has been listening to politics for a long time, and he can't deal with it, and he has thought about managing it well, and now he heard Du Wenhao say that the Northern Song Dynasty army was very poor and it was difficult to win the battle, and he was taken aback: "Is it?" Aren't we as strong as Liao and Western Xia? ”

Du Wenhao smiled bitterly: "In terms of troops, our Great Song Dynasty has the advantage. Even in the first, Chuan "soldiers!" Later, our forbidden army also had 600,000 Liao, and they were our regular combat troops fighting one by one. There are 220,000 local soldiers and tens of thousands of soldiers near the capital, all of whom are miscellaneous soldiers who have little combat effectiveness and cannot be directly put into battle. If you add the Xiang army, our total strength is close to 900,000! In addition, there are an indefinite number of folk village soldiers, Qiang and other ethnic minority soldiers, as well as soldiers and archers belonging to the local yamen. ”

Gao Tao said happily: "There are so many soldiers, how is that compared to the Liao State and Western Xia?" ”

"The Liao ** team is composed of five parts: the palace tent army, the big leader tribal army, the tribal army, the Wujing Township Ding and the genus. Their palace tent army is equivalent to our forbidden army, and it is the main elite force of the Liao State, with a total strength of about 100,000 people. The Great Leader's deployment army is actually the guard of the princes and ministers of the Liao State, with a total strength of about 30,000 troops, ranging from thousands to hundreds; The tribal army is a kind of military-civilian military system with tribes as the unit, not a regular army, and it is a civilian army in peacetime and a soldier in wartime. And it is mainly responsible for the protection of the hinterland of Liao and the capital. Generally not engaged in border operations. Therefore, it is not included in the number of regular armies. Wujing Xiangding is very similar to our township soldiers, and its role is similar to our van army, which is also a miscellaneous soldier and does not directly participate in battle

Gao Tao said: "How many soldiers are there in the Liao Kingdom?" ”

"There are only 200,000 regular troops that can be directly engaged in battle, and the total number of miscellaneous soldiers and local armed forces will not exceed 300,000."

"So little?" Gao Taozhi said happily, "It's only equivalent to thirty percent of us." And what about Western Xia? How many soldiers are there? ”

"The Western Xia army consisted of three parts: the Central Guard Army, the Capture Army, and the Local Army. Their central guard army included 5,000 Imperial Forest "Proton Army", 3,000 emperor's personal soldiers and heavy cavalry, and two sons and 5,000 concubine guards in the capital. Their regular elite troops, the "Capture Army", numbered about 100,000 people. This is his regular army, with a total of no more than 150,000 men. Since both the Western Xia and the Great Liao were all-in-one soldiers, although his local army had 500,000, it was not separated from production. It cannot be counted in the regular army. Of course, if this part is added, his total strength can reach 650,000 people. ”

Gao Tao said happily: "That's much worse than us, besides, their regular army is only 150,000, and our forbidden army has 610,000." We have more troops than them. Even if the forces of Liao and Western Xia are combined, they can barely catch up with us, and if they fight separately, we will win! ”

Du Wenhao shook his head and smiled bitterly: "But it's just that we can't beat others, or to be more precise, in the battle with Da Liao and Western Xia, we will lose more and win less." ”

Gao Tao was stunned: "Won't it?"

"Why not, I'll count you on your fingers, and you'll know. Now, let's talk about the Song-Liao War first, Emperor Taizu."

"Wait". Gao Yitao interrupted him, "I'm a little hungry, I'll send food." Let's talk while eating, okay? ”

Du Wenhao kissed her: "You are confused, Yiyi, don't forget that you are the empress dowager, a king, and I am just a courtier, how can any courtier eat at the same table with the emperor, you look pleasing to the eye, it's a big deal to reward me with a few large plates of meals to take back to eat."

Gao Tao smiled: "I don't!" I'm going to eat with you. ”

"If you let the officials of the Imperial Observatory know and join me, I can't stand it."

"What are you afraid of, if you don't let them know, you won't get it! When the food is served, let them stand down and not let them wait. Just send a few plates of delicate dishes and a pot of good wine, let's pour ourselves a drink, listen to the rain while listening to you talk about the military, the counselor will not know.

First, I want you to spend more time with me. Is it good?

Du Wenhao was also stunned, and he hadn't been edified by the feudal etiquette, and he didn't care much about the courtesy of the monarch and ministers, so he nodded and agreed.

Gao Tao happily walked to the pavilion and said loudly in the direction of the arch in the distance: "Xiao Jiaozi."

"Hey! Here it comes! Gao Jiuyi only shouted, and Gonggong Jiao agreed from afar, and ran over in the rain with a red oilcloth umbrella with a bamboo skeleton, and said, "What does the Empress Dowager command?" ”

"Pass the meal! Choose a few delicate appetizers and a pot of good wine to send! ”

"Yes!" Father-in-law Jiao turned around and ran out to pass the meal.

Gao Taojiu walked over to the railing and sat down. beckoned Du Wenhao to sit beside him, and said, "Wenhao, I didn't expect you to know everything about the military of Daliao and Western Xia." ”

Du Wenhao smiled: "If you know it, you can't talk about it." The last time I was in Chengdu Fulu after the Tubo Xishan tribesmen army, I was very concerned about this knowledge, and a few days ago you asked me to take over their military power and appointed me as the commander of the three yadu, I thought, since I have done this military business, I must treat it well, and I can't ignore anything. In addition to deploying vigilance and training, I transferred my military information from the Great Song Dynasty, as well as the Great Liao and Western Xia, and also consulted the detailed military information of our foreign conquests since the founding of the Great Song Dynasty. You just asked, so you can answer. And. I have some soldiers who fought in the Western Xia back then, and they usually tell me about the situation of the Western Xia battle. I'm okay to ask them. ”

Gao Tao said happily: "You are really attentive, it seems that it is right to use you to do the inspection of the three yas."

"It's hard to say right now, but I'm just going to do it anyway

"Well, you can pick up where you left off. I want to hear it. I don't know anything about it, you need to tell me. Why do we have so many more troops than both Western Xia and Liao, but we have more defeats and fewer victories? ”

Du Wenhao said: "First of all, we must be clear

… Reading, what is victory, what is the standard of victory and defeat is "the sword, because both sides of the war often claim to have won after the war, but who wins and who loses, there must be a more objective standard to measure, in order to draw a more objective conclusion." ”

Gao Taoyi nodded and said, "Yes, what you said makes a lot of sense, what is the standard for victory or defeat?" ”

"I'm not a military strategist, but I've discussed this issue with Sima Guang before. He wrote a book, which was named "Zizhi Tongjian" by the first emperor, which is a historical evaluation of more than 1,000 years from the Zhou Dynasty to the Five Dynasties, and a considerable part of it involves military warfare. This book was highly praised by the emperor. I consulted with him about the criteria for judging victory and defeat in his book, and he said that the most important criterion is whether the purpose of the war is achieved, which is the most important thing. There are many purposes of war, including attacking cities and plundering land, besieging Wei to save Zhao and helping, punitive attacks, forced defense and resistance, and so on. Regardless of the purpose, generally speaking, as long as the purpose of the battle is achieved, even if the victory is achieved, and the enemy suffers more casualties than the opponent, generally speaking, it can be regarded as a victory. But if the goal is not achieved, even if the number of enemies killed exceeds the number of casualties, generally speaking, it cannot be considered a victory, and of course it is not a defeat. In other words, Sima Guang focused on analyzing the victory or defeat of the war from the perspective of victory. As for the comparison of casualties between the two sides in the battle, and the gains and losses of the territory, he did not pay much attention to it

Gao Taotao didn't seem to be too interested in Sima Guang's views on war, looked at Du Wenhao and said, "Don't talk about his, just talk about yours, what do you think?"

"I, ah, I think that the criteria for winning or losing a war are not exactly the same for military leaders and politicians, and for the generals who lead the troops and the emperors who make decisions, the criteria for judging are not exactly the same, and sometimes even the opposite

Gao Taotao, as a curtain listener, of course, cared about the latter's standards, and asked: "Then how did the emperor judge the victory or defeat of the war?" ”

"The emperor's judgment of victory and defeat is more from a political point of view, that is, the judgment of the pre-war and post-war situation, and the judgment of gains and losses before and after. The war was won, but the country did not benefit in the end, and even faced a more severe situation, for the emperor, such a war could not be said to be won. ”

Gao Tao nodded as if he understood: "What about the general who led the troops?" ”

"For generals, the criterion of victory and defeat is relative, because, what we call war. In fact, it can be divided into three levels: the first level is the overall victory and defeat of the entire war from beginning to end; The second layer is the large-scale battle victory and defeat situation; The third layer is the situation of winning or losing a single battle. As a high-ranking military general, we should focus on the first level, that is, the victory of the entire war, and if this victory is achieved, even if a local battle or some small battle is lost, it will be the winner

"Makes sense!" Gao Yitao nodded frequently, "What about the victory or defeat of the big battle?" ”

"This one is also very heavy, a large-scale battle. It is likely to affect the balance of forces between the two sides, and thus the outcome of the entire battle. Therefore, it is necessary to strive for the victory of as many battles as possible in order to translate into the final victory of the entire war. But this is not absolute, sometimes despite the victory of a series of battles, but the most critical battle is lost, and even the entire war will be lost, the war between Liu Bang and Xiang Yu in the Western Han Dynasty is the best example. ”

Gao Tao sighed: "Yes, the overlord of Western Chu defeated Liu Bang, but he did not kill Liu Bang at the Hongmen Banquet, and finally lost the next battle and created his own Wujiang."

"Yes, the victory or defeat of a small battle can be transformed into the victory or defeat of a large battle, but judging the victory or defeat of a war cannot be limited to individual battles, because individual battles may be deliberately lost for the sake of the overall situation, such as the battle of luring the enemy into depth, which must be lost. Therefore, judging the victory or defeat of both sides is mainly based on the big battle and the entire war. That's what makes sense. ”

This is easy to understand, Gao Yitao understood: "Then how do you think of judging?" ”

Speaking of which, Gonggong Jiao has already brought the people from the imperial dining room to deliver food, a few exquisite dishes, plus a pot of fine pure wine for the palace banquet.

After placing it on the stone table, a dead wind lamp is placed on the stone table, which is not affected by the wind and rain outside. Father-in-law Jiao didn't wait for Gao Huodi's orders, so he took everyone out of the flower garden door very knowingly and covered the door.

The drizzle outside the pavilion flies obliquely, falling on the leaves, among the flowers, and in the grass, which is full of poetry and picturesqueness.

Gao Taodi pulled Du Wenhao to sit side by side, personally poured him a glass of wine, filled it for himself, picked up the wine glass, and smiled sweetly: "Come, let's drink a glass of wine together, I hope I can be together for a long time!" ”

Du Wenhao also picked up the wine: "You are the boss in the world, as long as you don't hate me and drive me away, no one can drive me away."

Hey

Gao Tao smiled and said, "Kill me, I won't drive you away!" ”

"Haha, this time, you said dead or alive first. Penalty for drinking".

Gao Diyi chuckled: "Okay, I admit the punishment." Drink it all with a wine glass. poured another glass of wine, and looked at him with silky eyes: "Come, for the affection of this life and this world, drink a glass together."

Du Wenhao held the wine in one hand and hugged her slender waist with the other: "Okay!" It is also for us to be together in the next life and the next. Cheers".

"Well, exactly!" Gao Diyi's eyes were full of joy. looked at Du Wenhao and slowly drank the wine in the cup.

Du Wenhao also tilted his neck and drank the wine in the glass. Putting down the wine glass, picking up the ivory chopsticks, and pinching a piece of wine-roasted green shrimp into her little mouth.