Tea is indeed these literary and ink people.

was frightened by the repeated defeats in the battle against the Western Xia.

Slightly horned.

The first reaction is peace talks, at most cynical scolding the army for being incompetent, and the way that can be thought of is to spend money to calm the people, so the ancients had a saying.

It's called "Xiucai rebelled, and it didn't work out in three years".

It is the best interpretation of this phenomenon.

Of course, there is no shortage of ambitious and proud scholars.

It's just that he has no blood, but he doesn't know how to command the army to defeat the enemy, and it's still in vain.

Du Wenhao looked around, and then roared: "Our army's vitality is greatly damaged, how can it not be the case in Western Xia?" The two countries are at war, and what they fight to the end is what is the army and the strength! It is the comprehensive strength of a country! It's like a fat man fighting a thin man, and the fat man gets a few more punches.

In the end, the skin is thick and fat, and it can withstand it, and the thin man is thin.

I'm afraid that my bones will break after a few punches, and I'm afraid that most of the people who will fall in the end will be thin, right? Therefore, the battle with Western Xia can be fought, must be fought, and it will definitely be won! As long as we put our army in order and take the road of strengthening the army with elite soldiers, victory will definitely belong to us in the future! Zhang Wei smiled bitterly: "I don't understand, why do you have to fight with Xixia?" "At that time, the main enemies of the Song Dynasty were the Great Liao and Western Xia.

At this moment, the Great Liao and the Great Song have formed an alliance.

Relations have always been good, and the border has been relatively calm.

And Du Wenhao already knows from studying history that in the near future, the Da Liao State will be destroyed by the Da Jin State, so there is no need to bother to attack them, just wait for the rise of the Da Jin State, fight with the Da Liao, and then sit on the profits of the scum.

Before that, it is necessary to solve the Western Xia, relieve the worries, and concentrate on dealing with the future Dajin Kingdom.

In addition, there is another very important purpose of attacking Western Xia, that is, the horse farm! There are two places in China where horses can be raised on a large scale, one is in Liao, and the other is the Danshan Horse Farm in Western Xia.

After a month of war with Tibet.

Du Wenhao has already deeply realized that in ancient times.

To build an army that is always offensive, cavalry is indispensable.

The main obstacle to the road of strengthening the army of the Great Song Dynasty is the shortage of war horses.

So, there must be at least one of these two horse farms.

Comparatively speaking, the horse farms in Western Xia were better than those in Daliao.

Therefore, the war with Western Xia had to be fought, and it had to be fought and resolved as soon as possible.

Of course, Du Wenhao couldn't tell them the prediction that Da Liao would be destroyed by Dajin.

He said in a high-sounding manner: "It is my generation's duty to expand the territory."

The territory of my Great Song Dynasty is the most in the past dynasties.

Aren't you ashamed? Besides, now it is the Western Xia attacking us, not that we want to take the initiative to provoke a war.

Facing the Western Xia attack.

Do we still have a choice? We can only fight to defend our home and country."

"What General Du said is not true!" Han Jin's head shook like a rattle, and he sneered: "Why sacrifice thousands of soldiers when you can spend money to do it?" Du Wenhao interrupted him sharply, he turned to stare at Han Jin, stared at Han Jin, stared at him with round eyes, and shouted: "What I just said is exactly what the Empress Dowager authorized to formulate a strategy for strengthening the army!" The Empress Dowager said that she would not tolerate the continued existence of the New Year's coin.

Spending money for peace must not be tolerated! The Empress Dowager said that no matter how much money she has, she would rather use it to be used for waste than to buy shame! The Empress Dowager also said that only spineless soft eggs grovel to sue for peace.

As soon as they ask for peace, they also ask us for peace! It was they who offered us New Year's coins to beg us to retire, this is the king's way! This is the national prestige and military prestige of a great country! "If you want to argue and argue, the essay is eloquent, each of these literati is above Du Wenhao, and naturally he is not convinced by Du Wenhao's words, but he is the queen mother on the left and the queen mother on the right.

added fuel and vinegar to the Empress Dowager's thoughts, and even he couldn't tell which sentence was the Empress Dowager's original words and which one was his own thoughts.

When he heard these people's ears, his words became the words of the Empress Dowager.

These people all know that Du Wenhao is a big celebrity in front of the Empress Dowager, and Qingyun has been directly promoted from the fourth rank to the third yadu inspection, and it has set a precedent for him to be inspected and listed.

With this, you can know his weight in the eyes of the Empress Dowager, and naturally no one will doubt that this was not said by the Empress Dowager, even if it is guessed that there may be some moisture in it.

But the tone was absolutely right, and they all fell silent for a moment.

Du Wenhao relayed the words of the Empress Dowager, and he had already pointed out that the Empress Dowager was a hardliner in the main battle in military operations.

The Empress Dowager is now listening to the government, her decree is a holy decree, and her words are the final decision.

No matter how eloquent they are, they don't dare to compete with the Queen Mother.

In particular, in terms of changing the law, the Empress Dowager is a conservative, and except for Wang Jia and Du Wenhao, all of them are reformers.

Who dares to go against her at this juncture? Unless you don't want to keep this official position.

For these people.

The position of the top leadership is still quite important, and it is impossible to block the ambition of the empress dowager to change the law and become strong in order to fight with Western Xia on the border.

However, just now everyone was talking too much.

Especially Zhang Shen and Han Jin, they also quarreled with Du Wenhao, and suddenly wanted to change their attitudes, and they couldn't get off the stage.

At this time, Wang Wa coughed lightly and said: "Although the empress dowager is a woman, she is determined to not let her eyebrows, her ambition to enrich the country and strengthen the army, and she has been taught many times.

We want to report the plan for the New Year's coin peace talks, but I am afraid that we will be beaten back, not to mention, and will let the Empress Dowager wash the stream book and dry the fine concave with the latest Dong Festival) Although Wang Fa did not directly support Du Wenhao, his words were clearer than his direct statement, and he pointed out the most critical issue, which means very clearly, although the Empress Dowager is a woman, she is weak by nature.

But it is the outer soft internal network, but now after all, the power is in hand, and it is the online platform, and if she wants to do a career, she is in the power of the three fires, who is uncomfortable with her at this time, then don't want to stay in this position anymore, the Queen Mother will definitely be replaced.

The fastest to see the opportunity was the right prime minister Cai Qu, who arched his hand and said: "General Du said it well!" What our army lacks is the determination to win after repeated defeats! My Great Song Dynasty is more than the population of Western Xia, the army is more than ten times more, and the income of Qian Gu is more than ten times, we can afford it, but they can't afford it.

War is something they have imposed on us, not our own choice, and we have no choice but to fight.

Better die standing than live kneeling! This minister agrees with General Du's proposal to send troops to recruit and suppress! Cai Qu's change made Han Zhen and the others a little embarrassed, but these people were used to the banquet, and the scene of seeing the wind and the rudder had long been commonplace, so they immediately changed their faces and showed righteous indignation.

The squire under the door said hatefully: "Exactly! I'd rather die standing than live on my knees! Is it tolerable or unbearable! Zhuo Zhi also praised what General Ran Du said.

Send troops to fight to the death with Western Xia! Du Wenhao was surprised, this person's face changed faster than turning a book, and just now he pointed to his nose to refute his own point of view, and in a blink of an eye, he agreed with his own point of view.

He is well versed in the way of being an official, and he really admires it.

Han Zuo was no stranger to seeing the wind and rudder, and the embarrassing feeling was just a matter of a moment, and he immediately changed his angry appearance, and said: "Yes, Xifu has repeatedly violated my border, and the only way to calm down is to raise tigers for trouble."

The officer originally thought that our army was weak and that it would not be easy to win by sending troops, so he suggested peace talks.

After listening to what General Du said, he learned that Western Xia was also scarred, and he couldn't afford war even more than us.

If you keep fighting.

The Western Xia must not be able to stand it and take the initiative to ask for peace talks.

At that time, we could not only cancel the New Year's coin.

It is also unknown whether there may be additional profits.

So.

This official also seconded General Du's words. ”

The three of them all turned, and the other three naturally ran away, scolding Xixia one after another, and were filled with righteous indignation to fight Xixia to the death.

This result was somewhat unexpected by Du Wenhao, but this result made him very happy, and he also had a smile on his face, and said: "Everyone, we must despise the enemy strategically, but we must pay attention to the enemy tactically, and now we are honest, we are not yet capable of completely defeating Western Xia, so it is not the time to fight to the death with Western Xia, there is no need to expand the scope and scale of the conflict, just counterattack against the places where Western Xia invaded, and there is no need to expand to the whole territory for a comprehensive counterattack." ”

Wang Fa smiled and nodded: "As the general sees."

How should this battle be fought? "I think that the enemy army is attacking and plundering our border with cavalry, and that our army was only pursuing the enemy cavalry in order to destroy them, but it is inconceivable to pursue the cavalry with infantry.

It is to fight the enemy's strength with his own shortcomings.

It's better to treat others the way they do! Han Zhen said: "You mean to attack them with cavalry as well?" I'm afraid it won't work, our cavalry can't compare with them. ”

"Definitely!" Du Wenhao shook his head and said, "Cavalry fighting cavalry, we are obviously at a disadvantage.

It's also a short and long.

But our infantry is stronger than them, at least more than them! This is our advantage, but we didn't make full use of this advantage before, and we always split up when attacking.

Go your separate ways.

This has only one benefit, that is, it looks like the mountains are full of our people, which is very spectacular, but what is the effect? Almost none of these rulers had any experience in leading troops into battle, so they all shook their heads and listened intently.

After all.

Du Wenhao also led his troops to fight a battle with Tubo, and won more with fewer victories, so his combat experience is still convincing.

Du Wenhao glanced at everyone, and then said: "The effect is naturally very bad.

Let's divide our troops into several ways, march together, and fall right into the hands of the enemy! Although the total strength of the people is not as good as ours.

But most of the army is cavalry.

There is a degree of advantage, and it can quickly concentrate troops, form a local advantage in troops, fight all the way first, and break through each of us.

The battle of Qigou Pass with the Great Liao is the best example, when our army was divided into three ways to advance north, the Liao army concentrated superior forces to fight the east road first, our army was defeated, resulting in the collapse of the whole line, in addition, a few years ago with the Western Xia Lingzhou battle was the same, our troops were divided into five routes.

The Western Xia army concentrated superior forces and encircled and suppressed one of the roads first.

Defeat each and defeat our army! The Song Dynasty used troops, paying attention to "general from the middle court", that is, the court worked out the battle plan behind closed doors, and even included a detailed battle formation map.

This work was sometimes even instituted by the emperor himself.

After the battle plan was formulated, it was handed over to the commanders and asked them to go to the front line to follow it.

In the case of very backward communications in ancient times, using this kind of imaginary combat method to make tactical arrangements was obviously a move to carve a boat for a sword, and the leading commanders sent were almost all literati who did not understand military affairs and only knew blind obedience, so they naturally followed it.

Even if you are a military genius, it is impossible to anticipate them one by one in advance, and you can only formulate corresponding battle plans according to specific military conditions, so there is an old saying that "generals are outside, and military orders are not subject to them." ”

But the commanders of the Song army generally did not dare to disobey the strategies and tactics formulated by the emperor himself, and Zhu Zhandao was implemented in a rigid manner, which was also the reason why the Song army was repeatedly defeated in the battle! For the use of troops in the Western Xia, the battle plan was generally formulated by the Privy Council.

At the time of the first battle against Lingzhou in Western Xia, Han Zhen had just been an envoy to the Privy Council for three months.

He personally presided over the formulation of the entire battle plan.

It was also his opinion that the soldiers were divided into five ways, and after listening to Du Wenhao's words, he felt a little unbearable on his face, and said with a reluctant smile: "General Du is well versed in the art of war.

Admire, admire, admire.

You must have studied martial arts, right? Which military book is fine? The "martial arts" mentioned by Han Jin is a military academy established by the Northern Song Dynasty to specialize in learning military knowledge.

Du Wenhao did not dare to lead the army to fight because he had not studied military affairs, and many generals of the Great Qing Dynasty had not systematically studied military affairs, let alone read any books on the art of war.

Many of the strategies and tactics they used came from the book "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and accumulated experience in long-term combat practice.

So.

Knowledge of military operations does not necessarily have to be learned from books on the art of war in military schools, but can also be obtained from other knowledge media.

In the modern society, knowledge has exploded, and all kinds of knowledge about military affairs are available everywhere, such as various war themes, especially those that reflect large-scale wars around the world such as World War I and World War, and there is so much military knowledge that we can learn from it, and it is difficult to know it.

Therefore, purely in terms of military knowledge, Du Wenhao is definitely broader than any general in the Song Dynasty.

Therefore, Du Wenhao listened to Han Jin's slightly sarcastic words, he was not inferior, and said lightly: "I have never taken martial arts.

I don't know the art of war, but I've never eaten pork and seen a pig run, right? There are more than a dozen soldiers around me who participated in the war against Western Xia.

I often listen to them talk about their combat experience, but I also know some common sense.

After the Empress Dowager promoted me to be the commander of the three yadu, in order to live up to my mission.

I spent a month and a month carefully studying the previous battles of our army against the Great Liao and Western Xia.

So understanding the gains and losses on both sides, these are just some of my humble opinions. ”

Prime Minister Wang Wa said: "General Du is too modest, General Du is now a famous general in the country, and last year he led the troops to win more with less, and completely annihilated 20,000 troops in Tibet.

At that time, the good news came, and the whole country rejoiced. ”

He turned his head to look at Han Jin, stroked his snow-white beard and said with a faint smile: "After listening to Lord Han's words just now, I realized that Lord Han is familiar with military books.

He is well versed in the art of war, but I don't know what victories Lord Han has led his troops to? How many Xia troops were annihilated? Han Zhen's old face suddenly turned red, he didn't dare to sneer at Wang Zai on the contrary, so he had to sneer: "I'm ashamed, I haven't led soldiers in my humble position, and I have always admired General Du's achievements from the bottom of my heart."

After listening to what General Du said just now, I was even more admired.

Hehe, "Wang Fa has already married Du Wenhao.

To marry the baby daughter of Guose Tianxiang, known as the first beauty in the capital, to Du Wenhao as his wife, this matter is known all over the city, and seeing that the future father-in-law is so protective of Du Wenhao's quasi-son-in-law, naturally no one dares to speak disrespectfully to Du Wenhao anymore.

Wang Hang smiled slightly, and then said to Du Wenhao: "General Du, in your opinion, this time I will send troops."

How do you defeat the enemy? "Use your own strengths to overcome the enemy's shortcomings."

"What is the commander of our army? What is the shortness of the enemy's army? "The strength of our army lies in the fact that the number of troops is many times that of the Western Xia army, and the number of soldiers is wide.

Compared with Western Xia, our army's grain and grass logistics support is sufficient.

These advantages of our army are also the weaknesses of the Western Xia army, in addition to the number of generals is far less than our army, according to the soldiers around me who participated in the battle against the Western Xia, the logistics support of the Western Xia army is almost none, whether it is cavalry or infantry, there is almost no supply of grain and grass, all rely on the flying cavalry in the army who are specially responsible for fighting the grass valley to loot everywhere to supply the army of food and grass.

Once the enemy adopted the tactics of clearing the wilderness with strong walls, the Western Xia army could not continue to fight.

Therefore, they generally use the method of luring the enemy to go deeper, gathering and annihilating them.

It doesn't go straight in.

Of course, after winning, it will be inserted into my territory by taking advantage of the victory.

Loot and walk away. ”

"Well, the analysis makes sense, how far will the Xia army invade and loot, how far will it generally enter my territory?" "According to the analysis of the previous battles with the Western Xia, it will not invade more than a hundred miles in depth.

This is the limit of their invasion.

Because if you cross this limit, you can't find food and grass.

At the same time, if you are entangled by the enemy and cannot get out in time, you may lose your combat effectiveness because you have no food and grass.

It's dangerous. ”

Everyone nodded slightly, in fact, they almost didn't know these characteristics of the two armies.

The deacons are more strategic.

Little attention is paid to issues that seem to them to be minor issues.

Listening to what Du Wenhao said, I felt very fresh.

Du Wenhao continued: "In view of this characteristic of the Western Xia Army, there should be two basic tactical principles of our army: first, ideologically, we must warn the officers and men of the whole army that from top to bottom, we must establish the idea of protracted war and put an end to the adventurism of decisive battles; Second, the strong walls are cleared, and all the border people along the border of the combat area are all moved inward! All the things that can be eaten and used are shipped away! so that the enemy army cannot grab food and grass; Third, tactically, resolutely implement the fortress war plus the encroachment war! The enemy had to fight me head-on, and it was like playing chess.

Fight a war of attrition with bayonets, fight one less and one less" put on a posture of fighting light, their little family can't fight ours, and in the end they only have to surrender! ”