Anyone who has fought in a war knows that strategy is not a difficult problem, but what is really difficult is how to formulate tactics and other details according to this strategy.

A strategy is just to provide an army, a country with a given direction so that they do not lose themselves in this war.

However, only some details, some tactics, and specific operations that have been taken over are the factors that really affect the outcome of the war.

What is this strategy?

Go big, go to the sky.

It is to fight Goguryeo.

Yes, these four words are the overall strategy of this war, the only constant strategy, and their ultimate goal.

Four words, very simple and easy to understand, but he represents the next bloody storm and represents a region that is about to fall into war.

Some people say that this so-called strategy is complete nonsense, who doesn't know that their purpose is this?

But in reality, this is not the case, and it is clearly put forward to tell everyone that our goal is Goguryeo, and we should not arbitrarily change this strategic goal before solving Goguryeo.

What is change?

Crossing the line and making contact with the armies of other countries, thus triggering a new war.

Under this strategy, the Ministry of War sent people to visit several places for on-the-spot investigations, and finally made the general direction and strategy for the next step.

If Goguryeo is a first-level catalog, then the next is a second-level catalog.

That is, Cheng Zhijie just said that the two-sided attack will open up the third battlefield and even the fourth battlefield.

These are the details, but they are also the strategies.

The whole plan came to an abrupt end.

"Your Majesty! Chen thinks this plan should be done in more detail, and now this, although it is a plan, it looks no different from nothing. Xiao Yu shook his head, Xiao Yu, who was also a member of the royal family, knew very well what this plan meant.

It is said that it is a plan, but in fact, it is only these few short sentences, fighting Goguryeo, attacking from both sides, and deciding whether to open up the third and fourth battlefields according to the actual situation, and the locations are such and so.

Can this be called a plan? Just such a plan, put in the cabinet meeting, do you still want people to pass it?

There are only three words that respond to you, impossible!

"Your Majesty, the minister said something that shouldn't be said, and after reading this plan, the minister didn't count it." Fang Xuanling also followed Xiao Yu and stood up.

Fang Xuanling will never fire the first shot for these things, but it is no problem to fire a second shot, this is his life creed and his way of survival.

"Yes, Your Majesty, this plan is really ......"

"The generals don't know the soldiers, the soldiers don't know the generals, how can this battle be fought?" Li Yuanji reprimanded with a straight face, this is a way of thinking, in fact, there have been such cases before.

Similarly, in this environment in ancient times, most of the battles outside were carried out according to the commander-in-chief and the general's own wishes, so it would seem that the generals were rare.

In fact, it is still the same now, but in a different way, but even so, these ministers find it a little difficult to accept.

"I have also led troops outside, and what I hate most is that the unwitting ministers of the court interfere indiscriminately and direct the battle according to their intentions. What is the situation on the battlefield, no one knows better than the generals on the front line, and the decision of the rear will never be more correct than the absolute decision of the generals on the front line. Li Yuanji continued.

Li Yuanji understood what these people were against.

It's not these changes, but because of these changes, the power in their hands has been weakened again.

Or rather, weaken the power of the entire cabinet.

As the highest-level meeting of the Tang Dynasty, if the cabinet can't talk about these things here, then where should these things go?

It has also long been a habit to develop over the years that there is nothing that the cabinet cannot talk about, unless the emperor abolishes the powers of the cabinet.

"You may have misunderstood what Your Majesty meant!" I didn't want to say it, but the atmosphere was a little embarrassing, and Cheng Zhijie, who wanted to stay out, couldn't hide now.

After all, this is a matter for their military department, others can hide, but they don't hide, they can't hide, but they just hide.

Cheng Zhijie felt that Li Yuanji was deliberate, he just didn't want to let himself be so comfortable, so he deliberately dug a pit and waited for him to jump down.

In fact, in his heart, Cheng Zhijie refused, but in fact, he couldn't refuse, and he didn't dare to refuse.

"Your Majesty means that the imperial court does not know the specific situation of the front line, and a rash decision will inevitably have an impact on the war on the front line, which may be slight or fatal, and the other is that Chang'an is too far away from the front line, that is, at the fastest speed, it will take at least four days for the news to come back, and on the battlefield, anything can happen in four days, not to mention that it has to come back and forth?

Therefore, what His Majesty means is that the imperial court is only responsible for formulating a large strategic goal, and some details are handed over to the generals responsible for commanding the troops at the front line to formulate, and at the same time, these tactics need to be transmitted back to Chang'an.

And what the imperial court needs to do is take this war as an example.

First, the imperial court needed to ensure that the support for the front-line troops from Jeju Island would not be interrupted, and secondly, to ensure that the two armies on land could be in place in time and to ensure their supplies, and secondly, it needed to mobilize troops to stand by in battle-ready positions, so that these troops could rush to the battlefield as soon as possible if necessary, so as to achieve a complete combat effect. ”

Cheng Zhijie said with a click, anyway, it means the same thing.

I have formulated a big strategy for you, to fight Goguryeo, from four directions, and I have prepared four troops for you, and the supplies and everything can be guaranteed.

Whether to use two troops to fight, or use three, use four, it all depends on the meaning of the front-line commander, the preparation is ready, whether you use it or not is your business, anyway, the imperial court is in charge of logistics, that is, a wet nurse, fully support the front-line battle.

"This ......" Many ministers were stunned, and then their eyes showed surprise.

This kind of thinking, in fact, has been operated in the past, in fact, most of them are operated in this way, but in terms of logistics support, it will not be so comprehensive.

In fact, in the matter of war, shouldn't the imperial court be responsible for this? Shouldn't the soldiers on the front line be allowed to fight without having to worry about anything?

After Li Yuanji's tough attitude and Cheng Zhijie's bitter complaint, the ministers seem to understand a truth, isn't this special code the work of the imperial court?

Remote command, they thought, but first of all, we must consider the distance between Chang'an and the front line, and there is no time and opportunity to give them remote command.

Even if they had the time and opportunity, they would not dare, and the army was not something that anyone or no one would dare to touch.

Especially in this situation, the army is a scale of the whole world, and no one is allowed to touch it except for people in the system.

Even within the system, there are relatively strict constraints, and the generals only have the right to practice on a daily basis, but not the right to transfer.

In fact, many things are not impossible, but power blinds them.

For the sake of power, they are not willing to make the right choice.

It's like Yue Fei's resistance to gold, although the general environment is not good, but being able to win some victories on the local battlefield can also boost morale, but they didn't do it, they were afraid of victory, afraid that victory would bring them destruction, but in the end, it was still destruction that greeted them.

Boiling frogs in warm water, this is Li Yuanji's ruling routine.

The Cabinet has been in existence for several years, and ministers, officials, the whole world has adapted to this system.

So now, Li Yuanji has moved out new things, always taking them out little by little every time, and then changing them little by little.

If someone looks back at this time, they will find that they have changed so much over the years, and it is absolutely unbelievable to list them one by one, but this is the truth, and it really happened.

"The minister wants to know, what are the troops needed in these four areas? What are the time requirements? Huangfu Wuyi was the first to react and asked directly.

Since they can't refuse, let's enjoy it, anyway, now they're used to it.

Isn't it just a Goguryeo? In the past, they may have been afraid, but now, the current Tang Dynasty is no longer the Sui Dynasty of the year, although the Sui army is strong, but compared with the current Tang army, it is still far inferior.

Thousands of rifles, overwhelming grenades with artillery, rocket artillery, as long as they want, can even blow up the land in front of them in the past.

Of course, the premise is that the logistics can keep up, but in the current situation, the logistics obviously can't keep up.

Unless the arsenal is expanded by a hundredfold and the railway is built directly behind the battlefield, otherwise, if you want to do this, you should think about it first.

"The south will send the strength of two armies as the main attack, and prepare the strength of two armies for it on Jeju Island, just in case, and the north will also have two armies, one army in reserve, and one army in the third and fourth battlefields, and at the same time prepare the strength of one army as a reserve." Cheng Zhijie said the general plan.

Every aspect is very well considered, the combat troops, the reserve troops, if the commander feels that the soldiers are a little tired, he can transfer the troops behind him for rotation and rest.

But this situation, in fact, is not much needed in the Chinese nation.

It's not because people don't know how to be tired, but because Chinese people have a kind of tenacity and stubbornness since ancient times.