The temple counted, from the Xia Dynasty, whenever there is a war in the country, it must first be reported to the ancestral temple, and the discussion is in the temple, which has become a fixed ritual.

To put it bluntly, it is a form of praying for psychological comfort, and even emperors will also perform divination to calculate.

However, with the development of the times, the development of people's wisdom is becoming more and more powerful, and temple calculations are no longer just a simple matter of praying for blessings.

Especially after Li Yuanji came to power, the temple counted this kind of ritual that lasted for thousands of years, and it was not easy to cancel it himself, after all, this is a feudal society, and some things must still be believed, and those strange things have happened, which also caused Li Yuanji to have to believe.

Therefore, the temple calculation, under the intentional guidance of Li Yuanji, has become a form of combining blessing and preparation for the war, although it is still called the temple calculation, but in fact, the temple calculation is only the last insignificant ceremony.

"150,000 troops, plus 20,000 at Yumen Pass, a total of 170,000 people, one stone of grain is enough for a soldier to eat for about 100 days, just this side, it needs more than 170,000 stones, in addition, there are various miscellaneous matters, the war will start in the spring, and it is a little rushed." Cheng Zhijie, the new secretary of the military department, said with a big grin.

Alpine steppe warfare with a large amount of grain? Li Yuanji couldn't pry Cheng Zhijie's head open to take a good look at what was going on here.

So far, Li Yuanji is infinitely nostalgic for Du Ruhui.

Although he did have some precautions against Du Ruhui, he had to admit that when Du Ruhui was still there, he never worried about these things.

If it weren't for the fact that there was really no good way, and his favorite Zhang Liang was also going to attack Tuyuhun, Li Yuanji would never put Cheng Zhijie in this position.

"The grain is good, now there is a lot of grain stored in various places, just be busy for a few days before the expedition, and make all the grain into cakes or fried noodles. And that thing doesn't take up space, a logistics soldier only carries food, which can feed ten people for ten days at a time. Su Dingfang replied, although this will make Cheng Zhijie very faceless, but Cheng Zhijie wants this effect.

The military department is still in a high position, but Cheng Zhijie is not rare at all, he would rather stay at home and bask in the sun, looking at his glass house worth thousands of yuan in a daze.

But fighting is not child's play, it is not a matter of pretending to be confused, Su Dingfang still said with a serious face: "The key to the problem is that after taking Tuyuhun, the army has almost no time to stay there, and it needs to attack Tubo directly from Tuyuhun, I am afraid that someone in Tuyuhun will have something to think at that time." ”

"yes, who should I send?" Fang Xuanling is also at a loss.

Regarding this issue, he had already discussed it privately with Li Yuanji, and he was moved by emotion and reasoned.

But it's a pity that Fang Xuanling's reasons were all overturned.

And what overthrew him was just a painless sentence, the civil strife in Tibet, the opportunity must not be missed!

Su Dingfang's concern is also Fang Xuanling's concern, and even after thinking about it for a long time, he still couldn't come up with a reason.

This plan is too bold, even unprecedented, Li Yuanji wants to spend a year to do what his predecessors can do for decades, it does sound a bit fantastical, but in fact, it is exactly the case.

Fang Xuanling wanted to admonish, but he didn't want to admonish, so he could only put the problem out and let everyone make a decision together.

"Once the army breaks through Tuyuhun and continues to move south to Tubo, Tuyuhun, a land of thousands of miles, will be in an unmanaged vacuum, if some Tuyuhun people are unwilling to fail, regroup their forces to attack the Tang logistics troops, the consequences will be unimaginable. If someone can gather tens of thousands of people to launch a counterattack, it would be good to say, but it is a big deal that the army will go back and fight again, or transfer troops to fight. But once they are broken into pieces, scattered in teams of 100 or 1,000 people, and immediately hide after they succeed, the consequences will be unimaginable......"

Fang Xuanling didn't say the final result, but when he said it, everyone understood what he meant.

Once this situation really occurs, it will be equivalent to cutting off the rear route of the 170,000 army and cutting off their logistical supplies.

In this case, how long can the army hold on? One month? Two months?

This is completely different from destroying Yiwu and destroying Gaochang, and it is not the same thing at all.

Yiwu and Gaochang are mostly Han Chinese, and Yiwu has a large number of garrisons, plus Yiwu Gaochang is a small country, which is not half as much as Tuyuhun, even if there is really any problem, the army can arrive in two days at most, and there is no need to consider these problems at all.

The plan is very good, attacking from both sides, so that Tubo does not know which side to block, but the problem is just as serious.

If Tuyuhun cannot be appeased, attacking Tubo on both sides can only be a joke.

"It's not like there's no way!" Li Jing, who had never spoken, couldn't help but open his mouth.

In fact, after arriving in Yazhou, Li Jing was thinking about this problem, and saw with his own eyes the horror of the plateau and the horror of Tibet.

After Li Jing arrived there, he could no longer look at the not powerful dynasty of Tubo as calmly as before.

Geographical location is their greatest advantage, if His Majesty hadn't made this plan in advance, Li Jing wouldn't even have noticed how difficult it was to defeat Tubo.

Even, at the beginning, Li Jing even felt hopeless, because of countless deductions, Li Jing got a result that frightened him.

If the Tang army attacked directly without preparation, then Tubo did not need to send a single soldier, but only needed to retreat step by step, luring the Tang army to continue to go deeper, and then, whether it was going to 10,000 Tang troops or 100,000 Tang troops, there was no one who could come back safely.

And Li Jing also knows some of the big strategy, although it is not as detailed as what he knows now, but he knows about the two-sided attack, and for more than a year, Li Jing has been constantly thinking about this problem.

Li Jing's words attracted the attention of many people, and even Li Yuanji, who was originally going to speak directly, couldn't help but stop, looked at Li Jing seriously, and looked forward to what kind of solution he could bring to himself?

"Sound from east to west!" As if sensing everyone's expectant gaze, Li Jing did not hide it, and directly said the method he came up with.

However, after hearing these four words, some people fell into deep thought, some people looked puzzled, and Li Yuanji's face showed an appreciative smile.

The reason is very simple, what Li Jing said is the same as what he thinks.

"Go on!" Li Yuanji said lightly, and there was no sign of stopping Li Jing from playing.

And now, looking at Li Yuanji's calm and calm expression, if Li Jing didn't understand what Li Yuanji was thinking, he would have lived for fifty-nine years in vain.

Of course, I couldn't help but feel a shock in my heart, I was over there for more than a year, thinking of the whole overall situation before I came up with a countermeasure, but looking at the emperor's expression, thinking about the current layout, I had to reluctantly admit that in fact, as early as the beginning of the layout, Li Yuanji had already thought of a countermeasure.

Li Jing is not a person who likes to pat on the back, but he really admires Li Yuanji.

Regardless of whether it was pretended to be before, or anything else, at least after becoming the emperor, laziness returned to laziness, political affairs were not pulled down, and belligerence was belligerent, but every battle was fully prepared and completed with very little loss of its own.

"The minister is ugly, if there is anything that is not well considered, please ask Your Majesty to correct the minister!" Li Jing stood up and said to Li Yuanji, causing other ministers to be puzzled for a while, but there were also clear-eyed people, such as Ma Zhou, Fang Xuanling, Cheng Zhijie, Xiao Yu, who were extremely familiar with Li Yuanji.

It's not that the other ministers are not familiar with it, but they don't know as well as these few people in comparison.

"The 40,000 troops of Shu Dao have fully adapted to the plateau environment, and even the war horses have adapted to the climate there, and after that, they only need to advance in a regular manner, and they will stop for a month or two at most on the way to fully adapt. The defenders of Yumen did not train on the plateau this time, that is, they had to fight in Tuyuhun, where it was relatively stable, and they could adapt to it, but it was too late in time.

Therefore, the minister feels that this time it should be based on Shu Dao, supplemented by Yumen! Li Jing said unhurriedly.

There are not many words, but the problem is analyzed very thoroughly, and the 40,000 troops of Shu Dao have carried out a year and a half of plateau adaptation training, with Shu Dao as the main and Yumen as the supplement.

A simple sentence not only made people understand the countermeasures that Li Jing said, but also made everyone understand a truth, His Majesty had already made arrangements for this two years ago.

In Yumen, 170,000 troops were sent to attack Tubo, and it was impossible for Tubo not to send the main force to block the attack, and at this time, Li Jing could lead the 40,000 troops of Shudao to attack directly from the east, how many people were there in Tubo?

The total population of the whole country is one million, how many soldiers can be used?

Three hundred thousand? Counting those who rebelled, I am afraid that in fact it is not even 100,000.

In addition, Tubo is still a serfdom system, and the number of troops with real combat effectiveness is not large, and those serfs who are temporarily armed are not the opponents of the Tang army at all.

Therefore, as long as the Yumen direction can complete the task of containing the enemy's main force, the 40,000 Shu Dao army led by Li Jing can easily penetrate the entire Tubo.

The 40,000 army may not be able to make any big waves in the Central Plains, but in any country other than the Tang Dynasty, it can easily destroy their existence, and even the Turks, face to face with the 40,000 Tang army, they can't take any advantage.

Of course, the premise is that they are all Tang troops with the configuration of Shu Dao.

"Yes, I also think so, Su Dingfang led an army of 170,000, after destroying Tuyuhun, step by step south, pressing Tubo, encroaching step by step, containing the main force of Tubo, but also allowing the troops to adapt to the environment there, and the main force is the 40,000 Shu Dao army of the pharmacist, and this time, the slogan that Datang wants to play is to counterattack Tubo's attack on Datang and liberate millions of Tubo slaves......"