Chapter 659 War Horse Problem
The strong are always strong, and the weak are always weak!
This simple truth is vividly reflected in Yan Guo and his opponent, Lin Shuying doesn't want this law to happen to Song Guo,
Therefore, at the beginning of the confrontation between Song and Yan, the Song State must show strength, occupy the initiative, and show a strong and inviolable scene. ∷VIII8∷Reading∷Book,.2∞≠
Lin Shuying didn't want to show the slightest yield in front of Lin Feng, in the past, she was able to pass without letting her eyebrows go, and today, she will still face difficulties.
Moreover, she always felt that Lin Feng might not be better, although she helped the Yan Kingdom to successfully revive, making the Yan Kingdom stronger than any period in history. However, in the past, there were many vassal states, and their respective forces were weak, but now the vassal states are constantly annexed, and they are all very strong.
Today, the Song Kingdom is also the most powerful era in all periods of history!
Therefore, no matter what conspiracy and tricks Yan Guo has, Song Guo only needs soldiers to block, water to Tutun, and deal with it safely, there is always a solution.
After the order, the ministers saw Lin Shuying's determination and ambition, and expressed their support.
The Song State was rich and powerful, and it must not be destroyed by foreign enemies, so since a strong enemy is coming, it can only be defended by force.
Lin Shuying acted strongly, not only to shock Yan Guo, but also to have other ideas!
She knew very well that Lin Feng did not have the confidence to forcibly swallow the Song Kingdom, all because the Song Kingdom had a strong comprehensive strength, and the war with the Song State would affect the whole body, and in the end, the snipe and the clam would fight, and the fisherman would benefit.
However, it is undeniable that the Yan army is a veteran of a hundred battles, and its combat effectiveness is very strong, even the once most powerful cavalry in the north, the Tiger Ben army, has failed many times under the continuous attacks of the Yan army, and still has not kept the Zhao State!
Looking at the Song army again, except for Meng Kuo, Song Qi led the troops to fight abroad, and many legions have not been on the battlefield for several years.
Under the erosion of glory and wealth, there is no courage and determination to fight to the end when the territory was opened!
The more the knife is sharpened, the more the soldier fights, the more brave he becomes!
Most of the Song army, for many years, the sword soldiers were put into storage, and the horses were put in Nanshan, and they only participated in peacetime training, but rarely fought the battlefield.
She hoped to take this opportunity to send the Song army to the front line in turn, so that the other party could experience the scene of swords and swords, blood and rain, so as to stimulate the potential of the legion and restore its ambitions.
Once he fights against the Yan army or other vassal states in the future, he will not be in the battlefield, and he will be helpless.
Yuan Muchun, Zhan Zhiyao, and Han Ben couldn't guess Lin Shuying's thoughts, but they could go to the battlefield to kill the enemy, and they were all high-spirited, grinding their fists, and preparing to go to the front line to show their strength and make contributions.
They were ordered to leave, straighten out the military horses, and go to the front!
Two days later, Yuan Muchun led 300,000 troops, including the mechanical corps, into a camp, and a crossbow battalion, and marched towards the border of Yan and Song.
At this time, the Song State sent envoys to Wu and Yue in person, trying to lobby the two countries, contain the Chen State, and prepare for dealing with the Yan State.
After arranging the front-line military affairs, Lin Shuying shifted his attention to the interior of the Song State, and Lin Feng uprooted the intelligence agency of the Song State in the Yan State, resulting in serious losses for the Song State.
Now that the two sides have torn their faces, Lin Shuying has also become careless, and quickly sent out the guards to clear out the members of the Yan State Blood Thorn lurking in Kaifeng City!
Prepare to return a tooth for a tooth, send the list of bloodthorns hunted to Yan Kingdom, and resolve the anger in your heart! ‘
At the same time, Li Mu's training of cavalry is also a matter of concern to Lin Shuying, people have no long-term worries, the Yan army began to be restless, and the Song State must have its own cavalry team to assist the infantry and fight against the Yan army with all its might.
Moreover, with strong cavalry, the Song State will also have a lot of advantages against the infantry of the southern princes in the future!
In the study, Liu Zhuoya sat down, and Lin Shuying asked straight to the point: "Lord Liu, how is the training of the cavalry under Li Mu?" ”
Cavalry, the shortcomings of the Song Kingdom, Lin Shuying thought about it day and night, and looked forward to having a strong cavalry team to expand the strength of the Song army!
Therefore, whether or not a strong cavalry can be trained is directly related to Lin Shuying's wishes, and it is also related to whether he can go on a northern expedition to face Yan in the future.
What's more, the cavalry trained by the Song State is the ironclad cavalry, which is the most powerful force in the cavalry, if the training is successful, even if it does not have the strength to confront the Yan State Iron Cavalry for the time being, it will kill the Yan State light cavalry, and the blow to the Yan army is not small!
Hearing this, Liu Zhuoya quickly understood Lin Shuying's thoughts, the Yan army united with Chen Zheng to encircle the Song State, this matter had a very far-reaching impact on Lin Shuying, she may hope to quickly pull away from the military force with Dayan, so that after conquering Zheng State, go all out to the Northern Expedition!
"Your Majesty, General Li trains cavalry, and there is no need to talk about tactics, and the soldiers of the Song army are all elites, so there is no need to worry, only the matter of war horses has become a shortcoming in training cavalry!" Willow Cliff Road.
Lin Shuying said puzzledly: "What's wrong with the war horse, is there a problem with the war horse?"
"There has never been a problem with the war horse, but the war horse produced in the old land of the Liang State is not suitable for General Li's tactics, and it cannot break out quickly and run long distances." Liu Zhuoya arched his hand and said: "General Li once said to Weichen that even if the war horses from Liangdi can barely form cavalry, it is difficult to fight against the Yan army, and if you want to train real cavalry, you must find ways to buy war horses from the north!" ”
The origin of the war horse is different, the Liangdi war horse is low, the strength is poor, the explosiveness is poor, not suitable for running, only the endurance is strong, however, to train the ironclad cavalry, the horse body is not only a heavy knight, but also a heavy iron armor, these war horses can not adapt to the body at all.
On the contrary, the war horses in the north are tall, strong, strong, and explosive, which are not only suitable for running, but also one of the important war horses for training iron horses.
Hearing this, Lin Shuying pondered for a moment and asked, "Isn't it really possible to replace the Northern War Horse?" ”
She was puzzled, back then, Liang had millions of soldiers, but they were all cavalry, why Liangdi's war horses, in the hands of Li Mu, could not be trained as cavalry!
"General Li is trying to change in every way, if there is a war horse from the north, it will naturally be better!" Willow Cliff Road. "However, Your Majesty should not give up too much hope, unless the iron cavalry is turned into an ordinary cavalry!"
Lin Shuying pondered for a moment and asked Jian Ye, "Jian Ye, in the black market of the Song Kingdom, can you sell the war horses of the Yan Kingdom?" "The iron horse pins on Lin Shuying's dream, she doesn't want to train the four like the iron horse because of the war horse.
As for the ordinary cavalry, Lin Shuying never considered that the Song Kingdom could do without cavalry, and if the cavalry was trained, the most powerful iron cavalry must be trained, there is no doubt about this!
If she can't buy the Northern War Horse through the frontal route, no matter how high the price of the Northern War Horse is in the black market, she will buy it all at all costs.
Unexpectedly, Jian Ye said: "Your Majesty, at present, there are three strange things in the black market, grain from the southern vassal states, iron ore from the Chen country, and war horses from the Yan country. Since the Yan State occupied the north, especially after the relationship with the Song State became worse and worse, the Yan State issued a decree prohibiting the trade of war horses, anyone who dared to sell war horses abroad, and dealt with them as the crime of capital enemies, although the price of war horses is extremely high, but very few people take risks and joke with their lives, so the current black market war horses are extremely high, the price of a war horse is equivalent to the cost of ordinary people for several years, there are as many as one hundred taels, even if the price is high, this is still from the Yan country inferior horses, if it is a war horse, the price will be increased to five times, there is still a price without a market! ”
Lin Shuying stared at Jian Ye and felt that things were incredible, the war horses couldn't reach this price before, but they didn't expect that the Yan Kingdom would unify the north and strictly prohibit the sale of war horses, this monopoly was even more terrifying, and the price of war horses was so high.
She understood Lin Feng's approach, the vassal states with cavalry in the north were all wiped out by the Yan army, and the current Yan State unified the north and became the only country with a large number of cavalry among the vassal states, and it would definitely not sell war horses, this kind of strategically high resource, to other vassal states.
However, she still secretly lamented that Lin Feng was despicable and shameless, and used war horses to restrict the development of cavalry in the vassal states.
"Can you secretly sell war horses from the border of Yan Kingdom, as long as the war horses are transported from Yan Kingdom to the territory of Song Kingdom, all of them will be purchased by the imperial court at a high price!" Lin Shuying asked, Song Guo does not have war horses, but he has money, money and willfulness, and he buys it with one word.
People die for money, birds die for food!
Yan Guo hoarded a large number of war horses, the price of domestic war horses must be extremely low, as long as the Song State opened a high enough price, even if Yan Guo banned the sale of war horses, there will be people who secretly smuggle war horses in order to make money, regardless of their lives!
"Maybe it's okay, don't Your Majesty want to withdraw the chaebol in Yan State, things will become difficult again, if you don't withdraw, if Yan Guo finds out that the Song State chaebol is secretly selling war horses in the future, it will inevitably be furious and forcibly expropriate the Song State chaebol!" Jian Ye said that he was worried, Emperor Yan was domineering, if he knew that Song Guo was still prying the corner of Yan Kingdom, it would be strange if he was not angry!
Regardless of Lin Shuying's thoughts or Jian Ye's thoughts, they can't fundamentally solve the source of war horses, even if they buy horses, their body sizes will be uneven, and they may not all be war horses, if you want to change the source of war horses, you must urge Yan Kingdom to open up the horse market.
At this time, Tian Xu stood up and said: "Your Majesty, things have not yet reached the end of the road, when Yan and Song made good friends, Song State used to buy tens of thousands of war horses from Yan State, although a large number of war horses are still needed, Wei Chen feels that since His Majesty has chosen to impose an economic blockade on Yan State with the southern vassal states, it must be implemented quickly, expelling Yan State's Yan merchants in various vassal states, and restricting Song State merchants from trading with Yan State.
In this way, within a few months, in the Yan Kingdom, the prices of some commodities have risen, which has seriously affected the lives of the people, and at the same time, the merchants of the Yan Kingdom cannot make profits, and the opportunity will damage the interests of the merchants, and at the same time, it will affect the income of the Yan Kingdom.
At that time, Emperor Yan will only be anxious, and will definitely send people south to discuss the opening of the market, and at that time, the Song State will have the opportunity to buy a large number of war horses from the Yan State. ”
"No!" Lin Shuying quickly rejected Tian Xu's suggestion, when the Yan and Song Dynasty were aligned, the two countries' economies were closely connected, and at present, the Song State suddenly expelled the merchants of the Yan State and stopped trading with the Yan State, which would seriously affect the economy of the Yan State, but it would also affect the economy of the Song State.
This plan is like killing a thousand enemies and losing eight hundred, and fighting with Yan in the economic field, relying on the Song State alone, it will definitely be difficult to achieve, and if you want to do it, you must unite all the vassal states in the south.