Chapter 91 (Part II)

Salem and Saddam are only one word apart (salm\saddam), and their military talents are similar, but other talents are far behind. Otherwise, it would not have been replaced by Kajim immediately after making great achievements in history.

After seeing Li Weixin, he was so angry that he almost jumped up, and shouted angrily: "If you want to fight, you Tang Dynasty people are waiting to come and die." ”

Expelled the Tang envoys.

began to prepare for the war, the Tang Dynasty conducted large-scale military training on the border, although Salem always thought that the Tang Dynasty people were bluffing, after all, he heard the news from the scouts that the Tang Dynasty army that came to the Western Regions was less than 30,000 people, including some baggage soldiers.

But he also prevented accidents from happening, and set up checkpoints and garrisons on various major roads along the border. At the same time, a large number of soldiers were recruited in Sestan and Khorasan. Not every Persian is a dead soldier, there are many Persians who have been tamed by the Great Food for more than ten years, and coupled with the subtle role of religion, they have fallen to the Great Food and are willing to be the dogs of the Great Cannibal. That is, "Persian traitor".

In the Persian region, the total strength of the Great Eclipse, plus those later transferred from the rear, reached nearly 60,000 men. Salem's puppet army still has nearly 200,000 people. Of course, it is impossible to transfer all of them to fight, then the rear will turn the rebels upside down. But the Tang Dynasty dared to transfer all the troops in the Hezhong region and the Tocharian region?

In terms of troops, Salem is not at a disadvantage, which is also his courage to fight.

Therefore, Wang Hui suggested that the soldiers should be fast.

At that time, the big cannibals were defenseless, the troops were scattered everywhere, and the various checkpoints were not fortified, and the Tang Dynasty army suddenly moved south, which would achieve unexpected results, occupy part of the Persian region, and then contact the rebel army, let the Hezhong region support, it is very likely to easily take the whole of Khorasan.

But Li Wei did not agree.

It is better to let the big cannibals make some preparations, but also to train the armies of the river and Tocharo, and do all kinds of meticulous work well. In addition to the fact that the Don army is stronger with 20,000 troops, it can face the capture of Khorasan and can also deal with the counterattack of the troops transferred by the Great Cannibals from Iraq and Fars. Even if it copes, the Tang army will suffer heavy losses, and from a strategic point of view, the gains outweigh the losses.

After delivering the letter, Li Wei left the work in his hand to Wang Fangyi to deal with, and personally led 8,000 troops to set off towards the Hezhong area.

After passing through a thousand springs, he traveled for three more days, and came to Talas.

Li Wei restrained his horse and stopped.

Then I looked out over the mountains all around, and although March had arrived, all the trees had not yet recovered from the cold weather, and everywhere I looked, there were patches of green hills and patches of dead brown trees.

A rugged road leads to a nearby city, Talas.

But there were many pedestrians on the road, including merchants and local residents, as well as Tang Dynasty immigrants who were relaying grain.

Li Wei said to the guards beside him: "You bring out the pen and ink for me." ”

The guards took out the pen and ink, and Li Wei wrote an article.

At that time, when learning the art of war from Pei Xingjian, Pei Xingjian often gave some examples and asked him to deduce from both sides. This is very important, such as the Book of War, Sun Tzu's Art of War is written in great detail, if you can understand it thoroughly, then congratulations, you will be able to at least become the second Liu Renliang and Pei Xingjian generals.

Maybe you can't hold a book of the art of war and comprehend Sun Tzu's military thoughts?

Once talked about Liu Yu's battle against Nanyan.

There are only three roads from the Eastern Jin Dynasty to attack Nanyan, one is to go north along the Yishui, cross the Daxian Mountain, and pass through Linqu to Guanggu. But Dayan Mountain is very steep, the mountain road is narrow, and the two cars cannot pass, which is known as the natural danger of Qi Nan. The second is to go north from Weishui through Jucheng, this road is a long detour, if the enemy goes south from Daxian Mountain, there is a danger of being cut off. The third is to go to Liangfu through Dawenshui, turn to the northeast, and attack Guanggu. However, there are many mountain roads, which is inconvenient for marching, and it will be flanked by Yanzhou.

The fifth floor of Gongsun offered three strategies. The best policy is that the Wu soldiers are light and fruitful, and the advantage is to fight quickly, not to fight, and should be based on Daxian, so that the enemy army can not go deep, select 2,000 elite cavalry to follow the sea to the south, cut off its grain route, and let the Yanzhou guard Duan Hui lead the troops along the mountain to the east, and the belly and back are sandwiched. The officials in various parts of the central policy held on to the danger, leaving enough food and goods, and the rest was burned, and all the crops in the fields were cut off, and the walls were cleared, so that the enemy had no food and no war. The plan was to let the enemy army into Dayan, and we took advantage of the terrain familiarity to engage in field battles with the enemy.

Murong Chao thought that he had five states in his hands, tens of thousands of iron horses, and two strategies in the middle and middle were to show the enemy weakness and choose the next strategy. The ministers did not listen to the bitter advice. So Liu Yu's army calmly entered Daxian Mountain, fought at Jumishui, and defeated the Southern Yan army. The next day, the city was besieged.

It was this Shoudahyeon Mountain that the two were discussing.

Pei Xingjian made a comment, and it was useless to guard Daxian. Then I did some analysis, when the former emperor Murong De of Southern Yan, he implemented the policy of detecting the shadow households, so that the Southern Yan only occupied Shandong, with 370,000 infantry, 17,000 chariots, and 53,000 iron cavalry. This shade is the number of households that have been forcibly extorted from the tribes of large families and tenants. Even the Northern Wei Emperor Tuoba Jue didn't dare to do this, not only Tuoba Jue, but also Li Wei dared to do this now? But Nanyan did it and succeeded, this is because Murong De has high prestige and qualifications.

What about Murong Chao's turn? Murong De followed the former Qin to invade the Jin, fearing an accident, so he left a golden knife for his future recognition, and soon after he left, all his family members were killed by the former Qin. After the defeat of the army, Hou Qin was so afraid that he even wanted to kill him several times, so he could only live by pretending to be crazy and selling stupidity. Later, he fled to Nanyan, his family was gone, but a nephew came out and took out this golden knife, that is, Murong Chao, which was called the prince of the golden knife by the people.

But he is not Murong De's own nephew, which is very suspicious, with little qualifications and insufficient prestige, and he continues to implement Murong De's policy of detecting the shadow household, so there are many rebellions of important ministers. At this time, Nanyan's vitality was greatly damaged, and the army and civilians were separated from Germany, and they were no longer Murong De's Nanyan.

However, the Eastern Jin Dynasty was not interested in the Northern Expedition, and even many landlords died in the war because of the rebellion between Huan Xuan and Sun En, and the people lacked labor to cultivate, but they were eager for Liu Yu's Northern Expedition to obtain wealth and a large number of labor to come back.

When Pei Xingjian commented, he said that if you unite to fight and deviate from morality, you will win.

The second Gongsun Wulou said that Wu Bing was light on fruit, and Murong Zhou also said that Wu Bing was light on plagiarism. It means that Wu soldiers can only fight with the wind, and when they win the battle, they can use one as ten, and when they lose the battle, they will immediately panic. Much like the Song soldiers of later generations and the Ming soldiers of the middle and late periods.

But this sentence is wrong, the original Jin soldiers are world soldiers, they can't fight for the future, and they don't want to sell their lives. But since Liu Yu took power, a group of junior officers who were brave and talented in combat have been promoted rapidly, and the entire army has seen the promotion of these generals, and they are full of desire to make meritorious contributions, and they are no longer the light-fruited army in the past.

Pei Xingjian commented again that if you want to win the battle, you must have clear rewards and punishments.

The third reason for this battle was that Murong Chao dedicated his native musician to Later Qin in order to redeem his wife and mother of Later Qin, but he liked to listen to music, so he sent troops to the territory of the Eastern Jin Dynasty to kidnap people and supplement the song and dance band. This gave the Eastern Jin Dynasty a pretext for crusade. At this time, Liu Yucheng's mansion was extremely deep, and almost no one could see his ambition, and the whole country thought that he was the savior and Liu Gong. Therefore, the war is a division that is famous, an anti-aggression war, a Northern Expedition, a reunification, and a moral conformity.

In this regard, Pei Xingjian made a key evaluation, and the crusade must be on the moral side, and the crusade against the party that has lost morality. If the other side occupies morality, it must not be easily cut down, otherwise it may fail.

With these three items, coupled with the gap between Liu Yu and Murong Chao's military talents, there is a world of difference, and no matter what arrangement is made, it will also fail. Could it be that after guarding Daxian, Liu Yu can't think of a way to crack it? If he wasn't even ready for this, how could he dare to come to the Northern Expedition so easily?

Therefore, if Murong Chao does not defend Daxian, he will definitely lose.

This article written by Li Wei is a conversation between the two.

When I came to Talas, I thought of Gao Xianzhi.

I don't remember the details clearly, but I remember a little. In order to invite merit, Gao Xianzhi unreasonably attacked the countries in Hezhong and the Western Regions, causing the countries to be dissatisfied and wanted to unite the Great Food Army to attack the four towns of Anxi. Gao Xianzhi also came to make a preemptive strike, led the army deep into the river, and encountered the Great Food Army here. After several days of fierce fighting, the Tang army was defeated.

This battle had little impact on the Tang Dynasty, but it affected the pattern of the whole of Central Asia. Since then, the countries in the river have turned their backs on the Tang Dynasty, so that the Tang Dynasty's orders cannot even reach the Yili River. The Great Cannibals also effectively subdued the entire Transchu and Tocharian regions, and with the taxation of this wealthy region, they laid the foundation for further expansion, and as a result, gave the West advanced papermaking.

Li Wei wrote this article to give a warning to the later Tang generals. Write two lines at the end of the article:

Those who keep morality, do not cut them down.

If you don't change your teachings, don't be easy to hack.

This cruel felling refers to the means carried out against the Tuyuhun people in Qinghai.

It is also brutal, including on the pharyngeal face. But why is it being implemented? The Tang Dynasty had a very generous policy towards Tuyuhun, but the people took the initiative to abandon the Tang Dynasty and threw themselves into the arms of Tubo. After Xue Rengui killed the nine surnamed Tiele, he was frightened by a group of Wenchen, and he didn't take a stitch from the masses when he went to Dafeichuan, but how did the Tuyuhun people repay?

In this case, the implementation of the national policy before the Tang Dynasty is not appeasement, but connivance.

The distinction between the two is a warning to the generals of the Tang Dynasty and onwards, as well as to the countries of the Transoxiana region. In addition, it is also the foreign policy of the Tang Dynasty in the future, unless he, the emperor, can't do it for a long time, no one takes his words as the same thing.

When the writing was finished, the stone was erected outside the city of Talas.

It took a long time for this stele to be carved, but the article spread quickly.

So the trip was warmly welcomed.

Few people could have imagined what these small states could do but survive under the wings of the great powers, formerly the Turks and Persia, and now only the Tang Dynasty. Do you dare to betray the Tang Dynasty?

As long as he does not lose the "morality" in the mouth of the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty will not crusade against himself in the future.

That's how it is understood, anyway.

Soon he arrived at the city of Takuzhi (Tashkent), the capital of the stone king, and gathered the kingdoms. There are quite a few *** teams, far more than 90,000, but at that time, the training required elite soldiers, and only 90,000 troops were gathered. After Li Jinxing's training, he laughed and laughed, this is the so-called elite soldiers?

But as expected, it would not have been possible to repeatedly make the thousands of soldiers of Da Shi unable to fight.

Serious integration training.

Several months have passed, and there are still individual soldiers whose combat effectiveness can still be seen, but when combined, it still does not look optimistic.

Li Wei didn't care, it was impossible to let every soldier go to the front line, so he drew a draw and took out 40,000 troops who could see it, and the rest of the troops were stationed on various main roads and stuck to the checkpoints. This is what Li Wei values, there are many countries, although the countries are similar to an alliance, it is impossible to be very united, such as Shi Guo, he is in the rear, if he does not come in person, replaced by Wang Fangyi, it is impossible for them to send an army, go to the Wuhu River, and fight with the big cannibals. Even if it does, it won't be much.

After making some arrangements, he led the army to the city of Peiken at once. The other armies also marched towards the city of Peiken.

After arriving at Peiken City, he took a short rest and immediately led an army of more than 50,000 to rush to the Wuhu River.

Say war, fight, take the lead.

This is also the farthest area in which the Central Plains army has ever fought.

March is coming, and the banks of the Wuhu River are blowing in the gentle wind, and they are also blowing the vitality of spring, but this piece of tender green vitality soon fills a sword and sword shadow.