Chapter 456: The Rise of the Wanyan Division
Determined the strategy for the next step, Zhang San began to sort out the northern form, first of all, Goryeo, a country with a population of four or five million, in recent years, because of the rise of the Jurchens, so that the Jurchens who originally took refuge in Goryeo have a tendency to fall to the Wanyan Department.
For this reason, in order to cope with the rise of the Wanyan Division, King Ho of Sujong of Goryeo specially formed a new army called 'Bemuban', with more than 10,000 cavalry in the army. And the rest of the elite infantry also numbered in the tens of thousands.
Goryeo has a large population and a strong ability to mobilize for the death in battle, and after investigation, it is expected that 200,000 troops can be mobilized for a year's war in wartime, and Wang Hao's army is very effective in fighting with the Jurchen Wanyan Department as the goal, and the fight is not as easy as originally expected.
The good news is that Wang Hao is now seriously ill and will die soon, that is, he was elected as the crown prince, and was canonized as the prince of the three Koreas by the suzerainty Liao Dynasty, and there is a problem that Wang Hao is robbing his nephew of the throne.
Although his nephew hung up at the age of fourteen, he had more than one nephew, so Yan Qing went to great lengths to find Wang Yun, the younger brother of Wang Yu, who was a Situ during his brother's reign, and now he is exiled to Qingyuan County for residential surveillance.
Originally, Yan Qing couldn't find the exact news of him, but when Wang Hao was seriously ill, he sent his henchmen to Qingyuan to kill him, and he happened to be met by Yan Qing, who was looking for him, and rescued him from the killer, so that Zhang San had a chess piece in his hand.
Goryeo and Jurchen have fought twice, and both times they were defeated, so Wang Hao set up a martial arts class just to be ashamed, and this time it took two years to prepare, so things have reached the point where they have to happen.
Goryeo's economy and national strength are not enough to support such a large standing army, so after the new monarch ascends the throne, he will either disband the army or fight with the Wanyan Ministry.
The reason is very simple, these tens of thousands of troops, how many generals are behind them, these are the basis of rule, disarmament will definitely cause turmoil, so this battle is decided, and the matter of who loses and who wins is also very simple.
Although the Wanyan Department did not unify the Jurchens at this stage, the combat effectiveness was really not something that Goryeo could deal with, so in the early stage, Goryeo might try to sneak attack the Lazydian Jurchens, but as long as the Wanyan Department reacted, then Goryeo's defeat was decided.
Therefore, through Xu Guanzhong's staff planning, the Goryeo people will definitely attack the Lazydian Jurchens next year, and when the time comes, after a year of war, Goryeo will definitely be unable to withstand the pressure to make peace because of the defeat on the battlefield and internal contradictions.
At that time, Zhang San can use Goryeo's internal spear and Wang Yu's incompetent shield to support Wang Yun in the defeat of the war, further depleting Goryeo's national strength, and whoever is willing to cede Jeju Island will help him when the time comes.
It just so happens that this plan does not affect the war with the Great Song Dynasty, the only thing to consider is the control of the rise speed of the Jurchen Ministry, when Yan Qing went to Wanyan to do business, he saw Wanyan Aguda mentioned by Zhang San.
Ah Guta is not the leader of the Wanyan Department now, but he is generous and eloquent, and when he learned that Yan Qing could bring iron and grain from the south, he tried his best to win him over, and even became a brother with Yan Qing, if it wasn't for Zhang San's arrangement, Yan Qing was almost moved by it.
When the news was transmitted back to the General Staff, everyone reassessed the strength of the Wanyan Ministry, so that the strategy of the Wanyan Department was divided into two factions, and Zhang San's participation in the General Staff Meeting this time was to finalize the next step of support for the Jurchen Wanyan Ministry.
Generally speaking, everyone's opinions are divided into two, one is the conservative faction, this faction believes that now that the strength of the Wanyan Department has grown, all it takes to unify the Jurchens is time, and if the Ryukyus are overly supported, they may cultivate a strong enemy for themselves in advance.
There is also a radical faction who believes that although the current Wanyan Department is strong, it is not qualified enough to participate in the Liao-Song conflict, nor is it enough to contain the forces of the Liao State, so only the rapid completion of the arming of the Wanyan Department can allow him to quickly complete the unification of the Jurchen Ministry, and only the unified Jurchen can pose a threat to the Liao State.
For the opinions of the two factions, Zhang San is still inclined to the conservatives, thinking that after the Jurchens completed the unification, it only took ten years to destroy the Liao State, if he accelerated the progress again, if he really couldn't control the play and went off, it would be smashed.
And to contain the Liao State can not only rely on the Jurchens, in the northern Mongolian Plateau, there is another wave of more perverted savages can also be used, and now as long as Zhang San works hard to open the Heilongjiang waterway, at least half of the time in a year can be navigated.
In winter, sleds can also be used to pull goods on the river, so Zhang San's conditions for cultivating a Mongolian tribe are still ripe, and this waterway from the north almost bypasses the Liao State and the Jurchen's sphere of influence.
Moreover, if you support a Mongolia without Temujin, you will be able to contain the Jurchens in the future, and a rising Jurchen and a Mongolia that has matured in advance will do it, and the picture must be very beautiful.
So Zhang San thought about it and put forward his opinion, at this stage, the Jurchen support plan is not the most important, and his plan to occupy Shandong is expected to start in three years, and it will take a few years to occupy Shandong before he can attack the Great Song Dynasty.
Therefore, it will take at least five years for the Jurchen to be used, and at this stage, you can take a look at it, a small amount of support, and the support is paid, and the materials exchanged can enhance the strength of the Ryukyus.
This plan is not immutable, with the strengthening of the strength of the Ryukyus, the plan will definitely change, the Jurchen is on the rise, why is his Ryukyu not on the rise, it depends on who rises faster.
The last one to discuss is the issue of the Wa Kingdom, which is now in a period of domestic stability, and the Iwami Silver Mountain that Zhang San wants to obtain is not on the other small islands mentioned above, but on the island of Honshu.
The Japanese had a population of more than 10 million, of which 6 million were gathered on the island of Honshu, and if Zhang San wanted to quickly occupy Iwami Ginzan, he had to subdue the Japanese, and the opinion of the General Staff was to send heavy troops to raid the capital to capture the Japanese Emperor, and then sign an agreement.
Zhang San is really not satisfied with this, although the population of the Japanese country is large, but there are not no contradictions in the country, and it is an island country after all, so Zhang San feels that the best way is to engage in the pirate model.
It just so happened that Zhang San's island development required a lot of effort, and Zhang San felt that if he grabbed one or two million from the Japanese state, as long as he was young and in the prime of life, in a year or two, he would definitely exhaust the national strength of the Japanese state, and then he would have no war potential.
Even if the war against the Song Dynasty entered a stalemate, Zhang San could also transfer part of his troops to complete the occupation of the Wa State and garrison the Iwami area to mine silver mines, so Zhang San planned to start formulating a plan to attack the Wa Navy Division from now on, and strive to completely destroy all the Wa Sailing Divisions and destroy all the shipyards before the start of the war against the Song Dynasty.