Rong's visit made Li Wenge a little suspicious. Chai Rong's status is not the highest in the envoy, but after all, he is the only nominal heir of today's son, and the identity of the prince and the knighthood of the Marquis of Taiyuan are not ordinary political symbols. Although his current official position and title are not outstanding, even a fool can understand the disparity in status between him and Li Wenge. Even the three prime ministers of Fan Li and Wang, who are now in power, are not qualified to ask Chai Rong to pay their respects, and no one among the prime ministers except Feng Dao and Wang Jun has ever had this honor.

Chai Rong didn't mean to see anything else, after all, the two had already known each other in Donghua Gate, so the future son of heaven was almost straight to the point, and asked a more sensitive core question with a little subtlety.

"General, how many troops do you have in Yanzhou?"

Li Wenge said casually: "There are 1,523 combat soldiers and 2,244 baggage soldiers. If we calculate according to the training schedule of the new barracks on Fenglin Mountain, if 500 of the baggage soldiers are converted to combat soldiers this month, the combat soldiers should now be 2,0023 men, and the baggage soldiers will still be 2,244 - if the heads of the baggage battalions will not recruit new recruits for the time being. ”

He can casually tell the number of soldiers under his command, and even the changes in the period can be calculated clearly, at least two points are explained: first, this person is indeed a person with real power to lead the army, and this army is controlled by him, so the number of posts is clear, and his subordinates dare not hide it, and he can even control the number of vacancies eaten by his subordinates, which is quite commendable; Second. This person must have spent more time in the army on weekdays, so that he knows even the slightest change in the army, and even if he is thousands of miles away, he can still estimate the recent changes according to the situation of his army.

Guo Wei is right, this person is indeed a military chief.

Chai Rong had countless thoughts rolling through his heart, but there was a puzzled look on his face, and he asked: "Since there are already five hundred soldiers who have been transferred from baggage soldiers to soldiers, why has the number of baggage soldiers not decreased at all?" ”

Li Wenge smiled: "Prince, there are two new battalions in the heavy army. After the recruits of these two battalions are transferred to the combat establishment, the temporary battalion officers of the new battalion will recruit another 500 recruits for training. This is the regulation in the last general. Therefore, the number of baggage troops will not be reduced as a result......"

"The new barracks under the command of the general has an establishment of two hundred and fifty people?"

Chai Rong was taken aback, this year, a battalion is full of two hundred to three hundred people, but the phenomenon of eating empty quotas can be seen everywhere, not to mention local feudal towns. It is normal for a battalion in the imperial army to be short of forty percent, only the army in front of the palace and the guards who belong to the direct force of the royal family are full, and a new battalion has two hundred and fifty people, which is indeed a very surprising thing.

But Chai Rong didn't think about this at the moment. He thought that if 500 new recruits were recruited every month, then Li Wenge's soldiers would exceed 8,000 in a year. And that's just the soldiers. This is a terrible rate of expansion.

He asked, "I wonder how long it will take the general to train a group of recruits?" ”

Li Wenge immediately knew that Chai Rong had misunderstood. said with a smile: "Don't make a mistake with the prince, the five hundred generals who have been turned into war this month have been training for three months. This is also the time for the general to train new soldiers, and it takes at least three months for a group of recruits to be formally integrated into the combat unit from recruitment. As a matter of fact, the result of the training that can be achieved in three months is to train these people to be familiar with passwords, military regulations, military discipline, and the upper and lower ranks of the middle and middle classes in the army, as long as they learn to walk in line, learn to obey the orders of their superiors, learn to obey military regulations and military laws, learn some simple combat skills, and become a little stronger, they can turn into soldiers. But that's not even close to being able to fight. After a few bloody experiences, they are not qualified soldiers. ”

"If you are a soldier and can obey orders, such a soldier is already a good soldier!" Chai Rong shook his head and said.

Li Wenge smiled: "After all, the battlefield is different from daily training, and whether a good soldier is good or not has little to do with whether these soldiers can obey orders and abide by military law." No matter how neat and beautiful the queue is, it is also a showcase, and the prince is also a pawn place, you should know this truth! ”

Chai Rong stared at Li Wenge with two eyes and asked, "With the eyes of a great general, what kind of soldier can be called a good soldier?" ”

Chai Rong felt that Li Wenge's requirements for good soldiers might be too high.

Unexpectedly, Li Wenge smiled slightly and said: "If you can go to the battlefield, hold a gun, and have a spit in your mouth, you are a good soldier!" ”

This is not his own point of view, as a plagiarist who was lucky enough to cross over more than 100 years earlier, Li Wenge secretly said sorry to Comrade Yue Fei in his heart.

Chai Rong didn't expect Li Wenge's answer to be so simple, he said puzzledly: "If you can go to the battlefield and hold a gun, you can pay attention to these Rong, but what does it mean to have a spit in your mouth?" This has nothing to do with whether or not they are good soldiers. ”

Li Wenge calmly replied: "The prince has never been a soldier, and on the battlefield, the most serious casualties are often the recruits, this is not because the recruits' martial arts are better than the veterans, nor because the recruits are not as smart as the veterans, but because the recruits are too nervous on the battlefield." The prince knows that when a person is nervous, his mouth will be dry, his throat will be tight, and his voice will become hoarse. Some people are even extremely nervous

shouted but couldn't make a sound, and his mind was desperately thinking about pulling his legs and running wildly, moving his legs, and the more he wanted to run, the faster he couldn't run. This is the new soldier, the veteran has experienced the war, experienced, even in the face of the bloody hand-to-hand combat scene, the veteran can be relatively calm, should run and run, should fight, and can listen to orders in his ears, although this difference is not big on weekdays, but it is the difference between life and death on the battlefield. Therefore, having spit in the mouth is an excellent way to distinguish between new recruits and veterans. Ordinary veterans can still charge calmly when the robe is constantly falling around the white-bladed charge, they can even distinguish which arrows and blades will cause damage to themselves and which they can't, and some experienced soldiers can even avoid damage through body movements in the chaos of knives. There were several such veterans among the last generals, and every time they came down from a battle, they were covered in bruises and blood. In the end, however, the healer treated his wounds, but found that they were all flesh wounds, and in less than two or three days, he was again alive, but many of his brothers who were less wounded than him were so seriously injured that some had to rest and recuperate for two or three months, and some were even crippled......

Chai Rong was moved when he heard this, and couldn't help but say: "Such a veteran is really a treasure in the army!" ”

"Exactly!" Li Wenge replied, "In fact, veterans will be nervous when they go to the battlefield. It's just that it's lighter than a recruit, and he who can salivate in his mouth without drying his mouth is already a middle-of-the-beaten-shirt, such a soldier. Of course it's a good soldier. Although this recent batch of recruits was not personally trained by the last general, the last general dared to assert that none of these people could do these two things with a gun in their hands, so the last general said. These soldiers are far from being considered good soldiers......"

Chai Rong looked at Li Wenge in a daze for a long time, and then sighed faintly: "Now I know that the general can become a feudal town from the head of the Jiupin team in just over a year, which is really not a fluke. The art of war of the king of Hejian, the origin of Guan Long's management of soldiers. It's really not trivial......"

Li Wenge secretly said ashamed, these things originally had nothing to do with Li Xiaogong and the Li family in Guanzhong, but since he recognized this door in front of the emperor. We can only attribute these things to our predecessors.

He smiled and said to Chai Rong: "The Zhenguan period and the Yonghui period opened the border. Although the main force is half peasant and half army government soldiers. However, most of the soldiers who went out to fight in the past were the soldiers of Guanzhong, and these peasant soldiers were all soldiers who fought a hundred battles from Guanzhong to Hebei and Lingnan during the Wude period. Therefore, almost all of them are the best in the army. It has successively exterminated the Turkic, Tuyuhun, and Gaochang countries, and is almost invincible, that is, in Dafeichuan, the climate on the plateau is harsh, and it is difficult for people and horses to even catch their breath, and various diseases and epidemics are raging, and the Tang army is still invincible. Zhenguan fifteen years of Nuo Zhenshui battle, Ying Gong only 6,000 cavalry, including only 4,000 Chinese soldiers, as soon as the war horses were all shot dead, so the start was unfavorable, 4,000 Han soldiers with spears to meet the rain of arrows rushed up, almost a moment of the scene Xue Yu collapsed, 5,000 soldiers, nearly 50,000 prisoners. In fact, Xue Yantuo's fierceness back then was not necessarily inferior to today's Khitan party, but they were all the elites of a hundred battles left over after more than 20 years of conquest, so they naturally couldn't compete with it! ”

Chai Rong is familiar with history books, and he naturally knows everything about Li Wenge, but after all, he is not a professional sugar powder, and he has done in-depth analysis and research on the achievements of the Tang Army back then, so he was still dumbfounded, and then praised: "I see, my father and emperor also talked to me about the heroic gods of Emperor Taizong, and also talked about the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty when all countries came to the court, but Yu Military has never said it so clearly." ”

Then he asked: "Since we are talking about the Taizong Dynasty, after all, it is the general Benzong, and there is still something to ask the general about in Taiyuan, and I hope that the general will not hide his personal interests and pour out his money to teach ......."

Li Wenge smiled and personally took the tea soup brought by Luo Yiniang, served tea for Chai Rong, and said: "The prince just said, the Cultural Revolution is a rough person, as long as he knows, there is no truth to it!" ”

Chai Rong said: "Emperor Taizong Zhenguan conquered Goryeo in the nineteenth year, why did he fail in the end? Could it be that at that time, the veterans of martial arts were all dead? ”

This question suddenly asked Li Wenge's itchy place, he deliberately groaned for a while, and slowly said while sorting out his thoughts: "The question of the prince was actually in the early years of the Cultural Revolution, but after turning over some pictures, he was relieved. ”

He asked slowly, "Has the prince ever thought about this in reverse?" Why was Taizong wise and brave, but he was defeated in Liaodong, and Gaozong was called weak, but he decided to fight Goryeo Baekje in several battles, and set up three counties of Lelang, Xiongjin, and Jilin? ”

Chai Rong stroked his palm and said: "Exactly, this is exactly the insoluble place of Rong, is Gaozong more powerful than Taizong?" ”

Li Wenge smiled and said: "No, the history of Taizong was trapped in Liaodong, it was trapped under the fortified city of Anshi, it was a cold winter, and there were many horses and livestock who froze to death, and Xue Yantuo had to withdraw his troops because of China's troubles. However, after the Cultural Revolution checked the Tuzhi, he noticed a thing, in the nineteenth year of Zhenguan, Taizong invaded Goryeo, but it was a land and water advance, with 40,000 sailors floating in the sea, and 60,000 land divisions entering the Han hometown in Liaodong; During the reign of Gojong, from the sixth year of Yonghui to the first year of Zongzhang, the two countries were destroyed in nine battles, and among the nine wars, only the battle of Pyongyang in the second to third years of Longshuo was by land and water, and the result was trapped under the fortified city of Pyongyang after several big victories, and the weather was cold, and the troops had to be withdrawn, which was almost the same as the battle of Taejong's invasion of Goryeo, but this time the land division advanced to Pyongyang. In addition to this battle, the other eight battles were almost all floating sea battles, and each battle was successful. Can a prince gain anything from it? ”

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Chai Rong is an extremely intelligent person. He is also quite talented in military affairs, Li Wenge said it so clearly, where would he not understand, and immediately realized: "The general is saying that the Tang army attacked Goryeo, and all the boat divisions across the sea won a complete victory, and all the land routes with foot cavalry did not win a complete victory?" ”

Li Wenge smiled and nodded: "That's exactly what I mean." The prince thought that since the Han Dynasty, Liaodong has been a foreign steal. Since the rise of Goryeo, cities have been built in Liaodong, and large and small cities have been built on major roads, and this place has been separated from China for hundreds of years. After experiencing the chaotic times of the Five Hu Chaohua, the Central Plains is no longer familiar with its roads and landscapes. Entering the army by land, the grain route of the army stretches for thousands of miles, and it enters the autumn and winter season. Heavy snow closed the roads, the weather was cold, and the baggage supplies could not be transported, and people might be able to say, and the livestock and horses had no forage. Naturally, most of them died. On the contrary, if you cross the sea to conquer the east, the army's grain routes will all be transported by the navy, and the weather will be cold. and it will not freeze all the sea. And the ships move on the power of the wind. Without manual effort, the Goryeo Baekje naval army declined. There is no power to compete with us on the sea, so the Tang army took a boat when it sent troops, and after landing, the supply of grain and food was maintained by the navy, so the battle would not be too much of a problem if it was fought for a year, and the army boarded the ship when the army withdrew, and it was completely withdrawn in a few days, and the enemy country could not go to sea and could not intercept the attack on the way back. Please think about it, is this the truth? ”

"A conversation with you is better than ten years of study!" Chai Rongdi's face finally showed a little excited, "The general is saying that the reason why Taizong did not win is not because he should not conquer Liaodong, but because he did not take the sea route to ask for ......it."

Li Wenge sighed: "Emperor Taizong has been the son of heaven all his life, and he has experienced more than 100 battles before ascending the throne, but it is a pity that whether it is entering Guanzhong, cutting down Western Qin, Dinghedong, fighting Luoyang, fighting Wujian or finally collecting the Hebei Imperial Turks, they are all fought against by foot. At that time, there were generals who had experience in commanding the navy, only the king of Hejian and the Duke of Wei, the king of Hejian had already passed away in the nineteenth year of Zhenguan, and the Duke of Wei was already over eighty years old, so although the Jianghuai naval army of 40,000 was levied, it did not really rely on the main force. The commander-in-chief of the navy is Zhang Liang, the chief of the Pyongyang Provincial Army of the Criminal Department, although this person is also a famous minister of Lingyan Pavilion, but after all, he is not a military chief, so although he won the battle, he was not able to independently lead the army to land and destroy the enemy. However, although he did not have a record, he also had a great merit......"

"Oh?" Zhang Liang did not have a good reputation in history, and finally died very badly, Chai Rong has not paid too much attention to this person, but after listening to Li Wenge's words at this time, he couldn't help but be curious.

Li Wenge said with a firm and solemn expression: "Although Zhang Liang has no record, the first naval division of the Tang Dynasty was formed in his hands. In the nineteenth year of Zhenguan, Zhang Liang led the army to go to sea from Denglai, it was really 30 years for China's soldiers to set foot in the sea again, there were no rules to follow, no experience to follow, that is, the naval army system, all of them went to sea while practicing and groping, there was no nautical chart, only temporary exploration and drawing system, a reef sometimes had to pay the lives of dozens of sailors on a ship. More importantly, the sea has accumulated experience, straightened out the channel, and drawn a sea chart, so that Gaozong can carry out the cross-sea expedition to the east, and none of the nine crossings have been defeated due to storms and rains. ”

Fresh, peculiar, unheard of military ideas. Chai Rong looked at Li Wenge, his heart was surging with the pride of Jin Ge Iron Horse man, no wonder Guo Wei valued it, it was the last comment on Zhang Liang, this person's vision and heart are unmatched by any of the generals in the court, and it is definitely more than enough to be a privy envoy......

He sighed: "In this way, those historical texts that record the defeat of Taizong's expedition to Goryeo are really scholars' eyes......"

Li Wenge smiled slightly: "Has Taizong been defeated?" At the beginning of the battle of Liaodong, the land army crossed the Liaoshui to pull out the cover of the Mu, the prince did not know, Goryeo in order to resist my Chinese soldiers, but also built the Great Wall, the power of the whole country spent countless money and food to build the Great Wall in decades, was broken by the Tang army effortlessly, the battle under the city of Liaodong, the king of Jiangxia with 4,000 soldiers against 40,000 Goryeo 40,000 people, beheaded more than 1,000 levels, the rest of the rout, there are tens of thousands of troops stationed in the city of Liaodong surrounded by 4,000 Tang soldiers. After the battle of Liaodong, 10,000 Goryeo reinforcements reinforced Baiyan City in southern Liaoning, and was responsible for disturbing the enemy's right Xiaowei general Qibi He Li led 800 cavalry to kill 10,000 Goryeo reinforcements and drive them out of Baili...... Just under the city of Di'an, 30,000 Tang troops annihilated 150,000 Goryeo reinforcements, and the commander Gao Yanshou led 38,000 remnants to abandon their weapons and kneel at the army gate to surrender...... The prince, the last general is also a soldier, and he has been fighting in the border county for two years, so 'defeated', the last general is really unheard of and unseen......"

"Not bad——! Chai Rong clenched his fists tightly, and looked at the young Jiedu envoy in front of him with a gloomy face, with a smile on his face.

"I have never heard of such a 'defeat'——!!!!."

The dignified prince of the Great Zhou, the envoy of the Zhenning Army, and the future Zhengshuo Tianzi generation of the male lord Chai Rong, grinned at the moment, smirking like a child......