Seeing that Xu Ping didn't say anything, Li Di said: "You said earlier that there are three strategies, but these are only two strategies, and there is another strategy?" ”

Xu Ping sighed: "The third strategy is a helpless move. It is easy to say that the pen www.biquge.info 200,000 troops and all the way, but in fact it is not easy to do. In the past, it was not easy to command 100,000 troops, and the geography of Shaanxi Road was broken, and it was only more difficult. If you want to win stability, you can only spare no money and food, divide into several teams, support each other, and slowly advance. Or simply build the fort along the road, spend a few years, and push it all the way through. To preside over this matter, it is necessary to be an important minister who is proficient in warfare, and the court is determined that it must not give up halfway. If the imperial court feels that these two strategies are not sure, then it can only be the third policy. The east and west roads are defended together, and the deployment is made in advance, where to defend and where to abandon. Try to concentrate your forces to defend the fortified city, and the surrounding areas are clear and clear, and you must let the party attack and plunder the population and property, but only the fortified city. The party's soldiers and horses are all from the rich chieftains in the territory, and the siege is not effective, so this is precisely the strength of our attack on the enemy's shortcomings. Then send a minister to preside over Qinzhou, run Hehuang with all his might, and swallow Tubo first. The Hehuang area was originally a Han land, and after the Anshi Rebellion of the Tang Dynasty, the garrison troops there were dispatched into the interior to quell the rebellion, and it was occupied by Tibet. Half of the people there were originally Han Chinese, but they had been occupied by the Tibetan people for a long time, and they practiced Hu customs and spoke Hu language. After the imperial court became the master, they were indoctrinated, and within one or two decades, they could become Han Chinese, and the place was stable. Then from Hehuang to occupy Lanzhou, the party's side back, from then on worry-free. ”

Li Di listened, was silent for a while, and said: "I have always been submissive to this dynasty, and it is not a benevolent and righteous act to strike the river and Huang Shi. ”

"Save the people of our country from fire and water, hang the people and fight crimes, the world is righteous! He was obedient, and after the imperial court occupied it, he was in a high position, and it was enough to be generous. Don't lose your righteousness because of your small benevolence, after the party is destroyed, Tubo should have been included in this dynasty! ”

Li Di nodded, glanced at Chen Yaozuo, and was silent for a while.

If the forbidden army is poorly organized, disciplined, and poorly coordinated, it can only fight a dumb battle and overwhelm the opponent with absolute strength. It is difficult to guarantee even normal combat discipline, and if you still come up with strange plans and clever plans, you are self-defeating. How to fight in this case, there are actually examples of successful attacks in history. Xu Ping's previous national army used to use the barrel advance, dividing the army into several battle groups, maintaining close contacts, one being attacked, all counterattacking, and the strength far exceeded that of the opponent, which could basically guarantee victory. With the current level of organization of the forbidden army, the offensive march can only be like this. Either it was used when Zeng Guofan attacked the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and he fought a dumb battle, and he fought desperately, and the party's national strength could not support it for a year or two.

What Xu Ping is talking about now is the only tactic that their military system can adopt in view of the reality of the forbidden army. If the organization and discipline come up, naturally there is no need to be so troublesome, whether it is all the way or several roads, Yuan Hao is not really wise and martial, and he can be defeated by hard work.

After the middle of the Tang Dynasty, the military of the Central Plains Dynasty generally used the military system of the nomads, except for the strong soldiers who fought out of the founding of the country, the state of the forbidden army after decades of peace, and the grand occasion of the Qin and Han dynasties could no longer be reproduced. One of the reasons why this is the case is that the system has been broken for hundreds of years, and the north has been influenced by the Hu people for hundreds of years since the Wuhu Rebellion. Another reason is that a scattered army is easier to control and less of a threat to imperial power.

When the Central Plains Dynasty was dominated by a large family and surrounded by weak and small Tibetan countries, there was no problem with this system. But when the Central Plains Dynasty itself could not provide huge strength, and the enemy was relatively strong, this system was very pitiful. In terms of social contradictions, the end of the Han Dynasty was not much stronger than other dynasties, but militarily it has always been able to suppress the surrounding barbarians, and the fundamental reason is that the system is much more advanced than the surrounding ones. When the Tang Dynasty took the initiative to Hu and introduced the military system of nomads in the Central Plains, the advanced nature disappeared, and the Central Plains Dynasty was pressed and beaten by the surrounding barbarians.

It is not easy to learn the system and culture of a different race, and if you are not careful, the problem of learning the military system will appear. If you really want to make what you learn useful to yourself, you must combine it with the reality of your own nation, such as King Zhao Wuling's Hufu cavalry shooting, that is, only absorb what is useful to yourself. But the historical norm is that bad money drives out good money, and those who are capable are cautious everywhere, while those who are stupid and bad are ambitious and can always abolish the right line. Isn't it learning, I can't understand which one is good for me and which is bad for myself, I don't know how to learn well, and I won't abandon everything and learn everything. Just like the early Tang Dynasty, it would be good to let the entire North China become Huhua, and all the Han people would become Hu people, and drown the families who could threaten the imperial power in the vast sea of Huhua, and see what waves they could make. The final outcome is exactly like this, the disaster of the White Horse Station, the family was thrown into the rolling Yellow River by the warlords who were Huhua, and the wish of the Li Tang royal family to eradicate the family was fulfilled. Of course, immediately after that, the warlord killed Li Tang, which may have been just a small accident for them.

It is also very contradictory that the party project is against Xu Ping, and it is difficult to make a fundamental reform of the military system if the forbidden army is not allowed to suffer a few defeats and touch a few nails. If the military system is not reformed, if it wins this time, it will face the situation of the Song Dynasty in history in the future.

This military system is sometimes referred to as the warlord school, but in fact the warlords of the late Han Dynasty were not such a school, and were basically a form of military organization of nomadic peoples. That is, after the nomads entered the Central Plains, they kept the original system unchanged, and the rate of degradation of their combat power was even more astonishing than that of the Han Dynasty. With this military system, the Central Plains Dynasty has been defeated repeatedly and lost twice. But one can not be repeated, and at the crisis juncture of the third loss of the country, it was finally cleared.

The economy determines politics, and politics determines the military, that being said, but if the military and politics are forcibly separated, the backlash will be staggering. Xu Ping's new policy started with the economy, then changed politics, and then reformed the military.

There were originally two ways to reduce the threat of the army to the imperial power, one was to use strict organization and iron discipline, supplemented by strong political nature, so that the imperial court could firmly control the army. However, the facts of history have used the opposite method, weakening the organization and discipline, and the army is completely apolitical, so that the regular army is not as good as the rogue army, and the end is of course tragic.

If you want to change the military system, you must let the forbidden army suffer defeat, and let the imperial court taste the bitterness that the army cannot fight. But in the face of such a clown as the party, it is really a nest for them to lose to the big country. Although he was determined to change the military system, Xu Ping still felt contradictory.

After Xu Ping finished speaking, Li Di asked about the preparations of the three divisions for the war in Shaanxi. Xu Ping said: "Zhongshu is at ease, since the beginning of the year, the third division has renovated the road to Shaanxi Road, and now it has been basically completed. In terms of the materials that can be transported to the Shaanxi Road, it is not a problem to support an army of 500,000 or 600,000, and if you go forward to attack the party, you can also support an army of 200,000 or 300,000 to move forward. The party is a small state, such a military force is enough to destroy its country! If it can't be done, it's a matter of the army and the generals. ”

The party project is to concentrate the strong men of the whole country, and the maximum number of soldiers who can fight is only 100,000. If you don't count the combat strength, just counting the heads, you can pull out four or five hundred thousand people. However, such an army can only be strong, and it will not play much role in the battle array.

At this time, in addition to the Privy Council, the courtiers were more optimistic about the war, and generally believed that 100,000 troops would be enough to destroy Yuan Hao's clown. Xu Ping replied that the Third Division had prepared a capacity to support 3.5 million people, which made Li Di very satisfied.

Most of the political affairs of the Chinese book are in the three departments, and the other yamen are mainly in charge of prisons and personnel. The remaining officials did not know much about the war in the northwest except for expressing their own attitude. The political affairs hall unified its own systematic opinions, in fact, the main thing was to ask the opinions of the three divisions, and after Xu Ping finished speaking, other officials only needed to express their determination.