Although Li Shimin had the same problem that most generals in ancient times had, that is, he despised naval warfare and seriously ignored that the sea could be used as a channel for warfare. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 However, when he returned to the land, Li Shimin's military talent was greatly restored again, and he immediately felt enlightened. Because Li Shimin saw that this Goguryeo's national defense policy was obviously deformed, and Goguryeo's national defense policy was obviously to emphasize the north over the south, because Goguryeo mainly faced the invasion of the Central Plains Dynasty, while Goguryeo faced the troops of Baekje and Silla in the south. Goguryeo's national defense policy focused on the defense of the Liaodong region in the north, but in the south, it adopted a foreign policy as a supplement to national defense.

Goguryeo wooed Baekje and bullied Silla together. In this way, there is a battle between Baekje and Silla in the south of the Goguryeo Peninsula, so that Goguryeo can sit back and relax. However, if the Tang Dynasty adopted the method of destroying Baekje first, using Baekje as a springboard first, and then attacking to the north, everything would suddenly become clear.

"Goguryeo's heavy troops are all defending the north, they have deployed heavy troops in Liaodong, and even built various fortifications for a hundred years, so that it is really difficult for our army to attack if they want to, and they cannot attack quickly. Once winter comes, then we will inevitably have to withdraw our troops, and all our efforts will be wasted. But when we got here, to this peninsula, Goguryeo didn't pay attention to the defense of the south, so it gave us an opportunity. The peninsula is very close to Pyongyang, the capital of Goguryeo, but the heavy forces of Goguryeo are responsible for the defense of Liaodong, and this is a serious blind spot, once we occupy Baekje and make a northern expedition from Baekje, it is very likely that we will be able to break through Pyongyang, the capital of Goguryeo. ”

"Even, if we have this Baekje as a springboard, then we will greatly weaken their geographical advantage, although we may not be very advantageous, but Goguryeo has also changed from very advantageous to not so advantageous, so we are very beneficial. In this way, when we send troops from the south of Goguryeo, Goguryeo will inevitably have to defend. But we can also send troops in the north, so that we can flank him on both sides. In this way, the population and military inferiority of Goguryeo will completely break out, and our Tang Dynasty will have many generals, and when the time comes, we can attack from both sides, one side feints and the other main attack. Even, we can attack on both sides, after all, we Datang have a lot of soldiers! Goguryeo fought on two fronts, and the end could not be taken care of, so defeat was bound to become a foregone conclusion. ”

Li Shimin finally laughed out loud, and he felt that this suddenly became clear, because according to Shi Bufan's introduction, this is actually just a draft strategy, which is to attack Goguryeo from both sides, but this strategic plan, in terms of Li Shimin's ideas, has a very high success rate. Liaodong, which successfully bypassed the heavy defense of Goguryeo, even Goguryeo did not have too many soldiers to defend, and various fortifications were insufficient. On the contrary, the construction and preparation of the north for hundreds of years, such a fortification is very powerful, and it is impossible to break through easily. Once it is winter, it is inevitable that the army will be withdrawn, and all the achievements will be wasted.

However, once the traditional land warfare thinking was broken through, and the Tang Dynasty jumped from the mainland to Baekje through the naval frog, using Baekje as a springboard as a means of the Northern Expedition to Goguryeo, then everything suddenly became clear. Li Shimin had never thought of such a combat mode before, and he really had never thought of it at all. If it weren't for Shi Bufan's proposal, Li Shimin wouldn't have too many ideas at all.

"Shi Bufan, you are really a master of military studies! It's just a trick, it's really ...... Really...... I feel a little inferior to you! Li Shimin finally said helplessly.

Shi Bufan hurriedly replied modestly: "Your Majesty, in fact, this is just that you are bound by your past thinking. In the past, you have always fought on land, and of course you will probably not be able to break out of this linear way of fighting. However, I am a civil official and a literati, but I do not have the habit of commanding wars as generals in the past, so I naturally dare to think and do. I broke through this approach of attacking from land and had a stronger breakthrough mindset, which might have been better. Dare to think what others dare not think, this is the means to win by surprise. ”

"That's right! Sometimes, it seems, the layman is less constrained! Li Shimin nodded and said.

Shi Bufan actually knows a lot of management experience, that is, he is not afraid of outsiders managing insiders, but he is afraid of insiders managing insiders. This is some management experience, and most people think that the best thing is to manage the insider, but this is not necessarily the case. Let the technician manage the technician, and it is easy to create a tunnel vision. Because an expert certainly seems to be an expert, but he has been engaged in this profession, his so-called has been seriously bound in this aspect, and it is difficult to break through. In fact, sometimes a lot of science and technology is a layman's sentence, but it reminds a lot of "insiders" to promote invention. Don't think that thinking is not important, sometimes you have been doing it for decades, and if you don't have a trigger to wake up your thinking, then you can't make great progress. However, many "insiders" have been engaged in this work for many years, and their thinking has been seriously constrained, which will inevitably lead to outdated thinking and inability to innovate effectively.

Similarly, if you let the insider manage the insider, it will also cause the leader to be overconfident in his "professional", and when others put forward different opinions, he will often use the management power in his hand to forcibly block the different opinions of those subordinates, which will also cause a bad impact. Because insiders are often too "confident" in their own professional level, it will be easy to stifle the new thinking of those subordinates, so that many novel scientific ideas cannot be put forward. This kind of thing has also happened in scientific research institutions in many countries, when subordinates put forward novel scientific ideas, but in the end the leaders opposed it and used their power to suppress it. As a result, scientists from other countries also put forward their views, and the honor in hand flew like this.

On the contrary, a layman, although he didn't understand, but he dared to think, what to think. Dare to have breakthrough thinking, which is helpful for innovation. Therefore, laymen and insiders have their own advantages, and it is not possible to completely think that laymen cannot manage insiders, in fact, they also have their own advantages and disadvantages, and they are not as boasted by ordinary people. If you are a thorough expert in managing an insider, then this is not a country at all, but a production workshop.

"Your Majesty, in fact, I have always been thinking about the army in the Central Plains, and I have always attached importance to the army. In fact, in many cases, the water army can be of great use. I'll give you an example, for example, during the Northern and Southern Dynasties, why did the Southern Dynasties have to go through the Northern Expedition by land? In fact, the Southern Dynasties could give full play to the advantages of their southerners being good at naval armies, and directly organize a naval army to raid and plunder the northern coast. It is even possible to form a naval army and marines to land directly on the northern coast through the ocean, so that flowers bloom in all directions and the north is exhausted. The retreat of the naval army is very easy, there are few people in the north who are good at water warfare, once they retreat to the sea, so that the cavalry in the north is also in vain. It's a pity that it has always attached importance to the army and despised the navy, which has caused the south to not do much. ”

Li Shimin looked at the map of China, his eyes suddenly widened, and his hands trembled. If you follow what Shi Bufan introduced, if you really follow Shi Bufan's suggestion during the Northern and Southern Dynasties, focus on developing the naval army, and then attack and harass the north through the sea. And the south defends against the attack of the north through various water networks, so if this is the case, it is still unknown who will kill the deer! Even although the troops in the south may not be strong, as long as they use the right tactics, make use of their strengths and avoid their weaknesses, and attach importance to the navy, they can land and harass the north everywhere through the sea, and make the north exhausted. You can even go to the Northern Expedition in various ways, and the Northern Expedition by sea will definitely be a miracle.

Even if there is a strong naval army, it can go directly to the north to seize an important coastal city in the north, so that it can be used as a springboard to open up the communication between the north and the south, so that the northern regime can fight on two fronts. When the time comes, it's really going to be over.

"Ruthless, too ruthless, this move is really the result of solving the problem of the south being weak and the north being strong. No one had ever thought of this before! Li Shimin exclaimed.

Shi Bufan smiled, this period of the Northern and Southern Dynasties the south despised the navy, so it was strange to use its own shortcomings to meet the strengths of the north, so it was strange not to lose! Conversely, why was the Ming Dynasty able to unify the north with the south? He probably knew that when Zhu Yuanzhang was on the Northern Expedition, he had transported a large number of troops to Tianjin through the Grand Canal, and then directly attacked the capital of the Mongolian Yuan, so that the Mongol emperor fled, and the south of the Great Wall became the land of the Ming Dynasty. And Zhu Yuanzhang was able to adopt this strategy of the northern expedition of the Grand Canal, in fact, there is an important place, that is, Zhu Yuanzhang attaches great importance to the water army. Zhu Yuanzhang had a strong naval army, which ensured that sea and river transportation could quickly transport soldiers to the northern expedition. However, the Mongols did not have a strong enough naval army, and since the destruction of the Southern Song Dynasty, they have reduced a large number of naval troops, which has caused Zhu Yuanzhang to be powerless in the face of the attack by water.

"Your Majesty, there is another benefit to going on an expedition through the ocean. That is to save transportation consumption, which is extremely expensive if it is transported by land. However, if it is transported by sea and land, a ship is only a few people, but it can transport more than ten times or even dozens of times more grain than by land, so that the loss of grain is reduced many times. We can stock up on grain from the Suzhou area, and then go to sea through the Gangning area, all the way directly to Baekje, so that there is a lot less food to lose. Even we can mobilize grain from the Central Plains through the Grand Canal, go directly to the sea from the Yangtze River and the Yellow River, and go directly to the peninsula by sea and land, so that the food lost in logistics is many times less, and the burden on the people is also many times less. Therefore, taking the water route has an incomparably huge advantage. Shi Bufan said again.

Li Shimin finally smiled bitterly and said: "If Emperor Yang of Sui has this method, I am afraid that the Great Sui will not perish!" Even Goguryeo can be destroyed with a backhand, and it doesn't take much time at all. Fortunately, you were born decades late, otherwise where would I be a Tang Dynasty! ”

Li Shimin even said this, he really thought that Shi Bufan's plan, if Emperor Yang of Sui had this method, where would it cause domestic chaos, Goguryeo would have been destroyed many times. However, Li Shimin actually didn't know that Shi Bufan was just borrowing from his son Li Zhi's strategy to destroy Goguryeo.

During the reign of Li, he learned from the experience of Emperor Yang of Sui and Li Shimin's conquest of Goguryeo and changed his methods. First of all, the method of harassment was adopted, so that Goguryeo could not produce normally. took advantage of the deep strength of the Tang Dynasty soldiers to bully Goguryeo, so that Goguryeo could not resume production normally. This is also the big country bullying the small country, the big country's fingers are thicker than the small country's waist, the big country attacks the small country, and the big country is hardly affected. However, small countries are in trouble, they have to be exhausted to cope, and in the end they cannot develop normally. This method was used by Tang Gaozong Li Zhi to Goguryeo, and even later China also used this trick to give Vietnam eye medicine, making Vietnam's development slow, while China was developing more rapidly normally. Anyway, where is there fairness between countries, bullying the weak is fundamental!

In the end, Li Zhi also adopted the plan of Shi Bufan, first destroying Baekje, and then giving Baekje's territory to Silla, and finally the Tang Dynasty attacked in the north, but Silla also threatened Goguryeo in the south. Goguryeo was exhausted by the two-front battle between the Tang Dynasty and the north and south of Silla, and was finally destroyed. In fact, the method used by Tang Gaozong was actually Shi Bufan, who destroyed Baekje by sea and land, and then contained it in the south through an army. When the time comes, the main attack will be a feint all the way, and you can even turn the main attack into a feint attack at any time, and turn the feint attack into the main attack. This is also where the advantage of a big country lies, a big country can play how it wants, and you a small country will have to be tired of coping.

Even if you are willing to pay your blood, it is okay to attack both sides together, and the demise of Goguryeo will be inevitable at that time. This method is simply too ruthless, and a country like Goguryeo cannot effectively deal with it at all, because their national strength can only support the defense of one side, and cannot support the defense of both sides. They value the North and naturally despise the South. But in the face of the Tang army coming from the south, he had to kneel.

"Therefore, if you want to invade Goguryeo from the south to the north, you must first obtain a springboard, and this springboard is Baekje. After we destroyed Baekje, all the so-called advantages of Goguryeo in terms of time, place and people suddenly almost disappeared, and Goguryeo was nothing more than a walnut that had been stripped of its shell, and we could eat the meat in it as much as we wanted. So to sum it up, it is just one sentence, if you want to destroy Goryeo, you must first punish Baekje! If Baekje is not destroyed, then there is almost no possibility of destroying Goguryeo in our Central Plains. Shi Bufan said. (To be continued.) )