When he heard Shi Bufan say that he was going to face the destruction of Goguryeo, this had to be paid attention to by Li Shimin. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info have been playing Goguryeo for so many years, isn't it the truth of the saying "how can others be allowed to snore on the side of the couch"? This truth can be seen from the Han Dynasty's fight against the Xiongnu that East Asia could not tolerate the existence of two powerful countries, and this has been proven by history. The Turks were bound to perish, but Goguryeo could not stay. Goguryeo already has a tendency to become bigger, and it may become an important opponent that threatens the Central Plains Dynasty at any time, so it must be fought. But how to fight, this is very particular. Emperor Yang of Sui attacked several times back then, and it has been proved that Goguryeo is not a soft persimmon. The Sui Dynasty overdrew its national strength because of the three expeditions to Goguryeo, which led to the later results. If Datang wants not to cause the later results, it naturally wants to find ways and means for the other party.

"Your Majesty, look at this drawing, this is a map of the local area, as well as the maps of Goguryeo, Baekje, and Silla. Here they still have the trend of three kingdoms, of which Goguryeo occupies Liaodong, and there are also many peninsula territories. And Baekje and Silla occupy the remaining south, respectively, and they are the posture of the Three Kingdoms. However, this is not the same as our three kingdoms back then, which were the strongest in Goguryeo, followed by Baekje, and Silla was the weakest. However, Goguryeo and Baekje joined forces to bully Silla, and Silla was in dire need of a backer. In line with the principle of distant friendship and close attack, and the enemy's enemy is also a friend, the most suitable ally of Silla is my Datang. ”

"Our Tang Dynasty was built on the ruins of the Sui Dynasty, and it can be said that we naturally inherited the various international status and grievances of the Sui Dynasty, which can not be easily erased with the change of dynasty. There were not a few Chinese children who died in Goguryeo that year. It can be said that many of our people in the Tang Dynasty naturally have a grudge against Goguryeo, because their relatives and friends died in Goguryeo. And the country is composed of hundreds of people, so our country naturally has enmity with Goguryeo, and sooner or later we will be irreconcilable contradictions. Therefore, when Silla came to us, we could not only attack and threaten Goguryeo, but also relieve the pressure on them. And the national strength and military strength of our Tang Dynasty are enough to hold back a large number of Goguryeo troops and reduce the pressure on Silla. Once Goguryeo could not target Silla, then Silla could fight Baekje alone. ”

"In the same way, I observed the situation on the peninsula of Goguryeo and found a phenomenon. That is when Goguryeo deployed various defensive lines, they all used the northern Liaodong area as the main defense line. The main object of Goguryeo's defense is our Central Plains. If we want to attack in the Central Plains, we often attack all the way from Youzhou to Liaodong, and finally we must pass through the defense line accumulated by Goguryeo for countless years. Goguryeo has been occupying China's territory for a long time, deploying one strategic defense line after another, and even their entire national defense strategy is to block it in the direction of Liaodong in the north. From Liaodong to Pyongyang, the capital of Goguryeo, it was almost a step-by-step defense, and it was difficult for our Central Plains army to break through such a long distance. ”

"Especially once we get to winter, winter fighting is a taboo for soldiers, as long as they delay until winter, it is almost equivalent to victory."

Shi Bufan introduced this situation, Goguryeo's current defense strategy was actually along the Liaodong defense, and such a defense goal was obviously to defend the Central Plains Dynasty. Even since the founding of the Tang Dynasty, Goguryeo not only did not reduce the defensive posture of the Liaodong region, but still strengthened the defense, not only deploying heavy troops, but also defending through various fortifications.

This Goguryeo defensive posture was completely based on the posture of emphasizing the north over the south, and it has always been dominated by the Central Plains Dynasty troops attacking from the Liaodong region. Whenever the Central Plains Dynasty wanted to attack Goguryeo, it had to send troops from Youzhou and break through various defense lines of Goguryeo along the way to attack, which not only had great resistance, but also had a protracted conquest. Although many people in later generations may look down on the armies of South Korea and North Korea, the despises of later generations are not the same as the ancient Goguryeo army, that is, parallel goods. After all, the armies of the Tang Dynasty and Goguryeo are all cold-weapon armies, no matter how big the gap between the cold-weapon armies is, how bad can it be? As long as the morale of both sides is high, the tactics are the same, and as long as the commanders do not have brains, then the war on both sides will be protracted. What's more, Goguryeo has been preparing for more than a year or two in order to defend the Central Plains Dynasty, which is calculated in a hundred years.

"The Central Plains has lost Liaodong for too many years, and now we don't know about the various environments in Liaodong, and a rash attack must be a confidant and not knowing the other. Even confidants don't necessarily know, for example, how our army is resistant to freezing, this is also an unknown. Therefore, I think that if you attack directly and simply from Liaodong, then such a method is not advisable. The point is that they have been preparing for so many years, and once the battle is often hundreds of thousands of troops. Although our army is numerous, Goguryeo is not weak, they have been preparing for defense for hundreds of years, and many of these preparations are not comparable to us. Therefore, based on their geographical advantages and various logistical advantages, one person can be counted as five of us, so we may not be able to occupy much advantage in terms of troops. ”

"In addition, the road behind my Datang is long, and the vast territory has increased our supply pressure. We collected a stone of grain from the rear and sent it to the front line, I am afraid that we will not even have a bucket, and if our Datang sends too many troops, then the food we consume will be multiplied by more than twenty times. ”

"The Goguryeo people were close and had a small number of soldiers. They have the advantage of having less, and they consume less food, so the logistical pressure is much less. Not only is the distance close, the number of people is small, the food consumed is small, and the logistical pressure is very small. And they are defending the country, although this Liaodong is the territory of our Central Plains, but it has been stolen by Goguryeo for many years, and they have survived there for many years, so it can be said that they have regarded it as their homeland. On the contrary, we lost it for many years, with the turmoil of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, no one cared about those territories, and for the people of our Tang Dynasty, Goguryeo was not fought to recover the territory, because these territories were of little significance to the ordinary people. On the contrary, they fought Goguryeo only for revenge, and had no other meaning. ”

"Therefore, I will conclude that if we rashly attack Goguryeo, we will only repeat the mistakes of Emperor Yang of Sui. Goguryeo has geographical advantages and human advantages, while my Datang does not have these two advantages, and once it is protracted and the war drags on until winter, then my Datang does not even have the advantage of time. So it's not me pouring cold water on you, the emperor, if you go to war according to traditional thinking, not to mention sending hundreds of thousands of troops, sending millions of troops will be in vain, on the contrary, millions of troops will definitely lose, because we can't afford such a big logistical pressure. ”

"Fighting a war is nothing more than fighting logistics, and our Datang logistics side is a serious disadvantage, and we can't beat them at all. We are from the main grain producing area of Datang, which is the area of Guanzhong, and according to the rules of Datang, the grain is mainly to be transported to Chang'an for unified distribution. This will inevitably bring a lot of loss in the transshipment process. In this way, there is no long-term plan, so that grain is first transported from all over to our Chang'an, and then from Chang'an again to the front. For such a long distance, the army's food loss increased by at least twenty times or more. ”

"Therefore, when we attack from the north, we have the right time and place, and we do not occupy anything. It's not surprising to lose. Shi Bufan said.

Li Shimin's face really darkened, this situation is really a mess, if it is really according to what Shi Bufan said, then if he rashly starts a war, then the final loss will definitely be not small. At that time, it is inevitable that the success will be lost, in fact, Li Shimin's thinking is still like this, it is nothing more than the same road as Emperor Yang of Sui, sending troops from Youzhou and fighting all the way to the north, so that he will attack Pyongyang, the capital of Goguryeo, all the way. The resistance along the way is extremely large, and it must be resolved quickly, once it cannot be resolved quickly, the war will drag on until winter, and Datang can only retreat, and everything is in vain.

However, according to Shi Bufan's analysis, this method will not work, and it will not work. Such a blow is also a huge blow to Li Shimin.

"What then?" Li Shimin asked.

Shi Bufan replied: "Your Majesty, in fact, it is not so difficult to destroy Goguryeo. The key is whether you can jump out of the traditional thinking that has always been there, as long as the thinking jumps out, then you will find that it is not so difficult to destroy Goguryeo, and even suddenly enlightened! ”

"What's the solution?" Li Shimin asked.

Shi Bufan said vaguely: "Your Majesty, when you were commanding the war, you always thought in your mind that you had to pass the test layer by layer. Of course, even if there are a small number of outflanking sneak attacks, but that is only at the tactical level, and often only as a tactic, not a strategy? Do you think that wars must be fought along a line, layer by layer? ”

"Of course, how about that?" Li Shimin asked.

Shi Bufan shook his head and said, "Your Majesty, you have fallen into the idea of linear warfare. In fact, war does not have to be such a layer-by-layer attack, for example, we can use strategic outflanking means, and it does not have to start from Liaodong! We fought Goguryeo, why did we have to start from Liaodong to fight, can't we start from somewhere else? ”

"If we don't start from Liaodong, then where do we start from? With the sea all around, how do we get going? Shall we cross the sea? Li Shimin sneered.

"Smack!" Shi Bufan slapped the table and said, "That's right, it's to cross the sea!" ”

"Crossing the sea, really crossing the sea?" Li Shimin exclaimed.

Li Shimin really couldn't believe that Shi Bufan's strategy of destroying Goguryeo was actually to cross the sea, and in the eyes of the ancient generals, the naval army would always be only a subsidiary army, not a mainstream army. In ancient times, China tended to attach importance to the army and despise the navy. The navy was largely a "temporary" formation, and it was rare for ancient Chinese dynasties to have a truly powerful standing navy.

China attaches great importance to the naval army, which is nothing more than a few dynasties. In the middle of the Tang Dynasty, the importance of the naval army was vigorously developed in order to destroy Goguryeo. The Song Dynasty developed a naval army in order to resist the southward movement of the Mongols, hoping to gain partial peace through the naval army. In the early days of the Ming Dynasty, the naval army was attached importance to the navy, which was to be able to defeat Chen Youliang at Poyang Lake. However, the reason why these dynasties attached importance to the navy was nothing more than "forced to do so", and they attached importance to the navy in order to achieve a certain strategic goal. Once this strategic purpose dies, there is no need to pay attention to the water army.

The surface of the water, which was almost a blind spot in ancient feudal dynasties, and even an important military blind spot. Back then, Liu Yu was able to rely on the naval army to cover the cavalry, which was actually a kind of surprise, and the enemy would not have thought that there would be a naval army to fight. The navy is almost a blind spot in the thinking of various generals in ancient China, a blind spot that ordinary people can't imagine.

Li Shimin also made this mistake, in his eyes the ocean is a "non-passable" place, and human beings cannot survive in the ocean. In the eyes of Li Shimin, a general who can only command the army, in this world, only land routes can be passed by humans, but the sea surface is the kind of area that is "impassable", and according to the art of war, it is very difficult, even impassable. This Li Shimin is actually an ordinary person, an ordinary ancient general and commander, not a god of war, and is also bound by the thinking of the traditional Chinese Continental Army. He only has the army in his eyes, and there is almost no sense of the presence of the navy.

In Li Shimin's eyes, this ocean was uncrossable, so his thinking was bound by serious inertia, so he still retained the way Emperor Yang of Sui attacked Goguryeo and attacked by land. However, at that time, Bufan denied the possibility of attacking by land, so he also fell into the thinking that he could not fight. Even at that time, Bufan proposed to destroy Goguryeo by crossing the sea to the east, so Li Shimin still couldn't believe that this plan could succeed, and even scoffed at this plan.

"Your Majesty, I think my plan is the only plan for us to destroy Goguryeo. Therefore, according to our plan, if we want to destroy Goguryeo, we must cross the sea to the east, and we must obtain a springboard for garrisons on the peninsula, which can be used as a place to attack Goguryeo. And this springboard, that is, Baekje. Therefore, I can say that if you want to destroy Goguryeo, you must first destroy Baekje so that you can get a springboard. Your Majesty, look at it, if we send troops from Baekje to the Northern Expedition to Goguryeo, if we hit their capital Pyongyang, how far will it be and how many difficulties will there be in between? Shi Bufan pointed to the map and said.

"Ahh......h This one...... This one...... Destroy Goguryeo, great things can be done! Li Shimin exclaimed, his eyes wide open, as if he had discovered a new continent, and he even stuttered, because he saw the hope of destroying Goguryeo. (To be continued.) )