Chapter 391: The Meaning of the Decisive Battle

Now it seems that it is no longer very appropriate to describe Peng Chaodong as a military commander. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info It may be more appropriate to describe Peng Chaodong as a gambler. Peng Chaodong is now a gambler, a gambler with red eyes!

Song Yuren had this idea, and Peng Chaodong also came up with such a determination, and Peng Chaodong finally decided to let go and gamble. Now when the Manshu Liao Kingdom is the weakest, it is also the time when the Manshu Liao Kingdom is the easiest to defeat. If you don't make a move now, when will you do it!

"Is that true?!"

In the past battles against Manshu Liao, Peng Chaodong basically held a relatively conservative attitude, and there were practical reasons for this attitude. The practical reason is very simple, that is, Da Zhao did not have the strength to initiate a decisive battle with the Liao army. Unless the Great Zhao Empire concentrates all its forces to launch a decisive decisive battle against the Manshu Liao State in Liaodong.

Of course, it is not necessarily possible to win a decisive battle, and both sides of Da Zhao and Manshu Liao have their own merits. Who loses and who wins is also determined. There are too many uncertainties on the battlefield. If the outcome of the war could have been determined with great certainty before the war, then there was no need for the war to continue.

Peng Chaodong's use of troops is known for his steadiness. To put it in layman's terms, Peng Chaodong does not like and rarely fights uncertain wars. Peng Chaodong prefers to send troops when he is sure and has a good chance of winning.

Therefore, Peng Chaodong has fought no less than 100 battles for half his life, but there are few reasons for defeat. Peng Chaodong only fought with certainty and grasped the big war. It is also very difficult to defeat the battle if you fight like this.

Peng Chaodong has adopted a relatively conservative posture since he ran Liaodong, and Peng Chaodong rarely took the initiative to attack the Liao army, either as a last resort or under specific circumstances. Except for these two situations, Peng Chaodong never took the initiative to attack the Liao army.

The Liao army also seemed to see Peng Chaodong's intentions, and Peng Chaodong had no intention of recovering the territory of Dazhao in Liaodong, which was occupied by the Manshu Liao army. Peng Chaodong only wanted to stalemate with the Liao army to keep the existing territory and ensure that the Liao army could not further encroach on the territory of Great Zhao in Liaodong. Those remnants of Liaodong were the last barrier of the Great Zhao Empire. No matter what the cost, Peng Chaodong will try his best to keep this remnant of the territory and the last barrier of the Great Zhao Empire.

Song Yuren, however, showed dissatisfaction with Peng Chaodong's current strategic policy. The reason why Song Yuren put aside the war in the northwest for the time being and sent Peng Chaodong's Qin army to come forward was so that Peng Chaodong could solve the problem of Great Zhao in Liaodong, not to maintain this problem.

There are also a lot of rumors in the court, and these rumors all point all the massage heads at Peng Chaodong, accusing Peng Chaodong of not taking the initiative to fight the Liao army, and then defeat the Liao army.

Of course, the people who made these rumors were not other officials, but basically officials of the Zhejiang faction, the sworn enemy of the Qin Party.

Peng Chaodong was an important figure in the Qin Party, and in the eyes of the officials of the Zhejiang Party, as long as Peng Chaodong was overthrown, the Zhejiang Party would also achieve a great victory. As for the victory or defeat of the war, it is not considered at all. What kind of outcome the Great Zhao Empire will face after the defeat is not considered.

"Peng Qing, is this true?!" Song Yuren was very excited, and his whole body seemed to tremble, this was the first time that Peng Chaodong offered to fight a decisive battle with the Manshu Liao army in front of Song Yuren. Previously, Peng Chaodong tried to avoid fighting the Liao army if he could avoid fighting with the Liao army.

Peng Chaodong's attitude has taken a 180-degree turn today, which is similar to the past. Song Yuren almost wondered if the person in front of him was Peng Chaodong.

"There is no joke in front of you!" Peng Chaodong resolutely said that it is not a way to delay it like this, and it is better to end this war as soon as possible than to delay the war in Liaodong indefinitely. Moreover, Wanyan Shengcong's death also gave Peng Chaodong an opportunity, allowing Peng Chaodong to see the hope of defeating the Manshu Liao Kingdom in the war, at least this hope is much greater than before.

"As long as the emperor is willing to fully support Weichen this time, Weichen is sure to defeat the Liao army in one battle this time!" Peng Chaodong made a military order in front of Song Yuren.

Maybe it was out of seeing a faint hope in despair, or maybe Peng Chaodong had a premonition that he had reached the point where he had to fight a decisive battle with the Liao army, in short, now Peng Chaodong was determined to fight to the death with the Liao army.

This time, once it succeeds, it will win a lot of time and space for the Great Zhao Dynasty, and the hope that the Great Zhao will be able to prosper in the future will be greater and greater, at least Liaodong will no longer be a bottomless pit.

Since the outbreak of the war in Liaodong, Dazhao has not invested more than 3 million in military spending in Liaodong every year. Over the past few decades, in the Liaodong region, in order to cope with the invasion of the Manshu tribe, Da Zhao has invested tens of millions of taels of silver in this place. What a terrible number! This is also the reason why Da Zhao's finances are on the verge of collapse, just the military financial burden in Liaodong is already a great burden for Da Zhao, not to mention that the military spending in other places has not been taken into account and the rest of the scattered expenditures. This does not include other military supplies. That is to say, if the war in Liaodong can end, Da Zhao will be able to save a huge amount of financial expenses every year.

This can also greatly reduce Da Zhao's financial burden.

This is the main reason why Peng Chaodong and Song Yuren Junchen both have this idea of a decisive battle with the Liao army now.

"As long as the war in Liaodong can end, I will let go and support you, and the entire army of Da Zhao, as long as Peng Qing sees it, will be at Peng Qing's disposal." Song Yuren once again gave Peng Chaodong the greatest trust and the greatest power.

What kind of trust is it that the entire empire's army is at the disposal of a single courtier? This can also be seen Song Yuren's desperate desire to end the war in Liaodong. Song Yuren knew very well that Da Zhao could not be dragged down like this anymore, and the family business accumulated by his grandfather Zhongxing Zhizhi was now empty after his father and his consumption.

This financial crisis, not even being able to get out the silver rewarded by Qin Wangjun is a very dangerous signal. This time, he relied on borrowing money from the civil and military officials of the court to temporarily tide over this crisis.

But this is not a long-term solution, and I have never heard of a country that can survive for a long time by borrowing money from its subordinates. Ultimately, the Empire is kept running on revenue.

Now, in order to solve the financial problem, Song Yuren even has the idea of levying and extorting salaries from the people. Increase fiscal taxes at one time, but this measure is his bottom line, and this kind of practice of drawing salaries from the bottom of the kettle, Song Yuren will only adopt it as a last resort and when there is really no way.

And this approach will also have great risks, and Song Yuren does not know how much the people under his rule can bear it.

"As for the silver and weapon preparation, Peng Qing doesn't need to worry, there are still a lot of elite equipment in the Jingshi City Treasury Mansion, and the ancestors have also accumulated a lot of high-quality equipment, which are all ready-made and can be directly used when they are directly transported to Liaodong." Song Yuren said, "There is also silver, this time I borrowed six million taels of silver from the ministers and hundreds of officials, and the reward used up four million, and the remaining two million taels of silver, plus the rice along the canal that did not have time to arrive in Jingshi City, all of which can be deployed to support the war in Liaodong to supply Peng Qing and the Liao army for a decisive battle!" ”

In order to give Peng Chaodong confidence, Song Yuren gave Peng Chaodong the greatest support in terms of materials, which can be said to be the maximum material support that Song Yuren can handle. Song Yuren is usually very stingy, known for his love for pounds, and even in the mouths of hundreds of officials, Song Yuren has the title of the most angry emperor in the history of the Great Zhao Empire. Song Yuren didn't care about this title either. ，

Since Song Yuren ascended the throne, the finances of the Great Zhao Empire have not been rich. Song Yuren's father is already the worst one since he thought that Da Zhao was so many emperors. The so-called misery is to put it bluntly, that is, the court is short of money, and when it comes to the emperors of Song Yuren's father's generation, the lack of money in the court is becoming more and more obvious, until Song Yuren, this problem is exposed.

Song Yuren loves to be careful, and every expense is carefully calculated, which is also a last resort, and it is also forced by the form. With silver to spend, who wants to live such a tight life?

This time, Song Yuren was surprisingly generous, and even used almost all the remaining silver to support Peng Chaodong's decisive battle in Liaodong.

Song Yuren has already said this, if Peng Chaodong hesitates again and continues to shirk, it will be his Peng Chaodong's fault. Peng Chaodong sighed in his heart, Song Yuren still trusts him now, otherwise he would not have given him so much power. Now Peng Chaodong can only wholeheartedly plan this decisive battle with Manshu Liaoguo and win this decisive battle to repay Song Yuren's trust in him.

This decisive battle may be very difficult, but there is no way, Peng Chaodong can only fight hard.

"Ministers can't repay the emperor's favor if they die!" Peng Chaodong got up, knelt on the ground, and solemnly saluted Song Yuren. How lucky it is to meet a monarch like Song Yuren and to do things under a monarch like Song Yuren. Even if he dies now, I'm afraid Peng Chaodong has no regrets. If a person dies for a confidant, what is there to regret about being able to die for someone who understands him?

Maybe in another empire, Manshu Liao Kingdom, Chen Yankai also feels this way about Wanyan Shengcong, Peng Chaodong thought.

"I don't want you to die." Song Yuren stood up with a smile, left his position, walked in front of Peng Chaodong, squatted down and pulled Peng Chaodong up, and looked into Peng Chaodong's eyes, "I want you to live, you are not allowed to die, after the war in Liaodong is over, there are still many places that need you." Da Zhao needs you as a governor, and I need you even more as a governor! ”

Song Yuren's words, Peng Chaodong burst into tears. (To be continued.) )