"Stop the march!" Li Junxian shouted.

Then, the heralds of the various units began to give orders, and then the whole army stopped.

"Let's go! Let's go to the Great Wall and have a look! Li Junxian said.

Li Junxian came to the Great Wall with high-level officers, looking at this empty Great Wall, Li Junxian was full of emotion.

"Back then, I went to the Great Wall in Beijing with the purpose of playing, but now I have come to the Great Wall in Shanxi with the purpose of conquest, and there is a big difference." Li Junxian thought secretly.

In later generations, Li Junxian visited the Great Wall as a tourist, and at that time, the border troubles in the north had completely disappeared, and Mongolia had become a province of China. Compared to here, the various ethnic groups in later generations were still relatively harmonious, and there were no national wars. And this time is different, the war between the steppe peoples and the farming peoples is almost every day, and it is inevitable.

"What do you think of?" Li Junxian asked.

Su Dingfang first said: "General Li, I don't think the Great Wall can defend the steppe peoples at all. The steppe peoples can concentrate their forces at any time, break through a point of our Great Wall defense line, and then enter the Central Plains to plunder. ”

"You're analyzing it from a military point of view, and that's good. From the perspective of military science, the Great Wall is difficult to defend against the steppe peoples. However, if we don't build the Great Wall, it will be even more difficult for us to defend it. So, the Great Wall is also a stupid idea. Li Junxian said.

Li Junxian also believes that the Great Wall has been very poor in its defense of the grassland peoples since ancient times, and it cannot really defend the grassland peoples. The steppe peoples didn't just break through the Great Wall once, and then attack the Han people to raid the land. It can be seen that the Great Wall is not a good way to defend the steppe peoples. What can really defend against the grassland peoples is the strength of the country itself, not the one that can defend against the grassland peoples by relying on a line of defense. If the army is not strong, then no matter how good the line of defense is, it will be in vain. Later, the Maginot Line in France claimed to never fall, but once the Germans bypassed the Maginot Line. Isn't France just being slaughtered? And France's military strength is not good, so it will naturally be slaughtered. If France had been militarily strong, the Germans would never have had the courage to attack without the Maginot Line.

"General Li, from this Great Wall, I saw that Qin Shi Huang worked hard and lost money back then, but he was unable to defend against the grassland peoples. In order to build the Great Wall, the country's financial resources were exhausted, and as a result, the world rebelled everywhere. It can be said that the Great Wall was one of the reasons for the fall of the Qin state. If the real military strength is strong, the Great Wall is not needed at all to defend against the Turks. Ma Zhou said.

Li Junxian said: "Although what he said is good. But there are some scholars who have the opinion. The situation was different between the Qin Dynasty and the present, and the Qin Dynasty may have thought that building the Great Wall was the best way to defend it. Because, the range of the Qin Dynasty's bow and crossbow is not as strong as ours. Moreover, the Qin Dynasty's bow and crossbow rate of fire and the demand for soldiers were very high. A good pair of crossbows takes a long time to unleash, which reduces the rate of fire. And our crossbow has a long range, and we have pulleys, so an ordinary person can pull this crossbow. In this case. The rate of fire of the bow and crossbow and the density of the rain of arrows are much larger, and it is completely possible to defend against the attack of the steppe cavalry. However, during the Qin Dynasty, although it was also used in triple stacks. However, the density of their arrows was not as dense as ours, so this caused them to build the Great Wall to delay the enemy's attack. But now we have three stacks of fire, plus artillery. In this way, it will be easy to fight the steppe peoples. So. At that time, when the weapons and equipment were not good, they could only be guarded by building the Great Wall. However, our weapons and equipment are much more advanced. That's why you can have the confidence to defeat the enemy. ”

"Then if the Qin State used the money from the construction of the Great Wall to research new military equipment at that time, then maybe the Qin State would not have perished." Ma Zhou said with some pity.

Li Junxian shook his head and said, "Ma Zhou, you will be a prime minister in the future, don't look at history so naïvely." Even if the Qin Dynasty used the cost of researching the Great Wall to study equipment, it would not be possible to achieve the effect we have now. The development of any weaponry is based on the foundation of our ancestors. There were no stirrups in the Qin state, and later someone invented the stirrups. And vicious things are coming step by step, and it is impossible to develop by jumping. It's like a person who doesn't even learn words, but actually composes poetry? This is obviously not realistic. At least, I haven't heard of such people. If it weren't for the development of me since the Xia, Shang, Zhou, Qin and Han dynasties, I wouldn't have been able to make gunpowder, horseshoes, and pulley crossbows. I made this on the basis of my predecessors, and if it was the Qin Dynasty, it would be impossible to get it, and no matter how much money I spent, I couldn't get it. It is impossible to jump in the development of military equipment. Li Junxian said.

However, Li Junxian added in his heart: "If there is a traverser, it is an exception." ”

"Thank you, General Lee, for your teachings! But, General Li, what do you think of this Great Wall? Ma Zhou asked.

Li Junxian thought for a moment and said: "Although the Great Wall helps us resist the attack of the grassland peoples, it also blocks our own motivation to open up. Since we built the Great Wall in China, we have been passive in defense of the grasslands, and we have rarely taken the initiative to attack. And because of this, our pioneering spirit in China has been completely lost. With this Great Wall, it seems that we have completely lost the courage to open the door to meet the enemy, and we can only be an ostrich at home alone. But once the enemy attacks, then we can only be unprepared to be slaughtered. Therefore, this Great Wall is the driving force that blocks our exploration, and also blocks our courage to attack, and it also makes us seriously unprepared for crises. From the point of view of military science, the advantages of this Great Wall outweigh the disadvantages. However, in terms of national spirit, this Great Wall will do more harm than good. ”

Although Li Junxian made two comparisons, his meaning was obvious. Because military science is only a microscopic concept, but the national spirit is a macroscopic concept, once the two are compared, then we can find out what Li Junxian means. How can an army of a time be compared with the spirit of the nation?

"Thank you, General Lee, for your teachings!" The generals present all bowed one after another, indicating that they had accepted the teachings.

"Okay, let's go back, we're going to cross the Great Wall and take the initiative to attack the Turks." Li Junxian said.

Everyone also returned to the barracks, ready to lead the army out to the grassland. (To be continued......)