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"In your opinion, we should cut military spending for now, reduce the army, and focus on economic development?" Philip V, after a moment of thought, seemed to accept the advice of his close friend and new prime minister. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

"I don't think it's necessary to reduce the army for the time being, after all, there are still unsubjugated Baiyin barbarians in our north, and the empire is a military power in the eastern continent, and reducing the number of troops at this time will also damage the image of the empire, the minister just thinks that the empire can completely avoid those unnecessary and worthless battles, and focus on strengthening the regular training of the army, which is enough to save a lot of money, and in the next few years, follow the example of the northwest under Li Wufeng, and shift the focus to economic developmentPokaninsky put forward a thoughtful proposal.

"What if Mott doesn't change his surname and invades our west again?" was the question that Philip V had been worried about.

This is exactly the problem that the minister intends to solve in this negotiation with Su Qin. However, in the opinion of the ministers, as long as we can convince Li Wufeng to restrain the Motts and the Tubu, these should not be a problem, and of course this will require us to make some concessions. "Pokaninski is confident.

"Hmm, but would those nomadic barbarians listen to Li Wufeng so honestly?" It seems that Fili V was deeply disturbed by the attack of the Motts, and he was still not very comfortable with this issue.

"Your Majesty, we have just missed a point, the reason why the Mott and Tubu people surrendered to Li Wufeng's feet is not entirely the result of Li Wufeng's complete suppression of military strength, but more importantly, both the Mote and Tubu people have been completely assimilated and controlled by the Northwest economically, and the entire Mott and Tubu people have been integrated into the powerful and dynamic economic circle of the Northwest, and their people have become accustomed to selling their livestock and other other goods to the Northwest merchants, and then obtaining from the Northwest Merchants a variety of Northwest commodities that are far richer than at any time before, and they can no longer adapt to the life of losing the transit link of the Northwest。 In this case, do you say that the Motts and the Tubu can be the only ones to lead the way?" Pokaninski believed that this was the most important factor in the Northwest's victory over and control of these two tribes.

After a long silence, Fili V stood up heavily, patted his prime minister on the shoulder, and said with some regret: "Maybe you are right, we need a good environment for development, but we have delayed too many opportunities for development, we can not delay any longer, just do according to your opinion, as long as we can win a period of peace and environment, even if we make some concessions, it is tolerable." ”

"Your Majesty doesn't have to worry too much, since Li Wufeng wants to get involved in the melee in the Central Plains of the Tang River Empire, he won't have much direct conflict of interest with us in a short period of time, and his involvement in the Central Plains is not something that can be seen in a year or two, we can just get a buffer period to rest, as long as we restore and develop the national strength, whether it is the Mote people, the Baiyin people, or the Tanghe people, as long as we have the strength, many things may not be as complicated and difficult as we imagined!" Pokaninski also stood up, puffed up his not thick chest, and said proudly.

The early autumn of Kansai is particularly beautiful, piles of haystacks can be seen everywhere in the rice fields after the harvest, the farmers and peasant women who are busy with the end of the farm finally ushered in a rare leisure season, this time may be the most idle period of time for the farmers who make a living from farming, until the spring festival, they can stay in the teahouse, in the woods, by the ditch to enjoy the cool rest, play cards and engage in some small gambling, the reserve soldiers generally also practice during this time, and a few hard-working people take advantage of this time to start a small business, grain trading, winemaking, carpentry, Building houses and buying and selling haberdashery are the most common businesses in the villages, and it has become the best time for some farmers to earn extra income.

"It's time for the general attack!" an officer shouted as he rushed into the command post and waved his hand.

"When?"

"Tonight? or tomorrow morning?"

"But if you are tired of waiting for Lao Tzu, if you don't work loosely, people will be sick. ”

The command post immediately became lively like a fried pot. The officers, who had been lazy, all suddenly became energetic and surrounded the officers who rushed into the command post.

"Probably tonight, just now I met an acquaintance of mine, he was a senior staff officer at the corps headquarters, I heard him say, I just received an urgent report from the fast horse, I heard that the Sanjiang side made the first move, I don't know if the Maqi Khan people fought with the Lin family first, now the general command post is convening a meeting of the division commander, when I came back, I saw the division commander and the chief of staff were busy getting on the horse to the command post, it is estimated that we went to receive the order, it seems that our division is in the first line. The panting officer was busy explaining.

"Okay, it's finally time to wait, and it's almost crazy to be in this mountain forest all day. ”

"If you want to do it as soon as possible, stay here, and no matter how well you do the secrecy work, I'm afraid it won't be able to hide it for long. ”

"Yes, it's better to start in advance, if the Maqi Khan people are willing to cooperate, they will cooperate, if they don't cooperate, let's fight the same, Lao Tzu doesn't believe that he Lin family can be a top three if he has an army?"

A burst of unbridled shouts vented the dissatisfaction of this group of men, and it was clear that staying in this remote ravine for a long time had made these men extremely impatient, and they were eager to vent their long-stored depression with battle. They are looking forward to a war, a big war where their identity can be fully revealed.

Two hours later, the officers who received the order quickly entered a state of imminent battle, and their usual lazy appearance disappeared without a trace, replaced by infinite fighting spirit and killing intention, and the soldiers mobilized their fighting spirit in the shortest possible time, and finally could bid farewell to this nest of mountains for several months, and what awaited them would be the fate of the soldiers.

On the night of September 5, 697 in the mainland Gregorian calendar, almost at the same time, the 100,000 troops quietly assembled in the mountains between Bashan and Lujiang Prefecture divided into two roads and left Pingyang Valley and Wangyue Slope in the easternmost part of Bashan Prefecture, and went straight to Lujiang Fucheng, which was located on the bank of the Lujiang River.

On the southern front, one division went east by boat and conquered several towns along the riverbank, while the other division followed along the river by land. Within three days, the three divisions of the northern front connected several important passes in the west of the Lujiang River. Although the Lin family had two divisions and regiments stationed in Lujiang Prefecture, because they were worried that the movements of the 100,000-strong army of the Maqi Khans in the east were unknown and that they might advance westward to attack the city of Lujiang Prefecture, Lin Yunfei, who had already taken over Lin Guowei and was in charge of the defense of the Lujiang River, withdrew three wings of a division and regiment that had been deployed at Cuiping Pass, the most important pass in the west, leaving only two wings to be responsible for defense.

After a day and a night of hard fighting, Cuiping Pass fell, and more than 8,000 soldiers of the two wings of the first division of the Sanjiang Second Army Corps did not survive, while the two attacking divisions in Tiannan still paid the price of nearly 18,000 casualties to achieve this disastrous victory. However, after this battle, the Lin family was unable to organize an effective defense in the west of the Lujiang River, and the southern part of the sky was like a bamboo, and it took only three days to sweep the entire west and north of the Lujiang River.

On September 10, the Tiannan Army and the naval army responsible for the water defense of the Lujiang River encountered the Lujiang River 20 miles away from the Lujiang Fucheng, and the two sides engaged in the first large-scale water battle. Although the Tiannan Navy occupies the advantage of Shangshui, but the sudden southeast wind makes the already precarious Sanjiang Navy fleet turn victory into defeat, the Lin family Navy uses small boats filled with tung oil and fire materials to launch a counterattack on the Tiannan Navy by the wind, the Tiannan Navy is mostly transferred from the army, does not know how to fight the water, the fleet is mostly arranged in a dense formation, and can not disperse in time after being attacked by fire, and the officer in charge of commanding the Navy fleet only cares about putting down the boat to escape in panic, resulting in the loss of fighters, and more than 20 ships were burned, and the Sanjiang Navy took the opportunity to attack, the Tiannan side suffered heavy casualties, as many as 8,000 people burned or drowned, and the fleet lost most of it。

However, the victory of the Sanjiang Lin family in the battle on the water could not restore the situation of the Lujiang River, after the Tiannan side was frustrated in the water offensive, decisively gave up the water offensive, and concentrated on the army with more than three divisions of troops from the north to attack the city of Lujiang by land, the battle was extremely fierce, Lin Yunfei was worried that he could not explain to his father after finding out that he had made a mistake in Cuiping Pass, and he personally boarded the city of Lujiang to supervise the battle, and never went down the city tower for three consecutive days. But this was not enough to resist the Tiannan Army, which had a superior military strength, and after the Tiannan side set up with the remnants of the empire in the Lujiang Prefecture garrison, the already crumbling defense system of Lujiang Prefecture City was finally broken, and on September 19, after five days of hard fighting, the first army of Tiannan was the first, The third and second divisions captured the Lujiang River almost at the same time, but before that, Lin Yunfei had already taken advantage of the night to quietly cross the Lujiang River with the remnants of the two wings with the help of the naval fleet, break through the interception of the small Tiannan army, and join the Sanjiang army that came to meet in the southeast of the Lujiang River, and fled back to Sanjiang in embarrassment.

After half a month of tug-of-war, the battle for Lujiang finally came to an end marked by the fall of Lujiang Fucheng, in this battle, the two sides used more than 150,000 troops, and finally only two wings of the two divisions of the Lin family in Sanjiang fled back to Sanjiang, and the Lang family also paid the loss of more than 40,000 people in the two elite divisions, but the Lang family occupied the Lujiang River, and the main force of the two divisions of the Lin family in Hanzhong was firmly locked in the Hanzhong Basin, becoming a lone army without any foreign aid.

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