"Your Highness, the minister has something to say!" Gongsun Ao, who had just been dumbfounded, stood up again.

He couldn't intervene in Li Guangli's affairs, and he was too lazy to take care of it.

But no matter what, he is also an old minister, even if he has no credit, at least he has hard work.

Gongsun Ao also knew what kind of strength he was, so he never took the initiative to mention that he saved Wei Qing, and that incident also allowed him to get enough favors, and then he opened his mouth to mention that matter, it would seem that he was a little too dissatisfied.

But even if Gongsun Ao didn't mention that matter, no one needed to mention how important it was for Dahan to save Wei Qing.

Even if his Gongsun Ao is a waste now, you can not listen to what I say, but you can't slap me so incompletely in public?

Doesn't my Gongsun Ao want to save face?

"General Gongsun, please speak!" Liu Ponu smiled and squinted his eyes, and responded lightly.

"Although there are various reasons for Li Guangli's defeat, let's not mention these reasons for the time being, but if His Highness insists on sending troops to the expedition immediately, then he has to consider other factors!" Gongsun Ao incarnated as a clever figure, and made a serious suggestion.

What if you leave the army for more than a decade?

I've fought enough battles, I've seen enough that even if I can't lead my troops to victory, at least I can understand the situation.

"The biggest consequence of the defeat of the Western Regions is that it will make the countries of the Western Regions subconsciously think that the Han is not as powerful as they imagined, at least in this part of the Western Regions, compared to the Huns who relocated their families, the threat that the Han people can bring to them is secondary."

"And with Li Guangli's defeat first, the countries of the Western Regions will naturally understand this, if His Royal Highness is determined to go on an expedition, the minister suggests that more troops should be sent, so as to ensure that the Han army will not fall into the situation of being outnumbered in the Western Regions, and whether it is a siege of the city, or from the aspect of momentum, or to go to the Huns to ask for military rations, the probability of success will be greater."

"Although the new army is very strong, after all, the new army has not experienced the test of actual combat, and the new army has not been formed for a long time, although the minister does not have a deep understanding of the new army, but according to many years of experience in the army, it is difficult to complete the whole training and tactical training of an army in such a short period of time."

"Moreover, since the formation of the new army, the minister has never heard of the news that the new army went out of the barracks to train, so in order to prevent the new army from repeating Li Guangli's mistakes, the minister suggested that His Royal Highness send more troops...... "Gongsun Ao silently made a small calculation in his heart.

Aren't you very awesome to go on the expedition?

Go!

Go for it!

Whoever stands in your way is a grandson!

Not only will I not stop you, but I will also give you an arch fire, of course, not the kind of brainless arch fire, but a reasonable and well-founded arch fire, so that even if you know what I mean, you will have nothing to say.

"Your Highness, the minister thinks that what General Gongsun said is reasonable, after all, the new army has just been established, and no one knows what the combat effectiveness is, so it would be more prudent to send some troops as a countermeasure......

"Yes, Your Highness, this battle will be fought sooner or later, but no matter when we fight, we can only win and not lose, once defeated, the imperial court will have no prestige in the Western Regions......"

"Your Highness, the minister thinks that the new army can stop in Dunhuang first to speed up training, and the imperial court will immediately recruit soldiers, and when the soldiers in the later period arrive, they will join forces to expedition to the Western Regions together......"

Looking at the people below, Liu Ponu couldn't help but sneer in his heart.

Of course, Liu Ponu did not blame them.

How awesome the new army is, it is all blown out by itself now, and it is not blowing every day, but it is just a matter of properly cheering up the new army and raising everyone's expectations.

The New Army had not experienced actual combat, and it was obviously unrealistic to have these ministers in the court fully trust them.

But send additional troops?

If I am not mistaken, this is indeed the case in history, and Li Guangli waited outside the Yumen Pass for more than a year before waiting for the second opportunity to go on the expedition.

In other words, it took the imperial court a year to recruit 100,000 troops in the country and raise enough grain and grass, which once again opened the road of revenge.

Although there were some small episodes in this battle, for example, because of Li Guangli's blind self-confidence, the captain Wang Shensheng was defeated and killed by Yu Chengcheng, and in the end, it was the captain of Sooli who broke through Yu Chengcheng and captured Yu Chengwang alive, which can be regarded as the end of this matter.

Well, Shangguan Jian has a son named Shangguan An, and the eldest daughter of Huo Guang in history, who is Liu Ponu's current crown princess, will marry Shangguan An in a few years......

In any case, Liu Ponu did not think that he would become a tyrant.

Of course, we will not allow opposing voices to appear, let alone speak out to anger them because they don't know the inside story.

Things have developed to the way they are now, and of course Liu Ponu is too lazy to explain anything, let alone brag about how awesome the new army is.

He blew 10,000 sentences here, it is better for the new army to go to the front to fight a battle, only victory can bring more confidence to people.

"The country must be raised, the people must rest, but this battle must also be fought, 20,000 new troops can eat up the resources needed by 200,000 cavalry in a year, if they can't give full play to the effect that more than 100,000 cavalry can bring, then what is the use of the new army of the Han Dynasty?" Liu Ponu responded very domineeringly, and did not give a single word of explanation except for this sentence.

But there are many, many meanings in this sentence.

Liu Ponu at the court meeting didn't speak much, but he said all the meanings, basically not a word of nonsense.

As soon as he came up, he first defined Li Guangli's sex, and he didn't care what Liu Che would do with him, anyway, in Liu Ponu's place, Li Guangli couldn't escape the charge of defeat.

Of course, Liu Ponu was not unable to accept defeat, he had not yet longed for victory in the war to the point of losing his mind.

How can you walk by the river without getting your shoes wet?

It is a common thing that there are mutual victories and defeats in wars, and what Liu Ponu hated was that Li Guangli knew that the supplies were not enough, and he chose the worst way to deal with them under the premise that he could not get enough food from the countries of the Western Regions.

If it sounds good, it is called the person in charge of the soldiers, but if it is not good, it is afraid of war.

Liu Ponu allows defeat and death, and he can even accept the annihilation of the whole army, but he can't accept a meaningless death.

Liu Ponu dealt with Li Guangli's matter, no matter what the final result was, at least his attitude was revealed, so all the generals of the Han Dynasty would like to express their gratitude to Li Guangli, and it was he who used his own flesh and blood to help them test where Liu Ponu's bottom line was.

And Liu Ponu said that if you go abroad, you must raise it, the people must rest, and you must fight the war, this sentence made many people feel confused.

War and recuperation are two ideas that are in conflict, how can they be perfectly combined?

And Liu Ponu's answer is that the new army can do this.

Let the Han carry out an expedition to support an army of 100,000 people, then there is no doubt that the entire Han will enter a period of decline because of this.

But if it's 20,000 people, the impact is really not big.

Although the new army has eaten a lot of resources, those are dispensable resources in comparison, which is nothing more than to slow down the speed of the development of the Great Han, but no matter how it falls, he will at most stop progressing, and will not enter the rhythm of regression.

What is most needed in war is population, food, so providing 20,000 people to eat and drink is a completely different concept than providing 100,000 people to eat and drink.

Liu Ponu's ideals are beautiful, but new problems have also arisen......

"Shang Shuling, you are closer to His Highness, and you have given us some insight into it, is the new army really that strong?" After the dispersal of the dynasty, officials of sufficient rank began to surround Huo Guang, and those who were not of sufficient level quietly stretched out their ears on the periphery and listened carefully.

"The old man doesn't know whether the new army is strong or not, His Royal Highness rarely mentions things about the new army to the old man......" Huo Guang shook his head, not that he wanted to pretend to be forced, but that he really didn't know anything about the new army.

Huo Guang was very cautious in the past, but now he has become the prince's father-in-law, the future father-in-law, Huo Guang knows better than anyone else that he has to be a man with his tail between his legs from now on.

Otherwise, whether it is Liu Che or Liu Ponu, he can teach him to be a new person in minutes.

"Hey......" Hearing Huo Guang's answer, everyone sighed in disappointment.

I didn't expect that Li Guangli would not come back sooner or later, but he came back in such an embarrassing period when the emperor left.

According to the emperor's itinerary, this trip will take half a year to a year, and now it has just passed four months, which means that the emperor may have just returned now, or he may have gone farther and farther to set off towards the goal of a year.

Although the emperor is belligerent, they usually stop it openly and secretly, but the emperor is still a little forced in his heart.

No matter how much the emperor tried, it was impossible for him to send a new army of 20,000 who had not yet formed an army like Liu Ponu to expedition to the Western Regions.

"But......" Just when everyone was disappointed and sad, Huo Guang suddenly spoke again.

Everyone hurriedly cheered up and looked at Huo Guang again, everyone likes to use the turning technique, but if no one cares, they especially want to strangle Huo Guang, a shameless guy, now.

"We can't always think about the bad side, we have to think about the good side too, right? How the combat effectiveness of the new army still needs to be tested by war, but at least the new army is not useless, if the new army is not available, then their vehicles can also be used as a sharp weapon for transporting materials in the future, the number of materials that originally required dozens of people to be transported, now a car and two people can do it, and the loss on the way has been reduced by almost a hundred times, right? ”

"That is to say, as long as this trip to the new army can prove that the truck can be used, even if they are wiped out, it will be a great achievement for the Han, and in the future, the Han will send out 200,000, 300,000, even if the 500,000 army is not afraid, with this thing, we only need 10% of people to ensure the transportation to meet the needs of the front line!"

"Besides, the new army's equipment is full of new gadgets, and I heard that even the tactics are newly researched, whether this thing can be used, whether it is good or not, you have to find a place to try it, right? Maybe there will be some surprises? ”