Seeing that Bai Yi'an's last imperial strategy was spoken, and the ministers in the hall faintly agreed, Shen Qiu finally couldn't sit still and stood up to speak.

"Wu Anhou's strategy is indeed a safe plan for the country."

Shen Qiu first affirmed the practicality and correctness of Bai Yi'an's last strategy, and then changed his words and said: "But blindly shrinking and avoiding it can't be stopped, but it is too much to destroy your own ambition, and the Changchu people are majestic."

If it is spread out and let the people of the world know, won't everyone think that I, Ning Guo, am afraid of Chu thieves?

Therefore, it is not possible to retreat the army in desperation.

Although we want to withdraw, we can't withdraw like this, and we have to pay attention to strategy. ”

Speaking of this, Shen Qiu paused, then looked at the ministers looking down, his eyes focused on Bai Yi'an and paused, before continuing: "The Marquis of Wu'an has just mentioned a total of two strategies for Yu Chu, and in my opinion, these two strategies actually have merits, but they are a little too paranoid and extreme.

It is not a decisive battle to gamble on everything, or to give up all the conservatism, and to fight extremely defensively, which is to lose the golden mean.

However, if the two strategies are combined, taking advantage of their strengths and discarding their weaknesses, it is a feasible and good policy.

I thought that Wu Anhou's first strategy was actually not bad.

My Daning has a deep national strength, and the forces mobilized on the battlefield now are far from doing their best, so that the Chu thieves can succeed.

If the army in the rear is mobilized, it may not be impossible to compete with the Chu thieves.

In the camp of Yuzhang Peng Li, our army still has 100,000 soldiers and horses, as well as two martial marquis, this kind of strength is enough to open one or two more battlefields.

I wanted to divide the soldiers in the camp into two armies, each led by another martial marquis, and attacked the two prefectures of Hengyang and Luyang in the state of Chu respectively.

These two prefectures are the same as Changsha, although they claim to have 100,000 people, but most of them are just recruited people, and the main force of Chu thieves left behind is actually not much, all of them are only 20,000 forbidden troops, or county government soldiers.

Now in the state of Chu, the innate grandmaster who can still be mobilized, with Sun Siwen, the country's left minister, rushed to Changsha to support, and there is no spare strength.

At most, I heard that a concubine who was newly incorporated into the palace by the land thief seems to be a cult spirit girl of the Snow Plains, and it seems that she is also a figure at the level of an innate grandmaster.

But that's all there is to it.

Even if the land thief sends it out, he will not lose a mansion at most, and in Luyang and Hengyang, there is still a mansion that lacks the innate grandmaster to guard.

Therefore, if there are two Wuhou leading troops to attack these two mansions, with the power of the Wuhou and the strength of my Daning elite soldiers, it is very possible to attack the two mansions without a grandmaster.

The two roads of soldiers and horses, as long as one way can be successful, can enter the hinterland of Chu.

In this way, there is a force of soldiers and horses to kill in Dongting, Zhongnan cannot, and the Chu thief will be directly defeated at that time, but it can also be forced to draw soldiers and horses from the front line and return to the country for rescue.

At that time, here on the Jiangxia frontline, there will be a large army led by me to watch, and the land thieves will not dare to lead the army to retreat.

Otherwise, I took advantage of the situation to cover up and kill and lost Jiangxia City, so I could fight my troops and directly besiege the capital of his country, Baling.

Therefore, the army of Jiangxia, the Chu thieves will not dare to move.

If he wanted to save the country, he had to transfer troops from Jiangbei or Lingnan to return.

At that time, no matter which place in Jiangbei and Lingnan is transferred back, it can alleviate the pressure on our coalition forces on the battlefield there.

The army of Jiangbei will return to help, and Wu Xuanhou can take advantage of the situation to recover Anlu Mansion, and I will allocate another army and horses to go over, so that Xiangyang County can be stabilized.

The army of Lingnan returned to help, and the South China Sea or the Soviet Union might be able to take the opportunity to recover the lost land.

At that time, when the land of Lingnan is regrouped, it will still be able to set a nail to restrain the energy of the Chu thief, so that it will not be able to go east with all its strength and attack our Ning country.

Therefore, if this strategy is successful, it is impossible to say to Wu Anhou that he will have a thunderbolt to sweep the holes, destroy the Chu thieves in one fell swoop, and restore the land in the south of the Yangtze River.

But it can also re-stabilize the current declining battle situation, and continue to hold on to the Chu thief.

As long as it can be supported, it will drag on for a few years, and when the northern Zhou State has finished dealing with the invasion of the Fan and Wei people, it will have the spare strength to meddle in the affairs of southern Xinjiang.

Or send people to the southwest to hook up the two Yi kingdoms of Dali and Nanzhao, so that they can cause chaos behind the Chu thieves.

No matter which of the two places makes any changes, it will definitely cause a fire in the rear of the Chu State, and it will be difficult to support the front and rear, so it will have to spend a lot of troops and horses to deal with it.

In this way, the soldiers and horses that the Chu thieves can use on the front line will also be greatly weakened, and they can no longer maintain such an invincible offensive as they are now, so they have to turn to defense.

At that time, relying on the strong national strength of our Daning, we may be able to take advantage of the wartime, when the Chu State is busy with the rear and cannot take care of the front line.

Through the means of war assistance, they annexed the South China Sea, the Soviet Union, the Song Dynasty and other countries one by one.

If we can collect the three countries of Lingnan, I Daning will be able to get the land of the four counties and six or seven million people.

In this way, counting the original land of my Daning, the territory can reach the width of nine counties, and the number of Li Shu under his rule can increase to more than 23 million, and the people in the territory are twice as many as the thieves.

With this foundation, even if it is purely consumed, it will be able to give birth to time-consuming thieves. ”

Shen Qiu was full of confidence, and told the ministers his improved first strategy of Yuchu.

I have to say that according to his vision, and the future prospects after the success of the vision, it is indeed extremely tempting.

At least, on the surface, the success rate of this strategy is quite large.

Moreover, compared to Bai Yi'an's original version of the adventurous strategy, after the improvement of Shenqiu, only the 100,000 soldiers and horses of Peng Li, who was originally intended to be sent to the battlefield, were much better than those in terms of reliability.

But as Shen Qiu said, it is more moderate and safe.

"Your Majesty is wise enough to come up with such a miracle."

"If this plan is successful, the Chu thief will be destroyed, and it will be just around the corner."

"The attack and destruction of the Chu State in the coming day is all the credit of Your Majesty's strategy today."

In the hall, some courtiers who tended to be safe, or who were Shen Qiu's henchmen, began to sing praises and boast about this strategy.

And hiding in some groups of courtiers who did not have an attachment, Bai Yi'an couldn't help but be even more disappointed when he saw this scene.

As a veteran who has followed his grandfather and has a military career of more than ten years, how can he not see that the golden mean that His Majesty said is too taken for granted.

It's like talking on paper.

All kinds of plans are feasible, if everything can be implemented smoothly as he said, then Chu Thief is indeed defeated.

But the question is, can this really be the case?

Or, would the Chu thief really be so stupid and do what Shen Qiu envisioned?

The first step of the Shenqiu deduction was to send two Wuhou to lead the army and attack the two mansions of Luyang and Hengyang in the state of Chu.

Let's not talk about a martial marquis leading 50,000 soldiers and horses, can he take down a big city with 100,000 people to hold on?

It is said that it can be defeated, but when the Chu thief is in danger, will he not send reinforcements?

Here in Dongting, the Chu thief really only has one concubine who can be mobilized.

But in the land of Lingnan, especially in the land of the Su Kingdom, the Chu thieves have gathered more than 200,000 soldiers and horses, which are full of four innate grandmasters.

Correspondingly, it is mainly the tens of thousands of remnants led by Su Xuange in the city, as well as the soldiers and horses of the Su State led by Xie Ning who fled back to China in a hurry.

Combined, the strength of these two countries is already inferior to that of the local Chu army.

Therefore, the Chu thief had all the spare strength to withdraw a soldier and horse from the battlefield, and one or two innate grandmasters to support the Dongting battle.

As long as this part of the power is brought back, then everything Shen Qiu said will be just a joke.

The two Wuhou who divided their troops to attack Luyang and Hengyang, let alone break through these two mansions.

Don't let the Chu thieves take the opportunity to find an opportunity to surround and annihilate them in turn, thank God.

As for the so-called holding each other for a few years, waiting for the Zhou people and the Nanxi Yi people to move, such hopes of winning and placing their hopes on others are ridiculous.

The Zhou people were attacked by the Wei and Fan people year after year, and their behavior was even worse than that of the Ning State, maybe in two years, the news of the destruction of the Zhou State came, and Bai Yi'an was not surprised at all.

You are too busy to take care of yourself, and you still expect the Zhou people to save you?

And the Southwest Yi people are just a group of lost dogs who were interrupted by Chu thieves.

One by one, they changed their colors, counting on them to jump out, even if they did, Bai Yi'an didn't think they could make much of a fuss.

Therefore, I can't save myself, and I still expect others to save me, do you really think everyone is a good person?

In other words, can everyone who comes to the rescue be useful?

The so-called golden mean is just a joke.

Therefore, from the very beginning, Bai Yi'an never thought of relying on others to win the Chu State.

Even if you really want to rely on the power of others, it is only a small use, and you have never really had high hopes.

Like Shen Qiu, placing everything on the ethereal others is really incomprehensible.

Alas, I think that the ancestors crossed the river to the south and went to Jinling, and it took thousands of years to overcome obstacles and obstacles all the way, which opened up the prosperity of Yangzhou today.

But when it came to my generation, today's Jinling Emperor, in the face of a strong enemy, did not think about how to work hard and fight against thieves.

On the contrary, he pondered these crooked ways, and all the ministers in the court also agreed with them and cited them as good strategies.

Have the children of my Linhai family all fallen to this?

Will the inheritance of our ancestors perish at the hands of my generation? ’

Bai Yi'an couldn't help but feel very sad in his heart when he gave birth to so many thoughts, and then looked at this flattering and complacent words, and felt more and more unbearable.

However, although he was dissatisfied and complaining, he did not express his thoughts, and tried to prevent and refute Shen Qiu's so-called "golden mean".

Because he knows that the whole family group chooses to fall and escape from reality.

Standing up against it at this time, exposing the power and peace of this irony will not be of any use at all except to attract the hostility and shame of everyone.

Instead of letting the main battle faction that he represents, and these degenerate main peace factions, have a civil strife and self-weakening first.

It's better to let them do what they want first.

After the final hit on the head broke and bled out, and all illusions were punctured.

Maybe these degenerate lords and conservatives will recognize the reality and know that against the Chu thief, there must not be the slightest luck.

At that time, he will be ordered to be in danger, and he may be able to unite the power of the whole country, concentrate all his forces, and go all out to compete with the Chu State.

At that time, in the face of the Chu State, which was definitely further powerful, maybe they had a family of six surnames and seven clans, and they could still maintain the Jiangdong foundation, and not cut off the ancestral temple and incense.

As long as the foundation of Jiangdong can be preserved, then perhaps as His Majesty said, if it drags on for a period of time, it will usher in a turnaround.

Of course, this time is not a year or two later, when the Zhou people or Yiren have a change.

But a hundred years later, the catastrophe of heaven and earth came, sweeping the four poles of Kyushu.

At that time, in the face of this disaster that affected all living beings in the world, the Chu State naturally couldn't take care of the Ning State, and it was impossible for it to fight for a piece of wasteland that was destined to be destroyed under this catastrophe.

The only way for Chu and Ning to survive was to break through to the north and lay down the land of Zhongzhou, where the Liang State was located, in order to survive.

At that time, maybe Chu Ning can also turn the conflict into jade silk, and work together to go on a northern expedition.

In this way, even if you have really survived this catastrophe, you have preserved the design of the temple of the six surnames and seven clans.

The above is still based on the real way to break the situation in Bai Yi's peace of mind under various actions today, and the only way out for the six surnames and seven clans.

Therefore, after the previous decisive battle strategy was rejected, he proposed the same extremely conservative strategy.

In order to preserve the foundation of Jiangdong, in order to survive until a hundred years later, the last chance of the catastrophe came.

However, with such a sober cognition, looking at the attitude of many court ministers in the hall, and even the emperor's son of heaven, I know that these people cannot accept it.

At least they won't accept it until they hit their heads and bleed and recognize the reality.

Therefore, before this, Bai Yi'an didn't bother to talk to these people, so he watched his own performances one by one.

And his attitude, after being seen by Shen Qiu and the ministers, was even more proud.

I feel that this Wu'an Hou has recognized this golden mean, and even because of the huge gap between the two sides, he was born with the idea of being ashamed of his appearance, so he didn't come out to offer ugliness.

So proudly, Shen Qiu waved his hand, stopped the flattery of the important ministers, and turned his head to look at the accompanying important ministers, Han Quanhui, who was ranked in the military department of the central government, and said: "Han Qing, you are the chief officer of the military department, and the military department is responsible for the recruitment of domestic soldiers and horses, the allocation of materials, and the training of personnel.

In the past, Wu Anhou's first strategy, I have made the mean.

The second policy, recruiting soldiers and horses in the country, can also be implemented in a modest.

With the national strength that I have cultivated for more than ten years, I can indeed recruit an army of one million again.

However, after raising a million troops, with the savings of the current treasury, it can be maintained for several decades at most, and it is difficult to last for a long time.

Therefore, there are too many millions, and I thought that I could cut them, so I took a compromise method and reduced them from one million to 500,000.

With 500,000 new troops, plus the old army now, I have 1.3 million soldiers and horses in Daning.

In this way, even if the first policy of moderation changed by the widow failed, it was broken by the Chu thieves, and the soldiers were lost again.

But the remaining remnants of the army retreated to the country and joined the Zhongxiong army in the country, so there were only a million soldiers and horses left, which happened to be at a scale that my Daning's finances could maintain for a long time.

There are millions of people guarding the territory, which is enough to ensure that the foundation of Jiangdong is worry-free. ”

Shen Qiu also aimed at Bai Yi'an's second strategy, and came to a moderate transformation.

directly reduced the scale of the original expansion of one million troops to only half of 500,000.

As he said, this is a supplement to the first policy of the mean.

If the implementation of the first strategy fails, then after the loss of the army, lead the remnants of the army back to the country, and Ningguo can also maintain a million male soldiers.

With such a huge force, under the single-minded defense, from the bright side, it can indeed keep Jiangdong from losing.

Didn't the Zhou State in the north rely on about 1.2 million soldiers and horses to carry the siege of the Fanren, Wei, and Liang to the present?

And they are in Ningguo, and the conditions are much better than those of Zhou.

Now that the catastrophe of heaven and earth is about to come, Yangzhou, Jiangnan, which does not belong to the land of Zhongzhou, is unattractive to Liangguo in Jiangbei.

It is impossible to covet the two counties of Henan and Nanyang in the Zhou Kingdom, because this place belongs to Middle-earth, and it constantly sends troops to attack and harass, wanting to win the war.

Therefore, with the natural danger of the Yangtze River, Ning Guo only needs to divide tens of thousands of sailors to isolate the threat of Liang State in Jiangbei.

All the remaining soldiers and horses can naturally be taken out and deal with the attack of Chu with all their might.

With an army of millions, defending a country, no matter how you look at it, Jiangdong will not be at risk of losing.

However, in Bai Yi'an's view, this policy seems to be safe, but in fact, there are hidden dangers.

That is, the newly recruited army of 500,000 was formed in a hurry, and in the case of insufficient training, it could only be used as a civilian man.

In less than a year or two, after several bloody battles, honed out of the war, it is not useful at all.

Therefore, Shenqiu said that it was an army of millions, but in fact it was only 500,000 soldiers and horses, plus 500,000 soldiers, which was actually a miscellaneous soldier of the people.

This kind of collocation, real combat power, is naturally worrying.

And if the Chu thieves can really unify the south and north of the Lingnan and Jiangbei, and integrate them for a year or two, they can draw out millions of soldiers and horses to launch an eastward crusade.

At that time, in the face of the great victorious army that the Chu thieves had just swept away the strong enemy and was in the limelight, could they really stop the other party with these soldiers and horses?

Anyway, Bai Yi'an is not optimistic.

That's why he proposed a million-dollar expansion, which seems to be an extremely conservative strategy.

This is not that Bai Yi'an was scared, but the optimal strategy calculated from the actual situation.

Just like the Chu people guarded Jiangxia, a group of recruits only lasted for a month, and they lost nearly one percent.

The recruits recruited by Ning Guo want to be trained, even if they rely on defending the city, the casualties will not be small.

Considering the long border between Ning and Chu, the many fortresses and fortresses on it cannot, of course, be as strong as Jiangxia City, and the defense capability will definitely be greatly lacking.

In addition, the recruits trained by the Ning army, considering the situation that Jiangdong has been peaceful for a long time, the quality of the soldiers is definitely not as good as that of the Chu State, which fights every year, and the training time may not be as sufficient as the recruits of the Chu State.

Added up, the combat power of this batch of hastily recruited recruits is definitely worse than that of the Chu army in Jiangxia City.

The fortified city is not as strong and dangerous as Jiangxia, and the strength of the defenders is worse than that of the Jiangxia Chu army, so if they go to guard the countless city fortresses on the border, the casualties will definitely be more than the Chu army in Jiangxia City.

When the Chu army attacked the city, the Ning army directly came to a one-to-three, one-to-two, or even one-to-one exchange ratio, and Bai Yi'an did not feel unusual.

Even if you count the battle between Chu Ning and the inevitable battle in formation, the losses will be even more.

It is very possible to recruit 1 million soldiers and horses, and finally die 500,000 and leave 500,000 elite soldiers.

Coupled with the casualties of those veterans in the battle, the remaining elite soldiers and the original veterans are actually still millions of people, just at the level that Ningguo's finances can support.

It seems that what Bai Yi'an said is to let Ning Guo train an army of two million.

But in fact, half of his two million troops were prepared to be used as cannon fodder consumables, used to consume the soldiers and horses of the Chu State, and to buy himself time to train elite soldiers.

But now according to Shenqiu, such a golden mean.

Not only does it make the defense on the border of Chuning, there may be loopholes.

In the end, the elite soldiers who can be trained are definitely less than one million, and they cannot completely guarantee the stability of Ningguo.

Arguably.

Shen Qiu's self-feeling golden mean has once again ruined Bai Yi'an's future plans.

But everyone in the hall was unaware, shouting and admiring His Majesty's golden mean, and once again there was a voice of flattery.

called Bai Yi'an, who saw this scene, and his back molars were about to be crushed.

'This damn mean, damn servant. ’

After scolding two sentences in his heart, Bai Yi'an also knew that this matter still could not be changed, so he had to lament: "That's it, it's a big deal, when there is a war in the future, I will write to Your Majesty to propose that the army be expanded again, and it is not too late to practice while fighting."

With me, the Chu thieves don't want to seize Jiangdong. ’

This Marquis of Wu Anmu secretly made an oath, and his heart was full of firmness.