.Chapter 91: The First Score (Part 2)

Salem and Saddam are only one word different (salm\saddam). The military talents are similar, but other talents are far behind. Otherwise, they would not be replaced by Kajim after making great contributions in history.

After seeing Li Weixin, he was so angry that he almost jumped up and shouted angrily: "If you want to fight, fight, you Tang Dynasty people are waiting to come and die."

Exit the Tang Dynasty envoys.

Beginning to prepare for the battle, the Tang Dynasty trained a large-scale army on the border. Although Salem always believed that the Tang people were bluffing, after all, when he heard the news from scouts, he said that the Tang army came to the Western Regions had less than 30,000, including some baggage troops.

But he also prevented accidents, and set up checkpoints on various important roads on the border and sent more troops. At the same time, a large number of soldiers were recruited in Sestan and Khorasan. Not every Persian was a dead soldier. Many Persians were tamed by more than ten years of Dashi's taming, and with the subtle influence of religion, they turned to Dashi and were willing to be the dog-legged ones of Dashi. That is, "Persian traitor".

In the Persian region, the original Dashi and the ones transferred from the rear to support later reached nearly 60,000. The puppet troops in Salem still had nearly 200,000. Of course, it was impossible to transfer all to fight, so the rear would make the rebels go astray. But the Tang Dynasty dared to transfer all the troops from the Hezhong area and the Tochar area?

Salem is not at a disadvantage in terms of military strength, which is also his courage to fight.

Therefore, Wang Shi suggested that soldiers should be quick.

At that time, the cannibals were not prepared, and their troops were scattered everywhere, and there were no defenses at various checkpoints. The Tang Dynasty army suddenly moved south and achieved unexpected results. After occupying some Persian areas, they contacted the rebels and asked the Hezhong area to support it, and it was very likely that the entire Khorasan could be easily captured.

But Li Wei did not agree.

It would rather let the cannibals make some preparations than train the army in Hezhong and Tochar and do all kinds of meticulous work. In addition to the Tang army's strong 20,000 troops, they could face the capture of Khorasan and cope with the counterattack of the cannibals from Iraq and Fars. Even if they deal with it, the Tang army would suffer heavy losses. From a strategic perspective, it would not be worth the loss.

After sending the letter, Li Wei threw the work in his hand to Wang Fangyi for processing, and personally led 8,000 troops to set out towards the Hezhong area in a mighty manner.

After passing Qianquan, I walked for another three days and arrived in Talas.

Li Weile stopped the war horse and stopped.

Then, looking at it with your eyes, there was a vast mountainous area around it. Although March has arrived, the high and cold weather has not restored all the trees to life. Looking around, there are green hills and dry brown trees.

A rugged road leads to a city not far away, that is Talas City.

But there were many pedestrians on the road, including merchants and local residents, and Tang Dynasty immigrants who were relaying food.

Li Wei said to the guards beside him: "Please bring me a pen and ink."

The guard took out the pen and ink, and Li Wei wrote an article.

When he was studying military arts with Pei Xingjian, Pei Xingjian often gave some examples to deduce them from both positive and negative aspects. This is very important, such as the military book, Sun Tzu's art of war was written in detail. If he could understand it thoroughly, then congratulations to you, you will at least become the second general of Liu Rengui and Pei Xingjian.

Maybe you can’t just understand the military thoughts of grandson with a book of military tactics?

Once, I talked about the battle of Liu Yu invading Nanyan.

There are only three roads to attack Nanyan from the Eastern Jin Dynasty. One goes north along the Yishui River, cross Daxian Mountain, and pass through Linqu to Guanggu. However, Dayan Mountain is very steep, with narrow mountain roads and two vehicles cannot be connected, and is known as a natural danger in southern Qi. Second, it goes through Jucheng and from Weishui River. This road is long-term. If the enemy goes south from Daxian Mountain, there is a danger of being intercepted. Third, it goes through Dawen River to Liangfu, turn to the northeast and attacks Guanggu. However, there are many mountain roads, which are inconvenient to march and will be attacked by Yanzhou.

Gongsun Wulou presented three strategies: the Wu army was weak in fruits, and the advantage was to fight quickly, and it was not to fight. It should be defended by Daxian, so that the enemy could not go deeper. Select two thousand elite cavalry to follow the sea and cut off its food route, and let Yanzhou defender Duan Hui lead his troops east along the mountains and cross them with his back and forth. The officials from all over the country were defended by the dangers, leaving enough food, and burning the rest, cutting all the crops in the fields, and clearing the fields, so that the enemy would need food without food, and fighting without fighting. The worst strategy was to let the enemy enter Dayan, and we used the terrain to familiarize ourselves with the enemy and fought field.

Murong Chao believed that he had five states in his hands, tens of thousands of cavalry, and two upper and middle strategies were to show the enemy's weakness and chose the worst strategy. The ministers tried hard to persuade him but refused to listen. So Liu Yu's army calmly entered Daxian Mountain, fought at the Jumei River, and defeated the Nanyan army. The next day he surrounded Guanggu City.

The two discussed this guarding Daxian Mountain.

Pei Xingjian made a comment, and guarding Daxian was useless. Then he made some analysis. When the former emperor of Nanyan, Murong De, he implemented the policy of detecting the households, so that Nanyan only occupied Shandong, with infantry reaching 370,000, chariots and 53,000 cavalry. This household was the number of households that forced the troops of the wealthy households and tenants. Even the Emperor of Northern Wei Tuoba Gui dared to do this. Not only Tuoba Gui, but whether Li Wei dared to do this now? But Nanyan did it and it was successful, because Murong De had a high prestige and qualifications.

What was Murong Chao's turn? Murong De followed the former Qin Dynasty to attack Jin, fearing that something unexpected happened, so he left a golden sword to recognize him. Shortly after he left, all his family was killed by the Former Qin. After the defeat, the Later Qin Dynasty wanted to kill him several times because of fear, and he could only survive by pretending to be crazy and foolish. Later, he fled to Nanyan, and his family disappeared, but a nephew appeared and took out the golden sword, which is Murong Chao. This matter was called the Prince of the Golden Sword by the people.

However, it is not Murong De's nephew, which is very suspicious. He has little experience and lacks prestige. He continues to implement Murong De's detection policy, so many rebellions of important officials have occurred. At this time, Nanyan was greatly damaged and the military and civilians were disunited. He is no longer Murong De's Nanyan.

However, the Eastern Jin Dynasty was not interested in the Northern Expedition. Many landlords even died in wars because of the rebellion between Huan Xuan and Sun En, and lacked the labor force for farming. Instead, they were eager for Liu Yu to fight in the Northern Expedition, gain wealth and a large amount of labor force.

When Pei Xingjian commented, he said, "When we work together to defeat our loyalty and virtue, we will win."

The second Gongsun Wulou said that Wu Bing is light on the fruits, and Murong Zhou also said that Wu Bing is light on the brute force. It means that Wu Bing can only fight with the wind, and can win one to win ten, and will immediately panic when defeating. It is very similar to the Song soldiers in later generations and the Ming soldiers in the middle and late periods.

But this sentence is wrong. The original Jin soldiers were soldiers who could not fight for the future and did not want to work hard. But since Liu Yu took power, a group of brave and talented lower-level officers who fought bravely and had great talents were promoted rapidly. The entire army saw the promotion of these generals, and they were full of desire to make achievements and were no longer the light-fruit army in the past.

Pei Xingjian commented again that if you want to win a battle, you must have clear rewards and punishments.

The third battle was that Murong Chao presented his country's musical music to the Later Qin Dynasty in order to redeem his wife and mother. However, he liked to listen to music, so he sent troops to the Eastern Jin Dynasty to capture people and supplement the singing and dancing band. This gave the Eastern Jin Dynasty a custody. At this time, Liu Yu's palace was very deep, and almost no one could see his ambitions. Everyone in the whole country thought that he was the savior and Liu Gong. Therefore, the battle was famous, an anti-aggression war, a northern expedition, a unified and moral.

Pei Xingjian focused on this and the attack must be based on morality, and the attack on the side without morality. If the other side occupies morality, it must not be easily attacked, otherwise it may fail.

With these three points, and the gap in military talent between Liu Yu and Murong Chao has become a world of difference, no matter what arrangements he makes, he will fail. Could it be that Liu Yu can't think of a solution after defending Daxian? If he is not even prepared for this, how dare he come to the Northern Expedition easily?

Therefore, if Murong Chao guards or not Daxian, he will definitely lose.

This article written by Li Wei is a conversation between the two.

When I arrived in Talas, I thought of Gao Xianzhi.

I don't remember the details clearly, I remember a little. In order to seek credit, Gao Xianzhi unreasonably attacked the countries in Hezhong and the Western Regions, which led to dissatisfaction among all countries and wanted to join forces with the Dashi army to attack the four towns of Anxi. Gao Xianzhi also took the initiative and led his army deep into the Hezhong, where he encountered the Dashi army. After several days of fierce battle, the Tang army was defeated.

This war had little impact on the Tang Dynasty, but it affected the entire Central Asia pattern. Since then, the countries in the Hezhong City have turned to the Great Food and betrayed the Tang Dynasty, making the Tang Dynasty's orders unable to reach the Yili River. The Great Food and Drug Administration has truly conquered the entire Hezhong and Tocharia region, and has the taxation of this wealthy area, laying the foundation for its further expansion, and thus has enabled the West to obtain advanced papermaking technology.

Li Wei wrote this article to give a warning to the later Tang General. He also wrote two lines of words at the end of the article:

Those who uphold morality should not attack them.

If you don’t change after repeated instruction, don’t be fooled easily.

This coolness refers to the means implemented on the Tuyuhun people in Qinghai.

It was also very cruel, including the face of the throat. But why was it implemented? The Tang Dynasty had a strong policy on Tuyuhun, but the people took the initiative to abandon the Tang Dynasty and threw themselves into the arms of Tubo. After Xue Rengui killed the nine surnames Tiele, he was scared by a group of civil officials. He went to Dafeichuan and did not take the masses one by one, but how did the Tuyuhun people repay it?

In this case, the implementation of ethnic policies before the Tang Dynasty was not about appeasement, but about indulgence.

Separating the two was a warning to the generals after the Tang Dynasty and to the countries in the Hezhong region. It was also a warning to the foreign policy of the Tang Dynasty in the future. Unless he, as an emperor, could not do his words seriously.

After finishing writing, someone asked someone to tie a stone to a monument and erected it outside the city of Talas.

This stone tablet takes a long time to carve it, but this article spread quickly.

So this journey was welcomed even more warmly.

Few people can imagine the warnings in the article. What can these small countries do? They can only protect their survival under the wings of various major powers. They used to be the Turks and Persia, but now they are only the Tang Dynasty. Can they still dare to betray the Tang Dynasty?

As long as you do not lose the "morality" mentioned by the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty will not attack itself in the future.

That's how I understand it anyway.

Soon he arrived at the Shiwang Capital Tuozhi City (Tashkent), and summoned various countries. There were many teams of each country, far more than 90,000, but when the training was conducted, they required elite soldiers, and only ninety thousand troops were gathered. After Li Jinxing's training, he was ridiculous and terrifying. Is this the so-called elite soldiers?

But as expected, otherwise it would be impossible for thousands of soldiers in Dashi to fight again and again.

Seriously integrate training.

Several months have passed, and some soldiers still have the individual combat power to watch, but when combined together, they still don’t look optimistic.

Li Wei didn't care. It was impossible for every soldier to go to the front line. He drew a 40,000 troops that could be seen. The rest of the troops were stationed on various important roads and stood by the checkpoints. This is what Li Wei values. There are many countries. Although countries are similar to an alliance, it is impossible for them to be very united. For example, Shi Guo, if he had not come in person, if Wang Fangyi had not come in person, it would have been impossible for them to send troops to the Wuhu River and fight against the cannibals. Even if they were out, they would not have given much.

After making some arrangements, he led the army to Peiken City immediately. Other armies also marched towards Peiken City.

After arriving at Peiken City, he took a break and immediately led an army of more than 50,000 to rush towards the Wuhu River.

Fight as soon as you say it, and take the lead.

This is also the Central Plains army in history that has fought in the farthest areas.
Chapter completed!