Seeing Xu Ping stop talking, Li Di said, "You said there are three strategies before, only two strategies, and there is one strategy?"

Xu Ping sighed: "The third strategy is a helpless move. Two hundred thousand troops are all together. It is easy to say, but it is not easy to do. In the past, the 100,000 troops were already commanded by the attack on Liao, and the geography of the Shaanxi Road was broken, which was even more difficult. If you want to win stability, you can only spare money and food, divide it into several teams, support each other, and advance slowly. Or you can simply build a fort along the road, spend a few years, and push it all the way. In charge of this matter, you must be a major official who is proficient in the war. The court is determined and must not give up halfway. If the court feels that these two strategies are not sure about, then you can only have the third strategy. Defend together on the East Road and West Road, make arrangements in advance, where to guard and where to abandon. Try to concentrate as much as possible

The troops were defending the city, and the surrounding areas were surrounded by the sturdy jade and clear fields. Dangxiang must not be able to plunder the population and property, but can only attack the city. Dangxiang and horses all came from wealthy chiefs in the country, and they did not attack the city. This was to use our strengths to attack the enemy's shortcomings. Then they sent a minister to rule Qinzhou to manage Hehuang and first suck the Tubo. The Hehuang area was originally a Han area. After the Anshi Rebellion of the Tang Dynasty, the garrison troops there were drawn into the mainland to quell the rebellion and occupied by Tubo. Half of the people there were originally Han people, but they had been occupied by the foreign people for a long time, and they practiced Hu customs and spoke Hu language. After the imperial court took over, they could become Han people and stabilize the land within 10 or 20 years. Then they occupied Lanzhou from Hehuang and beat Dangxiang's side, and they had no worries from then on."

After hearing this, Li Di was silent for a while and said, "Ya Siluo has always been obedient to this dynasty, and attacking the Hehuang army with namelessness is not a benevolent and righteous act."

"Save the people of our country in the midst of water and fire, and slander the people and punish the crimes, and the world is righteous! The emperor Luo Gongshu, after the imperial court prevails, it is enough to respect him as a high position, and he is worthy of his salary. Do not lose his righteousness because of small benevolence. After the destruction of the Dangxiang, Tubo should have been included in this dynasty!"

Li Di nodded, looked at Chen Yaozuo, and fell silent for a moment.

If the imperial guards are not organized effectively, their discipline is not strong, and their cooperation is not good, they can only build hard camps to fight stupid battles and overwhelm the opponent with absolute strength. Even normal combat discipline is difficult to guarantee, and even thinking of a strange plan and using tricks is to seek death. In this case, there are actually successful examples of attacks in history. The rolling barrel-like propulsion used by the national army in his previous life, dividing the army into several combat groups, maintaining close contact, one part is attacked, and the whole fights back, and its strength is far beyond the opponent, it can basically guarantee victory. With the current organizational degree of the imperial guards, the offensive marching can only be like this. Either they used it when Zeng Guofan attacked the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, forming hard camps to fight stupid battles and fighting to death, and Dangxiang's national strength cannot last for one or two years.

What Xu Ping is talking about now is the only tactic that their military system can adopt in terms of the actual situation of the imperial guards. If the organizational discipline is improved, there is naturally no need to be such a problem. No matter whether it is a whole or a few, Yuan Hao is not really wise and can defeat him even if he fights head-on.

Since the middle of the Tang Dynasty, the military system of the Central Plains dynasty generally used the military system of nomadic peoples. In addition to the strong soldiers founded, the state of imperial guards after decades of peace was the state of imperial guards, and the grand occasion of beating around the Qin and Han dynasties could no longer be reproduced. The reason for this is that the system was dynasty was affected by the Hu people for hundreds of years after the Five Barbarians invaded China. There is another reason: a loose army is easier to control and the threat to imperial power is reduced.

When the Central Plains dynasty was dominant and surrounded by weak brides, there was no problem with this system. At worst, it would be possible to bully the small by bullying the small by force and use strength to kill. But when the Central Plains dynasty itself could not provide huge strength and the enemy was relatively strong, this system was very deceptive. To talk about social contradictions, the end of the Han Dynasty was not much stronger than other dynasties, but the military was always able to suppress the surrounding barbarians. The fundamental reason was that the system was much more advanced than the surroundings. When the Tang Dynasty took the initiative to transform into Hu and introduced the military system of nomadic peoples in the Central Plains, its advanced nature was gone, and the Central Plains dynasty was suppressed and beaten by the surrounding barbarians.

It is not easy to learn the system and culture of foreign races. If you are not careful, you will have the problem of learning the military system. If you don’t learn the good, you will learn all the bad ones. To make what you have learned useful to you, you must combine it with the reality of your own nation. For example, King Wuling of Zhao’s Hufu and Chef, you only absorb what is useful to you. But the normal state of history is that bad money drives out good money. People with ability are cautious everywhere, while stupid and bad people are ambitious and can always abolish the correct route. Isn’t it? I can’t understand which one is good to you and which one is bad to you.

I don’t know how to learn it, but I won’t abandon everything I have. Just like in the early Tang Dynasty, I just wanted to let the entire Hu Hua in North China. All the Han people turned into Hu people, submerging the aristocratic families that could threaten the imperial power in the vast ocean of Hu Hua to see what other waves they could make. The final outcome was exactly the same. In the disaster of the White Horse and Yi, the great families were thrown into the rolling Yellow River by the warlords of Hu Hua, fulfilling the wish of the Li Tang royal family to eradicate the aristocratic families. Of course, the warlords immediately destroyed the Li Tang, which might be just a small accident for them.

It was also very contradictory to the Dangxiang rebelled against Xu Ping. It was difficult to make fundamental reforms to the military system if the imperial guards were defeated several times or encountered several times. Without reforming the military system, if they won this time, they would face the situation of the Song Dynasty in history in the future.

This military system is sometimes called a warlord. In fact, the warlords at the end of the Han Dynasty were not this kind of style. They were basically the military organization form of nomadic peoples. After the nomadic people entered the Central Plains, they kept the original system unchanged, and their combat power deteriorated at an astonishing speed than the Han dynasty. With this military system, the Central Plains dynasty has been defeated repeatedly and destroyed twice. It can be either one or two but not again. At the critical moment of the third national destruction, it was finally eliminated.

Economics determine politics, politics determines military affairs. That's what it means, but if military and politics are forcibly separated, its reaction will be astonishing. Xu Ping's new policy starts with the economy, then changes politics, and then reforms the military.

There were two ways to reduce the threat of the army to imperial power. One was to use strict organization and iron discipline, supplemented by strong political nature, so that the court could firmly control the army. However, historical facts used the opposite method to weaken the organization and discipline. The army was completely unpolitical, so that the regular army was not as good as bandits, and of course the ending was tragic.

To change the military system, we must let the imperial guards suffer and let the court suffer the pain that the army cannot fight. But facing a clown like Dangxiang, it is really cowardly to defeat them. Although Xu Ping made up his mind to change the military system, he still felt contradictory.

After Xu Ping finished speaking, Li Di asked the Sansi's preparations for the Shaanxi war. Xu Ping said: "Shu Zhongshu is at ease. Since the beginning of the New Year, the Sansi has renovated the road to Shaanxi Road. Now it has been basically completed. Based on the materials that can be transported to Shaanxi Road, it is no problem to support a large army of 500,000 and 600,000. If you attack Dangxiang, you can also support a 200,000 to 300,000 troops forward. Dangxiang's small country, so the military strength is enough to destroy its country! If you can't do it, it will be a problem with the army and generals."

Dangxiang is to concentrate the country's strong men, and the maximum number of soldiers who can fight is only 100,000. If it is not counted as combat power, only counting people's heads can lead to 400,000 or 500,000 people. However, such an army can only strengthen its momentum and will not play much role in the battle formation.

At this time, except for the Privy Council, the ministers of the court were optimistic about the war and generally believed that a 100,000 army was enough to destroy the clown Yuanhao. Xu Ping replied that the three departments had prepared a transportation capacity of 300,000 to 500,000 people, which made Li Di very satisfied.

Most of the political affairs of the Secretariat are in the Sansi Department, and other yamen mainly manage prisons and personnel affairs. The remaining officials have no idea about the Northwest War except to express their attitudes. The Political Affairs Hall unified its own system's opinions, but in fact, it is mainly to ask the views of the Sansi Department. After Xu Ping finished speaking, other officials only need to express their determination.
Chapter completed!