Five Dynasties River Mountains Fengyue

"The officials are also planning to let Marshal Shi serve as a recruitment envoy to preside over the war." Wang Pu said again.

Shi Congyun's heart skipped a beat again, and he said, "I'm so flattered by the officials."

Wang Pu seemed to see the insincere in his words, so he looked at him puzzled, "I still don't understand, Marshal Shi has won many battles in these years, and you must be much more experienced than me when you say big wars, why are you so concerned about this northern expedition?" Don't you like it?"

Seeing him asking this question, Shi Congyun thought to himself that he can't tell you that I have read history, but his strategic thinking and tactical thinking are also very different from everyone else's.

Shi Congyun's war theory is very biased towards Chairman Mao's war theory. He thinks that the core point of this set of things is the initiative!

It is very important who holds the initiative in war. No matter whether it is strong or weak, even if it is strategically weak, it must find a way to control the initiative of the war in its own hands as much as possible by mobilizing the enemy and confusing the enemy.

Facing the puzzled eyes of several people, Shi Congyun said, "Because of Liao's actions."

"The move of the Liao Kingdom?" Wei Renpu was puzzled.

"The elite soldiers of the Liao Kingdom are all in the north of Youzhou. If you start fighting, what do you think is the worst situation?"

"All the Liao soldiers from the north of Youzhou went south to fight us in Hebei." Wei Renpu took the lead and said, "In that case, we may have to throw all the imperial troops in, and if something happens, the main beam will be lost."

Wang Pu and Wang Pu nodded slightly, "This is a dangerous move."

Shi Congyun shook his head, "The views of the ministers are inherently reasonable, but we see wars differently. What we are most afraid of is not the army of the Liao Kingdom going south..."

But he didn't say anything later, because he knew he couldn't explain clearly, just at this time the eunuch came to him in a hurry, saying that the official family had something to see him.

When Shi Congyun came to the main hall, many people were still drinking and eating, and there were no figures of the officials above. He followed the eunuch through the back hall, and soon saw the officials in the small courtyard in the distance.

Under the moon, the chrysanthemums in the garden are just right, and the yard is full of yellow and bright, especially dazzling. The officials are wearing yellow robes, shining against each other. Lean over and wait on the side.

After a while, the officials noticed his arrival, so they turned around and beckoned him to pass.

Shi Congyun was dressed in a black military uniform, and slowly walked into the flowers, which was incompatible with the golden color of the courtyard.

"Why don't you come here?"

"I thought the officials were thinking about world affairs and didn't dare to disturb them, so they didn't dare to approach." Shi Congyun said in a low voice.

The official nodded and coughed softly: "You have already solved half of my world's major affairs for me."

"Don't dare, these are all relying on the protection of the gods of the officials."

The official said with a smile: "Who didn't say that, but none of them did what you did. I know it in my heart. It seems that the sacrifice of prisoners is for outsiders to see. I have other ideas about how to deal with them.

Tell me, what about Gao Baorong and Zhou Xingfeng, how to deal with them. "

Shi Congyun cupped his hands and said: "The officials are wise. In my opinion, Gao Baorong has no skills. He acts as a dominator in Nanping and oppresses the people. Just give him a title and let him live in peace. If something happens to him or he doesn't If you are willing to be restless, it doesn't matter if you kill him.

Zhou Xingfeng was quite different. Although he came from an ordinary farmer and was punished severely after his fortune, he also took the lead in frugality, had great ambitions and skills, and was very popular in Wuping.

He should be sealed and given good treatment, but he must be watched carefully. If he dies in the capital, maybe Wuping's people's hearts will change.

Just like when Tang Gaozu killed Dou Jiande back then, disasters would be left behind. "

The official nodded, "According to what you've said, Zhou Xingfeng is indeed unkillable."

Shi Congyun thought about it, and then answered: "It's up to the officials whether to kill him or not. It's just that killing him is more harmful. This kind of major matter needs to be decided by the officials themselves."

The official was very satisfied, "Yeah."

Then the official said: "Just now you and Wei Renpu and others went out."

Shi Congyun broke out in a cold sweat, he went out alone, Wei Renpu and the others went out later, but the officials insisted that they went out together......

He tried his best to calm down, without denying it at all, and his mind turned quickly: "Report to the officials, yes, Wei Xianggong told me one thing, he said that the officials are preparing for the Northern Expedition."

"Hehe, before I can say anything else, I will speak first." The official said slowly while standing among the yellow flowers.

"Wei Shumi was afraid that the officials would contradict the officials, so he came to persuade XX."

"Are you contradicting me?" the butler asked curiously.

"I have always agreed with Wang Fuyin's statement that the south should be the first to go north, so I don't want to send troops to the north too early. I am going to suggest that the officials take Shu first, and then pacify the Southern Han and Tang countries. When the time is ripe, the north will be attacked."

"Well, what did Wei Renpu tell you?"

"Secretary Wei said that the officials wanted to take advantage of the victory to make the Northern Expedition, and they had clever considerations. Let me think about it."

The official's face softened, "What do you think."

"The official's high opinion!" Shi Congyun said repeatedly. At this point, he had no way out.

When the night wind blew, the small courtyard was filled with the fragrance of autumn chrysanthemums, but Shi Congyun felt a little pungent and even dizzy.

"Okay, I'm going to let you do this instead of me to recruit envoys, the Northern Expedition, and take back Youzhou!" The official turned around as he spoke, and patted him on the shoulder heavily. The golden autumn chrysanthemums under the moonlight in the garden are particularly dazzling and warm.

But Shi Congyun's heart was agitated, because Da Zhou was also like these golden chrysanthemums, beautiful but fragile, if a strong wind blows, the ground will be covered with broken petals.

At this moment, he had no choice, he cupped his hands and said: "I am willing to die for the official!"

The official nodded, "Don't talk about this matter for the time being, I have to make thorough preparations for this dispatch of troops, if we can take back the Sixteen States, we can solve many problems once and for all.

Just think about it, if we want to take back Youzhou this time, how many troops will we have to send. "

"How much do the officials think the Liao people will send troops?" Shi Congyun asked cautiously.

The official said: "It is true that the Liao Kingdom has many soldiers and a large territory, but I think they also have problems. I heard that the current leader of the Liao Kingdom is incompetent and many things cannot be done at all.

I think they will send at most [-], no, [-] troops to Youzhou and its south. "

"The minister thinks that we can send 2 troops as the main force, and another 2 troops are needed as a side response to prevent possible calls for rescue. We also need a reserve team of about [-] people, deployed in the south of Hebei."

"Why are there so many reserves?" The official looked at him.

Shi Congyun did not hide anything, and cupped his hands and said: "I am incompetent, but to be honest, I cannot guarantee that I will be able to defeat the Liao Kingdom for the time being.

Arrange the rear troops in the Chanzhou area. In case the front is unfavorable, sticking to the several crossings that the Yellow River thinks can also prevent the Liao army from crossing the Yellow River.

The Pingchuan River in the central and southern parts of Hebei must not be defended. "

The official frowned: "Are you so pessimistic about this battle?"

Shi Congyun saw that the officials were unhappy, and shook his head: "No, the officials just want to lose the game before fighting. At least to ensure the safety of the court and the officials, I have long-term considerations."

The official nodded: "You are really my great Zhou's Zhongliang!"

Shi Congyun bowed his hand to thank En.

The official thought for a while, and then said: "I will reward you for meritorious deeds in the future, and I will promote you to be inspected in front of the palace. Next year, I will send troops to lead the northern expedition. At that time, I will personally lead the army to sit in Chanzhou for you!"

Shi Congyun thanked you again.

........

After that, he said some things that were neither serious nor serious, and the officials didn't let him quit until night.

After Shi Congyun came out, he was blown by the cold wind and his back felt a little chilly, and the cold sweat just now gradually dissipated.

Then he sighed, the officials were really ready to attack the Liao Kingdom.However, fighting the Liao Kingdom is actually not that scary. What is feared is the reaction of the Liao Kingdom and the follow-up officials' command of the situation.

The Liao State responded that if they did not fight, it would be best for the officials to take the opportunity to occupy some land and stop.

Once the full-scale war started, it would be troublesome. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty fought against the Xiongnu. First, Wei Qing won seven battles and seven victories, and Huo Qubing won three battles and three victories. After capturing Hetao and Hexi, he launched a strategic decisive battle with 10,000+ cavalry, infantry and hundreds of thousands of supply and logistics personnel. After defeating the Huns, there were decades of successive wars before the Huns who did not surrender were almost wiped out.

It shows how much determination and courage and the support of manpower and material resources are needed to completely deal with a huge dynasty. This kind of war does not end in a year or two, but takes decades.

The best way to deal with such a huge dynasty is naturally to wait for his internal collapse, and then exert appropriate external pressure.

Once the Zhou Dynasty and the Liao Kingdom are in full-scale war, the Great Zhou will fall into the quagmire of such a war.

But Dazhou is now far inferior to the Western Han Dynasty. The land and population, financial resources, material resources, and military power are far from the players of the same level as the Han Dynasty who had recuperated for 70 years.

Under such circumstances, if there is a full-scale war, even if you are lucky and capture Youzhou, Khitan can go southeast and south of the river, which is still in the hands of the Northern Han Dynasty.

Or forcibly use heavy troops to seize Youzhou again, and then go south. As long as it is a protracted war and continues to fight, it is absolutely impossible for Dazhou, which is one-third of the world to be close to it, to see-saw with the unified and powerful Liao Kingdom for a long time, and it will be dragged down. .

So Shi Congyun had an idea in his heart that the south must be integrated in order to fight against Liao.

The war can be fought, but the officials are determined to fight, and he has to fight if he is eager for quick success.

But we must grasp the scale, try to fight, and try our best to leave room for the time being, not to start a full-scale war with the Liao Kingdom, and then free up our hands and feet to clean up the separatist regime behind it.

He didn't expect that when he came back, he would receive such a hot potato before his butt was hot.

When I got home that night, the three wives had been waiting for a long time, but Shi Congyun was in a trance along the way, thinking about a lot of problems, tired from the day's travel, and feeling powerless when he wanted to swell, so he fell asleep holding the well-behaved Fu Liu. night.

........

At the end of August, all the southern troops had returned to the north, leaving only some rear troops and Li Gu's supply troops.

The mighty dispatch of troops in June is still in sight. After just over two months, the army began to retreat. The whole process can be described as extremely fast.

Under Li Gu's command and dispatch, the army returned to the north in an orderly manner, and gradually only the rear team of more than 2000 people was assembled.

Li Gu made arrangements to bring them back from Xiangzhou to the north, but at this time he received news from the southern scouts.

It turned out that the country of Shu who threatened to beat him up on Monday finally started to act after realizing it. Tens of thousands of troops from the country of Shu slowly arrived in Kuizhou, west of Jiangling, and began to garrison after mid-July. Since then, they have been out of nervousness Defensive transition.

At this time, I probably realized that Da Zhou didn't touch it, but let go and cleaned up Nanping and Wuping. Doesn't this make Kuizhou's Shu army look like a fool...

Chapter 213, Wang Zhaoyuan, who has read military books familiarly

Inside Xiangyang City, Li Gu asked very puzzled: "What is the Kingdom of Shu going to do? Do they want to take the opportunity to go east?"

"It's not like, they sent people over during the day, and they returned immediately at dusk." The scout reported puzzled, "And there were not many people who came, about ten people in a group, and at most there were only five or sixty people."

Li Gu paced back and forth, "It doesn't look like he wants to enter the army......"

"Sir, should we send someone to intercept it?" the scout asked.

Li Gu raised his hand, motioned him to wait a moment, did not speak again, but carefully considered the actions of the Kingdom of Shu.

He has only about 2000 people under his command at this time, and the army has already returned to the north. If the Shu Kingdom makes a big move, it will be completely impossible to deal with it, but he feels that the Shu Kingdom should not dare.

In the past, they didn't dare to move in Nanping, let alone Da Zhou, but what they sent troops to cross the border made Li Gu very puzzled. The 4000 troops in the army may indeed be less.

In the past, there were about [-] to [-] troops in Wuping and Nanping, and there were about [-] soldiers who were good at fighting. Now that there are so many troops at once, there will indeed be emptiness.

Could it be that the Kingdom of Shu decided that they would focus on the north in the future, and wanted to take the opportunity to sneak attack and make a big deal?

But does Shu have the courage?If there were them, they would have started to attack Nanping a long time ago. Nanping is on their east gate. Isn't it because they are afraid of bordering with Dazhou that they dare not even move Nanping in the land of three states?

Li Gu was hesitant to decide, he always thinks about things in a high-level and thorough manner, he carefully thought about this matter from the standpoint of the Kingdom of Shu, and suddenly felt more and more possible.

The army of the Kingdom of Shu is at least more than [-]. Da Zhou has just withdrawn troops, and Jingnan is empty. This is also the most unexpected time. If Jingnan is empty and sends troops at this time, it may have a miraculous effect!

When Li Gu thought of this possibility, he was startled, and when he was about to say something, the scout at the side spoke cautiously: "Mr. Li, the Shu Council thinks it's too embarrassing to put on a show.

After all, they were tricked by us, so they just went back directly without shame, and couldn't explain it to their superiors. At this time, we sent a few people to cross the border to make sense, and it's easy to talk after they go back. "

"Huh?" Li Gu was taken aback for a moment, and asked, "Shall we talk?"

The scout is also a veteran, and immediately said: "If this is the case, it can be said that they sent troops to force our army to retreat. Anyway, Chengdu is far away from here. The sky is far away from the emperor. Who knows what they did, half-truth, half-false, It is also a fact to send troops, but our retreat has nothing to do with them, who will find out when the time comes."

Li Gu was stunned for a moment, and after thinking for a long time, he suddenly realized: "Thanks to the old man who is thinking hard here...

In your opinion, how should we deal with it? "

The scout said: "Li Xiang, in my opinion, just let them go, or send someone to scare them. There won't be any disturbances. In all likelihood, they will run away if they are scared. There is no need to worry about it."

Li Gu thought for a while, and said, "You take a battalion to set up an ambush, scare them."

.......

In mid-August, the Zhou army set up an ambush on the high slopes on both sides of the mountain road north of Guizhou. A small group of Shu army entered the Guizhou area again, and was subsequently attacked by the Zhou army.

Hundreds of Zhou troops on both sides fired their bows and crossbows, and threw stones that had been prepared long ago from a high place. For a while, shouts were everywhere in the valley.

Sure enough, no Shu army dared to cross the border since that day.

Li Gu couldn't help but feel that a wise man will lose if he thinks a lot, and a fool will gain something if he thinks a lot. He was still intriguing and thinking about it for a long time, and the pure Shu Kingdom couldn't let it go.

Afterwards, he also sent a letter to Li Hanchao who was stationed in Jiangling, telling him to pay more attention to the situation in Guizhou. Later, the last guard troops also began to return to Beijing.

At this point, the end of the war has begun to come to an end.

.......

In Kuizhou, Wang Zhaoyuan was listening to the reports of the soldiers below in the camp outside the city. He was sitting on the top with bamboo slips in his hand, calmly listening to the reports of the soldiers.

The large tent is elegantly decorated, and there are bookshelves on one side, filled with ancient military books and bamboo slips.

Even during the march, Wang Zhaoyuan would call many generals over to give lectures from time to time, and let them have a look at his own demeanor by the way, marching and fighting without letting go, isn't it just like those ancient figures.

Wang Zhaoyuan was originally a young monk, and later became the companion of His Majesty the Shu Kingdom, and gradually became an important minister of the Shu Kingdom because of his relationship.

He himself doesn't think this is something disgraceful, he has been familiar with military books since he was a child, he has carefully read all the battles in ancient and modern times, and remembered them in his heart, and His Majesty also recognized his talent very much.