The host is red and black, and the system can only chirp

When the crowd was excited, Gao Hongde slowly said: "It's not completely without benefits."

Everyone:...

"Population is the biggest advantage." Gao Hongde knocked on the table and said quietly, "Wu'an and other places are not close, but they are not far away either. Bringing back tens of thousands of people is enough to form a death squad on the border."

The death squads of this era are completely different from the modern ones. They are basically equivalent to death row prisoners, who are driven to the periphery to consume the enemy's arrows.

Xi Mingming quietly pinched the palms of his hands, trying his best to control the cramps in the corners of his mouth and try not to irritate the steward.

Fortunately, Li Jing was not there.

Just look at Yuchi Jingde. Even though he has a big beard and a dark face and nothing can be seen, his body language can be seen clearly that he is about to suddenly strangle Gao Hongde to death.

Therefore, it is best for civil servants not to get involved in wars.

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Let’s hear what bad ideas Gao Hongde comes up with.

Xi Mingming doesn't know how to fight a war, so he only said two points.

First, to fight against the Turks, do we just pull the troops of both sides to an open plain and set up the army to fight against each other?

Second, the enemy fired thousands of arrows at once, and tens of thousands of troops would definitely flee to our side. Now, we didn't have to wait for the enemy to start fighting, as more than half of the elite troops were trampled.

Gao Hongde is good at government affairs and accounting... Fighting a war? I guess his vision is not even as good as Xi Mingming's.

The son is not as good as his father. Gao Hongde is not as good as his father Gao Jiong at all.

No wonder his whereabouts were unknown in history. His academic imbalance was too serious. He was not lame, but only had one leg left.

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The generals who were able to leave a great reputation in the Zhenguan Dynasty definitely relied on their real abilities.

In history, Wang Xuance was on a diplomatic mission to India when a coup d'état occurred. The envoys accompanying him were captured, and tributes from various countries were looted. How could Wang Xuance tolerate the envoys from the Celestial Empire?

He fled to Tibet and immediately issued a proclamation to recruit troops... Yes, you read that right, a Tang Dynasty man directly issued a proclamation to recruit troops in the powerful Tibet.

Things may seem outrageous at first glance, but they are actually logical.

Wang Xuance and his deputy Jiang Shiren led an army of more than 8,000 people from Tibet and Nepal to destroy India.

The achievements made, as recorded in history books, were: after three days of continuous fighting, the enemy was defeated, more than 3,000 heads were beheaded, and more than 10,000 people drowned in the water. Alona Shun abandoned the city and fled, but Shi Renjin captured him. He captured 12,000 men and women, and more than 30,000 cattle and horses. The Indians were terrified and took Alona Shun home as a captive.

The war to annihilate other countries allowed Wang Xuance to be successfully promoted to the fifth-rank imperial doctor of the Tang Dynasty; it also allowed Wang Xuance and his deputy envoy Jiang Shiren to mix up the above record in the Old Book of Tang.

No more!

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From this we can see how brilliant the generals of the Zhenguan Dynasty were, and how cruel Yuchi Jingde was on the battlefield!

On the other hand, Zhang Jincheng's army was not a real army. They were just a group of scattered soldiers, bandits, who gathered only to kill and plunder, and had no cohesion.

What's more, at this time, Yuchi Jingde, holding the Ximing Mingpai Grandmaster, could hit wherever he pointed and capture anyone alive without wasting a second.

Yes, on the battlefield, it was not General Yuchi who obeyed the orders of Sect Leader Xi, but Sect Leader Xi obeyed all the commands in all his actions.

The border troops had strict military discipline. When the local people saw them, they realized that this army was completely different. They actually ate their own dry food and did not touch the local people at all.

The people were so grateful that they not only cooperated actively but also sent food to the army continuously.

Yuchi Jingde advanced all the way, crushing the enemy with ease, and easily suppressed Zhang Jincheng's army of more than 30,000 people with only 1,000 elite soldiers.

And then—a public trial!

There is not much to elaborate on. It was just a group of bandits who had lost their morale. From Zhang Jincheng to all the leaders, big and small, Yuchi Jingde killed one hundred and two people in one breath.

Zhang Jincheng's troops massacred the city and were hated by the people, but Yuchi Jingde chopped off more than a hundred heads in broad daylight in front of the entire city's residents. The execution ground turned into a river of blood, but it only made people feel awe.

There is no other reason, it is just the right path!

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Sect Leader Xi stood on the stage and publicly announced that from now on, anyone who dared to massacre the city could flee to the border town as long as they left someone alive. If Sect Leader Xi got any information, no matter who it was, no matter what force, no matter if they were from a noble family or a knight-errant, they would be killed!

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Xi Mingming originally thought that this war would be a pure loss-making undertaking, except for the tens of thousands of people who needed to be reformed.

I didn't expect that someone would come to visit me before I left.

Dou Jiande, a subordinate of Gao Shida, led a group of his subordinates to seek an audience with the Xi leader.

The two sides held a cordial meeting and fully exchanged views on the ownership of Ping'en, Wu'an, Julu, Qinghe and other counties that General Yuchi had captured in one go.

During the journey, the two sides had a huge disagreement. During this period, a personal soldier named "Ba Fenghan" beside General Yuchi was very rude. He ignored his master's attitude and came forward to provoke masters such as "Iron Fan" Zhuge Dewei.

The talks achieved a breakthrough after the personal soldier Ba Fenghan defeated several masters of the other side by himself.

Finally, the two sides reached a high degree of consensus - Gao Shida's troops were fully responsible for the funds for the border troops' deployment, and would also be required to protect the Xi clan leader's transit caravan; the land conquered by General Yuchi would be fully handed over to Gao Shida's troops, without leaving a single soldier behind.

What? You said Zhang Jincheng has more than 30,000 soldiers?

What kind of soldiers are these? They are all prisoners from border towns!

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After the two sides finished negotiating, Sect Leader Xi finally spoke, with only one thing to say: Treat the people well.

Dou Jiande was popular among the various factions at the end of the Sui Dynasty. At least in the Hebei region, in the late Tang Dynasty, "the elders and the horses were still worshipping him, and he was still called the King of Xia."

What do you mean?

King Xia was Dou Jiande. More than two hundred years after his death, local people still miss him and worship him.

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The various forces at the end of the Sui Dynasty, if based on Xi Mingming's personal evaluation.

Li Mi only had the ability to stir up the world, but he did not have the strength to restore the old mountains and rivers. Li Mi's strengths were all in strategy;

As for Wang Shichong, this guy opened his heart to every capable person who came to him, but in the end he became suspicious of them. For example, it is difficult to judge when he robbed Luo Shixin's fine horse to give to his nephew.

Dou Jiande, if Xi Mingming followed her selfish desires, she would rather see this rebel leader who came from a humble landlord family rise to the top and give a loud slap in the face to the aristocratic families of the time.

But the facts are clear.

In this era, even though Dou Jiande's reputation for benevolence and righteousness spread throughout the world after he came to power, if you look at the talents under his command and compare them with the brilliant stars under Li Shimin, the two are not at the same level at all.

This is the reality that Sect Leader Xi should face clearly.

Of course, nothing would stop Xi Zongzhu from giving the territory to Dou Jiande... ah, bah, now it's still Gao Shida. A small fee is charged, after all, the border troops are poor, it's not excessive at all.

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At the end of April, Yuchi Jingde led his army back to the border town and passed through Loufan County again.

When leaving, there were only one thousand elite cavalrymen crossing the border; when coming back, General Yuchi led an army of 40,000!

No one knew what the people in Loufan County were thinking, but when they saw Sect Leader Xi, they bowed down to him, which satisfied his vanity very well.

Sect Leader Xi once envied Li Shimin's physique. What should he say now that he is experiencing it?

In a moment, Sect Leader Xi began to dig his toes into the ground.

Sect Leader Xi couldn't handle the brilliant and eloquent flattery. Even if he didn't understand all the allusions, it was... very embarrassing, very embarrassing.

Sect Leader Xi was melancholy. Shouldn't Gao Hongde come forward at this time?