The rise of the prince

Chapter 104
"You..." De Gong almost spit out the wine, stared and said: "There is no such thing as you, you can't let them come in and have a taste. After eating, they will know for themselves, and then the tone will change."

Li Ye shook his head. He had seen this kind of people a lot, and he was also the most experienced in dealing with them.

In the era when the legal system is more perfect in the later generations, he can take advantage of the loopholes to deal with it. In this era, he has many methods: "If you reason with this kind of person, let him eat for free, and then go out if you don't give him food." Talk nonsense, and get worse. It’s best to beat him up, and beat him again next time if he talks again, as long as no one is killed and beat him until he is afraid.”

"Wouldn't it delay business in this way?"

Li Ye shook his head: "Long-term pain is worse than short-term pain, Mr. De, the chaos must be cut quickly, the more it is delayed, the more troublesome, short-term illness hurts people, and long-term illness is fatal."

Hearing this, Mr. De seemed to think of something, and lowered his head to think: "You are just a few rascals, but when you think about it, it makes sense. Long-term pain is worse than short-term pain. This is the reason, and it should be the same when facing foreign enemies. Do you think we can do the same thing if we deal with the Liao people?"

Li Ye was stuffing something into his mouth, but he didn't expect Mr. De, who just talked about a few opportunistic people who wanted to eat for nothing, would think of it. He shook his head and said, "No."

"Why?" Degong asked hurriedly.

"Because there is no chance!

I don’t know about marching and fighting. I have never been on a battlefield, but one thing is for sure. The more mobile the army, the more initiative it has. This is the same in any era, and it will not change thousands of years later. . "Li Ye said confidently, because he came from thousands of years later.

"flexibility?"

Li Ye patted his head and explained: "Simply put, it is the speed of the army's march."

"Soldiers are expensive and fast. It is true, but my Jing Dynasty also had times when I defeated the Liao people. Most of the Liao people had one man and two horses. Our army was mainly infantry, and we could still defeat the Liao people. The court also proposed to use infantry to defeat cavalry. There are quite a lot of results, how can this be explained?" De Gong knocked on the table and said.

"How else can I explain it? I was able to win because of better armor than the Liao people, but if it took many years, it would be dragged down alive." Li Ye said seriously, just like the Liao and Song Dynasties, it is so similar now.

The iron smelting technology of the Jing Dynasty has long been mature, and it can also make steel. Although the output is not high, the Liao people are still in the stage of immature iron smelting technology and still using bronzes, but they can compete effectively with the well-equipped army of the Jing Dynasty. Back and forth.

"The Liao people can use their horsepower to escape after a defeat, and they can fight again after regrouping. If we lose a match, we will be chased to death and killed. This is the difference." Li Ye knocked on the table seriously and said: "Wei Yubai told me In the worst time, they defeated the Liao people for more than 20 battles from morning to night, but each time they suffered from being unable to catch up with the horses, and finally they were dragged alive all day long.

If you think about it, we won more than 20 times and we can't win all of them. Liao people only need to win once to do their best. Isn't the gap between risk and return too big?If things go on like this, everyone in Liao is not afraid of fighting, because they know that it doesn't matter if they lose, and they still have a chance; while everyone in Jing doesn't want to fight, because they think that even if they win, they will not be able to win all, and sooner or later they will be defeated.

How many years will it take to bring down a country in one day to get rid of a military supply? "

Li Ye asked one sentence after another. The reason why the cavalry is strong is not the impact that many people think, because before the hydraulic forging matured, the whole body plate armor did not have a large-scale equipment cavalry, and the cavalry directly charged the heavy infantry. Mobility is important, and this alone can make infantry helpless on the plains.

Hearing this, Degong's face was heavy, his knuckles lightly tapped on the table and he was speechless, he thought for a long time before he said: "Zhong Daoyu talks about the reorganization of the army every day, and wants to reduce the infantry and expand the horse army at any cost.

However, most of the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty objected, saying that raising one army horse is enough to raise five infantry troops, and one horse can serve as five men?The words are true, everyone thinks it is reasonable, and the old man also agreed in his heart at the time, it is not the way to calculate the score after hearing what you said today."

"It's all short-sighted. The soldiers are not many, but they are good. The generals are not brave, but they are strategic. But General Zhong is not right. He has a good intention, but since the previous dynasty lost the land for storing horses in the north, it is difficult to expand the army into a horse army. It will be even more difficult." Li Ye sighed, it would be as difficult as the heavens for Jingchao to expand the horse army without the horse-producing states in the north.

"Then what?" Degong was also anxious.

Li Ye shook his head: "No solution, this is almost an unsolvable problem. Since ancient times, only the Han Dynasty has won the most thorough victory against foreign enemies in the north, but the cavalry of the Han Dynasty was famous far and wide at that time."

"The so-called 'Use the foot to defeat the cavalry' proposed by the court ministers is all short-sighted, and it is only for a while. From a tactical point of view, it may be successful, but from a strategic point of view it is extremely unsuccessful."

De Gong didn't speak, his old face was wrinkled in one place, and he sighed: "I never thought that the northern states are so important before."

Li Ye was also very helpless. Many things were destined. In ancient times, the lack of mobility in the army meant that there was no offensive ability, especially in an empire with a vast territory.

If you want to go out to fight a battle during an expedition, you have to go for several months. The logistics supply along the way is difficult, all kinds of labor and disease, the soldiers are tired, and the morale is low. Maybe the army will collapse before the battle.

Take the most powerful Han and Tang dynasties in Chinese history as an example. Most of the important battles were won with less, and they often ran for thousands of miles day and night by relying on mobility, and the enemy was caught off guard.

When the Han army ran across the desert for thousands of miles, Su Ding and Fang Baiqi rode through the tent, all relying on mobility and surprise, and high mobility means high survivability, even if they can't kill the enemy, they can still run.

Suddenly Li Ye had a flash of inspiration and thought of something: "Maybe there is a way."

"Well, what way?" De Gong asked with his eyes wide open.

"Uh, I'm just thinking about it. I'm not mature yet. I'll tell you if I mature in the future." Li Ye smiled dryly and took a drink.

"You boy, I can't make this old man angry!" Degong blew his beard and stared, scolded him a few words, and then left in a hurry, without even finishing his meal, saying that he thought of a lot of things, so the matter was serious, It needs to be reported to the emperor immediately to be at ease.

Li Ye watched him leave. In fact, the method he said was firearms. Firearms are things that have eliminated the knight class. Facing crossbow cavalry can defeat the enemy, but facing mature firearms is death.

But the maturity and development of firearms is a long process, and now Jingchao's technology is also lacking, and it can't meet the requirements for processing a good barrel of a gun. Everything has to wait for the hydraulic forging device to be made.

But now, the final key to saving Wei Chaoren is approaching.

He Zhao didn't participate in Wei Chaoren's affairs at the beginning because he didn't know the war and the situation in Guanbei, so he didn't speak up.

But that day Miss Wei begged him for the sake of the country and the people, and he agreed. After that, he gradually began to understand the situation in Guanbei. The more he knew, the more curious he became. I'm afraid he knows best.

So today when he heard that Wei Yubai came to see him again, he simply asked about the details of the Guanbei War.

Hearing He Zhao's question, Wei Yubai's heart jumped into his throat, and he was so excited that he almost shed tears, but he still kept in mind the son's order and didn't ask him about his father.

The more he talked about it, the more He Zhao frowned, and he asked a few words from time to time.

"You said there are other armies besides the Liao people?"

"Master Wei let the young and strong children go first, why?"

"How did he explain it?"

"It is reasonable, it is indeed reasonable. Although it is not benevolent, it is also for the protection of the country."

In the end, he finally found something suspicious, and suddenly he couldn't help but shouted: "No, this is not right with the report that the emperor saw. It didn't say that there were other troops in the battle report!"

(End of this chapter)