The rise of the prince

Chapter 712 Gold Strategy
At the beginning of November, the sky in Kaiyuan was cloudy, rainy and foggy, and every household began to burn stoves to warm up.

The Privy Council has many things to do. First, Wei Yubai's younger brother Wei Xingping arrived in the capital on behalf of his father, and Li Xingzhou asked the Deputy Privy Envoy to receive him on his behalf.

Because a more important news reached Kaiyuan, that is, the founding emperor of the Jin Kingdom, the hero of a generation, Wanyan Wugunai, has passed away!His son Wanyanli inherited the Datong and became emperor in Shangjing.

When he received the news, Li Xingzhou was taking He Qian to inspect the chemical plant, and he almost jumped up excitedly.

Almost instantly, he thought of Datong Mansion, Shangjing, Liaodong and other large areas in his mind!

The Central Plains countries have always had two strategic buffers, or strategic extensions, Liaodong and the Hexi Corridor. Throughout history, every powerful Central Plains dynasty has either the Liaodong or the Hexi Corridor, and the stronger ones have both. hands.

Both the Hexi Corridor and Liaodong can be used as horse farms, and the Hexi Corridor runs through the Western Regions, linking the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and the Mongolian Plateau, and the Liao Kingdom is connected to the mocking peninsula, which can pose a threat to the northern grasslands from the side.

Therefore, a powerful dynasty possesses these two key areas, so they can advance, attack, retreat, and defend. Now Jingguo, Liaodong are in the hands of Jin Guo, and the Hexi Corridor is in the hands of Xia Guo, strategically very passive.

He had long wanted to take back the two lands, but he never did it because Xia Guo was too far away for the time being, and Jin Guo had Wanyan Wugu as the hero!

Although it's not right for others to laugh when they die, I can't help it!
Li Xingzhou smiled happily all day, and at night he smiled with Shiyu Gillian in his arms. Those who didn't know thought he was crazy.

This matter also caused an uproar in the court. The next day the emperor urgently summoned the ministers for a court meeting. Some people thought that they should take the opportunity to make friends with the former emperor Wan Yanli, while others thought it was a good time to have soldiers.

But in the end, everyone's eyes still focused on him, and the emperor asked him directly. The old emperor even asked him directly. The meaning was very clear. Although the emperor is still the emperor at this time, Prince Jin is the person who has the most decision-making power besides the emperor. Even slowly surpassed De Gong.

Li Xingzhou wanted to talk about this a long time ago, he cupped his hands and said, "I think the first thing is to send envoys to make friends with the new emperor of the Jin Kingdom and express congratulations."

"My lord, a sage must not miss the time, this is a god-given opportunity not to be missed!" Yang Hongzhao immediately said, he was reinstated because of his meritorious service in saving his family: "The Jin Kingdom has newly occupied the Liao Kingdom, and its foothold is not stable. People's hearts are floating, it's a great time!"

"Although a country is large, it will surely perish if it is warlike. The words of a warrior cannot be trusted." Meng Zhiye said, raising his chin very high.

"You..." Yang Hongzhao was speechless.

Xue Fang also stood up: "Your Majesty, my lord, I think Lord Yang's words are reasonable. Although Jing Guo is exhausted at this time, if you miss this good opportunity, even if it is difficult to get the chance, it is worth a try."

Everyone began to speak and argue, but Li Xingzhou didn't speak. The reason why he did this was to see what attitudes everyone had, to understand what attitude those people had towards this matter, and then to know who could be used. .

"My lords, listen to me." When the quarrel was over, Li Xingzhou quickly opened his mouth to calm everyone down: "I haven't finished my words yet, sending envoys is only the first step, mainly to paralyze Jin Kingdom.

The new army is still expanding its training, it will take at least a year, and all parts of our country also need to recuperate, so what I mean by this king is that the sixteen prefectures of Yanyun and the land of Liaodong must be taken back, but it is not the moment. After more than a year, or as long as three years, we will be able to send troops. "

"But by then Jin Guo will have finished his training." Xue Fang frowned.

"No, the grassland tribes that surrendered to the Jin Kingdom have already started rebelling against the Jin Kingdom. This is just the beginning. As long as we show our kindness to the Jin people, we can recuperate, and the Jin Kingdom still has to face the enemies on the grassland! "

After listening to his words, everyone looked at each other, some people believed it, some people didn't believe it, but it didn't matter, because the emperor above nodded. .
His strategy was adopted and implemented, Li Xingzhou was very excited, and then the Imperial Academy began to write the letter of credence, congratulating the Jin emperor Wan Yanli on his ascension to the throne. Ji conveyed a friendly attitude to paralyze Jin Guo.

On the same day, he happily recalled Wei Yubai from the New Army barracks, and prepared to go with her to receive her younger brother.

But before leaving the palace, he received the battle report from Yan Kun.

The reason why Yan Kun sent it was because the battle took place outside the Great Wall, in the Mobei Grassland, where the Privy Council's arm could not reach, but there were merchants who could even go to the east coast of Africa, the Mediterranean Sea, and the Persian Gulf.

So the information came from a businessman, and Yan Kun collected and delivered it to him. At first glance, he was shocked.

Because he saw a familiar transliterated name, Jebe!
This God of Killing once fought from the Eastern Kingdom of Jin to the vicinity of Eastern Europe. In history, he defeated the Naiman tribe, broke the Kingdom of Jin Wushabao, Juyongguan, Zhongdu (Beijing), Tokyo (Liaoyang), etc., and wiped out Western Liao to the west. Cutting down Khwarazmo, chasing the overlord of Central Asia, the conqueror of the Western world, Sultan Khwarazmo, ran to the small island in the sea to die, then defeated the Georgians, the Alans, the Kipchaks, and the Russian coalition forces, and advanced into Crimea On the way back to the Mongolian grassland, he died of illness on the Asian Peninsula.

He fought from East Asia to Eastern Europe all his life, victorious and invincible.

He ranks first among the four mastiff generals of Genghis Khan, just like the name "God's Arrow", an arrow shot from the east to the west, but there is no turning back when the bow is opened.

At the beginning, Li Xingzhou had prayed that it would be best not to have this person, but now it has been confirmed that such a character exists, not only with the same name, but also very similar in terms of fighting style.

The style of mobile warfare of the Mongolian cavalry gradually began to flourish from him.

"What's wrong?" Wei Yubai beside him asked puzzledly.

Li Xingzhou showed her the battle report, and she didn't feel anything after reading it, "It was a beautiful battle."

"Don't you think the general's tactics are strange?" he asked.

Wei Yubai was taken aback for a moment, looked carefully again, and then frowned, "Hey, it seems a little strange, but... I can't tell what is so strange."

Li Xingzhou said: "Haha, that's right. This striker named Zhebe has no tactical goals at all. He relies on intuition and experience to judge in battle, and his combat goals are flexible and unconstrained."

This is the biggest feature of Mongolian cavalry combat, and the person who can best embody this feature is Jebe, the head of the four mastiff generals, and he is also the one who has played it most vividly.

There is only one strategic goal. As for the specific tactics and execution methods, they are all decided by the generals on the spot, which is very flexible.

Just like when Jebe invaded Juyongguan, he first raided Wusha Castle on the border of Jin, then attacked Juyongguan by pretending to be defeated and counterattacked suddenly, led the rangers all the way to the outside of the capital of Jin Kingdom, and waited for the main force of the Jin army to gather to deal with him. He suddenly made a circle, turned his head to attack the supervisor of the Jin people, grabbed a large number of horses and rushed back to the grassland, while the Jin people were dizzy and slammed into the air everywhere.

Encountering such a general, not only the Jin people would be dizzy, but the Central Plains generals would also be dizzy.

Whether it is the Jin people, the Jing country, or the Xia country, the general has both strategic and tactical goals. For example, attacking the Jin country is the strategic goal. Then the first step is to attack a certain city or an army, and the general will Find ways to accomplish this goal.

If it is Jebe, it is completely different. He has only one strategic goal, which is to attack the Kingdom of Jin. As for how to attack and how to attack, he is completely adaptable, leading a large number of rangers, and can change his target at any time according to changes in the battlefield.

This is a test of the general's overall situation, reaction ability and experience, but once someone has all these, he will be like a ghostly ghost, which will make the enemy confused. Difficult to deal with, because you have no idea when and where he will attack, and you can't catch up with an army full of rangers if you attack actively.

This is very worrying.

(End of this chapter)