Tang Dynasty good brother-in-law

Chapter 847 Confidential Meeting
Lighter, shorter, and smaller arrows. Later generations of Liumu have heard of this mysterious weapon. Bangzi Kingdom always believed that it was invented by them. In fact, it is a masterpiece of the Byzantines.

Xue Rengui is in charge of bow trial.

Xue Rengui hit a target of two hundred paces with a long arrow.

With a piece of arrow, Xue Rengui was not familiar with it, but the arrow easily flew four hundred steps away, and hit a tree about an inch into the wood.

"Okay." Qin Qiong praised loudly.

His sentence is not to praise Xue Rengui for his good shooting, but that this kind of arrow is very useful in the battle of the large army.

The range is far enough, and the lethality is not small.

It was only then that Qin Qiong and the others understood why Liu Mu was determined to send people to the west. There were indeed technologies different from Datang's over there, and it was definitely beneficial to the development of Datang after absorbing them and improving them.

The banquet continued until late at night, and Liu Mu wanted to care about who got the final prize, but he was already drunk.

In the early morning of the next day, Liu Mu was dragged out of bed by Qin Qiong before he woke up.

"Hurry up and wash up."

Before Liu Mu could ask Qin Qiong, Qin Qiong had gone out, and several maidservants went in to help Liu Mu change his clothes and wash his face quickly.

Qin Qiong was waiting outside the door, and after Liu Mu came out, he waved at Liu Mu.

There is a willow arrangement here in Wenquanjin. The hot spring rest area that has not yet been built has been requisitioned. The surrounding guards are guarded one after another. More than 50 tables have been placed in the hall, and the Four Treasures of the Study are placed in front of each table. More than [-]% There are two people sitting at the table.

There are only a few top staff generals at a single table.

The most central position is a circle of tables surrounded by chairs.

All the generals and above who were summoned by Qin Qiong sat around the table, Qin Qiong sat at the head in the middle, the willow was on the left side of Qin Qiong, and the Li talisman was on the right.

"Drink the wine to your heart's content. If anyone is not sober, go outside and pour cold water over his head."

After Qin Qiong finished speaking, she sat down, but no one responded or moved.

After Qin Qiong sat down, the soldiers behind him put a brocade box on the table, opened it and took out a small wooden stand, and placed the imperial decree in the brocade box on the wooden stand.

Qin Qiong said: "Holy decree, Baekje will perish within three years."

"Death of Baekje?" The order caught everyone by surprise, and Li Xiaogong asked, "Why Baekje?"

Qin Qiong said: "Before I left Chang'an, the sage talked to me. Fang Gong believed that Goguryeo was easy to defend and difficult to attack in the north, and there were several fortified cities. Jian'an is not a small city built on the mountainside like Beisha City."

Li Shenfu took over the topic: "The first time the Sui Dynasty conquered Goguryeo, there were 110 million to 400 soldiers and horses, and nearly 70 million civilians transported various materials. The navy who came to protect the children attacked at sea and raided Pingcheng. The Sui lost [-] horses, and millions of people who transported grain were killed or injured."

Liu Mu said beside him: "This is the stupidity of Emperor Yang of Sui Dynasty. The Goguryeo people played the trick of false surrender very well."

After everyone was silent for a moment, Li Shenfu nodded: "The wording is inappropriate, but the meaning is correct."

"The second expedition to Goguryeo, 30 soldiers and horses attacked Liaocheng in January. Both sides suffered countless casualties and did not capture the city. Later, they had a chance to attack. As a result, Yang Xuangan rebelled, and the Sui army had to retreat. The military supplies left behind were piled up like mountains. The cheap Goguryeo also made Goguryeo's national power soar through this war."

"The next year there will be another levy, and the world will be in chaos."

Qin Qiong turned her head and said to Liu Mu: "What you said just now is reasonable. You were still a child in the Battle of Goguryeo before the Sui Dynasty, and you also heard rumors. But let's continue to talk about what you think."

Liu Mu may not be able to answer other questions. This question is a compulsory course in the history of the Sui and Tang Dynasties.

Liu Mu stood up: "I once told the sages that war is the continuation of politics. From the perspective of the national strength of the previous Sui Dynasty, it may not be correct to collect grain and return it to the warehouse. It is right to build the canal, but it is too urgent. Forcing Goguryeo to use the power of the whole country The war had a great impact on the foundation and development of the former Sui Dynasty, as well as the lives of nobles and common people, and the timing of the war was wrong."

After whispering a few words with the others, Li Shenfu said to Liu Mu: "It's not bad."

Liu Mu continued: "In terms of tactics, too many commanders is the primary problem. Then the huge land and water troops consume too much, and the logistics can't support it. The second point is that the tactics are not well used, and the direction of attack is inappropriate. Just relying on soldiers and horses to attack hard is a failure in itself."

"That's right." Li Jing gave Liu Mu support: "Keep talking, talk casually."

"The marching is too slow and the consumption is too heavy. As I said just now, the armies did not have enough coordination, and the land and water fought separately. The most terrible reason is that Emperor Yang of Sui did not give the generals the slightest power, and asked for advice on everything. He can barely command an army of millions at the level of commanding a battalion of soldiers and horses, and it would be a miracle to win."

Qin Qiong nodded, and the details of the real reason will come soon.

When you are here, you have more or less experienced the battle of conquering Goguryeo.

Qin Qiong said: "When fighting Goguryeo, the sage's opinion is that once the strike is made, we must use elite troops to strike quickly, accurately, and ruthlessly, so as to achieve effective strikes, rather than a war of attrition. After the northern expedition to Jieli, the north, northwest, and west have been delayed. Datang has 70 troops, and it will take five years, at least five years, for these places to stabilize."

Zhang Chuchen answered: "The southwest is not very stable recently."

"Yes, the Southwest definitely needs to use troops, and it takes only a few hundred thousand soldiers. It takes five years for Fusang Road to become a land of the Tang Dynasty. The soldiers and horses in Fusang can barely form an army in three years, and they may be able to fight in five years. The saint does not want the battle with Goguryeo to turn into a war of attrition, even if there are too many Goguryeo casualties, it would not be good."

Qin Qiong conveyed Li Shimin's opinion.

Obviously, Li Shimin has counted the population of Goguryeo as the population of Datang.

"The demise of Baekje is a suspicious strategy. Goguryeo annexed Baekje, and it would take longer to digest the land and population of Baekje. Fanggong thought that Wenyue Pavilion could do a lot with this, especially in the current situation in Silla, it will surely There are repetitions."

After Qin Qiong finished speaking, she opened the list of holy decrees.

Except for Liu Mu's name, the rest of the people on this list are there, and there are a few who have important military affairs at this time, such as Niu Jinda guarding Tsushima Island and it is inconvenient to leave, Ashnadur moved to the northwest to help Li Ji controlled Gaochang and so on.

"Holy Order, these people on the list are the various chief generals of Goguryeo in the future. Now let's discuss how to confuse Goguryeo and Tang Dynasty to have a sincere and long-term alliance."

After Qin Qiong finished speaking, he leaned back on the chair. He presided over the meeting, but he was not the one who made the final decision.

Li Jing, who finally decided the strategy, was sitting in the upper seat directly opposite Qin Qiong.

"I think there is no need to confuse Goguryeo. Giving Baekje to him is a conspiracy. Goguryeo itself has the intention to unify the peninsula, so we will make his unification process a lot more troublesome and cost more effort. More time to digest the acquired land and population."

(End of this chapter)