Recreating the prosperous Tang begins with summoning players

Chapter 370 Shanhaiguan and Tongliao
Hexi's generals and players have been broken into pieces and divided into multiple military observation groups and entered the grassland.

The main target of these military observers is the tribes scattered from Mobei to Modong.

Yu Chixin summoned the heads of various military observation groups and said:

"Everyone knows the strategic goal this time, right?"

Pang Yawei said with a smile: "Yuchi, it's been discussed all over the forum, isn't it just a big roundabout tactic? Our goal is to find out a safe way to the three towns in Hebei."

Yu Chixin nodded and said: "A large army needs a wide road to advance, and guides and supplies are also needed along the way."

"We need to support a tribe that can assist our army to advance along the way. This cannot be done by force alone."

"This time the military observation team, in addition to exploring roads and determining the marching route, must also actively contact the tribes in Modong to surrender to us in Longyou."

"If necessary, I can also provide additional assistance to those reliable tribes who take the initiative to seek refuge."

The heads of many military observation groups nodded one after another, showing tacit smiles.

Seeing the smiles of these guys, Yu Chixin knew that they had a plan.

Those who choose to become generals must be the most adventurous group of players.

In other words, this is a group of crazy players.

After the Battle of Zhangye ended, several battles were fought sporadically.

After the Tubo people scattered in Hexi were finally wiped out by the players, the players began to sigh.

The Uighurs have been defeated, and now Tubo has lost Tuyuhun.

Seeing that there are no opponents nearby, the only thing left for this group of generals and players is to give advice on the forum every day.

What heroes are useless.

What hit the Fengxiang mansion and captured the dog emperor alive.

The belligerent atmosphere on the forum made even P Society war criminals feel ashamed.

Originally, Li Yan was also having a headache with the energy that these players had nowhere to vent, until Xu Jun proposed the big roundabout strategy.

Li Yan has also seen this roundabout strategy on the forum.

At the beginning, he was only regarded as the crazy words of the player's whimsy.

You must know that this group of players is clamoring all day long to fight the Byzantine Empire and hang the Governor of Venice.

In contrast, this strategy of going around from the grassland to the rear of the puppet Yan rebels is actually quite conservative.

But when the staff office presented the entire strategy, Li Yan became serious.

The players in the staff office are not the ones who talk about it, they have really discussed the feasibility.

Li Yan just glanced at it briefly, and then asked Xu Jun, the Chief of Staff:
"Is it possible?"

Xu Jun immediately said: "The staff department has done several war games, and it is absolutely feasible!"

"Your Highness! For the sake of the war in the Central Plains, the puppet Yan has already dispatched all the soldiers on the border to the front line."

"Our big detour strategy can concentrate our forces to attack Pinglu first."

Li Yan looked at the map and asked: "Pinglu is the farthest from Longyou, right? Why did you attack Pinglu first?"

Pinglu is now the Liaodong region, which is the Jilin region of the three northeastern provinces.

Among the three towns in Hedong of Puppet Yan, Hedong Town is the closest to Longyou, just separated by Shuozhou area.

So An Qingxu asked Shi Siming to return to Taiyuan Mansion and sit in Hedong to prevent Datang from attacking his lair from Shuozhou.

Next is Fan Yang, which is the later Beijing-Tianjin-Tang area.

An Lushan started as Fanyang Jiedushi, and it has been operating here for the longest time, and it is also the rear of the puppet Yan.

However, the player's roundabout tactics first attacked Pinglu Town, which was the farthest from Longyou.

Xu Jun said, "Because of the Great Wall."

After saying these words, Li Yan suddenly realized.

Since the results of the Spring and Autumn War, the land of Yanzhao has often faced the invasion of alien races from the north.

When the first emperor swept Liuhe, he also built the Great Wall of Qin on the northern frontier.

Both Hedong Town and Lulong Town relied on the Great Wall to defend against the aliens in the north.

Xu Jun said: "The puppet Yan's troops in the rear are tense, but Shi Siming still has a large army in Taiyuan Mansion."

"Although the Great Wall can't stop us from marching, once it attracts the attention of Shi Siming's army, the follow-up attack will be passive."

"Among the three towns, Hedong Town is the important town of Puppet Yan, guarded by Shi Siming, and the land of Hedong is a dangerous place with eight mountains, one water and one field. Guo Ziyi led Shuofang's elite to fight for half a year all year round, but failed to capture it. An important city in the east of the river."

Li Yan nodded, "Hedong is the later Shanxi region."

The geography of Shanxi is that there are many mountains and rivers, and only the Jinzhong Plain can accommodate large troops.

Therefore, the position of Taiyuan Mansion guarding the Jinzhong Plain is extremely important.

But if you want to attack Taiyuan Mansion, you have to climb over the mountains, and the defenders of Taiyuan Mansion can wait for work at leisure.

Taiyuan Mansion is the barrier of the River East, and the River East is the barrier of the Central Plains.

After the Great Song Dynasty lost Taiyuan Mansion, the Central Plains fell quickly.

Now that Taiyuan Mansion is guarded by a general like Shi Siming, it is indeed not a suitable target.

Xu Jun said again: "Fan Yang is the lair of the bandits. They are loyal to the puppet Yan court. If we work hard to conquer Fan Yang, we will fall into the mud instead."

Li Yan also had to nod.

An Lushan's rebellion was not just his personal choice.

It is the common choice of Fan Yang and even the three towns of Hedong.

Even after the Anlushan Rebellion was put down, Fan Yang did not return to the court.

The resentment of these border army towns against the central court is the same as the rebellion of the six towns in the Northern Wei Dynasty.

When those who serve the country's frontiers do not receive fair rewards, when the ministers of the central government randomly order the soldiers in the border towns to die, and when those who are unable to succeed in the central government join the border towns, this kind of contradiction will never be alleviated until the day when the entire dynasty perish.

Xu Jun finally said: "Among the three towns, although Pinglu Town is the farthest from Longyou, Pinglu is sparsely populated and the winter is bitterly cold, while Bohai and Silla are obedient to the Puppet Yan, so the Puppet Yan is in Pinglu Town. Not many troops."

"Pseudo-Yan captured Shenghu in Pinglu and sent them to the front to serve as soldiers, but it was an important source of soldiers for Pseudo-Yan."

"We captured Pinglu, as long as we occupy Xiayuguan, we can cut off the connection between Pinglu and the other two towns."

"When the time comes to accumulate troops, the tiger can go down the mountain and take Fanyang and Hedong two towns!"

Xu Jun's strategy is a replica of the two major battles.

First take the outside of the pass, take down Liaoshen, and then occupy the passage outside the pass, and develop in the north.

When the accumulation of troops is completed, another tiger will come down the mountain and start the battle of Pingjin.

After understanding Xu Jun's strategic conception, Li Yan nodded.

As expected of the handwriting of the staff department, it can be said to be quite reliable.

Looking at the map, Li Yan's eyes fell on the easternmost point of the battle line.

Li Yan asked:

"The most important thing is Yuguan, right?"

Xu Jun smiled and said, "Your Highness is wise!"

Li Yan has traveled so far, and he is no longer the ordinary person who didn't understand anything at the beginning.

Whether it's player discussions or various suggestions, he will carefully browse and absorb the essence.

As the ruler of Longyou, he naturally didn't have to do everything himself.

But in order to control the group of players under him, Li Yan needs to constantly improve himself.

The large detour strategy can mobilize not many troops, and if this force is to block the counterattack of the puppet Yan rebels stationed in the Fanyang area, it must occupy a dangerous pass.

And Yuguan is the most important passage leading to northern Xinjiang.

This pass has a more famous name in later generations - Shanhaiguan!

Yuguan was built by Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty, and then Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty and Emperor Taizong of Tang conquered Goguryeo, and they all went through Yuguan.

It can be said that Yuguan is an important passage from North China to Northeast China.

According to the plan of the General Staff Office, after detouring along the Qin Great Wall to Pinglu, they captured Xiayu Pass first.

Hold Yuguan, contact Bohai State, and control the entire Pinglu region.

After gaining a firm foothold and hoarding enough supplies, continue to increase troops in Pinglu.

Form an advantage in strength, attack Fanyang Town and Hedong Town in the posture of a mountain tiger.

It has to be said that this strategy is quite feasible.

Li Yan nodded and said: "However, this king is still worried. The situation in Modong is complicated. If the army wants to cross Modong safely, it must lay a solid foundation."

Li Yan continued: "Longyou's time is running out."

What Li Yan said was the process of countering the rebellion in the Central Plains.

According to historical development, in September, Tang Jun wiped out the main force of the puppet Yan in the Gyeonggi area at Xiangji Temple.

Datang regained the two capitals in October. When Datang regained the two capitals, the rebels would inevitably withdraw to the north.

If the rebels return to the north, then this big roundabout strategy will be invalid.

Li Yan also understood that the reason why he was able to do whatever he wanted in Longyou and brazenly annexed Hexi was that the imperial court did not respond.

The main reason is that the world is still uncertain.

When the imperial court regains the two capitals, it will inevitably regain power from the local government.

Li Yan also read a lot of Tang history, which is different from what later generations imagined. Even in the late Tang Dynasty, the imperial court still had great control over many feudal towns.

Although the imperial court could not influence Longyou to restore the two capitals, it could still be done by ordering the Jiedu envoys of Shuofang and Hehuang to encircle Longyou.

In case the imperial court orders Li Yan to return to Chang'an, will he follow the order or not?

If Li Yan blatantly rebelled, without righteousness in hand, even if he sat on the throne, there would be wars everywhere.

Li Yan, who had seen the misery of the people in the Anshi Rebellion, did not want Datang to experience such turmoil again.

In order to succeed successfully!Li Yan also drew up a development plan in his mind.

First, when the imperial court quelled the Anshi Rebellion, it occupied the northern part of the empire.

As long as it occupies the line from Longyou to Shuofang and connects Fanyang and Pinglu in Hedong, it can form a deterrent situation for the Guanzhong court.

At that time, even if there was a change in the court situation, as long as the troops were sent south, just like the Jin invasion of the Northern Song Dynasty, they could drive straight into Guanzhong in multiple ways concurrently, and quickly complete the great cause of unifying the north from the south.

Xu Jun cupped his hands and said, "Your Highness, the General Staff has already set a schedule, and we can go to Pinglu Town within a month!"

"However, Your Highness, please set up an outpost in Liaodong!"

The so-called outposts are the birth and resurrection points.

Li Yan nodded. Since he wanted to attack Liaodong, it was natural to set up a birth point on the front line.

Looking at the map, Li Yan said, "Then set it in Tongliao!"

　The statement of the three northern towns is a bit of a mouthful, and it is not convenient for everyone to understand.

　　In the future, unless it is a record from the Tang Dynasty, if it is written from the perspective of Longyou, the three towns will be named according to their current approximate locations.

　　Pinglu is Liaodong.

　　Fan Yang is Youzhou.

　　Hedong still uses Hedong, but I try to use the familiar Taiyuanfu as much as possible.

　　This paragraph is a bit long-winded, but it is related to the direction of the next stage of the book, so I have to focus on writing.

　　Especially in terms of strategy, although I also know that many readers just want to read a battle report,

　　But without an explanation of why this place is being attacked, why this place is important, then the strategy is hollow.

　　If it's just a battle report, Fat Bird can push it all the way, then this book is meaningless.

　　In addition, to explain one thing, many readers said why Tuyuhun was not rewarded with great success.

　　Because the main strategy of the protagonist is still Gou, so he did not report victory to the court.

　　In this era, the military intelligence capabilities are very poor, and the truth and falsehood of various news are unpredictable.

　　In the history books, there are often situations where both sides claim victory after a battle. (Refer to the real war in a certain country in the north)
　　Tuyuhun is located on the Qinghai Plateau, which was originally isolated from the Central Plains, so the protagonist is still focusing on development.

　　Finally, Tubo attacked Xichuan. Everyone knows that Chengdu is actually very close to the snow area in a straight line, right?
　　There are still chieftains in southern Sichuan. Tubo threatened Datang mainly in three directions, the Western Regions, Hexi and Sichuan.

　　Tubo and Nanzhao have attacked western Sichuan and southern Sichuan many times. In fact, during the Anshi Rebellion, Tubo almost attacked from Xichuan.

　　This is also a normal deduction.

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(End of this chapter)