Datang first village

Guerrilla warfare?

Li Yuanxing and the cabinet master were a little surprised, how could Hou Junji come up with such a word.

Are the Goguryeo people still ready to fight to the last person?

Li Yuanxing and the cabinet master laughed after looking at each other, Goguryeo is playing guerrilla warfare, why should they?

"Call Hou Shangshu back, the three basic elements of guerrilla warfare. The first is a leader. The second is a continuous logistics base. The third is that there is enough room for detours. Otherwise, at most, it is a grassroots bandit."

Li Yuanxing signaled to call back, and also read the telegram.

The cabinet master also said next to him: "By the way, I will make another one. Let's investigate how much grain is in the whole Goguryeo now. How much is there in the official warehouse, and how much is there in the private warehouse."

The guard went down to send a telegram.

Then the cabinet master said to Li Yuanxing: "Yuanxing, do you know the saying about the safety of grain storage?"

"I've heard that it seems that food is relatively safe only when it reaches a certain ratio. I also investigated before. For example, the highest household in Hu County can store food for the whole family for 93 days, and the worst household only has three days. So This family needs constant short-term work to make ends meet!"

"Going off topic!" The cabinet master interrupted Li Yuanxing.

"Ah..." Li Yuanxing thought for a while, and continued: "During the locust plague, the official warehouses in many counties only had enough food for the local people for ten days, but they were regarded as military warehouses, and they had food for about a month. In fact, I think this value is already very high, and unless there is a catastrophe, this food is considered safe."

The master of the cabinet nodded slightly: "The public grain in many villages in your Qinwangzhuang has been eaten by the whole village for more than five years. Now let's guess how much grain is stored in Goguryeo, and how much was harvested last autumn. How much did they waste? How many, I guess I made a mistake at first, and overestimated the national power of Goguryeo!"

"That's right, let Hou Junji go and investigate."

Li Yuanxing is not interested in the guess that the number will be known soon.

Goguryeo!

Ashnadur stood in a daze in front of an important granary in Goguryeo, and several sergeants were smashing the huge iron lock hard.

"General, maybe it's empty too!"

Ashnadur shook his head slightly, and then sighed again: "This expedition is really boring. It has been five days, and there has been no battle."

Just as Ashnadur was talking, the lock had been broken open.

The half-foot-thick door was pushed open, and an extremely foul smell wafted out from inside.

All the troops stepped back quickly, opened the door fully and let out the smell for almost an hour before entering the warehouse.

A large area of ​​dead rats exuded a stench, and then there was the black, I don't know if it was a bag of food piled up there.A sergeant cut open a bag, and what flowed out of the bag was not rice at all, but black powder, which had turned into black rice powder.

"Back!" Ashnadur waved his hand.

What's the use of this granary when even mice can be eaten to death.

At this time, not to mention the Goguryeo people, even Tang Jun felt the shortage of food.

"Check now, how many days of food do we have left?" Ashnadur asked loudly.

Immediately, an adjutant came to report: "General, save your food. If you count everything, it will be enough for us for about fifteen days, but the horse will have no beans and carrots, only grass to eat."

"It's not a horse!"

"Up to five days." The adjutant answered truthfully.

Ashnadur closed his eyes and thought for a full quarter of an hour: "Give the order, retreat. Lei Qi retreated to the mouth of the Datong River. There should be enough food there. We can't starve to death in Goguryeo, retreat!"

If it was placed a year ago, no general would dare to say a retreat.

Under the new military regulations, this is a strategic retreat. Once the entire army is found to be in a major crisis, the chief general can choose to retreat temporarily without affecting other armies.However, if there is a joint occupation mission with other armies, you cannot choose to retreat, unless all the leading generals who cooperate with the operation believe that they should retreat temporarily.

Therefore, in addition to the two orders of fighting to the death and obeying, the commander can choose to retreat two hundred miles.

From Ashnadur's location, the distance from Datong River Estuary is only 150 miles, so it is still within the range allowed by military regulations.

Two days later, Ashnadur returned to Datong River Estuary.

Along the way, he has been thinking about how to write the report on the strategic retreat, after all, this is a retreat.

But at the mouth of the Datong River, Ashnadur suddenly burst out laughing.

In the camp at the mouth of the Datong River, there were at least twenty generals, all of whom presumably retreated here.

"There's no food, how can we fight?" When Ashnadur entered the camp, he heard the sound of arguing in the main tent.

"Nonsense, who said there is no food. In the Datong Jiangkou Camp, there are enough food, meat, and fresh vegetables for an army of [-] for three months. You guys only want to be able to attack quickly, and the proportion of soldiers is as high as [-]% Half, half of the auxiliary soldiers, [-]% of them are auxiliary troops of war, only half of the logistics soldiers, not even a single supply soldier, you are a monster if you don’t starve to death.”

Eighty-five percent.

Ashnadur knew that his team consisted of [-]% soldiers, and his original plan was to fight and occupy all the way, grabbing food to survive.

But who would have thought that even after picking four grains, three were empty, and he couldn't even describe what the last one was.

Datong Jiangkou naturally has a radio station, and all the generals are reporting to Hou Junji.

Another day later, several cases of Emperor Li Er of the Tang Dynasty had Hou Junji's seal on it, not asking for guilt or merit.

Hou Junji reported: The army has already wiped out Goguryeo and retreated to station in various port areas.Inside Goguryeo, there are no soldiers, no officials, no food, and no one.The minister was puzzled and puzzled.The whole army was specially ordered to garrison, and the elites were selected to find out the details of Goguryeo.

The military report was sent to Tiance Admiral's Mansion.

After reading it, Li Yuanxing wrote an instruction in the military newspaper: order the main force and all the cavalry to transfer to Wa Island.Order Zhan Fubing to shout everywhere in Goguryeo, as long as they are willing to move to Hedong, Hebei, and Henan, each household will immediately be given one stone of refined grain and two stones of coarse grain.It is equipped with grain seeds of [-] mu of land, and the agricultural tax is exempted for two years.

Hou Shangshu pacified Goguryeo, the first achievement!

Li Yuanxing's instructions were sent to the palace.

After reading it, Li Er added another sentence: According to the order of King Qin!

The telegram was sent out, which was an order from the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty and General Tiance General Qin Wang Li Yuanxing.

All ports with radio stations have received Li Yuanxing's instructions.

Hou Junji stared at the telegram for a long time: "I don't understand this. If it means that the Battle of Goguryeo is over and the Tang Dynasty has won, it makes sense. it's over."

Li Er was also asking this question.

Only then did Li Yuanxing go into the palace and explain in detail.

"Brother Emperor, Goguryeo is weaker than the younger brother estimated. In order to defend against the attack of the Tang Dynasty, Yuangai Suwen recruited a large number of peasants. Many farmlands were deserted, and many people fled their homes. If you need an image to explain, That is, Yuan Gai Suwen walked a path that our cousin walked."

Li Er understood.

"The defeat in Goguryeo in the former Sui Dynasty also defeated the whole world. However, Yuangai Suwen was defeated in the same way, excessively consuming people's power and causing the people to flee their homes. Who would have thought that it would only be one year."

Having said that, Li Er went to the window and opened it, silently looking into the distance.

"Brother Emperor, Goguryeo is only a tiny place, without strategic depth. He can only choose to defend the whole people, so this consumption is a catastrophe. In the case of my younger brother, it is said that Yuangai Suwen only built 260 steel factories. The coal mines and iron mines that Zhao Yande gave him were excavated by my brother, and he excavated a total of [-] places. The Great Wall was built for [-] miles, and there were three fortresses. Brother Huang, do you know how many steel factories we have in Tang Dynasty now."

Li Er shook his head. He knew the number of steel mills owned by Datang, but he didn't understand the meaning of Li Yuanxing's topic.

"Brother Huang, according to Goguryeo's designed annual output of steel mills, it is seven times the total amount of steel mills currently in production in my Tang Dynasty. The total amount of coal and iron ore excavated by him is three times that of Datang. A small Goguryeo, let’s not talk about whether he can succeed, but his flipping movements are not much worse than our cousin’s madness." Li Yuanxing explained very seriously.

Li Er did not answer, turned his head and said: "Wulang, for my brother, I have issued an imperial edict to the Tiance Admiral's Mansion and Qin Wang's Mansion. This year, the household grain storage in Jingzhao should not be less than thirteen shi. The average household grain storage in each province, Henan Dao cannot be lower than ten stones. Jiangnan and Huainan Dao cannot be lower than eight stones, and the rest of the roads cannot be lower than three stones."

Li Er has realized that if there is not enough food, it is an extremely dangerous thing.

Goguryeo was defeated this time, and he failed to save food.If Goguryeo has three years of grain storage in the country, then they have struggled for three years, and those steel factories have produced a huge amount of weapons.

In other words, Datang is not easy to deal with any state with a huge grain stock.

For example, Baiyue. .

Baiyue doesn't talk about households, but the per capita food storage is more than ten stones. There is nothing else there, but there is plenty of food.A large amount, like weeds, is full of food everywhere.The land is vast and sparsely populated, and supplies are scarce.The people may have no clothes or tools, but they can harvest rice all year round.

Li Er's concern for food has once again risen to a new level.

On the other hand, the elites of the Tang Dynasty had already set foot on Wa Island, and a commendation order was also sent to Wa Island, making Wang Ba a fourth-rank military officer, Wa Island Zhen'an envoy, and the title of Minister of the Ministry of War!

After Pei Chengguang got off the boat, the first thing he said when he saw Wang Ba was: "Old Wang, do you have a strong enemy with your injuries?"

"A strong enemy, Jiangjin City will be beaten down, and I can only snatch it back, Lao Wang!" Wang Ba's face was a little more helpless.

"Are they still fighting?" Pei Chengguang approached Wang Ba and asked in a low voice.Wang Ba grinned: "There are 400 million Japanese on this island, and the number of those who really listen to us is less than 20. Do you think they will fight or not!" (To be continued.)