New Shun 1730

The old story of Liaodong is not far away. Jiao Laobutu has read books and understands the consequences of being unable to fight in the field and can only defend the city.

"Doesn't that mean... as long as the conflict is dragged on, these places of the Luosha people will be ours sooner or later?"

"Yes and no."

An ambiguous answer made Jiao Laobutu, who looked like a bandit but was actually very honest, difficult to understand.

"It is still good to make peace early now, and fight in the future. If one day there is a road and a car that can carry hundreds of thousands of pounds of people and goods, it will rumble over. As long as we build the road in the northeast before the Luosha people build the road, it will be ours."

"Hahahahaha... Your joke is not funny at all. For such a heavy car, I am afraid we need to use the Qilin of Duke Ai of Lu and the Blue Ox of the Lord of Daode?"

Liu Yu smiled and did not respond. He thought that Sun Wukong was so awesome, but the stick was only 13,500 pounds. It would be easy to lift it if he found a graduate of Lanxiang. I can only say that technology has limited your imagination. This thing will come out in a hundred years at most. If you have a son who lives longer, you may be able to see it.

Now that the court wants to make peace earlier, as long as the Northeast Railway is built earlier than the Siberian Railway in the future, peace or not will not matter much to the Northeast.

In the final analysis, the affairs of the Outer Northeast rely on future internal strength.

To cultivate internal strength, the southeast must be the Ren and Du meridians.

The affairs of the Northeast are not actually the affairs of the Northeast.

In the end, it still depends on the southeast coast to solve.

As for now, the earth will not explode in a few decades. As long as the railway is built earlier than Tsarist Russia in the future, the Outer Northeast will be a gift.

The early or late construction of the railway depends on the opening policy of the southeast coast; the opening policy of the southeast coast depends on how Chen Liang's sentence "Yao's capital, Shun's land, Yu's fief. There should be one or half a shame minister in the middle" is interpreted.

With the upcoming Dashun ban on religion.

Is it extreme conservatism, turning into Confucianism Waha, Bi?

Or openness and tolerance, distinguishing between dross and tradition?

At the beginning, Dashun chose the school of merit of Ye Shi and Chen Liang as the official ideology after King Wenxuan was demoted to Xuanni Gong, as the cornerstone of the Yansheng words against "the way of heaven is reincarnation, and the Later Jin has virtue and takes it", and now it has to pay the price for this ideology after the "Jingkang Shame".

If you want to wear the crown, you must bear its weight.

The idea of ​​Chen Liang and Ye Shi in the Southern Song Dynasty that "doing a career is better than empty talk, the distinction between righteousness and profit should be considered again, and the distinction between Chinese and barbarians must be observed" has become the ideology advocated by the official, and there is always a need for an explanation that can distinguish between barbarians and concentrate on learning Western learning.

In the past, whether it was Mongolia or the Later Jin, the culture of the Celestial Empire was always better than the barbarians.

Now, the biggest difference in the unprecedented change in the past two thousand years is that the barbarians' set... some aspects surpass the Celestial Empire.

In the Han and Tang Dynasties, if you lose, you lose. The emperor is useless and the generals are brainless. If you change the emperor and the generals, you will win in the end. Everyone believes that it is that simple.

Now that they have lost the war, the more confident they were before, the more inferior they will feel in the future.

This is the real problem that the change that has not happened in two thousand years has to face.

Liu Yu did not want to comment on the court's realistic strategy, and had no contact with the great scholars of the Zhejiang School for the time being, so he just thought that he had told a joke that was not funny.

After the general map was drawn, the soil and mountains nearby were also investigated, and the group returned along the marks left on the original road.

The court's mighty army of tens of thousands of people has also arrived at the Hailar River line. The Khalkha Mongolian tribes are jealous of this temporarily unobtainable grassland, and they also hope that Dashun can win.

They flirted with Tsarist Russia, but Tsarist Russia slapped them in the face with Yasak tax and forced conscription.

The emperor was bargaining with the Mongolian nobles along the way, but now Dashun's bargaining chips and deterrence are not enough, and the emperor is not too anxious.

After returning, the emperor summoned Liu Yu and asked Liu Yu how sure he was.

"I wonder how your majesty wants to fight? If you want to force a surrender, I am 100% sure that it can be resolved within 15 days."

Li Gan directly rejected the idea of ​​forced surrender.

"Don't force a surrender."

"I want to let the Khalkha Mongols see our sons and daughters bravely climb the city with flags flying. I also want to let them see that the Rakshasa Kingdom, which they are unable to stop, is vulnerable to the front of the Celestial Empire. Don't fight like the Mulijiwei. I know you are right. That battle was actually not bad, but the Khalkha Mongols don't understand bastions. All they saw was that our army captured a small fort and lost more than a thousand people."

The emperor's request was not high. Liu Yu considered the situation of the court and reported a date.

"Twenty-five days. Within 25 days, the city must be broken. And the break is extremely shocking, which makes the Khalkha people tremble with fear."

"No joking in the army."

"No joking."

Liu Yu agreed very readily.

He basically understood the situation of the court's main field troops.

In the war at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the Later Jin relied on cannons to attack cities and fight in the field, but what they learned were all naval cannons made by the Ming Dynasty, and there were no field gun mounts and threaded jacks, so the field power was not strong.

Overall, the practical experience of Dashun was that after defeating the Later Jin, the surrounding areas were all weak chickens without field artillery. And experience is gained from practice.

The formation is still the same as the Thirty Years War, with dense formations, mixed cold and hot weapons, and large formations for field battles.

There are no cannons around, but there are more cavalry.

Such a thick formation is indeed invincible for this reality of fewer cannons and more cavalry.

Compared with Western Europe at this time, it must have taken the wrong path.

Thinner lines and more ferocious field artillery can break the dense formation of Dashun at this time.

However, it is still enough to deal with the Cossacks of Tsarist Russia.

The Cossacks don't have many artillery. The enemy has no artillery advantage, so they just arrange dense formations at will.

The Cossack cavalry is one of the best light cavalry, but the Cossacks have always been the most aggressive in grabbing credit, the fastest in escaping, the best in looting, and the first to escape in field battles.

As for attacking forts, Dashun has a greater advantage.

There are still many elite cold weapons, and the artillery has a great advantage over the Cossacks.

Wude Palace has been forced to learn geometry and surveying based on the teachings of Emperor Taizong. Although the formal logic of the real essence of geometry needs to be cultivated slowly, the artillery surveying that can be used right away is not bad.

This time, Dashun also went all out and mobilized a lot of cannons, transported all the way from the capital and Liaodong to here, and the food supplies consumed were enough to fight a decisive battle with the Qing Dynasty that year.

The emperor wanted to fight beautifully, with few casualties, and shocking, so the artillery could be used vigorously.

Since the emperor wanted to improve his prestige in the army, Liu Yu retreated behind the scenes and wrote a detailed siege plan, treating himself as a tactical adviser.

What if the enemy came out of the city to harass?

What if reinforcements arrived?

What if the enemy escaped?

What if the first wave of attack did not go well?

What if the Russians hid the artillery and waited until the end to use it?

List all the possible situations one by one, and indicate several alternative plans for each one, so that the emperor does not need to know the tactics himself, and can not panic when encountering accidents, just come up with a plan and ask the people below to execute it.

Liu Yu relied on the relationship of his cheap father to talk to the nobles who followed the emperor. Ask if you don't understand something, and the old nobles who want to know also guessed the emperor's meaning and answered very quickly.

When they were about to reach the Ergun River, this staff report was finally completed.

Including camp deployment, mobilization of various departments, unexpected response, goals of each camp, logistics distribution, etc.

When it was delivered to Li Gan, the hot air balloon, French military uniforms, royal flags, etc. that Liu Yu requested were also delivered by post station.

He went to the front line to fly a hot air balloon to observe the situation in the castle, while Li Gan carefully read the report written by Liu Yu in the big tent.

At first glance, I just felt that it was detailed and did not taste the flavor.

After reading the back, Li Gan finally tasted some flavor.

When Jinshui Bridge asked, Liu Yu said something. Afterwards, he also mentioned the staff department.

Li Gan felt at first that this staff department was like the military advisor's mansion of the year, giving advice and being a staff, and could not understand the real purpose of it.

When the first staff report was released, Li Gan realized that the staff department that Liu Yu had been talking about was not the same as the military advisor he understood.

Like the military advisor, the staff department does not need to have military power. But unlike the military advisor, the staff department does not need a military advisor who can make all the plans with a feather fan, but a group of experienced veterans leading a group of young officers.

It is a bit like the Privy Council of the Song Dynasty, but the power and responsibility seem to be much smaller than that of the Privy Council.

It seems that it does not care about promotion or military system, but only formulates strategic plans before the war and battle plans during the war.

In this way, some veterans can be transferred away from military power, and some new young people can be placed.

The emperor can be the head of this staff department, and use the plan of the staff department and the name of the emperor to provide some guidance on the battle strategy.

In this way, some veterans with real military merits can be separated, and the emperor can always maintain a high enough prestige in the army.

In line with Liu Yu’s idea of ​​"standardized linear flintlock bayonet corps" in front of Jinshui Bridge that day, the emperor can slowly take back the military power completely to the hands of this staff department.

As for whether it can be controlled in the future, that is another matter.

We can even learn something similar to the previous cabinet scholars, where the staff department relied on veterans to support the facade and a group of young people without foundation as the cornerstone.

Of course, logistics supplies should still be controlled by civilian officials other than officers, and checks and balances seem to be a way.

But it is definitely impossible to use it now.

First, there is no special military school as Liu Yu suggested before; second, only Liu Yu knows how to do it roughly, and it is difficult for a skilled cook to cook without rice, and it is definitely not possible to rely on this one person.

Liu Yu spent many days writing a thick report on the siege of a small castle.

As for guiding a battle, let alone how much work it is, it is not something that a few people can support.

These are Li Gan's understandings. Many of his understandings are not correct, but he also seems to have grasped some key points.

This seems to be trying to get the command of the battle from the commander-in-chief to the staff department, which is easy to divide, control and master.

If this staff department is really formed, it will definitely seize power.

At the very least, the power of the Military Government's Zhifang Division must be acquired, so that maps can be drawn, foreign military forces can be inspected, and countermeasures for external border threats can be formulated; the power and responsibilities of the Treasury Division must be divided into some parts; the power and responsibilities of the Tianyou Palace also seem to be divided into some parts...

Once the northwest border is pacified, the country will definitely stop fighting and cultivate culture.

If it is not done well, it will be easy to follow the path of the Song Dynasty, with redundant officials and personnel, and more than enough checks and balances, but it is difficult to gather strength. If the war breaks out again in the future, it is hard to say.

Li Gan thinks that this matter needs to be considered slowly, after all, this may be a drastic reform.

It is better not to move for the time being, at least wait until the northwest is finished before discussing it.

And there are many details that need to be considered.

The redistribution of power and responsibility, the partial merger of the civil and military systems, and future checks and balances, etc., are not something that can be decided on a whim.

And Li Gan also felt that Liu Yu's ideas and practices were poles apart.

Just like the things he was doing in the east, he relied on the old wisdom of military tactics and acted according to circumstances; the General Staff was more like only suitable for large-scale battles and decisive battles, and was not suitable for small-scale battles on the front line or sudden encounters.

Thinking about some things that Liu Yu had always been thinking about, Li Gan seemed to understand Liu Yu's true intentions.

This thing sounds useful.

But the premise of being useful...

is to reform the military system, the conscription system, redistribute power and responsibility, establish an officer corps, build a military academy, reform the tax system, change the popular science, change customs...

Among them, the simplest one is to eliminate the cold and hot mixed square formations and use the flintlock rifles with bayonets as Liu Yu said to form a standard legion.

Even the simplest one in the south cannot be decided on a whim.

Where does the money come from? Who should be asked to collect taxes? Where do the officers come from? Who should have the prestige of training officers? Who should train officers for the new army? Is it useful to raise such a new army? Will there be large-scale land battles after the country pacifies the northwest?

Each of these items will touch upon the changes of the vested interest groups.

In the end, it seems to have come back to what Liu Yu said at the beginning:

Combining the East and the West, in order to surpass.

The courage required for such a change is really too great.

Li Gan hopes that he will surpass the Han and Tang and leave his name in history, but for the time being, he does not have the courage to carry out such radical reforms.

After roughly estimating the true thoughts of Liu Yu, the guard who the emperor least understands, and the path he insists on, Li Gan decided to wait and see.

Since Liu Yu has an idea, let Liu Yu do it and see what he will do next. At least now, Li Gan feels that he cannot see through Liu Yu.

I thought, I pretend not to know your thoughts, but I want to see where you will go next.