Chapter 1468 Sitting on the mountain and watching the tiger fight
Chapter 1468 Sitting on the mountain and watching the tiger fight
Yelu Dashi tried to unite the forces of various countries in the Western Region, but instead of succeeding, he actually suffered his own consequences, causing other countries in the Western Region to join forces to deal with this news. This news did not escape Su Dingfang's ears.
After hearing this news, Su Dingfang gave up his plan to continue the attack. Even among the tens of thousands of troops coming from the rear, he only selected 7,000 more elite ones to come, and the rest
We went back the way we came.
To attack the Western Region, if possible, the fewer people the better, and the fewer troops dispatched in the end the better. After all, fighting in this environment will put too much pressure on logistics. And the army
After the number of people is reduced, the logistical pressure will be reduced accordingly.
The first is to attack with troops, then to attack with friends, then to attack with troops, and then to attack the city. Fighting is never the final means to win, strategy is the most important for a general. Instead of working hard to defeat him, Su Dingfang felt that
It would be better to sit on a mountain and watch the fight between the two parties, and in the end, he will benefit from it.
Therefore, in order to achieve this goal, he cannot have too many troops in his hands. Otherwise, if tens of thousands of troops arrive, how can the two tigers fight first when another tiger is present?
stand up?
And his initial 3,000 troops and horses, plus these 7,000 troops and horses, a total of 10,000 troops and horses, this number can not be said to be too much, it will not cause too much fear in the countries in the Western Region, but it can be said to be small, it is definitely not a lot.
If the opportunity comes, these 10,000 troops can already do a lot of things.
Although ten thousand troops may not seem like much, it depends on whose hands it is placed. If it is placed in the hands of a famous general, as long as he seizes the opportunity, he will be able to get a good harvest in the end.
Nowadays, although the countries in the Western Region have joined forces to jointly put pressure on Yelu Dashi, after all, the two sides are not fighting each other. What Su Dingfang needs to do next is to completely let the two sides fight each other, or even fight each other.
Come on, dog brain.
However, he is not good at this aspect. After all, he is a commander-in-chief, not a professional counselor. However, although he is not good at it, he has many capable people under him, such as Wei Yang, who emerged from the previous imperial examination.
, Wang Shouren, Zhang Gun, Yu Yixian, Wei Shu, Wu Ya, Ji Leizhen, Pang Tong and other talents are now under his command.
Among these people, Wei Yang, Wang Shouren, and Zhang Gun can all serve as counselors. And with these people working together, how could the kings of the Western Regions see through their plans?
Therefore, their anger towards Yelu Dashi was completely aroused, and they eventually formed an alliance to jointly deal with Yelu Dashi.
Of course, it was only a war between the countries in the Western Regions, and the Western Regions countries further west such as Kangju, Dayuan, Dayuezhi, and Wusun did not intervene.
The thirty-six countries in the Western Regions are all small countries, but compared to these countries, countries such as Kangju, Dayuan, Dayuezhi, and Wusun are much stronger. Each country can draw tens of thousands of troops.
The battle between the Western Region Alliance and Yelu Dashi lasted for a full year. In the end, although Yelu boldly designed to cause internal strife among the Western Region countries, he finally won, but in this battle
, he also suffered heavy losses.
Therefore, both sides of this war are actually neither winners nor losers. Only Su Dingfang is the final winner.
Alliances have always been unreliable. Nearly twenty countries in the Western Region have entered into a direct alliance, which means there are nearly 20 voices in this alliance. How can there be any stability in such a chaotic alliance?
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Therefore, it is not incomprehensible that Yelu Dashi provoked an internal fight between them. On the contrary, it should be reasonable.
However, although the Western Region Alliance was defeated and Yelu Dashi also suffered heavy losses in this battle. However, Su Dingfang was still in no hurry to take action at this time.
After all, Su Dingfang discovered that even when Yelu Dashi fought against the alliance of countries in the Western Regions, he still did not relax his vigilance against the Jin army. Instead, he strengthened his vigilance. It is precisely because of this that the battle between Yelu Dashi was fought.
It's so hard.
This is not an easy enemy to deal with. So, under Wei Yang's suggestion, after sitting on the mountain and watching the tiger fight, Su Dingfang was ready to start killing people again with a borrowed knife.
After a great battle, although Yelu Dashi defeated the enemy, he was not happy at all about the victory. Because his real enemies were never those small countries in the Western Regions.
In Yelu Dashi's view, those people are just dying people who sit in a well and look at the sky, are short-sighted and do not know the heights of the sky. These people are not even qualified to be his opponents.
If the Jin army had not appeared, it would have taken at most a few more years. Yelu Dashi was confident that these people would be defeated by him, and everything about these people would be plundered by him.
However, after a battle with these Western Region alliances, he suffered heavy losses. Yelu Dashi originally thought that the Jin army would launch an attack on him at this time, or on those Western Region countries.
However, the next development of things was completely beyond his expectation. Not only did the Jin army not attack him, they also did not attack those small countries in the Western Regions during the Yelu War. It was as if they had entered the time of the sages and were not disturbed by external affairs at all.
At the beginning, Yelu Dashi could still endure it and was still careful about possible moves of the Jin army at any time. However, as the Jin army continued to be so stable, Yelu Dashi couldn't help it anymore and began to attack those who were attacked by him.
The defeated small countries in the Western Region stretched out his sinful claws.
In the previous battle, he defeated the coalition forces of the Western Regions, but if it was limited to this, he would naturally suffer heavy losses. But if he can take advantage of this victory to continue to annex the opponent, not only can he be
To make up for the losses, there is still a chance to make him stronger.
Although he suffered heavy losses in the war, this kind of thing is always a two-way thing. If he suffered losses, the enemy would naturally suffer losses. Not to mention that he was the victor of this war, and his losses were huge.
, the enemy's losses will only be greater than his, and much greater than his.
Therefore, as long as we can take the opportunity to annex them, the previous war will definitely be worth it.
Moreover, he must become stronger before he can confidently deal with the threat of the Jin army. Since the Jin army is not taking action at this time, he must take advantage of this moment to take action.
However, Yelu Dashi couldn't bear it anymore and took action, but he happened to fall into Wei Yang's plan...