The emergency report from the border still came from western Liaoning. Two months ago, as soon as the imperial army arrived, the Goryeo soldiers and horses immediately withdrew. Later, the King of Goryeo sent a letter of apology and was willing to surrender to the Han Dynasty. Now the north has long been covered with ice and snow.
In order to facilitate supplies, some of the soldiers and horses left behind in Zhaoyuan were gradually transferred to Yancheng. At this time, the Goryeo army came back again and captured Zhaoyuan City again.
This time is different from the past. The Yongji Canal has been frozen and ships cannot pass. It will take an unknown amount of time to mobilize troops from Luoyang. Liu Ziqiu had to order some local troops from nearby counties in Hebei to reinforce Yancheng. These places
The combat effectiveness of the army is definitely not as good as the regular army of the imperial court. There is no problem in relying on city defense, but there are many deficiencies in the offensive aspect. There is definitely no hope of relying on them to recover Zhaoyuan City. And at this season, the imperial army should not move lightly. Liu Ziqiu looked at the border
Although he failed, he had to endure this feeling for the time being.
It was precisely because of the capriciousness of the Goryeo people that they invaded again, which made Liu Ziqiu determined to completely destroy Goryeo! At the same time, he also understood Yang Guang somewhat. In the history of later generations, many people thought that Yang Guang's three conquests of Goryeo were a militancy.
This move, but did not further delve into the reasons why Yang Guang conquered Goryeo. The Goryeo invaded western Liaoning and eastern Liaoning repeatedly until they threatened Liucheng. When the Sui army became strong, they pretended to surrender. When they found a fighter opportunity, they would make sudden attacks.
This kind of capriciousness finally angered Yang Guang, and he decided to give Korea a severe blow. However, although Yang Guang had a high self-esteem, he did not do a real job, so he was completely defeated.
Liu Ziqiu would not allow the Koreans to do it many times. This one time was enough, not to mention that this land originally belonged to China, and all he had to do was to regain the lost land.
Of course, Liu Ziqiu will not be as blindly impulsive as Yang Guang, nor will he waste national power endlessly. He will take a long-term approach.
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A lesson from the past can serve as a guide for others. If Liu Ziqiu does not want to repeat the mistake of Yang Guang's defeat in Liaodong, he must find out the real reason for Yang Guang's defeat and take targeted measures to solve it. Although Liu Ziqiu traveled from later generations, he still knows about that period of history.
Not much, but through his understanding of Yang Guang and the intelligence collected during this period, he still discovered some problems.
First of all, Yang Guang was so happy that he would dispatch huge armies whenever there was a war. The last time he conquered Tuyuhun, he had half a million troops, and when he attacked Goryeo, he had an army of one million. There is a saying in the art of war: generals rely on planning rather than courage, and soldiers
It’s about being more sophisticated, not more. What determines the outcome of a war is often not the number of people. Especially in this era, logistics and transportation are very difficult. The more troops and horses, the greater the consumption, and the heavier the burden of logistical supplies. After a war,
, the food and grass needed by a million-strong army alone is a quite terrifying figure. If each person consumes one kilogram of food per day, nearly one million dan of food will be needed in a month.
On the other hand, the Sui Dynasty implemented a government-armed system. The army served the people in peacetime and served as soldiers in wartime. Except for a few armies such as the Beijing army and the guards, whose equipment was uniformly equipped by the imperial court, the weapons, armor, and horses of the other officers were all provided by themselves.
.Such a military system directly led to the army's equipment being disorganized and severely weakening its combat effectiveness. Liu Ziqiu, who participated in the Battle of Tuyuhun, knew this well.
There is another important reason. The climate in Liaodong is harsh, and the temperature in winter is often as low as more than 30 degrees below zero. If adequate preparations for the cold are not made in advance, it is very likely to cause a large number of non-combat attrition. And the Goryeo army lives there.
The ability to adapt to the local climate must far exceed that of the Sui army. As long as the war situation is dragged into winter, the situation will be reversed.
In that battle in history, the Sui army numbered millions, but only a few thousand people came back alive in the end. The ending was tragic and shocking. But this does not mean that the Goryeo army is powerful. If the Goryeo army is really powerful,
They would not just toss in Liaodong, but had already invaded the Central Plains. Therefore, the biggest reason for the failure of the three expeditions to Goryeo was the Sui army itself. As long as the problems that existed within it were solved, not to mention Goryeo, Baekje, Xinjiang, etc.
Putting all of them together, they are equally vulnerable.
Of course, Liu Ziqiu has not relaxed the construction of the army, and some problems have actually been solved. For example, the issue of the establishment of the army, the improvement of the quality of the army, and the issue of army logistics and supply. These have always been the focus of Liu Ziqiu's focus. Especially logistics and supply.
On the other hand, after absorbing the experience of the Qing Dynasty and Yushan bandit battles, the current regular army has formed a special baggage transport unit. All Liu Ziqiu needs to do now is to make some targeted adjustments.
There are two things that need to be prepared most, one is to accumulate a large amount of strategic materials, and the other is the soldiers' adaptation to the local climate.
Ordinary cotton-padded clothes and quilts can hardly withstand the severe cold there, and even adding some sheepskin jackets may not be effective. Liu Ziqiu thought of down jackets. An imperial edict was spread across the country to collect a large number of all kinds of down, especially duck down and goose down.
Of course, wild duck down, wild goose down or even velvet would be better, but the quantity is limited. In such an era that relies purely on handwork, collecting a large amount of down is a very huge project. Fortunately, it has now entered the off-season, and the people
It did take a lot of time. Under the initiative of the local governments, almost all the people took action.
In addition to collecting down, another important task is to prepare dry food. The dry food mainly consists of two kinds of food: cured meat and fried noodles. The cured meat is provided by tribes in Mobei and the Western Regions, and the fried noodles are fried by the army soldiers during their training.
It was made. All the dry food was not distributed to the troops immediately, but was gradually transported to Jixian for storage.
Ji County is the seat of Zhuo County, which is also the city of Beijing in later generations. There is a palace built by Yang Guang called Linshuo Palace. However, the maids and eunuchs in Linshuo Palace have been dismissed, leaving only an empty palace.
Palace. Today, the Linshuo Palace has been transformed into a granary. A huge ice cellar was dug underground under the Linshuo Palace. The cured meat and fried noodles are stored in the huge ice cellar. Even if they are taken out after three to five years
, it can still be eaten.
Many other strategic materials are also being gradually transported to Jixian, and the entire Jixian County has become a huge front-line base. This kind of transportation has not stopped throughout the winter. Because of heavy snowfall in the north and canals and rivers frozen, they completely rely on people to carry horses.
The hardships can be imagined. The newly established baggage transport team became the main force of this task. The snow sledge "invented" by Liu Ziqiu in the Battle of the West Sea was also widely used here, and many cattle and horses were transferred from Mobei.
. Even so, in the spring of the next year, the transportation work still did not stop, which shows that the transportation volume was huge. This is just a story for later, and I will not mention it for now.
As for letting the soldiers adapt to the cold climate in the north, the best way is to let them go to the local area to receive harsh training. Although Liu Ziqiu could not easily have a million troops like Yang Guang to attack Goryeo, 200,000 soldiers and horses were
Indispensable. It is impossible for him to really put all 200,000 people there to adapt. If so, the local logistics supplies cannot afford it. Liu Ziqiu only selected 50,000 people to be transferred to Liucheng County. These 50,000 people
It will serve as the main force in the war against Goryeo next year.
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The cabinet was busy revising the regulations for the imperial examination, and Liu Ziqiu was actively preparing for the war. No one had time to talk about the canonization ceremony until the Spring Festival was approaching, and Luoyang City became lively again. The Spring Festival is the most important festival for the Han people, along with the Lantern Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, and Chinese Valentine's Day.
, along with the Mid-Autumn Festival, were designated by Liu Ziqiu as the five major festivals nationwide. Of course, some ethnic minorities in the Western Regions, Mobei and the South also have their own festivals, and Liu Ziqiu did not interfere. However, these five major festivals are national festivals.
Regardless of the customs and habits of the tribe, it must be celebrated by the whole world.
Among the five traditional festivals, the Spring Festival is the most important. Some tribal leaders from the Western Regions and Mobei were also invited to attend the grand celebration held in Luoyang, adding many foreign faces to Luoyang City. These tribal leaders all
The Ministry of Rites came forward to receive the reception, and the imperial court dispatched a group of soldiers to maintain order, but everything went smoothly.
In addition to these leaders, many businessmen from various places also came to Luoyang at this time, and there were even many businessmen from Persia and further west. These blond, blue-eyed and white-skinned guys should be regarded as real barbarians. After all,
The Spring Festival is a festival for the Chinese people. For Persians and people further west, it does not matter that they cannot celebrate the Spring Festival, but they will not give up such a lively opportunity. After all, it is also a rare business opportunity for them.
Among all the leaders and merchants, the four highest-ranking khans from Mobei are undoubtedly the four great khans from Mobei, namely the Asd tribe Khan Mulin from the Turks, the Ashina khan Du Mi from the Western Turks
Xue Yantuo Khan Xue Shixiong, Ashina Khan Daman.
Among these four people, Mu Lin undoubtedly has the highest status, because his daughter Mu Duoli is now Liu Ziqiu's concubine. Although he is only a nobleman, Liu Ziqiu does not have many concubines, not including Xie Muyu, but
There were only five people. Looking at it this way, Mu Duoli was very impressive. The officials of the Ministry of Rites were also the most respectful and polite to Mu Lin. Moreover, after Mu Duoli knew that her father had arrived in Luoyang, she also came to visit her in person and even rewarded him with a lot of gold.
The silver treasure and a group of soldiers made the other three khans particularly jealous.
On the twenty-fourth day of the twelfth lunar month in the third year of Zhongxing, Liu Ziqiu held a banquet in honor of the four great khans in Xiyuan Jingmingyuan. Although many ministers, including Wei Zheng, dismissed the nomadic tribes in Mobei, Liu Ziqiu paid great attention to them.
Doing it also shows one's attitude. Who would have thought that at this banquet, Western Turk Khan Daman made a request that Liu Ziqiu could not accept.