Chapter 768

September 27th is a good autumn day for Qingzhou.

In the city, scholars, merchants and ordinary people live as usual. There is no smell of war here.

At this time, however, there was another scene in the discussion hall. The war report from Yizhou took at least ten days. When the war report arrived in Qingzhou, Yizhou had been besieged by barbarians for ten days. It was unknown whether the city was broken now.

After receiving the war report, Xiao Ming immediately summoned the Minister of culture and military to prepare for the barbarian invasion.

"Emperor, this time the barbarians conquered Songzhou must have been in collusion with Tubo, otherwise the barbarian army would not have appeared outside Songzhou."

Zhan Xingchang said after learning the news.

Xiao Ming frowned. Tubo was the most unstable factor in the southwest border of Dayu. Since the founding of Dayu, there have been three wars with Tubo on the border, of which two won and one lost. The most recent war was ten years ago.

At that time, Luo Quan personally led the army to attack the military camp of Tubo at night, and killed 15000 soldiers of Tubo before scaring off the Tubo army.

At this time, Fiji sighed and said, "emperor, what emperor Gaozu set his capital in Chang'an was to frighten the barbarians of Tubo, Jinzhang Khanate and other foreign countries. Now Qingzhou is thousands of miles away from Tubo, and the threat to Tubo is far less than before. Now it's reasonable for Tubo to be bought by Jinzhang Khanate."

Niu Zhen was a little impatient for a long time. He said, "you civil servants are mothers and mothers. Now the barbarian army has been under the Yizhou city. For today's plan, we can only send a large army to destroy the barbarian army under the Yizhou city."

Pang Yukun said: "I think the purpose of the barbarians is to plunder. Winter is coming soon. The barbarians who suffered a lot in the past few years must plunder enough materials before winter. The war report says that the barbarians are mainly cavalry, specializing in plunder, which is enough to see the purpose."

All the ministers were excited and eloquent. Compared with the Chengqing palace in Chang'an five years ago, the ministers were more concerned about how to fight the enemy than they were scared out of their wits.

Xiao Ming is secretly satisfied with this change. Under his rule, the state of Dayu is very different from that of Xiao Wenxuan. The victories in several battles with the barbarians make the ministers change their fear of the barbarians.

Looking at the minister in the political hall, Xiao Ming said, "now, no matter whether the barbarians are in collusion with Tubo or not, the most important thing is to drive the barbarians out of Bashu, so as to prevent the thirteen prefectures of Yizhou Prefecture from being looted by the barbarians."

The barbarians' passing through Tubo was a surprise to everyone in the court. At this time, Xiao Ming remembered that in contemporary history, Kublai Khan used to bypass the northern defense line guarded by the song army to attack Dali. This incident is quite similar.

After pondering for a while, he continued: "immediately pass on my will, and order Lufei to lead 20000 troops to Yizhou and Qi Guangyi to lead 30000 cavalry troops to Yizhou. We must annihilate the enemy in the future."

"Yes, Emperor." Niu Zhen said solemnly.

After deciding on this matter, Xiao Ming continued: "although the affairs of Yizhou Prefecture are under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of military aircraft, you Aiqing should give full assistance and not delay the war."

The civil servants like Fijian and Pang Yukun bowed themselves immediately. They knew that the present court was no longer the former court.

Today, the ministers in the court perform their respective duties. Those who are in charge of government affairs are in charge of government affairs, those who are in charge of war are in charge of war, and those who are in charge of law are in charge of law.

Therefore, the war in Yizhou Prefecture is ultimately the responsibility of the military and aircraft department. What they need is to cooperate with the military and aircraft department to provide food and grass and to recruit civil servants.

When the war is urgent, Xiao Ming doesn't say anything anymore. He gives the ministers their own tasks. He asks Niu Zhen to stay and the other ministers to disperse.

After the crowd left, he said to Niu Zhen, "this time you will transfer 10000 riflemen equipped with new firearms to Yizhou to kill the barbarians. "

Niu Zhen's face moved slightly. Xiao Ming said that the 6000 riflemen were all equipped with requisition muskets. In the past six months, the Chinese military workshop delivered 15000 requisition muskets to the army.

Now there are still a large number of muskets in the army that are being transformed in the military workshop. They are preparing to equip all the army of Dayu with this kind of long-range rifles.

"Yes, Emperor." Niu Zhen nodded heavily.

From Xiao Ming's tone, he could tell how angry he was at that time. Yizhou Prefecture was originally known as the land of abundance, and it was an important place for raw silk, food and tea in Dayu.

Moreover, the autumn harvest is coming soon. The barbarian's toss will not only hinder the recovery of Dayu, but also affect the foreign trade of Dayu.

"In addition, taking advantage of this war, we will deploy 20000 troops to Huajue island. I want to let the barbarians know that they will not only burn, kill and plunder." Xiao Ming is biting his teeth.

This barbarian raid caught him unprepared. Although he was always on guard against Tubo and stationed 30000 cold weapon troops in Songzhou, the 30000 cold weapon troops were vulnerable under the attack of 60000 barbarian cavalry and 80000 slave soldiers.

Niu Zhen's eyes were sharp, and he said: "emperor, I think it's time to expand the army. More than 100000 troops can't defend the vast territory of Dayu. Even if these troops can't be equipped with firearms, it's good to use armor and swords, otherwise the Songzhou incident will continue to happen. "Xiao Ming frowned deeply. At this time, he deeply realized that it was easy to win the state of Dayu, but how difficult it was to keep the state of Dayu.

In the world, Dayu is undoubtedly in the worst environment of strategic geography. Compared with Britain, the island countries like Japan do not border with any other countries. Dayu has many neighboring countries. The most important thing is that none of these countries is good at it.

In order to prevent being robbed by the surrounding barbarians, he had to build a ring of fortresses on the vast land of Dayu to prevent invasion.

Therefore, only local defense will consume a large amount of military expenditure of Dayu, which is one of the reasons why there are few expeditions in successive dynasties. Under the environment of farming, there is no money in China, and expeditions will only lead to a faster decline.

In contrast, Britain and Japan have no such worries. They do not need to defend their homeland at all. The army only needs to attack, and most of their attacks are looting.

In short, fighting is good for them. The richer they fight, the richer they fight.

"How many troops do you think Dayu should maintain at present?" Xiao Ming asked.

"If there were no firearms, the state of Dayu would need at least 1.2 million troops. Now, from the perspective of senior officials, it would need at least 500000 troops, more than 300000 for land keeping and more than 100000 for expeditions." Niu said slowly.

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