(2-in-1) "A plan that will fail?" You're saying that my plan won't work out for sure? When I go to the border, I will ask to lead 5,000 forbidden troops with me. Then select some elite soldiers and horses to form an army of 10,000 elite cavalry. According to intelligence, at present, the number of soldiers and horses of the Liao State on the border of our Great Zhou is not large, and the main force of the soldiers and horses of Zhongjing was transferred to Liaodong to quell the rebellion, and the remaining defensive soldiers and horses were less than 50,000, and they were concentrated in the north of Youzhou. I could send troops from Pingzhou in the east, and go north along the coastline, bypassing the area where it was concentrated and defending, and go straight to Zhongjing Dadingfu. When the soldiers and horses on its border find out, Dading Mansion must have been taken by us. Even if they turn around and come to help, it will be too late. ”

Guo Xu moved the teacup and things on the table and put a simple map, and continued: "And once I take the Zhongjing Dading Mansion, I will cut off the back road of its border soldiers and horses, and at that time, my large surrounding army will attack the north, and I will take all the large areas of Zhongjing Road." In that case, the Liao army in Xijing will also become a lone army, and if it does not retreat north immediately, it will be surrounded and attacked by our Great Zhou soldiers and horses from the two directions of Western Xia and Zhongjing. Those more than 100,000 soldiers and horses will also face the danger of being completely annihilated by us. So they will definitely give up Xijing and evacuate, so that Xijing Road will be at their fingertips. In a war, he seized the land of the two capitals of the Liao State, and approached Shangjing, and the head of Yeluzong was difficult to take care of, and he would surely fall. Lin Jue, His Royal Highness is also familiar with soldiers and horses, this plan can be said to be extremely thoughtful and practically appropriate, you say that this plan will fail, where to start? ”

When Lin Jue was extremely bored, he had studied the maps of the border between the Great Zhou and the Liao Kingdom, and judging from the deduction set up by Guo Xu, he must have studied it carefully. I have to say that Lin Jue thinks Guo Xu's plan is very reliable. At least in theory.

The Great Zhou and the Liao State are bordered to the northeast. According to the regional division of Liaoguo, it is two parts: Xijing Road and Zhongjing Road. There are more than 100,000 soldiers and horses on the Xijing Road, mainly to guard against the western defense line, and also to guard against the defense from the direction of Western Xia. The Zhongjing Road on the east side is the focus, once the garrison reached 270,000, whether the Liao people are defending or attacking, the Liao people are willing to go south from the Zhongjing Road, seize the sixteen states of Yanyun and open the mouth to the south.

After the Jurchen rebellion, Zhongjing Road was the closest to Liaodong, and the soldiers and horses were more elite, so it was the best choice to transfer troops from Zhongjing Road to quell the rebellion. Therefore, Yelu Zongyuan first agreed to continue to reconcile with the Great Zhou, and after stabilizing the Great Zhou, he transferred 200,000 troops from Zhongjing Road to the north to quell the rebellion. In this case, only a small part of the Liao army on the Zhongjing Road was left, and they were concentrated in a few cities in the border towns.

Guo Xu's method was to send troops from Pingzhou, which was close to the Bohai Bay, and sneak into the territory of the Liao State along the coastline, bypassing the main cities in the Liao State. 10,000 cavalry can reach the city of Dadingfu in Zhongjing in three days at most and launch an attack. If Dading Mansion can be captured within three days, even if the enemy troops on the border return to help, it will be useless. If the soldiers and horses on the border of the Great Zhou Dynasty are fully attacked, tens of thousands of Liao troops can be surrounded and killed. Zhongjing Road fell, and the Xijing Road in the west became a lonely army, and the hundreds of thousands of Liao defenders could only evacuate if they did not want to be annihilated, and Xijing Road would also fall into the hands of the Great Zhou.

This plan is not unenticing, nor is it unfeasible. In fact, the risk is not great, as long as one thing can be done, it is to capture Dading Mansion and hold it for a few days before the enemy discovers it, and most of the strategic objectives can be accomplished. However, Lin Jue was not actually thinking about whether he could succeed, he was actually thinking further.

"Your Highness, what I mean is that there is not much of a problem with this plan itself. Of course, there are a few difficulties. One is the secrecy of the cavalry's northward movement, whether it can avoid being discovered by the enemy's traces and intentions. Once the intention is discovered, the opponent will withdraw his troops and horses in time to defend Dading Mansion, and the 10,000 cavalry will be afraid of throwing themselves into the net. Second, even if you can successfully attack Dading Mansion, whether you can capture Zhongjing before the enemy army returns is a big hello. I am not questioning the combat power of the 10,000 elite cavalry selected by His Highness, but the problem is that the cavalry raid can only be a raid along the way, not a siege battle. After all, for the sake of mobility, you can't carry siege engines. The city of Dadingfu in Zhongjing is thick, and it is not easy to attack the city. Even if there are only more than 10,000 soldiers and horses stationed, it will be even more difficult to attack the city with bare hands. But if you can't attack it for three days, then it's a big trouble. Lin Jue said in a deep voice.

Guo Xu said: "This is indeed what I am worried about, the cavalry is attacking the city...... I'm afraid it's not appropriate. But that's why I invite you to join me. I believe there is always a way. ”

Lin Jue said with a smile: "There are actually a lot of methods, for example, assuming that the whereabouts of the first step are kept secret, and the Liao people are not aware of it when they arrive at Dading Mansion, they can order people to mix into Dading Mansion, and at night they should join forces with the outside, set fire to attack and kill in the city, and sneak attack and climb outside the city, and the city will be broken." There are other ways to do it, but I don't need to go into them one by one. ”

Guo Xu was overjoyed and said: "I'll just say, there is always a way." You're going to be working. I'm here to ask you to join, that's right. ”

Lin Jue smiled and arched his hand: "Your Highness listened to me, there is actually nothing to say about the specific things of the war. That's not the point I'm going to tell Your Highness. What I'm going to discuss with Your Highness is the big picture. It is the fundamental foothold of this plan and the impact it will have on the big picture in the future. ”

Guo Xu frowned and said, "What are you going to say, why didn't this king understand?" ”

Lin Jue said quietly: "To put it bluntly, it is a question of whether this plan is good for my Da Zhou." ”

Guo Xu was surprised: "Benefits? Aren't the benefits obvious? If I can destroy the Liao State, I will have a large area of land in my Great Zhou, and I will also eliminate a major threat to my Great Zhou. Isn't it a huge benefit that the northland border troubles have been eliminated from now on? ”

Lin Jue shook his head and said, "Your Highness's plan, to put it bluntly, is a strategy to raise tigers and drive wolves. Let's not talk about the success or failure of this plan itself, I only ask His Highness one sentence, does His Highness think that the Jurchens will be friendly with my Great Zhou? ”

Guo Xu was stunned for a moment, frowned, and said, "We will form an alliance with the Jurchen and save it from fire and water." If they can destroy Liao, they can also divide a large piece of Liao land, won't they be grateful to us? ”

Lin Jue laughed and said, "The Jurchens originally belonged to the Liao Kingdom. They can even betray the Liao State, what else can't they do? In the current situation, the Jurchens dared to raise troops to rebel, forcing Yelu Zongyuan to mobilize a large army to quell the rebellion, which is enough to show that the Jurchens are extremely powerful. If the Liao State was destroyed and the Jurchens gained a large amount of land and population, their strength would be even stronger. Killing the evil wolf of Liao, with more Jurchen tigers, the consequences will be even more serious. Your Highness thinks that the people in the Liao Kingdom identify more with my Great Zhou or with the Jurchens? I dare to say that once the Liao State is destroyed and the Jurchens are strong, the original Liao tribal nobles will all turn to the Jurchens. The people of the land occupied by my Great Zhou will not truly return to their hearts. Think about the Western Xia Kingdom, how many years has it been since it was destroyed by my Great Zhou? It's not that there have been rebellions every year, and the situation has never stabilized. Therefore, my judgment is that after the destruction of Liao, my Great Zhou will not be able to get a stable border, on the contrary, the situation will be even worse than now. ”

Guo Xu frowned tightly and groaned, "How dare you assert this? ”

Lin Juexin said: That's the history of the parallel world that I know, there, the Jin Kingdom destroyed a dynasty called the Northern Song Dynasty, took their emperors captive, and achieved a history of great shame. How similar the situation is here, even a replica of that parallel era, I naturally know what will happen next.

"Your Highness, things are going according to their laws. If Your Highness has read the history books, you will know that since ancient times, foreign invasions of the Central Plains have been a problem for every Central Plains dynasty. Whether it is in the north, the alien races are called Rongdi or Xiongnu or Xianbei, Qian, Di and Qiang. Or the current Khitan Jurchens, they will all covet the Central Plains. The difference is whether the dynasty of the Central Plains has the ability to deter them, like the Han Dynasty back then, to drive them to the land of Mobei, and dare not go south to herd horses. As far as the current situation is concerned, the Liao people have lived in peace with our Great Zhou for more than 100 years, because they have been influenced by the culture of our Central Plains, and they also follow Confucianism and Taoism, and they are gradually civilized, not extremely barbaric. That's why there can be a hundred years of peace between the two countries. However, who are the Jurchens? They were born between the white mountains and black waters, and they are a group of savage and uncivilized animals. Would you rather be a neighbor with someone who is willing to reason, or would you rather be a neighbor with someone who doesn't tell you anything? He would slash his neighbor with a knife if he didn't say a word. What choice will His Highness make? ”

Guo Xu's face was gloomy, and he said in a deep voice: "Although there is some truth in your words, there is no absolute reason. Aren't the Liao people already a huge threat to my Great Zhou? You also know that if it weren't for the Jurchen rebellion, they would probably have already started a war with my Great Zhou, so why do you say that they are better off than the Jurchens? ”

Lin Jue Zhengse said: "The reason why a country is bullied by others cannot only blame foreign enemies for barbarism, but also blame itself for being weak." If you fall behind, you will be beaten, this is an ironclad truth. The Liao people were able to make peace with me for a hundred years before, because they knew that we were strong and they could not defeat us. Now they turn their faces, that's when they know we're weakening, and they smell an opportunity. What we need to do now is to be strong ourselves. I still have national fortune in Da Zhou, and the rebellion of the Jurchens has given me a chance to breathe in Da Zhou, and this opportunity should be used well. If I were to say it, what I would most like to see was that the Jurchens and the Liao people were fighting each other, and no one could destroy anyone, and they had been in a stalemate in battle. A divided and war-torn north is in the interests of our Great Zhou, and a unified and powerful north is precisely what my Great Zhou should worry about the most. So at this time, it is the best choice for the two not to help each other, let them eat dogs, and lose both, which is what I want to see most in Da Zhou. No matter who they win in the end, they will no longer be able to attack our Great Zhou. Peace may not last forever, but it lasts as long as it lasts. When the time is ripe, my Da Zhou may not be able to drive them all to Mobei like a strong man. ”

Guo Xu touched his chin and was speechless, he completely understood, Lin Jue said that this plan was doomed to failure, not for the military difficulties and possible failures caused by the plan itself, but to say that the starting point of the plan itself was wrong. What he meant was from the perspective of grand strategy, from the standpoint of the entire Great Zhou. In his opinion, it was very dangerous to help the Jurchens, and the Jurchens were even more terrible than the Khitans. This is to drive the tiger to devour the wolf, and when the wolf dies, the tiger will eat people.

Guo Xu is a smart person, and he has to admit that most of Lin Jue's views are extremely reasonable. In particular, he can think about the whole situation from the height of national strategy from a strategic vantage point, and he is much higher than himself in terms of pattern. From beginning to end, Guo Xu did not think about this problem from the overall situation, and compared with Lin Jue at this point, he was immediately dwarfed. However, Guo Xu couldn't agree with Lin Jue's statement, because according to Lin Jue's statement, his grand plan was about to run aground. And this plan is a crucial step in seizing the throne for himself, and all of this is actually nothing compared to this goal. Even if what Lin Jue said would be fulfilled in the future, even if the Jurchens were really more ferocious than the Liao, if he could sit in that position, all this would be meaningful. Otherwise, the world is peaceful, strong and prosperous, what does it have to do with yourself?

"Lin Jue, this king is here to ask you to help me, not to listen to you talk about the general trend of the world. If you like to say this, it will be okay to listen to you for three days and three nights in the future. But at this moment, the king only asks you, will you agree to help the king complete this plan? Solve my urgent problem? Guo Xu asked in a deep voice.

Lin Jue looked up at Guo Xu and felt disappointed in his heart. The trace of admiration and goodwill that Guo Xu just had was slowly disappearing. After saying so much by himself, Guo Xu didn't listen to it at all. He only had the thought in his heart that the success of this plan would add a lot of weight to his struggle for the throne, and he didn't really care about the fate of Da Zhou. As a member of the Great Zhou royal family, he was selfish and ignorant. He is not even as good as most of the officials of the Great Zhou, at least these officials still have a sense of responsibility for the Great Zhou. He put his personal desire for power above the interests of the state, and he was not qualified to be emperor. At least that's what Lin Jue thinks in his heart.

"Your Highness, what should have been said has been said, and everything you say comes from the bottom of your heart. Your Highness may think that it is all nonsense below, but that's nothing. In short, I feel that this plan is inappropriate, so please forgive me for not being able to accept His Highness's invitation. If Your Highness wants to punish me, I can't do it. I hope that His Highness will think twice. Lin Jue got up and arched his hand.

"Bang!" Guo Xu slapped his palm on the table, his gaze as fierce as a blade.

Lin Jue bowed and did not move, and his face did not change.

"Hehehe, hahaha. Well, that's good! Guo Xu laughed: "Sure enough, what kind of teacher there is, what kind of student, you actually rejected me, you are really a stubborn and difficult person." Lin Jue, you do have the ability, but do you think that you are the only smartest in the world, and if you don't participate, others won't be able to do it? ”

Lin Jue frowned and said, "I have never thought about it like this, but I can't do anything about this matter." ”

"It's good, the twisted melon is not sweet, I thought that we would make friends and work together to do something big. Now it seems that this king is wishful thinking. You don't want it, and I don't force it. But I'm telling you, you'll regret it, you're rejecting this king, and you'll definitely regret it. Guo Xu said coldly.

"Your Highness, Lin Jue didn't mean to embarrass His Highness, but this matter is not good for Da Zhou, and it is actually not good for His Highness. I would like to advise His Highness to think twice before acting, and to be cautious. Lin Jue raised his head and said quietly.

"I don't need you to persuade me, you don't have that qualification." Guo Xu waved his robe sleeves and stood up: "This king wants you to think about it, this king gives you three days to think about it, if you change your mind, this king will treat you as before." ”

Lin Jue said in a deep voice: "No need, Your Highness. Lin Jue can reply to you now, Lin Jue is only a shallow learner, and he cannot complete this grand plan for His Highness. Your Highness, please also ask for Gao Ming. ”

"Humph!" Guo Xu's face turned blue, he shouted angrily, got up and left.

Lin Jue bowed and said, "Congratulations to Your Highness." ”

Guo Xu's face was cold, and he turned around and said lightly: "Lin Jue, you are in a hurry to be rude to me today." Also, if you reveal half a word about today's events, I will kill your whole family. Do you understand? ”

Lin Juewan didn't expect that Guo Xu would turn his face so quickly, and he was like two people with his gentle and calm appearance before, and his eyes were full of fierce light. sighed in my heart: Why did you offend this prince again? Do you have to promise him what you don't want to do? No, it's impossible. If he fails to fulfill his wish, he will have this face, his fault is not his own, and he does not need to blame himself. With such a blatant threat, he would never have been able to give him a good face.

"Your Highness, rest assured, Lin Jue will not say half a word. Your Highness is good to go, and I will send it off. Lin Jue straightened his waist and hugged his fists.

"Humph! It's guts. Leave! Guo Xu sneered and slammed the door. There was a stack of greetings outside, and a group of people hurriedly went downstairs with Guo Xu, whose face was pale, and the hurried and chaotic footsteps quickly disappeared, and finally disappeared.

Lin Jue sat quietly in the box, his brows furrowed. Today can be regarded as completely offending Guo Xu. Lin Jue was not optimistic about this plan itself, which was one of the reasons for Lin Jue's refusal. In addition, if he really wants to become Guo Xu's helper, then he will have to cause the dissatisfaction of many people. From the palace to Mr., he can't explain himself. Therefore, his relationship with the second prince can only be a faint exchange, and a nodding friend is the best. However, Guo Xu broke this balance and forced himself to reject him, which led to such a situation. The responsibility is not on oneself.

If Lin Jue had always deliberately not allowed himself to be involved in some major disturbances in the previous life, but now, he had re-entered the whirlpool because of today's incident. Originally, after Lin Bonian was dismissed, Lin Jue became the head of the Lin family again, and Lin Jue was still glad that the Lin family finally did not have to take a position on the matter of the two princes seizing the heir. Because Lin Bonian has been dismissed, his official position is low, and it is insignificant at all, so no one will force him to express his position. Without standing in line, the liquidation after the victory of one side was avoided, and the crisis of the Lin family's extinction in the previous life was also resolved.

But after today's incident, Lin Jue suddenly found that he was wishful thinking. Guo Xu let go of cruel words, if Guo Xu is really a person who holds grudges, when he becomes the emperor, he will definitely be unlucky. As a result, Lin Jue was forced to take a position on the position of the two princes competing for the throne. And he seems to have no choice but to stand on the side of Guo Mian. Because Guo Xu wins, the disaster of the Lin family may come. After making trouble for a long time, it turned out that the crisis of the Lin family actually started with himself, which was what made Lin Jue extremely annoyed.

However, it may be too early to think about these at present, maybe Guo Xu is just angry for a while, and he will not hold grudges all the time. There may be an opportunity to improve the relationship. In short, it doesn't help to think about it now.

Lin Jue sat in the box for a while, then got up and went out and walked downstairs slowly.