Can the Song Dynasty take advantage of the war with the Western Xia or the Liao State now? Hong Tao can give a clear answer without reading a book: no play!

Whether it was the Western Xia or the Liao State, their main force was cavalry, while the main force of the Song Dynasty was infantry. Infantry doesn't necessarily fail cavalry, but infantry can never annihilate cavalry.

The defeat battle and the annihilation war are many grades different in strategy, the mustache was to defeat the British and French forces, but the brain was cut off and the British and French troops ran away from Dunkirk again. As a result, the British used these withdrawn troops as their capital, and dragged Germany into the abyss of a protracted war.

Let's ask, if the Anglo-French army was wiped out by the Germans on the beach of Dunkirk, would Britain still be able to bear it? The answer is simple, it definitely can't bear it.

Because before the return of the army security car, there were already people in the British government who raised the question of what to do with the Germans, and they were supported by many forces, including the British king. The purpose is to get back the hundreds of thousands of British troops, because those are all the professional soldiers in Britain, and without them, basically no one in Britain will fight.

The wars between the Song Dynasty and the Western Xia and Liao States were the same, which consumed huge manpower, material resources, and financial resources, and just beating the opponent's army away, except for sounding like a victory, really had no substantive strategic significance.

For nomads, running is the norm and not a problem at all. They scattered to recuperate for a few months, and when they got on their weapons and rode on horseback, they didn't delay their lives at all. But for the farming nation, it is not the same, the homeland is destroyed once, and it can't be slowed down for many years, this is a natural attribute, no way.

There is only one way to hurt them, to be afraid, and to convince them, and that is to annihilate their vital forces and destroy their social foundations. If you kill one more person, you earn more points, and if you kill one more livestock, you will be cleaner.

Because the manpower of these two countries is limited, they cannot compare with the Song Dynasty in terms of population. In wartime, they adopted the mobilization of the whole people, and most of the people were soldiers on horseback and shepherds when they dismounted, and they were the main labor force of the country.

If too much livestock and population are lost, it will directly affect their social patterns. Coupled with the instability of the living environment and climate, it will not be able to slow down for many years.

It is a pity that relying on the current military level and national strength of the Song Dynasty, it is basically impossible to play a large-scale war of annihilation. Therefore, the only way to do this is to take a defensive position, find a way to lure the other side to attack the fortified cities on the border, turn their advantages into disadvantages, consume the opponent's vital forces, and then adopt a more covert way of warfare to essentially attack the national strength of the enemy country.

War is not only a thing that exists in Iron Horse Jingo, sometimes eating too many carrots will cause stomach trouble, and after a few bubbles, there is no strength to fight. Didn't the ancients say that it is the best policy to surrender without a fight?

At this point, Hong Tao felt that he was better than any prime minister of the Song Dynasty. They have never seen the economic wars of later generations, let alone the various damage tactics of the Cold War period, and they can't think of such a way to lack morality if they want to break their heads, because those are the crystallization of the wisdom of all mankind.

But Hong Tao didn't dare to talk to Wang Anshi about the war, but only asked about the current state of Western Xia and Liao. This kind of thing can't be too fast, how did Yang Xiu die? It's just that the mouth is too fast. There are some things that can be said, and some things that cannot be said even if you die!

"Listening to your words is more enjoyable than drinking and feasting here every day. Lord Du Wei is worthy of being Su Zizhan's best friend, he is just extremely sarcastic, but what Du Wei said is deep in my heart, can it be explained? ”

The faults that have been picked out by a large number of politicians and scholars in later generations dare not say that they are all right, nor can they be said that they are not touched. It's good to find fault with others, it doesn't matter if you say that all ten are wrong, as long as one of them is right, it's okay. So there are always more people who find fault than people who do things, because it's easy.

Wang Anshi did not jump out of this law, and there are some of the defects of the New Deal pointed out by the horse that he understands but does not have a problem, since a crazy horse can say it so thoroughly, there is a solution if it is not complete.

Now that the New Deal is at a crossroads, if he is criticized like this again and has no way to deal with it, it is estimated that he will not be far from dying, and his ideal of enriching the country and strengthening the army will have to disappear with it. Even if a groom is talking to him about this, he is willing to listen to it more and go to the doctor in a hurry.

"This is a major national event, and I dare not say anything if I am not completely sure...... "What do you think?" Such a sensitive issue, of course, will not be picked up.

I am a colt, a relative, it is the most fatal behavior to meddle in the government and politics if you have nothing to do, and then talk too much about military affairs, do you think your neck is too hard? The Great Song Dynasty did not kill many scholars, but that does not mean that they did not dare to kill their relatives.

In fact, this is still secondary, mainly because Hong Tao has no solution. Everything is easier to say than to do, to see clearly may not be able to do to understand, to do clearly can not necessarily achieve the expected results.

On the whole, the structure of Wang Anshi's reform is still good, involving agriculture, commerce, military, and system, and the goal is directly aimed at the three root causes, redundant troops, redundant officials, and redundant expenses.

In fact, the three root causes can be summed up as two, one redundant soldiers and one redundant officials. As long as the problem of these two brothers is solved well, there will be no redundancy problem, and the treasury will be eaten up by the huge army and official ranks.

However, since it is a chronic disease, it must not be as clean as the treatment of appendicitis, because the cause is not a local infection of external bacteria, and it can be discarded by breaking the wrist of a strong man.

These problems are caused by the body's own mutation, the good cells and bad cells are entangled throughout the body, and it is technically impossible to think of a complete one-size-fits-all approach, and the human body itself cannot bear such a big loss. It can't be said that in order to treat cancer cells, people are directly tossed to death, and this kind of treatment is meaningless.

Wang Anshi's change made this mistake, he always wanted to treat the cancer cells that had spread in the same way as treating appendicitis, and operated everywhere to dig up the flesh.

Even if the emperor, who is the brain, understands that he is curing the disease and is doing it for the sake of his health, it is difficult to keep his sanity forever when the pain is unbearable. The vast majority of people can't endure such severe pain, and would rather wait for death without treatment.

The conservatives represented by Sima Guang are not unwilling to make the country rich and the people strong, they just don't want to suffer such a big crime in exchange for an ultimately uncertain result.

If the Buddha stood up at this time and promised that as long as he followed Wang Anshi's method, he would definitely be able to save his life and enrich the country and strengthen the army, they would naturally not oppose it desperately.