"You two really dare to think, the two emperors of our dynasty, Taizu and Taizong, also only want to recover the land of Yanyun, and you two actually want Changbai Mountain, isn't this going to destroy Liao?"

Mi Youren and Ximen Qing went up the tower side by side at this time. Mi Youren was dressed in a green robe, holding a folding fan, and there was a peony flower picked from nowhere on his sideburns, he was really a merry talent.

Ximen Qing is dressed in white, with a square scarf on his head and a folding fan in his hand, although the back of his ears and temples is empty, he still looks a little enchanting.

It was Ximen Qing who spoke, although he was the general of Youzhou Town, and the ancestors of the family also had the ambition of recovering Yan, but no one thought about Pingliao. In Ximen Qing's view, it is already difficult for the Great Song Dynasty to recover Yanyun, and it is simply a fool's dream to calm Liao.

Ma Zhi smiled and said, "For the Great Song Dynasty, Fuyan and Pingliao are actually one thing!"

If Yan can be restored, it is not difficult to obtain Liaodong. If there is no ambition of Pingliao, Yan will not recover! The defeat of Emperor Taizong of the Great Song Dynasty in the two Northern Expeditions was the defeat of the lack of peace in Liao. ”

"Why did Second Brother Ma say that?" Mi Youren couldn't help but ask.

In the end, he was born in Jiangmen, and he also knew some of the successes and failures of Taizong's Northern Expedition, but no one had ever equated Fuyan with the destruction of Liao.

Ma Zhi smiled: "This theory is actually public on the Liao side. Although the Great Liao Kingdom has two sides, the north and the south, but if one of them is lost, it will be destroyed, and the south and the north are equally important to the Great Liao.

Therefore, the battle of Yanyun is the icing on the cake for the Great Song Dynasty, but it is a battle for the survival of the Liao State. ”

"But Liao has a territory of 10,000 miles, and if you go to the land of Yanyun in the south, it is still a big country."

"Haha," Ma Zhi shook his head and said, "Yuanhui, don't you know, although Liao has a territory of thousands of miles, most of it is sparsely populated, and the only ones that are really rich are Yanyun and Liaodong."

If Yanyun is lost, the wealth of the Liao State will be reduced by more than fifty percent. Moreover, the prestige of the Khitan to dominate the north will also be gone, and the grassland tribes, mature women, and Bohai Xi will all go away.

The so-called great country of thousands of miles will fall apart and be in vain smoke everywhere! ”

"Well said, it's really enlightening!" Wu Haogu slapped his face.

This Ma Zhi really has goods in his belly! After some analysis, the importance of the land of Yanyun to the Liao State was clearly explained and reasonable.

If the Liao State loses Yanyun, it will not only lose a large amount of population and wealth, but also lose the prestige that it relies on to rule the grasslands, deserts, and white mountains and black waters.

For the northern tribes, prestige is synonymous with strength.

With prestige, there will be other tribes to cling to. When the Xiongnu had prestige, the steppe was dependent on the Xiongnu, and the people who rose up Rouran were all Rouran, and when they arrived at the Turks, all the tribes voted to the Turks, and now it is the Khitan who dominates.

Once the Khitan loses the land of Yanyun, those tribes who are attached to the Khitan will immediately think that the Khitan is weakened and turn away one by one.

At that time, the Khitan will really collapse!

Therefore, the land of Yanyun is the place where the Khitan survives, and if Yanyun is abandoned, the Khitan will face the crisis of extinction of the country and the extinction of the clan.

If the Khitan is not finished by itself, if the Great Song Dynasty wants to take Yanyun, he must have the determination to destroy the Khitan!

The decisive battle under Yanjing City is the battle for the survival of the Khitan, if the Great Song Dynasty wins, the main force of the Khitan will inevitably be crushed, and the Great Song Dynasty does not have to stop at the Sixteen Prefectures, and it is completely possible to create a prosperous Tang Dynasty.

"Then Second Brother Ma thinks that my Great Song Dynasty has the strength to calm Liao and restore Yan?" Mi Youren asked with a frown at this time.

"Yes." Ma Zhi said, "Da Liao's heart is now weak, weak and strong, and the Quartet is centrifuged, and it has long lost its former bravery."

And the Great Song Dynasty is thriving, the population is ten times that of Liao, the wealth is a hundred times that of Liao, the people's livelihood is peaceful, the monarchs and ministers are harmonious, and the Quartet is calm, how can Yanyun not be restored and the Khitan destroyed? ”

"Second Brother Ma," Wu Haogu interjected, "but my Great Song Dynasty's method of winning with troops is not as good as that of the Han and Tang Dynasties."

With ten times the population of Liao and a hundred times the wealth of Liao, it is difficult to raise an army to destroy Liao. ”

"What's so hard about that?" Ma Zhi smiled, "If it was the Khitan a hundred years ago, there was really no way." But today, the Khitan has long been terminally ill, and the heart only knows how to eat fasting and chant Buddha, where is the combat power? And the Great Song soldiers were weak...... Wouldn't it be enough to train a new army?

Using the method of Zhou Shizu in the past, he selected strict training, equipped with high-grade equipment, and then commanded by a good general of the Western Army. If you use people to get the law, you can become a strong team in ten years. After using it up, it's not too late to release the military power with another glass of wine. Now that the Great Song Dynasty has been established for more than 100 years, the people are happy, and the world is in the heart, are you still afraid that a few generals with troops will not be subservient? ”

Ma Zhi paused, and then said: "At the same time, you can also use equipment and wealth to buy and contact the powerful tribes in the Liao State, such as the grassland tribes, the daughter-giving tribes, etc., so that they can raise troops to echo the Great Song Dynasty."

By the way, now there is a rebellion on the grassland, and it has been fighting with the Khitans for six or seven years. ”

After listening to Ma Zhi's high talk, Wu Hao Gu said in his heart: Sure enough, I am not mistaken, this Ma Zhi is really talented!

In the future, he may be able to recommend him to Song Huizong as soon as possible, and with Ma Zhi's assistance, Jingkang's shame must be avoided.

Maybe Song Huizong can turn into Emperor Wu of Song!

"No, no," Mi Youren shook his head again and again, "It's not a five-season chaotic time now, how can you emulate Zhou Shizu?" Besides, the soldiers that Zhou Shizu worked so hard to train were not in that later...... That Chen Qiaoyi mutinied?

Besides, the Great Song Dynasty has always been in charge of military power from all sides, how can it be possible to train an elite soldier that is difficult to resist? Wang Jinggong's "Art of War" is the extreme, it is impossible to choose the fierce generals of the Western Army to train the new army, and even Zhang Xianggong does not dare to go further. Otherwise, his father-in-law will come to an end!

is now those Western army generals, and Zhang Xianggong has no choice but to use them. If one day the western thieves are calmed down, the western army will also take away the military power and circle it to Kaifeng Mansion. ”

Mi Youren is right!

Ma Zhi knows Liao, so he can see the death hole of Liao at a glance, and what he says will not be too bad, but he doesn't know Song!

And Mi Youren is an artist from the Great Song Dynasty, although he doesn't know much about the soldiers, but he knows the fundamental reason why the Great Song Dynasty soldiers are weak and difficult to revive.

In the final analysis, he is afraid that others will learn from Zhao Kuangyin to mutiny and seize power. In fact, it's not just that they don't believe in military generals, civilian officials really want to control military power, and the Great Song Dynasty officials don't believe it.

The so-called civil military is just to let the civil officials lead the military generals to fight, not to let the civil officials really control the military power - the military power of the Song Dynasty is multi-headed management, which is very scattered, and many yamen can manage a little, but no one can take the overall responsibility, except for the emperor who does not know how to fight at all.

Therefore, it is impossible for one or several ministers to be responsible for training the new army, not even if they have the qualifications and military resources!

At least not in the Northern Song Dynasty, the Southern Song Dynasty could train new troops, and also trained the famous Yuejia Army, the Zhongshun Army, and the Anfeng Army (the latter two main forces to resist the Mongols).

Now that no one is in charge (except for the emperor himself), no matter how good it is, it can't be done.

The Shakya Pagoda fell silent, Ma Zhi and Mi Youren were silent, and most of Wu Haogu's interest was gone.

Ma Zhi's method of training the new army was probably not feasible in the Northern Song Dynasty......

But if the Liao State is really as Ma Zhi said, it is terminally ill, then where will the world go in the future?

Just when several people on the tower were falling into deep thought, the sound of the stairs came, followed by Pan Qiaolian's yawning voice: "You guys got up really early, wow, it's really a cloud and mountain fog cover outside." Brother Dawu, Brother Yin, why don't you two draw a piece of paper here, collect the beautiful scenery of Yuntai Mountain on the map, and bring it back to Kaifeng Mansion. ”