257 Cocooning Yourself
"Your Majesty, the disaster of Jianyu is getting more and more serious. If it drags on for a long time, it will be more difficult to deal with, and the ministers think day and night, they have to have a strategy, as long as they are strictly implemented, over time, they should be able to cure the disaster of the prisoners. After Sun Chengzong finished speaking, he took out a book of music and bent down and held it out with both hands. When the waiter on the side saw it, he hurriedly forwarded it to Emperor Chongzhen.
Hu Guang was overjoyed when he heard this, nodded in response, and prepared to see his specific strategy.
Speaking of which, he also wondered, why was the original Emperor Chongzhen so naΓ―ve and so easy to be fooled, and he believed it after saying that he had been in Pingliao for five years? Don't have a plan or anything? Otherwise, we can at least see how feasible it is, and see if Yuan Chonghuan is proceeding as planned in office. If you want to say that for the sake of secrecy, my emperor will take a look, is there a problem?
Hu Guang sighed in his heart when he thought about it, and then he didn't care about the past and looked at the piece in front of him. But when he looked at it, his brows immediately furrowed.
Sun Chengzong has been observing the emperor's demeanor, seeing this, his heart is a little cold, understanding that the emperor seems to be dissatisfied, for fear that he will not understand something, so he hurriedly said: "The strength of the building is in the field battle, and the strength of our army is in defending the city." The art of war is cloudy, avoiding the enemy's strength, and attacking the enemy's weakness. That's why the minister came up with this strategy, make use of his strengths and avoid his weaknesses, and he will definitely be able to win Jianyu and recover Liaodong!"
When he finished speaking, Hu Guang had already finished reading the content of the recital, put it on the royal table, shook his head and said, "It's not proper, it's inappropriate!"
Hearing that the young emperor so affirmatively denied the strategy he had worked hard to come up with, Sun Chengzong couldn't help but feel a little angry. But fortunately, he had a lot of experience and a lot of energy, so he asked in a deep voice: "I don't know what Your Majesty said is inappropriate, what do you mean?" β
Hu Guangneng heard a trace of unconvincing in Sun Chengzong's words, so he smiled slightly: "Sun Qing's strategy is to start building a city from the direction of Jinzhou and extend to the hinterland of Liaodong, so as to win the Jianyu, right?" β
"Yes!" Sun Chengzong nodded immediately, and then explained confidently: "In this way, my Ming Dynasty can give full play to the advantage of defending the city, and if Jianyu wants to stop this strategy, the only way to attack the city is to take people's lives!" But the siege of the city is just the weakness of Jianlu, if you want to defeat my Daming City, hehe, Your Majesty, the old minister called Jianlu to suffer heavy casualties!"
After he finished speaking, he looked at the young Emperor Chongzhen confidently, hoping to see the emperor's thoughtful or suddenly enlightened expression.
But he was disappointed, the emperor didn't change his face at all, he was still smiling, or he could also ask confidently: "Does Sun Qing know how much money it will cost the imperial court to build a city and equip the army?" β
As soon as he heard this, Sun Chengzong smiled slightly in his heart, and it was his turn to show the demeanor that he knew you would say this, and immediately played: "Your Majesty, the imperial court confiscated the income of the Jin merchants, didn't it just happen to be used in the war against the captives?" The minister roughly estimated that it should be able to support the old minister to repair the city to Shenyang. β
Hehe, when Hu Guang heard this, he couldn't help laughing, it was the kind of speechless laughter. This old man Sun is really concerned about his start-up capital that has not yet arrived.
Although he thought so, he didn't get angry, just shook his head and said, "Sun Qing, no, that money is of great use!"
As soon as he heard this, Sun Chengzong suddenly became a little anxious, and hurriedly bowed down and said, "Your Majesty, Jianyu is my Ming henchman's trouble, what could be more important than this?" I implore Your Majesty to also give priority to state affairs and distinguish between priorities and priorities......"
"Sun Qing doesn't need to say much, I know the priority of the matter. Qing's strategy, even if I allocate money and food to Qing, it is useless!" Hu Guang shook his head and vetoed again without hesitation.
Sun Chengzong's face darkened a little, and he felt that the emperor's words were a bit arbitrary. It's good that he has led the army for many years, he is a lot older, and he has eaten more salt than you have eaten rice, and he still vetoed his strategy like this, he played a little unconvinced: "Your Majesty said this, and the minister does not dare to agree. The most important thing is money and food, if Your Majesty can solve it, the minister thinks that it will not be enough to build a captive! β
"Huh!" Hu Guang shook his head and smiled, "Then I ask Qing, will Jianyu watch Qing build the city, and then attack?" β
After asking this, he immediately emphasized in a categorical tone: "If I want to be the slave chieftain Emperor Taiji, I will let Qing build the city first, and wait until half of the army to attack it, not only to prevent Qing from achieving his goal, but also to let Qing waste money and food!"
Unexpectedly, as soon as Sun Chengzong heard this, he immediately perked up and said: "Yichen understands the slave chieftain, and he will inevitably do so." Therefore, the minister slowly repaired it in the first half of the process, and suddenly accelerated the construction speed when he wanted to reach the halfway point, so that the slave chieftain was caught off guard and could not gather troops to come, so that the city was completed!"
Speaking of this, Sun Chengzong couldn't help but feel a little proud. The emperor is still young in the end, and he wants to find flaws in his own strategy, hehe, how could he not take it into account!
Who knew that Emperor Chongzhen still shook his head, looked into Sun Chengzong's eyes and asked, "In this way, will Jianyu definitely attack the city?" If I am the slave chieftain Taiji, I lead the army to come, besiege the city and dig deep trenches, that is, besiege but not attack, trap the defenders, what can I do? β
Sun Chengzong replied without hesitation after hearing this: "The minister will send reinforcements to relieve the siege!"
"Dare to ask Sun Qing, now that I have the army in Daming that can win a field battle with the main force of Jianyu?" Emperor Chongzhen's upper body leaned forward slightly, staring at Sun Chengzong's eyes and asking.
Sun Chengzong replied without hesitation under the questioning: "I should choose the elite of Guan Ning to ......."
At this point, he suddenly stopped, a little silly there. He had considered building captives to make trouble, and when the time came, he would send reinforcements to attack the defenders in the city, and he would be able to win.
But now the emperor's assumption is to build captives and trap the city, besiege it but not attack it, and its main force is used to block reinforcements. In this way, as long as Sun Chengzong does not open his eyes and talk nonsense, he will not be able to say that the army can defeat the main force of Jianyu.
If this is the case, how could the Ming Dynasty allow Jianyu to wreak havoc on the land of Gyeonggi, and how could the emperor send the army of King Qin to risk his life to attract Jianyu to attack the city and consume his troops......
Seeing Sun Chengzong staying there, Emperor Chongzhen added his sword and said: "The method of slow before and fast after fast, even if you can succeed in the first time, what about the second time, what about the third time?" If there is no field battle to resist the strong army of Jianyu, Sun Qing's strategy, I can assert that this is a cocoon and self-restraint, and it is just a waste of the national strength of the Ming Dynasty! β
Sun Chengzong still didn't speak, his ears were full of Emperor Chongzhen's words, which seemed to be like thunder, and finally converged into a sentence that echoed in his ears.
"Cocoon self-binding, cocoon self-binding......"
Emperor Chongzhen saw that Sun Chengzong had been in a daze, an old minister, and he was rude in front of the emperor, it seemed that the blow was a bit big, and he couldn't help but sigh slightly.