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

It's just that at this time, it is another scene in the council hall, the battle report from Yizhou will take at least ten days, and when the battle report arrives in Qingzhou, the current Yizhou has been besieged by the barbarians for ten days, and it is unknown whether the city is broken now.

After receiving the battle report, Xiao Ming immediately summoned the Minister of Civil and Military Affairs to prepare to deal with the barbarian invasion.

"Your Majesty, this time the barbarians conquered Songzhou must be in cahoots with Tubo, otherwise it would be impossible for the barbarian army to appear outside Songzhou in a grand manner."

After Zhan Xingchang learned the news, he first came out and said.

Xiao Ming frowned, Tubo is 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, two of which won and one lost, and the most recent war was ten years ago.

At that time, Luo Quan personally led the army to attack the Tibetan military camp at night, killing 15,000 Tibetan soldiers and scaring the Tibetan army away.

Fiji sighed at this time and said: "Your Majesty, back then, Gaozu set the capital of Chang'an in order to deter Tubo, the Golden Horde and other state barbarians, now Qingzhou is thousands of miles away from Tubo, and the intimidation of Tubo is far less than before, and now it is reasonable for Tubo to be bought by the Golden Horde." ”

Niu Ben was already a little impatient, he said: "You civil officials are mothers-in-law, now that the barbarian army has reached the city of Yizhou, for now, you can only send a large army to wipe out the barbarian army under the city of Yizhou." ”

Pang Yukun said: "The minister thinks that the intention of the barbarians this time is to plunder, winter is coming soon, and the barbarians who have suffered in the past few years must plunder enough materials before the winter comes, and the war report said that the barbarians are mainly cavalry and specialize in plundering, which is enough to see their intentions." ”

Ministers, you say a word, all of them look excited, generously speaking, compared to the Chengqing Hall in Chang'an five years ago, the ministers at this time are more discussing how to deal with the enemy, rather than being frightened and overwhelmed.

Xiao Ming was secretly satisfied with this change, and now the Great Yu Kingdom under his rule is very different from when Xiao Wenxuan was in power, and the victories in several battles with the barbarians have made the ministers change their fear of the barbarians.

Looking at the ministers in the council hall, Xiao Ming said: "Now regardless of whether the barbarians are in cahoots with Tubo, the most important thing now is to drive the barbarians out of the land of Bashu, so as not to be sacked by the barbarians. ”

At this time, Xiao Ming remembered that in contemporary history, Kublai Khan had used Tubo to bypass the northern defense line heavily guarded by the Song army to attack Dali, and this incident was quite similar.

After pondering for a while, he continued: "Immediately spread my will, so that Lu Fei led 20,000 troops to aid Yizhou, and Qi Guangyi led 30,000 cavalry from his headquarters to go together, and the enemy who came to attack must be annihilated." ”

"Yes, Your Majesty." Niu Ben said solemnly.

After deciding on this matter, Xiao Ming continued: "Although the affairs of Yizhou Mansion are under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Military Aircraft, you Aiqing should do your best to assist and not delay the war. ”

Fiji and Pang Yukun and other civil servants immediately bowed down, and they knew in their hearts that the current court was no longer the previous court.

Now the ministers in the court perform their duties, those who are in charge of government affairs are only in charge of government affairs, those who are in charge of fighting wars are only in charge of wars, and those who are in charge of the law are only in charge of the law.

Therefore, the war in Yizhou Mansion is the responsibility of the Military Aircraft Department after all, and all they need is to cooperate with the Military Aircraft Department to provide food and grass and recruit people.

The war was urgent, Xiao Ming didn't say anything anymore, and assigned their own tasks to the ministers, he asked Niu Ben to stay and let the other ministers disperse.

After everyone left, he said to Niu Ben: "This time, you will transfer 10,000 musketeers equipped with new firearms to Yizhou to kill the sharp spirit of the barbarians. “

Niu Ben's expression moved slightly, the 6,000 musketeers Xiao Ming said were all equipped with captive muskets, and the military workshop had delivered a total of 15,000 captive muskets to the army in the past six months.

At present, there are still a large number of muskets in the army that have been transformed in the military workshop, and they are ready to slowly equip all the troops of the Great Chongqing State with this kind of long-range rifled guns.

"Yes, Your Majesty." Niu Ben nodded emphatically.

He could judge from Xiao Ming's tone how angry he was at this time, this Yizhou Mansion was already known as the country of abundance, and it was an important source of raw silk, grain, and tea in the Great Chongqing Kingdom.

Moreover, the autumn harvest is about to be harvested at this time, and the barbarian toss this time will drag down the recovery of the Great Chongqing Kingdom, and will also affect the foreign trade of the Great Chongqing Kingdom.

"Also, taking advantage of this war to allocate 20,000 troops to garrison Huajue Island, I want to let the barbarians know that they will not only burn and loot." Xiao Ming gritted his teeth and was ruthless.

Although he had always been on guard against Tubo and stationed 30,000 cold weapon troops in Songzhou, these 30,000 cold weapon troops were vulnerable under the attack of 60,000 barbarian cavalry and 80,000 slave soldiers.

Niu Ben's eyes were sharp, and he said: "Your Majesty, the old minister thinks it's time to expand the army, the army of more than 100,000 people can't defend the vast territory of the Great Yu Kingdom, even if these troops can't be equipped with firearms, it's good to use armor and swords, otherwise the incident in Songzhou will continue to repeat." “

Xiao Ming frowned deeply, at this time he deeply realized that it was easy to defeat the Great Chongqing Kingdom, but how difficult it was to defend the Great Chongqing Kingdom.

In the world, Dayu is undoubtedly in a strategically and geographically worst environment, compared with the United Kingdom, these island countries do not border with any country, and the surrounding countries of Dayu are numerous, and the most important thing is that none of these countries is good at stubble.

In order to prevent the surrounding barbarians from running in and looting and leaving, he had to build a ring of fortresses in the vast land of the Great Yu Kingdom to prevent invasion.

Therefore, just the defense of the homeland will consume a lot of military expenditure of the Great Chongqing State, which is one of the reasons why the dynasties have rarely gone on expeditions.

In contrast, the British and the Japanese had no such concerns, they did not need to defend their homeland at all, their armies only needed to attack, and their attacks were mostly plundering.

To put it simply, it is beneficial for them to fight, and the more they fight, the richer they get, and the richer they get, the more they fight.

"Then how many troops do you think the Great Yu Kingdom should maintain at present?" Xiao Ming asked.

"If there were no firearms, the Great Yu Kingdom would need at least 1.2 million troops, and now from the perspective of the old ministers, at least 500,000 troops are needed, more than 300,000 are used to defend the territory, and more than 100,000 are used for conquest." Niu Ben said slowly.