Lighter, shorter, smaller arrows, later generations of Yanagi heard of this mysterious weapon, the country of sticks has always believed that they invented it, in fact it is the masterpiece of the Byzantines.

Xue Rengui was in charge of the bow test.

Xue Rengui shot a target with a long arrow of 200 steps.

With a piece of arrow, Xue Rengui was unfamiliar with it, but the arrow easily flew four hundred steps away, and shot a tree about an inch into the wood.

"Okay." Qin Qiong praised loudly.

His sentence was not to praise Xue Rengui for shooting well, but that this kind of arrow was very useful in the battle of the Great Army.

The range is long enough, and the lethality is not small.

Only then did Qin Qiong and the others understand why Liu Mu was bent on sending people to the west, there was indeed a technology different from Datang, and absorbing it and improving it would definitely be beneficial to the development of Datang.

The banquet went on until late at night, and as for who got the final prize, Liu Mu wanted to care, but he was already drunk.

In the early morning of the next day, Liu Mu was pulled off the bed by Qin Qiong before he was awake.

"Hurry up and wash and change."

Without waiting for Liu Mu to ask, Qin Qiong had already gone out, and several maidservants entered to help Liu Mu change clothes and wash his face.

Qin Qiong was waiting outside the door, and Liu Mu waved at Liu Mu after he came out.

Hot springs here a willow arrangement, the hot spring rest area that has not yet been built has been requisitioned, the surrounding guards layer after layer, more than fifty tables have been placed in the hall, each table is placed in front of the four treasures of the study, more than seventy percent of the tables are seated by two people.

There are only a handful of top staff generals at a single table.

In the middle is a table in a circle with chairs around it.

All the people above the general who were called by Qin Qiong sat around this circle of tables, Qin Qiong sat at the head in the center, the position of the willow wood was on the left side of Qin Qiong, and the right side was Li Shenrune.

"Whoever is not sober should go outside and pour cold water on his head."

After Qin Qiong finished speaking, she sat down, no one responded, and no one moved.

After Qin Qiong sat down, the soldiers behind him put a brocade box on the table, opened it and took out a small wooden shelf, and then placed the holy decree in the brocade box on the wooden shelf.

Qin Qiong said: "Holy order, Baekje will die within three years." ”

"Baekje is dead?" This order surprised everyone, and Lee Hyo-gong asked, "Why Baekje?" ”

Qin Qiong said: "Before I left Chang'an, the sage talked to me. Fang Gong believed that the northern part of Goguryeo was easy to defend and difficult to attack, and there were several fortified cities, and Jian'an was not a small city built on the mountainside like Beisha City. ”

Li Shenfu took over the topic: "The first time the former Sui conquered Goguryeo, there were 1.13 million soldiers and horses of all kinds, and nearly 4 million people transported all kinds of materials, and the naval army that came to protect the children attacked at sea and raided Pingcheng. Before the war, the Sui lost 700,000 horses and horses, and millions of people who transported grain were killed or wounded. ”

Liu Mu said on the side: "This is Emperor Yang of Sui's stupidity, and the Goguryeo people play the trick of fake surrender too well." ”

After everyone was silent for a moment, Li Shenfu nodded: "It's not a good word, but the meaning is correct." ”

"The second expedition to Goguryeo, 300,000 soldiers and horses attacked Liaocheng for a month, and the two sides suffered countless casualties and did not capture the city. Later, there was a chance to capture it, but as a result, Yang Xuangan rebelled, and the Sui army had to retreat, leaving behind a mountain of military supplies, and Goguryeo, which was cheap for nothing, also made Goguryeo's national strength soar through this war. ”

"The next year, the world is already in chaos."

Qin Qiong turned his head to Liu Mu and said, "What you just said is reasonable, you are still a child in the battle of the former Sui expedition to Goguryeo, and you have also heard rumors. But let's go ahead and talk about what you think. ”

Ask other questions Liu Mu may not be able to answer, this question is a compulsory course in the history of the Sui and Tang dynasties.

Yanagi stood up: "I once told the sage that war is a continuation of politics. Judging from the national strength of the former Sui, it may not be correct to collect grain and return to the warehouse, and it is not wrong to build a canal but it is too urgent. The forced conquest of Goguryeo to start a war with the strength of the whole country had a great impact on the national capital and development of the former Sui Dynasty, as well as the lives of the nobles and common people, and the timing of the war was not right. ”

Li Shenfu whispered a few words to the others and then said to Liu Mu, "It's okay. ”

Yanagi continued: "Tactically speaking, the commander Taiji is the primary problem. Then the huge consumption of land and water soldiers and horses was too great to support logistics. The second point is that the tactics are not used well, the direction of the attack is not suitable, and relying only on the strong attack of soldiers and horses is a failure in itself. ”

"Not bad." Li Jing gave Liu Mu support: "Keep talking, talk casually." ”

"The march is too slow, the problem of heavy consumption has just been mentioned, the various armies do not have enough coordination, and the land and water are fighting separately. The most terrible reason is that Emperor Yang of Sui did not give the generals with the troops any power, and consulted him for advice on everything by relying on his level of barely leading a battalion of soldiers and horses to command a million troops, and victory was a miracle. ”

Qin Qiong nodded, the details of the real reason are still very fast.

More or less all of you have experienced the battle of Goguryeo.

Qin Qiong said: "When fighting Goguryeo, the sage's opinion is that once you start, you must use your elite soldiers to strike an effective blow, not a war of attrition. Right now, after the northern expedition, the north, the northwest, and the west. dragged down the 700,000 troops of the Tang Dynasty, and it will take five years, at least five years, for the stability of these places. ”

Zhang Chuchen continued: "Recently, the southwest has not been very stable. ”

"Yes, the southwest must use troops, and the mobilization of 100,000 soldiers and horses is a minority. It also takes five years for Fusang Road to truly become a land for the Tang Dynasty, and Fusang's soldiers and horses can barely become an army in three years, and they may be able to fight in five years. The saint did not want the battle with Goguryeo to become a war of attrition, even if there were too many Goguryeo casualties. ”

Qin Qiong conveyed Li Shimin's opinion.

Obviously, Li Shimin has counted the population of Goguryeo as the population of the Tang Dynasty.

"The demise of Baekje is a suspicious tactic. Goguryeo annexed Baekje and took longer to digest Baekje's land and population. Fang Gong thought that Wenyue Pavilion could make a lot of achievements by taking advantage of this, especially the current situation in Silla, which would definitely be repeated. ”

After Qin Qiong finished speaking, he opened the list of holy decrees.

Except for Liu Mu's name, which is not among them, the rest of the people are there, and there are a few important military affairs at this time, such as Niu Jinda guarding Tsushima Island and it is inconvenient to leave, Ashinadur moved troops to the northwest, helped Li Ji control Gaochang and so on.

"Holy order, these people on the list are the various main generals of Goguryeo in the future, let's discuss it now, how to confuse the Goguryeo Tang Dynasty to have a long-term alliance with sincerity."

After Qin Qiong finished speaking, he leaned back on the chair, he was presiding over the meeting, but he was not the one who made the final decision.

The one who finally decided on the strategy was Li Jing, who was sitting on the upper seat directly opposite Qin Qiong.

"I don't think there's any need to confuse Goguryeo. Give Baekje to him, this is Yangmou. Goguryeo itself has the intention of unifying the peninsula, so we will make the process of unification more troublesome, spend more effort, and spend more time digesting the land and population that he has acquired. ”