readx;?“ Second, naturally Datang sent troops. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info However, the price of the Tang Dynasty's troops is very huge. Xia Hongsheng said to Li Shimin: "Weichen has calculated an account, if our Tang army starts from Chang'an, it will go out of Longyou, Yueda, cross the Western Regions, and finally reach Persia." What a long way to go! ”

"It's a caravan, from the Tang Dynasty to Persia, and it will take at least half a year at the earliest. The army is even slower. Let's not care whether the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty are willing to go to such a far place to fight, if they are unwilling, they will inevitably mutiny. Even the soldiers are willing to go, but it's a long supply line. ”

Xia Hongsheng took a sip of the water cup, and said: "The big food is very strong, there are many people and the land is wide, and the cavalry is particularly powerful, if you don't count firearms, it is comparable to the combat effectiveness of the Tang Dynasty elite cavalry." If you want to completely eliminate the power of the Great Eclipse in the land of Persia, you need at least 100,000 troops, right? If you want to say that our Tang Dynasty has a hundred thousand cavalry, there is no problem, and it will also destroy the matter of fighting Goguryeo again. But Persia is different from Goguryeo, Goguryeo is next to the Tang Dynasty. Far away from Persia? How much supplies would an army of 100,000 consume for such a long journey in the middle? How much did the people who escorted the grain and grass to this 100,000-strong army get? Moreover, it is not enough to form a cavalry unit, but also to cooperate with the infantry, because the Modao soldiers need to be deployed to cooperate with the cavalry. In this way, the Tang Dynasty had to mobilize at least about 500,000 troops to go to the Great Eclipse in person in order to fight a decisive battle with the Great Eclipse. So he asked the lord of Persia, if it were him, would he send an army? Of course, if all the consumption in between, including compensation for a soldier's accident on the road, compensation for casualties caused by helping him fight in Persia, and compensation for the Tang Dynasty spending so much national strength, are enough, then we will send troops. ”

After that, without waiting for Li Shimin to speak, he continued: "Naturally, Your Majesty, our Datang has firearms and sophisticated equipment, but in fact, there is no need to really need so many people. Isn't it that Persia doesn't know? We're going to have to make him think that he really needs that much consumption. This is to earn as much of his wealth as possible! In fact, even if the Tang Dynasty really sent troops to help Persia attack Dashi, it really wouldn't need so much consumption. All it takes is a fleet! And the son-in-law still has a way, so that the middle of the fleet does not have to worry about the problem of supply. This is just what the Tang Dynasty said when he really wanted to send troops to help Persia. ”

"So what does the virtuous son-in-law mean is to support Wang Xuance's suggestion?" Li Shimin asked with a smile.

Xia Hongsheng nodded yes as a matter of course and said, "That's natural." Wang Xuance offered a plan to make the Tang Dynasty accept the tribute from Persia and promise to help Persia. The project is divided into five phases. In the first stage, he did not send troops, but sold the weapons of the Tang Dynasty to Persia and the surrounding countries, sent military advisers, and at the same time used the identity of military advisers to infiltrate spies, and perfected the spy network of Persia and Dashi. In the first stage, Da Shi and Persia have been thoroughly understood by the Tang Dynasty, and Da Shi and Persia are also consuming each other's national strength in a long-term stalemate, which will be even further different from the Tang Dynasty. In the second stage, the Tang Dynasty will be able to free up its hands and march out of Persia to occupy an enclave in Persia. While expelling the Great Eclipse, while encroaching on Persia. When Datang expels Dashi and occupies it, Dashi is naturally Datang's territory. In the third stage, the Tang Dynasty can use the land of the original Great Food as the foundation and directly participate in the chain of interests in the land of Persia and the surrounding areas. After a long period of attrition and the encroachment of the Tang Dynasty, Persia categorically cannot be the enemy of the Tang Dynasty. The Tang Dynasty could use the prestige of saving Persia from fire and water to gradually guide and educate its people, so that Persia, like Khotan and other small countries in the Western Regions, would be proud of learning the Tang Dynasty, learning Chinese characters, speaking Chinese, and practicing Chinese customs. In the fourth stage, the Tang Dynasty planned Persia, so that Persia would also become the Persian Tao of the Tang Dynasty. In the fifth stage, the Tang army came out from the east and west directions of Longyou Road and Persian Road, and collected all the land in the middle as the territory of the Tang Dynasty. His idea is very big, and my son-in-law agrees with it very much! ”

Li Shimin smiled and listened to Li Chengqian next to him ask, "Then why don't we Datang go all the way to the west?" Do you have to spend this? ”

Xia Hongsheng's face was black, and Li Shimin frowned when he heard this.

"Cheng Qian, this is the gap between you and that Wang Xuance." Li Shimin shook his head, sighed, and said, "It's also that I let you deal with too few government affairs......

"His Royal Highness the Prince, just looking at the current military conditions of the Tang Dynasty, there is naturally no problem in fighting all the way to the west. Then Byzantium can still resist the Great Food for hundreds of years with crudely processed oil, and our Datang's armament is too far ahead, which is not a problem. However, this kind of warfare, especially long-distance warfare, is not just based on military strength. Xia Hongsheng explained to Li Chengqian: "It's easy to fight one, or even win a hundred battles, but what about after the fight? Regardless of whether the war is fought not only by military strength, but also by the economy, the people's will, and logistics...... After the victory alone, Datang now has the ability to fight down so much land, but does it have the ability to manage and control so much land? Even if all these problems are ignored, if the Tang Dynasty marches all the way west, the battle line will become longer and longer, and troops will be stationed in every place occupied, and officials will be selected, so that when the army of the western expedition arrives in Persia - hehe, between countries, there are no eternal enemies, no eternal friends, only eternal interests. ”

"Huh?" When Li Shimin heard Xia Hongsheng's words, he suddenly turned his head: "Between countries, there are no eternal enemies, no eternal friends, only eternal interests - this is incisive!" Cheng Qian, you must remember this sentence firmly! ”

Xia Hongsheng saluted Li Shimin, and then continued to preach to Li Chengqian: "When the time comes, facing the invincible Tang army that marches all the way west, Persia and Dashi will inevitably join forces. His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, is it difficult for the countries of the Western Regions to join forces to deal with it, or is it difficult for Persia to deal with it when it is linked to the Great Eclipse? Not to mention that there is an Eastern Roman Empire further west, if the three countries form an alliance, Datang will inevitably fall into a bitter battle on the western front, and the western front does not have a slightly stable territory for Datang to gain a foothold, how can Datang hold on for a long time? And if it is according to Wang Xuance's plan, then Datang can have an enclave in the land of Persia for Datang to use and become the most solid foundation of Datang on the Western Front. Only then can Datang be able to gain a foothold in its place and then carry out the law. Moreover, by that time, after so many years of arms race with Persia and its neighboring countries, the Tang Dynasty had obtained a lot of resources and wealth from Persia, and it was already stronger enough to support the expedition. Hehe, maybe when the time comes, I'm afraid that if I don't need to really fight, the other countries of the Western Regions will surrender by themselves. His Royal Highness the Prince, is it better to let Persia first feed our Datang to be richer and stronger, and then go back to clean up the squeezed Persia, or is it better for Datang to break through many difficulties all the way and fight against Persia and Dashi in the past? ”

Li Chengqian finally suddenly realized: "Naturally, I squeezed him dry first!" (To be continued.) )