Chapter 1079 Bian Gong
Jiannan achieved victory, and the emperor was delighted.
Xiao Yu, Chen Shuda and other senior ministers were also overjoyed after hearing the good news, and congratulated the emperor one after another.
"A mere small fan dares to be so arrogant. Earlier Qin Qiong reminded me more than once to warn me against the small fan. I didn't feel too relieved. I didn't expect them to be so arrogant that they dared to enter Songzhou."
Xiao Yu caressed her white beard, and was not worried about the Tubo invaders. After all, although the invasion was fierce and claimed to have 200,000 people, they couldn't even break through a single pass in Songzhou. Songzhou City was not seen, and 30,000 people were killed or injured. This fully shows that Tubo is too weak.
Even Dangxiang Qiang is inferior, let alone Tuyuhun.
In the early days, Tuyuhun rebelled against the bandits several times, and they all directly attacked Liangzhou in Hexi or Shanzhou in Longyou, and also attacked Diemin.
Even the Dangxiang rebellion reached Wuzhou at one point, almost to the south of Shanxi, and into the middle of Shu. They burned, killed and looted a large circle in Songfu, Wenwu, Dangfang, Mintao and other prefectures. He knelt down and begged for mercy, but he did have some skills.
Now this little fan, shouting fiercely, and there are quite a lot of people, more than 200,000 people, ran over thousands of miles, and at the gate of Songzhou, more than 30,000 people were beaten to death at the gate of Songzhou. What does this mean? It's just a strong mouth.
For this kind of great victory, Xiao Yu thinks it's not worth mentioning. What's the difference between Qin Lang's battles against barbarians in Lingnan and Nanzhong? boasted.
Winning is what should be done, and losing is a problem. Even if the victory is small, there is nothing to say.
Anyway, an old prime minister like Xiao Yu has never paid attention to Tubo, and he doesn't know much about the military.
On the contrary, Situ and Duke Wei Li Jing saw a lot of things after carefully reading the battle report. Qin Lang's victory seemed easy, but it was not simple. The danger of the pass is to wait for work with ease, and to defend according to the danger, so that a battle loss ratio of one thousand to thirty thousand can be achieved.
It is really nothing to win against Tubo, but with a loss ratio of 1,000 to 30,000, it would be a big deal. Even if Li Jing went out on his own, he felt that he might not be able to achieve a more beautiful battle loss ratio.
"The public soldiers of the Qin and Wei dynasties have become more and more powerful. In the early years, they liked to use danger and surprise when using soldiers, but now they are full of atmosphere and stable as a rock."
After Qin Lang's victory report, there was naturally a letter of Qin Qiong's legacy, and another letter about his plan for the subsequent use of troops against Tubo, all of which were directly submitted to the emperor.
Li Shimin has seen Qin Qiong's last letter. It was written by Qin Qiong when he was dying.
Even in some places, it was repeated several times.
But what was revealed in it was sincerity. When Qin Qiong was dying, he recalled the past with the emperor, and then mentioned the threat of Tubo, and even mentioned the prince Chengqian, persuading the emperor to give the prince more time and patience. Select some loyal and straight ministers to assist the prince.
Regarding the Qin family, Qin Qiong didn't say much, and even said that his son, Qin Xun, was weak and lacked general talent and military force. He was afraid that he would not be able to guard Songzhou for his majesty in the Tang Dynasty, and proposed the idea of returning Songzhou to the court after death. Qin Qiong felt apprehensive about the fact that all the sons of the concubine had received the emperor's grace and were made dukes, and hoped that the emperor would also take back these dukes.
Qin Qiong was dying, and he didn't ask for any posthumous name for himself in the last will, let alone any fame and title for his children.
He said that he had fought all his life and could still enjoy peace, and that he was extremely lucky to die on the couch. He was a little worried about Qin Lang when he was dying. In order to preserve Qin Lang and the Qin family, the emperor could recite some of the old merits of their father and son, so that Qin Lang could stay in the borderlands of Lingnan, let him spend twenty years in a down-to-earth town in Lingnan, and sharpen his skills , Polish your temper, and do more practical things.
It will be reserved for the prince to use in the future, so as not to break prematurely.
are all words from the heart, and they are also words on the deathbed.
After reading it, Li Shimin felt heavy.
As for Qin Lang's strategy of gathering and annihilating Tubo, Li Shimin read it and gave it to Li Jing.
This late bloomer, with a gray beard and a dragon-headed stick in his hand, Situ couldn't help nodding after reading it.
"The plan is very good, meticulous and meticulous. It is estimated that Tubo will be difficult to fly this time."
Li Jing felt that Qin Lang's plan was fine, very good, even perfect, Hequ ambush, perfect battlefield, perfect plan.
It's just that Xiao Yu, Chen Shuda and other senior officials looked at it, but they didn't like it so much.
Especially Xiao Yu, who has always been quick-talking, once said that he was the emperor of the Liang Dynasty, the younger brother of the empress of the Sui Dynasty, the left servant of the Tang Dynasty, and the son-in-law of the emperor.
"Saint, the old minister thinks that Qin Lang's plan is too much. Tubo invaded Songzhou arbitrarily, but his head was broken and **** in Songzhou. This is a lesson. Now that they are pleading for sin and asking for peace, they will naturally agree. How can they pretend Agreeing to the peace agreement, but dispatching troops to secretly plan an ambush?"
"Although Tubo is arrogant, I cannot be untrustworthy in the Tang Dynasty. Besides, Qin Lang's plan, I don't think it is foolproof. The Hequ and Qiang land is remote and barren. How can it be easy to gather hundreds of thousands of troops? Furthermore If, according to Qin Lang's plan, the troops from Jiannan, Shannan, Yunnan, and Guanzhong, Longyou and Qinghai are to be gathered together, together with the troops from the Qiang, and even the troops from Hexi and Anxi, it will take a lot of money. How much food?"
"Since Tubo knew its crimes and asked for peace, it should be agreed. It must use troops in the frontiers, which will cost a lot of money. Even if it wins such a war, how many soldiers will be killed and injured, and how much will the court spend on comforting the disabled? Furthermore, death in battle If you can’t be resurrected, how many years and how much money will it take to raise a person to raise them, and then to train them to become an elite soldier?”
"I am bold enough to criticize the saints today. In recent years, there has been a tendency to use military force. The Tang Dynasty is strong, but it is not already strong enough to use military force. Moreover, even if it is really strong, it should not be so powerful. With the idea of militarism, Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty unified the world in the previous dynasty, ended the three hundred years of separatism and turmoil, reopened Taiping, established the rule of the Kaihuang, and brought the world back to a peaceful and prosperous world. However, Emperor Yang took the throne only a few years before he started the Eastern Expedition. Xidou, the sage also knew the final outcome, does the sage want to repeat the same mistakes now?"
This is very blunt, and it is Xiao Yu's style as always.
The emperor, who was in a good mood, couldn't help but frowned.
But Xiao Yu doesn't care about your emperor's favorite, since he has opened his mouth, he won't stop.
He has a clear attitude and resolutely opposes Qin Lang's plan to gather and annihilate Tubo. He thinks it is inappropriate. He does not refute it from a military point of view, but from other angles. If your emperor agrees, it is militarism, inhumanity, faithlessness, and disregard for the people of the world. Life and death, is a faint king like Yang Guang.
And Qin Lang is a warmonger, deliberately creating wars for merit.
Whether you win or not, you shouldn't fight. Even if you can really wipe out 200,000 people in Tubo, you shouldn't fight.
Although it is a bit nonsense, it is indeed reasonable, and Xiao Yu's point of view is actually very popular in the court.
Tubo has already suffered a loss, and also realized the strength of the Tang Dynasty, and realized its own mistakes. Now that they are willing to come to plead guilty and negotiate a peace, then accept it. How good it is to surrender without fighting.
Why do you have to fight? You don’t die in a war, you don’t spend money and food in a war, which soldier was not raised by your parents, and why do you think you can win?
Li Jing stood aside and said nothing. Although he is a master of military art, he can prove that Qin Lang's plan is very feasible and highly successful from a military point of view, but Xiao Yu is not talking about war, he is talking about other things.
"Please ask the sage to send an order to Songzhou to refute Qin Lang's belligerence, and order him to accept Tubo's apology immediately. It is best to simply recall Qin Lang and let him continue to serve as Ding You and keep his filial piety. The imperial court will send another envoy to Songzhou to be in charge of the peace talks. thing."
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At the beginning, Qin Qiong had been writing about the Tubo threat theory, requiring the court to preemptively intervene, and even had a plan to ask the court to send troops to Su Pi to help Su Pi restore the country, but Li Shimin never agreed to this matter.
Firstly, although Tubo had a potential threat at that time, it was far less threatening than Turkic and Tuyuhun. Even if it was a hidden danger, it was not as good as Goguryeo or even Khitan.
On the other hand, there was firm opposition from Xiao Yu and other prime ministers at that time. From then on, Xiao Yu felt that there was no need to pay attention to small Tibetans like Tubo who were separated by hundreds of thousands of miles.
Elephant will not chase and step on an ant just because it is hostile to him?
And now, Tubo really invaded Datang, but he was defeated as soon as he made a move. Xiao Yu believed that Tubo was by no means a threat to Datang, but just a group of arrogant barbarians who overestimated themselves. That's enough, what's the use of mobilizing so many people to mobilize hundreds of thousands of people to chase and intercept them?
Even if the 200,000 Tibetans were wiped out in the Battle of Hequ, so what?
Is it possible that the Tang Dynasty will continue to send troops into the snow-covered plateau, occupy the Tubo, and then set up a Tubo road or a logical road?
It's that kind of ghost place, is it realistic?
Even Tuyuhun, which is so close to the Tang Dynasty, is barely controlled by the imperial court. Can Tubo, which is farther away, occupy it?
To give a ready-made example, after the imperial court destroyed the Eastern Turks, wasn’t it only able to control the land of Monan, or even the land within the Great Wall, and the land of Monan outside the Great Wall, was it still mainly to settle Turkic nomads? ?
As for Mobei, the imperial court's destruction of the Turks was only to benefit the Xue Yantuo people, and to raise another white-eyed wolf.
So, this Tubo is no better than Mobei, why do you have to fight with Tubo? You should agree with them to ask for peace, reprimand them, and then let them go back to the snow-covered plateau, so that they can be at ease in the future. Isn't the Datang vassal not very good?
Xiao Yu's concept was also endorsed by Chen Shuda, Yang Gongren, Yang Shidao, Yu Wenshi and other senior officials.
Going deep into the barren to beat Tubo, who has confessed and pleaded guilty, it is better to send some soldiers to the Western Regions to beat Ju Wentai in Gaochang!
At least Gaochang still guards the gateway to the Western Regions and occupies the main silk road.
(end of this chapter)