Chapter 3802 Strategic Thinking
Screening for spies? If Xun Qi can be screened, then Vesutva will have to consider whether Zhu Helai is a traitor. This problem is even greater!
Therefore, during this period, Xun Qi was just working ordinary, keeping a eye on this side, so that Kushan would not mess around. As for counter-espionage, Xun Qi was not worried at all. He was standing at a higher level now, just waiting for the opportunity to make Osven his own subordinate.
Xun Qi basically didn't do much else. In fact, as long as he stayed in Peshawar, he did nothing and maintained the current operating mode of the Erdu system. The bureaucrats who were left in Peshawar would automatically bite the Qunnian City as time goes by.
For Xun Qi, his situation is naturally very good, so his main task recently is to curb the emotions of the bureaucrats in Peshawar, accumulate anger for these bureaucrats, wait for the opportunity to make a big deal, and give Qunnucheng a ruthless person.
Although Masinde was quite important, he didn't come to Peshawar. Xun Qi followed him for a while and decided that the other party was going to be cold, so he didn't care much. How could he think that Masinde actually went to Mount Bactrice.
"Now the soldiers have been trained and the supplies are ready. The problem is what we have eaten when we go up. This batch of transportation can be said to have emptied the Baktra side. We can't have such a large amount of transportation." Fu Ward looked at Masinde and sighed.
Fu Ward gave up the camel riding, to be precise, not to give up the camel riding, but to give up the camel. After all, if you want to go to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, the camel is really a burden, and the cavalry are basically burdens. The horses that can survive there are basically no shoulder heights of no more than one meter four meters.
The larger the size of a horse, the greater the demand for oxygen. In fact, the same is true for humans. The stronger they are, the more oxygen they consume. Of course, these can take time to adapt to them.
With Masinde's reminder, Fu Ward also realized the advantages that initiative can bring. He actually knew very well that even if he brought 40,000 people to Qinghai-Tibet, he would not be able to defeat the Han Dynasty. However, the areas bordering Qinghai-Tibet were all local to the Han Dynasty. In this way, one or two legions that could take the initiative could restrain dozens of times the Han army's strength.
This is actually the way Tubo fought against the Tang Dynasty. The population of Tubo was only three to four million, and the so-called ruling population totaled tens of millions. In fact, it was more of the population that Tubo had only had after the Anshi Rebellion and collapsed into the middle of the Tang Dynasty.
That's right, after the Anshi Rebellion, the Tang Dynasty was in the middle period. It was not the normal impression that the Anshi Rebellion ended and the Tang Dynasty was over. In fact, there were still 150 years from the Anshi Rebellion to the demise of the Tang Dynasty, but this period had almost no impression of most people.
Many people even feel that the Tang Dynasty, the Five Dynasties, and the Song Dynasty should have been separated by hundreds of years. In fact, from the demise of the Tang Dynasty to the yellow robe of Emperor Taizu of Song, there were only fifty-three years. The Anshi Rebellion was just a mid-term shock for the Tang Dynasty, and it was still far from demise.
As for why the Tang Dynasty disappeared after Tianbao, it is actually an overly outrageous impression. From Emperor Taizong of Tang to Emperor Xuanzong of Tang, it is generally on the rise, whether it is foreign, economic, or cultural, it is rising, and it is on the rise in an explosive manner.
When Shimin faced Tubo, he defeated the other side, but was unable to make progress. Both sides formed a love affair with nephews and uncles. When Li Zhi, Tubo began to jump wildly. Relying on the terrain of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, he attacked Tang with a high point and fought the Battle of Dafeichuan and Qinghai one after another. It can be said that this was one of the few very miserable wars that lost in the early Tang Dynasty, and it was a kind of defeat in a row and lost territory.
Later, Li Zhi might have found that the Tang army was really unable to get up, so he changed his thinking, adjusted his tactics, and began to fight against Tubo in the Western Regions, fighting a series of Anxi battles, but the overall situation was still in a defensive position.
Although the total strength of Tubo was far inferior to that of the Tang Dynasty, he had the initiative and took the initiative along the long border line of the Tang Dynasty to find flaws and attacked actively. Li Zhi was hammered to strategic defense.
Later, it was the Wu Zetian period. I won’t talk about it in the early days. Tubo has a great advantage and the Tang Dynasty was to the point where it abandoned the four towns of Anxi. This is also the reason why historical books say that Wu Zhao lost power and humiliated the country.
The problem is that in the later years, the second year after Wu Zhao ascended the throne, the army arrived in Anxi, defeated Tubo, took back the four towns of Anxi, and established the Anxi Protectorate. Wu Zhao began to counterattack, attacked Qinghai, and then continued to tug-of-war until Tang Xiujing fought against Tubo, won six battles and six victories, and the Tang Dynasty stood firm in Qinghai.
After that, we actually arrived at Xuanzong. What did the person Xuanzong say? This person needs to be divided into two stages: one is used as the brain and the other is used as the other.
The first half of the Xuanzong gradually gained the advantage from the Battle of Wujie. When the Helong area in the future completely suppressed Tubo, Xuanzong moved people directly to Qinghai to farm and beat Tubo to death.
Compared with the style of playing during Li Zhi and Wu Zhao's period, Xuanzong's attitude was very clear. His father had a lot of money, many people, and many soldiers and widespread generals. It was simpler and he had a comprehensive siege tactic, from Kashmir to the Western Regions, from the Western Regions to Longyou, from Longyou to Hequ, and from Central Asia from Afghanistan to Pakistan, a total war.
In a series of wars such as the Battle of Wujie, the Battle of Shibao City, the Battle of Tang's attack on Xiaobolu, and other wars, Xuanzong spanned thousands of miles from Central Asia to stab the entire body of Tubo, while cutting Tubo and Central Asia, and achieved a comprehensive victory, and the Tang Dynasty also reached its peak.
By this time, Xuanzong's soldiers were all in the Yanbian area of Qinghai-Tibet, and then there was no back. This is the state of Xuanzong. When he was super god, he was super god, and when he was super ghost, he was super ghost, it was that simple. At this point, even if he was handed over to the more delicious Li Zhi in the previous few, Li Zhi could still hammer the Tubo.
Unfortunately, there is no future, so there is no need to record it, but from this we can see how troublesome Tubo is after having the ability to take the initiative to attack.
What Mashind actually wants is not victory, what he wants is time. Wise men like Zhu Helai, Mashind, and Bennaja have actually seen through the current route that Vesutva I took, and of course they did not think that this path was wrong.
With the unity of the regime and the power of the church, the national strength will rise rapidly in a short period of time. As for the chaos in the short term, this is actually an inevitable process of reform. Therefore, the purpose of Zhu Helai and others is very clear, which is to delay this period of time and face the ancient empire of the Han Dynasty with the strength of the new empire.
Under this premise, Masinde suggested that Fu Wode send troops to Qinghai-Tibet in order to restrain the Han Dynasty and buy time for the Kushans.
This time does not take too long. In Masinde's view, as long as Fu Ward successfully arrives in Qinghai-Tibet, it can solve the logistics problem for two or three years, then Fu Ward can hold up more than 100,000 Han troops for the same time. Yes, Masinde's cognition is very clear. Qinghai-Tibet is not a problem of combat effectiveness, but a logistics problem.
However, this logistical problem cannot be solved, at least Masinde cannot solve it.
On the side of Bucktra, Fu Ward dispatched 40,000 elite troops to draw all the food and grass logistics. As a result, after calculating the transportation losses, Fu Ward found that the food and grass he prepared might not take three months after he arrived in Yanbian, Qinghai-Tibet.
You should know that this is the capital of Baktra, the ancient Daxia Kingdom, and an important northern town in Kushan. In official history, he provided food and supplies for the Kushan army to fight for 110,000 for a year.
But now there are more food and grass stored, the scale of sending troops is only 40,000, and the marching speed is faster. As a result, after going all the way to Qinghai-Tibet on the plateau, the food and grass are only enough for three months?
"The food and grass cannot be solved at all, okay." Fu Ward was a little confused. He didn't know where the food and grass were consumed inexplicably. What happened?
"I suggest that this is the case. You use horses to transport them. Although horses eat more, horses also transport more. As for the problem that Arabs cannot get the plateau at once, they will kill them and make them into jerky horses after they arrive." Masinde said indifferently.
"..." Fu Ward looked at Masinde, and Masinde also looked at Fu Ward.
"This will last for an additional month of food and grass. If we go up for four months, there will be no food and grass." Fu Ward pondered for a moment and agreed with Masinde's suggestion, but this is not enough. I can't hold on for two years even after I go up. When I can only hold on for four months, the Han Dynasty only needs to mobilize troops to guard it. If he drags it for a while, he will die.
But in only four months, it was impossible for the Han Dynasty to change its focus. He even died as soon as he had such an idea, and he died of extremely frustrated death due to lack of food.
"There is also a Xiangxiong Dynasty over there, with about 400,000 people. The lamas I have planted have already entered. After all, Nepal is the birthplace of Buddhism, and they are also connected to the other side on a small scale." Masinde said calmly.
"Can 400,000 people raise 40,000 troops?" Fu Ward looked at Ma Xinde and said with a sneer. You are afraid you are not joking. To raise soldiers ten to one is just a dream. You must consider reality even if you are a militarist.
"It won't work for a long time, but it's still OK to fight for the decline of people's livelihood in three to five years. Besides, there may be more than 400,000 people there. Such a large territory is half the size of Kushan, and maybe the population will be even more." Ma Xinde shook his head and said, he was able to support it in order to gain time, not for subsequent development.
"Do you have the distribution of the Xiangxiong Dynasty?" Fu Ward asked as he looked at Masind.
"It's not complete, but when I get up, I can find their tribe chief. I arranged it in Shule. The people in Khotan have already contacted some of the Qinghai-Tibet tribes, and they are quite wealthy." Masinde was quite confident, and Fu Wod nodded when he heard this. If this is the case, you can try it.
Although Fu Ward was hammered by Li Jue, in fact, Fu Ward's camel riding can be placed in the whole world. Therefore, his attitude is the same as the Han Dynasty. As long as I can find the Elephant Dynasty, I will definitely be able to kill it.
Chapter completed!