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Cui Ann came out and said, "Your Highness, you must not. The roads in the Bohai Kingdom are far away, and the food and grass are transported in a difficult and dangerous way. You can go into the Bohai Sea to fight against the tribes. This is to attack the other side with your own short-term attack. When Emperor Yang of Sui was conquered Goguryeo, the people were exhausted, causing turmoil in the world. When he sent troops to the Bohai Sea, his highness and his lords had already agreed that it was not appropriate to send a large army to go deep. He only sent an elite army to fight a long-term confrontation with the tribal coalition forces in the Bohai Sea, and eventually dragged them. If we rashly send large troops to the east, we will most likely repeat the mistakes of Emperor Yang of Sui. The more soldiers we sent in the end, the more likely we will fail. The failure is due to insufficient logistics supply. His Highness personally thought it was even more inappropriate."

Li Jing waited for Cui Anqian to finish speaking, and smiled slowly: "Okay, I understand."

Du Qing also stepped forward, "King, I thought it was impossible. I thought it was as today, as the great marshal of the world's military and horses, the King of Qin should revive the Tang Dynasty, quell the rebellion, and revive the majesty of the Celestial Kingdom. Now we should also drive our troops south, first pacify Hebei, then send troops to Luoyang and Chang'an, except for rebellion, clear the emperor's side, and welcome the emperor to the capital Chang'an. Rongdi outside the pass should indeed be attacked, but two generals have been sent to lead an army of 50,000 troops. With the elite of our Qin army, your highness is so powerful that it is easy to defeat the enemy. What's more, now it is a troublesome, and the Qin vassal cannot do without His Highness in the middle of handling and dispatch. Moreover, the prince has not been established, and the princes are still young. His Highness left Yanjing at this time, and he thought that the honor of the Qin vassal king was too rash."

Li Jing stood up, stood with his hands behind his back, and said loudly: "What Mr. Cui and Mr. Du said are very reasonable. But one thing is also very important. We started our home in the Northeast, which is our foundation. Now we are fighting with the tribal coalition forces, which is actually fighting for the Bohai Kingdom. Although the Bohai Sea is located in the east of the sea, it is a country of agricultural civilization for more than 200 years. If we get it, we will definitely greatly enhance our strength and increase the security situation in the rear of the Northeast, so that we can avoid future troubles from then on. Focus on the Central Plains. On the contrary, if the Bohai Kingdom, a farming country that has been more than 200 years for more than 200 years, was conquered and occupied by the Khitan tribes and other tribes, with the strength of the tribe, if the Bohai Sea is added

The country's iron smelting, farming, city building and other technologies can be used to make the strength of these tribes in a short time, becoming a major concern for us. Don't forget that although the Bohai Kingdom is weak now, its population has exceeded 600,000 households, reaching more than 3 million. If we add the Marai tribes in the rebellious Black Water Basin, their total population has even reached nearly 5 million. Even if we eliminate the tribes conquered by the Bohai Sea in the Black Water Basin, you should know what the concept of more than 3 million people is. For a long time, the nomadic hunting nations in the north are not as good as us. The biggest reason is that the population is insufficient, the difference is too big, and they cannot compete with the Central Plains dynasty."

"At present, we have just reached a peace agreement with Chengde Town. They dare not make any changes in a short period of time. The towns in the Central Plains are also involved in a mess at this time. They have no time to care about us. What is the timing? This is the timing. The opportunity must not be missed, and the time will not come again. What you said just now is very important, but none of them see this more important point. Now we are not just going to fight the tribal army, but we have to prevent the tribal coalition that has already obtained half of the Bohai Sea to give the remaining half of the Bohai Kingdom.

Swallowed. There is a poem that is well written. The grass on the Lili Land withered and flourished every year, wildfires cannot be burned out, and the spring breeze is growing again. In fact, the recovery speed of the nomadic hunting tribes has always been faster than that of the Central Plains tribes. If they get the Bohai Sea again, the northeast land we have managed over the years, this large rear and rear granary will be more peaceful. This battle is a necessary battle. We have already paid so much for this, and there is no reason to give up at this time. I have decided to conquer the east of Haidong."

Cui Anqian and Du Qing looked at each other and found that each other's eyes were full of worry.

Cui Anqian stepped forward, "Your Highness, I wonder how many soldiers you plan to send?"

Li Jing said: "The report sent back by Zeng Yuanyu and Zhou Dewei at the age of 1998 shows that there are many tribal coalition forces in the Bohai Sea now. At first, there were only 200,000 tribal coalition forces. But now, after two years, they have increased instead of reducing. The Khitan has even pulled all the tribes in the northeast, even the temptation and coercion of the deputy temptation. The barbaric tribes of the Black Shui Mori, the fierce white mountains and black waters, have mobilized the whole nation and sent 50,000 troops again. The tribes of Wei and Wei also sent 30,000, plus 30,000 other tribes and 50,000 Khitans. They sent a total of 36,000.

People. It can be said that now outside the Great Wall, adult men, even older children and younger elderly people, have basically been involved in this war. In addition, the 200,000 new army formed by the Khitan Yelu Thitsu, a new army composed of all the Khitans and other men, women, and young men, and all the captured people in the Bohai Kingdom, as well as the slave army, the entire Haidong region has at least 600,000 enemies. They are soldiers of the whole people, men, women, and young men, and young men, are ready to break through our defenses in the two fortresses of Xiande Prefecture and Fuyu Prefecture in Bohai, divide the Bohai Sea in one fell swoop, and fight directly to Liaodong."

Six hundred thousand people, this is not an exaggeration of Li Jing. Of course, these six hundred thousand people also have moisture. This year, there is a rare white disaster outside the pass. It started snowing in early October, and then it kept going. All tribes basically suffered huge losses. The cattle and sheep had no grass, starved to death and froze to death, and they seemed to be unable to hold on next year. Now, they were encouraged by the Khitan, the Martial Arts and others, rushed to the Bohai Sea, preparing to plunder to survive this rare white disaster. Anyway, they could not hold on in the winter land, so they simply dragged their families to drive the remaining cattle and sheep, and brought the frozen lamb meat to death, and wrapped in leather robes to gather in groups.

Many tribes basically dispatched the entire tribe, including men, women, old and young, and even their cattle, sheep, horses, etc., which was exactly the same as Huang Chao's fighting method back then. They had no problem with logistics supply, just grabbing, grabbing everything they could get. Take everything they could bring, and fight like locusts crossing the border. If they hadn't had they quickly captured half of the Bohai Kingdom and occupied dozens of states, they would have crossed.

But now, when they gathered together, they were a powerful force. Under the constant lobbying of the Khitans and their continuous promotion of the Qin army's argument for destroying Hu, hundreds of tribes of all sizes, all went into this battle from the sea in the east to the plateau in the west.

Li Jing couldn't not know this threat, he was too clear about it.

"I plan to mobilize 200,000 troops to fight." Li Jing gave a number that he had considered for a long time. As Cui Anqian and others said, the place where the grain trucks can reach is where the Qin army can step on the iron hooves and the military flag can reach. Distance is the best defense, and the supply capacity determines the longest distance of the attack. 200,000. It is the limit of logistics transportation to the Bohai battlefield that the Qin army can maintain at this stage. No matter how many, the Qin army itself will collapse because the food and grass cannot keep up. If there are too few soldiers, facing the hundreds of tribes that have already snowballed in the entire Northeast region, 600,000 troops, and too few people, they will not be able to attack at all.

There are two legions of 50,000 in the Bohai Sea. In addition, the Bohai Kingdom now has 200,000 troops that can barely be counted. If Li Jing was leading 200,000 people into the Bohai Sea, there would be 500,000 people on the Qinfan Bohai Alliance. For 500,000 to 600,000, Li Jing was not afraid of the tribal coalition forces. The more coalition forces, it only means that they came from more tribes, the more chaotic their relationships. The more logistical pressure was tense.

"If Your Highness does not dislike you and is willing to lead your army to fight on behalf of Your Highness, Your Highness should still stay in Yanjing and take charge of the center." Cui An said in a secret manner.

Li Jing believed in Cui Anqian's ability to lead troops. Although he was a civil servant, he had extraordinary ability to lead troops. At the beginning, he trained the Huangtou Army in Zhongwu Town. Later, he took charge of the Chaocao bandits and killed Wang Xianzhi and defeated Huang Chao. This was quite impressive. However, in this battle, 200,000 troops were drawn, plus 100,000 troops from the Bohai Sea and 200,000 troops from the Bohai Kingdom. This was a total of 500,000 troops. Such a large army, a coalition army, there were many powerful generals, commanders and commanders of the army. After all, Cui Anqian had only been in the Qin vassal for a few years and lacked the prestige and qualifications of commanding.

"I often think of the achievements of Mr. Cui and others in defeating Wang Xianzhi and defeating Huang Chao. However, this time, when I entered the Bohai Sea to fight, I dispatched various troops. I am more familiar with the troops than Mr. Cui and others, so I will do it." Li Jing said.

"Your Highness must think twice before personally conquer Haidong."

"They are also thinking that Haidong should be fought, but I should not be in charge of the enemy?"

Cui Anqian, Li Zhuo, Du Qing, Jing Xiang and others nodded.

Gongsun Lan was puzzled, "Even if the tribal coalition forces came, they could send a few generals to stop them. If the situation is in today's situation, shouldn't Your Highness stay in the pass?"

Li Jing shook his head and chuckled: "It is indeed enough to deal with the tribal coalition forces. But I wanted to fight the battle for the Bohai Kingdom in person. Defeating the coalition forces was only the first goal, and annexing the Bohai Sea was our goal in the past few years. It is not easy to swallow the Bohai Kingdom, a farming country with more than 200 years of history, with annexation of the Bohai Sea, with an agricultural country with more than 600,000 households and more than 3 million people. In this regard, I have to go there myself to solve this problem once and for all, and no longer worry about the Northeast."

"Your Highness personally seeks, who will stay in Beijing?" Cui Yunqing asked directly. Qin Fan has such a large family business now, and Li Jing personally seeks Haidong. Who will stay in such a large family? This is very important.

"I just have to stay in Yanjing. I don't have to worry if I have a teacher."

Cui Yunqing shook his head, "It's not appropriate. I think it's better for the provincial cabinet and government office to keep people and form a left-behind meeting. Generally, the affairs will still be handled by the various departments themselves. When important matters happen, they will be left to the left-behind meeting to discuss and decide." His words made everyone secretly praise him. Li Jing's previous intention was to let Cui Yunqing stay with full power and take over the power. However, Cui Yunqing took the initiative to propose to create a left-behind meeting to temporarily replace the original political affairs hall meeting and share the left-behind civil and military officials in the provincial cabinet and government office.

Li Jing nodded secretly after hearing this. Although Qin Fan has done a good job in the system over the years, the key is that Cui Yunqing's meaning is very consistent with his wishes. Although even if he really handed over the power to Cui Yunqing, he still had a corresponding check and balance plan, but in this way, Cui Yunqing's statement would still make Li Jing feel much more at ease. Otherwise, if he fought with the tribal army thousands of miles away, there would be problems in the rear, which would be extremely troublesome.

"Your Highness, it takes a lot of time to mobilize 200,000 troops, and food and grass. Moreover, it is the cold season now, and there is constant rain and snow outside the pass. Should I wait for the snow to melt in February to send troops?"

Li Jing shook his head. One thing is very important to fight, that is, the enemy cannot know all your plans. "It really takes time for the 200,000 troops to assemble, but in this exercise, we have not mobilized all the troops. All of this has been arranged. The 200,000 troops, including the Iron Cavalry, Black Flag, and Changsheng Legion, have quietly gathered to Tianjin, and the food and grass have been transported to the mouth of the Yalu River. Gu had already started this decisive battle last year. Now, the Qinwang Island port is not frozen, and two thousand ships have been mobilized. Tianjin's military and horse association immediately gathered to Qinwang Island, and then took a boat from there to sail directly to Qinghai Town, Sanhan Peninsula, and bypassed Sanhan Peninsula. Finally, 200,000 troops landed in Tokyo, Bohai Sea, where there is the largest unfreezing port in the north. We landed from there and fought an unexpected alliance."

Li Jing has never liked routine, and his plan this time was very strange. Now it is the sea freezing period, with most of the Bohai Sea passing through ice, and almost all the coastal ports passing through ice. Although the Qin army has Qinwang Island Port and Dalian Port, it is still very dangerous to sail in such a season, not to mention two thousand ships carrying a super fleet of 200,000 troops. Moreover, the voyage this time is also extremely long. From Qinwang Island, it has to open the southernmost part of the Sanhan Peninsula, crossing between the Sanhan Peninsula and the Tokyo Islands, continue to head north, and finally land in Tokyo, the Bohai Kingdom. This is a very long distance of more than 5,000 miles, and it is in such a season, such an ice age. Not to mention that the tribal coalition forces could not have imagined it, most people in the hall except the General Staff did not expect it.

"Your Highness, this is too risky!" Cui Yunqing couldn't help but persuade her.

"Please rest assured that our navy has been following the Silo Bohai Road these years and is very familiar with this route. And has had three consecutive years of successful experience in sailing this sea route during the ice age. If I were not very sure, I would not agree to this plan." Li Jing said with great confidence. Over the years, under the promotion of Li Jing, the Qin Fan's shipbuilding and navigation industry level and technology have risen sharply, especially the prosperity of sea trade, which has further promoted the improvement of these technologies. In winter, even sailing during the ice age is no longer impossible.

In the mansion of Yu Cong in Yanjing, Yu Cong and Cui Yunqing were sitting opposite each other, playing Go.

Yu Cong held a chess piece, but he did not leave for a long time. "This time, the Qin King went east to conquer Bohai. Gong Cui and a certain left-behind, Wang Pu and Pei You all followed the army. This is an excellent opportunity. Wang Pu's brother Wang Gai and his son have been secretly selling military rations, smuggling tea and wine, and even secretly lent usury to maritime merchants. We have collected a lot of evidence in our hands. I think this is a good opportunity. Li Juyi is also staying behind this time. He has deep personal grudges with Wang Pu brothers and others. If we secretly handed over these evidence to Li Juyi, he will definitely not let Wang Pu brothers go. Once he reveals the matter, we will take it to the left-behind meeting to deal with it. We will take the opportunity to get rid of Wang Pu brothers."

Cui Yunqing shook her head. The Yu and Cui clans had been intersecting for generations and now they have formed an alliance. Although Cui Yunqing is Li Jing's teacher, she still can't help but fall into this heir dispute. With his relationship with Yu, he has long been classified as a legitimate son. If he did not help Yu, he would not be able to benefit him if his eldest son came to power. To be honest, these are all old diseases left by the Tang Dynasty's party struggles. They always gathered parties and fought against each other, and it would be difficult to stay out of the matter.

"It is inappropriate to hand over the evidence directly to Li Juyi. It is best to find a way to lead Li Juyi to discover the crimes of Wang Gai and his son, so that he can kill the enemy without letting him splatter. Li Dezhao is very popular with the King of Qin, so we have to exterminate his supporters as soon as possible. Only in this way can Prince Baodeyu seize the position of prince."
Chapter completed!