"It's feasible." Lian Po, Tian Dan and Li Mu exchanged glances, and then said to Zhao Kuo.
"It's feasible." Then Mr. Pingyuan also expressed his approval of Lu Buwei's strategy on behalf of the civil servants organization.
Of course, although we agree, there are still essential differences between civil and military considerations.
From the perspective of the three generals, as long as they can obtain food from Chu to support the war against Zhao next year, then this plan will be successful and feasible.
As for the threat from the Chu State, the generals did not take it seriously at all.
It's very simple how talented the Chu State is. Several generals who have experienced hundreds of battles don't know. Even the youngest Li Mu saw clearly the combat effectiveness of the Chu Army in the battle of Luocheng.
Well, how should I put it? If the orders can be unified, or in small-scale battles, the Chu army will be fine. Once the orders are sent to multiple gates, the combat effectiveness of the Chu army will drop sharply, even to the same level as Han and Wei.
In this case, there is no need to care about Chu's combat power. The key is to care about whether you can go to war.
In the eyes of Pingyuan Jun and other civil servants, alleviating Zhao's food crisis is the most critical "feasible" aspect.
Of course, no matter what, Lu Buwei's proposal was finally recognized by everyone.
"There is another question." Seeing that no one had any objections, Zhao Kuo continued: "The weapons given to Qi have already consumed part of our army's inventory. If they are given to Chu again, will it affect our army's own combat effectiveness? "
Although this was a military issue, Zhao Kuo's eyes were turned to Lu Buwei.
Without him, after Zhao Wei was transferred back to Handan, Lu Buwei has been in charge of the Shangdang arsenal. Now it involves military supplies, especially this proposal was proposed by Lu Buwei. Naturally, Zhao Kuo wanted to look at Lu Buwei. .
Lu Buwei was not surprised by this. Although he had just rushed back to Handan from Jiuyuan County, in just these few days, he had already sorted out the things at hand. When faced with Zhao Kuo's inquiry, he was naturally confident. .
"Report it to my king." Lu Buwei immediately replied: "The military factory's standard weapons have been successfully trial-produced and have been put into small-scale mass production. Production has been temporarily suspended due to lack of coal.
This is Weichen's plan. This winter, he will first produce wooden ordnance such as crossbows, arrows, and spears. In the coming spring, when the temperature rises and the demand for coal mines drops, he will resume ordnance production.
Before the autumn harvest, it should not be a problem to provide equipment for an army of about 50,000 people. "
"Fifty thousand is too little." Zhao Kuo shook his head and continued: "At least eight to one hundred thousand, use the population of Jiuyuan County to polish arrows, gun shafts and other simple and highly repetitive items, and try to make them by Jiuyuan County By using the county’s homeless people to do this, we can continue to implement the work-for-relief policy.”
"Yes." Lu Buwei immediately agreed: "I will go back and think about it before making specific arrangements. However, if the people of Jiuyuan County can help, at least the ordnance of an 80,000-strong army can be produced quickly."
"Okay." Zhao Kuo nodded, and then said to Pingyuan Lord: "Pingyuan Lord will arrange for personnel from all over the country to meet the needs of military industry. It is not limited to Jiuyuan County, but any county with spare labor can be promoted. Guangzhi."
"Yes." Mr. Pingyuan agreed immediately.
"In that case." Zhao Kuo looked at Yu Qing, who had been silent, and said, "Yu Qing."
After being named, Yu Qing immediately put down the pen in his hand, clasped his hands into fists and said, "Wei Chen is here."
"After the end of the year, we will start arranging envoys to go to Chu." Zhao Kuo immediately ordered: "First, tell the King of Chu from the side that Qin may invade; second, explore the possibility of exchanging military equipment for food and fodder."
"Yes." Yu Qing immediately clasped his fists and accepted the order.
"Okay." Zhao Kuo received a positive answer and nodded with satisfaction. Then he looked at everyone again and said summarily: "Under the pressure of Qin, our army must fight whether it can fight or not. That's it. , if we can exchange it for grain and fodder from Chu, that would be the best; even if we cannot exchange it, our army would rather delay the return of grain to Qi and Chu, and we will definitely go to war."
"Yes." After hearing this, everyone agreed one after another.
"Let's end the discussion on whether to fight or not to fight." Zhao Kuo continued: "The next question is where to fight."
"All the ministers also know that Qi and Chu are sincere in providing food, so they should not be touched lightly." Zhao Kuo continued to analyze: "Wei is the most important chess piece to balance Qin, so it should not be touched lightly. And Yan and Han All countries are a thorn in the side of our great Zhao, and they are all attacked by well-known teachers. Who can attack them? Please tell me."
After speaking, Zhao Kuo looked at everyone again.
In fact, Zhao Kuo already had the answer to this question.
However, as a king, he cannot be arbitrary. As the saying goes, "listening to both sides" means that the opinions of veteran generals such as Li Mu, Lian Po and Tian Dan are still very important.
Because it involves military deployment, it is naturally the home field of the military.
Naturally, Lian Po and others had already prepared their thoughts. Immediately, Lian Po was the first to speak and said: "I, the king, I think that attacking Yan is better than attacking Han Duo."
"Oh?" Zhao Kuo was overjoyed and said immediately, "What's the reason?"
"There are three reasons." Lian Po immediately replied: "One is that it is a great benefit.
The country of Han has a radius of less than a hundred miles, only a dozen cities, and a population of only more than 300,000, which is less than the harvest of a county. However, although the country of Yan is located in the northern border, its territory is more than 500 miles. , there are dozens of cities, and although the people are only hundreds of thousands, most of them are tough people. If you get them, you can get tens of thousands of elite soldiers in less than two years;
The gain from Yan can be doubled from that of Han;
Second, the location is different.
Although the country of Han is in the world, after losing the upper party, it has neither the ability to stop the Qin army nor the solid mountains and rivers. It is also in the position of four wars. If it is obtained, it will be useless to our military system;
On the other hand, although Yan State is located in the northern part of the Great Wall, it is to the north of Qi State and in the backyard of Zhao State. If we get it, our army will form a three-sided flanking force against Qi State, and our Zhao State will no longer have to worry about going to war.
The third is the debate on the difficulty of attacking.
When attacking Han, Qin will help it secretly, either with swords, money and food, or with armored troops stationed there, so that our attack will be blocked by it;
When attacking Yan, although Qin wanted to help, it was unable to protect it due to the obstacles of mountains and rivers.
Nowadays, in the Yan State, the people's livelihood is in decline, and there is an example in Hejian County. The people of Yan State are looking forward to the arrival of our Zhao army as much as they are looking forward to the sweet rain.
With all these factors in mind, our army's attack on Yan was easy and achieved great success. Is there any reason why we should abandon the easy for the difficult and abandon the merit for the hard work? "
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After the words fell, everyone praised him in unison. Obviously, Lian Po's reasonable and coherent discussion really moved everyone present.
Of course, Zhao Kuo, who had already decided to attack Yan, was even more satisfied with Lian Po's performance.
To be honest, Zhao Kuo just thought that "in order to resist foreign aggression, we must first settle the internal affairs", so he decided to put Yan first and then Han. Unexpectedly, the old general had such a profound understanding of the Yan-Han debate.
"It seems that everyone agrees with the old general's suggestion?" Zhao Kuo looked around everyone and said with a smile.
"Of course, the old general's foresight is beyond our reach." Mr. Pingyuan on the side immediately slapped him with a subtle flattery.
Zhao Kuo then smiled and said: "This is in line with the national policy we formulated before, which is to go north first and then south."
"In that case, it's settled!" Zhao Kuo immediately said, "Attack Yan."
"Yes." Everyone agreed in unison.
"Then the last question is, how to fight!" Zhao Kuo then looked at the generals with a smile and continued: "To be precise, there is also the question of who will lead the army."
As soon as the words fell, Lian Po, Tian Dan and Li Mu sat upright.
This is a real battle to destroy the country! It was the first war to destroy a country after the Warring States Period.
What? Zhou State, can that be considered a country? The total strength of the troops is less than 50,000 or 60,000. It is difficult to defend Luo City. It can be regarded as the destruction of the country!
What, there are still barbarians! They were just a group of tribes, far from having a strict organizational structure. Even Li Mu himself did not dare to mention the merits of destroying the country.
Obviously, everyone has an account of the true annihilation of the country, that is, the seven kingdoms of Qin, Zhao, Han, Wei, Chu, Qi, and Yan can be regarded as the real annihilation of the country.
Regardless of Lian Po, Tian Dan, and Li Mu, all of them can talk freely about whether to send troops. In the face of such incredible achievements, who wouldn't want to monopolize this glory!
"I'm afraid only my king can personally rule on this matter." Lord Pingyuan on the other side obviously saw the abnormality on the general's side, and immediately suggested to Zhao Kuo with a smile.
Zhao Kuo smiled, of course he knew that only he could decide this matter.
"General Lian Po." Zhao Kuo then asked with a smile: "If the general goes out to fight, how many troops and horses will it take to destroy the Yan Kingdom?"
"One hundred thousand is enough!" Lian Po immediately waved his hand.
Hearing this, Zhao Kuo nodded slightly, then looked at Tian Dan aside and asked, "General Tian Dan, I wonder how many men and horses you need to defeat the Yan Kingdom?"
After a slight hesitation, Tian Dan then looked at Lian Po beside him, and then said with a smile: "A certain person only needs 70,000 troops and horses!"
"You!" Lian Po on the side suddenly became angry when he heard Qi Wan's words.
Tian Dan looked at Lian Po apologetically but arrogantly, as if to say: "Brother, we can't give you the glory of destroying the country!"
Seeing Tian Dan's appearance, Lian Po was even more furious: If he had known, he would have been underpaid by 20,000 yuan.
If Zhao Kuo hadn't still been sitting above, I'm afraid the two of them would have
However, Lian Po also knew that Tian Dan inherently had an absolute advantage in fighting the Yan Kingdom.
The Fire Ox Charge back then really left an indelible impression on too many people in the Yan Kingdom. Even if it had been a few years earlier, the name Tian Dan would have been almost unknown in Yan State.
Zhao Kuo looked at these two old boys with a faint smile in his heart.
Then he looked at Li Mu again.
At this time, Li Mu was extremely conflicted. On the one hand, of course he also wanted to take credit for the destruction of the country, but on the other hand, according to his own estimation, it would take ten years to destroy Yan. There are about 20,000 troops.
This is completely uncompetitive!
Of course, Li Mu never thought of lying about a number to gain military power from the beginning to the end.
However, because this number was so mediocre, Li Mu even lowered his head in shame.
When Zhao Kuo saw this, he certainly understood what Li Mu was thinking. Then he nodded and said: "Li Mu."
"The general will be here." Li Mu immediately agreed.
"To confuse the Qin army." Li Mu said calmly.
