Chapter 52: Formulating Countermeasures
Li Daozong also reacted at this time. Goguryeo's national strength is only more than 40,000. Once the Tang army launches the offensive and defensive battle in Pyongyang City, it is inevitable that he will die and suffer. No matter whether the Tang army can capture Pyongyang City in the end, Goguryeo cannot afford to be injured. More than 40,000 troops are already a serious problem for a country to protect itself, but after all, there is a little deterrent effect. However, if the Tang army consumes 10,000 or 20,000, only a pitiful 10,000 or 20,000 soldiers will be left to protect the country. Why should Goguryeo face future challenges? Even if it is not destroyed by the Tang army, it will be subject to the unchanging principle of the history of the strong and the strong.
So what really dares not fight or consume is Goguryeo, not the Tang Dynasty with an army of 100,000.
He closed his hands and laughed: "Yes, they only have more than 40,000 troops. What they fear most is that we will attack the city and spend it with them under Pyongyang. We can't afford it, they can't afford it even more."
As the only royal relative in the Li Tang royal family who can compare with Li Shimin, Li Daozong is not an easy person. After reacting, his thinking opened and said, "If I were Yeon Gaisuwen in the face of this situation, I would definitely cherish every soldier. I would not be able to voluntarily fight against us. I can only use the help of my ally Baekje and Yamato. However, Baekje and Yamato are not just using it. Yeon Gaisuwen will definitely invest a lot of money to lure Baekje and Yamato to fight. But Baekje and Yamato are currently in a stalemate in Silla. How can I reinforce?"
Su Dingfang looked at Luo Shixin and said, "I have been fighting against Goguryeo recently, but I have ignored the war between Baekje, Yamato and Silla, but I don't know what the situation is going on with them."
Luo Shixin shook his head slightly: "I don't know the details here. General Zuo's enemy is Goguryeo, and their intelligence network is limited to Goguryeo. Silla and Baekje are not included, and even I have not received first-hand information. The war between the Three Kingdoms is not very clear, but we have not received any letters of help from Silla so far. It can be seen that their situation is not bad and we do not need our support." Speaking of this, there was a hint of strangeness in his eyes.
Su Dingfang smiled and said, "I didn't expect that Silla is quite capable, but he actually helped us withstand the two armies of Baekje and Yamato. If it weren't for them, we would have a chance of winning against the Three Kingdoms Alliance."
Luo Shixin shook his head and said, "You don't know Silla, of course I don't know much. I know more than you. There are a little more people in remote and small countries. It's not like my Tang Dynasty, and I can't count them. Looking at the entire Goguryeo's military strategy, it's just Yuan Binzhi, Yang Wanchun, Yuan Gaisuwen. And Silla and his contact with our Han culture were hindered by Baekje and Goguryeo, and there were even fewer talents. As far as I know, only Kim Yu-shin was the only one."
Kim Yu-shin was a general of Silla in the Three Kingdoms era of Korea. There is also a book similar to "The Three Kingdoms" in Korea called "The Three Kingdoms Historical Records" which is a official history of Silla, Baekje and Goguryeo on the Korean Peninsula. Kim Yu-shin's status in "The Three Kingdoms Historical Records" is like Zhuge Liang in "The Three Kingdoms". He has a outstanding strategic vision and military level. He became a general of Silla at a young age. In the end, the King of Silla destroyed Baekje one after another, and Goguryeo unified the Three Kingdoms of the Sea.
Except for Kim Yu-shin, other generals in Silla have very average abilities and nothing stand out.
This time, Yamato and Yamato did not attack as usual, but divided into two groups and attacked in two groups. When they first sent troops and had not yet captured Liaodong, they had to add a Goguryeo. At that time, their situation was in danger. They suffered heavy losses and were in danger of destroying the country. But later Silla resisted it. Just after Goguryeo's withdrawal of its authority, they had only one Kim Yu-shin, but they resisted the two-faced enemy.
This actual situation does not match the strength of Silla that Luo Shixin knew. This is also a strange reason.
Silla and the Tang Dynasty were not allied forces. To be precise, Silla was a vassal state of the Tang Dynasty. The vassal state cooperated with the political interests of the sovereign state, while the sovereign state protected the safety of the vassal state. The sovereign state could arrange the actions of the vassal state, but the vassal state could not control the sovereign state, and they were not in the same relationship. As a party to the sovereign state, Luo Shixin took his own interests first. Silla's interests had little to do with him. On the contrary, as long as he had the opportunity, he would use Silla without hesitation to fight for the interests of the Tang Dynasty. This is also the so-called political stance...
Silla did not ask for help from the Tang Dynasty, and Luo Shixin would not be willing to interfere in Silla's military and political affairs openly.
The complex relationships in this are really endless and messy.
After a while, Liu Rengui suddenly said, "Master General, do you think Silla will reach a consensus with Baekje and Yamato?"
"No!" Xue Rengui was young and not steadfast enough, so he called out first: "Before we sent troops, Silla, let Goguryeo, Baekje and Yamato attack and encircle them on three sides. They were the most miserable. Will they conspire with the enemy?"
Liu Rengui was talented in prime ministers and had a longer political vision. He said in a deep voice: "Consensus is not a conspiracy, but a certain balance maintained under the same interests. To be fair, if it weren't for our Tang Dynasty's ban on Yamato and Baekje, would they really have the courage to be enemies with our Tang Dynasty?"
Luo Shixin suddenly laughed and said, "So that's it! Yamato, Baekje and others were not unable to defeat Silla, but they were afraid of our Tang Dynasty and did not dare to fight. Silla grabbed Yamato Baekje's mind and maintained the battle situation within a controllable range to reach a certain consensus and generate a certain peace."
With Silla's strength, it is difficult to withstand the attacks between Baekje and Yamato, but if Baekje and Yamato defeat Silla, they must face a problem: to rescue Goguryeo, they will directly confront the Tang Dynasty head-on.
Liu Rengui: "The general manager is invincible in this way and directly crippled Goguryeo, the most powerful country in Haidong. Baekje, and Yamato dared not rashly confront our Tang Dynasty head-on. If I expected it, Goguryeo, Baekje, and Yamato were discussing the division of Silla territory. Baekje, and Yamato were not as good as before. They seized their own territory and did not want to help Goguryeo to use troops. They were even more afraid that they would face the frontal troops of our Tang Dynasty. So they deliberately formed a stalemate with Silla."
"This method is really despicable to plot against one's own alliance." Su Dingfang looked dissatisfied.
Li Daozong said: "They might not have made this idea at first, but for now, Goguryeo can no longer help them. Instead of selflessly giving for Goguryeo, it is better to bite a piece of meat from Goguryeo for the sake of their own interests."
Luo Shi Nobunaga breathed a sigh of relief, this is politics. Even if he doesn't like politics, he has to admit that war is the continuation of politics. To this point he has today, both the enemy and the others cannot do without political contact.
It is precisely because of interests that allies appear, and it is precisely because of interests that there are treasons that there are treasons.
The interests between Goguryeo, Baekje and Yamato are very strong, so their alliance is also very strong: On the surface, Goguryeo resisted Luo Shixin's army, but Baekje has not sent horses and food to Goguryeo, and Japan has not transported troops, armor and equipment from their island countries to Goguryeo. These are all free of charge.
All this was aborted with the repeated defeats of Goguryeo.
Baekje and Yamato support Goguryeo because they needed Goguryeo to resist the Tang army. Now Goguryeo has not achieved the role of resisting the Tang army at all, but instead falls into a dilemma of being at the gate of the city and needs them to rescue them.
Goguryeo did not fulfill its ally obligations. Baekje and Yamato were naturally not a saint in the face of the interests of the country, so they rescued Goguryeo unconditionally and shamelessly. Especially now, Goguryeo has already made Luo Shixin disabled and has no value of exploitation.
"In this situation, even if Baekje and Yamato do not want to rescue Goguryeo, he must save..." Su Dingfang said: "The demise of Goguryeo is not good for them. They invaded Silla in order to develop. Once my Tang Dynasty took over Goguryeo, I didn't underestimate them. Even if they had land in their hands, they would not dare to develop."
Luo Shixin nodded in agreement. Their Tang Dynasty was based in Goguryeo, and the entire Haidong pattern would be rewritten. If you want to sleep peacefully under the Tang Dynasty's bed, Baekje and Yamato have no qualifications at all. He said: "So Yamato, Baekje will not be in a stalemate in Silla, and Goguryeo should also tactfully give up the land they had agreed to discuss their worth and give them to Yamato and Baekje. At the same time, they will also give up certain interests of Goguryeo itself. For example, Baekje, Yamato compromise, Goguryeo can only rely on his allies at present. I think we should be prepared to fight Baekje and Yamato." When he said this, there was a certain excitement in his tone. Finally, when this day came, there was nothing like to abuse Japan and excite him.
"I don't think there is no need to worry!" Liu Rengui's eyes flashed with a deceitful look, "We can wait. Silla is a vassal state of my Tang Dynasty, but I think they have two hearts. This time we are not just here to win, but we also have to find ways to hold two of the three Haidong Kingdoms in our hands and become the land of my Tang Dynasty. Instead of being cheap Silla, let them reap the benefits of the fisherman. We wait for Silla to come and ask us for help, Silla cannot support it, and when Silla's national strength is greatly damaged, and when they have no strength to control the situation, we will not be too late."
Luo Shixin grinned and pointed at Liu Rengui, "See, this is the real blackness, this heart, but I like it...it's settled. We won't fight Goguryeo for the time being, so let them guard it. When we clean up Baekje and Yamato, we will cut off Goguryeo's last hope. There is probably no need to suffer from Pyongyang."
Just when Luo Shixin made a plan to watch the situation in Silla, Luo Shixin received news that his old friend asked for a meeting: he met a character he had been looking forward to for a long time but had never seen, a character with a legendary color. (To be continued, please search for Astronomy, novels are better and faster!
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