The spring of the thirteenth year of the empire.

Emperor Li Jun visited Beijing in the north and summoned the appeasement generals under the Lifan Yuan and the generals of the army to discuss the matters of the Northwest War in Beijing.

The huge sand table was unfolded in the combat room, covering most parts of Central Asia, while the arrows, flags and models marked the dynamics, territory and strength of all parties. It can be clearly seen from the sand table that the Eight Banners of Manchuria had occupied two important old areas of Junggar, Tarbhatai and Ili River Valley, and had won nearly one-third of the Junggar tribes through war, bribery, and forced.

The empire was not idle during this period. First, the vassal soldiers of the Xining Pacification Zone and the army headquarters of Gansu and Shaanxi had already been supported last year, and arrived at the two cities of Turpan and Hami. The elite cavalry from the vassal zone such as Yunzhong, Yanbei, Qiqihar also arrived at the rear assembly areas of Kulun, Ulyasutai, Kobdo and others. Because of the arrival of winter, they had not yet entered the front line. At this moment, the confrontation with the Manchu army was mainly the troops of the Guanxi Pacification Zone under Chen Ping. However, the Tianshan North Road was destroyed in a summer and autumn assembly, and then the winter came, so the shortage of materials directly led Chen Ping to disperse more than 6,000 cavalry under his command to the Junggar, Heshuot and Dulbert for the winter. The infantry and artillery supported by the Turpan from Hami and Turpan went south to cross the Tianshan Mountains before the heavy snowstorm was blocked last year, and entered the Korla city of the vassal state Yarkand to obtain food.

"Sima Yi of Yarkand is very sincere, and perhaps he is worried that Manchuria will threaten it. After learning about the civil strife in Junggar last year, he immediately dispatched troops from Kashgar and Kuche to the north and stationed troops in Aksu and Baicheng. According to our request, he cut off the northward passage and commercial exchanges, and provided some material support and military barracks to our infantry group..." Pei Chengyi briefly introduced the situation to Li Junhua. He seemed a little embarrassed, but in the end he pointed his baton at Samarkand, a city located in a more inland area outside the Yarkand Khanate.

Pei Chengyi coughed lightly and said, "The South Asia Trading Company also proposed to transfer troops north to assist Guangfu Tianshan North Road."

Li Junhua smiled and said, "Brother, please don't worry if you start grass industry."

In one sentence, Li Jundu's possibility of participating in Tianshan North Road was denied.

Before Li Junhua ascended the throne, Li Jundu left Shenjing and arrived in the Yarkand Khanate according to the plan formulated at the beginning. He received preferential treatment in the Yarkand Khanate by marrying Dilguli, the daughter of Sima Yi Da Khan. With Kashgar as the center, he quickly organized an armed force and moved westward with his strong economic strength.

Samarkand was originally the homeland of the Yarkand Khanate. After the internal chaos in the Yarkand Khan, the local nobles chose independence. Sima Yi had no results in the war. However, under the command of Li Jundu, he recovered all the cities in this area, and then repaid the favor and rented Samarkand, an important trading city in Central Asia, an important place in the ancient Silk Road, to Li Jundu's South Asia trading company. Li Jundu's team used this city to recruit soldiers in Central Asia, a paradise for adventurers and mercenaries, expanding westward and southward, and had already had a considerable territory. He defeated the Bukhara Khanate several times and occupied most of the wealthy Fergana Basin.

These are all secret gentlemen's agreement between Li Jundu and the Empire. The Fergana Basin and the Riverland belong to the sphere of influence of the South Asian trading company, but only in the sphere of influence, Li Jundu cannot establish a country here. His nominal regime must pay tribute to the Empire at the right time and be a vassal of the Empire.

Obviously, according to the secret agreement, the land in the river is just a novice village where Li Mingxun arranges leveling for his eldest son. After he grows up, he will still go south to enter South Asia. Li Junhua is clear about this. Because of his geographical advantages, an Indian empire will not impact the core interests of the empire, but the empire will never allow a force across Central Asia and South Asia to appear. Therefore, Li Junhua will not allow his elder brother to participate in the war on the North Road of Tianshan.

Li Junhua did not care about the changes in the expressions of the participants, but asked directly: "What is the combat plan of the Lifanyuan?"

"The Lifanyuan and the Army Department have formulated four sets of combat plans. The difference is the difference between the war goals and the largest war plan......" Pei Chengyi introduced it seriously, and the largest plan is naturally to take advantage of this opportunity to wipe out a Manchu country in one fell swoop and completely resolve this old opponent that had been hostile for decades.

This combat plan requires a total of 70,000 troops and two routes advance together. The southern route is mainly cavalry to attack the Ili River Valley, while the northern route is a mixed army to directly attack the hinterland of Manchukuo. Although in this plan, the vassal soldiers under the Lifan Yuan were mainly composed of vassal soldiers, the supply pressure was very huge, because the combat area was located in the northern region and the combat window was very short, especially the northern route, which required several important castles to be broken, so it was expected to take more than three years, and the food and wages consumed were huge. Everything went well, and it also required 20 million taels of military expenditure.

Obviously, this is the war model that the cabinet and the imperial subjects least want to see. In addition to being too frugal, it is also because the situation of the war is impossible to control. The Manchus are most likely to retreat westward like in the Montenegro War and throw the imperial army into the vast grasslands and mountains. Russia in the north will definitely be willing to be a mess again, while the Kazakh Khanate, who had not even Khan, had been killed for decades, could not stop the Manchus. Perhaps at that time, they really needed to ask Li Jundu, who was in the river.

Li Junhua nodded: "I seem to have seen this plan."

Pei Chengyi naturally did not dare to hide it and said, "It was the Yunzi No. 7 project presented by the Rifan Courtyard in the ninth year of the empire, and it was also approved by the Supreme Emperor."

As he said that, the staff officer had already taken out the original plan, but it was surprisingly heavy. Li Junhua looked through the catalog and remembered that the new plan only extracted the combat plan from the Yunzi No. 7 plan. As the Northern Army plan for this war plan, the combat plan was only the last part.

The Yunzi No. 7 plan is a systematic combat plan against the remnants of the Qing Dynasty after the victory of the Mobei War. The goal is to wipe out Manchuria and attack the middle and upper reaches of the Ob River. Because of the victory of the Mobei War, the Yunzi No. 7 plan summarized a lot of experience and lessons. The reason why the Mobei War consumed less than the planned one is the implementation of the front-line military farming plan. Therefore, in the Yunzi No. 7 plan, military farming training in Kobdo, Balikun and Ulya Sutai was the top priority. According to this plan, after the three places are mature, an attack will be launched. According to this plan, the attack on Manchuria should be between the fifteenth year of the empire and the eighteenth year of the empire. The previous six to eight years was to make the military farming training achieve results.

Obviously, the war broke out early, so the Yunzi No. 7 plan could only be implemented in advance, so a large amount of materials would have to be allocated from the rear. However, the settlement in Mobei had just begun, and the starting point of the supply line was still Yunzhong. The supply line, which lasted 4,000 miles long, was the largest consumption point of military expenditure.

After seeing it, Li Junhua shook his head and said a little tiredly: "Let's wait."

Pei Chengyi saw that Li Junhua was not very excited, so he waved his hand quietly and asked the generals and staff to go down. Pei Chengyi said, "Your Majesty, do you want a rest?"

"Solving the chaos in the northwest is the best rest." Li Junhua pinched his eyebrows and said lightly, thinking for a while, and asked, "General Pei, what do you think?"

"The last general thinks that the full attack is inappropriate and consumes too much. If you cannot capture and kill the thief chief, you will not be able to explain it at all." Pei Chengyi said carefully.

Li Junhua nodded and said seriously: "Yes, controlling the scale of the war is very important."

Seeing that Li Junhua had not much blame, Pei Chengyi expressed his thoughts: "Your Majesty, I think it's better to fight to promote peace. In fact, the enemy did the same. Last year, he attacked Tianshan North Road and took some advantage to seek peace immediately. If the empire aims to eliminate Manchuria and capture Xuanye, it would be unwise. Hu Shi had discussed with his colleagues, if he could go forward in one fell swoop, actually control Tianshan North Road and benefit the country."

After hearing this, Li Junhua immediately became interested and stood up and said, "Tell me in detail."

Pei Chengyi pointed to the map and said, "The current situation is that we attack Manchuria, which is to advance from east to west. Compared to the attack on Mobei, the war is a trick of chasing and escaping. If we can actually control the North of Tianshan Road, we can join forces with the Kazakh tribes to form a three-sided siege on Manchuria again! Just like when the Emperor's flying troops entered the grasslands in the south of the desert, we will be able to do so.

Now that Sengge is dead, the Junggar partly split, and the Weila tribes have lost their backbone. This Manchu invasion is the best excuse to intervene in the North Tianshan Road. Taking this opportunity to eliminate the Junggar Khanate, establish the Zasak system, and replace it with appeasement zones!"

"The idea is good, but the war was initiated by Manchuria. How can it end?"

Pei Chengyi said bluntly: "Didn't Manchuria have already asked for peace? I am willing to go to the country and the emperor. I think war can be fought first. After the snow melts in spring, I will directly send cavalry to escort a large number of Zasaks into the North Road of Tianshan, mainly cavalry, especially Mongolian vassal soldiers. In this way, the front-line army does not need a large amount of logistics supplies, but only needs to pay equipment and military pay. You know, fighting in such a distant place, this type of expenditure is no more than 20%.

In order to avoid accidents, we can increase troops without moving troops, suppress people with power, and promote peace talks in Manchuria. In this way, we can remove the terms of marriage that the imperial subjects criticized and unacceptable to the Supreme Emperor, and use the Manchuria invasion or the Manchuria evacuation to completely annex the North Road of Tianshan.”

"However, I will also consider some flaws in this way. I will think that the Manchurian peace is mainly for rest and recuperation. We must find sufficient effective measures and turn these measures into reality in the peace talks to ensure that when we launch a war next time, Manchurian strength will not expand, at least it cannot be expanded too much." Pei Chengyi did not hide his own personal information and made it clear directly.

Li Junhua said: "This is not difficult. To put it bluntly, whether the nomadic peoples are strong or not, is just two points. Since they are willing to be vassals, they must pay tribute. In order to weaken Manchuria, they can ask for more tributes. In order to avoid its population growth, we can quickly establish vassal relations with Kazakh tribes and provide support. Manchuria needs to expand to the west."

"The emperor is considerate and will never be as good as the last one." Pei Chengyi said modestly.

Li Junhua shook his head: "This matter will be handled according to this idea. Leave it to you about dispatching troops and generals. In order to control the situation, there should not be too many troops, so you must have elite soldiers and generals! Let Chang Aday prepare for the matter on the North Road of Tianshan Mountain, I am willing to do it."

Two days later, outside the Changping War Criminals Management Office.

Winter is coming to an end, and there is only snow in the shade in the farmland. In this farmland where the war criminals are self-reliant, the war criminals are building new water diversion channels to irrigate more land. Among the war criminals, a man in a monk's robe is particularly conspicuous. When the work was completed in the morning, the monk walked on the ridge of the field with a hoe and saw several people waiting at the corner of the field. The monk shouted: "Hey, friends from afar, take care of your horses and don't let it eat wheat seedlings..."

While shouting, the monk speeded up his pace. When he arrived at the place, he found that several people on the horse seemed familiar. One of the heroic young men had been away for a long time. The monk hurriedly wanted to kneel down, but was supported by the young men.

"I have seen the emperor..."

"Zen Master Wuse doesn't need to be too polite, but if you have time, you can talk to me." The young man came to visit Li Junhua specifically, and Wuse was the Dharma name after Fu Lin became a monk.

Wuse smiled and took Li Junhua and his party to a shed, brewed tea, and said, "Sorry, there is no tea here worthy of your identity."

Li Junhua didn't dislike it, and tasted it and said, "I heard from my uncle that it would be better to add some salt to this kind of tea."

"Student Zhu has been unhappy these days, so he has not come to work." Wuse said, and then asked, "What's the point of doing when the emperor comes here?"

Li Junhua smiled: "I have private matters to find my uncle, and I have official matters to find my Zen master. When I go back to Shenjing this time, I will be officially engaged. I will make an appointment to get married next year. I will come and report to my uncle."

"Is it the girl Han I met last time? I heard that she became the first female Jinshi in this dynasty. Congratulations to the emperor." Wuse said with a smile.

Li Junhua said: "Don't the Zen master want to know what the business I'm talking about?"

The look of Wu Se darkened and said, "I read it from the newspaper. Xuanye led his army to invade Junggar in the south......... Hey, he is too obsessed and doesn't know how much he was scolded."
Chapter completed!