Chapter 1076 Snubbed

   "Where the soldiers are scattered, they will be weak, and if they gather together, they will be strong. This is the normal situation of military strategists. If our troops are divided into several places, and the enemy attacks us with a large number, we should join forces to attack them. It is called a lone army if they are not gathered together."

  Thunder Pass.

  During the great war, Qin Lang took the time to teach the art of war when he was not writing the biography of the heroes of the Sui and Tang Dynasties. The students attending the class, besides his brother Qin Li and Qin Gui, also had adopted sons Qin Cunxiao and Qin Cunyi who came from Nanzhong. They went on a tour in central Guizhou and Yunnan. At the beginning of the year, Qin Lang received an urgent recall from the emperor, so they temporarily stayed in Kunming to garrison.

   Now they just came to Songzhou from the newly built Kunming City, but the Cunxiao Cunyi brothers came, but there was no war. Now the Tubo has stopped invading, and they are camped 30 miles away from Leiguan in Songzhou.

   The two sides confront each other.

  Tibetan will not retreat, Qin Lang is not in a hurry.

  In addition to the brothers and adopted sons, some young and low-ranking officers in the Tubo army who fought this time were also rewarded with the opportunity to be taught by Duke Wei himself, and they gathered in Leiguan to listen to the lectures.

   It is equivalent to Qin Lang running a military officer lecture hall, teaching the art of war and battle formation.

   Everyone regards themselves as students of Duke Wei and is very proud.

  In today's class, Qin Lang asked everyone to discuss the Tubo invasion.

  Among the students, Qin Cunxiao had the highest military position at this time. He was the chief general of the guest army who came to reinforce him, and the commander of the Ya army in the Lingnan Jinglue Mansion. Although after Qin Lang was conscripted back to the court, he had resigned from the posts of Lingnan Jinglue envoy and Nanzhong Xuanfu envoy, but up to this time, although the emperor dismissed him as Lingnan Sandao Jinglue envoy and Nanzhong Xuanfu envoy, The Second Dao Jing Lue envoys, but the Lingnan Jing Lue Ya Army, the elite soldiers and horses that Qin Lang had mobilized at the beginning, was retained by the emperor, but the name was changed.

After all, after Qin Lang resigned from the Lingnan Economic Mission, the imperial court no longer sent anyone to take over. This is a temporary mission, not an official position, and it has too much power. Come on, avoid the errands of local weight.

The elite army of the former Lingnan Economic Strategy Envoy was not merged into the Guangzhou Zhenhai Navy, or the Jingjiang Army in Guizhou, nor the Jianwu Army in Yongzhou, Jiaozhou Jinghai Navy, etc., but was given the military title Zhongwu The army, after being expanded, was directly moved to the newly built Kunming City in Yunnan.

  Qin Cunxiao also jumped to the position of inspector and Zhongwu army envoy.

The Zhongwu Army belongs to the frontier army system. Although the frontier army is now on a permanent basis, officers at all levels are still temporary missions. The inspector Zhechong is the captain.

  Kunming Zhechong Mansion is a newly established mansion, which is Shangzhechong Mansion. Its chief officer, Zhechong Duwei, belongs to the fourth rank in the official system of the Tang Dynasty, and is at the same level as the Zhongzhou Governor.

However, although Qin Cunxiao is also a disciple of the Son of Heaven who came out of Yulin Palace, and the adopted son of Situ and Pingzhang Shi Qin Lang, and he has made some new achievements in Lingnan and Nanzhong, he is young after all, so the position of captain is also a procurator. school.

Therefore, this rank is only awarded to guerrilla generals from the fifth rank, which corresponds to the rank of Lieutenant Guo Yi, the deputy chief of Shangzhe Chongfu. Lieutenant Zhaowu may be a little taller, after all, it hasn’t been long since he came out of Habayashi Palace, but after all, his identity and background are there. He is a student of the emperor, the righteous son of Wei Gongyi, and he has the experience of serving as a commander of the Lingnan Economic Strategy Army, so this time he can Awarded as a guerrilla general.

  According to the regulations of the Zhenguan Order of the imperial court, Qin Cunxiao, a minister who is more than one rank higher than the San rank, retains the title of San Guan and adds a word of Shou.

  So now Cunxiao's official title is Guerrilla General Shou Kunming Zhechong Mansion Inspection School Zhechong Duwei, Inspection School Zhongwu Military Envoy, Taiyuan County Founding Son Qin Cunxiao.

However, because Qin Lang has multiple positions as Situ, Prince Taishi, Jianxiao Zhongshuling, Shizhong, Prince Zhanshi, Henan Fuyin, etc., but the highest Situ is the first grade, which is higher than his. The Sanjie is from Kaifuyi of the first rank and the third division, so Qin Lang's official official title can be removed from the Sanjie. And there is no need to add guards, add lines or concurrently wait.

  This kind of official title is added with morality, which is also to highlight the official class. After all, officials have ranks and positions, and the ranks are not completely linked. It can be high-ranking and low-ranking or low-ranking and high-ranking. Generally speaking, it is based on official rank and focuses on ministry.

  The salary is based on the official rank of the product, and the work is determined by the job.

  Cunxiao is to take the salary of the fifth rank and do the work of the fourth rank, and also have a job as a loyal military envoy.

As a rare scarlet-robed general among the students in this period, Cunxiao has already been promoted to the ranks of middle and senior officials of the Tang Dynasty, and he is also an outstanding officer of the younger generation, but he still listens with an open mind and has his own ideas. Think about insights.

  For example, in the face of the Tubo invasion that he had worked so hard to come to, but did not catch up with the opportunity to fight, he brought up the art of war in the art of war class he had heard from Dai Guogong Li Jing when he was in Yulin Palace.

Li Jing told them that if our troops are dispersed, we will be weak, and if our forces are concentrated, we will be strong. He also said that this is the basic common sense of commanding operations. If our army is divided into multiple places and the enemy's army attacks us, we should concentrate our forces to fight back. If our forces are not concentrated, become a self-defeating solitary traveler.

   While he was watching this battle, Qin Lang had scattered his troops everywhere in Songzhou.

  Young Cunxiao believes that in the face of the Tibetan attack, it is time to concentrate its forces, and then focus on attacking Tubo, and to fight defensively and counterattack, replacing defense with offense.

  If attacking instead of defending, I am afraid that the Tubo army has already been defeated.

  Young people have great ideas, which is a good thing.

  Although he has explained this defensive strategy to the generals more than once, after all, most of the students in this period are low-level young officers, and they usually have no access to the strategic deployment of the upper level.

"Li Weigong's concentration of troops is correct. It will never be outdated at any time. Of course, you have to analyze this concentration of troops in detail. For example, in our battle, you can't say that I didn't concentrate our troops. , In fact, when Tubo attacked, after receiving the alarm, I was ordered in the face of danger, took over the responsibility of defense, and immediately began to mobilize troops and horses. Before I mobilized troops, the Songzhou Dudu Mansion also began to ask for help from various places, and gathered Soldiers are here."

"Nowadays, no less than 80,000 soldiers and horses have gathered in Songzhou, including frontier soldiers and government soldiers who are not on duty, as well as local united soldiers. There are Fan tribes near the city. So many troops are not only from Songzhou , There are also those from Maozhou Dudufu, some from Yizhou Dadufu, and even Xining Dudufu, Jianzhou and other places, this is to concentrate our forces."

   "Over 200,000 people from Tubo came to attack, and I also concentrated the troops from Jiannan in Songzhou. Therefore, the gathering of our troops in Songzhou is not an isolated brigade."

  The Li Weigong that Qin Lang mentioned, that is, Li Jing, was originally named Dai Guogong. After Qin Lang changed his title to Wei Guogong, Li Jing was renamed Wei Guogong, and also became Situ.

   "Then why don't we use offense instead of defense, and take the initiative to counterattack?"

Qin Lang smiled and said, "That's because we have natural dangers to rely on, and we can defend according to the dangers, just waiting for work with ease. Leiguan, Gansong Village, Ningyuan Town, etc. are all dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack. It is a long distance, and we must seek a quick battle, and I have already judged that Tubo's invasion this time is mainly to take advantage of the situation, take advantage of it, and then use it to blackmail Datang. Therefore, as long as we guard the pass, we will be invincible. place of defeat."

  Facts have also proved that Qin Lang's strategy is correct. After all, Tubo is now trapped in the border city of Songzhou. It has been fighting for more than a month, and nearly 30,000 people have been killed or injured. It is already a bit traumatic.

  As for the Tang army, the casualties were less than a thousand, and this was precisely because they took advantage of the security guards.

Even if it is a normal battle of attacking and defending a city on a flat land, it is necessary to have five times the force advantage to attack the city, but now it is still guarding the kind of dangerous pass where one man guards the pass and ten thousand men cannot open it. Naturally, it is even more advantageous. The army can't be effectively deployed, it's just fueling tactics to send people away.

Of course, with so many casualties among the Tubo people, the most important thing is that Qin Lang played some dirty tricks and deliberately blocked the news, not letting the Tubo people know the reality of Songzhou, making them always think that Songzhou or Qin Qiong's death is just empty and chaotic When the group of dragons without a leader, who knew that Qin Lang was just fishing and luring.

   "I also often study Li Weigong's Art of War, and the writing is very good, but you must also keep in mind one sentence, water has no shape, soldiers have no momentum, and the method of using soldiers is the most taboo dogma."

   Cunxiao nodded, indicating that he was educated.

Qin Lang swept across the students. These were young people in their twenties and thirties. Most of their military positions were brigade leaders, that is, the group of people who charged in front of the battle. They had just come down from the front line and experienced **** battle Kill, the lucky one who has made new achievements.

   "Okay, that's the end of today's class. I will give you some extracurricular homework. You can think about how to fight this battle next. I will regard you as the masters of this battle. Let your imagination run wild, as long as it is reasonable."

  Just after class, Zhang Chao was waiting outside.

   "Sanlang, the Tubo envoy has come to Leiguan, and it's that Ludongzan from last time."

   "It's about Dongzan, not Ludongzan."

"That guy was very sincere this time, and he was very polite at the gate. He first presented the letter from Chief Xiaofan, and then brought many gifts. You see, one thousand taels of gold, five thousand taels of silver, and two jewels. box, a hundred horses, and ten beauties..."

"Sanlang, it seems that you are so beautiful and greedy for wealth, even the little people on the snowy plateau are well known, this is what you like, you have given away so many good things, how do you accept it? "

  Qin Lang looked at the gift list, and it was indeed quite heavy.

Of course, Qin Lang is not a greedy and lustful person like Shi Wansui. Back then, when Shi Wansui conquered the Cuan Clan in Yunnan, Cuanwan retreated steadily. In the end, he sent people to send countless gold and silver treasures, and then Shi Wansui really let Cuan play for a while. The troops were withdrawn, but later Shi Wansui didn't enjoy the huge wealth. Soon after he was impeached, the imperial court sent people to investigate. When all of them are killed, even those who have contacted and known about it at the beginning are killed and silenced, and there is no proof.

  Although the investigation ended in nothing, Shi Wansui did not escape the fate of being killed in the end. Later, Yang Jian found some small excuses and killed him in court.

   "Tibetan is afraid of war and seeking peace."

  Zhang Chao said, "Then ignore them, or take this gold and silver beauty, and then don't talk about Dongzan?"

   "Is this necessary? In this way, let Lun Dongzan hang out for a day, and then let him come over tomorrow."

   "What if he comes back?"

   "Hmph, Tubo is now riding a tiger, and Lun Dongzan is an envoy, how can he return easily? Let's wait and see!"

  (end of this chapter)