Xinshun 1730

Chapter 51 A Little Criticism
The memorial that made the emperor hesitate, has been at the emperor's hand these days, and the emperor has also made some approvals.

"You are still a baby, what do you know? You still think too little."

"You said that Chinese learning is for the body and Western learning is for the application. I asked you to think about it a long time ago. What is the body? What is the application?"

"The body is the way; the user is the technique. As for the matter of military warfare, it is the same. Use techniques for the general, and use the way for the commander..."

A lot of eloquent replies can be summed up in one meaning:
You, a child, still think too little, and the vision of the pattern is the pattern of a general or a governor.Although you have learned the "art" of war very well, the "way" of war is not ready yet. In the future, don't just look at Western knowledge, learn more about Sun Wu, Zongheng and other knowledge.

How much time would it take to fight like you said, to gnaw down Rakshasa's castles one by one?It will snow in September, how many can you eat in September?When it's freezing cold, what do I use to dig a zigzag trench?Let the generals chew on their teeth?
If the war here doesn't end soon, won't the Raksha people approach Junggar?Once Junggar cooperates in the northwest, the country will face the danger of fighting on two fronts. What will we do then?
Before a war begins, one must first think about how it will end.

If it's just a general's vision, you're right, you can show compassion to the soldiers and defeat the enemy with regular soldiers.But in the eyes of the king of a country, these things you wrote are useful nonsense. I must end the war against Rakshasa next year, and more importantly, let Mongolia see that Dashun has quickly defeated Rakshasa with the power of thunder. country, so your method cannot be used.

As for what you said about waiting until a later date, that's even more nonsense.Taking the former Ming Dynasty as an example, don’t say that Yingzong, who is called the door, is Emperor Jianwen. Is that what Zhu Yuanzhang is looking forward to?Who can predict what's next?Who can guarantee that when the population of Liaodong breeds in the future, there must be a wise king in power?
After "criticizing" Liu Yu, he wrote at the end of the reply: "When you come back, you will enter Shangshe and choose Longjin, always in front of me, and I will always enlighten you."

It seems that there are a lot of criticisms, but in fact Li Gan is still very satisfied with Liu Yu.

The overall tone is more like what an adult who has expectations for his juniors is saying to a child.

In the memorial, he sneaked into the Raksha Castle, found Japanese and ships during the investigation, speculated that the explorers were going to map the lower reaches of the Heilongjiang River to Japan, and planned to rob the map after returning from Yongning Temple. Li Gan also drew a good one. In the big circle, four words were approved: brave and wise, kind.

This memorial far exceeded Li Gan's expectations.

A child of seventeen or eighteen years old, who is not the eldest son of the prince's family, how could he really be asked to consider things from the overall situation?It's just that I'm afraid of being too proud of praise.

Detailed pictures, detailed explanations of the tactics of capturing the bastion, the tribal mentality of the investigation along the way, and so on.Although the handwriting is not good and the writing style is far behind, but the words have something to say, which is commendable.

After the memorial was sent to the capital, Li Gan discussed it with several veterans in the capital, and they all felt that the method Liu Yu said was very useful, and indeed captured the essence of the Western gun platform's offensive and defensive system.

It's just that everyone didn't fully believe what Liu Yu said, "If you don't follow this method and don't besiege for a long time, but choose to attack by force, the bastion of 500 people will have to prepare for the sacrifice of 3000 to [-] people." Some alarmist talk.

Taizong Li Guo once said a word during the battle of Jingxiang: where do people's correct thoughts come from?Did it fall from the sky?no.Is it inherent in your own mind?no.People's correct thinking can only come from social practice.

These words have become an important pillar for the Zhedong School of Respecting Chen Liang and Ye Shi to rebuild the study of mind and deconstruct "reaching conscience".

The same principle applies to warfare at this time.

Dashun had never fought against the Westerners in a serious manner, let alone captured the strongholds of the Westerners.

It's not like they haven't seen the fort.

Southwest chieftains also have forts, but they can be captured after a good fight.

According to their thinking, with the cannon, is the fort still meaningful?
Although the Raksha people's fort seems to be built according to the way of heaven, it may not be so difficult to attack, right?

A fort with 500 people, two to 3000 people will die if a hard attack is made, is this possible?

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, Han Lin, a Catholic, wrote a book "Shou Yu Quan Shu" introducing bastions, and the Ming Dynasty also built several bastions in Xiong County.

The problem was that in Dashun's memory, he had never fought much in Xiong County.

If it was surrendered without a fight, the bastion would not leave a deep memory at all, and at most it would be a strange-looking fortress, as if that was the case.

Afterwards, although Dashun was very tolerant to the Catholic missionaries, Han Lin, who wrote the book, also surrendered early and became a "government of rites". Preserving the principles of nature and destroying human desires; also wrote "The Letters of the Saints" and believed that Confucianism and Buddhism solved the two problems of "who am I" and "what am I going to do?" Where to go", and think that Confucianism has not solved the problem of "where should I go?"

This person once became the leader of the Western French Party in the Dashun Dynasty, so it can be said that he is very serious.

However, with the changes in the external environment, Zhang Lin's "Shou Yu Quan Shu" did not cause too much trouble.

The external environment when Zhang Lin wrote this book was that Houjin had the strongest artillery in East Asia at that time, and the Ming army could not defeat Houjin in field battles, so some people were thinking about how to build better fortresses.

The current environment... Houjin has been swept away by Liting, and the strongest artillery in East Asia is in the capital; the opponents next to it are all weak chickens, and Dashun is on the offensive; the biggest enemy is Junggar, shrunk in the northwest, and the artillery There are not many, and it has not forced Dashun to build a bastion on the border; the tribes of Eastern Mongolia that need to be suppressed have to buy even iron pots, and there is nowhere to spend money to build a bastion for artillery defense; Xu Guangqi predicted In the future, the Westerners will be greatly troubled. If they come from the sea, the navy will not be able to fight, but as long as there is a field force that is not cut off by the Westerners landing, then there is no need to worry.

In such an environment, how could the knowledge of bastion defense be spread?

Whether a knowledge is widely spread or not depends sometimes on whether it is needed.

In general, Dashun's understanding of the bastion is that he has heard about it, has never seen it, and has no practical experience gained from decades of war and 10,000+ corpses.

It's just that Liu Yu's memorial was written in too much detail, and he completely stood on the guard's side to decipher the various methods that the attacking side might use.

It seems very reasonable again.

This made Li Gan have to be cautious.

He quite recognized Liu Yu's level of Western learning. Not only did Dai Jinxian say that Liu Yu learned well, but also Liu Yu's "A Brief Examination of Western Countries" later made Li Gan feel that Liu Yu was not the kind of person who made nonsense.

Out of this consideration, Li Gan decided to try to attack Raksha's castle in the upper reaches of Heilongjiang first.

If it goes well, the Mongolian nobles will come to visit the Dashun army before the battle; if it doesn't go well...then discuss it later.

Around this overall purpose, the strategic planning made by the DPRK and China is also very clear.

With the help of the river boats of Jilin Shipyard to transfer logistics supplies, the army went upstream and captured the only castle of the Raksha people on the Nen River.

Capture the castle of the Raksha people in the upper reaches of Heilongjiang via the Hulun Buir Grassland, cut off the control of the Raksha people on the lower reaches of Heilongjiang, and divide the Raksha people's military power.

After occupying the castles in the upper reaches of the Heilongjiang River, they felled wood and built ships to prepare, and divided their troops down the river to sweep down several Rakshasa fortresses along the way.

The main force continued to advance westward, and before the Raksha Kingdom sent troops to support them, they took down all the fortresses on the Onan River and the Shileka River, and immediately negotiated peace with Raksha.

The mission that Qi Guogong contacted also brought more than 3000 elites.When you can't go on talking about it, you turn your face.

Don't attack the city there, but use the support of the Mongolian tribes to threaten the castle of the Raksha people on the front line of Lake Baikal, so that they dare not divide their troops to support the eastern front.

The bottom line of the peace talks is to give up the northern bank of Heilongjiang, but to get the Shilka River and the Onan River in the west, especially the river of special significance, the Onan River must be obtained.

Judging from the territory of later generations, it is to get the east of the Ussuri River, Sakhalin Island, and the mouth of Heilongjiang, plus a part of the westward expansion of Heilongjiang, and take the Shileka River and Onan River, and half encircle Mongolia from the north. live.

Taking the upper reaches of the Heilongjiang River as the basis for ruling the lower reaches, the Onan River as the jurisprudence of Mongolia's surrender, and the Shilka River as the forward base that threatens the southern part of Lake Baikal, attacking can advance out of Baikal Lake to cut off the connection between the east and the west of Rakshasa, and defending can monitor Khalkha Mongolia.

The price is to give up all claims to the north of Heilongjiang, integrate into the Westphalian system on the northern line, recognize Russia as an empire, recognize Russia's throne, maintain trade and rhubarb tea trade, and not use the tributary system for exchanges with Russia.

From the beginning to the end, the Dashun court's position on this battle was very clear - it was fought for Mongolia.

Half of Liu Yu's surveys and drawings going east were used as his own legal principles, and the other half were just used as bargaining chips.

Even if part of it is just a bargaining chip, it is still important.

When Liu Yu's second memorial was delivered, the emperor had already arrived at the Jilin Shipyard.

The troops on the front line of the Nen River were also ready to attack. The emperor was not planning to visit the front line in the first battle, but wanted to see what the front line was like, and whether the bastion system was as terrible as Liu Yu said.

After opening the second memorial, after a few glances, a smile appeared on Li Gan's face.

Not only did Liu Yu find the monument of Yongning Temple, but also made a text, and even subdued many tribes. Some tribal leaders followed him back to pay tribute.

Since the year of Xuande in the Ming Dynasty, the tribute has been cut off for 300 years.Now it is a grand event to pay tribute again.

In this matter, Li Gan felt that Liu Yu did a pretty good job, to a certain level.

It seems that Liu Yu is also a good fighter. In the battle of Yongning Temple, not a single person was killed on his own side, and more than a hundred Luocha people were killed.Although there were tricks involved, it could be seen that Liu Yu was still capable.

Later, he talked about the expedition team that robbed Rakshasa, hijacked several Westerners, and snatched some maps, which was even praised by Li Gan.

This incident was mentioned in the first memorial, saying that a Japanese was discovered and that the Rakshasa was also found to be building a ship on the river, so it was suspected that the Rakshasa would go down the river.Since it is an expedition, there must be a map, which will be of great benefit to the country and court to strengthen the control and understanding of the frontier.

At that time Li Gan felt that Liu Yu's mind was very useful, but he did not expect Liu Yu to actually accomplish this matter.Among the memorials sent were more than a dozen maps that had been simply translated. The fortresses of the Raksha people near Lake Baikal were all clearly marked, which is what is urgently needed right now.

But when I boasted in my heart, the taste changed.

When he saw the end, Li Gan couldn't help cursing.

"Bullshit!"

　Han Lin surrendered relatively early, and he still has a high voice in the staff.But after reasoning, the bastion theory really has no chance to flourish in this time and space.Liaodong Liting sweeps the holes, which means that none of the surrounding opponents can force Dashun to build a bastion.The end of the Ming Dynasty was an opportunity to flourish, but the Xifa Party was not a saint. In the general environment of the end of the Ming Dynasty, Xu Guangqi and others would also receive kickbacks. The price of the Western gun platform was too high. This was theoretically needed but could not be repaired in reality.

　　
　
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