After several years of internal strife in Dashi and a series of military attacks by Western Qin, the potential of Dashi has been almost exhausted, and its strength has dropped to its lowest point in history.
This is one of the reasons why Zhao Ziliang did not go on a personal expedition this time.
In addition, he also believed that the generals should be allowed to lead the war alone.
He was only responsible for grasping the general direction of the strategy, and these generals were responsible for the specific implementation.
This would give full play to the independent initiative of the generals, and they would find ways to overcome it on their own.
Various difficulties will inevitably cause some unnecessary losses, but it can also cultivate the next generation of generals for Western Qin.
On this day, Li Siye inspected the garrison, patrol, vigilance and drill status of the troops remaining in Baghdad, and also inquired about military discipline matters.
As soon as he returned to the Marshal's Mansion, Wang Ping, the judge of the Marshal's Mansion, came up to him and said, "Commander, I'm sending you to Beijing."
Come with a secret message" When Li Siye heard this, his expression changed, and he waved to the generals and soldiers behind him, asking them to disperse on their own, and then said to Wang Ping: "Follow me."
"Yes" Wang Ping immediately followed.
Wang Ping is a typical first-generation descendant of Western Qin immigrants.
He immigrated to Western Qin with his parents when he was young.
He is a son of a commoner family.
At that time, Western Qin was still the Protectorate of Taixi.
He passed the imperial examination.
Those who leap over the Dragon Gate are typical representatives of poor families.
Although there are princes and nobles in Western Qin now, they are not aristocratic families.
Although the civil and military ministers who followed Zhao Ziliang are all meritorious officials, they obviously lack the background and are not enough to form a powerful family.
This is something Zhao Ziliang will never allow.
Yes, the Tang Dynasty was brought down by those so-called aristocrats and aristocratic families.
He would never make the same mistakes as the Tang Dynasty.
Therefore, not only did he spend a lot of money to build schools, train professors and teachers in Western Qin, and let all children, teenagers and young people study in schools, although the recommendation system has not been completely abolished, it no longer has much impact on the government's employment system. , if you want to be an official or a civil servant, you must be from a formal school, and even ordinary petty officials must be from a school.
In this way, the children of great Confucian scholars, high-ranking officials, and nobles must also enter the academy to study before they are eligible to enter the public sector.
Of course, they do not need to enter the academy to study.
They can study in their own private schools, or they can take scientific examinations.
But they did not have the right to be officials and could only be minor officials.
The great Confucians wanted to spread their knowledge and spread the knowledge of saints.
If you want to ask, you must enter a school established by the government to be a professor or teacher, or hold a position in some government yamen.
Otherwise, no matter how high your knowledge is, it will be useless.
In this way, knowledge and learning will no longer be mastered by a few people.
In their hands, ordinary civilians have the opportunity to master knowledge and change their destiny, and the opportunities are not much worse than those of wealthy families.
When the two came to the secret room, Li Siye asked: "Where is the secret?"
Wang Ping took out a memorial from his arms and handed it over.
Li Siye took it and unsealed it, opened it and read it carefully.
After reading it, there was a look of confusion on his face.
Wang Ping saw this and asked: "Commander, what's the matter?
Is there something going on in Xinjing?"
Li Siye looked at Wang Ping in surprise, with a surprised look on his face, and shook his head and said: "Are you there yet?
Your Majesty, the Spring and Autumn Period is at its peak, how could anything happen to Xinjing?
Your Majesty, in his secret decree, told us not to touch Aiti in northern Syria for the time being.
As for the territory occupied by Si, the king did not say why we were not allowed to touch this territory.
Now that Mansour is dead, Ai.
Tisi is afraid that he will no longer remain neutral.
He will definitely obey Mahdi's instructions and instructions.
I am a warrior and my brain is not very good.
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The king did not explain this secret order, which really made me confused.
Ping, you are a scholar and a Jinshi, and you have a smart mind.
Why do you think the king won't let us attack the territory where Attis is?"
Wang Ping also frowned.
He couldn't help but look at the map hanging on the wall.
His eyes fell on the northern part of Syria.
Suddenly an idea flashed in his mind.
He immediately thought of Zhao Ziliang's plan to temporarily prevent the Western Expeditionary Army from attacking the northern part of Syria. reason.
Li Siye saw the change in Wang Ping's expression and asked, "How is it?"
Wang Ping said: "Commander, if your analysis is not wrong, your Majesty means to keep the northern part of Syria as a buffer zone between us and the Eastern Roman Empire.
Once we capture the entire Syria, there will be a long border with the Eastern Roman Empire."
Bordering the Roman Empire, this will inevitably stimulate the Eastern Roman Empire, which will make The relationship between the two countries has suddenly become tense.
Our main goal now is to eat food, not the Eastern Roman Empire.
It is not wise to start a war on two fronts.
The only area bordering our border with the Eastern Roman Empire is the Armenian region, which has not yet caused the Eastern Roman Empire.
The Empire is nervous, but taking Syria would greatly stimulate them.”
Li Siye was startled and suddenly realized: "It turns out that the king has this idea, but Attis is a man of the Mahdi.
If we attack the Mahdi, Attis will definitely send troops to reinforce.
How can we still look at Attis's troops and make a detour?"
Wang Ping shook his head and said: "Commander, that's not what the king meant.
We just can't capture the northern part of Syria, and we can't border the control area of the Eastern Roman Empire for the time being.
But the king didn't say that we can't attack Attis.
Even if we take Attis Tis and his men were all wiped out.
As long as we don’t occupy that area, there will be no conflict with the Eastern Roman Empire.
Once we destroy Dashi, that area will not be so important.”
Li Siye sighed: "The king is indeed the king, I never thought of going up here."
Wang Ping shook his head and said with a smile: "Commander, don't belittle yourself.
Your Majesty also often said that there are specialties in martial arts.
In recent years, Your Majesty's main energy has been on government affairs.
It is impossible for you to personally govern every time you go on a foreign campaign.
This time, Your Majesty let Your Majesty."
When the commander-in-chief led the army to the west, he also had the intention of training the commander's successor.
The whole generation will eventually grow old, and the younger generation is needed to take over.
Otherwise, the young people will not have the experience to lead troops in combat, which will lead to a lack of talents in the generals of Western Qin and a lack of talent.
This is not good for Western Qin.
It's a good thing, your Majesty is a wise master, how could he not understand the truth behind this?"
"Yes, your Majesty is wise."
As he spoke, Li Siye clasped his fists and saluted in the direction of Xinjing, and was about to order Bai Xiaode and Zhao Lei to come to the Marshal's Mansion.
At this time, General Deng Tuo of the Military Intelligence Department walked in quickly and clasped his fists at Li Siye and said: "Commander, from the east The latest military information came from the Roman Empire, one hundred thousand dong The Roman army, under the command of Emperor Leo IV, marched through the Antioch region towards northern Syria.
It seemed that they were going to attack the Syrian region.
The intelligence came out ten days ago.
Now Leo IV is afraid that he has already led the army to start.
Attacking Attis’ territory.”
The four words "fishing in troubled waters" appeared in the minds of Li Siye and Wang Ping at the same time.
"Hey, I didn't expect that the Eastern Romans also came to fish in troubled waters.
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This place is getting more and more lively.
I really can't think of anything good about this place.
Besides sand, it's sand.
It's a completely barbaric place.
The big cannibals and the Eastern Romans We have fought for more than a hundred years for this sand all over the ground.
The Romans and Persians fought for this place for thousands of years.
These people are crazy."
After Li Siye finished speaking, he couldn't help shaking his head and sighing.
Wang Ping smiled and said: "This place is indeed a wilderness, but the wilderness also has its specialties.
There are many things here that are not available in the East and the West.
Let's not talk about other things, let's just talk about food, although both the East and the West have them. , but who would complain that there is a lot of food?
Both Syria and Palestine are fertile lands and important food-producing areas."
Li Siye stared at the map for a while and asked: "Wang Ping, the Mahdi regards us as the enemy and is preparing to fight our army in the border area with all his strength.
But now Leo IV wants to take advantage of the situation and fish in troubled waters.
Do you think we should What should we do, follow the original battle plan, or stay put for the time being?"
Wang Ping thought for a while and said: "Your Majesty, I think you can consider letting the prince lead his army to retreat a certain distance.
Once Mahdi thinks that our army is no longer a threat, he will definitely lead his army to the north to support Attis.
Wait until Mahdi and Leo It’s my job to kill you in the fourth generation.
When both sides suffer losses, wouldn’t it be better for our army to attack again?”
Li Siye is not a reckless man who doesn't understand anything.
He said: "You think so, wouldn't Leo IV think so?
Maybe he has stopped in the Antioch area now, just waiting for us to meet Mach Di fights until both sides suffer, and he will come back to clean up the mess."
Wang Ping smiled and said: "In that case, our West Route Army will simply stay put for the time being.
If Leo IV does not move, we will not move.
Our South Route Army will attack the Dashi Peninsula first, and then concentrate our forces after the Dashi Peninsula is captured.
Marching westward, even if Leo IV was watching eagerly from one side, we would still Relying on strong military strength and not being afraid of his dismissal, we don't believe that he can stay on the border.
Now that the situation has changed, we can no longer continue to follow the previous strategy.
We must make adjustments, but before changing our strategy.
We must send someone to send contingency plans to Xinjing.”
Li Siye nodded: "Yes, the general has not been able to keep up with the changes in the foreign king's orders.
Now that the situation has changed, we have to adopt a new strategy.
Then we will give the order to the prince and order him to stay still for the time being and convey the king's secret order."
Give it to him so that he will not conflict with the Eastern Romans, let Bai Xiaode lead the slave legion to continue to implement the original battle plan, and order the naval fleet to cooperate."
"Yes, Marshal" According to the original battle plan, Bai Xiaode's South Route Army was divided into two routes to attack south, namely the East Route and the West Route.
The East Route attacked south along the coastline of the Persian Gulf.
The naval fleet was responsible for providing support and could also help transport troops and horses at critical moments.
Land on the sea and launch an attack deep into the enemy's rear; the west route is to attack southwest, all the way to the north coast of the Red Sea, and then attack south along the east coast of the Red Sea.
At this time, most of the cannibals lived on the coastline near the sea.
The desert area in the central part of the peninsula was too large, there were few oases, and there was little area for farming.
They mainly relied on nomadic herding
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