Temporary Marshal's Mansion.
The military doctor responsible for diagnosing and treating Li Siye came to Zhao Ziliang under the leadership of the guards, prostrated and said: "The little man pays homage to the king."
Zhao Ziliang asked: "Get up.
I ask you, is Li Siye really hopeless?"
The military doctor stood up and cupped his hands and replied: "Your Majesty, conquests are the most harmful to the body.
Without special methods, it is impossible to live a long life.
In recent years, Marshal Li has been in the military a lot.
He has been plagued by wind, frost, snow, rain, battle injuries, hidden diseases, and frequent attacks. , there was no timely treatment, and Marshal Li was already old, so naturally he couldn't hold on anymore.
The villain had no better way, but to let him rest in peace, and this was not a place for rest.
He had to find a place with beautiful mountains and clear waters.
Just do whatever you want” Zhao Ziliang asked: "Where do you think the place for cultivation is?"
The military doctor thought for a while and said: "The villain thinks it is best to go to Jiangnan.
If you don't go to Jiangnan, you can also return to Xinjing and find a mountain forest near Xinjing."
Zhao Ziliang waved his hand and asked the military doctor to leave.
In the past few years, the founding fathers of the Republic of China have died one after another, either from illness or from old age.
Zhao Ziliang also felt increasingly lonely.
Looking at this situation, Li Siye did not have long to live.
Zhao Ziliang was quite sad about this.
When he came to Li Siye's ward, the soldiers standing guard at the door were about to salute, but Zhao Ziliang raised his hand to signal them to be quiet.
Unexpectedly, when he approached the ward, he saw that Li Siye was not asleep, but was lying on the hospital bed with his eyes open.
He saw Zhao Ziliang walking in and wanted to get up to greet him.
Zhao Ziliang immediately stepped forward to hold him down and said, "Don't get up, the military doctor said, I want you to have a good rest and rest."
Li Siye's face turned a little gray.
He was a strong and tall man, but everyone could see that he was already seriously ill.
"Your Majesty, I'm afraid I won't be able to survive."
Zhao Ziliang smiled and persuaded: "Don't say that.
How could Li Siye, a powerful and powerful enemy, say such depressing words?
You are just sick.
If you are sick, just see a doctor.
It's not a big deal.
Who hasn't been sick?"
Li Siye shook his head and said: "Your Majesty, please don't hide this from me.
My body is very fragile.
I know in my heart that these battles and commanding troops have countless battle wounds.
They were hidden in the body and were not cured in time, leaving many root causes of diseases.
This man will not be able to survive when he is old."
After living here for all these years, I have been able to follow the king on the battlefield, and my abilities have been put to good use, and I have achieved what I want.
How many military generals have been able to be like Lao Chen since ancient times?
In this way, the elder of the exhibition has no regrets, but the veteran is a little unwilling.
The veteran once remembered that the king once said that the greatest sorrow for a general is to die on the couch, not on the battlefield.
Death on the battlefield belongs to the general.
I have always believed that it is the best place to end up.
I don’t want to die on my sick bed.
I know that I will die soon.
I still have one last wish that I hope the king can fulfill.
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I will never be able to repay the kindness of the king even if I die."
Zhao Ziliang sighed after hearing this: "Li Qing, I understand your thoughts, but I can't bear it.
You are the founding father of the country.
I know that you are sick.
If I let you go into battle to kill the enemy again, I can't explain it to the people of the world." , I can’t explain it to your family members and heirs.”
Li Siye smiled and said: "Your Majesty, in the eyes of this veteran, your Majesty has always been a unique person.
Does your Majesty still care about other people's opinions and thoughts?
My lord, I only have one son, Zuo Guo.
He is a reasonable child.
If he Knowing that my father died a worthy death, I will definitely be very happy for the old minister, and I would also like to ask your Majesty to grant it."
After saying this, he knelt down on the bed and kept kowtowing.
Zhao Ziliang closed his eyes and had no choice but to agree to Li Siye's request, "Okay, you get up first and don't overwork yourself.
It will take three more days for all the people to gather.
We only have two days to rest.
In these five days, you can Have a good rest and nourish yourself Spirit, I asked the military doctor to prescribe some medicine for you to regulate your body.
You should drink it on time.
Don't worry about military matters.
I will arrange someone else to do it.
Your task is to have a good rest.
Five We will send out troops on time after 10 days.”
Li Siye was extremely excited and immediately kowtowed again, "Thank you, Your Majesty, Thank you, Your Majesty."
Three days later, the transferred troops arrived in Baghdad within three days.
Basically, they were transferred from the Persian region and the Dashi Peninsula.
There were a total of 20,000 infantry and 10,000 cavalry.
In addition, there were 50,000 slaves.
As for the servant army, it can be said that this 80,000-strong army is all Fan soldiers.
Only most of the generals and middle- and low-level officers in the army are Han people.
The Western Qin State uses these high-level generals and middle- and low-level officers to control these Fan soldiers.
The Plateau Legion and the Slave Legion are the only two legions in Western Qin that are entirely composed of Ban people.
However, after so many years of training and combat, these two legions have formed a unique set of rewards and rewards.
The punishment mechanism allows the soldiers in these two legions to have high loyalty and not betray at will.
And their training methods are completely different from other standing legions, and the tactics they use are also completely different.
The cruel elimination training method and extremely generous rewards not only trained each of them into indifferent killing machines that are not afraid of death and kill without blinking an eye, but also filled them with hope and increased their loyalty.
Although the soldiers of some other standing legions have good individual combat capabilities, they focus on the overall collaborative combat ability.
The Plateau Legion and the Slave Legion focus entirely on individual combat capabilities.
Extremely cruel training has forged their willpower to an incomparable level.
Strength, rather than focusing on individual combat capabilities, is that each of them has been trained to be a murderous weapon that is not afraid of death.
No one among them is the most indifferent or brave, only more indifferent and braver.
Wang Pinglai, the judge of the Marshal's Mansion, reported to Zhao Ziliang: "Your Majesty, all the people who have been transferred have been assembled.
I have arranged camps for them, and the baggage supplies will be transported in batches.
In addition, in terms of baggage transportation, I have made preparations.
Five thousand camels and ten thousand mules and horses, these camels The camels, mules and horses were all loaded with grain, grass, water and other supplies at once.
The grain and grass could be used for two months.
They were all prepared and could be shipped before departure.
However, there was no follow-up supply, so the king's expedition had to consume these supplies.
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Replenish yourself before you lose it, and implement the strategy of supporting war with war."
Zhao Ziliang has no other ideas about this approach.
Most of the way to Syria and Canaan is desert.
It is almost impossible to transport subsequent supplies.
The supplies may be consumed on the road before they arrive. , or were robbed on the way.
If you want to obtain supplies, you can only rely on fighting to support war.
After Wang Ping left, Zhao Ziliang called Wang Can and asked: "Have the border matters been implemented?"
Wang Can replied: "It is being executed."
Zhao Ziliang nodded and said to everyone: "Although we sent out troops suddenly this time to catch Eastern Rome by surprise, we also need to have a well-known force.
What Wang Can ordered people to do now is to make our force have a well-known force.
Lu Zhi is here." "?"
A young official stood up.
He looked to be only about 21 or 20 years old.
He bowed his hands and saluted Zhao Ziliang: "I am here."
"Three days ago, the border garrison of the Eastern Roman Empire crossed the border and deliberately provoked and attacked our patrol, resulting in the death of twelve of our troops and the injury of twenty-two others.
The Eastern Roman Empire provoked many times, ignored our warnings, and still ignored The feeling of our royal court and the people is that you have your own way of doing things, which is a trample on the dignity of our Western Qin.
I order you to find a way to spread this matter as quickly as possible, so that all the people of Western Qin will know."
Lu Zhi was a Jinshi three years ago and his ancestral home is Wu County.
Although he is young, he is very talented and has strong political sensitivity and insight.
After Zhao Ziliang said these words, he immediately understood that this was the Wang Can sect.
It was deliberately arranged.
There may have been conflicts, but there could not have been such heavy casualties.
The purpose was to frame the Eastern Romans.
Of course, this was not done to frame the Eastern Romans.
What the Romans saw was made for the people of Western Qin to see.
The purpose was to win the hearts and minds of the people and gain the support of the people.
This is called being famous.
If you beat others for no reason, even if your relatives know about it, you will be afraid.
He won't be very happy to hit, but if he is bullied first, then he can feel confident to hit others, and no one will be unhappy or blocked.
Lu Zhi immediately agreed: "I obey the decree."
Zhao Ziliang then told Zhao Hanlin Du Zongwen: "Edict: Now the Eastern Romans have repeatedly invaded our borders and killed our soldiers.
It is tolerable, but what is intolerable?
I have made up my mind and will send troops to seek justice from the Eastern Roman Empire in the near future.
The general idea is like this, polish it up and submit it to me for review."
"promise" Du Zongwen quickly drafted the edict and presented it to Zhao Ziliang.
Zhao Ziliang saw it and found it to be very good.
He immediately adopted it and said: "After five days, the edict will be sent out and announced to the world."
"Follow the decree" The next day, Zhao Ziliang convened the generals on the expedition to discuss marching operations.
Many generals who were not on expedition missions were also called to participate.
Zhao Ziliang said to the generals: "The army will go out the day after tomorrow.
How do you generals think we should attack?"
General Chen Gan stood up and clasped his fists and said: "Your Majesty, go straight west from Baghdad.
The nearest one is Amman.
It is said that this city has a long history.
It has a large population, developed trade bazaars, and rich products.
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Our army can Arrive at Amman as quickly as possible and launch an attack.
If we capture Amman, we can obtain a large amount of food, grass and other supplies.
Then we can attack Jerusalem, occupy the entire land of Canaan, then send our troops north to capture Damascus, and finally push north to capture all of Syria."
After Chen Gan came out, several generals came forward to express their opinions.
Most of them were similar to Chen Gan's strategy, that is, there were some differences in details.
Zhao Ziliang looked at the other generals, and his eyes fell on Li Siye's face.
He found that he was looking at the map and thinking about something, and asked: "Li Qing, what do you think?"
Li Siye came back to his senses and clasped his fists and said: "Back to your Majesty, what the generals just said was very good, but I think it is inappropriate to attack Amman.
If our army is not large in number and they are all cavalry, it is natural to attack Amman, but This time our army has 80,000 troops, most of which are infantry.
Their needs for water sources are completely different.
There are many small oases and qanat wells in Amman, but I'm afraid they won't be able to meet our needs.
The 80,000-strong army needs water, and we attack Amman first.
The Eastern Romans can fight and retreat and defend the city.
If we want to capture the entire land of Canaan and Syria, we will inevitably suffer heavy losses and take a long time, but our military expenditures The resources are limited and cannot support our long-term operations, so the old minister thought of another way, which is to go northwest along the Euphrates River, as the Euphrates River is called in the Bible.
This will give the Eastern Roman Army in Syria and Canaan the illusion that they want to cut off their land return route and cut off their connection with Constantinople.
This move can force them to rush Gather our forces to confront our army.
If we defeat them, we can avoid most of the siege battles.
If we capture Beroea, we can go north to the Antioch area and enter the city.
Attack Anatolia, and then go south to attack southern Syria and Canaan.
This will definitely shake up Constantinople.
Constantinople has already been attacked by the Bulgars.
If they don't want to be attacked on both sides, they can use it to attack Anatolia.
Austrian IV is very likely to order the defenders of Canaan and Syria to go north to delay our army or start a war with our army, while our army can wait for work.
This is the humble opinion of the veteran."
Zhao Ziliang stroked his short beard, thought and weighed it for a moment, nodded and said with a smile: "Li Qing really has the vision of a commander":