Chaos of the Three Kingdoms Summons

Chapter 2725 Three-Front Warfare, Recapture of Liangxi

"The Tuoba Khanate's rule under the Yuan Dynasty was still in its infancy!"

"We can divide them!" Zhuge Liang also spoke up.

This is not something that can be accomplished overnight.

At the very least, the process of sending troops to recover Liangzhou and Xizhou, whether it was Wang Meng's idea or Zhuge Liang's idea, was unlikely to bring any direct help.

Both of their plans require a lot of time.

However, these things must be prepared in advance.

Imperial wars are protracted and must be planned and coordinated from a holistic strategic perspective, rather than focusing solely on a single battle.

If you can't control the initial situation, you might win one battle, but that doesn't guarantee you'll win the entire war.

"The strategies of the three ministers are mature and insightful in governing the country!"

"Attack where they must fight to disrupt their morale, build up strength on the northern front to divide their forces, and sow discord among their members to hasten their collapse! This is the best strategy!"

"However, this old minister has a plan that may supplement it."

"I believe we should follow the example of the Yuan and Mongols, accept the Manchus as vassals, bestow titles upon them, and allow them to control the grasslands, thus preventing the Manchus from being used by the Yuan and Mongols!"

"At the very least, we must keep delaying this time! The longer it is delayed, the more advantageous it will be for our Great Jin!" Another minister from one of the Six Ministries spoke up, and Fang Xuanling, the Minister of Rites, also offered his advice.

The Yuan-Mongol Kingdom was small and could only survive in the cracks. This advantage was not only for the Yuan-Mongol Kingdom, but also for the Great Jin Dynasty.

In some ways, the Mongol Yuan dynasty was actually more terrifying than the Jin dynasty.

Because the Yuan Mongols truly had the ability to annex them. In fact, after they annexed the Tuoba Wei last time, if it weren't for the influence of the Li Tang dynasty, they might have taken action against them next.

However, Xuan Ye was very shrewd. If it weren't for the Li Tang, he wouldn't have attacked Tuoba Wei at the same time; he probably would have done the opposite.

However, the Central Plains and the grasslands are different. The Central Plains can defeat the grasslands, and even tear a powerful grassland tribe to pieces.

However, it is particularly difficult to conquer them.

Or rather, it is difficult to establish effective rule on the grasslands.

In fact, throughout history, the dynasty that was able to maintain a stable rule over the grasslands was the last dynasty, the Qing.

During the prosperous Tang Dynasty, it once established a rule over the grasslands and controlled the northern desert through institutions such as the Anbei Protectorate. However, its rule lasted only a few decades.

Moreover, the Tang Dynasty did not actually station troops in the northern desert.

During the Liao Dynasty, as a nomadic regime, the Liao Dynasty maintained its control over the grasslands through marriage alliances and bestowal of titles, but it did not establish a long-term stable rule.

Next came Mongolia, but by then Mongolia's territory was no longer just grasslands.

Of course, although the territory was large, its governance could not keep up, and it quickly fell apart.

It wasn't until the Qing Dynasty that a long-term and stable rule was established over the grasslands, which at one point lasted for about 200 years.

Therefore, in reality, for forces like the Manchus, the fear of the Yuan Mongols was greater than that of the Great Jin.

After all, in their subconscious, they did not believe that the Central Plains dynasty could rule them.

Even if they can't win, they can just migrate north.

"Let's see how tall your edifice rises; when it collapses, we'll sweep south again." Fang Xuanling wanted to exploit this, even if he couldn't completely render the Manchus unusable by the Yuan Mongols.

However, we should try to delay this time as much as possible.

The longer this drags on, the more advantageous it will be for their Great Jin.

"good!"

"Then let us follow your plan!"

"From this day forward, we must mobilize all manpower and resources from the Central Plains and the North to ensure the necessary supplies for this battle!"

"Wei Qing will lead 100,000 infantry and 50,000 cavalry of the Central Imperial Guard to join forces with Meng Tian, ​​temporarily oversee the campaign, and retake the lost territory!"

For this battle, Li Xiang decided to mobilize 150,000 Central Imperial Guards in the western battlefield alone, plus Meng Tian's 100,000 troops in the Northwest Camp, totaling a force of 250,000.

Two hundred thousand Central Imperial Guards were deployed, with three-quarters of them sent to the western battlefield.

If this part of the troops is transferred away, then only 5 infantrymen will remain in Luoyang and its surrounding areas.

Of course, now that Luoyang is surrounded by various states and protected by the surrounding states, and has the strategic depth of each state, as long as the western battlefield is not lost, no force can threaten them.

In addition, the 200,000 troops of the Hetao Camp in Bingzhou and Hezhou were also to march north to contain the two Khanates north of Bingzhou and Hezhou, and prevent the troops of the two Khanates from joining the western battlefield.

With these 200,000 added, that makes a total of 450,000 troops.

Moreover, this included a large-scale cavalry force.

In the world today, only the Yuan and Mongol dynasties could make them wage such a large-scale war on a local battlefield.

In fact, starting a war at this time would put considerable pressure on the Great Jin Dynasty.

After all, the Jin Dynasty had not only committed a large number of troops to the Kushan Empire, but the war with the Li Tang in the east was also far from over.

This is already a three-front war, with over a million troops deployed across the three battlefields.

Although they also deployed a million troops in the Central Plains War and the Southern War, the logistical pressure was on a completely different level.

Before Temujin died, Li Xiang was looking forward to his death every day so that he could take the opportunity to fight this battle and avenge the blood feud from the battle years ago.

But at this moment, people actually hope that he can die a few months later.

In a few more months, the battlefield on the Li Tang side should officially end. If the hundreds of thousands of troops on the eastern front can be saved, their logistical pressure will be reduced by several levels.

If Temujin had died a few months later, the situation in the Great Jin Dynasty would have been completely different.

However, time waits for no one, for once lost it may never come again.

If we don't take advantage of this period of power transition between the Yuan and Mongol dynasties to fight this war, who knows when we'll get another chance like this!

Therefore, even though starting a war at this time would put a lot of pressure on the country, the opportunity has come, and we must fight.

The only saving grace now is that the Kushan battlefield, which originally faced the greatest logistical pressure, has, over the past two years, established a simple form of control over the occupied territories.

At least for now, we can begin to conscript troops directly in the occupied territories. Even if we can't completely solve their logistical problems, we can at least solve a significant portion of them.

Moreover, as long as we can hold out for a few more months, until the war on Li Tang's side ends and until the east is pacified.

Next, the Great Jin Dynasty can finally catch its breath.