nanming man

Chapter 975 The Rapidly Expanding Rakshasa

After several months of discussions, the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies summed up two lines of attacking Ming and formulated a careful plan.

Attacking from the Huaihe River is the fastest and consumes the least amount of money. The difficulty is that the Yangtze River is difficult to cross. After hitting the Yangtze River, it is not known whether it will be possible to cross the river. There are too many uncertainties.

It is safest to attack from Huguang. The disadvantage is that it is too slow. You need to attack Wuchang first, then attack Jiujiang, Hukou, Anqing all the way, and finally capture Nanjing.

This route must consume a lot of energy and take a long time, just like the Qing army's attack on the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, it will definitely cause a catastrophe to the local area.

Therefore, Gao Yihuan tends to cross the river directly from the Huaihe River to attack Nanjing, solve Nanming as quickly as possible, complete the unification of the world, and at the same time preserve the handicraft industry in the Jiangnan area.

For this reason, the plan formulated by the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies was to take advantage of Nanming's feeling that the Yangtze River was insurmountable, to fight in Huguang, lead the main force of the Ming army to the west, and then attack the Ming army from the two Huaihe Rivers to capture Nanjing in one fell swoop.

Of course, there is a condition for this, that is, the army must be able to cross the river, and Gao Yihuan already has a plan in mind.

After the plan was formulated, everything was not going well, because there were two variables other than Wei and Ming, one was Hauge outside the pass, and the other was Sun Kewang in the southwest.

Gao Yihuan was not worried about Hauge. Now that Wei's capital was in Guanzhong, he would not come to the city at every turn, so Hauge's restraint on him was limited.

He arranged for Li Dingguo to garrison Jinzhou, and ordered Wu Sangui to attack Horqin. As long as Horqin was forced to surrender, the Wei army would form a pincer offensive against Liaodong, and Hauge was nothing to worry about.

Sun Kewang is different. According to Xuan Yiwei's report, there are 20 people here, and tens of thousands of vassal subordinates.

If he joins the war, if he recruits more chieftain soldiers, he may be able to pull out an army of 30, and according to the report of the scouts, Sun Kewang still has several elite soldiers in his hands that are not inferior to the Wei army.

This is an army that can change the tide of battle.

Gao Yihuan was also surprised when he got the information. In recent years, his energy has been mainly used to deal with the Qing Dynasty. He didn't want to be inattentive. Xiaosun's territory and sphere of influence, including Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangxi, and half of the Indo-China Peninsula, became Southeast Asia. One tyrant, to the point where Wei also needs to be careful.

Gao Yihuan didn't want to go to war with Nanming and the Western Army at the same time. He sent Sun Kewang an appeal to test him out. He originally thought that Sun Kewang would refuse or refuse, but unexpectedly he agreed.

This made Gao Yihuan even more uneasy. If he was Sun Kewang, he would definitely want to help Ming fight against Wei. Gao Yihuan really couldn't find any reason for Sun Kewang to agree.

The only reason that can be explained is that Xiao Sun was swollen and felt that he had the strength to challenge Da Wei, so he dared to really fight Da Wei clearly.

This makes Gao Yihuan a little uncertain, because Xiao Sun is indeed a person who likes to expand more than him, always can't recognize himself, and thinks very highly of himself.

"Your Majesty, how will Sun Kewang reply?" Wang Shicong asked.

Gao Yihuan pondered and said: "There are two possibilities for this matter, one is true, and the other is false. If it is true, then it is easy to say, first solve Nanming, and then deal with Sun Kewang. If it is false, then Sun Kewang wants to confuse me. During the battle with the Ming army, he will suddenly strike me with a sword."

As the leader of the knife-throwing sect, Gao Yihuan is very good at things like stabbing, so he will always be on guard against others stabbing him.

Gao Yihuan paused, "No matter what, I will plan for the worst case. Sun Kewang dares to promise that I will not let him underestimate him. The Ministry of Rites replied to him, and I will hunt Jiangnan with him as agreed."

"I understand, let the Lifan Court reply to Sun Kewang later." Wang Shicong saluted.

At this time Li Yan came out holding the ivory wat, "Your Majesty, I have something to report!"

Gao Yihuan smiled and said, "Sir, please tell me."

"The caravan sent by His Majesty to various countries in the Western Regions has finally received news!" Li Yan said in a deep voice.

Gao Yi was overjoyed, he almost forgot that there was such a caravan ordered to re-travel the Silk Road, "This is a happy event! Why are you unhappy, sir?"

Li Yan said solemnly: "Your Majesty, Sun Fangyuan has arrived at the Anxi Protectorate, but he was the only one in the entire caravan who fled back, and all the entourage, goods and documents fell into the hands of the Raksha people."

"The Raksha people detained the caravan?" Gao Yihuan frowned.

"Yes, they were detained for two full years." Li Yan said in a deep voice.

No wonder there was no news for such a long time. It turned out that the Raksha people were behind the scenes, but Gao Yihuan didn't have the energy to deal with Raksha now. He felt unhappy, but after pondering for a while, he just said, "Let him go back to the capital first."

In that case, we will not deal with this matter for now, and we will talk about it later.

Li Yan didn't say much. After all, the south has already started fighting. Although the Raksha people have lost face to Wei, the most important thing right now is to rule the world.

At this time, Wang Shicong suddenly remembered something, and stood up again, "Your Majesty, I have something to report."

Gao Yihuan said in a deep voice, "Sir, please speak."

"The Yuzi envoys who came to pay tribute also mentioned the Raksha people, saying that they invaded the pastures of the Yuzi people, captured the Yuzi people as slaves, and imposed taxes on them. The three tribes of Yuzi all hope that Wei will be the master of it. .” Wang Shicong saluted.

The territory of the great empire is large, and there are many problems. Either there are problems in the east, or there are problems in the west.

Gao Yihuan had long planned to establish several satellite vassal states, which would be sealed outside of China, so that the vassal states would take care of minor matters outside of China, otherwise, when it was spread to Chang'an and then back to the frontier, the day lily would be cold, and it would be difficult to deploy troops. inconvenient.

In Gao Yihuan's vision, these small countries deal with small things, and when they encounter big things, the suzerain country will handle things that cannot be solved.

Now his plan to raise a dog has not yet started, and the problem has come, and it happened in the Western Regions, which is beyond his reach.

Gao Yihuan said in a deep voice, "Why haven't I heard of this before?"

Wang Shicong was in charge of the Ministry of Rites, and he didn't know much about the affairs of the Western Regions, so he couldn't answer them.

After thinking for a while, Chen Mingxia stood up and said, "Your Majesty, it should have something to do with Zhungeer's decline. It is even possible that Zhungeer has colluded with Luocha."

Gao Yihuan revealed that there was a powerful Zhungeer tribe in the Western Regions before, and the expansion of the Raksha people was blocked by Zhungeer. Naturally, they were somewhat restrained and were forced to bypass Zhungeer and develop into Siberia.

Now Zhungeer is disabled by the Wei army, and his strength has seriously declined. After Wei Jun defeated Zhungeer, he did not completely take over Zhungeer's entire sphere of influence, and his focus was still on the Central Plains.

Under such circumstances, there is no one in Central Asia that can counter the Rakshasa. With the nature of the Rakshasa, they must see the opportunity to devour Central Asia.

Gao Yihuan tapped his fingers on the dragon chair. After contemplating for a while, he decided to compromise temporarily, "At present, I focus on destroying the Ming. Although the Raksha people are pressing every step of the way, I cannot disrupt the rhythm of world domination."

Gao Yihuan's words mean that the affairs of the Western Regions are not as important as those of the Jiangnan. No matter how the Raksha people treat Yuzi or how they expand, he will first rule the world and then resolve the affairs of the Western Regions.

It is not in his interest to start a war with Rakshasa now, and it is not profitable. Jiangnan is much fatter than the Western Regions.

Li Yan frowned and said, "I agree with your majesty's decision, but I estimate that the vassals in the Western Regions will take the opportunity of paying tribute to report this matter to your majesty. If your majesty doesn't appease them well, I'm afraid the vassals will be distracted and even turn to Luocha."

In Gao Yihuan's view, the best state is to let these vassals hold back the Rakshasa, and when they are about to be unable to hold back, the Great Wei Divine Soldiers will descend from the sky and defeat the Rakshasa people.

This will not only solve the threat from the Western Regions, but also make the vassals more grateful. After all, saving a person who is slightly injured is completely different from saving a dying person.

I just proclaimed myself emperor this year, if I don’t say so at that time, I won’t be able to step down, and the vassals of the Western Regions must be disappointed with Wei, and without Wei giving them confidence, they will be defeated quickly, when Wei will turn around and deal with Luo In an instant, there will be no helpers, and they will not respond enthusiastically.

The crux of the problem now is how to get these vassals to stand up to Da Wei, Gao Yihuan said in a deep voice, "Then let's have a big military parade!"

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