At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

So, he thought of the best way to prove his existence—to launch a war.

There were indeed no enemies around the Wei Empire, and even if there were, they were defeated.

Mozhou and Pingzhou's Liting sweeping strategy is based on the model of accumulating small victories into big victories. Dozens of beheadings are not inspiring. People have become accustomed to the pattern of wars for many years.

The battles in Jiaozhou and Yunzhou were not intense either. Most of them were carried out in a way similar to the war of plowing the courtyard and sweeping holes. There were often good news, but the number of beheads and the amount of spoils were not large, which could not inspire people's hearts.

These are not real wars, but just lessons for those disobedient natives.

The opponent is not a country at all, and the size is different, so it is not interesting to fight.

In the end, it is just to develop as much land and obtain as many slaves who can work.

How can there be the power of destroying the country so heartily?

If you want to stand up, if you want to truly establish a milestone event, the best thing is to take a disobedient country to prove that you are also a martial emperor.

The Wei Empire held both civil and military examinations, not only emphasizing literary examinations, but also military examinations.

There are two irrelevant parallel-line promotion rules for civil and military officials, which means that the Wei Empire not only attaches great importance to civil governance, but also to martial arts.

During Guo Peng's reign, he did too many major events, pushing his achievements in martial arts and martial arts to the peak.

Then at the most glorious moment, he retired honorably, leaving behind an undefeated legend-he has never been defeated in his military life.

This is an important reason for his coercion in the world, he is invincible in the eyes of the world.

As long as he is alive, no one will dare to challenge the orthodoxy of the Wei Empire.

But what if he died?

Guo Jin knew that she couldn't be compared with her father, but in terms of martial arts and martial arts, she should pay tribute to her father no matter what.

He can't just focus on Wenzhi, martial arts, he must also have a record that can be taken.

Regardless of the crusade against the Western Regions, there must be one or two wars that he personally leads.

Power and tyranny are always the cornerstone of a country's prosperity.

If force is not tyrannical, everything is useless.

Chapter 1459 One Thousand 360 Nine Guo Jin Needs Military Victory

If an emperor wants to be recognized by history, he must be able to use both martial arts and martial arts. Only in this way can he be recognized by history and become a generation of promising kings.

Needless to say, Guo Peng is very strong in martial arts and martial arts. Among other things, just changing the official selection model from the procuratorial examination to the imperial examination is enough for him to be blown up by later generations, let alone the fact that Zongheng Tianxia has not failed.

So Guo Jin always feels like Alexander.

But he is also nothing.

In terms of culture and politics, Guo Jin now has the achievement of promoting currency reform.

It's just that this political achievement takes time and requires a large amount of silver reserves and accumulation, and it won't work in a short period of time, so it won't be visible for the time being.

In addition, the Grand Canal and the Grand Chi Road began during Guo Peng's reign, but they will end during his reign, so half of the credit is due to him.

It means that he is lying still, Xiao Gui Cao Sui, and he can get the three major cultural meritorious service in his hand, which will establish the political meritorious service of the Xingyuan Dynasty and establish his sense of existence as the second emperor of the Wei Empire.

Therefore, Guo Jin does not feel any urgency in terms of cultural governance. His political status is already relatively stable, so it is not worth worrying about.

The problem lies in martial arts.

The establishment of Guo Peng's identity as a powerful emperor and the consolidation of power are largely due to his God of War personality. His unparalleled force has laid the foundation for his political power. He is so strong that he is desperate, so his The power is also so great that people worship it.

Guo Jin did not have this basis.

In terms of martial arts, if you don't fight for it yourself, don't pay real money, and do it with real swords and guns, then you can't build martial arts, you can't build your own merits and the recognition of the army.

He needs military victories, not to mention many, at least a few important military victories worthy of being recorded in history books, so as to continue the world's view of the Guo family emperor and prove that he is also a powerful emperor of force.

The martial arts that Guo Peng left to him in the Liting and Sweeping Caves of the four states cannot really be counted as his martial arts.

He has to start all over again in order to establish his own martial arts.

But the number one enemy in the surrounding row has indeed been killed by Guo Peng, and there is not one left.

The dangers left over from the former Han Dynasty are now gone. This has established Guo Peng's prestige, but it also makes Guo Jin feel that it is difficult to move forward.

After thinking about it, he remembered the Kangju incident that had a certain influence in the court at the beginning of Yande's 13th year.

That is what happened when Guo Peng's war to quell the Western Regions was going on.

In the eighth and ninth years of Yande, when the Western Regions were pacified, when the war was at its final stage and the Wei army besieged Dawan, Kang Juguo supported Dawan to resist the Wei army, and even sent [-] troops to help Dawan fight.

At that time, the [-] troops were defeated by Wei Jun Zhang Fei's troops, and the commander's head was chopped off by Zhang Fei, which disintegrated the fighting will of the Dawan people and indirectly destroyed the Dawan Kingdom.

The Dawan Kingdom has long since ceased to exist.

In the ninth year of Yande, Dawan Kingdom became the Zhenxi Protectorate of the Wei Empire.

Cao Ang, the first Protector of the Zhenxi Protectorate of the Wei Empire, has been serving as the Protector of the Zhenxi Protectorate for nearly four years.

Because he went to the west to be an official and built the Zhenxi Protectorate from scratch, he worked hard, so once Cao Ang's term of office ends, he will definitely return to the central government to take up a position, and then he will definitely become Guo Jin's right-hand man-because it is her mother's family people.

And when they were young, Guo Jin had a good relationship with Cao Ang, at least better than the relationship with Cao Pi, Cao Zhi and others.

In order to let him have a better future after returning to Luoyang and become his right-hand man, Guo Jin also felt that it was necessary to fight a war at this time.

Clean up the Kangju country, and let the Central Asian countries not have any wrong thoughts just because the Central Plains Empire changed the emperor.

Accumulate some military exploits for Cao Ang, so that he can take up a high position after returning to the central government.

Guo Jin herself also needs to use this war to establish her own prestige and prove to the world that she is not a rubber stamp.

To sum up, this war is actually unavoidable.

With this in mind, Guo Jin approached Guo Peng and raised this matter with Guo Peng, hoping to get Guo Peng's guidance and approval.

"If you think it's okay, then of course it's okay, as long as the logistics are ready, don't let the army's supplies be insufficient because the distance is too long, ensuring that the army's logistics will always be the most important way to win the war, this has always been for the father A magic weapon to defeat the enemy."

Guo Peng smiled: "You have just ascended the throne, and you really need to go through a war to establish your prestige. As long as you think it's okay, then of course, don't hesitate, don't worry, Wei's army will not let you down. military pay."

With Guo Peng's approval, Guo Jin felt confident that this war could indeed go on.

So in the middle and late March of the first year of Xingyuan, Guo Jin went to the staff station to hold an imperial military meeting, convened all the staff members of the staff station, and called a series of related personnel such as the Ministry of War and the generals of the guard to hold a meeting together.

"Let's get straight to the point. Gu Gu never likes to go around in circles. Gentlemen, Gu decided to use troops against Kang Juguo to punish Kang Juguo for daring to use troops against the Celestial Kingdom a few years ago without knowing how to reflect on it."

Guo Jin went straight to the point without hesitation: "At the beginning of the ninth year of Yande, I was ordered by the Supreme Emperor to lead the army to conquer the Western Regions. I won every victory and broke through to the Dawan Kingdom. At that time, our army was sure of victory. , Actually sent troops to rescue Dawan Kingdom.

At that time, General Zhang Fei, the current commander of Beiting Duhufu, led [-] cavalry to defeat [-] Kangju troops and wiped out [-] enemies, completely defeating Kangju's army. , but has never sent envoys to plead guilty.

They seem to want to treat this incident as if it had never happened, and they did not make any compensation or explanation for the casualties caused by our army. Our army had just conquered Dawan, and it was already at the end of its strength, and the logistics were weak, so it was impossible to blame Kangju. , It has been four years.

In the past four years, Kangju has not made any move to apologize and make amends. As long as there is no such thing, our country needs time and development, so there is no time to question the guilt and resist. , must pay the price for this! "

Guo Jin slapped the table, his face full of anger: "Don't let King Kangju come to Luoyang to plead guilty, and be ashamed to be the emperor of Wei! Gentlemen, what do you think?"

All the ministers and generals looked at me and I looked at you, with happy expressions on their faces.

As long as there is war, there will be their meritorious service, there will be rewards from the army, and everyone will benefit.

Wei Jun's battles were victorious and never failed. Everyone just lamented that there were too few battles, the enemy was too weak, and there was not enough meritorious service to receive.

Since the ten-year rebellion in Yande, the Wei Empire has not launched a large-scale war for several years, so that the military restructuring has been completed.

The original nearly 60 standing army has been continuously selected and selected, and now there are only 30 absolutely elite standing troops and non-stop troops calculated according to the population.

This military system has been operating according to the new regulations for several years, and it has been operating relatively maturely. Now is the time for a war to verify whether the new military system can meet the needs of the country.

Now that there is a rare war, how can they stop it?

It's too late to push!

A group of people immediately said that His Majesty is wise, and this is the time when a war is needed to prove that even if the old emperor abdicates, the new emperor can lead the Wei State to continue to be strong.

Therefore, it is very necessary to launch a war, otherwise it is difficult to guarantee that the Kushan Kingdom in the Western Regions and the Anxi Kingdom will not be able to afford some strange thoughts.

Guo Jin needs war to show his strength and majesty, and the war against Kangju is the best opportunity.

So it was unanimous that the conditions for launching the war have been fully met, and everyone is very supportive of the launching of this war.

Then there are the various details of the war.

For example, who is the coach, who is in charge of logistics, where the troops are mobilized to be responsible for the attack, and so on.

There are only 2 standing troops in the Zhenxi Duhufu, and [-] mobile frontier troops under the military service system.

To deal with Kangju, a large-scale country with some slave states, 3 elites and [-] recruits are obviously not enough. At least [-] people are needed to show the anger of the Wei Empire and the ability to wage war.

It is not possible to dispatch all the troops from the Western Regions to fight a war, so in theory, the [-] troops in Zhenxi Duhufu alone are not enough for this war.

In accordance with the principle of dispatching troops to the nearest place to reduce attrition, Guo Jin decided to dispatch [-] standing elites from Beiting Dufu Mansion and Annan Duhu Mansion to Zhenxi Duhu Mansion to participate in the war, and collected [-] elite troops.

Then the troops will be transferred from the center.

Although the distance is far, Guo Jin decided to mobilize troops from the central government and mobilize the elite central guards to the Western Regions to participate in the war, in order to demonstrate the will of the emperor.

Of course, the most important thing is to help him suppress the situation.

Guo Jin decided to dispatch [-] elite cavalry from the Central Army to the Western Regions.

And it was decided to let Xia Houshang, Xia Houheng and Cao Tai enter it and become officers participating in the war to accumulate experience and make contributions.

Considering the significance of this war, Cao Zhen and Guan Ping, who served in the Forbidden Army, were also thrown into the Central Army to attack together.

In this way, there will be [-] elites of the standing army who can attack and fight, which can basically make the whole country of Kang Ju State panic and tremble.

The preparations for the army were almost ready, so Guo Jin ordered the central cavalry to set off quickly, striving to rush to the Western Regions to participate in the war as soon as possible.

Then there is the choice of coach.

Cao Xiu, the commander of the Zhenxi Protectorate's Mansion, is an excellent candidate. He has also served as the protector of the Western Regions and has made great achievements. He is very familiar with the situation in the Western Regions and has a good military strategy.

In this war, Guo Jin decided to let Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, the veterans who had participated in the Western Region War before, join the battle to increase the deterrence and success rate of the army, so Cao Xiu's qualifications are not enough.

How can this be good?

chapter 1460 one thousand 370 there is a big Zhao Yunchu

Guan Yu and Zhang Fei are veteran generals who have followed Guo Peng since the time of Captain Hu Karasuma, and have served the Wei Empire for 30 years.

Their military ranks are high, their qualifications are profound, their military achievements are outstanding, and they have some prestige in the army. For some recruits who have just entered the army, their existence is no different from idols.

However, because of their personalities, they were not used by Guo Peng as the commander-in-chief of the first army. If they could not be promoted, they could only be the leaders of a small military region, not the commander-in-chief of a large army like Zhao Yun.

Such a veteran with personality is the most embarrassing for everyone.

On the one hand, it is not suitable to be the commander of an army, unifying a large group of soldiers and generals from different places.

On the one hand, his qualifications are very old, so I am afraid it will not be so easy to obey the command of a young general with junior qualifications.

Cao Ren was able to rule Guan Yu and Zhang Fei at the beginning because Cao Ren's qualifications were deeper than theirs, and his military exploits were higher than theirs.

In fact, Guo Jin is still very optimistic about Cao Xiu. He thinks that Cao Xiu was brought out by Guo Peng. His ability is enough to command an army to destroy Kang Juguo, build more prestige, and become the leader of the second generation of Wei Army generals.

But the war in the Western Regions certainly cannot avoid Zhang Fei and Guan Yu, otherwise they will make trouble in the sky.

Then it would be impossible to use Cao Xiu as the coach.

At present, there are very few veterans in the imperial court who have more seniority than these two.

After Cao Ren resigned, there were really few senior generals who could compete with these two and be the commander-in-chief of the first army.

These two people really have a lot of problems and it is difficult to lead them.

Guan Yu treats his subordinates generously and gets their support very much, but he is not very good at dealing with his colleagues, and his interpersonal relationship is not good.

Zhang Fei also has a lot of problems.

Zhang Fei was a problem general that even Guo Peng felt troubled back then. Lao Zhang, who claimed that he would die if he didn't fight, liked fighting more than anyone else, and he was an out-and-out war madman.

Four years ago, the Beiting Protectorate's Mansion had just been established, and there were still many shallow-sighted people trying to fight against the Wei State, launching some kind of restoration movement, and challenging the Wei Empire's rule of the Western Regions openly and secretly.

Zhang Fei was very happy. A wave of fishing law enforcement cleaned them up completely, just like how they dealt with the Xianbei people back then.