New Shun 1730

The memorial that made the emperor hesitate has been in his hands these days, and the emperor has also made some comments.

"You are still a child, what do you know? You still think too little."

"Since you said that Chinese learning is the body and Western learning is the use. I have asked you to think about what is the body? What is the use?"

"The body is the way; the use is the technique. As for the war, it is also the same. The general uses the technique, the commander uses the way..."

A lot of eloquent comments, to sum up, have one meaning:

You, a child, still think too little, the pattern and vision are only the pattern of a general or a governor. Although you have learned the "art" of war very clearly, the "way" of war is not yet mature. In the future, don't just read Western knowledge, learn more about Sun Wu, Zongheng and other knowledge.

As you said, how long will it take to bite off the castles of Luosha one by one? It will snow in September. How many can be bitten off by September? When the weather is freezing, what can I use to dig a zigzag trench? Let the soldiers chew it with their teeth?

If the war here doesn't end quickly, won't the Russians contact the Junggars? Once the Junggars cooperate in the northwest, the country will face the danger of fighting on two fronts. What should we do then?

Before the war starts, we must first think about how to end it.

If it is just a general's vision, you are right. You can both sympathize with the soldiers and defeat the enemy with regular troops. But in the eyes of a monarch, what you wrote is useful nonsense. I must end the war against the Russians next year, and more importantly, I want Mongolia to see that Dashun has quickly defeated the Russians with thunder and lightning, so your method cannot be used.

As for what you said about waiting until later to fight, it is even more nonsense. Take the former Ming as an example. Let alone Yingzong who called the door, it was Emperor Jianwen. Is that what Zhu Yuanzhang expected? Who can predict what will happen after death? Who can guarantee that there will be a wise monarch in power when the population of Liaodong grows in the future?

After "criticizing" Liu Yu, he wrote at the end of the reply: "When you return, enter the upper house and select the dragon ban, always in front of me, I should often enlighten you."

It seems that there are a lot of criticisms, but in fact Li Gan is still very satisfied with Liu Yu.

The overall tone is more like what an adult who has expectations for his younger generation says to a child.

In the memorial, there is a section about sneaking into the Luosha Castle, discovering Japanese and ships during reconnaissance, speculating that the explorer is going to map the lower reaches of the Heilongjiang River to Japan, and preparing to rob and rob the map halfway after returning from Yongning Temple. Li Gan also drew a big circle and commented on four words: brave and wise, good.

This memorial far exceeded Li Gan's expectations.

A child of seventeen or eighteen years old, not the eldest son of the duke family, how could he really be asked to consider things from the overall perspective? It's just that he is afraid of being too praised and becoming proud.

Detailed drawings, detailed explanations of tactics for capturing bastions, tribal mentality surveyed along the way, etc. Although the handwriting is not very good and the writing is far from good, it is valuable to have something to say.

After the memorial was sent to the capital, Li Gan discussed it with several veterans in the capital. They all felt that Liu Yu's method was very useful and really got the essence of the Western gun tower attack and defense system.

However, for Liu Yu's words that "if you don't follow this method and don't besiege for a long time, but choose to attack by force, the bastion of 500 people will have to be prepared for the sacrifice of 2,000 to 3,000 people", everyone did not fully believe it and felt that it was a bit alarmist.

Emperor Taizong Li Guo once said a sentence during the Jingxiang War: Where does a person's correct thinking come from? Did it fall from the sky? No. Is it inherent in your own mind? No. A person's correct thinking can only come from social practice.

This statement has become an important pillar for the Zhejiang School of Thought, which respects Chen Liang and Ye Shi, to reconstruct the School of Mind and deconstruct "conscience".

The same principle applies to war.

Dashun never fought a serious war with Westerners, let alone captured Western bastions.

They had seen bastions before.

The chieftains in the southwest also had bastions, but they could be captured by setting up artillery and firing for a while.

According to their thinking, after having cannons, is there any meaning for bastions?

Although the bastions of the Luosha people seemed to be built in accordance with the way of heaven, they might not be so difficult to attack, right?

A bastion with 500 people would kill 2,000 to 3,000 people if it was attacked forcefully. Is this possible?

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the Catholic Han Lin wrote a book "The Complete Book of Defense" introducing bastions. The Ming Dynasty also built several bastions in Xiong County.

The problem is that in Dashun's memory, there was no war in Xiong County at all.

They surrendered without fighting, so the bastion did not leave a deep memory at all. At most, it was just a strange-looking fortress, which seemed to be nothing special.

Afterwards, although Dashun was very tolerant of Catholic missionaries, Han Lin, who wrote books, surrendered early and became a "Li government official". He also translated "How to Restrain the Seven Deadly Sins", trying to integrate the seven deadly sins of Catholicism and the preservation of heavenly principles and the elimination of human desires from the perspective of Confucianism; he also wrote "The Faith of Saints", believing that Confucianism and Buddhism solved the two problems of "who am I" and "what do I want to do". If Catholicism is integrated, the ultimate "where should I go" can be solved, and Confucianism has never solved the problem of "where should I go".

This person once became the leader of the Western Law Party in the Dashun Dynasty, and his words were not taken lightly.

However, with the changes in the external environment, Zhang Lin's "The Complete Book of Defending Yu" did not cause much waves.

When Zhang Lin wrote this book, the external environment was that the Later Jin had the strongest artillery in East Asia at that time, and the Ming army could not defeat the Later Jin in field battles, so some people were thinking about how to build better fortresses.

The current environment... The Later Jin has been swept away, and the strongest artillery in East Asia is in the capital; the opponents next to it are all weak chickens, and Dashun is on the offensive; the biggest enemy is Junggar, who is hiding in the northwest and has few cannons, and has not forced Dashun to build bastions on the border; the Eastern Mongolian tribes that need to be suppressed have to buy even iron pots, and building bastions to defend against artillery is a waste of money; the great trouble of the Westerners predicted by Xu Guangqi in the future, if they come from the sea, the navy will certainly not be able to defeat them, but as long as there is a field army that is not cut off by the Westerners landing and the canal transportation, there is no need to worry.

In this environment, how can the knowledge of bastion defense be spread?

Whether a knowledge is widely spread sometimes depends on whether it is needed.

In general, Dashun's understanding of bastions is that they have heard of it, never seen it, and have no practical experience gained from decades of war and hundreds of thousands of corpses.

It's just that Liu Yu's memorial was too detailed, completely standing on the side of the defenders to crack down on all the possible means that the attackers might use.

It seems very reasonable.

This made Li Gan cautious.

He recognized Liu Yu's level of Western learning. Not only did Dai Jinxian say that Liu Yu learned well, but also Liu Yu's "A Brief Study of Western Countries" later made Li Gan feel that Liu Yu was not the kind of person who talked nonsense.

For this reason, Li Gan decided to try to attack Luosha's castle in the upper reaches of Heilongjiang River first.

If it goes well, the Mongolian nobles will come to the front to visit Dashun's military power; if it doesn't go well... then we will discuss it again.

Around this overall purpose, the strategic plan made by the court was also very clear.

With the help of the river ships of Jilin Shipyard to transport logistics supplies, the army went upstream and captured the only castle of Luosha people in Nenjiang River.

Through Hulunbuir grassland, they captured the castle of the Luosha people in the upper reaches of the Heilongjiang River, cut off the Luosha people's control over the lower reaches of the Heilongjiang River, and divided the Luosha people's military power.

After occupying the castle in the upper reaches of the Heilongjiang River, they cut down trees and built ships to prepare, and divided their troops to go down the river to sweep several Luosha fortresses along the way.

The main force continued to move westward, and before the Luosha Kingdom sent troops to support, they took down all the fortresses on the Onon River and the Shilka River, and immediately negotiated with Luosha.

The delegation contacted by the Duke of Qi also brought more than 3,000 elite troops. When the argument could not be continued, they turned against each other.

Don't attack the city there, but use the support of the Mongolian tribes to threaten the Luosha people's castles along the Baikal Lake line, so that they dare not send troops to support the eastern line.

The bottom line of the peace talks is to give up the north bank of the Heilongjiang River, but to get the Shilka River and the Onon River in the west, especially the Onon River, a river of special significance, must be obtained.

Judging from the territory of later generations, it means that the east of the Ussuri River, Sakhalin Island, and the estuary of the Heilongjiang River were obtained, and part of the western part of the Heilongjiang River was expanded to the west, and the Shilka River and Onon River were obtained, which half surrounded Mongolia from the north.

The upper reaches of the Heilongjiang River were used as the basis for ruling the lower reaches, the Onon River was used as the legal basis for Mongolia's submission, and the Shilka River was used as a forward base to threaten the southern part of Lake Baikal, and the attack could advance to Lake Baikal to cut off the connection between the east and the west of Luocha, and the defense could monitor Khalkha Mongolia.

The price was to give up all the claims north of the Heilongjiang River, integrate into the Westphalian system on the northern line, recognize Russia as an empire, recognize Russia's throne, maintain trade and rhubarb tea trade, and communicate with Russia without the tribute system.

From the beginning to the end, the Dashun court had a clear positioning for this battle - it was fought for Mongolia.

Liu Yu's surveys and mapping all the way east were half as his own legal basis, and the other half was just a bargaining chip.

Even if part of it is just a bargaining chip, it is still very important.

When Liu Yu's second memorial was delivered, the emperor had already arrived at the Jilin Shipyard.

The troops on the front line of Nenjiang were also ready for the attack. The emperor was not going to go to the front line in person for the first battle, but wanted to see how the front line was fought, and whether the bastion system was as terrible as Liu Yu said.

After opening the second memorial and taking a few glances, Li Gan smiled.

Liu Yu not only found the Yongning Temple stele and copied the text, but also conquered many tribes, and some tribal leaders followed him back to pay tribute.

Since the Xuande period of the Ming Dynasty, tribute has been cut off for three hundred years. Now that tribute is paid again, it is a grand event.

In this matter, Li Gan felt that Liu Yu did a pretty good job and had some skills.

It seems that Liu Yu is also a good fighter. In the battle of Yongning Temple, no one died on his side, and more than a hundred Luosha people were killed. Although there is a trick, it can be seen that Liu Yu is still okay.

Later, it was mentioned that they robbed the Luosha expedition team, hijacked several Westerners, and snatched some maps, which made Li Gan praise them even more.

This matter was mentioned in the first memorial, saying that a Japanese was found and Luosha was found to be building ships on the river, so it was suspected that Luosha would go down the river. Since it was an expedition, there must be maps, which would be of great benefit to the country's strengthening of control and understanding of the border.

At that time, Li Gan thought that Liu Yu was very smart, but he didn't expect Liu Yu to really do it. In the memorial sent, there were more than a dozen maps that had been simply translated. The Luosha fortresses near Lake Baikal were clearly marked, which was exactly what was urgently needed at the moment.

But as he praised it in his heart, the taste changed.

When he saw the end, Li Gan couldn't help but curse.

"Nonsense!"

Han Lin surrendered early and had a high voice among his staff. But after some reasoning, the bastion theory really had no chance to flourish in this time and space. After Liaodong was swept away, it meant that none of the surrounding opponents could force Dashun to build bastions. The end of the Ming Dynasty was an opportunity to flourish, but the Western-French Party was not a saint. In the environment of the end of the Ming Dynasty, Xu Guangqi and others also had to take kickbacks. The price of the Western gun platform was too high. There was a demand in theory, but it could not be built in reality.