New Shun 1730

Although the words are shocking, the detailed figures still make the emperor and others believe that this is not nonsense.

If it goes well, fighting such a war, not counting the face and political significance of tribute, not counting the future trade with Japan, just the compensation may make twice the money.

Fighting, you can really make money!

The one who is most impressed by this number is Jiang Chen, who had been in confrontation with Junggar for a long time in the northwest. Thinking about what he could do with 2 million taels when he led the army, and thinking about what 2 million taels can do today, he is full of emotion.

The less money you spend, the less corruption and deductions you will have in the middle. The same 2 million taels can accomplish much more than before.

At this moment, Jiang Chen also admires Liu Yu.

He thinks that in a place like the northwest, with the same military strength and training, he has a 70% to 80% chance of winning against Liu Yu.

As for the battle north of the Altai Mountains, after reviewing it, in his opinion, what the hell did Liu Yu fight? He had missed many opportunities, but he still won. He admired Liu Yu's training method, but he really didn't like Liu Yu's command on the battlefield.

But Jiang Chen also understood that his strategy of land and sea cooperation, or the strategy prepared before the war, was outdated. He had to be the first person in the army in the future.

At the level of the Privy Council, command on the battlefield was no longer important, but strategic planning was important.

Liu Yu's preparations for the war against Japan, especially the matter of leading troops to attack Tosa, Jiang Chen felt that he could not do it.

But sometimes when he thought about it, he felt a little unconvinced.

In the Privy Council, there is only a group of army staff, and they fight according to the army's ideas. The navy is responsible for sending the army, transporting logistics and supplies, and protecting the retreat of sea power.

If the Privy Council can take charge of the army and the navy, there will naturally be more ways, which may not be the same as Liu Yu's trick, but the effect will probably not be bad.

Thinking of this, I felt a little unhappy.

He muttered to himself, thinking that it looked like the navy was a vassal of the army in this battle, and all they had to do was send the army ashore.

But in fact, it was the navy's staff who made the general plan, and the army just followed the plan.

How to mobilize the Japanese troops for defense, how to make the Japanese look ahead and behind, you army don't have to worry about it, you just need us to send you ashore, and you can fight two battles and it's over.

As for the situation of facing a country and a city in Japan and still failing to capture it, it means that the army is incompetent. The Marine Corps of the Navy might teach the Army how to attack a city...

Feeling unhappy, he could not help but shook his head. The Emperor asked curiously, "Lord Jiang, do you think there is any problem?"

Jiang Chen said hurriedly, "No problem. I just thought about it. Du Feng of the Navy will attack Ezo first. If he can defeat him, then Ying Suobo's strategy will be completed."

"The Navy gathers in Busan, and it will be the head and tail of Ezo. The Japanese may be landed by the Navy everywhere from Shimonoseki to Tsugaru, so we have to guard against it. And if we defend, we have to follow what Ying Suobo said and divide it into several mobile corps. The soldiers' feet can't run faster than the warships."

"As for the south, from Tosa to Edo, Ryukyu can also be the starting point. Ying Suobo is doing a big cleansing in Ryukyu, and Ryukyuzi is also in China. The Japanese don't know the strength of Ryukyu, and they don't know We have to worry about the navy landing from there. "

"That's why I said that day that those who are good at fighting don't have great achievements. The navy only needs 3,000 to 5,000 people to contain 100,000 Japanese soldiers and prevent them from moving. This is all the plan of Ying Suobo."

"I think that since this war has been agreed upon, we might as well do it according to what Ying Suobo said. The navy is ready, first stationed in Busan, and then transported and stored food, and then transported 2,000 land forces to cooperate with the Marines."

"The fleet will go out first and capture Tsushima Island. Then go north along the way, draw maps, conduct armed reconnaissance, and harass constantly to determine the situation of Japan's troop deployment."

"The opportunity is on my side. If Japan really retreats a few groups, the army will land in Nagasaki and Kokura and close the door to fight the dog. The Japanese Kyushu Island is all foreign daimyo, and it may be possible to induce them to surrender and avoid fighting."

"If Japan does not retreat a few groups, it can If the navy can land and harass Japan for half a year, Japan will be in chaos. I am afraid that they will surrender without fighting. "

"I... just sigh that a giant like Japan, without sea power, is really vulnerable. If in the northwest, if the Junggar tribe has the so-called 80,000 cavalry of the flag, let alone two million taels, I am afraid that to suppress the rebellion, it will cost more than 200 million taels of military expenditure."

"Your Majesty was far-sighted and built a navy in the past. I only know your majesty's insight today."

This hit Li Gan's heart. Li Gan thought about Liu Yu's original "threatening prophecy" and asked Jiang Chen: "If you are the shogun, what is the solution?"

Jiang Chen shook his head and said: "There is no way."

"If you don't care about the life and death of the outer daimyo, your position will be unstable. Although you can protect the flag, it is hard to say if the Celestial Empire intervenes."

"If the Celestial Empire had not intervened, we might have worked hard to govern the country, allowed the daimyo to rebel, and fought back in the future. But since the Celestial Empire has intervened, what if it supports the foreign daimyo to rebel against the shogunate? It is useless to work hard to govern the country."

"If we hide and do not fight, the taxes in Japan are too high, five officials and five civilians, and if there is corruption and extortion, I am afraid that it will be more than eight officials and two civilians. What Ying Suo said about the thirty-one tax may be exaggerated, but our dynasty selects officials to govern and the counties divide the samurai's land to the civilians, so they must have food and drink."

"In addition, there are many Confucian scholars in Japan. Ying Suo said that a great Confucian scholar was asked by his disciples what would happen if Confucius and Mencius attacked? Since there is such a question, it is comparable to the great Confucian scholar who asked the Eastern Tartars what revenge for the emperor after the Jiashen year in the past? Since he asked, his heart was already confused, otherwise there would be no great Confucian scholar who asked before Sarhu: If your head doesn't itch when you shave it, why don't you shave it?"

"No matter how I think about it, it's a dead end. This dead end has been set since Ying Suo Bo conquered Tosa. I can't solve this situation."

Jiang Chen believes that he can't solve the dead end of Japan. In terms of calculation, they have already lost. This war will not make any splash. It may be more boring than the war of changing the natives to the flow.

But Jiang Chen thought of another thing.

The threats from the north have been eliminated.

There are no threats in the northwest, northeast, and Mongolia. The Rakshasa people can't compare with the Xiongnu at all. The whole Siberia can't gather 30,000 to 50,000 people.

If there is a war in the future, and the emperor still wants to expand the territory, then he can only fight southward.

Fighting southward is like this time's conquest of Japan. As long as the navy wins, the rest is really just a matter of following the rules.

There may even be new combat strategies, such as... narrow Annan.

After this war of conquering Japan, it is possible that the future combat direction of Dashun will adopt this kind of sea-land cooperation.

However, in the war against Japan, the army seemed to be the protagonist, but in fact the navy was leading the army.

Without the navy's trouble in Japan, the army might have to face several tough battles. At least Japan could put together a sufficient number of field corps to find an opportunity for a decisive battle on Kyushu Island.

The young staff officers of the army were qualified in tactics, but in terms of strategy, they were still far from the coordination between the army and the sea, and their thinking was still not up to par.

Under Liu Yu's guidance, the navy was going to play the leading role in the future when they went south, and their way of thinking was different from that of the young army staff officers under him.

Jiang Chen was thinking, what exactly are the powers and responsibilities of the Privy Council? If there is the function of the General Staff as Liu Yu said, then from now on, the navy must be increased. In the future, either there will be no war, or it will definitely go south. There is no dispute about this.

If the Privy Council wants to make achievements in the future and truly reach the level it envisioned at the beginning, it must take control of the navy.

Only in this way can we formulate a land-sea coordination strategy similar to the war against Japan. Otherwise, even if the young staff of the army racked their brains, they would not know the situation of the navy, nor could they control the navy. The strategy they could formulate could only be to let the navy cooperate.

The Celestial Empire has always been a pure land power country. The value of the navy's existence may only be to cross the river, which is completely inconsistent with the strategic thinking of this war.

After thinking for a while, Jiang Chen still tentatively mentioned it to the emperor.

"Your Majesty, the strategy of my Privy Council this time is really...really lackluster. It seems that the navy has assumed the responsibilities of the Privy Council, roughly formulated, forced the division of troops, etc. It is not right to say that it was done by Ying Suobo alone; but if it is said that it was done by the Navy's General Staff, it is not wrong."

"The northern border has been settled. If the Celestial Empire fights again in the future, I am afraid that most of them will be this kind of land and sea coordinated battle."

"The strategy of the Privy Council this time still uses the navy as a navy, which is nothing more than transporting to the shore. Today I finally understand the difference between the navy and the navy. The staff of the Privy Council are all familiar with land warfare... I think, should we also transfer a group of naval staff? Especially those who cooperated with Ying Suobo to formulate the strategy of dividing the Japanese?"

It is reasonable for him to say this. After saying this, the emperor thought to himself that you only realized today that this battle was not commanded by the Privy Council.

It is clear that the Navy is in charge of the Privy Council. However, when Liu Yu went to Ryukyu, I allowed him to do what he wanted. Who would have thought that he would do such a big thing?

A big battle that was expected to require 20,000 to 30,000 people and 10 million taels of silver was turned into a small battle involving 10,000 to 20,000 people and 2 million taels of silver.

However, I thought that neither Liu Yu nor the Privy Council could be blamed for this matter. The responsibilities were not clear, and the Navy did not have a system of the Navy Department. In order to pursue efficiency, Liu Yu was in charge.

Even if the Privy Council wanted to do it, it could not find a person who was familiar with the Navy but not the Navy. It was impossible to promote the young Liu Yu to the Privy Councilor, right? How could he be promoted in the future?

Although the staff of the Privy Council were young, they were not bad in the eyes of the emperor. What they lacked was the experience in the future. They still had the ability of those who were trained in professional schools.

But after all, they all learned land warfare. If they were in the northwest, there would be no problem in general.

But if they were to fight across the sea or go to Southeast Asia in the future, it would definitely not work if they only knew land warfare.

Li Gan originally had other plans. He was going to take advantage of the victory in the battle of Nanyang and let Liu Yu seize the Privy Council. He would use his prestige in the navy to directly merge the navy and the army and remove the military power.

Now Liu Yu suddenly quit, which somewhat disrupted Li Gan's idea. The issue of the Navy Department must be put on the agenda, and the Privy Council's powers and responsibilities should be determined as soon as possible, especially the problem of the lack of naval staff, which also needs to be solved as soon as possible.

Since Jiang Chen brought it up, the emperor took the opportunity to say, "I also think that some of the outstanding talents in the navy should be selected to serve in the Privy Council. The Privy Council should be the general planner of the army and the navy and determine the general strategy. The Privy Council plans the general strategy, and the army and navy staff only plan the tactics."