Chapter 6655: Extremely Difficult

Chapter 6655: Extremely Difficult
In fact, these civil officials of the Han Dynasty never underestimated Fu Ward. He was considered a good general and was brave and resourceful in state affairs. Although the plan to go to Qinghai-Tibet was proposed by Masinde, Fu Ward's courage to carry it out was enough to explain many problems.

Therefore, on the whole, the Han Dynasty's civil officials had a very good opinion of Fu Ward. After all, in the current situation, officers who can do what others cannot do are all very outstanding officers.

"So, in the blink of an eye, a new incident occurred?" After Chen Xi and Fa Zheng were pulled back by Li You, they looked at the letter sent by Jia Xu with some tiredness. They thought that everything had been arranged in the recent period, and all the matters were handled by each place, and they just had to wait obediently for the grand court meeting during the New Year. But in the blink of an eye, another big event occurred.

After all, if Fu Ward had intervened in this matter, well, there's no need to assume. Based on Jia Xu's ability to analyze and judge, he could pin the matter on Fu Ward's side. There's no need to discuss Fu Ward's situation. The other party must have intervened, and there's a high probability that he was the mastermind.

As I said, the reason why Fuward did not cause any major trouble was that the Han Dynasty had people in Tibet and also had local legions that were blocking the Xinzhou and Yizhou Yanbian areas. Fuward had few people and could not achieve results in one go, so any battle with the Han Dynasty could not change the final result.

The most frustrating thing about foreign wars is that the suppression of the logistics and transportation system puts the front-line troops under extreme pressure, resulting in that even if your hard power explodes, the combat effectiveness you can exert is far from the normal level.

This was also the dilemma faced by the Han Dynasty in the early days of the Ganges. It's no use being strong. If you can't maintain a one-to-five record on the battlefield, the enemy will eventually wear you out.

This is the situation that Ford is facing. The 40,000 people under his command have no problem in fighting in the war of the Upper Empire in terms of hard power. Even though the core headquarters was severely humiliated by the Three Idiots once, it still applies that those who are qualified to be humiliated by the Three Idiots with the Xiliang Iron Cavalry and auxiliary troops are undoubtedly the elite troops at the core of each empire.

You can say that the Xiliang Iron Cavalry runs slowly, or that the Xiliang Iron Cavalry does not attack enough, but when a head-on battle breaks out and the Xiliang Iron Cavalry deploys in steamroller mode to push across, if you can still barely hold on, you should have an idea of ​​your level.

The core headquarters of Fuward and Assam are almost at this level. After all, the two of them were originally tasked with carrying out a diversionary mission. If they were not given some reinforcements, even if they entered the Han Dynasty and were caught by the tail, they might be easily bitten to death.

Therefore, in terms of combat power on paper, Fuward is still very reliable. Even if he goes crazy, he can still sustain a small-scale imperial war.

However, paper is just paper. What about the actual combat effectiveness? In the Battle of Qiangtang, the young and strong men of Qing Qiang and Fa Qiang led by Yang Pu and others retreated directly.

In terms of the losses on both sides, Fu Ward was undoubtedly the winner, but from a strategic perspective, Fu Ward was undoubtedly the loser. It was a huge waste to waste the already limited military forces on the local Qiang people, which was also the reason why Fu Ward became more and more cowardly later on.

There is no way. If you are not careful in foreign wars, it is easy to see a surge in the early stages and then a direct overturn in the later stages. This is also an important reason why Masinde has been able to control Fuward in recent years.

However, this kind of control seems to be ineffective now. After all, Fu Ward is not a fool. To recognize a person, you should not look at what he says, but what he does. Masinde has done a lot of things, which are indeed beneficial to the strategy, but he has been suppressing Fu Ward's idea of ​​attacking, even though the reasons are very sufficient. Now it is almost time for both sides to show their cards.

Therefore, when Jia Xu passed his speculation back, the senior officials of the Han Dynasty basically agreed with this speculation, and it was most likely that it was Fu Ward's last dying struggle.

"What do you mean by a new incident?" Li You looked at Chen Xi dissatisfiedly and said, "If you really want to know what's going on, don't you know?"

After Gan Ning drove away the seventh-generation ship, Li You did not stay in Donglai for long and chose to return almost on the same day. The officialdom in Qingzhou was still very good in terms of stability and purity. After all, every household in Qingzhou had someone who had seen blood.

The solutions to many things depend on human cognition, and the people of Qingzhou, who have experienced a truly chaotic era, have solutions to many things that are more in line with their own morals - General Liu lets us have enough food, and we believe in him. You don't seem to be prepared to let me have enough food, so you are definitely not his people, so get him!
So Li You went there to inspect twice, and when he passed by Mount Tai, he brought a few disabled veterans whom he remembered to Chang'an, and enjoyed the limb reattachment technology, but he didn't do much. In his words, if every place can maintain the atmosphere of Qingzhou, the prosperity of the country will be just around the corner.

Chen Xi sneered at this. Nonsense, pure nonsense. The situation in Qingzhou has only existed in the last ten years or so. You will know the situation in ten years or so. People cannot live in the past forever. Those who have experienced that era will eventually leave. Prosperity and peace will naturally breed darkness. This is only too normal.

"I suggest that Mashind surrender directly and not bother with those trivial matters, but who asked him to give face to Fu Ward? Now that things have turned out like this, he even dared to collude with the Khotanese to assassinate Weishuo. It goes without saying what he wants to do next." Chen Xi curled his lips and said. Morally speaking, he really shouldn't have driven Mashind to do this, but as Mashind was doing it, Fu Ward even sent people to cause trouble.

"Come to think of it, it seems like a lot of things are crowded together now?" Zhuge Liang slowly closed the document in front of him. Chen Xi was trying his best to withdraw, which made Zhuge Liang's work become more arduous. The frequency of the two goblins fighting at home became higher and higher, and the things they developed became more and more bizarre.

"It's about the same. After all, it's the tenth year of Yuanfeng. There will be a grand court meeting at the end of the year. There will be a lot of things happening at this time every time. It was like this in the first year of Yuanfeng, and at the beginning of the sixth year of Yuanfeng. The beginning of the eleventh year of Yuanfeng is just a continuation of this situation." Chen Xi said calmly.

It's not just that things are crowded together, but many of the really big troubles cannot be cleared up in a short period of time. After all, many of them are not the affairs of one country.

Odin of the Norse is now said to be half dead, but as long as he is alive, he is a problem.

Locust plague. Although the core of the locusts were strangled by the three empires, the locust plague has not been completely resolved. After the scale of the third round of locusts was greatly reduced, it has now successfully landed in the northwest of Kushan. As for Central Asia of the Han Dynasty, it has been doomed. Fortunately, with the arrival of Liu Yan and Jia Xu's clean defeat of Sima Lang, the food that Yuan, Yang and Chen were short of was at least delivered.

This means that the Central Asian Family will not explode in the short term. The problem is that just because the Central Asian Family survived, it does not mean that the bandits in Central Asia can survive. If the first and second rounds of locust plagues put the bandits in Central Asia in a dilemma of cannibalism, then the arrival of the third round of locust plagues has left the bandits in Central Asia with no way to retreat, and they can only explode with the Central Asian Family.

Liu Ye has already received quite a few urgent reports from Central Asia, but as I said before, those who shouted for help were at least still alive. As for the few who were silent and had little reaction, Liu Ye was kind-hearted and asked Huang Tao to go and see if they were still alive.

Anyway, Central Asia has been in chaos recently. The Han family wants to defend Wubao to the death and not go to war with the Central Asian bandits. However, the Central Asian bandits will fight to the death to besiege Wubao near them even if they do not have enough siege weapons. After all, if they don't fight, they will die, and if they fight, they will die at most. Anyway, they will die, so of course they will choose the one who dies less ugly.

As a result, there is war everywhere in Central Asia now, and all the major families are basically besieged by bandit armies that are trapped in famine. The major families are very angry about this. After all, up to now, no matter where the major families got their food and grass from, they are generally confident that they can survive the third wave of locusts.

But this is based on the premise that there is no large-scale consumption. Once the war begins, even if it is to defend a city, the loss of food and grass will increase massively. After all, you can't let people eat food that is only enough to maintain the minimum life function when they go to the battlefield. That's nonsense.

Therefore, as long as a war breaks out, it will mean the danger of food shortage for all the noble families, so much so that now some noble families in Central Asia are in a state of panic.

In addition, Ardashir noticed that Cao Cao was hit by a locust plague again, and finally made up his mind to attack. Now the war in Northern Guizhou has restarted. Cao Cao's performance is already problematic due to a bunch of debuffs, and Ardashir took the initiative. Now he is almost being beaten. Fortunately, the area near Kandahar was not occupied by Ardashir, and Cao Cao seems to be able to hold on.

There is one black and one white. In addition to Yuan Shao who goes against the trend, Cao Cao is also very powerful. Even the AI ​​Cao Cao, under such adverse conditions, actually has to rely on external conflicts to gradually stabilize his power map. However, victory should be very far away, and cannot even be expected in the short term.

Taking into account the entanglement between Jiangdong and the Kushan Empire, as well as the chaos in the northwest, and the possible emergence of things like the Tibetan Province in Fuward, there are really a lot of things piling up in front of Chen Xi.

"Other matters can be put aside for now. The matter of Fu Ward needs to be dealt with as soon as possible." Fa Zheng suggested. Compared with other matters, there is still a certain buffer period. The matter of Fu Ward could happen at any time, and the Han Dynasty has no control over it. After all, Fu Ward said he would go alone, and he would go alone, unless Masinde chose to be put in a sack.

But Mashind has made it clear that it is impossible to do such a thing, so this matter has become something that must be resolved at the moment.

"In fact, the simplest plan at the moment is to let Qing Qiang and Fa Qiang attack and suppress Fu Ward. After a big fight between the two sides, Fu Ward will not have the energy to do this. Even if the enemy army is exposed in the northwest, it will be useless without enough manpower." Guo Jia said calmly, "Although Qing Qiang and Fa Qiang are not strong, Fu Ward's influence in Zangzhou is limited. If one of his men dies, he will lose one, and there is no way to replenish his manpower."

"Don't do this unless it's absolutely necessary. Although the leaders of Qing Qiang and Fa Qiang have repeatedly expressed their willingness to fight Fu Ward at all costs, we can't treat this as normal." Chen Xi shook his head and said.

Both Qing Qiang and Fa Qiang have expressed their opinions, and Chen Xi believes that the opinions expressed by these two tribes are sincere. The problem is that Chen Xi asked Qing Qiang and Fa Qiang to stay in Tibet in order to assimilate and build Tibet and prepare for the Han Dynasty's border guarding troops to go to Tibet.

After all, the preparations for dividing the Ganges' essence area have been made, so the final defenses must be taken. Chen Xi believes that when Liu Bei and he are alive, the feudal lords of previous generations will definitely not rebel and will definitely support the Han Dynasty. But after he and Liu Bei are gone, it would be strange if the feudal lords who own the Kushan essence area do not have ambitions to covet the Central Plains.

Or to put it more directly, I have such strength, but you still don't allow me to ask how heavy the tripod is? Don't I have the awareness to unify the world?

We are all this kind of people, the eldest brother should not talk about the second brother.

So from the very beginning, after Liu Bei agreed to this plan, Chen Xi knew that the backlash from the enfeoffment of the Kushan elite areas was only a matter of time.

However, considering the establishment of the Han cultural circle, Chen Xi cannot let this backlash occur too early. It must last at least a hundred years before the local area can be completely assimilated into the Han homeland.

In order to maintain it for a hundred years, it is necessary to control the Tibetan area and intimidate the Kushan core area from a high position.

It is true that due to the Little Ice Age, the snow line in the Himalayas has moved down, making it no longer advisable for ordinary troops to go through Tibet to enter northern Guizhou and the Ganges. However, the Little Ice Age only lasts for a few decades, and after this period, it will still be possible to go.

After all, according to official history, Fu Kang'an led the Qing army to fight the Gurkhas by entering Tibet from the northwest, then crossed the Tibetan area for two months, crossed the Himalayas and went straight into Gurkhas, and then killed the enemy.

Although there are indeed some other reasons involved, logically speaking, it is feasible to go south from Tibet to enter Kushan without the influence of the Little Ice Age, and there are enough advantages from top to bottom. As long as the gap is not too big and there is no shortage of water in the mountains, the advantage of diving on the opponent is actually very obvious. This is the chain that Chen Xi put on the enfeoffment of Kushan.

However, this chain is still being manufactured, and because of the existence of the Little Ice Age, even if this chain is built now, nothing can be seen. As long as Liu Bei and Chen Xi survive the Little Ice Age and before they die, they can demonstrate to the Ganges lords, who may have changed two generations of leaders by then, how to quickly attack the Ganges from Zangzhou. This will be enough to suppress them for another few decades or even hundreds of years.

Therefore, the construction and assimilation of the Tibetan area is very important. Judging from what Chen Xi has learned so far, based on the output of the Tibetan area alone, even with the special support of Chang'an, the final number of troops stationed there will probably be around 50,000 at most on a regular basis. However, sometimes, having these 50,000 makes a huge difference to not having them, and it is even enough to affect the overall situation.

For this reason, from a long-term perspective, the handling of the Tibetan area also needs to be carefully considered. As for the future layout and the suppression of the Ganges core area, Chen Xi will not mention it now.

"In fact, it would be best to let Qing Qiang and Fa Qiang fight Fu Ward. We now know Fu Ward's exact location. Yang Pu can lead the young and strong to launch a surprise attack. It shouldn't be a big problem." Li You also suggested, "This is the most effective solution."

"Fuward should know that the Bactra Mountain City has been occupied by the Han Dynasty and has become the fiefdom of the Chen family. How could he still go to the northwest?" Fa Zheng glanced at everyone present and asked, "Assassinating Sima Lang and then forcing the local legions to dispatch troops to quell the rebellion, resulting in a gap in the northwest blockade, is obviously a sign that Fuward wants to escape, although I think it's strange that he ran from the northwest."

Fu Ward's current situation has changed a lot from what it was before. The reason he was able to go to Zangzhou back then, in addition to the natural disaster, was largely due to the unexpected situation and the help of the people of Khotan. In fact, the assassination of Liu Yan this time can also be seen. Even now, Fu Ward still has a strong influence among the people of Khotan.

But it is normal to think about it. When the Kushan Empire was at its peak, the people of Altai actually fought as far as Khorasan, then looked east to the Han Dynasty, and forced the thirty-six kingdoms in the Western Regions. During that period, they did control several small countries, among which Khotan itself was one of the controlled countries.

The Kingdom of Khotan must have been unhappy when it was being manipulated, but compared to being integrated into a county by the Han Dynasty later, the Kushans' actions back then were more acceptable to them. Considering that there were already restorationists in the Kingdom of Khotan itself and they were mixed up with the Kushans, it was not surprising.

But on the other hand, with the existence of the Khotanese, even if Fu Ward was blocked in Tibet, he could not have been unaware that his hometown, the mountain city of Bactra, had been captured by Chen Zhong. In this case, it would be ridiculous for Fu Ward to create a loophole in the northwest.

To put it bluntly, even if Fuward had extraordinary abilities and could create a gap in the blockade of the Northwestern Local Legion, and then rushed down with his elite troops, tens of thousands of people would need a lot of food and supplies. With the burden of food and supplies, Fuward's marching speed could not be increased at all. Considering that the mountain city of Bactria was no longer in the hands of the Kushans, Fuward's return route directly became Pamir Mountains → Central Asia → Herat → Kandahar → Kabul → Peshawar.

To be honest, if Fu Ward could go back like this, he would at least have to have Alexander's ability to win every battle and use war to support war, otherwise he might be hit to death as soon as he goes out.

This path is not something Fuward can take. Not to mention that the camel cavalry under Fuward is now at most at the level of the Royal Guards, or even just a mix of Royal Guards and double talents. Even if they are all the top elites who can fight against the Xiliang Iron Cavalry head-on, what can they do?
Back then, the distance that Ardashir took from the Caucasus was shorter than the route that Fuward is taking now, and the difficulty level was also lower than it is now. Oswald was there to greet him in the Kandahar area, but the last batch of Ardashir's legions that transported personnel and logistics were still defeated by the Central Asian family.

The power gap between the two sides is there. Even if Fuward had experienced the highest enlightenment in a place like Tibet and achieved a complete transformation, as long as he is not a god of war, he can't expect to return to Kushan with 40,000 people along this road. If he has the ability, he can just rush to Chang'an, causing chaos in the world, forcing Bai Qi and Han Xin to take action, wouldn't it be better to shock both gods and humans?

"So what do you mean? Making a feint to the east and attacking in the west?" Chen Xi asked thoughtfully, "That shouldn't be the case. We are still in the Little Ice Age and the snow line is so high. Not to mention Fuward, we secretly sent people to try to cross the Himalayas before, but it was impossible to execute it."

As he spoke, Chen Xi looked at Guo Jia. This extreme plan was made by Guo Jia. Guo Jia had walked through the southern foothills of the Himalayas with Guan Yu and had some understanding of the terrain there. He always felt that although the mountain roads in the Himalayas were difficult to walk on, they were not much more difficult than those in Sichuan and Shu. He could find an elite mountain corps and try to start from Tibet, directly cross the Himalayas, and then airdrop to the Kushan capital.

This was the decapitation and pincer attack plan that Guo Jia had come up with, which was nominally a few large armies that forced the main forces of the Kushan Empire to go to the front line, and then a group of divine soldiers would descend from the sky to directly decapitate the Kushan capital, destroying it in the blink of an eye, and then lead troops to attack the rear of the front line, cut off the opponent's food and logistics, and then easily obtain the final victory.

How to explain this idea? If the beginning of the third century had not been a little ice age, there would be no problem with this plan. Even though it would require very high quality of soldiers and a long period of training and adjustment to reach Tibet, the plan is generally fine. After about three years of preparation, this cost-effective plan should be implemented.

However, the problem now is that during the Little Ice Age, the snow line has dropped. The snow line in the southern foothills of the Himalayas has dropped from the original 6,000 meters to 3,000 or 4,000 meters, and all conventional channels have been destroyed.

As a result, Guo Jia's decapitation plan was ruined after being evaluated by dozens of immortal veterans, because even the immortal veterans almost died when taking such an outrageous route. The most unlucky ones even encountered an avalanche. The difference in the snow line was several thousand meters, and an operational error could cause an avalanche. Not to mention one person, even an entire legion would be enough to bury you.

So in the end, Guo Jia gave up this plan.

Therefore, after Chen Xi proposed the idea of ​​making a feint to the east and attacking in the west, Guo Jia first glanced at Chen Xi. It was Chen Xi who asked him to do the verification in the first place, but now Chen Xi himself is considering how to cross the Himalayas from the north to the south. What a joke.

"It seems impossible." Fa Zheng was silent for a while. He also knew the verification done by Guo Jia.

"It's impossible to go northwest, and it's also impossible to go south. So what does Fu Ward want to do? Can you give me an explanation?" Zhuge Liang asked others with a somewhat confused tone.

"It's not impossible." Li You was silent for a while before saying, "This might be what Masinde wants."

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