The elite of the three roads of the Great Sui pointed directly at Changyuan, and Yang Tong sat in Luoyang and commanded in the center; Li Shimin actively prepared for war, Li Tang increased his troops to the eastern expedition to the Western Front, and the crown prince Li Jiancheng personally took command...... A series of news has made Hongnong a place of worldwide attention.

For the Great Sui, this battle seems to be only a large and medium-sized battle, winning seems to be just the icing on the cake, and losing does not seem to hurt, but Yang Tong has not lost once since his debut, and the Tang Army has never won the Sui Army once, the important thing is that everyone knows that the morale of the Tang Army is not high, so everyone is generally not optimistic about the Tang Army.

Winning or losing is not important to the Great Sui, but Li Tang cares very much, wins, keeps Hongnong and the army, and boosts the sluggish morale of Li Tang and the opposition...... Lose, then needless to say, it must be the Sui army to take advantage of the victory to pursue, not to mention attacking Xiangyang City, but at least to be able to take Hongnong County, if the Sui army that stopped at Wuchuan County in Shuyang kills Nanyang at this time, the Li Shentong Department is estimated to be enough, Li Shentong is unknown, he is not a famous general, if it is not Li Yuan's cousin, and he is unusually reused, no one knows that there is such a number one, his world-famous battle was defeated and captured by Yang Tong with less victory and more under Hedong City, Then the Li Tang Dynasty spent a lot of money to redeem him and Pei Lian

And who is confronting him?

Qin Qiong, who is famous all over the world and has countless reputations.

Qin Qiong has participated in all the battles of Yang Tong since the beginning, but whenever Yang Dong led the war, Qin Qiong is the commander of a partial division, after leaving Yang Dong to become independent, he has annihilated nearly 200,000 elite divisions of Jieli Khan outside the Saiwai, and his brilliance and outstanding achievements are not enough to describe his contributions to his own clan, although he did not ascend to the altar, but he also entered the ranks of the famous commanders in the world.

Can Li Shentong play better than others?

Extrapolating from the experiences, military exploits, force, strategy, and courage of the two of them, Li Tang Chaoye was extremely depressed and found that it seemed that Li Shentong was not as good as he was, and even his face was not as good-looking as that of his parents, and his figure was not as tall and burly as others.

Well, the national war is not decided by the commander alone, but the army's combat strength and equipment are not as good as others, so it is too unpromising.

Comparing them one by one, Li Shentong doesn't have a little advantage, uh, you can't say that, at least Li Shentong can make money better than Qin Qiong, and he is richer than Qin Qiong......

Is this a plus?

From the perspective of Li Shentong's family, making money is indeed an advantage! However, from the perspective of the Chinese people, it is not a good thing, and some people suspect that Li Shentong has withheld military salaries and resold materials, resulting in many soldiers being unclothed. Even the knives were made of wood, but a layer of paint was applied to the outside to hide people's eyes, how could such a weapon be cut against the sophisticated weapons of the Sui army? This kind of rumor has been spread in Nanyang, especially in the military camp, and it has naturally caused a lot of chaos.

This rumor is quite weird, like a kind of rootless water, which suddenly arose in Nanyang, and after circulating for several days, it finally reached the ears of Li Jiancheng of Zhuyang Guan.

Zhuyangguan!

Seeing the urgent report sent by Nanyang, Li Jiancheng's brows wrinkled into the word 'Sichuan', and the anger in his heart suddenly gushed out.

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For Li Jiancheng, his trip north to the Central Plains was also divided into three steps, the first step was to consolidate the two counties of Xiyang and Nanyang, and his approach was to borrow from the Sui Dynasty to replace all the officials of the two counties with completely credible Tang officials, rather than enemy officials who had surrendered before, or local gentry; The former has a bad record of surrender and is not credible, while the latter's family interests are all in the local area, if the Sui army uses this to threaten, the possibility of surrender is extremely high, and only by replacing these people can Li Tang's absolute control over the two counties be ensured.

The second step was to sit in Zhuyang Pass and threaten Xue Wanjun's troops in Shangluo Sui, so as to ensure that Li Shimin's passage from Hongnong Changyuan to Lushi and to Zhuyang Pass was unblocked.

In the end, the third step is to go north to Hongnong, join forces with Li Shimin, and strive to defeat Yang Shanhui's troops, protect Hongnong, a wedge sandwiched between Guanzhong and the Central Plains, and leave a strategic frontier position for the future eastward march to Luoyang, or north to attack Hedong, or west to Guanzhong, which is also the expectation of the imperial court.

As for the imperial court's optimistic idea of defeating the Sui army, taking advantage of the situation to kill Henan, trapping Luoyang, and capturing Yang Tong alive, Li Jiancheng thought it was unrealistic, it was a pipe dream, and it was a fallacy that could not see the current situation.

It is not that Li Tang is pessimistic that he will be defeated, but that Li Jiancheng, as the prince of a country, is very sober and knows very well that the gap between the enemy and us in terms of national strength is that if he blindly expands his territory, the limited army of the Tang Dynasty will be scattered into a plate of scattered sand, and thus be swallowed up one by one by the huge number and highly educated Sui army, and the result is that the territory cannot be harvested and the army is also exhausted. Let me ask you, what is the use of such a short-term site?

In the eyes of some people in the Tang Dynasty, Yang Tong was a madman who was good at taking risks and daring to take risks, whether it was the Liaodong campaign to destroy the Khitan, defeat Goguryeo, and force the Xi people, or the battle of Mayi with Shibi Khan, the feat of moving to the grassland for thousands of miles, or at the same time with the Eastern Turkic Jieli Khan, the Western Turkic Yehu Khan's Saibei War, all of which were unpopular wars with fewer enemies and more enemies, although Yang Tong won in the end. But everyone always thinks that he is a madman, and being an enemy of the world's family also proves this.

Li Jiancheng doesn't see it that way, after so many years of confrontation, he has been carefully studying Yang Tong's every move, and finally found that Yang Tong is not only not an adventurer, but a character full of steady wind, but all hidden under the appearance of 'crazy'. He thinks that Yang Tong has the confidence to win, so he led the soldiers of the Great Sui to fight this war that no one in the world looks down on. On the contrary, the Tang Dynasty, arrogance and contempt for the enemy have always prevailed, not that the Tang Dynasty civil and military are all fools, but as the children of the family, they have a sense of superiority in their bones, they look down on Yang Dong, look down on the 'mud legs' of the Great Sui Wenwu, even if the Tang Dynasty is defeated again and again in fact, but they just look down on the Sui Dynasty monarchs and ministers, what can you do? This made Li Jiancheng very helpless.

Although Li Jiancheng knew that the Tang army in the hands of his second brother Li Shimin would be the target of the Sui army's key attack, he did not mean that he was easy, if Li Shimin was defeated, the main force of the Tang army would be lost, and it would be of no benefit to the country; Secondly, if the Sui army wants to eat Li Shimin's army completely, it will not give him a safe withdrawal of the army to the south, so that he who is responsible for receiving will be the first to be attacked by the Sui army, and if he is a little careless, it will be difficult for him to protect himself.

But he never expected that before the battle began, he would make such a big scandal, and besides, Li Shentong was still the core member of the prince's department, if the matter was true, he, the prince, would be to blame.

Of course, what worries him even more is that he is keenly aware that the situation of the battle has changed. This scandal can be said to be extremely unfavorable to the country and to himself.

When Li Jiancheng was thinking about countermeasures, a personal soldier reported: "Your Royal Highness, King Qi and Mr. Changsun have something important to see." ”

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(Correct is Li Shimin, King of Jin, and Li Yuanji, King of Qi.) I got it wrong in the previous chapters, but now I've got it right!! The younger brother is embarrassed to ask for a reward...... Cheekily implore the brothers and sisters who have a ticket in hand to vote, and the monthly pass and recommendation vote can make the popularity of this book increase by one or two, please brothers and sisters. ）

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