Xiangyang, school field.

"Kill!"

"Kill!"

"Kill!"

The majestic shouting of killing resounded in the sky, in addition to the city guards who patrolled daily, the remaining 20,000 army city guards were concentrated on the school field by Li Yuanji to train, carrying a cold and shining horse lance on the school field, watching a group of soldiers tirelessly train the art of stabbing.

In fact, if he could, Li Yuanji would like to go to the camp outside the city to see how his second brother Li Shimin trained, I heard that the second brother's red armor army is very powerful, but unfortunately it is the second brother's most powerful private army, even the eldest brother Li Jiancheng doesn't know how to practice, the relationship between Li Yuanji and Li Shimin has always been bad, he knows that the second brother will definitely not teach himself, so he didn't go to find himself boring.

Every day, I groped for my own training, and if I didn't understand something, I would find my eldest brother, or ask my father to come and give me some advice.

In this regard, Li Yuan is very happy. Every day in his spare time, he would always come to see Li Yuanji's training, the emperor watched from the sidelines, and the soldiers practiced in full swing every day, and in a short period of time, this army had a lot of combat power

Li Yuan looked very satisfied, and what was even more satisfied was that of course it was the transformation of the fourth son, after a period of military camp life, his fourth son, who had repeatedly made troubles, became more and more of a soldier's temperament, and the previous second ancestor quietly disappeared, as if he had grown up all of a sudden.

As a disciple of Jiangmen, Li Yuan still likes Li Yuanji today.

"Report!"

In the distance, a strong guard ran over, hurriedly came to the parade platform, and saluted Li Yuan respectfully: "Your Excellency, the prince and the prime ministers have important matters to discuss. ”

"Something important?" Li Yuan glanced at this person in surprise, it had been less than an hour since he had just finished discussing the important matter.

"Exactly!" The guard said respectfully: "It seems that the Sui Dynasty has imposed martial law at various passes. ”

"Oh! I've cleared my mind. Li Yuan's heart tightened, he felt sweat flowing out, greeted Li Yuanji, and returned to the palace.

Li Yuanji secretly scolded those sons for their bad deeds, so that before the most powerful means to harm themselves were shown, his father left.

Li Yuanji resigned helplessly. He glanced at the guard angrily, gritted his teeth, and continued to toss the 20,000 soldiers under his command.

Li Yuan returned to the palace.

"Father!"

"Holy!"

Li Jiancheng, Li Shimin, Liu Wenjing, Pei Lian, Chen Shuda, and Xiao Yu, who had been waiting in the council hall for a long time, respectfully saluted.

"Flat!" Looking at the second son and the fourth phase, Li Yuan smiled with satisfaction, any person in a position likes to watch his subordinates fight, and Li Yuan is not exempt from vulgarity.

People are divided into groups, and the big factions are basically related to the region, Dugu Quan and Dou Wei are actually the Guanzhong system, Pei Lin and Liu Wenjing were the Kanto system before, and Chen Shuda and Xiao Yu were the southern system.

The six phases originally only represented the interests of the three regions of Guanlong, Kandong, and Nanfang, but after he deliberately divided, the six phases were subdivided into six factions: Liu faction, Pei faction, Sun faction, Xiao faction, Dugu faction, and Dou faction.

The crown prince and the king of Jin are each related to the support of the Long, the southern scholars, and the Kwantung scholars, which are quite balanced, as long as they firmly control the two sons, then these six factions will not be able to jump out of their palms.

It's just that these six factions have to consider their own interests, and when they vote on major issues, they often do not proceed from the overall situation, but give priority to the interests of their own factions. So sometimes, it also gives Li Yuan a headache.

This thought flashed in Li Yuan's mind, and he returned to the current question, and after he sat down, he frowned and asked, "What is Yang Tong'er doing again?" ”

"Father, the spy personnel of Yecheng sent back information as soon as possible, saying that Yang Tong was preparing to fight the Eastern Turks to the death. Internally, it is closed to the country. Li Jiancheng, who was in charge of intelligence, said: "The Sui Dynasty naval army is responsible for blocking the Yellow River from Bohai County to Hedong County, Tongguan, Wuguan, Hanzhong, Hechi, Hanyang, Lintao and other places are also only allowed to go out, but not enter. That is to say, the order to close the country from the country was officially issued, and the Sui Dynasty cut off all ties with the south. ”

Li Jiancheng said helplessly, this is also what makes Yang Tong different, his territory is simple, and if he wants to close off the country, he will close the country. And the territories of many princes of the 'Southern Dynasty' are intertwined, and they can't do this step at all.

"Closing the country and fighting the Turks?" Li Yuan has a faint sense of majesty, as the founding emperor of Li Tang, his body is more or less contaminated with a bit of imperial breath, and at this moment, his eyes are sinking, and he actually has a bit of momentum without anger, which is very different from usual.

"Exactly!" Li Jiancheng said Yang Dong's two Great Sui edicts.

"Oh?" Li Yuan looked at Li Jiancheng, since Li Tang installed the intelligence personnel in Yecheng because of the price of grain, after the Sui Dynasty purged, the strength of the strength was greatly reduced, after the defeat of Guanzhong, Li Yuan felt that his intelligence ability was seriously insufficient, and specially ordered Li Jiancheng to strengthen the ability to collect intelligence, and invested a lot of money.

"Just now, the spy staff came with news quickly, since Yang Tong's order, the soldiers and horses have been mobilized frequently, I am afraid that a big war is imminent. But Yang Tong used to move troops silently, and it was not until the end of the war that it spread all over the world. However, this time he changed the style of the past, and before he set out on the expedition, he made a big show and transferred his troops into Guanzhong, and Erchen was worried that he was ostensibly dealing with the Turks, but in fact he was preparing to use troops against our Tang Dynasty. Li Jiancheng's eyes flashed with a thick sadness, although Yang Tong once told him: Li Tang is his pawn, and he will not use troops before the southern scholars are harmed by the Guanlong magnates.

But Yang Tong is the enemy, if you believe the enemy, then the Tang Dynasty will be finished. And the biggest impression of Yang Tong is not that he can fight tough battles, but that he is as cunning as a fox. His biggest characteristic is that he is good at using Yang to trap people, so that you have to be led by his nose. Now that the army is pouring into Guanzhong, it is still very possible to take the opportunity to kill Ba Shu.

"The emperor is saying that Yang Tong is 'Ming Xiu Plank Road Darkness Chen Cang'." Li Yuan was also frightened by Yang Tong, and when he heard Li Jiancheng's words, he said with a solemn expression: "This fang is as cunning as a fox, and he is acting like this at this moment, I am afraid that there is a conspiracy!" ”

"Father is wise!" Li Jiancheng patted himself lightly.

"Yang Tong is cunning by nature, and he will inevitably be tricked by him, this time we must strictly guard against the blockade, and we must not let him sneak attack again. According to my calculations, if Yang Dong goes south, there are only three ways to go: one is to carry out Bashu from Hechi and Hanyang, but Bashu is mountainous, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the Sui army is heavily ridden, it is unlikely that Yang Dong will take this road, even if Yang Dong really marches from Bashu, he can still hold on to the assistance of the army, so let the civil and military forces everywhere stick to it carefully. ”

"Second, it is from Hanchuan to Xicheng County!" Speaking of which, Li Yuan found that even if he arrived in Xiangyang, he was still under the threat of Yang Tong's troops, and the situation was even worse than before.

This is mainly the threat brought by Hanzhong, during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the Chu State guarded the Jiangguan in the west, in order to strangle the Qin army from the Three Gorges to the east, Qin destroyed Shu, captured more than 600 miles of Hanzhong, and placed Hanzhong County, making it a threat to the advance base of the Chu State, which cut off the route of the Chu army to the northwest, and it was also the strategic norm of the Qin to the southeast and southeast to attack the Chu State, and the hegemony of the Qin and Chu countries in Hanzhong ended with the Qin being strong and Chu weak. During the period of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the Liu Song policy of establishing the capital Jiankang was able to compete with the Northern Wei Dynasty for Longxi, which was thousands of miles away, mainly relying on the Han River connected by waterways, and the Han River Valley was relatively smooth and open, unlike the direct southward need to cross the Qinba high mountains. If the Sui army came along the Han River, Li Tang would be in great danger.

Li Yuan, who had a headache, thought about it, looked at Li Shimin and said, "Emperor, quickly lead the soldiers and horses of the headquarters to Xicheng County to monitor Yang Dong's movements." I thought that if Yang Tong went south, it was very likely that he would march from here, and once Yang Tong sent troops from here, he would immediately inform Yu I, if he did not move, or if he really fought the Turks, he could not easily send troops. When the emperor arrived in Shiquan County, he immediately chose a dangerous place and established a dangerous pass to block the eastward advance of the Sui army and reduce the pressure on our army. ”

"Whoa!" When Li Shimin heard this, he bowed down and retreated with great joy, which meant that he had another opportunity to lead the troops.

Li Jiancheng glanced at Li Shimin's back, a trace of helplessness flashed in his eyes, for the sake of Li Tang's overall situation, no matter how unwilling he was, he could only admit it.

"Yang Tong's third way to the south is to enter Xiyang from Wuguan!" The worried Li Yuan did not find anything strange about Li Jiancheng, even if he saw it at this time, he would ignore it, after all, compared with the survival of the country, the dispute between the two sons would seem insignificant, and he did not want Li Shimin to be weak from now on, he pondered for a while, and then said: "Appoint Chai Shao as the county guard of Xiyang, and lead an army of 40,000 troops to be stationed between Danshui and Wuguan to prevent the Sui Dynasty from entering Wuguan and the Danshui River Valley." In addition, let Xiaogong stabilize and be sure to contain Li Mi to the east of Chungling. ”

"Whoa!"

……

South group Jiangling, Xiaoliang Palace

A man in a dragon robe, dignified, imposing, and tired in his eyes looked at the anxious letter, his pale face revealed a strong color of joy, and under him was a Confucian with a calm temperament and deep eyes.

These two people are the text of Xiao Liang's Emperor Xiao Mo and Lang Cen for Zhongshu.

"Holy Lord, but good news from the front?" Zhongshu Shilang Cen Wenwen is only twenty-five years old this year, young and promising, deeply trusted by Xiao Mi, to be in charge of the secrets of the Xiao Liang Dynasty, and it is precisely in his repeated encouragement that Xiao Mi slowly came out of the shadow of Li Yuan, Li Mi, and Du Shihong.

Xiao Mo is only thirty-seven years old this year, his face is resolute and mature, but the decadent national situation makes his hair gray, and he has a sense of crane hair and childish face, he said happily: "Cen Aiqing, Jingling County Guard sent an urgent report, the Sui Dynasty Tun army Guanzhong, there is a southern invasion of Li Tang, Li Xiaogong retreated from Jingling, and confronted Li Mi in Lingling. ”

He read another battle report and said with a smile: "When the Yang guard general also said that the Tang army retreated to Yuan'an, it seems that the Sui army put a lot of pressure on Li Yuan." ”

"Shengshang, Li Yuan was worried that the Sui Dynasty would use the name of annihilating the Turks to carry out the policy of 'building plank roads in the open and Chencang in the dark', so he had to withdraw his troops. But if the Sui army really goes to fight the Turks, the Tang army, which has been rested, will attack more fiercely next time than before, so we can't pin our own safety on the Sui Dynasty. Cen Wenwen said lightly.

Xiao Mo frowned, let out a long sigh, and said: "In the final analysis, I only complain that our army is too weak, and it was defeated and retreated by Li Yuan and Li Mi, and even Lin Shihong, a water thief, can't beat it." I thought we could take this opportunity to recuperate and train our strong army. ”

"This is a very good act!" For Xiao Miao's decision, Cen Wenwen also agreed very much, before he also looked down on the Tang army that had been repeatedly defeated by the hands of the Great Sui, but after the Tang army went south, it was unusually fierce, which also made Xiao Mi and him know that it was not the Tang army that was weak, but that the Sui army was too strong, so they all put away their contempt, and he suggested: "Our army has sufficient troops, and the minister thinks that in addition to vigorously rectifying training, he can also develop to the east, and take this opportunity to destroy the weakest Lin Shihong, in order to ensure peace in the east, in order to ensure the supply of army food, you can first recover Yuzhang County, where Lin Shihong's main force is gathered, As long as this county is captured, the army can move south from Ganshui and conquer Yichun County, Luling County and Nankang County like a bamboo, and at the same time, it also achieves the effect of training troops. ”

"Sir, this is a feasible plan! That's it. ”

Xiao Mo walked back and forth a few steps with his hands behind his back, and said to Cen Wenwen: "I think that I can also implement the strategy of 'distant friendship and close attack' to win the political support of the Sui Dynasty, so please go to Yecheng and have a good talk with Yang Gongren, the left servant of the Sui Dynasty." ”

"Holy Wisdom! The minister will do it. Cen Wenwen very much agrees with Xiao Miao's plan.

Yang Tong was a smart man, and presumably he did not want Li Yuan to annex Jingzhou, which was rich in land and had an important strategic position. Therefore, the Sui Dynasty and Xiao Liang reached an offensive and defensive agreement, which was of great benefit to both sides, and for Xiao Liang, the Sui Dynasty only needed to accumulate heavy troops in Hanzhong and Wuguan, which could relieve the huge pressure from Li Tang.

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