"I pulled you out and affected you!" Li Xiaogong's mansion, Li Jiancheng said to Li Xiaogong apologetically.

"The system of the imperial court firmly grasping the command of the military generals in front is the biggest drawback of my Datang military, if I don't break this stubborn disease, my Datang will be defeated, so His Royal Highness said it very well, there is no such thing as being involved or not being involved! Although I was deposed as a citizen, I believe that justice is in the hearts of the people. Li Xiaogong has received the holy order of demotion and knows the whole story from Li Jiancheng's mouth, but he has no complaints about Li Jiancheng.

"......" Li Jiancheng was speechless.

"Actually, even if Your Highness doesn't mention this matter, I have to find an opportunity to take the initiative! It's just that this system has made the generals tied up and unable to let go of their hands and feet at all when they start a war, causing us to miss the opportunity to win again and again. Under this unreasonable system, it is normal for us to lose; If you win, it's either luck, a surprise, or the enemy general is too stupid. To be honest, this kind of general is not appropriate. ”

Li Xiaogong glanced at Li Jiancheng, and then said: "If you leave aside the identity of the Li clan, purely from the perspective of a military general, I really envy those generals of the Sui Dynasty, although there are any civilian personnel of the 'Military Affairs Division' around them who are doing things, but these people and military generals have a leisurely comrade-in-arms relationship, and it is precisely because of them to deal with food, logistics, soldiers' emotions and other miscellaneous things that the generals of the Sui Dynasty can let go of their hands and feet to stare at their enemies, and put down all chores to deploy every battle." But what about us? ”

Li Jiancheng didn't know where to start, so he had to copy Li Yuan's set, and only heard him say: "I know what you said, but you just said that the Sui Dynasty's 'Military Affairs Division' is a very reasonable existence, and the 'Military Affairs Division' These people are all civilian personnel, and they are people from the Sui Dynasty's court, so we can't fully deny the court's interference in military affairs, after all, major strategies such as mobilizing the people and preparing logistics and military rations need to be decided and supported by the imperial court. Only then can we work together to win a war, so I told my father that the imperial court interfered too deeply in the military. ”

Li Jiancheng actually has a high military talent, and he can assist Li Yuan in governing the world and be responsible for the logistics of the front line. It also has the majestic strategy of going on the horse to fight the world and getting off the horse to rule the world.

After Liu Heimin was defeated by Li Shimin, he fled to the Turks. Soon, Liu Heimin led the Turkic army to cause cholera in the Shandong region. Wei Zheng saw that Li Shimin's military merits were too great, so he suggested that Li Jiancheng go to the war to make meritorious contributions. Li Jiancheng asked to go to Liu Heimin. So Li Yuan sent Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji to lead the army, and Li Jiancheng won a complete victory in Weizhou, captured Liu Heimin, and pacified Shandong. This battle lasted only one month, which shows that Li Jiancheng also has military talent. From this, it can be seen that Li Jiancheng is an excellent successor to the throne who is both military and political.

It's just that Li Jiancheng is the crown prince of the Li Tang Empire, and he needs to pay attention to Li Tang's general policies such as agriculture, military, politics, industry, commerce, people's livelihood, education, etc., so he can only learn from Li Yuan's side and work for Li Yuan, so he can't make a difference in a certain field, so to a certain extent, he is a military talent who has been delayed by the 'prince'.

He understands everything, and naturally sees the serious problems in Li Tang's military, but Li Jiancheng is not the emperor now, but a hard-pressed prince who is worried that the emperor will usurp the throne, and he will do more and make more mistakes, and if he doesn't do it, his Royal Highness the Prince, so he can only see the problems of the Tang army in his eyes and be anxious in his heart.

Li Jiancheng, who opened the chatterbox, saw Li Xiaogong with an approving attitude, and then said: "In fact, there are many problems in my Tang army, not only the imperial court interferes too much in the military, but there are also many other problems, such as my father's military too much emphasis on clans, so that incompetent and immoral clansmen hold military power, and those good generals don't have much room to play, ......etc., I originally wanted to say a few more words, but my father was stunned by me, and I will find an opportunity to persuade him slowly in the future!" ”

"Your Highness said it well, we must fight to the end for the future of Datang!" Li Xiaogong very much agrees with Li Jiancheng's point of view, he himself has had the pain of his skin, if he led the army to retreat westward in the military operation, the main ones who came to the aid would be Chai Shao, Liu Hongji, Duan Zhixuan, ......, instead of Li Shentong, who only wanted to protect himself, the result would be very different.

Li Jiancheng felt bitter in his heart, it was even more difficult to prevent his father from interfering with the military than ascending to the sky, but he knew that Li Xiaogong was in a bad mood now and could not dampen his enthusiasm, so he could only say perfunctorily: "I will find a way to slowly persuade my father in the future, no matter what, we must cut off the stubborn disease of repeated defeats from the root." ”

"Hmm!" Li Xiaogong believed it as true.

Li Jiancheng changed the topic and said: "You have been fighting outside all these years, and you have hardly accompanied your family for a day, so you will recuperate at home first, and when this limelight is over, I will intercede for you and let you go out of the mountain again." ”

Li Xiaogong smiled bitterly: "Now it can only be like this." ”

"That's right!" Li Jiancheng, who was about to say goodbye, suddenly thought of something: "There is something I want to hear from you." ”

"It doesn't hurt for Your Highness to say it directly."

"The second brother wrote yesterday! He hoped that we would send 350,000 troops from Huai'an to attack the Yingchuan front, as long as we put pressure on the Sui army in Xingyang and Xiangcheng from the Yingchuan side......"

"Stop ......" Hearing the innocent words of a child, Li Xiaogong interrupted Li Jiancheng very unceremoniously and rudely, and said with an expression of looking at a fool: "Does Your Highness think that 350,000 people can threaten the soldiers of the Sui Dynasty?" ”

"Can't!" Li Jiancheng answered honestly with two words.

"And what do you say?" Li Xiaogong rolled his eyes.

"I'm just copying the meaning of the second brother!" Li Jiancheng smiled bitterly: "Actually, I don't think it's possible, even if my father agrees to send troops, it will be a foot soldier, and if you go, you will be in the mouth of a tiger; Secondly, it is too late in time. ”

In fact, Li Jiancheng silently added a sentence in his heart: Even if it is cavalry, we can't play the Sui army, but Yang Tong started by playing cavalry, and he is the ancestor of playing cavalry!

Originally!

Liu Heimin worked hard to assemble a cavalry, so as to be arrogant in the land of Qingzhou, and as a result, he was like a frog at the bottom of a well to intercept the Sui army going north, but in the end he was easily disabled by Yin Mingyue, a female general, leading a thousand cavalry, so that the southern natives saw the gap between the cavalry and the cavalry. As the crown prince of the Tang Dynasty, Li Jiancheng certainly knew about this incident.

Li Xiaogong pondered for a moment and wondered: "We all know this truth, there is no reason why King Qi should not understand, but why did he propose this immature plan?" ”

"His real intention was actually to withdraw his troops."

"Withdrawal?" Li Xiaogong was thoughtful.

"Yes!" Li Jiancheng felt that his understanding of military affairs was at the stage of 'talking on paper', and wanted to hear the opinions of this general with rich combat experience: "He said that his situation was also extremely bad, and the best way was to withdraw the army and temporarily cede the whole county of Hongnong to the Sui army, so as to preserve his own strength, and at the same time make every effort to hold on to Zhuyang Pass and Waiwu Pass, and keep the Sui army in Henan and Guanzhong outside Xiyang." ”

"A smart move!"

Li Xiaogong first commented, and then analyzed: "After more than a year of recuperation, my Datang has indeed trained a powerful army, but our so-called 'strong army' is a complete joke in front of the Sui army. This is not the case with the 'strong army', not to mention the new army. Li Xiaogong looked at the helpless Li Jiancheng, spread his hands, and said with a wry smile: "And for this Eastern Crusade, we have put all these 'strong troops' on top... As a result, the whole army on my side was wiped out, and the King of Qi could not protect itself. ”

"In fact, the war has continued until now, and the King of Qi has been reduced to a lone army in depth, and he is now completely in the disadvantageous situation of the Sui army surrounded on three sides, because in the east of him is the main force of Yang Tong's personal commander, and in the northeast is Yang Shanhui, who has won a hundred battles. The key is Xue Wanjun, who commanded the Sixth Army of the Sui Dynasty in Shangluo County, this person can enter Hongnong along the Luoshui River Valley at any time, enter the Lu clan like a wedge, and completely cut off the southward route of the King of Qi, as long as he successfully blocks the King of Qi for two days, the army of Yang Tong and Yang Shanhui will join him victoriously, and at that time, the King of Qi will fall into a desperate situation of ambush on all sides. If the army in the hands of the King of Qi is also defeated, then I will not have a chance to dominate the world again, so I agree with the withdrawal plan of the King of Qi. ”

Li Jiancheng frowned and said, "The second brother is worried that my father will not be willing, so I hope that I will also persuade my father to withdraw from the army." ”

Li Xiaogong asked, "The question is, will he agree?" ”

"To be honest, I didn't convince my father of the confidence ......," Li Jiancheng sighed.

The reason why the Tang army decided to go east at this time was to a large extent to take advantage of Yang Tong's strategic gap in focusing on the Western Regions and the Sui Dynasty's military overhaul, to annihilate Wang Shichong, who was not strong, in one fell swoop, so as to fully occupy Henan County, so that the Tang Dynasty had enough strategic depth to be able to deter the north bank of the Yellow River in Bingzhou, Jizhou, and Guanzhong, the core areas of the Sui Dynasty.

But no one expected that Yang Tong's reaction would be so fast, let alone that Wang Shichong's resistance would be so tenacious. The most speechless thing is that Li Shimin did bad things with good intentions, he kindly sent Wang Junkuo to support Li Xiaogong, but who would have thought that this iron cavalry would become the evil result of the annihilation of the Tang Army on the East Road, and he scolded Li Xiaogong fiercely, and even he himself was in an extremely disadvantageous situation. Now they want to occupy the land of Henan again, which is basically unrealistic.

If Li Shimin retreats now, then the final result will be the complete destruction of Li Yuan's ambitious plan to go east, which is definitely not what Li Yuan wants to see.

"Your Highness, does King Qi have any other way to do it?"

Li Xiaogong understands Li Jiancheng's difficulties very well, and also knows that it is difficult to persuade Li Yuan, and when Li Yuan agrees, it is estimated that Li Shimin will be finished. Because he himself is a lesson from the past, he didn't have great hopes for Li Yuan, so he simply bypassed Li Yuan's link, hoping that Li Shimin would have other ideas.

"Forcibly expand the army by 300,000, give priority to the supply of the army, and those who oppose the expansion of the army will be punished as collaborating with the enemy, and no matter who they are, they will be killed." Li Jiancheng said word by word.

"Sizzle......"

Li Xiaogong was thundered by Li Jiancheng's words, and gasped, with only two words like crazy in his mind!

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