Today is a sunny day, and the glow of the sun has dyed Xiangyang red, bathing this rare city in a magnificent halo.

Li Yuan sat on a stone bench outside the imperial study of the Taiji Palace, looking up at a dense old laurel tree in the courtyard, and the brilliant glow shone on his body, smearing a layer of purple-red glow on his body.

"Father......" Li Jiancheng appeared at the door, saw his father sitting on the stone bench, and hurriedly said: "The stone bench is cold, go inside and sit." ”

"Okay." Li Yuan didn't refuse, got up and walked into the imperial study.

After a while, Chen Shuda was summoned to come.

There are two things they have to discuss today, one is to move the capital, and the other is to withdraw the troops from the front line in accordance with the truce agreement.

It's okay to move the capital, because since Li Yuanji wiped out the Dugu faction in Xiangyang City by cruel means, Wu Chuanwei's family came to clean up, so that in just a few days, tens of thousands of people died, which also made the people of Xiangyang angry, and they didn't dare to testify. Opposition to the relocation has since been extinct.

The second item is quite troublesome, how to hand over with the Sui army, how to ensure the safe withdrawal of the army, are all big problems. The most worrying thing is that the Sui army is afraid that the Sui army will follow the Tang army and launch an offensive at the right time.

"Ladies and gentlemen, tell me, what is the most critical thing for us at the moment?" There are Sui troops outside Xiangyang and Beizhen troops inside, which has become very unsafe, and Li Yuan now can't wait to grow a pair of wings and fly to Chengdu.

Chen Shuda bowed down and said: "The safety of the saint is related to the safety of the Tang Dynasty, according to the opinion of Wei Chen, he should go to Chengdu first, and settle with the Sui Dynasty and other matters, only a competent person is responsible." "Pei Lin and Li Yuan have been friends for decades,

"Chengdu." Li Yuan showed a complicated look on his face, Xiangyang, the capital of the country, has been expanded, and it is already a heavy city that can accommodate a million people, especially the Taiji Palace, which is magnificent and not weak Ziwei City, majestic and tall more than Daxing Palace, so let him give up, he is really unwilling in his heart, but staying in Xiangyang and tearing up the truce agreement, the Tang army will not be able to concentrate at all, and sooner or later it will be annihilated by the Sui army.

"Holy Lord, the sons agree with Chen Xiangguo's proposal." Li Jiancheng arched his hand and said: "Father can go to Chengdu to preside over the rear affairs first." The Xiangyang side could be managed by Erchen and be responsible for the settlement with the Sui Dynasty; The military affairs can be put in charge of the people, filial piety, and heirs. ”

"That's all there is to it." Li Yuan tried his best to suppress the unwillingness in his heart, and nodded helplessly: "There are thousands of things in Xiangyang, and the emperor is afraid that he will not be able to do it alone, so Chen Xiangguo will stay to assist the prince." Officials followed Luan to Chengdu, where Yizhou officials were ready to take over. ”

"Whoa." Chen Shuda responded to the order.

"All the big families, I have followed me for many years, everyone has no merit, there is also hard work, and those who are willing to enter Shu are very welcome; If you want to stay, don't force it, just get together and disperse! Li Yuan's mouth was very generous, but there was a killing machine that destroyed everything in the calm.

Chen Shuda has already seen through Li Yuan's hypocritical and cold nature, for the sake of his imperial power, he doesn't even believe in his son, let alone the big family? I know that if the family stays, it will not be a bright future to welcome them, but the end will come.

Just because the money and food in their family has always been what Li Yuan needs, Li Yuan needs to find an opportunity to kill all the clans, so as to seize the money and food wealth to supplement the loss of the Tang Dynasty.

Staying in Sui was an excuse for Li Yuan to kill.

But who is to blame?

Since ancient times, the family has believed in the survival law of seeking advantages and avoiding disadvantages, if they are allowed to choose between the Sui and Tang dynasties, ninety percent will stay in the Sui Dynasty, if they have no choice, I am afraid they will also want to let the family stay.

This moment.

Chen Shuda finally understood why Li Yuan had summoned him alone, because he was worried that too many people would know, causing the plan to slaughter the family clan to leak out. The reason why he let himself stay to assist Li Jiancheng is also because he has no choice, not trust.

"Holy Lord, it's not good." At this moment, Dou Rail suddenly stumbled into the imperial study, and said miserably: "Shengshang, Changping County Flying Cavalry came to report that King Jin and Dou Cong suffered a big defeat in Gucheng, and the 90,000 army was all over!" ”

"How is this possible?" Li Yuan was stunned when he heard this, and suddenly got up and laughed: "Hahahaha...... I almost believed what Dou Xiang said about this joke. ”

"You must know that the second brother, General Dou Da, and General Liu Hongji have an army of 1340,000, and they are all well-equipped elite divisions, while the rebels are only more than 30,000 people. Dou Xiang, did you get it wrong? Li Jiancheng didn't believe it either, and said the opposite with anti-sinus rails.

"yes, how is that possible?" Chen Shuda also nodded in agreement.

"Holy Lord, Your Highness, Chen Xiangguo, I'm not mistaken, what I said is completely true......" Dou Liang sighed, and said the whole story of Li Shimin and Dou Cong's defeat with great bitterness, as for the news of Liu Hongji's defeat, he has not received it yet.

Li Yuan, Li Jiancheng, and Chen Shuda were shocked when they heard this, they were no strangers to the strategy of flooding, but they had never heard of the example of a guy drowning a hundred miles into a Zeguo.

Dugu Yanyun is so ruthless?

In the entire valley city, in addition to the Tang army, there are many people, and he actually said that he will be drowned if he is drowned, this is simply a ruthless butcher!

Chen Shuda was shocked and said: "This Dugu Yanyun first occupied Gucheng silently and unexpectedly, and now he has broken the King of Jin and General Dou Cong with a water attack. This beam-jumping clown is so powerful? ”

Suddenly hearing a loud "bang", Li Yuan had already taken the case, and shouted: "Dugu Yanyun is a beam jumping clown, what kind of thing is that person who can't even beat a beam jumping clown?" ”

Li Jiancheng, Chen Shuda, and Dou Liang were silent when they heard this.

After fighting for so many years, Li Shimin has been losing battles, and has been losing the old capital of the Tang Dynasty, and every battle has made the Tang Dynasty hurt and half-dead. lost to the Great Sui Dynasty before, and everyone admitted it. After all, Yang Tong is indeed very capable of fighting, and it is not a shame to lose to him. But now, not only do they take advantage of the right time and place, but they also have no worries, but they were actually killed by the unknown Dugu Yanyun and wiped out an army of 90,000 people, and he is completely a wine bag and rice bag who does not understand military affairs, if someone in the future says that Li Shimin is familiar with the art of war, can fight well, and is rare to see in a hundred worlds, I am afraid that even a three-year-old child will not believe it.

After a long time, Li Yuan restrained the anger in his heart and asked slowly, "What about Li Shimin?" Why not come? ”

The three of them heard Li Yuan's calm words, exuding a murderous intent to destroy everything, if Li Shimin was here, he would definitely stab Li Shimin to death with a knife.

"King Jin is arming in Changping County." Dou Rail said in a low voice.

"Hmph, I think he's evading responsibility." Li Yuan suddenly smiled coldly, and his killing intent towards Li Shimin skyrocketed unstoppably.

"Father, the second brother is dedicated to the sake of the Tang Dynasty, although he lives up to his father's expectations of him, but this is caused by a lack of ability, I implore my father to forgive him for the sake of his loyalty. Since he was not good at military affairs, his sons thought that it would be enough to cut him off from his military position. Li Jiancheng took the first step to say the disposal plan, he was not falling into the ground, nor was he fighting for power and profit, he just wanted to save Li Shimin's life.

Li Yuan has always known that his eldest son is kind-hearted, how can he not know his true intentions? A heart was warm, so he sighed and said: "Maybe Li Shimin, the king of Jin, lived up to my hopes, resulting in the annihilation of the 90,000-strong army, and the dismissal of Shang Shuling and the demotion to the county guard of Xincheng; cut the king of Jin and demoted him to the king of Yelang. ”

Hearing the 'Yelang King', Li Jiancheng and others showed a strange look, generally speaking, there are two kinds of county titles: one is to confer the title of the county name, and the other is the good name, generally not the good name, only people with high merit have, and Li Shimin, the 'Yelang King', is the county king, but there is no Yelang County in this world, then, it is obviously from the 'good name', but Li Yuan degraded him as the 'Yelang King', which is naturally not a good name, but refers to Li Shimin's arrogance, obviously, this is a very humiliating way. It can be seen that Li Yuan really hated the defeated Li Shimin, and let him live with the shame of Yelang's arrogant 'Yelang King'.

Poor Li Shimin escaped with his life, and was slapped by Cheng Biting Jin, and then ran to Changping County to set up defenses, and the court didn't know anything about it, so he ended up with a 'Yelang King'.

"Father, what should I do with the Beizhen Army?" Li Jiancheng asked.

"People have destroyed even 90,000 troops, what else can they do?" Li Yuan said angrily: "Naturally, defense is the mainstay, and when the handover is over, it will give Yang Tong a headache." In addition, after I leave Xiangyang, all the military and political affairs of Jingbei will be in charge of you."

"Whoa." Although he obtained military power, Li Jiancheng was not happy at all. is not only the country's strength, but also because of the humiliation of the second brother by the father.

This made Li Jiancheng feel sad that the rabbit died and the fox died, and through Li Shimin's treatment, it also made him think about the future, if he made a mistake one day, would his father kill him too? Will he also install a Tang Xuan King and Tang You King on himself?

After thinking for a moment, a chill suddenly rose in Li Jiancheng's heart. Because he came up with the answer, and that is - yes!

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And when Li Yuan canonized Li Shimin as the 'Yelang King', Su Dingfang had already led the Beizhen army into the mountains.

As early as when he was ordered to enter Xiang, Su Dingfang had already thought about his future strategy.

The first step was to take the military power of the Beizhen Army, try to make the generals of the Beizhen Army return to their hearts, and through their hands, let this army work for the Great Sui Dynasty.

The second step is to fight a few beautiful victories, one is to establish one's prestige, the other is to boost the morale of the officers and men of the Beizhen Army and have the courage to fight, and the third is to hurt the Tang Army and consume Li Yuan's war potential in the name of the Beizhen Army!

The third and most critical step is to rely on the vast mountainous area to fight a 'guerrilla war' with the Tang army, further deplete Li Yuan's war potential, and wait until Li Yuan moves the capital, and then give him another blow.

Now that the first two steps of the strategy have been completed, only the most critical move remains. However, it is now summer, and all kinds of poisonous insects and beasts in the mountains, if they are not ready to enter the mountains, I am afraid that this army will die in the mountains, so he wrote a letter and asked the soldiers to send it to Yang Shanhui, asking him to support some life-saving materials. At the same time, the names and addresses of the clansmen sent by Dugu Yanyun were also sent over, and it was all up to Yang Tong to save them or not.