In the Ganlu Palace, Li Yuan sat on the dragon couch, the whole person seemed to have aged a lot in an instant, and the white hair on his head was so dazzling in the sun, Li Yuan, who was only fifty-four years old, looked like an old man who was about to die.

After the news of the fiasco came, Li Yuan realized that he was one step slower than Yang Tong, and only then did he decide to recall the Tuntian army and launch a sneak attack on Yongbei of the Sui Dynasty, and they had already killed Guanzhong, fortunately, after he made a decision, with the support of Guanlong's magnates, he raised 60,000 young people, although these people have not experienced the battle array, but they can also withstand a period of time. But at the same time, he also realized that there was a huge gap in the combat strength, will, and morale of the two armies, which was an insurmountable gap that could not be made up at present, and he only begged Li Tang not to have news of the fiasco, but he also understood that it was difficult.

They must win all the way before they can finally dominate the world, otherwise, they will become a stepping stone for others.

"Father, it doesn't matter if it's true or not! We should all shrink the Jingzhao army and use it to strengthen the defense of Chang'an, those small county towns no longer have the meaning of guarding, they are wide and scattered, and they are easy to be broken by the Sui army one by one! As long as we hold Chang'an, we still have a chance to recover, if Chang'an is lost, then we can really only move the capital to the south. After Li Jiancheng woke up from the shock, he immediately made a serious suggestion.

Li Yuan nodded, and said with kindness: "The emperor's words are extremely true!" The order was issued for the defenders of Jingzhao counties to withdraw into Chang'an, and for the nearby counties of Daxing, Juxian, and Shiping to recruit a group of young men and women to enter Chang'an City, how many were there. ”

"Whoa." Li Jiancheng responded, and then said: "Erchen has three other suggestions" First, let the people of the world let go of everything in an eight-hundred-mile expedited way, and lead the army back to Chang'an. ”

"I'm afraid the people of the world are in trouble, too." Li Yuan's face was full of sorrow.

Li Jiancheng comforted: "Father, rest assured, there are hundreds of thousands of elites in the hands of Shimin, as long as he cautiously retreats into the Great Earthquake Pass, the Sui army can't do anything about him." ”

"Hmm!" Li Yuan's worry decreased slightly, and he asked, "What are the other two suggestions?" ”

"The following two suggestions are designed for the current Chang'an, first, if the news of the Sui army's large-scale invasion reaches Chang'an, there will be a rush to buy grain, in order to prevent unscrupulous merchants from maliciously raising prices, please Guanlong nobles put their own grain into the grain market at a parity price; 2. Arrange for officials to settle in every square of Chang'an to understand the people's feelings, control public opinion in a timely manner, and deal with civil disputes in a timely manner, so as to avoid lawbreakers taking advantage of the chaos to make trouble. Li Jiancheng lived up to his position as the crown prince, and in just a while, he prescribed several good prescriptions for Li Yuan, and his strong emergency response ability was really eye-catching.

Li Yuan's face suddenly showed a hint of relief, and said: "The emperor's three strategies are all good prescriptions, you can deal with them on my behalf!" ”

"Whoa!"

Li Jiancheng nodded heavily.

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At this time, Li Shimin, who had high hopes for Li Yuan and Li Jiancheng, was in big trouble.

The reason is naturally the lore plan prepared by Li Jing for him.

Li Jing is the commander of the Western Route Army of the Great Sui, and how to break the enemy and when to break the enemy are all up to him, and Yang Tong does not interfere at all. Li Jing, who has no restrictions on frames and frames, uses troops and lays out like a cloud.

After getting a peek at Li Shimin's thoughts, Li Jing ordered Qin Qiong to enter Tianshui County, and lured the Tianjie Army in Longcheng County, Tianshui County to steal the camp and rob the village.

Tianshui County fell into the hands of Li Tang for less than half a year, did not operate, did not control it effectively, and after the main force was annihilated, the counties killed officials one after another. After the war, Qin Qiong ordered Fan Ze to lead 20,000 troops to suppress Dazhen Pass, which was to defend the Tang army from escaping into Guanzhong, and at the same time, it was also to block the army coming to help Guanzhong. And I led 10,000 elite cavalry to attack Longxi County.

When Qin Qiong was very successful, Xue Wanjun also made great achievements in Longxi, but he fought quite fiercely. Li Shimin deployed 10,000 Pingdao Army and 30,000 Tuntian Army here, plus the Tuntian Army that was withdrawn from Jincheng County and Caohan County one after another, with a total strength of 70,000 troops.

However, Xue Wanjun's troops were more sufficient, he had 20,000 Sui troops and 150,000 Turkic slaves, and under the strong attack regardless of casualties and deaths, he finally built a 'human ladder' with 80,000 slave corpses, and easily killed Xiangwu City. The Tang army had already been frightened by the tragic death attack of the Turkic slaves, and when the Sui army entered the city, they were all paralyzed, but fortunately it was a civil war here, and the red-eyed Xue Wanjun did not do such an angry thing as slaughtering the city, but only ordered the Tang army to drag the piles of corpses to be burned near the water with a cart.

When Xue Wanjun finished the battle, Qin Qiong and Duan Decao, who had recovered the entire territory of Caohan and Jincheng, happened to arrive in Longxi.

As soon as the three of them met, Li Jing gave another order to divide the troops, and Duan Decao, who had both offensive and defensive skills, took over the responsibility of sitting in Longxi County, and the Tang Army was outside the 'country' gate.

Xue Wanjun killed Hechi again, blocked out of Sanguan, and then cut off Li Shimin's way to retreat to Guanzhong. Qin Qiong led the army into Lintao County, and cooperated with Li Jing's main force to besiege Li Shimin's troops, so that the hundreds of thousands of troops led by Li Shimin could not go to Guanzhong to cause trouble for Yang Dong, so as to create a comfortable and good condition for Yang Dong.

Li Jing's genius in using troops lies in the fact that he has made a move in one step, not only calculating the offensive and defensive momentum of this step and the direction of the enemy's advance and retreat, but also immediately thinking out whether to attack or defend in the next step, where to attack and where to defend, what to attack, and what results to be achieved in defending. is like a Go national player, every time he makes a move, he thinks about the overall victory or defeat, and every time he makes a move, he is an ambush and kills after dozens of moves, and he doesn't care about the gains and losses of one time and one place.

With the divine assistance of god-like teammates regardless of personal gains and losses, as long as Yang Tong does not make low-level mistakes, he can break through the name of 'God of War' and 'Winning General' in Guanzhong.

Li Jing is such a capable and sensible subordinate, who doesn't like it? Who doesn't love it?

It was also under Li Jing's escort that the Tang army, which represented Li Tang's absolute main force, could not even enter Guanzhong, let alone relieve the siege of Guanzhong. Because of this, Guanzhong was surrounded by heavy troops of the Great Sui, isolated and helpless.

Now!

There are Shenguang Department in the southeast of Jingzhao and Huayin - there is Wei Chi Gong Department in the east of Jingzhao - Su Dingfang Department in the north of Jingzhao - Pei Xingyan and Wang Fubao Department in the northwest of Jingzhao Beidi County in the south of the country - there is a large earthquake in the west of Guanzhong, there is Fan Ze Department outside the Guanzhong Southwest Sanguan. Guanzhong was besieged from six directions, forming a strategic encirclement, and inside Guanzhong, there was a mobile army led by Yang Tong.

After the outflanking and splitting of the Li Tang Dynasty, the eastern front led by Yang Tong began to approach Chang'an.

Su Dingfang forced the surrender of Huayuan, Sanyuan, Yunyang, Liquan, and Shangyi counties, and garrisoned Jiuzhi Mountain in Liquan County on the west bank of Jingshui, and outflanked Li Xiaogong's army in Xinping with Pei Xingyan and Wang Fubao of Beidi County in the south and north.

Wei Chigong waited until the follow-up army of Bingzhou, and entered Jingzhao County from Feng Yixia County, and the four counties of Fuping, Wannian, Gaoling, and Jingyang also went down without a fight, and then the troops came to Chang'an City, and the troops were stationed outside the Kaiyuan Gate in the northwest of Chang'an.

The progress of Huayin Shenguang is also quite victorious, on the night of his capture of Huayin, Liu Gang, the guard of Tongguan, led the Tianji army in the twentieth of Guanzhong to surrender to the Great Sui, he is one of Wei Xuan's anonymous disciples, and was ordered by Wei Xuan to enter the Tang Army, and it was Wei Xuan's back hand left by Yang Tong, and he continued to sit in Tongguan after Yi Zhi to prevent Wang Shichong of Guandong. After Shen Guanglian Kewei Nan and Xinfeng two counties, the tun army was stationed at Tonghua Gate in the northeast of Chang'an City.

Since then, all the Jingzhao counties in the north of Weishui have been recovered by the Great Sui, and the eastern part has been conquered by Shen Guang again and again, and Li Tang's territory in Guanzhong is only Fufeng County and one-third of Jingzhao County, and the situation is precarious.

The forces in Yang Tong's hands were quite sufficient, and more than 200,000 elite Sui troops were mobilized on the Eastern Front battlefield alone, in fact, he made such a big move, not only for a pass, but also for the annihilation of Li Yuan's living forces. In this way, when Li Yuan fled to the south, he did not have the hegemonic strength to unify the south, and the major forces in the south were staggered, if everyone was of equal strength, it would be a long time to fight, hehe, Yang Tong's opportunity will come.

In addition, Yang Tong also has more than 40,000 Tang troops who have surrendered, which is also an elite division that is good at fighting, but they cannot immediately enter the battle and need to be reorganized. Yang Tong handed over the reorganization to Wei Chigong, and he personally led the Xuanjia Army and the Xiaoguo Army north to Xinping. Only by defeating the 80,000 army led by Li Xiaogong can the army of Pei Xingyan, Wang Fubao and Su Dingfang be revitalized.

Li Xiaogong is a person who is not small in history.

Li Xiaogong is not as famous as Fang Mou Du Xuan, and he is also a thousand miles worse than Sun Wuji and Wei Zheng, and he is much inferior to Li Jingyi when he is compared. is such a person, but he can rank second among the twenty-four meritorious heroes of Li Shimin's Lingyan Pavilion.

Although Li Shimin in history said that the establishment of the twenty-four ministers of Lingyan Pavilion is to commemorate the old comrades-in-arms, and there is no distinction between high and low, but there are many famous generals and celebrities who have contributed to Li Tang, why is the infamous Li Xiaogong only second to the eldest grandson Wuji on the list of meritorious heroes of Lingyan Pavilion?

Li Xiaogong is Li Yuan's cousin, is a veteran general, after Li Yuan conquered the Beijing Division, worship Li Xiaogong as the doctor of Zuo Guanglu, and soon served as the ambassador of Shannan Province to comfort, led the army straight into Bashu, surrendered and conquered more than 30 states. Although he is a military general, but the means of leading the troops are quite gentle, often to the attached people to be courteous and soothing, so he is quite prestigious among the people, often the book to the soldiers without blood, so as to save the lives of many soldiers, can be called the word "benevolence".

In the third year of martial arts in history, Li Xiaogong attacked Xiao Milling who seized the south of the Yangtze River, Li Yuan admired his strategy very much, so he became the king, and worshiped Li Xiaogong as the governor of Kuizhou, let him build big ships, practice the navy, and prepare for the attack on Xiao Milling.

Li Shimin fought for life and death in the north, Li Xiaogong first pacified Bashu, and then pacified the south of the Yangtze River. When it comes to the military exploits of the Tang Dynasty to pacify the world, Li Shimin and Li Xiaogong are the first and second who cannot be beaten.

However, there is a huge controversy about this matter.

The main reason is that when Li Xiaogong was passing through the south, he also had a god teammate by his side - Li Jing, the god of war.

Therefore, everyone basically said that Li Xiaogong's credit was entirely due to Li Jingzhi. People often talk about Li Xiaogong, and Li Jing will step in sideways, so the theory of whether the military exploits in the south are Li Xiaogong or Li Jing begins.

Some people say that Li Jing was praised as the god of the army, and it was Li Shimin who attributed the credit for the founding of the Tang Dynasty to Li Jing, and the goal was to dilute the merits of Li Xiaogong, the king of Hejian, and to protect this meritorious prince. This statement is also reasonable, because everyone in the world knows that Li Jing is Li Shimin's sworn friend, and attributing the credit to Li Jing can prove from the side that he Li Shimin is able to understand and employ people.

However, it is undeniable that when attacking the south, Li Xiaogong was the main general, Li Jing was the deputy, and Li Jing's military talent was recognized as strong, and it was not impossible to say that Li Xiaogong borrowed light.

But then again, whether it is a strategist or an executor, the two of them are a team, and one person alone cannot fight a war at all.

Therefore, although Li Jing is a military god who goes out and goes into the prime minister, it cannot be said that Li Xiaogong is useless, at least, Li Xiaogong can know how to make good use of people, and on this basis alone, he is qualified for the post of chief general...... Just like Liu Bei of the Three Kingdoms can't fight, but he can use people and eventually establish the Shu State, but who can deny Liu Bei's merits?

But from the current point of view, Li Xiaogong has performed quite well, in the absence of Li Jing, several counties in Bashu and Jingzhou were all defeated by him, and it is not an exaggeration to say that Li Tang is the first hero. And Li Shimin behaved quite tragically in this space, he had been operating in the Hehuang area of Liangzhou for so many years, not to mention no gains, and he also lost his troops, and now he was chased by Li Jing and led by the cavalry to release arrows behind his buttocks. And because Qin Qiong cut off his retreat to Guanzhong in the east and Shu in the south, coupled with the fact that there were high-level spies inside, the army could not be replenished, the situation was quite grim and the situation was quite bad.

Thinking of Li Xiaogong, Yang Tong feels a bit like 'Li Xiaogong' in history, because Li Jing's restraint regardless of gains and losses makes him so chic. In the future, when people talk about the military exploits of 'Yang Dong', will Li Jing always come in as if he was inserted?

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