Daxing Palace, Ganlu Palace

Silence as death!

After a while, Liu Wenjing bowed slightly and said: "Shengshang, if you think about the worst, the Sui army can kill Chang'an tomorrow at the latest, we still have some time to prepare, and there are two emergency ways to deal with it." ”

Li Yuan was overjoyed, what he hoped for was a suggestion with practical content, and hurriedly said, "Zhaoren, please speak." ”

Liu Wenjing said in a heavy voice: "First, guard and order the forbidden forest army and Jin Wuwei to defend the city, but Chang'an City is too big, and there are a lot of people and preparations for defending the city, so you can recruit Chang'an Qingzhuang to help defend the city; The second is to aid and the ministers are not mistaken, the Sui army should be a big attack, the army of the King of Jin has more than 100,000 people, plus the army of Tuntian in the Hehuang area of Liangzhou, close to 300,000, the minister means to let His Royal Highness the King of Jin abandon the Hehuang area, send troops to guard the earthquake pass, the main force back to aid Chang'an. ”

"Did Liu Xiangguo think about the consequences of withdrawing from the army? Once the King of Jin retreats, Tianshui, Longxi, Jincheng, Caohan, Lintao, Watering River, and even Xiping, the seven counties that have been finally defeated will be lost, which is called by hundreds of thousands of Tang soldiers with their lives, and my Datang has dragged too much time and too much energy for these seven counties. If the Sui army besieged Wei to rescue Zhao and forced us to retreat from the Liangzhou Hehuang area, wouldn't we have fallen for Yang Tong's strategy? Who will bear the consequences? Pei Lin actually knew that this was the best way, but while he was strong and domineering, he was also an extremely cunning politician.

Li Yuan is a person who regards territory as his life, and when he heard Pei Lin say this, his brows immediately furrowed.

Dou Wei said lightly at this time: "The problem is that we can't afford to take this risk. Is Guanzhong important or Hehuang Seven Counties important? Presumably Pei Xiangguo knows it. ”

"That's right!" Dugu also said: "The land in the seven counties of Hehuang is barren, and even thousands of miles of uninhabited, and Guanzhong is the core of my Datang, and the difference between importance and importance is clearly in front of me. ”

Li Yuan saw that Xiao Yu had been silent in thought, so he asked, "What does Xiao Xiangguo think?" ”

Xiao Yu's eyes were full of melancholy, and he said slowly: "Weichen is worried that King Jin has also had an accident!" ”

Xiao Yu's bold judgment made everyone gasp, if this is the case, then the danger is too great.

"How so?" Li Yuan asked anxiously.

"The Sui Dynasty had 50,000 garrisons in Wuwei and 30,000 ...... in Huining"

"Wait!" Li Yuan interrupted Xiao Yu's words, stared at Xiao Yu, and said: "The 80,000 people in the Sui Dynasty not only have to defend against my Tang army, but also against Li Rail, and the available soldiers are less than 50,000, after the King of Jin collects the Tuntian army, there will be 300,000 at least, so it won't be defeated by 50,000 people, right?" ”

"There are as many as 150,000 Turkic slaves in Huining, and after these people are equipped, they are a group of beasts." Xiao Yu said slowly.

"Then Yang Tong is not afraid of these rebellions?" Chen Shuda was dumbfounded.

"He's not afraid." Xiao Yu shook his head, looked at Li Yuan and said: "Yang Tong wiped out hundreds of thousands of Turks in the battle of Mayi, and even Shibi Khan died there, and then he set troops on the grassland again and again. Yang Tong also promised that as long as the Turkic captives and slaves performed well, they could get out of the slave status and obtain the same official status as the Han people. If Yang Tong asks them to die, they will definitely die. ”

"What?" Chen Shuda's eyes widened blankly when he heard this: "Just with this, who wants to?" Those Turks have broken heads? Will anyone respond? ”

"According to the report of our spies who went deep into Goguryeo, when Yang Tong went on an expedition to Goguryeo, he brought 40,000 Turkic slaves! These men were the main force in the attack on Pyongyang City, and only about 5,000 people died after the battle. All the living became commoners of the Sui Dynasty, and they all took honor of the Han family. Li Jiancheng said with a wry smile.

"Just in the name of a Chinese nationality? Those Turks didn't even want their lives? Chen Shuda swallowed.

"Chen Xiangdon't underestimate the influence of this Han nationality." Li Jiancheng sighed bitterly: "Yang Tong fulfilled his promise, and awarded official status to the living, and many outstanding performers were awarded a medal of honor, with this medal, not only can enjoy the treatment of Han people, but also enjoy the same preferential treatment as the soldiers of the Sui army under the rule of the Sui Dynasty." ”

"That's it, the Turks don't even want their lives?" Chen Shuda looked at Xiao Yu incredulously, this was even more bizarre than anecdotes.

Xiao Yu nodded bitterly, regardless of whether the world's families and scholars are hostile to Yang Dong, but on the grassland, Yang Dong's name is terrifying, and in the hearts of these captured Turks, Yang Dong is a god-like existence, they are all afraid of being killed, and they are all as well-behaved as sheep.

"The Turks who survived the Goguryeo War not only did not hate Yang Dong, but were desperate for Yang Dong because Yang Dong brought them glory and wealth. As for the dead kindred, in the hearts of the Turks, who revere the strong, they are all weak; The weak are dead, and they deserve to die. When Xiao Yu said this, he said to Li Yuan with a bitter face: "The 150,000 Turks in Huining County, once equipped with war horses, bows and arrows and war knives, it is a strong soldier who blocks ten, and it is fifteen madmen who do not want to die, and the Sui Dynasty is not short of war horses, bows and arrows and war knives!" Therefore, the minister was worried that something had happened to King Jin. ”

"What can Xiao Xiangguo do?" Li Yuan only felt bitter in his mouth, but he didn't expect that the Turks he had been in contact with couldn't be counted on, but was messed up by the Turks, and he felt that a mouthful of old blood almost spurted out.

Xiao Yu sighed and said, "What can be done?" It is nothing more than what Liu Xiangguo said, let the King of Jin retreat to the Great Earthquake Pass and return to the Guanzhong. ”

The Sui Dynasty has been steadily expanding its army, there are more than 200,000 around Li Tang alone, and the elite degree of the Sui army is known to the world, even if the Sui army is put aside, just the 150,000 Turkic slaves in Huining are enough for Li Tang to eat a pot, and now what the Tang army should do is not to attack, but to defend the western front, gather heavy troops to defend the enemy from the north and east, block the Sui army outside the Guanzhong, and blast out of the Guanzhong, if you insist on following Li Yuan's idea of wanting Guanzhong and the Liangzhou Hehuang area, even if Li Shimin kills all the 150,000 Turkic slaves, he is also crippled, and when the time comes, Li Tang will have the strength to dare to face the elite of the Great Sui who are going to kill out of the pass, and when the time comes, just wait to be swept away.

"Father, hold Chang'an first, and then make a decision based on the situation. Guanzhong is the foundation of my Datang and cannot be lost. Li Jiancheng sighed and suggested, at this time, the interests of Li Tang and the Guanlong nobles were the same, and no matter how unwilling they were, they had to make such a choice.

"Reconsideration!"

"Reconsideration!"

Dugu Cheng and Dou Wei immediately agreed.

When Li Yuan saw this scene, his face suddenly turned a little ugly, and everyone's words also let him know that he had to make a trade-off between the Liangzhou Hehuang area and Guanzhong, although this trade-off was very painful, he sighed slightly in his heart, closed his eyes in pain, and said: "I am right, let the King of Jin give up Hehuang and quickly lead his troops back to Guanzhong; Zhao Cijing, the squire of the military department, was the defender of Chang'an City and was responsible for the defense of Chang'an City. At the same time, Feng Qu Tutong was the generalissimo of Feng Yi, and he must drive the Sui army out of Guanzhong. This is a battle related to the life and death of Datang, and I hope everyone will cooperate wholeheartedly. ”

The last sentence was said to Dugu Cheng and Dou Wei, which means: Everyone is a grasshopper on a rope - Lao Tzu is dead, and you Guanlong nobles can't live, you two brothers should obediently mobilize Guanlong nobles to pay people.

Dugu frowned slightly, there was a lot of dissatisfaction in his heart, and he supported Li Yuan from the beginning, this bastard belongs to the character of Pixiu, and he doesn't pull it if he eats it...... He felt that his support for Li Yuan's anti-Sui was the most failed investment in his life, and the consequence was to catch up with the Dugu family. But Li Yuan's thief ships had already arrived at the center of the river, and it was too late to regret it, and he couldn't get down.

Yang Tong gave him the slightest chance, and Dugu would go to be the Yang family's dog again, even if he was asked to sacrifice Chang'an, but Yang Tong would not even give the Dugu family a chance to be a dog. had no choice but to follow Dou Wei, and responded unhappily.

After everyone retreated, Li Yuanji suddenly rushed in and said loudly: "Father, I heard that Yang Tong entered the pass, and his sons are willing to lead the troops into battle. ”

Li Yuanji's eyes were full of hatred, when he met Yang Tong, who swaggered into the pass, he was accidentally knocked unconscious, and was used by the other party to deceive the Xuanzhong Gate and Xuanwu Gate, and then a fire swept through the Daxing Palace, and more seriously, the royal family was captured alive and went to Hedong City, and as a result, Li Yuan spent a lot of money to redeem them back.

Li Yuan was extremely angry with Li Yuanji, and immediately cut off Li Yuanji's title of King of Qi and all his positions, and was demoted to a commoner, but Li Yuan was quite protective, and the real reward he should give was still as usual, so what Li Yuanji lost was actually just his name.

But the three words "Li Yuanji" have also become synonymous with incompetence, brainlessness, and stupidity like a pig in the world, especially the ransom of less than half of his niece, which made him a laughing stock in Guanzhong.

Li Yuanji, who has been pampered since childhood, when did he suffer such a shame? But he also knew that he had made a big disaster, and after he came back, he was rarely honest. Li Yuan was angry, but he also felt a little comforted, thinking that his son had finally grown up after being frustrated, and even handed over the introduction of Great Sui books to him to operate.

At this time, when he heard Li Yuanji ask for war, he even had the idea of letting Li Yuanji replace Qu Tutong, because he never believed in Qu Tutong, and at such a time of life and death, this distrust was further amplified.

Li Jiancheng, who came back with Li Yuanji, heard Li Yuanji's words and objected: "No, the third brother is a 'simple' person, I'm afraid he is not Yang Dong's opponent." ”

"Big brother!" Li Yuanji glared at Li Jiancheng very dissatisfied, feeling that the most dear eldest brother didn't believe him anymore.

Li Jiancheng sighed and comforted: "Third brother, my brother knows that you want to take revenge, and I also know that you have the intention of making meritorious contributions, but if you think about it carefully, if you are given 100,000 troops, and the enemy army uses 100,000 cavalry to play a motive advantage against you and uninterrupted arrows at you, what should you do?" ”

"This ......" Li Yuanji's face was shocked, and only then did he remember the benefits of the Great Sui Horse, once he really came to fight like this, he really couldn't help it.

"Also, if the Sui army scatters to attack the city in all directions, what will happen to you?" Li Jiancheng asked.

"I don't lead the army." Although Li Yuanji looked unwilling, he still said with understanding.

Li Yuan's face suddenly showed a hint of relief, and said, "Yuanji, you have to learn a lesson, work hard to learn the art of war, and the future big battles are all your opportunities, understand?" ”

"Erchen understands!" Li Yuanji nodded heavily.

"Father! There is a major event, and Erchen thinks that it must be the third brother. Li Jiancheng said again.

"Big brother, what's the big deal?" Li Yuanji's eyes lit up.

Li Yuan also looked at Li Jiancheng curiously, his eyes full of doubts.

Li Jiancheng smiled bitterly, and then said to Li Yuan word by word: "Erchen means to let the third brother go to Jingzhou in the south to build a companion capital. ”

Li Yuan staggered back a few steps, and said in a trembling voice: "Emperor, has my Tang Dynasty really come to this point?" ”

"Father, you have to think about the bad in everything, so that you can be prepared." Li Jiancheng sighed in a low voice: "Even if Guanzhong is not lost, it is always under Yang Dong's troops, as Chen Yuan said at the beginning, Guanzhong has lost any condition of being the national capital." It's just that the Guanlong nobles can turn against Yang Guang because of the eastern capital, and they can also turn against me and the Tang Dynasty, and they will not agree to move the capital until they are in a desperate situation. But Erchen thought that my Tang Dynasty and my Li family needed to make all preparations, so Erchen suggested that the third brother take the good craftsmen of the Ministry of Industry to Jingzhou to choose a good place and build a companion capital. ”

Li Yuan nodded silently, and then asked, "Why not Bashu?" ”

"Shuzhong is too far away to deal with the great changes in the world in time, and it is the capital when it is not timely. If we enter Shu, the civil and military officials will think that we have lost confidence, and then the people will be panicked and centrifugal, how can we compete for the world? Bashu has more than enough self-preservation and lack of progress, and it is the last choice after there is no hope. ”

"It's good!" Li Yuan smiled at Li Yuanji and said, "According to your eldest brother's opinion, as soon as the morning dawns, you will take the master craftsman to Fangling and Badong to choose a place to build a city. The national capital has a lot to stake, so you must choose a place that is both offensive and defensive. ”

"Father, don't worry." Li Yuanji said confidently.

Li Yuan nodded and said to Li Jiancheng: "Send detectives and pay close attention to Feng Yi's situation. ”

"Whoa!"

"I hope that Pujin Pass is still in the hands of my Great Sui, and I hope that Qu Tutong will live up to my hopes." Li Yuan let out a long sigh, walked out of the window, and looked worriedly at the burning Lishan beacon fire. The five rising wolf smoke made Li Yuan feel suffocated.

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