A few days later, in the Sui army camp in Heshui County, Honghua County, Qin Qiong, who was dressed in military uniform and admired at his waist, clasped his fists and said loudly: "The last general will see the Metropolitan Governor." ”

"Uncle Bao, please take a seat!" Li Jing on the main seat nodded with a smile and said, "How many people have you brought?" ”

"30,000 elite riders, I dare not say that it is comparable to my Great Sui elite, but it is definitely a first-class elite." Qin Qiong replied confidently, the method of training elite soldiers, the generals have a set, Qin Qiong for this day, in Baicheng while governing the local area, paying attention to Guanzhong, while learning the art of war, training elite soldiers, the results are remarkable.

"Haha, good!" Li Jing said happily.

"Xie Dudu!" Qin Qiong first gestured to Pei Xingyan, Su Dingfang, Xue Wanbei and the others, and then sat down.

"Yecheng sent His Highness Xinying and agreed to launch the Battle of Guanzhong!" When Li Jing said this, he looked at the generals in the tent and said solemnly: "Your Highness appointed me as the commander of the Western Route Army, responsible for annihilating Li Shimin's 100,000 troops, as well as the 150,000 Tuntian troops outside Tianshui, and taking several counties in Liangzhou, completely cutting off Li Tang's claws stretched out to Liangzhou; Pei Xingyan, your task is to take Shangjun with lightning speed and contain the Tang army in Guanzhong; Su Dingfang, your task is to go south to Fengyi County, take Hancheng County and Longmen Pass, and occupy a bridgehead for the Hedong Army. Remember, this is the main task of the two of you, and only after completing this task will you think about anything else. When His Highness leads a large army from the east of the river, you will assist in entering Jingzhao! ”

"Whoa!" Pei Xingyan and Su Dingfang's eyes lit up, and they licked their lips excitedly, this is the rhythm of launching a big battle!

"Shubao, your task is to take Anding and Tianshui by Fubao, the king of Pingliang County, and then give full play to the advantage of cavalry to cut off the connection between Li Shimin and Guanzhong."

"Whoa!"

"I commanded 80,000 main forces, and the 100,000 mine slaves guarding Xue Wanjun in Huining County, after conquering Jincheng and Caohan County, I shook Li Shimin's camp!"

To be honest, this is the usual tactics of the Great Sui, which is to crush the enemy in strength with absolute elite strength. It doesn't reflect the military talent of the commander-in-chief, but on the other hand, if he has the strength to crush everything, who will rack his brains and calculate the opponent in fear?

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"What an eventful year! The wingmen are in trouble again. ”

Chang'an Taiji Palace, inside the Ganlu Palace.

Li Yuan shook his head and sighed, rubbed his aching head, and threw down a note in his hand, which was from Bashu, saying that after the bureaucrats broke Luzhou City, they looted the grain and scattered, leaving a mess in the local area.

"Since the founding of the Tang Dynasty, the Bashu people have risen and fallen one after another, they have kept rebelling, constantly destroying the economy and agriculture in various places, and bringing great turmoil to the whole country. If you can't completely subdue the bureaucrats, you will be a trouble for your henchmen when you go to the east in the future! Especially the mountain wings in the Meishan area, they must be hit hard! Chen Shuda said.

The bureaucrats are not a minority of a clan or a place, but a general term for the ethnic minorities who live in the mountains and have not yet been civilized. Among them, the one with the most rebellions was the Shu Di Bureaucrats.

Xiao Yu said: "It's easy to say, but this man lives in a remote mountain range, and most of the places he lives in are deep mountains and old forests, which is not conducive to the encirclement and suppression of the army at all. And the army needs to spend a lot of money and food, and if the war lasts for a long time, the national strength will be innumerable. But if there are fewer troops, not only can they not do anything with the brave and good fighters, but they will be killed by them by taking advantage of the advantages of mountains, forests and land, which is really a headache! ”

Since ancient times, the suppression of bandits has been drudgery.

There are too many troops, and when people hide in the mountains, you can't even find ghosts! The stalemate continued, and the consumption of a large amount of food and salary made the state finances miserable. But if there are fewer troops to go, people will fight with you, and you will be eaten clean by bandits if you are not careful.

Li Jiancheng said: "Although the rebellion of the Luzhou bureaucrats this time is powerful, it is a disease of scabies after all, and with Zhang Shigui, the Duke of Qiuguo, there should be little harm." It's just that it takes time to clean it up. But the Sui army has been about to move recently, and it has the intention of sending troops to Koubian, but it has to be guarded against. ”

Li Yuan's face was also worried, he originally thought that as long as Goguryeo dragged Yang Tong into the quagmire of war, so that he could get time to recuperate, as long as three years, no, as long as one year, he could turn the current territory area into an iron bucket, and when the time came, he would be able to take a defensive position against the Sui Dynasty, and he would be able to sweep the princes of the Central Plains. It's a pity that Goguryeo was too weak, and it didn't give him time to practice his internal skills without external interference, and the performance of the Sui army's combat power in this battle once again attracted the attention of the world, and in less than half a month, Goguryeo destroyed 200,000 enemies in Goguryeo itself, broke through Pyongyang, and finally forced Goguryeo to cut the land and beg for mercy. Such a devilish army has a faint tendency to attack Guanzhong, if the victorious army comes west, can Guanzhong be defended? Once lost, where will Li Tang go?

Everyone is silent, Datang can be described as ill-fated, when will the situation calm down? Everyone's heart is heavy.

"I want to know if the Sui Dynasty will come to fight Guanzhong, everyone can talk freely?" Li Yuan's face was gloomy, his eyes swept around everyone's faces, and he said, "If the Sui army attacks, can the Tang army hold Guanzhong?" ”

Liu Wenjing came out and said: "If the Central Plains heroes are wolves, then Yang Tong is a tiger, once he crosses south, the princes of the Central Plains will definitely attack him." Therefore, Yang Tong can take Qingzhou or not, which shows that he does not want to fall into the melee of the Central Plains princes too early. Now Goguryeo and the Turks have no deterrent power against the Sui Dynasty, but my Tang Dynasty has restrained his military strength of more than 100,000 yuan, and the long-term confrontation has also cost him countless money, if he takes Guanzhong and Liangzhou, he only needs to use a small amount of military strength to sit in Tongguan, Wuguan, Sanguan and the north bank of the Yellow River, and he can sit back and watch the princes of all sides lose both sides. Yang Tong, who thought that there were no internal worries and no external troubles, had no reason not to attack the Tang Dynasty. ”

At this time, Xiao Yu next to him said: "The minister agrees with Liu Xiang's words, Yang Tong may indeed use troops against my Tang Dynasty." ”

Li Yuan's brows furrowed slightly, "Why did Aiqing say this?" ”

Xiao Yu smiled slightly, and arched his hand: "From some clues, it can be judged that Yang Tong has been targeting Datang from beginning to end. For example, the Sui Dynasty promoted Yanhuang Tongbao under his own rule, and then used all kinds of inferior money in the past to buy a large number of materials from Guanzhong and Bashu, so that the prices in these two places skyrocketed, and the people's resentment boiled, and then he took the opportunity to send troops to attack and annex the state. ”

Xiao Yu said this, because the Tang Dynasty had a profound lesson, Yang Tong let the merchants use the waste of five baht money to buy a large number of materials in Guanzhong, so that Chang'an goods shortage, prices skyrocketed, Li Tang captured Bashu, originally wanted to use Bashu materials to stabilize the price in Guanzhong, but found that Yang Tong bought it again, and in the end, Li Yuan had to turn to the Guanlong nobles to get through the difficulties and stabilize prices.

Later, my Datang also found copper mines and obtained a large number of copper ingots, so he began to issue his own Kaiyuan Tongbao in the Tang Dynasty to recover the disadvantage of the currency.

Xiao Yu continued: "Now that the Sui Dynasty has changed its way, a large number of books have poured into Guanzhong in an overwhelming manner, in exchange for materials in Guanzhong. It is hoped that it will cause prices to rise, so as to cause panic in Guanzhong, and then attack Guanzhong with the trend. ”

Hearing this, Li Yuan's father and son looked at each other silently, the reason why this book was able to enter Guanzhong unimpeded was actually that their father and son supported the Lingyun Commercial House under Li Yuanji's command and supported them to buy books from the Great Sui to sell, in order to offset the advantages of the Guanlong nobles, but in exchange for the materials that Xiao Yu said, but the hard currency of gold and silver, which had no impact on the imperial court at all, but Xiao Yu was also a member of the scholar clan, and naturally hated the flooded books.

"One more point, that is, what Liu Xiang said. Yang Tong could easily destroy Dou Jiande, but he didn't make a move, obviously wanting to leave a buffer between Sui and Wei. In this way, he told Li Mi that he Yang Tong did not want to enter the Central Plains yet. After analyzing it in this way, his next target can only be Guanzhong. Please be prepared for war. ”

Xiao Yu's analysis made Li Yuan's heart very heavy, which was actually something he had been worried about. If the Sui army comes to attack, then Beidi County and Shangjun will bear the brunt, and once these two counties are lost, the Sui army's troops will be directed at Chang'an. The Tang Dynasty had to move the capital, and it was logical that it would eventually lose the counties of Guanzhong and Liangzhou.

This huge pressure often woke Li Yuan from his dreams, but he was unwilling to take the initiative to face it, let alone mention it.

Today, Liu Wenjing and Xiao Yu made him unable to deceive himself, and could only be forced to face the crisis.

Li Yuan finally sighed, "Tell me about your plan!" ”

Liu Wenjing already had a case in the abdomen, so he hurriedly bowed down and said: "Holy Lord, the minister thinks that he should immediately let the Tuntian army return to the establishment and strike first. As long as we take the eight counties of Yan'an, Honghua, Pingliang, Huining, Lingwu, Yanchuan, Shuofang, and Diaoyin, and then drive the Sui army back to the north of the Shuofang Great Wall, then the entire Yongzhou will be the territory of our Tang Dynasty, and with the Shuofang Great Wall in hand, it will completely change our passive situation. The whole situation will be revitalized as a result. ”

But Li Yuan never forgot to merge with Zhou, Taiyuan is the place where Li Tang started, he dreamed of taking it back, interrupted Liu Wenjing's elaboration, and asked: "What about Merge Zhou, haven't you considered it?" ”

Liu Wenjing was frightened by Li Yuan's ambition, and shook his head with a wry smile for a long time: "The minister's intention is to seize the eight counties of Guanbei with lightning speed, and to achieve this goal, it is already the limit of our army." As for the annexation of the state, it is still relatively far away, after all, the combat power of the Sui army is there, and when they react, our army will fall into the stage of comprehensive defense. After stabilizing this situation, it is not too late to unite the princes of the Central Plains to deal with the Sui Dynasty. ”

Li Yuan said: "That's not necessarily! ”

As soon as his words fell, Dugu Cheng and Dou Wei sneered at the same time, this kind of sneer in unison made everyone feel cold, the hall suddenly quieted down, Li Yuan was slightly unhappy in his heart, but he remembered that these two people were the heads of the Guanlong nobles, and he still needed their support, so he could only hold back the anger in his heart.

"The minister thinks that what Liu Xiang said is extremely true, the top priority is to open up a dilemma for Datang, we shouldn't think about those things that are out of reach, and Li Tang doesn't have that strength." Dugu smiled coldly and said: "Bingzhou is now the core interests of the Sui Dynasty, from Yang Tong's usual strength, if we move his core interests, he will definitely fight to the death, he has a population of more than 28 million, accounting for almost half of the world, Yang Tong has won the hearts of the people, and it is a matter of fingers to raise millions of troops under his rule." Coupled with Ashina Simo who was under his control, did the saint think that Li Tang could handle it? ”

Dugu was almost killed by Li Yuan's ignorance, arrogance, and arrogance.

"Father, son-in-law agree with Liu Xiangzhi that the Sui Dynasty will not give in because of our compromise" Li Jiancheng resolved Li Yuan's embarrassment in a timely manner.

Li Yuan's body shook slightly, and he said slowly: "First call the Tuntian army back to Jianjian!" As for how to send troops, let me think about it again......"

In fact, he was convinced, as Li Jiancheng said, that Yang Tong would not let the Tang Dynasty go because of Li Yuan's fear. Instead of being passive everywhere and forcing the miserable relocation of the capital, it is better to strike preemptively and take the entire Yongzhou.

The more important reason is that Li Tang's long-term nesting has made the Guanlong nobles extremely dissatisfied, which can be seen from the increasingly impatient and disrespectful attitudes of Dugu Cheng and Dou Wei. If there is no more action, the Guanlong nobles will definitely abandon the Tang Dynasty, and the Tang Dynasty without the support of the Guanlong nobles will collapse, which is a consequence that Li Yuan cannot afford. Li Tang had no way to retreat, no matter what the result was, Li Yuan had to take the initiative to launch a big war against the Sui Dynasty.

Thinking of this, Li Yuan finally made up his mind to raise Li Tang's troops to seize the entire territory of Yongzhou......

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