Zhu Di was a left-behind general personally appointed by Dou Jiande when he led the army to Tangling. After he ordered the withdrawal of the army, although many Xia soldiers were puzzled by this, after all, the military order was like a mountain, and they finally followed the order.

After Yang Gao led the victorious division back from Tanglin, he learned that the remnants of the Xia army led by Zhu Di had abandoned Xingyang and withdrew to Hebei. couldn't help but mock himself secretly: "This Ming Chengzu escaped quite quickly." With a wave of his hand, he led the army to occupy Xingyang County.

Zhu Di led the remnants of the Xia army to flee back to Hebei, and the Sui army occupied Xingyang County. This marked the end of the Central Plains Campaign, which had been fought hard for nearly two years, and more than 200,000 soldiers cheered and celebrated the arrival of victory in their own way.

Chang Yuchun, Li Siye, Zhou Dewei and other generals asked for battle to pursue Zhu Di, suggesting that they should take this opportunity to enter Hebei and expand the results of the Central Plains Campaign.

After careful consideration, Yang Gao finally rejected the proposal of Chang Yuchun and others. Chang Yuchun and others are military generals, and they are more from a military point of view, and now that Dou Jiande is captured, and the dragons of Hebei are leaderless, it is indeed a once-in-a-lifetime fighter.

However, the Central Plains is not as good as Jingxiang and Jiangnan, which have experienced many years of military disasters, both politically and economically, and have suffered devastating blows. Therefore, in the next period of time, the focus of the imperial court will inevitably be on pacifying the victims and stabilizing the people's livelihood.

And in the past few years, although the Sui army has won many battles, but also consumed a lot of grain and grass materials, although the south is mostly the land of fish and rice, but now the Central Plains is full of hunger, hoarding grain and grass must be mainly for relief of the victims. After providing relief to the victims of the Central Plains, the remaining grain and grass were simply not enough to support the Sui army's campaign against Hebei.

vetoed the suggestion of Chang Yuchun and others to take advantage of the situation to march into the Central Plains, which shows that the Sui army's next strategic goal in the Central Plains is to defend.

To the west is Wang Shichong, who occupies Hongnong County, half of Henan County and Xiangcheng County, although Wang Shichong is now nominally subordinate to Yang Gao, but Yang Gao does not dare to rest assured of this treacherous and resourceful traitor, and specially left the famous generals Xue Rengui and Chang Yuchun who have been powerful in the world to sit in Kim Yong Yong to deter Wang Shichong and other people with ill intentions.

And the Xia army in the north has just suffered a heavy blow, and even the Xia King Dou Jiande has been captured, and it is expected that he will not make a comeback in a short period of time. However, after all, there are still Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang and Ming Chengzu Zhu Di in Hebei, and Yang Gao did not dare to relax his carelessness, and specially appointed the veteran Yang Ye to raise 30,000 troops to sit in Xingyang to guard against the raid of Hebei bandits.

In addition, it is necessary to strengthen the defense of Jingxiang, in recent years, the Tang Army's eastward expedition has repeatedly used Jingxiang as a breakthrough, in addition to the important strategic location of Jingxiang, it is also related to the emptiness of Jingxiang's defense.

In view of this, Yang Gao immediately waved his pen and divided an army of 100,000 from the current 200,000 or so troops in the Central Plains, with Li Jing as the main general, and five generals Su Dingfang, Lu Junyi, Zhou Dewei, Zhang Dingbian and Lu Zhishen accompanied him.

After that, Yang Gao was transferred to Xiao Yu, the secretary of Duzhi, as the governor of the Central Plains, to supervise the release of grain in the Central Plains to help the victims. Xiao Yu is an extremely upright person who has always hated corruption and dereliction of duty. Presumably, with him, he should be able to ensure that the relief food of the imperial court is distributed to the victims to the greatest extent.

In addition, Yang Gao transferred Zhang Juzheng to the Central Plains to clear the fields, and now the Central Plains is in ruins, and the Central Plains scholars have suffered heavy losses because of the military disaster, which is the best time to overthrow everything and start again. Otherwise, after a long time in the future, these warriors will definitely jump out of the whole moth.

After arranging these things, Yang Gao took Liu Bowen, Yuwen Chengdu, Lu Wenlong, Cheng Yanjin, You Junda and others, as well as 30,000 troops, to escort Dou Jiande, Xiong Kuohai, Cao Dan, and Wang Zuo, who had surrendered with a broken arm, and other captives to return to the court.

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Yang Gao captured Dou Jiande alive and the news of the occupation of the Central Plains soon spread to Guanzhong. After Li Shimin, who had just returned to Chang'an, heard the news, he couldn't sit still anymore and immediately rushed to the palace to see Li Yuan.

Li Yuan also got the news of Yang Gao's full presence in the Central Plains at this moment, and when he heard Li Shimin's request to see him, he also guessed why he came, and immediately announced his visit.

Li Shimin walked quickly into Li Yuan's imperial study, tidied up his clothes, knelt down and saluted Li Yuan: "Son, see your father!" ”

"The emperor is exempt!"

Li Yuan smiled, and then said lightly: "The emperor came to see me because Yang Gao'er captured Dou Jiande alive, and it was all based on the Central Plains, right?" ”

Li Shimin got up slowly, and arched his hand slightly towards Li Yuan and said, "My father is wise, and my son is here for this matter." At present, Yang Gao is all based on the Central Plains, ten points in the world, and Yang Gao has five points, and the form is very bad for my Datang! ”

Li Yuan nodded and said, "What the emperor said coincides with me. I never thought that a milky child would become me and become a fierce rival of Datang. ”

After a pause, Li Yuan asked again: "What does the emperor think I should do according to the current situation?" ”

Li Shimin arched his hand and said: "Father, my sons think that at present, my Tang Dynasty should quickly eliminate Zhao Kuangyin, who is entrenched in Bingzhou. This thief has been hindering the development of my Datang, and my son thinks that this thief must be destroyed! ”

Li Yuan nodded and said, "I ordered you to return from Hongnong this time, also so that you can go to deal with Zhao Kuangyin's evil thief." What else does the emperor have to suggest? ”

Li Shimin immediately said: "Father, the son thinks that in addition to sending heavy troops to exterminate Zhao Kuangyin, the evil thief, he should also send a strong army into Bashu to help Xiaogong. At present, although we don't know Yang Gao's next move, Bashu is located in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, and it is undoubtedly a sharp sword hanging over his head for Yang Gao, who holds Jingxiang and Jiangnan. Therefore, it is necessary to take precautions. ”

Li Yuan nodded when he heard this, sighed again and said: "It's naturally no problem to send troops to support Bashu, but I don't know who to send to support Xiaogong, in the past few years, Jiancheng, Yuanji, and Sichang have been defeated by the Sui army, so I don't know who else is available in my Datang?" ”

"Isn't there no one available? It's just that you, Father, have been reusing the people of the clan, and this has been repeatedly defeated! ”

Li Shimin reluctantly complained in his heart, and said: "Father, the son recommended Li Shiji, the general of the Right Wuhou, to serve as the deputy governor of Bashu, and led the troops into Bashu to support Xiaogong. ”

Li Yuan was slightly stunned, looked at Li Shimin and said, "Li Shiji, can he take on this heavy responsibility?" I remember that when he was the deputy commander of the army when Yuan Ji defeated Hanoi, he was the deputy commander of the army! ”