"Come in!" After Li Shimin said this, he turned around and entered the tent.

Li Dongsheng followed in, Li Shimin stood in front of the table with his back to him, looked at the map on the table, and heard his footsteps coming in: "You received the news of Lu Guogong's defeat?" ”

"Yes, I don't know how Lu Guogong's injuries are?" Li Dongsheng said cautiously.

"It has already been seen by the imperial doctor, and it is not life-threatening." Li Shimin said lightly: "You say, did I do something wrong?" ”

Damn, it's another digging proposition, why do I want to come over today? Li Dongsheng couldn't wait to slap himself twice. Li Shimin turned around and looked at Li Dongsheng with a calm expression, his eyes were very expectant, Li Dongsheng really admired the depth of his city, and there was no fluctuation in his emotions after so many deaths and injuries.

He thought about it for a while, and felt that this was a rare opportunity to advise: "Your Majesty, Weichen still knows like that. The Goguryeo nation is more rational and very united. To them we are the invaders, so they are very strong. Secondly, they occupy an advantageous position, and the terrain and people are more familiar than us, so we can easily fall into an ambush. Third, Goguryeo has also been fighting for so many years, and there are many experienced professional soldiers, which are not to be underestimated. ”

"yes. In front, I was careless and underestimated the enemy. He actually ordered Lu Guogong to attack rashly, which led to this defeat. Li Shimin sighed: "Biting Jin saw me desperately confessing to me, and I looked at him speechless. He did it for my sake. ”

"Weichen hopes that Your Majesty and the chief managers will learn from it, dispel the idea of a quick battle, seriously sum up the experience, and then regroup and fight again, in this way, those soldiers who died in battle can also be regarded as worthy of death, and we can help them avenge!"

Li Shimin listened to his words, the corners of his mouth twitched slightly, and he didn't know whether he was happy or angry: "No matter how strong they are, they are human beings, and they just have a head on their shoulders." There are only a few of them, and if I change them one by one, it won't be long before they are gone. As for their combat effectiveness, according to the soldiers who fought with them, they are only a little worse than us, and I think you think you think you think too highly of them. ”

Li Dongsheng looked at Li Shimin in surprise, he didn't expect that Li Shimin would be able to shamelessly say that you look down on them after such a fiasco, he had a new understanding of Li Shimin's stubbornness. He was willing to use the Tang army soldiers to exchange one-on-one with the Goguryeo people. Who would dare to follow such a ruthless master.

"Come and see!" Li Shimin motioned for Li Dongsheng to come to his side, and he pointed to Liaodong City and said: "Now it seems that our army has encountered difficulties, but I looked at the map and found that as long as we capture Liaodong City, there will be no big city in Goguryeo that can resist our troops." In front of our army is a smooth road, and it is up to me to go south and north. When the time comes, you can easily eliminate the thief Quangai Suwen? ”

He said it quickly, as if Goguryeo was a beautiful woman stripped naked by him, lying naked on the bed waiting for his destruction and ravage, Li Dongsheng looked at Li Shimin's increasingly excited expression, and really didn't know how he could think of going so far. Since the battle of crossing the river, the Tang army has lost nearly 20,000 troops, but it has not even taken a single city. Li Dongsheng didn't know why Li Shimin had such a strong confidence that he would win the final victory, could it be that his grenades and gunpowder gave him the confidence to treat the heroes of the world as nothing?

"Your Majesty, we haven't captured Liaodong City yet, don't you think about it first?" Li Dongsheng really couldn't stand it: "After taking Liaodong City, we will discuss a new combat plan." ”

Li Shimin, who was immersed in the prospect of victory, was interrupted by Li Dongsheng, he glared at him fiercely, his face was a little embarrassed, and he pointed to the map and said: "Originally, I wanted to save this grenade and gunpowder for the attack on Pyongyang City, which would cause them a huge shock, but now Liaodong City is so difficult to fight, I decided to use it in advance." ”

Li Dongsheng said: "Your Majesty is wise! How to say that the grenade is also a kind of weapon, its role is to improve the probability of our army's victory in the battle, reduce the casualties of our Tang soldiers, there is such a powerful weapon but let the soldiers continue to fight with their lives, then it is contrary to the original intention of Weichen's invention. Your Majesty, the most important thing in fighting a war is people, weapons are consumables, as long as people are there, everything is worth it. Grenades can be made as long as you have money and time, and these are the two things that I don't lack in Datang. "This is the first good news today, and finally agreeing to use firearms to fight is equivalent to dimensionality reduction, as long as the measures that can reduce the casualties of the Tang army are good.

Seeing that Li Shimin seemed to be a little shaken, Li Dongsheng hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, you just said that after capturing Liaodong City, the entire Goguryeo will be at the mercy of our army, since this city is so important to our Tang Dynasty, it should be taken as soon as possible at all costs, it can be seen from the siege battle a few days ago that Goguryeo has a countermeasure to the conventional siege equipment, if it continues to be used, our army will pay a great price for casualties, so at this time, we directly use grenades and gunpowder, as long as we quickly take Liaodong City." , that was also a huge shock to the Goguryeo people, and it was also a boost to the morale of our army that had just suffered defeat. Besides, there is an army like Gao Yanshou next to our army eyeing him next to him, as long as our army has a little flaw, he will definitely pounce on him like a hungry tiger, for the sake of safety, he still broke through Liaodong City in one fell swoop, and then freed his hands to eat Gao Yanshou's support army. ”

Li Shimin nodded and said, "I know that you all complain that I don't care about the life and death of the soldiers below, and insist on filling it with human lives." But you must know that I have been fighting for decades, and I am the commander of the three armies, and my vision is completely different from yours. In your hearts, tens of thousands of lives are huge casualties, so you think that I am cold-blooded, cruel, and old and mediocre, and I can't listen to advice. But you must know that there are casualties in battle, and the generals present have no more experience in fighting with Wenchen than you, so why should I believe that your strategy can succeed? What if I use your strategy to divide my troops and attack, and I am defeated by Goguryeo? It's easy for you to make suggestions, but how much pressure do you have to endure as the last one? The 20,000 soldiers who have died now are all men of my Han family, and they are all my loyal soldiers, and they are more distressed than anyone else, but I can only hold on to the end, on the other hand, you think your strategy can win this battle, no one knows what the development of things will look like, and no one can see through the vision of the future. ”