Chapter 259: Counting is Counting
Soon, everyone looked at Li Ye.
Seeing the curious eyes of several people, Li Ye knew that it was time to explain, after all, they were all his own people, and he was prepared when he announced it.
"Actually, it's very simple, Jingyuan's army will send troops at the right time, and the same is true for Yanyan Town." Perhaps Li Ye felt that the effect of these two thunders was not very obvious, so he threw out the last thunder, "Moreover, Zuo Shence Army and Wei Ning Army may not both listen to Yang's father and son." β
"What does Your Highness mean?" Pei Rong thought of something, a little unsure.
After obtaining Li Ye's permission, Li Zhen explained with a smile, "There are shadows in the Zuo Shence Army and the Suining Army that have been bought by the Jinyi Guard, and they will play a role when the time is right." β
Hearing Li Zhen's words, several other people were quite surprised.
Although I don't know what the status of Jinyiwei's shadow is, if it is done anyway at the right time, it may be able to achieve some good results. If so, wouldn't they just need to deal with Li Keyong and Wang Chongrong?
Thinking of this, they have the bottom in their hearts.
If it is really as they planned, I don't know what the expressions of Li Yi, Yang Fugong, Li Keyong and others who finally saw that situation would be, it should be very exciting.
However, this is only the best situation, whether the armies of Jingyuan and Yan Yan will be dispatched in the future, and whether the shadows of Jinyiwei will be effective, are all difficult to predict, but Li Ye has drawn a good blueprint for them, which makes a few people who were originally a little worried become confident.
Although Li Yi and others made a preemptive strike that surprised Li Ye a little, it did not disrupt his plan, and it was a big deal to do it in advance. And on the Xichuan side, in fact, you can take Chengdu by relying on the Right Tiance Army, but it is okay to transfer the Right Yulin Army to practice your hands, and the right Yulin Army that has just been established is not suitable for participating in this big drama in the later Guanzhong.
In October of the second year of Guangqi of the Tang Dynasty, the imperial court recruited Chen Jingxuan as the commander of the Longwu Army, Tian Lingzi as the Flying Dragon Envoy, and Sun Ye as the Xichuan Jiedu Envoy.
Chen Jingxuan refused to accept the appointment, and the imperial court was furious, so he ordered Liu Qi to be used as the envoy to lead the left and right Tiance troops to conquer Xichuan.
Watching Zuo Tiance's army leave Chang'an and march towards Xichuan, ordinary people didn't realize anything, they only thought that this was just an ordinary crusade. As long as the big war does not come to Chang'an, what does it have to do with them when other places fight?
But what they didn't know was that soon after, Chang'an would suffer another catastrophe.
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Hedong, Taiyuan.
"Do you say that this king should promise Yang Fugong and help him solve King Shou." Li Keyong asked with a smile while holding a letter.
The people present were all his cronies, so he didn't shy away from them. For the imperial court, Li Keyong naturally has no respect, he has rebelled against the imperial court before and attacked Chang'an twice, is this like a person who puts the imperial court in his eyes?
"Big brother, I think the Zhaoyi Army should be taken first, why bother to get involved in the power struggle between the DPRK and China. Yang Fugong is not a good person, if we defeat King Shou, it is difficult to say whether he will cross the river and tear down the bridge.
A nominal title of King Jin, how can it be more realistic to win the Zhaoyi Army? Li Kegong said with a big grin.
Li Kegong's words won the support of some people present, because at this time, Li Kexiu had already conquered Zhaozhou, and Meng Fangli only had Xingzhou and Cizhou left, and taking the entire Zhaoyi Army was just around the corner.
At this time, the Zhaoyi army was divided into two, with two knots. Among them, Li Keyong's younger brother Li Kexiu occupied Luzhou and Zezhou, and Meng Fangli occupied Xingzhou, Zhaozhou and Cizhou.
In this case, some of the Hedong generals did not want to get involved in the situation in Guanzhong.
"Father-in-law, the child thinks he should send troops to Guanzhong." Li Siyuan on the side said loudly.
"Oh, why does Si Yuan think that he should send troops to Guanzhong." Li Ke looked at this righteous son who made him more satisfied with curiosity, and his eyes were full of satisfaction.
When he was attacked at Shangyuanyi, the other party, who was only seventeen years old at the time, rescued him in the midst of the chaos. After returning to Hedong, he paid more attention to this righteous son and let him lead his own soldiers. Later, Li Siyuan was appointed as Li Cunxin's deputy general, and fought with him, serving as the vanguard in the army.
Of course, among his righteous sons, Li Cunxiao is the most satisfying to him, with extraordinary martial arts, whether it is the conquest of Huangchao or the battle of Shayuan, he has not tasted defeat.
"Meng Fangli is a mediocre talent, and his uncle's ability is enough to deal with it. In the middle of the military dispatch, the father-in-law can be named the king of Jin, and the envoy of Yang Shufu is also a close friend of the father-in-law, and the other party should send troops if he asks for it. Li Siyuan explained.
Li Keyong shook his head with a smile, but he didn't blame the other party, "This so-called best friend is all false, if it is not beneficial to Hedong, there is no need to send troops to Guanzhong." A king of Jin didn't take his father to heart, but just this title of 'King of Jin' was not enough to impress the king to send troops. β
"Cunxiao, why don't you speak?" Li Keyong looked at Li Cunxiao, who had been sitting below and had been silent.
Li Cunxiao, who was questioned by Li Keyong, is the 'Li' in history who 'the king is not a tyrant, and the general is not Li'. This person is known as Li Cunxiao, the first general in the late Tang Dynasty, and he is also the one that Jiang Xiong has been shouting to fight, but it is really hard to say whether he can fight or not, of course Li Ye thinks that he can't beat it, after all, Li Cunxiao's name is not blown out, it is really played.
Jiang Xiong has never heard of it in history, if he really has the ability, he will not bury it, after all, the end of the Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties are the period when heroes are born.
The burly Li Cunxiao arched his hand and said, "Back to my father-in-law, for this, the child doesn't understand, everything is subject to the father-in-law's orders." β
Li Cunxiao's statement did not satisfy Li Keyong, and finally he set his eyes on his adviser, "Gai Ya, what do you think?" β
After getting up and saluting, Gai Yu said, "Your Highness, if you think about it in the long run, the lower official suggests sending troops to Guanzhong. β
"Why?" Li Keyong looked at the other party, hoping that the other party could convince him, or persuade those who objected.
For the title of 'King of Jin', he is not greedy for it is fake, how can a king of Longxi County have a 'King of Jin', one is the king of the county, and the other is a prince.
With the title of King of Jin, Li Keyong can also suppress Zhu Wen, which will make him feel less resentment in his heart.
"Back to Your Highness, there are two reasons." Gai Yu said seriously, "First, as Yang Fugong said in his heart, if King Shou grows up, it will be a threat to His Royal Highness.
King Shou is not a small person, and he has a good relationship with Zhu Wen, if King Shou is allowed to ascend the throne, it is very likely that he will use troops against His Royal Highness, and the life in Hedong will not be easy at that time, and His Royal Highness should know the truth of cold lips and teeth.
The current situation in Hedong is not stable, with Wang Rong and Li Congwei in the east, Zhu Wen, Zhuge Shuang, and Meng Fangli in the south, Li Sigong in the west, and Helian Duo in the north. In particular, Zhu Wen will definitely instigate the imperial court to use troops against Hedong, and other towns may also take advantage of the fire to loot and have to be guarded against.
A useless court and emperor is a good thing for Hedong.
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The second is to deter the imperial court. Even if Yang Fugong replaced King Shou to take power, as long as the imperial court was shocked, Yang Fugong would not dare to attack Hedong.
Therefore, Xia Guan suggested that His Royal Highness send troops to Guanzhong.
This is just the words of the lower official's family, and whether to send troops or not depends on the decision of His Royal Highness. Gai Yu didn't say anything to death.
Li Keyong knocked on the table and muttered for a while, "Send someone to reply to Yang Fugong, and say that this king agrees to send troops." However, in addition to what he promised before, he had to admit the king's control over the Zhaoyi army, and at the same time hand over Yunzhou to the king. β
Li Keyong finally chose to send troops, perhaps in his opinion, King Shou is nothing at all, tens of thousands of troops are just miscellaneous troops. Tian Lingzi's Zhuzhen coalition army had not been defeated by him in a few days, not to mention that King Shou did not have so many troops in his hands at this time, so he was not afraid.
Regarding Li Keyong's request, Yang Fugong didn't consider it at all and agreed directly. The Zhaoyi army was already occupied by Li Keyong, and Yunzhou was only a state, so it was given, as long as it could defeat King Shou, it was a trivial matter.
In addition, Wang Chongrong of the river also agreed to send troops. As for the reason, it is also very simple, Li Keyong has sent troops, he naturally has to follow, who doesn't want to fight the autumn wind, maybe he can get some benefits from Yang Fugong, why not.
After receiving the affirmative reply from Li Keyong and Wang Chongrong to send troops, Yang Fugong was relieved, so he asked someone to pass the news to Li Yi and let him prepare.
Yang Fugong's news undoubtedly made Li Yi very happy, and after waiting for so long, he finally saw the hope of regaining power.
However, Li Yi and Yang Fugong's plan failed to hide from Li Ye, to be precise, from Jinyiwei. Perhaps in their eyes, Jinyiwei is just a pro-soldier army, and they don't know Jinyiwei's intelligence capabilities.
The news that Li Keyong led an army of 40,000 to the south of Pizhou was soon detected by Jinyiwei and then spread to Chang'an.
In the eyes of outsiders, they all thought that Li Keyong was planning to capture the Zhaoyi Army in one fell swoop, but Li Ye knew that it was for him.
Because I don't know the situation here in Guanzhong, when the troops are dispatched after what happens here, it will definitely delay time. However, if the army is hoarded in Mizhou, as long as there is movement in Guanzhong, Li Keyong's army can understand and merge with Wang Chongrong's army, and then enter Guanzhong.
Li Keyong sent troops to explain that his imperial brother and Yang Fugong were already planning to attack him, but he didn't know what the other party would use as an excuse.
But Li Ye is not the kind of person who likes to be passive, only by taking the initiative will the initiative be in his own hands.
After learning that the Right Yulin Army had replaced the Zuo Tiance Army and entered Dongchuan, Li Ye began his plan, that is, to find fault and let the other party take the initiative to jump out.
So in the later period, Li Ye's cronies and Li Yi and Yang Fugong's cronies confronted each other in the court. First, Li Yingxu seized the fields and shops under Yang Shouzhen's name, and then the powerful people instructed by Yang Fugong attacked Li Ye's cronies to oppress the good people and seize the land.
It started out as a small thing, then it got bigger and bigger, and finally it got the centrists involved. The right servant Perforated Wei believed that Xiao Yu, the squire of Zhongshu, accepted the official position appointed by Zhu Mei during Zhu Mei's rebellion, and was suspected of rebellion.
For a while, the court was filled with the smell of gunpowder, and at first the officials thought it was just a trivial matter, but later the matter became bigger and bigger, and some people with a keen sense of smell noticed that something was wrong.
Approaching the New Year, the people of Chang'an City are happily preparing for the New Year, what they don't know is that Chang'an at this time is like quiet before the storm.
A sense of depression enveloped the hearts of everyone in the court, making it difficult to breathe.
(End of chapter)