Chapter 297: He's Changed

Li Dongsheng has not yet arrived in Liaodong, and he has already made two contributions. Everyone present was envious, jealous and hateful, but there was no way, people really relied on their ability to eat.

After Li Dongsheng thanked him, Li Shimin didn't want to let him go: "Then what should we do when we go to Goguryeo according to your thoughts?" ”

What to do? I want to go home now, according to my words, harassing him for a few years will be over, you have to show your martial arts, drive your own expedition, make such a big move, now it's hard to ride a tiger and ask me what to do?

These words can only be thought of in the heart, and if they are spoken, the consequences will be serious. He looked around, everyone looked at him expectantly, and now some people called him "Little Zhuge ", and he didn't know that he had such a LOW nickname.

"Your Majesty, in the opinion of the ministers, after our army arrives in Goguryeo, we should divide our troops into several routes, and everyone should fight separately, and finally meet under the city of Pyongyang, and complete their work in one battle. Your Majesty only needs to sit in the rear army and follow along. After the division of troops, the major governors were given the greatest authority, so that the soldiers and mercenaries who entered Goguryeo in the early stage followed and led the way, and they commanded the specific battles by themselves. ”

As soon as Li Dongsheng said this, Li Ji, Cheng Biting Jin, and other generals who understand military affairs all nodded, in fact, in the eyes of those who have been in battle for a long time, there is no need for such a big movement to fight this battle, and if they advance by land and water, they will definitely kill Goguryeo, and now with Li Dongsheng's method, there will be fewer casualties. But there is no need for His Majesty to personally conquer you, everyone has gathered together to protect you, and there will be fewer people to fight when the time comes.

"To the north, a team of people will be sent to block the passage of Goguryeo to ask for help from the Khitan, and the navy will block their ships asking for help from the Japanese at sea, and each team will be equipped with soldiers from several firearms battalions, and when they encounter the city of Goguryeo, they can directly bury the explosives under the city gate, and they can directly blow it up. When the time comes, the army will join forces in Pyongyang. "What to do after arriving in Pyongyang Li Dongsheng did not say, but everyone understands that they must wait for Li Shimin to come before attacking, such a beautiful scene you steal the limelight of the leader, then the leader will make you unhappy for the rest of your life.

"Your Majesty, Lantian is waiting for this, and the minister does not dare to agree!" A harsh word entered Li Dongsheng's ears again, and he sighed. Yards, here we go again.

Sure enough, it was the eldest grandson Wuji again, and everyone present did not feel surprised, everyone was used to the two of them tearing each other apart, and it was strange if they didn't come out.

"Your Majesty, what Li Dongsheng said is completely unfeasible, and believing it will lead to great disaster. I think that for the sake of Goguryeo, my Tang Dynasty gathered an army of 300,000, in order to destroy Goguryeo in one fell swoop with the momentum of a lion fighting a rabbit. But if we divide the troops now, Lantian Hou has already said just now, Goguryeo is a mountainous terrain, and we will fight here, and we will suffer by nature. If the troops are still divided now, the combat effectiveness of the separated ones will definitely decline, and then the Goguryeo people who have the advantage of local combat will find an opportunity... ”

Seeing that Li Shimin and those civilian officials nodded slightly, the eldest grandson Wuji continued: "And after it is dispersed, there will be more pressure on our army's logistics, which is a huge risk. And after the armies are separated, how to communicate and how to coordinate, have you thought about these? It's really a yellow-mouthed child, a slap on the head is an idea, I still mean that, it's stable. The army was huddled together and directly crushed the past, no matter what conspiracy Goguryeo had, it was useless. ”

At this moment, everyone was also divided into two factions, those who divided the troops and those who did not divide the troops, everyone began to quarrel, the eldest grandson Wuji glanced at Li Dongsheng proudly, Li Dongsheng made a grimace at him, which means that you are the prime minister and always go into battle in person, is it too faceless?

After arguing in the cold wind for a while without results, everyone turned their eyes to Li Shimin, the final decision-maker, and he was also very embarrassed. The two of them said that they were very reasonable, and each had its own reasons and benefits, which made it difficult for Li Shimin to make a decision for a while.

According to the method of Changsun Wuji, it is very safe, although the time is long, the effect is slow, but there is no risk at all, if you follow Li Dongsheng's method, divide the troops to attack, so that the speed of the war is fast, but how do you ensure the supply of grain and grass, and the team is dispersed, how can you ensure that these divided armies will not be broken by the Goguryeo people?

Until he returned to the tent and everyone dispersed to rest, Li Shimin was still thinking that every decision was related to life and death, so he had to be cautious.

Li Dongsheng was still a little disappointed to see that Li Shimin did not adopt his own methods, and in the real history, Li Shimin also paid a great price for his conquest of Goryeo, and the officers and soldiers suffered heavy casualties, and in the end they returned in vain, which also became a rare mistake of Li Shimin's reign. And Goguryeo will not be pacified until after Tang Gaozong Li Zhi came to power and continues to harass him for several years.

Li Siwen came over at this time and complained: "Dongsheng, I think the method you said is good, everyone divides the troops to fight, and you can fight as much as you want, and now you are trapped here, it's really boring, I don't know what Your Majesty else has to consider." ”

Li Siwen's words were like a thunderbolt that woke Li Dongsheng up, yes, what else is Li Shimin thinking about?

He figured it out at once, and just wanted to give himself a big mouth. When Li Shimin didn't think about dividing his troops to fight, he was sitting in the rear, and when it was written in the history books who had leveled Goguryeo, was it written about the generals who divided the troops to fight or Li Shimin who was written in the rear commander's account?

He clearly knew how persistent Li Shimin was with the idea of Ping Goguryeo surpassing his cousin Yang Guang, but he still had such a bad idea, no wonder the eldest grandson Wuji smiled so happily, it turned out that this place was overshadowed by him.

No wonder those generals didn't dare to say anything to echo themselves, so they could only nod their heads. If they say it, maybe they will be remembered by Li Shimin, and the end will not be good.

In fact, everyone knows in their hearts, the famous generals of the Tang Dynasty are like clouds, and the soldiers will be fierce, and others don't say that as long as Li Jing is invited out of the mountain, then Goguryeo is just an idle matter. However, Li Shimin did not use it like this, although he asked for advice on the surface, but he refused to give a little military power. The lessons of his uncle are there, and he hasn't learned the lesson yet, so he's careless!

But after figuring it out, Li Dongsheng's heart became even more uncomfortable, just for the sake of your face, if you want to leave a name in history, you choose a strategy that may cause more than 100,000 casualties, is this Li Shimin too selfish.

However, thinking of Li Shimin's age, Li Dongsheng knew that he was no longer the humble and courageous Ming Jun who was brave enough to accept advice when he first sat on the dragon chair, he had become stubborn, selfish, stubborn and vain like those emperors who had reigned for a long time in history, and he knew that there was a good way, but in order to maintain his authority, he just didn't adopt it.