Li Xuan walked into the conference room with steady steps, and the moment he entered the conference room, he could clearly see that the civil and military officials in the conference room were all looking at him.

Of course, these courtiers naturally didn't dare to stare at Li Xuan for too long, just for a moment.

Some courtiers dared to stare at Li Xuan for a long time, it was already a matter of the Huangzhushan era, at that time, any cat or dog dared to be polite, and called him Your Majesty, but there was not much real respect for him, treating him as a real emperor, well, except for Liu Bagou!

But now, it is different, he not only became the emperor with real power, but also led the empire to create a huge foundation, unified China, and his prestige was not inferior to the founding emperors of previous dynasties, and even surpassed.

In the past, the Eternal Saint Monarch was just the words of Liu Bagou's family, but later it was recognized, and by now, the Eternal Saint Monarch has become the Eternal Saint Monarch, and the changes in these titles are enough to prove the changes in Li Xuan's status.

The courtiers in the conference room, after casting their eyes at Li Xuan the moment he entered, quickly lowered their heads again, and then bent down in unison and said in unison: "Long live my emperor, long live, long live!" ”

Li Xuan stretched out his hand slightly, and said at the same time: "Zhong Aiqing is flat!" ”

As he spoke, his footsteps did not stop, but he walked directly to his dragon chair seat past the crowd, and after sitting down, he said, "Give the seat!" ”

Although there were a lot of chairs in the conference room, if they wanted to get a seat in front of Li Xuan, they still needed Li Xuan to personally say a seat or something similar, regardless of whether they sat down, it would be disrespectful.

Although Li Xuan would ask his courtiers to sit down almost every time he had a meeting, there was no exception, and Li Xuan needed to give him a seat every time.

After Li Xuan gave the seat, many courtiers sat down one after another, and everyone sat there quite exquisitely.

The Army's seats are on the left and the Navy's are on the right, and they are arranged according to their rank and seniority, not by them, but by the Secretariat.

Sitting at the top of the left is now a veritable big man in the army, Lieutenant General Lei Wan, the minister on duty in the imperial study, although this person has never led any battles in the field army, but this person is the head of the war department, the minister on duty in the imperial study, his military talent may not be as outstanding as Hao Bonian, but his political status is higher than them.

And more often, Lieutenant General Rewan is not a pure military general, he is more like an official and a politician.

Lieutenant General Lei Wan was a few generals who also held the rank of lieutenant general, including Li Chunjing, commander of the First Army, Wang Chaohong, commander of the Second Army, and Hao Bonian, commander of the Third Army.

Then there were the ministers of the Privy Council of the Army, deputy ministers, division commanders of some field divisions, etc., a total of more than 20 people, all major generals and lieutenant generals.

Coupled with more than a dozen generals of the Navy, in today's conference room, there are real generals!

The admiral sitting opposite the army general is headed by Vice Admiral Bao Yifen, as the head of the Military Command Department under the Navy Command Department and the minister on duty in the Imperial Study, his status in the navy is similar to that of Lei Wan in the army, he has served in the center for a long time and has not participated in any actual war.

He was followed by Vice Admiral Song Binglin, Chief of the Naval Staff, and the Commanders of the First Fleet, the Second Fleet, the Yangtze River Fleet, and the Navy's Logistics Department, the Ship Administration Department, and the Military Affairs Department.

And under the rectangular table, according to the old rules, it was the place that belonged to the Guards, and the four generals of the Guards sat there.

And Li Daobing and others from the Hanlin Academy, as well as Qian Mengjiu and others from the Cabinet and War Department, although their status and power are not bad, they are only observing today's strategic meeting, so they are not sitting on the rectangular table, but sitting on the chairs on both sides of the conference room.

In this meeting, if nothing else, they just have to wear their ears, and basically there will be no chance to speak, and even if they do, the military bigwigs present will probably treat it as if they didn't hear it.

Although they are all the number one in their respective departments and have huge power in the outside world, they are still not enough in front of these real bigwig generals of the army and navy.

Not to mention anything else, even if it is a title, the army and navy generals present today are all knights, and the worst is a viscount, most of them are counts, and a few are marquises.

The others didn't say anything, Hao Bonian and Li Chunjing, the two army bosses, were sitting here today, and when the others spoke, they probably had to be quieter.

There is no other reason, the credit of the people is big enough, and the title is high enough!

After the courtiers sat down, Li Xuan didn't care what everyone's inner thoughts were, he was very busy all day, and he held meetings when he had meetings, and he didn't have so much time to be polite to them, so he just spoke first!

"Let's get started!"

Li Xuan first said this briefly, and then continued: "Let's talk about Liaodong first!" ”

The war in Liaodong is the most important in the Tang Dynasty in recent months, and it can be regarded as the only large-scale war, although Li Xuan didn't pay much attention to it before, it doesn't mean that it is not important, and Li Xuan doesn't pay attention to it because he really doesn't care, but because the war in Liaodong has always been smooth sailing, and Li Xuan doesn't need to worry about it.

The Privy Council and the Navy High Command have completed their own work very efficiently, and there is no need for Li Xuan to worry about it.

At this time, Lieutenant General Lei Wan stood up and spoke first: "Your Majesty, since the offensive was launched in the autumn on the Liaodong side, the various departments have been going well!" ”

"The Sixth Army of our army took the lead in launching the Shanhaiguan Campaign, with the superiority of artillery and the bravery of the soldiers, it took ten days to finally break through the Shanhaiguan defense line, enter the western Liaoning corridor, and then successively conquer Ningyuan in the western Liaoning corridor, Chen soldiers in Guangning, during the period, the first cavalry brigade of our army with all the cavalry regiments, composed of about 10,000 cavalry troops, wandered and guarded the logistics defense line of western Liaoning, and Duoyan Sanwei and other Liaodong cavalry launched many fierce battles, mutual victories and defeats, but still firmly guarded the logistics line of western Liaoning."

"In November, our army reinforced an infantry regiment to Jinzhou on the Liaodong Peninsula, and then together with the Liaodong mixed regiment, the Liaodong Temporary Brigade was formed, and it went north from Jinzhou to capture Fuzhou in succession, and Chen soldiers were in Gaizhou."

According to the battle report of the Sixth Army on the front line, the main force of their Sixth Army will take a frontal siege in Quang Ninh and exert pressure, and at the same time, the Liaodong Provisional Brigade will continue to go north to seize Haizhou, and then control the Liaohetao area, and finally encircle and annihilate the 50,000 enemy troops who are holding Quang Ninh!"

Because the winter in Liaodong is too cold, in fact, although the Datang Army launched an offensive in the autumn, but in fact the offensive did not last long, after hitting Guangning and Gaizhou, it basically stopped the pace of continuing the offensive, because the weather was too cold, Rao is the Datang Army has already prepared, all kinds of cold and warm things are prepared, but still not used to this kind of cold weather.

In particular, the troops involved in the war in Liaodong were mainly the Sixth Army, and the soldiers of the Sixth Army mainly came from the Huai River valley in Jiangbei.

It's the same snow, but it's minus and minus tens of degrees, that's not the same concept.

In the past, when the Jiangbei Campaign was carried out, although the Datang Army was also affected by the severe cold weather in autumn and winter, because the Datang Army has always liked to launch offensives in autumn and winter, it was not greatly affected, and the subsequent Northern Expedition was carried out in the summer, which was also not affected.

However, the Liaodong Campaign was launched in the autumn and winter, which is not to say that the Datang Army deliberately chose such a time, but in the summer of the seventh year of Xuanping last year, the Datang Army had just finished the Southwest Campaign, and the subsequent troop transfer also took several months, and by the time the Datang Army was ready, it was already October.

But it's all ready, it can't be said that it's because there will be no war in late autumn, many people thought at the time, it snows in the winter in Liaodong, and it also snows in the winter in Jiangbei, so it doesn't make sense that the Tang Army can fight the autumn and winter battles in Jiangbei, but it can't fight in Liaodong.

Moreover, they also have a strong maritime force, and there are countless materials prepared to keep warm from the cold, which can be easily transported from various ports in the south to the ports in the north, and every soldier will get a thick cotton jacket.

However, God's power is a little more powerful than they think!

Although the logistics force of the Tang Dynasty is quite awesome, and the shipping is even more powerful, when it really starts to snow, the logistics generals of the Tang Dynasty know how powerful this snow is!

How big? Why? The road is closed because of heavy snow!

The four-wheeled transport carriage of the Tang Army, which had made many contributions in many battlefields, was almost useless in the snow, because in the snow, this kind of carriage could not go at all.

This has also led to the fact that in ports such as Lushun, and even in logistics transit ports close to the front line, all kinds of logistics materials are piled up, but they just can't be transported to the front line.

In the end, they had no choice but to temporarily build some sleds and other tools to transport supplies, or simply mobilize manpower to transport them, but this obviously caused a lack of supplies!

As a result, by the time the battle reached December, it was basically impossible to continue, because at that time, there were few casualties in the battle, but there were countless people with frostbite.

From October to December, more than 5,000 soldiers suffered frostbite to varying degrees, and their combat casualties were only 1,000.

In the end, the Sixth Army simply suspended its large-scale offensive and switched to stationing on the spot, surviving the winter first.