"I heard that you and Xue Rengui are quite close?"

Who doesn't know this in Lanxi now, Li Xiao didn't deny it, and nodded in response.

"Then you should know that the imperial court decided to go east to Goguryeo next year, and Xue Rengui is the deputy general, this time the imperial court is very determined and ready to destroy Goguryeo in one fell swoop, which is a rare opportunity to make contributions. San Lang, you should seize this opportunity and let Xue Rengui take you with you and come back with a bright future. Gao Yang stopped, stood by the Lanxi River, looked at the river and said.

In the words, there was a kind of care that surprised Li Xiao.

"I'm just a small country man, I don't have the heart to make a contribution, I just want to be a leisurely mountain landlord."

Gao Yang shook his head and turned his head to look at Li Xiao, "What you said is wrong, very wrong." It is not easy to be a laid-back landlord. Those famous people in the Wei and Jin dynasties, such as Tao Yuanming, who was unwilling to bend his waist for five buckets of rice, but you know that his family is also a scholar family, with a very high status, prestige and money. Another example is Wang Xie in the old days, which all had capital. ”

If you want to be a leisurely landlord, you have to be a famous clan, and the general small landlord of the Hanmen Shu clan can't be leisurely. It is destined to be just the edge of the bottom, and it is rare to be free and leisurely.

"If you don't climb up, others will step on you and climb up. Your Li family is also a century-old family in Lanxi, but because of a little thing, the family was almost ruined before, don't you remember this lesson? Go to the Eastern Crusade, with your relationship with the Xue family, as long as he takes you with him, you will not be in much danger, and you will be able to earn a future and come back. In the future, I will help you to ensure that your future is immeasurable. ”

Li Xiao agrees with some of Gao Yang's ideas, this year is indeed the era of powerful families, and the Sui and Tang dynasties are also known as the last era of aristocratic families, and they all say that there are no more families and nobles after the Sui and Tang dynasties.

But Li Xiao really doesn't want to plunge headlong into the power field, his starting point is too low, and it is too difficult to get in. A hundred years of life, only one life, Li Xiao doesn't want to live too tired.

Besides, who said that the crusade would be easy.

"Princess, I don't think this crusade will be a success."

Historically, although the Tang Dynasty did destroy Goguryeo during the reign of Emperor Gojong, it was a war that lasted for a long time.

If the attack on Goguryeo by the Sui Dynasty is connected, it can be said that the Sui and Tang dynasties finally destroyed Goguryeo after decades of continuous attacks by the four emperors.

During the reign of Gojong, it took more than ten years to destroy Goguryeo after two successive large-stage battles.

Now that the imperial court is preparing to send troops to the east, this is just the beginning, how can it be possible to destroy Goguryeo in a war.

After all, the hundred-legged insect is dead but not stiff, although Goguryeo was greatly reduced in national strength under the attack of the two generations of kings of the Sui Dynasty, and under the personal conquest of Taizong Li Shimin, its vitality was greatly damaged, but after all, it still had the strength to fight despite stubborn resistance.

Liaodong is far away, and it is bitter cold, and the expedition is difficult. If there are more troops, it will be difficult to supply logistics, and if there are fewer troops, it will be difficult to break through the enemy and pull out the city.

At that time, Taizong personally recruited and led 100,000 soldiers, but in the end he failed to complete the success because the number of troops was too small.

And Yang Guang sent millions of troops to conquer Liao and finally failed because he sent too many troops.

Gao Yang didn't think that Li Xiao could understand the affairs of the military state, and explained, "You must know that the commander of the army this time is Lu Guogong Cheng biting gold, this is the famous battlefield of the imperial court, and with him personally on the horse, it is absolutely stable." Not to mention that there are two fierce generals, Su Dingfang and Xue Rengui, who are fierce generals. ”

"No, it is impossible for the imperial court to succeed in a battle this time."

"Why?" Gao Yang asked with a smile.

Li Xiao originally had no interest in this kind of military affairs that didn't concern him at all, but since Gao Yang asked, he just talked about it, and he didn't tell anyone else anyway. After all, Gao Yang looked like he cared about himself just now.

"Let's put it this way, although the imperial court is taking the initiative to attack this time, but after all, it is a long-distance operation, the supply line is long, the transportation is difficult, and the climate in Liaodong is cold, and the terrain is complicated. The Goguryeo people spent a lot of time and material resources to build a Liaodong Great Wall, which is a mountain city joint defense line, with a large number of mountain cities and sections of city walls with high mountains and dangerous passes, easy to defend and difficult to attack. Especially attacking from the front, it will be extremely difficult. ”

"If I were to command the attack on Liao, I would never attack from the front, and that would be too hard."

Gao Yang really didn't expect Li Xiao to say such a thing, and asked with interest, "Then if you were to command, what would you do?" ”

Li Xiao pinched his chin, "If I am in command, then I should make a move to drive the tiger and the wolf first." The Goguryeo people have always driven the Tatar people between the white mountains and black waters in the northeast to use them, and want to conquer the Khitan people for their use, so as to contain and harass the secluded land of our Tang Dynasty. ”

Therefore, we should return the way of others, and the imperial court immediately ordered the two chiefs of the Khitan and Xi tribes, giving them official titles and knighthoods, and then ordering them to send troops as vanguards to conquer the Goguryeo and Tatar people. At the same time, he sent envoys to recruit the chiefs of the various tribes of the Yan Dynasty and persuade them to submit to the Tang Dynasty and oppose the Goguryeo people. ”

"At the same time, the imperial court should also send people to contact the Silla people, Silla is in the southeast of Goguryeo, has been invaded by the Goguryeo people, and is miserable, if the imperial court sends people to contact them, they will definitely be willing to respond to the imperial court."

"In this way, the imperial court sent troops to conquer Goguryeo, and the army did not move, then there were Khitan and Xi people in the north, and Silla in the south to attack Goguryeo first, and then the imperial army could attack from west to east by land and water, so that the Goguryeo people would inevitably be tired of coping and forced to fight on several battlefields.

Li Xiaoyue said, "If the imperial court sends a few more detachments to attack and harass the coastal border of Goguryeo, destroy their crops and livestock, and burn down their grain warehouses, the Goguryeo people will die soon." ”

"You thought of it all for yourself?" Gao Yang's eyes widened, she really didn't expect that Li Xiao, a Lang from Lanxi Country, would be able to explain the Eastern Crusade so thoroughly, although she didn't know if what he said was really feasible, but it sounded like a set.

"Well, it's true that I figured it out myself. In fact, there is another way to destroy Goguryeo, which is to destroy Baekje first. Baekje was also an opponent of Goguryeo in the past, and they were originally from the same source as Buyeo, but now they have become allies against Silla together. The imperial court can unite with Silla to destroy Baekje first, Baekje is weaker than Goguryeo, and if Baekje is destroyed first, one of Goguryeo's arms will be cut off first. ”

At the same time, if Baekje was destroyed, the imperial court would be able to have an offensive base to the south of Goguryeo, store grain and grass, transport troops, and attack from the south to the north, thus completely bypassing the direction of Liaodong, the center of defense that Goguryeo had been operating for hundreds of years. This trick can also be called a false way to destroy the enemy. ”

"Drive the tiger and devour the wolf, and destroy the false way! Awesome, San Lang, I didn't expect you to have such thoughts. Gao Yang praised.

"It's just talk on paper, just bragging, and it can't be true." Li Xiao hurriedly waved his hand.