Although there are not many thousands of grenades, the huge power of these grenades makes the enemy troops under the city completely lose the opportunity to attack.

Tens of thousands of enemy troops were crushed, and the horses ran around uncontrollably, and those who were unlucky were injured by mistake.

Even if Desire Valley can quickly regather the troops, the morale of the army has been weakened, and the morale is even more lost, and it is impossible to reorganize the offensive for a while.

When the news returned to Chang'an, it was not said that the whole country was celebrating, but almost the entire court was relatively happy.

At least it can be proved that the military reform has worked, and the 800 Tang Army can block the attack of tens of thousands of enemy troops, what is this not a success?

And Su Dingfang was divided into two routes, one south and one north, to relieve the siege of Yanqi and destroy Gaochang.

With 20,000 troops, they can do these two things at the same time, which was absolutely impossible in the past.

"Your Majesty, the slave maid thinks that the Western Turks should be punished." Song Zhong, who had never opened his mouth, couldn't help but persuade him that the Turks had gone too far, so much so that Song Zhong had forgotten his duties.

Li Yuanji glanced at Song Zhong, eunuchs involved in political affairs? Even if he doesn't have any discrimination against them, he knows that eunuchs must not unite with power, otherwise they will definitely turn the sky upside down.

"Who's going to fight? You go? Li Yuanji asked coldly, it is easy for the army to fight, and you can't take war as a child's play, just fight it, and then you are a eunuch, just do what I gave you, do the rest of the things you need to worry about?

Grabbing power, grabbing life, this is something that every emperor doesn't like, and Li Yuanji is the same.

And history also tells Li Yuanji that when the eunuch dies, it is not ambiguous at all.

"The slave is wrong, the slave will never dare again!" Maybe he had never seen Li Yuanji talk to him in such a tone, or maybe he really realized the mistake he had made, Song Zhong hated to give himself two slaps, why was he so stupid?

Although this incident also made me very angry, but there is an egg to be angry about yourself? The emperor is more angry than anyone else, does he need to talk too much?

"Humph!" Li Yuanji couldn't help but snort coldly and turned his head to look at the other person.

Du Ruhui's body is not as good as day by day, with the support of a large number of precious medicinal materials and supplements, even now, it also gives people a feeling of the end of a strong crossbow, everyone knows that Du Ruhui's time is running out.

And his condition has always been a mystery, the imperial doctors have their own opinions, through long-term observation, found that Du Ruhui's condition is very strange, like a certain disease, but it is not very similar, and there are symptoms of another disease.

In the end, the imperial doctors could not come up with an accurate conclusion, and they could only be treated according to various diseases, and the conclusion could only be a complication of multiple diseases, which was not uncommon, but it was generally difficult to meet.

Like Qin Qiong is a special case, because of a large number of battles in the early years, he left all kinds of injuries on his body, plus excessive blood loss, so now he is also sick, just because Qin Qiong was already very clear about what he wanted when Li Shimin ascended the throne.

So he didn't care about any power issues, but just stayed at home to recuperate, so far, Qin Qiong is still alive and well, but Du Ruhui is sick.

Wei Zheng's punch certainly had the effect of a fuse, but it was definitely not the main reason.

And now, Li Yuanji also has to consider the selection of the secretary of the military department.

I don't know much about Tang Shi himself, and although I have some understanding of the current people, I still have some confidence.

On the premise that he is not absolutely sure, Li Yuanji is a person who does not like to take risks, so he chose Li Tao.

Li Tao's loyalty is not a problem, and his ability should be good, after all, he has left a good reputation in history, as for the previous grievances, Li Yuanji doesn't care much, otherwise he wouldn't have been in power for so long, and he hasn't cleaned up the old ministers of the previous dynasty.

"What do you think I should do?" Li Yuanji asked Li Tao.

"The minister doesn't have anything to say, Your Majesty's consideration is already very comprehensive." Li Tao responded with a little bitterness on his face, the secretary of the Ministry of War, the minister who entered the cabinet, and one of the highest-ranking governors in the Tang Dynasty, but Li Tao preferred to go to the border, to Lingzhou, or anywhere else.

Li Tao had Li Tao's thoughts, but Li Yuanji didn't care about this, he looked at the novelty objects in front of him, and the craftsmen were debugging, and continued: "The Qin people have already made a demonstration for me, so I just need to follow the steps given by the Qin people and move forward step by step." ”

Li Yuanji was referring to Qin's strategic intention to annihilate the Six Kingdoms, which is also known as the strategy of distant friendship and close attack.

Although it is not explicitly stated, anyone with a discerning eye can see Li Yuanji's strategic thinking.

First, the aggressive Turks, and after the Turks were dealt with, on the one hand, they sent people to reorganize the Silk Road, and on the other hand, they stationed heavy troops on the Tubo and Tuyuhun borders, and these two countries were countries with territorial contact with the Tang Dynasty.

Because of its special plateau environment, although it did not take advantage of the Tang Army, it always maintained an advantage.

They have never been the only ones to fight the Tang Army, and the Tang Army has rarely been able to take the initiative to attack them.

Once these two countries are destroyed, then the surroundings of Datang will be extremely stable, and it doesn't matter whether they run, walk, or lie down at that time, because there are no strong enemies around them that can threaten Datang.

The Western Turks are too far away, although they are not weaker than the Eastern and Turkic, but if they want to fight the Tang army, they must first trek thousands of miles to the east, and when they come, the Tang army will already be ready.

Destroying Tibet and Tuguhun is the strategic goal set by Li Yuanji.

As for collecting Yanqi and destroying Gaochang, this can only be said to be an unexpected gain, and it is also the dividend brought by handing over power to Su Dingfang.

"The task of the military department is not light, and you are afraid that you will not find a lazy time in the future." Reaffirming the strategic goal he had set, Li Yuanji took a deep breath and said solemnly.

"There is Pei Gong in the front, and there is obscurity in the back, and the ministers dare not relax!" Li Tao said very familiarly.

This is the case, in front of the two cases of Pei Ju and Du Ruhui, none of the officials in the Tang Dynasty dare to be lazy.

It's one thing for the emperor to think of old feelings, but it's another thing for you to die yourself.

However, Li Tao's statement made Li Yuanji embarrassed.

Although this is a spur to other ministers, for Li Yuanji, it is a great irony.

During his time as emperor, he died of an average of one cabinet minister a year, and such a reputation was undeniable.

When it was spread, people didn't know how to say that they were squeezing and exploiting these ministers, and waved their hands awkwardly, which could be regarded as whitewashing themselves: "They are all counterexamples, although I don't want to give up their talents, and I don't want to let them go back, but the body is the most important thing, I want a healthy Datang, not let you fight to die in office, I also hope that the case of the two of them can bring some warning to others, work is important, body is more important, if you feel unwell, it doesn't hurt to delay some work, you can ask for leave for minor illness, If you are seriously ill, you can resign, as long as you can recover, I will reuse you, don't take yourself to the last step, so that I will never have a chance to reuse you. ”

"Your Majesty's grace, keep it in mind!" Li Tao said with a little emotion.

Anyway, at least Li Yuanji has such a thing to encourage them, the ministers don't want much, they are famous in history, and the emperor's approval is the only two things that are enough.

Everyone loves power, but money, not everyone loves the officials of the Tang Dynasty, at least for now.

"After you take office, you should first start the restructuring of the armed forces, and you must complete all the restructuring within two years, and make all the armed forces combat effective within three years." Li Yuanji made the final explanation, the restructuring of the army is far from being as simple as imagined.

Backward communication technology and transportation, in later generations, only need a phone call, or a video conference to solve the problem, but in this era, it needs to be constantly running, can be done in a few minutes, but here it takes half a month, or even a month, half a year.

The restructuring of the army is also the same problem, one is limited by the financial resources of the imperial court can not support the reform of the whole army at the same time, so it can only divide the emergency situation into hierarchies, give priority to the reform of high-level areas, and then implement them one by one.

After two years on the throne, Du Ruhui took a year to reform less than one-third of the army, so it was actually a little nervous that all the reforms were completed in two years.

However, no matter how difficult it is, the reform of the army, the transformation of government soldiers to the recruitment system, and professionalism must still be carried out.

Stretching out his hand and pointing at the novelty object in front of him, in the eyes of everyone, it was also something that everyone couldn't understand, and even scolded Li Yuanji in his heart for ruining good things.

Li Yuanji had great expectations for this thing, which is why he did not go to Taiji Palace to talk to Li Tao, who was about to become the secretary of the Ministry of War, but chose the location here.

"See that? Some people scolded me for destroying the heavens and using high-quality steel to do this, if this steel is used to build weapons, it is enough to arm every soldier of the Tang Dynasty to the teeth. But I don't think so, the thing that most people scold is, in my opinion, more important than those concrete roads. ”

Li Tao quietly snorted, among the people Li Yuanji said, including Li Tao, it is already possible to build a cement road, and it is completely unnecessary to engage in this thing that costs people and money, and I don't understand why Li Yuanji is doing this?

"One day, you will understand my intentions, and you will be grateful for my persistence now, for the future of the entire Tang Dynasty, it is worth it for me to bear some infamy......