Chapter 195: Liu Gong's Clever Plan for the Prince to Lead the Troops (I)

After talking to his father, Li Wei left Chang'an again.

What kind of mood his father had, Li Wei could understand, it was related to the imperial power, father and son, brothers, even if they were husband and wife, could not fully believe it. Besides, he is twenty-one years old, and he is getting older, and he is at least nominally more dangerous to his father.

Now my father's illness has not reached the point where he can't move, and once he can't see things with his eyes, it is difficult to even walk, and he has to let his mother deal with most of it.

Therefore, the father was a little reluctant, and he didn't know what he had done, which made his old man unhappy, and he had an idea.

However, after all, he is a modern person, and his original personality is weak, if it weren't for the identity of the crown prince who forced him to do it, he could have learned from those liberal people in the Wei and Jin dynasties, and came to a river and stream, playing the piano and howling. I can understand, but the concept is different, I feel uncomfortable, and I am tasteless in the East Palace, so I came to Lishan again. You can read books, you can hunt, and you can even look at the scenery, which is also in line with his character.

Liu Renliang returned to Chang'an after he left Chang'an.

Liu Renliang made a prime minister, and made great contributions, and became a smash hit in the court, even if he had a good impression of himself, he couldn't go back to Beijing to take a look. Otherwise, my father thinks more.

The person who came was none other than Liu Renliang.

Turned over and dismounted, bowed his hand to Li Wei, walked over and laughed heartily, and said, "Your Highness, I've seen it." ”

"I've seen Liu Xianggong."

"The minister is just a martial artist, what a prince, His Royal Highness said with a smile," Liu Renliang ha, with three or four guards, came to the palace.

Bi'er immediately brought him tea, and Liu Renliang said loudly: "Jiang Liangyuan, where do the ministers dare to accept it?" ”

As long as you are optimistic about the prince, you must know Bi'er's status in the prince's heart, and you will definitely respect it.

"It's an honor for a concubine," Bi'er said softly. Liu Renliang is very good to the prince and has countless military exploits, so Liu Renliang respects her, but she respects Liu Renliang very much.

Liu Renliang took a sip of tea and said, "Your Highness, can you receive the holy decree from the Holy Lord?" ”

"I have received it, but why did my father make this holy decree?" He stayed in Lishan, and many things that happened in Chang'an City could not be known.

"It was the minister's idea."

"Why?" Li Wei asked puzzled. Not only Li Wei, but even Bi'er and Yao Yuanchong were also puzzled.

"Your Highness, don't worry, and listen to the minister talk about Liang Jishou."

"Please," Li Wei said. Temperamental, not urgent, of course, disgusted people say that he is tepid, no character, and good people think he has self-cultivation. Liu Renliang did the same, smiled approvingly, and then told the story about what had happened.

Liang Jishou marched quickly, of course, he didn't know it, and the court already knew his intentions. All the way is indeed as he said, the momentum is like a bamboo, and it has also forced many familiar bureaucrats and students to submit to the Tang Dynasty. This kind of submission to the imperial court is gradually not favored by the imperial court, which Li Wei still admires his father very much. Unlike Zheng He, who went to the West, even in East Africa, as long as he submits to obedience, he will carry gold and silver down from the ship. But Liang Jishou didn't intend to take submission as the ultimate goal, and he probably knew that this kind of submission was not as good as chicken ribs.

His ultimate goal was still for the treasure and the elephant tomb, so the army marched quickly, and it didn't take long to reach Zhuge Liang City. This is also an important city in Nanzhao now, of course, after Nanzhao became a country, Xiangyang Tho, Dajiao, Zhedong (Kunming, Yunnan), Yongchang, Tieqiao, Anning, Hunan, Kunming (Yanyuan County, Sichuan), Yinsheng City and other cities are also very large, and now it is not good, and some cities are just beginning to have some rudiments. But Zhuge Liang City was formed very early, has always been very prosperous, and is an important transportation hub in Nanzhao.

Liang Jishou failed in the end, but it was not useless, bringing a lot of useful information, such as the roads of Nanzhao, in addition to the communication with the Tang Dynasty, there are some external roads, such as from Yinsheng City to Kunlun

, and then to Java (now Java), Boni (now Kalimantan, Indonesia) and other places, or from Tuodong through Jinning, Tonghai, Longwu, Guyongbu to Jiaozhi, or from the ancient city of Yongchang County (Baoshan City) to Zhuge Liang City (Nujiang Dam, Longling County), and then south through Lecheng into the country of Piao, to the west to Tianzhu, or from Zhuge Liang City to the west through Tengchong, Micheng (northwest of Lianshan, Yunnan) to Lishui City to cross Lishui to Anxi City (Myanmar Menggong), and then cross the Muli River (Mino River) to India.

Zhuge Liangcheng is at the fork of the third and fourth roads.

After making some additions, the army immediately continued to move south, in fact, not for the treasure, such a way of marching was very unreasonable. It is the fourth road to walk, straight to Anxi City, to here, is already a bureaucrat, among which the embroidered face is the most, also called the golden tooth man, the child since birth, embroider the face with a needle, paint it with Qingdai, when he grows up, there is a bright pattern on the face. It is almost impossible for men and women to see the original appearance. Then go straight to Anxi City, not Anxi City set up by the Tang Dynasty in Liangzhou, a very small city. Not far from the city of Anxi, there is the Muli River, the northwest of the Muli River is the small Brahman country, and the southwest is the big Brahmin country. Of course, at this time, the national border is very non-standard.

There is a mountain range not far from the Muli River, and the locals are born and speak the same language, which is translated as a mountain area where the devil lives. It is pronounced with the same pronunciation as the mountain range mentioned by Jimo. But when you go to the Great Brahman, you also pass through this mountain range, but you just take the safer route in it, and other parts of the mountain range dare not enter it.

Hearing this, Li Wei was a little confused, because of the escape, Li Wei carefully looked at the map of the Tang Dynasty and the surrounding countries, and did not dare to say all the terrain, but the approximate terrain was still very familiar. The three of Jimo said that they were all the way south from Zhuge Liangcheng, and they arrived at that mountain range after passing through the Wangbu and the Mangbu barbarians, obviously Liang Jishou's marching route was not in the same direction as the three of Jimo.

But it will be understood in a moment.

The return path of the elephant is different from the return path taken by humans, its instinct protects the elephant tomb, so it will not walk in a straight line when walking, going around and around, Liang Jishou's army went forward, and the strength of the three people of Jimo is not the same, immediately according to the analysis of Jimo and others, the local guide pointed out that it is this devil mountain range. Besides, it was impossible for the army to go around the mountains and forests in the south like these dozens of people, so they took the shortest path. These roads, though rough, were considered shapely, and the army could barely march.

And this time the march was very fast, and when it was about to reach the city of Anxi, it took only twenty days, during which there were several small battles. But there were not many soldiers lost, but there were many people, well prepared, and many guides, so they confidently entered the Devil's Mountains, which the locals talked about.

Something tragic happened!

There is a road in this mountain, a safe road that countless people have found out, but in other places, the locals dare not enter, let alone outsiders. It's just that under the great wealth and the bounty, there are so many people who fight that even the guide enters.

This entry is different from the path that the three of Jimo entered, so they had to look for it again. Liang Jishou didn't think of anything else, just a mountain range, which could always be found. But after a few days, the treasure of the lost tribe was not found, the elephant tomb was not found, and the accompanying more than 10,000 combined troops, thousands of people died under the flowing miasma, leeches, poisonous snakes, mosquitoes, this is not terrifying, one morning, encountered a mirage, a very realistic mirage, even the guide was confused, so the army got lost together. It took more than a month to escape. Of the 16,700 troops, only about 8,000 remained.

Speaking of which, Liu Renliang sighed.

But looking at Li Wei's eyes, he was very impressed. During the meeting between the monarch and the ministers in August, the prince said about it, and it was indeed true. But I don't know how the prince knew.

However, Liang Jishou thought that the court did not know, and put the blame on the guide in the above letter, saying that it was the guide's mistake and entered the place of great evil, which led to this. While reading the book, he led the army back north.

Nearly 20,000 morale troops, all departments are afraid, but along the way, Liang Jishou used some thunderous means in order to quickly suppress it, and the departments were very unconvinced. Seeing that the army had fallen here, they attacked one after another. But it was not fatal, and several great victories, which made a treacherous mountain range lose its armor, did not mean that there was fear of these barbarians, and there were guides, and there were various barbarian soldiers who knew the local area. After several fierce battles, I still won, but I eliminated the enemy, and they all won miserably.

Just when the Tang Dynasty army was about to return to Yaozhou and Xinuluo was about to return to Erhai, a bad news came, Meng Jian, who had retreated to the Yangbi River, led the remnants of the Mengwei edict, as well as Shi Man and Shun Man, who belonged to Tubo west of the Jinsha River, suddenly attacked Yaozhou City.

It's a bit like Lu Meng digging Guan Yu's old nest Jingzhou City.

This is Liang Jishou's base camp, and when he heard the news, the soldiers of Xinuluo and other departments were a little anxious. Cutting off the return route of the Tang Dynasty army, Meng Jian got Yaozhou City again, which is bound to be more fierce than at the beginning. Although they have been tied to the chariot of the Tang Dynasty, there are still wives and children left in the various departments, and this moment is dangerous. Therefore, Liang Jishou was persuaded to transfer the Tang Dynasty army to support, and at the same time he led his hands to return to the tribes immediately. Not bad, pointed to a road, and turned east to Queensland, that is, Zhedong City after the Southern Zhao.

Liang Jishou also arrived in Queensland City safely, but the soldiers in his hands, there were less than three or four thousand left, which was better than Xue Rengui's fiasco, but the loss of Yaozhou City was the most important thing. Write a letter to apologize and ask for rescue. This recital was folded to Chang'an, and it is conceivable that Li Zhi was furious when he heard it. The year before last, he was newly defeated in Tibet, and now because of Liang Jishou's mistakes, he was actually defeated in the hands of Nanzhao and these bureaucrats, and he was so angry that after reading the twists and turns, he threw them to the ground.

"It's not just Shi Shun and the others," Li Wei waited until Liu Renliang finished talking about what had happened, and said.

"Exactly," Liu Ren's eyes showed some praise, and the reason why he recommended the prince to go on the expedition was the prince's wisdom. When Meng Jian attacked Yaozhou City last year, Shi Shun and other barbarians west of the Jinsha River had already participated. After Liang Jishou arrived in Yaozhou, he was defeated by Meng Jian, not only Meng's edict, but also the various edicts involved in the loss of heavy losses. Liang Jishou was just blinded by money, and he was not weak in war. Otherwise, he would not have turned around in that harsh mountain for more than a month, and after turning out, he would have been able to return all the way north and win many fierce battles.

In fact, in Li Wei's heart, Liang Jishou was raised by one point, at this time, he got lost in Savage Mountain, there were more than 10,000 people, what to eat and drink? To put it mildly, you can't even drink the river water casually, maybe you can't get it right, and after a few days of drinking, you will start to grow Burmese leeches in your stomach. This turn is more than a month, not only that, but the army is not only the army of the Tang Dynasty, but also the soldiers of various tribes, which is also a kind of command ability. If it were Li Wei, it would not be possible at all.

After Liu Renliang said exactly two words, he didn't say anything more, but everyone understood Liu Renliang and Li Wei's thoughts. Bi'er didn't respect it anymore, she was rude and interjected unconvinced: "Then Liu Xianggong, do you still want the prince to recruit himself?" (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to ***(***.***) to vote for recommendation, ***, your support is my biggest motivation. )