If you are loyal and treacherous, whether it is what is happening in front of you, or the past precipitated in historical texts, loyalty and treachery are often different in the eyes of different people, with what kind of mentality to interpret everything, you will get the corresponding conclusion, Li Congjing has never shied away from conspiracy and tricks, and has also used conspiracy theories to look at people and things in the world, but at this level, if he still thinks about deceiving the world with inconsistency between the outside and the outside, and doing the thing of covering his ears and stealing the bell, it is really a bit of not thinking of himself as a prince. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

The right way in the world is the vicissitudes of life, and the conspiracy and trickery should be used when it should be used, but on the issue of the great principle of treating the people of the world, Li Congjing, the future helmsman of the empire, has not yet been ignorant enough to play with the people of the world.

Whether it is an empire or a kingdom or even a town of princes, they should take the road upright when dealing with their own people, governing the people with the royal road is the real right way, and playing with the people of the world with trickery and deception, that is doing evil, don't say that the people of the world will poke Li Congjing's backbone, and he will not sleep peacefully at night.

So he vented his anger at Meng Ping's connivance at the slaughter of the people, especially the murder of the people in front of Zhongli City, which was really angry from the bottom of his heart, the kings and officials who ruled the world and the people of the world who were ruled, there is indeed an invisible contract between the two, only if both parties abide by the rules in the contract, the rule can last for a long time, and the people will not take the initiative to abandon this contract, but if the king takes the lead in not treating the people as people, the people will eventually overthrow the rule of the people on their heads, He believed that a king who ruled the people of the world by deception of power would eventually be played by the people of the world.

After eating, Li Congjing explained some matters to Meng Ping, with a stern and clear attitude, and in the end, when Meng Ping left, he didn't send even a step.

Not only that, in order to punish Meng Ping for his misbehavior in Zhongli, Li Congjing cut off all the titles on Meng Ping's body, and even the official position of the commander of the Hundred Battles Army also added a temporary prefix to him, Li Congjing wanted the generals in the army to know that even if Meng Ping made such a principled mistake, he would be severely punished here.

This kind of punishment is not only conducive to the strict military law after Meng Ping returned to Chuzhou, but also sets the standards for the generals' future conquest and war aftermath work.

After Meng Ping left, Li Congjing and Mo Li made a rigorous deduction on the next Jianghuai battle, although both of them were good at this, but the results after half a day of deduction were still vague, because there was an important premise that Li Congjing could not grasp now, that is, Xu Zhihe's attitude towards the Jianghuai Campaign, and it is unknown how much follow-up force Huainan would eventually invest in the Jianghuai Battle.

With Meng Ping's successive defeats of Liu Xin, Guo Tingwei, Ma Renyu, Haozhou has leveled Chuzhou for half a gram, Li Congjing's side is to personally defeat Li Decheng to take Chuzhou, the main force of the guards has marched into Yangzhou, and the partial division is in the attack on the surrounding prefectures and counties.

If the Jianghuai war situation can be maintained like this, within ten months, Jiangbei will all fall into the hands of the Tang Dynasty. But Li Congjing didn't dare to take it lightly, if he faced an ordinary opponent, it would be fine, but Li Congjing would not underestimate Xu Zhihe so much, with the national strength accumulated by Huainan for many years and the romance of Jinling figures such as Xu Zhihe, although Huainan lost the lead in the Chudi war and the Jianghuai war, but it was not to lose all the games and have no room to fight back, Li Congjing was actively promoting the war at the same time, but also patiently waiting for Wu's counterattack.

Facts have proved that the current state of Wu is indeed not comparable to the Later Tang Dynasty in the original history, and the unexpected situation came quietly under surprise.

What happened was not the Jianghuai battlefield, but the Chudi battlefield.

After receiving the news, before holding a military meeting with the generals in the army, Li Congjing summoned all the staff members, as well as the entire staff office and the military intelligence office, to discuss the matter in the lobby of the mansion where he was staying.

"The Hunan battlefield originally had the help of the Chu King and Chu soldiers, and the Huainan Army fought the main force of the Wang Division, and it was the most elite palace army in this dynasty, and whether it was the commander Zhao Wang or the deputy marshal Fu Xi, they were not mediocre people, according to the argument set by the court before the war, as long as the Hunan battlefield was undefeated, it was a big victory, in this case, the Wang Division was defeated by the Huainan Army, and almost retreated to the Langzhou area where the Chu army shrank before the Wang Division entered Chu, which is really a bit unacceptable."

After reading the military newspaper to everyone, Sang Weihan said such a sentence as a summary.

The course of the war in Chu is like this: after the defeat of the Wu army in Langzhou (Changde), the king division and the Chu army took advantage of the victory to pursue the soldiers and pointed directly at Yiyang, before the war Li Congrong and Chu Wang Ma Xisheng both believed that Yiyang was the decisive battle between the two armies, and the victory or defeat of Yiyang was the key to the victory or defeat of the Chu battlefield, so the army in front of the palace almost non-stop raid on Yiyang, and after a successful fierce battle to capture the city, Wang Shi and the Chu army were a little arrogant and lax, especially after the continuous attack on Xiangyin, the army was complacent and buried, and the Wu army was not taken into account.

After that, Wang Shi and the Chu army went south to Changsha and north to Yuezhou, hoping to settle the battle in Chu with one go, but it was at this time that the advancing Wang Division and the Chu army were surrounded by the Wu army on all sides in Qiaokou Town and were heavily damaged. After the fiasco of Qiaokou Town, Xiangyin did not hold, and the Wang Division, who retreated again and again, not only lost Yiyang in the end, but was also beaten back to Langzhou.

The battle in Hunan is not complicated to sum up, and the strategic arrangement of the Wu army is nothing more than a routine of showing the enemy to lure the enemy deep with weakness, and then encircling and gathering to annihilate him, but the people in the game do not have the perspective of God from an outsider, and the seemingly ordinary routine actually has a huge mystery, and it is not easy to complete the routine.

"The turning point of the war in Hunan seems to be in the battle of Qiaokou Town, but in fact, Wang Shi has fallen into the trap of the Wu army after the Battle of Yiyang, and when he arrives in Qiaokou Town, he has completely penetrated into the pocket of the Wu army, and he can't come out of it."

Mo Li walked to the front of the map, pointed to the terrain of Chu and explained the war in Chu to everyone, "The terrain of Chu is low in the north and high in the south, with Dongting Lake as the core in the north, flat terrain on all sides, and Meishan Mountain as the pillar in the south. Meishan protrudes from north to south, the northernmost point connects the south of Dongting Lake, the narrow place of the two places is only about 100 miles, and in this narrow place is the two cities of Yiyang and Yuanjiang, which divides the east and west flatlands of Dongting Lake into two pieces. ”

"The east of Yiyang and Yuanjiang River, north to Yueyang and south to Changsha, hundreds of miles of flat land, until the east of Tianyue Mountain is the boundary, and the east of Tianyue Mountain is the boundary of Huainan. Relying on the mountains and lakes, Yiyang in the west, Yuezhou in the north, and Changsha in the south, just formed a pocket terrain, and the Wang division and the Chu army passed through Yiyang to the east, and just fell into the pocket arranged by the Wu army. ”

West Yiyang, North Yuezhou, South Changsha, the three points of the line form a triangle, Yiyang, Yuanjiang is the west node of this triangle, the Tang army and the Chu army captured Yiyang and continued to advance eastward, then entered the triangle.

Mo Li continued: "The defeat of the Wu army in Yiyang is naturally intentional, the other one gave up Yiyang and Yuanjiang, that is, the pocket was opened to the Wang Division and the Chu army, and after the Wang Division and the Chu army entered the pocket, they continued to march east to capture Xiangyin, and they also fell into the pocket formation of the Wu army. ”

When the battle is explained here, it is not difficult to imagine the battle situation, and Xu Zhihe's entire strategic arrangement is also clear. After the defeat of the Wu army in Yiyang, pretending to retreat to the east in a panic, and so the Tang army and the Chu army further captured Xiangyin and went deep into the pocket formation, the main force of the Wu army took the opportunity to take a detour, because of the relationship between the capture of most of the Chu land, a force was able to bypass from the south side of Meishan to the west of Yiyang, and attacked Yiyang to seal the pocket, and the other forces attacked from Yuezhou and Changsha, including the ambush troops who were ambushed in advance in the hidden places on all sides of Qiaokou Town, and successfully surrounded the Tang army and the Chu army in Qiaokou Town and defeated them.

It is not difficult to imagine that Xu Zhihe's such a big stroke must be the idea of eating the Tang army and the Chu army in Qiaokou Town, after all, the Wu army has more than 100,000 soldiers in Chu, and it is not a fool's dream to deal with the Tang army and the Chu army that add up to only half of them. It is also thanks to the strong combat strength of the army in front of the palace that it can break through the siege, especially the blockade of the Wu army in Yiyang, which is fortunate to successfully return to the boundary of Langzhou, otherwise it is inevitable that the army will be defeated and the whole army will be destroyed.

Although the army in front of the palace is all elite, whether it is the quality of the soldiers or the level of armament, it is better than the Wu army, but this battle is still almost completely damaged, it can be seen that the battlefield battle is not a duel between two people, and the strategy and tactics will never be outdated.

"Qiaokou Town was defeated, the Wang Division suffered heavy casualties, the Chu army was close to collapse, after the successful breakthrough, and the partial division that was preparing for the Northern Expedition to Yuezhou jointly defended Xiangyin, but was attacked from both sides and then defeated, and finally the Battle of Yiyang was completely a breakthrough nature, this battle was three small battles dozens, after the war the Chu army died and surrendered and fled, and there were only a few thousand soldiers and horses left in the Eastern Expedition, which barely kept some seeds, and the soldiers of the Wang Division also lost a small half, in the short term, it is not easy to say that the defense is an attack, and it is not easy to resist the attack of the Wu army."

Wang Pu summarized his comments, his face was ugly, he was angry and angry, the palace army had spent too much effort on the court and Li Congjing, if the loss of this battle was measured by money, it was an astronomical amount that would make people feel distressed to the point of convulsions, "The palace army lost too much baggage when retreating and breaking through, and there were many soldiers killed in the battle, these armaments and weapons fell into the hands of the Wu army, which will undoubtedly make the Wu army's combat strength tempered by the war fire a great step, if the Chu battlefield does not make major adjustments, I am afraid that it will be difficult to continue." ”

From the beginning of the meeting, Li Congjing sat behind the desk without saying a word, and has been silent until now, the fiasco of Wang Shi made him difficult to endure for a while, the rout of the war, the loss of the city and the land that has been obtained is still secondary, the casualties of soldiers and the loss of armaments are what really hurt him, at this time Li Congjing said that his heart was dripping blood, which was very appropriate.

"Victory and defeat are a common thing in soldiers, how can there be an invincible army in this world, your and my opponents are people and not pigs, even if the rabbit is in a hurry, it will bite a few bites, not to mention Huainan, which is known as the descendant of the 'well-dressed Nandu', who is like a carp crossing the river." Li Congjing saw that the atmosphere in the hall was dull, and waved his hand magnificently, his tone was as sonorous as ever, "As long as the war is not over, the victory or defeat has not yet come, and the winner is the one who wins in the end. ”

Seeing Li Congjing's statement, everyone in the hall expressed their determination to defeat Wu Guo one after another, and it was also because Li Congjing accumulated great prestige that the atmosphere quickly reversed.

Mo Li, who was originally presiding over the war in Shouchun and happened to come to Chuzhou to do an errand, waved a smile behind the small case, this personable white-robed genius has become more and more unfathomable over the years, like Kong Ming, who is not shocked by victory or defeat in the interpretation, "If you want to talk about Huainan Juncai, a group of young Junyan did emerge in the battle of Chudi, but these can be discussed later, and now we still have to come up with countermeasures for the battle of Chudi." ”

The battle of Chu Di Li Congjing is beyond the reach of Li Congjing, and he is not presided over by him, it stands to reason that he should not be distracted, but since Li Congjing has such an existence as a staff office, and he himself is a marshal of soldiers and horses, it is also within his duty to plan for the war in Chudi.

Li Congjing has been silent for a long time and is not all sad about the Chu war, he has already thought of a countermeasure, the Chu war report has always been in duplicate, one sent to Luoyang and one sent to him, so at this time his plan is not later than Li Siyuan, there are various points of the military intelligence department connected to Luoyang's flying pigeon transmission network, and his strategy can also be transmitted to Luoyang in time, "The war in Chu is erosive, and it can't be saved without heavy medicine, Fu Xi is old and has no energy, and it should be replaced by a young and strong person, and the meaning of the lonely king is to let Guo Wei go to Hunan." ”

Everyone was awe-struck when they heard this, Wang Shi lost the battle in Chu and lost his troops, of course someone has to bear this responsibility, Li Congrong is the prince who went to Chu without the war, and the war itself is not over, of course this pot cannot be carried by him, and the festival envoys who lead the troops to help the war are not enough, so the deputy marshal Fu Xi has become the best choice to be responsible for this battle. This is also to blame others, Fu Xi, as the deputy marshal, did not fight the battle of Chudi, and it is natural to be responsible.

Li Congjing continued: "The army in front of the palace has suffered a lot of losses, and it is necessary to replenish the troops and horses to enrich the combat strength and improve morale. ”

Naturally, no one disagrees with this plan, Li Congjing is in Jianghuai to make specific plans for the Chudi War, and it is what he should do to change the commander and replenish the troops, Mo Li asked tentatively after groaning: "There is no war in the northwest, why don't you let Li Shaocheng go?" ”

Li Congjing waved his hand, "Li Shaocheng is of great use in the northwest, and he can't be moved lightly, and it is enough for Guo Wei to go to Hunan." ”