Chapter 53 Emperor Li Siyuan
The weather in spring is not always sunny, from the dawn of today, the sky is gloomy, and it does not improve at noon, it is said that spring is sleepy, summer is lacking, autumn is tired and hibernating, such weather is the most suitable for napping. www.biquge.info In the Chongwen Hall of the Luoyang Imperial Palace, Li Siyuan's eyelids were heavy, and after the dynasty dispersed this morning, he had been reviewing the chapters, and at this time, it was time when he couldn't stand it.
"It's old, and some don't reuse it!" Li Siyuan put down the jade pen, rubbed his head, and laughed at himself a few times.
"Your Majesty is at the peak of the Spring and Autumn Period, and now the empire is thriving again, and the prosperous era of the ages is still waiting for Your Majesty to create, but don't say such things." Jing Xinmo immediately trotted over and pinched Li Siyuan's back and shoulders.
"As far as you can speak, you can see that you are a carefree one." Li Siyuan sighed, "It's good to have no worries, prolong your life." ”
"Where do you dare to compare with Your Majesty, if you want to talk about worry, as long as Your Majesty is in a good mood every day, Your Majesty is happy to be a cow and a horse." Jing Xinmo said with a smile.
"Alright, I'll go lie down for a while." Li Siyuan motioned for Jing Xinmo to stop.
At this moment, An Chongzhi hurriedly came to visit, and he brought good news, "His Royal Highness the King of Qin has broken through Yikun Prefecture, and it only took one day!" ”
This is indeed exciting news, Li Siyuan suddenly felt exhausted, and his eyes were full of energy, "Quickly show me the battle report!" ”
An Zhongzhu presented the battle report, and Li Siyuan read it carefully.
"His Royal Highness the King of Qin is really wise and powerful, and he is not a famous general in the world, no matter when such a battle is placed, it can be called everyone's masterpiece. Your Majesty, this is a blessing for the Empire! An Chongzhi smiled, "It seems that His Highness will definitely be able to succeed when he goes north this time...... Your Majesty? ”
At first, Li Siyuan's expression was indeed happy and joyful, but as he read the battle report deepened, his brows gradually locked, and when he finally put down the battle report, Li Siyuan's face was like a green mountain, with a serious and solemn expression.
Li Siyuan was uneasy, he got up and left the imperial case, pacing back and forth in the hall, holding his hands behind his back, his fingers constantly bending and stretching back and forth.
"Your Majesty......" Jing Xinmo didn't know why Li Siyuan suddenly became like this, and he was full of puzzlement.
In the end, An Chongzhi was also a "general" in the army, and he was Li Siyuan's envoy, his position was the same as Guo Chongtao, and he knew a lot about the war and military aircraft.
Li Siyuan finally stopped at the door of the main hall and looked up at the outside of the house, where the sky was gloomy, as if a heavy rain was coming, Luoyang's blue bricks and black tiles were slaughtered, as if there was some kind of palpitating killing intention.
Regarding the war in the north, Li Siyuan is an outsider, and his vision is clearer. At the same time, as the former governor of the Fanhan Dynasty of the Empire, and now the emperor of the Empire, his insight in the general trend is not comparable to ordinary people.
An Chongzhi had gradually realized the seriousness of the problem, he followed behind Li Siyuan, silent for a while, seeing that Li Siyuan did not say a word, he said uneasily: "Your Majesty ......"
Li Siyuan raised his hand to stop his next words, and the flickering color in his eyes had been replaced by perseverance, which meant that his thinking had already had a result, "Pass the order, Daizhou, Xinzhou, Wuzhou, Confucianism, Shunzhou, Danzhou, Jizhou, Pingzhou, Yingzhou, Liaodong and the garrisons of various passes and fortresses, all those who are fully armored, all go out of the pass, attack the Khitan, and meet the King of Qin!" ”
"Take the Liaodong Anbei Battalion - General Peng Zushan as the northeast envoy, command the border armies of Liaodong, Yingzhou, and Pingzhou, and send troops to Huanglong Mansion!"
"With Danzhou Thorn Shi Wu Sijing as the northern envoy, he commanded the border armies of Danzhou, Jizhou, and Shunzhou, passed through Yikun Prefecture, and sent troops to the West Building!"
"With the Weisai Jiedu envoy Gu Daquan as the northwest envoy, he commanded the border armies of Daizhou, Xinzhou, Wuzhou, and Ruzhou, and sent troops to the West Building!"
Li Siyuan turned around and walked back to the imperial case, but An Chongzhi was already shocked, His Majesty the Emperor's arrangement was clearly to exhaust the border army in the north of the Tang Dynasty, and pour out to launch a war on an unprecedented scale against the Khitan!
The northern border of the Tang Dynasty is based on Youzhou and Yunzhou, and the garrison of the feudal towns is heavy, with more than 10,000 soldiers and horses, and the Lu Long army is as many as 20,000, but this does not mean that there are no border troops in other places, and the garrisons of various fortresses and passes in various states, such as Gubeikou and Bianguan, have a large number of elite soldiers. This is not to mention the Anbei camp in Liaodong. At present, the main force is stationed in the Liaodong Anbei Battalion in Jian'an City, and the army was formed in Tongguang for three years, when it was the "new army" that Li Congjing had been training in Youzhou for a long time.
When Li Congjing came to the aid of the Bohai Sea and attacked the West Tower, he did not dare to use the border troops of various states at all due to his identity and defense problems, even when the war was most fierce and the situation was the most difficult, he only used it as an auxiliary!
And now, as soon as Li Siyuan gave the order, he wanted to dispatch all the border troops in the north!
This is no longer a large-scale battle, but a war with the Khitan State!
Pulling a hair and moving the whole body, not to mention such a great war, you can imagine what kind of scene the northern states will be shaking at that time!
An Chongzhi also thought of the difficulty of Lu Longjun's battle in the north, and also deduced some hidden killing intentions of all parties, and could also speculate how different what Li Congjing was going to do was from four years ago, how much shock it would be, and if he wanted to succeed, it was by no means as easy as it seemed, but he didn't expect that in Li Siyuan's eyes, the situation would be a hundred times more serious than he expected!
An Chongzhi was trying to persuade Li Siyuan, he didn't want to persuade Li Siyuan to take back his fate, but wanted to ask Li Siyuan if he had a more secure arrangement, a more careful plan, and whether the movement could be a little smaller. After all, when the army moves, all expenses are astronomical.
But before he could speak, Li Siyuan had already said after the imperial case: "Order the Hedong Jiedu envoy Xia Luqi, I order him to be the envoy to the north, mobilize the elite of the Hedong army, and follow the border army to the grassland!" ”
"Then order Youzhou, Datong, and Weisai towns to allocate grain and grass on the spot, don't think that I don't know how much grain they have saved over the years by relying on Tuntian, and now it's time to take it out and serve the country!"
An Chongyu was speechless in surprise, and after a long while, he said with difficulty: "Your Majesty, is this movement a little bigger?" ”
"Big movement?" Li Siyuan frowned, "An Qing is blaming me, saying that it is not good for me to help King Qin, and I should send the six armies of the Son of Heaven to rush to the north again?" ”
An Chongxue's heart jumped, Li Siyuan's expression was serious, it was clearly not a joke, from the other party's deep eyes, An Chongzhi could see that the other party was indeed thinking about what he had just said.
"Your Majesty......"
"An Qing doesn't need to say much." Li Siyuan waved his hand, "When my king was fighting Shu, the Khitan was restless, and he did everything possible to destroy my great cause, causing how much trouble to the empire and the king of Qin?" Now, if I don't make a move, I have to let them know that my Tang Empire doesn't dare to use a large army to step on the grassland, and it's not that I can't wave my army to break the West Tower again! The Tang Dynasty is the king, and the Khitan is the minister! I don't say this by lip service, but I want to use my Datang Iron Armor to make them all remember it in my heart! ”
An Chongzhi was shocked, and he realized that the pattern in Li Siyuan's heart was much bigger than he expected.
Seeing that An Chongzhi was speechless, Li Siyuan waved his hand, "As soon as the edict is answered, eight hundred miles will be sent to the front line urgently!" Strict order: In the northern states, within three days of receiving the edict, the army must be dispatched! In the border towns, the next day after receiving the edict, the iron armor must be out of the customs! ”
"Yes." An re-instructed and bowed his head, and the matter of drafting the edict had to be done by his Chinese book province.
An Chongzhi suddenly thought of a strange thing, "Your Majesty, all the border troops in the north are dispatched, why don't you let the Datong army out of the customs?" ”
"Datong Army?" Li Siyuan smiled deeply, but he didn't say anything clearly, but An Chongzhi already understood the meaning of the other party from Li Siyuan's expression.
As the prime minister of the empire, An Chongzhi has a lot of responsibilities, and of course what he has to do on weekdays is not just to be an echo worm, so he asked: "Your Majesty, if there is such a big war in the north, how to deal with it in the south?" Yang Wu is about to attack Chu Di ......"
"Let him fight well!" Li Siyuan waved his hand, "Go back and clean him up!" ”
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Overnight, the Tang Empire suddenly set off a shocking wave in the north.
It was a few days after Bian Ho heard the news, and when Li Congrong told him about it with great certainty, the Jinling genius, who had always been moody, couldn't hide his shocked look for the first time.
Li Congrong looked distressed, "When Your Majesty made such a big policy, there was only An Chongzhi in front of him, and others didn't say that they were the first to hear the military plane, and they didn't even hear the rumors, and even Ren Yuan, Li Qi and others also ran to Your Majesty to verify afterwards." His Majesty's move came really suddenly, and it was impossible to predict it, let alone deal with it. ”
"It's unpredictable, it's really unpredictable." Bian Ho smiled bitterly, and finally cleaned up his expression, "Who would have expected in advance that His Majesty would set off such a big movement in the north?" It's impossible to think of it, it's impossible! ”
It's really impossible to think.
First, the action was sudden and without warning.
Second, only a limited number of border troops from the border states are dispatched, and such a military operation is simply full of drawbacks in ordinary eyes, not to mention the lack of troops, the various armies and vassals are different, and it is difficult to coordinate the action. And the exhaustion of the border armies of various states will make the defenses of all parts of the border empty, not to mention the invasion of the armies of other countries outside the country, and it will be difficult for the thieves everywhere to deal with it.
Who would do such a thing? Who would dare to do it?
Third, scheduling is difficult. The state army was dispatched on three days, and the border army was out of the customs on one day, and the action was too hasty, not to mention that it was extremely difficult to supply logistical grain and grass, and the border areas were afraid that they would be even more chaotic. And the transfer of the feudal town army, leaving the camp in three days, is even more child's play.
Fourth, Li Congjing appeared at the border early, and put on a posture of using Lu Longjun to go to the Khitan as a-stirring stick, it seemed that it was nothing more than to come up with Xichuan's evil spirit, and then make some cheap by the way, where would people in the world think that in the end, the Tang Dynasty would launch a military operation of this scale against the Khitan? Who would have thought that Datang would have a shocking plan and a plot against the sky?
At this time, hearing about Li Siyuan's arrangement, people all over the world couldn't help but ask: What are you going to do?
It is precisely for these reasons that all parties do not say that they should respond, and they have never even expected it.
Yang Wu is naturally too.
Bian Hao suddenly felt a burst of powerlessness, Yang Wu created such a big momentum for him in Jinling, so that he successfully infiltrated Luoyang, and also came to Li Congrong's side, now he has been in Luoyang for a long time, I thought that if he went deep into the heart of the Tang Dynasty, he would be able to gain insight into the lifeblood of the Tang Dynasty in time, but now that such a big thing happened, he was not aware of it at all in advance, which not only showed his incompetence, but also made it difficult to explain to Xu Zhihe.
"Many courtiers said that it was reckless for His Majesty to raise troops in a fit of rage and suddenly make such a big move, which turned the north upside down, and that he would eventually reap the consequences; Some people even say that His Majesty is a protector of his son, so much so that he treats state affairs as a child's play, and it is clearly a game club...... "Li Congrong disturbed his head, and his face was a little embarrassed, these comments slandered Li Siyuan so much, he didn't think about it in his heart.
"Angry soldiers?" Bian Hao shook his head, he looked up at the gloomy sky, "Then they will underestimate this majesty of the Tang Dynasty." ”