Chapter 223: Conspiracy
Monado's decisive battle time and place have not been set for a long time, which is expected by Li Er, ambitious women will definitely choose to launch the most suitable time to launch a war, in order to strive for a greater possible victory, a month later is the most favorable time for her, and she has received the news that most of the soldiers and horses of the Tang Dynasty have been withdrawn, and the emperor really only left 50,000 troops to fight a gambling war with her.
Li Tai has lost a lot of weight recently, and his skin has become darker, and he always likes to cast his face in front of Li Er, he took the initiative to take on the important task of surveying the mountainous terrain around the Montessori territory, of course, with the continuous improvement of the Tang army scouts, the terrain of the entire Nanzhao land has gradually been presented in Li Er's big tent in the shape of a sand table, and the decisive battle site selected by Monado cannot be too far away from Montessori.
"Father, the son has already led people to run around the Montessori territory during this time, and the complete sand table is already eight or nine points similar to the terrain on the scene, with the father's eyesight, it should be able to deduce that the Montessori wants to fight with us there!" Li Tai naturally has his own analysis in his heart, but he is very smart to leave the opportunity to express his opinion to Li Er, he knows that what his father likes most is the feeling of pointing out the country, and Li Tai will not rush to express his opinion before he is sure that the throne will be passed to him.
"Well, the most beneficial places for them are nothing more than three, Viper Ridge, Wasp Valley, and Qishan, these three places have a bad environment and dangerous terrain, if they transfer the army here first, and then ask me to go to the decisive battle, their victory can be increased by more than three percent." Li Er pointed to the three places on the sand table and analyzed.
At this moment, most of the camps are military generals, since no matter whether this battle is won or lost, the Tang Dynasty will withdraw its troops in Nanzhao, then most of the Wenchen can withdraw to Shuzhong with the army first, and the few Wenchen left behind can basically be determined that Li Er may stay in Nanzhao in the future.
"Well, what His Majesty said is reasonable, based on my old Cheng's inference. Most likely, this is the mountain of prayer, where there are many cliffs, and if they go up and ambush in advance, even if we have all the ability, I am afraid that we will be hit by their various ambushes and suffer heavy losses. Engage our army here, and their odds of victory can be increased by 30%. Cheng Yanjin pointed to a mountain road made of bluestone, which was also an ancient battlefield during the Three Kingdoms period, where Zhuge Liang fought with the Nanzhao tribe, and it was an excellent place that was easy to defend and difficult to attack.
"Who said that it must be in Qishan, I said that it is very likely to be in Viper Ridge. This is the closest to their original garrison, and they can march hundreds of miles less to engage us here, while our army has to march hundreds more miles, and they can still push up the odds of victory by a few hundred miles. "Wei Chigong has never lost in marching and fighting, and now in the Tang Dynasty, among the several veterans who are still active on the battlefield, only Cheng Yanjin, of course. This is not counting Li Jing's efforts to destroy the Turks this time, so he is the one who likes to fight with Cheng Biting Jin the most.
"Zhijie and Jingde are reasonable, and the three places I refer to, Montessori naturally has a reason to choose. But in order to be sure, we still need to make sufficient preparations in the three places, and now the army is gone, and all that is left behind are elites. With the Zhennan Army as the main backbone, most of them are familiar with mountain warfare, even if the geographical environment is not as familiar as the enemy army. In terms of combat power, it is almost the same as the enemy's army, and we are better equipped with better equipment, unified military orders, with sharp weapons such as gunpowder, ordinary battles, and the victory is naturally great, and what I want is not only victory, I want a complete victory, but also a head-on battle, a completely overwhelming victory, in this way, in order to deter many barbarians in Nanzhao, and reduce the difficulty of future governance and management, if you want to reach such a point, you Aiqing will have to use more snacks, quarrels are useless, let's think of more ways together! Li Er half analyzed, half persuaded.
"Father, the sons are full of confidence in this battle, if not, the sons will be the vanguard of the army, so that those barbarians will know the power of my Tang royal family." Li Tai begged for battle. Looking at his breezy expression, it seemed that he didn't take Montessori's army seriously.
Li Er's eyes were withdrawn from the sand table, looking at Li Tai, who had obviously lost some weight, this son has always known his mind the most, and pleases him the most, for the battle of Nanzhao, as the prince of the prince, he also personally went to the battle line to run before and after surveying the terrain, the white and chubby boy still looks slightly fat, but his skin is so dark that it is glowing, but it is almost the same as the Yang Forest at this moment. Thinking of this, Li Er couldn't help but be a little moved.
"This is very good, but Qingque is my beloved son, and you can't go to risk it yourself, so I will bother the Zhijie family's Chu Mo and Jingde's Baolin as the deputies, and be the same pioneer as you!" Li Er was in a good mood, and directly ordered the three of the small generals, in fact, under normal circumstances, Li Er did not let his son be in charge of the army, he knew too well what it meant for the prince to be in charge of the army, and his ambition would swell up at the moment when they were in charge of the army, especially when this prince was not his designated heir, even Li Chengqian, who was in Chang'an at the moment, actually had very few troops to mobilize, and between Li Chengqian and Li Tai, he may be more inclined to Li Tai, but the position of the emperor is not up to him alone. At least the civil and military officials are now firmly supporting Li Chengqian, because Li Chengqian is the first heir, and there is no major fault, Li Er wants to erase the shadow of the Xuanwumen Change, and the ministers who were forced by him to compromise also want to erase that shadow, so Li Chengqian was appointed as the crown prince, and then he was responsible for supervising the country, which was almost the result of all the ministers' unanimous votes, even Li Er, Qing Yì was not willing to shake his position as the prince, but just figured out some means, Let Li Chengqian grow up as much as possible.
At this moment, Li Chengqian in Chang'an City is living a life of drunken dreams and death, Li Er is not in Chang'an, the power of the eldest grandson queen finally stops behind the deep palace, and now the civil and military ministers in Chang'an are headed by the eldest grandson Wuji, and the eldest grandson Wuji is his uncle and the most staunch supporter, so the current Chang'an, basically he has the final say, riding a few heavily armed elephants every day is basically his necessary program, the streets of Chang'an have been built wider in recent years, not riding a few elephants on the streets, It doesn't seem to show the prestige of his crown prince.
However, the current overlord of Chang'an City didn't seem to realize that a conspiracy was approaching him, and in the Qingzhu Yayuan of Xinghuafang, several Japanese people were secretly discussing something, and after more than a year of lurking, they finally found a way to deal with Li Chengqian.
"Don't kill him? Isn't that too cheap for him? A woman with pink skin and clear eyebrows said with a fierce face, if people with sharp-eyed eyes will find that this woman is the old bustard Chi Ye Sakura who usually looks naïve and always greets guests in front of Qingzhu Yayuan, and the man who kneels opposite her is the minister who has been making wind and rain on the ground of the Tang Dynasty many times.
"The king's meaning, it is best to cripple him, you must know that with the current strength of the Tang Dynasty, it is not at all something that our Wa Kingdom can provoke, there is news from Liaodong, the first general of Goryeo Gai Su Yuanwen, as far as his subordinate army conquered the Tang Dynasty, and actually met three thousand Tang State Ten Thousand Cavalry at the beginning of the expedition, and was defeated by the Tang Army in the first battle, that is ten times the Tang Army's elite army of Goryeo, although he later used the advantage of resourcefulness and numbers to win a battle, but still failed to completely eliminate the Tang Army, and so far, The number of dead and wounded in the Goryeo army has reached 10,000. What does this mean? It shows that the Tang army is almost invincible now, because their army is far more than 3,000, they have 30,000, or even 300,000 troops, even if all the people in our country come to the Tang Dynasty, there are not as many as their army.
And our Wa State has just achieved great unification and is in the development stage, and it is temporarily impossible to take advantage of the Tang Dynasty, but the king thought of a way, that is, to promote the Tang State's crown prince Li Chengqian to rebel, and let them fight themselves, so that we will have a chance, and now they can defeat the Tang State, and only they are themselves. Prime Minister Nakashiro explained.
"The subordinates still don't understand, we have spent so long and so many well-trained women to hollow out the body of the prince of Tang Kingdom, don't we just want him to die early? Why would crippling him prompt him to rebel? ”
Chi Ye Sakura asked a little puzzled, in the past year, they arranged for more than two women to serve Li Chengqian almost every day, and at the same time provided various tiger and wolf medicines for Li Chengqian to take, it was the young Li Chengqian who didn't know how to control at all, he was already messing around in the palace, and he was doing it again when he went out, and in just one year, his face had already shown a sickly paleness, but he still turned a blind eye to it, because now in Chang'an City, no one dares to disobey him, And the only Empress Eldest Sun who can control him, he hasn't been to ask for peace for a long time.
"Hmph, this is the genius of the king, the heir to the Han throne generally needs to have a good body and even appearance, which can better reflect the prestige of their emperor, if the heir to the throne who has been designated is hollowed out and disabled, what do you say will happen to him?" Zhongchen asked instead.
"I will worry about the emperor changing his heir." Sakura Ikeno replied.
"That's right, he will be worried that the emperor will abolish his position as the prince, so as to make an extreme choice, and Li Chengqian's choice is most likely to follow his father's example, launch a mutiny, and forcibly seize the throne. Zhongchen took a sip of tea and said with a smile. There are too many things in Datang that make him red-eyed, and even this ordinary tea is too fragrant, so why don't he plan for it.
"What does the king want me to do?" Sakura Ikeno asked excitedly when she learned about the cause and effect.
"Of course, you have to be more secretive, if it is too obvious for them to react, I am afraid that Datang's new round of removal of my Japanese country will force me to withdraw a lot of eyeliner from Datang, and the specific way of action, I already have a plan, as long as you serve him comfortably, so that he has no strength to walk, I will ask another group of people to find a way to transfer his guards who are responsible for guarding those elephants away for a while, hum, play with elephants every day, you said that elephants suddenly go crazy on the street, isn't it very interesting." Speaking of this, Prime Minister Nakatomi and Ikeno Sakura laughed together. (To be continued......)