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Chen Shuda said slowly: "Let's talk about the defeat of Jiangxia Fushui first, I remember that the military newspaper said that it was because of the lack of food, General Xiaogong, I am not wrong!" ”

Li Xiaogong also rushed to Chang'an to participate in this meeting, he sat in the last row, and coincidentally, the person sitting opposite him was Li Shenfu.

Li Xiaogong got up and said: "Back to Your Majesty, back to Xiangguo, from the north of Jiujiang County to Jiangxia need to pass through the Jiugong Mountains, to turn over and cross the mountains, can not walk grain and grass carts, more than 1,000 mules and horses are responsible for carrying the forage of the war horses, and the grain is only carried by the soldiers, the soldiers each carried seven days of food, about a bucket and a half, because there are armor, spears, knives and must march equipment, each soldier carries a weight of about thirty or forty catties, this is the limit, we also want to bring more food, but there is really no way, In the end, we persevered for ten days, and finally we were unable to cross the rich water because of the lack of food, and it can be said that the lack of food was the main cause of defeat, and of course there were other reasons. ”

Speaking of this, Li Xiaogong glanced at Li Shenfu coldly, Li Shenfu snorted disdainfully, and seemed to care, in military affairs, he was not as good as Li Xiaogong, but in the officialdom struggle, he was much stronger than Li Xiaogong.

Chen Shuda did not delve into Li Xiaogong's last sentence, he nodded and continued: "The Sui army also often marches long distances, why they don't have food problems, the fundamental reason is that they have the convenience of waterway transportation, from Jiujiang County to Jiangxia County, they can't march by land at all, as early as the end of the Han Dynasty, the Eastern Wu battle for Jingzhou fully demonstrated to us the key role of long water transportation in the Jingzhou campaign, we have no warships, we can't transport food and soldiers by water, this is the root cause of Jiangxia's failure, This is an important example of our failure due to the fact that our water strength is far inferior to that of the Northern Sui. ”

Li Jiancheng couldn't help but say on the side: "But Chen Xiangguo, we also captured hundreds of warships after destroying Xiao Miao, but we didn't invest in the battle of Jiangxia. ”

"That's the key, why didn't we put hundreds of warships into the battle of Jiangxia, isn't it that we don't have a naval army? Boatmen can be forcibly requisitioned from the counties along the river, but what about the navy? Most of our soldiers will get seasick when they take the boat, let them fight with the Northern Sui Navy on the river, I am afraid that they will not even be able to reach Jiangxia and the whole army will be wiped out. ”

Chen Shuda's words seem to make sense, but there are still loopholes, although most of the soldiers of the Tang Army do not know the nature of water, but most of the 80,000 soldiers of Nanjun who surrendered are good in water, among which there are 30,000 water troops, but the Tang Army does not use them at all, this is a matter of strategic vision for generals or decision-makers, Li Jiancheng wanted to refute again, but Li Yuan waved his hand to stop his refutation.

"Let Chen Xiangguo continue, the emperor can talk about it later."

"Yes! The retainers obeyed. Although Li Jiancheng was not convinced, he did not dare to contradict his father, so he had to be silent.

Chen Shuda bowed to Li Jiancheng and continued: "The second example is the Battle of Luoyang, why did His Royal Highness the King of Qin have to withdraw his troops and abandon Luoyang? ”

Chen Shuda held up a letter to the crowd: "This letter in my hand is Zhang Xuan's handwritten letter to His Royal Highness the King of Qin, the letter is very clear, if His Royal Highness the King of Qin is unwilling to withdraw the army, it is not only a matter of the Central Plains War, the 50,000 Sui army in Hetao will go south to Longyou, and a war will break out in Bingzhou, in order to send troops to the Central Plains, we will transfer 20,000 troops from Longyou, Longyou only has 10,000 garrisons, although Taiyuan has 30,000 elite troops, but there are only thousands of troops in the south of Bingzhou to defend Hedong City, Zhang Xuan is obviously very clear about our weaknesses, King Qin was forced to abandon Luoyang and withdraw his troops to Hangu Pass, which is a typical inferior strength, so Weichen said that the general has a certain responsibility, but more importantly, our strength is not good. ”

After Chen Shuda finished speaking, he bowed and retreated, Li Yuan nodded and sighed: "It is worthy of the words of gold and jade!" ”

Li Shimin was secretly shocked, the letter in Chen Shuda's hand was sent by him to Beijing to secretly hand it over to his father, but now it is in Chen Shuda's hands, which shows that Chen Shuda's words and his father have reached a consensus, and even his father's instructions, Li Shimin secretly speculated, maybe his father's so-called statement of accountability is just a statement, he wanted to take the initiative to take responsibility, but now it seems that it is not what Liu Wenjing said.

Li Jiancheng became more and more dissatisfied in his heart, Chen Shuda's words were obviously light responsibility and a major situation, and the arguments were very sufficient, the head was the way, but it did not solve the problem at all, do you want to tell the people of the world that the Tang army failed because its strength was not as good as that of the Northern Sui, doesn't that tell everyone that the Tang Dynasty will be destroyed by the Northern Sui sooner or later?

What worries Li Jiancheng even more is that his father knew that Chen Shuda's words were full of loopholes, but he also praised Jin Yu's words.

In fact, Li Jiancheng knew that whether Du Fuwei rebelled against Zhongji, Jiangxia failed, lost Jingzhou, or lost the battle for Luoyang, a very important factor in it was on paper, a group of ministers made strategic decisions after discussion in the palace, and let the generals implement them, regardless of what the actual situation was, and letting Li Xiaogong help Jiangxia is the most typical example.

And another important reason is that the father made the same mistake as Wang Shichong, that is, let the clan take charge of the military, and would rather believe in the clansmen than the generals, if the main general guarding Jiangxia is still Qu Tutong, instead of replacing it with Li Shenfu, then the outcome of the Jiangxia battle is definitely different, these are the mistakes that need to be corrected, instead of talking in generalities like Chen Shuda, only talking about the overall situation, and not pursuing the details.

Of course, Li Jiancheng would not accuse his father of nepotism in the court, but he had to say it for other reasons, and the strong sense of responsibility made Li Jiancheng unbearable, and raised his hand and said: "Father, the son wants to continue Chen Xiangguo." ”

Li Yuan didn't want his eldest son Li Jiancheng to speak, just now the eldest son's inquiry into the roots of the Jiangxia Battle made him slightly dissatisfied, he knew very well that the eldest son's words might not be what he wanted to hear, but he himself had already said the opening remarks of speaking freely, so he couldn't deny it directly, Li Yuan had to reluctantly say: "Emperor, please speak!" ”

Li Jiancheng stood up and saluted, nodded slightly to everyone, and said loudly: "I'm just talking about things, not targeting specific people, please rest assured, now I will take the battle of Jiangxia County as an example to talk about my thoughts." ”

The five words 'Battle of Jiangxia County' made many people change their faces, Li Shenfu's face was unnatural at first, he didn't want to talk about Jiangxia in public such a public place as the political affairs hall, it was best to talk about it in the imperial study, and Li Xiaogong's eyes lit up, he couldn't find a chance to talk about the Battle of Jiangxia, but he didn't expect His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to bring out the topic.

Li Shimin's face was also a little unnatural, which involved Qu Tutong, as well as many of his henchmen, of course, it also had something to do with him.

Chen Shuda's smile was also a little reluctant, he knew very well what His Royal Highness the Crown Prince wanted to say, and he also knew very well that the Holy Lord did not want to hear these words.

In fact, Chen Shuda went to Jiangxia to negotiate with the Northern Sui Army on behalf of Li Yuan, he already knew very clearly the beginning and end of the Jiangxia Campaign, and also knew where the problem was, who should bear the responsibility, when he talked about this topic with the Holy Lord yesterday, the Holy Shang was obviously displeased, which means that the Holy Lord did not want any changes, so Chen Shuda complied with the Holy Will, and used the lack of strength to explain the cause of the defeat of the Jiangxia Battle.

Now that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince wants to push this matter forward regardless of the attitude of the saint, Chen Shuda, as the prime minister, can only remain silent.

"Father, the son has been reflecting on the reasons for the defeat of the battle of Jiangxia, although Zhang Xuan planned early and planned one step ahead of us, but we have been operating in Jiangxia for two years, as long as we stabilize our position, we may not lose this battle."

"Then why does the emperor think we lost?" Li Yuan asked coldly.

"Father, ministers, we were wrong at the beginning, Chang'an is thousands of miles away from Jiangxia, the transmission of information is fast for two or three days, and the slow is half a month, and the battlefield changes are changing rapidly, when we made the decision to let the army of King Zhao to support Jiangxia, we didn't know that the warships of the Yangtze River Navy of the Northern Sui Dynasty had gathered in Jiangxia, we didn't understand the consequences of the Sui army's blockade of Fushui, and we didn't know that we had to cross the Jiugong Mountains from Jiujiang County to Jiangxia County, and we didn't understand what it meant to be unable to walk on the grain baggage, and it felt like it was just a small distance on the map.......”

There was an uproar in the hall, and everyone realized that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was accusing the imperial court of interfering in military operations, and everyone's face was a little unbearable, so they were all responsible.

Chen Shuda and Pei Lin quickly exchanged glances, and secretly looked at the Son of Heaven together, only to see that the Son of Heaven's face was very gloomy, obviously controlling his anger, in fact, it was not anyone else who really interfered too much in the military, it was Li Yuan himself, how could Li Yuan not be annoyed?

Of course, Li Jiancheng knew that he would offend his father, but in order to get rid of the consequences of the Tang army's inevitable defeat in every battle, he had to correct it from the root, and this root was that the imperial court and even his father intervened too deeply in military battles.

The imperial court can grasp the overall situation such as the direction of the war, but it must not meddle in the details of the war, but they will lose on the details. (To be continued.) )