Taiji Palace Wude Hall, a tense atmosphere of the court meeting is in full swing, Li Yuan sat on the dragon couch with a gloomy face, he has been paying attention to the Tang Army's Eastern Crusade in the south, although there was an unpleasant incident in Junyang County, but Erlang still did not disappoint him, the autumn wind swept away the leaves and occupied the entire northern part of Jingzhou, including the iron mine in Jiangxia County that he had been looking forward to for a long time. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

But the second step of the southern expedition was very unsmooth, he received a report from Li Xiaogong this morning, only to know that the 50,000 troops of Bashu were intercepted by the Sui army on the gorge for half a month, and they had not been able to kill Nanjun, which made Li Yuan extremely annoyed, the Sui army had swept Meng Haigong, and it was looking like they were going to exterminate Lin Shihong, if they didn't kill Xiao Miao, I am afraid there would be no chance.

"Let's talk about it, everyone! Let's reorganize our thinking and see what to do next? ”

Li Yuan glanced at Pei Lian, "Let's Pei Xiangguo say it first!" ”

Pei Lin got up and said, "Weichen has been thinking, how could the Sui army kill Zigui County?" Since it can intercept 50,000 Tang troops, the number of Sui troops must not be small, at least there should be thousands of people. In fact, there is only one answer, that is, Zhang Xuan and Xiao Milling have secretly formed an alliance, the Sui army is using Xiao Mill's territory to enter Yiling County, the Zigui County incident is just a surface, we have to see the truth behind the appearance, if we attack Xiao Liang in the next step, then we are facing not only Xiao Mill's army, but also the Sui army behind them, Your Majesty, if we can't see through this, we will suffer a big loss. ”

As soon as Pei Lian's words fell, Liu Wenjing got up and said, "Your Majesty, what Pei Xiangguo said is very false, please let Rong Weichen say a few words." ”

Pei Lin was furious in his heart, and glared at Liu Wenjing fiercely, the courtiers had already seen the dispute between Pei and Liu, and Li Yuan was also accustomed to it, so he nodded and said, "Liu Xiangguo, please speak!" ”

Liu Wenjing didn't see Pei Lian's fierce gaze, and said unhurriedly: "Pei Xiangguo had a preconceived idea, he thought that there should be thousands of people to intercept 50,000 troops, which can only show that he has not been to Zigui County, and he closed his eyes and said nonsense, when Weichen learned about the Bashu iron ore before, he also studied the gorge, Zigui County just choked the gorge, the cliff road is narrow, and it is very difficult to attack Zigui County, and he can only invest 2,000 troops at a time, not to mention 50,000 people, even if 500,000 people are the same, in fact, As long as the Sui army has a few hundred troops, it can hold Zigui County, if Weichen is not mistaken, this Sui army that raided Zigui is the Sui army that attacked Junyang County, about a thousand cavalry, they killed Yiling County directly from Xiangyang County, not through Xiao Miao's territory. ”

Pei Lian's face was swollen red, and he glared at Liu Wenjing and said, "Won't Zhang Xuan and Xiao Liang secretly form an alliance?" Will Zhang Xuan let us destroy Xiao Miao? Before, Xiao Mo sent an army to sweep away the iron ore mines of the Bohai Society in Jiangxia, isn't this what Zhang Xuan meant? ”

Liu Wenjing still said unhurriedly: "I didn't say that Zhang Xuan would not form an alliance with Xiao Miao, I also think that Zhang Xuan will secretly support Xiao Miao, but there is a question here, will Zhang Xuan directly send troops to fight side by side with Xiao Liang's army, if according to Pei Xiangguo's meaning, the Sui army is going to fight, but I think Zhang Xuan's army will not directly help Xiao Liangjun, I think Zhang Xuan's real target is Jiangxia County, and he will definitely take advantage of the fierce battle between the Tang army and Xiao Liangjun to send troops to Jiangxia and take away the iron mine." ”

Liu Wenjing obviously saw it more thoroughly, Pei Lin sneered, "According to Liu Xiangguo's meaning, as long as we keep Jiangxia County, then there is no need for us to go east now, anyway, Jiangxia County is already in our hands." ”

"It can't be said that way, if we don't contain Xiao Liang's army from the west, then Xiao Mill will attack Xiangyang under the instigation of Zhang Xuan, Xiao Liang claims to have an army of 400,000, although it is a bit exaggerated, but 200,000 is there, and we only have 20,000 people in Xiangyang, if Xiao Mill's army of 100,000 attacks Xiangyang, will the Jiangxia Tang Army come back to help? If he comes back to help, will Zhang Xuan take the opportunity to attack the Jiangxia County mine? ”

Liu Wenjing's series of questions made Pei Lin speechless, and at this time, Chen Shuda got up and said with a smile: "How to fight should be considered by His Royal Highness King Qin, we should stand a little higher and look at the problem, Your Majesty, please Rong Weichen say a few words." ”

Li Yuan pushed the boat along the way and said: "The two Xiangguo sit down for a while, let's listen to Chen Xiangguo's meaning." ”

Pei Lin glared at Liu Wenjing fiercely, and then sat down, Liu Wenjing glanced at Pei Lin obliquely, snorted coldly in his heart, and sat down as well.

At this time, Chen Shuda walked out of his seat and said unhurriedly: "The war is actually about logistics, I believe everyone must agree with my words, the reason why Zhang Xuan has been invincible over the years, the key is not that he has more food and materials than us, on the contrary, his food is not as rich as ours, and the population is not as large as ours, but his logistics support ability is far stronger than ours, the fundamental reason is that he has a strong fleet, this time we have difficulties in the Eastern Crusade, in fact, the difficulties are the same as the first Eastern Crusade, the problem lies in logistics, If we also had a strong transport fleet, then whether we went to Danshui or the Yangtze River in the west, we would not be as passive as we are today, don't you think? ”

Dugu Huaien nodded and said: "Chen Xiangguo is right, but the problem is that shipbuilding takes time to accumulate and requires a large number of shipwrights, both of which we lack, what should we do?" ”

Chen Shuda said with a smile: "Instead of envying the fish in the abyss, it is better to retreat and close the net, we have time, as long as we want to build a ship, we can start now, two or three years later, we will also have hundreds of cargo ships, if we don't do it, then we will never have time, as for the shipwright, Guan Long may not have it, but Bashu has, there were twelve shipyards on the Minjiang River, although most of the shipyards have been closed, but the people are still there, as long as we recruit at a high price, I believe that the shipwrights will flock to it, but ......"

Speaking of this, Chen Shuda paused, he looked at Li Yuan, and the implication was to ask for the opinion of the Son of Heaven whether he could continue to talk about it.

Li Yuan hurriedly said, "Chen Xiangguo, please continue." ”

The hall was very quiet, and all the ministers were listening attentively to Chen Shuda's analysis, Chen Shuda smiled and continued: "But as Dugu Shangshu said, we really need ships now, and Weichen has a temporary plan that may be able to solve this problem, we can learn from the Hu people's method and use large rafts to transport goods, a large raft is equivalent to a thousand-stone cargo ship, because we are all going down the river, and large rafts can be fully satisfied." ”

There was a sudden discussion in the hall, Chen Shuda's plan was not new, someone had proposed to use a sheepskin raft to transport grain, but it was generally opposed by the courtiers, and the dignified **** actually used the method of the Hu people to transport, and it would make people laugh when it was passed out, and the army also collected a lot of ships at that time, so this raft plan was rejected.

But I didn't expect Chen Xiangguo to put forward this plan again today, but at this time and that time, now the Tang Army's transport ship was burned by the Sui Army, and it is better to use the Hu people's means of transport than to cut off grain on the front line, which everyone is not pedantic, but whether the raft can be applied makes everyone a little puzzled. (To be continued.) )