Liu Sanshui's speed was very fast, and in just half a pillar of incense, he had already walked through the mansions of the crown prince and his royal highnesses, and informed them of the purpose of this trip.

Here, Li Chengqian and other princes had just arrived outside the Liangyi Palace, and before they even had time to enter the palace, there was an urgent report from the border pass to hear from the sky, saying that it was Xue Yantuo Yehu, and Tujimeng had gathered more than 100,000 soldiers and horses, sent troops to attack Shuozhou, and had begun to camp ten miles outside Shuozhou.

This news frightened Li Shimin and a group of courtiers, and the northwest of Shuozhou was adjacent to the grassland, and it reached the Yanmen Pass. This kind of key place can be called the gateway of the Tang Dynasty, and if it suffers a heavy blow here, it is equivalent to slapping the face of the Tang Dynasty in life.

And the most critical point is that Shuozhou is only a hundred miles away from Taiyuan, the base camp of the Li royal family, once Shuozhou is broken, Xue Yantuo's army will definitely drive straight down, the art of war Taiyuan, let alone the Tang Dynasty, even the face of the Li royal family will be gone, maybe the blood of the Li royal family in Taiyuan will be completely wiped out.

This red. Bare. slapped his face naked, so that Li Shimin, who has always had a good face, still has to hate to death?

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, His Royal Highness the King of Wu...... Your Highnesses are already waiting outside the main hall! ”

Regardless of the reaction of everyone in the main hall now, Liu Sanshui entered the main hall and respectfully reported to Li Shimin.

"Declare them to the temple!" Li Shimin waved his hand and said.

"The son of the emperor to meet his father!"

After a while, the six brothers Li Chengqian, Li Ke, Li Tai, Li Su, Li You and Li Hun entered the main hall and bowed down to Li Shimin.

It doesn't mean that which prince has a good relationship with Li Yuanba, so he will invite which prince to the main hall, in Li Shimin's opinion, a bowl of water must be level.

"Let's get flat!" The expression on Li Shimin's face was extremely flat. He just waved his hand lightly and motioned for his sons to get up.

"Cheng Qian, go and see this!" Li Shimin handed over the urgent report he had just received to Li Chengqian and others.

"Huh? This is ......" Li Chengqian pinched the urgent report in his hand and frowned, when he saw the back. The face is already hard to see.

"Brother Prince, what's wrong?" Li Su looked at Li Chengqian's ever-changing face and felt a little strange. I couldn't help but ask.

"See for yourselves!" Li Chengqian's voice was a little cold, and there was unspeakable anger.

Li Ke took the urgent report and looked at it twice, and immediately his expression became the same as Li Chengqian.

Li Su, who brought his head over, scolded even more: "Tujimeng? What's that? Dare to pull the army out to a place ten miles away from Shuozhou, are they looking for death? ”

But at the time of the tea, the urgent report had already turned around in the hands of the princes.

……

"In the face of Xue Yantuo's provocation, tell me your opinion!" Li Shimin looked at his sons and the ministers of the humerus below, and asked out loud.

Li Yuanba was the first to stand up, but he didn't answer Li Shimin's question. Instead, he said to Li Chengqian and others: "Chengqian, let's talk about your views first!" ”

Li Shimin still agrees with Li Yuanba's approach, after all, according to the relationship between the monarch and the minister, the status of Li Chengqian and others is obviously higher than that of Li Jing.

It is not that Li Chengqian and others will definitely be adopted if they put forward their own views, at least they are given the opportunity to participate in military affairs, and they are all young men over the age of 12, which is not small.

"Fourth Emperor Uncle, this ......" Li Chengqian was stunned for a moment, thinking that he had misheard.

"What is this? If you say it, you can say it! Li Yuanba glanced at Li Chengqian with some dissatisfaction. Said.

This is a major military event, and although Li Chengqian and his children are all very shrewd, they have never encountered such a situation. It's inevitable that I'm a little blind now.

"Cheng Qian, talk about it!" Li Shimin saw his son's embarrassment, and couldn't help but say.

"Yes, Father!" Hearing Li Shimin's words, Li Chengqian nodded, thought for a while and said: "Father, if you want to come to your son, the reason why this Yiyi man is looking for is too far-fetched, why do you want to marry a princess." I'm afraid that even if we marry a certain princess to him, he will also use troops against our Datang! ”

"Oh? How so? A smile flashed in Li Yuanba's eyes. Asked.

"Fourth Emperor Uncle, speaking of which Xue Yantuo is powerful. But it has nothing to do with my Datang! ”

Li Chengqian swallowed his saliva after speaking, glanced around, and continued:

"This Xue Yantuo was originally just the east. Suddenly. There were only a few small tribes under the jurisdiction of the Turks, and later they took advantage of the time when the Tang Dynasty raised troops to attack the Sui, and they slowly developed and grew. In addition, I broke up the East in the Tang Dynasty back then. Suddenly. Xue Yantuo took this opportunity to gather the Servant Bones, Hui and other tribes, thus making Xue Yantuo completely strong! ”

"Brother Huang's words are wrong!"

As soon as Li Chengqian's words fell, Li Tai's voice sounded: "Little brother thinks that things are not as strict as your imperial brother said!" As the so-called difference is a thousand miles! If all the faults are placed on the head of our court, doesn't that mean that all the conquests of my Tang Dynasty so far have been wrong? ”

"Qingque, brother didn't say that!" Li Chengqian frowned, although he knew that this little fat man had always been unable to get along with him, but he didn't expect that in front of the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty, he, Li Tai, would dare to do this!

"What? Is there something wrong with the little brother saying that the earth? Li Tai looked at Li Yuanba's words with a smile, and continued: "According to what the imperial brother said, the development of this Xue Yantuo started when my Tang Dynasty raised troops to attack the Sui. Suddenly. At that time, Xue Yantuo took the opportunity to grow rapidly, so that he caused the current situation to my Datang. From beginning to end, aren't you all accusing me of Datang? ”

"You...... Fourth brother, what you said is a bit too arbitrary, right? ”

said that Li Chengqian was the case, and even Li Cheng couldn't stand it anymore.

"Sixth brother, what's going on with you here? Didn't you hear Brother Wei talking to Brother Huang? ”

Li Tai didn't care about Li Su at all, and directly scolded him. In his opinion, he and Li Chengqian and Li Zhi, the king of Jin, were brothers of the same mother, because in his opinion, the prince of the direct line seemed to have a natural sense of superiority.

"What, you don't allow anyone to talk anymore?" Li Ke looked at Li Chengqian, his face was gloomy.

Li Tai still looked like he was on top, and said, "Third brother......"

"They are all brothers, what can you say and can't say? Why, is it possible that someone is superior to whom? As soon as Li Tai opened his mouth, Li Yuanba's lazy voice rang out.

Li Tai shuddered suddenly, and only then did he remember that this was the Liangyi Palace, and his father hated his sons for fighting for power and persecuting each other the most.

You must know that he Li Tai has broken this rule, and the lofty posture between his words is fully revealed.

"Father's forgiveness, son-in-law, son-in-law just lost his temper!"

Thinking about what Fang Cai had done, Li Taideng, who naturally fell into a superior state, broke out in a cold sweat.

Li Yuanba turned his head to look at Li Tai, just shrugged his shoulders, and did not continue to ask.

Li Shimin didn't know what to think, he sat high on the dragon chair, didn't even look at Li Tai, and said to Li Chengqian: "Chengqian, you continue!" ”

"Whew!"

Exhaling deeply, Li Chengqian nodded secretly to Li Yuanba, and then said: "Father, Xue Yantuo proposed peace to my Datang more than two months ago, although it seems to be quite sincere, but on the other side, he secretly gathered an army and pressed against the frontier of my Datang!" More than two months have passed, and the daily consumption of grain and grass by the army is not a small amount! ”

Li Chengqian saw that everyone in the hall bowed their heads one after another, so he continued: "Because my father has delayed the time of peace and kiss, this Khan Yi Yiyi of Xue Yantuo is afraid that he has already understood that there is no hope of harmony, so he will naturally speed up the process and speed up the pace of attacking my Datang!" Because if they continue to consume like this, they can't afford it! ”

"Not bad!"

Li Jing clapped his hands and said, "As the so-called two armies are fighting, grain and grass go first!" This grain and grass are exhausted, and he naturally wants to find a way to get the best of both worlds! ”

Li Chengqian took over the conversation and said: "Attacking my Datang, one can seize my Datang territory; These two are naturally robbing the food and property of the people of my Tang Dynasty to supplement the consumption of their army! Killing two birds with one stone, hehe......"

"Hmm!" Li Shimin is also a battle-hardened person, so he can naturally figure out the cause and effect of this, "Pharmacist, order the military department to prepare the sand table, and the will will be used!" ”

"Sandbox?"

Hearing this familiar word, Li Yuanba was stunned for a moment, he turned his head to look at Niu Jinda standing beside him, gently dragged him, and whispered: "Jinda, we have a sand table in the Tang Dynasty?" ”

Niu Jinda looked at Li Yuanba a little strangely, and said, "Lord Wang, the sand table has already been stored in Daqin as early as the time of Daqin!" ”

"What?" Li Yuanba paused for a moment, and said in his heart: "No, this sand table is not in 1811, when King Frederick of Prussia. Civilian military adviser to Wilhelm III, von Von Von. Did Leswitz invent it? Why did the Tang Dynasty exist now? ”

Niu Jinda then remembered that Li Yuanba had amnesia, so he touched his head and said:

According to legend, when Great Qin was deploying to destroy the Six Kingdoms, Qin Shi Huang Yingzheng personally compiled and studied the geographical shapes of each country, and with the assistance of Prime Minister Li Si, he sent the general Wang Jian to carry out a unified war. Later, when Qin Shi Huang was building the mausoleum, he built a large topographic model in his mausoleum. In addition to mountains, hills, and castles, the model also simulates rivers and seas with mercury, and uses mechanical devices to circulate mercury. This is the earliest sand table! (To be continued)