"According to the intelligence verification of the Military Intelligence Department, Li Jing, Luo Yi, and Li Jing have led 30,000 light cavalry to attack Liaodong City for a long distance." Pei Zeng, of the Military Intelligence Department of the Supervision Yuan, reported on important military information.

All the generals present were surprised by this news. Someone asked, "What's the situation?" ”

"The specific situation is that Li Jing ignored His Majesty's military orders, took the initiative to leave the Chongqing Pass, and a few days ago won a great victory in White Wolf City, annihilating and capturing about 20,000 soldiers and horses of Goguryeo. Then Li Jing asked Yingzhou Inspector Shi Fang Qiao to lead 20,000 infantry to stay in the White Wolf City, and he and the Yingzhou Governor Luo Yi and the general Li Jing quickly sent troops to the southeast end of the White Wolf Water, and built a camp at a distance of 400 miles from Yuguan and 200 miles from Yingzhou, intending to cut off Gao Yuan's retreat back to Liaodong City. And then just a few days ago, things changed again. Li Jing heard that the imperial court had ordered Han Sengshou, the deputy envoy of the privy council, to be the marshal of the Liaodong Road marching army, and led his troops to reinforcements, and at the same time found that there were only 8,000 old and weak defenders in Liaodong City, and when Liaodong City was extremely empty, he immediately decided to lead his army to attack Liaodong City, which was 400 miles away. Now, Li Jing, Luo Yi, and Li Jing have led 30,000 light cavalry to Liaodong City. The Songshan camp by the white wolf waterside is currently led by Zhang Xutuo, the governor of Pingzhou, and Jia Wuben, the second general of Jizhou, to stay in the Songshan camp. ”

Yi Feng sat there silent, and he was really a little afraid of Li Jing in his heart. This Li Jing usually looks like a very stable person, but when he fights with his troops, he immediately seems to have changed as if he has changed a person, a full opportunist, and his favorite thing is all kinds of strange and dangerous uses, and he is not willing to use troops well and steadily. Without waiting for the imperial court to prepare, he left Chongqing Pass without authorization in advance and fought the battle of White Wolf City, which Yi Feng could barely accept. After all, the strength of the two sides in this battle is still equal. But now that he has already sent troops, Li Jing still can't wait for such a moment. First, he galloped long distances to block Gao Yuan's retreat, and now he simply went directly to attack Liaodong City, an important fortress on the Liaohe River in Goguryeo, 800 miles away from the border pass of the Sui army. I can't stand this madness and boldness.

Yi Feng is not a general now, but an emperor, and it is really difficult to accept this constant gambling behavior. Fighting a war should be a comprehensive strength, and after all-round preparations, we should make calculations in many ways, and finally gather our advantages and push off the opponent. Instead of this repeated risk, although the victory is rewarding, who can guarantee that the gambling will always win. And once lost. The consequences would be devastating. Yi Feng would rather win a small victory, as long as he guarantees that he can win all the time, then in the end, a small victory can also accumulate a big victory. And this kind of gambling may be able to win at the beginning, but as long as one bet is lost, it may lose all the previous victories. This kind of uncontrolled gambling, Yi Feng really doesn't like it. Then Li Jing has now cast the dice, and what Yi Feng can do is to try to improve the chances of winning this gamble. And do a good job of emergency preparedness, in case you lose, the consequences will not be too miserable.

In his heart, Yi Feng was not optimistic about Li Jing's behavior. It's really because Liaodong City is quite famous in history. Yang Guang conquered Liaodong several times, and each time hundreds of thousands of troops besieged Liaodong City, but he failed to capture it once. This shows the danger of this city. Later, Li Shimin personally conquered Liaodong, and finally used the strategy of fire attack. Only then did he succeed in capturing Liaodong City, but Goguryeo at that time. In fact, it has been more than ten years since the war with the Sui Dynasty, and the national strength is not as strong as the battle with Yang Guang. And now, the Goguryeo people are still at this most powerful time, and Liaodong City has not suffered a single battle.

Li Jing just let go of the tens of thousands of Goguryeo soldiers and horses in Liaoxi, and killed them headlong under the city of Liaodong, and even rode lightly for a long time, without even the slightest siege equipment, and there was no logistics supply of grain and grass, how could he take Liaodong City, even if there were only 8,000 old and weak people in the city, but Liaodong City also had two heavy cities inside and outside, and there were a large number of grain and grass equipment reserves in the city, plus tens of thousands of people. In addition, there were many fortresses around Liaodong City, and the Goguryeo people could rush to reinforcements at any time. Once he can't take the city in the first raid, then Li Jing's 30,000 horses are really likely to go and return. If Li Jing is defeated, the 30,000 people in Songshan will also be left alone, and then a vicious circle will most likely occur, and the situation in western Liaoning may collapse again.

"Can you give an order to recover Li Jing?"

"It's too late, even if the flying pigeon passes the book, we can only pass it to Yuguan at the farthest, but Yuguan is four hundred miles away from Songshan, not to mention that Li Jing has already left Songguan. Our messenger received the holy decree at Yuguan and immediately rushed to Songshan, but it was too late. Four hundred miles away, when they arrived, Li Jing might have arrived at the city of Liaodong. Moreover, Li Jing had already sent troops without permission in disregard of his will, and now it is even more impossible for him to withdraw his troops with a will. Pei Zeng said.

"Li Jing is too nonsense, and he must be removed from his post and dealt with strictly." He Ruobi took the opportunity to join Li Jing.

"Li Jing definitely has to be disposed of, but not now. Now, let's discuss how to remedy it. Yi Feng shook his head and said, for a guy like Li Jing who ignores military orders, he must be punished, Yi Feng can't raise his problem of ignoring the emperor's orders and military orders, otherwise, other generals will follow the same example in the future, then there is no military discipline and military law at all, and the army cannot tolerate any negligence, otherwise Yi Feng would not have to get out a privy council and three yaya.

"Where is Han Seng Shou?"

Pei Zeng whispered, "Envoy Han has just entered Hebei. ”

"The reinforcements sent by the imperial court can't help Li Jing for the time being." Yi Feng sighed lightly.

The imperial court was already very passive in order to send troops without authorization for Li Jing's before, and recruited 100,000 soldiers and horses in advance, so that Han Seng Shou could lead the reinforcements to Liaoxi. But this army can't fly, no matter how fast it is, it will take time, especially the imperial court military system, those high-ranking generals usually stay in Beijing, and the local armies are stationed in various places with a scale of 1,000 people. In the event of a war, the Privy Council mobilized troops to assemble, the emperor selected the generals, and the soldiers and horses from all walks of life gathered to form a combat cluster, and the generals appointed by the emperor led the battle. Whether it is gathering troops or putting the generals in place, it will take time. This army can't keep up with Li Jing's pace at all.

Yi Feng knocked on the table, "From now on, don't worry about Li Jing, we will never be able to keep up with his rhythm, since this is the case, then do our thing." The Privy Council immediately drew up a battle plan to exclude the troops and horses under the command of Li Jing from consideration. What we have to consider now is not whether Li Jing can take Liaodong City, nor whether he can hold the Songshan camp and block Gao Yuan's retreat. What we have to consider now is how to quickly assemble the troops and horses, the most important thing is to settle in Yuguan first, and first ensure that Yuguan will not lose in any case. Then send troops to White Wolf City to stabilize White Wolf City, then there will be a nail and an advance base in Liaoxi, and then send troops to attack Liucheng in Yingzhou. In this way, if Li Jing succeeds, it will naturally be the best, and Han Sengshou's soldiers and horses can bite Gao Yuan's tens of thousands of soldiers and horses crossing the river, and then attack the Songshan camp on both sides and destroy them. If Li Jing can't defeat Liaodong City, or even if these 30,000 horses are destroyed, or even worse, the Songshan camp is also defeated by the Gao Yuan army, then we can also not be affected, recover Yingzhou first, and finally drive Goguryeo back to the east of the Liao River. The reinforcement of the various departments that are now deep into western Liaoning must ensure that our second army will not allow accidents. According to this core, you immediately draw up a battle plan, and then pass it on to Han Shouseng, so that he can implement it accordingly. ”

After finishing speaking, Yi Feng was in no mood to continue watching these generals discuss the battle plan.

He went back to the official directly, returned to the manna hall, Yi Feng went to the bathroom, there was hot water all day in the bathroom, Yi Feng directly took off his clothes and walked into the hot water pool, soaking himself in the hot water, the warm feeling made the whole person's tiredness immediately alleviate a lot.

Leaning on the edge of the pool, I felt the heat in the water constantly seeping into my body, the water vapor was encircling, and there was a faint fragrance of flowers wafting in the air. Without Yi Feng's call, no one dared to come forward to disturb, they stood far away, holding their breath, and did not dare to make a sound, for fear of disturbing the young emperor's rest.

After a long time, Wang Hai's voice sounded on the side.

"Majesty!"

Yi Feng opened his eyes, "What's the matter?" ”

"Longyou urgent! The Turkic Datou Khan joined forces with Tuyuhun Murong Shiyun Khan to enter the west of the Kou River and is now besieging Guazhou. ”

With a bang, Yi Feng sat up straight in the water all of a sudden, and then took over this military emergency report from Wang Hai's hand.

"Pei Shiju just returned from the Western Regions, didn't he say that Datou was bent on seeking peace, and Datou also sent thousands of horses and tens of thousands of sheep as gifts. Now in a blink of an eye, Da Tou has already joined forces with Shiyun to join the army? Didn't the Inspectorate find any signs before? Yi Feng was annoyed, everything really didn't go well. The war in western Liaoning did not unfold according to his schedule, and it was a game of chickens and dogs. Here the Turks and Tuyuhun have come over again, and they are really not afraid of excitement.

"Immediately forward this military information to the Privy Council, so that they can discuss the countermeasures." Yi Feng threw the paper military information to Wang Hai, and lay back in the pool. Da Tou estimated that he was a thief and wanted to struggle again, but even if he united with Tuyuhun, there was nothing to worry about. Guazhou is still more than 3,000 miles away from Chang'an, not to mention, Datou has just experienced the Lingzhou fiasco, and now he has some real strength to dare to shout. Yi Feng estimated that Datou wanted to show his strength to the Sui Dynasty at most, and finally wanted to promote peace by fighting. However, Da Tou definitely doesn't know Yi Feng's character, Yi Feng is an absolute person who doesn't eat hard and soft, and when he plays this hand, he is looking for death.

Yi Feng originally planned to wait until next autumn to go on another northern expedition, but now, Datou sent an invitation in advance, and Yi Feng had to advance this plan. (To be continued......)