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Seeing that the sky is about to be clear, although the old man is not in Beijing, but the ancestor worship ceremony that should be held cannot be delayed, as the prince of the prison country, Li Zhen has to cooperate with the officials of the Ministry of Rites to prepare various matters, fortunately, although Li Daozong, the waiter of the Ministry of Rites, is not in Beijing, but Li Shen, the king of the Ministry of Rites, is desperately helping on the side, but it is not too busy, as it is, but the matter of Li Zhen personally appearing is still not young and old, which can be regarded as giving Li Zhen a chance to go out of the palace and relax his muscles, although he is busy, But the mood is very comfortable, if it weren't for the war situation on the western and northern fronts, this day would have been leisurely.

The exact news of the west has not yet come, but it is known that Bazhuo and Dadu have not yet started a war, and the two sides are still in a situation of armed confrontation, and they have also sent envoys to Anxi to seek support from Anxi, according to Xiazhou news, the envoys sent to Chang'an by both sides have entered the customs before and after, and are now on the way to Beijing. But there is nothing to say, of course, now the situation is delicate, although it has long been determined who will be the orthodox Li Zhen, he will never express his position easily, no matter what, it is better to delay for a while first, which can be regarded as buying some time for Chai Zhewei and others.

Compared with the tranquility in the west, the situation on the northern front is much more intense, judging from the military reports that have been transmitted back in the past few days, since the 11th day of March 11 of the 19th year of Zhenguan, Li Ji and Qin Huaiyu led the vanguard of 15,000 soldiers and horses out of Shanhaiguan, the Tang army divided into three roads passed all the way through the pass, and in only half a month, it was like a bamboo to connect the four cities, where it passed, there was almost no large-scale resistance, this is not surprising, one came to Jian'an, Baiyan, Liaocheng, Gaimu City, these four cities have been broken by the Tang army last year, although the city has just been repaired, But it's really very simple, it's better than nothing, how can it stop the edge of the Tang Dynasty's strong army, and it is inevitable that it will fall quickly, as for the second, it will be a little strange - in addition to the people, there are only some soldiers who maintain law and order, and it is completely just the people who have passed on the military uniform, there is no combat effectiveness at all, and there is no fighting spirit, the vanguard of the Tang Army has just arrived in the city, and the gang of miscellaneous soldiers at the head of the city immediately raised the flag. Nearly 200,000 people in the four cities are women, children, old and young, not to mention, and there is no surplus grain at home, all of them are waiting to be fed, so that the old man, who has always regarded himself close to the people, has to wave his pen and allocate a large number of grain soup from the military rations, which makes the supply of military rations on the front line, which was still abundant, suddenly become tense, and has to allocate more grain and grass from the base camp in Youzhou to the front line.

In Li Zhen's view, Goguryeo's abandonment of the four cities was to consciously throw the burden to the Tang army, so as to exchange space for time, which is consistent with the strategy adopted by Li Zhen and Li Daozong when they deduced the sand table, which is basically just a trick of retreating and fighting a decisive battle. However, Li Shimin must not be able to tolerate the people who surrendered to Cheng starving to death, so that the old man can only pinch his nose and admit it, which leads to a war that was originally aimed at rapid raids as the primary goal is very likely to evolve into a protracted war, which is quite unfavorable for the Tang Army, but although Li Zhen knows this, he is helpless, after all, the old man will definitely not allow others to point fingers at this battle, and Li Zhen can only pray now that there will be no more big mess in the future. At the same time, I hope that Li Daozong can put forward the strategy that Li Zhen explained before at the right time, and hope that the old man will be able to listen to it at that time, in addition, there is nothing Li Zhen can help, instead of worrying about it, it is better to take a leisurely time to figure out this ancestor worship ceremony in Beijing, otherwise, it is not fun to make a mistake in such a grand ceremony, no, although it has been practiced several times these days, but Li Zhen still summoned the official of the Ministry of Rites to the East Palace early in the morning today, I practiced the steps according to the norms, and I really had some tireless pleasure when I was worshipping my ancestors a few years ago, although Li Zhen was the prince, he was just a person who kowtowed to the crowd.

"Your Royal Highness, your hand should be raised a little higher, that's right, that's good, ah, your steps are a little tighter, yes, that's it......" Chen Tiaoyuan, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, has been working in the Yamen of the Ministry of Rites for nearly 20 years, and he was only promoted after Li Shen, the king of Ji, presided over the Ministry of Rites, and was grateful to Li Shen, and this time he was entrusted by Li Shen to come to the East Palace to train Li Zhen, and he worked extra hard, not only for Li Shen, but also for his own future official fortune, and pointed out the slight deficiencies in Li Zhen's etiquette without complaining.

"Hehe, that's it." Li Zhen followed Chen Tiaoyuan's instructions, walked again, and then asked with a smile, looking at it like that, she was in a pretty good mood.

"His Royal Highness's comprehension is outstanding, and the micro-ministers are impressed, admired!" Chen Tiaoyuan saw that Li Zhen was in a good mood, and the sycophant who didn't want money immediately offered it, and his face was full of flattering smiles.

"Oh? Hahaha......" Li Zhen laughed when she heard this, and was laughing happily, but when she saw the chief eunuch of the East Palace accompanying Li Shen, the king of Ji, who was hurrying over from a distance, her heart suddenly shuddered, she stopped laughing, strode forward, frowned slightly and said, "Tenth brother, what's wrong?" ”

"Brother Prince, it's not good, big brother, big brother, he's gone!" King Ji Li Shen stammered in an obvious crying tone.

Li Chengqian is dead? When Li Zhen heard this, he was stunned, and his face instantly became extremely pale, of course, what Li Zhen was worried about was not Li Chengqian's death, to be honest, although they were brothers to each other, but in fact, there was no difference between them and enemies, if it was another time, Li Chengqian would die if he died, Li Zhen wouldn't care at all, and it would be over if he pretended to act in a crying scene, but this guy didn't die sooner or later, and he happened to die at the time of the war on the western and northern fronts, and he could really join in the fun.

"When did it happen? When will Di Bao arrive in Beijing? Did you send an urgent message to the front-line battalion? Li Zhen was stunned for a while, then suddenly came to his senses, and a series of questions blurted out, like a cannonball, smashing at Li Shen in a hurry and fast, making Li Shen stunned, and he couldn't understand what the person in front of him was in a hurry, and he forgot to answer for a while.

"Say, say it!" Li Zhen was really anxious, seeing that Li Shen hadn't said anything for a long time, she couldn't help but roar, which startled Li Shen.

"Yu, Yutai, Brother Prince, the eldest brother is, he passed away seven days ago, Di Bao only arrived in Beijing today, as soon as the younger brother received the letter, he came to see the prince's brother, at this time the father is not in Beijing, and the prince's brother still needs to take an idea." Li Shen shuddered violently and stammered a big answer, but he didn't mention that he had sent a letter to the front-line camp at the end, which really made Li Zhen angry, but it was not good to continue to get angry, so he had no choice but to ask with a calm face: "Does this palace want to know if the letter was sent to the front-line camp, huh?" ”

"Hair, it's sent, it's a text sent by the history of the Qianzhou Thorn, and it will be sent to my father in the next two days, brother the prince, what's wrong with this?" Li Shen still didn't understand the trick, and replied in a daze.

Damn it! This bullshit stabs should be killed! Li Zhen gritted his teeth and said with a dark face: "Pass on the decree of the palace, the assassin of Qianzhou failed to treat the brother of the palace well, resulting in his untimely death, his crime is not small, the crime is not forgivable, read his meritorious service in guarding the border, and he is in a hurry to dismiss his post for the people, so he can go to the ministry to do this!" ”

"Ah......" When Li Shen heard this, he was immediately dumbfounded, hesitating and not daring to move, although the assassination history of Xiazhou is not a very prominent high-ranking official, it is not easy to recall, especially the charge given by Li Zhen seems to be far-fetched, and it is difficult to convince the public at all.

"If you don't go soon, I'll find Li Qianhe to do it, go quickly!" Li Zhen glared and roared, poor Li Shen was not very bold, when he saw that Li Zhen's expression was wrong, how could he dare to delay it any longer, he hurriedly answered, and rushed away like a rat.

"Alas, I hope my father won't miss the war because of this!" Li Zhen didn't pay attention to Li Shen's embarrassing attitude of escaping, looked at the north with his own care, and muttered a word, his face full of worry......

In Liaodong, which is still in a semi-barbaric state, Baiyan City is definitely a famous city with a long history, as early as the early Han Dynasty before the establishment of Goguryeo, Baiyan City has been gathered here, and set up a cottage number as a city, and then belongs to the Wei Dynasty to occupy, see its dangerous place, then build a city to defend it, the people of the four fields then gathered and depended, the scale of the city is growing, but to this day, but only more than 20,000 heads, even in the ground of Liaodong, it can only be regarded as a small city, but its terrain is dangerous, it is a military city, In the past, the soldiers alone in this city will occupy more than half, but since the last year was conquered by the Tang army, the city was completely destroyed, almost no defensive value, this time the Tang army returned, Goguryeo did not defend the city as in the last year, but completely abandoned the city, but before the Tang army arrived, the people of the four towns and eight fields were swept away, and all of them were driven into the city to die, so that the small city that could only accommodate more than 20,000 people was crowded with 50,000 or 60,000 people who lacked clothes and clothing, not to mention that the main force of the Tang army could not live in this city. It was the first to arrive at the vanguard of 15,000 men and horses without a place to foothold, so they could only settle up and down the Yungang outside the city, and set up a village to defend it, more than 100,000 soldiers gathered together, but the noise was really not big, just because His Majesty the Emperor was now in this camp.

"......, the army on the left must arrive at Anshi before the thirteenth of this month, and the right army will go east from the flank to cut off the ......reinforcements after Anshi" In the big tent of the Chinese army, dozens of generals surrounded the front of the large sand table, listening to Li Shimin's relevant strategic deployment, Li Ji, Su Dingfang, Cheng Yanjin, etc. were impressively listed, and the prime minister who went out with the army, Sun Wuji, was also dressed in bright armor, and he was also full of humility, but the fat flesh squeezed the originally mighty armor into shape, and it was just a look of a monkey. Not to mention making people laugh, if it weren't for the old man in the tent, I'm afraid that the generals would have laughed a lot.

"Report, the Qianzhou Assassin Shi sent an urgent envoy, and the person is already waiting outside the camp, please give instructions to Your Majesty." Just when Li Shimin was talking like a river, he saw a patrol officer hurriedly enter from outside the tent, point to the ground on one knee, and report loudly.

"Huh?" As soon as Li Shimin heard the word "Qianzhou", his heart immediately chuckled, his face turned pale, and he waved his hand impatiently and said, "Xuan, come in!" Fast! ”

"Your Majesty, there is an urgent report from the King of Qianzhou, please take a look at it." The visitor stumbled into the big tent of the Chinese army, and he didn't dare to look up at Li Shimin's face at all, so he knelt on the ground in a panic and lifted a long strip of cloth bag rolled in his hand high above his head.

Li Shimin waved his hand with a calm face, and the little eunuch who had his own attendant ran forward, took the cloth bag, untied it, and after a priori, it was presented to Li Shimin.

"Ah......" Li Shimin only glanced at the piece of music, and when he landed, his face was pale, sweat was like rain, and he couldn't breathe, and after screaming, the person shook and fell backwards, and the piece fell to the ground flutteringly.

"Your Majesty."

"Your Majesty."

……

As soon as they saw Li Shimin's gaffe, all the people in the big tent exclaimed, but before the emperor's order, no one dared to hug forward, and at the end, it was still the few personal eunuchs standing behind the old man who were quick to see and hold the old man's body that had not fallen, and shouted in surprise: "Imperial Doctor, quickly pass on the Imperial Doctor......

In the chaos, only the eldest grandson Wuji was more sober, leaned over and picked up the falling recital, only to look at it, he was also shocked to his pale face, his hands and feet trembled, holding the funeral letter for a long time and couldn't speak......

On the ninth day of the fourth month of the 19th year of Zhenguan, it has been ten days since Li Shimin personally led the main force to Baiyan City, but he has never taken another step forward, and the other two armies have all stood still, neither moving forward, nor approaching the main force in the middle. I couldn't figure out whether my ambush had missed the horse's feet, I was impatient with suspicion and waiting, and I didn't care about secrecy or not, so I sent a large number of scouts to the area of Baiyan City to check, and after killing and injuring countless scouts, I finally got reliable news - Li Shimin was so worried about the death of his eldest son, the deposed former prince Li Chengqian, that he fell ill, and now the Tang army is in a leaderless state, and an excellent opportunity to take advantage of the situation to annihilate Li Tang's army was so abruptly placed in front of the Gao brothers, How to decide became the first thing that the Gao brothers agreed upon.

"Big brother, the few Tang soldiers who were captured this time are all the same, I don't think this matter is fake, if you don't take the opportunity to kill the generals, and wait for the day Khan to recover from his illness, I'm afraid this battle will be difficult to fight." After the Gao brothers sat silently facing each other for a long time, Gao Huizhen, who was in a hurry, couldn't hold his breath for the first time, and shouted with a slight gasp.

Different from Gao Huizhen, who is known for his bravery, Gao Yanshou is a famous resourceful general in Goguryeo, who was forty and seven, fought all his life, rarely defeated, won the trust of Gai Suwen, and was able to take charge of the high position of Goguryeo in northern Goguryeo, This made all the arrangements of Gao Yanshou fall into the void, although his face was expressionless at this time, but in his heart, he was actually a little uncertain, and when his brother was frightened, Gao Yanshou turned his eyes sideways, and snorted coldly: "If this time is the plan of the Heavenly Khan, what should it be?" ”

As soon as he heard Gao Yanshou's words, Gao Huizhen immediately became anxious, Huo Ran got up, pointed to the direction of the Tang army outside the account, and shouted loudly regardless of it: "Big brother, it's not the younger brother who said you, alas, so far, although we have taken a few Tang soldiers, but there are also several people who have fallen into the hands of the Tang army, and now our army does not advance or retreat on this half of the road, in case the Tang army attacks Anshi with light cavalry to cut off my back road, but how is it good?" If you don't fight, then it's okay to retreat, you can't be blind mushrooms here, hey, besides, although Li Chengqian is a waste prince, in fact, he is a prince cultivated by Tian Khan since he was a child, how can there be no true feelings, this time people are dead, even if Tian Khan is wise, he will only remember that Li Chengqian's past good, and he will never remember his mistakes, this kind of sadness is down, it's strange if he is not sick, if it is you and my brother, I'm afraid that even Tian Khan is not as good as it, if you miss this good opportunity, once the Tang Army is surrounded by three roads, Just you and my brother are such a little people, it's a fart! ”

Gao Huizhen's words are not unreasonable, in fact, Gao Yanshou has not thought about this, in his opinion, it is a gamble right now, betting on the general, once he loses, it will be a loss, but if he does not bet and withdraw to Anshi, although the Anshi is not too big, although the terrain is dangerous, it cannot accommodate the whole army of 160,000 horses, and it is almost impossible to defend the city behind his back, even if he can barely hold it, in the end, it is difficult to say how many of these 160,000 soldiers can be left.

"Well, if that's the case, then let's fight, give orders, and gather the drums!" After groaning for a long time, Gao Yanshou finally made up his mind, gritted his teeth, slapped a few times, let go of his throat and shouted. When the sergeant outside the tent heard the general's order, there was a great chaos, and in an instant, the rumbling drums suddenly sounded, and they swirled back and forth in the empty valley, startling countless birds and beasts, and a bloody battle was about to begin......

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