No matter how perfect the plan is, there are variables, and with the existence of variables, there may be accidents in the plan, so there is a famous saying that "the plan is not as fast as the change", and this happens to be the root cause of Li Zhen's troubles in front of him, and it is also the reason why Li Zhen hurried from Hezhou to the new residence of the Dadu Protectorate - Gaochang City despite the cold and freezing.

According to Li Zhen's previous overall battle plan for Anxi, the south of the Tianshan Mountains is only the first step of the Long March, although it can be regarded as the most difficult step, there are also a lot of twists and turns, but it can be regarded as a smooth completion, as for the state and county planning, the construction of the cotton field base and even the construction of the Cele fortress as the forefront of the defense against the Tibetan are also in progress, at the same time, the two major alliances of the Western Turks also launched an extremely bloody battle on the Nalati grassland as Li Zhen expected, and the two sides fought repeatedly, They have all reached the point of exhaustion, and it seems that there will be another ten days and a half months to divide the victory and defeat, and at that time, the main force of the Tang Army, which has already secretly assembled near the Daban Pass, 15,000 elites, and the 6,000 rangers and 2,000 elite infantry who have secretly moved to the vicinity of the Qijiaojing Pass will be under the command of Chen Wu and Dong Qianli, taking advantage of the moment when the Western Turks are extremely weakened, and attack the north of the Tianshan Mountains with all their might. This sudden heavy snow ruthlessly smashed Li Zhen's planned battle plan into pieces - under the sudden cold weather, the two major forces of the Western Turks have already collected their own troops, and if they suddenly attack at this time, they can only defeat one side at most, but they cannot achieve the effect of completely annihilating all the living forces of the Western Turks, and what is worse is that the Tang Army cannot launch a thousand-mile surprise attack in such ice and snow, unless Li Zhen really intends to fight hard to accumulate his own family funds, just like this, the Northern Expedition has not yet started to be stillborn.

After all, today's Anxi is not the Anxi of only less than 6,000 men two years ago, after Li Zhen automatically asked the old man to mix sand with Anxi, the old man finally agreed to set the formation of the Tang Army in Anxi as the total strength of more than 50,000 regular troops in the four towns, deducting the 10,000 troops who held the front line of Hezhou and could not move lightly because of the northward movement of the Tibetan forces, counting the garrison camps in various places, Li Zhenneng has mobilized nearly 60,000 troops, although most of the officers and soldiers are new recruits, but fortunately, most of these recruits are from the original soldiers of the three countries of the Western Regions, and a little training can already be useful, but the combat effectiveness is inevitably reduced, but it is more than enough to deal with the Western Turkic departments that are weakened by the civil war. But another thing happened that made Li Zhen very sad, and he had to rush back to Gaochang City as soon as possible to preside over the overall situation, and this incident was Goguryeo poking out the big basket!

Li Zhen was not very proficient in history in his previous life, but because of his love for military accidents, he had worked hard to dabble in the major events of Zhenguan's years, especially for the failure of the three expeditions of the emperor Li Shimin to Goguryeo, and he also published a lot of articles in this area on the Internet, so he knew the cause and relatively accurate time of Li Shimin's expedition to Goguryeo, and in Li Zhen's memory, the Goryeo general Yuangai Suwen launched a coup d'état, slaughtered his king Gao Jianwu, and set up his young brother Gao Zang as the king, calling himself "Mo Lizhi" The dictatorship occurred at the end of the sixteenth year of Zhenguan, however, its real rebellion against the Tang Dynasty was at the end of the seventeenth year of Zhenguan - Goguryeo united with Baekje to attack the same Tang canonized vassal state Silla, Tang sent a special envoy to Goguryeo with an edict to mediate and stop, but was rejected by Gai Suwen, the Tang army sent Li Jiwei as a general to lead the army to Goguryeo in June of the eighteenth year of Zhenguan, but it coincided with the Liao River flooding, so that he returned in vain, and then, Li Shimin issued an edict to conquer Goguryeo, and in March of the nineteenth year of Zhenguan, he personally led the main force from Chang'an, and retreated without victory, After that, he conquered Goguryeo twice in a row, but failed to succeed due to various reasons, and the failure of the three expeditions to Goryeo became the biggest regret of Li Shimin's life.

History is history, and it has a strong inertia, despite a butterfly like Li Zhen (of course, this butterfly seems to be too big. In the midst of the stirring, but the general trend has not changed, what should have happened has still happened, but the time and degree have changed - things still happened as usual, still Yuangai Suwen killed Gao Jianwu, and still set up his brother Gao Zang as the king, but the time was advanced in the middle of May of the sixteenth year of Zhenguan, and the incident coincided with the Tang Dynasty princes seizing the heirs, and no one in the court asked about Goguryeo, and the matter passed in such a place, and in July of the seventeenth year of Zhenguan, Yuangai Suwen and Baekje brazenly launched a full-scale attack on Silla, and the king of Silla, Kim Chunqiu, was unable to support it, so he sent an urgent envoy to the Tang Dynasty for help.

In the middle of August of the 17th year of Zhenguan, the Silla envoy arrived in Chang'an, and the imperial court decided to send troops to conquer Goguryeo, but they unanimously opposed Li Shimin's personal conquest, Li Shimin had agreed to the advice of the ministers, but at the end of September, he suddenly reversed his previous attitude and issued an edict of pro-conquest, preparing to send troops to Liaodong in mid-April of the 18th year of Zhenguan, and personally led 320,000 troops to conquer Goguryeo in three ways.

Headache, headache! As soon as he thought of the conquest of Goguryeo, Li Zhen had a headache - even if this campaign was half a year late, or this year's snow did not come so early, these two things came together, and immediately caused a big trouble in Li Zhen's Anxi strategy, the reason is very simple, once it is really according to Li Shimin's edict that he sent a large army to conquer Goguryeo in person, it is necessary to concentrate the grain and grass controlled by the imperial court to prepare for the expedition, so that Anxi will never have the possibility of sending troops north of the Tianshan Mountains next year- Although Li Zhen has made great efforts to rectify the people's livelihood in Anxi, it is a pity that the time is still short, and Anxi is still unable to achieve self-sufficiency, although on the surface, the grain and grass of the Tang Army in Anxi do not rely much on the support of the imperial court, but who knows how much effort and money Li Zhen has put into this regard, not to mention anything else, just to transport the cotton and related products produced in Anxi back to the mainland in exchange for grain, the vast majority of the caravan of the "Yanji Firm" was used, And just relying on these exchanged grains and the pitiful grain and grass allocated by the imperial court can not meet the needs of the Anxi Tang army to fight at all, and Li Zhen has to pay for the insufficient part himself, which is enough, but if the current battle against Goryeo starts, Li Zhen is rich and difficult to get enough food, obviously, without sufficient food and grass supply, it is bound to be more difficult for the army to go out than to ascend to the sky, of course, it is not without a solution - there is no food from the customs, Li Zhen can also exchange some coarse grains from Shaowu Jiu or Tubo for the top, the trouble is the Goguryeo war, Li Shimin may not agree to Anxi to fight at this end, in this way, once the Western Turks are relieved, and then want to exterminate the Western Turks, the price and sacrifice will be much greater, and maybe there will be twists and turns, Li Zhen really does not want to take such a risk.

If the impact of Anxi's construction is a clear reason, Li Zhen still hides an unspeakable worry in his heart, that is, in the time and space he came from, Li Shimin died in May of the twenty-third year of Zhenguan, and it was already October of the seventeenth year of Zhenguan, and there was only a short period of more than five years. Li Zhen is not sure that Li Shimin will depose Li Zhi at that time, after all, in the time and space where Li Zhen came from, the most incompetent Li Zhi had the last laugh, Li Zhen of course could not pin all his hopes on Li Shimin, and could only rely on the powerful military force in his hands to ensure his capital to seize the throne.

Although Li Zhen has not been to the pimple in North Korea, he knows very well in his heart, knowing that that there is a place where the poor mountains and bad waters come out of the people, and he fights happily all day long, and the place where the fart beans are big is full of mountains, and there is nothing to do, and it will not be of much use if it is beaten down, it is purely chicken ribs, don't fight, it is always tinkering on the side, and it is necessary to teach a lesson, but the old man is so excited to mobilize the people to fight, it is too trivial to make a fuss, besides, it is easy to fight Liaodong, after all, the terrain is flat, with the army of the Tang Army, Sweeping the past, three times five divided by two can be leveled, but once the Yalu River is crossed, it is not fun, there are mountains everywhere, the road is not easy to walk or second, the trouble is that the cities of the Goguryeo people are all built on the mountains, even if the Tang army is good at attacking cities, such a city by city to attack the past, no matter how good the soldiers have to become tired soldiers, over time, the supply of grain and grass will inevitably become a fatal problem, and it is inevitable to win, in fact, Li Zhen came from that time and space, Both Li Shimin and Emperor Yang of Sui were defeated due to logistical supply problems, but Li Shimin's ability to lead troops was much higher than that of Emperor Yang of Sui, so he would not fall into the fate of Emperor Yang of Sui's annihilation.

If you really want to fight Goguryeo, it is actually very simple, there is no need to move the army so much, just send a general to lead 50,000 elite soldiers to attack, and first level Liaodong in one fell swoop - at this time, the Khitan, Xi and other ethnic groups in Liaodong are all subjugated to the Tang Dynasty, only the Yan Ya (that is, the ancestor of the later Jin and Manchu Qing) took refuge in Goguryeo, although there are 150,000 troops, it is just a rabble like a chicken, tile and dog, it is impossible to be the opponent of the Tang army, it can be defeated in a battle, and after taking Liaodong, build a city as a place for troops, Then in the spring ploughing before and after the turn of attack, do not seek to defeat the enemy city, just do not let the enemy have the opportunity to cultivate, one and two times, the Goguryeo who missed the agricultural time will be hungry the next year, a few more years, how can Goguryeo still have food to feed the stomach of the people, at that time, it is not the Tang army to attack, but Goguryeo to find the Tang army to play with their lives, once the attack and defense change the situation, with the Goguryeo rabble and the elite Tang army decisive battle can not have a chance of winning, after a few battles, How many people can still come to Goguryeo to see the home and nursing home, and when the time comes, it is not impossible to win without a fight, which is the water mill kung fu that broke Goguryeo during the Tang Gaozong period.

Although the method of water milling takes a long time, it is very safe, and victory is a matter of course, after all, the overall strength of the Tang Dynasty is more than a thousand times that of Baekje and Goguryeo combined, and fighting a war of attrition will also consume these two small countries, however, although this plan is good, I am afraid that Li Shimin may not be willing to accept it, after all, it will take a long time, Li Shimin's eyes are full of thoughts of quick victory, and he will be rejected as soon as he takes this method - Li Daozong has tried, and Li Shimin has not even paid attention to it, Naturally, Li Zhen would not mention such tactics again.

It's not difficult to win quickly, at least not for Li Zhen, and the secret lies in the two trump cards in Li Zhen's hands - a chain siege crossbow and gunpowder. At present, the siege crossbows equipped in the Tang Army are single-shot devices, and the power is not great, compared to the chain crossbows currently equipped by the Anxi Tang Army, which is several grades worse, although Li Zhen has already submitted the prototype car and the drawings to the Second Department of Soldiers and Engineering, but it is a pity that the talent reserves of these two departments are far less than that of the Anxi Tang Army, although after several efforts, only a pitiful few prototypes have been produced, and it is impossible to carry out large-scale refitting of the Tang Army as a whole, as for gunpowder, this is Li Zhen's last trump card, after more than a year of hard work, The granulated black powder reserve is enough to make a large number of explosive bags, which is more than enough to blast more than ten cities in the tunnel, and there is a sharp weapon in hand, and it is not a problem to attack the city and seize the land, especially now that the gunpowder has not yet been launched, once it is put into large-scale use, the unexpected effect is absolutely amazing, and it is not very difficult to sweep away a small Goguryeo, but the question is whether this trump card is worth playing at this time?

I don't know, Li Zhen really doesn't know, he can't say whether it is cost-effective to sacrifice the gunpowder in exchange for the opportunity for Anxi to attack the north of the Tianshan Mountains, this matter has been entangled in his mind for a long time, since receiving the Jingshi dynamics from the "Rising Sun", Li Zhen has always been thinking about the situation, but until this time Wuzi can't decide what to do, but there is one Li Zhen is certain, that is-even if the gunpowder is handed over, it can only be in his own hands, without him, this trump card is too sharp, Li Zhenshi didn't dare and didn't want to give it to others to use, and secondly, because only Li Zhen herself knew how to use it to achieve the best effect. But in this way, the question arises again - once Li Zhen decides to give this trump card, he will inevitably have to go to the Goguryeo front in person, but who should be in charge of Anxi? That's a nerve-wracking question!

Li Zhen's subordinates can be described as full of talents, military generals are like clouds, and there are also Mo Li, Qin Wenhua and others among the strategists, but there are few who can really stand up and lead the heroes, needless to say, in terms of ability, Mo Li is undoubtedly the best candidate, but the problem is that after Anxi has been mixed with sand by the old man a few times, there are already many officials from the imperial court, not Li Zhen's lineage, and Mo Li's current identity as the chief of the palace can command the people of the Yue Palace, but he can't control the people such as Xiao Dalong, Cheng Ge, and Chai Zhewei. Moreover, Mo Li's identity as a strategist is not suitable for showing up too much. Chen Wu? There is absolutely no problem with loyalty, and his prestige in the army is enough, and he is calm, but he is loyal, and it is difficult to forcibly suppress the arrogant soldiers under him; Dong Qianli, there is no problem with loyalty, and he is ruthless enough, the problem is that he is not qualified enough in the army to serve the public, and his strategic and tactical literacy is poor, being a commander of the ranger army is enough, but he has to lead the whole army, and his ability is insufficient; As for Yan Shiba, Sha Feiluo, Liu Xuanfeng and others, not to mention, it is okay to go out of the town, but if you want to command the whole army, it is simply impossible, not only because of ability, but also because of the congenital lack of qualifications in the army, so you don't have to consider it at all.

Calculated like this, it can really make Li Zhen feel a little more at ease, and there is only Lin Chenghe, the commander of the infantry army, but the problem is that although Lin Chenghe has been with Li Zhen for a while, he is a half-way monk, not from the righteous and strict guards, and his person is a little more strict, Li Zhen is still a little uncertain about this person's character, therefore, these few times the task of leading the army alone has not been handed over to him, not because he does not trust, but he wants to observe how he will react after being snubbed, This is also the emperor's heart technique, which is not enough for outsiders.

"Your Highness, Your Highness." Li Zhen was silent for a long time, Gao Heng stood aside and waited until his legs and feet were numb, and he didn't see Li Zhen react, he didn't dare to walk, he didn't dare to sit and sit, so he had no choice but to whisper twice.

"Oh." Li Zhen woke up from his deep thoughts, smiled self-deprecatingly, put down the few manuscripts in his hand, looked at Gao Heng and said: "Erzhice this king has finished reading, well, the overall idea is okay, but there are still many deficiencies, so let's wait until I return to Gaochang, this king will talk to you in detail, and you will go to ask General Lin Chenghe to enter the account, and this king has something to explain, go." ”

Hearing that Li Zhen didn't blame Meng Lang for himself, but praised himself rarely, Gao Heng relieved himself, grinned, answered "yes" loudly, and strode out of the big tent of the Chinese army, and went to call Lin Chenghe to enter the account without mentioning it.

Oh, you silly boy! Li Zhen glanced at the back of Gao Hengxing running out of the Zhongjun tent, laughed and scolded, stood up, stretched his muscles and bones fiercely, and paced back and forth in the big tent with his head down, thinking about Lin Chenghe's performance in the past few months and the relevant reports of "Rising Sun", thinking about whether and how to explain to Lin Chenghe, and thinking about it for a while......

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