Li Chongbao burned the entire Meilianggou with a fire, and won the biggest victory since the attack on Jiangzhou.

He went to the camp to see his father in a hurry, and the generals in the army looked at him differently, which is really called a tiger father without a dog, and finally did not lose his father's reputation.

Li Siye sat on the chair with satisfaction and looked at his son, nodded and praised: "You won the biggest victory with the smallest loss in this battle, which really exceeded my expectations, but don't be too complacent, in the future, you still have to humbly ask the generals for advice, you must know that there must be a reason for my division in the threesome." ”

Li Chongbao pursed a smile and intervened: "What my father taught me is that I must guard against arrogance and rashness, and learn more from the generals. ”

"Well, although the fire attack is twice the result with half the effort, the killing karma created is also too great, and the damage to the mountains and forests is too serious, and now the fire in Meilianggou is still spreading, I am afraid we will have to wait for a while in Jiangxian County."

There is also a Yuan County in the southwest of Jiangxian County and Wenxi County, which is in the middle of the Zhongtiao Mountain Range and the Yellow River Bay, the road is high and densely forested, steep and difficult to walk, and it is estimated that too much energy and time will be wasted if you want to capture it. But this county did not have much influence on his control of Jiangzhou, so Li Siye directly skipped it, as long as he occupied Wenxi, it was equivalent to controlling the traffic arteries between Jiangzhou and Puzhou.

They waited in Jiangxian for nine days, and waited for the fire in Meilianggou to spread to the west of Mingtiaogang before leading the army through Meilianggou and occupying Wenxi.

If Wang Sili couldn't ask for reinforcements from the imperial court, then he would only have a few thousand remnants left in the entire Puzhou, and he could only watch Li Siye crush from in front of him.

Wang Sikong can't expect Hedong Jiedu to make Deng Jingshan now, even if he is willing to send troops south, now he can't save his thirst from far water.

The envoys sent by the imperial court had already traveled along the Jinju Basin to Taiyuan, but this trip was simply useless.

When he was in a hurry, he decided to state the crisis of the situation to the imperial court again, if the Hexi army was allowed to occupy the entire Puzhou, then the Longmendu in the upper reaches of the Yellow River and the Jinpudu in the lower reaches would be directly occupied by him, and it would be easy to cross the Yellow River and enter the pass.

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Li Heng was lying on the couch, and there were two eunuchs kneeling on the ground in front of him, one holding a plate of decoction in his hand, and the other holding a plate containing elixir. He first took the pill and put it in his mouth, and then reached out to take the decoction and take it.

Li Fuguo stood in front of him, holding the note sent by Wang Sili in his hand, and his voice gradually lowered: "The Hexi army is menacing, and our army can only temporarily retreat to Puzhou if it is defeated, but the terrain of Puzhou is gentle, and it cannot be defended with a small number of troops. I beg Your Majesty to send troops to help. The situation has reached a critical juncture, and if Puzhou loses its rules, it will be in danger. ”

"Poof!" Li Henggang took half a mouthful of hot tea squirted out instantly, threw the tea bowl in his hand to the ground, and said angrily: "Wang Sili is useless after all, I should appoint Li Guangbi to fill the Lujie envoy." ”

Li Fuguo slandered in his heart, if he only sent people and did not send troops, I am afraid that it would be useless to send anyone at this time, Wang Sili has always reported good news and not bad news, and he can write like this on the song, which shows that he can no longer hold the fire at all.

"Your Majesty, it is better to transfer 20,000 troops from Tongguan and order Li Guangbi to lead an urgent river crossing to Puzhou, which can still solve Pujin's worries."

"Well, that's all we have to do for now."

Li Fuguo turned around and was about to leave, when the emperor suddenly stopped him and said, "Go and invite Li Mi over." ”

He walked slowly to the outside of the hall, and his pig-waist face slowly became gloomy, and he instructed a little eunuch who followed him: "Go and call Li Yu." ”

A moment later, the white-clothed Taoist Li Mi entered the Zichen Hall and went straight to the emperor's bed.

Li Heng sat up from the couch with the support of the palace maid, stretched out his hand to greet Li Yu, and sighed: "When you asked to return to Hengshan, I shouldn't have listened to Li Jingzhong and Cui Yuan's advice to let you go. ”

Li Mi put the dust on his shoulders and lowered his head and said: "This is also the fault of the mountain people, does Your Majesty remember what the minister said before leaving?" There is no one in this world who is born determined to rebel, and the choices they make are just different circumstances** and changes in mood. The former is like An Lushan, if the emperor only gave him one town from beginning to end, sixty or seventy thousand horses, can he still have the ambition to rebel? The latter is like Li Siye, if it weren't for His Majesty's suspicion of him and his seclusion in the capital, would he still sneak out of Chang'an to raise the flag and rebel? ”

Li Heng suddenly frowned: "Speaking of which, this is actually my mistake. ”

Li Mi sighed and said: "This is not only Your Majesty's fault, but also the accumulation of shortcomings left by the Emperor Taishang, which gave the traitors and thieves the signs of rebellion." In fact, the minister just wanted to give advice to His Majesty. ”

The emperor turned his worries into joy: "Do you have a way to retreat from the Hexi Army?" ”

"Yes."

"Come on."

"There are only two strategies for Your Majesty to choose, one of them is to send envoys to the north quickly, contact Shi Siming, agree to give him Hedong, Hebei, and Henan, and order him to join forces with Deng Jingshan to attack Shangdang, and send Li Guangbi to divide half of Tongguan's troops to hold Puzhou, and maybe be able to hold on until Shi Siming and Deng Jingshan's reinforcements arrive."

"The second strategy, Li Siye took advantage of the mutiny of the Hexi Army to raise troops, neither going north to attack Shi Siming to occupy Youyan, nor going south to break Lu Jiong and Wei Zhi to occupy Xiangyang Jiangdong, but to count 100 in front of Guanzhong. It's nothing more than wanting to go back to the west of the old nest. Why didn't His Majesty make him the envoy of the four towns of Anxi in the northwest of the Longyou River, and let him take a detour from the Shuofang Hetao area into the west of the Longyou River, so that the imperial court could withdraw the small number of soldiers and horses left in Shuofang and provide the grain and grass needed for the army to bypass. ”

Li Heng slowly looked up at the gauze tent above his head without saying a word, and said half-loudly: "It seems that you don't believe that Li Guangbi can hold Puzhou by crossing the Yellow River." ”

"But I have that hope! Although Li Siye had more than 100,000 soldiers in his hands, he only relied on 400,000 stone grain in Hanjiacang, or in less than three months, his Hexi army would be unsustainable in the Central Plains, and finally defeated itself. The Hexi army under his command wanted to return to their hometown, but I did not meet his wishes, so they finally mutinied in despair, causing them to enter a place where there was no place to be buried. ”

Li Yu let out a long sigh, crossed his hand at Li Heng and said, "Your Majesty refused to accept my suggestion to attack the rebel Youzhou nest from Hedong first, but was in a hurry to recover the two capitals, causing Shi Siming to sit in Youzhou. Now that Your Majesty refuses to listen to my suggestion to surrender Li Siye, I am afraid that he will give up Guanzhong again and flee south to Shuzhong. This is by no means alarmist, and I hope Your Majesty will think twice. ”

Li Heng raised his head arrogantly again: "You were old friends with Li Siye in the past, do you want to find a way out for him?" ”

This sentence is really hurtful for Li Mi, who is bent on plotting for him. The friendship between the two of them is far deeper than that with Li Siye. When Li Heng was the crown prince, Li Mi was his confidant and adviser, and he blocked many open guns and arrows played by Li Linfu. It's just that Li Mi is well versed in the Taoist escapist strategy, and he will never force himself to be above the temple, and whenever he is excluded, he will retreat to the deep mountains to cultivate. It's not that he doesn't have the ability and brains to engage in power struggles. Rather, his temperament is indifferent, and he hates the open and secret struggles between the ruling class.

In the past, when Li Heng was still the crown prince, he also used to humbly accept advice from Corporal Lixian, but now after he became the emperor of the Tang Empire, he was carried away by the power in his hands. Not only him, but many people in history have been kings in adversity, and the wind has turned into bronze.

He bowed down and made a gesture to Li Heng, and said indifferently: "Since this is the case, the mountain people retreat." ”

The idle clouds and wild cranes Li Daochang floated away, and Li Heng pushed away the medicinal tea handed over by the palace maid, and sat on the couch sulking. He bowed his head and was silent for a long time before shouting to the eunuch standing behind the palace pillar: "Go and send a message to Jingzhong, let him go and issue a holy decree immediately, order Li Guangbi to go to Jinpudu immediately, and then send someone to ride a fast horse to Tongguan, and let Guo Ziyi allocate 20,000 people, no, 30,000 people to Pujindu to cross the Yellow River to guard Puzhou!" ”