In the Puning Temple in Jiangling City, Wang Bao tried his best to make his expression more sincere, and looked at Li Wei in front of him almost pleading: "Now that your country's division and brigade have arrived outside Jiangling City, Your Majesty still strictly orders me not to be rude and offend Li Hou, so affectionate, can Li Hou not be moved?"

Even if the dispute between the two countries is not mentioned, Li Hou has lived in Jiangling for several months, and we and other Jiangling scholars have not been courteous and courteous. I don't know where the provocation started now, but Li Hou wants to abandon the crowd and ignore it, so that my people are panicked, can Li Hou feel pity without feeling? Today, Your Majesty has invited you to invite Li Hou to accompany him into the palace and teach me how to repair the old and relieve the ......army from misfortune."

When Li Lian heard that Wang Bao was still fantasizing about the situation being able to recover, he couldn't help laughing, and then looked at Wang Bao again and said, "I am really ashamed that the king's servant shoots such a courtesy. If the question was a plan of the society, then the corporal did not dare to speak wildly. But if I only ask about the safety of one person, I will say a few words to shoot a servant."

When Wang Bao heard this, his spirits suddenly perked up, and his eyes when he looked at Li Quan suddenly became hot, and he bowed to Li Quan, and then whispered: "If you get the prince's advice and plan to plan your life, if this body still exists, the prince's great grace will be remembered!"

Li Tuan has been in Jiangling for a while, and he also has some understanding of the spiritual outlook of the people here, so he is not surprised by Wang Bao's reaction.

"Servant Shooter? If the army does not move, the situation between the two sides can still be recovered, and now that the people have arrived, how can they stop fighting because of a few words? There is no way to avoid this battle, and no one can stop it!"

He spoke categorically first, dispelling the unrealistic thoughts in Wang Bao's heart, and then said, "However, the servants can know the personnel and customs of Jiangling now, what is General Li must take? Where is there no landscape? Where are there no people? If these are the two, why fight for Guangling?

The person that General Li values is the person who is the person of etiquette and music, and the person of the crown and belt! The disaster of the old Yongjia, the loss of the Jin family, and the survival of the ancestors of the monarch continued to be interrupted in Jiangzuo, and its merits were great! The rites have been passed down to the present, and the Liang family cannot keep them, and if you return to the north, it can be said that the above-mentioned ancestors and ancestors are far away, and they are brilliant in the annals of history, and their names will be passed down to all generations!"

"This, this...... Now Your Majesty has met me very kindly, and I have forbearance and rebellion! Moreover, the struggle between the north and the south is not a short year, and the power is long and short for a while, and each has its own strength, how can it be used for a hundred generations because of the momentary situation!"

When Wang Bao heard this, he immediately shook his head again and again, saying that he was by no means a short-sighted person, but he soon felt that such a refusal seemed too simple, so he said: "Today, I have more than 200,000 soldiers in Jiangling, and I am united in one heart, far from being able to attack the thousands of cavalry outside the city! Besides, I have realized it at this time, and the edict orders that the army of the Quartet Qin Wang must come soon, and General Li has 100,000 elite soldiers, and he can't bend me! As far as Li Hou knows, General Li can really gather this Shengjia?"

After hearing this, Li Lian laughed again: "If you want to win Tiannan and unify the north and south, even if you have 100,000 people, you can't do it. But if it is only to Keding Jiangling, 30,000 divisions are enough to appoint. And if you decide the life and death of the king, the edge of the foot and a half is more than enough!"

When Wang Bao heard this, he couldn't help but jump back in fright, and after glancing at the armor soldiers who came with him outside the temple, he regained a little calm, and looked back at Li Zhu and said fiercely: "Now Li Hou doesn't have thousands of troops and horses around him!"

"But there is a city full of ministers' lives tied to this!"

Li Wei sneered for tat, and then looked at Wang Bao and sighed: "The king servant doesn't know that disaster is coming, so can I not know? The reason why I am still in this dangerous place is because there are more important things here than my own safety! I know that the collection of books in the East Pavilion of the Emperor's Garden is huge, and it is the accumulation of several generations of literary affairs in the southern country. If you can protect it and dedicate it to General Li on the day the city is broken, although the country will be destroyed, it will actually be successful!"

When Wang Bao heard this, his eyes flashed suddenly, but he quickly shook his head and said, "The situation is critical today, the whole country should fight, and I also need to be subject to the command, how can I be in the inner garden? The prince's meaning is beautiful, but I can't use it."

Seeing that Wang Bao was moved, Li Lian said again: "General Li's command is full of brave warriors, how can the servants and scribes be matched? If Lord Liang really makes the minister meet the enemy, it can be said that it is overkill, and if he is in chaos, can he defend the national security? The servant may take advantage of the situation to make a statement, and lead the family members of the princess to be placed in the inner garden for shelter, and I can also take advantage of this to enter and go to the East Pavilion.

If Gangneung is defended, I will not be able to escape. If Jiangling is not defended, with my base, the inner garden of the Liang lord can also be spared from being looted by the armor soldiers. Jingyi Article, Gong

The family members are alive because of the servant's thoughts, what about the servant's intentions?"

"This, this...... Will the prince make a covenant with me, and before the city is broken, he shall not disturb the inner garden!"

If it was a normal season, of course Wang Bao would not agree to such an unbelievable and rebellious proposal, but now that the Wei army has arrived in the city, Li Lian has fearless demagoguery, which makes him feel chaotic at the same time, he also hopes to find a way to win and lose to protect himself.

Li Lian's proposal is undoubtedly very much in line with his needs, the people in the city are in turmoil, and His Majesty the Emperor also urgently needs a way to control the ministers, and the dependents of the ministers are concentrated in the inner garden in the name of protection, but in fact they are seized, I believe that His Majesty the Emperor will not refuse. With so many people entering the inner garden, it is bound to be difficult to inspect them one by one, and Li Lian and his entourage are not conspicuous when they are mixed in.

If Jiangling can be defended, then Wang Bao detained Li Lian and his party in the inner garden in advance instead of letting them do evil, which is also meritorious. If he can't hold it, then as Li Lian said, it is only the Xiao family that will lose, but he will make great contributions to the preservation of Jiangling culture and the families of hundreds of officials.

Of course, this matter is not without variables and risks, but compared with the huge benefits, this risk is not worth mentioning.

After making an agreement with Li Quan, Wang Bao arranged for the armor soldiers to be stationed here, and he led the others back to the garden to meet the emperor.

At this time, Xiao Yi was busy arranging defenses in the city, and when he saw that Wang Bao only came back by himself and did not bring back Li Quan, he was a little unhappy in his heart.

Wang Bao hurriedly explained, "The minister's selfish intention to steal the envoy of Wei Jun is just an excuse. No matter how politely I treat his envoys, the Wei people will not withdraw from the army, but will increase their arrogance, thinking that my monarch and ministers are cowardly and dare not fight. Now it is advisable to work together to resist the attack of the Wei people, and their several battles have been fruitless, and after knowing that our city is strong, we can then lead the Wei envoys to negotiate peace, so that we can get twice the result with half the effort."

After Xiao Yi heard this, his face softened slightly, and he said in a deep voice: "You must keep the Wei envoy firmly guarded, and don't let him visit the masses and shake people's hearts!"

He also knew that there was no shortage of soft bones among his courtiers, and he was not willing to eat bitterness at all, and there might be people who couldn't stand the coercion of the Western Wei Dynasty and secretly took refuge.

After hearing this, Wang Bao nodded again and again, and then said: "On the way back, there have been many chaos in the city, especially the ministers under each block the streets, because the house is a war, which makes the Lu chaotic. It is better to gather the families of the ministers in the inner garden and protect them, on the one hand, to avoid the nuisance of the Luli, and on the other hand, to make the ministers have no worries, do not have to distract the family, and concentrate all the families to strengthen the city defense!"

Xiao Yi's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he clapped his hands again and again: "The servant is really a talented countryman! Wei came to the south to attack, so far there are dozens of people who have discussed with me, but the only one who can talk about things so selflessly is a servant!"

As he spoke, he untied his sword and solemnly handed it to Wang Bao's hand, and said, "This matter will be paid to the servant, so as not to leave the princess's family behind!" I will guard the society for me, and I will protect the small family for the secretary, if I am safe, all the families will be safe!"

Wang Bao took the sword given by the emperor, and said loudly that he should receive the order, ignoring the angry gaze of the courtiers in the palace that almost pierced him, and withdrew from the palace with the emperor's sword held high, and began to carry out this latest task.

When Jiangling City finally became vigilant and began to deploy defenses to meet the enemy, the army of the Western Wei Dynasty also joined forces in the field north of Jiangling, like a cold north wind, and came straight to Jiangling City.

Li Tai had already prepared heavy troops in Wuning, Xiakou and other cities, plus the main force of the 30,000 Jingzhou Army led by himself, the 60,000 soldiers from the south of Guanzhong, and the 20,000 Xiangyang men led by Xiao Jing, the king of Liang, the total strength had reached tens of thousands.

Therefore, when the army arrived in Gangneung, the entire field north of Gangneung Fortress was full of black and oppressive military formations, and the border was almost impossible to see. Such a majestic army is enough to make people despair.

Previously, most of the sergeants and civilians of Jiangling City had also known the news that the Western Wei Dynasty was about to invade, and under the leadership of the Jiangling civil and military officials, they were actively building city defenses. But when they saw the enemy fighting like this, the people were immediately frightened, and they rushed to retreat into the city, and the whole city was in chaos

A mess.

Li Tai, who was in the army north of Jiangling City, did not order to take advantage of the chaos to attack, but ordered the soldiers to start camping, while he and the generals led a team of personal soldiers to ride into the front and observe the situation outside the city.

Due to years of war, there were a large number of displaced people in Southern Liang, and as Emperor Xiao Yi of Liang established his rule in Jiangling, these refugees also gathered in Jiangling. However, the capacity of the city of Gangneung is limited, so most of the people can only stay outside the city and build shantytowns outside the city.

Outside Gangneung City, Li Tai saw a large area of shanty towns, and the dense shack buildings made the scalp tingle of people with dense phobia. Because of the existence of these shantytowns, the entire Gangneung City is visually bloated and more than ten times larger, except for those towering city gates, the city wall itself can hardly be seen.

Now these shantytowns are also included in the Jiangling City Defense Area, but looking at this posture, it is by no means the kindness of the Jiangling monarchs and ministers to protect these displaced people outside the city, but clearly to cast these people outside the city into flesh and blood barriers!

In a very short period of time, the defenders of Gangneung set up layers of fences, ravines and other defenses outside the city, of course, not because of how strong their mobilization power was, but because there were too many laborers outside the city, and there was no cost at all. There is no need to be strictly supervised, and in order to survive, those people must work day and night to repair and defend the work.

These defenses are not located in a full circle outside the residential area, but are distributed in layers of residential areas. This means that if the Western Wei people outside the city want to attack the main body of Jiangling City, they must break through these popular areas outside the city layer by layer!

Li Tai has been in charge of the army for many years, so he is naturally not benevolent, but after seeing the posture of Jiangling City to respond to the enemy, he can't help but secretly take a breath.

Historical records record that Yin Buxian, the Zhongshu Lang of the Southern Liang Dynasty, supervised the battle elsewhere in the Battle of Jiangling, was separated from his mother, and his mother died in the war, and Yin Buxian rummaged through the trenches full of dead bodies for seven days before finding his mother's body. Even the families of officials are not spared, and the fate of ordinary people can be imagined!

Attacking the overlord on the eve of the Battle of Gangneung was a premeditated plan that Li Tai had had a long time ago, and it was not just because he only had the ability to fight the overlord to a certain extent until this time. Even if his preparation was still insufficient, he had to take a risk.

Because the battle of Gangneung in history was an out-and-out catastrophe, the destruction of the city of Gangneung even exceeded that of Jiankang in the Hou Jing Rebellion. Whether it is economically, in terms of people's livelihood, or in culture, the heavy damage suffered by Jiangling has almost never recovered from the Sui and Tang dynasties!

The barbarism and brutality of the Western Wei Dynasty and the cowardice and incompetence of the Southern Liang were all vividly demonstrated in this war, and the records left in the history books are miserable, but what kind of misery are the Jiangling soldiers who actually have to endure these hardships?

People have left their names, and geese have left their voices. Li Tai is also thinking about what new changes he can bring to this world after he comes to this world? Is it scientific and technological innovation, cultural progress, economic prosperity, military strength, and institutional perfection?

But these are too broad and unquantifiable, and in the end, a small goal he set for himself was not to achieve anything for himself, but to do his best to prevent a catastrophe that should have happened, and to lead the completion of this battle of Gangneung in his own way!

Even when Shicheng countered Yu Jin, Li Tai was just calm and calm, but looking at the bloated and chaotic city in front of him, he couldn't help but feel excited: Jiangling, I'm here, follow me out of that catastrophe!

Because there are large shanty towns outside Gangneung City, the scope of this city has expanded a lot, and the circumference has reached dozens of miles. It took him nearly two hours to look around the city, and by the time he returned to the camp, it was already dark, and the first day of his arrival outside Gangneung had passed.

Early the next morning, Li Tai began to arrange various siege arrangements. He first asked people to dig and insert earth in the open area east of Jiangling City to build a fortress covering a large area, and at the same time ordered people to build a mountain of earth around Jiangling City every few miles, and selected the Liang soldiers with loud voices that he had recruited before, and asked them to climb the earth mountain and shout to persuade them to surrender. As for the object of persuasion, it is not

Not the kings and ministers in the city, but the people outside the city.

"Liang Lord Xiao Yi, named the monarch, is actually a national thief! In the old years, Hou Jing was in chaos in Jiankang, Xiao Yi abandoned his father and did not save him, and he was disloyal and unfilial! Refuse Shao Ling in Yingzhou, kill Hedong in Changsha, Shen Yuzhang in Jiangzhong, do not go to the national disaster, first cripple your siblings, unkind and unjust......

Emperor Xiao Yi's crimes were constantly shouted out by the soldiers on the mountain, and at the same time, General Li's principle of conquest was also shouted over and over again: "I, Daxingtai, Daxingtai of the Great Wei Guandong Road, and General Li of Taiyuan Gong have supervised the king's division here to proclaim righteousness!" The unvirtuous king can be killed, and the innocent people cannot be abused!

Today, General Li built a peaceful city for the people, and the people of Jiangling entered the city that were safe, the swords and soldiers were not harmed, food and clothing were given, and the fields were entered into the households! You and other Jiangling people, who have no land, whose country is the country? There is no trace of shoulders, no particles in the abdomen, parents are not supported, and wives and children are not sheltered, how can they guard the king of no way, and not the rule of benevolence and righteousness! Hurry up, hurry up!"

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