"I said, Guo Rong, are you really not going to take advantage of the situation to chase and kill these guys outside in one fell swoop?" Seeing Guo Rong smiling and silent, Li Yu frowned and hesitated, but continued to ask.

"I said that outside the city, the joint camp is more than ten miles, and the scale is at least 300,000 troops, and today the real main force of the other party was lured out, so that your sailor's eight bull crossbows were beaten fat, and suffered such a big loss, it will not be easy to find this kind of opportunity next time."

"So, and then, Hachiro!" Listening to the eight lang that popped out of Guo Rong's mouth, Li Yu was directly a chill.

Men are called lang, women are called mothers, this is the Tang Dynasty's affectionate name for men and women, but when it comes to Guo Rong, everything seems to have changed, which makes Li Yu sick to his stomach every time.

It's just that the title of Hachiro has come out, and Li Yu can be considered to understand Guo Rong's attitude, but he is still not very willing, just like he said, it is difficult to find the same opportunity again.

"I said Guo Rong, don't give me yin and yang, although Ye Ye is no longer in Changyingjun, but I still agree with your theory of professional people doing professional things, so ......"

"So what?"

"So, I think that the main target of the naval division under your leadership must be the sea boats, not the people on the coast, although I don't know what the requirements for naval warfare are, but, I bet that those eight-bull crossbows you equipped for the sailors just look scary, and the casualties are not really big."

"Why?"

"You're using an eight-bull crossbow with all the projectiles! Ejection! Ejection! Instead of flat shooting, how many can you kill no matter how scary? That is, bullying the other party and not knowing your details,"

"Smack! Syllable! Syllable! Yes, it looks scary, but after all, the distance is too far, and the effect of scaring people is far greater than the actual effect! Seeing that Li Yu wanted to open his mouth and continue to say something, Guo Rong waved his hand directly and interrupted Li Yu.

"Do you remember what I said before the Battle of Wuzhou when I was doing mobilization?" Li Yu was slightly stunned, looked at Guo Rong not laughing, and after thinking for a while, he said.

"The Eight Ox Crossbow is used to measure the land area of my Datang Dynasty?"

"Yes," Guo Rong said, nodding,

"I said something that is top secret, and only the Zaifu level can know about it."

"Zaifu? Don't talk about it, although I don't really like the secrecy regulations you vacated, but I have to admit that this thing does work, if it weren't for your secrecy regulations, I estimate that the court, the military department, and the household department are still like a sieve. Guo Rong nodded, but his expression was disapproving.

"That's actually pretty good, because your level will be there soon."

"Ahh As soon as this sentence came out, Li Yu's eyes widened directly, and he looked at Guo Rong with a ghostly expression, obviously wanting to know what was going on when the so-called level was reached soon.

However, Guo Rong did not answer directly, but diverted the topic and began to talk about the information he had conceived, which only the Zaifu level was qualified to know.

"Actually, I know what you think when you lead the army north, and I firmly believe that you can completely contain the chaotic army in the direction of Liaodong, and when I know that Li Shidao has landed in the Wa Kingdom and became the emperor of the Wa Kingdom, I gradually formed an idea, that is, to take the ...... of Liaodong, Silla, Baekje, and Wa as an independent general direction, and set it up as an independent theater of operations, or a defense zone ............" In a few simple words, Guo Rong described the Tokaido theater he conceived, Then he looked at Li Yu beside him.

At this time, Li Yu's expression was solemn, and he had fallen into deep thought. Guo Rong stood quietly by the side and observed the occupation outside the city, without disturbing Li Yu's contemplation, and Li Yu's thoughts had already gone beyond the Beisha City in front of him and flew to the heart of the Tang Dynasty, Chang'an.

Although he was already in a high position, in many cases, Li Yu's actions and style were more like a general who led the army into battle than a commander who strategized.

This makes many people forget that Li Yu's strongest point is not his military force, but his outstanding strategic vision, as well as his foresight and judgment on the battlefield and war.

Li Shidao, a descendant of Goguryeo, became the emperor of the Wa Kingdom, if Guo Rong himself said this, Li Yu would not have believed it anyway.

However, with this as a foundation, as a friend and comrade-in-arms who knows Guo Rong's character and ideas best, Li Yu can easily understand why Guo Rong set up such a war zone alone.

First, Li Yu knew that Guo Rong's core purpose was to integrate the resources of the entire Tang Dynasty and help him realize his western expedition and return to Qiuci.

Now the decisive battle in the Central Plains has been completed, and the destruction of the Hebei rebels is imminent. As soon as the Hebei rebels were wiped out, the various feudal clans in the Central Plains calmly and cautiously behaved with their tails between their legs, and the wealthy families in Shandong could only honestly act in accordance with the instructions of the imperial court.

Occupying the island country, hollowing out the peninsula, and running Liaodong, Li Shidao, who plotted against the Central Plains, became Guo Rong's biggest stumbling block at the moment.

Guo Rong led the army to raid Jiaodong, eliminated Li Shidao's rear hand, destroyed Li Shidao's last foundation in the Tang Dynasty, annihilated the main force of the Jiaodong Water Division, and cut off Li Shidao's arm.

Li Yu himself led the Hebei army to attack thousands of miles, broke into Liaodong, and stirred Liaodong into a pot of porridge, which completely disrupted Li Shidao's wishful thinking of integrating Liaodong and spying on the Central Plains.

Under the joint attack of Guo Rong and Li Yu, Li Shidao can be described as a chicken and egg fight, and suffered heavy losses, but it is undeniable that Li Shidao's foundation is still there.

The island country, Baekje, and Silla are still under the control of Li Shidao, and there are still 300,000 soldiers and horses in Liaodong that Li Shidao can control.

With the current state and strength of the Tang Dynasty, there is no problem in defeating the opponent, but it is unrealistic to take Liaodong, the peninsula, and the island country in a short period of time, and completely destroy Li Shidao.

The problem is that Li Shidao has worked hard for so many years, and a wave of it has been completely overturned, even if he can bear it, isn't he afraid that Datang will clean him up after it completely recovers its peak national strength?

Whether it is revenge or self-preservation, it is foreseeable that Li Shidao will make trouble for Datang, and making trouble for Datang will be tantamount to affecting Guo Rong's preparation for the Western Expedition.

Therefore, the establishment of such a theater of operations can compress all the forces controlled by Li Shidao within a certain range under the condition of using limited forces, so as not to affect the recovery of Datang's national strength.

As for the second point, it stems from Li Yu's understanding of Guo Rong. Although he killed countless people on the battlefield, and the enemies killed under Guo Rong's command were even more in tens of thousands, in essence, Guo Rong was not a person who devoured and killed.

Be kind to the common people, care about your own soldiers, even if you treat the captured enemy too harshly, and sometimes even show the kindness of a woman to the Tang people.

However, all this changed when he met the people of the island country, and the pit killing, burning, Jingguan, and the handing down of the head all showed that Guo Rong seemed to have an unforgettable hatred for the people of the island country, and he must put the island country to death.

With Guo Rong's character, once the idea is determined, it is almost unstoppable, Li Yu dares to be sure that after opening up the Hexi Corridor, rescuing Qiuzi, and rebuilding the Anxi Protectorate, Guo Rong will definitely turn around and clean up the island country and Li Shidao.

According to Guo Rong's habit of not fighting unprepared battles before the start of the war, he must make sufficient preparations before cleaning up the island country and Li Shidao.

Dividing the area controlled by Li Shidao, without affecting the western expedition, hoarding grain and grass as much as possible, preparing soldiers, and accumulating warships is an option that people cannot refuse.

As for whether Guo Rong's will will be supported by the emperor, in Li Yu's opinion, there is no need to worry about this at all.

Compared with others, Li Yu, who was originally from Jiangmen, understands this point far beyond others. Guo Rong is just one person, but Guo Rong single-handedly founded the Changying Army when Datang was at its most difficult, and rebuilt the central forbidden army system of Datang on the basis of Changyingjun.

At the same time, the Changying Army was also an important link to maintain the Xuanwu Army controlled by the imperial court and the Korean style, its own local armies such as the Hebei Army, the Northern Sichuan Army, the Longnan Army, and the Lingshuo Army.

These constitute the most important military system of the Tang Dynasty today, in addition to the Lingshuo army is surrounded by the Li Tang royal family, the rest are inextricably linked with Guo Rong, the most important for the Tang Dynasty is stationed on the border of the Tang Dynasty and Tubo, and the two servant armies composed of the Tubo people are even simply supported by Guo Rong and the Changying Army.

In addition to his deep roots in the military, Guo Rong's strategic vision and strategic layout are no longer what they used to be, and Guo Rong, the first person in the military, is truly deserved, and no one can shake it.

The problem is that Li Yu did not meet Guo Rong on the first day, and the scene when he first met Guo Rong five years ago is vividly remembered by Li Yu.

At that time, Guo Rong, who had just defended Xingqing Palace and was preparing to establish the Changying Army, was so young, although it was not bad, but he could only be regarded as a young captain who had some ideas and was good at defensive warfare, which was very different from today's Guo Rong.

Although Li Yu is not in Chang'an now, he dares to say that after the decisive battle between Bianzhou and Central Plains completely annihilated the main force of the Hebei rebels, Guo Rong definitely has some invincible god of war in Chang'an, the name of the Dinghai God Needle.

From the hairy guy to today's invincible commander, Datang's Dinghai Divine Needle, tsk...... Although the emperor and his old man were forced to abdicate after half a year on the throne, he had an evaluation of being close to a demon after his abdication.

Li Yu didn't think that the emperor couldn't foresee Guo Rong's demeanor today. You must know that Guo Rong has changed along the way, but he has seen it from the old man, and even Li Yu feels it

None of the words "looking" are quite accurate. What you want, what you want, what you need, what you need, the entire Chang'an City goes sideways, three provinces, six departments, five temples, nine prisons, one family, four armies, and sixteen guards dig casually, the old men of Guozijian need to honestly suffer dumb losses when they are beaten to the door, Li Yu even saw a look of envy on Li Chun's face,...... Five years from a nobody, to become the first person in the Tang Dynasty military, this extent, is no longer a simple support can be described, this TM is not the emperor and his old man deliberately supported it!

In fact, Li Yu discovered this very early, and Li Yu believed that anyone who was not a fool in the court and even in the entire Tang Dynasty could see it.

For Guo Rong, who is nearly ten years younger than himself, Li Yu only has respect, not half of jealousy, martial arts, everything has to rely on his fists to speak.

Although the 30,000 Hebei Army under his command is a local army, the core is the 10,000 forbidden army supplements left at the beginning, so they are often included in the forbidden army system by the feudal towns, but they are only second-rate in the forbidden army.

However, it was such a second-rate forbidden army with the reinforcement of the forbidden army as the core, but it shocked hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses in the three towns of Hebei and did not dare to act rashly.

It was such a second-rate forbidden army with the reinforcement of the forbidden army as the core, which crossed the corridor of western Liaodong and broke into eastern Liaodong in a month, beating hundreds of thousands of rebels in eastern Liaodong.

Of course, there is Li Yu's own strategic vision and Li Yu's own command art, but the most fundamental thing is the willpower and combat effectiveness of his subordinates.

Moreover, Li Yu knew that he was fighting against the essentially rabble Liaodong rebels, while Guo Rong was different, in the two decisive battles in Zhuzhai and Daicun, both of which were in the case of winning more with less, and killed the main force of hundreds of thousands of feudal towns before and after.

If you change your opponent from the rebel army in Liaodong to the main force of the Hebei Domain's army, and you dare to play like this, you will definitely die without knowing how you died.

Li Yu was not jealous of Guo Rong, but he didn't understand why the Emperor Taishang had to support Guo Rong so hard, until this time a million army joined forces, if there was no Guo Rong and such a forbidden army to go to the big country, how could he directly resist the combined attack of Tubo and Hebei Domain.

From this point of view, Li Yu had to admit that the Emperor Taishang knew better than himself, Emperor Li Chun, and even more than the vast majority of people about the meaning of the existence of a powerful central army.

As for the issue of loyalty, it is Li Yu who understands the emperor best. What kind of place is that in the Western Regions! What kind of environment is the Anxi army in!

A lonely city for thousands of miles, full of white-haired soldiers. He was born in the Han family, and he died in the Tang Dynasty. Compared with An Lushan, Shi Siming, Li Shidao, Tian Ji'an and others, the lonely Anxi Army has countless reasons to turn their backs on and betray the Tang Dynasty.

But they didn't. Growing up in that environment and coming to Chang'an, Guo Rong, like his white-haired predecessors, has already proved their loyalty with iron-clad facts, if one day even they completely turn their backs on Datang, then Datang may really have no hope.

Of course, Li Yu also knows that all of this is from the position of his courtiers, if Guo Rong has any hidden dangers now, it is the current emperor Li Chun's thoughts.

Say a thousand, say 10,000, at least nominally the master of the Tang Dynasty, Guo Rong's power and influence are really a little bigger.

After waiting quietly for a quarter of an hour, Guo Rong found that Li Yu's expression finally eased up, knowing that this guy had probably straightened out his thoughts, so he asked directly.

"I say, big brother, what do you think of my idea?"

"The idea of the Tokaido theater?"

"Tokaido? Hey, don't say it, it's a good name, I've been thinking about it for a while, but I really didn't think of a more suitable name than this, not bad, not bad, I used it, thank you, big brother! "Big brother, this is obviously much more comfortable than Hachiro, but looking at Guo Rong's relaxed performance, Li Yu couldn't help but worry about Guo Rong.

"In all fairness, I think it's good, but you have to consider Your Majesty's feelings," Seeing that Guo Rong still didn't think so, Li Yu's teeth creaked.

"I said, Guo Rong, aren't you worried about the high merit of the master, or make Your Majesty feel threatened?"