Chapter 189: Prelude to War

In fact, it's no wonder that Gao Jianwu suspects him Yuangai Suwen, because the Yuangai Suwen family is a big family in Goguryeo, holding the military power of Goguryeo, and there are many followers in the court, and the power is faintly threatening the imperial power.

Yuangai Suwen is a very capable person, and he is also the current head of their family, and he often compares himself to Cao Cao, don't you say this is a joke, what kind of character is Cao Cao? Although there are historical comments that he is a capable minister who rules the world and a hero in troubled times, and in the end, Lao Cao took the road of a hero, you often compare him, and whoever is the king is not at ease.

This is why Gao Jianwu can't help him for a while, otherwise I'm afraid that he will be killed by Gao Jianwu a long time ago, and give you the opportunity to rebel in the future? If you compare yourself to Cao Cao, then I am the puppet emperor Emperor Han Xian. This is when Gao Jianwu once invited his ministers to a banquet, he was drunk and lost his words, and Yuan Gai Suwen naturally knew it.

But as the head of the most powerful family in Goguryeo, Yuangai Suwen is conceited, so conceited that he never takes Gao Jianwu in his eyes, and he dares to cross Gao Jianwu to make his own decisions when he decides many decisions, he thinks that this is for the good of Goguryeo, which is definitely taboo. Although everything he did was indeed for the good of Goguryeo, he also won the love of the people of Goguryeo.

But this kind of good is definitely not good for Gao Jianwu, so the contradictions between the two of them are known to the world, and they both want to kill each other, so Yuangai Suwen doesn't think that sleeping with Gao Jianwu's woman is something that shouldn't happen, the princess is the first beauty in Goguryeo, since ancient times, beauties love heroes, Yuangai Suwen thinks that the person who can make Goguryeo strong is a hero, and he is such a person.

Besides, Gao Jianwu's princess and Yuangai Suwen are childhood sweethearts, and it was Gao Jianwu who, in order to take revenge on Yuangai Suwen, used political means when he went out to fight to force the princess's father to marry him, and when Yuangai Suwen came back, he almost went to Gao Jianwu to fight hard. This incident is also a chasm between the two, and the two of them will meet each other one day.

Originally, Gao Jianwu should have eradicated Yuangai Suwen and his family in time if he was wise, but as mentioned above, Yuangai Suwen held most of the military power in Goguryeo, and the military power was not given by the dynasty, but the family inheritance, that is, the private army, which was raised by himself at his own expense, and in addition, there were more people in Goguryeo who supported Yuangai Suwen than those who supported him Gao Jianwu, and because of the prestige of the Yuangai Suwen family, he never dared to act rashly, but he was always looking for opportunities.

Yuangai Suwen stood at the door of the empty palace, looking at the cloudy face of the distant mountains, he knew that this time the four countries jointly attacked the Tang Dynasty, there were only two results, either the catastrophe was lost, or the Tang Dynasty was forced to recognize the sphere of influence of their four countries. The first result is the last thing he wants to see, and the most unbearable, once the attack on Tang fails, what awaits them will be a catastrophe.

The second result is what he wants most, but for now, the joint efforts of the four countries cannot shake the Tang Dynasty, only to fight to the death with the strength of the whole country, and cripple the Tang army, so that he can no longer accumulate strength to fight abroad in the short term, to achieve this goal, it is impossible to count on one country, and it requires the four countries to work together and go all out.

But Gao Jianwu, a mediocre talent, is only for himself, short-sighted, and still wants to eradicate dissidents, Wei Room is also a group of savages, and has no reputation, only relying on him to cover Suwen and Tubo and Turkic, if everyone wants to make small calculations and go their own way, I am afraid that in the end, what awaits everyone is only destruction.

Li Er's order to prepare for war was passed to Gao Bushi, Gao Buer had already led the army over the Tianshan Mountains to Qiuzi, where Gao Buer gathered more than 85,000 people, preparing for a decisive battle with Tubo and Tushi, and the three parties all looked at Anxi, Lu Dongzan and Tushi chose the decisive battle location of Anxi Prefecture Qiuzi, and Gao Buer chose between Broken Leaf City and Qiuzi.

The reason why Lu Dongzan and Tushi chose Qiuci is because the Qiuci Oasis can not only accommodate a large number of men and horses, which is convenient for large-scale cavalry combat, but also the Qiuci grassland is an ideal natural forage field. And Gao Fuji chose to be between Broken Leaf City and Qiuzi because he has too few men and horses, even if firearms can make up for the lack of men and horses, but also to consider the problem of large-scale cavalry battles and lack of people and horses.

His plan was that a part of the army would defend Qiuci, and the other brigade would take the Yanshui Pass, Qili Pass, and Zheju Pass outside Qiuci as their bases, and block the Tushi army in Qiuci and Broken Leaf City within a few hundred kilometers of the area, on the one hand, the Tushi army would be blocked in Broken Leaf City, and on the other hand, the Tubo people would be blocked in Qiuci, so as to destroy the enemy army in the movement.

Now what Tushi needs most is time, and Gao Buer can't give him this time, so after discussing with Li Jing, Hou Junji, and Zhang Zhongping, it was decided to let Gao Buer lead 25,000 men and horses to defend the city, Li Jing, Hou Junji, and Zhang Zhongping each took 20,000 horses and horses to go to the pass, and the artillery left 40 guns for Gao Buer, and the other artillery and tanks were divided equally among the three people.

The war was initiated by Gao Buer, first commanded by Li Jing Hou Junji and Zhang Zhongping, and the three-way army took the lead in attacking Tushi, killing him by surprise, and when the Tushi army was assembled, the three-way army returned to defense, and then used the weapon advantage to slowly fight a war of attrition with Tushi, waiting for the enemy to be exhausted.

Gao Buer occupied Qiuci City and focused on blocking the Tubo army. After the military strategy was determined, Gao Buer immediately ordered someone to report to Li Er, so that all the armies in other places could act at the same time, especially Feng An's attack on Tubo on the South Road, which had a great effect on containing Tubo, and Su Dingfang, once Tubo lost in Qiuzi, he would inevitably be defeated and take Xingxing Gorge, and then return to the plateau as quickly as possible.