"Where does the envoy think our army will attack first?" With Guo Chongtao, a big bull, Li Ye is not polite.

"Feng Xiang!"

"Feng Xiang?" Li Ye frowned, Fengxiang is Li Maozhen's nest, and he has been painstakingly managed by him for more than ten years, and he has long been like an iron shell.

His original plan was to send troops to Fengzhou, cut off the connection between the states of Shannan West Road and Fengxiang, and then besiege Fengxiang.

Seeing Li Ye's doubtful expression, Guo Chongtao said: "Now is the time when Li Maozhen is the weakest, and the hearts of the people in Fengxiang City must be fluctuating. ”

Influenced by later generations, Li Ye had a great psychological shadow on Fengxiang, and Li Maozhen relied on Fengxiang's strong city to carry Zhu Wen's 70,000 army for two years.

Li Ye didn't have the strength to knock Fengxiang City for two years.

"Can our army break Fengxiang?" Li Ye was full of questions.

"Your Majesty can't break Fengxiang at this time, and there will be no chance in the future, within two years, Zhu Wen will lead a large army to the east."

Li Ye's heart sank, and this sentence hit the nail on the head.

Zhu Wen is like a lingering nightmare in Li Ye's heart.

And Feng Xiang is a thorn in the pass, against Chang'an, if Li Ye wants to revive the Tang Dynasty, Feng Xiang will always be a hurdle that cannot be bypassed.

If you don't fight now, when Zhu Wen calms down Shandong, you will never have a chance again.

When the time comes, Zhu Wen's army will be pressed into the river, and the pressure on Tongzhou and Tongguan will double, and Li Maozhen will be engaged in the east and west in Fengxiang, and he will be exhausted and will do nothing!

And in the face of Zhu Wen's strong pressure, various crises in the Tang court will also erupt.

The leading party and the two or five boys will all jump.

If Zhu Wen doesn't get into Guanzhong, he will never turn over.

Feng Xiang must be taken in the shortest possible time and Li Maozhen's forces must be defeated, so that Li Ye can devote his energy to the defense of Tongguan! Thinking of this, Li Ye finally made a decision in his heart, "What the envoy said is good! Feng Xiang was like a fish in the throat, and I had to fight. ”

Guo Chongtao said with a smile: "Your Majesty is wise, and I wish Your Majesty a victory!" ”

With a decision, Li Ye's heart was light.

There are a few people around him, Han Hao is good at combining vertical and horizontal, Zhao Chongning is good at practical things, Zhang Chengye is in charge of the rear, and Li Juchuan is full of wisdom, but it is more on the basis of intrigue and speculation, this kind of strategic decision is not his strength.

And this Guo Chongtao is definitely the top general of this era.

Guo Chongtao arched his hand to Li Ye, "This is the case, the battle in the river is about to start, and the minister has resigned." ”

Li Ye sighed for a while, but it was a pity that Guo Chongtao couldn't use it for himself.

When you have a decision in your heart, you no longer hesitate.

Li Ye sent someone to Tongzhou to summon Zhang Chengye back to Chang'an to discuss matters, and two days later, Zhang Chengye rushed back from Tongzhou.

Looking at his increasingly thin body, Li Ye's heart was full of guilt, it was not difficult to make a plan, but it was the person who implemented the plan.

However, this is not the time to ask for warmth, in Tianxin Pavilion, there are also Han Hao and Li Juchuan.

Hearing that the emperor was going to raise troops to attack Fengxiang, Han Wei first objected, "Your Majesty, our army has just experienced two major wars, and the soldiers have not yet finished recuperating, and there is a shortage of food and grass. ”

Zhang Chengye also frowned.

This is the frustration of the lack of strength, Zhu Wen attacked Shandong with one hand, attacked Hezhong with the other, and fought on two fronts, all of which were at the level of tens of thousands of people, and he still had spare strength. And he has to be careful in every big battle, and all kinds of constraints in the rear are either insufficient food and grass, or insufficient troops.

However, no amount of constraints can change Li Ye's determination.

As Guo Chongtao said, if you don't fight at this time, you won't have a chance in the future.

He has to integrate Guanzhong in the shortest possible time, and with Tongguan, he has the opportunity to reluctantly stand in front of Zhu Wen.

Li Ye didn't tell them what he thought, only said one sentence: "Feng Xiang must fight!" "You can't be alone, you can't plan for the public.

If you make up your mind, don't look ahead.

Li Ye's several decisions so far have been proved to be right in hindsight, and as for not capturing Li Maozhen in Huazhou, it is by no means that his decision is wrong, but that his strength is insufficient and the people's hearts are not aligned.

The Hezhong Army and the Zhaoxin Army can be used at any time, and Li Maozhen is almost staying in Huazhou.

Zhang Chengye arched his hand at Li Ye and said, "Your Majesty needs the ministers to do something." ”

That's the question a subordinate should ask.

Li Ye stood up and paced back and forth for two steps, "The auxiliary army is young and strong, how many people can there be." ”

Zhang Chengye said lightly: "40,000 people, 10,000 soldiers who can fight." ”

This number was beyond Li Ye's expectations, "Okay, 10,000 combatable soldiers will be handed over to me, and the remaining 30,000 will be used as baggage soldiers." ”

10,000 people, plus Chang'an's Janissary Guard, Tiance's Second Army, almost 20,000 troops, Zhou Yunyi's 3,000 cavalry, as well as 5,000 new troops in Xiliucheng, and Wang Xingyu's 20,000 Suining Army, a total of 48,000 troops.

It is enough to attack a city, and if the war is unfavorable, Li Ye is ready to do his best to be young and strong in the territory.

This is a war to destroy the country.

By defeating Li Maozhen, Li Ye can completely gain a firm foothold in this chaotic era at the end of the Tang Dynasty.

Li Ye issued three edicts in succession, crowning Li Jiqi as the envoy to the south, Li Jihui as the envoy to the north, and at the same time ordering Feng Xing of Jinzhou to send troops to the west to contain Li Jiqi.

Xingyuan has a large army stationed, and the threat is the greatest, and the necessary precautions must still be there. Although Li Jihui did not have many troops, he captured Pizhou with 7,000 remnants, and his ability and vision were by no means extraordinary.

The two appointments are to appease them.

Half of Guanzhong was mobilized, and soldiers and horses from the same state continued to flock to Chang'an.

And Zhao Chongning also brought good news from Jingxiang, and Zhao Kuangning agreed to sell grain.

In the past few years, there have been continuous wars in the north, but Jingxiang has not only sold 200,000 stone of grain, but also sent this year's taxes and a batch of ordnance.

This moved Li Ye and secretly sighed that the two hundred and eighty years of the Tang Dynasty were not sitting in vain.

Tang Ting has sealed so many festival envoys, but there is no Zhao Kuangning from Caizhou.

The world is strange, but that's it.

This batch of grain relieved Li Ye's urgent need.

So that Li Ye can launch an attack without waiting for the autumn harvest.

Southwest of Chang'an, Xiangji Temple.

Nearly 50,000 troops gathered, and the grain and grass transported from Jingxiang were continuously hoarded here through Shangzhou.

During the Anshi Rebellion, the Battle of Xiangji Temple was a turning point in the fate of the Tang Dynasty.

Guo Ziyi, Wang Sili, Li Siye and other famous generals broke the 100,000 rebels in Anshi here and reversed the fate of the Tang Dynasty.

But after the Anshi Rebellion and the Huangchao Rebellion, as well as Li Maozhen's wanton destruction some time ago, Xiangji Temple is not as good as before, only the ruins and broken walls remain, and all the monks do not know where to go.

However, this did not affect Li Ye's passionate mood. Choosing to raise troops here is to declare to the world that the fate of Datang will be reversed here again!

In Guanzhong in June, the scorching sun hangs high, and the wind whistling down from the Loess Plateau carries a hint of coolness.

Banners, spears, and iron armor form an iron forest.

"It's been more than one hundred and thirty years, and Datang has been in decline for one hundred and thirty years!" In Li Ye's mind, the Tang Dynasty was cut in two by the Anshi Rebellion, although there were three short-term Zhongxing in Yuanhe, Huichang, and Dazhong, but they were all struggling and could not reverse the fate of the Tang River.

"And today, Datang will be rejuvenated in your hands!"

Every time Li Ye said a word, the five hundred guards around him repeated it loudly.

"The prosperity of the Tang Dynasty is also the prosperity of you! The prosperity of the Tang Dynasty is also the prosperity of you! Armies, would you like to revive the Tang Dynasty with me? ”

"Wish! Sincere! Sincere! "The most fierce ones are the Praetorian Guards and the Tiance Army, followed by the auxiliary army and the young man.

Both sound and emotion can be contagious. The Wei Ning army was indifferent at first, but he didn't know who in the formation shouted first, like a flood bursting the embankment, "Wish, wish, wish!" ”

"Defeat Fengxiang!" Li Ye shouted.

"Defeat Fengxiang!" The armies responded, and the sound moved the sky.

In the middle of the army, Wang Xingyu looked at the soldiers around him who were like crazy demons, and he had a bad feeling in his heart.

Under his command, the Sui Ning army has never been so combative.