Chapter 20: Total War

During the war, stability should be the top priority in the country, and there should be no major turmoil in the court, so as to unite the people's hearts and minds to win the war. Even if someone is corrupt and perverts the law, as long as he can tolerate it a little, the monarch will choose to settle accounts after the end of the war.

However, Li Ye still gave an order to the Tsing Yi Yamen, asking them to cooperate with the Criminal Department and Dali Temple to directly arrest and interrogate important ministers who had dealings with the Khitan in the court - whether they were active or passive, whether they knew that it was the Khitans who had dealings with them.

Li Ye dared to do this, relying on nothing more than three points.

First, the crime of treason cannot be tolerated at any time, even if it is heavy-handed and someone has a whisper, in the face of the national war, the voice will not be too loud;

Second, the officials trained by Li Ye have absolute control over the government and are not worried about not being able to control the situation;

Third, with the Tsing Yi Yamen taking action, in the case of conclusive evidence, whether it is arrest or interrogation, it will be very fast, and the so-called turmoil will not last long.

When Li Yan learned that even the Guozhang, the descendants and the old people of the Tapu Palace, many people were involved in this turmoil, even in the face of Li Ye, his face was extremely pale. Several times I asked if I could open up to some of them.

Li Yan is a person who values feelings, and he is so heavy that he can't tell the difference between the important and the serious, even if these people are harmful to the country, he can't convince himself to be indifferent to these people. This is his disadvantage and his advantage, if it weren't for this, he was afraid that he would not let Li Ye control the country's politics.

Li Ye is not a person who does not know how to change, and he also knows Li Yan's temperament very well, and promised to reduce the responsibility by one degree depending on the situation, and try not to punish him. Although Li Yan was not very satisfied, he also knew that Li Ye could not make more concessions, so he could only sigh and agree.

After the death of Monan, less than a month later, the border war was ignited on a large scale.

First, the Khitan advanced on two fronts, raiding the Great Wall fortress Gubeikou in the northwest of Youzhou, and marching to Yingzhou in the northeast of Youzhou; soon after, Li Ye received the news that the Uighurs were attacking Sunshine on a large scale, with the Guiyi army as the main force and the Hexi army as the backup, and they were fighting day and night.

At this point, the war on the northeast border and the northwest border broke out completely.

The good news is that Wang Jian because of the swiftness of the troops from Shuzhong, he entered the territory of Nanzhao through the five-foot road early, and made a good start, and has now won five battles and five victories, capturing three cities. He has initially gained a firm foothold in Nanzhao, which makes Li Ye quite satisfied.

In the land of Monan, because Dangxiang and Shatuo have been leveled by the Wolf Tooth Army, although Yelu Xian Nechi wanted to take advantage of the victory to capture Yunzhou and open the gateway from Mo Nan to Hebei, but because of the border army with the 30,000 foot soldiers of the Wolf Tooth Army as the core, the bloody battle was fruitless for half a decade, and he actually suffered heavy losses before, so he extinguished the offensive momentum.

Now, Jerushine has retreated back to the steppe, and his whereabouts are unknown.

In short, the battle that Li Ye needs to worry about the most at the moment is the Khitan's onslaught on the envoy of Lulong Jiedu in Youzhou.

In the past two years, Li Ye has refined the forbidden army and transferred the elite of the feudal town, but Lu Longjiedu is one of the few, not only the military strength has not been weakened, but because Li Ye has transported a large amount of ordnance, money and food, and sent monks to settle in, the strength of the feudal town has been greatly enhanced.

Li Ye's purpose in doing this is naturally only one: to prepare for war with the Khitan.

Youzhou, as an important town in the north, can even be said to be the most important town, is the bridgehead of the Tang Dynasty to attack the grassland, and it is also the first barrier for the Tang Dynasty to resist the Khitan southward, and it is the core area of the war between the Tang Dynasty and the grassland tribes.

However, in the face of the Khitan million-strong army, alone

The envoy of the Lulong Festival cannot be kept.

But with the Chang'an Forbidden Army, the situation is different.

At the time of the Khitan army, the two armies of Huwei and Changning, as well as the two armies of Yuancong and Xiaocai, which had just been refined, had entered the territory of Lulong and successively went to the prefecture and county to garrison.

As for the Yulin Army, it entered Yunzhou.

The Chang'an Forbidden Army, except for the Longxiang Army defending Gyeonggi, the rest of the armies all entered the northern border. It can be seen that Li Ye's attention to the Khitan is definitely not comparable to that of the Uighurs and the Southern Zhao.

Those who went south from Shuzhong and supported the Guiyi Army from Hexi can only be regarded as partial divisions, one attacking the territory of Nanzhao and the other guarding Yangguan, which is enough in Li Ye's opinion.

In Li Ye's view, the only key point to break the game, or the only core of victory, is to repel the Khitan, or even defeat the Khitan.

When the armies entered the border border field in full swing and were about to start participating in the war, Li Ye was still sitting in Chang'an City. This time, he did not lead the army to the front as he had done before—he even saw himself as a vanguard and entered the battlefield early.

By this time, the turmoil in the court had ended, and after those guilty ministers were demoted or imprisoned, whether Li Ye intended it or not, the officials under his command had to fill the vacancy.

In such a situation, the power of the court has almost completely fallen into the control of Li Ye, and the officials of the non-Anwang faction have accounted for less than two percent of the six departments in the three provinces.

When the rear was stable, Li Ye insisted on not fighting on the border, in addition to sitting in the center and training the ability of his generals to fight alone, but also because the battle of the fairy domain had also broken out.

As the absolute commander of the Daomen, Shimen, and Demon Clan alliances, Li Ye, who is only one step away from Da Luo Jinxian, not only has to dispatch the Immortal Domain army to meet the battle, but his own personal strength also has the power to influence the battle situation, and he must ensure that his cultivation is in the Immortal Realm at any time: either charging into battle, or dealing with attacks and killings.

The battle scene between the immortals in the immortal realm is relatively simple and rough compared to the mortal world, there is no hundred-day battle for thousands of miles, and there is no battle for every inch of mountains and rivers and an inch of blood. The armies of both sides lined up on the predetermined battlefield, and just waiting for an order, they launched a head-on charge until the winner was decided.

This kind of combat method is exactly the same as the combat style of the army in the mortal Xia, Shang and Western Zhou dynasties.

It was also because the immortals jumped for thousands of miles and were just waiting for leisure, so the Khitan and Uighur immortal armies gathered in one place and faced the immortals of the Eastern Earth in person.

In the endless military array, not all of them are the elite of the Khitan and Uighur gods, but there are also many people who are obviously uneven in terms of attire, temperament and strength, and they feel like the existence of a ragtag army. Needless to say, Li Ye and the immortals also understood that they were the so-called immortals of the party, the Uighurs, the Nanzhao and even the Tibetans.

"Although the strength of these alien immortals is not very good, there are quite a few of them, which is not the same as the situation in the mortal world. In the mortal world, the people of these alien races together are not more than half of the Tang people. "It was Fei Hung Dashi who spoke, to be precise, Fei Hong Holy Buddha.

There was a clear sense of superiority in her tone, like an elite warrior in full armor, looking at a group of bandits with knives and sticks.

Li Ye glanced back, and the arrays of the Liberation Gate, Daomen, and Demon Clan behind him were clearly distinguished, just lined up in the left, middle and right armies, although the strength of the Demon Clan was poor, it was also full of momentum at the moment.

However, the Daomen Immortals, who were at war with themselves not long ago, are now on the same side, but whether they can do their best, and whether they will stab themselves in the back on the occasion of a big victory, are all difficult to say.

Yang Jian seemed to see what Li Ye meant, and said: "Don't worry, with me Yang Jian, the Daomen immortals will definitely fight hard, and no one will stumble behind their backs!"

Li Ye nodded, which can be regarded as recognizing Yang Jian's character.

One day in the Immortal Realm, one year in the mortal world, when the immortals in the Immortal Realm are preparing for battle, the situation in the mortal world changes much more quickly.

As one of the earliest established four forbidden armies in Chang'an, the Yulin Army led the main general Zhao Poyu before he took refuge in Li Ye, and was once a general of Li Keyong in Hedong, and now Li Ye sent him to Yunzhou to cooperate with the Wolf Tooth Army to defend the city and ensure the safety of Hedong, which can be said to be useful.

After Zhao Poyu arrived in Yunzhou, the first time he naturally went to contact Shangguan Chengcheng for military affairs and visited her injury by the way. When he broke out of the wasteland, Shangguan Chengcheng was seriously injured and fell into a coma, and if it weren't for the protection of King Qi, there would be no reason to survive.

When Zhao Poyu saw Shangguan Allure, he was not in the ward where he was recuperating from his injuries, but in the head of Yunzhou City. In less than a month, Shangguan Chengcheng's injuries had recovered by thirty percent, but there were less than 5,000 remaining of the 70,000 elite cavalry of the Wolf Tooth Army, which made her think deeply and sad.

On the rammed earth city wall of the border pass, sprinkled with a piece of blood remnant sun, Shangguan Allure put on armor and pressed the knife, looking at the vast and vast northern wasteland. Although the body is still straight, it is difficult to hide its lonely and lonely state.

It is difficult to have undefeated generals in the world, and there are few invincible soldiers on the battlefield, just like this desolate and heavy border city under your feet, even if you have resisted the invasion of countless armies, it is difficult to guarantee that there will not be a day when you will collapse in blood and fire.

Zhao Poyu sighed secretly, stepped forward, hugged his fists and said: "General Shangguan, the wolf's tooth army leveled the party, destroyed Shatuo, and the military exploits are enough to shine in the annals of history.

"I also hope that the general will not be too sad, the last general has received three military orders from His Royal Highness, so that the last general must comfort the general's heart, it can be seen that His Royal Highness has no intention of blaming, only respect. ”

Shangguan Chengcheng turned around and saluted back, although his movements were regular, but he was stiff.

At this time, Zhao Poyu found that Shangguan Chengcheng's face was pale and terrifying. It's not the usual white as snow, but sickly tired and bleak.

The envoy sent by Li Ye to Yunzhou to comfort the Wolf Tooth Army had already arrived, and the meaning was similar to what Zhao Poyu said. But this did not make Shangguan Chengcheng feel better, the general of the defeated army is not brave enough, even though there are many reasons for defeat, but defeat is defeat.

More than 60,000 siblings spilled blood on the battlefield, and the corpses were scattered all over the field, and he didn't even have a chance to collect their bones, which was a burden that the Lord could not bear.

Shangguan Chengcheng asked, "General Zhao is here, can he bring the military order of His Highness to order me to attack the grassland?"

Zhao Poyu opened his mouth, only to feel that his mouth was full of bitterness, and he couldn't say a negative answer.

For many years, Shangguan Allure has always been Li Ye's most trusted and relied on general, even Liu Dazheng can't compare, but Shangguan Allure is not good at communicating, and the generals will inevitably be jealous and jealous, and there are many complaints in private.

But now, seeing the appearance of Shangguan Allure in front of him with no soul, and thinking of the wolf's tooth army's bloody exploits for the Tang Dynasty to stabilize Monan, Zhao Poyu only felt that his eyes were red before, and he was really too villainous.

He said sincerely: "General Shangguan's injuries have not healed, and it is the most important thing to take care of his body first." With His Royal Highness's emphasis on General Shangguan, as long as General Shangguan recovers, the heavy responsibility on the battlefield must still be the general!"

Shangguan Chengcheng saw that there was no military order for her to fight, so he was speechless and continued to look at the north silently. Her motionless posture is like a statue, and she has become one with the border city.

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