Compared with the soldiers who fought bloody battles at the border and their lives were constantly in danger, Li Ye in Chang'an looked more like a civil servant. The experience of leading the army to fight and fighting in the front in the past seems to have become a past that will never come back, and only exists in memory.
Regarding this, Li Ye did not have much emotion personally, he knew that this was the only way to go.
The king who came out of the battlefield and finally stood in a high position will one day completely leave the battlefield and complete the transformation from general to emperor. The war is under his control, but he no longer needs to be on the front line in person.
Over the years, Li Ye, who fought in the South and the North, has cultivated a solid enough team, and made all the necessary arrangements. If everything needs him to do it himself, it will be a joke for the dynasty to return to its prosperity.
When Song Jiao came to deliver the information, she saw Li Ye sitting in the pavilion by the lotus pond, being served drinking wine and admiring the flowers so leisurely, she immediately became angry.
He stepped over and snatched the jug from Li Ye's hand, and poured himself a glass after another, until the jug was empty, then he stared at Li Ye with demonstrative eyes, as if I wanted to see if you had a conscience, He wanted to make Li Ye feel ashamed.
Li Ye didn't feel ashamed, but was teased into a dumbfounded laugh, "Aunt Song must have encountered something good recently."
Song Jiao snorted and said angrily, "With you, an increasingly lazy guy, what good can I do?"
"No way?" Li Ye opened his innocent eyes wide, "Then why is Aunt Song looking younger recently?"
Song Jiao bowed her head and spat a little, "I know it's nonsense."
If you want to talk about happy things, Song Jiao naturally has them, and the Tsingyi yamen has completed internal reorganization. The duration is short, the effect is good, it can be called a thunderbolt method, not to mention that the loss has been minimized, and the overall operation has not been hindered. Song Jiao, who is in the lead, is naturally the key.
Now, although the great war has already begun, it is still in the early stage after all, and there are no Khitan elaborations in the Tang Dynasty. Song Jiao was greatly relieved to dig out Yelu Abaoji's eyes looking at Datang in time, so that the war would not be affected much.
These days, Song Jiao's spirits are unavoidably refreshed when her headaches are gone.
As far as Li Ye is concerned, there are no Khitan spies in the country, and his Wukong Shimen and Quanzhen concept, according to the earlier plan, quickly expanded his influence on the grassland. Even if there is no large-scale action yet, in the near future, Definitely worth using.
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With the ups and downs, Li Ye's confidence in winning this war became a bit stronger, and it was hard not to be unhappy.
Since ancient times, the hearts of grassland peoples have been the most difficult to control. The Central Plains Dynasty was able to conquer them for a short time, and even wiped out the powerful tribes among them, but history proves that the grassland herdsmen never disappeared, nor were they completely ruled by the Central Plains Dynasty.
And as soon as they become stronger, they will invade the south. This is a problem that has never been really solved.
Li Ye wants to rule the hearts of the grassland shepherds and control their thoughts through religion, which is definitely a method that can be tried at present, and the effect is bound to be good.
In a few more years, the Tang Dynasty, which has no shortage of food, can guarantee that their bodies will not be starved to death when the grassland climate changes. Then, the grassland people who are ruled by the imperial dynasty both physically and mentally have no reason to invade the south
No matter how respected a prairie hero like Yelu Abaoji was, in the face of Datang's strategy, Li Ye did not believe that the other party could cause any troubles on the prairie.
Song Jiao told Li Ye about the current situation of the battle: Wang Jian was going step by step in Nanzhao, and the progress was quite smooth;
Li Xian, Nangong No. 1, and Guiyi Army blocked the Uyghur army from the pass even when they had reinforcements. Although the opponent's offensive was fierce, the craftsman made many powerful weapons for the army. Let alone other things, Only forty or fifty magic bed crossbows made the Uighur siege fighters miserable;
Zhao Polu led Yulin to occupy the front line of Guizhou, the Changning and Yuan Cong armies guarded Pingzhou, and the Xiao cavalry army guarded Jizhou, all of which blocked the Khitan's advance. achievement.
Li Maozhen recovered quickly from her injuries. Now she is in Youzhou, controlling the situation in the northern border. The Tiger Guards, which have not yet been dispatched, are her bargaining chips for guarding against the Khitan Raiders. They are expected to be transferred to the front line of Tanzhou.
All in all, the battles are going smoothly everywhere. Although there is no hope of a quick victory, under the current situation, it is unlikely that Yelu Abaoji will break through the defense line.
After saying this, Song Jiao put down the collected documents, sighed and said to Li Ye: "Shangguan Qingcheng refuses to come back, but he no longer mentions leading the army to fight, and only asks to guard the border town."
Li Ye rubbed the center of his eyebrows, feeling helpless towards Shangguan Qingcheng's attitude. He had ordered several times to let Shangguan Qingcheng return to Chang'an to recuperate from his wounds, but for the first time in her life, this girl refused to listen to his orders. Every time he issued an order, there would be a letter asking for war.
"If she wants to stay in the border town, let's stay in the border town." Li Ye knew that the other party's injury would not recover overnight, and although he was worried about her safety, he didn't want to force anything.
And this is not the key point, the Spike Army's fine cavalry has been damaged by more than 90%, she has no direct soldiers in her hands, and the power of the famous military generals has been greatly reduced. How to make up for it and train the soldiers is what Li Ye needs to solve for her key problem.
Nowadays, all departments of the Chang'an Forbidden Army have wars to be responsible for, and recruiting new recruits will not be effective in a short period of time. Li Ye believes that this battle has nothing to do with Shangguan Qingcheng. Her mission has been completed, and this is the only way to bring her back. root cause.
Song Jiao didn't leave immediately after reporting the military situation everywhere, so the scene of Li Ye admiring the lotus alone soon turned into two people looking at the flowers.
Drinking wine and admiring flowers is a romantic and elegant thing, but the topics Li Ye and Song Jiao talked about were not at all romantic.
"The guard at the North Gate found out that there was a Khitan army outside the pass. On the way back, he was chased and killed by Khitan elite cavalry. Fortunately, Wukong Shimen and Quanzhen Temple rescued them. On the face of it, the strength cannot be underestimated."
Song Jiao looked at Li Ye with burning eyes, "From Taoism to Quanzhen Temple, from Shimen to Wukong Shimen, from Confucianism to Qingzhou Confucianism, and now Yangzhou Confucianism... from defeating Li Ke Use it to subdue Zhao Polu, defeat Gao Pian, send King Qi to Guanzhong, and then conquer Hexi, and surrender Wang Jian...
"After you came down from Shenyun Mountain, you fought all the way, conquered more people than killed them, and the power you conquered was stronger than the power you destroyed. Because of this, in just a few years, you let Datang has stabilized the reality of ZTE, which gave the dynasty a tendency to rebuild a prosperous age,
"The path you have taken is different from that of ordinary kings. Is this the way to your success?"
Li Ye spread his hands, "What is the way to success? This is the emperor's way."
Song Jiao asked intently: "What is the emperor's way?"
Li Ye smiled, "The one who can control the world is the emperor."
Song Jiao said in a daze: "Not only have you used the power that can be controlled by the world, but even the immortals in the fairyland and the monsters in the foreign land are working for you, isn't that right?"
Li Ye nodded, "You're right. This should probably be called Emperor Yu Xianmo. Only in this way can I pursue the achievements of the prosperous Tang Dynasty."
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Guizhou and Pingzhou fought fiercely, and Jizhou was not idle, but Yelu Abaoji was not in these places. His king's tent was set up deep in the grassland to the north of Tanzhou, in the center, ruling all directions.
"In this way, the army has been preparing for a long time, and the plan that has been laid out for a long time was destroyed because of a hundred or so ordinary Tang army rangers?" In the king's tent, Yelu Abaoji's face was gloomy.
Yeludi Lugu, the general of the Sijin Department who reported the military situation, was sweating and lowered his head, not daring to speak.
As Yelu Abaoji's confidant and an existence known for his wisdom, Yelu Di Lugu certainly knew how much effort the opponent had spent preparing for the raid on Tanzhou.
Yelu Abaoji stared at Yelu's enemy Lugu: "The army has never attacked Tanzhou, of course because of the dangerous terrain at the north entrance, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack, but in the case of fierce offensives in Pingzhou and Guizhou, the Tang army will mobilize troops to go. For reinforcements from these two places, as long as Tanzhou is free, we can break through the center of the Tang army's defense line and take Youzhou directly!
"But now, the actions of the army are exposed to Tang Jun for no reason because you failed to deal with a hundred rangers. You, the general of the Sijin Department, are no longer useful to this point?"
Aware of Yelu Abaoji's anger, Yelu Dilugu could only kneel on the ground, willing to be punished.
Khitan did not attack Tanzhou before, so Tang Jun naturally did not think that Khitan would never attack.
But the way of the military strategist is nothing but fiction. As long as the whereabouts of the Khitan army are well hidden, and the Tang army confirms that there is no Khitan army outside the Beikou Pass, then in the two battlefields of East and West Pingzhou and Guizhou, the pressure is doubled, and the follow-up troops will be sent to these two places first. As it should be.
The terrain of the Beikou border city is dangerous, and it is usually not easy to break through. With limited troops, the frontier army relies on the terrain to stick to it. It is completely reasonable for Li Maozhen not to send too many guards.
And according to Khitan's previous reports, the Tang army's northward army only had a total of 500,000 forbidden troops. Even if Lu Long's army was included, it was still not many, and Khitan's troops were several times larger than this.
The Tang army fought on several fronts, the deployment of soldiers and horses, and the matching logistics transportation of grain, fodder, ordnance, etc., naturally the pressure was huge and stretched. With Datang's current capabilities, it is simply impossible to supply millions of troops in the northern border under the current situation.
"Your head will be placed on your shoulder for the time being. One hundred army sticks, go get them yourself!" Yelu Abaoji finally said these words coldly.
Yeludi Lugu seemed to have been pardoned, and quickly thanked him.
In fact, he also felt wronged, why five hundred elite cavalry, combined with eyeliner scouting rangers, would not be able to intercept and kill more than a hundred Tang troops. The weirdest thing was that the last of the five hundred elite riders didn't come back, which made it difficult for Yeludi Lugu to figure out what happened in the first place.
Yeludi Lugu limped back after receiving the baton, clutching his buttocks, bowed down and said, "My lord, now that our plan to surprise Beikou has been exposed, should we leave this place and look for a new battlefield where we can break through?" ?”
Yelu Abaoji took a sip of his wine, his eyes were deep, and he said leisurely: "Why do you want to leave? It's up to you."