Zhenguan Crown Prince Li Chengqian

Chapter 81 On Grain Road (1)

Gan Yun was wandering outside the hall, when he saw Li Chengqian coming, the old eunuch hurried forward to salute.

"Old Gan, is Father busy?"

"Your Majesty is summoning the Second Prime Minister Fang Du and General Li. Your Majesty will come in later, and the old slave will go in and report."

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"My son has seen his father."

Li Shimin nodded, pointed to his lower right head, and signaled to Li Chengqian that he could do it.

"Chengqian, I just wanted someone to pass you on, but I didn't expect you to come first. This is the memorabilia of Zhang Gongjin, the governor of Daizhou. You can take a look."

He casually handed the playbook on the imperial case to Li Chengqian.It turned out that the barbarians of Xue Yantuo's tribe could not bear Xieli's oppression. Not long ago, they called on Huihe, Bayegu, Adi, Tongluo, Pugu and other tribes to resist the tyrant's rule.

Jieli sent his nephew Ashina Yugushe to suppress Huihe.But Yugushe was defeated by Bodhisattva, the leader of Huihe, and Xue Yantuo defeated the other four Turkic generals.Since then, Jieli has been unable to subdue the Chile rebels.

And these Chile tribes wanted to give Yi Nan the title of sweat, but Yi Nan didn't dare to accept it at first.After the news reached Chang'an, Li Shimin discussed with several confidants, hoping to establish an anti-Eastern Turkic alliance with Xue Yantuo as the mainstay to contain Xieli.

Then the guerrilla general Qiao Shiwang was sent, and Yinan was canonized as Xueyantuo Zhenzhu Pijia Khan. Since then, many Chile and Turkic tribes have been ruled by Yinan.

The memorial in Li Chengqian's hand was to ask the emperor to take advantage of the Turkic civil strife to send troops to crusade, and he also put forward six points in the memorial table: Jieli was luxurious and cruel, punished loyal and good people, and got close to traitors.Xue Yantuo and other tribes have rebelled, shaking their rule, this is the second.

Tuli, Tuoshe, and Yugushi all offended Jieli and felt ashamed, this is the third.The northern part of the Saibei area experienced frost and drought, and there was a lack of food, which is the fourth.Jieli is alienated from his tribe, entrusting heavy responsibilities to foreigners, and the Hu people are capricious. Once the Tang army arrives, there will inevitably be internal chaos. This is the fifth.

The Han people went to the north to avoid chaos in the early years, and there were a lot of people at this time. Recently, I heard that they gathered armed forces and occupied dangerous places. When the army went out, they naturally responded internally.

After Li Chengqian read it, he closed the statement and said: "Dudu Zhang is worthy of being a famous general in our dynasty. His analysis of the Turkic situation can be described as reasonable. It can be seen that the acting governor of the state for the past three years is really diligent."

Well, Li Shimin smiled and then said: "You dare to sly in front of me, let's be more practical, if you can't tell Cai'er, I will punish you severely. Three lovers, what do you think?"

After Li Shimin finished teasing Li Chengqian, he turned his head and said to Fang Du Erxiang and Li Jing, and the three of them also echoed and smiled and looked at Li Chengqian.

They are clear about Li Chengqian's performance in Minzhou. He can share the joys and sorrows with the soldiers and fight the enemy for eight days at Tiemenguan. This is not something other princes can do.What surprised them even more was Li Chengqian's strategic considerations.

In their view, it is not difficult to repel the enemy with the ability of Qin Shubao and Hou Junji. Although Li Chengqian's strategy is risky, the actual effect is to severely damage Tuyuhun and make him dare not look east. It solves the worries of the court and can concentrate on dealing with Jie Li.

"Father, you know that the sons and ministers have always been the main battlers. After several years of recuperation in the Tang Dynasty, both people's hearts and morale are available. Coupled with the Turkic civil strife, it is indeed our army's Northern Expedition. Great opportunity to regain lost ground.”

Speaking of this, Li Chengqian walked to the map hanging on the side and looked at it for a while, pointing to the territory of the Turks, and continued: "If what I expect is not bad, the father and the adults want to go straight to the hinterland of the Turks in the east, and then send troops along the territory of the Turks." The Yellow River attacked eastward.

Then, from the direction of Lingzhou to the northwest, adopt the strategy of splitting and attacking, chasing and intercepting, and Yi Nan, Tu Li and others should cooperate with each other from inside and outside, defeat each one, and finally hunt in Jinshan. "

After speaking, Li Chengqian's hand stayed near Dingxiang and Mayi.

Li Jing stroked his beard and said: "Your Highness is talented, as expected, this is exactly the result of discussions between His Majesty and the ministers.

In this way, not only can Xieli's military strength be gradually weakened, so that they can't look at each other head to tail, but also the casualties of our army can be greatly reduced with the help of Tuli and others. "

"Grand Duke Dai is over-reputed, Chengqian's guess is just luck."

Relying on the deployment of several frontier troops on the map, a general offensive posture can be deduced, which shows that Li Chengqian's military accomplishments can be seen.

Unlike Fang and Du, Li Jinghe didn't have much contact with him, so he didn't notice that Li Chengqian still had something to say.

Du Ruhui immediately asked: "Your Highness, is there any problem with this arrangement?"

"If we can fight quickly, then this plan is naturally seamless. But once the battle falls into a stalemate, our army's supply line is also in danger of being cut off by the enemy at any time.

It is very difficult for a large army to travel thousands of miles, and it is very difficult to transport and transport military supplies by rotation. Now our army has to divide troops into multiple assaults. In this way, it is necessary to divide troops to guard the food roads. "

Li Chengqian's words made several people fall into petrification, and they stopped talking.This is indeed a big problem. If it is not done well, all previous efforts will be wasted.They were all overwhelmed by the excitement, and they forgot the most basic truth that soldiers and horses go first without moving food and grass.

Li Shimin's face turned red immediately, fortunately he had fought for half his life, but his son pointed out the last flaw, how could this not embarrass Li Shimin.

The embarrassment of the emperor and Fang Li fell into Du Ruhui's eyes, and he couldn't help sighing in his heart, it's really a hero from ancient times.But in any case, Du Ruhui is also the prime minister of the current dynasty, so he still has some capacity for it.

Immediately he got up and saluted Li Shimin and said: "Your Majesty, this is all due to my lack of consideration. Thanks to Your Highness, if this leads to the failure of the battle, then I will really feel ashamed."

The emperor can never be wrong, no matter what the circumstances are.Du Ruhui could help the emperor and the three of them cover up their embarrassment by saying this, and secondly, he didn't want Li Chengqian to displease the emperor because of his outspoken words.He did this not only for his two

The son who lives under Li Chengqian, more importantly, he is optimistic about Li Chengqian. Unlike Fang Xuanling, he never hides his love for Li Chengqian, whether it is in the national economy, the people's livelihood or the military, he is remarkable.

Of course Li Chengqian knew that he had made a slip of the tongue just now, and immediately responded with a thankful smile to Du Ruhui.He said: "Father, in the past when our army was fighting, although the generals who commanded the army also attached great importance to the issue of food and roads, the army also specially set up officers to manage it.

But the soldiers guarding the grain road were all deployed temporarily.It is inevitable that there were negligence due to various reasons, so I asked my father to set up a special logistics force to deal with food and roads. "

(End of this chapter)