Great Warriors of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Chapter 697

Langya County, Linyi City.

Because the city is next to the Yishui River, the city is named Linyi.

Li Xiuning was leading troops to move to Linyi City at this time, and there were three letters in front of her.

The first letter was given to her by her husband Luo Cheng. In the letter, Luo Cheng talked about the current situation, and also told Li Xiuning the future trend, saying that the war was imminent and inevitable, so she had been psychologically prepared.

Luo Cheng told Li Xiuning to be wary of Chen Leng, the prefect of Pengcheng. He was a die-hard loyalist. He sent people to contact him a few times, but he found that this guy was very loyal to Sui, so Luo Cheng gave up his plan to win him over.

After Li Xiuning got this letter, she found a reason to leave from the Chen Leng camp in Dangshan in the east of Liang County. She left with more than [-] soldiers from various counties on the grounds that there were bandits in the rear. , Down the Bianhe River, enter Xiapi through Pengcheng, and then return to Linyi against the Yishui River.

There is also a reason for choosing Linyi to be stationed instead of Xiapi County or Donghai County.

Linyi is surrounded by mountains on the west, north and east sides, and it is also close to the river Yishui.The most important thing is that to the south of Linyi is the Huanghuai Plain, a flat river.

However, between the mountains on the west, north, and east sides, there are still several passages. You can go to Lu County and Qi County in the north, go to Gaomi and Donglai in the northeast, and go down the river to Pengcheng in the south. Next to Huai'an.

To put it bluntly, Linyi is an important place guarding the exit of the eastern mountainous area of ​​Shandong.

During the Warring States period, the Muling Pass set up by the Great Wall of Qi in Linyi was the first pass in the world at that time.

To be stationed in Linyi is to advance, attack and retreat.

Li Xiuning saw through her husband's strategic deployment at a glance, so after she retreated to Linyi, she stationed herself in Linyi City, and dispatched soldiers and horses to station at the foot of the mountain on the west, north, and east sides to support each other.

The second letter on her desk was sent by her father Li Yuan.

Li Yuan sent a letter to tell his daughter that the imperial court was going to attack Luo Cheng, and his attitude was very firm, but Luo Cheng might turn against him.But Li Yuan thinks that Luo Cheng's rebellion may not be successful. After all, although the world is chaotic, the centipede is dead but not stiff.The most important thing is that Li Yuan believes that the Luo family has a shallow foundation. He will at most have the support of some frontier soldiers, and he will not have the support of many powerful families. Opportunity to rebel successfully.

Although there are successful precedents such as Liu Yu and Chen Baxian in history, it was different from today after all.

Li Yuan asked his daughter to control the soldiers and horses in his hand, and he would send Jiancheng over to ask Xiuning to hand over the soldiers and horses to Li Jiancheng. In this way, it would become the capital of the Li family.

"Although you are the wife of the Luo family, you are originally a daughter of the Li family. Now that Luo Cheng is rebelling, you can't follow him to make trouble. You come back to the Li family, and my father will find you a well-matched taxi boy to marry you."

Picking up the letter again and reading it again, in the end Li Xiuning just shook her head.

She murmured.

"The married daughter, the water poured out, the daughter is now Luo's wife, for the Luo Li family, with Luo at the front and Li at the back. Marry a chicken and follow a chicken, marry a dog and follow a dog, marry a husband and no longer a father. I'm sorry , father, daughter is unfilial."

Putting down this letter, she picked up the third letter, which was sent by her father-in-law Luo Gui.

Luo Gui said that the army is about to rise, so he asked Li Xiuning to go back to Donglai, where it is safer, and Linyi, he will send his second son Chengzong to guard.

"Call all the generals and lieutenants to discuss matters. I have an important notice." Li Xiuning called the soldiers.

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Pengcheng.

Doctor Guanglu, Assistant Minister of Internal History, Duke Rong Guogong, a political adviser, came to protect his children and rushed to Dangshan. He went to Pengcheng first, but Chen Leng was in the Dangshan camp, so he came all the way.

Dangshan, guarded by Chen Ling, is located at the intersection of Pengcheng, Liang and Qiao counties, with Dangshan at its back and Tongji Canal in front.

"Mr. Rong, you are a step late."

As soon as they met, Chen Ling told Lai Hu'er with some regret that before he received the imperial court's secret order, Li Xiuning had already left with more than [-] village soldiers under the pretext of going back to suppress the bandits and quell the chaos.

"Now that Li Xiuning has been stationed in Linyi, she has [-] town soldiers and a thousand Turkic cavalry who came across the sea from Liaodong."

Lai nurse listened and sighed.

"The imperial court's attitude towards the Luo family has been hesitant before. As a result, they fought back and forth and lost a lot of time."

"Mr. Rong, what should we do now? Send troops to conquer?"

Lai Huer shook his head, as a prime minister, if he came to Pengcheng, he would be above the appeasement envoys in Henan and Shandong, and even the appeasement envoys in Huainan would be subject to his restraint.

It can be said that as long as come to nurse a word to fight, then Chen Ling will send troops.

However, as a prime minister, although he has great power, there are many things to weigh.

"I'm not here to command the war. I'm here to eliminate this military crisis, not to start this war." In the court, Lai Huer is also a mediator, not a hard-line suppressor like Xiao Yu.

"Don't fight? But Luo Cheng has already shown signs of rebellion. Every move is to deploy troops and deploy generals. If we don't seize the opportunity to attack, we will be passive when he deploys properly." Chen Leng thought that reconciliation It is impossible for Luo Cheng to hand over his military power. At this point, even if Luo Cheng really handed over his military power, it is impossible for the court to keep them safe.

So, in the end, there is only fighting.

Of course it is better to fight late than to fight early.

But Lai Huer also has his own difficulties, what should he use to fight?

This time he came, the emperor sent him an army of Xiaoguo, but along the way, the more Lai Huer looked at this army, the more he sighed.There are 5000 people in Xiaoguoyou's first army, but there are not many soldiers who can really fight.The army is filled with a large number of civilians who were forcibly captured, as well as refugees and beggars, and even many prisoners who were previously held in prison and recruited rebels.

Such a team, even if the equipment is not bad, is of any use.

In a real fight, Lai Huer doesn't have much chance of winning.

There is no chance of winning, so why rush to fight?Isn't this self-defeating?

As a qualified commander, one cannot fight an unprepared battle, let alone initiate a battle that has no chance of winning.

"Luo Cheng hasn't started a rebellion yet, so we can't take the initiative to start a war yet, maybe there is still a turning point."

Lai Huer still has some expectations, the imperial court has sent secret envoys to Liaodong outside the customs, that may be the only hope.

Where the results have not been reported, Lai Huer is not ready to go to war first.

Of course, not going to war first does not mean that there will be no action.

After discussing with Chen Leng, he decided to withdraw the main force of Dangshan soldiers and horses to Pengcheng, leaving only a few thousand people to garrison here.Later, Lai Hu'er personally took charge of Pengcheng, and asked Chen Leng to lead his troops northward to Lu County. This place was called Yanzhou in ancient times, and it was the junction of the Qilu Mountains and the Huanghuai Plain.

Like Linyi, occupying Lu County has very important strategic significance.

"The Xiaoguo Army led by Sima Dekan stationed 1 people in Xiapi, while Yu Wenhuaji led 1 people to station in the East China Sea. Our four armies lined up to blockade Shandong." Lai Huer said.

Chen Leng was surprised, "Yu Wenhuaji, why is he here? Wasn't he exiled to Dunhuang, Hexi?"

In this regard, Lai Huer explained helplessly that when the emperor recalled Yu Wenshu, he had already issued an order to recall Yu Wenhua and his brothers at the same time.Yu Wenshu died in Jiaozhi, but Yu Wenhua and He Zhiji returned to Jiangdu.Because of Yu Wenshu's death, the emperor even made Yu Wenhuaji the Duke of Xu, and even made him General You Yiwei, and this time he was specially sent to accompany the army.

After hearing this, Chen Leng could only shake his head speechlessly and sigh.

The other party is fierce men like Luo Cheng, Luo Siye, and Zhang Xutuo, but he has guys like Yu Wenhuaji and Sima Dekan on his side. How can we fight this battle?
Now he really has some hope that the turning point that Lai Nuer said will happen.

(End of this chapter)