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Chapter 164 Liu Rengui's Tactics, Xie Shufang's Disappointment

After the Lingnan strategy was decided, the army immediately began to move. Cen Wenben immediately began to organize personnel and allocate supplies. The armies of various units began to prepare for the war. No one wanted to fail in this battle. This was a war that must be won.

After making the decision, the next step was preparation. The army could not set out for a while as not only supplies, but also the army itself and ships all needed to be coordinated. Liu Rengui also summoned the generals to fight and began to formulate strategies.

"Everyone, the king has shown great kindness to me and appointed me as the commander-in-chief. In this battle, I hope that everyone can follow the military orders. This is the first time that our army has truly fought a war to annihilate a country. I believe everyone knows its significance.

I'm going to make it clear first. In this battle, whoever fights at a disadvantage and is afraid of death, no matter who he is, I will chop off his head!
I hope you can unite and win this battle together!"

Yuwen Hu, Yang Jianhe and others below responded one after another. Xue Wanche looked at Liu Rengui and approved of Liu Rengui's current performance. Looking at Liu Rengui's momentum, he felt that he had some of the qualities that a commander should have.

Liu Rengui has little experience now, having followed Li Yuanji for only a short time. Now he suddenly holds a high position. If he still cannot let go, Xue Wanche will really suggest to Li Yuanji that someone else should be appointed to lead the army. If a commander cannot let go, it will be quite fatal on the battlefield.

Liu Rengui saw that everyone agreed and then continued speaking.

"Next, we will mainly discuss how to launch an attack on Linyi. Now, Xi Hujun has begun to march towards Aizhou. In about a month, they will start a major battle with Linyi.

When the time comes, a fierce battle will break out between General Xi and Linyi, which will attract all of Linyi's attention and benefit us. It can be said that General Xi has created an extremely important advantage for our battle.

If we want to attack Linyi, the first step is to eliminate the Linyi navy. The Linyi navy is just small boats, and I can take care of this myself. The most important thing is the landing operation after destroying the Linyi navy.

Now there are not enough large ships, and the army must be divided into two groups. The first group of troops will go with me, and after I destroy the Linyi navy, they will attack Linyi. Therefore, we need an army that is fearless and brave.

Xue Wanche, you lead the 10,000 elite soldiers that the king brought from Chang'an to accompany me. When you land, you must defeat the Linyi army so that the follow-up army can enter."

Liu Rengui chose Xue Wanche because he knew that since he was valued by Li Yuanji and had a relationship with Xie Shufang, his ability must be good. No matter whether he was from the Prince of Qi's Mansion or not, since Li Yuanji asked him to use him, he started to use him without any hesitation.

Xue Wanche stood up immediately.

"I will take your order."

Liu Rengui looked at Xue Wanche and spoke solemnly again.

"When we land, I will lead the army to attack. I won't let you bear the pressure alone. In addition, you must pay special attention. Linyi has elephant soldiers. In the first year of Daye, the former Sui Emperor Yang Guang sent Duke Lu Liu Fang to conquer Linyi. Linyi's elephant soldiers once made Duke Lu Liu Fang suffer. We must learn from the lesson."

In the first year of Daye, Yang Guang sent Liu Fang to conquer Linyi. When Yang Guang attacked Linyi, he just found a random reason to attack. The reason Yang Guang gave was that Linyi lacked the tribute. Yang Guang was really tyrannical towards the outside world.

Liu Fang did eventually destroy Linyi, and Fan Fanzhi abandoned the capital and fled directly into the sea. He did not return to restore his country until the Sui army left.

In history, Linyi was very aggressive in front of the Tang Dynasty. It took the initiative to invade the Tang Dynasty twice, but was taught a lesson each time and finally destroyed by Annan.

Back to the point, after Liu Rengui arranged the landing operations, he immediately looked at Yuwen Hu and Yang Jianhe. "The second batch of troops will all enter Danzhou. When the landing is successful, we will send a ship to pick up your troops. After you go down, be prepared!"

Different division of labor requires different preparations. Liu Rengui has now assigned all the specific tasks. After everyone has gone down, Liu Rengui summarizes all of them and comes to Li Yuanji to give them to Li Yuanji to look at.

Although Li Yuanji handed everything over to him, he had to report what needed to be reported.

Li Yuanji looked at Liu Rengui's battle plan and couldn't see anything wrong with it. He thought it was pretty good, so he gave it to Liu Rengui after reading it.

"Just do it your way. The army should start moving as soon as possible. Don't let Junmai reach the capital of Linyi and capture Fan Fanzhi alive while you haven't started the war yet. That would be a joke."

It's no wonder Li Yuanji said that. Nowadays, it takes at least a month for a large ship to travel from here to Linyi. This is a minimum because it can only sail along the coast and cannot be enlarged to sail in a straight line to Linyi.

The army took a lot of time from preparation to departure, plus the time for travel, to destroying the Linyi navy, then landing, and then waiting for supplies before further attacking. With so much time added up, Li Yuanji estimated that Xi Junmai might really be able to directly attack the Linyi capital.

Because the army Xi Jun bought there are all elite soldiers, and with Tan Dian's going there, as long as they can deal with the elephant soldiers of Linyi, the advancement speed will not be slow.

Liu Rengui then went down to speed up preparations, because he was also afraid that the situation Li Yuanji described would occur.

After Liu Rengui left, Li Yuanji came to Xie Shufang carrying a jar of wine.

"You seem unhappy. Is it because you were not assigned to the battle against Linyi, and you have some thoughts in your mind?"

Ever since the people who were going to go were decided, Xie Shufang was a little unhappy. This time, in the expedition to Linyi, Xie Shufang could be said to have been well prepared to command the army, but in the end he was not included. It would be impossible for him not to feel disappointed.

This is the real achievement of destroying a country. Although it was just a small country, who in the current Tang Dynasty has this achievement?
Xie Shufang picked up the wine and took a gulp, then spoke immediately.

"Your Majesty, I just feel uncomfortable. I think I am quite capable, but I don't know why I am inferior to Liu Rengui. Why shouldn't I go?

Even if I am not allowed to lead the troops, but to be a general, I am willing to do so, and I will definitely obey Liu Rengui's orders. I really don't understand why I can't go."

After Xie Shufang finished speaking, he took another sip of wine. Li Yuanji could also see that Xie Shufang was very dissatisfied, because Xie Shufang did not hide anything at all and showed it completely in front of him.

Li Yuanji was not angry at all. He patted Xie Shufang on the shoulder. He understood him very well.

Xie Shufang can be said to be the real number one general under his command and his most trusted confidant. Xie Shufang's talent is also worthy of trust. As long as there is a stage, Xie Shufang's performance will not be worse than those so-called famous generals.

So it’s not surprising that Xie Shufang has ideas. It would be strange if he didn’t have any ideas.

(End of this chapter)