Chapter 2 Tiger Cub (Part 1) Tang Gong Li Yuan took Jiancheng, Shimin and a group of personal guards to watch one hundred thousand Xiaoguos crossing the Liao River. The Xiaoguos who were not well trained were in chaos, and people kept being pulled from the pontoon.
Every time I squeezed into the water, the people on the bridge always laughed loudly, "greeting" each other's parents and relatives, and throwing down the life-saving rope. The people in the water held one end of the rope and cried back.
Scolding, voices with southern and northern accents are endless.
"Child's play, they treat war as child's play!" Li Yuan thought worriedly. He didn't think that the arrival of more than 100,000 ruffians at the foot of Liaodong City would be enough to break through the Liaodong City Wall. The 600,000-strong army had not completed the task. Adding 100,000 people would not make up for the attack.
The reason why Liaodong City cannot be conquered is not because of insufficient troops, but because today's million-strong army is almost entirely composed of new recruits. The experienced old soldiers were all killed in that stupid battle last year. The new soldiers didn't even have blood before.
I’ve seen it before, how is it possible to capture a fortified city?
The Sui Dynasty declined at an unexpected speed. If the failure of the first expedition to Liao was due to the emperor's willful nonsense and the pedantic mistakes of the civil servants in the court, the second long-term attack on Liaodong City was exactly the result of the Sui Dynasty.
A true portrayal of the military power of the time. Whenever he thinks of this, Li Yuan always feels very disappointed. The Sui Dynasty in his youth was not what it is today. The Sui Dynasty back then could withstand two hundred thousand Turks without any preparation.
The army violently attacked, and then killed the plunderers from the grassland and fled. The Sui Dynasty only used more than 400,000 people to completely wipe out Nanchen, Jinling, and Yuezhou, all of which were known to be impregnable cities.
But now, this tiger has lost its teeth and claws. In addition to still looking like a tiger, the force is no longer enough to kill a wild deer.
The Sui Dynasty was old, and he was also old. Li Yuan cast his eyes into the distance, watching the first battalion to cross the river. At this time, the black armor in the team was obtained from the Western Regions when he was young. Back then,
Li Yuan once wore it to follow General Yang Su to the desert. Now, this armor is too heavy for his fat body. After putting it on, it won't take long for the sweat on his face to roll down like rain.
On the other side of the river, Xu Zi, wearing black armor and riding a black horse, looked very eye-catching. Even across the Liao River, Li Yuan could clearly distinguish him from the crowd.
Li Yuan's appearance back then was hidden under his humble appearance, but he was unwilling and aloof. "He is still an untamed tiger!" Li Yuan thought with a smile, "One day he will understand that the world is not as simple as he thought!"
"Zhong Jian's soldiers are well trained!" Chen Yanshou, the first counselor of the Tang Dynasty, came forward and said that although they were also poorly trained, in the chaotic flow of people, the more than 10,000 soldiers of the Xiongwu Xiaoguo Camp still stood out from the crowd. They were specially designed to deal with
The targeted training conducted by the emperor's review has well maintained their military appearance. Compared with other battalions also composed of Xiaoguo, the Xiongwu Battalion is more like a regular army, while the other battalions behave like bandits and bandits.
"If you give him another year, maybe Zhongjian can train a truly capable elite force!" Li Yuan did not look back, his eyes were still looking at the other side, who would be the first to tame this young tiger, or who would be the first to tame this young tiger?
Become a sacrifice under the claws of the young tiger, he doesn't want to know that he has enough assurance that those invisible cages and shackles are enough to make Xuzi hit his head and bleed. When Xuzi is tired and tired, he will naturally think of Li
When the warmth of home comes, he will turn around and become the most capable general of the Li family.
"Tang Gong means that the Xiaoguo camp is not strong enough to fight?" Chen Yanshou smiled and asked.
"A city that cannot be captured by an army of 600,000 people, do you think you can solve it with a group of rogue bandits?" Li Yuan shook his head and asked, turning his horse's head slowly towards the other Li family cronies who were watching the excitement on the bank of the West River.
Like this, he quickly mobilized his war horses and followed him.
"Didn't you say that Your Majesty has already laid the soil to the level of the city?" The confused question came from Li Jiancheng. He had just heard the conversation between his father and Master Chen word for word. Although Xuzi had left the Li family,
Jiancheng still hopes that he can do things that others can't do. Maybe it's for the sake of face. Maybe deep down in his heart, at this moment, he has truly regarded Xuzi as a friend.
"If the destruction of the city is just around the corner, the Ministry of War will not transfer Xiaoguo. The first general to enter the city will be promoted to the third level and ten thousand households will be sealed off. This is what Long live personally promised. If this fruit is easy to pick, will you share it with others?
?" Li Yuan looked back at his son and replied calmly.
"He is ungrateful and dishonest. It will not be his turn to make meritorious deeds!" Li Waner's words sounded extremely harsh. From the day Li Xu was appointed as general, she was like this when it came to Xuzi.
Gritting teeth
"It is indeed his turn, but it is not because of his bad character. Among these ten battalion Xiaoguo, except for Zhongjian, which of the other generals is not from a high-ranking family? They don't have the opportunity to make his wife Yinzi.
Maybe I'll give it to someone else, but that's fine, Zhongjian doesn't have to rush to the city wall to die!" Li Yuan glared at his daughter and explained in a low voice.
"Dad, do you think Liaodong City will be difficult to capture in a short time?" Li Shimin also rushed over and asked.
"A thirty-step-wide earthen fortress can only ensure that our people have to find a horse road to get down to the city after rushing to the city. The narrower the place where we can cut off the pass and lock up, the less advantage we can have in numbers. On the contrary,
The number of veterans and the individual combat effectiveness of soldiers have become the key..." Li Yuan did not answer his son's question directly, but used his own war experience to analyze the problem at hand.
"However, the Goguryeo people won't be able to wait long. Lord Yuwenshu has already cut down trees and built a bridge by the Mazhai water, and the navy who came to protect the general has also sailed out to sea! Even if Liaodong City can be defended until winter, if Pyongyang is captured by us,
The people of Goguryeo will also perish!" Li Jiancheng analyzed wishfully. As a citizen of the Sui Dynasty, he always hoped that his country would be victorious in every battle.
"I hope our Eastern Expedition can last until winter!" Li Yuan said with a wry smile. Jiancheng is a good brother and good friend, but he lacks the strategic vision to be a good family head. This is what he is most worried about. Troubled times are coming, and every family
They all may have the opportunity to develop upwards, but they may also disappear. A hundred years ago, in the land of Jiangnan, people always praised Wang Xie. Now, who can still see where the doors and windows of the Wang Xie family are?
"Master Yang Xuangan, the Minister of Rites, said that the channel of the canal was blocked by silt, and military rations could not be distributed temporarily!" Chen Yanshou couldn't bear to see Jiancheng continue to disappoint his father, so he deliberately brought up some seemingly trivial chores at this time.
"The same goes for Mr. Yang. Why didn't you clear it earlier? It's been more than a month since the army set out, and he's complaining about river siltation again?" Li Jiancheng frowned and said casually. Suddenly, he seemed to realize something and glanced at Chen Yanshou.
, but saw Chen Yanshou’s eyes looking towards him, full of encouragement.
"Then, what should we do?" Li Jiancheng was stunned. After a long while, he asked him whether he was a long history and knew the amount of grain stored in various places in western Liaoning. If Yang Xuangan rebelled and cut off the grain road, within two months, millions of soldiers would be conquered.
The Liao army will have no food to eat!
"We don't have any evidence to prove that Yang Xuangan intends to rebel! Two generations of the Yang family have been members of the Shangzhu Kingdom, and Xuangan has always had a reputation as a virtuous person. Our Li family cannot bear the name of "harming virtuous people," nor can we slander the emperor indiscriminately!
"Li Yuan wrinkled his nose, as if the air was filled with a bitter taste.
Yang Xuangan was the son of Yang Su of the former Shangzhu Kingdom. He was handsome in appearance, both civil and military, and became famous all over the world when he was young. Since he inherited the title of Duke of Chu, there are many sages and talents in his family. Even Yang Gongdao, the son of King Guande,
Han Shi'e, the son of the famous general Han Qinhu, and Li Mi, the hereditary Duke of Pushan County, both became his aides. This man had accompanied Yu Wenshu in the western expedition to Tuyuhun. After his outstanding military exploits, he was transferred to a local official, and he investigated and corrected corruption.
, the impeachment of traitors also led to peace and prosperity under the rule. If such a person who was both good at running the country and knowing military strategy rebelled in the rear, the national destiny of the Sui Dynasty would be in jeopardy!
Before the Eastern Expedition, Yan Guan had already dissuaded His Majesty the Emperor, asking him not to leave the task of supervising the transportation of military supplies to the front to Yang Xuangan. However, the Yang family had countless old friends in the court, and the guarantee of any one person was better than Yan Guan's suspicion.
The words convinced His Majesty the Emperor. After some private operations, His Majesty the Emperor not only did not doubt Yang Xuangan's loyalty, but also gave him a lot of gold, silver and jewelry as a token of appeasement.
Even if there is conclusive evidence, Li Yuan does not have the courage to reveal to His Majesty the Emperor that the person whom His Majesty the Sui Emperor distrusts the most is the person named Li. Once his suspicion is wrong, it will be a disaster for the Li family. Therefore, the only thing Li Yuan can do at the moment
He just issued military letters and urged Mr. Yang, the Minister of Rites, over and over again to transport the grain and grass stored in the Central Plains as soon as possible.
"Your Majesty hangs Liaodong alone with an overwhelming army. The military supplies in Huaiyuan counties are less than one month. If the supplies are delayed, the army will be in danger!" That night, the military letter that Li Yuan sent four days ago at a cost of 800 miles was once again delivered to Yang Xuangan
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"If the army is not in danger, how can I achieve anything? This Li Shude is really worthy of a mother-in-law!" Yang Xuangan threw the general book to the ground with disdain, his heart full of contempt for Li Yuan
On Yisi in June (the third day of the lunar month), Yang Xuangan shocked the world
