All the ministers in the tent looked at each other, then fell silent.
For some reason, there was an awkward atmosphere in the tent.
For a long time, Yu Shiji's sneer came from one side.
"If Mr. Fang himself is afraid of death, he can ask your Majesty to release you back to Luoyang. Why bother to sensationalize you here..."
Fang Qiao turned his head and looked at Yu Shiji calmly: "Civil officials will remonstrate to the death, and military generals will fight to the death. This is the way of a minister. Please don't judge others with caution."
Yu Shiji paused after hearing this and looked at him a little helplessly.
Fang Qiao, who had always been gentle and reserved, did not expect that his words would show such an aggressive edge today, which caught Yu Shiji off guard. All the officials in the tent looked at him in surprise.
Yu Shiji was stunned for a moment, then sneered: "If you think it is correct, it must be correct? Your Majesty led the army to destroy Nanchen. All the generals were commanders and generals who had led the army for many years. In terms of experience,
Everyone in this account is much better than you, do you mean that they are all wrong and you are the only one who is right?"
Fang Qiao said calmly: "Experience does not mean that I will never make mistakes. As a minister, of course I must do my best. As for whether my advice is correct or not, that is something your Majesty needs to weigh and consider. What's more, I don't think I am wrong.
, If Your Majesty still insists on not accepting my advice, I will naturally have nothing to say. But Mr. Yu, you should know that you are responsible for your words and deeds. There is no joke in the army. If it is because of your obstruction and opposition, the officers and soldiers of the three armies will suffer.
If the battle is defeated, who will bear this responsibility? Can Mr. Yu be able to bear it?"
Yu Shiji's face suddenly turned the color of pig's liver, and he wanted to be angry, but he did not dare to lose his composure in front of Yang Guang, and endured the bad breath.
Yang Guang frowned at this time, and the joy of conquering Liaodong City was completely destroyed by Fang Qiao, shouting: "How can you think that if you continue to fight now, you will be defeated? Liaodong City has just been conquered. After Liaodong, Goguryeo's fertile land is thousands of miles away.
Our army marched straight in, destroying the dry and decayed, how could it be ruined? The ministers admonished me, I was very happy, but you have shown disrespect to our army again and again, and passed on my decree to remove Fang Qiao from all official positions, demote him to a commoner, and drive him out.
Imperial tent."
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Yang Guang did not order him to be killed, and Fang Qiao was already very satisfied. He knew that this was the result of his hard work in the past few years beside His Majesty the Emperor. If it had been anyone else, he would have been ordered to be killed by His Majesty.
He was stripped of his official uniform by the guards on the spot and driven out of the imperial tent.
There was a strong north wind outside the tent. Fang Qiao shivered when he walked out of the handsome tent. Then he looked towards the direction of Liaodong City. The city was still filled with flames. Half of the city seemed to have been burned down, and the flames illuminated half of the sky.
Fang Qiao slowly came to his barracks. Shen Guang, who had been following the army with some blue-clad guards, had already stepped forward and put a robe on Fang Qiao's shoulders. Fang Qiao smiled gratefully at him, and then used his robe to
After wrapping up my body tightly, I felt that the coldness on my body had dissipated a little.
Shen Guang stared at Fang Qiao and asked, "Master Fang has just come out of the imperial tent. Do you want to persuade His Majesty to suspend the march?"
Fang Qiao stopped and sighed silently.
Seeing Fang Qiao's gloomy expression, Shen Guang suddenly understood something, and couldn't help but feel resentful. He turned his head and looked in the direction of the imperial tent, gritted his teeth and said: "An epidemic has appeared in the army, and a huge defeat is hidden. Why doesn't your majesty accept good advice?"
Fang Qiao sighed sadly: "How has your Majesty ever accepted the advice of his ministers in recent years..."
Shen Guang patted Fang Qiao on the shoulder and said, "Since His Majesty has dismissed you from office, I will arrange for you to go to Fanyang County!"
Fang Qiao thought for a moment and said, "I won't go to Fanyang County. You can directly arrange for me to take the sea route and go to Annan County in Goguryeo to meet Duke An of Qin."
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The Sui army captured Liaodong City. Yang Guang ordered a two-day rest, and then ordered all armies to march to the south and east. The original twelve-route army was changed to a nine-route army, with nine generals commanding the army.
Two days ago, Wang Rengong sent people to send information and had caught up with Yuan Taizuo's army. However, the opponent was well prepared, the retreat was tense and orderly, and the defense was tight. He led several charges without causing much damage. Casualties, please ask Yang Guang, give him more time, you will definitely find the loopholes in the Goguryeo army, and defeat the Goguryeo people in one fell swoop.
However, Yang Guang issued a very strict order, asking Wang Rengong to immediately launch an attack on the main force of Goguryeo at all costs without any further delay.
In this battle of the Eastern Expedition, Yang Guang made frequent mistakes, and the same is true for this decree.
When a large army goes on a campaign, the commander always controls all the opportunities. When an army is put in the hands of the commander, when to attack, when to retreat, and when to use what strategy, of course, can only be decided by the commander. Yang Guangyuan is hundreds of miles away. , knowing nothing about the situation faced by Wang Rengong's troops, yet issued such a fatuous imperial edict to Wang Rengong. It must be said that this edict was very wrong, and Yang Guang once again made a big mistake.
The sternly worded decree was quickly sent to Wang Rengong's troops with a very tough attitude. Wang Rengong, the youngest general, could not withstand the pressure from the emperor and had to launch an attack on the main force of more than 200,000 Goguryeo troops led by Yuan Taizuo.
The third day of July in the sixth year of Daye.
Wang Rengong's left and right flanks of one hundred thousand cavalry launched an attack at midnight, outflanking Yuan Taizuo's camp where he was resting at night. The Chinese army's fifty thousand troops charged directly into the enemy's forward camp from the front. On a dark moon night, the signal fire flashed. With the shouts of thousands of troops and horses, the army rushed into the enemy camp like a strong wind and rolled leaves, holding torches and setting fires everywhere. In just half an hour of burning incense, the main Goguryeo army led by Yuan Taizuo stretched out the camp for more than ten miles. It was set ablaze and burned by Wang Rengong's soldiers. In the camp, only the flames shot into the sky, people screamed and horses neighed, and the panicked Goguryeo enemy troops were massacred and killed by the Sui army one after another.
Everything seemed to be going well. Wang Rengong deliberately retreated several miles during the day, and then suddenly and quickly approached to attack at night. Yuan Taizuo was caught off guard. This attack on the camp was flawless and can be recorded in history.
However, what Wang Rengong didn't know was that there were six Goguryeo spies among the 150,000 cavalry he led. All his plans had long been known to Yuan Taizuo, and he was urged by His Majesty the Emperor, knowing that he could not do it at night. It is very dangerous to launch a full-scale attack after knowing clearly the enemy's strength. After all, there are more than 200,000 enemies. Although most of them are infantry, they are still capable of fighting them. In some cases, it is even possible to defeat them.
An hour after the raid on the enemy camp, no living Koreans could be seen within the enemy camp. Wang Rengong ordered an inventory of the battle damage. After the inventory, his subordinates discovered that the raid seemed to have killed countless enemies, but the real death was caused by the Sui saber. There were only more than 5,000 enemy troops under the gun.
After Wang Rengong heard the news, his heart suddenly sank, and an extreme sense of crisis arose spontaneously.
There were clearly an enemy camp of 200,000 people, but only more than 5,000 enemy soldiers were killed in the end. What does this mean?