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Chapter 19 Acting on Opportunity

It was hazy at night, and in the wilderness, Liang Jun temporarily stayed in a campground, Li Li sat by the campfire and roasted the fire, thinking about things.

He took the time to interrogate many prisoners and obtained a lot of useful information, including some of the situations in Qi State.

In other words, his "information" was updated, and he found that his previous judgment was deviated.

Before, Qi State first attacked Huainan, but failed to return.

Later, Li Li offered advice to the emperor, with the purpose of regaining the lost land in Huaibei, as follows:

First, take the initiative to recover the lost territory in Huaibei by the Northern Expedition, which required the Mianbei Liang army to go east and attack Yingchuan, Henan, Qi State to support it.

Second, the Northern Expedition Army annihilated a supporter of Qi State and bought time for its own side to arrange the Huaibei defense line.

Third, relying on the Huaibei defense line to face off, confront the Qi army, and with the military force evenly matched, forcing Qi to hold peace talks.

Fourth, the fact that Mianbei had already "recovered" by Liang State, and the confrontation in Huaibei made Qi recognize the reality, the two countries make peace, and work together to attack Wei State.

This is the goal that Li Li planned to achieve, and the first two steps have been achieved.

Next, the third step is the third step. The reason why Li Li is confident in the strategy can be fully realized is not only confidence in the combat effectiveness of the official army, but also based on a judgment:

Although Gao Yang, the founding emperor of Qi, founded the country as the "second generation", since he took this step, he should have the ability and ambitions, and should have great power and be the hero of the time.

After all, since ancient times, the founding emperor has a high probability of being a hero, otherwise he would not be able to open a country.

Because of the influence of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Li Li knew that there were founding emperors like Cao Pi and Sun Quan in history, Cao Pi and Sun Quan were generally in power, and their ministers were obedient (relatively).

Li Li felt that Gao Yang should be like Cao Pi and Sun Quan. Although he was the founding emperor who founded the country as the "second generation" status, he could still be able to keep the ground.

Cao Pi and Sun Quan founded the country, but because they were at the time of the Three Kingdoms, they all had enterprising spirit, no matter what the result was.

Similarly, Gao Yang founded the country at a young age and had foreign troubles, so he should have a positive and enterprising heart.

Then, the opponent who the opponent must solve is not Liang State, but Wei State.

First, there was a dispute between Qi and Wei (from the internal strife between the East and West Wei) and never ended. Later, there was a feud between Liang and Wei (Wei State first robbed Liang's land, and Liang's State counterattacked). The best strategy for Qi State should be to unite Liang to destroy Wei and turn the three kingdoms into a confrontation between the north and the south.

Then, relying on the huge human resources, resources and military advantages of Qi State (such as war horses), we are ready to unify the south from the north and unify the world.

Therefore, based on his judgment of Emperor Gao Yang of Qi, Li Li proposed a strategy that the Liang army only recovered the lost territory in Huaibei, defeated the reinforcements of Qi, did not attack Pengcheng, and then moved into defense.

The Liang army, who attacked from Mianbei, clearly told Qi that Mianbei had changed hands.

Then, Emperor Gao Yang of Qi should have reacted: Liang State only wanted to recover the lost territory, first take over the part of Huaibei, then go down, and then recover Shu territory annexed by Wei State.

The Liang State occupied the Mianbei region and theoretically had the ability to attack Guanzhong (taking the Wuguan Road). So, wouldn’t Qi and Liang make peace and jointly deal with Wei State be just right to take their own needs?

The East and West Wei fought for so many years and had a deep hatred. Lao Gao (Gao Huan) died of depression because of this, Gao Dalang Gao Cheng died before he could fulfill his ambitions.

So, Gao Erlang Gao Yang inherited the will of his father and brother, destroyed Wei and unified the north, offered prisoners of Taimiao, comforted his father and brother in heaven, and proved to the world that his abilities were no worse than those of his father and brother. Isn’t it natural?

In order to fight against the Liang Kingdom for several prefectures and counties in Huaibei, which were not their own territory a few years ago, wouldn’t we let the West laugh at it?

If Qi joins forces with Liang to destroy Wei, because of geographical relations, Qi will definitely be able to obtain Guanzhong and Longyou, recreating the confrontation between the north and south of the Northern Wei and Southern Qi.

Gao Yang was still young and spent twenty years to accumulate energy and prepare for war. He could not say that he could be the leader of the army and unify the world when he was forty or fifty years old.

Li Li felt that the other party could see that this was the best choice, so he felt that his strategy would be successful.

But now, after carefully asking about the prisoners of Qi, he found that things were different from what he thought.

Gao Yang is considered the founding emperor, but he is not the founding emperor in the usual sense. In fact, he has never been trained as an heir and has no connections in the military and political groups.

It was just because the orthodox heir Gao Dalang and Gao Cheng had an accident and was suddenly assassinated on the eve of his reign of emperorship. Gao Erlang was ordered to become the successor in the face of danger.

The foundation is unstable and there is not even much reliable team of your own, so you have to slowly cultivate it.

In order to suppress various factions, Gao Yang ignored the opposition of many elders and even his mothers, and forcibly proclaimed himself emperor without outstanding achievements and prestige.

In the name of the king and the minister, forcibly make everyone bow to themselves.

Therefore, Li Li made a mistake and thought that Gao Yang had the prestige and ruling team to establish a great founding king, which could make various factions obey, but it was not.

Moreover, today's Qi State has two core powers, namely, the Jinyang Ba Mansion and the Yecheng court, just like the sky has two days.

Jinyang Bafu is the territory of the military honors and can be classified as a "group of military generals"; Yecheng court is the territory of the bureaucratic group and can be classified as a "group of civil officials".

The emperors with many contradictions between the two cores of power and unstable power foundations are reconciled and balanced between the two, and they may not be able to deal with national affairs as they wish.

Li Li didn't know about this situation before, but after discussing the strategy he offered, the emperor decided to implement it after discussing with the important officials. It was supposed to weigh the pros and cons and judge that Gao Yang would give priority to dealing with the Wei State and choose to make peace with Liang State, which only recovered the lost territory.

However, now Li Li feels that the other party's next response may be different from what he expected.

The reason is that the "entrepreneurship team" of the Gao family, Jinyang Bafu, is a group of martial experts, is unruly and difficult to control. Even Gao Gao was very hard to control, but now Gao Erlang, whose foundation is unstable, may not be completely suppressed in a short period of time.

Then, after Gao Yue, a major royal official, was defeated and captured, Gao Yang could only seek the support of the military veterans. What would happen to Qi State's reaction in the future would not be dominated by Gao Yang's will.

Perhaps, Gao Yang, who spoke at the beginning, said, "Don't think you, I think." At this time, his tone of the Wuxun veterans was "The situation in Huaibei is now critical, so please help me because of my years of friendship."

Since the veterans of the Wuxun (military boss) took action, their decision-making intentions would not be based on the interests of Gao Yang himself (the emperor).

Among the elders of the Wuxun, there may be many individuals loyal to the Gao family, but as a group, the decisions made under the will of the group must be given priority to the interests of the group.

What are the interests of the martial artists?

Li Li frowned. He did not understand the virtues and political tendencies of the martial artists of the Jinyang Bafu Mansion. However, according to the traditional power struggle routine, he believed that the interests of these people were to support the enemy and respect themselves.

The reason is simple, but to conquer the world together, you cannot sit in the world together. The founding emperor and the second generation of emperors purge the founding ministers and let the elders stand aside, which is basically a natural choice.

As the saying goes, "The birds are all hidden in the bow", if the world is unified, the elders should stand aside; if the world is peaceful, the generals should drink the northwest wind.

Eleven years ago, the battle between the East and West Wei and Luoyang was in a battle, and the Western Wei was defeated. Gao Huan, the commander of the Eastern Wei army, wanted to take advantage of the victory and pursue Chang'an. As a result, the generals under the tent pushed three obstacles and four obstacles, but Gao Huan did not get what he wanted.

Li Li heard about this matter recently by the prisoners. What does this mean?

This shows that these Jinyang Wuxuns were all very cunning and knew the principle of "the birds were hidden all over the bows". Therefore, at that time, the Western Wei Dynasty was released and the East and West Wei continued to fight, so that they could continue to enjoy the delicious and spicy food.

Now that Qi's reinforcements supported by Huaibei were defeated, the Gao family led their own troops to be ugly, so next, Gao Yang could only ask Jinyang Wuxun to come out and find a place.

How will these 'big guys' solve the problem in front of you?

Lianliang destroyed Wei?

When Luoyang was victorious and the Western Wei was dying, these people could release the Western Wei. Why do we need to join forces with Liang to destroy Wei?

After the destruction of Wei, the martial artists of the Jinyang Bafu could stop the food, and the emperor relied on the bureaucrats in Yecheng to rule the world.

Therefore, the other party’s countermeasure may be another.

These people are long-standing generals, and there should be many famous generals of Murong Shaozong. When fighting, their vision must be very vicious.

If the Liang army on the Eastern Front showed a situation that it would not attack Pengcheng and would make up its mind to defend Huaibei prefectures and counties such as Wuzhou, then in the eyes of the old foxes of Jinyang Wuxun, they could take another way of dealing with it and achieve the best of both worlds.

Increase troops to defend Pengcheng, and then attack Mianbei with the main force, and seize the Mianbei area while the Liang army has not yet established a stable foothold.

Then he packed up the Wei army in Quinan area between Luoyang and Mianbei, and finally made a free move to recover the lost land in Huaibei and drive the Liang army back to Huainan.

He also protected Pengcheng and seized the important land of Mianbei. He also "recovered" Quenan to ensure the safety of Luoyang. In addition, he also had a feud with Liang State and suppressed the Liang army south of the Huai River.

The Three Kingdoms are still in power.

There are countless birds and bows, so there is no need to hide them.

Li Li sighed when he thought of this.

When he formulated his strategy, it was impossible for him to know who the commander of the first reinforcements of Qi State was. Before the Qi army invaded Huainan, the commander was neither a martial honorary of Jinyang nor a royal family.

Now, the defeated and captured reinforcements commander is Gao Yue, an important minister of the royal family. Next, there is no suspense that Jinyang Wuxun leads troops to fight.

If the other party really increases troops to defend Pengcheng but attacks Mianbei with its main force, our side must act according to the opportunity, change its strategy quickly and attack Pengcheng first.

Even if it is just a feint, it will cause Pengcheng to look in danger.

In the way of "attacking them must be rescued", the State of Qi was forced to send the main army to Pengcheng to rescue the siege instead of attacking Mianbei.

In this way, they were going to face the more fierce Qi army near Pengcheng, and a fierce battle was inevitable.

If you are not careful, the tragedy similar to the Battle of Hanshan will happen again.

The footsteps sounded, and Li Li looked in the sound, but it was yellow? Come.

"Li Lang hasn't rest yet?"

"Well, I want to do something." Li Li replied, seeing Huang? He smiled and asked, "What's the matter?"

"Uh... I have found two maids from the prisoners to serve the two ladies. After all, it is always inconvenient to do many things with soldiers."

Li Li didn't come back to his senses at once: "What lady?"

Huang? Quickly remind: "Two little ladies who act according to the opportunity."
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