After Li Chen finished speaking, he saw Wu Qingcang hesitated and said, "If you have anything to say, just say it. It's just you and me right now, so there's nothing to worry about."
Wu Qingcang then said: "Your Highness, some people in the army now think that... Your Highness will abandon Suiyang County and even Yulin Mansion."
Li Chen was stunned for a moment.
At this time, Wu Qingcang continued: "After all, judging from the current situation, even if they lost a Yulin mansion and lost hundreds of thousands of people, the Liao army can only have a little more breathing space at most. They still need
Attacking Wolong Mountain, and this little breathing space is just enough for our army to arrange the entire Wolong Mountain into a hell where the Liao army has no return."
"But having said that, if we insist on defending Suiyang County and protect the people of Yulin Prefecture, our army will have to pay a price of at least more than 50,000 people, and it may not be able to defend it. If we insist on fighting in Suiyang County, we will inevitably
It will affect the layout of Wolong Mountain and affect the whole body..."
"Now is the last step before success. Your Highness should think twice before taking action."
After listening to Wu Qingcang's words, Li Chen laughed dumbly and said: "I have thought twice, so I made this decision."
As he spoke, Li Chen asked in a playful tone: "After the incident of deliberately leaving hundreds of thousands of civilians at Yueyang Pass, are there many people who secretly despise my cruelty and ruthlessness and think that I am too cold-blooded?"
Wu Qingcang said nothing.
But silence is also an answer.
Li Chen sighed: "Commander Wu, you are the commander-in-chief of the entire army, you should be able to understand my mood."
Wu Qingcang said in a deep voice: "It is understandable. If His Highness had not taken the initiative to take on everything, then the current occupation would not be like this. Maybe we would still hold on to the Crescent Pass, but we must have run out of ammunition and food. If we had not released the Crescent Pass at that time,
, what we have now is the fate of the Liao army tomorrow, and everyone will be trapped there waiting to die."
"So this step of tactical concession is actually a huge strategic victory. With a crescent moon, hundreds of thousands of Liao troops are exchanged. This account is worth it no matter how you calculate it."
"Our army broke free from the invisible cage of Crescent Pass, and its strategic depth expanded to the entire Gansu and Shaanxi. This is how our army has the advantage of being able to retreat and attack today. Your Highness, you must have contributed a lot to it."
Li Chen nodded and said: "Whether it is for the king or for the commander, it is impossible for the winner to take all. Some trade-offs must be made, and the premise of making trade-offs is to stick to the bottom line and abandon the Crescent Gate. My goal is to make the choice
The entire Liao army is elite, but today in Suiyang County, it is not the same."
"Defending Sui Yang is for the people of Qin."
Li Chen stood up and said solemnly to Wu Qingcang: "The imperial court aims to stabilize the country, and the army aims to guard the country. What is the country, and what is the country? The people."
"If a court or an army can abandon the life and death of its own people, then such a court and army will be unpopular and will perish sooner or later, because everything about the court and the army comes from these people.
The people we protect."
After listening to Li Chen's words, Wu Qingcang's eyes brightened, and he immediately said solemnly: "My lord, on behalf of the hundreds of thousands of people in Yulin Mansion, I would like to thank Your Highness for your care."
"Everything is as it should be."
Chapter completed!