Chapter 167 I really hate someone pointing at me

"This is the foundation!" Du Ruhui said with a pale face.

His face was pale, not because he was frightened by the current bad situation, but because he was originally dragging his sick body and gritting his teeth and supporting him with strong support.

After a long time, Li Shimin finally figured it out. He sighed: "They did not send more soldiers and soldiers, and did not add armor and blades. Just changing one general, they completely reversed the situation! This is the charm of a commander... The most terrifying thing about an excellent commander is not how brave he is, but that he has the ability to control everything even on a battlefield where flesh and blood are flying, so that cowardly soldiers will not retreat, and brave soldiers will not dare to fight for the first place, and turn a group of herbivores into bloodthirsty beasts."

Du Ruhui's thin face made his eyes look deeper.

Li Shimin patted Du Ruhui on the shoulder and said naturally: "Although he is very powerful, he can't win this battle!"

Li Shimin quickly issued an order, and a reserve team quickly entered the battlefield.

Li Shimin’s confidence is that there are many people. There are actually many people in Fusang mainland.

However, the population carried by land is limited anywhere. China has reached its peak in its national strength since its founding in the early days of its founding.

This is true for the Ming Dynasty and the Song Dynasty. The Tang Dynasty was the biggest time, but during the Taizong period in history, but during the Gaozong Li Zhi and Wuzhou periods, which happened to be three generations.

One of the biggest disadvantages of a prosperous era is that it has abundant resources, a prosperous country and a safe country, and the people can reproduce with confidence, so the population grows rapidly. However, the population needs land as support, and a country's land is limited, and the limited population supports an infinitely growing population. Everyone knows what will happen.

Therefore, when the population exceeds the limit that the land can accommodate, the prosperous times will turn into passing clouds and chaos, and with it, the troubled times will follow. More and more people are fighting openly and secretly for less and less land, and they can't even be confused. If there are a few more large-scale natural disasters or wars at this time, it can be said that this country is dead.

The Fusang continent is a city-state country with a very small country and does not have a large-scale war like the Central Plains, but how did they reduce their population?

They took sacrifices, very bloody human sacrifices, and sacrificed the excess population to false gods. Sacrifices served the purpose of regulating the population. They needed to thank the gods for their harvest, killed some people, and sacrificed to the gods. When they encountered famine, they also had to sacrifice. In short, they relied on this sacrifice model in the relative circle and had a great time until the Age of Discovery came, and they faced a catastrophe.

When Li Shimin arrived at the Fusang continent, he was immediately terminated. Even if Li Shimin was an ancient person, he was also a very civilized person. In Li Shimin's view, people can be killed, starved to death, or burned to death. The only thing that cannot be tolerated is to be used as sacrifices and sacrificed to gods.

Under a very skillful management, spiritual baptisms similar to that of an island country began to appear in the Fusang continent. All city-states in the Fusang continent received news that Li Shimin was the incarnation of the feathered snake god in the world, and fighting for Li Shimin was to be loyal to the gods.

In this context, Li Shimin never needs to consume it.

The army he could arm was far more than Li Jiancheng imagined.

His strategy is very simple, that is, there are more ants to eat the elephant, no matter how well you are equipped, how well your training is, there are not many other people in the Tang Dynasty, but there are many people.

If five hundred people can't fight, then one thousand people. If one thousand people can't fight, then five thousand people.

Since you can't kill you, you will be exhausted.

The person responsible for commanding the war in the southeast was replaced by the Jaguar. Although the Jaguar was not his real name, he was really in charge. Even though he knew that the Tang army had bad intentions, he did not frown. He led more than 30,000 people, but he bumped into it without even reconnaissance.

Although the Tang army bravely eliminated seven of them, the Jaguars rely on the offensive of the sea of ​​people to exhaust the Tang army's arrows and were forced to retreat.

After capturing Ningdu, the Jaguars were still as their name was, like a sharp sword, penetrated straight into Xingguo, and broke through Le'an County, which had no time to organize the retreat. Their target was Ganzhou.

Ganzhou is the upper reaches of the Ganjiang River and the southern gate of Jiangxi.

As early as the reign of Qin Shihuang, Qin Shihuang sent five troops to garrison the five ridges, one of which guarded the boundary of Yuling, where Ganzhou City was.

With the loss of Ganzhou, the entire Jiangnan Road of Datang began to panic.

Due to the previous misjudgment of Li Shimin's attack direction, the Shandong Road Strategy and Pacification Envoy Su Dingfang concentrated the main forces of Jiangnan Road into Suzhou.

Yan Liben, the Jiangnan Road promotion and demotion envoy, was not a military director. He was just a civil servant. More importantly, he was obsessed with calligraphy and painting. The purpose of putting Yan Liben as a promotion and demotion envoy in Jiangnan Road was not to appoint his abilities, but because he was incompetent, so that he would not catch Su Dingfang.

Now, it’s better that he could not accept Su Dingfang’s order. Yan Liben was a little panicked when he saw the enemy’s unstoppable pounce on Suzhou. He didn’t care about any strategy and commanded more than 40 Zhechong Mansions under his command to surround him from all directions. He first pinched off this tough stubborn mansion!

In this way, it was exactly what Li Shimin thought.

In mid-May, a war between the Great Tang Dynasty and the Jiangzhou (now Jiujiang) of the Tang Dynasty broke out. In this battle, the Tang Dynasty invested 43 Zhechong Prefectures, totaling more than 70,000 people, while Li Shimin led the 210,000 troops of the Lingnan Barbarian Alliance. The two sides fought fiercely in a radius of less than a thousand miles.

After half a month of fierce fighting, the Tang army was defeated and Suzhou was captured by Li Shimin.

In the direction of Lingnan, Li Shimin sent Hou Mo Chenxu, who was also Chen Ying's clan brother.

Hou Mo Chenxu is the real master of Hou Mo Chen's family in Lingnan.

Lingnan is different from the Central Plains. Although this place belongs to the court in the Central Plains in name, it is just nominal. The leaders of the clans who really rule here are the leaders of the Chachali tribes, such as the Xiyuan Man, Huangdong Man, Ge Liao, Qiguli of Guizhou, Nanping Liao, Feitouliao, Wuwuliao, Yaoliao, Manliao, Yaogong and other tribes in eastern Sichuan.

Because these tribes are relatively backward, they are not good at farming. Although they are diligent, they do not have much wealth. However, in the cities outside the gathering place, the Han people have rich wealth. This is the root of the sin.

When the poor face the rich, their eyes are green, which is definitely not an exaggeration. Therefore, fierce conflicts have erupted here for a long time, and bloodshed incidents often occur. These tribes of the Imperial tribes have no court at all, and they only have Feng or Houmo Chen in their hearts.

With the official return of Hou Mo and Chenxu, the tribes of the officials who had originally vowed to be loyal to the court immediately rebeled and resolutely supported Hou Mo and Chenxu. In Hou Mo and Chenxu led a head-on confrontation with the Tang Dynasty's imperial army, and used their familiar terrain and barbarians to divide and surround the imperial army.

During the Battle of Lingnan, Hou Mo and Chen Xu had extremely smooth commands and were extremely targeted, and obviously had completely mastered the rhythm of the battlefield. In just three months, they pushed the troops to the city of Chengdu in Jiannan Road. The area south of Chengdu was no longer owned by the Tang Dynasty.

After Hou Mo and Chenxu controlled the south, he pushed further north.

Under the attack of absolute superior force, the General of the Left Wu Guard Pang Yu could only retreat at Jianmen Pass.

As the saying goes, the world is a game of chess.

With Hou Mo and Chenxu taking the lead in breaking the deadlock, the troops forced Jiange to force him to do so.

Li Shimin also took the opportunity to advance lightly and arrived in Jingkou and other places. The Feng clan soldiers and the Baiyue coalition forces repeatedly swept the south of the Yangtze River.

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The situation was so bad that it was too bad. Li Jiancheng and the Tang Dynasty's court seemed to have been too slow to react. In other words, there was no counterattack at all.

Although the Fusang Tang army was fighting along the overpass like locusts, in the view of General Andong Li Shiji, this level of attack could be said to be an ordinary peasant army in the chaos in the end of the Sui Dynasty, and was vulnerable.

However, it was precisely because of the attack in the direction of the sky bridge that involved Li Shiji's great energy that he could not guarantee whether the million-dollar army would have any leaks. Once a leak occurs in Liaodong, the only way to commit suicide is to wait for him.

On the observatory of Linhu Hall in Taiji Palace in Chang'an City, Li Jiancheng looked depressed.

Chen Ying smiled and said, "Your Majesty, are you still struggling?"

Li Jiancheng said frankly: "I can't help but worry. After all, what I will do next will lead to extremely serious consequences. I don't know whether it is right or wrong. I can only leave it to time to prove it... So, I can't help but worry."

"Yes, it is always difficult to make major choices, and we only have one chance. Once we are wrong, we will never have another chance to come back!" Chen Ying sighed: "It is really difficult to stick to your own choices. It is even more difficult to stick to your own choices and not let yourself regret it after sticking to your own choices."

Li Jiancheng's body, which had been much thinner, burst out with a strong murderous aura that could not be dissolved, and even Chen Ying's hair stood up.

If Li Jiancheng was standing in Tai Chi Hall of Tai Chi Palace at this time, he would be afraid that in less than ten breaths, the civil and military officials in the hall would have fallen halfway by the murderous aura on his body.

Just then, An Yanyan bowed and said, "Your Majesty, all the officials are waiting!"

Li Jiancheng took a deep breath and said, "Let's go, I've had enough!"

Chen Ying followed Li Jiancheng.

Li Jiancheng asked: "What's going on there in Su Dingfang?"

Li Anyan smiled bitterly and said, "The left supervisor's gatekeeper just found out the situation. It was the general of the auxiliary country who went to Licheng!"

Chen Ying smiled and said, "What are Liu Hongji going to Licheng for?"

Since the Xuanwu Gate Incident, Li Jiancheng did not treat Liu Hongji as an old minister, and gave him the position of Weiqing, removed his military position, and took back the power of the Left Guard General. Of course, Li Jiancheng was too kind and gave Liu Hong the title of General of Kiev. This was the second-class Lord, second only to Chen Ying's General of the Cavalry, and was the same as Li Jing, and was even higher than Li Shiji.

Li Anyan smiled bitterly and said, "The General of the Sui Kingdom led the attendant of the Weiwei Temple, including the General of the Shandong Road of Licheng, and claimed that he had obtained evidence of General Su Dingfang and treason, and let General Su Dingfang and Su hand over the military power and return to Chang'an to defend himself!"

Chen Ying couldn't help rolling his eyes. This old man is really unlimited to commit suicide!

In parallel history, he failed Li Yuan's trust in him and handed over the entire Tai Chi Palace to Li Shimin. Without Liu Hongji, the immortal, Li Shimin's troops would not have entered the Tai Chi Palace at all. I really thought that Chang He could pass through without any obstacles? This is pure nonsense. Chang He's official position is only the fourth rank, and he was not considered a senior general at the level of the Tang Dynasty.

Without the nod of Liu Hongji, the boss of the Tai Chi Palace Guard, Li Shimin would probably not be able to bring even ten people into the palace. He really thought the palace could be in and out at will? In that case, the assassinated emperor in history would go to sea.

Now he actually used it to help Li Shimin, but he wanted to eliminate the roots and kill the supreme commander of the Tang Dynasty who resisted Li Shimin.

This level of death is even dumbfounded by the Northern Song Dynasty court, which once won the championship of the Fictional Death Competition, and sighs that it is not right! The Northern Song Dynasty is still willing to spend tens of millions of military funds every year to maintain the Western Army, the most fierce and combat-friendly field army in the Song Dynasty, just in case.

These guys are good. Not to mention the ruins of so many outstanding soldiers, there are more than 70,000 troops in Jiangnan Road and tens of thousands of troops in Longyou Road. They also need to kill the largest and last field army group in the eastern part of the Tang Dynasty! It is really the Yangtze River's waves that push the previous waves, and a new generation of new people can replace the old people. It's really awesome for young people. I believe that even if the scholars and officials who ruined the Northern Song Dynasty were invited to come, they could only write a gift when facing these younger generations. Even the smashed groups that sold the Ming Dynasty would be willing to give up the disadvantage.

In fact, these miscellaneous things are Li Shimin's true confidence. They have long been accustomed to being arrogant and above the imperial power and the court. Dissatisfied with Li Yuan, he immediately launched the chess piece Liu Wuzhou. Within three months, Liu Wuzhou swept across Hedong and was in a great position to compete for the Central Plains.

When Li Yuan agreed with them, they immediately sold Liu Wuzhou and returned Hedong to Li Yuan. Of course, the most pitiful thing was Dou Jiande. The so-called dispute between the three kingdoms of Tang, Xia and Zheng was actually a process of bargaining between Hedong, Hedong and Henan aristocratic families and the Li Tang court.

When the two parties agreed to the price, Dou Jiande became a victim. Of course, they gave Li Yuan and Li Tang court a look at each other. Liu Shishan, who was not famous for three months, occupied the entire thirty-nine prefectures of Hebei and became the de facto King of Hebei.

In order to force Su Dingfang to submit, they also used Su Dingfang's gentlemanly heart to deceive him. They gathered representatives of Hebei gentry, more than 300 80-year-old men, sitting quietly in front of Su Dingfang's headquarters.

In fact, the group of shrimp soldiers and crab generals led by Liu Hongji alone could not trap Su Dingfang at all. If Su Dingfang was willing, his personal guards could kill Liu Hongji for a hundred round trips.

The key is that these more than 300 elderly people, let alone rushing to death, even if one of them is scared to death, Su Dingfang jumped into the Yellow River and couldn't explain it clearly.

He was really old but never died as a thief. At the end of the Sui Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty, the old people who experienced the Northern Zhou, Sui and Tang dynasties were even rarer than the national treasures of later generations. It was probably not easy to find more than 300 people.

Li Jiancheng couldn't bear it anymore and said, "I'm really a good death."

In the Tai Chi Palace, civil and military ministers stood up in an orderly manner, silently. Li Jiancheng held his hands behind his back, and he looked like a sculpture, facing the court officials, and he remained motionless.

Li Jiancheng closed his eyes and tried his best to hide the anger in his heart.

Wei Zheng's eyebrows suddenly jumped, and his eyes looked at the ministers around him. All the ministers kept their breath and secretly warned their fear.

Suddenly, Li Jiancheng turned around, and his sharp and bright eyes suddenly opened, and his eyes swept into the ministers.

"Shushu Sheren!"

Cen Wenben bowed and said, "I am here!"

"Opinion!"

Cen Wenben's body trembled, and his voice trembled: "General of the Fuguo State, Kaifu Yitong Sansi, Weiwei Qing Kui Duke Liu Hongji, has let down my wishes and killed the nine clans. He resigned from evil and resisted stubbornly, and killed without mercy!!"

Wei Zheng was the first to stand up and said, "Your Majesty, how can a first-rank official in the court be executed without guilt!"

Li Jiancheng also knew that Wei Zheng's opposition was not to protect Liu Hongji, but to maintain the imperial court's official goods.

Li Jiancheng didn't say anything.
To be continued...