Li Shimin has been thinking a lot these days.

On the one hand, he secretly examined his strategic issues in the war in the Eastern Expedition to Goguryeo. He believed that his main problem was because of underestimating the enemy. He originally believed that the war to conquer Goguryeo could end in a short period of time, so he did not make sufficient logistics preparations.

Li Shimin felt very unhappy when the war ended like this.

Although Wang Yaozu, Sun Yongsheng, Xiang Donglei and others rescued themselves at the critical moment, Li Shimin still felt uncomfortable. He felt that these people seemed to have expected the end of the war. Then they appeared there at this moment, at this moment.

He wants to hear what these people have to explain now.

Yao Dong said: "Your Majesty, this matter will start half a month ago..."

Dengzhou.

Half a month ago, a team of naval ships sailed into the Dengzhou military port, and a large number of marines boarded the dock.

Wang Yaozu then appeared in the Dengzhou Governor's Office.

Wang Yaozu took out Liu Rengui's letter, saying that Li Shimin's eastern expedition to Goguryeo was not going well. Seeing that winter was approaching, he hoped that Yao Dong could organize winter supplies and go to Anshicheng to support him.

Li You has the title of Governor of Dengzhou Governor's Office. After he left, Yao Dong also served as Governor of Dengzhou Governor's Office. The last time Li You organized the Eastern Expedition Army is currently under the control of the Governor's Office.

Liu Rengui asked Yao Dong to send the Eastern Expedition Army to follow Wang Yaozu to Anshicheng to assist His Majesty in attacking Anshicheng.

In this case, without the court's clear order to mobilize troops, Yao Dong should not have mobilized troops without authorization. Liu Rengui was not their direct superior, and he had no right to mobilize troops.

However, the officials and generals who have followed Li You all have the initiative. The starting point of this matter itself is correct, and Yao Dong also guessed that it was Li You's secret instruction.

Otherwise, how could Liu Rengui take such a big risk and find trouble if he has nothing to do.

Yao Dong believes that even if something goes wrong, His Highness King Qi will protect him.

So he implemented a support action for Anshicheng in accordance with Liu Rengui's requirements.

Yao Dong said: "Your Majesty, you have no order from the Ministry of War to dispatch troops without authorization. You also ask Your Majesty to punish him."

Originally, Li Shimin guessed that this matter was probably instructed by Li You again.

Li You must have done this out of good intentions. However, he was far away in Persia and could actually predict the end of the war in Goguryeo in advance, which made Li Shimin unacceptable.

After hearing this explanation from Yao Dong and others, Li Shimin was still acceptable.

Not only did he not blame Yao Dong and others, he also praised them and promoted them to the title.

Li You was very clear about this period of Li Shimin's Eastern Expedition in history, but he did not make any suggestions to Li Shimin because Li You was far away in Persia. It would be too strange if he provided advice on the situation in Goguryeo thousands of miles away.

Therefore, Li Shimin's eastern expedition to Goguryeo, Li You did not make any suggestions. He was indeed unable to tell Li Shimin that this eastern expedition would be defeated.

Later, Li Chengqian wrote to Li You, in which he mentioned that Li Shimin decided to end the Goguryeo War before winter came, and did not take 160,000 people to the war as planned. Li You realized that Li Shimin had embarked on the old path of the eastern expedition to Goguryeo in history.

Then this war is doomed to fail.

The failure of this war in the East Expedition to Goguryeo was not only due to Li Shimin's underestimation of the enemy, but also made another strategic mistake. He should follow the advice of his generals, capture the thief and the king, and first take Pyongyang, rather than compete in Anshicheng.

Moreover, after deciding to attack Pyongyang, he was indecisive and adopted Changsun Wuji's suggestion, thus losing the last chance to win the war.

Of course, the most important mistake Li Shimin made was that he should not be in charge of the army. His generals Li Ji, Li Daozong, Zhang Liang, Zhang Shigui, Niu Jinda and others were all famous generals of the Tang Dynasty. If they were commanded by them, the above mistakes would not have happened.

It was precisely because of Li Shimin's personal command that their talents were subject to many constraints.

However, Li You cannot say all this in advance. All Li You can do is to make up for the loss and secretly help Li Shimin. He secretly wrote to Liu Rengui, asking him to come forward to do this, and reminded him not to mention his name.

Li Shimin commanded the reinforcements and finally turned defeat into victory and defeated the Goguryeo people, which brought a perfect end to this Eastern Expedition. When winter came, he led the army to continue his troops to continue his journey.

On this day, Li Shimin and others stayed in Jizhou, and Li Chengqian transferred the memorial written by Li You and Cheng Yaojin.

After reading it, Li Shimin smiled and said, "Daozong, Li Ji, look at it, my son, haha."

After reading the rumor, Li Ji, Li Daozong, Zhang Liang and others, they were all very excited.

Li Daozong smiled and said, "Your Majesty, Your Majesty, Your Highness, Cheng Yaojin and others did a good job. With tens of thousands of Turkic soldiers and Tuyuhun people, they captured such a large territory."

Last time at the critical moment, Li You protected Li Ji, who admired Li You very much. He had a strategic vision and said with some fascination: "Your Majesty, I admire Your Highness the King of Qi very much.

The situation in Persia is not as simple as military. If you want to be able to be easy in Persia, the Great Food, the Tianzhu and the Tusfan, it is impossible for people with great wisdom to do it."

Zhang Liang knew that his son Zhang Baogui had made great contributions again, and he was laughing there.

Li Shimin smiled and said, "My son has just fought the army of Dashi, and in a blink of an eye he married the princess. Persia and Dashi fought to the death, but he was doing business with both sides. With just a few people, he took down the Feituo Kingdom, but Tubo and Tianzhu Kingdom could only watch and dare not move.

Alas, I really don't know how he did it."

Then, Li Shimin said: "This time we will go east to go to Goguryeo, and we will be safe on the way back. The reinforcements must have been arranged by my son in advance. This kid, haha."

Li Shimin is a broad-minded emperor of the ages. He will not feel embarrassed just because he lost the battle.

In fact, when Li Ji, Li Daozong and others saw that the reinforcements appeared were all Li You's subordinates, they had already guessed this. However, they were worried that Li Shimin was embarrassed, so no one mentioned it.

Now that I see that Li Shimin is not afraid of it, everyone is relieved.

Li Daozong said: "Your Majesty, I have fought with His Highness the King of Qi. He did not simply rely on the bravery of the army to fight, but to operate cleverly in various complex relationships. He won at a very small price, or even won without a fight."

He and Hou Junji followed Li You to Tuyuhun, but they won the battle without fighting.

Li Shimin suddenly missed this son a little, and he said, "I haven't seen him for almost two years, so it's time to let him come back."
Chapter completed!