(Thank you for the headache, okman, Tang Zi didn't wave his hand to support him, especially thanks for the 10,000 reward that wouldn't work!)

If Liaodong City is captured, then the strategic situation in western Liaoning will be completely changed, and the situation will change like never before.

Within a day, the emperor visited the Privy Council twice, which surprised the guards in front of the Privy Council of the Imperial City. Everyone knew that something must have happened. That night, people came and went, including the chief and deputy Privy Councilor, the chief and deputy commander of the three yamen, as well as the generals, generals and generals of the guards in the capital of the Three yamen, came one by one, with the stars on their shoulders and the medals on their chests dazzling. The Supervisory Office also kept ordering historical clerks to come. Even the Minister of War and the Minister of War, who had lost their military power, had arrived a long time ago, and even the eunuchs of the emperor in the palace had come several times.

"Something must have happened." Zhao Xingshi, a Yulin guard who was on duty in front of the Privy Council, said to his companions.

"You can tell anyone." Liu Zhou curled his lips. That night, people came and went like a marquee in front of the Privy Council. No one could tell that something was a big deal. Not to mention that the generals gathered, the emperor came to the Privy Council for the second time in one night. "I guess it was a good thing." When the emperor came for the first time, his face was not good. He even heard that the emperor directly removed Shi Wansui, the deputy Privy Councilor who was drunk at home and refused to attend the military convention. But when the emperor came over again, his face was already filled with an undisguised smile.

"What good news do you think will be there?" Zhao Xingshi asked.

Liu Zhou thought for a while, "It must be that the battle in western Liaoning has a good result."

"Goguryeo was defeated?" Zhao Xingshi smacked his lips, "Do you think your Majesty is going to launch a large-scale counterattack on Goguryeo?" He became more and more excited as he spoke. "Do we have the chance to go to the battlefield again?"

The Sui army valued the most military achievements, and the more His Majesty the Emperor was like this. The emperor's direct line, Huaihuang army, was even more outstanding, and he was extremely brave in fighting. He relied on the system of rewards for merits established by the Huaihuang army since its inception.

The treatment of the Huaihuang Army is excellent, but the rewards for military merits are getting higher and higher. After a victory, the soldiers can receive extremely generous rewards with their military merits. This also makes the Huaihuang Army always eager to fight. Everyone is not afraid of war. On the contrary, they all want to fight.

As long as there is a war, there will be military merits, rewards, promotions, promotions, awards, and titles! The court just ended Dingxun and titles. The one who won the most titles was His Majesty's direct line, Huaihuang, who had won the titles of thirty-six county marquis and hundreds of uncles at once. Many new marquises and counts, one or two years ago, were only white ranks, at most, just small officers or local tyrants, and many were still horse bandits and bandits and vendors on the frontier. As for those more county and town men, they were mostly very ordinary. By chance, they followed His Majesty the Emperor and made the contribution of following the dragon, and then they became a new citizen of the empire.

Zhao Xingshi was originally just a hunter mountaineer in Youzhou, and later joined the Huaihuang Army. Unfortunately, he joined a little late. He participated in a few battles and only earned a team leader. After entering the pass with the emperor, he joined the Zuo Yulin Army and obtained an eighth-rank military position. For a hunter who was just a border deserter a year ago and worried about his family's livelihood all day, he became an eighth-rank military officer in less than a year. This was already a magnificent rise to the top. But the eighth-rank military officer was in the capital, which was nothing. If it weren't for the clearance of titles this time, there were many dukes in the capital in the past, and the eighth-rank military officers were like dogs, and the county dukes were all gone, and the eighth-rank military officers were

It was not as good as a servant in the wealthy family. Zhao Xingshi was eager to go to the battlefield again, and wanted to make more contributions with his archery skills, and could be granted the title like his boss, General Zuo Yulin, Marquis of Jibei. Qin Qiong was only 23 years old this year. Before he met today, he was just a personal military commander of Jianzhou General Lai Huer. But because of injustice, he helped the emperor and then formed a charity with him. Following the previous journey, his future completely changed. In less than two years, he rose from a personal military commander of Jianzhou General to the current General Zuo Yulin, the crown prince Zuowei, the marquis of Jibei County, and the state of Zhu.

"How great would it be if His Majesty led us to personally conquer Goguryeo. Then we will destroy Goguryeo directly. Maybe this battle will be defeated and I will be able to win a title based on my merits." Zhao Xingshi said with yearning.

In the Privy Council.

Yi Feng arrived again. As soon as he entered the conference hall, Yi Feng waved his hand directly, "All the original combat deployments were pushed down and started again."

Li Jing captured Liaodong City without bloodshed, which immediately changed the situation on the entire western Liaoning battlefield. Everyone who was beneficial to the Sui army couldn't help laughing out loud. Many generals even spoke out loudly and cursed the good luck of Li Jing, the madman, in the court.

The staff had already spliced ​​the sand trays in western Liaoning and Liaodong. On this huge sand tray centered on the Liaohe River, the cities and villages of the Great Sui and Goguryeo are clearly marked one by one. The Sui army was red and Goguryeo was blue. These were the hard work of the spies from the inspector's office. Now, the west bank of the Liaohe River that should have been red, but in the central area of ​​western Liaoning, Liucheng in Yingzhou was blue. It was tens of thousands of soldiers and horses personally led by Gao Yuan, the king of Goguryeo. Around the south of Liucheng, walking from west to east, several red dots were connected into a line, namely the Sui garrison of Yuguan, Fang Qiao garrison of Bailang City, Zhang Xutuo of Songshan, and Jia Wuben's defenders. This red line has even crossed the Liaohe River and extended to the control area of ​​Goguryeo, replacing the Liaodong City, the most important portal on the east bank of the Liaohe River, with red.

"Li Jing seized Liaodong City and blocked Gao Yuan's retreat. We have the chance to swallow Gao Yuan's remaining 50,000 troops across the river." He Ruobi pointed to the sand table and said loudly.

"As long as Gao Yuan runs fast, he still has a certain chance to escape. He does not have to withdraw as the original route. He can leave Yingzhou and go northwest first, exit the northwest of Yiwulu Mountain, and then continue northward, and retreat directly to Fuyu City, an important city on the northern bank of the Liao River in Goguryeo, or go south to the mouth of Liaohe River and cross the river to the east. At that time, he can choose to regain Liaodong City. He can also choose to withdraw the new city by the Xiaoliao River north of Liaodong City." Wang Bao put forward a different view. He felt that although Li Jing succeeded in taking the risk, it did not mean that Gao Yuan's more than 50,000 troops had no way out.

Previously, Yi Feng hated Li Jing for not following the order and destroying the court's plans. Now he doesn't think about this and begins to concentrate on calculating the strategic advantages that Li Jing brought to the Sui army after he took over Liaodong City.

For Yi Feng, Li Jing's biggest advantage in seizing Liaodong City was to break the original advantage of Gao Yuan. Although he seized Yingzhou, he has now become an isolated army and is half surrounded by the Sui army on the west bank of the Liao River. His most important east gate, Liaodong City, was lost. The Sui army lost Yingzhou, and Goguryeo lost Liaodong. Although it seems to be a major border town to exchange. However, the Liucheng of Yingzhou in western Liaoning is not so important to the Sui army. On the contrary, Liaodong City is extremely important to Goguryeo. Goguryeo is based on the Liaodong City.

He coordinated the control of the Liaohe Plain. Now that Liaodong City is lost, Gao Yuan’s rear is lost, and the best way to retreat is gone. Now, as long as Gao Yuan is not stupid, he has to automatically give up Yingzhou, which he finally got, and there is only one retreat road left and retreat to the northeast. Because it will be very dangerous to retreat southward, the Sui army not only seized Liaodong City, but also occupied Songshan at the southern end of the Bailang Water, which is also a must-pass place for the southern retreat route. Tens of thousands of Sui army occupied Songshan and guarded Bailang Water, and Gao Yuan’s road was not accessible at all.

Gao Yuan could only go north, which made him in an extremely dangerous situation. When his marching route was restricted and controlled by the Sui army, his retreat would no longer be safe.

Yi Feng could have arranged troops to block Gao Yuan in advance, and on the way back north.

This retreat route north of Goguryeo. Especially through the mountain pass at the northern entrance of Yiwulu Mountain, it is at the junction of western Liao and Khitan. The Sui Dynasty's troops were still coming to the west, but Yi Feng was able to transfer the Khitan troops to intercept them. You can also transfer the Xi soldiers from the northwest of Yingzhou to immediately go south to pursue them, blocking them from front and back. Don't drag Gao Yuan to death on this road, and wait for Han Sengshou's troops to arrive and annihilate them in one fell swoop.

Even if Gao Yuan escaped by chance, he would have to suffer a lot of casualties. Several Sui army and Xi, Khitan and other foreign troops advanced eastward. At that time, not only could they easily recover western Liaoning, but they could even plan to seize the east bank of the Liaohe River. This is completely feasible. Yi Feng refused to move Goguryeo early before because Liaodong was too far away, and the Goguryeo people had been operating in the Liaohe River for many years, and it was hard to leverage, especially when the imperial court met.

With huge difficulties in transporting food and grass, but now Li Jing occupied the Liaodong city, which broke the most important link of the Liaohe defense line of the Goguryeo people, which made the wide Liaohe River lose its defensive effect. He followed the army to use Liaodong city as the advance base and easily crossed the Liaohe River, and had a forward base on the east bank. In addition, there were hundreds of thousands of stones of food and grass and a large amount of equipment in the Liaodong city, which was even more important. There was a cloud in the military strategy, and one bell for food to eat the enemy, twenty bells for me.

Food is the guarantee of war, and logistics transportation lines are the lifeblood of the army. Especially for expeditionary battles such as Liaoning, which are far away from the territory, food supply is the top priority.

Cao Cao's explanation of Sun Tzu's military strategy was that he could transport twenty beads from the domestic to the front line of the enemy country, and finally he could only deliver one bead. Therefore, if he collected one beads from the local area of ​​the enemy country, his country could spend twenty beads less. On the first day of the first day, it seemed a bit too outrageous, but it was a fact. In history, Qin Shihuang conquered the Huns, and for every thirty stones of grain was collected, he finally transported only one stone of grain to the front line.

What is even more explanatory is that when Yang Guang conquered Goguryeo in history, he had already done a lot of preparations in advance, such as digging the canal from the Yellow River to Zhuo County of Youzhou, and building several wide and flat imperial roads, which were specially used to transport troops and transport food and grass. However, with so many sufficient preparations, with such convenient canals and imperial roads, he still had to send out every dozen stones of grain, and in the end he could only transport one stone, which was consumed hugely on the road. Not only did he consume a lot of grain, but he also had to use a huge amount of labor. Yang Guang's first conquered Liao, sent a million troops, and the civilians used more than two million. At that time, almost all the men who claimed to be in the world were mobilized, either to fight or transport grain and weapons to the army.

Therefore, although Li Jing only seized more than 500,000 stones of grain in Liaodong City, it was equivalent to collecting 10 million stones of grain to transport it to Liaodong. Not to mention, to transport this ten million stone of grain, how many civilians and mules and horses had to be used on the way, in the end, there were only 500,000 stones left.

A Liaodong city is incalculable in the current situation.

With this Liaodong City and 500,000 stones of grain, Han Sengshou's army could even rush to Liaodong with only a small amount of grain. Even if Gao Yuan retreated, the Sui army would have completely gained the upper hand as long as it occupied the Liaodong City. With this grain and equipment, and this strong city, the Sui army could immediately cross the river, organize a wave of east bank sweeping offensives, and sweep away all the Goguryeo city and fortresses on the surrounding plains. Without the core city of Liaodong City, the surrounding small town became a pile of loose sand, making it difficult to form a whole defense, and it was easy for the Sui army to defeat them one by one along the gap in Liaodong City. In particular, the grain of Liaodong City was actually not just reserved for Liaodong City, but also the transfer of military rations from Zhucheng Castles around the East Coast Defense Circle of Liaodong East.

When Cao Cao and Yuan Shao fought in a battle, Yuan Shao's army was several times that of Cao Cao, but it was because Wuchao's food and grass were burned. As a result, Yuan Shao was defeated in Guandu. The loss of Liaodong City was also so dangerous for the Goguryeo people.

Yi Feng had long been thinking about the current situation in his mind. Before Liaodong City was taken down, Yi Feng's bottom line was to recover western Liaoning, push the defense line to Liaohe, and then temporarily quit with Goguryeo. But when Liaodong City was about to happen, the situation was completely different, just like a city. The defense was complete, and it was difficult to capture it in a short time, but if one of the enemy's gates suddenly seized, the enemy's defense would have a fatal flaw. As long as you go in with the open city gate, the enemy's city wall would completely lose its function. This is the case in Goguryeo now, their Liaohe defense line was very strong, but now they lost the gate.

"If you don't take the gift of heaven, you will suffer the consequences." Yi Feng slapped the table and began to propose his new plan. "Immediately send Li Jing to him not to defend Liaodong City. He doesn't need to take risks to attack the surrounding areas. As long as he sticks to Liaodong City, especially to ensure that the food and grass equipment in the city is not lost, it is a unique function, so that he can wait for the arrival of the imperial army."

"In addition, immediately impose the five governors of Xi'an, and ask them to lead their troops to rush to the state to pursue Gao Yuan."

"I sent an order to the ten governors of the Khitan, and asked them to gather troops from all over the country immediately to go to the northern entrance of Yiwulu Mountain to intercept and ambush Gao Yuan!"

"I will send another order to Han Sengshou, so that he can move forward lightly immediately and rush to Liaodong City."

After several imperial edicts were issued in succession, Yi Feng was also in a state of great excitement this time. If he could keep all the troops and horses that invaded western Liaoning and even be lucky enough to seize Gao Yuan, then the court would have a chance to recover the east bank of the Liaohe River and even further recover the Liaodong Peninsula.

"I will draw an order to Silla, Baekje, and Japan, and let them immediately send troops to attack Goguryeo."

Wen Yanbo, a Hanlin Chengzhi Bachelor, wrote the Dragon God, and quickly recorded Yi Feng's will.

"I will go to Youzhou in person!"

"Your Majesty, don't leave the capital easily." Yi Feng's words immediately attracted a lot of advice.

"Then move to Luoyang, no longer advise." Yi Feng took a step back, but insisted that he had to move to Luoyang at least.

Yi Feng actually knew that at this time, it was impossible for him to be in charge of the emperor to personally fight. Unless it was a last resort, the emperor needed to visit the front line to boost morale, otherwise it would only cause trouble and not help. However, if the war in Liaodong began, it would be a full-scale war between the two major powers. At that time, Yi Feng was still in Chang'an, four or five thousand miles apart, and the news was difficult to convey in time. Moreover, he had already designated Luoyang as Zhongjing, and Xijing had become the capital of Liudu to accompany Beijing, so it would be a good time to move to Luoyang with this opportunity now.

The next morning, at the court meeting, Yi Feng announced in the Liangyi Hall to expand the scale of the war against Goguryeo.

"We must be prepared to fight a full-scale war with the Goguryeo people. If the war goes well, then our goal is to recover the Liaohe Plain. If the situation is good, we will even further recover the Liaodong Peninsula in one fell swoop, until the Yalu River goes." Yi Feng did not hide his optimism about this war and his majestic goals.

"The emperor finally couldn't hold back anymore, and opened his mouth wide, revealing his sharp teeth."

After going down the court, Liu Shu couldn't help but sigh.

"Li Jing is really brave. He ran 800 miles long, went deep into the enemy's back, seized the enemy's strong city fortress, and reversed the situation in the entire Liaohe River in one fell swoop. The younger generation is so terrifying. There are new people coming out of the country, and we are all old." Yang Su said with a smile.

Liu Shu curled his lips, "Li Jing has good abilities, but unfortunately he is a little too arrogant and arrogant. He is in the Northeast, and he has repeatedly disobeyed the will of the holy people. This time he is lucky, so he can win the Liaodong city. But I bet that although Li Jing made great contributions this time, he has no good impression of the emperor. After this battle, Li Jing will definitely not be able to stay in the Privy Council anymore. If His Majesty is kind and add a title to him and tie him up, he will be the right person to live in him. If ordinary people are so arrogant, it is not worth jealous of death a hundred times."

"If Li Jing was transferred from the Privy Council, wouldn't the Privy Council be vacant for two deputy envoys at once? Mr. Liu will soon be able to enter the Privy Council." Yang Su smiled slightly. He and Liu Shu had the same viewpoint. Although Li Jing made great contributions this time, he had already committed a taboo of ministers. The greater the contributions he made, the more fearful the emperor would become. The emperor would never let such a general who violated the will several times be in the most important Privy Council in the court control the military power. Giving him a bright promotion and real surrender is already considered the emperor's kindness. If an ordinary emperor, a arrogant guy like Li Jing would not even know how he would die.
Chapter completed!