The Passionate Guns of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Chapter 792 Meet Li Shimin (4)

Wei Zheng stood up, took the tea bowl with both hands, listened to Yang Yong's words, put the tea bowl down again, thought for a moment and said: "It's hard to say, my lord, but it's already strange that Li Yuan asked Li Shimin, a heavyweight, to personally send our rebel army. Now that Princess Kaiyang has been sent here, with so many precious gifts, the subordinates think that the envoy sent by Datang this time should not be a letter of challenge, but most likely to seek peace."

Yang Yong listened quietly, nodded, picked up the tea and took a sip, then slowly put down the tea bowl, and turned back and forth in front of Wei Zheng twice with his hands behind his back, "I understand. Weak, unable to make ends meet, he Yuan couldn't stand it, so he had to sue for peace with us, to win the opportunity to recuperate, and wait for Datang to calm down and then deal with us. This is a strategy for stabilizing the army. The two heavyweights sent by Li Yuanzhi The characters sent so many gifts again, one is to prove that Datang is sincere, and the other is to apologize for breaking the contract without authorization last time, so it is difficult for us to refuse."

Wei Zheng nodded after listening to Yang Yong's analysis, "My lord is really smart, and my subordinates think that Li Yuan must think so, which just exposes the emptiness of Tang. Li Yuan is afraid. The Tang army is newly defeated, and the morale of our army is on the upswing." Sheng, it is a good time to attack Datang. Therefore, in tomorrow's meeting, the prince must not fall into Li Shimin's strategy of stabilizing the army. He should organize a large army to take the initiative to attack. With one effort, he will surely win Bingzhou and not give Datang a breather. chance."

After Yang Yong listened to Wei Zheng's words, he was about to nod his head in agreement when he suddenly thought of something important, and excitedly shook his head at Wei Zheng, saying: "The military division's words are wrong. Tomorrow's meeting, as long as Li Shimin proposes a truce, I will definitely Will gladly oblige."

"Ah?" Wei Zheng listened to Yang Yong's words, as if he didn't recognize Yang Yong all of a sudden, he stared at Yang Yong's face in a daze, wondering what's wrong with our lord, whether he was confused by Cheng Yaojin , Knowing that it is time to go up?Just now he himself analyzed that Li Shimin was here to stabilize the army, which is completely correct, but why is he still willing to fall into the trap?

Then Wei Zheng thought about the military situation on the rebel side. Jiangnan was fighting against Xiao Liang. Yang Yong must be worried that the rebel army was not sure about fighting on the north and south fronts. After all, he was facing a powerful Tang Dynasty.

Thinking of this, Wei Zheng hurriedly persuaded him, "My lord is willing to shake hands with Datang because he is worried about being attacked on both sides. In fact, you don't have to worry about it. You have already wiped out the five kings of the southeast. Now there is only one Xiao Xian left in the south of the Yangtze River. His territory is It's not small, and its strength is also very strong, but since the prince repelled Xiao Xian's personal conscripts, Maogong's troops have been invincible all the way, and Yichang and Qin Qiong's people are sloppy in Jingzhou. Liang is besieged on all sides, and the day of defeat is not far away. In two years, our army's territory has doubled. Without moving the troops in the south of the Yangtze River, it is enough to deal with the exhausted Datang. Su Dingfang of the state, let him lead his troops to cooperate, and the two armies will attack Datang, and a battle will be successful."

Yang Yong smiled and said: "Don't misunderstand the military. The words of the military are pure and simple, and the military strategy is not bad. Zhou Yafu was just like that back then. Xiao Xian survived in name only. He didn't take care of himself. It was only a matter of time before he died. It's worth mentioning. But this king knows that soldiers are not good at war since ancient times. Attacking the heart is the top priority and attacking the city is the bottom. If you want to be able to defeat the enemy without fighting, why do you have to raise troops in two ways? The lives of wars are exhausted. What is left is national strength, what is left is wounds, regardless of victory or defeat, in this respect, there are no winners in war.”

Wei Zheng was confused when he heard that, what, surrender without fighting?If Xiao Mian was not considered, the rebel army had only one formidable enemy in front of them, and that was Datang. Yang Yong could make Datang surrender without using weapons. Is this possible?
Yang Yong saw Wei Zheng's doubts and explained: "Military Master, the Tang Dynasty here has already exposed its weakness, but this king wants to make the Tang Dynasty weaker and at the same time make the rebel army stronger. This king has sent out a large number of troops to suppress the territory, if the Great Tang does not want to perish like other kings, he can only bow his head and become a vassal."

Wei Zheng was really fresh when he heard it, making the enemy weaker and making himself stronger, this is probably wishful thinking!But this can't be said directly to Yang Yong, so he said, "This subordinate is stupid, I don't know what the lord's strategy is?"

Yang Yong smiled and said, "Actually, it's just two words, time. It will take time to make the Tang Dynasty weaker, and it will take time to make our rebel army stronger. Therefore, in tomorrow's meeting, as long as Li Shimin proposes to stop the army and make peace, the king will gladly accept it." , if he doesn’t ask for peace, then I have no choice but to ask him for peace.”

Hearing this, Wei Zheng became even more confused, thinking that he would take the initiative to ask him for peace?What happened to our lord today? This is not his style at all. Only others ask him for peace. I have never heard of him asking for peace.The purpose of seeking peace is of course to gain time. Once the two sides reach a peace agreement, you will have time to recuperate, raise your troops, and repair the wounds of the war. But the same is true for Tang Dynasty. This can only mean that both the enemy and us are getting stronger. Maybe the two sides have different recuperation measures and different speeds of becoming stronger, but how can it be possible that our side becomes stronger while Datang becomes weaker?

Seeing Wei Zheng's bewildered face, Yang Yong continued to explain: "A big event is about to happen in the Tang Dynasty, and we have to give him time to facilitate it. Please think about it, military adviser, this time the envoy sent by Li Yuan is the King of Qin instead of the Prince. It shouldn’t be a coincidence, what does this mean?”

Wei Zheng is a person who knows everything at once, and he immediately knew what Yang Yong meant by the so-called big event. He secretly thought that the way to get rid of the old and establish the young is the way, Li Yuan dare to do this?Our lord's scheming is getting deeper and deeper, and this is just a budding stage. Without careful observation and unique vision, it is difficult to catch it. The lord actually thought of this level.But it's no wonder, he had experienced similar incidents back then, and now it's the turn of the Li family brothers. To guard against insults outside the wall, only during the interval between battles and the short period of peace, can this matter grow secretly and unavoidably.

"My lord is quick-witted and thoughtful, and I am ashamed that my subordinates are in vain as military advisers." After Wei Zheng figured it out, he agreed with Yang Yong in his heart, but at the same time blushed for his slow reaction.Because the military advisor is the lord's think tank, he is the one who advises the lord. For things that the lord can't think of, the military advisor has to think through everything and have a sense of being ahead. The military advisor, the military advisor, has to know in advance. Instead, it fell behind.

"The military adviser is too modest." Yang Yong hurriedly comforted him. Of course he knew that it wasn't Wei Zheng's dullness, but because he had more than one year of historical experience than him.

After the two discussed the matter thoroughly, it was the third watch, and they went back to their tents to rest.

Luo Song left Yang Yong's Chinese army tent and came towards his own tent. As he was walking, suddenly a dark shadow flashed in front of him. Luo Song felt as if he had passed by alone. There was no trace of that shadow.Maybe it's his eyes dazzled, or it's just a night owl, Luo Song thought so and ignored it, turned around and continued towards his tent.

The two guards at the door saluted him, and Luo Songchong nodded and came in. Holding the lamp in his hand, Luo Song inadvertently found that there was an extra letter on the table. When he looked at the letter carefully, Luo Song couldn't help but turn pale with shock...

(End of this chapter)