Chapter 225

The Military Council discussed it all night, and didn't even end the meeting at noon the next day. In the end, Li Chengye strongly resisted Zhang Zhen, angrily denounced his strategy for being too risky and ignoring the safety of the whole army, and then slammed the door and left directly to end the meeting!

Zhang Zhen was so angry that he jumped on the spot, pointed to Li Chengye's back and scolded him, saying that he ignored the difficulties in the DPRK and China, went his own way and was extremely domineering.

After Li Chengye returned to the room, his anger still didn't dissipate. A few cups of cold water poured into his stomach. How can he not quench the anger in his heart.

Wei Ran asked, "Dad, what did you talk about in the military discussion? Make you so angry? "

"Zhang Zhen asked the Chinese army to go straight into Xuzhou, regardless of the way back, to attack Wang Xianzhi's headquarters! Don't you know that once we go to Xuzhou, the thief army will cut off our way back and surround us in all directions. At that time, we will face more than 400000 bandits surrounded by ten sides. How can we have vitality! "

Wei Ran's eyebrows jumped. He knew very well the current arrangement of the thief army. The other party relied on the large number of people, and firmly locked the way of the Shence army eastward with Songzhou, Puzhou, Caozhou and Bozhou as the ring chain.

Once one is broken through, it will be cut off by other ministries, and even take this opportunity to attack Gyeonggi province and threaten the eastern capital, so as to gain the upper hand strategically in the short term.

However, the Li family and their son have also discussed strategies. It is by no means a good way to outdo the crowd and make a strong attack. Although there are a large number of thieves, they do not have a stable political system, nor do they have professional bureaucrats who are good at governing the country. All materials enter through plunder.

Therefore, it is not the imperial court that can not fight a protracted war, but Zhu Kou!

At present, the most important thing is two aspects. On the one hand, it is to closely abide by Gyeonggi to prevent the thief army from marching westward. On the other hand, it is to closely guard the Huaihe River defense line and prevent thieves from going south to the Jianghuai River, which will cause serious damage to the Jianghuai River and threaten the Jiangnan and Jingchu, the centers of money, grain and wealth in the world.

As for the thief army going north, don't worry. Going north is nothing more than going to Hedong road and Hebei road. Fan yangyouyun of Hebei Road stationed the Shence border army to guard against the Qidan people. If they dare to go, they should be ready to be attacked by the north and the south.

There are soldiers and horses of Hedong Festival envoy on Hedong road. He has always been cruel and ruthless to the refugees who enter the place under his jurisdiction against thieves. He doesn't need the imperial court to worry about him.

Due to the large scope of defense, it is not enough to rely only on the strength of the left Shence army to suppress bandits at present. It needs the coordinated help of local regiment training.

These regiments were all armed by the landlords. The landlords were most afraid of refugees and bandits robbing their manors. They would fully support the requirements of the imperial court. In order to protect our homeland, the regiment must be very brave and worth using.

With the help of a large number of landlord regiments, we can guard the pass at multiple points. Once the defense node is guarded, when the materials plundered by the thief army are consumed, they will inevitably fall into a situation of self division.

Then, with Zuo Shence as the blade, we can break through the main force of the old camps of various bandits in one fell swoop, so as to disintegrate the chaos of Henan Road and return the world to peace.

However, this consumes a lot of time, so it is not taken by Zhang Zhen. And he has just easily wiped out Wu Junxi's 200000 army with a very slight loss. Obviously, he has become a little arrogant and complacent. He thinks that under the leadership of the army, he should be invincible and unparalleled in the world. Determined to lead the army to advance rapidly and attack Xuzhou.

He believed that as long as Wang Xianzhi, the leader of the alliance among the aggressors, was attacked and destroyed, the other aggressors would be nothing but a plate of loose sand. If they turned around and attacked, they would be destroyed. With the sharp strategy of Zuo Shence, there is no need to worry about the future. As long as we attack cities and land all the way, we can collect supplies on the spot!

Of course, this kind of expropriation is well understood. It is nothing more than robbing the countryside or forcibly borrowing food from the big landlords who have not been attacked and destroyed by the anti thieves. No? Then robbing is to completely regard the enemy occupied area as a hostile area and implement the military strategy of giving food to the enemy regardless of the consequences.

This is tantamount to forcing the landlord class on the side of the court to the anti thief side. Once the landlord class in turn supports the anti thief, things will be big.

Originally, one of the weakest aspects of anti thieves was the lack of the ability to rule and operate base areas. There is the support of the landlord class who has read books and is good at governing the countryside. It can occupy a land and cede it to be king. At that time, we had to deal with opponents at the level of Jiedu envoys in various border towns, rather than a peasant army that only knew looting.

The father and son were speechless. When Li Chengye just came out, Zhang Zhenke pointed to his back and scolded. Even if Princess Shouning reminded Zhang Zhen, Zhang Zhen ignored it.

In addition, it was too easy to defeat Wu Junxi before, which made Princess Shouning feel a little light of the enemy. She is also aware of the current state treasury situation, although she agrees with the strategy put forward by Li Chengye at the military conference.

However, the siege at the strategic level had a great impact on all the expenses of the imperial court. The National Treasury is already empty, and the soldiers still need to be rewarded for their meritorious service in battle. Coupled with the consumption of long-term siege operations, maybe the national finance will collapse first, and then it will be another disaster.

On the other hand, from the news from the palace, she knew that her father's energy was getting worse and worse.

In addition to military affairs every day, some ordinary folds are no longer concerned, but handed over to the prime minister. And it's hard to sleep all night. He can't sleep until the National Teacher instills genuine Qi into him and regulates his Qi pulse.

Princess Shouning has already had a bad feeling that if the anti rebel war continues to drag on, if her father suddenly..., then she may turn around and become an opportunity for this group of anti thieves?

Moreover, from her personal thoughts, if she can put an end to the rebellion as soon as possible and bring this good news back to Chang'an, perhaps her father and Emperor may be able to survive the year of great disaster annotated by the national teacher. In the coming year, the father Emperor may be able to return to his former state for the rest of his life, and the rivers and mountains of Datang will become stronger and stronger under his governance!

Therefore, based on the above ideas, although Princess Shouning dissuaded Zhang Zhen, she was refuted by Zhang Zhen in the name of Treasury emptiness and durability war, and stopped supporting Li Chengye's strategy.

Change to a tacit attitude and support Zhang Zhen's army to attack Xuzhou.

Finally, when he vowed to go to war, Li Chengye still insisted on his own point of view, but he could not put it forward at this time. Otherwise, he would disobey the military order and disturb the morale of the army. He would kill his head!

So Li Chengye made a final struggle and asked his Royal Highness Princess Shouning to rush to Changan. Ask her Majesty the emperor to ask the Jianghuai navy to keep the Huaihe line of defense. If the thieves want to lower Henan, they must be annihilated above Huaihe.

In addition, Shouchun, Zhongli, Huaiyin and other places were asked to organize group exercises to guard themselves, so as to prevent thieves from entering the Huaihe River and causing chaos in the Jianghuai river.

Princess Shouning allowed her to send a letter to Chang'an through private channels. However, she was not sure whether the imperial court would follow suit. It's hard to say how much combat power the Jianghuai navy has left after a long war, but the imperial warships are still there. In contrast, the anti thief is not good at water warfare. Maybe he can succeed when the thief is half crossed.

However, although it doesn't cost the imperial court much money, the imperial court is taboo about it. It's worried that it will be very difficult to revoke the regiment practice after it is compiled and practiced. It's inevitable that it will not become a local vassal town again.

The whole army went to the southeast in such a situation where the strategic demands of the commanders were completely inconsistent. Although morale is still high, no one knows whether the future is dark or bright.