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    (Thanks to Headache, Okman, and Tang Zhibu for their support, and special thanks to Headache for the 10,000 reward!) If Liaodong City is captured, then the entire strategic situation in Western Liaoning will be completely changed, and the situation will become unprecedented.  good.  ¡ð Within one day, the emperor visited the Privy Council twice in person, which surprised the guards in front of the Privy Council in the imperial city. Everyone knew that something big must have happened.  That night, people came and went in the Privy Council. The chief and deputy privy envoys, the chief and deputy commander-in-chief of the three government agencies, as well as the generals, generals and generals of the guards in the three government offices gathered in groups.  The star is shining, the medal on the chest is dazzling, and the Overwatch Council is constantly sending officials and historians over. Even the ministers and ministers of the Ministry of War, who have lost military power, have arrived early, and even the emperor's chamberlains in the palace have come.  Several times.  "Something serious must have happened." Zhao Xingshi, the Yulin guard who was on duty in front of the Privy Council, said to his companions.  "You don't have to say it, everyone can see it." Liu Zhou curled his lips. This night, people were coming and going in front of the Privy Council like a marquee. No one could tell that something serious was going on.  Not to mention the gathering of the generals, even the emperor came to the Privy Council for the second time in one night.  "I guess it's a good thing." When the emperor came for the first time, he didn't look good. He even heard that the emperor directly dismissed Shi Wansui, the deputy privy envoy who was drunk at home and refused to come to the military meeting.  But when the emperor came back for the second time, he already had an undisguised smile on his face.  "What good news do you think there will be?" Zhao Xingshi asked.  Liu Zhou thought for a while, "The war in western Liaoning must have a good outcome." "Goguryeo was pushed back?" Zhao Xingshi smacked his lips, "Do you think your majesty is going to launch a massive counterattack against Goguryeo?" He became more and more excited as he spoke.  "Do we have a chance to go to the battlefield again?" The Sui army valued military exploits the most, and His Majesty the Emperor was even more so.  The emperor's direct descendant Huaihuang's army was even more outstanding, and they fought with incomparable bravery.  What they relied on was the merit reward system that the Huaihuang Army had established since its inception.  The treatment of the Huaihuang Army is excellent, but the rewards for military achievements are getting higher and higher.  After a victorious battle, the soldiers will receive extremely generous rewards for their military merits. This has also made the Huaihuang Army eager to fight. Everyone is not afraid of fighting, on the contrary, they all want to fight.  As long as there is a war, there will be military merits, rewards, promotions, promotions, honors, and titles!  The imperial court had just concluded the conferment of honors and titles.  The one who received the most titles was His Majesty's direct descendant, the Huaihuang family, who granted thirty-six princes and hundreds of uncles in one fell swoop.  Most of the many newly promoted marquises and earls were just white men a year or two ago. At most, they were just petty officers or local powerful men. Many of them were still horse bandits and traders on the frontier. As for those  The larger number of men from counties and villages are mostly from very ordinary backgrounds.  By chance, he followed His Majesty the Emperor and became a new noble in the empire.  Zhao Xingshi was originally just an Orion mountaineer in Youzhou, and later joined the Huaihuang Army.  It's a pity that he joined a little late, participated in few battles, and only gained a team leader by accumulated merit.  After entering the customs with the emperor.  He was incorporated into Zuo Yulin's army and received an eighth-grade military position.  For a man who was just a frontier hunter a year ago.  For him, who had been worrying about his family's livelihood all day long, he became an eighth-grade military attache in less than a year.  This is already a meteoric rise that I never dared to imagine.  But an eighth-grade military attache is really nothing in the capital.  If it hadn't been for the cleanup of titles this time, in the past, there would have been as many princes as dogs in the capital, and the county princes would be everywhere, and the eighth-grade military attache would be worse than a servant in one of those wealthy families.  Zhao Xingshi was eager to go to the battlefield again, to make meritorious deeds with his archery skills, and to be awarded an official title like his superior, General Zuo Yulin, the Marquis of Jibei, Qin Qiong. Qin Qiong was only twenty-three years old this year.  Before meeting today, he was just a personal soldier who came to protect the children of the general manager of Jianzhou.  But because of the uneven road, he helped the emperor, and then became sworn friends with him, and then went to Huaihuang. His future completely changed. From then on, in less than two years, he went from being a member of the personal soldiers of the general manager of Jianzhou.  Long, he rose all the way to the present General Zuo Yulin, Prince Zuo Weizu, Jibei County Marquis, and Zhu Guo.  "It would be great if His Majesty led us to conquer Goguryeo in person. Then we can directly destroy Goguryeo. Maybe after this battle is won, I can also be awarded a title based on merit." Zhao Xingshi said full of yearning.  In the Privy Council.  Yi Feng arrived again. As soon as he entered the meeting hall, Yi Feng waved his hand and said, "All the original combat arrangements have been overthrown." Li Jing captured Liaodong City without bloodshed, which immediately changed the situation of the entire western Liaoning battlefield.  , everyone couldn't help but laugh out loud as the situation was favorable to the Sui army, and many generals even bluntly laughed and cursed Li Jing, a lunatic, for his good luck.  The staff officers have already connected the sand tables in western Liaoning and eastern Liaoning.On the huge sand table with the river as the center, the cities and fortresses of the Sui and Goguryeo sides were clearly marked one by one. The Sui army was in red and the Goguryeo army was in blue. These were all the hard work of the spies of the Supervisory Council.  Now, the west bank of the Liao River that should have been red, but in the central area of ??western Liaoning, Liucheng in Yingzhou is blue. It is the tens of thousands of soldiers and horses led by King Gaoyuan of Goguryeo.  Around the south of Liucheng, running from west to east, there are several red dots connected in a line. They are the Sui Dynasty defenders at Yuguan, Fang Qiao's defenders at Bailang City, and Zhang Xutuo and Jia Wuben's defenders at Songshan.  , this red line has now even crossed the Liaohe River and extended into the Goguryeo-controlled area, turning Liaodong City, the most important gateway on the east bank of the Liaohe River, into red.  "Li Jing has captured Liaodong City and has blocked Gao Yuan's retreat. We have the chance to devour Gao Yuan's remaining 50,000 soldiers and horses across the river." He Ruobi pointed at the sand table and said loudly  .  "As long as Gao Yuan runs fast, he still has a certain chance of escaping. He does not have to retreat along the original route. He can leave Yingzhou and head northwest first, exiting east from the northern end of Yiwulu Mountain, and then continue north and retreat directly.  Go to Fuyu City, an important town on the east bank of the Liao River in Goguryeo, or go south to the mouth of the Liao River and then cross the river back to the east. At that time, he can choose to recapture Liaodong City, or he can choose to withdraw to the new city on the Xiaoliao River north of Liaodong City. "Wang Bao proposed a different idea.  From his perspective, he felt that although Li Jing took the risk, he succeeded.  But it doesn't mean that Gao Yuan's more than 50,000 soldiers and horses have no way out.  Previously, Yi Feng hated Li Jing for disobeying the emperor's orders and sabotaging the court's plans.  But now he didn't think about it, and began to concentrate on calculating the strategic advantages that Li Jing would bring to the Sui army after taking Liaodong City.  For Yi Feng, the biggest advantage of Li Jing's capture of Liaodong City was that it broke Gao Yuan's original advantage. Although he captured Yingzhou, he was now alone and was half-surrounded by the Sui army on the Liaohe River.  On the west bank, Liaodong City, its most important east gate, was lost.  The Sui army lost Yingzhou, and Goguryeo lost Liaodong.  Although on the surface it looks like an important border town has been exchanged.  But Liucheng in Yingzhou in western Liaoning was not that important to the Sui army. On the contrary, Liaodong City was extremely important to Goguryeo.  Goguryeo relied on Liaodong City to coordinate and control the Liaohe Plain.  Now that Liaodong City is lost, Gao Yuan's rear is lost, and at the same time his best retreat is gone.  Now, as long as Gao Yuan is not stupid, he will have to voluntarily give up Yingzhou, which he finally obtained, and there is only one way to retreat, retreating to the northeast.  Because we retreated along the original route to the south.  It would be very dangerous. The Sui army not only captured Liaodong City, but also occupied Songshan at the southern end of Bailangshui. This was also the only place for the southern retreat route.  With tens of thousands of Sui troops occupying Songshan and guarding Bailangshui, Gao Yuan's road was completely impassable.  Gao Yuan could only go north, which put him in an extremely dangerous situation.  When his marching route was restricted, it was controlled by the Sui army.  Then his retreat would no longer be safe.  Yi Feng can definitely arrange troops and horses in advance to stop Gao Yuan on his way back north.  This retreat route to the north of Goguryeo.  Especially the section of the mountain pass that passes through the north entrance of Yiwulu Mountain is the junction between western Liaoning and Khitan. The Sui Dynasty's soldiers and horses were still coming from the west, but Yi Feng was able to mobilize the Khitan soldiers and horses to intercept them.  From the northwest of Yingzhou, Xi troops can be mobilized to immediately go south to pursue and intercept Gao Yuan in front and behind. Don't drag Gao Yuan to death on this road. Wait for Han Sengshou's troops to arrive and annihilate them in one fell swoop.  Even if Gao Yuan managed to escape in the end, he would still have to pay a lot of casualties.  Several groups of Sui armies, together with Xi, Khitan and other Tibetan armies, marched eastward. Not only could they easily recover western Liaoning, they could even plan to seize the east bank of the Liao River.  This is completely feasible. Yi Feng was unwilling to move to Goguryeo earlier because Liaodong was too far away, and the Goguryeo people had been operating along the Liaohe River for many years.  Difficulty in transporting.  But now, Li Jing has occupied Liaodong City, which broke the most important link of the Goguryeo people's Liaohe River defense line, which made the wide Liaohe River lose its defensive role. The army used Liaodong City as its advance base and easily crossed the Liaohe River.  , there is an advance base on the east bank, and there are hundreds of thousands of stones of food and grass and a large number of equipment in Liaodong City, which is even more important.  There is a saying in the Art of War: If you take advantage of the enemy for one minute, you will take twenty for me.  Food is the guarantee of war, and logistics and transportation lines are the lifeblood of the army.  Especially for expeditionary operations such as Zhengliao, wars far away from homeland, food supply is the top priority.  Cao Cao's explanation of Sun Tzu's art of war is that if you transport twenty bells of grain from the country to the enemy's front line, you can only deliver one bell in the end. Therefore, if you collect one bell of grain from the enemy's country, your own country can spend twenty less bells.  At first glance, this seems a bit outrageous and exaggerated, but it is true.  Historically, when Qin Shihuang conquered the Xiongnu, he collected 30 shi of grain every time, but in the end only one shi of grain was transported to the front line.  What is even more telling is that when Yang Guang conquered Goguryeo in history, he had already made a lot of preparations in advance, such as digging the tunnel from the Yellow River to Youzhou Zhuo River.In addition to the canals, several wide and flat royal roads were built, which were specially used to transport troops and transport grain and grass.  But even after making so many adequate preparations and having such convenient canals and imperial roads, in the end it was still necessary to send out every dozen or so shi of grain, and in the end only one shi could be transported, which consumed a huge amount of money on the road.  Not only did it consume a lot of food, but it also required a huge amount of labor.  Yang Guang's first expedition to the Liao Dynasty sent one million troops, and the civilians used more than two million. At that time, almost all the men in the world were mobilized, either to fight or to transport food and ordnance to the army.  Therefore, although Li Jing only seized more than 500,000 shi of grain in Liaodong City, it was equivalent to collecting 10 million shi of grain from the Central Plains and transporting it to Liaodong, not to mention how much energy would have been used to transport these 10 million shi of grain.  The peasants, mules and horses, could only have half a million shi left in the end.  In this situation, the value of a Liaodong city is truly immeasurable.  With the Liaodong city and 500,000 shi of grain, Han Sengshou's army could even rush to Liaodong with only a small amount of grain.  Even if Gao Yuan is left alone to retreat, the Sui army only needs to occupy Liaodong City.  It is also completely dominant.  With this food and equipment, and this strong city.  The Sui army could have crossed the river immediately, organized a sweep offensive on the east bank, and wiped out all the Goguryeo city fortresses on the surrounding plains.  As for the important town of Liaodong City that lost its core, the surrounding small towns became a pile of scattered sand, making it difficult to form an entire defense. It was easy for the Sui army to defeat them one by one along the gaps in Liaodong City.  In particular, the food in Liaodong City is not only reserved for Liaodong City, it is also a transfer of military rations for the castles around the defense circle on the east coast of Liaodong.  Think about the battle between Cao Cao and Yuan Shao. Yuan Shao's army was several times larger than Cao Cao's, but it was because Wuchao's grain and grass were burned.  As a result, Yuan Shao was defeated at Guandu.  The fall of Liaodong City was equally dangerous for the Goguryeo people.  Yi Feng has been thinking about the current situation over and over again in his mind. Before Liaodong City is captured, Yi Feng's bottom line is to regain western Liaoning, push the defense line to the Liaohe River, and then temporarily suspend troops from Goguryeo.  But in Liaodong City, the situation is completely different, just like a city.  The defense is complete and it is difficult to capture it in a short time. However, if one of the enemy's gates is suddenly captured, the enemy's defense will have a fatal flaw.  As long as you follow the open city gate and rush in, the enemy's city wall will be completely useless.  This is the situation in Goguryeo now. Their Liaohe defense line is very strong.  But now the door has been carelessly lost.  "If you don't take what God has given you, you will definitely suffer the consequences." Yi Feng slapped the table.  Start coming up with new plans of your own.  "Immediately send an order to Li Jing, telling him not to hold on to Liaodong City. There is no need for him to risk attacking the surrounding areas. As long as he holds on to Liaodong City, especially ensuring that the food, grass and equipment in the city are not lost, it will be a miracle. Let him wait for the arrival of the imperial army.  "But." "In addition, an order was sent to Xi Jing's five governors immediately, asking them to lead their troops to Yingzhou to pursue Gao Yuan."  "Ambush Gao Yuan!" "Send the order to Han Sengshou again, telling him to move forward immediately and rush to Liaodong City." Yi Feng issued several imperial orders in succession. This time, Yi Feng was also in a state of excitement. If he could invade Gao Yuan's troops in western Liaoning.  If they all stay, or even if they are lucky enough to capture Gao Yuan, then this time the court will have a chance to recover the east bank of the Liao River, and even further recover the Liaodong Peninsula.  "Then draw up a decree to Silla, Baekje, and Japan, and ask them to immediately send troops to attack Goguryeo." Wen Yanbo, a bachelor of Hanlin Chengzhi, wrote Zonglongshen and quickly recorded Yi Feng's decree.  "I will come to Youzhou in person!" "Your Majesty, don't leave the capital lightly." As soon as Yi Feng's words came out, he immediately attracted a crowd of admonitions.  "Then move to Luoyang, no more persuasion." Yi Feng took a step back, but insisted on at least moving to Luoyang.  In fact, Yi Feng also knew that at this time, it was impossible for him to go on a personal expedition. The emperor's personal expedition, unless it was a last resort and the emperor needed to come to the front line to boost morale, otherwise it would only add trouble and not help.  However, if a war breaks out in Liaodong, it will be a full-scale war between the two big powers. At that time, Yi Feng was still in Chang'an, four to five thousand miles away, and it was difficult to deliver the news in time.  Moreover, he had already designated Luoyang as his central capital and Xijing as his remaining capital to accompany him, so it would be a good time to take advantage of this opportunity to move to Luoyang.  Early the next morning, at the court meeting, Yi Feng announced at the Liangyi Hall that he would expand the scale of the war against Goguryeo.  "We must be prepared for 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, all the way to Yalu River  Go." Yi Feng made no secret of his optimism about this war and his ambitious goals.  "The emperor finally couldn't hold it in any longer and opened his mouth.The mouth is wide, revealing sharp teeth.  "After going down to court, Liu Shu couldn't help but sigh when he came out of the Liangyi Palace. "Li Jing is really brave. He traveled eight hundred miles, went deep behind the enemy's rear, and captured the enemy's strong city and fortress, turning the situation in the entire Liaohe River around in one fell swoop.  , the younger generations are terrible, there are really new people coming out in every generation, we are all old.  "Yang Su said with a smile. Liu Shu curled his lips, "This Li Jing has good abilities, but it's a pity that he is a little too arrogant.  He was in the Northeast, and he had repeatedly disobeyed the Holy Will. This time, he was lucky, and he could also capture Liaodong City.  But I bet that although Li Jing made great achievements this time, he did not have a good impression on the emperor.  After this battle, Li Jing will definitely not be able to stay in the Privy Council anymore. If Your Majesty is more kind and gives him an honorary title and ties him up high, it would be the right thing to do.  For an ordinary person, with such arrogance, it would not be a pity to die a hundred times.  " "If Li Jing were transferred from the Privy Council, wouldn't the Privy Council suddenly have two deputy envoys vacant, and Mr. Liu would soon be able to enter the Privy Council.  " Yang Su said with a slight smile. He and Liu Shu had the same view. Although Li Jing had made great achievements this time, he had already committed a big taboo. The greater the achievements he made, the more the emperor would be afraid of him when he came back.  It is absolutely impossible for such a general who has violated the will of the emperor to control the military power in the most important Privy Council in the court. Giving him a clear promotion and demotion is already regarded as the emperor's kindness. For an ordinary emperor, Li Jing is so crazy.  Such an arrogant guy, he won¡¯t even know how he died. ¡°Actually, it will be the same if I stay in the Ministry of War.  Liu Shuyan said insincerely. (To be continued)
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