Chastity Layman

"The governor of Taozhou has been in charge for a long time and the Luosheng army was defeated and surrendered. Taozhou fell." Zhang Liang knelt in the imperial study room of Luoyang Palace. There were only two monarchs and ministers in the palace. Lowered his voice. "Li Daoyan was rescued by the Rangers of the Zhenxi Army, and was taken to the Five-Star Fortress in Diezhou, where he was imprisoned by Qin Lang. Tuoba Chici led Dangxiang Qiang to besiege the Five-Star Fortress, and Qin Lang and Liang Jianfang were also trapped in the fortress. There were only five hundred Zhenxi soldiers , Anhua County Tucheng has fallen."

"Is it captured or abandoned?"

"Before the arrival of the Qiang people, the governor of Qin evacuated and retreated the people in Anhua City, and stayed behind some Qiang people near the city. After a symbolic guard for a few days, the Qiang people attacked and let the Fan soldiers retreat to Diezhou." Zhang Liang answered truthfully.

"Oh." These news made Li Shimin's heart heavy. He originally thought that after the Songdie battle last time, the frontier war had been temporarily stopped. Who knew that there would be another bigger frontier chaos so soon.

Li Daoyan, Li Daoyan, where did he get the guts? Even Qin Qiong and Qin Lang didn't dare to underestimate the enemy and go deep. It also seriously shook Longyou's frontier defense, exposing a huge hole in Datang's western frontier defense.

"Jiuqie Luosheng shall be punished according to the law." The enraged emperor was already unwilling to give Jiuqie Luosheng any face, and he did not intend to let him go after he died. He was even more hateful than Jiang Shanhe and the warrior Xun last time. The emperor called his servant and asked him to summon a scholar from the Imperial Academy to accept the edict of Ma Zhoucao.

"Expelled Jiuqie Luosheng, confiscated his family property, exiled the men to Lingnan, and confiscated the female family members into Yeting. Rewards are offered, and those who can capture Jiuqie Luosheng will be rewarded!"

Ma Zhou hesitated for a while, and finally wrote the internal edict. After all, this time, Luo Sheng committed too much crime and lost too much.

"Li Daoyan, the governor of Minzhou, should be punished according to the law. He thought that he was my ancestor. He had made great contributions to the founding of the country. He was pardoned for his death crimes. He was expelled in the name of a commoner, confiscated his family property, and exiled the whole family in Jiaozhou."

As for the generals of the Minzhou Governor's Mansion who accompanied Li Daoyan for a long time and Luo Sheng went to battle without authorization, they were all dismissed.

"Qin Qiong, the governor of Songzhou, led his troops out of Songzhou, and Xi Jun, the governor of Diezhou Zhechong, led the troops of Diezhou to reinforce Minzhou under Qin Lang's order..."

The news was reported one by one. These two news made the emperor a little bit excited, but the emperor was still very worried.

"Where is the five-star fortress? Why are there only five hundred soldiers and horses? Can it be defended?" The emperor asked someone to fetch a map. Zhang Liang was already prepared, and circled the location of the five-star fortress on the map for the emperor, and built this new building. He doesn't know much about the brief introduction of the fortress. He only knows that Qin Lang built the fortress in less than two months, and the castle covers an area of ​​only fifty acres.

When Li Shimin heard that the city was so small, and there were only five hundred soldiers, and there were no soldiers or civilians in the city who could help defend it, he couldn't help becoming more and more worried.

"Why didn't Qin Lang retreat back to Diezhou? Zhenxi's military city is dangerous and easy to defend. Last time, the red resignation of 60,000 troops couldn't help it?"

"Maybe the Qiang people came too fast."

"Impossible. Didn't you say that Qin Lang sent troops to rescue Li Daoyan? You also asked the Qiang people in Anhua City to evacuate. How could he not be able to leave?"

"Perhaps the Duke of Wei wanted to cover the evacuation of the people of Anhua City! Or maybe he wanted to meet the defeated troops of Minzhou." Zhang Liang said.

Li Shimin was a little annoyed, "This Qin Sanlang, what is he doing? Why is he such a dangerous governor?"

Zhang Liang persuaded the emperor, thinking that Qin Lang has always been brave and brave to fight. Chi Ci was defeated by him last time, so he should be fine this time. Reinforcement from Minzhou, instead of going to the five-star fortress, shows that Wei Guogong is very confident and not afraid of the Qiang people."

After hearing this, Li Shimin felt that it made sense.

It's just that the emperor was thousands of miles away from the front line, and the information at hand was not detailed at the moment, so he couldn't figure out the whole situation of the battle at all, but judging from the information sent back by the Zhenfu Division, Qin Lang was playing with fire.

It is not easy for five hundred people to defend a small castle with fifty acres of land, and it is not easy to resist Tuoba Chici's army.

"Where is Tuyuhun?" the emperor asked.

"Tuyuhun was frequently mobilized. Fuyun sent his son Zun Wang to lead troops to invade Shanzhou, and his younger brother King Dongning led troops to attack Kuozhou. He also sent an army to the direction of He and Tao to join Tuoba Chici's son to invade.

Li Shimin stared at the map, the more he looked at it, the more annoyed he became.

Fu Yun was determined to invade in an all-round way. Four groups of soldiers and horses attacked Longyou Prefecture of Datang along Huangshui, Yellow River, Lishui and Taoshui respectively.

Taozhou has fallen, and Minzhou is fortunate to have Qin Lang send Xi Junmai to lead the soldiers from various states in Diedangwu to reinforce and defend it, while Shanzhou and Kuozhou are now in critical condition.

I thought that the last time Qin Lang wiped out ten thousand people in Tuyuhun and captured Wusu alive and sent him to Luoyang, Fu Yun should be honest.

"I was careless. After the last battle, both Qin Qiong and his son made a statement, saying that Dangxiang and Tuyuhun might retaliate and send troops after the autumn. I expected that they would not dare. I was wrong."

It's October now, and counting the time, Dangxiang dispatched troops just after autumn in September.

More than two months after the last war, both the Dangxiang people and the Tuyuhun people have recovered somewhat.

Zhang Liang hurriedly said, "If Li Daoyan hadn't been greedy for merit and came up with the bad idea of ​​pretending to surrender to the Real Jiemeng, perhaps this chaos would not have happened."

But Li Shimin shook his head.

"Tuoba Chici, the old thief, is not the kind of person who would easily accept surrender. He was still strong last time, and An Gan sincerely accepted the surrender. I am afraid that Li Daoyan is plotting against him, and this Tuoba Chici is also plotting against Li Daoyan in secret. As a result Li Daoyan was so stupid that he dared to go deep into Dangxiang Qianghe Qu, which led to the annihilation of the entire army."

If the alliance is formed on the border of Minzhou, even if Tuoba Chici has evil intentions, the whole army will not be wiped out.

The emperor stared at the map.

Qin Qiong led the army to leave Songzhou, probably to Diezhou for reinforcements, but the Diezhou army went to Minzhou for reinforcements. Qin Lang only had 500 people guarding the five-star fortress hanging outside.

Dangerous and dangerous.

Li Shimin is an excellent commander. He can see at a glance that if Qin Lang can hold the five-star fortress, then he can indeed lure Tuoba Chi to resign here and hold back many main forces of the Qiang people. He can not only hold the gate of Diezhou, but also share the burden Taomin was under a lot of pressure.

But the problem is that Qin Lang was able to defend Diezhou last time because Diezhou is a dangerous city that has been built for more than 50 years, but the five-star fortress was just built in two months, and it only has 50 acres of land. Liang said that the city walls are made of earth, sloped, and not very high.

"Where is Qin Qiong? Why has Xi Junmai arrived in Minzhou, but Qin Qiong has never been seen?" Li Shimin asked.

Zhang Liang couldn't answer. Normally, Qin Qiong should have rushed to Diezhou, but in fact, there is no place for Qin Qiong in the Zhenfu Division.

Tuoba Chici was constantly mobilizing the various Qiangs in the party, and every day, there was a steady stream of Qiang people rushing to the Five Star Fortress and Taozhou.

"Xi Junmai examines the governor of Minzhou."

"Urgently transfer Xue Wanche to serve as governor of Taozhou."

"Urgently transfer Cheng Yaojin to serve as governor of Kuozhou!"

After thinking for a while, Li Shimin added another sentence to Ma Zhou, "Dismiss the governor's mansion of Minzhou, Tao, Min, Die, Dang, and Wuzhou, set up the governor's mansion of Diezhou, and promote it to the governor's mansion of Zhongdu. The military forces of the five prefectures of Diemin."

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The emperor summoned the prime ministers and ministers for a court meeting.

"I want to drive the conquest!"

As soon as the emperor opened his mouth, Fang Xuanling and others all changed their colors.

"Your Majesty, absolutely not."

Wei Zheng and others all objected.

"The battle in Longyou is urgent, how can I just sit back and watch?"

"Your Majesty, if there is a war in Longyou, the imperial court can send troops and generals. Why do you need your Majesty to conquest? Besides, although the frost this autumn is not as severe as the previous two years, the autumn sowing has also been affected, so the harvest this year is still not good. Sustained disasters in the north have severely damaged vitality."

Changsun Wuji also believed that although the Longyou war broke out, it was not too serious to be out of control.

"Dangxiang invaded on a large scale, and Tuyuhun also divided into four groups to invade the country. Isn't it serious?"

"Your Majesty, it's just that Li Daoyan sent troops without authorization and lost 20,000 horses, and Luo Sheng was defeated and surrendered and lost Taozhou after a long time. Of course, this is not serious." Xiao Yu pushed back.

"In Xiao Gong's opinion, what is the degree of seriousness? Is it serious before the soldiers come to Chang'an?" Li Shimin asked.

"Your Majesty, Tuyuhun doesn't have the ability to go to the city of Chang'an, let alone reach the foot of Chang'an, even the cities of Lanzhou and Weizhou, so there is no need to be so alarmed, and there is no need for the imperial conquest. Your Majesty can govern the country in Luoyang with peace of mind. Restoring people's livelihood is the top priority."

"As for the Tuyuhun people and the party items, just leave them to the frontline generals. If your majesty is no longer worried, you can transfer Li Jing to Liangzhou to sit in town, Chai Shao to guard Weizhou, and Xue Wanche, Cheng Yaojin, Zhang Shigui and other generals to lead the troops to reinforce the frontline , and everything will be safe.”

A group of prime ministers held on tightly to the emperor's plan to go to the imperial court, mainly because they were afraid that the emperor would fight again at this time, and fight a war to destroy the country.

The imperial court really can't afford it now. If the emperor himself conquers, he will definitely not be satisfied with guarding the border and repelling the invading enemies. He will definitely fight back against Tuyuhun and Dangxiang. In this way, the war will be fully escalated. There is no such preparation at all.

Although there is no serious frost disaster this year, the autumn harvest is only a little over half of the normal year. People don't have to flee famine this winter, but they have to tighten their belts to live.

At this time, how many soldiers and horses would have to be mobilized and how much food would be consumed when going to Longyou to go to the imperial conquest, even the prime ministers of the court would not be able to produce so much food.

Even if the frontline generals are allowed to fight, they must strictly control the size of their troops, otherwise the logistics supplies will not be able to keep up.

Yang Shidao even said that there is no need to send so many generals there. The last time the party invaded, Qin Qiong and his father took care of it. Now that Qin Qiong and his father are here, there should be no need to worry.

It is not easy to command if there are too many generals, and it is difficult to supply troops if there are too many horses. Let Qin Qiong be in command, Qin Lang be the deputy general, and let the two of them fight.

Li Shimin was a little speechless about the views of his brother-in-law Yang Shidao.

Qin Lang is still too busy to take care of himself now, he is surrounded by five hundred people in the fortress on the front line of Diezhou, how to command the battle situation?

He wanted to conscript himself, but all the prime ministers opposed it.

In the last discussion, it was decided that Li Jing, the right servant who stayed in Chang'an, would be in charge of Qinzhou, which was the gateway from Longyou to Guanzhong.

Chai Shao is in Liangzhou, and Li Daozong is in Lanzhou.

Cheng Yaojin went to Shanzhou, Duan Zhixuan to Kuozhou, Xue Wanche to Taozhou, and Zhang Shigui to Hezhou.

First mobilize the soldiers of Longyou to defend and counterattack, and temporarily stop recruiting Guannei, Shuofang, Shannan, Jiannan and other Taoist troops.

Although the emperor was unhappy in every possible way, he had no choice but to agree in the end.

The requirement for the generals is to repel the invading enemy troops, but without the imperial court's order, it is strictly forbidden to cross the border and penetrate into the enemy's territory.