Li Che is of course the out-and-out protagonist of this feast.

This banquet is not so much a mobilization meeting for Chengde to prepare for the war against Lulong, but rather a recognition and blessing of Chengde for the eldest prince Li Che to officially step onto the political stage.

Otherwise, there is no need for Li Anmin, the assassin of Zhaozhou, and Cao Xin, the assassin of Yizhou, to come to Shenzhou in person.

Since the peasant uprising that swept the Tang Dynasty more than ten years ago, the Tang Dynasty has formed a system of festival envoys, nominally respecting the Chang'an court, but in fact the political situation is on its own.

Only the barrel of the gun and the handle of the knife are the most powerful things to ensure your glory and wealth.

Therefore, a capable leader who can lead them to defend their glory and wealth is also indispensable. Specific to Chengde, the one who can bring them together is the Li family. Now it's Li Anguo, and in the future, it will naturally be Li Che.

But if Li Che wants to be recognized by these people, he naturally has to show what makes him different, and show that he can ensure that the interests of these people who follow him will not be compromised, which is absolutely not possible just by blood, just by the shadow of Lao Tzu. So this war has become a key battle for Li Che to prove his ability.

This is like Cao Xin, the assassin of Yizhou, after discovering that his son was really overwhelmed by the responsibility, he began to cultivate his nephew Wang Mingren early, and pinned the interests of Cao Wang's two families on Wang Mingren. If Cao Xin had to help his son get on the horse, it would not be impossible, but the final result might be that the Cao and Wang families were overturned.

I have seen the princes and nobles being trampled into the dust like garbage, and the nobles who were once invincible have either died tragically or become a member of the lowest level of society.

If we want to have long-term stability, we must ensure that the next generation of leaders can still have strong leadership skills like them.

In this war, Zhenwu, Chengde, and Henghai joined forces, but the purpose was not to completely defeat Zhang Zhongwu, their purpose was only Yingzhou, what they wanted was to warn Zhang Zhongwu, honestly when your Lulong Festival is not good? If you want to change the situation in the world, we will not agree.

So in the eyes of these three families, this is just a warning battle, and the scale of the war can be regarded as limited. Taking Yingzhou is the end of the war between the three families. Li Anguo, as the envoy of the festival, naturally would not go out in person, and Henghai and Zhenwu were also the same.

Of course, this is also a clear political signal to Zhang Zhongwu, we don't want to fight to the death with you, as long as you stop in moderation and stop now, then everyone can still be happy to be friends.

If the envoys of the three festivals personally took command of the expedition, then the political signal sent by Lu Long would be completely different.

However, as Li Che's first game, Li Anguo still didn't dare to slack off. Jiedu envoy 3,000 armor soldiers, gave Li Che 1,500 people, plus Li Che's own 500 armor soldiers, this is enough to have 2,000 people, Li Anmin, Cao Xin in order to show their support for Li Che, each out of 500 armor, and Shenzhou Suning and Li Che's relationship is even more unusual, but they did their best, and the army of 4,000 armor soldiers has accounted for more than half of the standing strength of Chengde, plus the 30,000 government soldiers gathered together in the four states, the size of the army is not small.

Compared to Chengde, the armies of Zhenwu and Henghai were much smaller. Zhenwu dispatched 3,000 armor soldiers, 20,000 government soldiers, and even fewer in Henghai, but Liu Chenglin brought 1,000 armor soldiers and 10,000 government soldiers to go out to fight, in fact, because Henghai was not very peaceful, and Cao Shou's troops were busy suppressing the place everywhere!

Li Che mentioned 3,000 armor soldiers, 25,000 government soldiers as the main attack, Shenzhou Thorn Shi Suning led 1,000 armor soldiers, and 5,000 government soldiers to protect Li Che's back road and assist in the logistics of grain and grass.

And Wang Mingren, the nephew of Cao Xin, the assassin of Yizhou, and Li Bo, the second son of Li Anmin, the assassin of Zhaozhou, both served in Li Che's pro-army.

In this battle, once Li Che succeeds, he will also announce to the outside world that he will become the undoubted next generation of Chengde Festival envoys.

It doesn't matter what the court means.

Gongsun Changming sat on the left side of Li Anguo, this is the first position of Li Anguo's head, which fully reflects Li Anguo's respect and importance for him, on the right side of Li Anguo, it should have been sitting in Zhaozhou Assassin Shi Li Anmin, in Zhenzhou, Li Anmin's strength ranked second, but now it is in Shenzhou, in Suning's territory, Li Anmin can only move down. In the entire hall, except for Li Anguo, a literati, the rest are military generals.

Today's Datang festival degree envoy rule, the civil light and military force, each section of the degree to attach importance to the military force is more important than the importance of the cultural rule, this is already a common disease.

Gongsun Changming was out of step with the atmosphere in the hall, and sat diagonally on the soft cushions, his elbows propped up on the low table, and he gently shook the wine in his glass.

Everybody is talking about victory.

No one felt that this war had any chance of losing.

Even Gongsun Changming, thinking about it, can't find any flaws. Now Zhang Zhongwu's main forces are still deployed along the east line of the river to confront Gao Biao, Shi Jing in Yingzhou is indeed an experienced veteran, but not a fierce general who is good at attacking, its biggest feature is stability, every time he fights, but there is merit, but there is no fault.

In Lulong for many years, Gongsun Changming still knows a lot about the famous generals under Zhang Zhongwu. Zhang Zhongwu's arrangement means that in this direction, he is indeed not fully prepared, with only the 3,000 armor soldiers and 10,000 government soldiers under Shi Yi's command, even if he urgently recruits more government soldiers, there is no way to resist the three-way attack from three directions.

Victory is completely expected, but in my heart, why is it so unsteady?

"Sir." A shout woke Gongsun Changming from his contemplation, and when he looked up suddenly, he saw Li Che standing in front of him with a wine glass in both hands with a smile on his face. I'm about to go on an expedition, I wonder what other teachings Mr. has?"

Gongsun Changming shook his head: "Your military strategy, the Jiedu envoy has already talked to me in detail, there is no problem. As for the deviations in the implementation of this strategy that need to be corrected in time, it is not something I can predict here, it depends on your adaptability."

"Since the gentleman has said that there is no problem, then I am more confident, sir, please drink this cup, if I return victorious, the gentleman will have to fulfill his promise." Li Che said with a smile.

Gongsun Changming smiled: "Of course there is no problem, borrow the eldest prince's cup of wine, and wish the eldest prince a victory."

Both of them drank a glass of wine, no matter what Gongsun Changming thought of Li Che, but in the matter of getting Lu Long and Zhang Zhongwu, the two had the same goal. Li Che wants to use this to determine his status in Chengde, while Gongsun Changming wants to vent his anger for his old friends.

"Why don't you see Brother Liang?" Li Che glanced behind Gongsun Changming, Liang Han, who had always been inseparable from Gongsun Changming, was nowhere to be seen.

"I told him to go to Lu Long's." Gongsun Changming lowered his voice and said: "I don't know why, I'm always unsteady in my heart, and I've been having nightmares in the past two days, so I sent Liang Han to investigate, he has followed me in Lulong for many years, and he is very familiar with the situation over there, I asked him to take a look."

Li Che smiled and said, "Mr. is too worried, but Mr. is grateful to Li Che for this piece of heart."

Gongsun Changming smiled: "I want to kill Zhang Zhongwu now, why doesn't Zhang Zhongwu want to kill me?" I know too much about him, and he only hates me now!"

"With the help of Mr., Li Che will be a great success. Please sir have another drink." Li Che filled the wine again for Gongsun Changming.

"Don't worry about me, this room full of generals is the person you need to pay attention to today, this time, they are your biggest help!" Gongsun Changming smiled and said, "You always talk to me here, they want to eat it."

"A bunch of big bosses, how can they compare with Mr.!" Li Che chuckled and said, "But since Mr. has spoken, then I'll go over first."

"You're busy!" Gongsun Changmingdao. Cao Xin, who watched Li Che walk to his head, just toasted a glass of wine, said a few words lightly and left, Gongsun Changming couldn't help but shake his head slightly.

"Changming, Che'er is rejoicing because you want to accept him as a disciple!" Li Anguo's laughter came from above, Gongsun Changming looked back, Li Che's appearance is really seven or eight points similar to Li Anguo, and it is no wonder that Li Anguo is particularly partial to him. The current Li Che is the young Li Anguo a few decades ago, and the current festival makes Li Anguo, whose big belly has protruded, and his favorite thing on weekdays is wine. I still remember when he was younger, he didn't drink a single drink.

"When Li Che returns victorious in this battle, I will accept him as a disciple." Gongsun Changming raised his glass at Li Anguo.

"Okay, then I'll give you a glass first." Li Anguo happily drank it all.

Wang Mingyi lowered his head and bent down quietly from the outside, sat behind Cao Xin, poked his head out, and whispered in Cao Xin's ear for a while.

Cao Xin's face showed a look of surprise, and he couldn't help but sigh.

Li Anguo, who was talking to Gongsun Changming, noticed Cao Xin's strange appearance, and couldn't help laughing: "Brother Cao, is there something wrong?"

Cao Xin froze and arched his hand upward: "It's nothing, it's just that Yizhou came to report that a group of bandits came over to Shiyi to attack Wuyi."

Li Anguo suddenly changed color and said: "Henghai, this is endless, right?" Wave after wave of displaced people?"

"Jiedu envoy doesn't have to be angry, it's good news, but it's just a few hundred bandits, and they have been killed by all the local young men in Wuyi, and the whole army has been wiped out." When Cao Xin was talking, his eyes fell on Suning on the other side.

The wine glass in Suning's hand fell on the table with a snap.