The generals dispersed, and Li Shimin sat alone in the tent, staring at the map in front of him in a daze.

It didn't take long for Chang Tu to bow down and quietly walk into the handsome tent, and the sound of a soft call woke up Li Shimin, who was in deep thought.

"Your Majesty, the slave maid went to the rear of the weapons prison, spot-checked ten earth-shaking thunder, dismantled them and carefully examined them, two of them were seriously damp, most of them were caused by road transportation, and the rest were intact, the amount of charge was basically the same, there was no sign of shortage, and the slave maid exploded two on the spot, and its power was roughly equivalent to that of Liaodong City, so the slave maid believed that the siege was not the cause of the earth-shaking thunder, and the eyeliner of the Firearms Bureau before the Eastern Expedition was also reported to the slave and maid, and there was no anomaly in the Firearms Bureau."

Li Shimin nodded: "It seems that what Niu Jinda said is right, it is indeed the reason why Yang Wanchun strengthened the city wall, not the sky-shaking thunder, I almost blamed Li Su ......"

Chang Tu saw that Li Shimin's face was a little gloomy, and he didn't say much, so he retreated very interestingly.

After Chang Tu retreated, Li Shimin's mood became more and more gloomy, and he was even more disappointed in Li Tai, thinking that he would be able to change his past mistakes with him this time, who knew that at this critical juncture of the war to destroy the country, he still did not forget to play tricks, Li Shimin once doted on him, but once he was disappointed, his mind calmed down, and he looked at the prince he once loved again with a calm gaze, and suddenly felt that he was full of problems, so the more he looked, the more disappointed he became.

Leaving Li Tai behind, Li Shimin's gaze returned to the map again.

The map is full of various lines, representing the situation of the enemy's forces, and the lines are intertwined, complex and difficult to understand, just like the current situation of the Tang Army.

When Li Shimin's eyes were fixed on the position of An Shicheng, his face couldn't help but be much gloomy.

Conquering this city is much more difficult than he expected, others often say that arrogant and conceited people often can't see their own arrogance and conceit, and always feel that any of their decisions are correct, but Li Shimin clearly feels that he is wrong this time, attacking Anshi City is obviously not the right choice, from the battle of crossing the Liao River to the attack on Liaodong City, during this period there are many opportunities for Li Shimin to choose again and return to the right path, only Li Su's advice is no less than five times, but Li Shimin has cleverly avoided them all, Went ahead and made the worst decisions.

The future is very bleak, Li Shimin even has a feeling of being at a loss at this moment, he doesn't know what to do next, he doesn't know how long Anshicheng will hold him back, and he doesn't know what kind of danger awaits him behind.

Li Su's lazy face resurfaced in his mind, and an unconscious smile appeared at the corner of Li Shimin's mouth.

A very strange person, in this era, he pays attention to "learning literature and martial arts, goods and the emperor's family", others are desperately learning skills, and then serving the court, saying that it is patriotic, fame and fortune, at least the universal values are that they all hope to be knighted, but Li Su is an exception.

obviously has an inexplicable ability that he didn't know where to learn, but he refused to enter the court as an official even if he was killed, or Li Shimin, the emperor, was magnanimous and didn't care about children, and gave him an official knighthood like a dead face, which pulled the reluctant Li Su into the court and used it by the emperor.

Li Su, who has an official title, has never refused to do things honestly, and the supervisor of the Firearms Bureau is like a child, most of the time he is lazy in sleeping, and occasionally feels a little guilty in his heart, so he pretends to come out to deal with the errand, and later transferred to Shangshu Province to take care of the affairs, and asks for sick leave with Fang Xuanling at the end of three days, and goes home to sleep and eat.

Later, Li Shimin gradually figured it out, perhaps, this is a way for Li Sumingzhe to protect himself, laziness is just the appearance, his real intention is to tell Li Shimin that he is a person without ambition and will not pose any threat to the society and imperial power.

is really a very smart person, his ability is secondary, the main thing is that he lives better than anyone else, he knows that only if the emperor does not suspect him, he can live peacefully to the end of his life, otherwise, no matter how big an official he is, how high a knight he is, after all, it is just a flash of glass, and it will be empty in a blink of an eye. So he knows how to avoid right and wrong, knows how to hide clumsy, such a state of mind, many old guys who live to fast enter the coffin can't do it.

Thinking of Li Su, a trace of shame flashed in Li Shimin's eyes.

Li Su's insight is undoubtedly very objective, and from Li Shimin to the present, Li Su's judgment on anything has hardly been missed, in the past in Chang'an, Li Shimin was able to accept advice, but since the beginning of the Eastern Expedition, Li Su has been vetoed by him several times, military affairs, no will be rejected, it is common for the monarch and ministers to make some unpleasant trouble, the contradiction between Li Shimin and Wei Zheng was more serious than now, Wei Zheng's stubbornness and old-fashioned made Li Shimin kill countless times, and he wanted to get rid of it quickly.

In this battle of the Eastern Crusade, Li Su's several admonitions to Li Shimin were not adopted, this guy was also arrogant, he was not happy and simply hid far away, he didn't dangle in front of his eyes at all, and hid silently in the logistics army in the rear, out of sight and out of mind, fighting life and death in front, but he still lived a leisurely and leisurely life.

After today's siege failed, Li Shimin remembered Li Su again, and the facts gave Li Shimin a slap in the face, he faintly felt that Li Su's advice was correct, but at that time he was like a demon, and he just wanted to pull out the thorn in the eye of Anshi City, but the sky was unsatisfactory, and he finally fell into a dilemma.

His thoughts drifted farther and farther, and Li Shimin suddenly didn't have the heart to continue looking at the map, so he stood up and walked towards the outside of Shuai's tent.

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Li Su lay in his tent, touching his freshly fed stomach, burping a long wine, looking up and opening his eyes in a daze, like a dead fish.

Living a comfortable life is like this, sleeping after eating, eating when you wake up, being in a daze between eating and sleeping, thinking about how to live a more comfortable life is not boring.

Li Su is in a daze now, he is not thinking about life, but about Xu Mingzhu.

Counting the days, Xu Mingzhu is about to give birth, right? I don't know if it's dangerous or not, in this era, medical care is backward, and a woman giving birth to a child is like passing through a ghost gate, at this time, she must have hoped that her husband would be by her side, but Li Su was in the far north, accompanying the emperor to fight a battle with a smaller and smaller chance of winning.

Stretching out his fingers, Li Su silently drew in mid-emptiness, he was counting the days, from the month when Xu Mingzhu was pregnant when he set out on the expedition, and then calculated the time spent on the march on the road after the expedition, counting left and right, Li Su was pleasantly surprised to find that if Xu Mingzhu was not like Nezha's old lady who was pregnant for three years, then Xu Mingzhu had already given birth at this time, and the person who reported the news was now on the way, but he didn't know whether it was a boy or a girl, he must be pink and tender, his eyebrows and eyes were like her, and his mouth and nose were like himself......

"Do you want to be a deserter?" Li Su muttered to himself.

Think of a way to pretend to be sick, pretend to be realistic, the kind that hangs in one breath when you are dying, this kind of disease must return to the rear to recuperate, it is best to return to Chang'an, as for the war in front of him, Li Su is really tired and doesn't want to get involved, the wise and martial Tian Khan behaves like a stupid and stubborn donkey in this war, watching the chances of winning this war getting smaller and smaller, Li Su is really not in the mood to play any role in this war that is about to lose.

After a long time, Li Su suddenly sat up suddenly, his expression full of determination.

"Well, it's decided, pretend to be sick and don't play with them!"

The heart is like an arrow, and I miss Chang'an's wife and children very much, in comparison, the Goguryeo battlefield is a quagmire, and if it drags on any longer, it will exhaust itself to death.

The responsibility of the courtiers has been fulfilled, since the emperor refuses to accept the advice, what is the point of staying here?

Next to the red-hot charcoal fire, Gao Suhui quietly and attentively turned the leg of lamb roasted on the charcoal fire, and carefully sprinkled cumin and fine salt from time to time.

Li Su coughed twice, and Gao Suhui turned around.

"Look carefully, you judge me, see if I pretend to be like it, and give a score by the way......"

Gao Suhui looked at her incomprehensibly.

Li Su ignored her, suddenly fell on his back, his whole body convulsed, and he rolled his eyes, one hand was crossed in front of his chest, and he was mad with chicken feet......

Gao Suhui looked at him in astonishment, wondering what this young Tang magnate was messing with.

After a gust of wind, Li Su instantly returned to normal, looking at her expectantly.

"How? Like not? ”

Gao Suhui said with difficulty: "Like ...... What the? ”

"Patient, like a patient with a sudden onset? …… Neuropathy doesn't count. ”

The corners of Gao Suhui's mouth hooked, then turned her head, shrugged her shoulders a few times, and said with a smile: "Grandpa wants to pretend to be sick?" ”

"Yes, so let you judge it for me, and pretend to be like it, otherwise it will be embarrassing."

The corners of Gao Suhui's lips pursed lightly: "Grandpa...... Naturally, it's pretending to be something like something. ”

Li Sugang smiled, felt that it was wrong, and pointed at her: "You don't seem to have a good word, forget it, just as you are praising me." Come on, take a closer look. ”

Saying that, Li Su began to roll his eyes again, and kept twitching.

Gao Suhui couldn't help but smile, and then quickly put away her smile.

Li Su quickly returned to normal and began to introspect: "The acting skills may be a little exaggerated......"

Scratching his head, Li Su said again: "Will a little foam at the corner of the mouth make the performance a little deeper?" The kind of ...... that goes deep to the soul"

"Do you have any herbs growing in the wild in Goguryeo, which can make people temporarily paralyzed and return to normal after a few days?"

Gao Suhui shook her head: "The slave has never heard of this medicine. ”

"Forget it, even if there is, the doctor of your stick country doesn't know, in terms of medical skills, the doctor of the Tang Dynasty is ......" I don't know what to think of, Li Su suddenly stared at her, and said with a serious expression: "You remember, Chinese medicine belongs to our Datang, and it has nothing to do with your stick country, you are a cottage at most, well, and the Dragon Boat Festival, remember, Smecta?" ”

Gao Suhui looked at him blankly, not understanding what he meant at all.

Li Su took a dagger, cut off a piece of lamb leg meat from the charcoal fire, stuffed it into his mouth, and muttered to himself with a sad face while eating: "What kind of illness is it realistic to pretend to be sick?" It makes people think I'm dying at first glance, and I only have one breath left......"

As soon as the words fell, a familiar voice suddenly came from outside the tent.

"According to me, you are still really dead, this is the most realistic, I can order you to be sent back to Chang'an, and it can barely be regarded as a horse leather shroud."

Li Su was taken aback, and then saw the curtain of the camp tent opened, and Li Shimin's burly body appeared outside the camp tent and strode in.

Gao Suhui was startled, and after a moment of stunned expression, she immediately lowered her head.

Li Su glanced at her quickly, and seeing that she didn't seem to have any intention of assassinating Li Shimin, Li Su hurriedly waved his hand at her: "You step back first." ”

After Gao Suhui saluted, he hurriedly withdrew from the tent.

Li Shimin stared at her back for a while, until she disappeared into the tent, he turned his head, and the corners of his mouth hooked: "This woman is the assassin who assassinated me in Jizhou City at the beginning?" ”

"Yes."

"You still have her?"

Li Su lowered his voice: "It may be useful to keep her." ”

"Okay, I said that the group of assassins was handed over to you to deal with, and I won't break my promise, how to deal with them, you can do it......" Li Shimin said and glanced at the corner of his eye, and found the leg of mutton roasted on the charcoal fire, and couldn't help laughing: "Life is good, there is meat and women, and they live better than me." ”

Saying that, Li Shimin was not polite, took the dagger next to the charcoal fire, cut a piece of mutton by himself, ate it until the corners of his mouth were oily, and then showed an expression of enjoyment.

After eating a few slices of hot mutton, Li Shimin said while eating: "What were you talking about before I came in just now?" ”

Li Su blinked: "The minister didn't say anything, Your Majesty heard it wrong." ”

Li Shimin was busy dealing with mutton, and he didn't raise his head, and said: "Even if I heard it wrong, I thought you were going to pretend to be sick and be a deserter, and it was practical not to pretend to be sick so troublesome, one day you feel sick, just come to the handsome tent and tell me directly......"

Li Su stared at him expectantly: "Your Majesty's quasi-ministers took leave to return to Chang'an?" ”

"No, but I can beat you with twenty sticks, and I believe that after receiving the sticks, your illness will be cured without medicine, but you may be half crippled."

Li Su's heart suddenly cooled, it seemed that pretending to be sick was completely useless, since he was heard by Li Shimin, he could only give up this thought.

Li Shimin ate the meat, finally turned his head to look at him, and said lightly: "What's wrong?" Can't stay in the camp anymore? Still don't want to worry about me? ”

Li Su smiled bitterly: "The ministers eat Junlu, naturally they want to share their worries for Your Majesty, but the ministers are counting the days, the wife of the family may have given birth, and the minister misses the wife and the children he has not met, so he returns to his heart like an arrow......

Li Shimin showed a look of joy: "Oh? I want to congratulate you, Li Jiatianding, congratulations, I am waiting for good news with you, if it is a man, I will give him a loose official, it should be my congratulatory gift. ”

Li Su hurriedly bowed down and thanked him.

When the monarch laughed, Li Shimin's nose twitched, and his gaze immediately fell on Li Su: "Why did I smell wine?" ”

Li Su's eyelids jumped: "No!" It's all an illusion! ”

Li Shimin sniffed it again, and suddenly sneered: "Hehe, what a big boldness, didn't I say that alcohol is forbidden in the army?" ”

Li Su was taken aback, this time he was really panicked, if Li Shimin really wanted to handle it, Li Su's ass would have to be hit with at least twenty military sticks, the taste of military sticks was no better than the fun of the boudoir, a few light whips were not painful or itchy, and they could also talk about increasing interest, and the military sticks in the army really cost people's lives.

Quickly adjusted his mentality, Li Su said with a straight face: "Your Majesty, the minister has always been law-abiding and honest, how can he drink in the army, Your Majesty must have smelled wrong, hallucination, everything is an illusion......"

Li Shimin sneered: "Okay, it's right not to admit it, you can talk nonsense with your eyes open in front of me, and after being an official for all these years, you can barely grow into your ability." ”

Li Su said ashamedly: "The minister doesn't dare." ”

Li Shimin snorted: "You are very bold, there is nothing in the world that you dare not do, so you are not modest in front of me." ”

Li Su's eyelids jumped.

What is the ...... It doesn't just seem to refer to drinking alcohol in the military.

"Okay, since I've been exposed, it's boring to pretend again, if you have wine, take it out and share some with me, I won't pursue your guilt this time."

Li Su carefully looked at his face and found that he said this very sincerely, not like fishing law enforcement, so he got up and took out a bulging leather bag from the luggage in the tent, as well as two silver cups full of Western Regions style.

The liquor was full, Li Shimin took it unceremoniously, drank it all at once, and showed a satisfied expression of enjoyment.

"Good wine! I haven't drunk wine for a long time, but today I drink it very delicious! Li Shimin praised.

Li Su also accompanied him to have a drink, and then sat down honestly.

The monarchs and ministers were not as polite as they were at the banquet in Chang'an City, they all drank their own drinks, poured their own drinks, and cut off a piece of meat from the leg of mutton from time to time and stuffed it into their mouths.

Li Shimin drank another glass of wine alone, and suddenly smiled: "If you are really a person who can live, no matter how difficult and bad the place is, you can always find the most comfortable way to live, who in the camp is not waiting for the day, with war in mind, but you are roasting charcoal, eating mutton and drinking wine, there is almost no difference between the outside of the northern country and in Chang'an, right?" ”

Li Su said with a smile: "The minister has no ambitions, he only wants to eat and drink enough in his life, and the land he earns is enough for me to lie down, which is enough." ”

Li Shimin sighed: "I obviously have a skill, but I am a lazy and leisurely person, God is really blind...... If you can give me all your skills, I don't know how much land I can open up, how many territories I can expand, I have known you for nearly ten years, I often speculate, in the past ten years, I'm afraid your ability has not been exhausted, right? ”

"It's finished, it's clean, there's nothing left, and now the minister's belly is only full of wine and meat, and a belly of inopportuneness."

Li Shimin was stunned for a moment, and then laughed: "Well said! A belly out of place, this sentence is really wonderful! From this point of view, you still have a lot of complaints about me in your heart. ”

Li Su hurriedly said: "Your Majesty adjudicates the affairs of the world, how dare the ministers complain." ”

Li Shimin smiled and sighed: "Zizheng, I know that you are angry in your heart, just because I didn't accept your advice, I am not a faint king, but sometimes when making a decision, I must make a decision that is more certain and more in line with the intentions of me and many generals. I value the lives of hundreds of thousands of Guanzhong disciples more than you, so I have to be cautious and walk on thin ice, you can't bear to step into the ghost gate of hundreds of thousands of Guanzhong disciples, and I am even more afraid that I will leave a dim and confused notoriety in the history books, so although you and I have different ideas, but we have the same goal, you and I are the same with the same intentions, everyone wants to win this war, so, Zizheng, although I have not accepted your advice, I still hope that you will not have complaints. ”

"The minister doesn't dare, the minister understands His Majesty's intentions."