In fact, whoever goes to Jinyang is stronger than Li Jiancheng. Chen Ying knows that all nomads are a urine. Chuluo Khan has just ascended to the throne, he must fight a big victory as soon as possible, and use this victory to deter the forces within the Eastern Turkic Khanate, even if there is no Princess Yicheng behind him, he will still fight.

Lingzhou has its own formation, and before Chen Ying is settled, Lingzhou will definitely not be the breakthrough direction of the Eastern Turkic Khanate. Hexi is Li Rail's territory, Li Rail is a dog of the Eastern Turks, this dog is still a little useful for the time being, so the Eastern Turks must give priority to abandoning the land of Hexi, and Liang Shidu and Liu Wuzhou are the lackeys who surrendered to the Eastern Turks, and they will definitely spare no effort to attack Jinyang first.

Hedong and Youzhou will be the key targets of the Turkic breakthrough. In this time and space, what is even more dangerous than the original historical time and space is that the forces of the Eastern Turks are more concentrated, and of course the impact will be greater. In addition, Li Yuanji, a pit goods, has made a lot of complaints in Jinyang, the soldiers are not in harmony, and he has been defeated by three points before the battle, even if Li Jiancheng goes to Hedong, he is just going to take the blame.

Then again, as long as Li Jiancheng fails, his prestige will be greatly damaged, and it can be "confirmed" that Li Shimin will indeed be stronger than Li Jiancheng, and Li Jiancheng will fall behind in this struggle for succession. There are only so many positions in total, once Li Shimin's power rises, the position of the commander of the Lingzhou soldiers and horses will also have the advantage of arranging Li Shimin's people, and helping Li Jiancheng is actually helping Chen Ying himself.

Li Jiancheng nodded and said: "Sanniang can control Sanhu (Li Yuanji's small character), but it's just ......" Li Jiancheng frowned tightly and muttered to himself: "Don't talk about this, let's drink!" ”

Chen Ying looked at Li Jiancheng and knew that Li Jiancheng didn't listen to his words at all.

Chen Ying also sighed: "If His Royal Highness the Crown Prince goes to Jinyang, it may not be impossible, but if you take someone there, you can get a great achievement!" ”

"Who?"

"Donggong washes horses and Wei Zheng!"

"Wei Zheng?" Li Jiancheng was stunned and said: "He is not good at military affairs!" ”

Chen Ying nodded solemnly and said: "Although Wei Zheng and Wei Xuancheng are not good at military affairs, Wei Zheng can convince another person who is good at military affairs, and this person, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has heard of it!" ”

Li Jiancheng said: "You mean! ”

Chen Yingdao: "Xu Shiji, a fox man from Caozhou (Xu Maogong in the romance)"

Li Jiancheng said: "You mean that Xu Shiji, who attacked Liyang Cang with a rabble of 5,000, recruited 200,000 troops in ten days, and was later worshiped by the Sui court officials as the right military general,"

"Not bad!" Chen Yingdao: "Xu Shiji defended Liyang with less than 20,000 weak divisions, and was besieged by Yu Culture and hundreds of thousands of elite soldiers, Yu Culture and his subordinates were all adapted from the most elite Xiaoguo Army of the Sui Dynasty, with good equipment and excellent training, no one in the world can control it, but the battle of Liyang, Xu Shiji's first battle, annihilated the elite army of Yu Culture and ......"

"But Xu Shiji is now loyal to the emperor!" Li Jiancheng frowned and said: "But now that he is the official general of the Right Wuhou (Zheng Sanpin), how can he easily descend to the Tang Dynasty?" ”

Chen Yingdao: "If it is an ordinary lobbyist, it must be extremely difficult to convince Xu Shiji, if Wei Zheng advances, he will be able to get twice the result with half the effort, if His Royal Highness the Crown Prince gets the help of Xu Shiji, the siege of Jinzhou is not to worry, and if you collect Liyang, the Tang Dynasty can be expected!" ”

Chen Ying said, picked up a branch, and drew on the ground the tripartite power map of Wang Shichong in Henan (south of the Yellow River), Dou Jiande in Hebei (north of the Yellow River), and the Tang Dynasty in Guanzhong.

Chen Ying pointed to Liyang and said: "Liyang is located at the eastern foot of Taihang Mountain, at the junction of Hebei, Yan and Henan, which is the throat of our Tang Dynasty, Wang Zheng and Dou Xia. ”

Li Jiancheng is also a soldier, and after Chen Ying's reminder, he suddenly realized: "In this way, if Wang Shichong gets Liyang, he can ensure that the rear is worry-free and take care of things."

Chen Yingdao: "What His Royal Highness the Crown Prince said is that if Dou Jiande wins Liyang, he will occupy an invincible position, and then attack Hanoi and Merge Zhou, and even wave his troops north to threaten Taiyuan." can also go south and threaten Wang Shichong. ”

Li Jiancheng said: "Liyang must not be lost, otherwise the Tang Dynasty's attack on the Central Plains will suddenly be sluggish, fall into a comprehensive passivity, and the entire Hedong will also be turbulent, if Liyang is obtained by Dou Jiande, he can attack Hanoi in the west, threaten Taiyuan in the north, and force Heluo in the south, and be invincible." If Wang Shichong is allowed to get Liyang, he can ensure that his stomach and back are worry-free, and he will go south with all his strength and go straight to the prosperous land of Jingxiang. ”

Wei Zheng nodded and said, "Yes, it can be said that Liyang is a key chess piece that affects the political situation of the Three Kingdoms in the world."

Li Jiancheng's eyes suddenly brightened, and he said excitedly: "If the Tang Dynasty gets Liyang, can it attack Henan?"

Chen Yingdao: "It's not just Henan, there is a term in Go, called Golden Horn Silver Border Grass Belly ......!"

Li Jiancheng nodded: "Well, I've heard of it." ”

Chen Yingdao: "The situation in the world is like chess, there are horns, edges and belly, Longyou, Ganliang, located in the northwest; Guanzhong, Bashu, even across the southwest, are two corners; Now that we have the Golden Horn in Datang, if we get Liyang, we will get the silver edge again and unify the world, which is just around the corner. ”

Li Jiancheng said: "Liyang, you must get it!" ”

Chen Yingdao: "His Royal Highness the Prince, Jinyang has His Royal Highness the King of Qi sitting in the formation, and His Majesty tens of thousands of elite soldiers to defend, there is no shortage of grain, grass, armor, and equipment, there is no need to worry for the time being, and Liyang is the most important, if His Royal Highness the Crown Prince takes Wei Zheng as an envoy and goes to Liyang to lobby Xu Shiji, then Liyang is within reach!" ”

"However, this Xu Shiji ......" Li Jiancheng said: "Will Xu Shiji agree?" ”

"Let's not mention this for the time being, why didn't Your Highness ask Wei Zheng first?"

Li Jiancheng nodded.

……

Chen Ying Li Jiancheng can also be regarded as benevolent and righteous, in Chen Ying's mind, Wen has Wei Zheng, Wei Ting, Wang Qi, Li Gang, Wu Youxue Wanche, Feng Li, Xu Shiji, etc., Li Jiancheng should not lose too ugly.

On the official road from Chang'an to Lingzhou to the north, Zhao Chunyang led the Yue cavalry regiment to march at night by moonlight, and the armor emitted a cold light under the moonlight. After Chen Ying said goodbye to Li Jiancheng, he did not stop, and in two days and two nights, more than 300 and 600 generals of the Yue cavalry regiment traveled more than 700 miles from the territory of Gaoping County.

On the night of March 20 in the second year of Wude, the moonlight was bright and clean, and the official road was clear and bright, and Chen Ying's department, who had taken a break in the official pavilion outside Gaoping County, took advantage of the bright moonlight and galloped away on a moonlit night, and advanced into the Qingshui River Valley of Liupan Mountain.

Chen Ying did not sit in the carriage, he, Zhao Chunyang, and Xu Jingzong rode slowly in front of the team. Suddenly Chen Ying grabbed the reins, he was wearing scale armor, like fish scales, the steel armor refracted a faint luster in the moonlight, he grabbed the reins with one hand, and habitually pressed the saber at his waist with the other, his eyes were blazing, like sharp eagle eyes in the night, looking at the dark valley ahead, as if looking for prey to hide in the night.

Xu Jingzong looked at Chen Ying tiredly, and was about to speak, Chen Ying raised his finger and put it to his mouth.

The soldiers of the Yue Cavalry Regiment were on full alert, and the battle formation was fully dispersed.

At this moment, the sound of horses' hooves in the distance was like rolling thunder in the valley.