The corners of Li Yuan's mouth hooked, from his heart, he was reluctant to answer this kind of question, but Yang Guang kept staring at himself like this, which also made him not care about his capital left and right, so he could only groan for a while, and said: "The morale and strength of the enemy army in the city still seem to be very sufficient, today our army attacked the city, and it is still to counterattack, although there is a reason why Shen Guards were accidentally hit by arrows, but after Shen Guards fell into the city, all the troops of our army that attacked the city were also annihilated, which shows that the enemy army is not so easy to defeat." ”

Speaking of this, he paused: "There is also the rush to attack the city before today, all the plans were very thorough, but only a dozen steps away from the door, but it was destroyed in the enemy's crypt, which shows that the enemy army also has a master in the city, proficient in the five elements of warfare, they can use the method of the crypt to protect the city gate, and there must be a way to prevent our army from attacking the city, so in Weichen's view, it is not advisable to attack, the army has been besieged for a long time, I am afraid that it is the only choice to take Liaodong City." ”

Yang Guang said dissatisfiedly: "Siege? I am a million heavenly soldiers, and I can't take a small Liaodong City? Tang Guogong, your statement is too pessimistic. ”

Li Yuan hurriedly got up, walked to the middle and knelt on the ground: "I hope that Your Majesty will make a judgment in this matter, and Wechen is just telling the truth, and Wechen is only shallow in his studies, and he is talking nonsense, and he asks His Majesty for forgiveness." ”

Yang Guang sighed, waved his hand, and said, "Okay, Tang Guogong, I know that you are also loyal, you don't have to be like this, go back to the table." ”

Li Yuan wiped the sweat from his forehead, returned to the table and knelt on the ground, Yang Guang suddenly said: "Tang Guogong, you are in charge of logistics, and you can't know more than the consumption of millions of soldiers on the front line. As you can see. Military rations in Huaiyuan Town. How long is it enough to support? If our army besieges Liaodong City here for a long time, will the food supply in the rear be able to keep up? ”

Li Yuan hurriedly said: "If the combat destination of the army is only in Liaodong, the military rations in the rear are enough for a year, after all, in addition to the million army, there are more than two million people, all the way from Zhuo County to continuously transport grain to support the front line. And the grain transported to Zhuojun and Huaiyuan Town through the Grand Canal is also endless, and there will be no problem with this for the time being, but ......" Speaking of this, Li Yuan wanted to stop talking.

Yang Guang hurriedly asked, "Just what?" ”

Li Yuan's eyebrows raised slightly, and he replied: "It's just that the army is hanging alone, and it has been dragging on for a long time, and there are too many strong men in the country who have been drawn to do this transportation work to support the front line, especially in Hebei and Shandong, where large areas of land have missed the agricultural time because no one cultivates them." Weichen was only afraid that when the autumn harvest came, the strong men who served as conscripts would not be able to go back to harvest the crops. At that time, there will be a large-scale famine in Hebei and Shandong. ”

Yang Guang is usually surrounded by Yu Shiji's sycophants, and there are few people like Li Yuan who speak out about this matter as bluntly, that is, Wang Shichong has mentioned two sentences, and seeing that he doesn't like to listen to it, he will soon come to the end, Li Yuan's words made the corners of his mouth slowly hook, although he doesn't like to listen, but he also knows that this is the truth, and he must face it sooner or later.

Yang Guang pondered for a moment and said, "Then according to Tang Guogong's meaning, should I order the troops to retreat?" ”

Li Yuan waved his hand: "No, Your Majesty, the conquest of Liaodong has been so far, the results are impressive, except for this Liaodong City, the other cities have surrendered, now as long as our army captures Liaodong City, then the front line has a very stable stronghold, in the future, we will store grain and troops here, and it will be easy to attack the area south of Goguryeo's Yalu Water, in case our army retreats, the cities that have fallen will definitely rebel one after another, and the results will only be ruined." ”

Yang Guang sneered: "But didn't you say Tang Guogong, the consumption of a million troops outside is too great, and it will make it impossible to harvest crops in Hebei and Shandong, and sooner or later there will be a rebellion." Don't you mean to withdraw your troops? ”

Li Yuan shook his head: "No, what Weichen means is that Your Majesty has two options, one is to fight quickly, draw hundreds of thousands of troops to the south, and quickly attack Pyongyang City, while the other armies continue to besiege Liaodong City here." The second is the withdrawal of the army, leaving an army of about 200,000 to continue to besiege the city, such a scale of troops is enough to besiege Liaodong, and will not cause too much pressure on logistics and transportation, besiege for a year, Liaodong City will fall, or wait for next year's spring ploughing, and then organize a large army to come to Liaodong, you can also fight down. ”

Yang Guang's spirits perked up, Li Yuan's first plan was obviously more in line with his appetite, but he quickly thought of something wrong, and said: "Tang Guogong, do you mean a quick victory, send hundreds of thousands of troops south, and attack Pyongyang?" But even this Liaodong city can't be captured, and Pyongyang is the capital of Goguryeo, so can it be captured quickly? Besides, the food supply of our army will only be more stressful. ”

Li Yuan smiled slightly: "Your Majesty, Weichen's tactics, the premise is that the city of Pyongyang is needed, and the army of Laihu'er can open the situation and attack under Pyongyang City, and the army starting from Liaodong City only needs to bring three months of grain and grass to the city of Pyongyang, and get in touch with the army of Laihu'er, and then share the military rations of the army of Laihu'er, or simply directly harvest the autumn grain of the Goguryeo people for the use of the army, Your Majesty only needs to directly supply the army in Pyongyang by sea through Dongnae-gun, There is no need to go north to Zhuojun and transfer thousands of miles to Liaodong, which can greatly reduce the pressure on logistics. ”

When he said this, Li Yuan paused: "However, the premise of the implementation of this plan is that Laihu'er will make smooth progress, attack the city of Pyongyang, and be able to directly meet with our army. ”

Yang Guang's eyes lit up, and he was about to speak again, when he heard a long voice outside: "Your Majesty, Pyongyang Province is urgent!" ”

Yang Guang hurriedly said: "There is a military report, come in." He turned his head to Li Yuan and smiled, "What are you talking about, it just so happens that there is news in Pyongyang, listen to how Laihu'er is fighting." ”

Li Yuan secretly scolded in his heart that he should be damned, the first thing he originally came out of was a false plan, and he decided in his heart that the strength of Zihu'er would definitely not make any progress in Pyongyang City, and it was logical to let Yang Guang choose the second plan and withdraw from Liaodong, if Yang Guang really defeated Liaodong, and even destroyed Goguryeo, and rewarded those children of the Guanlong family, then these people would benefit from it, and they would work hard for Yang Guang in the future, instead of standing on their side, then their overall plan would probably fail, Li Yuan, who has the same thoughts as Wang Shichong, how can he see this situation appear? (To be continued.) )