Chapter 22: Xiao Xian Starts
There are many factors that can determine the outcome of a war, and they can be roughly divided into three categories: time, location, and people.
However, the fundamental factor that can determine the outcome of the victory is the country's own national strength, that is, the people!
Therefore, the time is not as good as the location, and the location is not as good as the people.
How awesome the early stage of the war was, how wonderful the tactics were, how many victories were won, and how many territories were occupied, in fact, they were just the moon in the well and the flowers in the water.
At this time, if you stop, honestly accept it, patiently digest the benefits you have gained, wait for the opportunity, and fight again tomorrow, it is the real best policy.
However, if you don't stop, but drive the horsepower of the chariot directly to the maximum, and directly provoke a bigger enemy with a gambling mentality, then it is only a matter of five or five whether you win or lose.
If the war cannot be won, but you still have to frown, then when the country's own national strength can no longer keep up with the pace of the war, the final outcome can actually be clearly predicted.
The overall national strength of Nanliang is far inferior to Li Tang, and after a big defeat, Nanliang's national strength has been a big difference from Nansui.
Therefore, if Nanliang wants to change his life against the sky, it is completely impossible to swallow Li Tang in the north and destroy Nansui in the east by relying on a small place in the south.
Nanliang will definitely be destroyed, it's just a matter of time.
However, despite this, although the current Nanliang is very worried about Li Tang's large-scale attack, they do not feel the slightest despair, and even, there are many people of insight in Nanliang, and even think that the upcoming battle of Jiangling is about to start, or even the entire Nanliang...... , a godsend for the rise!
The reason why there is such a point of view is because of the situation of Li Tang's Southern Army, and the top and bottom of Nanliang are all clear.
Since Li Xiaofeng came to Kuizhou, replaced Li Tang's famous general Xu Shao, and took over the entire Southern Army, he has been working hard and trying hard to build ships and build the army.
Regarding this situation, Nanliang's top and bottom are very clear, and the fact that Li Tang lacks battleships cannot be concealed at all.
At this moment, Li Shimin, the king of Qin, personally led his troops south, in a vain attempt to directly destroy the entire Southern Liang with 500,000 people.
This situation, in the eyes of those generals in Nanliang, is no different from a joke at all.
If Li Shimin had a hot brain, he would have carried a full 500,000 Li Tang warriors with only a thousand warships, and he would have driven directly to Jiangling City with trembling trembling eyes, no, if this was the case, Li Shimin would not have been able to reach Jiangling at all.
The reason is very simple, before the 500,000 Tang army reached Jiangling, these thousands of warships full of Li Tang's warriors had already been directly sunk to the bottom of the river by the defenders of Nanliang Yiling City.
If Li Shimin dares to be stupid and only use a thousand slow-moving overloaded warships to compete with the Nanliang Navy on the river, then the Nanliang Navy will dare to use only 100 warships to wipe out the entire Li Tang fleet with a live target!
After the defeat of Li Tang's army, the Southern Liang army could immediately lead its troops upstream, occupy the entire southern part of Youzhou, and control the upper and middle reaches of the entire Youzhuo Grand Canal.
At that time, the pattern of the entire south and the pattern of the whole world will be completely rewritten because of Li Shimin's arrogant failure!
Of course, the name of a person and the shadow of a tree, Li Shimin, as a peerless commander who is famous all over the world, is probably not so unwise.
Therefore, in order to prevent Li Shimin from using any tricks to change the outcome of the Battle of Jiangling, Emperor Xiao Xian of Liang secretly carried the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty and privately appointed his goddaughter Xie Xiaoyu to go to Nansui Yuzhangcheng and invite Xu Shiji, the marshal of the naval army in Nansui, to lead the troops to Jiangling City to participate in the battle and assist.
That's right, Xie Xiaoyu doesn't have any official identity at all, she's just ...... , the personal representative of Emperor Xiao Xian of Liang!
The reason why Xiao Xian, as the emperor of the entire Southern Liang, acted so secretly was not only because, he knew very well in his heart that all the officials under him would not agree to invite Xu is Jidong to assist.
The more important reason is...... , Xiao Xian, the emperor who dominates the south, he can't control all the armies of the entire Southern Liang at all.
More than ninety percent of the soldiers and horses in the entire Southern Liang are all in the hands of the seven kings who helped Xiao Xian to the throne!
The reason why Xiao Xian started his family is almost exactly the same as the reason why Liu Bang, the ancestor of the Giant, started his family, that is, because everyone didn't want to be a leading bird, and he was pushed out by the public as a substitute for the dead.
The only difference is that there is only one person who makes Liu Bang a substitute for the dead ghost, and it is a full seven people who recommend Xiao Xian as a substitute for the dead ghost.
When the county raised troops, everyone recommended a person named Xiao He as the leader, but what about ...... , Xiao He rolled his eyes, and pushed Liu Bang, who was not what he wanted at the time, directly to the front desk.
It is because of this push that Liu Bang, the super awesome and the strongest master in history, who pretends to be a pig and eats a tiger, has directly achieved a brilliant imperial hegemony.
Xiao He and Xiao Xian, I don't know if there is anything to do with each other, but when Dong Jingzhen and the seven people elected Xiao Xian as the lord of Southern Liang, Xiao Xian knew that he might be a puppet, and even in the end, he would end up with a dead clan, but he still stubbornly sat on the throne.
However, later facts proved that compared with Xiao Xian and the Mighty Ancestor Liu Bang, it was still worse in the end, 108,000 miles away.
Liu Bang can hide and not speak, pretending to be stupid all day long, and the pile around him is not as smart as him, and the famous ministers and generals are all obedient and close, and they are willing to be born and die for him, and achieve a hegemony for him.
This point, let alone Xiao Xian, even if it is as smart and peerless as the overlord Xiang Yu, it is still ...... , a big difference!
That's right, the overlord Xiang Yu is a super smart person, if he hadn't met Liu Bang, who was also a smart and peerless guy, all the princes and ministers at that time were all bundled together, and it was just a chess piece in the hands of the overlord.
The overlord has never fought a character, but Xiao Xian thinks that he is not too much worse than Liu Bang, and even he probably thinks that he is much stronger than Liu Bang, isn't this another sitting in the well and watching the sky and claiming to be big?
Therefore, although Xiao Xian is also very talented, scheming, ambitious, ambitious, and very patient, it is a pity that he did not subdue the little Seven Kings under his command like Liu Bang did in the end, and became a veritable lord of Southern Liang.
However, whether it can be done or not, now it doesn't matter at all, the entire Nanliang up and down, and the top priority now is how to deal with the menacing 500,000 Tang army, so that Li Shimin, who is stupid as if he is drunk, will pay a heavy price for blood because of his arrogance.
So, Li Shimin, the world-famous peerless commander, he ...... Is it really just arrogant and drunk?