Ji Chuan also agreed with Xue Wanshu's opinion, saying: "The Tang army blocked Hulao Pass, which was equivalent to breaking the road to the east of Luoyang."

From the map, the three cities of Heyang, Mengjindu, the north of Luoyang, the east of Hulao Pass, the southeast of Xuanyuan Pass, the southeast of Yique Pass, Xiangyang, the southwest of Longmen, and the southwest of Tongguan, all fell into the hands of Li Tang.

Luoyang has truly cut off relations with the outside world and is under the siege of Li Tang. If we want to continue to advance westward and attack Hulao, the situation is very serious than our army. Luoyang is already an isolated city. In this way, our army might as well avoid the real and go to the weak, advance northward, march along the Hanoi, and directly enter the Dang and Taihang, and then use heavy troops to come to Pujin Ferry to create a situation where we want to enter Guanzhong in large numbers. Perhaps we can surround Wei and save Zhao and rescue Luoyang's siege. Even if we cannot save Luoyang, our army can capture all the land in Hanoi, expand the land and recruit people, and wait for the future to compete with Li Tang.

Ji Chuan said this and received the consent of many generals of the Zhao army. Li Shentong, the general stationed in Hanoi, was Li Shentong. His Hanoi legion had not yet recovered after Yu Wen and a devastating blow. However, Li Zhiwan, who was originally going to replace Li Shentong as the general of the Hanoi legion, had an accident.

This has led to the chaos in Li Tang's command system in Hanoi, so this plan has the least risk and can make profits for Zhao State. Why not do it?

Li Chongjiu remembers that in history, at the moment of his current situation, Dou Jiande's military advisor Ling Jing also suggested to Dou Jiande. However, Dou Jiande's subordinates bought Wang Shichong's people and opposed his opinions more than one hundred thousand Xia troops could do anything to Hulao Pass, but outside Hulao Pass, more than one hundred thousand Xia troops had no choice but to use the Hulao Pass where Li Tang's elite troops were stationed.

Finally, he cut off Dou Jiande's food route for Li Shimin, and then succeeded in counterattacking under Hulao Pass.

History is the first to learn from it. Did Li Chongjiu follow Dou Jiande's old path or take another route.

After hearing what Ji Chuan said, Du Yan and Wang Shichong's advisers all cried and said, "If Your Majesty commands Hedong, Zheng State will be destroyed."

After hearing this, the generals sighed inwardly. Given the current situation in Luoyang, it is really hard to say how long it can last, maybe dozens of days, or maybe tomorrow.

However, everyone knew that Li Chongjiu had already fulfilled his kindness and righteousness. At that time, three conditions were given to Du Yan, but none of them had been met. Now, even if Li Chongjiu did not save Huzhu, it is reasonable.

After all, Zhao Jun did try his best.

The envoys of Zheng State fell into silence, waiting for Li Chongjiu's final decision.

Li Chongjiu suddenly said: "I have had a premonition when Hulao Pass was lost. The war lies in the temple calculations, and the temple calculations are more victorious. At that time, our army was expected to have only 40% of the Hulao Pass, and it was not surprising that it had not been captured at the moment."

"Then if Hulao Pass fails, where will our army leave?" Ji Chuan asked.

Li Chongjiu didn't speak. Judging from the current strategic situation, he had three bright advantages compared to Dou Jiande's Xia army in history.

One of the first is that although the Xia army attacked Hulao Pass in history, there were more than 100,000 people. It was known as 300,000, most of the troops were armed by the rebels. Although they had experienced many major battles, they had poor training, and Dou Jiande pacified Hebei. They won consecutive battles and won consecutive victories, and the army was arrogant and lazy.

Although Li Chongjiu's troops were less than 100,000, they all experienced wars. His troops under his command were all regular soldiers, and they were well-trained and were no less than the Guanzhong Army of Li Tang.

Secondly, the current strategic situation of the Zhao army was stronger than that of Dou Jiande. At that time, Yu Culture and Li Shentong were destroyed by Li Shentong. Wei County and Ji County were all in the hands of Li Tang. Dou Jiande had just defeated Li Shentong and seized Li Yang, but now Li Chongjiu destroyed Xu State, Wei County and Ji County first.

The starting point of attacking Hanoi in this way is much closer. It would be great if it covers the grain road in front of Li Yang to Hulao Pass. Dou Jiande was too tug-of-war at that time and was attacked by the grain road, resulting in chaos in the morale of the army.

The third is that Li Shimin is in a bad situation now. Under Li Chongjiu's counter-espionage plan, the relationship between Li Shimin and Li Yuan, Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji is already in danger. The general who went out to fight was questioned and would inevitably affect the morale of the Tang army's combat.

On the other hand, Li Chongjiu always had a unified politics. As the emperor personally led the troops to fight, the whole army bowed to him. In Zhao, there would never be a situation where the emperor and the general were in conflict.

In addition, Li Chongjiu had two advantages that were not on the table, which Li Tang could not detect for the time being, and even most of the counselors and generals of Zhao State did not know for the time being.

Li Chongjiu said, "I decided to order Xu Shiji, Wang Mahan and Han to lead 20,000 troops to attack Hanoi along the Yellow River, while the remaining troops landed on the White Horse Ferry and sent troops to Huzhu!"

Wang Shichong and his side showed a look of surprise. The generals of the Zhao army were all surprised. They thought that after hearing Ji Chuan's words, Li Chongjiu would change his strategy, but they did not expect to send troops to Hulao Pass.

Li Chongjiu couldn't help but think of Dou Jiande, who was under house arrest from outside the Great Wall, and thought to himself, Dou Jiande, I didn't expect that I still made the same choice as you back then, but I wonder what happened this time?

February 11th.

The spring is still slow, and the north and south of the Yellow River are still cold. The main force of the 60,000 Zhao army landed on Baima Ferry, and the 10,000 navy troops drove more than 300 warships, boated and transported grain, and went up the west of the river, showing a trend of water alongside each other.

When Li Chongjiu was in Qi County, he ordered Yu Shinan to issue a second proclamation to fight against the Tang Dynasty, saying that Li Yuan's ancestor was an unknown family in Zhao County. After the poor family, he had no moral character. He secretly regarded himself as the descendant of Li clan in Longxi and clinged to the family. The emperors of the Sui Dynasty were not humble to Li Yuan and his son, but he entrusted great things. However, Li Yuan received the old grace of the previous dynasty and entrusted the important task of staying in Taiyuan, but failed the grace of heaven and raised an army to rebel against the Sui Dynasty.

After Li Yuan entered Chang'an, he strongly ruled the weak ministers and the weak ruler, and he was the young emperor, secretly strengthened the weak ruler's plan, and had the hearts of Cao Cao and Sima Yi, and practiced the reality of Zhao Gao and Wang Mang.

The scholars were angry and the people were resentful; the man raised his arms and raised his state to speak in unison. Now, the Great Zhao gathered a large army of 500,000 water and land to attack the Tang Dynasty, hoping that the officials and people of each state would gather under the flag of righteousness.

After Li Chongjiu issued an edict to the world, Wang Shichong's younger brother, Xuzhou Xingtai Wang Shibian, sent general Guo Shiheng to lead an army of 10,000 to join Li Chongjiu, and Wang Bo led 10,000 soldiers from Qi County to join the army to attack Zhao State.

Guo Shi'an, the governor of Guanzhou who had originally subdued Li Tang, learned that Li Chongjiu's army was approaching, so he asked for help from Hulaoguan, hoping that Li Shimin could send troops to rescue him.

But when Li Tang's reinforcements just left Hulao Pass, Guanzhou had been broken by Luo Shixin, the vanguard under Li Chongjiu.

At the same time, Xu Shiji and Wang Mahan's 20,000 troops fought against the Tang army's Li Shentong unit in Hanoi, but Li Shentong unit was defeated by Su Dingfang, the surrendered general of the Xia army.

Zhao's army aided Zheng with great momentum, and the news quickly came to Guanzhong.

In the Li Tang Palace in Chang'an.

When Li Yuan took the manifesto of Li Chongjiu to fight against Tang, he smiled coldly on his face, especially when he saw Li Yuan's ancestor, the unknown clan of Zhaojun, and the poor descendant, who had no Yide, secretly regarded himself as the descendant of the Li clan of Longxi and clan of clan of the family. The whole manifesto was twisted in Li Yuan's hands. Li Yuan sneered: "Your son actually insulted me. My ancestor of Li Yuan is an unknown clan. What about you? The Li clan of Zhongshan is nothing."

"Your Majesty, take care of the dragon body!" Pei Ji said quickly.

Li Yuan stood up and said, "I'm fine, this person is just showing off his power. I will let him know that some people will not last for a lifetime even if they jump around for a while. This person is narrow-minded, and it seems that he still remembers the refusal of marriage. The prince is the prince, who is narrow-minded and cannot become a climate."

Pei Ji saw Li Yuan say this and was also moved. If Li Chongjiu was simply impossible to compare with Li Tang, why would Li Yuan get angry? Li Yuan is so angry now, it can only be said that the Tang Dynasty is not sure to win Zhao.

"Now the King of Qin has captured the Hulao and blocked the gap, but after Wang Shichong learned that the King of Qin left, he sent the general Shan Xiongxin and Yang Gongqing out of the city to fight. The King of Qi was defeated at the city. The general manager Lu Jun was stunned and died in a battle! The King of Qi begged the King of Qin to withdraw his troops, but the King of Qi refused. The King of Qi and Qu Tutong asked to lift the siege of Luoyang and to stand in danger and defend, but the King of Qin refused. This is the memorial of the King of Qi, impeaching the King of Qin and other eight crimes, including holding troops and self-respecting."

"Feng Aiqing, what do you think about you being in the Luoyang army for a while?"

Feng Deyi said, "His Highness of Qin wanted to make every effort in one battle. He not only defeated Luoyang, but also defeated Zhao's army outside Hulao Pass and captured Li Chongjiu alive. He wanted to kill two birds with one stone. If Zhao's army was allowed to enter Hulao and let the two thieves work together, they might be stronger."

"But His Highness of the King of Qi is very reasonable. Our army has captured more than 60 states of Wang Shichong, and most of the land has been surrendered to our territory. Even if Wang Shichong can survive in this battle, he is only thinner than Wang, Xu Yuanlang, Meng Haigong and others. It is enough to stop when they see it is better. In the future, it will be possible to slowly capture it. In just one to two years, the land of Luoyang can be taken in the palm of your hand."

Feng Deyi said this ambiguously, and Pei Ji took over and said, "Your Majesty, the old minister has something to say, I wonder if I can't say it?"

Li Yuan said: "Pei Qing, are you and I ordinary monarchs and ministers? But it's okay to say it."

Pei Ji said: "Then the minister was bold and frank. As Brother Feng said, I think the King of Qin wants to make contributions in one battle, not for the country, but for his own fame and achievements."

Speaking of this, Li Yuan and Feng Deyi were shocked.

Feng Deyi cursed inwardly, thinking that he was the prince of Qin who was able to get along with each other, but Pei Ji's words were like he had just helped the prince say bad things about Qin.

Li Yuan understood Pei Ji's meaning. Li Shimin wanted to take advantage of his position as the commander to defeat Li Chongjiu in one battle, Wang Shichong's two powerful enemies, clear Hebei, and make unparalleled achievements. However, if he retreated now, his great achievements in attacking Zheng in the future would probably not fall into his hands, let alone Li Chongjiu who was in Youyan.

This is a great success to shock the Lord. It is unknown whether Li Jiancheng or Li Yuan is shocked.

"Your Majesty, Concubine Zhang is looking for a meeting!"

Li Yuan said without express delivery: "I am discussing national affairs. What did she do when she comes in?"

"It seems to be related to His Highness the King of Qin!"

Pei Ji and Feng Deyi knew that it was Li Yuan’s family matter and immediately left. After Zhang Jie entered the palace, she cried to Li Yuan, "Your Majesty, do you want to be the master of yourselves?"

Concubine Yin De and Concubine Zhang Jieyu were both Li Yuan’s favorite concubines in his later years. Seeing him crying to him, Li Yuan said gently: “What’s the matter with my beloved concubine?”

Zhang Jieyu said: "There are dozens of hectares of fertile land outside Luoyang City, which is the property of my family. But when the King of Qin had not yet conquered Luoyang, he privately handed over these dozens of hectares of land to King Li Shentong of Huai'an. Please let Your Majesty decide for me!"
Chapter completed!