It was pouring rain.

A farmer's proverb says: Spring rain is as expensive as oil, but this year's spring rain in Guanzhong is obviously a downturn in the market. The pouring heavy rain fell for six or seven days, not only making the road muddy and difficult to move, but also making people feel bad and they can't be excited about anything they do.

Although the road to Guanzhong was presided over by the Emperors of the Sui Dynasty to repair the roadbed and not be destroyed due to heavy rain, the actions of the army were still inevitably affected. Especially after hundreds of thousands of more oil bottles in one breath, no matter how elite troops were, they would inevitably be affected. Moreover, the Li family army is now pieced together, and its own subordinates have not yet been clarified. There are hundreds of thousands of people. If the army can maintain the troops' collapse, it is the result of the army as best it can. How can it be quickly?

If you travel ten miles a day, you have to set up camp. For veterans who are stolen and cheating, you don’t have to fight to the death. You have to have enough food and hot soup, but those elite soldiers who are determined to build achievements and gain wealth are inevitably furious. Even the people who come here are quite disliked.

In the past few days, several conflicts between the military and the people had occurred. Even a general took a fancy to a woman. He didn't expect that the woman was extremely strong and claimed that he was not comparable to those lowly women in the Duke of Defense County. He refused to follow the military general casually, and even caused deaths. Although Li Yuan ordered the criminal general to behead him and hang his head on a high pole to purify the military law, the conflict between the military and the civilians did not stop because of this.

In Li Shimin's tent.

Looking at the meal that could be considered a sumptuous, Li Shimin couldn't swallow it at all, and his brows were frowning in the shape of the Sichuan character. However, Xu Le ate it very well and ate all his food soon. Then he said to Li Shimin: "No matter what the situation is, we must not stop eating. We are warriors at any time. If we have no food in our stomachs and little strength on our bodies, we will mislead the matter when we use our weapons. Erlang must lead the way every battle and fill our stomachs. Although we are still a few days away from Chang'an, the military and civilians are now in chaos. If the Yinshi Division attacks the camp with light cavalry, we must fight at any time and be prepared."

Li Shimin moved his expression, and quickly picked up the chopsticks, like the wind storm, and swallowed the food in front of him. After putting down the chopsticks, he said: "Thank you, Mr. Le, reminder, otherwise you will miss the big thing. The thief has many tricks, and this attack on the camp may not be impossible. Although our army is crowded, it is a mess. If the enemy really takes the central army with an iron cavalry, I am afraid..."

Xu Le smiled and said, "I said it deliberately to let Erlang have a meal. This attack on the camp is a clever plan, but Yinshi Master may not have such courage. He is cunning and lacks courage, otherwise he would not use these sneaky tricks. Besides, most of the Jingzhao Yingyang soldiers are not familiar with war formations and use iron cavalry to raid the enemy in the rain, and they must not do it. However, there are no such elite soldiers in the city, and there are no military generals who do not have enough skills. How dare they come to die? Even if there are no people who know how to live or die, they will not be able to fight against our Xuan Armor Cavalry!"

Only then did Li Shimin realize that he was deceived by Xu Le. His words just now were just lying to eat the food so as not to be angry. He laughed silently, and felt that he was closer to Xu Le. After all, in front of outsiders, Xu Le always looked polite but arrogant. Whether it was a military general or aristocratic family, he felt that this person was difficult to get close to, so he complained about Xu Le. Only he knew how cares Xu Le cared about his recognized friends. The reason why he seemed difficult to get close to was that he was too lazy to socialize and was unwilling to flatter him against his will.

Compared to gaining the friendship of this tiger minister, what made Li Shimin even more happy was Xu Le's words. The iron cavalry mentioned in his words was actually the Xuanjia Cavalry. If he had been in a different place with Yinshi Master now, he would not need to use these despicable means. As long as Xu Le was the main general and led the Xuanjia Cavalry to steal the camp at night, even if he could not kill the main general, he could still kill him. He would be in chaos when the enemy soldiers arrived outside Chang'an City and would be exhausted without fighting.

The reason why Yinshi Master used these tricks is that he did not dare to win on the battlefield because his own martial arts are insufficient. He always has to compete for martial arts. He hopes that the evil ways will only win for a while, and it cannot last long. As long as he has this Xuan Armored Cavalry and a tiger general like Xu Le, the world will be in his pocket sooner or later, and the outcome this time will not matter.

Most of the gloom in his heart was eliminated, and even the bloating and pain caused by excessive swallowing of food disappeared without a trace.

Xu Le said: "Today's military discussion, Dalang and the others will still only scold Yinshishima?"

"What else can I say besides these?" Li Shimin smiled bitterly: "The thief dug out my Li family's ancestral tomb, and I wish I could be irreconcilable. After the city is broken, I will definitely tear him to pieces. My brother shouted these words several times, and it was indeed like thunder, but what is the help for the current situation?"

"If he had an idea in his mind, he would not have said these useless nonsense during military discussions." Xu Le said coldly, not keeping any decent words for the Li family's princess. This is his temperament. When he meets someone who likes him, he can be friends, and it is okay for everyone to be loyal or even entrust his life. If he doesn't like him, he will not be willing to give face. No matter how noble the other party's identity is, as long as what he says is unreasonable, he will not show mercy and say anything unpleasant. Therefore, it is not unreasonable to say that Xu Le is arrogant. After all, there are very few people who dare to sarcastically sarcastically at the Prince of Tang today, and Xu Le is also a subordinate of Li Yuan, such words seem even more presumptuous.

Not only did Li Shimin not blame him, he nodded and praised: "What Mr. Le said was exactly the same as a certain person. Now the military situation is so hot that he cannot delay for a moment. He is still talking nonsense in the military tent, and half of his anger fell on him. But the adults were upset by the ancestral tombs these days, and I couldn't bear to let the adults get distracted and troubled by family affairs, so I suppressed this sentence without saying it."

During the rebellion of the Eight Kings at the end of the Jin Dynasty, the Five Barbarians invaded China, the world was full of troubles, and no matter how noble people, Guizhou heads were all in danger of protection. In such troubled times, people were mostly dependent on the theory of ghosts and gods for comfort. Therefore, the theory of prophecies and divinations is very popular, and the theory of ghosts and gods is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. Even the construction of Daxing City must be in line with the celestial phenomena, corresponding to the layout of stars, and it can be seen that the superstition of the great officials and nobles is unknown.

The ancestral tombs have always been regarded as a means of protecting descendants. Therefore, the aristocratic families tried their best to choose the famous mountains, rivers, Fengshui treasure lands as the location of the ancestral tombs. Therefore, the geek sorcerers are qualified to be guests of noble people. The government and the people all believe that the hidden luck in the ancestral tombs is hidden. As long as the thief ancestral tomb is damaged and the kingly spirit is leaked, the rebels will lose the heaven and earth auxiliary and defeat themselves without fighting. The former Wei Xuan defeated Yang Xuangan. Although it was the result of several troops fighting bloody battles, people from all over the court and the country believed that Wei Xuan digged Yang Su's tomb and burned the corpses first, and destroyed Yang Xuangan's luck and won.

Xu Le himself did not believe in the sayings of ghosts and gods, but he could not help others to be the same as himself. No matter how absurd the ancestral tombs were, as long as someone believed it, it would have its effect. Li Yuan himself might not believe these nonsense, but no one could guarantee that these many soldiers and generals under his command would not believe these words. As long as someone believed, the destruction of the Li family's ancestral tomb would have a great impact on the morale of the military.

Not only ordinary military officials, but also those civil servants and military generals around Li Yuan may not be unshakable. However, they will not express their thoughts on their own. If the Li family advances smoothly, there is naturally nothing to say. If the marching is frustrated or defeated, it is difficult to say what choice these people will make. The biggest reason for Li Yuan's upset these days is the same. Compared with those military officials, the thoughts of civil servants and military officials are more difficult to predict, and the impact on the success or failure of his own foundation is also more important.

If it were in peace, Li Yuan would rely on cow wine and wealth to reward soldiers to boost morale, and stabilize the people's hearts with the wealth and reputation of Jinyang and the reputation of the Li family, and eliminate the ancestral tombs invisibly. But now the Yinshi Division suddenly threw hundreds of thousands of people, which caught Li Yuan off guard. Just dealing with these hundreds of thousands of mouths has exhausted Li Yuan, so how could he have the spare time to reward the three armies to boost morale?

In Xu Le's opinion, the most effective method at the moment is to start a war. As long as you win a few battles to stabilize people's hearts, and then attack Chang'an with large troops, you can make the world come back after you take Chang'an. No one will mention the so-called ancestral tombs. Whether a real man fights the world or seizes the country, he should make money back with his own skills and shoots. How can he rely on his ancestors to protect everything? On that day, Emperor Gaozu of Han was just a commoner, and he could still overthrow the tyrannical Qin and unify the world. Why should his ancestors protect him?

However, the Li family had thought too easily about attacking Chang'an before, thinking that it would be easy to capture the city with a noble family secretly helping him. For example, Li Shentong, who was beaten by Yu Juluo, boasted that he had Chang'an hero Shi Wanbao, and ordered thousands of rangers in the city to use it for him and give it to him. Everyone regarded the capital of the Great Sui Dynasty as vulnerable. Unexpectedly, the Yinshi Master used such a desperate plan to turn Chang'an into a barracks, and all the pre-made methods were lost.

The aristocratic family also has their own minions in Yingyang Mansion, but the number of people is limited and they do not have an advantage. The army has always been concerned about orders and obedience. It is difficult for a few small army generals or ordinary military soldiers to accomplish great things even if they have different intentions. In this case, it is not possible to obey the aristocratic family. It is impossible to expect them to offer the city. The Li family is not ready to fight, and now they are in a dilemma.

Li Yuan was not a soldier who knew the soldiers, and he might not have thought of it. However, this Duke of Tang was too calm and did not want to take risks at all. In the past, Yang Xuangan had a smooth journey, but after only a few defeats, he was uprooted by someone like a wind and clouds. Li Yuan obviously did not want to repeat the same mistake, so he did not dare to send troops to attack the city, just because he was afraid of losing the battle and losing the morale of the army. But in Xu Le's opinion, this current situation had a very bad impact on the morale of the army. If he didn't do anything, the foreign troops would inevitably have a strange ambition. Besides, these hundreds of thousands of people were like sharp blades hanging above their heads. They could not fight, but they ate no less than ordinary military men. Even if they were all in Jinyang, it would not be possible to provide for hundreds of thousands of mouths for a long time.

Chang'an City has lost its people and has become a dead city, which is not conducive to long-term defense. However, the Li family has carried the burden of hundreds of thousands of mouths, so they cannot fight for a long time with Yinshi Division in the field. At this time, life and death are broken, and they must fight to the death. However, the Duke of Tang obviously could not make this decision and tolerate the eldest son to say nonsense during military discussions, because there is nothing useful to say.

Xu Le looked outside the tent and thought in his mind: Mr. Li refused to leave this decision, and he was afraid that he could only ask God to help him. Such heavy rain was too abnormal, and the Li family's food channel could last for a long time. When there was no food in the army, no matter how dull Mr. Li was, he was afraid that he could only fight to the death.
Chapter completed!