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Chapter 143 Lack of Soldiers and Horses

"Your Majesty, you don't have to worry. It does take some time for the recruitment of troops in Guanzhong, but has your Majesty ever thought about how many troops they can have in their hands even if Guo Ziyi and the other three took Hebei Road this time. If everyone in the world knows that there are so many troops left in their hands, what will happen to those governors who have their own worries?"

After Li Mi finished speaking, Li Heng was obviously in deep thought. What he considered until this time was the situation facing Hebei Road in front of him.

But what Li Mi thought was later. Li Mi obviously understood one truth better than Li Heng. If a person has no long-term thinking, he will have immediate worries. If he solves the current situation one by one, the matter will never be solved.

"If the recruitment starts now, Hebei Road will not be able to take it down for a while."

"Your Majesty should be confident in Guo Ziyi and the other three. Guo Ziyi has experience. Li Guangbi is the best age for a general. Although King Jianning is young, he still has the courage and motivation. Moreover, he is the governor of Hebei Dao. Now that he has taken down many prefectures and counties, they learned that His Majesty has been forced to recruit troops. Can't they think of a solution in Hebei Dao? The time may take longer, but will the three of them give His Majesty a surprise? How can His Majesty know now?"

To put it bluntly, Li Mi asked Li Heng to recruit soldiers in the pass just in case, and the other was for Guo Ziyi and the others to see them, so that they could know that Chang'an City is also in a tight position now, either you can wait, or you have to think of a faster way by yourself.

"Okay! As the gentleman said, most of the territory of the Tang Dynasty has been taken back, so I don't need to be so anxious!"

Li Heng still trusted Li Mi very much and immediately affirmed his statement. Seeing this, Li Mi continued slowly: "I have been discussing the recruitment matter with King Guangping for a long time. Your Majesty might as well hand over this matter to King Guangping as a training for him!"

Li Yu is the one who is about to become the crown prince in Li Heng's heart. He left this kind of thing to him, and there is Li Mi behind him. Of course, Li Heng rested at ease, so in Li Mi's house, the two of them decided on this matter.

When Youzhou City received the news, it had been more than a month since they captured Youzhou. Guo Ziyi was still a little confident. After all, although Li Heng is in power now, Li Longji is still there, and the old man is said to be in good health and mental state.

But as soon as the news arrived, Guo Ziyi couldn't laugh after reading it. According to Li Heng, they told them not to risk attacking Fan Yang when their troops were insufficient. At least Youzhou was already theirs. It was said that Chang'an City would do its best to help them raise troops, but the way to raise troops was to let Guangping King Li Yu recruit soldiers within the pass.

"Recruitment... Since we only have the only way to recruit soldiers in Tang Dynasty, it would be better to recruit soldiers in Hebei Dao faster. Several military governors on the frontiers of the Tang Dynasty, when the rebels took Chang'an and Luoyang before, they did not move. Now the rebels have been wiped out by us, why do they still remain unmoved!"

Guo Ziyi and Li Guangbi are both sensible people, and you can tell at a glance why Li Heng can't mess with people.

He was reluctant to move the tens of thousands of people guarding him around Chang'an City, and the people with soldiers were reluctant to take out their own soldiers and horses for him. This created the current situation. Li Guangbi sighed and said something in front of the two of them.

"What the envoy said is right, but since those Jiedu governors have chosen to watch the fire from the other side of the river, they now find that the available soldiers of our Tang Dynasty are about to disappear, so of course we must continue to observe. Once our army and Shi Siming are ultimately both sides of the defeat. Although the emperor is still in Chang'an City, without the protection of generals and soldiers, wouldn't this Tang Dynasty become a mastermind again?"

As the prince of the Tang Dynasty, Li Yan said such a thing so bluntly, which was indeed something neither of them expected. However, although what Li Yan said was unpleasant, it was an indisputable fact. At this time, everyone was thinking about it clearly that the scene where the mantis stalked the cicada oriole behind could happen to him, and he had to be an oriole.

"It seems that Your Majesty just didn't say that he could no longer raise troops. If I really want to take Fan Yang, I have to rely on the troops in our hands!"

As the backbone of these three people, Guo Ziyi used this sentence to express his attitude. No matter what the situation they were facing here, no matter how weak the emperor Li Heng supported them, they had to try their best to take down the last lair of the rebels, Fan Yang.

Li Qing almost didn't say anything in the subsequent discussion. He was thinking about something, and Guo Ziyi and Li Guangbi didn't pay much attention. In the end, they could only implement the method of increasing troops in two operations. One was to recruit soldiers in Hebei Road like Li Heng, and the other was to see if more than 10,000 surrendered soldiers still in the city could be truly used by the Tang Dynasty.

Apart from that, even Guo Ziyi and Li Guangbi don’t have any good solutions.

After returning to their respective residences, Li Qing immediately gathered the existing iron triangle, Nan Jiyun, Zhang Xun and Xu Yuan, around him.

Because Li Yan was the governor of Hebei Dao, although it was his first time to go to Youzhou, at least in terms of official positions, he was the owner of Youzhou City. Therefore, the previous governor's residence directly became Li Yan's residence. Li Yan would not refuse such a thing, which also led to the fact that in the eyes of many soldiers below, it seemed that Li Yan was the main one after another, which invisibly improved Li Yan's previous seemingly dispensable status a lot.

"The battle situation is now in a tense situation. If you want to take Fan Yang down as soon as possible, you have to use an extraordinary method!"

Li Qing had no shyness in front of the few people under his command.

"The prince means, do you want to use General Lei and his men?"

Nan Jiyun knew the most detailed about the Yuyang Tuqi, but Li Lei had already issued a ban order to him. Whenever an outsider was present, he could say something about Yuyang Tuqi. Li Lei did not want anyone who was not suitable for his confidants to know about this.
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