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Chapter 16 Deceiving Li Shimin by Li Shimin's Method

Mingzhou was anciently known as Handan. At the end of the Sui Dynasty, Dou Jiande, a powerful man from the north, took a fancy to this place and chose it as the capital. After years of renovation, he has a good appearance and can be called a powerful city.

After Liu Heita's uprising, he still chose Mingzhou as his capital, and all kinds of defense measures were included. At that time, Liu Heita planned to lure Li Shimin to fight, but he also took the natural advantage of Mingzhou. However, Li Shimin was not deceived and forced Liu Heita to cross the river and fight to the decisive battle.

In order to win, Liu Heita took almost all his troops and horses, leaving only a few guards to guard the city gate.

Luo Shixin held Liu Heita, and without any effort, he dismantled the will of the defenders of the city, took down Liu Heita's capital, and added a small amount to the credit book.

With the envious eyes of Liu Heita, Fan Yuan, Wang Xiaohu and other big fishes from the Han East Army, Luo Shixin entered the Tang army camp and headed straight for the commander's tent.

When he arrived outside the tent, a man walked towards him quickly and happened to meet Luo Shixin.

The other party stopped first, nodded and saluted. The courtesy was comprehensive: "Chai Shao met General Luo, congratulations to the general for capturing Liu Heita! His Highness the King of Qin was waiting for the general. Shao had military affairs on his behalf, so take the lead."

"Okay!" Luo Shixin was stunned for a while, and only responded to this sentence.

Chai Shao is the type of person Luo Shixin is the one who is not good at contacting, whether it is Luo Shixin in history or the brand new Luo Shixin now. It is not that there is any gap between them, but that they are not in line with their personalities. Chai Shao is too polite and too polite. Although he is a general, he pays much more attention to etiquette than ordinary literati. If he doesn't know how to adapt, he will feel uncomfortable talking to him.

Just like today, their relationship has been in Tangying for three or four years without blinking, and they can count the five fingers of the content of dialogue. But whenever they meet like this, Chai Shao will greet him politely and cautiously, which makes people feel at a loss.

Luo Shixin looked back and saw that Chai Shao's figure was about to disappear. Obviously, there was something important.

When he walked to the entrance of the tent, the guard outside the door had already walked first: "Your Highness has an order. When the general is here, you don't need to report to enter by yourself."

Luo Shixin walked into the commander's account, and Li Shimin was the only one in the account.

Li Shimin had just won the battle and was in a good mood. He smiled and said, "Good guy, to be honest, did you know something in advance?"

Luo Shixin said without hesitation: "It's vague. Your Highness, don't forget that the general was once the general of Wagang, and he worked with Liu Heita for the Secret Duke. He knew that he was a person on his face, but a villain behind his back. I don't believe that in such a bad situation, Liu Heita would fight to the end with his subordinates!" This song of merit was too easy, and Luo Shixin understood in his heart that his intention to do the first song could not be concealed by people like Li Shimin, Fang Xuanling, and Du Ruhui, and he could not say that he had traveled through time to know history.

Just because of this, Liu Heita still struggled on the Mingshui River. He mentioned that the two of them had worked together for Li Mi, hoping that Luo Shixin would let him go because of this friendship. Luo Shixin then suddenly remembered that Liu Heita had also worked in Wagang and his status was not low. So he had the above excuse.

"No wonder!" Li Shimin knew Liu Heita's resume, suddenly realized it, walked up enthusiastically, pulled Luo Shixin to help him sit aside, and then returned to his seat and said, "This time it was really a loss to General Shixin. If General Shixin had not had the foresight, he would have expected Liu Heita to run away and took precautions. Let him escape, it might be another war."

"No, maybe, it's inevitable! Didn't Liu Heita borrow more than 10,000 troops from the Turks in history and make a comeback!" Luo Shixin thought.

Li Shimin continued: "General Shixin captured Liu Heita alive today, which is equivalent to eliminating a military disaster for our Tang Dynasty and making great contributions. He deserves the most of his contributions in this battle. When he returns to Chang'an, the Lone King will definitely report to the Ming Father and give him a generous reward."

Luo Shixin was filled with joy in his heart, and hurriedly stood up and bowed: "Thank you Your Highness, King Qin."

Li Shimin signaled him to sit down and suddenly said, "Chai Shao led his troops to Yizhou, Beizhou swept away the remnants of Liu Heita, and the power of the Han Eastern Army completely disappeared soon. Today, the princes in the world are only Gao Kaidao, Xu Yuanlang, and Liang Shizhuo have several people. Does General Shixin have any opinions on the current situation?"

Luo Shixin was stunned for questioning. In my memory, Li Shimin never discussed the general trend of the world with him. Could it be that this performance made him look at him differently?

Luo Shixin could only smile bitterly. It seems that this song is not that easy to get.

After thinking about it, Luo Shixin gritted his teeth and said, "The general thinks that the current situation is clear, and the return of the world to Tang is a foregone conclusion. There is no external force to stop it. The only concern is the Turks. The current Turkic Khan Jie Li's ambitions and ambitions cannot be ignored. When the world is in chaos, his clutches have already reached over and supported them everywhere. Help this prince and that prince, for fear that the chaos will not be thorough enough and he will not be able to take advantage."

When Luo Shixin said this, Li Shimin's face turned slightly red. This was done in the early days of the Li Tang Dynasty. At that time, under the threat of the Turks, no prince in the world except in the remote areas of Jiangnan and Shu did not hold on to the Turks.

There is nothing we can do about this. At that time, the enemy was strong and we were weak. If we didn’t hold our thighs, we would have to die under our thighs and we would have no chance of development.

Luo Shixin continued: "What the Turks fear most is the unification of our Central Plains. Now that the unification of the Tang Dynasty is imminent, the Turks will definitely regard our Tang Dynasty as a mortal enemy and will be in our Tang Dynasty as an enemy. Therefore, the last general believes that the next trend will only be between the Turks and our Tang Dynasty, and the rest are not afraid of it."

Li Shimin was really surprised. What Luo Shixin said was not shocking remarks, and most discerning people could see them. However, in Li Shimin's eyes, Luo Shixin was definitely not a discerning person. He couldn't help asking himself: "Did I really read the wrong person? Use a person with the potential of a famous general as a fierce future?"

He paused and said, "It makes sense, what do you think about this situation?"

Luo Shixin smiled bitterly. Li Shimin used himself as Zhuge Liang. He shook his head and said, "There is no way now. To be fair, the current strength of the Tang Dynasty is not enough to confront the Turks head-on."

Li Shimin also sighed sadly. Luo Shixin was talking about the facts. The two countries were fighting for logistics. The world was not yet determined and it was difficult to support the battle with the Turks.

"It's okay to do something big. Use power to distract the relationship between the Turkic chiefs, divide each other's camps with interests, and support the forces against the Turkic. It won't take long for our Tang Dynasty to send generals to control the border to prevent the Turkic invasion. I believe that the Turkic is definitely not the enemy of our Tang Dynasty." Luo Shixin thought about Li Shimin's future methods to deal with the Turkic people, summarized it, and said it.

Li Shimin stood up in a state of emotion, very surprised.
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