Great Tang Dynasty

Chapter 1940

Chen Gu was sent back to Chang'an City by Li Ke.

And just after Chen Gu left, Li Ke took his soldiers and horses and rushed to the land of Yunnan in a mighty way.

While they were walking like this, Li Ke had already sent someone to inquire about the situation of the rebels.

Among Li Shimin's many princes, Li Ke is the best at fighting, and his fighting skills are no worse than those generals in the court.

So he knows how to fight this battle.

Today's Yunnan has been completely occupied by the rebels, and he must find out the situation of the rebels before continuing to send troops.

Li Ke's spies were very efficient, and by the time they reached the Yunnan border, the first spies had sent back the news.

In the big tent in the army, Li Ke looked at the spies and asked, "What news have you found?"

"Returning to the prince, Shi Qiang, the leader of the rebel army, has established himself as the king of the Dali Kingdom, and the whole of Yunnan has become his Dali Kingdom. My subordinates carried out enfeoffment, and even set up the capital of their Dali Kingdom in Chuncheng, and everything was handled like an imperial court."

"What, they actually established themselves as a country?" Hearing this, Li Ke was furious. What is Shi Qiang, but a small rebel commander? How dare he establish himself as a king?

He really takes himself seriously.

This kind of situation is not tolerated by Li Ke, and it is also not tolerated by their Datang.

If Shi Qiang was allowed to establish his own country, then there would be a deadly threat in the south of the Tang Dynasty. How could this kind of thing happen to him?

Li Ke was so angry that he wished he could rush over immediately with his soldiers and horses, and smash that Shi Qiang's body into thousands of pieces.

However, the anger is the anger, Li Ke did not lose his mind, but after nodding, let people continue talking.

"My lord, now Shi Qiang has hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses under his command, and there are also many generals. These generals are very powerful, and many of them are brave enough to be undeserved. Some chieftains also colluded with Shi Qiang, and their combined strength is also one hundred thousand."

"Now, Shi Qiang has ascended the throne in Chuncheng. He has set up [-] troops to defend the city here in Qiucheng, specifically to intercept our Tang army. My younger brother, Shi Liang, this Shi Liang has the courage of a man, so it can be said that he is very powerful."

"........."

The spies Li Ke sent out were very good, and they found out almost all the news that could be found in the land of Yunnan.

After listening to Li Ke, he slowly calmed down.

Because he couldn't calm down anymore, after hearing the news, he deeply felt the difficulty of suppressing the rebellion.

Not to mention that they are not very familiar with the terrain here, just the number of soldiers and horses, there is a big difference.

Shi Qiang's rebels themselves had [-] soldiers and horses, while they had only [-] soldiers and horses.

Fifty thousand soldiers is not a small number, but compared with the rebel army, it is not much. What's more, the rebel army not only has [-] soldiers, but also has the support of some chieftains, which makes things even more difficult for him.

However, even though he felt that the matter was difficult, Li Ke did not show it in the slightest. If a commander like him felt that the matter was difficult, the morale of the army would probably drop to the bottom.

Moreover, Li Ke only felt that things were difficult, not impossible.

The rebel army controls the entire land of Yunnan, and the land of Yunnan is very large. It is impossible for the rebel army to concentrate in one place. For example, in the current Qiucheng, there are only [-] soldiers and horses, and these [-] soldiers and horses , can be said to be the place where the rebel forces are strongest.

There are certainly not so many soldiers and horses in other places.

In this case, it is possible for him to defeat them one by one.

The current firearms of the Tang Dynasty are very powerful, and the fighting power of the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty must be stronger than these rebels. With the same number of fights, he thinks that the Tang army will not lose to anyone.

As long as they slowly nibble away at the rebels, they will soon be able to wipe out the entire Yunnan rebels.

And as long as the rebels here are wiped out, those local chieftains will be fine. These chieftains have always only cared about their own interests.

Therefore, if they defeated the rebels, these chieftains would soon surrender to Datang.

After having this idea, Li Ke didn't worry too much. After dismissing those spies, he summoned a group of generals.

"Everyone, tomorrow we will enter the land of the rebels, and in Qiucheng, the rebels have [-] soldiers and horses ready to stop us. As long as we can defeat them and win Qiucheng, then we can hit these people hard. The rebels, let them know how powerful our Tang army is, if this is the case, they will definitely flee, so the next battle is very important to us, everyone must cheer me up, you know?"

Li Ke is a prince, and he has a very good prestige in the army. After he finished saying this, all the generals immediately started to drink loudly?

"Suppress the rebellion, counter the rebellion."

"Kill them, kill them."

"........."

All kinds of voices mixed together, making the morale of the entire tent very strong.

Seeing this situation, Li Ke was also very satisfied, and he nodded: "Okay, let's all go down and prepare, tomorrow we will go straight to Qiucheng, and fight the rebels. I will take credit for you."

Encouraged by Li Ke in this way, all the soldiers became more and more delighted, and they responded again and again.

After saying this, Tang Jun continued to march towards Yunnan early the next morning, and approached Qiucheng.

However, just as they were heading towards Qiucheng, Shi Liang and the others had already received relevant news from Qiucheng's side.

On this day, in the big tent of the Qiucheng Army, a spy hurriedly came to report.

"General, that Chen Gu from Datang was ill. Datang changed to a new leader, Li Ke, King of Shu. At this moment, Li Ke, King of Shu, is rushing towards us with [-] soldiers and horses."

Shi Liang and the others knew about Chen Gu's halting of troops, but they didn't understand what was going on until now. It turned out that Chen Gu was sick and couldn't lead troops to attack them.

However, Datang replaced Chen Gu with Li Ke, which was not a good thing for them.

You know, Li Ke of Datang is well-known, but he is very good at using soldiers. Compared with Li Ke, Chen Gu is somewhat worse.

Therefore, everyone at this moment is a little worried.

However, just after the spies finished talking about the situation, a man in Tsing Yi smiled slightly and said, "General, it's not a bad thing that Li Ke is here."

(End of this chapter)