The First Happy King of Zhenguan in the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 746 Get Ready to Get Married
Playing by ear is easy to say, but Ju Wentai's heart is full of anger and unwillingness.

In good conscience, he is actually a person who is a little rich and secure. He guards the Silk Road, the main road connecting the Tang Dynasty and the Western Regions.As for fighting for world hegemony or something, that's the business of the heroes, and has nothing to do with him, the leader of this small kingdom.

But people are sitting at home, and the disaster is coming from the sky. The Western Turks came to the door and threatened him with force to send troops to the Tang Dynasty.In desperation, Ju Wentai led 2 soldiers from the whole country, and joined forces with the 15 Western Turkic army.

But what I never expected is that the Western Turkic people also have silver-like wax gun heads. 5 people did not kill [-] others, and they were massacred for [-] to [-] in one go. snatched away.

Now, the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty are pointing their swords at Gaochang, and the leaders of the Western Turks are only thinking of running for their own lives. How can the [-] Western Region stragglers under his command be able to carry a [-] army.

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The Tuyuhun people have been guarding Black Rock City, and they are watching. If the Tang army does not stand up to the Western Turks this time, then they will join forces with the Western Turks and step into the Central Plains again.

But what frightened them was that the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty were so fierce that the 5 troops of the Western Turks could not even delay their progress. In one night, almost all the [-] troops were wiped out, and the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty were already pointing directly at the Western Regions .

Withdrawal, must be withdrawn, the vanguard of the [-] Tang army already has such combat power, it is self-evident how powerful the main force behind it is.

And I heard that the leader this time is the murderous Hou Junji of the Tang Dynasty, if he is targeted by this old killer, it is estimated that Tuyuhun is not enough for him to plug his teeth.

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Compared with the Western Turks and Tuyuhun, the Tubo people are much smarter. With the lessons of Songzhou, they don't get involved in such things at all.

Not only did he not get involved, Songtsan Gampo took this opportunity to marry the princess of Nibhara and go home, and then together with Nibhara, he swallowed the Zhang Zhung Kingdom.

Songtsan Gampo is a guy with ambition and brains. He knows that with Tubo's strength, he can't do anything against Datang at all. The temporary harassment will not be of any use, and it will make Tubo unstable. The political situation has changed again.

So he put away his minions in front of Datang, turned into a docile kitten, and then made some small moves at the right time to test Datang's attitude.

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The news of Tang Jun's victory came back to Chang'an, and Li Shimin didn't show too much excitement.

An army of 15 was not enough for the emperor of the Great Tang Empire to face up to. Even if Li Muyun hadn't thought that Gaochang was a country that needed to be occupied, the Emperor of the Great Tang would probably only send a mid-level general there.

However, seeing what was said in the battle report, [-] landmines directly wiped out [-] Western Turkic cavalry regiments. This big one aroused the interest of His Majesty the Emperor, and he personally ordered the general supervisor to increase the production of gunpowder and simultaneously produce More gunpowder weapons were to be produced.

Li Jing had some complaints about this, and found Li Shimin afterwards: "Your Majesty, I think this gunpowder weapon is good, but it has a drawback."

Although he felt a little disappointing, Li Shimin didn't show it. Instead, he asked with interest: "Oh? I don't know what the disadvantage is? Can the pharmacist elaborate."

"Your Majesty, did you really not see anything from the battle report?" Li Jing asked with some uncertainty.

What do you see? !Li Shimin looked at the battle report again, and frowned slightly after putting it down.

After Li Jing's reminder, this time he looked at it very seriously, and at the same time, he also discovered the disadvantages.

"Your Majesty, those gunpowder weapons are indeed powerful, but they also have high requirements for logistics. Just like the [-] vanguard led by Li Muyun, if they only have gunpowder weapons, they should have lost their combat power by now." Li Jing intervened in a timely manner. articulated his point of view.

Gunpowder is indeed a good thing, but good things cannot be used too much, just like ginseng is a good thing, but eating too much will also kill people.

Li Shimin nodded, and asked a little depressed: "Then Pharmacist, do you think gunpowder should not be produced anymore?"

"No, what I mean is that gunpowder and cold weapons can complement each other, and logistics support is not easy to solve, but we can use gunpowder weapons to defend the city, so that we can guarantee the supply of logistics."

It has to be said that although Li Jing saw the defects of gunpowder weapons, he didn't see through them. He still didn't have a correct understanding of how much gunpowder would be consumed in a war.

Li Shimin also didn't have such an understanding, and after listening to Li Jing's suggestion, he also thought it was very reasonable.

Ever since, the pair of monarchs and ministers made a very strange decision, gunpowder weapons are only used to guard the city gate, not to attack.

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Li Muyun, who was in the Western Regions, didn't know Li Shimin's decision. He just wanted to end the battle quickly, and then go home to live his peaceful life.

But the sky in the Western Regions is like a child's face, it changes at any time, just now the sun was shining brightly, but in a blink of an eye it was cloudy.

Marching can no longer be marching. Although marching in heavy rain sounds majestic, it is not a good thing if a few people get gonorrhea and non-combat attrition occurs.

Set up the big camp, put the whole army on alert, and let out the horses for thirty miles. Li Muyun ran to the main camp of Hou Junji in a coir raincoat: "Uncle Hou, it's been ten days, and the march has been less than five hundred miles. You can't think of a way. When can I go down to Gaochang!"

Hou Junji wore a pair of presbyopic glasses, and read "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" with gusto. Seeing Li Muyun coming in, he replied without turning his head: "What's the hurry? I'm out in the army, so I can't be careless. Let's talk about the Western Regions." I don’t know the place well, what should I do if I’m about to leave and am ambushed by someone, fortunately you wrote the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and you don’t even understand such simple military common sense.”

Li Muyun squinted and blinked, found a place to sit dejectedly, and complained: "You old man is really patient, you still have the heart to watch the Three Kingdoms now."

"This book is good. You have a good way of making up stories, and some of the tactics in it are also very good. It's just..."

"Just what?"

"It's just that you haven't thought about it, if the art of war here is spread..."

"Stop, Uncle Hou, please let me go, I'll go right away, let's go right away!"

The art of war, I know the art of war, this book is obviously copied by me, okay? I have already said it several times, but no one believes it.

"Come back!" Looking at Li Muyun who was about to walk out of the tent, Hou Junji put the book in his hand aside, stared at him and asked, "Do you know why you were sent to the Western Region?"

(End of this chapter)