Prosperous Tang Blood Blade

Chapter 406 Please Your Highness the Crown Prince

Chapter [-] Please Your Highness the Prince
A four-wheeled carriage slowly stopped by the Yuhe River, Li Xiuning looked at the brightly lit Yuhe Iron and Steel Plant, and listened attentively to the golden clanging sound coming from his ears.

A few soldiers led by Donggong Qingdao noticed the movement here, holding torches, and ran towards the carriage quickly, shouting: "Who's there!"

Jumping torches, from far to near.When these soldiers led by Qing Dao saw clearly the tower of Princess Pingyang.There are also squad sword soldiers standing around the four-wheeled carriage. These Qing Dao soldiers retreated into the darkness consciously.

Cui'er looked at Pingyang Princess Li Xiuning and asked: "Princess, do you want your slaves to report?"

"No need!" Li Xiuning shook her head.Continue to sit on the soft couch in the carriage. In fact, the soft couch is already a bit inappropriate. Chen Ying used many styles of later generations in Li Xiuning's four-wheeled carriage. For example, what Li Xiuning is sitting on now is actually a sofa , the case in front of me also has a variety of combinations. Under the table, there are six small storage compartments, which can be used to place chessboards, chess pieces, pens, inks, papers and inkstones, and some scrolls. Combined with Li Xiuning's love of military affairs, the front screen wall of the carriage compartment It is not an ordinary landscape painting, but a map six feet wide and one foot long.

Moreover, it is also a military map, marked with Dou Jiande, King of Xia in Hebei, Wang Shichong, King of Zheng in Central Plains, Lin Shihong, King of Chu in Jiangnan, Xiao Mi, King of Liang, Shen Faxing, Chief of Jiangnan, Du Fuwei, Chief of Jianghuai, Li Zitong, King of Wu in Jiangdu, Luo Yi of Youzhou, Qi King Bo of Jiaodong County, Gao Kaidao, King of Yan in Liaodong, Zhu Can, King of Hanshui Jialou, and other princes have a criss-crossed power map.

As usual, Tweety winded up the clockwork skillfully, and when the clockwork was wound up, the puppet in the music box began to circle around the box, but there was a pleasant sound of ding-ding-dong-dong in the box.

Li Xiuning looked at the map on the screen wall, frowning.Since this map is a topographic map of various forces in the world, Hangu Pass is just a finger-sized dot on the map, but Li Xiuning has been searching for information about Hangu Pass in his head.

Li Xiuning passed through Hangu Pass when she was 14 and 17 years old respectively, and she had a very deep impression of the steepness of Hangu Pass. For Chen Ying leading the army to attack Hangu Pass this time, Li Xiuning thought it was not a good job Therefore, the best way to attack Luoyang is to go down the Yellow River. At this time, the Yellow River is frozen, and you can go straight down along the ice surface of the Yellow River, pass Hongnong, and go straight to Luoyang.

But why did Chen Ying choose to go all the way east from Tongguan to fight head-to-head?This is obviously not Chen Ying's style. What Chen Ying is most afraid of in battle is casualties, which is completely different from generals who only want to win, regardless of the cost.

Why did Chen Ying do this?
What is his real purpose?
……

In fact, Li Xiuning's doubts are also Li Jiancheng's doubts.It's not that Li Jiancheng doesn't understand military affairs, he's even a little confused.In the editing room of the Yuhe Iron and Steel Plant, Li Jiancheng finally couldn't help but asked Chen Ying: "Wouldn't it be better to go down the Yellow River and directly arrive at Luoyang while the Yellow River is frozen?"

Chen Ying turned around, looked to the northeast with his hands behind his back, and sighed long and long: "His Royal Highness, as the saying goes, those who don't plan for the world can't plan for a moment; those who don't plan for the overall situation can't plan for a region. What Chen Ying plans is not Hangu Pass. A pass, not a city in Luoyang, let alone a corner of the Central Plains."

Hearing this, Li Jiancheng was even more surprised.As the saying goes, a person's vision determines a person's achievements. At first, Li Jiancheng only thought that Chen Ying was just a general. Later, he found that Chen Ying was not only a general, but also a handsome talent who could stand alone.Li Jiancheng wanted to make Chen Ying No. 1 in the military of the Eastern Palace. After he ascended the throne in the future, he would appoint Chen Ying as the Minister of War in the Tang Dynasty. There are four coal mines, four saltworks, and three blast furnaces.

The simple thing is that a golden mountain has been developed, and the annual profit can exceed one million.The surprise that Chen Ying gave him was really too big, this is simply Sang Hongyang of the Tang Dynasty.Just when Li Jiancheng regarded Chen Ying as Sang Hongyang of the Tang Dynasty, and after he ascended the throne, he appointed Chen Ying as Minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs of the Tang Dynasty, concurrently served as Zhongping Zhangshi of the Zhongshu, and became the future treasurer of the Tang Dynasty. In Yuhe, Ying worked out extremely sharp magical weapons, as well as armor that could ignore bows and arrows. Possessing Mo Dao or armor is equivalent to increasing the combat effectiveness of Datang's army by more than [-]%.

Li Jiancheng really doesn't understand Chen Ying now, he really can't guess Chen Ying's real thoughts and intentions.Li Jiancheng asked seriously: "I don't know who Chen Qing is planning..."

In fact, Chen Ying didn't know that he was already in Li Jiancheng's heart a rare genius in a century who was comparable to Sang Hongyang, Wei Huo and Marquis Wu.Chen Ying did not directly answer Li Jiancheng's words, but said with a faint smile: "His Royal Highness, Wang Shichong of the Central Plains, Zhu Can of Jingxiang, Li Zitong of the Jiangdu, Shen Faxing of the Jiangnan, Xiao Xian, or Gao Kaidao, they are nothing to worry about. The unification of the Tang Dynasty is just around the corner.”

Li Jiancheng also agreed with Chen Ying's point of view: "That's right, as long as five years, as little as three years, the Great Tang will unify the world!"

"But what about after the unification of the world?" Chen Ying looked to the northeast and said, "The problem of Goguryeo still needs to be solved!"

Li Jiancheng was slightly taken aback, and suddenly came to his senses.Although the history books gave Yang Guang the military, when Fang Xuanling and others edited the "Sui Shu", they left Yang Guang with a saying of "relying on prosperity inside, thinking about the land outside, using arrogance to make resentment, using anger to promote teachers, if this does not perish, I have never heard of it since ancient times.” Comments, however, the Goguryeo issue was the goal of four generations of emperors in the Sui and Tang Dynasties, Yang Jian, Yang Guang, Li Shimin, and Li Zhi, which lasted nearly a hundred years.

The real reason for attacking Goguryeo was not Gao Yuan's "rudeness", but because of a traditional Chinese political thinking: "How can others snore on the side of the couch."

Goguryeo is different from the Turkic, Khitan, and Mohe ethnic groups. It is a farming and semi-nomadic ethnic group similar to the Huaxia ethnic group. After more than [-] years of development in Goguryeo, Goguryeo has a strong national power and has more than [-] soldiers. Buyeo, Silla, and Baekje all tended to unify the Korean peninsula.

Under such circumstances, a rising Goguryeo power in the Northeast absolutely does not agree with the interests of China, so when Yang Jian unified the Sui Dynasty, he launched a war against Goguryeo. After Yang Jian failed, Yang Guang followed him, and Li Shimin unified the world After destroying the Turks, a strong enemy in the north, they also set their sights on Goguryeo. If the first conquest failed, they would come again. All three conquests failed in a row. After Li Zhi came to power, he continued to fight again. A third-class disabled.

If it is said that Yang Guang has self-reliance on martial arts and self-reliance, is it the same for Yang Jian, Li Shimin, and Li Zhi?The answer is no, because it is in the national strategic interest.

Li Jiancheng also changed slightly when he heard Chen Ying mentioning Goguryeo. Of course, Li Jiancheng was not out of fear, but excited: "In the future, my palace will inherit the great rule, and I will devote myself to the soldiers of the whole country. I will have millions of troops, and I will flatten Goguryeo. Shame."

There is a very classic line in Bright Sword: "Any army has its own tradition. What is tradition? Tradition is a kind of character, a kind of temperament! This kind of tradition and character is formed by this kind of army. It is determined by the character and temperament of the first military chief. He injected soul into this army. From now on, regardless of the passage of time and personnel changes, the soul of this army will always exist.”

In fact, this is true not only for the military, but also for the country.The founder of the Han Dynasty, Gaozu Liu Bang, was originally a local ruffian. He has a very obvious character traits. He is able to bend and stretch, but he must retaliate. This spirit has also become the national nature of the Han Empire. If you can’t beat you, you should bow your head and never lose face. Live and suffer, but when you are strong, you will definitely abuse you without discussing it. It is under this national tradition, which lasted for a hundred years and under the painstaking management of five generations of emperors. battle.

This is actually the case in the Tang Dynasty. Li Shimin won the throne in Xuanwumen by disgraceful means, and his descendants also felt that it looked the same. Yang Guifei).

Chen Yingdao: "The minister is actually using the Hangu Pass experiment to test a brand-new war concept and method of warfare. The minister collectively refers to this method of warfare as mountain warfare. Your Highness, you know that Goguryeo has more land and less plains. Outside the Bochuan Plain, most of the entire Goguryeo area is mountainous or hilly, so the former Yang Guang adopted a million-strong field corps to enter Goguryeo, and it was useless at all. The minister plans to use Hangu Pass here to To test the army organization, tactical characteristics and offensive and defensive essentials of mountain warfare, and set up the first mountain warfare force in the Tang Dynasty. It will be swift, and with fewer casualties and less cost."

At this time, Li Jiancheng finally understood Chen Ying's real purpose, and suddenly realized: "I have wrongly blamed Chen Qing. I didn't expect Chen Qing's plan to be so far-reaching."

Speaking of this, Li Jiancheng said with a guilty face: "With Chen Qing's achievements, it is not an exaggeration to confer a duke of a state, and it is just around the corner to be called an orphan!"

"I don't want dukes and kings!" Chen Ying said solemnly: "If I have a choice, I would like to ask His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to help me."

Li Jiancheng said: "Chen Qing just said it's okay, if this Palace can do it, it's not even if it can't be done temporarily, and Chen Qing will definitely do it in the future!"

Chen Yingdao: "Your Majesty and Princess Pingyang are in love with each other, and I ask His Highness the Crown Prince to help us."

"This..." Li Jiancheng hesitated. Although he said that his eldest brother is like a father, Li Jiancheng does have the power to influence Li Xiuning's marriage, but he can't at this time.Because Li Yuan is still alive, it is Li Jiancheng's turn to decide where Li Yuan is alive.

Seeing Li Jiancheng's hesitation, Chen Ying said, "His Royal Highness, please complete it!"

(End of this chapter)