Prosperous Tang Blood Blade

Chapter 940
Chapter 62 checks and balances each other

Originally, Chen Ying didn't want to win the military exploits of destroying the Eastern Turks. For Chen Ying, the military exploits were enough.He needs to give up the stage to Li Jing.Attacking Yinshan Mountain at night was Li Jing's famous battle, and the first battle established his name as the military god of the Tang Dynasty.

However, Jieli Khan was so desperate that he ran to Dingxiang with 35 horses.

It seems that Dingxiang City and Jieli Khan have formed an indissoluble bond.

Chen Ying can let go of his great contribution to pacifying the Eastern Turks, but these old ministries of his can no longer let go.From the consideration of the imperial court, this rumor turmoil also raised a warning to Chen Ying.

In fact, Chen Ying didn't stay anywhere very long.It's not like Li Jing, it's not like Li Shiji, it's not like Xue Wanche.Xue Wanche stayed in Jingzhou for six full years.

However, Chen Ying has only been in Lingzhou for more than two years, in Henan Prefecture for less than a year, Hebei for less than a year, and Anxi for more than two years, but the Western Regions are too big.

Because Chen Ying's performance was too eye-catching, he showed his sharpness, wherever he went, he would do it for his appearance.This made too many people in the court uneasy.

They were afraid that Chen Ying would take root locally.

In fact, it didn't work.

Before Chen Ying came, the sergeants of the Tang Dynasty were very miserable. Even the Zuo Wu Houwei among the twelve guards could barely eat enough water. As for meat, there was no need to think about it at all.

However, Chen Ying would never corrupt the poor Cai Jin of the lieutenant soldiers, nor would he tamper with the armor and weapons in the hands of the soldiers.On the contrary, any army that Chen Ying led, they all got specific benefits from Chen Ying.

As the saying goes, it is easy to go from frugal to extravagant, but difficult to go from extravagant to superficial.Once the army soldiers followed Chen Ying to have enough food, meat, and warm clothes, and their relatives at home had no worries about food and clothing, they couldn't do without Chen Ying.

If anyone changed to lead Chen Ying's soldiers, he could only follow Chen Ying's policy at that time, otherwise, the soldiers would show them color immediately.

Even if Chen Ying has no right or position, one order is issued, from Lingzhou to Shuozhou, then to Henan, Hebei, and even Hedong, the left and right guards of the East Palace, the left and right Siyu rate, and even the current left and right Wuhou guards.

As long as Chen Ying had led the soldiers, they would all accept Chen Ying's orders within a very short period of time.

As long as they were soldiers that Chen Ying had led, they would all bear Chen Ying's brand, and they would also develop Chen Ying's training methods, the unique way of working and resting in Chen Ying's army.

As said in "Bright Sword", the temperament of an army is directly related to the temperament of its first chief.Chen Ying's way of thinking is first of all different from this era. He doesn't even have the habit of being kind and not controlling soldiers.

Chen Ying believes that the lives of soldiers are precious, and if the battle can be resolved without casualties, casualties should be minimized.Especially the Dingyuan Army in Lingzhou and the Left and Right Army in Lingwu.This army was formed by Chen Ying based on the officers led by Donggong Youwei.

Although time has passed and circumstances have changed, although Chen Ying has not commanded the Dingyuan Army and Lingwu Army for nearly six years.

However, Chen Ying's era maintained the traditions of training in the morning and evening, learning culture in the whole army, talking heart-to-heart between generals and soldiers, and solving life and psychological problems.

When it was just dawn, the soldiers of the Dingyuan Army had already woken up, and none of them slept late. Under the leadership of their respective brigade commanders and regiment captains, they conducted cross-country training in full armor as a unit.

Teams of soldiers braved the biting cold and panted for training.

Standing on the city gate, Chen Ying looked at the neatly lined up line, raising their legs and setting their feet neatly. Thousands of people were like an army formation of one person, and a smug look appeared on his face.

At this moment, there was a creaking sound behind Chen Ying. It was the sound of boots stepping on the snow.

Chen Ying didn't look back, because his footsteps were messy, he was obviously not one of Chen Ying's generals, Li Xiaogong was the only person who could get close to Chen Ying within thirty steps in Tongwan City without a report.

The soldiers training in the city accidentally looked up and found Chen Ying's figure on the city wall.

Their mood suddenly became excited: "General!"

All the soldiers were excited for a while, and the captain said with a straight face: "Look to the right..."

"Go forward!"

When walking forward, it is very powerful and gives people a very shocking feeling.

Li Xiaogong looked at the soldiers of the Dingyuan Army under the city, and said enviously: "General Chen's strict management of the army really lives up to his reputation!"

Chen Ying was not polite to Li Xiaogong's words.Instead, he said calmly: "King of Hejian, Jieli has come to Dingxiang!"

"Come to Dingxiang!" Li Xiaogong said in surprise, "Is he so impatient?"

Chen Yingdao: "He's here, I don't want him to leave again!"

Li Xiaogong naturally heard the meaning of Chen Ying's words.

However, the Northern Expedition to the Eastern Turks was the established strategy of the imperial court. Now that Li Jiancheng's imperial decree and the Ministry of War's dispatch order have not yet come, it is taboo to make a change at this time.

Of course, Li Xiaogong was not afraid of taboos, if Jieli had only ten thousand people around him, without Li Jiancheng's order, he would have rushed forward with the Hedong army.

The key is that Jieli Khan has 35 troops around him, and more than 4 troops from the Later Sui Dynasty.They are less than [-] horses, almost a ratio of ten to one, which is a huge disparity.

Li Xiaogong murmured: "Right now, we don't have an imperial decree from His Majesty, should we send someone to challenge Chang'an?"

"War by asking for instructions!" Chen Ying said angrily: "Eating shit can't keep up with the heat!"

Li Xiaogong was startled, and ignored Chen Ying.

In fact, the soldiers of the Dingyuan Army that Chen Ying can mobilize alone are far from being able to go to Dingxiang City. Throwing these thousands of people in is likely to defeat Jieli Khan!

Li Xiaogong looked at Chen Ying with a bad expression, but didn't say anything else.

In Li Xiaogong's view, they captured Liang Shidu alive and regained Xiazhou, Yanzhou, and 28 counties of Gyeongju with no effort.

Defeating Jieli Khan is certainly a joy, but once it fails, the consequences will be very heavy.

The Hedong Army is Li Xiaogong's army, nominally under Chen Ying's temporary control, but now that the Liang Kingdom has been destroyed and Liang's division has been captured, if Li Xiaogong refuses to hand over the Hedong Army to Chen Ying's command, Chen Ying has no choice.

Thinking of this, Chen Ying sighed and said: "I will not second the Hedong Army, I only need the equipment and supplies of the Hedong Army, and Chen will give the brothers of the Yuan Army to earn a fortune!"

Li Xiaogong nodded and said: "Whatever General Chen needs, what Xiaogong can do, I will definitely do my best!"

Li Xiaogong didn't dare to offend Chen Ying to death, after all, Chen Ying was a celebrity around Li Jiancheng, the direct descendant of the direct descendant.

Chen Ying asked Li Xiaogong for [-] four-wheeled carriages, plus the carriages prepared by the Dingyuan Army, there were more than [-] carriages. Among the [-] carriages, [-] were used to carry soldiers. The other [-] or so carriages were all used to load supplies and fuel.

Under such cold weather conditions, there is not enough fuel, and people in the wild may not be able to last a night.

Chen Ying asked the soldiers to prepare one month's rations, as well as the corresponding horse fodder, weapons and armor, all ready, and then began the final camouflage.

……

In the Ganlu Hall of Taiji Palace, Li Jiancheng, dressed in normal clothes, slowed down and walked into Li Yuan's bedroom.

Concubine Yin De was about to stand up and salute.

Li Jiancheng hastily gestured for silence.

Li Jiancheng walked to Li Yuan's bed and examined it carefully.

Li Yuan was sleeping.

Li Jiancheng walked out of the dormitory cautiously.

The imperial doctor waiting outside the dormitory greeted Li Jiancheng.

Li Jiancheng asked with an unkind expression, "What's wrong with Father?"

The imperial doctor stammered: "The wind and cold hit the lungs and coughed up blood. I stood outside Linhu Hall for too long in the afternoon."

Li Jiancheng sighed with self-reproach: "Before, your body wasn't that bad?

The imperial doctor said: "The evil of wind-cold, the disease is in the lungs and guards. Because the wind-cold attacks the surface, the external muscle surface is bundled, the Weiyang is restrained, the interior is housed in the lungs, and the cleansing is negligent.

Li Jiancheng asked in a daze, "What do you mean?"

The imperial doctor said: "In fact, the Supreme Emperor has been seriously ill for a long time. The evil accumulates in the chest, blocking the qi, and the qi cannot flow. All the evil and the right are fighting each other. The evil wins, and the right cannot control it, so it forms a lump..."

Li Jiancheng waved his hands impatiently and said, "Speak more clearly!"

The imperial doctor hesitated for a while and said: "Your Majesty, the Supreme Emperor has had phlegm for a long time, and he is coughing up blood this time, I'm afraid...the days are numbered!"

Li Jiancheng was stunned and said, "It's nonsense!"

The imperial doctor was so frightened that he knelt down and said: "Your Majesty, how dare I talk nonsense. When I was diagnosed and treated just now, the Supreme Emperor already knew that I had an incurable disease...but...he didn't tell His Majesty."

Li Jiancheng stood there for a long time.

Concubine Yin De walked out of the door, greeted Li Jiancheng and said, "Your Majesty, the Supreme Emperor has woken up, please come in."

Li Yuan lay on the couch with his eyes closed, heard the sound of footsteps, and called softly: "Da Lang..."

Li Jiancheng hurried forward and sat down in front of the couch.

Li Yuan gently took Li Jiancheng's hand, with a strange look on his face, and asked, "Guess, if you make an imperial decree, will Chen Ying come back from Tongwan City immediately?"

Li Jiancheng was quite embarrassed when he heard this, and didn't know how to respond for a while.

Li Yuan lowered his eyebrows and pleasing his eyes, as if he hadn't heard anything.

Li Jiancheng shook his head with a wry smile, expressing his ignorance.

Li Yuan said with great effort: "To judge crime and punish one's heart, this is the art of the emperor...it is contingency change...not rule of law...ruling the world...you need to use more power...cautious use...skill...do not use it if you can...notice To be the son of heaven...you can't do what you want...the prestige of an emperor is not in life and death; Overnight food and rice at home..."

When Li Yuan said this intermittently, Li Jiancheng's face was already moved, and he was about to say something.

Li Yuan went on to say: "How mighty the soldiers of the prosperous Han Dynasty were in the past...the soldiers of the four barbarians...what a spectacle the Eleven Tombs are...now if you look at it, how much is there if it hasn't been stolen?"

Li Yuan said with a weary look: "After I die, don't make big cave burials, don't open up mountain mausoleums, wear paper clothes, a tile coffin, the tomb is built with bricks, don't use stone materials, stone people and stone horses, don't use it at all. No Use officers and soldiers to guard the spirit, do not build underground palaces, and do not place guards in the palace. Only hundreds of households near Li and Shu are recruited to perform the duties of sacrificial and sweeping in front of their generations of food and taxes. A stone tablet is engraved with the words: The Emperor of the Tang Dynasty is coming... "

Li Jiancheng interrupted Li Yuan's words with a wave of his hand and said, "Palace doctors, they are supported by the imperial court's salary every day. In fact, they are not good enough. This child knows it well. Your illness has not yet reached that point. You will take care of it slowly, and there will always be great benefits." that day."

Li Yuan said: "Da Lang..."

Li Yuan hurriedly interrupted Li Jiancheng: "Chen Ying, Li Jing, and Xu Shiji are all peerless generals who run the army and use soldiers like no other in the world. ..."

Having said this, Li Yuan coughed for a while.

Li Jiancheng hurriedly picked up the water glass beside him, but he was at a loss.

Li Yuan shook his hand and continued: "They don't need His Majesty... to worry about their results. As long as these three people are in power, there is nothing to fear from foreign barbarians and internal turmoil..."

Li Jiancheng nodded repeatedly, and looked at Li Yuan unbearably.

Li Yuan continued: "Although Fang Xuanling is... Erlang's old man, but he has a strategy in his chest, a heart in his belly, and he is also a person. He is not afraid of the powerful and loyal, but he is not like that. Yuwen Shi and that... ...The pedantic and empty talk is a rare advocacy minister, with him, the wind will not be evil."

Li Yuan coughed again.

Li Jiancheng put down his cup slowly and remained silent.

Li Yuan said again: "Da Lang... remember... the base of Guanzhong, the twelve guards are divided into six, and Chen Ying, Li Jing, Xu Shiji, Li Xiaogong, Li Daozong, and Li Shentong each lead two guards, check and balance each other..."

Li Jiancheng said distractedly: "Father, you concentrate on recuperating, I know what to do."

Li Jiancheng stood up and shouted loudly: "Come here, move the Furong Garden for the Supreme Emperor!"

The moment Li Jiancheng stood up, Li Yuan's eyes shone brightly...

It's a pity that Li Jiancheng's concern is chaotic.

He didn't notice Li Yuan's strangeness at all.

PS: After many days, I finally wrote [-] words.Weakly ask for a guaranteed monthly ticket, and wish everyone a happy new year in advance!

(End of this chapter)