Cultivation of chastity

Chapter 499
"Sure enough, the battle on land should be left to you!"

Li Dejian watched the army led by Su Lie sweep across the battlefield like the autumn wind sweeping the fallen leaves, and he also sighed sincerely,
"You lead the army yourself, who can resist your charge?"

Although I already know that Su Lie hasn't wasted all these years, but only after seeing his sharp blade unsheathed can I feel Su Lie's sharpness, and Yuan Nanjian simply tried to be sharp. None of the qualifications.

"The king of Wei has guaranteed the supply of food and equipment over the years, and even the military musicians can arrange according to my wishes. It should be a matter of course to spend so many years training such an army, and it is not worth talking about." Su Strong way.

Li Dejian listened to Su Lie's words, whether it was self-effacing or complacent, and looked at the raised eyebrows of the soldiers who had completed at least four levels of skill refining. He could only say that Yuan Nanjian in front of him didn't know the horror of this guy in front of him at all. ah!

When King Wei was still King Yan, Su Lie followed King Yan to Youzhou, but when King Wei left Youzhou, Su Lie chose to stay.

Even though Su Lie is the Sima of Youzhou, it doesn't mean that he wants to be transferred, so that is the reason for the transfer.

The more important reason is that Su Lie himself does not want to leave.

Because here in Youzhou, there is meat in the north and fish in the Bohai Sea. Even after the Grand Canal is opened, there are actually not many supplies needed.

Not to mention milk, a drink that is impossible for the army to drink, at least in this era. Every year, the army will be dragged to the cattle farm for at least two to three months to enjoy.

Milk in this era is not for buying milk, but for making ghee, cheese and other by-products of dairy products.

Li Tai even wanted to try whether he could turn milk into powdered milk, but this technique seemed simple, but it still failed in practice.

Just like this, Su Lie's life in Youzhou is actually pretty good.

This kind of nourishment is a bit like that of Wang Xuance. It seems that life in the border areas is miserable, but in fact, after a certain degree of productivity is liberated, they only support an army, and they still live very comfortably. It's a bit like the taste of hairy crabs eaten by Shanghainese during the famine.

Sufficient nutrition is the premise of rigorous military training, and the process of smelting talents into skills and skills into instincts actually consumes a lot of high-energy, high-calorie, and high-protein foods.

Normally speaking, basically only the Yuan Cong forbidden army as the country, which enjoys the support of the entire Tang Dynasty, will have the opportunity to enjoy this standard of food.

For other ordinary troops, those who are relatively well-off among the government soldiers, or very few with extraordinary talents, might be able to do it.

But it is very rare to train an army with refined skills like Su Lie.

Because the triple conversion here looks very simple, but each step is not easy.

The first is to let a legion produce the talent of the legion itself, which is not something that any army can do.

Not to mention the training methods needed to transform skills from broken talents, and the conversion of skills into performance, the blood and sweat of the soldiers, it can be said that every step is not easy.

However, Su Lie's headquarters has already completed four times of smelting, and is currently undergoing the fifth skill smelting.

When this fifth time is completed, then Su Lie's headquarters will definitely become an existence that no one can completely ignore on the battlefield.

Li Dejian was really envious of Su Lie's training of his headquarters, and he knew more clearly that there was a gap between him and this monster-level general.

In comparison, Su Lie was more like Li Jing's successor, while he was just an ordinary person with Li Jing's bloodline.

"This time the task is considered complete, and the Goguryeo army that came to attack Wuhu Island was wiped out.

As for this Goguryeo general, he seems to be the son of Yuan Gai Suwen, send him to King Wei along with the battle report!

Believe in this result, King Wei must be very satisfied! "Li Dejian happily said to Su Lie.

"You come to arrange, I will continue to train my army!" Su Lie said to Li Dejian, "If it can be delayed by another two years, my headquarters can definitely complete the five-level skill refining, but now they can only find them in the battlefield. The opportunity has broken through!"

"Okay, okay!" Li Dejian couldn't help shaking his head when he heard Su Lie's words, but he still said, "Leave it to me!"

Soon, the battle report in Li Dejian's hands was sent to Li Tai who had been in Youzhou all along. After seeing the results of this battle report, Li Tai immediately sent this battle report without any hesitation. Riga was rushed to Chang'an.

There is no better reason than this crusade against Goguryeo. After all, Goguryeo launched the attack on its own initiative this time. For Li Shimin, who has been waiting for the opportunity to crusade, this excuse has been waiting too long.

As this battle report was sent to Li Shimin, Li Shimin soon announced that he would formally attack Goguryeo.

It's just that Li Shimin was not in a hurry. After announcing the crusade against Goguryeo, he didn't directly order the government soldiers to go to Goguryeo. Instead, he patiently waited until the summer harvest before conscription.

However, like Wang Zhenru and the 20 corvees, they were sent to Youzhou one after another one after another.

After all, the soldiers and horses went ahead before the food and grass were mobilized, and these corvettes would be responsible for the logistics of the Datang army. Naturally, this group of people needed to go to Li Tai's subordinates to make corresponding preparations.

Needless to say, the road north of Youzhou is actually not easy to walk in this era.

This road is full of mud and mud, so you need to make preparations first. After entering the border of Goguryeo, the corvees may be busy.

Compared with Tang Dynasty's methodical entry into the rhythm of the crusade against Goguryeo, at this time Goguryeo suddenly broke out into unparalleled chaos.

First, Yuan Nanjian's Goguryeo navy collapsed so directly, and Goguryeo didn't even recover a single piece of wood. For a country, it means that its military power was directly broken.

Moreover, the biggest characteristic of the profession of navy or navy is that it usually requires a considerable price to maintain. In a real war, it is very likely that it will die suddenly like the current situation, and there may not even be a warship left behind.

Since ancient times, as long as it is a naval battle, losing is basically all five labors and seven injuries. Even after being attacked by a foot-pot chicken with Yingjiang's productivity, it took a whole year to recover.

But it is a privilege only for countries with strong productivity to restore their vitality. Like Goguryeo, the whole country established a navy and it was ruined. It will take at least three years to restore it to its original scale.

And this is only the loss of the fleet, the most important thing is those sea operators with rich experience in sailing in the Bohai Sea area, these can only be piled up with time.

Therefore, Yuan Nanjian led the entire army of Goguryeo to be annihilated, and the blow to the entire Goguryeo was almost devastating.

But now Goguryeo doesn't have much time to care about the news of the annihilation of the Yuannan Jianshui Division.

Because as Li Shimin officially announced the crusade against Goguryeo, Yuan Boy, who was in charge of internal affairs, suddenly discovered that with the suspension of navigation between Goguryeo and Tianjin Port, there was inevitably a serious shortage of food for the entire Goguryeo this year.

But the warehouse that was supposed to hold grain was full of deer antlers, ginseng, or various furs...

These things have gained a lot of profits from the transactions with Datang in the past few years, and even I occasionally ridiculed that Datang has a kidney deficiency per capita, which is why there is such a large demand for these things.

But now, boy Yuan can't wait for these things to be turned into food, vain food!

"What's the situation in the country now!" Yuan Gai Suwen couldn't help but said to Boy Yuan in a deep voice.

Boy Yuan replied: "Because of Nan Jian's wrong decision, all our hard work on the navy over the years has been wasted.

What this brings is not only the loss of military power, but more importantly, we don't even dare to send fishing boats to go fishing in the Bohai Sea, which further increases the pressure on our demand for food!
In addition, this time the Tang emperor announced the conquest of Goguryeo, which caused the severance of Youzhou's business with us...

At least 30 households will be short of food this year. "

"What do you think?!" Yuan Gai Suwen closed his eyes slightly and said seriously.

"We need to distribute some of the military rations to the people to tide over the difficulties, and send people to Baekje to trade back the rations!"

At this time, the Yuan boy said in a deep voice, "It is fortunate that this is summer, and we can guide the people to make a living in the mountains to a certain extent. As long as we support the past, we will wait until autumn..."

"Will we be able to have food in autumn!?" Yuan Gaisuwen asked with a serious expression, not happy or angry.

"... This year the common people are keen to collect ginseng and deer antler, and no one thinks of planting food at all.

By the time we received the news that Nan Jian had attacked Tang and that Tang had broken off diplomatic relations with us, the time for replanting had passed.

Even though I have given the order to replant, I am afraid that even the military rations in the army may not be able to guarantee the food this autumn! "

Boy Yuan's face at the moment was somewhat desperate, because even he felt that Goguryeo was hopeless!

"Slap!" Yuan Gai Suwen slapped Boy Yuan on the face without hesitation, making him dizzy.

At this moment, Boy Yuan raised his head and looked at Yuan Gai Suwen, but he saw the anger on Yuan Gai Suwen's face!
"You are desperate, lost, have you given up?!" Yuan Gai Suwen looked at the boy Yuan but scolded,

"At the beginning when our country faced the attack of a huge army and country like the Sui Dynasty, we also survived the impossible, and even completely dragged down the Sui Dynasty.

Now it's just the same thing as before. If we can defeat the Sui Dynasty, we will naturally be able to defeat the Tang Dynasty.

You look so downcast now, how can you look like a man from my Goguryeo! "

"Father!" Boy Yuan immediately cheered up and planned to accept Yuan Gai Suwen's lesson again.

But Yuan Gai Suwen said in a deep voice, "Since you can't feed so many people, then let's feed them. Gather all the food in their hands and give priority to the army!"

"If father is like this, those common people will really have no way out!" Boy Yuan couldn't help being horrified when he heard Yuan Gai Suwen's words.

"We still have an army, so we still have a future. If the army collapses, we will really have no way out!" Yuan Gai Suwen narrowed his eyes,
"As for the common people, drive them into the mountains, at least they have more chances of surviving in the mountains!"

Yuan Gai Suwen knew very well that in the face of Datang's upcoming crusade, he needed to firmly grasp the military power in his hands.

Even as a last resort, he still has a chance to surrender.

But if your army is in turmoil due to lack of food, then the foundation of your rule will change.

In the final analysis, Yuangai Suwen did not belong to the king of Goguryeo, but the powerful minister of Goguryeo.

He will try his best to keep his own rights, but if it really comes to a time when he can't play his own way, let the puppet King Goguryeo surrender, and he will surrender along the way!

"In addition, inform Gao of my decision. If they want not to be hungry in the next time, then they should cooperate with me obediently, otherwise don't blame me for not being sympathetic!" Yuan Gai Suwen said in a deep voice.

"No!" Boy Yuan understood that in the face of Li Shimin's pressure, Yuan Gai Suwen still chose to cooperate with Gao Shi.

Although the Goguryeo king of the Goguryeo family was in the hands of Yuangai Suwen, the Goguryeo clan still had a strong local influence in Goguryeo.

Needless to say, for example, the Great Wall of Goguryeo built by the King of Goguryeo is the main stronghold of the Gao clan's power.

Even though Yuangai Suwen controlled the power of the entire Goguryeo as a powerful minister, he did not disturb the defense system that the Gao family had built on the Great Wall of Goguryeo.

One is that their food supply is greatly affected by themselves.The second point is that they can be regarded as their own barrier against Datang. If they conflict with this force, then Datang will definitely take advantage of it.

Therefore, Yuangai Suwen and the old Gao family's defense line of the Goguryeo Great Wall seem to be at odds with each other.

But now with the news that the Tang Dynasty was going to conquer Liaodong, Yuan Gai Suwen knew clearly that if the Gao family did not cooperate with him this time, then Goguryeo would inevitably become history.

So when it came time to destroy the country, even Gao and himself might not be unable to cooperate.

It has to be said that even if Li Shimin at this time did not show any intention of conquering Goguryeo, but only expressed such intentions, Goguryeo had to sit upright at this moment.

The two conflicts in the country that seemed to be absolutely irreconcilable, more decisively began to hug each other closely, and began to deal with this time's crusade against the Tang Dynasty.

At this moment, Li Tai said to Li Chunfeng, "Prepare me a team that understands farming, weather, water pattern, and location. Of course, the most important thing is to be able to communicate with foreigners."

"This is the king of Wei?" Li Chunfeng was a bit dazed when he heard Li Tai's words. Do wars need these people?
"When the war starts, let this team go north to survey the Liaoshui River and the land of that water!" Li Tai said in a deep voice.

Li Tai knew that destroying Goguryeo was never his goal, he wanted to destroy it only because it got in the way.

And my real goal is the Songnen Plain full of black soil!

(End of this chapter)