People in the early Tang Dynasty: I compete with Wu Zhao for the throne

Chapter 798 Showing weakness to the enemy makes the emperor and empress feel relieved

Hezhou, Bingling Lake Camp.

In the large tent of the Chinese army, a Qianniu guard read out the imperial edict: "In the third year of Wei Shangyuan, at the age of Bingzi, the emperor Ruo said:

The five soldiers in the official code are responsible for the important and partial duties. They are famous in high schools and are allowed to recommend talented people.

Give birth to favors, use them to reward the merits of solidification; only obey the grace, and encourage the strategy of declaring power.

Li Jinxing, the general manager of the Taohe Road March, and Li Xuan, the deputy general manager, were entrusted to discuss the matter of marching with the troops, connecting the three states, possessing Lanshan, and threatening Qingdong.

This is my mission, and there must be no mistakes.In play. "

After Qian Niuwei announced the imperial edict, Li Xuan, Yu Ze, Qiu Zhenmu, Cui Ding, Su Baoting and others immediately bowed their heads and said: "I have received the edict, your majesty may live forever."

Li Xuan stood up straight, stretched out his hand to receive the imperial edict, and then nodded to the Qianniu Guards who delivered the edict: "Thank you, angel."

"Don't dare! Your Majesty, please get up!" The Qianniu Guards immediately bowed down and took out a letter and said, "This is the family letter sent to the Prince by the Princess of Peiping County."

Li Xuan was stunned for a moment and subconsciously took the letter.

The Qianniu Guards who conveyed the order immediately raised their hands and said, "Your Majesty, my subordinates will go to Hezhou City immediately to deliver the imperial edict to Di Si Cheng, so I will take my leave first."

"Angel, walk slowly." Li Xuan glanced sideways at Yu Ze, and Yu Ze immediately stepped forward: "Angel, please come this way!"

Li Xuan watched the Qianniu Guards leaving, and then stood up slowly, with a trace of doubt in his eyes.

Qiu Zhenmu stepped forward with the same surprise, lowered his head and asked in a low voice: "Your Majesty, your Majesty's imperial edict is a bit strange!"

"Yeah!" Li Xuan nodded slightly and said, "All actions are controlled by Princess Yan. It seems there is something hard to explain clearly."

"It's the right time!" Yu Ze came back from outside. He nodded to Li Xuan first, and then said to Qiu Zhenmu: "To advance to Tongren, it is not the most important thing to capture this county. What is more important is to hold on. Lun Qin Ling will never let us take it and ignore it, and will definitely send people to counterattack madly, so we must discuss the time with Lan Shandao to determine where to go. When the time comes, the army will give orders, and those who fail will be killed."

"We just want to act together." Li Xuan paused for a moment, then looked at Yu Ze, raised her eyes and asked, "How is it?"

"His Majesty has decreed that Di Renjie be appointed as the Taohe Road Inspection Envoy, responsible for spying on Tibetan spies." Yu Ze looked at Li Xuan and smiled slightly: "Now, the prince's plan has really succeeded."

"Di Huaiying's skills in solving crimes and investigating rapes are excellent. With him in Hezhou, there will be no worries about his future." Li Xuan smiled, then waved her hand and said, "Okay, go and clean up. We will leave for Kuozhou tomorrow. "

As she spoke, Li Xuan's eyes fell on the family letter in her hand.

Yu Ze and Qiu Zhenmu glanced at each other, then held their hands and retreated silently.

Holding the family letter in her hand, Li Xuan couldn't help but frown.

The communication between the palace and him has always been through the palace's own communication channel, and there is no need to go through Qianniu Guard.

After all, once you pass Qianniuwei, it's hard to tell whether this letter has been opened or read by anyone.

Perhaps, this letter was meant for others to read.

With an idea in mind, Li Xuan sighed softly, then slowly opened the letter and read it carefully from beginning to end.

"The Queen of Heaven gave me medicine?" Li Xuan couldn't help but frown. With his sensitivity, he naturally didn't want Liu Jinyu to randomly use other people's medicine at this time. But this time the Queen of Heaven gave medicine, it seemed that it was really just The palace of Nanchang has no control over how or when the medicine should be used.

The crown princess also wants to visit the palace, which seems to be a bit too much favor.

Even if the Crown Princess is pregnant with help from Li Xuan, there is no need to be so considerate.

When did the palace become so kind?

……

Li Xuan put down the letter and sighed. He didn't expect that the palace would actually do this.

Ask for instructions beforehand, report during the incident, and perhaps add a summary afterwards.

The emperor may be generous enough, but Empress Wu is definitely stingy.

Fortunately, the palace only delivered medicine. As for how to take the medicine, they did not interfere. With teacher Wei Xuanzang there, Li Xuan was not worried about any problems his wife would encounter.

Besides, his wife is not an easy person either.

Everything in the Nanchang Palace in Chang'an was easily handled by her. It was not easy for others to do what they wanted to do.

Li Xuan quickly wrote a letter of thanks, and at the same time he wrote about his current situation to his wife in great detail and from the heart.

Xin and Xie Enzhe were all sent to Chang'an via the station passage.

Of course, he was the current king of the county, and he wrote memorials and private messages to his princess, so naturally he took the fastest first-class route.

This letter must be read by someone, and in fact it is meant to be read.

Li Xuan's private messages to his wife Sanniang were all sent through the Nanchang Palace's own passage and could not be seen by outsiders.

The affairs in the palace have been dealt with, and all that is left is the army of Lun Qinling in the west.

Li Xuan raised his head and looked at the sand table on one side of the tent, where Wu Hai was, where there was a so-called 30-strong army.

Although they are said to be cavalry who can roar in and roar away, in fact, they also have a lot of infantry.

If there were really 30 cavalry, equivalent to this battle, the Tibetans would have 30 more horses, and the amount of fodder needed would be terrifying.

Therefore, the Tibetan cavalry only had 10,000+ at most, and they were distributed over a very wide plateau area.Vastness means opportunity, but it also means danger.

If someone can directly break open a crack in the army, rush in front of Lun Qinling, and then take the general's head from the army, then the battle can be decided.

With her thoughts diverging to this point, Li Xuan couldn't help but laugh.

This idea is really arrogant. Not to mention that Lun Qinling will not give them this opportunity at all. Even if they come to Lun Qinling, they may not have enough power to kill him.

Unless all the core forces around Lun Qinling have been mobilized, unless Lun Qinling leaves the depths of the army and comes to the edge of the mountain closest to them, then they can suddenly rise up and directly attack the camp of Lun Qinling , and then killed Lun Qinling before the attacking army was wiped out by the Tubo people.

Li Xuan shook his head. Even in theory, this idea was only [-] in [-] possible, and when it came to timing, the chances of it being feasible were even pitiful.

However, this idea may not be applicable, it depends on how it is used.

Li Xuan's eyes calmed down, and her mind also calmed down.
Deep down in my heart is even more terrifying.

……

Opening the big tent, fresh air immediately hit his face, and the thick water vapor made Li Xuan's heart and lungs feel comfortable.

Looking far into the distance, on the vast lake in front of you, you can see three-meter-long boats speeding back and forth in the lake.

There is a two-meter-long wooden pole in the center of the boat with no sail on it.

The people driving the boats were all soldiers from Hangzhou in the south of the Yangtze River.

All the way from Hangzhou to Yangzhou, and then from Yangzhou to Chang'an, to Hezhou, they Jiangnan people have not rowed for a long time.

All three thousand Hangzhou soldiers were transferred to Bingling Lake by Li Xuan.

The lake is vast and surrounded by weeping willows.

On the shore, a famous craftsman is building a wicker boat that is no more than five meters long and only two meters wide.

The wicker boat is not very thick and is very light, even two people can carry it with great ease.

If you look carefully, you can see that under the wicker boat, there are four small iron wheels that can be placed firmly on the ground, and it can even be used as a car.

White tents were set up around the lake, and further behind were rows of wooden houses.

All three thousand Hangzhou soldiers were transferred at once, and there was really not enough accommodation, so temporary tents were set up.

Further behind the scenes, countless "ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping with with with smoke.

Workshop, weapons workshop.

"This place is a hundred miles away from Kuozhou. If you include the nine bends and eighteen bends of the Yellow River, it is probably two hundred miles away. Counting that the prince is passing on the design of adding iron wheels, one trip of grain and grass transportation will take at least ten years. God, and the quantity cannot be too much each time." A somewhat tired voice sounded behind Li Xuan.

Li Xuan turned around and saw two officials standing behind him, one with dark crimson color and the other with light crimson color. They both raised their hands to Li Xuan at the same time: "Your Majesty!"

"Xu Shaojiang, Jiang Shaojian." Li Xuan returned the greeting.

Xu Ling will be a young craftsman; Jiang Qi will be a young prisoner in Dushui.

Xu Ling was sent to Hezhou very early to establish an ordnance factory, manufacture all crossbows for the war, repair damaged crossbows, and try his best to support the front line.

We can't just transfer all the bows and crossbows that the army lacks on the front line from Chang'an. I don't know how much time will be wasted in the meantime.

When a large army fights, the fighter planes disappear in a blink of an eye, leaving no time for you to mobilize ordnance from the rear.

Therefore, it became necessary to build an ordnance factory by Bingling Lake, and it was so important that a fourth-grade general, a young craftsman, was required to take charge.

As for Jiang Qi, the fifth-ranked Dushui Shaojian, he was transferred here later, and he was also responsible for some previous surveys on the water conditions of the Yellow River.

How to use the Yellow River as much as possible for grain and grass transportation, and how to minimize the impact of the Yellow River on grain and grass transportation, are all his responsibilities.

Mapping the mountain terrain and finding a feasible path is a secret mission.

When Huang Rensu, the former envoy to Dushui, was still a young eunuch of Dushui, he drew a large number of topographic maps of Tubo's mountains and rivers during his mission to Tibet.

With this merit, he firmly secured the official position of Dushui Envoy, the fifth rank, and now he was directly promoted to the rank of Shaoqing of Dali Temple.

"In ten days, we have only reached Kuozhou and Xunhua. Our current end point is Jianzha, not to mention that once we go west, we will take greater risks, the road will be more rugged and difficult, and it will take longer. , even once we reach Guide, a military ration delivery will take 20 days to a month." Li Xuan shook his head slightly and said: "The time in between still needs to be shortened, even if it is only shortened by one day, it will be of great benefit to the army. "

"I'm just a jobber. I'll let the prince and Brother Jiang decide how to do it." Xu Ling handed over his hands with a calm expression.

Li Xuan nodded with some surprising satisfaction and said: "It's just right. I have some ideas here, but they need to be inspected on the spot before they can be finalized...Tomorrow, the king will go to Xunjianzha, so the two of you will go to Xunjianzha with me. Let’s go together, let’s explore the nine bends and eighteen bays of the Yellow River!”

"Here!" Xu Ling and Jiang Qi handed over their hands at the same time.

Li Xuan stood in front of the camp door, with the arsenal and shipyard behind him.

A few miles away to the west are the vast mountains.

The Yellow River flows out of it at an extremely fast speed. When it hits Bingling Lake, the force of the water gradually decreases and the water flow slows down.

It is not easy to sail a boat in the opposite direction on such a waterway.

(End of this chapter)