Datang: Ten Years of Proton, Leading an Army of Millions to Return

Chapter 69: In the Tang Dynasty, there is also a group of idealist military groups!

Besides.

In the past few days, troops have been sent to wreak havoc on the nearby towns and villages of Liang State, and many people in Youzhou have been rescued.

At first Li Kuan felt strange why they were in Liang State.

Ask to learn.

After the Turks looted a large number of Youzhou people from Youzhou, some of them were given to the Liang State because of the friendly relationship between the Turks and the Liang State.

Liang Guochongcheng felt that there was little farming, so Liang Shidu arranged some Youzhou slaves in the countryside to help the locals farm, collect firewood in the mountains, and other hard work.

Many people were rescued, more than 1000 people in total in a few days, but Li Kuan was not entirely convinced that they were slaves.

The Han people in Liang State here are not as simple as those from Turks. Liang State itself is a country composed of Han people and foreign races, and there are many Han people.

Maybe some of them were Han Chinese who lived in Liang State. When they saw the army of the king of Chu coming, they could not escape, so they pretended to be Han slaves.

It's all possible.

after all.

In terms of survival, people's intelligence index will increase dozens of times, and some methods are even useless.

Can't tell for now.

But they were all rescued at once, and they were all arranged to live in one of the living areas in Fushui Town, and they were strictly guarded.

It's like an investigation.

If the investigation is successful, the successful people will be treated like the Han people rescued from the Turks.

As for the success criteria of this investigation, Li Kuan didn't say, and he didn't plan to say, so let them guess.

At this moment, in one of the rooms of the largest house in Fushui Town, a White Tiger Guard came to report.

"Your Highness, Captain Yang is coming to see you."

Li Kuan was writing something, without raising his head, he said, "Let him come over."

"understand!"

Bai Huwei retreated quickly and brought Duwei Yang in.

Captain Yang used to be one of the captains under Chai Shao's fierce cavalry army, and since he rescued more than 1 Youzhou people and soldiers from the Tiele tribe, Li Kuan asked him to temporarily be their spokesperson.

Equivalent to General Baihu commanding the entire Baihu Camp, Captain Yang is responsible for more than 1 Youzhou people and soldiers. He can solve minor problems by himself, or he can seek help from the Baihu Camp or the White Robe Army.

As for big problems, if they cannot be solved, they need to come to him, Li Kuan.

at this time.

After the White Tiger Guards left, Captain Yang said, "Your Highness, you are looking for me."

"Ah."

Li Kuan nodded, put down the brush in his hand, and said with a smile: "I have something important to do with you today. Please go and take care of it."

very important thing...
Captain Yang suddenly felt a lot of pressure. It was important to be praised by His Highness. He was worried that he would not be able to handle it well with his ability.

Can't help but.

He straightened his chest, as if to cheer himself up.

"Your Highness, you said."

Captain Yang said seriously.

Li Kuan smiled and said: "Captain Yang, what do you think is the situation in Floating Water Town now?"

Duwei Yang's eyes wrinkled: "The town of Fushui is on the right track, and it looks like it's thriving."

This is true, Captain Yang has good organizational skills, and almost every citizen in Youzhou can find a job.

After finishing the work, they eat a meal full of meat, then work and then eat. This cycle is simple and boring, but watching Floating Water Town become better and more beautiful day by day, the people feel very comfortable and are motivated to work.

In other words, there is hope.

Do whatever you want.

"Yeah, everything is booming."

Li Kuan stood up and looked at the sky outside, sighing, and then looked at Captain Yang: "So, some things need to be arranged."

"It's like this, Captain Yang, I want to ask the people and soldiers of Youzhou for their opinions and see who wants to go back to the Tang Dynasty. Gather them all together. In the future, I will ask General Baihu to lead the army and escort them back. .”

Yang Duwei was slightly taken aback when he heard this.

"Your Highness...Your Highness, what are you talking about, you want to send someone back to Datang?"

He thought he had heard it wrong.

Li Kuan nodded: "Not bad."

"This, are you sure?"

He couldn't believe it was true.

Although everything in Fushui Town is developing in a good direction, it is still very short of manpower. Sending people back at this juncture is equivalent to cutting off one's own arm. In addition, General Baihu is required to escort them, so many soldiers will have to be dispatched.

It takes half a month from Liang Guo to the border of Tang Dynasty, but if it is a common people, considering the existence of the elderly, it will take more time.

Doing this kind of thing is completely thankless!

Li Kuan smiled and said, "Sure."

"Lieutenant Yang, I know what you're thinking, and you're right, but not everyone wants to stay in a foreign country."

"Most of the more than 1 people who were rescued are indeed alone, but there are still people who have relatives in the Tang Dynasty. Their home is not here."

Li Kuan paused when he said this, and looked in the direction of Datang: "It's that far away, Datang."

"My lord, I want to send them back to reunite with their families."

In this day and age, few people live in two separate states.

After all, traffic and travel restrictions.

But just because it's rare doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

Some people live in Youzhou, while their wives or sons live in other states and counties.

The most prominent among them are the soldiers. Many soldiers were recruited into the army and their families were not in Youzhou. Therefore, Youzhou was ravaged by the Turks, but their families were still fine.

"Your Highness, you..."

Captain Yang's eyes flickered, but he hesitated to speak.

He didn't know what to say.

Spending so much military power, and reducing your labor force, just to... send them home.

He really doesn't know how to evaluate this, the former God of War of the Tang Dynasty.

"correct."

Li Kuan seemed to have thought of something and said with a smile: "After organizing the people and soldiers who are going back, I apologize to them for my king. They should have set off back to the Tang Dynasty a few days in advance, but Fushui Town was not very busy at that time. It’s stable, so I suppressed it.”

Hearing this, Yang Duwei felt mixed feelings.

This man, this man...
He was still as gentle as the rumors said.

Arrogant and domineering externally, gentle as water internally.

He always treats his people so tenderly, always, always...
When Captain Yang was in Youzhou before, he saw King Chu's way of dealing with the people of Youzhou. He was very gentle and gentle.

But he didn't expect it.

At this moment, that man is still so...gentle...
"Your Highness, I understand."

Captain Yang sighed.

"Well, please excuse me."

Li Kuan nodded, then chatted with Duwei Yang for a few more words, and then let him go down, and then sent someone to invite General Baihu.

"Your Highness, what do you want from me?"

General Baihu asked bluntly.

Li Kuan laughed and then told him what happened just now.

"what!"

"Your Highness, do you want to send those people back?"

General Baihu's eyes were stunned, and he spoke again without waiting for King Chu's reply.

Because after a short period of astonishment, he knew that His Highness was serious.

He knows His Highness very well.

What a foolish thing this Highness will do!
"Your Highness, it is not advisable! According to your plan, we are preparing to establish a country."

"Which country only has more than 1 people? It's a small number in itself, but you still send people back, and the military strength is much empty after I leave. What if the Liang Division sends troops to attack?"

Li Kuan smiled and said: "Bai Hu, don't worry, Master Liang won't even come."

"Originally, I asked you to escort them back a few days ago, but I have been holding back and waiting for Master Liang to come with his troops."

"The things we did in the Liang Kingdom are too numerous to describe. We went so far that Master Liang could easily arouse the hatred of the people and send mourning troops to attack us."

"The fighting power of the sad soldier is several times that of the ordinary soldier, but he has not come. Although he is incompetent, he can also know the opportunity of the war. If such a good time is not sent to encircle us, then he will not come in the future."

"So, you can go back with peace of mind, no one will attack us, at least... until spring comes."

As I told Captain Yang before, sending them back every few days is to get Fushui Town on the right track. That's perfunctory, and this is the real main reason.

General Baihu let out a "bang" and pressed his hands firmly on the table: "Your Highness, we can't send the labor back, we need manpower very much! They like this place too!"

Li Kuan turned around and rolled his eyes at him: "Bai Hu, is this your first day meeting me?"

General Baihu was stunned.

When King Chu said this, he couldn't help but think of those things in the past. King Chu always behaved like this.

What impresses me the most is one thing. Many years ago, His Highness saved many people. He gave them armor or farm tools, and most of them chose farm tools.

Then, in the war to save other people, the soldiers fought less and less, but the peasants fought more and more.

The Four Beast Generals, General Suzaku, General Qinglong, including him, as well as the Six Seats and other senior officials, all urged His Highness to recruit troops, but he never listened. He was always so gentle and let the rescued people choose their own farm tools and armor.

Even if Wang Shichong's army went all the way to his family, it was the same.

At that time, it was the most dangerous time for the Chu King's Department. If many farmers hadn't put down their farm tools and chose battle armor, they might all be dead now, and there would be no Chu King and Chu King's Department in the world.

The freedom he gave those people to choose, always has been, never changed....
General Baihu suddenly lost his temper, and said with an angry smile: "Your Highness, it seems that I can't convince you anymore."

"If Floating Water Town is attacked after I leave, don't blame me."

Li Kuan laughed loudly: "Hahaha, Baihu, do you think this king is you? After making sure everything is safe, this king will arrange for you to go! Do you understand?"

General Baihu waved his hands in annoyance: "Okay, okay, I understand."

Arrogant, he did not admit his failure that day.

So extremely perfunctory.

Li Kuan didn't care, and continued: "Go back this time, don't come back, take all the Baihuwei back to Jiangdong."

General Baihu was taken aback.

Li Kuan sighed and said: "This time the Turks encircled and suppressed them, if they hadn't had a weakness in their haste, even I would have been hard-pressed to rescue you."

"Baihu, you almost died, just a little bit... Do you know? Those sons of this king were almost killed by you."

"Go back. When you left with me, I promised your wife, Lu Liuli, to send you back safely."

"Over the years, Lu Liuli has sent you a lot of letters, and she has also sent a lot of letters to this king. The content is to ask this king to take good care of you, and don't let you lose your life because of your arrogant temper."

General Baihu gritted his teeth angrily: "This bitch, can I die so easily? And Your Highness, even if you didn't come, I, Pei Xingjian, could get out of trouble. What kind of death situation? I don't admit it!"

Li Kuan rolled his eyes: "Just be stubborn, I am too lazy to argue with you."

"Go back this time, go back and meet Lu Liuli. I haven't seen you for a few years. She misses you very much. Even before the Xuanwu Gate incident, she knew that we were going to do something big, so she wrote a letter to the king. I must protect you well, and I can see the wrinkles in the letter, it was written by Lu Liuli crying."

"She's too worried about you. Go back, go back..."

"There is no war in the Tang Dynasty now. Let her take a good look at you and see the changes you have made in the king's army over the years."

"In addition, you should take back all of my sons and daughters. Most of them have relatives, children, and wives. Their homes are not here, but there... Great Tang..."

Having said this, Li Kuan looked towards the direction of the Tang Dynasty again and sighed with emotion: "The Tang Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty, how beautiful it is..."

"If it is not forced, who would like to leave it and leave our home."

Looking from the angle of General Yu Baihu, he could see the nostalgic look on King Chu's face. He knew that even His Highness would miss home.

"Since that's the case, Your Highness, let's just go back directly!"

"The Weishui Incident has not long passed. Even if Admiral Nace is extremely capable, he will not be able to control the devastated Youzhou in a short time. We have many connections in Youzhou. If we can switch back and go back, we can all go back!"

Li Kuan shook his head: "No."

"Why?"

General Baihu asked.

"Why?"

Li Kuan turned around this time and looked towards the Liang Kingdom and the Turkic Grassland, his eyes full of ambition: "Hahaha, that's naturally because I want to conquer a huge territory here!"

"Let those rescued Youzhou people have land to grow, a reliable city, and soldiers to protect!"

"We also want to completely exterminate the Turks and the Liang Kingdom! This is the promise made by the king at that time! The people of Youzhou must avenge their revenge! The anger in my heart must be vented!!"

At this moment, General Baihu looked at the King of Chu and felt as if his Highness was covered with a layer of light.

General Baihu laughed, this man is always like this, always restraining them in such a way, making them willing to sacrifice their lives for this man.

Those who restrained them, tied them madmen, such as General Qinglong, his White Tiger, Twelve Nights, etc., to the camp of the king of Chu, were never strong, or something, but the damn personality charm.

They were attracted by this man, and they all came with their own ideals, some wanted revenge, some wanted to make contributions, some wanted to defend their home and country...
People from all over the world, with different ideals and goals, are all bound by this man's charisma.

Deadly....willingly....bound....
Under this man's account, even if their own death is meaningless, as long as it is for this man, they will be willing to die for that hot cause.

They couldn't tell why.

They just think that this man has a magical power, which makes them consider it an honor even if they die.

Really... there are enough damn guys....
Let them all think that it is honorable and regretless to die for him.

Damn guy, damn King Chu.

And about their war mode that the King of Chu army is not afraid of death, and even takes death as pride. The enemy calls them lunatics, which is true of all enemies.

Madman, madman, desperate madman...

Those are always called that.

It’s always like this….
but!
Some folk scholars and scholars in the Tang Dynasty stood in a neutral position, neither favoring the enemies of the King of Chu nor the King of Chu.

They prefer to call the King of Chu and the King of Chu faction the ideal faction.

Like Liu Bei's forces in the Three Kingdoms period, they are a group of people fighting for their ideals, and the entire military group is like this...
General Baihu let out a long breath and said with a smile: "Then Your Highness, don't die."

"There are still many people in Jiangdong waiting for you to come back."

Li Kuan didn't turn his head back, he looked up to the sky and said with a long smile: "Hahaha! Yes, mere Turks and Liang Kingdoms are not enough to make this king die!"

“This place is destined to be filled with the flags of King Chu’s army!!”

arrogant.

Even more arrogant than his white tiger.

However, General Baihu didn't question it, but his eyes were hot: "Well, we all believe in you."

"That's the way it is from beginning to end."

finally.

General Baihu was convinced that in the future he would be responsible for leading a team to protect those people who wanted to go back to Datang, return, Datang.
.
…….….….….….
Floating water town.

A team of Youzhou people who were in charge of cleaning went to eat after the rest time, after handing over with the other people who took over.

Eat that, the meal they look forward to most!

All meat feast!

In the Tang Dynasty, after years of war and being in Youzhou, most people were hungry and could only eat one meal a day.

Sometimes meat is a luxury, and I only dare to kill a chicken to eat during the Chinese New Year. I usually eat vegetarian food.

But in Fushui Town, you can eat as much meat as you want!I'm afraid you won't be full! !

"Oh, Lao Wang, hahaha, give me a big leg of lamb quickly."

The people known as Lao Guo were overjoyed and ran over quickly.

The old Wang who was in charge of the spoon gave him a blank look, and gave him a big leg of lamb angrily: "Here, it's your kid who runs the fastest!"

Lao Guo took the leg of lamb and said with a smile: "You can't say that, Lao Wang, I work a lot. When I work enough, I get more tired and need to eat."

Even more tired, how could you run so fast?

He always has his own way of convincing himself that being the first one on the team to come to dinner is the right thing to do.

Old Wang rolled his eyes again, ignored him, and continued to take the spoon, delivering meat to anyone who came.

Lao Guo picked up the leg of lamb and took a big bite: "Hiss, it feels good! This meat is so delicious! It's worthy of being from the grassland!"

"Ok?"

At this time, Lao Guo discovered that there were a bunch of people surrounding the notice and looking at it non-stop.

"Hey, Lao Wang, what happened over there?"

Lao Wang glanced at it and said with a smile: "Oh, over there, I heard from some scholars that His Highness wants to organize people who want to go back to the Tang Dynasty, gather them together, and then let General Baihu escort them back in a few days."

boom! !

As soon as the words fell, Lao Guo felt as if five thunders had struck his heart.

He didn't even eat the meat, and just stared blankly over there.

"Old Wang, you... are you telling the truth?"

Lao Wang nodded: "Can I still lie to you? By the way, I remember that your family is in Liangzhou. Are you going back?"

"Shouldn't we go? After all, without the King of Chu, we wouldn't be able to live comfortably now, so we should repay him well."

Lao Guo put down the leg of lamb and held his head in his hands, feeling a little headache: "I, I don't know, I don't know..."

One side is the savior, and the other side is to go back to see relatives...
Two choices.

He was confused.

Not just him.

That night, many people were upset and numb.

………………………….
a few days later.

The list of people who want to go back was given to Li Kuan two days ago. A total of more than 1000 people want to go back, most of them are soldiers, and today is the time for them to go back.

now.

When they wanted to go back, the Youzhou people and soldiers who packed their bags split up in different places, leaving their houses in Fushui Town in twos and threes and heading south.

When they walked to the main square of Fushui Town, they found that there were many people and soldiers here, and those who chose to stay were willing to become soldiers and people of the new empire.

The Tang Dynasty hurt them too much, and the King of Chu had the grace to save their lives. They chose the new empire.

Those people who want to go back, they found that those people, whether they are logistics workers, firewood hunters, briquette workers, etc., did not go to work today, but all came out, looking at them calmly.

Those who wanted to go back to Datang felt ashamed, and they all moved forward with their heads down.

Some of them went back because of their families, and some wanted to go back to Datang because they were afraid of death. There were many reasons, but no matter what, they were all cowards!They are all white-eyed wolves!They are all guys who don't know how to repay favors!

They are not worthy of standing with these people, and they are not even qualified to look up at the people of the New Empire.

They all think so of themselves.

And when all the people who wanted to go back passed by one by one, it was unknown who spoke, with a high-pitched voice full of passion.

“Brothers and sisters who are helping to return home, have a safe journey!!”

the sound fell,

All the people and soldiers in Youzhou, even the little kids who were still babbling, all looked at them with stern eyes and saluted with one hand.

Not just nearby.

This place where the flow of people spread for several miles, all the people and soldiers of Youzhou, twelve thousand people, all saluted.

This is what King Chu taught them, the New Empire Salute.

They seem to have been told early that these people should be sent away with the most solemn etiquette, leaving as equals, instead of letting them leave as "deserters".

This scene is too shocking.

Those who want to go back are shocked, their hearts are turbulent, they are horrified and ashamed.

along the way,

All the people who stayed behind looked at them quietly, saluting with burning eyes.

No one was looking at "The Deserter," they were looking at their friends back home.

All the way, all the way.

Really....No one really underestimates them....
Most of the people who wanted to go back cried bitterly.

What they did was obviously a "deserter" behavior, and they were all white-eyed wolves, and they forgot about the grace of saving their lives, and they had to go back to Datang, which hurt them deeply.

But, but these people, these people who stayed...
But turn a blind eye and treat them as equal friends! !
There was a man who wanted to go back, unable to withstand the torment in his heart. He knew that he was a "deserter" and a coward, not a bullshit brother or sister. He was not worthy of being a brother or sister of these people. He shouted heartbreakingly: "Why, why You won’t leave!”

"This is a foreign country. There are hundreds of thousands of Turkic cavalry, and the Liang Kingdom is eyeing us. We only have a broken town. How...how can we survive!"

"Why...why don't you leave!"

"We... can't we go together? Why... why do you stay here and die with His Highness the King of Chu!"

He collapsed, grabbing the nearest remaining person and roaring loudly.

That person maintained a saluting posture, his eyes were clear, and he was calm and full of pride.

"Because I have no home."

"This is the new home."

"But you are different. You still have family members over there. They are all waiting for you to go back."

(End of this chapter)