Datang: What's wrong with my fief being a billion points larger?

Chapter 296: Li Yuanji leads his army northward and begins attacking the Tang Dynasty
After giving instructions for the military formation, Li Yuanji went to the harem.

Now that the time for dispatching troops has been confirmed, he also has to say goodbye to the girls and give them instructions.

In the harem, Li Yuanji called everyone over. Looking at the worried expressions of the women, Li Yuanji smiled.

"What are you worried about? If nothing unexpected happens, this expedition will be a crushing victory. It's just that it will take quite a while to get there.

You stay here and wait for my return.

After I leave, all matters in the palace will be handled by your sister Wan'er, so you should help her more and be obedient."

Li Yuanji said a lot in succession, emphasizing Yang Qingwan's status. Although no one could shake Yang Qingwan's status without him saying it, he had to mention it.

After giving the instructions, he let Wei Gui, Wu Shun and Wu Mei leave, leaving only Yang Qingwan.

"My dear husband, you must protect yourself well during this expedition. My three sisters and I are here, waiting for your return."

Li Yuanji said it lightly, but how could Yang Qingwan not be worried? On the battlefield, the situation was unpredictable and there was no absolutely safe place. How could Yang Qingwan not know the danger of the battlefield?

Even though she knew, she couldn't persuade Li Yuanji. She already knew about this war, and now was the most dangerous moment.

There were enemies attacking from all four directions around Li Yuanji's fiefdom, namely the east, south, west and north. Now all prefectures, states and counties were mobilizing with great momentum. How could she not know this?

Now, at such a dangerous moment, Li Yuanji, as the king here, must assume the responsibilities of a king. Yang Qingwan knows clearly what Li Yuanji's departure means, and she is sincerely proud of Li Yuanji.

Despite this, she didn't have much other expectations. She hoped that Li Yuanji could return safely.

Looking at the beautiful woman in front of him with worried eyes and sad face, Li Yuanji held her in his arms.

“Don’t worry, I’ll be fine, you just need to wait here for my triumphant return.

The affairs of the palace are now handed over to you. If there are any urgent matters, you can deal with them on the spot."

After they separated, Li Yuanji handed Wang Ling to Yang Qingwan and took out a waist badge.

"This waist badge is used to dispatch the Jinyiwei. Someone from the Jinyiwei will come to find you later. After I leave, you can directly call on them in an emergency."

Now that he is leaving, although Cen Wenben and others are in charge of the arrangements here, Yang Qingwan must also have countermeasures.

After saying this, Li Yuanji's expression immediately became serious.

"In addition to these, there is one more important thing. I have asked Cen Wenben to concentrate all the cotton on your clothes.

Afterwards, you should ask the textile workers to work at full speed to make the cotton clothes and quilts I gave you before.

After the cotton in Luzhou Prefecture is harvested, all of it will be brought here as soon as possible. After receiving it, you must arrange to produce it all as soon as possible.

After it is produced, let Cen Wenben immediately organize people to transport it to the battlefield.

This batch of cotton clothes, quilts, and cotton shoes are very important, remember to hurry up! "

Originally, a portion of this cotton was to be reserved for commodity trade, but now it has to be completely cancelled. Only a small portion will be left for factories to process into medical products, and the rest will all be processed into cotton-padded clothes and quilts.

The place he was going to was indeed hot when the weather was hot, but it was also very cold when the weather turned cold.

With these cotton clothes, he will have more choices when the time comes.

After hearing this, Yang Qingwan immediately walked outside.

"My dear husband, I will arrange for the cloth weavers to start working immediately.

Don't worry, my husband. I will make the cotton-padded clothes, quilts and cotton-padded shoes you need as soon as possible, while ensuring the quality, and give them to you!"

Watching Yang Qingwan go down, Li Yuanji immediately smiled.

Nowadays, most of the factories here are directly operated by the government, and some of them are businesses of the royal palace, such as the clothing and textile factory. It is convenient to use it because it is his own factory.

As long as you need it, you can start working on it directly, and no one can say anything.

Three days passed quickly. During these nights, Li Yuanji spent time with each woman one after another. Even with Wu Mei and Wu Shun, Li Yuanji stayed with them for one night.

It's just a night of pure companionship, the kind where there's nothing else to do.

In the camp outside Haikang City, Li Yuanji stood on the stage. There were now 30,000 troops in Haikang, and the rest of the troops were waiting on the designated marching route.

Not all the troops need to return to Haikang and then set out together. Going back and forth not only wastes the army's physical strength, but also wastes money and food.

Twenty thousand soldiers stood densely below, all wearing armor, looking at Li Yuanji on the stage with burning eyes.

Everyone was extremely excited, simply because their king was going to lead them into battle this time and fight alongside them.

Li Yuanji was wearing armor and had a long sword at his waist. Looking at the soldiers on the parade ground, his heart was also burning with excitement.

Although there were only 20,000 people on the parade ground, he felt as if there were 100,000 people lined up below him.

"Now that the enemy is invading, we must destroy them!"

With just these few words, the sky above the training ground was filled with murderous intent.

"kill!"

"kill!"

"kill!"

Li Yuanji then drew the long sword from his waist and pointed it forward.

"The army is moving camp! Marching north!"

The Northern Expedition is not the same as the Northern Expedition. There is a huge difference between the expedition and the expedition.

Following Li Yuanji's order, the messengers rode their war horses to pass on the order, and the army immediately began to move in an orderly manner and headed out of the camp.

The Northern Expedition led by Li Yuanji himself officially began.

Chang'an of the Tang Dynasty.

Inside the Taiji Palace, now that Li Yuan had left the Taiji Palace, Li Er had moved directly in.

In the Liangyi Hall, Li Er summoned Zhangsun Wuji, Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui and others to discuss important matters.

"Reliable news has come from Lingnan that the King of Qi is now conducting a large-scale mobilization, and it is estimated that the number of mobilized troops will be more than 300,000.

Obviously, they are preparing to start a war. What do you think? "Li Er, who was sitting at the top, had no worries at all about this news. Instead, he was smiling. It was obvious that he had expected this.

Ever since Li Er experienced failure in Andong Prefecture, he felt extremely uncomfortable during that period. What was most difficult for him to accept was that defeat was not a big deal, the key was that he was humiliated by Li Yuanji.

In his eyes, the failure in Andong Prefecture and the words in Li Yuanji's letter were humiliations to him, but he was unable to fight back.

Right after this incident, Li Er seemed to have ushered in his own spring.

Before the people returned to Chang'an, they had achieved results in controlling the sale of grain, and then the arrangements made in various countries were successful, and the siege of Li Yuanji was completely formed.

Then came what he had been longing for: Lingnan's advanced smelting technology, firearms, shipbuilding technology, and even the hybrid rice and corn he had heard of. With the cooperation of the secret agents arranged by Li Yuan before, they were all brought back to the Tang Dynasty.

When Li Er received the news, he was so excited that he almost cried, and he became extremely excited.

The Battle of Dongzhou Prefecture made him realize that Li Yuanji was ahead in terms of ships and military equipment. After that, he went to Lingnan in person and learned about various outstanding things, especially the rumors about hybrid rice and corn, which made him extremely jealous.

And in the Battle of Andong Prefecture, Li Yuanji's new firearms once again shocked him beyond words.

This gave Li Er an illusion that every time he fought with Li Yuanji's army, he could feel Li Yuanji's strength increasing, constantly refreshing his understanding of everything in the world.

It was not until he received the news that Lingnan had obtained these technologies that Li Er was released from all the grievances he had suffered in the past. At that moment, he truly felt that he, Li Er, was the true prince.

Thinking about what happened during this period, the corners of Li Er's mouth had been raised, even when he was sleeping.

Listening to Li Er's words, Changsun Wuji below stood up with a happy look on his face.

“Your Majesty, the King of Qi’s move must be to deal with the three-way war, and the transported materials and the direction of the army’s assembly have already shown that it is to increase troops on the three battlefields.

I think that we should focus our main energy on the dispute with Tubo next. As long as we eliminate the power of King Qi in Tubo, no one will be able to interfere in the Western Regions.

In addition, Goguryeo must also increase its contacts, even if it costs some price, and send troops to the King of Qi's Andong Prefecture.

This time, we will be able to suppress the King of Qi by encircling him from all sides!"

Changsun Wuji felt really relaxed and in a particularly good mood. In the past, the pressure from Li Yuanji made him feel suffocated. Every night, when he looked at the injuries on his body, he hated Li Yuanji even more.

Now, all the hard work has paid off. They now have all the technology that Li Yuanji has. The only regret is that they did not get the manufacturing technology of Li Yuanji's products. But even so, it is enough to make him extremely excited.

Now not only has the technology been obtained, but all the previous deployments against Li Yuanji have now come to fruition, which makes Changsun Wuji extremely excited.

Now he just wants Li Yuanji to die sooner. Now Li Er asks what to do?
In his eyes, the safest thing to do was to gather a large army and take advantage of this opportunity to eliminate Li Yuanji in one fell swoop.

At this moment, Du Ruhui's voice came, breaking Changsun Wuji's fantasy.

"Your Majesty, I think this is not possible. We should keep the original strategy unchanged, first destroy the Turks, then destroy Tuyuhun, and then suppress the King of Qi at an appropriate time according to the situation.

Now that we have obtained many technologies from Lingnan, the time is ripe to conquer the Turks.

The Tang Dynasty cannot intervene in other battlefields, but on the Tubo battlefield, I believe that if we appropriately increase the number of troops by 10,000 and then send the firearms that have been forged, we will definitely be able to suppress the King of Qi.

The Turks and Tuyuhun were the real threats to the Tang Dynasty.

It just so happens that there are now 30,000 troops stationed on the Tuyuhun border, attracting the attention of neighboring countries. Even the Turks certainly cannot predict that the Tang Dynasty will launch an offensive to annihilate the Turks.

Moreover, the King of Qi is now in the Turkic Empire. Yu Minghe and Ning Chun, one civil and one military, are active on the grassland. Now, with the help of the King of Qi's power and Yu Minghe's identity, they have won over many tribes. We can't wait any longer.

Now that artillery and muskets have been gradually equipped to the army, the army's combat power is stronger than before, and it can launch a war of annihilation against the Turks!"

Du Ruhui looked excited. After they got the firearms technology, they immediately started casting. Especially after seeing the power of the cannon, everyone was shocked.

Not only them, even Li Er was unable to recover for a long time.

Even though Li Er had heard about the artillery in Andong Prefecture, he had not seen it with his own eyes. After seeing it with his own eyes, he did not blame Li Ji and others at all.

Li Yuanji had such a powerful weapon, combined with a musket, so it was understandable that Li Ji could not defeat him.

Especially since Li Ji had fought back once and almost turned the tables facing Li Yuanji's army that was so well equipped, what else could he not be satisfied with?
After witnessing the charm of firearms, Li Er directly issued an edict that the entire Tang Dynasty must cooperate with the Ironware Bureau and the Firearms Bureau to cast cannons and muskets with all their efforts.

For convenience, Li Er directly copied the Firearms Bureau and the Ironware Bureau without changing a single word.

When Changsun Wuji heard Du Ruhui's words, he wanted to object immediately, but Li Er's voice came from above.

"Ke Ming is right. Now that I have the technology from Lingnan, it will not be difficult to destroy the King of Qi.

The Turks and Tuyuhun must be destroyed, otherwise there will be unrest in the north.

Especially the Turks, the King of Qi actually extended his hand to the grassland, I will never allow it.

This matter has been settled. You go down now and start preparing supplies immediately.

While the attention of the surrounding countries is being drawn, we must destroy the Turks as soon as possible this time!"

Li Er still remembers the initial surrender very clearly, and he still remembers this more direct humiliation vividly.

Li Yuanji's reaching out to the grassland was just an excuse. Li Er wanted to take revenge on Jie Li even more.

As for Li Yuanji's power in the grassland, he did not take it seriously at all. He just won over a few small tribes. Even if he found out that Yu Minghe had the blood of Ashina, it would be of no avail.

In Li Er's eyes, as long as the Tang army destroyed the Turks, all the tribes on the grassland would be under the control of the Tang Dynasty.

Moreover, he is not without supporting forces in the grassland.

Changsun Wuji retreated unwillingly. As for Changsun Wuji's feelings, Li Er didn't want to care.

Just as Li Er was about to call Li Jing over, Li Junxian hurried in.

"Your Majesty, those snakes and rats are on the move again. One person from the Firearms Bureau was killed and two were injured. I have sent the Hundred Cavalry Division to conduct a full-scale search."

After hearing this, Li Er's face suddenly became extremely gloomy.

If there was anything that made him extremely upset, it was this.

The snakes and rats that Li Junxian mentioned were the Jinyiwei sent by Li Yuanji to carry out the mission.

Li Er was really having a headache. This group of people was not large in number. If a full-time martial law search was implemented, it would inevitably cause panic among the people. He had no choice but to let the Hundred Cavalry Division take action.

But even the Hundred Cavalry Division, which had the advantage of home court, suffered a lot at the hands of these Jinyiwei.

Although the Hundred Cavalry Division had made some achievements, its losses were no less than those of the Embroidered Uniform Guard.

(End of this chapter)