Emperor of the Tang Dynasty

Li Shimin's eyes lit up, and he clapped his hands and said, "Yes! Jingde is currently working as a provincial governor in Tongzhou, maybe he can..."

The Yuchi Jingde that Li Shimin and Fang Xuanling talked about is one of the [-] heroes of Lingyan Pavilion, who is also famous and famous.

If he came to serve as the chief of the march, no one would be dissatisfied.

However, Li Shimin was just halfway through, when Li You shook his head.

"Royal father, Mr. Fang, you have also overlooked a problem - in terms of geographical location, Tongzhou is even farther away from Songzhou than Chang'an! Tongzhou, Chang'an and Songzhou are like three on the same line. The points are the same, Chang'an is in the middle, Songzhou and Tongzhou are the two farthest points!"

Li Shimin and Fang Xuanling were stunned when they heard the words, and then sighed in unison. They didn't expect to ignore such a simple and important matter.

It's not impossible to find Yuchigong, but if he waits for him to come, it will waste a lot of time, and now that Songzhou is besieged by the Tibetans, it is already a little bit of time to delay!

"Report to Your Majesty, I am willing to petition for war!"

At this moment, Li Xiaogong suddenly said.

Li Shimin looked at him fixedly, and Li Xiaogong had already continued to explain.

"Your Majesty, now that the New Year has passed, there are no too complicated ceremonies for the time being, and the imperial examinations have also been brought forward, so there is nothing to do with the Ministry of Rites during this period of time, just in time, the minister can take time off to support Songzhou!"

Although Li Xiaogong is now a minister of the Ministry of Rites in a civilian position, in his life, he attacked Bashu, captured Zhu Can, destroyed Xiao Liang, defeated Fu Gongyou, and pacified Jiangnan.

Li Shimin also understood that he could no longer hesitate, and immediately nodded: "Good! Then I will appoint you as the chief general of this march, and lead a [-]-strong army to Songzhou for support!"

"The minister obeys the order!"

Li Xiaogong immediately knelt down and took orders, seeing that even the number of people who played in the battle was the same as two years later in the original history, Li You was very determined.

"It seems that the general trend has not changed... This is good, this is good."

Li You's mood also relaxed. This time, the battle of Songzhou, although he was a little surprised because it was ahead of schedule, but generally speaking, Li You was calm.

Therefore, Li You knows that this battle will be won! .

Chapter 777 Incredible Defeat

In the history that Li You was familiar with, the final result of this battle of Songzhou was the final helpless defeat of Tubo.

During this period, Hou Junji actually did not have any major performance, but Niu Jinda shined.

"Although Tubo claims to have an army of [-] people, in fact there are not so many at all, so the support of [-] people is completely enough..."

Li You thought to himself, because as far as he knew, during the reign of Songtsan Gampo, the Tubo army was divided into four such as forty Dongdai, and Dongdai was the place of a thousand households.

At that time, the Four Rus Forty Dongdai had just been formed, and each Dongdai also managed more than 1000 households, and each household sent one soldier, so its total strength of 1 to 4 was more reasonable.

In addition, it is recorded in the Tibetan history books that when Songtsen Gampo asked to marry the Tang princess, he said, "Zanpu wrote to the Tang Lord: If you are not allowed to marry the princess, you should personally bring [-] soldiers to seize the Tang kingdom, kill the princess, and seize the princess. "

From this point of view, the main force of Tubo at that time was about [-] or [-] people.Therefore, the current number of reinforcements in the Tang Dynasty should be roughly equivalent to the strength of the Tubo army.

In other words, that [-] army is Songtsen Gampo's bragging!

And just from the perspective of Tubo, they definitely don't want to go to war with Datang.

The domestic situation in Tubo was not stable. After many years of continuous battles, the newly conquered tribes also needed time to gradually appease. In the case of instability in the rear, it was too risky to fight against the Tang army with the main force of Tubo.

Therefore, in Li You's view, this battle was a near miss, and Li You did not intend to get involved, because it was not necessary at all.

It can be said that it is precisely because the battle of Songzhou will be won that Li Youcai advocates that Datang should start this battle. The significance of the battle of Songzhou is very important. In addition to letting Tubo really see the powerful strength of Datang, it also ushered in the great Tang Dynasty. Twenty years of peaceful development!

And with his own position, Li You believes that after [-] years, the Tang Dynasty has no idea where to dump Tubo.

After the prince's birthday banquet was over, the army soon set off in a mighty manner.

It will take some time for them to go to Songzhou, but Li You is no longer worried. After this busy New Year, Li You is self-cultivating every day... or should be said, temporarily turned into a lazy salty fish.

"Oh, it's really hard to relax."

In addition to facing up, what Li You does every day is to look at the sky on the rocking chair, which is very comfortable and uncomfortable.

If possible, Li You didn't even bother to go to the court. After all, there was nothing major recently, and Li You was thinking about whether to skip a shift or something... But this morning was different, Li You still planned to go.

"Calculate the time, the battle of Songzhou should have come to an end by now, right?"

Li You thought in his heart as he walked towards the Tai Chi Palace.

"If there is no accident, the time of the battle report is the past few days, just go and take a look."

However, when Li You came all the way to Tai Chi Palace, he suddenly frowned.

"...not right."

The atmosphere at the scene is completely wrong!

Li You glanced at the silent civil and military officials, and was a little puzzled: "It seems that today is not the return of the battle report, but what other major events happened? But now there should be no new events in the Tang Dynasty for the time being. Trouble?"

With this thought in mind, Li You waited until Li Shimin came over, only to see that Li Shimin's aura was even lower.

After the first court visit, Li Shimin said straight to the point: "Presumably all of you Aiqing have already received the news more or less. That's right, the battle report from Songzhou has come... The Tang army was defeated!"

"what!?"

Li You's surprise is extremely rare, or it should be said that no one will be more shocked than Li You at the moment!

"How is this possible? How is this possible?!"

Li You's mind quickly turned, because except that the time was a little earlier, the rest of the information was basically the same as the history he knew, so Li You didn't pay much attention to the Battle of Songzhou these days, which led him to know but later than others.