Chapter 108: Please help the crown prince fulfill his promise

A four-wheeled carriage slowly parked on the banks of the Yuhe River. Li Xiuning looked at the brightly lit Yuhe Iron and Steel Plant and listened to the sound of tingling golden sounds coming from his ears.

Several Donggong Qingdao led soldiers to discover the movement here, held the torch and ran quickly towards the carriage, running while shouting: "Who is there!"

The beating torches came from far to near. When the Qing Dao led the soldiers to see the Pingyang Princess's command tower and the sword armored soldiers standing around the four-wheeled carriage, the Qing Dao led the soldiers to consciously retreat into the darkness.

Cui'er looked at Princess Pingyang Li Xiuning and asked, "Princess, do you want me to report it?"

"No!" Li Xiuning shook his head and continued to sit upright on the soft couch in the carriage. In fact, it was a bit inappropriate to say that the soft couch was a bit inappropriate. Chen Ying used many styles of later generations in Li Xiuning's four-wheeled carriage. For example, Li Xiuning is sitting now, just like a sofa, and there are also many combinations of kung fu. Under the table, six small storage compartments are set up to place chessboards, chess pieces, pens, ink, paper and inkstones, and some books. Combined with Li Xiuning's preference for military affairs, the front screen wall of the carriage carriage is not an ordinary landscape painting, but a map of six feet wide and one foot wide.

It is also a military map, marked with the power map of Dou Jiande, King of Xia in Hebei, King of Zheng in Central Plains, King of Zheng in Central Plains, King of Chu in Jiangnan, King of Chu in Liang, King of Liang in Jiangnan, Shen Faxing in Jiangnan, Du Fuwei in Jianghuai, King of Wu in Jiangdu, Li Zitong in Youzhou, King of Jiaodong in Qi County, Bo in Jiaodong in Liaodong, Gao Kaidao in Liaodong, and Zhu Can in Hanshui.

Cui'er skillfully twisted the clockwork as usual and waited for the clockwork to be done. The puppet in the music box began to spin around the box, but the box made a pleasant sound of dingdong dong.

Li Xiuning looked at the map on the screen and frowned. Since this map drew the topographic map of various forces in the world, Hangu Pass was just a small dot of a very small size on the map. However, Li Xiuning was searching for information about Hangu Pass in his head.

Li Xiuning passed by Hangu Pass when she was fourteen and seventeen years old, and had a deep impression of the steepness of Hangu Pass. Li Xiuning believed that this was not a good job to lead Chen Ying to attack Hangu Pass. The best way to attack Luoyang was to follow the Yellow River downstream. At this time, the Yellow River was frozen, so you could go down the ice of the Yellow River, pass Hongnong, and go straight to Luoyang.

But why did Chen Ying take the approach of head-on battle from Tongguan all the way to Tongguan? This is obviously not Chen Ying's style. What Chen Ying is most afraid of in the war is casualties, which is completely different from generals who only seek victory and regardless of the cost.

Why did Chen Ying do this?

What is his real purpose?

...

In fact, Li Xiuning's doubts were also Li Jiancheng's doubts. Li Jiancheng was not ignorant of military affairs, and he was even a little confused. In the Yuhe Steel Plant's compilation room, Li Jiancheng finally couldn't help asking Chen Ying: "Isn't it good to take advantage of the ice of the Yellow River and go directly to Luoyang?"

Chen Ying turned around, looked northeast with his hands in his arms, and sighed slowly: "Your Highness, as the saying goes, those who do not plan for the whole world are not enough to plan for a moment; those who do not plan for the overall situation are not enough to plan for a territory. What Chen Ying planned is not the Hangu Pass, not the Luoyang City, nor a corner of the Central Plains."

Listening to this, Li Jiancheng was even more surprised. As the saying goes, a person's vision determines a person's achievements. At first, Li Jiancheng only thought that Chen Ying was just a general. Later, he discovered that Chen Ying was not just a general, but also a handsome talent who could stand alone. Li Jiancheng was about to regard Chen Ying as the number one person in the Eastern Palace Army. After he ascended the throne in the future, he appointed Chen Ying as the Minister of War of the Tang Dynasty. However, Chen Ying pointed casually in Lingzhou and almost no effort was made to build fourteen carbonite mines, four salt fields, and three blast furnaces.

It simply means developing a mountain of gold, which can make more than one million yuan in profits per year. Chen Ying gave him so much surprise, this is Sang Hongyang of the Tang Dynasty. Just when Li Jiancheng called Chen Ying to be Sang Hongyang of the Tang Dynasty, and after he ascended the throne in the future, he appointed Chen Ying as the Minister of the Civil Affairs Department of the Tang Dynasty, and served as the Minister of the Central Secretariat and the Minister of the Tang Dynasty, becoming the wealth minister of the future Tang Dynasty, Chen Ying also tinkered with extremely sharp magic weapons in Yuhe, as well as armor that could ignore bows and arrows. Having a sword or armor was equivalent to increasing the combat effectiveness of the Tang Dynasty's army by more than 30%.

Li Jiancheng is really a little confused about Chen Ying now. He really can't guess Chen Ying's true thoughts and intentions. Li Jiancheng asked seriously: "I don't know what Chen Qing is planning..."

Chen Ying actually didn't know that he was already a rare genius in Li Jiancheng's heart at this time, which was Sang Hongyang, Wei Huo and Wuhou. Chen Ying did not directly answer Li Jiancheng's words, but smiled faintly: "Your Highness, King Shichong of the Central Plains, Zhu Can of Jingxiang, Li Zitong of Jiangdu, Shen Faxing of Jiangnan, Xiao Xian, or Gao Kaidao, they are not worth worrying about. The Tang Dynasty is just around the corner."

Li Jiancheng also agreed with Chen Ying's point of view: "Well, it can be as good as five years, and at least three years, the Tang Dynasty will unify the whole world!"

"But what after unifying the world?" Chen Ying looked to the northeast and said, "The Goguryeo problem still needs to be solved!"

Li Jiancheng was slightly stunned and suddenly woke up. Although the historical books gave Yang Guang a comment that "he was rich and strong inside, thoughtful outside, gained resentment with arrogance, and promoted his army with anger. If this did not perish, it would not be heard of since ancient times." However, the Goguryeo issue was the goal of Yang Jian, Yang Guang, Li Shimin, and Li Zhi, the Sui and Tang Dynasties, which lasted for four generations of emperors, and lasted for nearly a hundred years.

The real reason for attacking Goguryeo was not Gao Yuan’s “rudeness”, but because of a traditional Chinese political thinking: “How can you allow others to snore on the side of the bed?”

Goguryeo is different from the Turks, Khitans and Mohe nations. This is itself a semi-nomadic nation similar to the Chinese nation. After more than 300 years of development of Goguryeo, Goguryeo has a strong national strength and has more than 300,000 troops. It is the trend of unifying the Korean Peninsula in the south.

Under such circumstances, a rising Goguryeo power in the Northeast would definitely not agree with the interests of China. Therefore, when Yang Jian unified the Sui Dynasty, he launched a war against Goguryeo. After Yang Jian failed, Yang Guang followed him and Li Shimin unified the world and destroyed the Turks, the powerful enemy in the north, and also focused his attention on Goguryeo. If he failed, he would come again. All three battles failed. After Li Zhi took office, he continued to fight, and defeated Goguryeo from a small strong man in Northeast Asia to a third-class disabled person.

If Yang Guang relies on his own martial arts and his own benefits, then are Yang Jian, Li Shimin and Li Zhi the same? The answer is no, because this is in line with the national strategic interests.

Li Jiancheng also changed his expression slightly when he heard Chen Ying mention Goguryeo. Of course, Li Jiancheng was not afraid, but excited: "In the future, our palace will inherit the throne and promote the whole country's troops, and have a million troops to flatten Goguryeo and avenge his previous shame."

There is a very classic line in the sword light: "Any army has its own tradition. What is tradition? Tradition is a character, a temperament! This tradition and personality are determined by the character and temperament of the first military chief when this army was formed. He injected soul into this army. From then on, no matter how time is lost or personnel changes, the soul of this army will always be there."

In fact, not only the army, but also the country. Liu Bang, the founder of the Han Dynasty, was originally a rogue. He had a very obvious personality trait, he could bend and stretched, but he would revenge. This spirit also became the national nature of the Han Empire. If you can't beat you, you should bow your head and never die. He will suffer from face. However, when you are strong, you will definitely be punished without any discussion. It was under this national tradition, which took a hundred years and was painstakingly managed by the five generations of emperors. During the reign of Emperor Wu of Han, he had no internal worries and took the initiative to launch a counterattack against the Huns.

The same was true in the Tang Dynasty. Li Shimin won the throne with disgrace in Xuanwu Gate, and his descendants also felt that they were similar. For example, Li Shimin took his brother, sister-in-law and sister-in-law as his wife, and Li Longji dared to take his own daughter-in-law (Yang Guifei).

Chen Ying said: "I am actually using Hangu Pass to test a new concept of war and war. I call this method of war, mountain war. Your Highness, you know that Goguryeo has many lands and few plains. Except for the Bochuan Plain in Hanyuan, most of the entire Goguryeo is mountainous or hilly. Therefore, Yang Guang of the previous dynasty adopted a million-strong field corps to enter Goguryeo without any use of his skills. I plan to use Hangu Pass to test the military organization, tactics and offensive and defensive principles of mountain warfare to establish the first mountain warfare unit of the Tang Dynasty. In the future, if there is a rebellion in Lingnan, Bashu and mountainous areas in Jiangnan, use an army familiar with mountain warfare to quell the rebellion. It will not only be quick, but also have lower casualties and less cost."

At this time, Li Jiancheng finally understood Chen Ying's real purpose and suddenly realized: "I blamed Chen Qing by mistake. I didn't expect Chen Qing to have such a profound plan."

Speaking of this, Li Jiancheng said with a guilty look on his face: "With Chen Qing's achievements, it is not an exaggeration to be named a Duke of the Kingdom. It is almost time to be called an isolated person!"

"I don't want any dukes and titles!" Chen Ying said seriously: "If you have a choice, I want to ask His Highness the Crown Prince to help me."

Li Jiancheng said: "Chen Qing just said it's okay. If this palace can do it, even if it can't be done for the time being, it will definitely do it for Chen Qing in the future!"

Chen Ying said: "I am in love with Princess Pingyang, and I would like to ask His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to help us."

"This..." Li Jiancheng hesitated. Although his elder brother is like his father, Li Jiancheng does have the power to control Li Xiuning's marriage, it is not possible at this time. Because Li Yuan is still alive, where is Li Jiancheng's turn to be the leader when Li Yuan is alive.
Chapter completed!