Hearing this, Li Shimin smiled and breathed a sigh of relief.

It is indeed time to relax, the fall of the Eastern Turks can be said to be a wonderful beginning of the Zhenguan year. With this battle at the bottom, places like Goguryeo should be honest!

After worrying about the army for a few months, at this time he was relieved, and the only thing Li Shimin wanted was wine.

The great victory of the grassland is the most celebrateable thing since the founding of the country. For the first time, the military generals of Wenchen and the officials of the six departments of the three provinces drank unscrupulously, and the emperor had ordered that the whole of Chang'an could carnival for three days! Thinking about the complicated affairs after the army returned to Korea, the officials only hoped to get drunk and prepare for the next busy.

Unlike Chang'an, who celebrated, Li Chengqian of Baidao was very irritable.

Li Dahai, this guy, used to just send supplies to the grassland and transport the wounded, but he forgot about getting rich!

You must know that the cattle and sheep on the grassland, this time there are really too many to calculate. After the victory of the army, although there were still many herdsmen captives, the cattle and sheep owned by these people were nominally already the army's. Eating meat on the grassland is disgusting, but this thing is transported back to the Central Plains, and it is a superb good thing.

The transportation of the wounded from Baidao, Mayi, and Fengfu is the proper meaning. But when I returned from Shuofang, I had to fill the car to the brim!

Li Dahai's third son, Li Yongye, is now by Li Chengqian's side, and he has never closed his mouth.

This time, their family is a long face, and the queen mother personally issued a decree to praise them for their contribution to the army, who can get such glory? As soon as he remembered that the old patriarch of his clan had personally come to Chang'an to invite them to return to the sect, he wanted to laugh. In the past, when his father was a businessman, he was directly swept out of the house by the family, and he was almost deprived of the surname "Li". But now, because of the red eyes, he came up to the pole again and begged to go home.

Oh, what's wrong with our family being businessmen! If it weren't for business, he wouldn't be favored by the prince, let alone the neighbors who see them all respectful now. There are many businessmen who have been praised by the county order, but those who can be praised by the queen are estimated to be the first one.

It's just that he doesn't know if he will be happy to draw it when he learns that the emperor's will to praise has fallen to their family.

March has passed, and the April days, even the grasslands, are no longer so cold.

The wounded soldiers in the wounded battalion were all stabilized, and it was only then that the remaining 10,000 troops and all the wounded soldiers were officially launched.

Return.

Go home!

When the journey back began, everyone's faces were filled with joy. The battle is over, and this time it's a big victory, and there will be big rewards for everyone from the chief manager to the lowest creeps. Many disabled people with broken arms and legs cried like babies in the car with the paperwork issued by the prince. With this paperwork, they will be able to go to Chang'an and have their prosthetic limbs fitted with the help of skilled craftsmen who will be overseers. Although it is impossible to be exactly the same as before, it is already the happiest thing to be a cripple compared to lying in bed and being a sludge.

Sun Simiao arrogantly asked for two carts to carry the medicinal herbs he had collected on the grassland. Of course, the most important thing is a coffin. The coffin was not a dead man, but a set of installed bone shelves, the remains of an unlucky Turkic man, and with the help of Li Chengqian, Lao Sun learned to fix them with ropes in joints and other places. This skeleton will be used by Lao Sun for a long time.

Finally embarked on the return journey, Zhang Yun and other eunuchs and the nearly 2,000 forbidden troops were also very excited. Although the prince ran to the front of the battle restlessly, there was no accident. The few who died were unfortunately infected and died during the wounded barracks, but they did not lose their deaths, because not only the queen would be rewarded heavily, but their names were also on the military merit book. A trip and a death can bring great merit to the children of the family, how to calculate how it is worth.

The whole team was happy, except for His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and Divine Doctor Sun Simiao.

In the carriage, Li Jing hugged a blanket and leaned against the carriage, while Li Chengqian held an urn and quietly prayed for Yicheng with Sun Simiao.

couldn't bear to see her painful appearance after being seriously infected, under her pleading gaze, Li Chengqian could only beg Sun Simiao to give her a good time.

After drinking Sun Simiao's medicine, Yicheng finally left with a smile.

Li Chengqian was in a bad mood, and Sun Simiao was also in a bad mood, which made Li Jing in the same carriage very uncomfortable.

Insisting on standing up and opening the curtain of the carriage to breathe, Li Jing said: "It's not a big deal, Doctor Sun, you prescribe honey poison to poison people, it is indeed against the way of medicine, but since this is for the sake of the patient, it is a good thing to accumulate merit." As for the prince, what are you sad about, isn't the old man quite resolute when he sees you making a decision! ”

Li Chengqian raised his head: "Duke Wei, I'm not uncomfortable because of this matter, but because Yicheng is not worth it." Empress Xiao and Yang Zhengdao can be said to have been saved by her. Although it is not good to be in the Turks, it is much better to have righteousness than to be under Dou Jiande. But Yicheng was seriously ill, and none of these two people cared. Even when the cremation was carried out, I deliberately lifted the ban on them, and they didn't go to see them off. The human heart is so indifferent. ”

Li Jing smiled helplessly, the most difficult thing in the world is not the weather, but the human heart. No one knows what is going on in the minds of the person opposite them, and if they do, maybe the two people who are staggered will draw their swords the next moment. The prince sees people's hearts too beautifully, which is not necessarily a good thing. After this incident, I can probably see through something.

Sun Simiao finished reading a scripture, glanced at Li Chengqian, and asked, "I still can't understand why you made the decision to poison Yicheng." The old Taoist has studied medicine for decades, and it is not unheard of to dispense poison to fight poison with poison, but it is the first time that he has put people to death. ”

Li Chengqian sighed and gestured to the urn he was holding: "Yicheng was on the verge of life and death at that time, if it wasn't painful, naturally she wouldn't need to do this, but every time she breathed, she tried her best, and every time she breathed, she had to be tortured." Since sooner or later you will die, why don't you leave happily? Sun Daochang, you are now drilling the horns of the bull, and you only feel that you have poisoned people. But if Yicheng can support her dreams, I guess she will be very happy to thank you. "Recommended Reading: /.. /

With a sigh, Sun Simiao could only look away from the urn.

Because it was not in wartime, it was a return trip, so the speed of the march of the army was sometimes fast and slow, and sometimes it was common to rest three or four times a day.

Now that the team has stopped again, Li Chengqian thought that he was going to rest, and was just about to go out to breathe, but he was coldly pushed back by Zhang Yun outside the door.

"Your Highness, the scout reported that there is a bandit village not far from here."

Li Jing stroked his beard and said with a smile: "Since you have met it, you have to make a fortune for the soldiers." Come on, order the eldest Sun Chong to lead 2,000 troops and level this bandit village! ”

The chief steward spoke, and immediately a herald went to give the order.

Seeing Zhang Yun's determined expression outside the carriage, Li Chengqian could only put down the bow he picked up in his hand.

Seeing that Li Chengqian was interested, Li Jing lifted his fur fur and stood up, and pulled Li Chengqian out together.

With Li Jing here, Zhang Yun wanted to stop him, but he couldn't speak. Because, the chief administrator has already ordered that this time the suppression of bandits will be commanded by the prince.

He had long seen the transfer of troops and generals, but now that he had the order in hand, Li Chengqian immediately brought the prince with him.

Although there are only more than 1,400 people left in the prince's personal leadership, after the experience of this war, they have grown.

Yu Tai is the general who leads the team in the front, Fang Shuo is the general who leads the team on the two wings, and Changsun Chong leads the team to outflank the back road, so be sure not to let go of one.

Originally, Changsun Chong was still very dissatisfied with his position, but when he heard that it was easy to intercept the head of the back road, he excitedly set off with five hundred soldiers.

Two thousand soldiers, enough.

On the border between Datang and the grassland, there will always be these people who have no capital to buy and sell.

In the past, the imperial court had no time to care about them, but now that the grassland has been included in the territory of the Tang Dynasty, they have changed from bandits on the border to bandits inside, how can they not get rid of them.

Li Jing's title of chief manager will not be revoked until Chang'an, so he still has the power to decide on his own attack. Of course, the premise is that the target of the attack is bandits.

The bandit village built by the mountain is really the same as in the TV series, it is built with giant trees. As a local snake that has been rooted in the border for a long time, they have many secret posts, and even the mobile team led by the Sky Monkey is difficult to clear out.

So when the front 500 troops arrived in front of the gate, there was already an obscene-looking guy waiting in front of the closed gate with a large number of gifts.

It is not once or twice that they have been targeted by the army, and every time the steppe people go south, they will go to their village gate to besiege them. But bleeding would be fine, and the bandits thought it was the same this time as before.

"General, you see that we are doing business in this place, and it doesn't hinder the affairs of the army. So we let the villain give you a gift, hoping to get your understanding. ”

The words were decent, the etiquette was thoughtful, and the sun shone on the open box, flashing a dazzling brilliance.

Li Chengqian tilted his head to the side and reached out to pat Yu Tai's horse.

So, Yu Tai immediately rode forward and cut off the head with a knife.

The Turks are easy to dismiss, do you think the officers and troops can also be sent like this?

The blood rushing into the sky was like a signal, and arrows flew immediately from behind the wall.

Pushing away Zhang Yun who was blocking in front of him, Li Chengqian immediately fired back with a bow.

The bandit's bow and arrow are not as powerful as the official bow and arrow, and they are so far away that even if they hit the body, it only hurts.

On the contrary, Li Chengqian's arrow quickly hit an unlucky ghost with an outcrop.

Li Jing also took a bow, and two arrows were sent out in succession, hitting three people.

Seeing that two people were strung with arrows, Li Chengqian looked at Li Jing in surprise. This old bastard is really hiding his secrets, just this hand, I'm afraid there are not many people in the army who can catch up with him.

"Look at it, the bandits only wear leather armor, not armor. You must know that whether it is Wei Chi or Your Majesty, you can shoot through the iron armor with a bow, and Your Majesty has a record of arrows penetrating the front and back of the body, compared with the two of them, what is the old man! ”

Li Chengqian nodded blankly, and could only continue to shoot the bow. I thought that bows and arrows were not as good as firearms, but now it seems that this may not be the case.

The frontal troops of 500 are quite bad at archery. But when Fang Shuo's flank troops also moved, the arrows behind the gate soon stopped.

Fang Shuo's archery skills are very good, so he leads the archery team. In addition to the normal physical exercise, the whole team is the practice of archery, and now all of them are archers.

After the long-range attack at the gate disappeared, it was Liu Mang's attacking team that came into play.

The soldiers under Liu Mang's command only pay attention to muscles, and they are all big men, even the horizontal knives are abandoned by them, and they dislike the petty family, and the whole team has replaced it with a mace as the main combat weapon.

However, the mace was still powerless in the face of the walled gate, so at the bottom of the mountain, they put down a thick tree that was hugged by one person, and the branches were not pruned, so they carried it and rushed directly to the walled gate.

One impact, two impacts, and the third time, the latch of the walled gate was finally overwhelmed and broken, and Liu Mang also rushed in as soon as possible.

Then came the slaughter.

Although there were about 2,000 bandits in the camp here, they were far from being the opponents of the 500 people led by the prince himself.

Looking at the bloody battlefield in front of him, Li Jing stroked his beard: "Today's prince is already on a par with the Xuanjia Army." Although there is a huge difference in combat experience, in the face of personal combat strength, the Xuanjia Army cannot take advantage. It's just that the Xuanjia Army hasn't fought for a long time, and I don't know what is going on now. ”

Li Jing had every reason to believe that the same training method had been popularized within the Xuanjia Army. As the emperor's pro-army troops before he ascended the throne, although the Xuanjia Army diluted their sense of existence, the generals naturally couldn't forget the troops that made the emperor a hundred horses to break the myth of ten thousand enemies.

It's very boring, using the prince's personal rate and 500 soldiers to deal with bandits is considered to be killing chickens with a knife. Except for a few unlucky ones who were slashed, none of them were killed in battle.

The bandit villages on the border are of varying ethnicity, including Han Chinese, Turkic people, and even the golden-haired Hu people. It's not a big deal, but a few guys are sitting in a circle and shouting "Baga", which is too much!

"Wait a minute, you can't kill them, these people are Japanese people, maybe they are messengers!"

As soon as Li Chengqian wanted Liu Mang to kill these humanoid animals, Tang Jian's voice came.

The old guy hadn't rested enough since he returned to the barracks, and he always snuggled up in his carriage and took a nap, but he didn't expect to come along.

"Emissary? Isn't the Wa Kingdom in the East China Sea, how can it be here? ”

Li Jing was very dissatisfied with Tang Jian's sudden interruption, as the first person in the military, he naturally knew the location of the Wa State. How could an envoy of a country across the sea appear in the steppe?

Tang Jian trotted all the way over and explained: "Although they are countries in the East China Sea, it is very difficult to take the sea route. Therefore, it is not uncommon for the Sui Dynasty to have envoys who came from Silla Baekje, passed through Goguryeo, and took a detour from the grassland to Chang'an. Don't look at the fact that the Japanese can't fight with the Turkic Eight Poles, when facing our Central Plains, they are very good at talking to each other. ”

After speaking, Tang Jian came to the front of the team and began to speak the island Chinese dialect in a grunt. As the leader of Hongxu Temple, he naturally mastered many Chinese languages, including half-baked U languages.

A group of people who speak half-baked Chinese can still communicate.

There are still some differences between the Japanese language during the Tang Dynasty and later generations.

But Li Chengqian, who has been nurtured by small movies and dramas for a while, can barely hear a sentence or two and guess what they mean.

After a long time, Tang Jian smiled, turned to Li Chengqian and said, "His Royal Highness the Prince, they are the envoys of the Wa Kingdom, and they have come to our Tang Dynasty to pay homage and study. It's just that they passed through here and were seized by bandits, and now we are back in Chang'an, just take them with us. ”

Take the Japanese back to Chang'an with them?

Li Chengqian immediately got goosebumps.

Turning his head, Li Chengqian asked Li Jing: "Duke Wei, when I heard about the former Sui Dynasty, the national letter of the Wa Kingdom actually called itself the country of the rising sun, and called our Central Plains the country of the sunset, but is there such a thing?" ”

Li Jing's grandfather, Li Chongyi, once served as the assassin of Yinzhou, was the Duke of Yongkang, and his father was the official of Zhao County, so how could he know about it.

Li Jing nodded and said: "This is indeed the case, at that time, the Manchu generals were furious, and they were eager to kill the Wa Kingdom and treat them for the crime of disrespecting the country. It's just that Emperor Yang was not angry, but said that they were uncivilized savages, and they were excusable, and forgave their sins of disrespect. ”

Li Chengqian nodded and said to Li Jing: "Gong Wei, why don't we make a bet..."

Looking at the corpses of the envoys of the Japanese Kingdom all over the ground, Tang Jian sighed deeply and threw the national letter of the Japanese State in his hand into a pool of blood.

Yerou is arrogant! Why doesn't a person from a tattered island country have a long memory? was arrogant in the former Sui Dynasty, and now it is still the same in the face of the Tang Dynasty? As an envoy to the Turks, he had no say in the army on the return journey. I hate these bastards, or hate this unlucky country, the beginning of the national letter is still like that, so that I can't dissuade Li Jing if I want to.

It's just strange why the crown prince is so contemptuous of the Wa Kingdom? It looks like .... I didn't plan to let them go.

There are a lot of seizures in the bandits, and they are all good things. The soldiers consciously invited His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to visit the seizures, and by the way, they picked something they liked, and then it was their turn to divide it. There are spoils of war that can be freely chosen, how can Li Chengqian care about the death of those widows.

Send Tang envoys!

It's now the fourth year of Zhenguan, and it seems that these guys are what kind of dog went to the field and sent Tang envoys on the day of the death of medicine.

There is no need to bring them back to Chang'an, some trolls look all over history, and they just like to put the later sins of the Wa Kingdom on the Tang Dynasty. Obviously, he had already been entertained in the Sui Dynasty, but he turned a blind eye and sprayed dirty water on Li Shimin's head.

Many people are like this, they like to pick bones in eggs, and in the face of historical celebrities, they always like to find some bad deeds to prove that he is a bad guy, or go through Baidu to turn everyone recognized as a bad guy into a good person. The rotten people drilled into the pile of old papers, and they blamed them, and it was their turn, and the result became more and more out of control.

It's all the act of eating too much salt.