"Your Majesty, General Li Yan has received good news, the Northern Expedition has won a great victory!"

In the palace, the old eunuch Wang De, who got the news, hurriedly came to report to Li Shimin, and now Ge Dahai and others are waiting outside the Xuanwu Gate.

"What? It's only been a few days, and it's a big victory? ”

Li Shimin was originally watching the recitals of the ministers, and his brain hurt, but the good news brought by Wang De instantly dispelled Li Shimin's boredom, and the whole person's spirit was lifted.

"Your Majesty, the soldiers who delivered the good news are waiting outside the Xuanwu Gate."

Wang De didn't know the specific situation, but he only roughly listened to the palace gate guards who reported that the Northern Expedition was a great victory.

"Announce them in at once!"

Li Shimin is in a state of excitement and can't wait to understand the specific situation.

In this way, Ge Dahai and the others who were waiting outside the Xuanwu Gate were announced into the palace with a roar, and finally Ge Dahai carried Li Yan's letter to face the saint smoothly, and the rest waited outside.

"You tell me about the battle in detail first, and you can't leave it out."

Li Shimin glanced at the letters first, and as expected, the thickness of this pile of letters was very "Li Yan", and there were at least hundreds of pieces of letter paper in this whole pile.

Therefore, Li Shimin, who had a headache watching the twists and turns, chose to let Ge Dahai report the battle situation.

"Back to Your Majesty, my subordinates are scouts under General Li Yan, and I just happen to know the specific details of this battle......"

"In this battle, General Li Yan chose to march in two groups, one of which was 1,200 cavalry, and the rest was an army of 30,000 led by General Cheng."

"General Li Yan asserted that the Turks must be weak at this time, so ......"

"1,200 cavalry swept through Mobei for three days, crossed the desert one day later, destroyed the Ashina tribe first, attacked the next day and night, pointed directly at the king's tent, and captured the Turkic Jieli Khan in this battle......"

"In order to completely wipe out the foundation of Mobei, General Li Yan opened the city gate, guarded the city gate alone for more than an hour, and personally killed nearly a thousand Turks! After that, the army arrived, and more than ninety percent of the Turkic army was annihilated under the encirclement, and less than one percent escaped......"

"Our army continues to march north, see a sea of water, General Cheng said that this is the Hanhai, our army drinks Ma Hanhai, and finally goes to the Wolf Juxu Mountain, builds an altar to worship the sky, General Li Yan praises, from now on, the south of this mountain is the territory of the Tang Dynasty......"

Ge Dahai obviously knew that this was the moment to tell about his exploits, and the better he said, the more excited Li Shimin became, and the more powerful the final reward became!

Therefore, Ge Dahai's description is called a painting and color, which makes Li Shimin stand up directly and excitedly, clench his fists, and can't wait to come to the battlefield in person.

"Drink Ma Hanhai, seal the wolf Juxu!"

At this moment, Li Shimin's eyes seemed to be glowing.

These eight short words completely describe the crowning achievement of the Northern Expedition since ancient times.

Prior to this, of all dynasties from ancient times to the present, only the Han Dynasty had completed this goal, and now Datang is the second, and Li Yan is the champion of Datang!

"Nineteen-year-old Feng Wolf Juxu, although he is two years later than the champion Hou, but it is also amazing, worthy of being a ......"

Li Shimin muttered to himself with emotion, the more he spoke, the more excited he became, and subconsciously wanted to say "worthy of being my son", but the moment he saw Zhang Dazhu, he quickly braked, so the royal secret must not be leaked out.

"Wait for the message, tired all the way, go and rest first, tomorrow morning, I will announce the reward."

Li Shimin waved his hand to let Ge Dahai leave first, and the "Li Yan-style War Report" he also wrote was more than 100 pages long, and the court could not announce the reward decision until tomorrow morning.

"Yes, Your Majesty."

When Ge Dahai heard this, he hurriedly saluted and left.

Only then did he remember that he seemed to be facing the leader of the Tang Dynasty, the current emperor, and he felt a little nervous and embarrassed in hindsight.

After Ge Dahai left, Li Shimin rubbed his head and began to carefully read the battle report written by Li Yan.

"The 30,000 troops of Fengzhou are sent to the grassland, divided into two batches, one is ......"

"Affected by the battle of winter, Monan was weak, so it swept ...... in three days"

"There were some twists and turns in the battle of Mobei, and our army scouted Zhou Cheng ......",

“……”

"General Cheng personally wrote the sacrificial text, and our army built an altar to worship the heavens in Wolf Juxu Mountain......"

"I hope that the imperial court will send troops to garrison the grassland as soon as possible, and the minister suggested that the capital can be set up to protect the people, naturalize the grassland people, and turn Hu into Tang ......"

"In this battle, our army suffered many casualties, especially the cavalry, 1,200 cavalry marched north into the grassland, only 611 people remained, and the dead Zhang Wai and the remaining 4 ......"

The overall style of the war report is basically the same as the last winter battle in Fengzhou, first a flat and direct account detailing the course of the war, then giving the imperial court suggestions for the next step, and finally a detailed record of the lives and exploits of each casualty under his command.

"Worthy of my son......"

Now that there is no one around, Li Shimin can finally say such a sentence with confidence.

It's a pity that Wang De, who had just entered the door, was stiff, and he didn't know whether to make a sound or not, prompting that there was such an incomplete person in this imperial study.

……

Li Shimin spent the day with two points of excitement, three points of expectation, and five points of satisfaction, and it was not until the next day that Li Shimin went to the main hall in high spirits and sat on the dragon chair early.

On this day, all the officials of the previous dynasty stiffened, and this was the first time that the emperor came earlier than the hundred officials......

"You Aiqing, you must know all about the victory of the Northern Expedition."

Li Shimin didn't let Wang De shout out the usual sentence "If there is something to play, nothing to retreat from the court", but instead opened his mouth and went straight to the point.

"Your Majesty, the victory of the Northern Expedition is gratifying!"

"Congratulations to Your Majesty, the Northern Expedition has won!"

Baiguan paddled as always, and rarely spoke with personal opinions.

After all, the thorns in the court have not yet returned to Chang'an, and they are still defending the border with soldiers.

After the completion of the congratulations of the hundred officials, Li Shimin did not speak at that time, his eyes stared at the front of the civil and military camps in a daze, and kept spinning on the eldest grandson Wuji, Du Ruhui, Hou Junji and others.

These people knew very well what Li Shimin meant, which clearly showed that they were waiting for them to take the initiative to start a topic.

"Your Majesty, in this Northern Expedition, Li Yan first defeated the Turks in winter and hurt their vitality, and then took command of the expedition, which should be a great achievement!"

Hou Junji stood up first, he supported Li Yan as always, this is a talent he discovered with his own hands.

"Lu Guogong's words are wrong, Li Yan is less than twenty years old, I am afraid that the responsibility of commanding the army is all Cheng Yanjin, right?"

Not long after Hou Junji spoke, the eldest grandson Wuji spoke.

As a benchmark figure of the old aristocracy, the eldest grandson Wuji naturally can't sit back and watch a new aristocrat rise.

After all, there are so many interests in the world, and if there is one more person, others will have to be less.

Therefore, his rebuttal was expected.

"Yes, the real commander of the army this time is indeed Cheng Biting Jin."

Li Shimin unexpectedly agreed with these remarks, which immediately made the officials in the court a little stunned.

You must know that in the past, Li Shimin has always been biased towards military generals and the new aristocratic class.

Immediately afterwards, Li Shimin's next move dispelled the doubts of hundreds of officials, and it turned out that Li Shimin was still the same Li Shimin.

"Wang De, you read the battle report sent by Li Yan, read it louder, so that the officials can hear it more clearly."

Li Shimin opened his mouth and said.