Chapter 373: Grassland War
Li Su is lazy, Li Su is negative, Li Su's life pursuit is just to face the Jing River, eat and drink well, and be a rich man who has no quarrel with the world, if you are a little more greedy, maybe ...... Make more money?
People who have no desire and no desire are often the happiest, so Li Su has always been happy, he can face any hardships and dangers calmly, and then smile all the way, indifferently, there are too many tempting ** in the world, and the life that is not affected by ** is suddenly accessible.
Li Su has always been very grateful to God, and unilaterally understood God's intention to let him live again, the intention may be complicated, but he can be sure that God let him live again not to let him play with his life.
The current situation in Xizhou is a fate for Li Su.
However, since he came to Xizhou, he can only face all the difficulties calmly, laziness is laziness, laziness is not cowardice, before the situation is not so bad that it is irretrievable, after all, he must try his best to help this building that is about to fall, whether he can help it is another matter, even if the final result is still useless, there is nothing to change, Li Su can also have no guilt when he escapes, after all, he tried his best.
Doing nothing and turning around and running when you see danger is the real cowardice.
Going with the flow is the attitude of life, facing difficulties and going against the current, in order to be worthy of yourself.
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The northern grasslands are windy.
In the winter, the heavy snow covers the pastures, and the wind whistles over the grassland, making a terrible scream, and the mournful huqin sound is faintly heard on the lonely snow, as well as the sad ancient songs of the tribal herdsmen.
The tents of the Tang army were neatly arranged, and they were deeply disciplined, and the thick fences were deeply rooted in the ground, enclosing the camps for dozens of miles, and the tents were neatly arranged in the shape of plum blossoms on the open grassland, looking from above. Like a plum blossom in the snow, it is beautiful with a strong sense of slaughter.
In the camp of the Chinese army, a huge golden tent was tightly surrounded in the middle, and the soldiers in armor were cruising in the cold wind.
The golden account is Li Shimin's handsome account.
Yellow is the color reserved for the royal family and represents the supreme imperial power. However, before the Sui and Tang dynasties, yellow was not exclusively for the royal family. Ordinary civilians can do it. Before the Sui and Tang dynasties, the color of each dynasty was different, such as the Qin Dynasty, which was to respect black, and the princes of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period were very superstitious, and at that time they were very particular about the five elements of yin and yang, and used them for the country, that is, the so-called "five virtues always", which means that the virtues represented by the five elements of gold, wood, water, fire, and earth are like the sun, moon and stars. It was running endlessly, and before the Qin Dynasty, the truly unified dynasty was the Zhou Dynasty, and then the Zhou Dynasty was calculated by the warlocks to belong to Huode, Qin Shi Huang unified the six countries, replaced by Zhou, and in terms of five virtues, it was naturally water virtue. When water extinguishes the fire, the color of water is black. So the Qin Dynasty respected black.
After the successive dynasties of the respect for color are different, until the Sui Dynasty, the gradual use of yellow as the respect, because yellow belongs to the soil virtue, the Five Elements Doctrine to respect the soil, meaning "central soil". It should also be in line with the saying that "the country is based on the soil", which is in line with the Confucian concept of great unification, and an empire of "central soil" is naturally different from the neighboring Siyi, and the Kun hexagram in the "Book of Changes" has a yin. Literally, the real dragon was injured on the outskirts of the city, and the blood that flowed out was yellow, which happened to provide an indirect note for the yellow honor.
Therefore, after the founding of the Tang Dynasty, Emperor Gaozu Li Yuan decreed that bright yellow was the emperor's special color, and the subjects of the world were not allowed to wear bright yellow, and violators were punished.
Emperor, you must have some privileges, otherwise where is the pleasure of being an emperor? Li Shimin worked hard to kill his brother, kill his brother, and force his father to abdicate, but he didn't want to wrap himself in this out-of-print dragon robe that only he could wear in the whole world.
In the middle of the golden tent was a large copper brazier, in which the tribute charcoal was burning, and the red charcoal fire crackled from time to time, reflecting Li Shimin's gloomy face.
It was not easy to extinguish Xue Yantuo, it was even more difficult than imagined, even if the officers and soldiers of the Tang Army had the earth-shattering thunder made by Li Su, the war was not smooth. At first, the battle was indeed smooth, the Tang army and the tribes of Xue Yantuo started the battle, and when they engaged in the battle, they lined up in formation, and the black clay pots flew into Xue Yantuo's army formation like a rain in the sky, and the explosions and screams made the morale of the Tang army soldiers like a long rainbow for a while, unstoppable.
However, after the initial panic of Xue Yantuo's soldiers to the earth-shaking thunder, Xue Yantuo's true pearl khan also quickly made a countermeasure, and when engaging with the Tang army, the distance between his own soldiers was widened, and the earth-shaking thunder fell in the enemy formation and exploded, but the lethality was not large, and after the two sides engaged, Xue Yantuo's cavalry rushed into the forward formation of the Tang army desperately, and fought fiercely with the Tang army.
It was only then that Li Shimin remembered what Li Su had said. Firearms are not omnipotent, they are not invincible, and they are not weapons that determine the outcome of a war, but people, and the correct battle strategy, high morale, and energetic soldiers, as well as the right conditions at the right time, place, and people, are the real keys to victory or defeat in a war.
Half a year of the royal expedition, in general, the Tang army still occupies a certain advantage, although there is a stalemate from time to time, but after all, it is still advancing, the frontal battlefield of the two sides has been moving north from Shengzhou outside the Great Wall, advancing for nearly a thousand miles, Xue Yantuo is losing and retreating, and the land of thousands of miles is swallowed up by the Tang army little by little.
In the golden account, Li Shimin looked at the red charcoal fire in a daze, not knowing what to think, and there was a thin middle-aged man next to him, who was the eldest grandson Wuji. The emperor drove the expedition in person, leaving the crown prince Li Chengqian to supervise the country, the left servant of Shangshu Province shot the house Qiao Fuzhi, and the eldest grandson Wuji followed the royal drive and became Li Shimin's adviser.
Li Shimin and the eldest grandson Wuji are old partners, the two have done a lot of things over the years, some of which are famous for eternity, of course, some things are also lacking in eight lifetimes of great virtue, and the change of Xuanwumen was done by the eldest grandson Wuji Li Shimin.
Li Shimin took the eldest grandson Wuji with him, and naturally he also had a deep meaning, the two have been partners for many years, and they have enough tacit understanding with each other, and the two of them can come up with countless ideas of lack of virtue in an instant, and everyone cooperates very happily, and the dark side of each other can be seen at a glance in front of each other.
There is also the dark part of Li Shimin's heart, the eldest grandson Wuji is the uncle of the crown prince Li Chengqian, if the eldest grandson Wuji is left in Chang'an to assist the prince, Li Shimin is really worried about whether something will happen, after all, everyone is a person with a sunny appearance and a very dark heart, in case the eldest grandson Wuji feels that the prince is easier to control, or maybe he is addicted to playing coup d'état, and he learned the same change of a certain door twelve years ago, is Li Shimin crying and fainting in the thatched house, or is he chopping the eldest grandson Wuji and the prince first and then crying and fainting in the thatched house?
Therefore, in order not to make trouble for himself, Li Shimin still decided that it would be better to bring the scourge of the eldest grandson Wuji with him.
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PS: Even the rolling and crawling are ready to be sent out before 12 o'clock, but the people are not as good as the sky, or more than a few minutes, so sad......
By the way, there's one more ...... (To be continued......)