Chapter 977: Plan Ahead

After leaving Fengxian, the Tang army continued to advance in the direction Chinese of Silla. Watermark Advertising TestDuring the watermark advertising test, Li Ji found Li Shimin.

"Holy Lord, after walking for more than ten days, we will be in Silla, but the reason why Silla dares to be so fearless is because their terrain is relatively good, and a river separates our two countries, and if we want to attack Silla, we must first cross the river." Li Ji told Li Shimin about this situation, and Qin Tian and the others next to him naturally knew this.

"Aiqing is right, Liaoshui has given Silla an additional natural barrier, and it is not an easy thing to attack Silla, so I don't know how you Aiqing can cross Liaoshui?" Everyone looked at each other, and at this time, Cheng Biting Jin said: "Shengshang, it's just to cross the river, what's so difficult, let's just get some boats." "If you want to cross the river, you must use a boat, Cheng Yanjin felt that this was too easy, he didn't understand why Li Shimin still asked.

And just after Cheng Biting Jin finished speaking, everyone couldn't help but pout.

"Lu Guogong, do you really think that Liaoshui is easy to cross? The narrowest part of the river is about two or three hundred meters, and the width of the river may be five or six hundred meters, and it is indeed possible to cross it by boat, but do you think that the Silla Congress will let us cross it easily? ”

"That is, the Silla Kingdom is now afraid that it already knows the news that our Tang army is going to attack them, so they will definitely send troops to wait for us in Liaoshui."

"As long as they suppress it with sharp arrows, do you think it will be easy for us to cross the river?"

"The most important thing is that we don't have a particularly powerful ship yet."

"............" everyone said gossipingly, and soon Cheng Yanjin was a little embarrassed.

Because he soon discovers that things are really not as simple as he thought. If Silla sent troops to wait for them on the other side, it would not be easy for them to cross the river, even if the river was not very wide, and they had enough boats.

Because the Liaoshui is too wide, they can't shoot the enemy with the Tang Divine Crossbow on the shore, so they can't suppress the enemy on the shore.

But if you cross the river by boat and keep the archers in the boat, not to mention their accuracy, as soon as they appear within the enemy's range of the enemy's archery, they will become the enemy's target.

You know, the speed of sharp arrows is very fast, and the way to dodge sharp arrows is to be faster than sharp arrows.

Sharp arrows are very little harmful to cavalry, and it is for this reason that they are very little. But the speed of the ships was so slow that the enemy could easily target them.

In this way, even if they can cross the Liaoshui, the casualties will definitely be heavy. And their purpose was not just to cross the Liaoshui, but to destroy the kingdom of Silla.

A small Liaohe River became a problem they had to face before they could attack Silla.

When everyone said this, Li Shimin said: "What you Aiqing said is right, so do you have a way to deal with it?" Hearing this, everyone looked at each other, but they couldn't think of a way to deal with it for a while.

However, at this time, Li Ji said: "Shengshang, no matter what, ships must be indispensable, and the minister thinks that the top priority is to send people to Liaocheng first to collect ships in Liaocheng, so that after our army arrives, there will be less time to delay." "Liaocheng is the closest city to the Silla Kingdom in their Tang Dynasty, if you want to raise ships, you can only start with Liaocheng, and as far as Li Ji knows, there are many rivers around Liaocheng, which also makes the expected navigation industry more developed, there must be ships, and even, finding some large ships is not a problem.

If you have a boat, and then cross the Liaoshui, you will naturally have less trouble. After Li Ji finished speaking, Li Shimin felt that it made sense.

"In this case, then let Qin Tian take the first step and rush to Liaocheng to raise ships, but remember, in addition to raising ships, you also have to find a way to see how to cross the Liaoshui." Li Shimin handed over such a difficult task to Qin Tian, Qin Tian smiled bitterly, but he still hurriedly agreed.

After responding like this, Qin Tian took his mad demon army and rushed directly to Liaocheng, and with him, there were also Cheng Chumo and Yu Chi Baolin.

They felt that it was too boring to follow the army, and it was interesting to follow Qin Tian to Liaocheng. The speed of 5,000 soldiers and horses is not much faster than the speed of 100,000 troops, and a few days later, they have already arrived in Liaocheng.

Liaocheng is a border city of the Tang Dynasty, and generally speaking, the border city is not very prosperous, but Liaocheng is an exception.

Liaocheng has developed water conservancy on all sides, and there are many surrounding countries, such as Silla, Indigo, etc., and even some small overseas countries will often pass through here.

For these reasons, many merchants from the Tang Dynasty would come here to trade. The trade of merchants has led to the prosperity of Liaocheng, and the liveliness here is no worse than some cities in the Tang Dynasty.

When Qin Tian came to Liaocheng with soldiers and horses, there were already people waiting at the gate of the city. This person is the assassin of Liaocheng, named Cao Binbin, he guards Liaocheng and has 3,000 Tang troops in his hands.

After Qin Tian arrived, Cao Binbin greeted him.

"Little grandfather, the lower official has been waiting for a long time." Cao Binbin is burly, with a straight face, and his tone of voice is a little too cold, giving people the feeling that he is doing business.

"Lord Cao, I was ordered by the Holy Lord to come to Liaocheng one step ahead, and I still need Lord Cao's help in the future."

"Little grandfather, rest assured, the things arranged by the saint, the lower officials dare not slack off." After a few words of greeting, Qin Tian, Cao Binbin and the others entered Liaocheng.

In Liaocheng, all kinds of traders came and went, and they didn't seem to be too worried about the upcoming war.

"Lord Cao, the people here seem to be very peaceful, don't they know that our Tang Dynasty is going to have a war with Silla soon?" Qin Tian asked with some curiosity.

Cao Binbin said: "Little grandfather, of course they know that the Tang Dynasty is going to have a war with Silla, but they don't care, for them, war is sometimes a business opportunity, most of the people here are businessmen, and the people who farm the land are good." "Liaocheng is a commercial city developed because of various water conservancy, and if there are many merchants in a city, all kinds of trade will naturally prosper, and merchants will seek profits, and they sometimes prefer to take risks to do something.

Soon, Datang's 100,000 soldiers and horses will come, and the needs of 100,000 people are not a small number, and they are naturally unwilling to let go of this business opportunity.

After listening to Cao Binbin's explanation, Qin Tian showed a slight smile, he had always felt that he was also a businessman, but now it seemed that he was obviously not very qualified as a businessman.

At least compared to these merchants in Liaocheng, his adventurous spirit of Qin Tian was obviously much weaker.