Chapter 257: Arriving at the Border

Hou Junji knows that the Tang Dynasty is now very popular in private to keep slaves, and the price is much higher than that of the official, so many armies will secretly sell some of the elite slaves to private individuals in order to earn a high price - but this kind of behavior is obviously illegal, as long as it is caught once, the main culprit is a dead end, and the whole family is demoted to slaves and distributed to the subordinate division, and the accomplice will also be swept to the end and become a street rat that everyone shouts and beats.

"Yes." Hou Junji suddenly remembered something: "Speaking of which, Princess Jinyang and His Royal Highness the King of Hengshan have set off, escorted by the Dengzhou fleet personally, according to the speed of the warship, it should be possible to arrive here in less than half a month, Your Highness, look ......"

Li Zhen waved his hand: "It's okay, if things go well, in half a month, I should be able to solve the Zhenla army, and then come back and meet with them." If things don't go well, it's nothing, whatever they want to do, just let them do, but they are not allowed to meddle in local affairs, just say this is what I said, if they are not convinced, you can have them escorted to me, I will tell them personally. ”

"Yes, my subordinates understand." With Li Zhen's guarantee, Hou Junji can be regarded as relieved, whether it is Princess Jinyang or Li Chengqian, these two are ancestors, Princess Jinyang is nothing, she is famous for being well-behaved and sensible, not only smart and clever, but even helps the ministers find the bottom of the stairs when they are scolded by Li Shimin, and is deeply loved by Li Shimin and the ministers in the court.

The problem is Li Chengqian, the relationship between him and Li Zhen is not good, and now there is a new enmity for the throne, he came to Nanyang, if he didn't find trouble with Li Zhen, even Wei Chigong wouldn't believe it (Wei Chigong: Why me again?). ）。

It's just that Li Chengqian has the identity of the deputy envoy of the Son of Heaven, if he really wants to meddle in the affairs of Linyi, Hou Junji really can't do it. Although Hou Junji has a friendship with Li Chengqian, now that he has gradually leaned towards Li Zhen, he naturally does not want to see Li Zhen in danger.

"There are a total of twelve big cities in Linyi and thirty small cities, and these places have to send people to garrison, and they are also responsible for capturing slaves and negotiating slave purchases with slave traders, and the next days will be very busy, so you should go down first." Li Zhen said.

"Yes, the minister retired." Hou Junji bowed down and went down to prepare his own affairs.

Not long after Li Zhen captured Linyi, some slave traders with a keen sense of smell had already organized a team to go to Linyi to capture slaves.

In this regard, Li Zhen is supportive - Linyi is a very large place, the people live very chaotic, some large places in the Tang Dynasty can send troops to capture slaves, but some small mountains are not worth the army to dispatch, like this place to send troops to pay the price is higher than the cost of capturing slaves, the gains outweigh the losses, but if left unchecked, it will cause unnecessary trouble to the later rule.

This is where the slave traders come in, and the number of slave traders is generally small, usually no more than 100 people, such a team is short and concise, just suitable for cleaning the natives in the mountains.

And the slave traders also liked such places that the army could not touch or did not bother to touch. Not only because there are slaves who can be captured at will, but also because they will not offend the interests of the army, and there is no need to worry about being surrounded by the army because they cross the border. More importantly, such a move is also in disguise to help the army clean up the garbage, so that Datang saves a lot of trouble, and can gain the friendship of the army, which is very beneficial to the future development. At least, in the future, as long as the slave trade is not of poor quality, it can basically be sold for a good price.

After two days of careful preparation, Fuchun's youth army arrived in time, and the two sides joined forces, and a total of 25,000 youth troops officially swore to go to the border of Linyi to meet the army of Zhenla.

The structure of Linyi is very similar to that of Vietnam in later generations, it is long from north to south and wide from east to west, but compared to Vietnam, Linyi at this time is much shorter, not only the Hanoi area in the north, but also the Dong Nai province in the south belongs to Chenla.

Because of the narrow terrain, with the marching speed of the youth army, it didn't take long to start from Singha Buura to the Xibu border Tonglu City where Linyi and Zhenla meet, in total, it was only five days.

When there were still more than fifty miles away from Tonglu City, Du He, who had not appeared for a long time, reported with a piece of information: "Your Highness, news has just come that 30,000 vanguard soldiers of Zhenla are coming to Tonglu City, and the defenders of Tonglu have surrendered without a fight...... Our idea of resting in Tonglu City tonight is going to be in vain. ”

"Something to be expected." Li Zhen was not surprised by this, the Linyi Kingdom was destroyed, and the morale of the whole country in Linyi plummeted, and it was a normal thing to surrender without a fight.

Fan Xueyi, who was accompanying her, saw Li Zhen's face as usual, and couldn't help but ask strangely, "Your Highness?" You're not angry, are you? ”

"Angry?" Li Zhen looked at her strangely: "Why should I be angry?" ”

"Lin Yi surrendered, it stands to reason that these cities are all from the Tang Dynasty, but now the defenders have surrendered without a fight, and let the enemy take the city in vain, shouldn't you be angry?"

"The country of Linyi has been destroyed, and your soldiers no longer have the need to defend the frontier for the country, and it is normal to surrender. After all, although the Tang Dynasty destroyed the Linyi Kingdom, after all, the time was still short and there was no time to occupy it, and the soldiers here did not have the responsibility to protect the generals for the Tang Dynasty. If I want to be angry, I should be angry, and I should be angry, and I am not so petty to blame the defenders. Li Zhen said: "What's more, even if it is taken away by Zhenla, what can it do?" Sooner or later, we'll take it back, just a little bit of effort. ”

"Where do you get your confidence?" Fan Xueyi looked at Li Zhen with a complicated face, and said softly: "You only have 30,000 people, but Zhenla has 400,000, and Zhenla is different from Lin Yi's army, Lin Yi has not experienced a war for more than ten years, so it is naturally impossible to fight." But Zhenla had just annexed its suzerain, Funan, and the army was full of veterans of a hundred battles who had just come down from the battlefield, each of them was an elite, and an army of 30,000 could not be an opponent. ”

Li Zhen asked rhetorically: "But Zhenla's 400,000 army, are they all elites?" ”

Fan Xueyi said without thinking: "This is impossible, after the annexation of Funan, the population of Zhenla did not exceed two million, and according to two million, it is only 400,000 for five draws - unless a country is crazy, it is impossible to maintain a military service system of five draws for a long time."

In fact, Chenla's standing army was only 100,000, and this number was later increased to 200,000 during the war. After experiencing the war with Funan, it should have lost a lot, almost 100,000, and the remaining more than 200,000 should be newly recruited recruits. ”

I originally wanted to be two more.,Because I'm too tired.,But yesterday I saw a big reward.,Ben San didn't find a big name.,There's no way to say thanks.,This chapter is even a gift.,Fei Fu I'm sorry.。

I'm going to my second aunt's house tomorrow, and I don't know when I'll be back, and I can't guarantee the number of updates, so I'll try to do more.

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