Chapter 118: The Form Is Good (23rd Update)

Li Zhen did it so beautifully in Nanyang, which made Li Shimin, who was already very excited in Chang'an, even more excited and almost excited about the heart attack - he couldn't help but be excited.

First of all, with Datang's reasonable response, all the threats around Datang have been cut off, and after seeing Datang's violent reaction, Dashi immediately died down, claiming to the outside world that it was a normal military movement, but those in the know knew that they were frightened by Datang's reaction.

The Turkic steppe was even more stable after Li Jing's arrival, and the son of the so-called Jieli Khan did not stop him for even a month under the leadership of Li Jing, and was captured alive in Wolf Mountain, and was divided into five horses after a little interrogation.

However, Li Jing caught the culprit, but he was not satisfied, but divided the army under his command into two parts, of which 10,000 troops swept across the grassland, specifically eliminating the horse bandits and rogues, and without the leader's control, these horse bandits became a nest of scattered sand, and were chased by the 10,000 army like rabbits.

As for the rest of the army, it went east under the leadership of Li Jing, and the declared slogan was to inspect the grassland, but for this excuse, whoever believes it is a fool. Especially Goguryeo, if you look for an excuse, you have to find a better one, okay? You still patrol the grasslands? But who has ever seen a hundred thousand troops patrolling the grasslands? And...... If you patrol the grassland, you will inspect the grassland, what does it mean that you come to our side? You want to fight, don't you?

Li Jing's response to this was full of domineering - I was just patrolling the grassland, as for why I brought more troops, I'm sorry, it's purely a personal hobby. As for why I went to your side, then you can't control it, I'm inspecting the territory of the Tang Dynasty, I can patrol as much as I like, I can go wherever I like, even if it's backwards, you Goguryeo can't control the old man's head.

So Goguryeo looked back at the hundreds of thousands of troops that had been stationed in Yingzhou, and then at the hundreds of thousands of troops of Li Jing, who were rushing to this side, and calculated N times in his heart, and felt that there was really no certainty of winning the war, so he shrank back silently, and the crisis on the northeast border of the Tang Dynasty was resolved.

Then there is Tubo, this one is even simpler, after Qiao Shiwang was escorted to Chang'an, the problem of the protectorate of the western Tibetan capital has been solved, as for his self-defense - who has nothing to do to see that thing? Anyway, judging from the current situation, Qiao Shiwang was indeed uneasy and kind at that time, this is for sure, as for why he did this, he is still under interrogation, I believe that with the growth of time, he should be able to get a reasonable answer.

As for the Wa Kingdom, it is even more difficult, because the Dengzhou Shipyard has just built a new type of warship, and the new takeover of the Dengzhou fleet can be regarded as a shotgun for a cannon. directly sold the warships in the military at a low price, and then all of them were replaced with fifth-class battleships equipped with artillery, and as for the flagship, it was a fourth-class battleship, and there were dozens of cannons on the whole ship, and the firepower was terrifying.

In the face of such terrible firepower, the so-called Baekje and Wa alliance forces were simply vulnerable, and before the warships of the Wa Baekje coalition approached the Dengju fleet for a gang jump, the salvo firepower of the Dengju fleet had already blown the opponent's entire ship to pieces, and the power was really terrifying.

The entire naval battle lasted less than a day, and the combined forces of the Wa Kingdom and Baekje had been completely defeated, most of the hundreds of warships were destroyed and sunk to the bottom of the sea, and only a few small warships in the marginal position were lucky enough to escape, but they were also captured by the Dengju fleet after the battle and became their trophies.

And more than a dozen warships on Datang's side, except for one that was hit by a gap by the opponent's flagship that fled in a hurry, the rest were not damaged at all - the wounds hit by arrows did not count.

After destroying the enemy's combined fleet, Yu Chi Baolin and Qin Huaiyu ran to the sea area of Baekje in the name of pursuing deserters, and bombarded the entire coastal cities of Baekje in a mess, killing nearly 1,000 people and destroying hundreds of houses...... The preliminary loss was estimated at no less than two million taels. This captain Chi Baolin was still unwilling, and felt that there were fewer people to bring this time, so he didn't dare to go ashore, otherwise he would go ashore and plunder, at least he could add a few more capital ships to the fleet.

When this news came, the Manchurian dynasty was in an uproar, causing some people who did not attach importance to the navy to immediately set their eyes on the navy, which was a new middle and upper rank, and their impression of the navy changed greatly. Someone even wrote a letter wanting to fill the Datang coast with a naval fleet to guard the Datang Maritime Frontier, Li Shimin was a little moved, but after asking Wei Chi Baolin about the price of a warship, he immediately stopped this idea - what are you kidding? The price of a battleship, put on land is enough to form a thousand-man team...... That's too expensive, right?

However, it is necessary to form a fleet, but it doesn't take so much, as long as five fleets are enough to guard the Datang frontier.

As for the south, it is even more in good form.

Originally, the Baitou State had a death battalion, which was extremely brave, and the Tang army was often driven down by the death battalion that rushed up before they had time to expand the results after attacking the city, so that the Tang Dynasty suffered extremely heavy losses.

This situation continued unanimously until the arrival of the Iron Battalion.

Before leaving, Li Zhen took a total of 25,000 young soldiers from five battalions, and the Iron and Blood Battalion did not follow Li Zhen to Linyi because it was tasked with exterminating the seven major forces and sorting out the Lingnan bandits.

Now Geng Hu finally wiped out the big bandits in Lingnan, so he hurriedly brought people to the Jiaozhou Governor's Mansion despite the fatigue of the army, and after a short rest, he was invited by Liu Hongji to deal with the death camp of Baitou

After such a long period of high-intensity anti-bandit campaign, after the big waves washed away the sand, there are now only more than 4,500 people left in the Iron Blood Battalion, and the losses are already staggering.

However, after such a long period of high-intensity fighting, the 3,000 death battalion of Baitou was also seriously damaged, and in the confrontation of Datang, less than 1,500 people were left alive, and the rest were either killed in battle or seriously injured and disabled, and basically had no strength to fight.

It can be said that the iron-blooded battalion is still stable in terms of numbers, and it is even more complete in terms of combat effectiveness. So after a fierce battle, the death battalion, which had always been in the battle, retreated for the first time, but the iron-blooded battalion was unforgiving and pursued the victory...... In the end, the death battalion was completely wiped out from the establishment of Baitoujun.

And without the death camp, the Tang army's attack became fearless, just a wave of impact, it directly attacked the city of Suizhou, and after another cruel battle, Baitoujun could no longer support it, and was driven out of the city by the Tang army, and the city was declared recovered.

Twenty-three changes, before twelve o'clock should be able to update the completion, continue to work hard.

(End of chapter)