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As Gao Ming expected, not only Jingzhao Mansion, but even the soldiers gathered in Luoyang were also "overloaded".

Wei Chigong, as the general in charge of Luoyang's conscription, also expressed his "helplessness" about such a situation.

"His Royal Highness the Prince, it's not that the ministers don't do what you order, it's really that they don't want to go, if they are forcibly dismissed, I'm afraid it will cause a mutiny!"

“……”

Mutiny? Fool you!

Gao Ming had heard of forced conscription causing mutiny, and it was the first time he had heard of this mutiny without allowing war.

Of course, Gao Ming would not be naïve to think that the soldiers would be so eager to fight, in fact, it was the generals who wanted to fight.

In the Tang Dynasty, the promotion of military generals is more difficult than that of officials, and the merits of officials are in all aspects, perhaps as long as no one freezes to death during the winter, even if it is a merit, he can be promoted.

But military generals can't, and military generals must be promoted to military merits, and military merit can only be obtained on the battlefield.

Datang attaches great importance to military merits, taking the heroes on the Lingyan Pavilion as an example, even officials like Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui have been active on the battlefield, and they all have a lot of military merits.

Therefore, whether it was from the lieutenant of Jiupin's accompaniment or the general of the Sixteenth Guard like Wei Chigong, they all wanted to fight and were eager to obtain great merit from the battlefield.

Maybe it's for the sake of leaving a name in history, or maybe it's for the blessing of future generations.

There is no doubt that the Tang Dynasty's expedition to Goguryeo is a very rare meeting to obtain military merits, how could the generals give up?

Cheng Yanjin, Wei Chigong and others are very aware of this, and they also hope that the generals under them can have a chance to gain military merits, so Gao Ming asked them to disarm, and they naturally couldn't do anything.

Cheng Biting Jin is okay, 150,000 people were laid off, leaving only 120,000, Wei Chigong was even more excessive, 200,000 people were actually laid off only 5,000 people, and there were 195,000 left, which made Gao Ming very helpless.

He's a fool!

However, looking at Wei Chigong's "what do you love" on his face, Gao Ming could only sigh again.

"Alas, okay, if you're happy, take them all!"

"His Royal Highness Prince Xie!"

After gathering Luoyang's troops and horses, the ranks of the expedition immediately doubled, but the speed of the march was somewhat faster.

In Li Ji's words, the morale of the soldiers is booming, so both the marching speed and combat effectiveness will increase greatly.

Morale is something that can't be seen or touched, so Gao Ming doesn't know it very well, and what he sees is the changes that have taken place inside the tank.

Because this tank is steam-powered, someone needs to shovel coal into the steam boiler, and when they came out of Chang'an, they were still two ordinary people, but after arriving in Luoyang, they became two soldiers wearing armor.

And judging by the style of their armor, they are not ordinary soldiers, at least they are also the official position of captains.

Gao Ming also felt very strange about this, until one day when he was walking after eating, he heard a conversation.

"General, the last general also wants to go up and sit on top of that big guy, open your eyes, you can think of a way, this is a little meaning, please accept it!"

"Tsk...... Well, when you set out tomorrow morning, you take off your cloak and go up with me. ”

"Hehe, thank you, General!"

Hearing this conversation, Gao Ming suddenly showed a smile on his face.

"It turned out that Cheng Yanjin did it, but there are still people who pay bribes to shovel coal, and this is no one."

Now the Beetle Tank is riding Gao Ming and Wei Chigong, and occasionally Cheng Yanjin will also go up to sit, except for them, there are only two people left who specialize in shoveling coal into the boiler.

So there is no doubt that Cheng Yanjin must have arranged for someone to go to the tank to shovel coal.

"Forget it, let them be pleased!"

As the saying goes, "Zhou Yu beats Huang Gai, one is willing to fight and one is willing to suffer", Gao Ming didn't have the mood to care about such idle things, so he went back with a figure-eight step on his back.

The next morning, when the team set off again, Gao Ming really watched Cheng Yanjin take a person to the tank.

After this person came up, he lowered his head, and then silently shoveled coal into the boiler, if it wasn't for Gao Ming who overheard the conversation between him and Cheng Yanjin yesterday, he would only treat him as an ordinary soldier.

As the fire inside the boiler became more and more intense, the man who was shoveling coal into it also sweated.

Seeing this scene, Gao Ming immediately sighed, and then raised his chin towards Cheng Biting Jin next to him.

"Lu Guogong, people are your generals, you have accepted the benefits of others, and you have to let people work, which is too unkind."

"Huh?"

Hearing Gao Ming's words, Cheng Yanjin was stunned for a moment.

"Your Highness, do you know everything?"

Gao Ming didn't answer him, just raised an eyebrow at him.

Seeing Gao Ming's expression, Cheng Yanjin suddenly showed a look of flattery.

"Hey...... His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is really as wise as a torch, I admire Lao Cheng, hehehehehe......"

Seeing that he put on a hob posture again, Gao Ming suddenly sighed helplessly.

"Alas, forget it, whoever wants to come up and open their eyes when they turn around, let them come up, as for the matter of shoveling coal, let the people do it, let me Datang military shovel coal, you can think of it!"

After speaking, Gao Ming turned around and climbed the ladder to the top of the tank, and after he went up, Li Jing also shook his head towards Cheng Yanjin.

"Zhijie, you!"

After speaking, Li Jing also went up the ladder, leaving Cheng Yanjin, who looked embarrassed, standing in place, still muttering in his mouth.

"What's wrong with shoveling coal? Who said that the Tang generals couldn't shovel coal? What a ......."

However, after this incident, Cheng Yanjin did not frequently change people to shovel coal, but only brought someone up to visit the tank from time to time.

Not only Cheng Yanjin, but also Li Ji, Wei Chigong, Xue Wanche and others, Gao Ming asked them to bring their cronies to the tank to open their eyes and introduce them to the weapons on the tank.

The reason why Gao Ming did this, in addition to satisfying their curiosity, was mainly to use this method to tell them that he was safe in the tank and could not be killed by the enemy.

After all, in many wars, the enemy will falsely claim that the opponent's master will die, thus causing chaos, and there are countless examples of this, and Gao Ming does not want this to happen to him in the future.

And if you want to solve this trouble, you must give confidence to the people under you, as long as the generals are full of confidence in the main general, then such a plan will naturally be self-defeating.

The method is easy to say, but it is difficult to do, and few generals have been able to do it throughout the ages.

However, for Gao Ming, this kind of thing is extremely simple, because all the generals who have been on the tank, their confidence in Gao Ming is directly bursting.

At the same time, they also passed on this confidence to the soldiers below, so when the expedition team arrived in Taiyuan Mansion, the morale of the soldiers ushered in a high again.

Because all the soldiers know that the Tiance General of the Tang Dynasty, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince today, is in that iron-armored monster at this time.

He is invincible!

is invincible!

With such an awareness, the soldiers would immediately shout everywhere the Beetle tank Gao Ming was riding.

"Wan Sheng! Wansheng! ”

Gao Ming sat in the tank, listening to the cries coming from outside, and couldn't help but show a smile on his face.

"It's too ostentatious, but it doesn't feel too bad!"