Li Yuanji's statement made these ministers breathe a sigh of relief, and when they heard the news, they were even worried that Li Yuanji would choose to temporarily forbear because of the current situation. ◢ with ◢ dream ◢ small ◢ .lā

You must know that as early as three years ago, Li Yuanji did this, not only endured it, but also endured huge risks.

Fortunately, Li Yuanji's attitude was tougher this time, and he didn't give a good face to these unruly foreigners.

"In a small country like Tubo, the old man can destroy them with only 50,000 cavalry." Jieli, who was accustomed to the life of the Tang Dynasty, habitually called himself this old man, with a pair of thick eyebrows and big eyes constantly sweeping, shouting about the intention of asking for war.

"The old man only needs 30,000 troops, whether cavalry or infantry." Xue Wanche rolled his eyes dissatisfied, fighting this kind of battle is purely to earn military merits.

Those small countries around the Tang Dynasty, except for the Turks that have been destroyed, and the Western Turks that have not been destroyed, need to be careful, and the others are completely crushed.

Saying that it is 30,000 is a bit redundant.

Datang's arrogance for foreign countries does not just come from the expansion of self-confidence.

Arrogance comes from two places, one is to inherit the ideas of the previous dynasty, and the former dynasty has unimaginable deterrence to the surrounding countries, and the second is because of those new guys in the hands of the Qi army, so there is no need to worry about this battle.

Cheng Zhijie snorted coldly in his heart, since he can't go, then close his eyes and recuperate.

Anyway, he disdains to participate in this kind of thing, the second son has just been sealed as the Duke of Dong'e County, and it is not good for the Cheng family to get involved again, after all, the tree is very popular.

The advantage of the internal system is that there are not many people who are qualified to participate, and Xue Wanche and Jie Li are not eligible to participate, but this time they are licensed.

The real internal meeting, the participants can only be the bigwigs, full of calculations, and now there are only eleven people who have this qualification, and the two places that Li Yuanji mentioned before have not yet been determined.

"Now is not the time for Datang to send troops to Tibet, at least it will be barely able to do so after next year." The generals were flushed for who led the troops, and Fang Xuanling poured cold water on him in time.

Datang has just experienced three years of disasters, and I don't know what the situation will be next year, if everything is smooth and it is a bumper harvest year, then in the next year, it will basically be ready to go on the expedition.

But now, what to take to the expedition?

"How did we go south when we Turks didn't have the ability to do so before? Fighting to feed war is the way of a soldier. Jieli said with a grin, and suddenly felt that his opportunity had come.

No one is more familiar with this mission than himself, a man born on the grassland, and no one is more suitable for this mission.

"Okay, let's rest, I have my own opinions on this matter!" Li Yuanji glanced lightly, these guys who don't love peace, they are more positive than anyone else when they smell a little fishy.

That is, he knows the situation, otherwise he really listened to the opinions of these people, and Datang was afraid that he would suffer the first miserable defeat in his own hands.

Tubo was still very weak at this time, and she didn't know how weak she was, but she only knew that she was not strong at all, and the threat to the Tang Dynasty was not even as good as those small countries on the Silk Road.

But it is not without characteristics that Tubo can become a fierce rival in the late Tang Dynasty.

Therefore, Li Yuanji also considered this matter in his heart, but this is a long-term plan, it is easy to destroy Tibet, and it is difficult to go to Tibet.

He sighed deeply and continued: "Xuan Ling, if you stay, the rest of you will retreat." ”

Then he whispered to Song Zhong and ordered: "Pass Li Jing!" ”

The ministers were a little curious, but they had to retreat, Jieli didn't understand why Li Yuanji, who couldn't rub sand in his eyes, swallowed this breath again after making a tough statement this time.

The Turks who surrendered are also considered Tang people, although they did not say it explicitly, but they can still feel that there is still a certain gap between the status of the Turks and the status of the real Tang people.

Although it caused dissatisfaction among some people, it did not help, and the status of the Turks in the army was the same as that of the Tang army.

Li Yuanji firmly grasped the army, so no matter how much trouble he made at his low, there was nothing to make up, on the contrary, in order to ensure his position, those Turks who became soldiers would spare no effort to suppress the irritability of their fellow clansmen.

The ministers retreated, and the hall fell silent again.

Li Yuanji was stunned, and he didn't know what he was thinking about?

Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui stared at each other with big eyes, not daring to ask out loud, nor daring to speculate with each other, so they could only just do it.

After a short time, Li Jing entered the palace, and it was only then that Li Yuanji came back to his senses.

looked at the three people in the hall, as well as Song Zhong and Ma Wu on the left and right.

"Tell them about Tibet!" Li Yuanji waved his hand.

Ma Wu responded, although Tubo was not in charge of himself, but he also knew a lot about the situation.

After sorting out his thoughts a little, he said: "As early as last year, Ma Liu sent people to quietly go to Tubo to collect intelligence, but so far, we only know two pieces of information, and the roads there are very difficult to walk, not suitable for the movement of large corps, there are almost no relatively flat places, and it is difficult for heavy vehicles to pass. Second, our people have only entered the territory of Tibet for less than 10,000 miles.

In the beginning, every step forward was difficult. We did not encounter any enemy, nothing, leaving the border and stepping on Tibet, just two hundred miles of advance, we paid the price of eleven human lives, without any external injuries, without any attacks, the dead were as if they were being strangled by the neck, and even breathing was very miserable. ”

Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui frowned tightly, they didn't know anything about this matter.

But when I learned about the situation, I was extremely shocked.

"Is it really that terrifying?" Fang Xuanling was stunned, anyway, he didn't believe it very much, if this was the case, wouldn't Tubo be invincible?

"This is only one of them, after arriving over there, people can't run at all, running a few hundred steps is like dying, even if they are riding on a horse, they can only move forward slowly, and the war horse is a little unbearable." Ma Wu continued.

"War is fought by troops, national strength, and intelligence, and the importance of intelligence is self-evident, whether in the past or now, you have learned the importance of intelligence." Li Yuanji said lightly: "It is imperative to destroy Tibet, but this battle is not easy. ”

Li Jing frowned secretly, if he didn't understand what he was recruited for, then this life would be in vain.

There is only one military general in the entire hall, and he is still talking about the situation in Tibet, do you still need to guess the result?

It's better to have something to do than to be idle.

In the past few months, Li Jing has had a comprehensive understanding of the Qi army, weapons, structure, combat system, etc., combined with his own ideas, he has a new idea to experiment, but he has no chance.

"It's not difficult to destroy Tibet, but it's hard to make the previous preparations, which may take a year, or even longer, and the energy spent is several times that of the past. Li Yuanji continued.

Li Yuanji has never been to Tibet or served as a soldier, so he doesn't know much about the situation there.

But ignorance does not mean ignorance, and I have heard about some of the situations over there.

Like, what he wants to do now.

"I had a feeling when I climbed the mountain before, the higher I was, the more I felt a little short of breath, after Ma Liu's reconnaissance, the situation in Tubo is actually similar to mountaineering, since they can adapt, we can too." Li Yuanji said very firmly, knowing what the reason was, he still insisted on finding a reason, which was very uncomfortable and helpless.

"They were born there, they grew up there, they have long adapted to the environment over there, and they have their advantages against us, for example, it is not easy for us to go up, but we also have our advantages, for example, it is not so easy for them to come down. But compared to the two sides, they still have some advantages. Speaking of excitement, Li Yuanji simply flicked his cuffs, stood up directly, and continued:

"I'm not in a hurry, I have time, I have patience. Yazhou is a good training ground, the terrain is high and low, I still don't believe it, the soldiers stay there for a year, and they can't adapt to the situation over there? ”

How long does it take to adapt? Li Yuanji didn't know either.

But he only knew that the soldiers who entered Tibet in the future had to serve there for the first year, which was also a period of adaptation, and if they were thoroughly adapted to it after one year, they would officially enter Tibet the next year.

But the place I went to in the second year will not be too high in altitude, at least not a thousand meters higher than the place to which I am adapted.

After the second year, it will be a great time to choose to go home, or continue to stay, or go somewhere else.

After all, it is not easy to train a soldier who can enter Tibet, it is too time-consuming, and if you leave, everything can only be repeated.

Now Li Yuanji also intends to adopt the same method, anyway, there is no strong enemy around, and it doesn't take too much energy to fight a Tubo, and there is no need to even transfer troops from Guanzhong Central Plains and other places, just mobilize the troops of the border counties.

Li Yuanji is not in a hurry at all, just like he said before, he has time, he can wait, but can the Tubo people wait?

looked at Li Jing slowly, this scheming guy, although he lost to himself several times, he still has talent.

"Would you be willing if I left you there for a few years?"

Li Jing hesitated slightly, it was a barren place over there, even if he had ideals in his heart, he had to think about it before making a decision.

"If you don't want to, I don't force it, just find someone else, you are still one of the most important people in me." Li Yuanji said very appropriately.

On the surface, he didn't force it, but when he said this, Li Jing was a little reluctant in his heart, and he could only become willing.

"The minister is willing to go anywhere and do anything for Datang."