In the first battle, more than 2,000 Goryeo prisoners were captured, all of which were close to the number of the Tang army. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

After a good night's rest, the whole army escorted the captives to clean the battlefield and bury the corpses early the next morning, repairing the damaged city defense of Anshi, and not letting these prisoners idle anyway.

After a group of generals had eaten and drunk, they sat in the meeting hall of the City Lord's Mansion and waited for Li Yu.

"Your Highness has arrived."

Wang Hu, Xue Ne and other generals immediately stood up and bowed their hands to Li Yu, who was sitting down, and said, "The last general will meet His Highness." ”

"Generals are excused."

Li Yu smiled and looked around at the generals, and after the generals sat down again, he said: "Yesterday, the soldiers of the whole army used their lives to defeat the Goryeo traitors and won the first victory in Liaodong. I decided that the whole army would celebrate the victory in Anshi City for three days, and then attack the Goryeo rebels in Wugu and put down the Goryeo rebels when reinforcements arrived. ”

"Your Highness." Wang Hu stood up and shouted: "Our army has just won a great victory, and its morale is booming. The art of war is cloudy, when the power of a great victory is like a thunderbolt sweeping the caves to fight the Goryeo traitors in Andong all over the country, a mistake is the best policy. ”

Wang Dianjun said this.

Chen Xuan shook his head and said: "Although our army has won a big victory at present, there are few major generals, and it is enough to gain a foothold in Anshi, but it is not appropriate to go deep in the lone army." Moreover, our army is not very clear about which cities in Andong rebelled, and the terrain is not shaped, so it is easy to be lured and annihilated by the Goryeo people if they attack rashly. ”

"Yesterday's battle, our army did not know that Anshi was occupied by rebels before the war, and even the geometry of the enemy's strength was not clear. Thanks to the low combat effectiveness of these rebels, the generals' talents are low, and our army can win. ”

"Therefore, the last general agrees with His Highness's prudent opinion."

"Hmph." Wang Hu, the old man, spent a night thinking about the future strategic policy of the army, and was about to show it, changing His Highness's previous view that he was just a reckless man, but he was criticized by Chen Xuan as useless, and sat down depressed.

Chen Xuan's analysis made the generals in the hall who originally didn't understand Li Yu's arrangement nod in agreement.

Li Yu sat in his seat and made an evaluation of Chen Xuan in his heart: In addition to being a little too cautious in his personality, this person is a leader in analyzing the situation of the enemy and himself, and he can be regarded as a general.

It's a pity that a general like him is not suitable for leading an army to attack, and is only suitable for holding a city. Being too cautious will only delay the fighter and even lead to a big defeat.

Wang Hu, Zhang Shi and others were reckless and reckless when they first served as the royal army, and they were brainless in doing things, a typical reckless man, but in the past few years, after Li Yu's training, they will use the art of war, and they have begun to do things a little smart.

But this Chen Xuan has been serving as the deputy pawn of the palace for more than three years now, but his personality has not changed much, which makes Li Yu very depressed.

Considering that he is only suitable for being a staff officer, and if he goes further, he will be a local guard, and his prospects will not be too high for him to go around in the future.

"It's just that where did the reinforcements that Your Highness said come from? Could it be that His Royal Highness went up to the imperial court to ask for reinforcements? Chen Xuan asked Li Yu suspiciously.

The generals sitting here are all soldiers and generals in the Yan Wangfu's family office and the tent house, and as Yan Wang's cronies, they know that their Royal Highness led them to Liaodong to quell the rebellion without the permission of the imperial court.

This army under his command is also not recorded in the imperial court, but it is only a Tuntian army under the name of the Youzhou Governor's Mansion that will be disbanded by the imperial court at any time.

The generals in the hall are only the soldiers in the Yan Wang's Mansion and the guards of the two mansions in the military register of the imperial court, and they are not the generals at all levels of the current 3,000 army.

Therefore, they knew too well that they had no reinforcements to Liaodong. When they heard His Highness say that they were waiting for backup, they all thought that His Highness was going to report to the imperial court so that they could ask for reinforcements.

Chen Xuan's question aroused the curiosity of all the generals looking at Li Yu, and they expected His Highness to report to the imperial court as they thought. Only in this way can their military exploits be recognized by the imperial court, they will be rewarded by His Majesty, and their official positions can also be promoted.

Even if Li Yu paid out of his own pocket and issued military rings every month according to the positions they held in this army, in their hearts, they still valued the official positions appointed and dismissed by the imperial court more.

Li Yu came back to his senses from his contemplation and said with a smile: "The soldiers of this battle used their lives to recover Anshi, which was occupied by Goryeo traitors, and naturally wanted to ask the two saints for the soldiers to be rewarded for their merits. ”

Hearing that His Highness was going to ask the two saints for their merits, the generals in the hall showed happy smiles.

Li Yu saw the changes in the faces of the generals before and after, and he did not object to his subordinates being loyal to the court, isn't loyalty to the court to be loyal to himself? Why don't I rebel and oppose my subordinates' loyalty to the court? If they are unfaithful, they will be worried.

"But it will take dozens of days for the report to arrive in Chang'an, and it will be a few months before the imperial court sends reinforcements. Therefore, the reinforcements were not sent by the imperial court, and the reinforcements would be known in a few days. ”

Li Yu said something ambiguous, which made the doubts on the faces of the generals even heavier, since His Royal Highness had said this, they naturally did not want to continue to ask.

"Your Highness, what about those Goryeo captives?" Gao Chongde, who was in charge of the prisoner's affairs, continued to ask.

"It's not a way to keep those prisoners locked up, it's a waste of food, and you can't let it go, so it's better to kill it altogether." Wang Hu and Zhang Shi said murderously.

"No, if you kill it, the Goryeo rebels will fight to the death with our army in the future, which will only increase the difficulty of our army to quell the rebellion, and there is an ancient saying that killing prisoners is ominous."

"Chen Xuan, what you said is so good, then what should you do with it?"

Chen Xuan was surprised by Wang Hu's rhetorical question, to be honest, he didn't think about what to do.

"Okay, I thought I had a way to deal with it, didn't I tell those captives yesterday? The death penalty can be avoided and the living crime cannot be escaped. Li Yu interrupted the generals' arguments.

"Didn't you let those captives clean up the battlefield today, bury their corpses, and repair the city walls? After these were done, they were escorted to build a part of the road and repair the road to Yingzhou; The other part goes to cut down trees, which are 100-year-old trees, and the branches can provide firewood for the whole army, and the wood can be of great use. ”

"This?" The generals didn't react for a while, and it was okay to say that the road was repaired, but they could cut down trees, and they didn't understand if they also cut down century-old trees.

Li Yu knew that his generals were puzzled, but he didn't need to explain it to them.

What is the most in Liaodong? Iron ore and timber, of course. There are countless hundred-year-old timbers, let alone hundred-year-old giant trees.

Iron ore is still a bit difficult to do, but the wood is easy to cut as long as there are people, and it can be used after cutting and drying naturally.

Not to mention the whole Anton, it is the fine timber red pine and long white pine that can be used for shipbuilding for hundreds of years old growing in the mountains of Liaodong.

As early as not long after leaving the palace and opening the mansion, Li Yu sent people to Bashu, south of the Yangtze River to recruit shipbuilders with a lot of money, and built a small boat workshop by the Wei River.

Usually eat and drink to greet these shipbuilders who have spent a lot of money to recruit, some of them are poor and bought to become Li Yu's slaves, of course, the treatment is definitely not slaves. It's just to build some of the various types of ships that Datang currently has, and then improve them.

From the beginning of building small boats to the later building of large ships, by the way, I pondered the soft sailing ships of the West in the previous life proposed by Li Yu, and accumulated shipbuilding technology.

Later, Li Yu came to Youzhou and built a huge shipyard at the mouth of the Zhangshui River in Youzhou, which was later the estuary of the Haihe River in Tianjin, and officially let these craftsmen build a new type of sea ship after two years of technology accumulation and demonstration.

But a new problem has arisen, and the construction of a sea ship requires a good century-old giant wood to make the keel.

Not all kinds of wood can be used for shipbuilding, and seagoing ships are even more picky about wood.

There is not much wood suitable for building sea ships in Youzhou, and even fewer keels are more than a hundred years old.

You must know that the human farming civilization in Youzhou has been for nearly 2,000 years, and it has experienced hundreds of years of war before, and it is not easy to find a good giant tree that is 100 years old.

Datang can only meet the cloud needs by underdeveloped and sparsely populated southern regions and Anton, which has just been recovered.