Chapter 9 United

Although the state apparatus of Datang was newly established, its operation was extraordinary. Especially when the emperor and the family are all thinking together and working together.

It's just a day's time, and the left and right Qianniuwei and the left and right Jinwuwei (forbidden army) have been assembled. At this time, the four guards guarding the imperial capital, although they were not fully staffed, they also had a full army of 50,000.

These people gathered together, the black pressed one, the so-called people exceeded 10,000, and there was no bank. Standing on the wall of Chang'an City at this time, it is enough to see that the open space in front of the entire city is almost marginal, and it is all black and pressed human heads.

And where is Lu Hanyang at this time? He is already in Jingyang City. As a person who has crossed over, of course, he knows where the Turks fought in the end. At this time, he was standing at the head of Jingyang City, where there were only two thousand defenders, and he was trembling and guarding the city.

The water is surging and flowing. In Jingyang City by the Weishui River, people were panicked at this time, because the Turks were sixty miles away, almost reaching Jingyang City, and the surrounding people were moving to the city.

Although the country was not rich during this period, it is commendable that the officials of the Tang Dynasty were indeed loyal to their duties, and they could even be said to be clean, because there was no temptation for them to be greedy.

Countless people in the city were gathering, all with frightened looks, for they did not know what they would do when the Turks came. In this sudden war, it is always these people who have nothing who will be hurt.

Those who close the family, the Shandong Shi clan is unlikely to be harmed, because they have enough strength to protect their property, and even if there is a loss, it will not let them break their muscles and bones.

But these people, everything they have is on that one-third of an acre, and they have left their land, and they really have nothing, like grass mustard flying in the wind.

At this time, both the Tang Dynasty and the Turks are racing against time, if the Turks can take Jingyang before the arrival of the Tang Dynasty's reinforcements, and then rely on the Weishui Heavenly Hell Datang Army, the current strength of the Tang Dynasty may be really difficult to resist.

And if the army of the Tang Dynasty arrives in Jingyang City first, then relying on the city wall to resist the impact of the Turkic cavalry will still be mine, after all, the grassland people have never been good at siege warfare.

So at this time, it is a time rush, and whoever grabs the first move will be able to take the initiative in the later battles.

The reason why Lu Hanyang came here first was to see if Jingyang City could hold on and hold on until the arrival of the Tang army. The Turks claimed to be 200,000 troops, but all the way south, although the obstacles encountered were small, but such a long front had already divided their troops a lot.

Therefore, I am afraid that there are only about 100,000 people who can reach Jingyang City, after all, the 200,000 army will inevitably have water in it, plus there are resistance and casualties everywhere along the way, as well as those who are stationed on the back road, it is obviously impossible for the whole army to gather under Jingyang City.

And the Tang Dynasty is not afraid of a protracted war, because this time it is a battle after the family and the royal family reach an agreement, and it is not a battle like Emperor Yang Guang in the former Sui Dynasty to levy the wealth and manpower of the people, but a battle in which the family pays money and the court sends troops.

Although it is said that the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty were originally farmers, they were soldiers in wartime and farmers in their leisure time. But at least it was not the imperial court alone, and the shock to the Tang Dynasty was not very large, and after that, the soldiers from afar continued to gather here, and the army of the Tang Dynasty was not comparable to the Turks.

Of course, there are some places where the army cannot be withdrawn, for example, in the southwest of the Tuyuhun line, the Liaodong Goryeo line, and Lingnan and other places. However, there were more than 300,000 troops from the Guannai and Shandong regions alone.

The longer such a battle drags on, the more beneficial it will be to the Tang Dynasty, and at this time, Li Er made up his mind, and in the early Tang Dynasty, when the fierce generals were like clouds and the strategists were like rain, he definitely had nothing to say about the Turkic army.

The reason why it took several years to recuperate in the original history, and then Zhenguan attacked the Turks in the north for four years, is mainly because the family did not contribute money and food. Everything is the money and grain saved by Li Er of the Tang Dynasty to fight the war, and the money and grain in the hands of those families may account for more than half of the overall money and grain of the Tang Dynasty.

These families have been entrenched for hundreds of years, many or even close to a thousand years, and it is impossible to say how deep their heritage is. And these families have always occupied the moral high ground, constantly pointing fingers at the world, because they have the channels to become officials, and they have enough resources to train their juniors, so that these families have become a force that controls more than half of the power in the court.

Since the founding of the Tang Dynasty, although Li Er has gone all the way to collect all the way, in addition to the absolute upper hand in the military generals, more than seventy percent of the officials who govern the local area were born with family backgrounds.

In such a situation, if Datang wants to govern it well, I am afraid it will be difficult. And this time, it can be regarded as breaking the gap between the family and the imperial court, because another transcendent force has intervened, and there is the possibility of directly coercing all of them.

Because of the 'immortal' who suddenly appeared, that powerful and mysterious power, they had to be combined. This kind of forced assembly, although not reliable, but with the first contact, it is difficult to say where it will go after that.

Because some things are like a downhill jack car, as long as you get into the track, then no one can pull it back, unless a strong brake system is installed on the car.

At this time, the army of the Tang Dynasty did not have an oath ceremony, and in addition to the people, all the civil and military officials in the entire Chang'an City went to the battlefield. The generals rode on their horses, and Wenchen got into the carriage, all heading towards Jingyang City.

This is the first time that the entire Tang Dynasty is united, and all of them, whether they are born into a big family or an emerging noble, they all have only one common name at this moment: Datang officials.

And in the largest carriage, there were Li Er's queen and four concubines, the queen's eldest grandson, Concubine Yang, Concubine Yin, Concubine Wei, and Concubine Yan De. Of course, Li Er's children are indispensable, and these little girls and little Zhengtai have all been pulled out by their fathers.

At this moment, the high-level of the entire Tang Dynasty were all dispatched, except for Emperor Li Yuan, who was drunk and dreamed of death in the Taiji Palace, all the famous ones in the Tang Dynasty and the harem came, and at this moment Li Er and the Tang Dynasty coexisted.