Chapter 349: Reversal
Chang'an City.
Hou Junji was anxious when he learned that his righteous son Tang Yingjie was trapped on Kyushu Island, but he couldn't do anything about this matter, so he thought about it for a long time, so he had to send someone to Yangzhou to ask Li Su to find a way.
Tai Chi Hall, Li Shimin's study.
Li Shimin received Niu Jinda's report, but he didn't take it seriously, this kind of border matter, he thought that Niu Jinda and they could handle it. Moreover, he saw that Niu Jinda said in the report that he had sent people to negotiate with the Japanese slave country, and his idea was that the Japanese slave country would give face to the Tang Dynasty.
He's dealing with another matter now.
Li Shimin was very happy after holding the enthronement celebration. He is very satisfied with what he has achieved over the years. Not long ago, he received a piece of Li Tai's recital, and he was even more satisfied after reading it.
Li Tai mentioned in the recital that Li Shimin's exploits have far surpassed any emperor in ancient times, and suggested that Li Shimin hold a ceremony of Taishan Zen Sealing.
Feng Chan is a kind of ceremony in which the emperor is ordered by the world. This ritual originated in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, when the Confucian scholars of Qi and Lu believed that Mount Tai was the highest mountain in the world, and the highest emperor in the world should go to this highest mountain to worship the supreme gods, and Mount Tai was the boundary between Qi and Lu. Later, the ritual of sacrificing Mount Tai in Qi and Lu was expanded to the hope sacrifice of the unified empire, and was named "Feng Chan".
Prior to this, there had been Qin Shi Huang, Qin II, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Emperor Guangwu of the Han Dynasty, Emperor Zhang of the Han Dynasty, Emperor An of the Han Dynasty, and Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty had held the Taishan Sealing Zen Ceremony.
This proposal aroused Li Shimin's interest. He really wanted to experience the ritual of this scenery.
He said to Fang Xuanling and Cen Wenwen: "What do you think of Li Tai's proposal? ”
Fang Xuanling didn't want to ruin his interest, and said, "It's a good thing." The emperors who have held the Taishan Zen Sealing Ceremony in history are not as good as your merits in all aspects, and such a ceremony should be held to announce it to the world. ”
Cen Wenwen never objected to his opinion, nodded and said, "The minister thinks what Master Fang said is reasonable. ”
Li Shimin said: "Since you think it is necessary, then start preparing for it." ”
Li Shimin decided to leave the matter to Li Tai and Yuan Tiangang of Qin Tianjian to take charge of.
Li Shimin said to Fang Xuanling: "Xuanling, Wei Zheng, you can inform him there." He guessed that Wei Zheng might object, so he asked Fang Xuanling to inform Wei Zheng and persuade him by the way.
When Li Tai learned of this, he was overjoyed and hurriedly went to thank Yuan Tiangang for giving him this idea.
Soon, Li Su, who was in Yangzhou, received news from Li Dan and began to be depressed.
Most of these celebrities during the Zhenguan period, Li Su recruited them under his command or established a good relationship. For Yuan Tiangang, the great immortal, he has no intersection.
Li Su came from later generations and was an atheist, and he was not interested in a god like Yuan Tiangang, which invisibly offended him. Unexpectedly, Yuan Tiangang and Li Tai got together.
He knew that Li Tai was going to raise his head again this time, and he would have to fight in the court again in the future.
At the same time, Hou Yingjie and them on Kyushu Island also entered a difficult state.
In the first few days after the landing, the Goguryeo army of Tsungae Suwen made good progress and fought all the way to the Okayama area of Honshu Island, where they encountered stubborn resistance from the U. In five days, the Goguryeo army advanced less than 10 kilometers. Quangai Suwen found that the Japanese army was fighting more and more.
By the time the war had been fought, the Goguryeo army had lost nearly 20,000 men, but the Japanese slaves were constantly coming in reinforcements.
After interrogating several captured captives, he learned that the Uslav state had united with many states and organized an army of more than 200,000 men.
Izumi Gai Suwen judged the situation, and he decided that it was impossible to quickly defeat the Japanese slave state now, so it was better to retreat to Kyushu Island and try to gain a foothold there, in order to advance backward.
So, during the night, he led the Goguryeo army to suddenly break away from contact with the Unu and retreat to Kyushu Island at full speed.
When King Cheonji discovered the Goguryeo moves, he commanded his troops to follow and pursue, consuming about 5,000 Goguryeo people.
After the Goguryeo retreated to Kyushu Island, the Uguryeo temporarily stopped pursuing.
The Unu were also allied forces, and they saw the Goguryeo retreat to Kyushu Island, and both the Harada and Watanaka armies stopped their pursuit. The island of Kyushu was originally the territory of several small states, and it had nothing to do with them, so they were reluctant to fight it anymore.
King Tenji believed that the Goguryeo people could not be given a chance to breathe, and that they must be driven out of Kyushu Island in one go.
He knew that the people of the Harada family and the Tanaka family could not afford to be early without profits, and they had to be given benefits in order to be able to make them work together. He consulted with the ministers of the Japanese slave kingdom and decided to give them benefits.
After the three families discussed, it was decided that after conquering the island of Kyushu, Kyushu would be owned by the Japanese slave state. The Uno Kingdom ceded part of the castle in northern Honshu to the Harada and Tanaka families.
After the three reached an agreement, they continued to attack the island of Kyushu.
Besides, the coalition troops of Hou Yingjie and others did not encounter the attack of the Japanese slaves until the first 10 days after they landed on the island. There were many warships of the Uno on the sea, but they did not come to harass them.
Hou Yingjie and the others were puzzled, and they couldn't figure out what was going on. Every day is to eat and rest. The officers and soldiers were just basking on the beach when they had nothing to do.
On the twelfth day, the warships of the Japanese began to approach the beach, and then they lowered a number of small boats from the big ships and rowed towards the shore. The battle is finally on.
At the beginning, Hou Yingjie ordered the troops to release arrows into the boat, and saw that the Unons were holding shields on the boat, which had little effect, so he ordered to stop firing arrows, the troops retreated, and the Unons were released ashore.
Soon the Unu landed on the beach, and instead of moving on, they lined up on the beach, waiting for more troops to come ashore.
Hou Yingjie sent someone to notify the coalition troops and asked them to watch the movements of the Tang army and attack together.
As a large number of dinghys landed, there were more and more Unos. Hou Yingjie kept observing with a telescope until the number of Unu people ashore reached 3,000, and he gave the order to attack.
After firing three arrows in a row, the coalition forces rushed towards the Uno on the beach.
The Unu did not expect that there were so many enemies here, and by the time tens of thousands of arrows were fired, their ranks had already begun to disperse.
Then, something even more surprising happened, and there were more than 10,000 enemies on the opposite side.
The total number of coalition troops here was 8,000 Tang troops, 3,000 Silla people, 4,000 Baekje people, and 5,000 Goguryeo people, a whole 20,000 people, and no less than 15,000 troops rushed over.
Although the Unus were surprised, they did not break up, but rushed towards the coalition army.