Chapter 459: Abnormal People
"Hey, martial arts boy, what are you fooling in, what's the matter with you?" Cheng Yanjin saw that the person who spoke turned out to be Wu Yuanqing, so he reprimanded angrily.
The other ministers also nodded in agreement, thinking that you Wu Yuanqing either don't come to the court on weekdays, or you almost never take the initiative to speak, what's the matter today, your head was squeezed by the door, and you actually asked Ying to lead the troops to fight.
It's no wonder that everyone is so surprised, it's really that Wu Yuanqing used to give people the impression that he was very lazy, and he belonged to the type of vegetarian meal that he couldn't move with a whip.
If he hadn't been a marquis, his father would have been a secretary, and his father-in-law would have been the emperor, and he would have been an upright official who would have participated in him.
There is another one, although Wu Yuanqing also led troops, participated in the war against the Turks, and also went to Lingnan to quell the rebellion, but once he was in charge of logistics, once he was in charge of logistics, once he was Niu Jinda, Su Dingfang assisted, and it was these two people who commanded it, Wu Yuanqing was a decoration. So everyone treats him as a civilian official, and now he wants to participate in the military's affairs, isn't it a dog with a mouse and a nosy!
"Su Guogong, do you think that the kid wants to go, isn't this worried that the other generals don't know enough about Tubo, especially after entering the territory of Tubo, the climate there is very different from our Datang, they have quite high terrain, and many of our people will not be suitable for it." Wu Yuanqing explained.
He said that the so-called altitude sickness in later generations, China's topography can be divided into three levels, the first level is the plain area, such as North China, Northeast China, the Yangtze River, the Pearl River Delta Plain, etc., the average altitude is 200 meters down. The second level is the Loess Plateau, the Inner Mongolia Plateau, and the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, where the average altitude is below 1,000 meters.
The third level is the Tibetan Plateau, where the altitude is above 3,000 meters.
In fact, the so-called altitude sickness does not necessarily have to go to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, people in the plains suddenly arrive at the Loess Plateau and other altitudes may be about one or two thousand meters above sea level, and those with altitude sickness are not as strong as they are on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.
The incidence of altitude sickness is related to the speed of climbing, altitude, length of residence, and physical fitness. www.biquge.info Generally speaking, when plain people quickly enter the plateau at an altitude of more than 3,000 meters, half or more of them will have altitude sickness, but the symptoms will gradually disappear after three or five days of habit.
The general manifestations are headache, dizziness, nausea and vomiting, palpitation and shortness of breath, but there are also severe, acute altitude sickness may get high-altitude pulmonary edema, but this situation is rare after all.
In these situations, if the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty attack Tubo, they will naturally encounter them, but this is not the real reason why Wu Yuanqing recommended himself.
Because if he didn't follow, in fact, this war with Tubo would not last long, and it would not even be too large-scale contact, but only ten days of siege and defense of the city, plus a surprise attack and then it would be over.
Originally, the battle of Songzhou in history was like this, Tubo attacked Songzhou City for more than ten days, the pioneer Niu Jinda arrived, took advantage of Tubo's unpreparedness, attacked the camp at night, defeated Tubo under Songzhou City, and beheaded more than 1,000 levels.
Then Songtsen Gampo withdrew directly, and the battle of Songzhou ended, and then Songtsan Gampo asked the Tang Dynasty again, and then Li Shimin allowed to marry Princess Wencheng in the past.
Wu Yuanqing asked Ying to go out with the pioneer Niu Jinda in order not to let such a thing happen, will he ask for relatives after Tubo Wu Yuanqing can't control it, but as long as he goes with the army, at least he won't let this battle become thunder and rain.
I think so in my heart, and the reasons I say are high-sounding and convincing.
Wu Yuanqing said that Li Shimin and the ministers also have some understanding, the envoy sent to Tubo to comfort him came back and said that he had a serious illness on the way to Tubo because he was not adaptable, and when he beat Tuguhun the year before last, many soldiers also felt unwell when they were killed on Qinghai Lake, Xue Wanjun and Xue Wanche's brothers were ambushed and almost died.
"The other generals are not familiar with it, are you familiar with it?" Li Shimin attached great importance to this and asked Wu Yuanqing very solemnly.
"Well, compared to others, the minister should be more familiar, you also know that Honglu Temple is dealing with the surrounding forces, and every time the Tibetan envoys come, they are also received by us, and I have heard a lot." Wu Yuanqing looked confident, but in fact, he was talking nonsense about running a train.
The envoys are not sick, why do you talk to the people of Honglu Temple, and besides, although the Tubo people live on the plateau, they know the altitude sickness of ghosts, and they have not been in contact with the Central Plains before, okay?
But in view of Wu Yuanqing's past performance, Li Shimin and the ministers really believed it, and Wu Yuanqing only asked to assist the pioneer Niu Jinda, not to be the commander of the army, so there was no need for everyone to oppose anything.
In the end, the court decided to appoint Hou Junji, the secretary of the military department, as the general of the Dangmi Road camp, Cheng Yanjin, the general of the left leading army, as the general of the Bailan Road march, the general of the right leading army, Zhi Sili, as the deputy commander, and the left Wuwei general Niu Jinda as the general of the Kuoshui Road march. Wugong Hou Wu Yuanqing was the supervisor of the army, and Liu Lan, the general of the right leading army, was the head of the Taohe Road march, and led a total of 50,000 foot cavalry to Songzhou.
After the dispersal of the dynasty, the ministers returned to the barracks of the barracks, and returned to the yamen, only Wu Yuanqing did not leave after leaving the palace gate but turned to the Lizheng Palace.
This is Li Shimin's bedroom, and it is also his daily time to deal with court affairs, but unfortunately when he arrived at the Lizheng Palace, Wu Yuanqing pounced, Li Shimin was not here but went to the queen's eldest grandson's bedroom.
Well, Li Shimin is a sticky wife, and the emperor who has nothing to do is the Lizheng Palace where the eldest grandson is located, and he often sleeps in the Lizheng Palace, and he sleeps very little in his own dormitory.
Came to the Lizheng Palace, greeted the queen, and teased Li Zhi, who rushed over to call his brother-in-law, and his two sisters, Chengyang and Jinyang, the three little guys, and then Wu Yuanqing followed the emperor to the side and explained his intentions.
"You want me to equip the vanguard with more than 10,000 horses with double the bombs?" Li Shimin frowned and said.
"Yes, Your Majesty." Wu Yuanqing nodded.
"The standard configuration per person is four, which is also what you suggested at the beginning, why do you want to break this rule now?, give me a reasonable reason." Li Shimin said in a deep voice.
Bombs are the most important weapons of the country, and they must not be used when they are idle, Li Shimin stipulated that only the twelve guards guarding Chang'an can be equipped with bombs, and they must be equipped in wartime. There are many requirements for what exactly should be equipped, and it can only be equipped if it meets the requirements, so many years, there are not many people who have really been equipped with bombs in the twelve guards, at most they have played with bomb models during training, and they are empty shells that have not been filled with gunpowder.
Li Shimin's principle is to try not to use bombs when you can win a battle with your life.