Xue Li and other soldiers of the Eastern Expeditionary Army soon returned to Chang'an, and Li Er also received them with the most solemn courtesy.

The Eastern Expeditionary Army returned victoriously, and the entire Chang'an, no, even the entire Tang Dynasty, celebrated together.

After some celebration, the reward is rewarded and the punishment is punished.

Xue Li was directly worshiped by Li Er as the champion general because of his outstanding performance in this Eastern Crusade.

In this Eastern Crusade, many famous battles were fought by Xue Li, especially in the early stage, Xue Li's vanguard army was able to stir up Goguryeo, and prepared for most of the Tang army to attack Goguryeo.

In fact, Xue Li's exploits for this Eastern Crusade are not just as seen on the surface, this Eastern Crusade, Xue Li is the real core figure.

Zhang Yi could see it, and Li Er could also see it.

If it weren't for Xue Li, the Tang army would not have won so neatly, and even if the Tang army had won, it would have been a miserable victory at most.

Xue Li was canonized by Li Er, so he was naturally very grateful and extremely happy.

The first thing he did after the canonization was to rush back to Hedong to bring all his family to Chang'an.

Now he is already the champion general of the third grade, and in terms of martial arts, he is already the most senior group of generals in the Tang Army, and he will not lack power and money.

Xue Li went back to Hedong to pick up his family, so that Zhang Yi, who originally planned to leave for Chang'an, had to cancel the trip.

He didn't blame Xue Li, after all, no matter what time it was, there was nothing wrong with putting his family first.

And by the time Xue Li returned to Chang'an, Zhang Yi had already bought him a good house waiting for him.

Xue Li was not polite, but accepted it open-mindedly.

Zhang Yi is his Bole, which the whole Chang'an knows, and he doesn't need to hide his closeness to Zhang Yi, even if Li Er knows.

He admired Zhang Yi very much, and at the same time was very eager for Zhang Yi to continue to explain to him the knowledge of thermal weapons, because this crusade, he had been able to deeply feel the importance of thermal weapons for future wars.

It can be said that whoever has more advanced thermal weapons will be able to seize the initiative in the war.

And Zhang Yi didn't know how much knowledge of these aspects was still in his head, these were all things that Xue Li was very eager to know.

Compared with those politicians, Xue Li wants to be a pure general, a pure soldier, he doesn't want to get involved in those political struggles, he just wants to protect his family and defend the country, and contribute his own strength to the army of the Tang Dynasty.

So he attaches great importance to his relationship with Zhang Yi.

Zhang Yi bought a house for Xue Li, but the others were not in Chang'an City, but still stayed in Zhangjiazhuang.

First, he didn't want others to gossip, after all, now that Xue Li had just won a war, he gave him a big mansion, which would inevitably attract gossip, so he simply didn't go, anyway, he bought it in someone else's name, except for Xue Li, no one knew that he bought the mansion.

Second, Zhang Yi still felt that his Zhangjiazhuang was the most comfortable, so he was too lazy to go to other places.

Xue Li received a gift from Zhang Yi, and as soon as he settled his family, he immediately rushed to Zhangjiazhuang.

He was going to Zhangjiazhuang to catch up with Zhang Yi.

Xue Li went very early, and when he arrived in Zhangjiazhuang, Zhang Yi hadn't gotten up yet.

However, he didn't let people knock on the door to wake Zhang Yi up, but sat in the courtyard and waited for Zhang Yi.

When Zhang Yi woke up, he found Xue Li waiting in the courtyard, so he immediately went over to confess: "Oh, I've been lazy during this time, and my whole person has changed." ”

Xue Li also knows Zhang Yi's temperament, if he is left in a different era, and even says that as long as he is thrown to Jiangnan or there, as long as he is far away from Chang'an, then Zhang Yi will definitely be a big idler.

It's not that he's indifferent to fame and fortune, but because he's lazy, very lazy, except for making money that can arouse his interest, Zhang Yi is too lazy to watch anything else.

However, Zhang Yi did get up very late, and after he washed up, the Zhang family was already ready for lunch.

By the way, Xue Li was invited to eat together.

And Xue Li will not be polite at all, because the food cooked by the Zhang family is so delicious, and the best thing he has eaten in his life is what he has eaten in Zhangjiazhuang, and it is also made by Zhang Yi.

At the dinner table, the two began to chat, chatting from south to north.

But no matter how much you talk, eventually, it will always turn back to the topic.

Zhang Yi finally couldn't help it, and mentioned the matter of hot weapons to Xue Li, and Xue Li was also about to ask Zhang Yi about the hot weapon, and the two happened to talk to a point.

"Rengui, this time the Eastern Crusade, I believe you also feel it, the gap between hot weapons and cold weapons, I believe you can also see it."

Zhang Yi began to speak leisurely, and Xue Li also nodded after hearing it, hot weapons are indeed much stronger than cold weapons in many places.

"I have a bold idea to do, but I want your support before I start doing it."

After Zhang Yi finished speaking, he stared at Xue Li stunned, he was waiting for his reply.

"Tell me about it first." Xue Li didn't rush to reply to Zhang Yi, but pricked up his ears to listen to him first.

"It's about hot weapons, I want to suggest that Your Majesty will use hot weapons as the main weapon of the Tang Army in the future."

Zhang Yi said with burning eyes, this is definitely a shocking decision for others, even Xue Li, who has just won the battle with hot weapons, he doesn't dare to think that hot weapons can become the main weapon of the current army.

Xue Li frowned and began to think.

It's true that hot weapons are very powerful, but cold weapons are also very useful, and if you just rely on hot weapons, I'm afraid it will be difficult to win a war.

Moreover, now under their use, hot weapons are at most used as an auxiliary to cold weapons, and the best war to win or lose still has to rely on cold weapons.

"Disapprove!"

After thinking about it for a long time, Xue Li spit out such a sentence.

"Disapprove? Why? You yourself know how powerful those gunpowder bullets are, and when the time comes, we will be able to develop more hot weapons, if these hot weapons can become the main weapons of the Tang Army, then, in this world, who will be the enemy? ”

Zhang Yi looked at Xue Li a little puzzled and asked.

Xue Li sighed and said: "I know the power of hot weapons, but the consumption of hot weapons is too large, to put it bluntly, hot weapons are actually burning money, the more money burned, the stronger it is, and the less money burned, the weaker it is." ”

"Now that Datang's treasury is full, it's nothing to burn some money, in case Datang is tired at any time, what will Datang's army use to fight others at that time?" The explosion of gunpowder bombs can take away the lives of some Goguryeo people, and can also blow up the newly built inner walls to pieces, and those blown stones and the like have also become killing tools.

Countless Goguryeo soldiers and civilians died.

But that's not the end of it!

This is only the first round of rocket shooting, Xue Li and they are not just this level.

Soon, the second round of rockets was fired towards this side again, and the Goguryeo people, who had been stunned by the first round of rockets, had no defense at all, and even those people didn't even dodge, so they were directly stunned.

Looking at the Goguryeo people who were already about to despair, Xue Li directly ordered the Tang army stationed outside the city to immediately launch an attack on the capital of Goguryeo.

After the Tang soldiers outside the city received Xue Li's order, they immediately spontaneously formed a team and began to pounce on the capital of Goguryeo.

And now Xue Li and they occupy the outer wall of the capital city of Goguryeo, and the Tang army entered the city very smoothly.

The Tang army that entered the city was almost unstoppable, and it was not enough to see just by relying on the remnants of those remaining Goguryeo troops to defeat them.

There was almost no need for the Tang soldiers to take action, they only needed to see the groups of Goguryeo soldiers, and they could kill them all with a direct round of rockets.

This is a gap in weapons, no, this can no longer be said to be a gap, this is naked crushing, just with this rocket, the Tang army has been able to completely crush the Goguryeo.

At this time, Xue Li remembered Zhang Yi who was far away in Chang'an.

That guy doesn't know how many such ideas he still has in his head, if he can make all his ideas, then the world is so big, who can compete with Tang Jun?

But now is not the time to think about this, since the Tang army has attacked the capital of Goguryeo, Xue Li must lead his army to quickly fight in, and he must be the first Tang army general to enter the Goguryeo palace.

Knowing that the city wall had been breached, the Goguryeo people, from the king to the common people, already knew the outcome of the war.

They lost and had no chance of turning the tables around.

In this war, they lost hundreds of thousands of young people, while their entire country, with a population of only one million and hundreds of thousands of young people, is now almost completely lost. Even if they still want to resist, what will they do to fight the Tang Army? Women? Amusing.

Before the Tang army reached the palace of the Goguryeo people, their emperor had already chosen to kill himself.

Since they chose to provoke Datang at the beginning, then they should have this awareness, after all, the strength of the Central Plains Dynasty is not something they can imagine, and they plan to take advantage of the fact that Datang has just experienced two major wars and is beating him when he is weak, so as to pave the way for their development in the future.

I didn't expect Datang to be so strong, and he directly destroyed them.

The Goguryeo people estimate that their intestines are now repentant, but there is no regret medicine in this world, and since they have chosen to do so, they have to bear the consequences of failure now.

Although the city was not slaughtered, after this war, Goguryeo did not have fifty or sixty years of recuperation, and it was basically impossible to recover, and even the population was difficult to recover to the current level.

However, these are not what Xue Li has to consider.

Now that the Tang army has won a complete victory, they are ready to return to the DPRK.

The good news had already been sent to Chang'an yesterday when the Goguryeo Emperor killed himself, and Xue Li believed that when he returned to Chang'an City, he would definitely be cheered by the people.

I'm a hero too.

After the Tang army's victory, they did not stay in Goguryeo for too long, and then went down to prepare to sweep Baekje.

At the beginning, Baekje and Goguryeo were in collusion, but now that Goguryeo has been destroyed, how can Baekje be spared.

At this time, Silla, who had been enduring it, also sent troops, following the pace of the Tang army, and at the same time attacking Baekje from the east.

In just two days, the small Baekje was beaten under the capital.

In the face of tens of thousands of Tang troops and tens of thousands of Silla troops, the Baekje people saw themselves as not having the strength to fight against two countries at the same time, so they surrendered very simply before the Tang army attacked.

After all, the lesson of Goguryeo is ahead, and if they don't surrender, it is estimated that their capital will be gone.

After the surrender of Baekje, the Tang army appeased Silla for a while, and then they could prepare for the real squad to return to the court.

In this Eastern Crusade, the Tang Army can be said to have won a complete victory, among them, the Tang Army officers and soldiers have a lot of credit, but when it comes to generals, then, Xue Li's credit is undoubtedly the greatest.

And if Xue Li wants to choose the person who will help him the most, or the person who will help Tang Jun the most, Xue Li will definitely choose Zhang Yi who is far away in Chang'an without hesitation.

If it weren't for his gunpowder shells, the Tang army would not have been able to suppress the Goguryeo people all the time, and it would not have been possible to carry out the war so smoothly.

Later, when it was time to besiege the capital of Goguryeo, if it was not for the idea of the rockets sent by Zhang Yi in time, I don't know what the outcome of the war would be.

It can be said that without Zhang Yi, the Tang Army may not necessarily win this battle, and even if they win, the price they pay will be very large.

Not to mention these, the Tang army won, the class returned to the dynasty, and the entire Tang Dynasty celebrated with the whole country.

Xue Li returned to Chang'an with the Tang army, and Li Er had already prepared a banquet in Chang'an, waiting for the return of these Eastern Expedition soldiers.

It can be said that after Xue Li and the others won Goguryeo, there was no country around Datang that could have the strength to wrestle with Datang.

Even if several countries around the Tang Dynasty unite now, Li Er is not afraid at all, just fight the past, who can stop the Tang Army now.

Moreover, the increasingly abundant treasury of the Tang Dynasty also gave Li Er great confidence, as long as there is money, food and soldiers, who will be his opponent?

When the news of the victory of the Eastern Crusade reached Chang'an, Zhang Yi also knew, and at this time he was lying on the chair peacefully, waiting for Yunren to feed him fruits.

After this period of hard work, several of his daughters-in-law have all improved, well, in the next year, his Zhang family will have four more little ones who can cry and make trouble.

And now the old lady of the Zhang family is looking at this scene at home, not to mention how happy she is smiling.

Every old man hopes that his children and grandchildren will be full.

Although Zhang Yi is living very comfortably now, he knows that he still has a very important thing to do.

What kind of thing, just wait until Xue Li comes back, he is climbing up the pole he gave, and now he has no reason, and it is not easy to ask.