Chapter 359: Offensive
"Daddy, can we go to the horse race?" Hearing that she was going to the ball, Li Hao's daughter looked at her father and asked, they are all good at equestrianism and have received special training.
"Absolutely! We all go to the prom as a family, and if you want to participate in any event, you can sign up for it yourself, but you should be safe. "His daughters want to participate in these activities, and Li Hao never embarrass them.
Of course, if they fall in love with that young man, as long as they are willing, they are still members of the same clan, whether they have money or not, or whether they have identity or not, Li Hao will not take it to heart. For him, there is really no meaning in identity and wealth now.
The current wealth of the Li Mansion is given to each of Li Hao's descendants, which is enough for them to live a worry-free life for a lifetime. And Li Hao's children, who are about to reach adulthood, probably don't care about their family's wealth, they have their own pursuits.
But Li Hao can't help but think about them, he is not there in the future, what will those people do, it's hard to say, Li Hao naturally has to leave a safe and reasonable way of wealth for his children.
Thinking of this, Li Hao became a little depressed. He's only in his thirties now, but he's got to think about his children. In later generations, he was still a young man.
The bonfire party in the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate is very lively, and after several years of hard work here, it has now become a grand entertainment event in the Western Regions.
Li Hao is not very interested in those activities, but is particularly interested in the unique food here. Whether it is a large plate of chicken or roasted whole sheep, these delicacies absorb the essence of Chang'an, and have their own unique style, and the taste is very good. Coupled with the abundance of wine here, this event is indeed worth seeing.
After spending some time in the Anxi Prefecture, Li Hao's family stepped on the train to continue westward. At this time, the Vikings in Northern Europe began to plunder European countries, Western Europe was in the Dark Ages under the control of the Frankish Kingdom, while Southeast Europe and part of Western Asia were under the control of the Byzantine Empire, and Eastern Europe was still inhabited by barbarians, and it was a chaotic place.
The westward advance of the Tang Army suddenly began to unite these places. After Li Hao got in the car, he received this information. For Li Hao, these feel that they don't mean much. The Tang army is not attacking now, but is just confronting the coalition forces in Europe, waiting for Li Hao to come over and preside over the overall situation.
Of course, they will still use some necessary means, such as supporting some weak forces and opponents within Europe, asking them to stab these coalition forces from the inside, and by the way, collect the geography of various parts of Europe. This is Li Hao's own action in the past, and he has always liked to let the enemy consume it first, and then Datang can easily grab the fruits of victory.
The place where the two armies faced each other was in Constantinople, which was founded in 658 BC at the eastern tip of the Balkan Peninsula and on the western shore of the southern mouth of the Bosphorus, on a headland between the Golden Horn and the Sea of Marmara, called Byzantium. In 324 AD, Constantine the Great of the Roman Empire moved his capital from Rome and renamed it Constantinople.
Constantinople was surrounded by the two sides of the central and southern sections of the strait, as well as the northern shore of the Sea of Marmara, including รskรผdar on the eastern shore of the strait, and became a large city across Europe and Asia. It has a unique geographical advantage and has always been a battleground for soldiers.
Now the part of the European coalition is staying in Constantinople and waiting for the Don army to pass, and the position occupied by the Don army is on the coast of Marmara. Between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean, the westernmost part of the Asian continent, there is a vital "golden waterway" that separates Asia from the European continent, and the middle part of it is the Sea of Marmara.
The Tang army chose this place in order to occupy these advantages, and in addition to this, the Tang army had a large base in Kiev in the north, ready to enter northern Europe at any time.
Li Hao walked along the railway line, eating and drinking all the way, stopping and stopping, and he walked through several inland seas here. What the Caspian Sea, the Black Sea, the Dead Sea, all go through. I haven't been to places in my previous life, but now I can go to see them, and eat local food by the way, not to mention how comfortable it is on this kind of day.
By the time he arrived at the base of the Don Army in Kiev, it was already the end of the year. Li Hao rested in Kiev for a while, and then accompanied part of his escort army to the base next to the Sea of Marmara, where he would preside over the great war of westward expansion into Europe.
"If we kill them directly, these natives are stupid and stupid, as long as the cannon bombards them, they can be wiped out in two clicks. Constantinople is nothing more than a decoration for us. โ
When Li Hao arrived at the station, he called the generals of several large armies here for a meeting to discuss the attack. Because this may be the last few battles of the Tang Army to destroy the country, almost all the new generals of the Tang Dynasty ran over and missed this battle, and they couldn't fight it if they wanted to.
Although there are many tribes on the African side, the situation is even worse there. Over the years, the Tang Dynasty has imported a large number of Kunlun slaves from there to various places, so that many tribes there are constantly weakening. I'm afraid that if I wait a few more years, I can easily include Africa into the territory of the Tang Dynasty without fighting.
"Although our firearms are much more powerful, once we penetrate into the territory of Europe, accidents are inevitable. It is too brutal to kill the past directly, and it is easy to cause the local people to resist. Let's first increase our support for the rebels in Europe, and then attack these three big cities on the third front, so that the people here are in a panic. โ
Xi Junmai still maintains his usual style, he is the commander of the Middle Route Army, the Northern Route Army is Xue Rengui, and the Western Route Army is completely commanded by the navy, and the general is Li Hao's student Li Gang, the naval general of the Tang Dynasty.
It wasn't the students of the Royal Military Academy who came this time, these young people had grown up in the years of war, and now they were all on their own. In addition to these, Liu Renliang also came, and when Europe is pacified, he will be the first governor here, and now he is assisting Li Hao to launch the final attack on Europe.
"So I have an idea, we sent the Tianzhu people and the Fusang people from the west, and let them go to plague the Franks first. Then he drove the Vikings from northern Europe into the interior, and the Persians passed over here. Let them consume it for a while, and then we'll push it slowly. Coupled with their internal rebels, as long as we take Constantinople first, their lives will not be so easy. โ
Now these people in Datang are very proficient in these applications, and it is not Datang people who die anyway, and they are not heartbroken at all. Generally speaking, the guys who can draw into the army are local thorns, and it's good to have them consumed here.
"It's a good plan, but Constantinople is where we have to break through at the moment, and we will let the artillery battalion go up tomorrow. Remember to keep them in control of their firepower and don't knock down those pretty-looking things. Knock down their walls and let the servants enter the city first. โ
Li Hao agrees with this plan, anyway, they are not in a hurry for this expedition to the west, and Li Ke's purpose in letting Li Hao come over is also this. It is because he is ready to slowly conquer this side and use time to kill these barbarians, so he will let Li Hao come here to supervise.
After negotiating these things, Li Hao threw down the stall again, and then ran to his mansion here with Lao Liu to have a big dinner. Xue Rengui and Xi Jun didn't have this blessing for them, and they had to rush back to their respective positions to prepare for battle.
"Brother Liu, after saying goodbye to Yangzhou, calculate the time, we haven't seen each other for several years." Liu Renliang served in Gangnam Province for a while, and Li Hao happened to go there to clean up the mess. Coupled with the relationship that he took over in Chang'an before, in fact, the two are often in contact.
Liu Renliang and Cui Zhiyi are both people who were deeply influenced by Li Hao, and now Cui Zhiyi is the director of the health department in the imperial court, overseeing the medical and health situation in the country. The guy was happy with his current position, and he himself was a medical expert, so the position was right for him.
Liu Renliang took a different route, originally this guy would have become a famous general who was good at fighting, but now he was influenced by Li Hao, and this guy is going farther and farther on the road of hard work. This time, I will stay here for a few years, and I will enter the court in the future.
According to Li Hao's idea, a person who is the prime minister of the Tang Dynasty must have experience at the grassroots level, and after such a person becomes the prime minister, he will not do something unrelated at will. It's a beautiful idea, and no one can say whether those people will be able to do it in the future.
"Yes, time flies, and in a blink of an eye, I am already old, and you have also entered middle age. Thinking back to the young man by the Weishui River back then, he is now a prince of the Tang Dynasty. After listening to Li Hao's words, Lao Liu said with a little emotion, who would have thought that the young man who had a headache for his Zhuangzi by the Weishui River would have such great achievements.
"Brother Liu has a good reputation, today I will taste this exotic delicacy and talk about the things of the year." Li Hao invited Liu Renliang into his mansion, and then asked people to prepare some special delicacies here. He is allowed to bring his family here, and when he comes here, he will naturally have a place for himself to live. And many people here are Li Hao's students, and his prestige here is not small.
Ancient civilization will inevitably give birth to classic imperial dishes and traditional dishes, and Li Hao prepares Turkish dishes for later generations. This dish is completely a classic royal dish handed down from the royal family of the Ottoman Turkish Empire, just like the imperial cuisine of the East, the ingredients and workmanship are very unique and exquisite. Beef, mutton and chicken are its main dishes, the basic cooking method is roasted and boiled, and the meat needs to be carefully selected.