Chapter 199: Counting is Counting

A flock of birds whistling in the mountains and forests, this is the movement of the tiger out of the mountain in the vast primitive deep forest, the king of Nanzhao's gills and the king of Mulu sent troops at the invitation of the Khmer king, in fact, according to the division of distance and proximity, the Khmer king should belong to one of the tribes of Nanzhao. King Duo Cheek and King Mulu are the two most warlike of the Nanzhao tribes, they have always had the ambition to rush out of this mountain, but none of the Nanzhao tribes have the strength to fight against the Tang Shu army or the seven kings of Jiaozhi, their population is more scarce, the equipment is more primitive, Nanzhao has six barbarians and three clans, the six barbarians are weak, dependent on the three clans, the real masters are Shu's, Duan and Mengshi, except for the most powerful Mengshi, the living conditions of the rest of the tribes are very bad, Historically, the queen of the Mongol clan who unified the Southern Zhao was annexed to establish the Nanzhao State during the reign of Li Zhi of Tang Gaozong, and now Li Zhi has just learned to walk, thinking that Monado, who is still in her teenage years, has begun to squeeze the ministries and start her long unification war, and the situation of the remaining ministries that are frequently annexed can be imagined, and the Duo Cheek Department and the Mulu Department roared to help the Khmer King, probably planning to help the Khmer King through the crisis, and use the power of the Khmer King to fight against the Queen of Nanzhao.

"More than 10,000 people came?"

This number is far from Yanglin's expectations, due to the language, appearance, and various roads are not smooth, the imperial court does not know much about the situation of Nanzhao Zhu, Yanglin's understanding of the land of Yunnan during this period is only because he has read the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, knowing that they already have a war culture more than 300 years ago, but the Romance of the Three Kingdoms can not be believed, it says that the Nanzhao Zhubu has hundreds of thousands of troops at every turn, and Yanglin thinks that after hundreds of years of development. Anyway, they will have hundreds of thousands of troops! It turned out that there were only more than 10,000 people from the two tribes, so the remaining ones added up. It should not exceed 50,000 people, so the combat mission may be much smaller. But the task of marching over the mountains and mountains is a headache for him, and the most fearful thing for those who lead troops to fight is to burrow into the vast and sparsely populated primeval deep forest, where the harsh environment will greatly reduce their soldiers every day, and you have no way to deal with it.

Yang Lin lowered his head and paced in the tent thinking, his big tent had advanced a hundred miles, this is the result of the labor of 100,000 troops who were busy for a new year, at this rate, if you want to move his big tent to Dali, the territory of the Montessori, I am afraid it will take more than a year. And the speed of the army's march has not accelerated, but has become more slow, in front of the village, the Tang army has already killed more than 3,000 people there, with the original mode of war I am afraid it will not work, in one fell swoop to take the Khmer king, break into the territory of the Nanzhao tribes, Yanglin is a little unsure, don't look at you are 100,000 people. Trapped in the mountains, there is a possibility that none of them will survive, and now the reason why the Tang army can fight calmly is because behind them are the six kings of Jiaozhi. There are war elephants to help them constantly transfer supplies, so that their army of 100,000 can run freely.

The curtain of the tent was lifted after some time, and the scorpion returned. Not surprisingly, he had another large gem on his sword. This guy doesn't make a scabbard for his sword either, and no matter how Yang Lin sees him, he is showing off his trophies.

"How?"

Yang Lin returned to his handsome case. The scorpion that grabbed the food on his desk and stuffed it into his mouth asked.

"People like the Khmer King are actually not worth wasting the lives of so many soldiers, and the two tribes from Nanzhao look fierce, but they are actually straw bales, and I happened to meet them drinking and feasting when I sneaked into the Khmer King's palace, so I picked the jewels in the crown of the Khmer King and slaughtered the leaders of those two tribes by the way, you know? Now the people of those two tribes think that I was sent by the queen of Nanzhao, and they are clamoring to go back to Nanzhao to find the queen of Nanzhao desperately, because I only robbed the Khmer king's gems, but did not kill him. The scorpion gulped down a banana while telling his majestic history.

"In this way, I was wrongly beaten by you, and I am still thinking about finding a way to capture the leaders of those two tribes alive, and now that our army has not arrived, the Nanzhao tribes are in chaos first, but let me pack up the Khmer King without any scruples." After thinking about it for a while, Yang Lin adjusted his deployment in light of the current situation.

Mu Keduo finally received the military order to attack with all his might, the retreat of the two tribes of Nanzhao to the land of Nanzhao had caused a huge blow to the morale of the Khmer army, how did they know that the Tang army was actually hiding its strength during this period of time to fight with them, and now it has just broken out, and the village has become a mess in front of the village, and after half a day, the village is broken, and the Tang army has cleaned up the battlefield a little, and then continues to march forward.

"What a damn battle! There will always be a time when the fight is over. Yang Lin stood on the ruins of the village in front of the village and looked at the back of the army going north and shook his head, at this time in the north of Datang, another coach of Datang was in the opposite mood to him.

"What a damn battle! It's never done. Looking at the vast white snow in front of him, Li Daozong sighed.

On the northern frontier front of the Tang Dynasty, there are often more soldiers who die in the cold than in the war, but unfortunately this place has not stopped the war, just a few days ago, a lookout village of the Tang army was slaughtered, more than 100 officers and soldiers were all in different places, and the death was very miserable, even their newly haired woolen clothes and sheepskin jackets were stripped away, and those who dared to do it to the Tang army equipped with new equipment here, who else could there be except the Goryeo army?

When Li Daozong got the reward, he planned to report the matter to the imperial court, the Goryeo general Gai Su Yuanwen had already led an army of 30,000 straight to Zhuozhou in the Tang Dynasty, and the news was quickly spread by the scouts, and now most of the three northeastern provinces in this period are still in the hands of the Goryeo, the defense line of the Tang army is only in the area of Zhuozhou, Hebei, and the population and economic strength of the Goryeo Kingdom are now steadily ranked among the top three in Asia. It may not be enough to fight Goryeo.

Li Daozong, who hurriedly sent a letter to ask for reinforcements to garrison Hou Junji, the commander of the 10,000 cavalry in Hebei Province, knew that the same thing happened in Goryeo, a group of warriors dressed in the Tang army burned and looted near Liaoyang City in Goryeo, and fled back to the Tang Dynasty after committing a lot of blood debts. The Tang Army, which has always been at a disadvantage, was not taken into his eyes, and when he heard that the Tang Dynasty was using troops in the south, he didn't think that they hadn't even eaten the piece of meat in the south, so they wanted to plot against this piece of land in the north, the Tang people were too rampant, and Gai Su Yuanwen felt that the Tang people should be taught a lesson.

The successful Zhongchen fled quickly, when Gai Su Yuanwen's army went out of Liaoyang, he had already entered the Shandong territory with dozens of warriors, in his opinion, the war in the Tang Dynasty should spread in an all-round way, and the land of Shandong has become too quiet since the death of Li Yuanji, the king of Qi, and it should also burn a few fires, especially there are many family valves here, and there are many cases where a little is like a big thing to report to the emperor, so the minister who has a lot of war ideas came to Shandong to make wind and rain, It is bordered by Goryeo in all directions, and there are many opportunities to stir up trouble.

Li Chengqian, who had been silent for a long time, finally waited for an opportunity to take charge of the army, and without the consent of Li Er and Du Ruhui, the secretary of the military department, he decisively ordered Shen Mantang, a middle-level military attache guerrilla general who had taken refuge in him, to take refuge in Henan, to recruit 50,000 troops from Shanxi Prefectures to aid Hebei, to order the guerrilla general Yao Shunji to hold the festival in Huainan, and to recruit 30,000 troops from Jiangnan Prefectures to aid Shandong, and his entire military plan completely left the Zhenbei Army and the Zhendong Military Division outside. Poor Zhendong general Liu Hongji, who had no time to fight, had not found a shadow of an enemy army in Shandong, and the imperial court came to tell him that there would be an army of 30,000 to reinforce him, and he couldn't smile bitterly.

"Good boy, do you finally know the importance of being in charge of the army? The Goryeo people jumped inexplicably, I am afraid that someone is making trouble from it, my Zhenbei Army and Zhendong Army have just finished changing their clothes, and the Goryeo people have come over, just to test the strength of these two armies, as for the new army formed by Cheng Qian, I am afraid that it is already on the way to the battlefield, but there is no need to let them withdraw, just take this opportunity to clean up those restless guys in Shandong and Hebei. ”

It was already the end of February when Li Er received these letters, and his army had been in full swing to repair roads and march since last year, and this year, the army had not yet entered the territory of the Nanzhao Tribes, so you can imagine how difficult it is to climb these 100,000 mountains, but Li Daozong and Liu Hongji are both handsome people who can take charge of themselves, as long as Li Er writes to them about his intentions, they can run perfectly.

The strength of the four fronts of the Tang Dynasty is quite large, and now only the Central Forbidden Army is used in southern Xinjiang, the various water divisions, the Zhennan Army and the Zhenxi Army, the generals of the Zhendong Army and the Zhenbei Army have long begun to covet their exploits, because their new equipment has already raised their combat power to a very high level, especially the Northern Army, there is a well-equipped 10,000 cavalry army to respond, and there is no longer a need to shrink in the city wall to defend the city, Li Daozong asked Hou Junji for help, one is to let him help guard against the Eastern Turkic tribes further north, and Capricorn and other tribes, the second is to let them pick up some cheap to expand the results of the war from the Goryeo who have suffered defeat and fled in the wilderness, as shrewd as Li Daozong, since he knew that the robes of the soldiers who were killed were pulled off, he knew that this might be a conspiracy, and at this time the Goryeo raised troops to attack, it must have been provoked, and the greatest value of his battle to defend the city was to leave an excuse for the Tang Dynasty to enter Goryeo in the future. (To be continued......)