"I want to conquer Goryeo in person, who do you think can take on the responsibility of supervising the country?" According to the original routine, if Li Shimin wants to go on an expedition, then it will inevitably be the crown prince Li Chengqian who is in charge of the country, and he doesn't need to ask the ministers about this matter at all, but now that he has asked, it means that he does not care about the prince supervising the country, and the ministers will naturally not mention the prince's name to make the emperor unhappy.

"Your Majesty can't, the previous tour of the west, Your Majesty has been away from the dynasty for more than three years, and now he has only been back for a few months, and he wants to go eastward again, so far away from the center for a long time, it is not good for the country, please think twice."

It is none other than Li Shimin's new deputy minister Ma Zhou, now that he has a big stall, he can't figure out a lot of places, and he needs to discuss it with the emperor! If Li Shimin leaves, these internal affairs problems will not be resolved for a long time, and the impact on Datang society will be extremely huge.

"Exactly, the matter of the Eastern Expedition still needs to be considered in the long run, now there are only 100,000 forbidden troops left in Chang'an, and you can't transfer too much, if Your Majesty wants to increase the troops in Hebei Province, you also need to recruit new soldiers and strengthen Chang'an's military equipment, not a day or two can be made."

After Ma Zhou, there were Zhang Zhizhi and other ministers who came out to report, and on the side of the generals, several bigwigs glanced at each other, and they were not sure about firearms, so they collectively chose to be silent, however, there was one person who did not keep in line with them, that is, the former Hebei Provincial Marching Chief, Luoyang Governor Hou Junji.

He is the father-in-law of the prince, the leader of the military generals of the prince group, and now the prince Li Chengqian is weak, he is heartbroken, in order to let his son-in-law take the throne, in order to make his grandson the future emperor of the Tang Dynasty, Hou Junji has done a lot of work in private this time.

"Your Majesty, please lead 50,000 troops to counterattack Goryeo, if you don't win, come and see you."

As soon as Hou Junji's voice of asking for war came out, the sparse voice in the court stopped abruptly, it is said that as the former head of the Hebei Provincial March, he is the most familiar with the Goryeo battlefield, and there is no problem at all with his status and status to lead the troops to the battle, but he is a firm Chengqian Party, and now the Chengqian Party is not reused in the eyes of Li Shimin, although other veterans did not go out to ask for war, but most people are still not optimistic that Hou Junji can win the position of the commander of the Eastern Expedition.

Sure enough, Li Shimin didn't think about it for long before he shook his head and rejected him, the reason is very simple, Hou Junji was also a defeated general under Gai Suwen, and he also fell into an old disease, this battle, Li Shimin wanted to be more secure. Throughout the court, the use of firearms is skillful, only God bestows the horse Yanglin, so the freshly baked general of the Eastern Army is baked, it is the horse commander Yanglin, and Li Shimin also gave Hou Junji a face, so that he went out with the army, served as the staff officer of the military division, in addition, Wu Wang Li Ke, Jin Wang Li Zhi, Yan Wang Li You, Liang Wang Li Su, Jiang Wang Li Yun, Yue Wang Li Zhen, Ji Wang Li Shen and other seven young princes with the army to learn firearms tactics, subject to Yanglin moderation.

For a while, the ministers were in an uproar again, is this the rhythm of the emperor to choose a new prince among many princes?

After the dispersal of the dynasty, Yanglin received almost all the condolences of the court above the third grade, but he ignored any of them, closed the door of the mansion, and did not see any outsiders.

The Eastern Army and the Zhenbuk Army were not subordinate to each other, and their mission was to attack Goryeo, while the Zhenbei Army was only responsible for defense. After Li Shimin's holy decree was officially issued, the forbidden army, the craftsman supervisor and other yamen related to the war were busy, and the commander of this battle, the general Yanglin of the Eastern Expedition was finally able to hide in the camp of the forbidden army, the day of departure was still early, Li Shimin gave Yanglin 100,000 soldiers and horses, but only allocated 50,000 veterans of the forbidden army to him, and the other 50,000 still needed to be drawn from the soldiers of various places during this time, obviously the combat effectiveness is divided into two echelons.

After the princes rushed to the forbidden army camp one after another to report, the leadership of the Eastern Army was arranged, and the first military ceremony was launched, to be honest, for the sudden post of the chief general of the Eastern Expedition, Yang Lin was not psychologically prepared, and his mind was on the improvement of propeller aircraft and pilot training during this recent period, and when the position was assigned, Yang Lin began to mobilize the private armed forces that he could mobilize.

First of all, the Celestial God is necessary for him, it is already April, and the army will start in two months, that is to say, the time of the march will be the hottest midsummer of the year, in this era of no air conditioning, Yang Lin does not want to suffer the sin of being exposed to the scorching sun.

Secondly, the land of Liaodong was still a vast grassland at this time, mainly cavalry combat, and there were only two cavalry battalions of 3,000 cavalry in the 50,000 forbidden army, and the government soldiers did not have a horse, and the mobility was poor, which was extremely unfavorable to the war, so Yanglin originally left it in his own mansion as a secret weapon, and later dedicated to Li Shimin's six second-generation tanks to come over, plus one loaded on the Tianshen, a total of seven tanks, which is a big killer against the enemy cavalry, and must be brought.

Then there is a pair of firearms, such as shotguns, long-barreled revolvers, explosives packs, fire oil bombs and other pure firearms equipment, the more the merrier, anyway, Yanglin did not plan to fight with the enemy on the battlefield, and Chang'an City has accumulated a lot of these things in the past ten years, and finally there are rich kinds of military rations, snacks, Chinese patent medicines, alcohol and other items, Li Shimin gave them all to him according to the order, and the quartermaster of Le smiled with a wrinkled face.

In the big tent of the forbidden army, dozens of people sat in several rows according to the level of the military rank, and the 500 people of the forbidden army after the restructuring were a battalion, the five battalions were a regiment, the five regiments were a brigade, and the five brigades were a division, and the 50,000 forbidden troops transferred by Li Shimin to Yanglin were exactly the establishment of a division, which was after removing the auxiliary soldiers and miscellaneous soldiers, so now Yanglin's subordinates have 10,000 reserve auxiliaries and 3,000 miscellaneous soldiers in addition to 50,000 regular forbidden army soldiers, 10,000 reserve auxiliaries and 3,000 miscellaneous soldiers, totaling about 63,000 people. And then the 50,000 government soldiers who can come later, the actual number will be more than 60,000, no way, now the population of Datang has skyrocketed, and the number of soldiers is no longer as stumbling as in the early years of Zhenguan, so for a long time in the future, these 130,000 people will have to eat with Yanglin.

Yanglin in the military record book according to the name of the number, confirmed that all the battalion and above the generals are in place, the military discussion is officially started, because the army will set off in two months, so it is still too early to study how to fight, the top priority, first of all, the soldiers should be trained, at this point Yanglin and Hou Junji's opinions are the same, don't look at them are the majestic forbidden army on weekdays, but the Tang Dynasty has not used the forbidden army to fight for more than ten years, in Yanglin, these are all Bai Ding who have never been on the battlefield, and they must be specially trained.

In addition to requiring soldiers to maintain basic physical training such as running and battle arrays, Yanglin did not need them to carry out cold weapon combat training at all, which was a very wrong way of training in Hou Junji's view, so he issued the first order, and the new commander had a conflict with his military division.

"Yang Horse, I know that you are good at using firearms on the battlefield, but firearms are not omnipotent on the battlefield in Liaodong, where there is often rain and snow in winter, and there are torrential rains from time to time in summer, the enemy only needs to attack when the weather is bad, and the pure firearms army you build will be defeated, so this military division believes that the skills of such a battlefield must be strengthened during the training, otherwise my Datang soldiers will lose their original strength."

Hou Junji is a lot older, but he only gives Yang Lin, a young man, his deputy, and he is naturally reluctant, but in order to maintain his position in the army, he can't care too much, otherwise, he can really only be a poor governor of Luoyang.

"Who says you can't use firearms in rain or snow? As long as we master the good storage methods, our firearms can still be used in rain and snow, and before leaving, I will teach all these skills to the soldiers, and, in the army, please call me a military position. ”

Yanglin and Hou Junji's cognition of the battlefield is fundamentally different, Hou Junji has his own set of inertial thinking, while Yanglin, is considering the victory or defeat of the battlefield, 100,000 Bai Ding, who has not been on the battlefield, with cold weapons, is absolutely unable to fight hundreds of thousands of Ru Mao drinking blood Goryeo coalition army, otherwise the Zhenbei Army will not be defeated so badly, and maximizing the power of firearms is the only way to win, all the preparations made by Yanglin in the past two months are to maximize the power of the existing firearms of the Tang Dynasty.

One sentence blocked Hou Junji, who wanted to speak and stopped, and the military meeting continued to be held.

"Well, what, I saw a few new big tanks parked on the school grounds, and these guys are going to be sent to the battlefield too! You see, we know each other so well, why don't you send me one first! ”

Li Ke's fat man's voice broke the embarrassing situation in a timely manner, and suddenly called the eyes of several little princes sitting beside him lit up, what brother-in-law, brother and the like and the like came out one after another, the power of the new tank They have already heard of it after Li Tai launched the Battle of Chang'an, six big guys, Li Tai's 100,000 Taiyuan army had no power to fight back, and captured the enemy's head in half an hour, rampage, and simply regarded all obstacles as nothing!

"Since you have the heart, as your brother-in-law, I can't treat you badly, as long as you promise to drive the tanks and chariots assigned to you all the way to the battlefield yourself, I will assign them to you as a ride now."

Yang Lin seemed to be very talkative and agreed to them, and before a few princes could respond happily, one of them suddenly flashed out of their ranks and said: "The general can arrange a few of them, Xiao Wang is not used to the tank, so he will not participate." ”

Yang Lin looked at Li Zhi who flashed out of the ranks, smiled with relief, and said secretly in his heart: "Sure enough, he is a smart boy." (To be continued.) )