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Before setting out on the expedition, Du He compiled all the information he had about Goguryeo into a book, recorded it, and handed it over to the commander of the expedition, his quasi-father-in-law, Li Daozong.

Li Daozong is also a famous general, and he knows very well that when he goes out, the importance of intelligence is his own family, and he has no extra courtesies, so he accepts it very carefully.

Outside Chang'an City, Du He led Li Xueyan and Li Daozong to say their final goodbyes.

Looking at her heroic father, Li Xueyan didn't know whether to be happy or sad.

Li Daozong said: "Silly girl, your father has come in the water and gone in the fire for so many years, and he has never seen any wind and waves." The group of clowns who jumped off the beam in Goguryeo, where do you see it, go back, and wait for the news of your father's triumphant return. He knew that if he stayed a little longer, his family would be more concerned about it, and he didn't stay longer, so he finally glanced at his family and waved his horse away.

Li Xueyan looked at the back with a heavy heart, a little unmotivated.

This is also human nature, Du He smiled: "You can rest assured, with the military level of my father-in-law, and the assistance of many wise and brave generals, Goguryeo really has no chance of winning...... You can wait for the news of your father-in-law's triumph......"

For this military operation, Duhe did not have much concern. Although he didn't have the opportunity to go on the expedition, he was still somewhat self-aware, and there were many good generals in the Tang Dynasty. There is not much more than one Duhe, and there is no less than one Duhe. The world will not turn because there is one less person, and Datang will not lose the battle because of one less person.

Today's Goguryeo is not the Goguryeo that Li Shimin met when he went out on an expedition in history. At that time, Goguryeo, since Yang Guang's third expedition, has not encountered major wars, and has been developing with concentration for nearly 30 years, and its strength has been restored. They are the soldiers of the whole country, and they are turtles to defend them. Occupying the three key factors of time, location, and people, and affecting the battlefield, the battle is naturally not easy to fight. Now Goguryeo has suffered a great loss of strength because of civil strife, dog-eat-dog, and death fight for a year and a half.

Li Xueyan was also a little relieved when she heard Du He say so surely.

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A roll of yellow dust rolled, and the horse galloped in, but when he saw the figure flickering, he jumped and dismounted. Immediately the knight shouted: "Eight hundred miles in an emergency!" Military intelligence is important, get out of the way quickly! Then I saw the smoke and dust billowing out, and the rider had already left! At this time, the ancient road is cloudy, and the sky is clear! It can be seen that the speed has reached the extreme.

The territory of the Tang Dynasty was vast, with 1,300 post stations and 86 post stations, and more than 20,000 people specializing in post services, including 17,000 post soldiers. The post post is divided into three types: land post, water post and waterway annexation, and each post station is equipped with a post house, equipped with a post horse, a post donkey, a post boat and a post field, which is specially used to transmit military information.

According to the urgency of the military situation, it is divided into 300 li, 400 li, 600 li, and 800 li, of which 800 li belongs to the highest level. If anyone dares to stop him, he can be summarily executed.

Don't look at the power of the herald with an eight-hundred-mile rush, but the danger factor is directly proportional to the power. In the laws of the Tang Dynasty, the punishment for all kinds of mistakes in the postal process was very detailed. The slightest mistake will be dealt with severely. In particular, for urgent military documents, if there is a delay of one hour, the crime will be increased by three degrees. If a misfortune occurs as a result of the delay in the correspondence, the sentence is to be hanged.

Therefore, no herald would abuse his power and waste time for the sake of prestige.

The herald arrived directly at the palace and handed over the urgent documents to the palace guards.

At this time, the palace guards were also given the power to gallop in the palace, and presented the urgent documents to Li Shimin as soon as possible.

Li Shimin was dealing with the allocation of grain and grass for the conquest of Goguryeo, and inexplicably received the "800 li expedited", a little confused, but he did not dare to slack off, if it was not for the real incident of burning his eyebrows, the local officials would not have the courage to send "800 li expedited".

After a cursory glance, Li Shimin was furious, took the case, and shouted angrily: "How can this be true!" Tubo children, how dare you be so presumptuous......"

The news of the urgent situation came from Tibet, and the Xiangxiong State and the Tang Dynasty had already become diplomatic relations, and expressed their submission to recognize Li Shimin as the emperor of the king, Tian Khan, who was already a vassal state of the Tang Dynasty in name. Songtsen Gampo's attack on Zhangxiong was equivalent to hitting Li Shimin in the face.

In fact, Songtsen Gampo also understands this, so before starting the war, he had already made all the roads from the Xiangxiong Kingdom to the Tang Realm.

The country of Zhangxiong sent people for help more than once, but the country of Zhangxiong is located on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, where the terrain is dangerous, and it is only better than the Shu Road. The Xiangxiong Kingdom and the Tibetan Kingdom guarded each other's key points, and it was difficult for both sides to enter and exit.

Almost none of the reinforcements sent by the Zhangxiong State were able to break through by chance, and Songtsen Gampo was blocked on the road, either captured or killed.

Without exception, Xiangxiong Kingdom also gave up the idea of asking Tang Bing for help. However, at this critical juncture, Zhu Huo, an inconspicuous little person, walked into the sight of the people of Zhangxiong country, he was a child who grew up in the Himalayas, and his skills were more flexible than apes. Crossing mountains and mountains, for him is sleeping and walking.

He inherited the high hopes of the Zhangxiong Kingdom, avoided the encirclement from the cliff that no one dared to cross, and successfully broke through the encirclement. But for some reason, the news leaked, and Zhu Huo was ambushed on the way to Datang. finally fell into the hands of Tubo, that is, the murderer Ren Hao.

In order to enhance their strength, Tubo recruited strongmen all over the world. As long as you have the ability, whether you are a vicious murderer or a thief full of evil, Songtsen Gampo will accept it enthusiastically and give the task.

Ren Hao was wanted, and he couldn't get along in the Tang Realm, so he came to Tubo to make a living. Because of his good martial arts, he was appointed.

After he captured Zhu Huo, he escorted Zhu Huo to Luo to receive the reward. Coincidentally, Li Yifeng and Zhou Lingling, who were chasing him, ran into it.

Zhu Huo is an extremely smart young man, and after Ren Hao was caught, he kept thinking of a way to get out. On the way to be escorted, he saw Li Yifeng and Zhou Lingling in the corner. Because both of them were dressed as Tang people, the woman seemed to be a little sympathetic to herself, and had the intention of helping, so she had an idea, deliberately walked slower, and was kicked by Ren Hao, and wrote the words "rescue, Tang" on the ground.

He was in a hurry to go to the doctor, but unfortunately, he met a "famous doctor".

Li Yifeng looked at the words "save and Tang", and pondered, feeling that it was likely to be a confidential matter related to the Tang Dynasty, anyway, he had to deal with Ren Hao, so he simply saved Zhu Huo together.

Li Yifeng studied under Zhou Zhenwei, a martial artist, has reached the realm of transformation, and has extremely high attainments. Ren Hao was not his opponent, not to mention that he had no intention of calculating, pretending to be a passer-by and suddenly making a move. It's just the blink of an eye, saving people and arresting people, all in one go.

From Zhu Huo, Li Yifeng got news about Xiangxiong Kingdom. Although it is not as Li Yifeng thought, it is related to the survival of the Tang Dynasty. But a person in the rivers and lakes, the most unaccustomed thing is to rely on the strong and bully the weak. As soon as the chivalrous heart came out, he escorted Zhu Huo to Qinghai without asking for anything in return, and informed Zhang Liang of the Qinghai Metropolitan Protector.

The main purpose of the establishment of the Qinghai Metropolitan Protectorate was to prevent the border of Tubo from becoming bigger. Now that Tubo has attacked the Tang Dynasty's friendly state of Xiangxiong, it has touched the bottom line of the Tang Dynasty.

As a hero in the Lingyan Pavilion, Du Hu Zhang Liang has extraordinary foresight and a big heart, and immediately sent the situation to Li Shimin with an "eight-hundred-mile expedited".

Li Shimin is indeed furious at this moment, looking at the four regions of the Tang Dynasty, only Tubo has the strength to compete with the Tang Dynasty. However, because the southwest is remote and barren, and it is located on the plateau, it is not suitable for the people of the Central Plains to live, and there is no conflict of interest with the Central Plains. All along, it has not been taken seriously.

Where did Li Shimin think that Tubo would be so rampant, openly using troops against the subject countries of the Tang Dynasty, and trying to cover up everything.

In the past few months, Li Shimin will inevitably show troops to the southwest and give those boys who don't know the height of the sky. But now that the army has been deployed, if you use troops against Tubo again, it will be tantamount to fighting on two fronts. Since ancient times, two-front warfare has been a taboo for soldiers, let alone a two-front expedition?

This piece of information, like a pimple in Li Shimin's heart, is stuck there, he wants to get rid of it, he has the strength, but he has no chance. This made him, who held the supreme power in the world, very uncomfortable, and had a feeling that he clenched his fists but couldn't fight out.

Li Shimin was a rational emperor after all, and he was not impulsive, he thought about it carefully, and immediately wrote a handwritten edict, asking Zhang Liang to send an envoy to order Tubo to stop the war against the Xiongguo, otherwise he would be an enemy of the Tang Dynasty and would be conquered by the Tang army.

Also rushed out, Li Shimin clenched his fists a little aggrievedly, and said in his heart: "Remember this account first, if you destroy Goguryeo, it will be you......"

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Military Department.

Li Ji is dealing with military affairs, and although he did not fight this time, it does not mean that he can take it easy. As the secretary of the military department of the Tang Dynasty and the minister of national defense, now he not only has to pay attention to the war on the front line, but also the deployment of equipment. The major generals who went on expeditions should meddle in their own affairs and the military affairs left over to avoid chaos.

Far from being lightened, his task has become heavier.

Today is the day when the army goes out, and Li Ji is sorting out some complicated trivial matters that have to be handled cautiously in the military department.

Li Ji is serious in his work, and this work is a full five hours and ten hours. He barely moved until everything was done, when he realized that night had fallen.

"Ahh Li Ji rubbed his sore braincase, stretched his waist, and wanted to stand up, but the sky and the earth turned upside down, and the sky swirled, and the person immediately fell to the ground.

Struggling to sit up, Li Ji found that he couldn't stand up for a while, and laughed at himself with a wry smile: "Could it be that I'm really old?" ”

He held on to the table legs, slowly sat down on Maza, and rested quietly for a while before slowly standing up, blowing out the lights, and slowly returning home.