Chapter 36: Carrying the Jade Dragon to Die for the King (I)
Duhu was newly discharged, and military uniforms were issued in May.
Two million soldiers, scattered golden light.
Raise the flag to blow Kunlun, cut the drum and shake Puchang.
Taibai led the officers and troops, and the sky was in the wilderness.
Looking at the clouds in the west like a snake, Rong Yi knows that he is dead.
Drive the Dawan horse and take the king of Loulan.
-- The four towns of Anxi recorded the military and Cen Shen "Mightily sent Judge Liu Dan to Anxi to camp and presented Gao Kaifu......
After the Tang Empire ascended the throne from Li Shimin, all industries flourished, the wind and rain were smooth, and the continuous expansion of overseas trade made the Chinese nation usher in the most powerful prosperous era in history. Later in Li Bai's poem, 'three thousand gold bottles against the moon, nine days of silver stars descend to earth.' In Du Fu's poems, recalling the heyday of Zhenguan, the rice is fat and the corn is white. Behind the prosperity of such a prosperous power, a great storm that shook the world and spread widely in future generations is about to strike......
On the third day of August in the eleventh year of Zhenguan, the Tang Dynasty Anxi Protectorate, on the newly built plank road, the Tang army of the brigade advanced to the west, embroidered with the big 'Li' character military flag waved violently in the wind, in a solemn mood, the fourth son of the Tang Emperor Li Ke watched Li Ji, Xue Rengui, Pei Xingjian and others gradually go away.
Cui Yanfang, the left-behind general, saluted Prince Li Ke and said: "Your Royal Highness, General Li is invincible, I don't have to worry, there are two famous generals Xue and Pei to complement each other, and we will definitely be able to return with a big victory." ”
Li Ke's golden drape fluttered in the wind, and he saw his eyes staring directly at the distant army, and his voice was firm: "This king also believes that when General Li returns, it will be the day of our army's great celebration!" ”
"What His Highness said is extremely true!" ……
The newly built plank road is leveled and tends to be an official road. The armies marched fast on this path. Li Ji, the envoy of the Tang Anxi Festival and the general of the expedition to the west, wore dragon scale armor. Riding on a great Wanliang horse, his eyes followed the teams of Mo swordsmen, archers, and Xuanjia cavalry into the distance, and his thoughts seemed to have crossed the green mountains and drifted towards the distant country.
A month ago, the spies of the Tang army in the country of Shi and Khan Bauna had already received information about the movement of the Great Food army. In the face of the orderly encampment of the Tang Dynasty, the white-clothed eaters really couldn't sit still, they began to plunder and collect materials everywhere, the Khan Bahna country in the Amu Darya River Valley bore the brunt, and was destroyed by the Great Food Country in just three days, and the grain and grass supply in the country was swept away, and the white-clothed Dashi and Khorasan invited 200,000 Great Food Army to invade Beiting, the news was transmitted back to the imperial court, Li Er's Majesty was furious, and the Tang Dynasty has always been invincible in recent years. I didn't expect that someone would dare to take the lead in attacking the subject countries of the Tang Dynasty, this kind of naked provocation. It seems that Datang is not in his eyes at all, so Li Er ordered Datang to send troops to the Anxi Protectorate in Lhasa.
But before the Tang Dynasty's army attacked, the big cannibals started to move earlier, and the armies in the Amu Darya River were transferred to the front line, looking unscrupulous, and there seemed to be no fear of the Tang Dynasty.
This battle is a thousand miles away, the victory or defeat is on the front line, the general dies in a hundred battles, and the strong man returns in ten years, thinking that I don't know how many athletes are bleeding and yellow sand this time, and the corpses are in a foreign land, just like the poem in the Guigu anthology. 'Relying on the king's words to seal the marquis, it will be a success. It is indeed a success, and after this battle, I don't know how many men will stay in this foreign land forever.
Thinking of this, Li Ji couldn't help but sigh softly. Closely followed by Li Ji are the right guard generals Pei Xingjian and Xue Rengui, Pei Xingjian is dressed in black and shiny large-leaf iron armor, the tiger head swallowing beast on both shoulders is particularly hideous, a Mo knife is obliquely inserted behind his back, the blade is cold and cold, and the blood groove remains with the blood stains printed when fighting with the Tubo army, showing Pei Xingjian's fierceness and bravery, and Xue Rengui next to Pei Xingjian is very different from him, I saw Xue Rengui wearing a dusty white robe, wearing a silver helmet, and stepping on Liuyun boots, Carrying a spear wrapped in white cloth on his back, he looked a little less evil and a little more heroic.
"Brother Pei, you have been in the old department of Longyou all the year round, what battles have you seen?" Xue Rengui and Pei Xingjian are not much different in age, plus they are both generals in the army, they can't help but feel a sense of sympathy, and the relationship between the two is also very good in private, and the march is quite boring, so Xue Rengui is also looking for a topic to talk about for entertainment.
"This Brother Xue doesn't know, the four towns of Anxi are free of war, the soldiers are named marquis, purple robes and gold belts abound, and there is no war on the side of Longyou every day, which is a thankless errand." Pei Xingjian's personality is still quite arrogant, and he uses an exaggerated expression while talking, which makes Xue Rengui laugh for a while.
"Then Brother Pei is really right to come this time, and a good opportunity to make a contribution is right in front of you."
"That's that, this time I must teach those big cannibals a good lesson, so that these barbarians who despise my Tang Dynasty know what is the ...... of the world's first army" ......
Hearing the conversation between the two young people behind him, Li Ji also shook his head with a smile, once upon a time, he was as young and enthusiastic as them, and he was willing to serve the country, but Emperor Yang of Sui was not a monarch worthy of his life, he turned to all kinds of heroes, entered the bandits, served as bandits, and finally became a general under Li Mi in Wagang, but the experience of life is always so wonderful, and finally he became the general of Li Mi's biggest enemy, Li Shimin.
The world is impermanent, this is Li Ji's biggest emotion in half of his life, after Li Jing recuperated at home, the most popular general in the court was actually himself, but Li Shimin did not fully trust himself, this Li Ji is very clear, his life experience is too complicated, and taking refuge in Li Mi is a shadow that he can't erase in Li Shimin's heart for a lifetime, but on the surface, it is still necessary to achieve harmony between the monarch and the minister, at least according to what Guiguzi said, when a monk hits the clock for a day, the workers who work for the boss always have to do their best to work.
Li Ji has passed the age of enthusiasm and pride, as he grows older, he will always look at some things more openly, and now Li Ji, everything he does is to hope that when he talks about himself in the comments of future generations, he can also praise Li Ji as a good general of the Tang Dynasty, so that he feels that he has no regrets about dying.
Don't ask for a name in history, but ask for a clear conscience, this is Guiguzi's words to himself in Lingyan Pavilion, Li Ji has been thinking about this sentence in his heart for a long time, the longer he thinks about it, the more feelings he feels in his heart, but he has a clear conscience, so this decisive battle with the Great Food Country, Li Ji will also try his best to win...... (To be continued......)
PS: Thanks to the towering family for the 588 Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info coins, a monthly pass for the book friend lzdsniper, and the 300 Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info coins that Mis Xiao Ming greatly rewarded and two big monthly passes for a thousand years, I am really grateful to see so much support when I am about to finish the book! I will work harder in the future, thank you!