902, someone sent cannon fodder
After half a month of marching by car, more than 100,000 troops finally arrived in Youzhou, and then were ready to enter the territory of Goguryeo at any time. Because Jingwen invented the method of marching by chariot, and now that he has conquered the Turks, there will be no shortage of war horses. So now even ordinary soldiers march in horse-drawn carriages, and if the speed is fully driven, it is called a fast, almost comparable to the cavalry. So in less than half a month at most, I came to Youzhou, which is not comparable to the marching speed in the past.
And these days, Jingwen is very comfortable, go to the military department in the morning to organize a meeting, and then ask the staff officer to formulate a march route, as well as the formulation of various tactics, and then he will be free. As for the core of the strategy, that is, to advance step by step, step by step, and under this framework, it is also played by those staff officers themselves. And Jingwen will only formulate a framework, and will not go into detail about every plan. After all, Jingwen is not a real tactical expert, if he is asked to talk about some strategies, it can be said to be true. But when it comes to tactics, that's not what Jingwen is good at. Therefore, Jingwen is also made by the staff officers, which is also of great benefit to training them.
And next, in Jingwen's car, Jingwen was hugging Duguxin and Yuriko, obviously taking advantage of him everywhere.
"Okay, you took advantage of us for half a month, aren't you okay?" Duguxin complained.
Dugu Xin really couldn't stand it, and during this time, Jingwen knew that tossing them made them very unbearable. And Jingwen seems to be a perpetual motion machine, a little refreshed, so he comes to toss them. As soon as they have free time, then come and toss them, although they exercise for a long time, they can't stand Jingwen's toss. So in the past few days, they have felt very scared of Jingwen's "favor", so they have all resisted.
"No way, it hurts to be idle here. What do you do without doing this kind of thing? Jingwen asked.
What Jingwen said is also true, because it is too leisurely, and there is no other place to have entertainment on the march, so can you do anything else to have fun besides this papapa? Since you have brought two beauties, of course you have to bang hard, so that you can solve the problem of too much idle time and kill time.
"Come on! Let's move on! ”
"No, someone's coming!"
Hearing that someone was coming, Na Jingwen immediately stopped violating Dugu Xin. After all, if someone comes, it's not a good thing. Although many people know what Jingwen is doing in the car during this time, they generally don't come over to disturb him. But since someone is approaching, it is natural to pause.
"Lord Jingwen, the emperor invites you to the handsome tent."
Since the boss had something to look for, it was naturally impossible for Jingwen to leave, and then he took the initiative to come to Li Shimin's handsome tent. And Jingwen saw that there were still some people here, these people seemed to be wearing some clothes that Jingwen had not seen, and Jingwen didn't know what nationality they were.
"Your Majesty, Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, our Xi clan is being bullied by Goguryeo miserably! They continued to expand northward. The land we live in has been swallowed up by the Goguryeo people, and inviting the Tang Emperor to come over is really the master for us! A bearded old man hurriedly said pitifully to Li Shimin.
And Jingwen also felt speechless for a while, this guy sounded like a member of the Xi clan. And Jingwen also learned about the place of the Xi generation in the north of Goguryeo some time ago, and the Goguryeo people not only expanded to the south. And they also expanded to the north, that is, where the Xi people had some other ethnic groups. There are Xi people here, and there are also the Yan people, and the Yan people should be the ancestors of the Jurchen Manchus in later generations.
And Jingwen is very uninterested in these ethnic minorities in the northeast. After all, their descendants invaded the Central Plains and destroyed the Han dynasty, so Jingwen had a very bad impression of them. But now they actually came here and wanted to ask Datang to help them make their decisions. After the crusade against Goguryeo, they helped them regain their land. This is obviously to use Datang as a wronged leader, so Jingwen is not very enthusiastic about them.
And the matter is very simple, the Xi people also heard that the Tang Dynasty was going to conquer Goguryeo, and they immediately took advantage of the arrival of Li Shimin's army in Youzhou, and immediately sent people over to hook up with Li Shimin, and then wanted the Tang Dynasty to help them regain the land, and regarded the Tang Dynasty as a wronged leader. And they have all heard that the Central Plains Dynasty is all wronged, as long as they can ask for it, it shouldn't be a problem. So they hurriedly came over and asked, after all, they couldn't beat Goguryeo, so they could only ask Datang to help them. After all, now that Goguryeo has offended a strong country by killing himself, of course they also want to follow behind the powerful country to recover the land.
"Jingwen, you are my Minister of War, can you tell me how this matter should be resolved?" Li Shimin asked.
And Jingwen immediately began to think, this Xi tribe actually took the initiative to come over to ask for help, if they got back the land out of thin air, this was impossible. Datang is not a person who works for nothing, and this Xi tribe and the Yan tribe are not subject countries of Datang. Although it is a common thing for the Central Plains Dynasty to help the subject country recover, the Xi and Yan tribes are not subject countries of the Tang Dynasty, so why should the Tang Dynasty help them return to the land. And the Central Plains Dynasty generally has to act as a referee for the surrounding countries, but if you are not my player in the first place, then why help them? This is not only unfair to other subject countries, but also an unwarranted loss of one's own prestige.
"Oh, the territory of the Xi tribe, is it? Although we Datang are going to send troops, you can't get it for nothing, right? Jingwen asked.
And the leader of the Xi tribe immediately said: "We are willing to send 30,000 troops to follow the Tang Dynasty on the expedition." ”
"Oh, 30,000, isn't it too little?" Jingwen asked.
And the leader of the Xi tribe immediately said: "It can't be more, our entire Xi tribe is just hundreds of thousands of people, and 30,000 troops is already the limit." This one is still drawn from different tribal leaders, so we can't have any more. ”
Jingwen is already very satisfied with 30,000 people, after all, he can have 30,000 more cannon fodder, of course. Since they want to take advantage of it, they naturally have the consciousness of being cannon fodder. Since someone came to send cannon fodder, why didn't Jingwen agree? As for their desire to get their land back, what about it...... (To be continued......)