Chapter Twenty-Three: A Battle That Was Not Bloody

Li Jijia, who was born as a bandit, does not have a strong concept of the country, he only has a strong concept of race.

Don't look at the destruction of the Tubo envoy group and the fire on the Xianyang Bridge, these two things seem to be shocking things.

However, after Li Ji learned that all the people who died were Tubo, he left this matter behind, and at that moment he only cared about gunpowder, and he didn't care how many Tubo people died.

It's not that he hasn't killed the Tibetans, so it's not a matter for him.

The best thing Yun Chu did was to get the gunpowder from the imperial court borrowing the Xianyang Bridge.

Therefore, when Li Ji personally tested the power of gunpowder, he was very satisfied, and the tragedy suffered by the Tubo people in Datang was almost forgotten.

In his opinion, these two things are useless except for being able to grasp Yun Chu.

Yun Chu will not betray his own clan, which Li Ji is very sure of, and Yun Chu will not hurt his own clan, which Li Ji is also very sure of through four or five years of observation.

As a rare wise man in the world, he has a very vague concept of home and country, and his understanding of the emperor is also very thorough.

Anyway, his own clan always needs an emperor's, then, it doesn't matter to him who is on it.

He values the reproduction and development of his own tribe.

The rest, not enough.

Gunpowder is a new thing, and the most experienced person in how to use this thing is undoubtedly Yun Chu, who has already used it once at Xianyang Bridge.

On the Xianyang Bridge, which was littered with corpses, Li Ji didn't look at who died, he was silently calculating the lethality of gunpowder.

When he went up to the Xianyang Bridge, he saw the broken bridge pillars, so one circle after another appeared in his head, one circle after another, and the people and horses in the circle were broken.

Now, he is ready to take advantage of the Evil Clan, which has just shown signs of rising, to see if Yun Chu can accomplish the feat of defeating ten with the help of gunpowder.

It was precisely because of the availability of gunpowder and a large amount of gunpowder that Li Ji put forward the strategic idea of using 260,000 horses to extinguish Goguryeo.

Without gunpowder, if the Tang Dynasty wanted to destroy a country like Goguryeo, it would be impossible to complete this important task without an army of more than 500,000.

And the mobilization of more than 500,000 troops, for Datang, is almost a national effort.

Yun Chu returned to the barracks, and the flag officer of the Chinese army sent a military order, and the content of the military order was very simple - to destroy the Evil Sect!

"It's too urgent, the Jin Ya Department is on the left rear side of Goguryeo's Gaimu City, if you don't kill the Goguryeo people, how can you deal with the Jin Ya Ministry?"

After reading the military order, he was a little anxious, he felt that the Chinese army seemed to have given the wrong order of the military order, it should be to cross the Liaoshui first, take Xiangping, and cover Mou before it was the turn to get the Destroyer Division.

Yun Chu snorted and said, "This is a military order predetermined for us, not to attack now." ”

Wen Rou hurriedly picked up the military order and read it again, and said with a long breath: "There is no date." ”

Yun Chu nodded and said, "Xue Rengui took away the grain and grass for three days, right?" ”

Said gently: "Take it, his luck is really good, the Khitan is on our march, and destroying the Khitan is just a matter of convenience." ”

Gentle envy is very reasonable, and Yun Chu also knows that the reason why they would take such a bad order is completely because of themselves.

The army arrived in Youzhou, but did not enter the city, walked in front of the city gate, and after being inspected by Li Ji and the officials of Youzhou, they went all the way north.

The former army of Qibi He Li sent Liucheng (now Chaoyang, Liaoning) to Huaiyuan Town and bluffed towards Huaiyuan Town.

However, Li Ji's Chinese army and Gao Kan's rear army sneaked north.

Along the way, Yunchu's investment in Xue Rengui has yielded extremely rich returns.

He got 200 sheep, 20 horses, 10 oxen, and 12 black pigs.

There are dead sheep and alive, and all the pigs are dead, so Yun Chu asked the soldiers to peel and wash all the sheep and pigs during the rest of the whole army, and after applying a thick layer of salt, hang them on the barrel of the spear, march all the way, and dry all the way.

In order to prevent being discovered by the military horses, the soldiers deliberately surrounded the soldiers who carried spears to dry bacon in the middle.

Although the appearance is not very good-looking, this is a rare meat after all, and the soldiers are full of happiness as long as they look at it.

In addition, as long as it is time to bury the pot and make rice, there is always a strong aroma of bone broth in the Yun Chu army.

The army of Qibi He Li has already cleaned up the hidden dangers on the way of the advance of the Chinese army and the rear army.

This led to Li Ji's army coming to the small town of Tongding on the edge of the Liaoshui, where the Goguryeo people still knew nothing about it.

Li Ji seemed to be extremely familiar with the terrain in this area, and the army stopped thirty miles outside the small city of Tongding.

After waiting for half an hour, Jun Sima once again shouted at the whole army to advance.

When Yun Chu arrived at the small city of Tongding, he saw the arrogant and domineering Guo Zhifeng, this dog day with a team of cavalry, wrapped a thick layer of cotton on the horse's hooves, with lightning speed, rushed into the small city of Tongding, which was too late to close the city gate, and fought with the Goguryeo army at the gate of the city for a stick of incense, killed the Goguryeo guards, and captured this small city that was not so much a city as a dilapidated wooden military wall.

When Yun Chu entered the city, he heard Guo Zhifeng standing at the head of the city and said, "Thank you General Yun for not breaking his leg." ”

Seeing that this guy was really desperate to fight, Yun Chu hugged his fists on the horse and said, "General Guo Wuwei." ”

Guo Zhifeng laughed and said, "Okay, with your words, I don't hate you anymore." ”

Yun Chu said with a smile: "After crossing the Liaoshui and you have made military achievements again, Yun is willing to celebrate your achievements." ”

Guo Zhifeng's eyes lit up and said, "Anti-poison? ”

Yun Chu nodded and said, "The fiercest and most mellow anti-poison!" ”

Guo Zhifeng laughed and said: "Okay, a word is a certainty!" ”

After that, he swaggered and went to show off somewhere else.

Gently looked at Guo Beifeng, who was going away, and said with some envy: "I used to look down on this guy, but I didn't expect that when we entered Liaodong, the first person to make a meritorious service was Guo Beifeng." ”

Yun Chu said with a smile: "I don't know if you have found out, people who can't get by at all in Chang'an on weekdays have learned to be humble after they go to the battlefield." ”

Gentle glanced at him and said, "Here, no matter if it's good or bad on weekdays, now it's all partners."

They all point to each other's help to survive. ”

Li Ji's army did not stay in the small city of Tongding, but crossed the Liaoshui from the pontoon bridge of the Tongding ferry at the first time.

Liaoshui is almost the second only big river that Yun Chu has seen in Datang after the Yellow River, at this time it is the beginning of June, the spring snowmelt water has flowed into the Bohai Sea, and the rainy season has not yet arrived, there are mountains on both sides of this place to retract inward, resulting in a narrow river here, even so, the river is still a mile wide.

Just when Yunchu was about to cross the river, the military Sima sent a military order, asking Yunchu's headquarters to be stationed in Tongding for five days, cooperate with the generals to build another pontoon bridge here, and wait for the arrival of the follow-up baggage team, and then go to Xuansu City to join the army.

Will be Lao Huang complained, in five days, to build another pontoon bridge on the Liaoshui, this is to ask for his old life.

The craftsmen under his command made a long pole and stood on the pontoon bridge to test the depth of Liaoshui, but as a result, the two-zhang long pole was inserted without a trace, and the depth of Liaoshui was not tested.

Fortunately, the craftsmen who will make it still have some skills, and they quickly worked out to make a box-shaped pontoon.

The so-called box-shaped pontoon bridge is to use wood nails out of many large wooden boxes that are one zhang long and three feet wide, and then connect these boxes with wooden planks and horse nails, and use the existing pontoon bridge to build a pontoon bridge that can at least allow the baggage to pass through quickly.

At this time, it is too late to cut wood, but fortunately, the small city of Tongding is a city built of a lot of wood and planks, which is just right for use.

Therefore, there was a very funny scene in the small city of Tongding, the generals were demolishing the city with the people, while Yun Chu's subordinates were cutting wood to rebuild the city.

One is demolished, and the other is built.

By evening, one of the walls had been torn down, and the newly cut wooden stakes had not had time to be installed.

Then, a large group of Goguryeo people ran out of the woods shouting, trying to recapture the city.

At noon, he gently said that although Guo Zhifeng took down the city, it was only because it was a surprise attack that he did not take all the Goguryeo people here, and it happened that Lao Huang was anxious about repairing the bridge, so he proposed to use the demolition of the city wall to test it and see if those defeated Goguryeo people dared to sneak attack.

Yun Chu, who was standing at the head of the city, glanced at the shouting Goguryeo people who were still out of range of bows and arrows, so he turned around and ordered the soldiers to do what they should do and continue to do it.

There are two lieutenants in charge of the defense, and Zhong Kui is in charge, Yun Chu doesn't believe that they can't clean up these Goguryeo people.

Lao Huang came over with a teapot, poured a cup of tea for Yun Chu and said, "Don't be careless, there are many people in Goguryeo, and their armor is still very good." ”

Yun Chu looked at Lao Huang and said, "You're not scared at all." ”

Lao Huang glanced at Yun Chu with disdain and said, "Where do you think my position as the director of the Palace Gate Bureau came from?"

When Emperor Taizong conquered Goguryeo in the eighteenth year of Zhenguan, the old man also participated.

Why do you think the old man is so angry when he takes the armor to the armor? That's because the people there are all former subordinates of the old man. ”

When he said this, Lao Huang didn't speak, but stretched his neck to look at the battle situation, because Zhong Kui and Captain Wang Defa had already surrounded these Goguryeo people.

"Hey, although your lieutenant is ugly and smells like him, have you seen what he looks like in the chaotic army?

It's really a rare fierce general.

After a while, catch a little more life, the old man is still useful. ”

Everything Lao Huang said, Yun Chu naturally saw it, Zhong Kui held a horse chopping knife that could only be held with both hands, and took the lead in breaking through the Goguryeo spear formation, and used his flesh and blood to open a gap in the front, and then, surrounded by his subordinates, he fought inward all the way.

Looking at the appearance of flesh and blood, Yun Chu truly understood the true meaning of the word Qianjun Biyi.

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