After sending Liu Lin away, completing the appointment, and basically returning to normal state, Guo Rong left the military tent with a few guards, walked to the beach, and looked at the sea ship moored on the periphery of Changshan Island.

Feeling the scorching sea breeze and looking at the fleet swaying in the sea breeze, Guo Rong was anxious, but he was helpless, things on the sea really couldn't be messed up.

To be honest, Guo Rong doesn't like a certain Ma in later generations, but Guo Rong has a deep memory of a certain sentence said by Ma: There are thousands of reasons for success in this world, but there are only a few reasons for failure.

Yes, there are thousands of reasons for success, everyone may have their own reasons for success, but the reasons for failure are not so many.

Strictly speaking, Guo Rong is not the kind of gifted general, such as the invincible god of war Huo Quai, who is crisscrossing Liaodong, Mobei, and the Western Regions, for example, with 30,000 lone troops in Liaodong, fighting hundreds of thousands of rebels, dizzy and distant, Li Yu is scattered, such as the Tang Dynasty military god, who has never stood in the right line, has never lost a war, and always fights fairy battles, showing the incomparable achievements of good fighters to the fullest, Li Jing ...... Compared with those existences with different talents, Guo Rong relies on that steady, calm, not arrogant or impatient, steady and steady.

Although Guo Rong is now in a high position and has almost reached the peak of the power of the Tang Dynasty, and can even influence the key figures in the existence of the entire Tang Empire, in the final analysis, Guo Rong is still only a 25-year-old young man, and young people will make mistakes.

This time, after the decisive battle of Bianzhou completely laid the overall situation of Shandong, Guo Rong inevitably floated.

In fact, Guo Rong would float after every victory before, but fortunately, it was often too late to suffer major losses, or do something that everyone was angry about, and those veterans who lived in Guo Rong's memory would always remind themselves in time.

And this time, his luck finally ran out, and he finally paid the price for his drift.

Inadvertently, his thoughts shifted to Liu Lin and Liu Renliang, the pair of grandsons and ancestors. Compared with other famous generals of the Tang Dynasty, Wu Xun Wensheng, Liu Renliang, Liu Lin, this combination of Liezu and Sun is of great significance to Guo Rong.

In the past, Guo Rong naively thought that maintaining neutrality was the absolutely correct choice when facing the team. However, from Liu Renliang, a late-blooming celebrity, and his children and grandchildren, Guo Rong found that neutrality seemed to have little to do with avoiding taking sides.

The so-called neutrality, in the eyes of some people, is not a kind of taking sides. By chance, Liu Renliang, who had mastered the de facto military power of Chang'an City during the special period, chose to be neutral, and it was not a connivance with Empress Wu.

Regardless of whether Liu Renliang was intentional or not, it was Liu Renliang's neutrality at the critical time, or inaction at the critical time, that made the seizure of power by the Empress Wu a reality.

As for himself, well, looking back, Guo Rong is very glad that he has been standing firmly in the team of Emperor Li Chan from beginning to end, and has not been shaken by the emperor's physical condition.

On the surface, the Emperor Taishang, who abdicated but controlled the government, and the emperor, who was the emperor but was like a puppet, were indeed two queues that were extremely opposed and incompatible.

His performance of always being loyal to Emperor Li Yu will naturally be seen by everyone. According to this state of opposition, the Emperor Taishang passed away, Li Chun controlled the government, and the iron rod of the Emperor Taishang should be liquidated, even if he is not liquidated, at least he will not maintain his current position.

However, if you think about it seriously, Li Yu and Li Chun, the father and son, did not have a real conflict from beginning to end.

Perhaps because Li Chun's ability to control the overall situation is too strong, Li Chun has no desire to resist; Maybe it's because Li Yu and Li Chun, a father and son, are also open-minded and not jealous; Or maybe it's because Li Yu and Li Chun have exactly the same goal,...... Compared with Liu Renliang's experience and his own experience and thinking, after knowing Liu Lin's detailed experience, Guo Rong felt an indescribable surprise.

Once, Guo Rong was very confused about things like exploring routes and exploring waterways. The land is a plane, the road is a plane on the plane, the army needs to find a water source, find a suitable campsite, need to avoid the mountains, valleys, need to find a suitable route for horses, pack horses, livestock...... It is true that routes need to be considered, but why explore so-called routes at sea and in the air?

For example, Datang and island countries. Datang is here, the location of the island country is also there, the location of the know, all the supplies and personnel are staying on the ship, and they set sail directly, are you still afraid that you can't find the target?

I didn't understand it before, but this time, on the voyage from Dengzhou to the Liaodong Peninsula in the north, Guo Rong understood that things like the sea are indeed different from the land.

On land, you may need to worry about food, grass, terrain, and water sources to prevent enemy attacks, but if you are not unlucky to the extreme, you will not suddenly encounter such a devastating wind and waves!

At this moment, Guo Rong, who had recovered his physical state and regained his rational thinking, clearly remembered that before setting out on the expedition, more than one person, including Liu Lin, persuaded Guo Rong to be wary of the stormy waves that might appear.

However, Guo Rong finally chose to go to sea with his own will, which of course had worries about Li Yu and the 80,000 soldiers and civilians under Li Yu, but more than that, he lacked reverence for the sea.

In fact, since he came to Datang, Guo Rong has only had one experience by boat, that is, from Jimo to Rongcheng Bay.

It's just that that time I was moving along the coastline, and I didn't encounter too much wind and waves, which not only did not arouse Guo Rong's vigilance, but made Guo Rong a little overconfident.

Under multiple factors, there is a crisis caused by this rash going to sea. Only in the midst of this kind of turbulent waves that can destroy the world can we know what kind of existence the sea is.

Although Liu Lin turned the tide at the critical moment and saved the main body of the fleet, there were still seven or eight ships buried under the strong wind and huge waves, and nearly a thousand loyal and elite sailors completely lost their lives because of their righteousness and arrogance.

This section of the route from Dengzhou to the north of the Liaodong Peninsula is really not too long, and there are also Changshan Islands along the way, which can be relied on.

Rao is like this, in the face of real storms and waves, there is still no resistance at all.

The island country is farther away from Datang, and the sea conditions, wind direction, ocean currents, and even the seabed landform are bound to be more complex.

In fact, throughout the history of China, it is not true that no one has tried to attack the island nation.

Kublai Khan's Mongol and Yuan empires had organized a huge expedition to the islands, but the largest fleet ever set out before they were killed in the rough seas.

Since then, the Mongols have completely abandoned the idea of crossing the sea. The people of the island country are just chickens and dogs, but the sea is really bottomless, even if the arrogance is extreme, even if the Mongols have fought all the way to the Danube, they have not made any attempts.

The Mongols will give up, but it doesn't mean that Guo Rong will also give up. After seeing the actions of the island people who landed in Wendeng, under the new hatred and old hatred, Guo Rong once made an oath to land on the island country and avenge the compatriots in this era and another time and space.

From this, Guo Rong immediately understood the importance of the safe and secure route from the island country to the Jiaodong Peninsula that Li Shidao mastered.

It's just that I didn't expect that the person who opened up that channel was by my side. However, before Guo Rong could be happy for a while, another gust of cold wind hit, blowing on Guo Rong's face like a knife cutting an axe.

Subconsciously looked up at the northwest direction where the cold wind was blowing, and the cold wind even blew so cold that Guo Rong couldn't even open his eyes.

With his eyes closed and feeling the cold wind, Guo Rong suddenly felt something hit his face.

Guo Rong gently stretched out his hand, opened his eyes carefully, and one by one tiny but crystal snow particles lay quietly in his palm.

Looking at the snow particles that landed steadily in the palm of his hand, Guo Rong's mood that had just improved fell into a trough again.

It's starting to snow! This is Changshan Island, and the Liaodong Peninsula, where Li Yu is located, is further north than here.

Originally, Li Yu's department was short of food and clothing, but now, the strong northwest wind has been blowing for more than two days and nights, and the snow particles have even fallen.

Li Yu's department is tantamount to adding insult to injury. Thinking of the strong winds, blizzards, and low temperatures to resist the attack of the Liaodong, Silla, Baekje, and island coalition forces, Guo Rong's heart was like a knife, obviously he was already so close, but he couldn't do anything.

Guo Rong, who was frozen in the cold wind, clenched his fists hard, and the snow particles in the palm of his hand before instantly soaked Guo Rong's palm, but he couldn't touch the heart collar cut by the cold wind.

Thinking about it carefully, Guo Rong did float, but Guo Rong himself is not a stubborn person, let alone a person who can't listen to advice.

If it weren't for the fear that the situation on Li Yu's side on the Liaodong Peninsula would have deteriorated sharply, why would Guo Rong have taken so many risks, stared at the opposition of many generals and colonels, and insisted on demanding that the army go north from the three ports of Dengzhou, Laizhou, and Weihaiwei.

At this moment, he really wanted to give an order, and the whole army set sail, targeting the Liaodong Peninsula, Qingnipu, and Beisha City!

As the so-called incompetence of a general exhausts the three armies, one of his own ventures has led to huge casualties among the elites under his command, however, after seeing the stormy waves of the sea and almost letting his army completely bury himself in the sea, Guo Rong knew that he could not take risks no matter what.

It's just that when Guo Rong was looking at the north in a daze with worry, Liu Lin had already led several experienced old sailors or old captains to his side.

"Dashuai!" Hearing Liu Lin's voice, Guo Rong quickly recovered from his stunned state, and after turning back suddenly, Guo Rong found Liu Lin and a general of the army behind him.

"Oh, Liu Lin," replied simply, absent-mindedly. While stretching out his hand to continue to greet the snow particles, he turned his gaze to the north again,

"It's snowing, I don't know what happened to Li Yu......"

"Marshal, the last general thinks that we can prepare to attack!"

"Oh, ready...... Well? Halfway through his absent-minded words, Guo Rong suddenly became a spirit, and looked at Liu Lin behind him with surprised eyes, and saw a smile on Liu Lin's weathered face.

"You say, it's time to attack? But ......, but ......, but ......," Guo Rong said, stretching out his hand.

The strong northwest wind did not stop, and the scattered snow particles still kept smashing on his hands, face, and body......

"Lao Liu, this is not a joke, I know that Li Yu's side is very dangerous now, but the more dangerous it is, the more we can't take risks here!" Guo Rong jumped up all of a sudden, but Liu Lin smiled and said nothing, looking at Liu Lin, who was unmoved, Guo Rong continued.

"The temperature plummeted, Li Yu is not easy, but the opponent is definitely uncomfortable, I believe in Li Yu, I will never give in,......" At this moment, Guo Rong's mind once again appeared those white-haired, first-class meat jokes, but may not even have the hands of a girl in his life.

"I believe...... I believe that our Datang soldiers will definitely hold on until the last moment, on the contrary, if there is any problem on our side, then after losing foreign aid, Li Yu will really be finished! Guo Rong said harshly, sonorously, and frankly, but what he didn't expect was that after he finished speaking, Liu Lin and several military academies around Liu Lin who were also shivering from the cold all had a wicked smile on their faces.

This abnormal scene, Guo Rong was stunned all of a sudden, and after a while, Guo Rong's face suddenly showed a ray of hope.

"Is the wind going to stop?"

"Nope! Dashuai, the wind shouldn't stop in a short time! ”

"That ......"

"After feeling the snow grains, I and a few colleagues carefully studied it and determined that the gale can last for at least three days, as long as there are three days of strong wind, it doesn't even need to be three days, two days is enough time for us to pass through the strait and reach Qingnipu!" As soon as this sentence came out, Guo Rong was directly stunned, Guo Rong could understand every word of Liu Lin, but after listening to it, Guo Rong was extremely confused, what is it that it is convenient to pass when there is a strong wind...... Liu Lin obviously saw Guo Rong's doubts, and he also understood why Guo Rong had doubts, but at the moment he didn't waste too much time.

"Dashuai, without further ado, it's not early, and the temperature is still dropping, if it's late, I'm afraid it won't be conducive to the expedition, so ......"

"But it doesn't hurt to say it!"

"Yes, if the marshal believes me, I will give the order now, let the whole army go out, now try to prepare as much as possible before it gets dark, and prepare as soon as possible, and set out immediately, as for the reason, after setting sail, I will personally explain to the marshal!" looked at Liu Lin, who had a firm and serious expression, and then looked at several old soldiers behind Liu Lin who were as determined as Liu Lin, Guo Rong nodded.

"Okay, let's go!"

"Yes!"