Chapter Seventy-Four: The Battle of Songzhou

On a small hill in the Zuo Wuwei camp, Li Yong's battalion was stationed there, and Li Yong also gave him a vivid name for this battalion, scum battalion, but who would have thought that the people of this battalion in the future would become the predecessor of the Dragon and Tiger Guard outside the twelve guards of the Tang Army, and their strength was comparable to the existence of the Black Army, but now they, just like Li Yong scolded them, a group of scum, scum, Li Yong became their nightmare, and Li Tiezhu These instructors are messengers from hell, Li Yong brought all his more than a dozen guards as instructors, Li Yong's guards can be a company commander in the Xishan Army, and Li Tiezhu can be a battalion commander. The people in the entire Zuo Wuwei battalion can hear the cries and begs for mercy every day in the scum battalion, but no one dares to care, because Li Yong's combat power value is explosive, and he and Qin Qiong have three chapters of the law, it is okay to visit and study, but none of them can interfere with his training, as for the military quartermaster of the scum battalion, it is still specially approved by Li Jing, the secretary of the military department, at first Qin Qiong and the others were curious about how Li Yong trained, but when they saw him running with his soldiers early in the morning, and then he stood in line or something, he didn't feel anything. Later, he directly lost interest, so he let Li Yong toss it himself.

"That soldier, what do you see, say to you, are you blind? Didn't you see your comrades fall? You've forgotten about it after training for so many days, haven't you? ”

The soldier watched as the fierce instructor walked towards him with a small leather whip, and he hurriedly said to the instructor.

"Don't come here, if you come over again, I'll die to show you."

"Yo he, it seems that you have forgotten something, you listen well, remember, in the scum camp, you are all scum, not worthy of respect, unless you meet the requirements for us to respect, you, let you return the mouth, the king of the mouth is strong, right? You can talk about it, right? Dead? Why don't you die? Kill you scumbag. ”

The soldier was whipped with his head in his hands, and he pulled up the one who had fallen to the ground, and then ran away with him in a puff of smoke, and the instructor did not chase him, but shouted at the soldier who ran past him.

"You scum remember to me, these are your comrades-in-arms, on the battlefield, your backs and all the reliance can only be on your other side, if you don't even trust your comrades-in-arms, then you are a group of real scum, run faster, have children? You, ...... quickly."

The scum camp is experiencing what the devil training camp is, these people are devils, running ten miles every day, folding quilts and cleaning up tent housekeeping after running, and those who are not qualified are directly thrown out of the tent, and then they can only shout tears and hug them in a group of frozen until dawn, and stand motionless in place for half an hour every day, walking in unison, running and walking or something, a lot, as long as they do it wrong or lazy, it is a meal of fried meat with a leather whip, but their captain will take them to run every day, and insist on watching them train every day, Although those instructors move the small leather whip at every turn, but they also practice with them during training, this is not like those generals and officers with them, they are all just talking and not practicing, in high-intensity training, the food in the scum camp can be said to be the best in Zuo Wuwei, it should be said that the entire twelve guards are the best, there is meat at once, three meals a day, the original thin and fat, all slowly practice some tendon meat, as for challenging Li Yong and the instructor, no one dares to do it for a long time, it is right to be honestly trained and pumped every day, Li Yong is busy in the scum camp every day, The matter of Chang'an can only bring Zheng Liwan to Chang'an and let her be responsible, Li Yong has reopened Chang'an's industry, but this time no one dares to come to find fault, they all see that Li Yong doesn't seem to be so easy to handle, so they all quieted down and looked for opportunities, Li Yong's industry has a good reputation in Chang'an, plus such a long time of cold treatment, that once it opened, it was a thriving business, and customers were like a sea of clouds, Tang Jian, the old man, also showed a rare smile for nearly a year, because a month after Li Yong's industry opened, The treasury has collected nearly two million yuan in taxes, as for the officials who harmed the three peace messengers, their family and the family behind them were dealt the heaviest blow by Zheng Liwan, in her words, just to death, if you kill the three of me, then I will let your family and the people behind you die, and the family business of those officials was suppressed by Zheng Liwan's coercion and temptation in conjunction with other families, and in a month, their family business was on the verge of bankruptcy, and all the properties in their hands were swallowed up by Zheng Liwan, and also used the intelligence bureau to collect all the evidence of their crimes and handed them over to Dali Temple, they were arrested by Dali Temple for no reason, all the family property of those people was swallowed up, and all the property was deceived by others by means, and now they were convicted and imprisoned, and they found the people who had been supporting them before to help, and they all got a response, and then they knew that they had offended people who should not be offended, but regret was useless, and finally under Li Er's anger, all the men of their clan were exiled to Lingnan, All the young and young women were sentenced to the Church Division, and of course those people must have encountered some bandits and bandits on the way to exile, and then they became poop pulled out by wild beasts.

"What has Li Yong been doing all this time?"

"Father, it's not you yet, let him go to Zuo Wuwei, he stays in the barracks every day, and he hasn't been home for three months, hum."

"What does the youngest daughter's family know, he is the general personally ordered by your pharmacist uncle, my father did this, not for your good, now he is also a captain of Zhiguo on the seventh grade, although he has the title of a county prince, but on the day you got married, how can this identity be? arranged for him to be in Zuo Wuwei, just to let him mix up, don't you understand what your father means? ”

"Changle, you are now a married person, and you will be married next year, and Li Yong will also be crowned, so your father is also heartbroken for you."

Li Er and his wife sang and harmonized, so that Li Lizhi also felt that what his parents said made sense, but the lover had not seen him for three months, and he must be unhappy in his heart, just when their family of three was eating warmly, a piece of music was sent in, Huang Yan whispered in Li Er's ear, Li Er listened to it and snatched the music in his hand, and then read the content inside, his face immediately became gloomy, and then said to Huang Yan.

"Let the eldest grandson Wuji, Du Ruhui, Fang Xuanling, Li Jing, Xu Shiji, and Li Yong also be called."

Hearing that Li Yong was also called, Li Lizhen was also very curious, and Li Er gave her daughter a smile and said.

"Don't you say that your father took him to Zuo Wuwei so that the three of you can't see each other, just let him come back to see you."

"Thank you, father, father is amazing, father and mother, you eat slowly, I'll go back."

Li Lizhi saluted Li Er and Empress Changsun and hurriedly left the Ganlu Palace, both of them looked at their daughter like this, they both smiled, their daughter grew up, and she couldn't keep it. Empress Changsun saw that her husband's face was not very good, and it seemed that something big had happened, so she also went back to her Lizheng Palace, Li Er was not in the mood to eat, and returned to the main hall to look at today's recital, waiting for a few ministers who were going to come to him just now, after a while, Changsun Wuji and others came to the Ganlu Hall one after another, and also looked at the recital that made Li Er feel bad instantly, and the latest was Li Yong, and it happened that Li Yong came back today to get a change of clothes, and the news of the edict was rerouted to Li Yong's courtyard, Li Yong was also stunned when he received such a holy decree, but it was also very good, he had been to Zuo Wuwei for three months, and he only came back to Chang'an every half a month to get a change of clothes, and returned to the barracks the next day, of course, this also made him and Li Lizhen not meet for three months, and I just went to see her today, Li Yong took off the light armor and long knife on his body, and rushed to the palace directly with the father-in-law who passed the decree, which father-in-law asked him to change his official uniform, but Li Yong said that the saint was waiting, it was too late, so the father-in-law didn't dare to say anything, In fact, Li Yong dislikes the color of the official uniform is not what he likes, so he has not worn the official uniform for a long time is this reason, on the way Li Yong asked the father-in-law what is the matter, where does the little father-in-law know, he is also an errand runner, Li Yong did not embarrass him, so he stuffed a small silver ingot, where did the little father-in-law dare to accept it, this is the eldest princess's concubine, and later at Li Yong's insistence, he was moved to accept it, when Li Yong entered the Ganlu Palace, he looked, good guy, the big guy in this room, if you let your ghost come to a pot, then at least half of the entire Tang Dynasty was abolished, Li Yong gave Li Er a salute and stood aside, watching Li Er and those ministers continue to discuss.

"I think that this time Tubo attacked Tuyuhun, Tuyuhun will definitely not be able to resist, whether in terms of troops or strategy, Tuyuhun will not be able to compete with Tubo."

"Yes, the whole Lu Dongzan is really not simple, he actually attacked in the form of a flank attack from the east to the west, and now Fu Yun is very difficult to resist, and it is only a matter of time before the country is destroyed."

"I knew that I shouldn't have let go of this Lu Dongzan at that time."

"Lord Eldest Sun, let's not talk about this afterthought, what I'm talking about now is that if Tuyuhun is annexed by Tubo, it will definitely have an impact on our Datang."

"Lord Fang is right, if Tuyuhun is destroyed, then Tubo will put pressure on my Tonggu and Shudi borders at the same time in Wuzhou and Songzhou, when the time comes, our forces will be dispersed, and they are attacking from top to bottom, no matter from the strategic and tactical aspects, we are in a very passive situation, and now it is good that Tuyuhun's Wuzhou and other places are still in our hands, I am afraid that Tubo will not let go of the opportunity, and will definitely focus on attacking us in the land of Tuyuhun Wuzhou, where our troops are not much, The city defenses could not withstand the attack of the Tibetan army. ”

"I agree with the pharmacist, militarily speaking, we don't have enough troops to disperse so many places for defense."

Li Yong listened to it for a long time and understood, it turned out that Tubo had carried out a historical unification war against Tuyuhun, but due to his intervention, the land of Tuyuhun and those states fell to the Tang Dynasty inexplicably, but unfortunately they can't defend it now because of the lack of troops, but Li Yong is not very worried about Tubo's attack on Tuyuhun, because Fu Yun is his big customer, so many "advanced" weapons and equipment, Tubo will definitely not be able to destroy his Tuyuhun for a while, but the Songzhou they mentioned makes Li Yong worried, That place will be Tubo to break through to the important strategic position of Shu, if that place is not taken, then Shu will be a piece of fat, and Tubo can bite at any time, Li Yong thought about it for a while and directly interrupted their conversation.

"Saints and gentlemen, can I say a few words?"

The eyes of everyone present looked at him, Li Er and Du Ruhui Fang Xuanling looked at him in surprise, the eldest grandson Wuji was disdainful, Li Jing and Xu Shiji were sure enough, everyone had the same eyes, but Li Yong didn't bother to pay attention to them, Li Er and they couldn't think of any good way now, so Li Jing helped Li Yong speak.

"Saint, you might as well let this kid talk about it, and see what high opinions he can have."

Hearing that the bigwigs in the army had spoken, everyone shut up, and Li Er also agreed, so let Li Yong speak.

"I think so, Tubo is certainly powerful, but if you want to swallow Tuguhun in one bite, that's a bit overestimating yourself, the two marshals are famous in the army, and the strategic analysis is correct, but you ignore some things."

"Oh? What is that? ”

Xu Shiji asked curiously.

"That is, any military war is an extension of politics and economy, why should Tubo agree to Tuyuhun, it is because of their domestic political reasons, because their big landlords, big nobles and their Songtsen Gampo have great contradictions, Songtsen Gampo If the domestic contradictions are not resolved, he will finally face the consequences of reunifying Tubo, what is the best division of domestic contradictions, that is, to start a war, so they want to unify and annex Tuyuhun, that is an inevitable thing, In addition, most of their domestic monetary assets are in the hands of those big landlords and nobles, and the common people in the country are poor and can only be slaves to those people, and Tubo belongs to the plateau, so it is impossible to grow our crops, and there is no business like ours, so how can their money come from, it can only be plunder, so for these reasons, we cannot see that Tubo is now full of contradictions in the country. ”

"I see, you mean, add chaos to them, arm and build up strength for us, don't you?"

"Du Xiang is really smart, we can talk to Tuyuhun and let them drag Tubo, as for how to talk, I think we can fund them with some grain and grass or something, and then we will go out of Shu, take Songzhou, increase troops and defense against Songzhou and Wuzhou, and then we will send a fine work to spread rumors in Tubo's Luo and other places that the Tubo army was defeated in Tuyuhun, and then buy the big landlords and nobles, and provoke the relationship between them and Songtsen Gampo."

When everyone heard it, they were stunned by Li Yong's words, this meow was come up with by a fifteen-year-old boy? These opportunities can be described as poisonous and spicy, Li Yong watched them all ponder silently, and continued.

"Songzhou must be taken, you all agree on this, if Songzhou is in the hands of the Tubo people, under the couch, how can others be allowed to sleep soundly, I believe everyone understands, lose Songzhou, then we will pay a heavy price."

Li Yong's sentence under the couch, how can he allow others to sleep soundly like an alarm bell ringing in the hearts of Li Er and others, they can say what they think in their hearts, the battle in Songzhou is inevitable and necessary, Li Er looked at Li Yong with more recognition in his eyes, and this son-in-law can always say that he is in his heart.