Chapter 438: Arriving at the Battlefield Ahead of Time
"What do you think I'm doing? Didn't you see what you just saw? The Tang army first defeated the Turks, then defeated Tuyuhun, and then made a mess of Tubo, which can almost be said to be invincible, don't you know what the situation is in our country? Do you think that with a group of corrupt officials and corrupt officials, they can withstand the attack of Datang? ”
Lord Lu said while packing up his things, if he hadn't seen the military might of the Tang Dynasty in front of him, maybe he wouldn't have said these words, but just now he looked at it for half an hour, all of them are the most elite troops of the Tang Dynasty, just look at the pace of those people's actions, and there are people like His Royal Highness Taisun leading the team, if Goguryeo is not destroyed, then it will really be hell.
"But don't we Goguryeo have the protection of the gods? In the past, the army of the Great Sui was also very powerful, hundreds of thousands of people did not defeat us, and we also cut off their heads, didn't we also build a Jingguan? ”
When the young man said this, he was immediately shut by the adults.
"Shut up for me, do you still want to live, not many people in the Tang Dynasty know about this matter, only some people in the upper echelons know, if you let the people below know, then do our people in Goguryeo still have a way to live? Now there are still a lot of Goguryeo people in the Tang Dynasty, if they know that we have piled up the heads of the Han people, then we will all have to fall to the ground. ”
Goguryeo has their own glory, that is, they once defeated Emperor Yang of Sui and Li Shimin, but a small country is a small country after all, and there is not much strategic depth, and with the development of time, the development speed of the Central Plains Dynasty will exceed them, they have not made any other progress in the past two years except for civil strife, once the two sides meet on the battlefield, Goguryeo's defeat has been decided.
"But we also have to be loyal to the king, we can't just leave, shouldn't we follow their team to Goguryeo? You should have sent a message to the king every step of the way, or the pigeons would ......."
Before the young man's words were finished, a dagger had already been inserted in his stomach, originally Lord Lu wanted to spare his life, and the two of them will live in Datang in the future, anyway, they can't see it from their faces, they have been hiding in Datang for several years, and they can't tell that they are Goguryeo people.
But this young man is so uninteresting, Lao Tzu has already decided to betray Goguryeo, and you still said that you want to be loyal, since this is the case, then you can only be sent to the Hades Palace, and after you arrive at the Hades Palace, you can be loyal as you want, but Lao Tzu will definitely not accompany you.
"The one who knows the times is Junjie, you kid is so ignorant, just treat it as if we have never seen it, you don't blame me on the Huangquan Road, if you want to blame yourself, you will blame yourself for this stinky mouth, if you let you live, then I can't live in the lobby, aren't you willing to be loyal to the king? Then continue to serve him after you are dead, and I will not accompany him. ”
Lord Lu looked at the people around him, and made up a few more knives on this kid's body, as for those pigeons, they all have to find a place to kill them, otherwise so many pigeons will fly back to Goguryeo, which will always attract some people's suspicions, he only has one idea now, how to treat himself as a common man of the Tang Dynasty, and he can't find a little flaw in his body, only in this way can he continue his life, as for the people of Goguryeo, they can't take care of you.
When the spy leader of Goguryeo here killed people, Li Xiang also discussed with General Li Jing, General Li Jing continued to advance with the army, and Li Xiang would take a small force on the road in advance.
Everyone thought that Li Xiang was in the army, and if Li Xiang rushed to Liaodong as quickly as possible, then he would be able to hit Goguryeo by surprise, and they thought that now the army had just set off from Chang'an, and the real battle would start two months later, and this time was the most unvigilant.
But if Li Xiang takes an elite to the border area, combined with the army under General Su Dingfang, then he can attack the major cities in the border area first, and when General Li Jing arrives, the border cities of Goguryeo will be almost defeated, and we will have a base for attacking.
According to Li Shimin's order, we will not subdue them this time, we will occupy the whole of Goguryeo this time, from this moment on, Goguryeo can only set up the capital protectorate, and ten years later will begin to set up counties, without any vassal state.
Originally, General Li Jing did not agree, but considering the complicated situation in Goguryeo, he still agreed to Li Xiang's plan, Su Dingfang was in the border area anyway, that person was still more reliable, and it was impossible for Li Xiang to come by temperament, General Li Jing wrote a letter to Su Dingfang, asking him to watch Li Xiang in everything and not to go too deep, so that he could not withdraw if something happened to him.
As for Niu Jinda's side, he felt that this was His Royal Highness Taisun trusting him, although the commander of the whole army was General Li Jing, but General Li Jing was in poor health and could only be in the carriage at all times, so the matter of running around was still Niu Jinda, and His Royal Highness Taisun was able to give him this task, which was enough to show that he attached great importance to him.
At sunset that day, the army had already left Chang'an City for a hundred miles, but Li Xiang and the others had already run to a place of two hundred and ten miles, if it weren't for the reason that they had just left, Li Xiang would have even wanted to advance under the stars tonight.
Li Xiang only took 8,000 soldiers, although there were only 8,000 soldiers, but they were the most important in the army, of which 3,000 were cavalry and 5,000 were artillery, and the word artillery was also just proposed by Li Xiang.
When he came out of Chang'an City, Li Xiang also improved the crossbow arrows used by these people, and the longest range reached three thousand meters, but this is also a limit of crossbow arrows, if you still want to make the range of crossbow arrows farther, it is impossible now, Li Xiang is ready, and after this battle, Li Xiang will definitely form an all-firearms army.
When facing Li Shimin, Li Xiang's gunpowder had all kinds of difficulties, but now that Li Xiang is the generalissimo of the expedition to the east, these so-called difficulties are immediately gone, and there is no need for these people to make gunpowder on the road, Li Xiang can directly exchange it in the system, and the exchange is still more refined......