-- The book continues --

In Li Shimin's personal conquest of Goguryeo, the ministers opposed it, and the king of Shu opposed it!

"Goguryeo is a mountain city, and this expedition is not about the number of people, but about quickly taking every city in Goguryeo." Wang Zheng said helplessly: "Is Your Majesty interested in a blitzkrieg?" ”

"What blitzkrieg?" Li Shimin asked with a look of curiosity.

"That is, with the most elite cavalry, at the fastest speed, regardless of logistics, regardless of the cities on the road, and even more regardless of their own retreat, to break through Pyongyang, the national capital of Goguryeo." Wang Zheng replied.

"Is it possible?" Wei Chi Jingde asked.

"How does Huo Quzhi seal the wolf? Along the way, fight for war, lightning raids, and of course, the premise is that you dare to do so! Wang Zheng replied to Wei Chijing's question.

"Nonsense! Do you want your Majesty to put your life at risk? Wei Chi Jingde scolded angrily.

Wang Zheng ignored Wei Chi Jingde and continued to say to Li Shimin: "I didn't want to take you with me, if you have to go to war in person, if you want to destroy Goguryeo this year, I don't think you need to bring the infantry, just 10,000 elite cavalry, bring a small amount of food, and when the time comes, if you don't have anything to eat, you will go and rob the people of Goguryeo." ”

Li Jing looked at Wang Zheng and also raised questions, everyone knew that Li Jing's health was not good, as early as the ninth year of Zhenguan, he began to walk a little inconveniently.

Li Jing asked, "What about the siege equipment?" When you get to the city of Pyongyang, how do you attack the city? ”

Wang Zheng smiled: "When the time comes, I will have my own way." ”

Cheng Yanjin also said: "The old man has led the troops to fight for so many years, but I have never heard of you fighting like this. ”

"10,000 elite horsemen can knock Goguryeo down?" Li Shimin also looked at Wang Zheng with a look of horror.

Li Jing asked, "Your Majesty, I don't think this is feasible. 10,000 want to destroy a country, this is too whimsical ....... ”

Wang Zheng said with a smile: "Marshal Li Jing, you forgot how I destroyed a country by myself and accepted three princesses as concubines?" ”

Li Jing: "......"

Wei Chi Jingde: "......"

Cheng Yanjin: "......"

Su Dingfang: "......"

Li Ji (Xu Maogong): "......"

Other Ministers: "......"

Wang Zheng saw that everyone didn't speak, and said helplessly: "Don't panic, Your Majesty is my father-in-law, I am not sure of victory, how can I put Your Majesty in danger." ”

Li Jing said: "What can you be sure of victory, Goguryeo's troops in Pyongyang must be no less than 100,000, 100,000 with 10,000 attacks, and it is also a siege ......."

Li Jing then shook his head.

In the end, Li Shimin decided to divide the army into two, and the 150,000-strong army led by Li Jing and veterans such as Wei Chi Jingde and Cheng Yanjin to feint.

A 10,000 elite horseman, including Li Shimin, Wang Zheng, Xue Rengui, Su Dingfang, Pei Xingjian, and Wang Xuance, fought to raise the war, and lightning raided.

Su Dingfang is forty-three, Xue Rengui is thirty-one, and Pei Xingjian is twenty-six, but since these people have been on the edge of power for a long time, it is possible to fight hard.

The eldest grandson Wuji and these people all came to persuade Li Shimin not to do that, and as soon as the news of the pro-conquest came out, and it was still 10,000 elite horsemen, he dared to pro-conquest.

Naturally, the court was opposed, and there were even those who demanded that Wang Zheng be sent to prison, but the angry Li Shimin directly belittled Xiao Yu's left servant and asked Wang Zheng to be this left servant.

Wang Zheng quickly secretly recruited 9,000 people, although there were not 10,000, but these 9,000 people, it should be said, is really the kind of tiger and wolf army.

Before setting out on the expedition, Wang Zheng of course had to say hello to Li Yingqin and them, and then ...... The next day, Princess Jinyang went to Li Zhi with Wang Zheng's letter, and Li Zhi opened the letter and read: Pro-Zheng is the obsession of your father, if you are really filial, let him go. Also, be careful of the eldest grandson Mowgli! ”

After reading the letter, Li Zhi's expression was also complicated.

The eldest grandson Wuji, who knew that Li Shimin had secretly left, hoped that Li Shimin could do something, wouldn't he be able to assist the crown prince and ascend to the throne?

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"In this expedition, we will only win, not lose, not break Pyongyang, and vow not to retreat!"

A few days later, Wang Zheng and his entourage came to Yingzhou, and Zhang Jian, the governor of Yingzhou, didn't even know that Wang Zheng was coming.

It wasn't until someone reported to him that there were cavalry outside the city that were about to enter the city, and it was menacing, that Zhang Jian knew that Wang Zheng had come to attack Goguryeo under the orders of His Majesty.

Wang Zheng took out the map he had prepared long ago and began to arrange the task, and at the same time, Wang Zheng began the decapitation operation in accordance with the combat method of modern special forces.

A thousand people entered the city, and it was almost impossible not to make some noise, and many people of Goguryeo were still asleep at this time, even if some were awakened by this sound, who would have thought that the army of the Tang Dynasty had come to them.

In the past few years, the Goguryeo coup d'état has also had similar scenes, and the people of Goguryeo are not surprised at all.

After all, it is normal for a tyrant like Quangai Suwen to be killed one day.

It seems that some screams were faintly heard in the city, and they really didn't know who was carrying out the coup d'état tonight.

Because as far as they knew, after the coup d'état of Quangai Suvin, all those who opposed him, even the infant children, did not let go.

Now in the city, one counts as one, and almost all of them are Quangai Suwen's lackeys.

At this time, Li Shimin saw Wang Zheng's hand, and then took Xue Rengui and 600 people to kill into the palace of Quangai Suwen.

Quangai Suwen is still a hero, but Quangai Suwen probably couldn't think of it, he thought in his dream that the Tang Dynasty was just like that, and now, when they and Baekje's coalition forces should have taken down all the important cities of Silla, Li Shimin would come here secretly in dozens of days.

At this time, Wang Xuance closed his eyes slightly, thinking about the current situation of Quangai Suwen, now that Li Shimin has personally conquered here, if Gao-Ju-Li can catch the lord Li Shimin and use this to threaten, let alone let me withdraw from Gao-Ju-Li, even if it is a matter of cutting land and losing money!

As a result, the killing is everywhere!

"Not good!" Wang Xuance shouted; immediately found Li Shimin and others, and at this time, Su Dingfang and Pei Xingjian stopped Wang Xuance and told Wang Zheng's plan.

The three of them immediately cut off the back road of Goguryeo, but the appearance was very great, and the burly Quangai Suwen asked in a rather lame Tang dialect: "...... The people of Datang? ”

Quan Gai Suwen looked impossible: "You are ...... Li Shimin? ”

Li Shimin's imperial aura slowly emanated, no matter what Quan Gai Suwen thought, it was impossible to think that the Tang Emperor really came in person.

After Li Shimin quickly solved the problem of Quangai Suwen, he went to Goguryeo's puppet king, Gozang.

Goguryeo did have an army of 150,000 troops, but now they were all sent to the battlefield of Silla in the south, and they were not in the city at all.

At this time, when the city still wanted to resist stubbornly, then news came from the palace that the king of Goguryeo had been taken down, and Mo Lizhi had also been taken.

When Wang Zheng, with the head of Quangai Suwen and the puppet king Gaozang, appeared in front of everyone, all the people of Goguryeo could see it, Pei Xingjian stood on the city tower, and it was also Wen Crepe who said something about the Tang Dynasty's hanging of the people's crimes, and at the same time announced that Goguryeo would destroy the country, and from then on, Goguryeo would become a state of the Tang Dynasty, named Lizhou.

Those who surrender are the people of the Tang Dynasty, and those who dare to rebel will be exterminated, as soon as they say this, all the soldiers and people of Goguryeo suddenly put down their weapons very heartily, and Quangai Suwen is dead, and they can only surrender with their hands tied.

Wang Zheng asked them to bring out all the family members of Quangai Suwen, beheaded them one by one, and the nine clans were wiped out, and then, Wang Zheng asked people to control all the generals who were defending the city, and asked everyone to gather their weapons and destroy them directly.

When the news of Pyongyang reached every city in Goguryeo, Goguryeo was also shocked by the whole country.

When the Goguryeo army wanted to return to Pyongyang City, it was successfully sniped by Li Jing 150,000 and killed 80,000, and the others surrendered, and Li Jing was also destroyed in the name of Goguryeo, Silla and Baekje, so that future generations would not have the territory of the two Koreas and Koreas, and now all the territory of the Tang Dynasty.

Wang Zheng could not let Li Shimin stay in Pyongyang for long, because the longer he stayed, the more dangerous it became.

Three days later, the lords of all the large and small cities in Goguryeo came to meet them, and everyone was even more shocked when they heard that it was the Tang Emperor who was there.

Li Shimin asked Wang Zheng, Xue Rengui, Su Dingfang, and Pei Xingjian to stay as acting state ministers and temporarily lead the pastor of Lizhou.

Wang Zheng said that one person and 5,000 soldiers were enough, and the others returned to Chang'an with the army of Li Jing and others who arrived ten days later.

The next day.

After everything was ready, Wang Zheng hurriedly escorted Li Shimin all the way back, and then ...... The group returned to Datang under the escort of Zhang Jian.

The battlefield is cruel, this battle Li Shimin, with the support of Wang Xuance's protector and Xue Rengui, severely hit Gao-Ju-Li, this time the battle between the Tang Dynasty and Gao-Ju-Li, will inevitably rise a new group of magnates.

In the early court of the next day, Wang Xuance arrived at the Xuanwu Gate early to wait, and Li Shimin certainly did not disappoint their good intentions, and immediately began to play to their heart's content.

First of all, of course, the three armies were rewarded, Cheng Yanjin, Wei Chigong, Li Ji (Xu Maogong), Su Dingfang, Pei Xingjian, and almost all the generals were rewarded.

In fact, for Li Shimin's reward to Li Jing this time, it was not so much to reward him for his "merits", but to reward him for his "hard work".

The title represents the nobility of the Tang Dynasty and is a symbol of the privileged class.

Since Li Shimin ascended the throne, the reward for the title can already be described as "stingy", and this time he actually gave two princes such a big title!

After the dispersal of the dynasty, everyone wanted to come over and have a relationship with Wang Xuance and Xue Rengui Lala, but they were hooked up by Wei Chigong and walked out of the palace.

During the Eastern Expedition Gao-Ju-Li, Li Shimin and Wang Xuance got along for a long time, and they also knew the temperament of this guy, so they asked Wang Xuance to escort the envoys of the King of the Ring of Japan back to China.

At this moment, Wang Xuance did not know that this and the subsequent visits to Tianzhu via Tubo were of great significance, and these diplomatic activities pushed the cultural exchange activities between the Tang Dynasty and Tianzhu countries to a new height.

Zhang Liang, the twenty-four heroes of Lingyan Pavilion, accidentally exposed the rebellion of Hou Jun, the secretary of the Ministry of Officials, and was reappointed as the secretary of the Criminal Department; He once served as the chief of the Canghai Road march, accompanied the army on an expedition to Goguryeo, and soon after returning to Chang'an, he was accused of deliberate rebellion.

Li is naturally lewd-lascivious and arrogant, and Zhang Liang is both fond and afraid of her.

Later, the Li family had an affair with someone, but Zhang Liang adopted this person as his adopted son and named him Zhang Shenji.

In addition, Li also likes witches, befriending witches, and interfering in political affairs, gradually ruining Zhang Liang's reputation, Li Shimin ordered Ma Zhou to investigate the matter, and Cheng Gongying and Gongsun Chang both confirmed that Zhang Liang rebelled.

Li Shimin sent his eldest grandson Wuji and Fang Xuanling to the prison to say goodbye to Zhang Liang, and then escorted him to Chang'an West City to be beheaded, and confiscated all his family's property.

Zhenguan twenty-one years, Gao Jian, the word Shilian, the uncle of Empress Wende of Tang Taizong, Shen Guogong, died, Li Shimin posthumously presented Situ, and the governor of the state, the name of the literature, accompanied the burial of Zhaoling, with the temple court of Taizong.

In the twenty-first year of Zhenguan, after the death of Gao Shilian, Wang Xuance sent a second envoy to India, but at this time the king of the ring of the day who had reconciled with the Tang Dynasty had died, and just arrived in Central India, Wang Xuance and his party were attacked by Alonashun, who established himself as the king, and Wang Xuance and the mission were captured.

However, Wang Xuance was very clever, escaped at night, and traveled day and night to the western border of Tibet, where he recruited the army of the Nibora (Nepalese) state in the name of the Tang Empire and the marial state of Tibet.

With the support of the 7,000-strong army of the Nibora Kingdom and the 1,200-strong elite troops of the Tibetan state, the Central Indian army was defeated and Alona Shun and his family were captured.

Wang Xuance's reputation of destroying a country by himself spread overseas, and Wang Xuance's sugar manufacturing technology was brought into the Tang Dynasty, and Wang Xuance established immortal merits for the diplomatic cause of the Tang Dynasty.

In the twenty-second year of Zhenguan, Xiao Yu, one of the twenty-four heroes of Lingyan Pavilion, died at the age of eighty-one in his sister, Xiao Zhenguan, the empress of Emperor Yang of Sui. After the death of Xiao Yu (Xiao Shiwen) sister Empress Xiao, Xiao Yu was deeply affected in her heart, and died of illness at the age of 74.

Xiao Yu once falsely accused Fang Xuanling of forming a party and rebelling, and was reprimanded by Li Shimin, and he was unsuccessful.

Xuan asked to become a monk and broke his promise, Li Shimin because of his knighthood, degraded the history of Shangzhou, and a generation of famous, politicians, historians Fang Qiao (word Xuanling) died of illness shortly after Xiao Yu's death, Li Shimin posthumously presented Taiwei, nicknamed Wenzhao, worthy of enjoying the Taizong temple court, and accompanying the burial of Zhaoling.

Li Shimin awarded the twelve articles of the "Emperor Fan" written by him to the crown prince Li Zhi, and admonished him: "You should take the ancient sage and sage king as your teacher, and you must not follow me like you." Because if you take the law from above, you can only get it, and if you take the law from the middle, you can only get it. Since I ascended the throne, I have made many mistakes: splendid pearls and jades are endless, palaces and pavilions are often flourishing, dogs, horses, eagles and falcons are far away, and they travel all over the world to provide fatigue. All of these are the greatest mistakes I have ever made, and you must not follow me as an example. ”

Zhenguan twenty-three years, Lingyan Pavilion twenty-four heroes, outstanding military strategist, Li Jingzi pharmacist, his life for decades, for the establishment and development of the Tang Dynasty made great achievements.

His experience in administering the army and fighting further enriched the ancient military thinking and theory of the art of war of the Celestial Empire, and he wrote many military books such as "The Mirror of the Six Armies" and "The Art of Guarding the Guards", most of which have been lost, and he was sick in his later years, and he kept his own door behind closed doors, and did not plan political affairs, and soon Li Jing died of illness at the age of 79.

Li Shimin gave Situ and the governor of the prefecture, nicknamed "Jingwu", and was buried in Zhaoling.

——To be continued——