I am the cook, but I am Li Er's son-in-law

By train, from Chang'an to Yingzhou, it only takes four or five days.

But preparations before the war must be sufficient.

One month is exactly used to prepare these things.

However, this solemn atmosphere did not affect Chang'an City, and the people still celebrated the New Year happily.

On the day of the Lantern Festival, colored lights are connected.

The train departed quietly from the train station, and no one noticed the strangeness of the train station. During this period, trains departed every day. Those spies from other countries could only inquire from a distance and could not clearly see the situation inside the train station.

They can't capture real information.

Tongfu restaurants will continue to open after the Lantern Festival.

Li Lizhi was a little restless these days, and she was somewhat worried about her father's expedition.Empress Changsun didn't have much interest in playing mahjong anymore.

Yin Xuan has great confidence in Li Shimin.

On the original timeline, Li Shimin conquered Goguryeo with a crushing force.

And now, with trains and guns, what could go wrong?
Yin Xuan's confidence is based on reality.

Li Yuan seemed very heartless, he still played mahjong and drank wine as usual.

According to his own words, his son's life is very hard, nothing happened to that point back then, how can a mere Goguryeo hurt him?
Youzhou stationed troops, and when the railway in Yingzhou was repaired, they took the train to Yingzhou overnight.

Liaodong City.

This is a city bordering Goguryeo and Datang, and it has always been the most important defense of Goguryeo.But when it comes to the New Year, there is more or less slack.

Normal duty is still there.

But the New Year is still coming.

After the Lantern Festival, the atmosphere of laxity still spread among the defenders of Liaodong City.

Inside the General's Mansion in the city.

Several Goguryeo people discussed in low voices.

"Shangtang seems to be attacking our Goguryeo?" A man picked up a piece of mutton and stuffed it into his mouth with a serious expression on his face. "This New Year scares me to death."

He is the only general in Liaodong City who has been reorganizing his army throughout the New Year.

"I'm too frightened when I say you." The general sitting next to him shook his head and sighed, "The Shang Kingdom of the Tang Dynasty is indeed terrifying."

"But... the New Year is the most solemn festival in the Tang Dynasty, how could they choose to send troops to us at this time."

The man shook his head, still worried.

He does not agree with this point of view. The so-called soldiers and tricks, he who has read Sun Tzu's Art of War thoroughly knows how much surprise can take the initiative in a war.

"And your worries have been proven to be false?" The general blushed from drinking, and said drunkenly, "Look, the New Year is over, but Tang Jun don't even call, it's Youzhou, There is also no sign of increasing troops in Yingzhou."

The man still wanted to argue.

The general opened his mouth and pointed out: "You have some abilities, but you always have some weird ideas in your mind."

"Datang is such a huge existence, and his slightest movement, in our eyes, is a huge movement that will overwhelm the river and sea."

"Don't listen to the news from those merchants, just believe it stupidly."

Speaking of this, a gloomy look appeared on the general's face.

"Back then, I believed their nonsense and bought a lot of glass products. What happened?"

"Glass products are almost rotten now. At Datang, you can buy one for a few pennies. Back then, I spent tens of pennies to afford one!"

Speaking of this, the general gritted his teeth.

It's fine if it's just a merchant who lied to him. At worst, he copied that person's house and got his losses back.

But... after he learned the news of the low price of glass, the merchant disappeared.

No, not only the glass merchant, but all the glass merchants in Goguryeo disappeared in an instant.

I heard... I lived a comfortable life in Datang. Although I didn't become a Tang citizen, I could afford to pay a large amount of detention fees every year with the money I earned from Goguryeo.

After this incident, he never believed a word about the businessman.

He even felt...

All the merchants in the world are liars, um... except for Mr. Zhengyang of Datang.

The man opened his mouth, and was just about to say something, merchants don't need to spread false news about this, and they can't make more money.

Besides... Wang Ting also heard the news and personally ordered them to get ready.

It can't be that Wang Ting was also bewitched by merchants, so why not verify it?

But he couldn't say that.

There was a loud bang, and they felt the ground tremble under their feet, and the beams of the house collapsed, and the clods and broken tiles fell into the pot, spilling hot soup all over their bodies.

"What's going on!" The general shuddered, his body trembled, and the wine spilled on himself.

Another loud bang answered his doubts.

The man stood up abruptly, and was about to say something when a handful of sand and sand hit his head, eating a mouthful of ashes.

He spat out the sand in his mouth in embarrassment, and only after the third coaxing sound, he said: "It's a cannon, this is Datang's cannon."

Datang?

These two words made the general tremble again, and his head was a little dazed: "How is it possible...the scouts didn't send any news, could it be that the earth dragon rolled away and happened to encounter thunder again?"

The man smiled wryly and shook his head: "Although I haven't seen a cannon with my own eyes, the merchants who came and went to Tang Dynasty have described this kind of thing."

"General..."

There was a fourth coaxing sound, and the house trembled even more violently.

The general came back to his senses, and nodded like a chicken pecking at rice: "Yes, we have to call Jin to raise troops, and we can't let the Tang army come in."

He didn't listen to what the man wanted to say next, and strode out.The man sighed, and followed him out. He wanted to say, abandon the city and run away now.

Spread the news to the Goguryeo rear and prepare for war.

The Tang army was already elite, but now it was a surprise attack, and they used artillery as a siege weapon. How could they survive.

Just went out.

The man ran into the general.

"General..." He was a little puzzled, talked about the general's body, looked forward, his mouth was blocked by the sight, and he could only spit out those two words.

The city gate... the city gate that was two feet high and one foot wide is gone.

Or rather, it's still there.It just exists in the form of broken bricks and ruins.

The soldiers of Datang stepped on the gunpowder smoke, holding the weapon called musket in their hands, and broke in with almost no obstacles.

The Goguryeo army did not have time to assemble, most of them were fleeing, and occasionally a small group of troops dared to resist, but before they could get close to them with a knife, blood sprayed from their chest and head, and then fell to the ground, unable to get up again.