Li Shimin

Moreover, Datang is not afraid of war now!

Soon, Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui and others went down to start preparations.

However, Cheng Zhijie and Li Xiaogong did not move, staying in the Hall of Liangyi.

In the end, it was Li Shimin who couldn't bear it first, and looked at Cheng Zhijie and Li Xiaogong with disgust on his face.

"Cheng Heizi, Brother Xiaogong, what else do you two have?"

Cheng Zhijie and Li Xiaogong glared at each other, then looked at Li Shimin, and shook their heads together.

"Go back to Your Majesty, I didn't wait!"

Li Shimin stared, "Since there is nothing to do, why are you two still sitting in Liangyi Hall and not leaving?"

"Hey, Your Majesty, I know you must go to Li Family Manor to find King Jin, and I want to go too!"

Cheng Zhijie said with a laugh.

"Exactly, what Su Guogong said is correct, Your Majesty, I also want to go with your Majesty to meet Xuan Ba!" Li Xiaogong echoed.

"Who said I'm going to find Xuan Ba?"

Li Shimin said angrily.

"Your Majesty, it was the Hejian County King who said it!"

"Your Majesty, Cheng Heizi said it..."

Cheng Zhijie and Li Xiaogong subconsciously pointed at each other and said!

"Humph!"

Seeing this, Li Shimin snorted directly, sat on the sofa, and looked at Cheng Zhijie and Li Xiaogong quietly.

However, these two people are determined to lead troops to conquer the bandit army of the Great Food Kingdom, so they bite the bullet and continue to sit on the top.

After staying up for a while longer, Li Shimin's frown became deeper and deeper.

In the end, he let out a long sigh, his face full of helplessness.

"Isn't it just a barbarian army? How dare you stick to me like this?"

"Your Majesty, now our Great Tang country is safe and peaceful, and the small border countries on all sides have become my Great Tang's vassal state, and there is no war at all. My old Cheng is already bored, and I plan to follow the example of the Crown Prince and take my Tang people to farm. too!

Now, I finally met such an army of thieves to satisfy my old Cheng's greed, so I must catch them! "

Cheng Zhijie was still smiling.

"I will make a decision tomorrow on who to send to the expedition!" Li Shimin said.

Hearing this, Cheng Zhijie's face became anxious, and he said quickly: "Your Majesty, it's okay to let Lao Cheng be a lieutenant general!"

"As soon as my Great Tang was the founder of the country, the Twelve Generals of the Guards went to be the deputy generals? Is it possible that my Great Tang will send 20 troops?"

Li Shimin sneered, "You bastard doesn't even know how many people there are in that army?"

"Your Majesty, how many troops?" Cheng Zhijie asked with a sneer.

"2 horses!"

Li Shimin said.

"Twenty thousand?"

Cheng Zhijie frowned slightly.

"May I ask Your Majesty, are these 2 horses all cavalry, or are there still infantry accompanying them?"

"It's [-] cavalry!"

Li Shimin said.

Cheng Zhijie suddenly became excited: "Your Majesty, if you want to eat up [-] cavalry, how can I, the Tang Dynasty, have to send [-] cavalry?"

"This is not necessarily the case!"

Li Shimin glanced at Cheng Zhijie with a half-smile, and said slowly.

"what?"

Cheng Zhijie was surprised.

"Go, I'm going to meet Xuanba!" Li Shimin waved his hand, stood up and walked out.

"Hey, Your Majesty, wait for me..."

Cheng Zhijie and Li Xiaogong both grinned and chased after them.

……

After half an hour.

Li Xuan, who was bored with Li Chenglu and walking the dog in the village, saw Li Shimin, Li Xiaogong, and Cheng Zhijie get out of the carriage, and couldn't help being surprised.

"Your Majesty, why are you here?"

Li Shimin: "..."

"See His Royal Highness King Jin!"

Cheng Zhijie on the side hastily bowed his hands in salute.

Li Xiaogong explained: "Xuanba, my Datang caravan was plundered by the army of the Dashi Kingdom in the Western Regions. Tens of thousands of money and goods were looted. indivual!"

"How dare you!"

Li Xuan's expression changed, and his whole body was filled with murderous aura.

Then, he suddenly remembered something and asked, "No, why did my Datang caravan meet the Dashi army? Where did they go?"

Hearing this, Li Xiaogong was also startled.

When he heard this, he was also furious, and he didn't think about this problem at all.

"Let's go, let's talk in the house!"

With that said, Li Xuan invited Li Shimin, Li Xiaogong and others into the house.

Li Chang took two maidservants, and hurriedly served micro tea and melon and fruit snacks.

"Your Majesty came here today, but do you want to send troops?" Li Xuan asked.

"Xuan Ba ​​is right. A mere country of barbarians dares to rob our Tang caravan and slaughter our Tang people and veterans. I wish I could capture its lord alive and kill him as the dead old soldier. Apologize to the people!" Li Shimin said angrily.

"Furthermore, in the past two years, this caravan brought me back many rare treasures from the Western Regions. Dashi barbarians dare to cut off my fortune!"

Li Xuan nodded slowly.

Indeed, in the past few years, the most profitable caravans of the Tang Dynasty were those from the Western Regions.

There are tens of hundreds of countries in the Western Regions, and all of them are rich. As long as good objects from Tang Dynasty can be transported there, a glass object can be exchanged for half a catty of gold or a piece of gemstone.

Or, a piece of silk can be exchanged for half a catty of gold, or a good horse!

Just by running the caravans in the Western Regions, more than [-] guan of money can be distributed to the Prince Jin's mansion every year.

As for Li Shimin, he got more...

In addition, there are no more battles to fight around the Tang Dynasty, and all the generals in the Tang Dynasty, including Li Shimin, are probably too idle to grow hair.

Now there is such a big barbarian country that dares to stand up and bark its teeth at Datang. If Li Shimin doesn't fight, those generals will make a fuss!

"Xuan Ba, there are about [-] cavalry soldiers in Da Shi Kingdom's rebel army, and my Tang Dynasty also sent [-] generals, including [-] cavalry soldiers, [-] infantry soldiers, and [-] thunder soldiers. Can we kill these rebel soldiers in one battle?"

Li Shimin asked the purpose of Lijiazhuang.

"Your Majesty, is there a cannon in the Thunder Army?" Li Xuan asked.

"artillery?"

Hearing this, Cheng Zhijie and Li Xiaogong's eyes suddenly widened, their faces full of longing.

"Xuan Ba, the Military Weapons Supervisor has produced a hundred cannons, and I am going to let the Thunder Army bring them all!"

Li Shimin nodded slowly and said.

Now, Cheng Zhijie and Li Xiaogong stared directly at Li Shimin.

"Your Majesty, a hundred cannons need at most five hundred soldiers to escort them. How many bombs are equipped for each cannon?"

For one hundred cannons, Li Xuan was not too surprised. In the past two months, the Military Weapons Supervisor could completely forge them.

"Each cannon can only be equipped with fifty bombs!"

Li Shimin said.

"enough!"

Li Xuan nodded slowly, "Although the cavalry is fast, the Dashi cavalry has never seen my Datang firearms. As long as they dare to send troops to our Datang and charge head-on, they only need two rounds of artillery salvo, and the [-] The Dashi cavalry will be turned on their backs, and [-]% of them will be killed.

The rest of the soldiers will also lose their courage and flee in all directions! "

Li Shimin's eyes lit up, but he was still a little dissatisfied.

"Xuanba, I want to slaughter all these [-] bandits!"

As for Cheng Zhijie and Li Xiaogong, they were already short of breath, and their eyes were full of longing.

"Your Majesty, unless five times as many troops are dispatched, if the [-] cavalry are determined to escape, they will not be able to wipe them all out!"

Li Xuan glanced at Li Shimin indifferently, "Let alone a hundred cannons, even a thousand cannons can't kill them all at once!"

"However, how can Your Majesty be sure that there is no Great Food army behind the Great Eater? Or, how can Your Majesty be sure that among the countries in the Western Regions, there are no small countries that have joined the Great Eater?"

"Your Majesty, artillery is most suitable for attacking bandit soldiers who are standing still! It's not that they can't fight bandit soldiers who are moving, but Your Majesty has to choose resourceful generals, otherwise it will be useless to carry more artillery!"

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Chapter 845

"Xuanba, who do you think should be the general?" Li Shimin asked again.

"Your Majesty, I'm not that familiar with the generals of the Tang Dynasty, so I'd like to ask Your Majesty to make his own choice on the matter of general selection! However, in two or three months, Xiangcheng will give birth, and Xue Rengui can't go out!"

Li Xuan said.

Li Shimin looked helpless, he didn't choose a good general for the expedition, instead he lost a general first!

"Your Majesty, I am the most suitable general!"

Li Xiaogong on the side said hurriedly.

"Your Majesty, since my Great Tang only sends [-] troops, then I am the most suitable general. Hejian County King is my Datang County King, so there is no need to bother Hejian County King!"

Cheng Zhijie also said hastily.

"Can you command the artillery battalion?"

Li Shimin glanced at the two of them, with disgust on his face, "You know, how to aim the artillery? How to send troops to form the most powerful formation, and how to transport them?"

"Don't worry, Your Majesty, as long as I, Old Cheng, eat and live with the cannon for a month, I will guarantee that the cannon will know what it is talking about once it sounds!" Cheng Zhijie said with a smile on his face.

"Your Majesty, the cannon is a magical weapon that I have just invented in the Tang Dynasty. I am afraid that no general in the entire Tang Dynasty is familiar with it except Xuanba! Could it be that Your Majesty is planning to use Xuanba as a general?"

Suddenly, as if thinking of something, Li Xiaogong asked in surprise.

Cheng Zhijie was also surprised, and looked at Li Xuan nervously.

"Can Xuan Ba ​​be a general?"

Li Shimin just stared at Li Xuan with anticipation.

"Don't go!"

Li Xuan shook his head resolutely, "I am like a cloud of mighty generals in the Tang Dynasty. I want to make great achievements. There are countless people who are enshrined as marquises. Disgusting!"

"Xuanba, the Dashi thief robbed my Datang caravan's goods and killed my Datang veterans. The heavens are angry and the people complain. My Datang must slaughter them all with the fury of thunder in order to revive my Great Tang Tianwei!"

Li Shimin said angrily.

"Your Majesty is right!"

Li Xuan nodded in agreement, "Since this is the case, then my Tang Dynasty should send [-] troops to slaughter those [-] thieves with the momentum of thunder, and follow the path they came from, fight back the same way, and wipe out the thieves." Its city, loot its property, let it pay back a hundred times!"

"Xuan Ba ​​is willing to lead the army?"