Chapter 50: Su Dingfang, I'm optimistic about you (one more)

Li Yuan paced back and forth in the room with his hands behind his back, and did not express his opinion directly, he thought carefully. The Xiao Cavalry Army, the Modao Army and the Shooting Army, these are the three new armies formed on the basis of the left and right guards of the East Palace when Chen Ying was in Henan Mansion.

Although Chen Ying informed the imperial court of the dazzling achievements of the three new armies, in Li Yuan's opinion, these three new armies were only more than 20,000 people, even if they were elite troops, they were just the characters who followed the left and right guards and left and right divisions of the East Palace. Of course, Li Yuan also considered a lot, Chen Ying was willing to lead more than 20,000 new troops, plus more than 30,000 soldiers, he dared to support Liangzhou and fight against tens of thousands of elites of the Western Turks.

Li Xiuning was anxious when she heard this: "It's difficult for a clever woman to cook without rice, you don't want to lead the four guards of the East Palace, no matter how bad it is, you should lead the six mansions of the Dingyuan Army, the soldiers in Hebei are all a rabble, you let me go to Liangzhou, have you considered my feelings?" ”

"Without a little bit of the bravery and courage of the horse leather shroud, what is a hero?" Chen Ying chuckled, not at all worried about the fate of this trip north.

Although Li Yuan is an emperor, he is not a real hard-hearted person. He is also a human being, and he is a complex complex of contradictions. Just like in later generations, when men look at beautiful women, they can't wait for the beauties on the street to be sluts, and they can get started as soon as they hook up. But when it comes to their relatives, they will immediately change to another set of codes of conduct, and they can't wait for their relatives, the more conservative the better.

Li Yuan is exactly like this, for the sake of the Tang Dynasty's society and Hebei's true return, Li Yuan did not hesitate to take the blame as soon as possible, and also wanted to kill Dou Jiande's mastermind Ling Jing, and also to kill Dou Jiande, but when facing Chen Ying's son-in-law, he hesitated a little. If Chen Ying unfortunately died in the battle this time in the north, he knew that Li Xiuning would probably not forgive him.

Thinking of this, Li Yuan raised his head and looked at Chen Ying with burning eyes: "If you have any other requirements, as long as I can do it, I will agree to it!" ”

Chen Ying stretched out his hand and gently patted Li Xiuning's back, while comforting Li Xiuning softly, and said to Li Yuan: "Your Majesty, as the princess said, it is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice, and the minister can not adjust the left and right guard rates of the East Palace, and the left and right divisions of the imperial rate are elite, but the minister wants to ask His Majesty to transfer Luo Shixin, Zhang Shigui, Zhang Huaiwei, Duan Zhigan and Wei Wenzhong to the ministers, these five generals, the ministers use them easily!" ”

Chen Ying only chose these five people to accompany him, mainly because he didn't really use it easily. In fact, with Chen Ying's prestige and status in the army now, no general really dares to stumble Chen Ying. The army is not as good as the court, it is a place that pays great attention to strength, whether it is a general or a soldier, they want to follow a general who can bring them victory.

However, since Chen Ying's debut, he has fought a lot of big and small battles, and he really hasn't suffered any losses. Of course, this is not the most important reason, the most important reason is that once the situation in Liangzhou is stabilized, for a long time, Datang will have no external troubles, and the main struggle will also turn from the outside to the inside. The struggle between Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin will become even more intense.

Chen Ying did not want to get involved in the struggle between Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin. In fact, if you get involved in this kind of struggle, there is no way back, and it is good to succeed, but once you fail, you will have nothing. The current history has been changed beyond recognition by Chen Ying, and Chen Ying is not sure whether Li Shimin will lay the foundation of Qian Kun in one fell swoop and successfully ascend to the throne of the Ninth Five-Year Supreme as in history.

Moreover, with Chen Ying being Li Jiancheng's brother-in-law, and he is also Li Shimin's third brother-in-law, no matter who wins or loses, in fact, Chen Ying's position is unshakable. Chen Ying is different from the eldest grandson Wuji, if Li Shimin fails, the eldest grandson Wuji will fall to the dust, and if Li Shimin wins, he will rise to the top.

Obviously, Chen Ying is already invincible, and Chen Ying has no need to wade into this troubled water.

Of course, Chen Ying took Luo Shixin, Zhang Shigui, Zhang Huaiwei, Duan Zhigan, and Wei Wenzhong to Liangzhou, mainly because he didn't want them to also intervene in the struggle between Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin. Especially Luo Shixin and Zhang Huaiwei, they are both upright people, and if the contradiction between Li Shimin and Li Jiancheng intensifies, they will be the most vulnerable people. Because they are sincere to people, they will not be wary.

If you want to deal with people like Luo Shixin and Zhang Huaiwei, you can set a trap casually, and you can trap them in and leave Chang'an, which is the best result.

Those heroes who shine in the long river of history, in addition to talent, also have a bit of luck, Luo Shixin's luck is actually not very good, otherwise he would not have died on the battlefield when Datang was about to end the internal struggle and complete the unification of the world.

Although Li Yuan didn't know these twists and turns in Chen Ying's head, he felt that it didn't matter much after thinking about it. After all, every general fights with him, hoping to bring his henchmen, and discord between generals and commanders is the real taboo of soldiers.

Li Yuan said: "I'm right! ”

Chen Ying said again: "The minister wants to ask for an order, please ask Your Majesty to grant the right of the ministers to be on the battlefield, including the military of the nineteen states under the jurisdiction of the Liangzhou Governor's Office, and once the front line comes, the rumors that Weichen is unfavorable, please don't believe it, including the news that Weichen has been killed!" ”

Chen Ying said this, in fact, he was giving Li Yuan a preventive shot. Chen Ying believed that once they were defeated militarily, the Turks would also resort to political means. For example, Li Ling during the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, in fact, Li Ling was just a fraudulent surrender at that time, if Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty had not heard the rumors, Li Ling would have taken the opportunity to flee back, but when Li Ling was razed by the three clans, Li Ling was completely cut off the road back to the Han Dynasty.

Li Yuan didn't think about it either, and agreed to it all.

When it comes to national wars, it is naturally not that simple.

Li Xiuning, Li Yuan, and Chen Ying discussed in Furong all night. When it was dawn, Li Yuan dragged his tired body back to Taiji Palace.

However, Chen Ying also did not rest. He just washed his face in a hurry and met Sun Jingchu.

Seeing Chen Ying, Sun Jingchu immediately went up and knelt down at the door: "I don't know what the Lord is looking for Jingchu, what he commands!" ”

Chen Ying handed a piece of paper to Sun Jingchu's hand, Sun Jingchu opened it and took a look, only to see that it was impressively written, "Zi appointed Sun Jingchu as the Marshal of the Longyou Dao Soldiers and Horses, and Cao Cao participated in the military." "Below is also covered with the seals of Marshal Marshal of the Longyou Road Marching Army, the Left Servant of the Longyou Road Xingtai Shangshu, the General of the Town Army, the Captain of the Horse, and the Duke of Liang Guo, and the mud on it has not yet dried.

Sun Jingchu only has a little understanding of the official system of the Tang Dynasty, Chen Ying, the marshal of the soldiers and horses of Longyou Dao, is actually at the same level as the later Dadu Governor's Mansion, and Sun Jingchu, the Cao Shen military, is actually an official who manages the armor in a place, ranking below the history of the assassin, but because of the level of the Dadu Governor's Office, he is one level higher than the ordinary state Cao Shen military, and belongs to the five officials.

As the so-called soldiers and horses have not moved, grain and grass go first. An army of more than 50,000 marched 3,000 miles, a distance that would have been a very difficult problem in ancient times. Chen Ying knew that if the 50,000 army relied on land transportation, he was afraid that the treasury of the Tang Dynasty would be tossed a lot.

Of course, this is not the case with water transport. Once it goes north along the Yellow River, it flows backwards to Shuozhou, Shengzhou, Fengzhou, and Lingzhou. Turning west from Lingzhou, it is only more than 1,000 miles to Liangzhou, although it is only two-thirds of the distance, but it can reduce at least half of the road consumption.

Sun Jingchu was overjoyed when he saw that Chen Ying had been appointed as a subordinate official.

Chen Ying pointed to this red and said: "The specific deployment is not convenient to disclose to you that it is impossible for all the supplies to be carried from Chang'an, so I now hope that you will dispatch Cao transport ships to transport the young men from Hebei to Tongguan from the vicinity of Zhaozhou, and meet the general in Tongguan!" ”

Sun Jingchu patted his chest and promised: "The lord can rest assured, hand over to the lowly position, and promise to complete the task." ”

More than 30,000 people, if they rely on walking for more than 3,000 miles, to reach Liangzhou, according to the elite speed of this era, it will take at least 60 days. However, if you take a boat, no matter how slow the boat is, you can reach Liangzhou in more than half a month and 20 days at most.

Chen Ying did not consider the four rates of the East Palace, the purpose was because most of the soldiers in Guanzhong were landlubbers, but Hebei Qingzhuang, near Zhaozhou, because it was located in a swampy land, was mostly watery. Even if you don't know how to be watery, you won't get seasick when you travel by boat.

People who don't get seasick definitely can't feel it, and once seasickness lasts for a long time, it is likely to make people dehydrated and out of strength.

In order to hide from the world, Chen Ying asked Guo Luo to put on his own clothes and travel in the same car with Li Xiuning, and went to Qinglin and Chang'an from time to time, but because Princess Pingyang's honor guard was the same as the prince, he couldn't get close at all within a hundred steps, so Chen Ying still gave people the illusion that he was still in Chang'an.

Of course, the most important thing is that when Chen Ying sent his troops, he didn't transfer much supplies and grain and grass from Chang'an at all. Almost all of these materials are replenished in Lingzhou.

Chen Ying had already received the news that Li Daozhen had stockpiled weapons and equipment in Lingzhou that could arm 100,000 people and horses, as well as food for all the more than 300,000 soldiers and civilians in Lingzhou to eat for a year.

This saves Chen Ying trouble, and Chen Ying can also take a look at his son by the way, which is simply killing two birds with one stone.

On September 17, the third year of Wude, Chen Ying took Ashina Simo and Zhou Qing to travel lightly and quietly along the Jieyu River and enter Weishui on Chen Ying's boat.

After three and a half hours of sailing, at the mouth of the Wei River and the Yellow River outside Tongguan, he took a boat with Luo Shixin, Zhang Shigui, and Zhang Huaiwei, and Sun Jingchu dispatched more than 1,000 large boats, which will transport more than 20,000 war horses and more than 20,000 soldiers, quietly going north.

The "Wan'an" went up the Yellow River, Chen Ying stood on the deck, breathing the cold and humid air on the river, Chen Ying felt every pore on his body, there was an indescribable comfort.

Su Dingfang stood behind Chen Ying, he couldn't figure out why Chen Ying was so happy anyway, he just didn't know what to do.

In Su Dingfang's view, Chen Ying led more than 20,000 foot cavalry to Liangzhou, which was simply sent to death.

However, instead of having the consciousness of sending him to death, Chen Ying patted Su Dingfang on the shoulder and said: "Su Dingfang, this general is optimistic about you, after this battle, you will be famous all over the world!" ”

Su Dingfang didn't know where Chen Ying's belief came from, so he had to smile slightly and deal with it.