Chapter 133 The people's hearts are in me

Because of Li Zhen's identity, the Grand Canal is naturally a smooth road, and no one dares to stall his boat.

So in just three days, the fleet had reached the Qiantang River, the final section of the Grand Canal, that is, Hangzhou, and Li Zhen returned here again.

After resting in Hangzhou for seven days, they changed ships and went to sea, taking advantage of the winter monsoon, all the way down to Lingnan, this section of the journey is estimated to take a month - not because of the slow speed of the ship, but because Li Zhen brought too many people, and the material consumption was too fast, and almost all the ports along the way had to stop for supplies.

The people Li Zhen took away this time were no less than when he came back, and even more.

In addition to the people who were originally brought back, there were also tens of thousands of young soldiers who had completed their training, because the number of boats on the Grand Canal was not enough, they could only follow them by land on horseback, and Li Zhen stayed in Hangzhou for so many days just to wait for their arrival.

As for why they didn't take a boat from Dengzhou and let the Dengzhou fleet send them over, wouldn't it be much more convenient?

Well, because the Dengzhou fleet at this time was taken by Wei Chi Baoqing and Qin Huaiyu to explore the Fusang Islands, that is, the Japanese * Ben Islands in later generations - in other words, this is still Li Zhen's fool.

Today's Wa Kingdom is not the Wa State of later generations, and although the Yamato regime at this time was the largest force in the Wa Kingdom, they did not unify the Wa Kingdom.

At this time, the Yamato regime was still nested in the southern region, and only Shikoku Island was fully occupied, only half of Honshu Island was occupied (probably to the Yokohama area), even Kyushu Island and an area around Kagoshima were not occupied, and as for the northern part of Honshu Island and Hokkaido area, there was not even a shadow, which means that half of the entire Wakoku was terra nullius (Li Zhen believes).

When he was in Chang'an, Wei Chi Baoqing learned what Liu Renliang was doing in Luzon, and he was envious of it, and he desperately pestered Li Zhen to show him a clear way, and he also wanted to take the navy out to be majestic.

Li Zhen was impatient with him, and he had just completed the Battle of Baekje, so the Dengju fleet really had nothing else to do except patrol the sea area, and they gathered in the base all day long.

So he directed him to find the northern Wa State Islands - anyway, that place does not belong to the Wa State now, even if the Tang Dynasty forcibly occupies it, the Wa State will not say anything, and will not dare to say anything.

Not to mention the fact that there are a lot of precious metals in the country, and it is much easier to develop them in the future if they are occupied now, and even if they are not developed, it is still no problem to occupy this place and use this place as a springboard to attack the Yamato regime in the south.

So after listening to Li Zhen's deception, Wei Chi Baoqing directly took away eighty percent of the ships of the Dengzhou fleet, not only the warships were taken away, but even the cargo ships were loaded with goods by him, ready to follow Liu Renliang's example and resell the goods of the Tang Dynasty to the natives of the Japanese Kingdom, and then exchange them for their precious metals and various precious goods......

It's just that even Li Zhen doesn't know that although the Wa Kingdom is dominated by the Yamato regime, this does not mean that there are no other countries there for them - the reason why the Yamato regime did not continue to advance north was not because they were kind-hearted, but because they were blocked by the Ezo country.

At present, only the Hokkaido region is not controlled by the Japanese people, and the rest of the country is under the control of the Japanese people.

Fortunately, Wei Chi Baoqing is a fool and has a fool's luck, this time he took away all the main forces of the Dengzhou fleet, but thus avoided a danger, but relied on the strong ships and cannons, and bombarded the Ezo country and the Mutsu country well, and completely occupied these two countries, and later waved the army north into Hokkaido, completely occupied here, found countless resources here, made a great contribution, and was rewarded by Li Shimin's good life.

Of course, this is not a later story, let's continue to talk about Li Zhen.

In addition to the 20,000 new young soldiers, Li Zhen also brought a lot of industrial equipment, which were all saved in Yuezhou but could not be obtained in a short time.

In addition to what Li Zhen brought, Li Shimin sent him another 100,000 troops, stating that this is already the current limit of Datang, if you want reinforcements, you can only draw from the border pass, but this will lead to the instability of the border pass.

Li Zhen originally wanted to refuse, because he was not short of manpower now - although there were not many soldiers on the front line, only more than 200,000, which was a little less than the 1.5 million army that Sha Louqi mobilized all the military forces of the entire South Tianzhu, but Li Zhen was not worried about the Tianzhu war in his heart.

Because the people's hearts are on the side of the Tang Dynasty, just like when the People's Army and the National Army fought in later generations, although in the early days, the People's Army was not as good as the National Army in terms of number and equipment, and it suffered a lot of losses at the beginning.

However, because the People's Army has the will of the people, the people regard it as their own army, and not only take the initiative to donate food and guide the way for the People's Army, help transport houses, help them build fortifications, and even let their sons and daughters join the People's Army...... As a result, no matter what kind of battle the KPA fought, it was smooth sailing, not only did it not worry about logistical supplies, but it was greeted by the cheers of the people wherever they went, and soon the situation of the enemy on both sides was reversed, and the KPA completely abused the national army.

And the national army is not only inferior to the people's army in morale, but also suffers from the resistance of the people, although there are guns and cannons, forcing the people to do things, but the reluctant people, how efficient can they be? On the contrary, it has led to deeper resentment among the people and a loss of popular support.

Now the situation of the Tang Army in Tianzhu is similar to that of the People's Army.

According to the information obtained by Li Zhen, because of the Tang Dynasty's policy of eliminating the caste system, it has won a lot of popular hearts for the Tang Dynasty, and now a few months have passed, many Tianzhu people have joined the Tang Dynasty's army and become a servant army, with more than 100,000 people, and more people have helped the Tang Dynasty army to guide the way, build roads, and transport materials, and take the initiative to participate in the just war to eliminate the caste system.

With the help of the people of Tianzhu, Datang had already completed the accumulation of materials a month ago, but because of the large number of people and the unsmooth scheduling, the 1.5 million army has not been adjusted until now, and it is estimated that the adjustment can be completed before the war, even if they are lucky, otherwise...... That's a good show.

Therefore, this 100,000 army is not important to Li Zhen, and he doesn't want it, because he also knows that this is really the limit of Datang.

The fourth update.

(End of chapter)