Whether the food is good or not will only be known after you taste it yourself, and how much you need to prepare before going out will also only understand it after you have experienced it yourself.

Now the time is already June, even if it is to go on the expedition immediately, it is estimated that it will be August when it reaches the Liaodong side, and when the troops are coordinated and reach the point where they can fight, it will basically be September.

What is September like in Liaodong? Brothers in the modern Northeast should know that the lowest temperature is below freezing, right? This is still the temperature that only exists in the case of modern global warming, and in the Tang Dynasty more than 1,300 years ago, the temperature will only be lower than in modern times, and it can be said that it has become ice in September.

How to fight in such climatic conditions? Do I need to prepare warm clothing? Food, warmth, transport vehicles, all these things need to be considered.

Therefore, the Western Regions Legion has an additional task of collecting white stacks, and one million catties of white stacks must be transported to Liaodong before September, as for how did this thing come about? Whether to rob or buy, this is all a problem for the Western Regions Legion.

Xue Rengui's Zuo Wuwei was responsible for preparing the meat, all Li Ke's yaks were confiscated, and Zuo Wuwei was responsible for packing all the beef jerky, as long as the Eastern Crusade was not over, no beef was allowed to flow into the market, and all of it had to be shipped to Liaodong.

As for Dugu Qingyun and Dugu Yulin, the two of them had a much simpler task, going to Beisha City to take over the defense, and at the same time unloading all the grain transported from the south to Beisha City, and then diverting to Yalu Water to continue to cut off the connection between Liaodong and Goguryeo proper.

A pre-departure preparation meeting lasted all night, but fortunately, this conference room was realized by Lao Cui through his dream, not in the underworld, otherwise after this night, the palace would have to fry again.

And after the meeting ended, Li Chengqian summoned Tang Shanzhi and Liu Min into the palace non-stop.

"Gao Ming, go to Liaodong and count me as a share!" Tang Shanzhi's first words when he saw Li Chengqian were to ask to go to Liaodong.

Time has passed for so long, Li Er's edict has long been spread in Chang'an, and well-informed people like Tang Shanzhi have already known about it, but Li Chengqian has not seen them all the time, so he will hold back until now to say that he wants to go to Liaodong.

"Now you just don't want to go." Li Chengqian snorted and said, "There's no reason why the brothers are fighting outside, you kid is enjoying happiness at home." But before you do that, you'd better tell me that all the grenades I let you get have already been made, or ......"

"That thing has been made a long time ago, but according to you, it was not filled with gunpowder, and it was all piled up in the warehouse, and many of it was rusty." Tang Shanzhi knew what Li Chengqian was talking about, but he still liked to call that thing 'iron pineapple'.

"I don't care if it's rusty or not, starting today, so some of the earthen grenades are all loaded with gunpowder and then sealed in a unified manner. In addition, the production of gunpowder could not be stopped, all the workers worked overtime, when the battle of Liaodong was over, and when the previous schedule would be restored. ”

Li Chengqian didn't care whether those iron shells would rust or not, anyway, when they got to the battlefield, they would be gone, and it would be useless to look so good.

However, Tang Shanzhi was a little dumbfounded, and said in surprise: "Gao Ming, there are tens of thousands of fake 'iron pineapples', all of them?" ”

"Take them all, really fight tens of thousands of native grenades will not play a role at all, turn around and let the workshop not stop work between you leave, this thing must be produced all the time, get more, and send it to Liaodong for every 10,000 you get."

Li Chengqian is a person from later generations, cold weapon combat is too unfamiliar to him, if it weren't for the production process of the Tang Dynasty, he would not be able to keep up, and now he would like to get tens of thousands of AK47 or M16 or something to poke Goguryeo.

Millions of triangular arrows, 50,000 native grenades, 1 million catties of white stacks, 1 million catties of gunpowder, and 15 Zhenguan cannons...... These are all things that Li Chengqian prepared for himself.

Since the old man let himself go to Liaodong, and only gave a limit of 100,000 people, then how to fight a war must listen to himself, and he must not use people to fight hard like Li Ji and Li Daozong, otherwise these 100,000 people will have to die if they don't wait to fight Goguryeo's pseudo-'Chang'an'.

Moreover, the 100,000 people who remained on the battlefield of Goguryeo could not all be the people of the Sixteen Guards, and all those soldiers and ruffians must be withdrawn to Chang'an and replaced by the sixth rate of the crown prince.

This is the request made by Li Chengqian in the information handed to the old man, and the soldiers do not know the generals, and the generals do not know the soldiers, and this battle cannot be fought at all.

In Li Chengqian's view, Li Ji's performance in the battle to stop the enemy outside Anshi City was not as good as a squad leader under him. Fifteen thousand people against 150,000 people actually died, and those gunpowder, Zhenguan cannons, and four-corner nails were all piled up in the back camp, and they were never taken out at all.

Although it is said that Ci is not in charge of the army, it doesn't mean that other people's children will not die, right? Why do you have to take human lives to fill things that can be solved with equipment? Obviously, 150,000 people can be wiped out, but tens of thousands are still left, and the rest are still running all over the mountains and fields.

"Look, everyone, the prince has replied to me, but he can't trust your subordinates." In the camp outside Anshi, Li Er held a love newspaper that still smelled of pigeon feces and said teasingly.

"Your Majesty, what's this?" Cheng Lao was the most anxious, and was the first to take the note from Li Second-hand, and after glancing at the series of numbers on it, he asked with a black line.

"That's what I showed you!" Li Er said angrily, and then pointed to the translated note on the table.

Cheng Biting Jin is shameless and used to it, he even dared to grab Li Er's military coat at the beginning, so he naturally didn't care about Lao Li's reprimand, he smiled and picked up the note on the table, ran to Li Daozong's side, and muttered together.

After a while, one was passed around, and it returned to Li Er's hands again, looking at a group of subordinates with different expressions, His Majesty the Great Emperor asked with a smile, "How is it?" What do you guys think? ”

"Your Majesty, it's not that the minister underestimates His Royal Highness the Prince, it's just that the minister thinks that the matter of the Eastern Expedition is very important, so it's better for the ministers to stay, even if they can't take Anshi City, at least they won't lose the cities that have been occupied." Li Ji, who had lost nearly half of his subordinates, was very sensitive, and he somehow saw from Li Chengqian's letter that the young master in Chang'an City despised him, and when he spoke, he had such a sour taste!

Remember the mobile version URL: m.