Chapter 25: The God of War of the Rivers and Seas

Li Shimin led his troops to the south this time, and it can be said that he took great pains.

In order to reassure Bing Yuanzhi and let him take more troops to the battle, he left all his family members in Big Star City.

Therefore, he was able to bring 20,000 Xuanwu warriors, 10,000 demon bear warriors, 20,000 gluttonous warriors, as well as 100,000 demon scorpion warriors, 50,000 Great Star Forbidden Army, and 100,000 miscellaneous soldiers drawn from all over the country, a total of 300,000 people, to come to Kwai Zhou.

The Southern Legion originally had 80,000 Xuanwu warriors, as well as 50,000 Demon Chapter warriors, and 50,000 Demon Scorpion warriors, and more than 20,000 miscellaneous soldiers of the navy.

When Li Shimin's 300,000 warriors merged with Li Xiao's Southern Army, these 500,000 Tang Army warriors were actually Li Tang's last bit of family background.

Li Shimin this time, if the rebellion succeeds, he can rely on half of the country south of the scorching Grand Canal to rewrite the pattern of the entire world, and continue to deal with Wukong to the end.

However, if Li Shimin fails, then ...... , the entire Li Tang Dynasty can basically officially bid farewell to the grand stage of dominating the world.

The reason is very simple, as long as Li Shimin dares to raise troops to rebel, then all the important cities of Li Tang south of the Mother River and north of the Youzhuo Grand Canal will definitely be occupied by Yao Junsu, Li Gui and others as soon as possible.

And the entire Li family, all the clansmen who stayed in the north, including Li Ruofeng, Li Daozong, and Li Yuanji, the three controllers of Housui, will definitely be unlucky to become prisoners of the ranks!

Of course, Li Shimin didn't care about the safety of his own people at all, not because he was cold-blooded, but because Li Shimin had calculated Wukong correctly, and he would never kill Li Yuan and others to vent his anger after half of the country was lost.

Even...... , even if he fails this time, Wukong will most likely only imprison himself for the rest of his life, and will not harm his own life.

Since there is no worry about his life left and right, and the opportunity has been placed in front of him, of course, Li Shimin must firmly grasp this precious God-given opportunity to help the Li Tang Dynasty rise again.

Therefore, Li Shimin calculated in his heart that since he honestly helped Wukong to dominate the world, it was a gamble that could not control the outcome in the hope that Wukong could let him lead his troops to fight against the murderous slaves.

And now taking advantage of this God-given opportunity to secretly annex half of Wukong's country in one fell swoop, it is a gamble that can completely control the outcome and can immediately achieve huge benefits.

Faced with these two choices, Li Shimin finally stomped his foot, and resolutely chose the second more cost-effective gamble.

As for the aftermath, Wukong may lead those terrible dragoon warriors to the south to retaliate against him, and Li Shimin is not worried at all.

Because Li Shimin is completely sure, all the Dasui warriors will not be able to cross the south of the Youzhuo Grand Canal...... , half a step!

Even, Li Shimin was still eager that Wukong, in a fit of rage, led a million Dasui warriors to the south and immediately came to send him to death.

Li Shimin felt that the kind of powerful tactics he came up with should be absolutely guaranteed to allow the Li Tang Dynasty under his control...... , the rivers and seas are invincible!

So, Li Shimin had a flash of inspiration, and the powerful tactics he came up with were really so invincible?

On the morning when Wukong opened his eyes in the low-level cabin, Wen Persimmon Hong, the city lord of Yiling City, an important town in Southern Liang and one of the top generals in Southern Liang, received a shocking news.

After reading the secret report in his hand, Wen Persimmon suddenly raised her head and began to look up to the sky and smile with great excitement.

"Hahaha...... King of Qin...... But in this case——! he really thought that fighting on our great river would be the same as their northern, and they would be able to win the war by virtue of their overwhelming superiority in troops! Hahaha...... Joke——! What a joke——! 500,000 people on a thousand warships dared to come to our southern Liang to show off their ......might. After talking about this with a cold expression, Wen Persimmon snorted hard, and then said murderously.

"Since God asked me to make this world-famous feat, then how can I be merciful and let go of any enemy who comes to attack!" After hammering the table, Wen Persimmon ordered loudly to his own soldiers.

"Send someone to send this news to Jiangling immediately. Tell Your Majesty that I, Wen Persimmon, will sink all the 500,000 Li Tang sailors who will commit crimes in the future under this Yiling City to the bottom of this great river! Please ask Your Majesty to immediately issue an order that all the sailors on both sides of the river must rush to Yiling before three o'clock this afternoon, and follow me upstream, sweeping across the entire south of Youzhou!" After giving the order in high spirits, Wen Persimmon immediately summoned all the generals under him.

After casually spending thirty minutes and having a brief meeting, all the Wing Ling generals immediately returned to their respective units with great excitement, and began to quickly prepare for battle.

The defenders of Wing Spirit City are so confident and arrogant, it is really a very reasonable thing.

Because according to what the secret agents saw with their own eyes, Li Shimin, the commander of Li Tang's Southern Army, was very mentally retarded, so that the entire 500,000 Tang army, all of which boarded more than 1,000 warships, and then at an extremely slow speed, was going down the river, rushing to Yiling to reincarnate.

An ordinary warship can only carry more than a hundred samurai at most, and that is already the limit.

If the number of people loaded on the battleship exceeds this limit, it will be an unnecessary waste, and it will greatly reduce the flexibility and speed of the battleship's own maneuvering.

This is like a war horse, a war horse can indeed carry two people, or even four people to run together, but ...... What commander would foolishly let his soldiers, two or four together, go out on the same horse?

Is it awesome to have four people and one horse, that's simply looking for death!

Fortunately, a thousand Li Tang's warships carried a total of 500,000 Li Tang warriors, and on average, each ship contained nearly 500 people.

This is equivalent to the body of a war horse, carrying five elite soldiers, running slowly and exhaustively.

To tell the truth, Li Tang's thousands of warships did not have a major accident directly due to serious overloading, and they collectively sank to the bottom of this great river, which is already a very lucky thing.

In the face of this kind of battle that is about to be won, how could all the generals of Wing Spirit City not be excited, and their whole bodies tremble without excitement?

In this way, the 80,000-winged spirit water army, after waiting energetically for a morning, did not even wait for the shadow of the Tang army.

So, Wen Persimmon sent a team of spies to go upstream to investigate the movements of Li Tang's army, and see what Li Shimin, the mentally handicapped marshal, had done.

An hour later, those spies brought two more to Wen Persimmon and the others, who could give them, the generals of the water war, the strange news that they would laugh to death.

It turned out that Li Tang's battleship was seriously overloaded, so their slow sailing speed far exceeded the expectations of Wen Persimmon and others.

Originally, Wen Persimmon Hong and the others thought that Li Tang's more than 1,000 warships should be able to go down the river and reach Yiling at about eleven o'clock in the morning.

However, because Li Tang's battleship was too slow, it was estimated that by the time they arrived at Yiling, it should not be after five o'clock in the afternoon at the earliest.

Not only that, Li Shimin, the super rookie marshal of the navy, didn't know what he thought, he actually used all the tricks of commanding the northern cavalry and used them on his own navy.

Li Shimin actually let his thousand warships line up on the river, like a giant chain, lined up in a neat line, and the momentum was very forceful down the river, slowly rushing towards Yiling.

When Wen Persimmon Hong heard the news, he said in his heart: "A long snake formation, a thousand ships across the river? Oh yes, Lao Tzu is about to be scared to death! As for a second-force marshal like Li Shimin, he is also worthy of being called a peerless famous general? After Lao Tzu kills him, the world will clearly know that I, Wen Persimmon Hong, is awesome! Alas...... , I think that Zhou Gongjin, the naval governor of Dongwu back then, compared with me, should be ...... , that's all there is to it, right......? , is the real god of war of the rivers and seas——!" After thinking of this, Wen Persimmon immediately waved his hand, ready to lead all his sons and daughters to take the initiative against the current to set up a ...... that will go down in history , the world's martial arts!

However, just when Wen Persimmon was about to set off, the entire Nanliang Yiling to Jiangling line, and all the sailors on both sides of the river, all of them also held the same mentality as Wen Persimmon Hong, and rushed desperately to Yiling City.