Before the expedition to Ping Xinluo, Li Qinzai admonished Li Zhi in the Taiji Palace.
However, the original advice was only strategic. Li Qinzai did not explain how to implement it in detail. After all, the battlefield situation was changing rapidly, and some strategies could not be implemented according to the prior plan.
Now that Li Qinzai is about to return to the Tang Dynasty, and he has a clear view of the current situation on the Haidong Peninsula, it is very appropriate to propose a plan to pacify Xinluo at this time.
Early the next morning, Li Ji sent more than two hundred troops to escort Li Qinzai back to Chang'an. Xiao Baga and Xue Na also went with him, but Jin Dayan stayed behind.
The war is not over yet, and the army needs doctors. If Jin Dayan goes to settle in Datang and becomes a worshiper of the Li family, she can only wait until the war is over to return with Li Ji.
After bidding farewell to Li Ji, the troops carried Li Qinzai away from the Tang army camp.
Before they even walked out of the camp gate, countless soldiers came out of the tents and silently sent each other off.
Li Qinzai lay on the soft bag, holding his hands and fists all the way.
The soldiers finally stopped after walking out of the camp gate.
I don’t know who took the lead, but the farewell crowd slowly sang ancient songs.
"Now that the army and chariots are on the way, there are four fields of work. How dare you settle down and gain three victories in a month. ... In the past, I went there, and the willows clung to me. Now I come to think about it, and it is raining and snowing."
At the beginning, one person sang, and the soldiers slowly sang along in a low voice. More and more people sang, and the low and desolate singing lingered among the mountains and green waters.
Li Qinzai had tears in his eyes and suddenly ordered the song to stop.
Bu Qu lifted him out of the soft bag. Li Qinzai faced the soldiers in the camp gate, bent down with difficulty, bowed his head, and couldn't get up for a long time.
The song still echoes between heaven and earth, as if bidding farewell to a general, but also as if expressing sympathy for the common people.
Li Ji stood quietly in front of the crowd, smiling with tears in his eyes and waving his hand to Li Qinzai.
Li Qinzai smiled at him from a distance, turned and left.
When it came, it was like thunder, when it left, it was like drizzle and silent.
In this war, so many cities were captured and so much land was captured.
His greatest achievement was that he won the respect of the entire army.
And he, in the name of life, is worthy of this respect.
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Cui Jie and a group of disciples left Chang'an for a few days. When they were approaching Luoyang, they met a messenger sent by Li Ji on the road.
In ancient times, transportation was unfavorable, and there were no roads extending in all directions. From one city to another, there was perhaps only one smoothest road, and encounters on the road were highly likely.
The messenger brought a letter home from Li Ji reporting that he was safe. The messenger said that although Li Qinzai was seriously injured, he had been rescued and his body was recovering. Cui Jie, who was full of grief, suddenly felt exhausted and almost collapsed on the ground unable to get up.
Regardless of being rude, Cui Jie took Li Ji's family letter and read it carefully several times to confirm that Li Qinzai was alive. Cui Jie was stunned for a moment, and suddenly burst into tears. She faced the west and knelt down, not knowing which god she was expressing to. grateful.
Li Sujie and other disciples who were accompanying him were also happy, and the team suddenly burst into cheers.
Now the question arises. Li Qinzai is not dead, so Cui Jie and his party should return to Chang'an or continue to Dengzhou.
After Cui Jie discussed with her disciples, they all decided to continue to Dengzhou and send people to inquire about the Goguryeo battlefield. Coincidentally, Cui Jie’s natal family, the Cui family in Qingzhou, was not far from Dengzhou, so she could drop by her natal home to visit. look.
Cui Jie missed her husband and just wanted to see him as soon as possible, but after the disciples learned that her husband had come to live, they were right to say they missed her husband.
More importantly, I finally had a legitimate reason to leave Chang'an City. I was able to get rid of the nagging and beatings of my elders at home and go sightseeing with my classmates. Of course, I couldn't easily return to Chang'an.
As soon as everyone got out of the gloomy and sad atmosphere in Chang'an, everyone's mood improved inexplicably. Disciples like Li Sujie were talking and laughing. The team of more than a thousand people was like an extra-large tourist group, and they were really traveling all the way. It's leisurely.
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After the city of humiliation was captured by the Tang army, the two countries fell into a brief strategic confrontation.
In the past twenty days, there has been no large-scale confrontation between the two sides, but they have frequently mobilized their troops.
After Li Ji took over the command of the Tang army, he immediately sent two partial divisions to the east, one with 20,000 troops and horses, led by Xue Rengui, and the other with 20,000 troops and horses, led by Gao Kan.
Two partial divisions were stationed in the central and eastern parts of Goguryeo respectively. Together with the main force of Li Ji's Tang army, the Wang division was divided into three parts, forming a vague encirclement of Pyongyang, the capital of Goguryeo.
Pyongyang City was unable to send troops to deal with the two partial divisions of the Tang Army. It was not that it did not want to send troops, but that it simply did not dare.
After half a year of war, most of Goguryeo's army has been destroyed by the Tang army. Now most of Goguryeo's remaining elite troops are concentrated in Pyongyang City.
This elite army is the king's last hope. Firstly, they cannot leave the capital, and secondly, they cannot divide their forces. Their only mission is to defend the capital and protect the king.
No matter how passive the war is, a country cannot lose its capital. If the capital falls, the country is basically hopeless.
Therefore, when Li Ji deployed his troops and generals, using the land of Goguryeo as a chessboard and 100,000 soldiers as chess pieces, and placing the pieces calmly, Goguryeo was completely passive and could only hold on to its capital Pyongyang through gritted teeth.
Both the enemy and us know very well that the Pyongyang offensive and defensive battle will be a decisive battle between the two countries and the two armies, and a century-old feud will soon be resolved.
The war on the Haidong Peninsula is getting more intense, and the war is about to break out.
However, just as Li Qinzai and his troops left the Tang Army camp, the group's movements had already fallen into the eyes of interested people.
An urgent message was delivered to Pyongyang.
Just one day, a group of people walked out of Pyongyang city. They were dressed in the clothes of Tang Dynasty fishermen, wearing bamboo hats and raincoats. After leaving the city, they ran to the seaside and quietly boarded several fishing boats.
The fishing boat left the port in the night and sailed to Dengzhou Port in Datang.
At the same time, Li Qinzai and his party also boarded the Tang Navy's ship.
The ship set sail and headed towards Dengzhou Port.
Li Qinzai was sitting in a wheelchair, following the ups and downs of the waves and looking at the vast sea level in the distance, his mood was also agitated.
I have been away from home for more than half a year, and I don’t know how my mother-in-law and children are doing at home.
In the past six months, Li Qinzai has written very few letters to his family, only a few. In this era of inconvenient transportation, it is too difficult to send a letter home, especially across the sea. It takes a lot of manpower to send a letter home. material resources.
Only in the military report submitted to Li Zhi, Li Qinzai conveniently included a letter from home and asked the couriers to deliver it separately when they arrived in Chang'an.
As for the reply from Cui Jie, Jinxiang and others, it is impossible to count on it. The territory of Goguryeo was torn apart by wars, and there was no fixed place to live, and letters could not be received at all.
Fortunately, he was about to return to the Tang Dynasty and see his mother-in-law and baby. The more Li Qinzai thought about it, the more excited he became, and he couldn't help but breathe faster.
Xiao Baga stood behind him. Seeing something strange about his body, he couldn't help but look at him curiously.
"We are still far away from Dengzhou. Why are you so excited? Your face is turning red..."
Li Qinzai tried his best to smile at her. Under Xiao Baga's puzzled gaze, Li Qinzai suddenly opened his mouth...
"Wow, ugh——"
A man among men, he vomited loudly and clearly.
(End of chapter)
