17. The Royal Expedition
"Senior high school, you can give me all your efforts to fight."
Just when the emperor was looking forward, it really came true:
At the ninth palace, people from the Military Supervisory Court in the West of Beijing rode over Zhongwei Bridge and arrived at Xuanwu Gate, shouting loudly:
"Duke Ji has won a great victory against the rebel Dangxiang in the Hei River in Shuofang, beheading nearly 10,000!"
"The rebel Tuoba Chaohui has trapped Baichengzi and was surrounded by my Tang soldiers. The collapse of the land is a foregone conclusion!"
The extremely happy emperor immediately sat in the Golden Palace, summoned several Hanlin scholars, and said to them excitedly, "Ping Qiang is about to be up, you can quickly draft a consolation document and give it to Gao Qing."
When the Hanlin scholars took the order and retreated, the emperor Xuan entered the Neiku bow and arrow envoy Huo Zhongtang, and also told him that the Heishui in Shuofang had a great victory.
Huo Zhongtang was immediately so happy that he burst into tears.
"You spend 200,000 pounds of reward money from Daying Qionglin Cushion and quickly send it to the front line."
At the same time, today it happened that the princes, wifes and ministers gathered in front of Guangshun to greet the emperor's daily life.
King Pu, who came from Baili City, Jingzhou, claimed that he had important matters to report to His Majesty.
"What, the emperor personally led the army to fight?" In the Golden Palace, when King Pu said this to himself alone, the emperor was initially shocked.
But soon, it seemed as if hundreds of ants were crawling around and gnawing around him, which was extremely itchy.
King Pu will indeed give his own preferences.
Taking advantage of this great victory, I still don’t go up with the trend. With this east wind, both the king and the minister will blossom. Isn’t it beautiful?
However, the emperor was still a little scared. He asked King Pu calmly, "It is right that the troops who conquer Dangxiang were the Imperial Camp established by me. However, before Gao Yue left, I promised him that even the military supervisors should not be in conflict with the war. All parties on the front line are responsible for your chief commander. If I personally commanded the expedition and Gao Yue was unhappy, what should I do if he was unhappy?"
King Pu said: "Although Duke Ji has won a great victory in Heishui, Dangxiang is still resisting stubbornly in Baichengzi. At this time, Your Majesty will surely boost our morale. If you take action to capture the city, this will also bring you the blessing of your power!"
After saying this, the emperor immediately felt that I was too important to the entire battle situation.
Besides, when Gao Yue asked him about the right things, he agreed that when he was defeated by the rebel Qiang, I could lead the army to fight in person.
Seeing the emperor walking around and restless, King Pu went further and said that he would leave the negotiations with Duke Ji to Xiao Wang, and he would give good news to His Majesty within ten days.
"Wait, if I personally fight, this capital and the government affairs hall..."
"The prince is now old and can be reigned. Besides, there are two prime ministers, Dong Zhonglang and Lu Menlang, who stayed in the queen. Why should Your Majesty worry?" Prince Pu's words made the emperor smile immediately.
Yes, it is also good to let the prince train his actual government affairs.
"Well, I was also the marshal of the world's military and horses. The past years of military wars were always stirred in my heart, so I passed the message to Mr. Ji, saying that I wanted to ascend to the south mountain of Wancheng, and observe the military academy by Shi, and the men hunted and rebelled against the Qiang."
Tongwan City, hundreds of miles away, along the Sheyanshui, the banks and valleys of Wuding River, the Tang army camps were everywhere, as dense as fish scales. Gao Yue asked soldiers to dig out three cannons in the open area north of the city, and set up 35 large copper cannons, and every day, they crossed the walls and corner towers on both sides of the Pingshuo Gate of Tongwan City from different angles.
Heavy shells kept shooting on the towering corner towers of Tongwan City, but the city was really powerful. It often splashed with some white powder smoke, and the shells fell down. After several days, it was not possible to collapse any section of the city wall after finishing the shells they carried in advance.
Similarly, the situation encountered by the eight artillery set up by the Shencenary Decisive Army at the south of Tongwan City was the "Chaosong Gate" and the eight artillery pieces were also encountered.
"No need to bombard it for the time being. Let Zhang Baobai bring a thousand troops to cut down big trees on Qiwu Mountain, and then transport them to the camp." In addition, Gao Yue also sent people to ask them to urgently transport more divine thunder medicines and projectiles from Jialu Mountain and Mizhi.
"Yi Song, you should still have a strategy to attack the heart and mind in this city!" Du Huangshang suggested.
Gao Yue nodded and said that the servant of the Menlang was very beneficial. Although Tongwancheng was large and had abundant food storage, it was limited after all, and could not bear nearly 100,000 Pingxia tribes. Tuoba Chaohui had begun to evacuate out. In fact, it was evacuated. In front of our Tang besieged camp and the Qingqi, they were basically captured. According to my calculations, the entire Tongwancheng Station wall guarded the battlements, the enemy building, and the reserve force in the inner city, all of which were combined, and only about 15,000 to 20,000 people were about 15,000 to 20,000 people. Below were the tactics of attacking the heart and surprise attack.
After all, Tuoba Chaohui's youngest son is in our hands.
After Du Huangshang retreated, Gao Yue returned to the back of the tent. Through the screen, Azang, who was wearing a man's hair and hunting clothes, turned out, "Brother-in-law."
"Yes." Gao Yue agreed, and then he and Azang were behind the screen and had a careful conversation for a long time...
"The Lord of the Holy Lord comes here to personally lead the army?" On the next day, when Gao Yue gathered in the tent to discuss matters, Jia Dan, Du Huangshang and others were all disgusted.
"The Holy Lord just said he wanted to watch the hunting and distributed the reward money himself, and did not say he wanted to direct the war." Gao Yue comforted.
But everyone was still pale and uneasy.
"Then Yisong, you?" Jia Dan asked Gao Yue's attitude.
"In fact, the Holy Lord came here to watch hunting and supervise the battle. On the one hand, it could bring courage to the enemy, on the other hand, it would inspire the soldiers of the three armies. On the third, after Baichengzi fell, the Holy Lord could personally visit the river and shock the outside world (referring to the Uighurs), and then send Princess Deyang to marry, and let Wuyi Khan produce a large army to cooperate with our Tang Dynasty's subsequent revival of Helong." Gao Yue actually agreed to the imperial commander's personal expedition. In addition, he also pointed out that this could also shock the Fangzhens in Guandong that were ready to make plans, which could be said to be a killer.
"What should I do about state affairs?" Du Huangshang asked.
After all, when he had previously sent troops to attack Tongwancheng, he immediately dispatched three prime ministers (Gao Yue, Jia Dan, and Du Huangshang) to fight Tuoba Chaohui, which can be said to be a "three-priest battle in one day".
Now I, Emperor Tang, also wants to get involved, that is the "Three Priests and Two Emperors Battle".
The court would be empty. Do you just rely on Lu Zhi for the entire national affairs and national economy? Anyway, no one expects Dong Jin.
"The prince is smart and kind, and can report to the Holy Lord and be the prince to supervise the country." Gao Yue said it immediately, meaning that it depends on the attitude of Jia Dan and Du Huangshang.
Naturally, Jia and Du would not have any objections.
In this way, Ximen Can, a lieutenant of the Shence Guardian Army in the west of the Jing, passed on the news that "the prime ministers on the front line of Baichengzi agreed and hoped that the Holy Lord's chariot would come to Shuofang in person to inspire the soldiers to use their lives to suppress the rebellion" to Chang'an City.
The emperor was so happy that he almost fainted. At that time, he called Huo Zhongtang, saying that the reward of 200,000 yuan was not enough, so he added 500,000 yuan to me.
Huo was a little embarrassed, saying that salt profits have been greatly damaged this year. After paying the salaries of all officials and the military spending, the three imperial departments of the court would have to destroy their family fortunes. If it were not for the support of the towns in the southwest and northwest, this battle would be difficult to support. Your Majesty, your inner treasury will not be surplus. You will be rewarded and will become a prescribed rule in the future. It would be difficult to reduce it again.
Chapter completed!