Great Tang Southern Emperor

"Mr. Lu, you don't need to be too polite. You are a senior in the battlefield. General He Gai Ben greets you." On such a formal occasion, Li Zhen can only use his highest position to call himself, and he is used to being the king. Li Zhen was really not used to it, and suddenly called himself a general.But it doesn't work if you don't get used to it. In the official system of the Tang Dynasty, the prince is a title, and the Nanyang envoy is a temporary official position. Only Admiral Tiance is a serious military position with real power, and he can only call himself a general.

Hou Junji took advantage of the situation and stood up, but still said respectfully: "Your Highness, you are too polite. Your Highness went to Nanyang alone, and swept Linyi with an army of [-]. His achievements are extremely great. I admire your Highness very much."

"Duke Lu, you are welcome. The Duke and all the brothers have worked hard with that way. The banquet is ready. Lord Lu, everyone, please." Rumored to be lonely and arrogant, but now it seems that it is not difficult to get along with.He was quite flattering to himself in his words, and in addition to the previous 10 taels of silver that he had generously accepted, it seemed that he had no hostility towards him.

But thinking about it, Hou Junji is just a little proud, but he is not a fool, and he has been in the political arena for so many years, so he still has such a little bit of political vision.He may have a good relationship with Li Chengqian, but now that Li Chengqian has lost power, even the crown prince has been abolished, there is no future for following Li Chengqian.On the contrary, I am getting more and more prosperous, seeing that the position of crown prince is about to fall to myself——If Hou Junji wants to hang around in the Tang Dynasty, and wants to continue to climb, then it is necessary to show kindness to himself that's it.

In other words, in the next cooperation process, as long as I don't offend him, at least it's okay to maintain this relationship, and maybe even go a step further and pull him into my camp.

The lively banquet passed quickly, and Li Zhen and Hou Junji were also ready to start the handover procedures.At this time, Skynet sent information that King Baffarman of Chenla entangled a total of 40 troops from all over the country and came to the border of Linyi. Li Zhen immediately summoned the young army and went to the border to meet the enemy.

"Your Highness, are you really not going to bring more people? If the subject is crowded, you should be able to squeeze out 3 or [-] people." As a reinforcement, Hou Junji's main task is not to help Li Zhen fight. Instead, he is responsible for guarding Li Zhen's rear, to avoid being attacked by the enemy army like Huanzhou before, and leaving Li Zhen in a situation of isolation and helplessness.

"No need, I have a boy army. Ordinary soldiers can't keep up with the boy army. Carrying it will not increase our combat power much, but it will hold us back." Li Zhen's words did not mean that It sounds nice, but it's true. The Youth Army has undergone Li Zhen's most rigorous training. In five or six years, the speed of marching and the way of fighting are beyond the reach of ordinary troops.

Hou Junji didn't feel uncomfortable, because what Li Zhen said was true, he nodded and said: "Yes, I understand. But even though there are young soldiers, Your Highness had better be careful. This King Bafawarman can annex the His suzerain country is definitely not a simple character, and there may be some hole cards.

Moreover, on the way here, His Majesty also gave Chen Chuan several times of information, and I also had a rough understanding of the situation in Nanyang. His Highness has only fought against that mysterious organization so far, but he does not know that the penetration of the Family Alliance here is not weaker than that mysterious organization. .It is said that the reason why King Baffarman of Chenla took the initiative to cavalry this time was because of the instigation of a family - the family has never done useless work, and they dared to take the initiative to lure His Highness out this time, there must be a conspiracy. "

"So what if there is a conspiracy? Any conspiracy will be futile in the face of absolute power." Li Zhen said rather conceitedly: "The aristocratic family will definitely not dare to confront us head-on, so they can only use small means. But what can wipe out the [-] young army in one fell swoop is nothing more than the two strategies of fire and water. The terrain in Nanyang is special, but at most it will add a miasma and a poisonous attack. As long as you guard against these four points, I don't believe the other party has other things means?"

"What Your Highness said makes sense, but it's better to be careful."

"Don't worry about this, I won't capsize in the gutter, and I plan to capture King Chenla alive with my own hands."

Thinking of King Bafawarman, Li Zhen thought that she almost became his gun to attack Linyi, and couldn't help but feel great hatred in her heart, and said with a grinning smile: "This time, this king will personally screw off the head of King Zhenla and use it as a ball." Kick."

"Hmph, he dared to use Datang as a spearman. His death would not be a pity." Hou Junji also said in an evil voice: "If I hadn't wanted to stay behind, I would really like to go to Chenla and capture King Bafawarman alive. Open him up and see what kind of heart and guts he has eaten to dare to do such a thing."

Li Zhen shook her head and said: "Stop talking nonsense, I will leave the matter here to you. Slaves can be captured casually, but they are not allowed to be sold privately. They must be sold to Li Yusi."

"Yes, even if His Highness is not, I will do this." Hou Junji's expression turned pale, knowing that Li Zhen was beating him, so he quickly responded.

Chapter 484 Arriving at the Frontier

Chapter 257 Arriving at the Border

But Hou Junji knew that it was very popular in Datang to keep slaves in private, and the price was much higher than the official price, so many armies would secretly sell some of the strong slaves to private individuals to earn high prices—but This kind of behavior is obviously illegal. As long as he is caught once, the principal offender will die.

"Yes." Hou Junji suddenly remembered something: "Speaking of which, Princess Jinyang and His Royal Highness King Hengshan have already set off, escorted by the Dengzhou Fleet in person, and according to the speed of the warship, they should arrive here within half a month. , Your Highness, look..."

Li Zhen waved his hand: "It's okay, if things go well, I should be able to deal with the Chenla army in half a month, and I'll meet them when I come back. If things don't go well, that's okay, just let them do whatever they want That is, but they are not allowed to intervene in local government affairs, just say I said so, if they are not convinced, you have someone escort them to my side, and I will tell them in person.”

"Yes, this subordinate understands." With Li Zhen's assurance, Hou Junji felt relieved. Whether it was Princess Jinyang or Li Chengqian, both of them were ancestors, and Princess Jinyang was fine. He is notoriously well-behaved and sensible. Not only is he smart and smart, he even helps ministers find steps when they are scolded by Li Shimin. He is deeply loved by Li Shimin and the court officials.

The problem is Li Chengqian, the relationship between him and Li Zhen is not good at all, and now there is a new feud for the throne, if he came to Nanyang, if he didn't trouble Li Zhen, even Yu Chigong wouldn't believe it (Yuchi Gong: Why? it's me again?).

However, Li Chengqian had the status of a deputy envoy of the emperor, if he really wanted to interfere in Lin Yi's government affairs, Hou Junji really had no choice.Although Hou Junji has friendship with Li Chengqian, but now he has gradually leaned towards Li Zhen, and naturally he does not want to see Li Zhen in danger.

"Linyi has twelve large cities and thirty small ones. People are stationed in these places, and they are also responsible for capturing slaves and negotiating with slave traders for slave purchases. The days ahead will be very busy, so you should go down first." Li Zhen said.

"Yes, I will leave." Hou Junji bowed respectfully and went down to prepare his own affairs.

Not long after Li Zhen captured Linyi, some slave traders with a keen sense of smell had already organized a team to go to Linyi to capture slaves.

In this regard, Li Zhen is supportive - Linyi is a very large place, and the people's residence is very messy. In some large places, the Tang Dynasty can send troops to capture slaves, but some small mountain corners are not worth dispatching an army, such as The cost of dispatching an army in such a place is higher than the cost of capturing slaves, and the gain outweighs the loss, but if left unattended, it will cause unnecessary trouble to the subsequent rule.

At this time, slave traders are needed. The number of slave traders is generally small, usually not more than a hundred. Such a team is short and capable, which is suitable for cleaning up the natives in the mountains.

And slave traders also like this place that the army can't touch or is too lazy to touch.Not only because there are slaves that can be captured at will, but also because it will not offend the interests of the army, so there is no need to worry about being surrounded by the army because of fishing.More importantly, such a move is also helping the army clean up the garbage in a disguised form, saving Datang a lot of trouble, and gaining the friendship of the army, which is very beneficial to future development.At least, in the future, slave trade and so on, as long as the quality is not too bad, can basically be sold at a good price.

After two days of careful preparation, Fuchun's youth army arrived in time, and the two sides joined forces. A total of [-] youth troops officially set off to fight against the Chenla army at the border of Linyi.

The structure of Linyi is very similar to that of Vietnam in later generations. It is long and narrow from north to south and wide from east to west. However, compared with Vietnam, Linyi at this time is much shorter. Not only is there no Hanoi area in the north, but even The southern part of Dong Nai Province also belongs to Chenla.

Because of the narrow terrain, at the marching speed of the young army, it didn't take long to start from Singapura to Tonglu City on the Xibu border where Linyi and Chenla meet, only five days in total.

When there were still more than 50 miles away from Tonglu City, Du He, who had not been on the scene for a long time, took an intelligence report and reported: "Your Highness, the news just came that [-] pioneer troops from Chenla came to Tonglu City. The army surrendered without a fight... Our idea of ​​resting in Tonglu City tonight will come to nothing."

"It was expected." Li Zhen was not surprised by this. Linyi was destroyed, and the morale of the whole country in Linyi fell. It is quite normal to surrender without a fight.

Fan Xueyi, who was accompanying her, saw that Li Zhen's face was normal, and asked strangely, "Your Highness? Are you not angry?"

"Angry?" Li Zhen looked at her strangely: "Why should I be angry?"

"Linyi surrendered. It stands to reason that these cities belong to the Tang Dynasty, but now the defenders have surrendered without a fight, letting the enemy take the city in vain. Shouldn't you be angry?"

"Linyi Kingdom has been destroyed. Your soldiers no longer have the need to defend the country. Surrender is also a normal thing. After all, although the Tang Dynasty destroyed Linyi Kingdom, the time is still short and there is no time to occupy it. The soldiers here I don’t have the responsibility to protect the generals for the Tang Dynasty. If I want to be angry, I should be angry with Zhenla. I’m not so petty. So what if we take it away? Sooner or later we will take it back, it just takes a little more effort."

"Where did you get your self-confidence?" Fan Xueyi looked at Li Zhen with a complex expression, and said softly, "You only have 3 people, but Chenla has 40, and Chenla and Linyi have different armies. I haven’t experienced a war for several years, so it’s impossible to fight a war. But Chenla has just annexed its suzerain, Funan, and the army is full of veterans who have just come down from the battlefield. Possibly the opponent's."

Li Zhen asked back: "But are the 40 troops in Chenla all elite?"

Fan Xueyi said without hesitation: "This is impossible. After the annexation of Funan, the population of Chenla did not exceed 200 million. If it is calculated according to 200 million, it is only 40 for five draws. Unless a country is crazy, Otherwise, it would be impossible to maintain the five-to-one military service system for a long time.

In fact, Chenla's standing army was only 20, and later this number was increased to 10,000 during the war.After going through the war with Funan, it should have lost a lot, almost 20+, and the remaining [-] should be recruits just recruited. "

Chapter 485 This chapter is too messy to name

Chapter 258 This chapter is too messy to name

"That's right, I admit that the king of Chenla is indeed capable of annexing the suzerain. But... do you know why I didn't ask Hou Junji for an army? He led an army of 10,000+. If I really did If you want, it’s okay to squeeze out tens of thousands of people, and he even proposed it himself, but I still rejected it... Do you know why I didn’t ask for it?” Li Zhen didn’t continue to explain, but asked An inexplicable question.

"Why? Are you so confident in yourself?"

"Of course you have the confidence to win, but let's not talk about that today, let's continue talking about King Chenla... King Chenla is indeed wise, but he did one thing wrong, that is, he shouldn't send elites and recruits mixed together..." Li Zhen said with a smile: "In the eyes of ordinary people, the more people the better, but they don't know that this has entered a misunderstanding. Under the same conditions, the two sides are naturally fighting with more people. One side has the upper hand, but the outcome of a war is not determined solely by numbers. The weather, location, people, and equipment are all decisive for the outcome of a war. In addition to these external conditions, there are also soldiers. Quality, morale, and also determine the combat effectiveness of a team.

The 40 troops are mixed together, and it does look terrifying, but it is only a little bit cheap in terms of momentum-putting recruits and elite veterans together, the recruits will not only fail to increase the combat power of the veterans, but will also drag the veterans down. combat power.

After all, when the recruits first entered the battlefield, it would be fine if the battle went well, and the recruits could still follow suit.But if the situation is unfavorable, these recruits will definitely be the ones who will collapse.The collapse of the recruits will inevitably affect the morale of the veterans, and even directly break the formation of the veterans, and it may not necessarily turn the already unfavorable situation into a more brutal defeat. "

Fan Xueyi agreed with Li Zhen's analysis, but she still reminded: "What you said is indeed very reasonable, but your thinking is too simple. Bafavalman has been fighting on the battlefield since he was a child. After ten years, he is already a veteran in the battlefield. He must have thought about what you said, how could he make such a mistake? Using veterans and recruits together?"

"The problem is that's what he did." Li Zhen smiled and pulled out a piece of information: "This is the information from the front line. Bafa Warman's 40 troops, except for the 37 pioneers who explored the road, the remaining [-] They didn't separate, but got together and arranged formations, hundreds of thousands of troops were completely crowded together—"

"No matter how you look at it, doesn't it look normal?" Fan Xueyi also frowned tightly: "What the hell is Bafarman doing? Is it showing weakness to the enemy?"

"If this move is Bafavalman's showing weakness, then he will be much easier to deal with." Li Zhen smiled lightly. Even if this is showing weakness, but this showing weakness is too obvious. ?It's so obvious that even a military idiot can see through it. If it's really that simple, then Bafarvalman will be very easy to deal with.

"Then what does he mean? Playing tricks?"

"What are you thinking so much about?" Li Zhen lay down on Fan Xueyi's lap, and said with a little confidence in her ease, but also a little domineering in her confidence: "In the face of absolute power, all conspiracies and schemes are paper tigers. There are thousands of plans, and I will break them all by myself—the army in Chenla may be stronger than yours in Linyi, but my youth army is not bad at all...Let’s not talk about it, there are still fifty miles away from the city of Tonglu, I'll sleep for a while, and you'll call me when I get there."

Fan Xueyi was still a little worried and said: "But there are 40 troops in Chenla. No matter how powerful the young army is, after all, two fists are no match for four."

Naturally, there is no doubt about the strength of the Boys' Army. It is definitely not easy to break through Linyi in just half a month, but no matter how powerful the Boys' Army is, there are only less than 3 people. How could the Youth Army be an opponent?Even with the crowd tactics, Chenla can push the Boys' Army to the level, right?

"Don't worry, the Boys' Army is not that simple." Li Zhen closed her eyes, grabbed Fan Xueyi's little hand, rubbed it gently on her face, and murmured as if dreaming: "Are you sure what you saw is the boy's army?" Is it real strength?"