Datang: Li Shimin begged me to rebel

"We want to defend these cities." Li Daozong came back to his senses, then stretched out his hand and clicked a few points on the map. The cities bordering Goguryeo were all from Silla before.

Even the two cities that now belong to Baekje belonged to Silla before.

In fact, Datang knew far more about Silla than Silla himself. After all, Silla maidservants were also very famous in Datang, and in order to buy enough Silla maids, it was very easy for Yuelai Trading Company to enter Silla to choose and do business. Reasonable.

Since Yuelai Commercial Bank came to do business, it is very reasonable to record the population, location, traffic, surrounding terrain and other information of these cities by the way.

After all, in order to do business, it is good to figure out these things, to avoid encountering bandits, etc., and to avoid some dangerous positions.

So Li Daozong has enough understanding of these cities.

Following Li Daozong's gesture, they abandoned a total of three counties on the border, and then concentrated their main forces on five cities.

Seeing these five cities, Kinderman was somewhat at a loss. To be honest, she really didn't know as much as Li Daozong here, but General Jin was a little stunned, because... is this the famous general of the Tang Dynasty?

This is not Li Jing, the most famous general in the Tang Dynasty, but the five cities pointed out by the other party include one in Baekje and four in Silla.

The five cities are all in such dangerous terrain, built by mountains or water, it is difficult to completely blockade the entire city, unless tens of thousands of troops can enter.

But Goguryeo could not mobilize so many troops.

Moreover, the areas of the five cities are not small, and the city walls are not bad. If they are stationed in these cities, as long as they hoard enough supplies, it will not be easy for the enemy to conquer them.

But if the enemy wants to cross these five cities, it is impossible, because once these five cities are crossed, the location here is very critical. After the road is cut off, the army that crosses the city will be a turtle in the urn.

Such a line of defense, if there are enough elite soldiers, it is almost impossible for Goguryeo to attack.

"Everything is up to General Li." General Jin said directly, knowing that the queen didn't understand, so he just agreed at this time.

"Well, but about how many people are there in these two cities?" Li Daozong pointed to the three counties he was about to give up and asked.

"It adds up to about ten to 15 people." General Jin gave an approximate figure.

"Can they all be withdrawn?" Li Daozong glanced at General Jin.

"This..." General Jin was dumbfounded. If they didn't care, these people would naturally flee when the war came, and they would definitely flee to the hinterland.

But the biggest difference between escaping and voluntary evacuation is that if the imperial court organizes the evacuation, it needs to find a way to support these people.

15 to [-] people, how to feed such a terrifying population?

If they cannot feed themselves, this is a huge hidden danger, and if they flee by themselves, the court only needs to maintain the most basic porridge and prevent them from starving to death.

The difference between the two is that the mentality of the refugees is different. If you voluntarily evacuate and you give them porridge, it is estimated that many of these people would rather stay where they are, because even if Goguryeo is occupied, in fact, these people have nothing to grab. of.

And they also need people to grow food and so on. For most people, the difference is not particularly big.

"But with so many people...we can't get enough food for a while." General Jin hesitated.

"Well, this won't work at that time, let's find a way. If we want to stabilize the situation, we need a large number of people to deliver supplies." Li Daozong thought for a while.

"Well, it seems that the pier here needs to be expanded. At that time, we may have to hire some local people to help with the work, because if it is not expanded, the speed of our ships to deliver supplies will not be able to keep up."

"The other thing is, our army can't go directly to the border. We need to slow down and give Goguryeo an illusion." Li Daozong said.

"Yes." Regarding this aspect, Kinderman didn't have any opinions at all. The people of Datang are already here, so they can leave whenever they want, or not.

Anyway, Datang's army is near Jincheng. Even if Goguryeo occupied other cities and could not occupy Jincheng, then it would not be a big problem.

So Kindermann doesn't care about that.

"As for the construction of the wharf, if necessary, I can ask the local officials and the Ministry of Industry here to fully cooperate." Kinderman said.

"There is no need for this aspect, as long as Her Majesty the Queen allows us to hire people to work locally, we will design and hire people to work by ourselves." Li Daozong said with a smile.

"Ah, of course it's okay. If it doesn't work, I'll sign the order, or use corvée." Kinderman hurriedly said.

"No, as I said, the Great Tang has the discipline of the Great Tang, so don't worry, Your Excellency, when the Great Tang comes, Goguryeo's plot will not succeed." Li Daozong said with a smile.

"Thank you, General Lee."

The conversation with the Queen of Silla, Kinderman, ended soon. After that, Kinderman stayed here for a day, and then returned to Jincheng Palace.

She had to go back, there was no place for her to live here, and the one she lived in yesterday was very uncomfortable, but Li Daozong didn't care, he wanted to live with the soldiers of Datang.

And on the first night after talking with Silla Queen Kinderman, Li Daozong called Xue Rengui over.

"Xue Li."

"The last general is here." Xue Rengui saluted.

"You did a very good job during the day, and you are worthy of being a captain who graduated from the military academy with honors." Li Daozong praised him.

"Thank you, General, for your compliment."

"I'm not complimenting you, but to add to your burden." Li Daozong said with a serious expression.

"General, please speak." Xue Rengui looked serious.

"Have you figured out our main strategic goal this time?" Li Daozong said.

"Yes. Show the wealth, power, discipline, etc. of the Tang Dynasty." Xue Rengui said seriously.

"Well, I know the discipline of the army, but this time because of the special mission, when it should be 'wasted', it must be 'wasted'. Although the cost of this waste is expensive, it is actually not much, and it You can understand that what was exchanged for us is worth thousands of times, right?" Li Daozong said seriously.

"Of course, I can understand."

"That's good. You explain to the people below. No one is allowed to leak anything. Anyone who violates the order will leak state secrets and military secrets and will be severely punished!"

"In addition, you explain to all the political commissars under you that you must do a good job in the ideological work of the soldiers and let them keep it secret."

"Yes!"

"Well, the base of the entire pier will be handed over to you, and you will be responsible for the early stage. At present, I plan to expand the construction of the pier here, steadily expand the current pier, and build and expand three more to allow us A large pier where ships dock." Li Daozong said seriously.