Chapter 27 Leading the army to the north

"May I ask, why do you need to fill the tower with filler?" a student asked in confusion.

Chen Wanrong glanced at the students: "I asked well, does anyone know the whole story?"

Li Longji kept his word. After the Chinese New Year, he immediately issued an order to transfer people from the Imperial College. After Chen Wanrong received them, he would train them. He was about to go to the border. Chen Wanrong wanted to teach them all his knowledge in one breath and strengthen the training in a intensive manner.

"General, we don't understand!" The student thought for a while and shook his head in confusion.

"Have you eaten tofu?" Chen Wanrong asked back, and then said, "You know that cutting tofu with a quick knife will make everything look bright, right? Putting filler into a filler has the same effect as a quick knife. However, it is not used to cut tofu, but to cut liquid. You think, if there is no such filler, will the liquid flow down a whole? At most, some water droplets are splashed out. With filler, it is like cutting tofu with a knife. The liquid will cut out many pieces, and the contact surface with gas will be more, and the efficiency will be higher."

The filling material in the filling tower is like a knife, which has a cutting effect, with the purpose of increasing the contact area and improving efficiency.

This metaphor is vivid and easy to understand. The students suddenly realized it and nodded: "So that's it! So that's it!"

Chen Wanrong was about to talk further, but he heard a shocking roar from outside: "A great victory in the Western Regions! Annihilation of 150,000 enemies!"

"A great victory in the Western Regions! Annihilation of 150,000 enemies!" The students stared at the top of their eyes, were surprised, and then they were ecstatic, stood up and shouted loudly: "Long live the Tang Dynasty!"

Although the Tang Dynasty and the Dashi Empire did not confront each other head-on, the Dashi made the Tang people hate him. In the competition in the Western Regions, the Dashi was always a huge force, and they were competing with the Tang Dynasty in an open or secret manner. Due to the long journey, the Tang Dynasty could not dispatch a large army to fight against it, so they could only let it run rampant.

This made the Tang people hate it. Now, not only did the great victory in the Western Regions, but also annihilated 150,000 Dashi troops. This was the first time that the Tang people were not excited.

The students all had flames in their eyes, their faces were red, and they were cheering. Look at them like this, they would not stop without exposing their joy.

"It's apart!" Chen Wanrong waved his hand and rushed out like flying. As soon as he left the house, he saw Ye Tianheng and the others were so happy that they greeted him with a smile: "A great victory in the Western Regions! Annihilation of 150,000 enemies! Dashi is in trouble!"

Some people even started to cry with excitement!

"Brother Brother Shu won such a big victory, which is amazing!" Chen Wanrong was also very excited.

Li Longji sent Geshuhan to the Western Regions. Although the bottom line was to protect the four towns of Anxi, no one would refuse the vitality of winning battles and destroying Dashi. Now that Geshuhan has achieved such a great victory, Chen Wanrong, his close friend, was naturally so excited that he became extremely excited.

"General Chen, our military weapon supervisor should celebrate!" Ye Tianheng wiped his tears, and was so excited that he was like a child, and his crutches in his hand kept ticking the crutches on the ground.

Chen Wanrong nodded and said, "You guys will arrange, I'll go into the palace." After winning such a big victory, Li Longji must have made any moves. How could Chen Wanrong not see it clearly?

Without waiting for them to speak, they quickly left. They left the military weapon surveillance and came to the street. At this time, there were people everywhere on the street and cheerful people everywhere.

The common people shouted long live, and shouted: "It's just a short time after the New Year, and the Western Regions have won such a big victory, God bless the Tang Dynasty!"

Many people were crying with excitement. Although they were crying, their faces were filled with bright smiles.

Chen Wanrong rushed to the Daming Palace and saw that there were people in front of the Daming Palace, and the people were everywhere, surrounding the palace and shouting in unison: "Long live the Tang Dynasty! Long live the emperor!"

Only Su Dingfang's Western Expedition can compare with such a great victory in the Western Regions, so the people are not unhappy.

The ministers who rushed over after hearing the news all walked into the palace with joy on their faces. Chen Wanrong almost rushed into the palace. As soon as he entered the palace, he went straight to Luanxiang Pavilion.

As he was running, Gao Lishi came towards him, with a happy look on his face, and shouted from afar: "General Chen, you are here, the emperor ordered me to invite you."

"Father-in-law, you are so handsome when you are happy!" Chen Wanrong joked.

Gao Lishi was in a good mood, and responded with a joke: "You are happy with your mouth open, aren't you handsome?"

"Haha!" The two of them laughed at the same time and rushed to Luanxiang Pavilion side by side.

As soon as I entered Luanxiang Pavilion, I saw Yao Chong, Song Jing and some important officials present, all of whom were filled with joy. Li Longji had a smile on his face and waved to Chen Wanrong, "I also said that I wanted Gao Lishi to find you, you will come by yourself, you are very fast."

Chen Wanrong smiled and said, "Emperor, I want to share my joy with such a great victory."

"Joy is their business, and the people share it. We have big things to discuss. Sit down!" Li Longji said with a solemn face: "Ge Shuhan won a big victory in the Western Regions and won Talas. It is certainly a pleasure, but the problem is also here. You can take a look at Ge Shuhan's good news first." He picked up the good news and handed it to Chen Wanrong.

Chen Wanrong took it and browsed it. He was surprised and almost screamed: "Is there such a thing? Even the monk helped us fight?"

Geshuhan's good news is not only a victory, but also a story about the entire battle process, especially the matter of monks helping to fight against the cannibals, which is also a key report.

This matter is unbelievable, but it is a real existence and cannot be believed. Geshuhan also analyzed the reasons in the good news.

When the Tang army invaded Talas, not only monks came to help the war, but also the people and slaves in the city. Why did they help the Tang army? This has to start with what Gu Taibai did and the customs here.

Talas City is located in Central Asia. Although it is not the official territory of the Tang Dynasty, it is a "Chinese civilization circle". The people here accept Chinese civilization and are close to the Tang Dynasty. They believe in Buddhism. In addition to Buddhism, there are also Zoroastrianism and Shamanism, which are the three major local religions.

In the Tang Dynasty, the influence of Chinese civilization was very broad, and Central Asia was within its influence. Not to mention Central Asia, even the Near East was deeply influenced by Chinese civilization. If it weren't for Gao Xianzhi's defeat in Talas, if it weren't for the "Anshi Rebellion", with the strong influence of Chinese civilization in the Middle East at that time, there would be no problem with the Tang Dynasty's further expansion in the Western Regions.

Since Gu Taibai came, he forced the local people to believe in Islam. Religious faith can be changed by saying that it can be changed. In order to make the people here believe in Muslims, Gu Taibai did not hesitate to kill people and destroy the temples here. His actions naturally aroused the dissatisfaction of the local people, but they dared not speak out.

When the Tang army invaded the city and Gu Taibai was defeated, dissatisfaction broke out and the monk would also start killing.

Of course, there were also slaves who helped the Tang army fight against the great cannibals. The great cannibals were actually a slave country. Gu Taibai plundered many slaves from the conquering place, and he once captured 100,000 slaves at one time. There were many slaves in Talas City.

These slaves have been influenced by Chinese civilization for a long time. Of course, they knew that the Tang Dynasty had no slaves, so they naturally looked forward to the Tang Dynasty. As soon as the Tang army entered the city, could they not rise up and support the Tang army to enter the city?

Gu Taibai originally wanted to fight street battles with the Tang army in the city, but the disaster caused Xiao Wall, slaves, monks, and the people worked hard to support the Tang army. They were attacked from the enemy in front and behind, but they could not resist it. His army collapsed instantly.

With the addition of slaves, monks and people, the Tang army's siege was unusually smooth. The smart Geshuhan also believed that this was true after the boss had been in the middle of the day.

After reading the good news, Chen Wanrong couldn't help but smile: "It's really God's help to the Tang Dynasty!"

Yao Chong and the others also thought this way, and they all laughed.

Li Longji smiled and said, "I didn't expect such a beautiful thing. We still have limited knowledge about the situation of the food industry. We have to invest more energy and study it carefully before we can take corresponding measures."

Chen Wanrong was not so clear about the influence of the Tang Dynasty in Central Asia. Although the battle of Talas was a pleasure, it also revealed that the Tang Dynasty did not have in-depth and thorough enough understanding of the Great Food, so it should indeed be studied carefully.

"The emperor is wise!" Chen Wanrong and the others had to praise Li Longji's shrewdness.

Li Longji continued: "Ge Shuhan has already thought of this problem. After he entered Talas, he collected all the books in the city and sent them to Chang'an. It will come soon. It is certainly correct for him to deal with this, but I think that the books of Talas alone cannot fully understand Dashi. I also want to issue an order to collect as many books on Dashi as possible."

Chen Wanrong's eyes shone and took the conversation and said, "Your Majesty, just relying on books, Gong is afraid that it is not very effective. You can ask General Geshu to hire scholars, poets, and good craftsmen from Dashi in the Western Regions at a high price to come to the Tang Dynasty. General Geshu said that according to what he understood, many places in the territory of Dashi were newly incorporated and unstable. If the Tang Dynasty raised the flag of uprising, they would still be unresponsive? These scholars would definitely rush to Chang'an!"

The Tang Dynasty's understanding of the Great Food was mainly in the Central Asian part, and as for the Near East and even Africa part, they didn't know much. If there were these scholars who were deeply aware of the internal situation and books, would the Tang Dynasty not know the situation of the Great Food?

Once you understand the situation of the food industry, you can take corresponding measures, which is a visionary forward-looking measure.

"Good idea! Your Majesty, I will discuss it!" Yao Chong took the lead in echoing.

Song Jing immediately followed: "Your Majesty, I will also discuss it!"

The benefit of doing this is that I understand it personally, and without further ado, everyone agrees with it.

Li Longji pointed to Chen Wanrong and said, "Your reaction is too fast? When Emperor Gaozu of Han, Liu Bang, attacked Xianyang, the generals were busy collecting gold, silver and jewelry. Only Xiao He did not take the money and goods, but took away the books from the Qin Palace. This laid a solid foundation for Emperor Gaozu of Han to understand the world and was of great significance. Now, we are also here to perform this good show. I immediately issued an order to Geshuhan, asking him to bring some poets, scholars and good craftsmen to Chang'an no matter what."

"The emperor is wise!" Everyone had to accept it.

Li Longji continued: "At the same time, we must strengthen supervision and cannot let Dashi understand the Tang Dynasty. We can understand Dashi, but Dashi cannot understand us. In this way, Dashi can understand Dashi and know ourselves and the enemy, but Dashi does not understand Dashi is just a blind man touching an elephant. In this battle, he will have three points in his chances of winning!"

The clever strategy is far-reaching, and Chen Wanrong and the others are sincerely praised.

"Ge Shuhan also requested a solution. My reply is very simple. Those who surrendered to the Tang Dynasty and those who were enemies of the Tang Dynasty should be resolutely and completely annihilated!" Li Longji said last.

Those who surrendered were met with great favors, and those who did not surrender were resolutely eliminated. This was a traditional strategy to deal with foreign enemies from the Western Han Dynasty. No matter how correct it was, no one could object.

Yao Chong took over the conversation and said, "Your Majesty, a great victory in the Western Regions is certainly a good thing, but I think Dashi will inevitably urge Mochu to send troops. I think Mochu's army will soon go south, and the war in the north is imminent."

Li Longji nodded and said, "That's right! When the Tubo was broken, Dashi and Mochu were both anxious. Now, the war in the Western Regions was beneficial to the Tang Dynasty, and Dashi and Mochu would be even more urgent. Mochu would definitely think that if the Tang Dynasty fought a few more big battles in the Western Regions, Dashi might make peace with the Tang Dynasty. By then, once the threat from the Tang Dynasty's Western Regions was eliminated, he would inevitably raise troops to the north and settle the score with him. He had no time left. Only by taking down the three cities of surrender as soon as possible and driving the Tang Dynasty to the south of the Yellow River would he have a chance to breathe."

Looking at Chen Wanrong, he said, "It's because of this that I think that I want Gao Lishi to come. The artillery should set off! You said, when are you planning to go to war?"

"The emperor said that he would set off at any time!" Chen Wanrong didn't think about it.

Li Longji pondered for a moment and said, "I'll give you three days to prepare."

Chen Wanrong shook his head and said, "Your Majesty, no, one day is enough. I heard that General Geshu had won such a big victory in the Western Regions, and his hands were a little itchy. I want to go and kill it as soon as possible!"

After going to the battlefield, I know how attractive the battlefield is to passionate men. Although it is dangerous, it is also exciting. Passionate men should gallop on the battlefield, even if they die, there will be no regrets!

"One day?" Li Longji frowned and said, "Time is a little tight. I want to arrange a ship. You can get on the boat from Chang'an and head straight to Youzhou, and then go to the north by land."

The transportation in the Tang Dynasty was very developed. You could get on the boat from Chang'an and pass through the Grand Canal of Beijing and Hangzhou. You could go straight to Youzhou. You could also go to Liaodong.

The artillery today is no longer the first 1,000 people, thirty-five cannons, but nearly 1,100 cannons, nearly 20,000. Such a huge army needs a lot of ships to transport them to Youzhou.

"Your Majesty, I want to go on land." Chen Wanrong said his thoughts: "It is easy to walk on water, but it takes too long. It takes about a month to get to Youzhou. If you take land, even if it is a little tired, you can reach Youzhou in ten days. If the brothers are too tired, they can make up for two or three days before going on the road. By doing this, it will save a lot of time."

The biggest advantage of walking on the water is that it can save energy, but the time is too long. Li Longji thought for a while: "Since that's it, let's do it!"

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Chen Wanrong was very happy and his tone was a little high.

After the matter was agreed, and after a while of discussion, Chen Wanrong said goodbye to Li Longji, left the Daming Palace, and headed straight to the military camp.

At this time, Chang'an was filled with joy, and there were people singing and dancing everywhere. The sound of long live sounded throughout the sky. Chen Wanrong was not in the mood to pay attention to it, and rushed straight to the Longwu Army camp not long afterwards.

As soon as we arrived at the Longwu Army camp, we saw that the soldiers of the Longwu Army were all happy and happy. As soldiers, they were naturally very happy as soldiers in the Western Regions.

Chen Wanrong could understand their feelings, so he came to the artillery camp and turned over and dismounted. Wang Shaohua hurriedly came up and said with a smile: "Brother Chen, do you have time to come today? Is the sun coming out from the west?"

After the Chinese New Year, Chen Wanrong focused on the grand chemical project and rarely came to the military camp. He couldn't even make fun of Wang Shaohua.

Chen Wanrong blinked his eyes and said, "Brother Wang, if you make fun of me again, I will not let you go this time."

Wang Shaohua was scared: "If you don't let me go, I will never end up with you. Tell you, Brother Chen, if you don't let me go, I will depend on you. Let me see if you want me to go?"

Chen Wanrong patted his shoulder and said, "Please General Yang and the others come over, I have something to say."

"Wait!" Wang Shaohua turned around and went to pass the order without saying a word.

Not long after, officers such as Yang Sixu, Liu Fuqing, Chen Zairong and others came. Chen Wanrong glanced at him and said, "The emperor has issued an order to go to war and set off the day after tomorrow!"

"Okay! There is a war!" Everyone was very happy and cheered in unison.

Wang Shaohua was even more excited and swung his fists: "Bei Di, I, Wang Shaohua is here again!"

Chen Zairong's eyes shone and he said with a smile: "Brother, I have wanted to fight the Turkic people for a long time. Now, I finally have a chance, I am so happy!" He was so excited that he jumped twice.

Yang Sixu and the others immediately went to convey the order. As soon as the order was passed, the artillery cheered and they were busy packing up and preparing their luggage. Of course, artillery was the most important thing, and they were checked forward and backward.

There was no time for him to come to the military camp. Before going to war, Chen Wanrong naturally had to check it out and check it everywhere accompanied by Yang Sixu. Although Chen Wanrong did not show up often, the artillery did not forget their immediate superiors, especially the hundreds of veteran artillery soldiers who fought against Tubo with Chen Wanrong. When they saw him, they surrounded him like they saw their relatives.

"General Chen, you are here!" A kind voice sounded: "General Chen, you are too. If you come to the military camp, you won't say anything to me, I'll go and greet you."

When Chen Wanrong saw that it was no one else, but Ge Fushun, with a kind smile on his face, his eyes narrowed into a small slit, and his right hand was not on Chen Wanrong's shoulder, so friendly that it seemed as if the two of them were wearing a pair of pants.

After knowing him for so long, I haven't seen Ge Fushun with such a savory smile. Chen Wanrong was a little stunned: "General Ge, what's wrong with you?"

"Brother Chen, go, Brother Ge has something to say to you." Ge Fushun's kindness has gone to a higher level, and he actually called him brother and brother.

Regardless of Chen Wanrong's reaction, he dragged Chen Wanrong aside. Ge Fushun smiled and said, "Brother Chen, you have to do me a favor, you must help."

"General Ge, what's the matter? Tell me, I will definitely help if I can!" Chen Wanrong was stunned by the intimacy he gave him.

Ge Fushun looked around and saw that there was no one, then lowered his voice and said, "Brother Chen, my elder brother belongs to Guan Longwu Army. You also know that brothers rarely have the opportunity to go to the battlefield. This time, when you go to Beidi, I can distribute two thousand people, and you can take it to Beidi and practice it well."
Chapter completed!