The war is getting closer and closer, and the safety of Datang's northern territory has gradually become the most important issue in Datang. This time, even though...
The rumors about Cheng Yaojin have gone through many versions, and the rumors about Cheng Chumo are even more popular. However... if it were in the past weekdays, the Duke of Guo suddenly left alone to engage in major military operations, and a major incident broke out in the government office of Guo Gong's house.
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In the Tang Dynasty, it would take three to five years to talk about even a small amount of topics.
It would be even worse if some interested folk, such as storytellers, became interested in this. I would directly send you a storybook, and from now on you would be the number one Internet celebrity in the Tang Dynasty - there were Internet celebrities in ancient times.
, instead of all the hype about various romances, Qin Qiong and Yu Chigong, these two idle and depressed young middle school students, would not later become the... door gods of the Tang Dynasty.
But this time, the situation is a little different,
Cheng Yaojin and Cheng Chumo, who were originally popular and discussed in Chang'an, were no longer discussed in just a few days. It can even be calculated that when Li Er went to the Lion House to have a drunken drink with Wei Zheng and others
, the people no longer discussed those two things - and it was not caused by imperial decree.
Li Er had originally intended to ban discussion of Cheng Yaojin's family affairs. After all, it didn't matter who was right or wrong about this matter. However, if a son of a prince's family caused a scandal and ran away, it would always have a bad impact - a bad impact, not face.
It's ugly, there is a major difference between the two.
In fact, the worst impact on Li Er was that Cheng Yaojin, an old and middle-aged man, had to imitate Han Xin and Huo Qubing at this juncture. As a result, if something really happened, he would have to wait for himself to deal with the aftermath.
Without any control from the court, the people gradually and spontaneously stopped chatting about this matter, and even... stopped communicating about gossip among neighbors, a kind of...
A strange, scalp-numbing atmosphere of silence began to spread across China.
This silent atmosphere reminds people of the allusion in ancient books, called King Li's slander. It means that King Zhou Li of the national army at that time was not a good bird, and he forbade the people to slander him. As a result, the people looked at him and finally killed King Zhou Li.
They were driven away. But this time, the Chinese people faced something even more terrifying.
When King Zhou Li was alive, the world's population had not yet plummeted wildly, but after he fled, wars began to break out all over the world, and the population died out at the speed of light - the details of how it died are well documented in history. And the current situation... is exactly like this.
, this time the pressure faced came from the Romans from afar.
Once the war was lost... The troubled times at the end of the Sui Dynasty had only passed a few years ago, and there were still many middle-aged and elderly people who remembered what happened back then. It could even be said that the current backbone of Tang Dynasty society was this group of people.
For this reason, even though they had stayed in the streets of Chang'an for a long time and the former elite soldiers of the Forbidden Army had become tainted with the atmosphere of the streets, when they realized that the war was coming, terror still began to swirl.
And this atmosphere of approaching death suddenly reached its climax during a court meeting held by Li Er a few days later...
At that time, Li Er was going to the court for discussion, and he was naturally busy with how to support the affairs in the north - time was tight, and although many things were too late, the court still had to solve them, and it was definitely impossible to rest. Of course, this
At one point, all civil and military officials in the dynasty understood that at this time...then again, even if the emperor is not in a hurry, as a minister, he must be as busy as possible. If the war is really unfavorable in the future, someone will not take the blame.
Implicating myself - but such a beautiful thing went wrong during the court meeting...
But it was said that His Majesty the Emperor Li Er was asking the officials of the Manchu Dynasty how much food and troops could be mobilized from the northwest at this stage. This was a pressing matter at the moment. Although the Anbei Protectorate was still too far away, the number of soldiers and food supplies was huge.
There is a probability that we won't be able to get there, but the Anxi Protectorate's Mansion south of the Anbei Protectorate, which is the fortress that Li Jing guarded before, still needs to transport people, money and food.
This not only means that Li Jing of the Anxi Protectorate led his army to the north to support him, but the place was empty, so he still had to have troops to guard it. It also means that Chang'an, the capital of the Tang Dynasty, was far away from the Anbei Protectorate.
point, but the Anxi Protectorate is not that far away. After the soldiers are transported to Anxi, there is still a certain chance of rushing to the north for support.
Of course, this is just an operation based on predicting the war in a bad direction. If you are optimistic, then... you can also think that the Romans did not take action so quickly - this is possible, after all, the military power of the Tang army
It is well-known among the grass-headed barbarians in Mobei. If this is the case, then the army will first go to the Anxi Protectorate, and then - and then move to the Anbei Protectorate. This may be really late.
If it was the Tang Dynasty in the past, it would definitely still be too late. The Romans would start a day or two later than expected. After all, the magical wheat seeds in the Tang Dynasty would not be completely planted in just one or two days, but it would never be too late.
Ten days and a half - then it would be really lonely.
And if the Romans didn't give them time, it would be very difficult for the Imperial Guards of the Tang Dynasty to travel two to three thousand miles.
But now, the situation is different. Although the distance of the imperial army of the Tang Dynasty is hard to say, it is much improved compared to the past. After all, although there are sweet potatoes now, raising horses is simply easier and more enjoyable, if not for the advent of steam vehicles.
, Li Er felt that he could simply arrange for the Tang Dynasty to maintain two million horses on a regular basis - but when it came to traveling, no matter how many horses there were... the effect would not be great.
But the Tang Dynasty today is not the Tang Dynasty back then.
Although the emergence of steam vehicles and the substantial increase in the production of war horses, they could not significantly increase the transfer speed of Datang's troops - this is the most fatal point. The ability to quickly transfer troops is the core of a land-based empire.
Physical ability, but... Today's Datang has railways!
Of course, having said that again, there are no railways between the fortresses in the Western Regions and Cheng Yaojin's Anbei City, because those places are still too cold and barren after all, and the terrain is complex, making it too difficult to build railways.
However, the journey from Chang'an to the Protectorate of Anxi can be carried out by railway to transfer manpower and material resources!
This time is only three or four days - the reason why Chang'an became the capital of the Tang Dynasty is of course because the Guanlong area is the place where Li Er's dragon thrives, and the dragon's veins are watched by the emperor himself. Second...
...Naturally because this dragon vein belongs to the northwest dragon vein of China, Chang'an itself is in a key position. For this reason...
