Chapter 62 Mutual restraints and balances

Chen Ying did not want to win the military achievements of pacifying the Eastern Turks. There were enough military achievements for Chen Ying. He needed to give the stage to Li Jing. At night, attacks Yinshan was Li Jing's battle to become famous, and the battle established his name as the Tang Dynasty's military god.

However, Jie Li Khan was desperate and actually ran to Dingxiang with 350,000 troops.

It seems that Dingxiang City has formed an indissoluble bond with Jie Li Khan.

Chen Ying could make great contributions to pacifying the Eastern Turks, but his old subordinates could no longer give in. From the consideration of a court, this rumor storm also gave Chen Ying a warning.

In fact, Chen Ying didn't stay anywhere for long. This was not like Li Jing, nor was Li Shiji, nor was it like Xue Wanche. Xue Wanche stayed in Jingzhou for a full six years.

However, Chen Ying has been in Lingzhou for only more than two years, less than one year in Henan Prefecture, less than one year in Hebei, and even though Anxi has been more than two years, the Western Regions are too big.

Because Chen Ying's performance was so eye-catching that he showed his sharpness and would look at his appearance wherever he went. This made too many people in the court uneasy.

They were afraid that Chen Ying would take root locally.

In fact, this is useless.

Before Chen Ying arrived, the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty were very bitter. Even the Zuowu Guard among the twelve guards could barely eat enough water. As for meat, there was no need to think about it.

However, Chen Ying never corrupted the poor food and gold of the soldiers in the army, nor did he tamper with the armor and weapons in his hands. On the contrary, they had gained specific benefits from Chen Ying any army he led.

As the saying goes, frugality is easy to go into extravagance, but it is difficult to go from extravagance. Once the soldiers of the army follow Chen Ying, they can eat enough food, eat meat, wear warm clothes, and have no worries about food and clothing in their families, they cannot live without Chen Ying.

Anyone who changes to bring Chen Ying's soldiers can only follow Chen Ying's policy at that time, otherwise the soldiers will immediately show them the color.

Even though Chen Ying had no power or post, a command was issued, from Lingzhou to Shuozhou, to Henan, Hebei, and even Hedong, the left and right guards of the East Palace, the left and right guards of the left and right guards of the left and right guards.

As long as the soldiers led by Chen Ying will accept Chen Ying's orders in a very short time.

As long as the soldiers led by Chen Ying, they will be marked by Chen Ying and will develop Chen Ying's training method and Chen Ying's unique working and rest method in Chen Ying's army.

As stated in "Bright Sword", the temperament of a unit is directly related to the temperament of his first commander. Chen Ying's way of thinking is first different from this era, and he even has the habit of being kind and not being in charge of soldiers.

Chen Ying believes that the lives of soldiers are precious. If one person can solve the battle without casualties, he will try to minimize casualties. Especially the Dingyuan Army and the Lingwu Left and Left Army in Lingzhou. This unit is an army formed by Chen Ying based on the officers led by the Right Guard of the East Palace.

Although time has changed, although Chen Ying has stopped commanding the Dingyuan Army and the Lingwu Army for nearly six years.

However, the traditions of Chen Yingshi's practice of training in the morning and evening, learning culture throughout the army, and talking to soldiers with heart-to-heart talks, solving life and psychological problems have been followed.

When it was just dawn, the soldiers of Dingyuan Army had already gotten up, and no one slept in. Under the leadership of their respective brigade commanders and regiment captains, they conducted full armed cross-country training in the regiment.

A team of soldiers braved the biting cold and panted and carried out training.

Chen Ying stood on the city gate, looking at the neatly lined up and raising his legs neatly. Thousands of people were like military formations, and a look of pride appeared on his face.

At this moment, there were squeaking sounds behind Chen Ying, which were the sounds of his boots stepping on the snow.

Chen Ying did not look back because his steps were messy, and he was obviously not Chen Ying's general. In Tongwan City, he could get close to Chen Ying within thirty steps without reporting. Only Li Xiaogong was the only one who could approach Chen Ying.

The soldiers who were training at the bottom of the city accidentally looked up and found Chen Ying's figure on the city wall.

Their mood suddenly became excited: "General!"

The soldiers were excited, and the captain said with a straight face: "Look at the right..."

"Go ahead!"

When walking in a straight line, it is very majestic and gives people a very shocking feeling.

Li Xiaogong looked at the Dingyuan Army soldiers under the city and said with envy: "General Chen is so strict in his military governance, he is indeed well-deserved!"

Chen Ying did not politely say in Li Xiaogong's words. Instead, he said lightly: "King of Hejian, Jie Li is here to Dingxiang!"

"He's here to Dingxiang!" Li Xiaogong said with some surprise: "He can't wait?"

Chen Ying said: "He is here, I don't want him to leave again!"

Li Xiaogong naturally heard the meaning of Chen Ying's words.

However, the Northern Expedition to the Eastern Turks was the established strategy of the court. Now that Li Jiancheng's imperial edict and the Ministry of War had not arrived yet, it was arbitrary movements at this time and it was a taboo.

Of course, Li Xiaogong was not afraid of making taboos. If Jie Li had only ten thousand people around him and Li Jiancheng had not been ordered by Li Jiancheng, he would have pounced on him with the Hedong Army long ago.

The key is that Jie Li Khan has an army of 350,000 and more than 10,000 troops from the Later Sui Dynasty. However, they have less than 40,000 troops, which is almost a 10-to-1 ratio, which is really a huge difference.

Li Xiaogong pondered and said, "Now, we do not have the imperial edict from His Majesty yet. Should we send someone to ask for war in Chang'an?"

"Rely on asking for instructions to fight!" Chen Ying said angrily: "Even if you eat shit, can't catch up with the heat!"

Li Xiaogong was stunned and ignored Chen Ying.

In fact, the Dingyuan army soldiers who could be mobilized by Chen Ying alone were far from reaching Dingxiang City. Thousands of people were thrown in and it was very likely that they would defeat Jie Li Khan!

Li Xiaogong looked at Chen Ying with a bad face, but didn't say anything else.

In Li Xiaogong's view, they had exceeded the task by capturing Liang Shidu alive and recovering Xiazhou, Yanzhou, and the twenty-eight counties of Qingzhou without any effort. There was no need to add anything to the task.

Although he was happy to defeat Jie Li Khan, the consequences would be very heavy once he failed.

The Hedong Army was Li Xiaogong's army, and in name was temporarily controlled by Chen Ying. However, now that the Liang Kingdom has been destroyed and the Liang army has been captured, if Li Xiaogong refuses to hand over the Hedong Army to Chen Ying's command, Chen Ying will have no choice.

Thinking of this, Chen Ying sighed and said, "This general does not second the Hedong Army. He only needs the equipment and supplies of the Hedong Army. Chen will give the brothers from the distant army to earn wealth!"

Li Xiaogong nodded and said, "What General Chen needs? What Xiaogong can do, you must do your best!"

Li Xiaogong didn't dare to offend Chen Ying to death. After all, Chen Ying was a celebrity around Li Jiancheng and a direct line among the direct line.

Chen Ying asked Li Xiaogong for a thousand four-wheeled carriages, plus the carriages prepared by the Dingyuan Army, which were more than 1,600. These more than 1,600 carriages, of which 400 were used to carry soldiers and more than 1,200 carriages, all of which were used to carry supplies and fuel.

In such cold weather conditions, without enough fuel, people in the wild may not be able to hold on for a night.

Chen Ying asked the soldiers to prepare a month's ration, as well as the corresponding war horses, weapons and armor, all prepared, and then the final disguise began.

...

In the Ganlu Hall of Tai Chi Palace, Li Jiancheng, dressed in regular clothes, slowed down and walked into Li Yuan's bedroom.

Concubine Yin De was about to get up and salute.

Li Jiancheng quickly made a gesture of silence.

Li Jiancheng walked to Li Yuan's bed and conducted a careful investigation.

Li Yuan is sleeping.

Li Jiancheng walked out of the dormitory carefully.

The imperial doctor who was waiting outside the dormitory gave Li Jiancheng a greeting.

Li Jiancheng asked with a bad look on his face: "What is the disease of the father?"

The imperial doctor stammered: "The wind and cold hit the lungs and coughed up blood. I stood outside the Linhu Palace in the afternoon. I had been standing for too long."

Li Jiancheng sighed in a blaming voice: "In the past, my body was not that bad?

The imperial doctor said: "The evil of wind and cold is in the lungs and Weiwei. Because wind and cold attack the surface, the external muscles are bound, the Weiyang is suppressed, and the inner part is left in the lungs, and the cleansing and eliminating is negligent.

Li Jiancheng said with a confused look on his face: "What does it mean?"

The imperial doctor said: "The Supreme Emperor has been seriously ill for a long time. Evil accumulates in his chest, blocking qi and reversing qi, and qi cannot be connected. All evil and righteous fight each other. Once the evil wins, the righteous cannot control it, and then form a shape and there is a block..."

Li Jiancheng waved his hand impatiently and said, "You can explain it more clearly!"

The imperial doctor said hesitantly: "Your Majesty, the Supreme Emperor has been phlegm for a long time. I am afraid that this time I will cough up blood... I will not have much time left!"

Li Jiancheng was stunned and said, "It's nonsense!"

The imperial doctor was so scared that he knelt down and said, "Your Majesty, how dare I talk nonsense? When I was just diagnosed and treated, the Supreme Emperor had known for a long time that he had suffered from an incurable disease... but... he didn't say it to Your Majesty."

Li Jiancheng stayed for a long time.

Concubine Yin De walked out the door and politely said to Li Jiancheng: "Your Majesty, the Supreme Emperor has woken up, please come in."

Li Yuan lies on the couch with his eyes closed, listening to the sound of footsteps, and whispered: "Dalang..."

Li Jiancheng hurried forward and sat down in front of the couch.

Li Yuan gently grabbed Li Jiancheng's hand, a strange look appeared on his face, and asked, "Guess, if you give an imperial edict, will Chen Ying come back from Tongwancheng immediately?"

Li Jiancheng was quite embarrassed when he heard this and didn't know how to answer.

Li Yuan lowered his eyebrows and looked as if he hadn't heard of it.

Li Jiancheng shook his head with a wry smile, saying that he didn't know.

Li Yuan said effortlessly: "To punish the heart by sin, this is the art of the emperor... It is a change of power... It is not a way to govern the world... It is to use more power... Use the method carefully... It is to use the art... It is necessary to avoid it if you can... It is important to know that if you are the emperor... you cannot do things that are happy... The power of the emperor is not in life and death; the power of the emperor is not in the flags, courtesy axes and swords... The authority of the imperial court... It is in the hearts of the common people... The prestige of the imperial court is... the overnight food and rice in small households..."

Li Yuan said this intermittently, and Li Jiancheng was moved and was about to have something to say.

Li Yuan continued: "What a powerful army in the prosperous Han Dynasty in the past... The four barbarians and guest patrons... What a atmosphere of the eleven tombs... Now you go and see, how much is there before it was stolen?"

Li Yuan said tiredly: "After I die, don't bury the cave, don't open the mountain tombs, wear paper clothes, a tiled coffin, and the tomb is built with bricks, and no stone materials are used. Stone men and horses are used. Don't use officers and soldiers to guard the spirits, do not build underground palaces, and do not set up guards. Only recruit hundreds of households near the common people, and face the food and taxes of generations, so that they can perform the duties of worshiping the besiege. A stone tablet is engraved with an engraved article saying: The Emperor of the Tang Dynasty is coming to Yan..."

Li Jiancheng waved his hand and interrupted Li Yuan and said, "Present doctors, I have to raise rice from the court every day. In fact, I don't have the ability to do it. This child knows it. Your illness has not reached that point, and you will be raising it slowly. There will always be a great day."

Li Yuan said: "Dalang..."

Li Yuan interrupted Li Jiancheng quickly and said, "Chen Ying, Li Jing and Xu Shiji are both famous generals. They are all famous generals in the world. They are all cautious and cautious and knowledgeable about hiding their humble ways, so you don't need to..."

Speaking of this, Li Yuan coughed.

Li Jiancheng hurriedly picked up the water cup beside him, but was a little helpless.
To be continued...