The most direct thing from Chen Leng and Meng Chang'an to Baishan Pass was the battle between the scouts of both sides. Unlike in the past, this time, Daning's scouts were no longer one-sided suppression. At first, they were even killed twice because of underestimating the enemy.

In the past half a month, scouts from both sides have encountered various encounters in the canyon outside Baishan Pass, and they fought fiercely every time.

This made Chen Leng and Meng Chang'an even more sure that there was a person in the Bohai Army who knew the Daning Army. If this person was not Ning Ren, he could only go out of Sihai Pavilion.

The investigation of Tingwei's Mansion began immediately, but the news would take several months to return from Chang'an, and it might last for half a year.

The war against the Bohai Kingdom was only three months away. Chen Leng and others would not postpone the plan because of one person. Moreover, the plan was not at Baishan Pass, and the Bohai people only focused their main energy here.

In mid-June, Meng Chang'an stayed at Baishan Pass and continued to confront the 150,000 Bohai Army, which gave the Bohai people an illusion, making them think that Ning people would never fight on both sides. There were hundreds of thousands of black warriors pressing over Xifengkou. No matter how you look at it, Ning people did not have the ability to fight on both sides.

Chen Lengze led more than 36,000 combat soldiers to leave in the Navy fleet. He cooperated with Yan Kaisong's 20,000 soldiers, and had a total of more than 100,000 auxiliary soldiers. He entered the sea for twenty days and launched an attack from the south of the Bohai Kingdom.

This is a strategy that has been formulated long ago. Chen Leng and Meng Chang'an have been waiting for the Bohai Kingdom's army to arrive to support the Heiwu Yetu army in the north. As long as the Bohai Kingdom's army arrives, the navy's advantages can be exerted and attacked around the south side of the Bohai Kingdom. Although the Bohai Kingdom claims to be able to wield a million troops at any time, it is just a civilian who sent weapons to the civilians.

The advantage of Bohai under the rule of the tyrant is that no one dares to question the orders of Bohai King, and the disadvantage is that because he is too afraid of Bohai King, the general who leads the troops dare not be defeated, and he will undoubtedly die if he is defeated.

Even if you lose your battle, you dare not respond.

The key to this plan is that the Bohai Kingdom is backward in its foundation, and the military operation is naturally far less smooth than that in Daning. Moreover, the Bohai Kingdom is mountainous, and it is too late to transfer the army from the north to the south. Chen Leng and Meng Chang'an speculated that the army mobilized by the Bohai Kingdom to support the Heiwu Kingdom must be its elite rather than a pieced together civil war. Before, Yan Kaisong entered the Bohai Sea to slaughter 300,000 people and burned several granaries, which caused a huge blow to the Bohai Kingdom's national strength. He was poor and short of food. If the losses of several granaries were only a drop in the bucket for Daning, it was the key to supporting the army for the Bohai Sea.

The plan formulated by Chen Leng and Meng Chang'an is ultimately just one word... Quick!

There is no need to think about the battle between a city and a place, and a long sword goes straight into it.

In early July, Chen Leng and Yan Kaisong divided their troops into two groups, attacking Hancheng, an important southern town in the Bohai Kingdom, and continued to advance northward to Yingya Mountain, where the largest granary of the Bohai Kingdom was located.

At the end of July, the Bohai army outside Baishan Pass began to withdraw, and the tent was empty overnight.

Meng Chang'an led 10,000 combat soldiers in Baishan Pass and 20,000 combat soldiers in Xiahou Zhi. He went out of Baishan Pass to attack from north to south. His momentum was like a storm. A team of tens of thousands of soldiers stuck to the 150,000 troops of the Bohai Kingdom to chase after them. When the Bohai Kingdom's army stopped, they stopped, and as long as they moved, they would move.

The General Pei Tingshan of the Eastern Frontier led an army of 30,000 to Baishan Pass to seize the rear.

Early September.

The emperor sat in Simaozhai's study and looked at the ripe vegetables outside the window. When he remembered the cold day when he was turning over the ground in the vegetable garden, he couldn't help but cursed and smiled. The guy had a kind of honesty, but he was a little shameless, and a little merciless. However, no matter what, he would not make people feel annoying.

He was planning to do his days, and the two little guys were about to celebrate their birthdays. The time was so fast that it was unpredictable. In a blink of an eye, Xiao Shenji and Xiao Shenning were both two years old.

The emperor was a little dazed. Before he knew it, several years have passed since he first met Chen Leng. The boy is now representing Daning to fight against the Bohai Sea. Yesterday, there was news coming back from the northeastern border. It said that Chen Leng's navy had landed on the south coast of the Bohai State. The news was very fast, but it had been more than a month. It was estimated that the guy had entered a very deep place in the Bohai State.

The emperor was a little proud.

A tiger father has no dog son, and I am the emperor.

He could have entered the Hei Martial Arts back then, and he believed that Chen Leng would be like this sooner or later.

At this moment, I saw Zhenfei and Cha'er bringing the two little guys to the Imperial Garden to play again. The emperor got up and greeted them, hugging them. The more I looked at them, the more I felt that these two little guys looked like me, and their eyebrows were like each other.

At this time, another army report was reported, and the military report on the northeastern border was one a day, which shows how fast the Ning army was advancing.

Lai Cheng, the second assistant to the cabinet, walked over quickly with the military newspaper, leaned over and said to the emperor in a low voice, "General Chen seems to be in trouble."

"Um?"

The emperor frowned slightly: "What's the matter?"

"I just received a military newspaper from the northeastern frontier. General Chen and General Meng attacked each other from the south and the north. The speed of advancement was so fast that it was unbelievable, but their fighting style... all the adults in the cabinet had complained, saying that it was a disgrace to Your Majesty's reputation for benevolence."

"explain."

The emperor glanced at Lai Cheng.

Lai Cheng handed the military newspaper to the emperor: "From the military newspaper, General Chen and General Meng fought too hard. They broke through one city and slaughtered one city. Wherever they passed, young and strong men killed them. In addition to leaving behind the food and grass needed by the army, the robbed food and grass were burned, and countless people in the Bohai Kingdom starved to death."

"What about that?"

The emperor frowned: "Without this battle, there will be fewer people starving to death in the Bohai Kingdom every year?"

He snorted: "My reputation of kindness? When did I be kind to the enemy? A group of people who have never brought soldiers to fight wars say that the war should not be fought like this. OK, I will issue an order to transfer Chen Leng and Meng Chang'an back. You go back and tell the people in the cabinet that each of them will give them a black thread knife and a set of chain mail, and let them fight in the Bohai Kingdom."

Lai Cheng opened his mouth choked, hesitated for a while and said tentatively: "Shouldn't this battle be a steady battle? Take down a city to stabilize the city, safeguard the people and raise the fields, and slowly plan for it."

"fart!"

The emperor's eyes widened, which scared Xiao Shenji and Xiao Shenning not far away. Zhenfei and Cha'er quickly picked them up and left.

Cha'er was a little worried and looked back at the emperor: "It seems that all the lords in the cabinet are a little dissatisfied with Leng Zi?"

"No need to pay attention."

Concubine Zhen smiled and said, "Why do you care if they are satisfied or not? It's up to you to see if Your Majesty is satisfied or not. Your Majesty hasn't lost his temper for a long time, so don't worry. Your Majesty loses his temper, and all the adults in the cabinet have to shut up."

Behind them, the emperor glared at Lai Cheng: "You have the first-class rule of the country, but if you are asked to lead troops to fight, you are not even a third-class rule. Do you know what the climate of the Bohai Kingdom is? There are only three months to fight within a year. If you can't take it down within these three months, the 200,000 troops will be trapped to death by the snow and ice! According to what you said, take down a city and keep the people and the fields. Tell me, why did I fight the Bohai Kingdom? Is it to save all living beings?"

Lai Cheng quickly lowered his head: "I dare not, I just... I just think the massacre is too heavy."

"So you will never understand the frontier soldiers."

The emperor shook his head: "When I was fighting in the north, I took you to the snowy field in the northern border to see how the war was fought, how people died, and how blood dyed the ground red... If you are in the cabinet, you should know how many feather arrows the Ministry of War sent to the northern border every year. Then tell me, what are these feather arrows used to make fences? That is for killing people."

Lai Cheng was speechless.

"Do you know why Daning could destroy Chu?"

The emperor looked at Lai Cheng and continued without waiting for Lai Cheng to answer: "Chu uses civil servants to supervise the army and fight against the army. The general's power is not as strong as the civil servants. The civil servants say they can fight as much as they want, but what if they lose? The guilty one is the general, the soldiers who fight to the death. Is Chu really weak? Chu can pacify the grasslands in the Western Regions and establish a foundation for hundreds of years, because those hundreds of years are too comfortable, so he valued culture over military... I have always warned myself that the civil servants should be separated, and the two ends of the shoulder pole should be even, otherwise Daning will become Chu."

Lai Cheng knew how heavy these words were, so how could he dare to say anything else?

After a while, seeing His Majesty's face ease, Lai Chengcai said with a smile: "I know I am wrong. I will learn more and understand more in the future. Your Majesty's dragon body is important. Don't be angry with me if I don't know what I don't know."

The emperor glared at him: "You have specialized in your skills and generals dare not point fingers in the cabinet, and you should not point fingers at war."

Lai Cheng: "I remember, I ask for a one-year salary penalty."

"Forget it."

The emperor looked at Lai Cheng and said with a faint tone, "I don't know you yet? The court officials say you are Lai Lao sting... But they don't understand your family affairs. For so many years, you have not collected any copper coins. When it comes to being honest, no one in the court is more honest than you. More than ten years ago, there was a big fire in your house, and your father and brother were killed. In addition to the food and clothing at home, you sent all your salary back to your sister-in-law to provide family expenses. The fire affected neighbors and neighbors. You also had to send money to every household and punish you for one year's salary. I was afraid of heartache."

Lai Cheng stood there, such a big secondary assistant in the cabinet, lowering his head and rubbing his hands. Such an eloquent person could not even say a word.

"I know you have worked hard, so I give you more rewards than others, but I can't give you unreasonable rewards. You support your family, your brother and sister-in-law's family, your family who have died and injured in your family, and your neighbors who lost their relatives in the fire... I want you to be a little greedy. If you are a censor in the Censorate, others should also give you a lot of money to block your mouth, but you have been so cowardly for so many years. I have thought that if you are a little greedy, I will not cure you."

The emperor raised his hand and patted Lai Cheng on the shoulder: "However, if you do something wrong, you must be punished."

Lai Cheng turned his head and did not dare to let His Majesty see the slight redness of his eyes.

"I will accept the crime."

"there."

The emperor pointed to Zhenfei and Cha'er: "Those two little guys are almost two years old. You have good handwriting. Teaching them to write in their spare time will be considered as a punishment for you."

Lai Cheng was stunned for a moment and smiled: "I received the order."

The emperor said to himself: "You can't let them follow Chen Leng's broken words...ah, it's really broken."

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