Li Ji, who was born as a bandit, did not have a strong concept of family and country. He only had a strong concept of race.
Regardless of the fact that the Tibetan envoys were wiped out and the fire on the Xianyang Bridge soared into the sky, these two events seemed shocking to the world.
However, after Li Ji later learned that all those who died were Tubo people, he forgot about the matter. At that moment, he only cared about gunpowder. As for how many Tubo people died, he didn't care.
It's not like he has never killed Tubo people before, this is nothing to him.
The best thing Yunchu did was to let the imperial court borrow gunpowder from the Xianyang Bridge.
Therefore, when Li Ji personally tested the power of gunpowder, he was very satisfied, and the tragedy that the Tibetans suffered in the Tang Dynasty was almost forgotten.
In his opinion, these two things are of no use except to manipulate Yun Chu.
Li Ji is very sure that Yun Chu will not betray his tribe, and Yun Chu will not harm his tribe. Li Ji is also fully sure of this through four to five years of observation.
As a rare wise man in the world, he has a very clear concept of family and country, and has a very thorough understanding of the emperor.
Anyway, his tribe always needs an emperor, so it doesn't matter to him who is on top.
What he values is the reproduction and development of his tribe.
The rest is not enough.
Gunpowder is a new thing, and the most experienced person in how to use it is undoubtedly Yun Chu, who has already used it once at Xianyang Bridge.
On the Xianyang Bridge where corpses were strewn all over the place, Li Ji did not look at who was dead. He was silently calculating the lethality of the gunpowder.
When he went up to the Xianyang Bridge, he saw the broken bridge pillars, so circles appeared in his head one after another, one circle inside another, and all the people and horses in the circle were broken.
Now, he was planning to take advantage of the Mohe clan, which was just showing signs of rising, and wanted to see if Yun Chu, with the help of gunpowder, could complete the feat of defeating one against ten.
It was precisely because there was gunpowder, and a large amount of gunpowder, that Li Ji proposed the strategic concept of using 260,000 horses to quell Goguryeo.
Without gunpowder, if the Tang Dynasty wanted to destroy a country like Goguryeo, it would have been impossible to accomplish this important task without an army of more than 500,000 people.
To mobilize an army of more than 500,000 people, for the Tang Dynasty, it was almost the power of the entire country.
When Yunchu returned to the military camp, the flag officer of the Chinese army sent a military order. The content of the military order was very simple - destroy the Mohe tribe!
"It's too urgent. The Mohe tribe is on the left rear side of Gaimou City in Goguryeo. If we don't kill the Goguryeo people, how can we deal with the Mohe tribe?"
After reading the military order, Wen Wen became a little anxious. He felt that the Chinese army seemed to have given the wrong order of the military order. They should have crossed the Liao River first, captured Xiangping and Gaimou, and then it was their turn to destroy the Mohe tribe.
Yun Chu sniffed and said, "This is a military order for us. It does not require us to attack now."
Wenrou quickly picked up the military order and read it again and said with a long breath: "It's not dated."
Yun Chu nodded and said, "Xue Rengui took away three days of food and grass, right?"
Wen Wen said: "Take it away. He is so lucky. The Khitan is on our marching route. It is just a matter of convenience to destroy the Khitan."
Wen Wen's envy was justified, and Yun Chu also knew that the reason why they accepted such a bad order was entirely due to themselves.
The army arrived in Youzhou, but did not enter the city. They walked in front of the city gate, accepted the inspection by Li Ji and Youzhou officials, and then headed north. Qi Bi Heli's former army marched to Liucheng (today's Chaoyang, Liaoning) and bluffed towards Huaiyuan Town.
However, Li Ji's central army and Gao Kan's rear army secretly advanced northward.
Along the way, Yunchu's investment in Xue Rengui received extremely generous returns.
He obtained two hundred sheep, twenty horses, ten cows, and twelve long-mouthed black pigs.
Some of the sheep were dead and some were alive, and all the pigs were dead. Therefore, while the whole army was resting, Yun Chu asked the soldiers to skin and wash all the sheep and pigs, apply a thick layer of salt, and hang them on the
On the barrel of the spear, marching and drying all the way.
In order to prevent being discovered by the army commander, the soldiers deliberately surrounded the soldiers carrying spears to dry the bacon.
Although it doesn't look very good-looking, it is rare meat after all, and the soldiers' hearts are filled with happiness just by looking at it.
In addition, whenever it's time to bury the pot and make rice, the strong aroma of bone soup can always be heard in Yun Chujun.
Qibi Heli's army has completely cleared away the hidden dangers on the way forward for the central and rear armies.
This led Li Ji's army to the small town of Tongding on the edge of the Liao River. The Goguryeo people here still knew nothing about it.
Li Ji seemed to be very familiar with the terrain in this area. The army stopped thirty miles outside the small town of Tongding.