After hearing that Xiang Yuwen Yuanliang had been bound and escorted to Chang'an City.
Zhao Youlin immediately began his deployment.
His strategy was very simple, which was to take all the remaining soldiers directly north to defect to Xue Yantuo.
But when it comes to war, he is the commander-in-chief and can command thousands of troops.
But when it came time to withdraw, even if he was the commander-in-chief, few people were willing to leave with him.
More than 20,000 soldiers of the three-ethnic coalition all asked to go home regardless of Zhao Youlin's orders. .??.
No matter how the military governor's camp killed those soldiers who were unwilling to leave, the rest of them did not waver at all.
Being a soldier is the same no matter what country you are in or where you are.
The reason why they picked up the long sword and fought the enemy regardless of life and death was for their family and hometown.
If they are forced to leave their hometown and family, what is the point of being a soldier?
Finally, Zhao Youlin finally saw through the mentality of these people.
He also knew that if he forced these people any longer, he might cause even greater trouble.
Instead of doing this, it's better to just accept it when it's good.
Therefore, he simply headed towards the depths of the desert with more than 20,000 people who were willing to go with him.
The remaining 20,000 people stayed where they were and surrendered to Datang.
This war started by Zhao Youlin and expanded by Li Chengqian has finally come to an end.
In this battle, the Tang Dynasty paid a total of more than 30,000 casualties, and the vast land north of Yanshan was included in the territory of the Tang Dynasty.
The northeastern border of the Tang Dynasty will also be fully bordered by Shiwei, Mohe and Goguryeo.
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When the army retreated south, Li Chengqian did not choose to return to Chang'an with the army.
He only gave two letters to Li Ji and asked him to help bring them to Li Shimin and Lu Wanjie, who had been waiting for him in the palace for more than half a year.
The letter to Li Shimin was of course a greeting to Li Shimin.
Then he said that he still had a lot of things to do and would not go back to Chang'an City for the time being. He would go home to reunite after everything was arranged.
The letter to Lu Wanjie was full of thoughts of longing for her. He even wrote in his letter that the last person he thought of when he was dying was her.
After Lu Wanjie saw it, she felt moved and sad at the same time.
She held the letter and looked at the north longingly, murmuring: "When will you come back? I really miss you..."
Little did he know that she had just uttered this exclamation.
Li Chengqian, who was thousands of miles away, heard the system prompt.
Among them are Lu Wanjie's admiration points and Lu Wanjie's resentment points.
Li Chengqian couldn't help but shake his head and smile bitterly: "I know you miss me very much, but I really have a lot of things that I haven't finished yet."
He looked up to the south: "But don't worry, I will definitely go to see you as soon as possible after I return..."
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After solving the Northeastern Third Mission, Li Chengqian could finally rest assured and be a farm boy.
Although it is winter now, it does not delay Li Chengqian from leading the common people and the 20,000 prisoners of war from the three ethnic coalitions to reclaim the land.
With the addition of these prisoners of war, the work of reclaiming farmland progressed rapidly.
At the same time, he also had people build a large number of wind mills and canals for irrigating farmland on the grassland.
Wind mills can not only provide kinetic energy for irrigating farmland.
It can also be used in a series of light industries such as papermaking, weaving, forging, etc.
After working hard all winter and investing an unknown amount of money, a quaint light industrial zone has been built.
On the day when the light industrial zone officially started operations, Li Shimin came uninvited.
See my father.
Li Chengqian jumped up and down happily.
Regardless of etiquette, he rushed directly to Li Shimin and gave Li Shimin a big hug.
Li Shimin was about to say something scolding.
I heard Li Chengqian speak slowly
He said: "Father, I miss you so much..."
Just this sentence almost brought Li Shimin to tears.
The scolding eventually turned into comfort.
He patted Li Chengqian's back and pretended to be dissatisfied: "You miss me, why don't you go back to Chang'an to see me?"
"Looking at you like this, I'm afraid you have forgotten your father a long time ago and are just doing your own thing."
"how can that be possible."
Li Chengqian was also a little dissatisfied. He pursed his lips and said, "My son really misses his father and mother all the time."
"It's just that the progress of the project here is slow and I can't get away from it at all."
"Okay, okay, don't use this useless reason."
Li Shimin waved his hand indiscriminately, then raised his hand and pressed it on the top of his head.
After half a year, he seems to have grown a lot taller.
The last time I saw him, he only reached his chest.
Now it has grown to the position of my chin.
Time really flies.
In the blink of an eye, children really grow up.
Youth is gone forever, let alone childhood that passes faster than youth?
Li Shimin sighed slightly: "Take me to see what you have been doing during this time."
"good."
Li Chengqian also wanted to show off the results of his hard work for so long in front of him.
He took Li Shimin straight into the first wind mill.
{Received surprise value +99 from Li Shimin...}
He raised his hand and pointed at the strange thing in front of him, and asked with surprise: "What is this?"
Inside the huge mill, there was a wooden machine placed in the center, which was moving in an orderly manner.
And with the movement of the machine, a complete piece of silk cloth was slowly pushed out.
When the size was about the same, the workers standing by immediately stepped forward, cut the silk cloth with scissors, and then tied it into rolls and placed them aside. Li Chengqian introduced with a smile: "This is called a wind loom. The specific principle is similar to a wind propeller."
"Using wind as kinetic energy to drive machinery to weave cloth."
"The quality of the silk cloth spun by this thing is better than that of manual spinning, and the output value is much higher than that of ordinary cloth spun."
Hear his words.
Li Shimin stepped forward and carefully checked the quality of the silk cloth.
At the end, he couldn't help but laugh and said: "If this kind of industry can be opened all over the country, no one in the Tang Dynasty will be able to wear sackcloth in the future..."
"That's natural."
Li Chengqian smiled proudly and continued to pull Li Shimin down.
In the light industrial zone, there are countless examples of wind power paper making, wind power water extraction, wind power forging steel, wind power grinding grain, etc.
Li Chengqian almost used the power of wind to the limit.
And this also made Li Shimin so shocked that he couldn't even close his mouth.
He looked at Li Chengqian with surprise and asked, "How did you come up with these weird things?"
"Of course the old god in the dream told me."
Li Chengqian had a proud smile on his face: "Moreover, he also told me a very interesting thing, but I haven't studied it yet."
"When I build it in the future, my father will be able to travel anywhere in the Tang Dynasty at the speed of thousands of miles a day."
Hearing these words, Li Shimin shook his head and said with a smile: "If I really want to travel thousands of miles in one day, why should I use your invention?"
"I just need to ride a thousand-mile horse and I can travel a thousand miles in a day."
"hey-hey."
Li Chengqian glanced at Li Shimin and said, "This thing of mine is not for riding, but for sitting on."