Chapter 39 Inspection of the North

Li Shimin next to him shook his head and said, "Uncle Xiahou's words are inappropriate. Xuanba may be able to compete with Yuwen Chengdu, but Yang Yuanqing is a hero in the world. His reputation is not in martial arts, but in military affairs. Xuanba is not qualified to fight him."

Xiahou Duan was stunned, then laughed and said, "My nephew is right, it's because I have little knowledge."

Li Yuan secretly praised in his heart, but raised his face and pretended to be angry: "Shimin, don't be rude to Uncle Xiahou, why not apologize!"

Li Shimin stood up and bowed deeply to Xiahou Duan, "My nephew is rude, please forgive me!"

Xiahou Duan quickly waved his hand, "Hey! Why do you want to apologize for this little thing? Don't listen to your father's nonsense, sit down!"

Xiahou Duan is Li Yuan's close friend and is very familiar with Li Yuan's family. He likes his second son Shimin and his third son Xuanba the most. He likes Li Shimin calm and generous, extremely agile, and likes Li Xuanba's silly head and silly martial arts. He dislikes the old four Yuanji the most. Yuanji's eyes always show a trace of poison, which makes him shudder.

At this moment, he couldn't help looking at Li Yuanji who was sitting on the other side. Li Yuanji looked at the brothers on the school ground coldly, and there was an unconcealed jealousy in his eyes. Xiahou Duan sighed secretly. Li Yuan had this son, and he didn't know whether it would be a blessing or a disaster in the future.

At this time, Li Jiancheng hurried forward and whispered a few words in his father's ear. Li Yuan stood up and smiled at Xiahou Duan and Gao Junya beside him and said, "There is something small, I will lose my companion for a while."

Li Yuan and Li Jiancheng walked out of the school grounds and asked, "Where are the people?"

"I asked him to go home, and it was inappropriate to be seen at the military academy."

Li Yuan nodded, "You did a good job and you can't let people see the Dugu family come to me."

He looked at the letter again. Yang Guang was going to go to the northern tour and would definitely pass by Taiyuan. This was a big deal. He was immersed in yin for a moment and said, "I know about this. Go and tell Dugu Huaien and ask him to go back and tell the head of the family. Li Yuan understands everything in his heart."

"Boy remember!"

Li Jiancheng turned around and left. Li Yuan sighed again. The prophecy made him feel overwhelmed. Thanks to the Dugu family to relieve him, whether he could survive this disaster depends on his attitude towards him when Yang Guang passed by Taiyuan this time.

Yang Yuanqing's 20,000 troops were stationed on the south bank of Zihe River in the north of Mayi County. This time they entered the northeast of the river, and they did not intend to expand their power to the south. The play had ended. At this time, Yang Yuanqing was patiently waiting for news from the capital in the military camp.

Outside the military camp, the soldiers were busy training, cavalry, formation, actual combat and individual combat as usual. At this time, 20,000 soldiers stood in a row into twenty large arrays, divided into two red and blue armies, and carried out actual combat confrontation on the vast grassland on the south bank of the Purple River. This is a completely simulated practical combat training. It is often the case that soldiers were accidentally killed during the confrontation, and it is extremely normal to be injured.

The drums were thunderous, and the shouts of killing were shaking the sky. Teams of cavalry were flying scattered under the guidance of the flag. The two armies fought fiercely. The commanders of both sides were Ying Yanglang Generals, one was Cui Pojun and the other was Song Chun. The two were commanding 10,000 troops to fight.

This is also the training of the Fengzhou Army for generals. The Yingyang Captain must be able to command more than 3,000 troops to fight, while the Yingyang Lang has 10,000 troops, and the general must consider overall combat. This system has been implemented in the third year of Daye and has been persisted for eight years today.

On a wooden platform that was more than ten feet high, Yang Yuanqing looked at the two armies in a quiet manner to fight and train. Li Jing next to him shook his head and said, "General Cui's rear army was too urgent to enter, and he did not see that the other party was pretending to be defeated. He lost this battle."

"I don't think so!"

Yang Yuanqing smiled faintly and said, "Song Chun is too tolerant, and his morale is worn away by him. It is unknown who can laugh to the end."

Li Jing smiled, "The general manager is confused. This is a simulated confrontation. There is only the difference between physical fatigue and morale, so General Cui will undoubtedly be defeated."

Sure enough, as the drums became dense, the red army suddenly launched a counterattack. The blue army could not resist and began to retreat step by step. Finally, the blue army flag fell down with a bang.

‘Dang!Dang!Dang!’ The bell to withdraw the troops rang, and the confrontation training ended. The Red Army cheered, while the Blue Army was dejected and had no momentum.

After a moment, two Ying Yanglang generals were led to the high platform and knelt on one knee in front of Yang Yuanqing, "I am the commander of the general manager!"

Yang Yuanqing smiled at Cui Pojun and said, "Do you know where you lost?"

Cui Pojun is only twenty years old and is a young general. He was born in the Cui family of Boling and was the grandson of Cui Hongsheng. He has been practicing martial arts since he was a child and studied military tactics. He is a young general with both civil and military skills. He joined the army at the age of fifteen. He was originally a military captain in Youzhou Military Academy. He was just promoted to General Yingyanglang last month.

He lost because of insufficient experience, and Song Chun, who was against him, is already a 36-year-old veteran. He has been in the army for nearly 20 years and is experienced.

Cui Pojun lowered his head and said with a frustration: "I was too impatient. Seeing that the other party's commanding flag was wrong, he thought it was because the other party had a big position and wanted to take the flag with a rush, but it was broken by him."

Li Jing next to him smiled and said, "Your judgment is not wrong. On the real battlefield, no one dares to use the misalignment of command flags as a pretext for pretending to be defeated. If you find that the misalignment of command flags, it must be the opponent's position. In this case, you can defeat the opponent in one go, but today is not a practical battle, so General Song Chun dares to use the misalignment of command flags to mihuo you. This is why you didn't think of the difference between simulation and actual combat. You don't have to think that you have made a mistake in your judgment."

Cui Pojun was in a little better mood and hurriedly said, "Thank you for your teachings! You will admit defeat at the end of this battle, and you will win back in the end of the battle one month. Please ask the general manager to agree and allow you to face General Song again in one month."

Song Chun grinned, the boy was still stubborn, and he also asked for a fight, "A month later, I will fight with General Cui again."

Yang Yuanqing nodded and smiled, "Then I will give you my best wishes. In a month, you two will be allowed to fight again. Now we will reorganize the army and return to the camp."

The two generals agreed and went back downstairs. After a while, the army gathered and began to return to the camp.

At this moment, several horse-riding people rushed from a distance, stopped by the patrol, questioned a few times, and brought them to the high platform.

Yang Yuanqing saw it clearly and was overjoyed. It must be the news he had been looking forward to for a long time. He quickly walked down the platform. Several knights had been brought over. The leader stepped forward to salute, "Report to the general manager, we are from Taiyuan and send the capital information."

He submitted a red information, Yang Yuanqing took it and opened it quickly, but the information said: 'The emperor set off on June 15th and led 100,000 imperial guards to patrol the northern border...'

This news made Yang Yuanqing a little stunned.

In the central army tent, Yang Yuanqing smiled bitterly and said to Li Jing: "I thought Yang Guang would send a large army to encircle and suppress Fengzhou, but he didn't expect that he was just coming to the northern tour."

"What does the supervisor think he is going to do in the Northern Tour?"

Yang Yuanqing walked a few steps behind his back, "He still came to deal with me in the northern tour, maybe he wanted to

i I go to see him. If I don’t want to see him, he thinks I will be injustice. My officials and soldiers will be disloyal and will not want to follow me again. But if I go to see him, I will not think of seeing Tian Ri again in this life."

Li Jing pondered for a moment and said, "Don't the manager think his trick is so clever? Since the manager claims to be in the Sui Dynasty, he will step by step.

i. I have been patrolling Fengzhou. Will the general manager dare to touch him? If the general manager really dares to touch him, then the general manager will be the enemy of the world. He has no hope of hegemony. If he does not touch him, then Fengzhou will be over."

Yang Yuanqing shook his head and smiled, "He won't go to Fengzhou. He doesn't have such courage. I know him very well. If the matter can be solved by force, he will never use this weak method. This only shows that his troops are no longer enough to destroy Fengzhou, so he has to go out for patrol. However, as soon as he sets off, the Turks will probably know."

Li Jing also agreed with Yang Yuanqing's idea. He smiled slightly, "Isn't this better? The emperor's goal is bigger, and the Turks will inevitably be interested in him, not Fengzhou anymore."

"With that being said, if something happens to him, I can't escape responsibility. I just hope he can mobilize his army to deal with the Turks.

i Turkic retreated, and he only had 100,000 imperial guards. How many of the young men could fight? No, he would be wiped out in the northern border of the border."

"If the general manager is worried, he can send someone to remind him that the Turkic army is coming and tell him not to go north."

Yang Yuanqing shook his head, and a cunning smile appeared in his eyes, "He came to attract the Turkic army for me, which is a good thing, so why don't I do it? At most, I would remind him at the critical moment, and I would be helpless if I do everything I want."

Speaking of this, Yang Yuanqing stood up and smiled and said, "Now I can go back to Yulin County with peace of mind."

The 20,000 troops set out and headed towards Yulin County.

At the end of June, Emperor Yang Guang's northern tour team arrived at Taiyuan City. The team did not enter the city, and went to Jinyang Palace. According to convention, Yang Guang would rest here for a few days, meet local officials, learn about the situation in Hedong, and then continue to travel north.

When they arrived at Jinyang Palace, it was noon that Yang Guang, Xiao Hou, Yan Wang Yang, Zhao Wang Yang Gao, Danyang Princess Yang Fangxin had lunch together. This was a rare situation. Yang Guang usually had dinner alone in the imperial study room, especially during the years of the Goryeo War, Yang Guang didn't even have dinner with his family.

"How could Your Majesty think of having dinner with us today?" Xiao Hou smiled.

"I have been busy with court affairs over the years and have been separated from my family more and less. Thinking about it, I am almost fifty years old. Time is unforgivable. I should try my best to spend more time with my family, so this time I brought my Aman from this Northern Tour."

Yang Guang looked at his baby nv'er kindly. Aman was the nickname of Danyang Princess Yang Fangxin. She was twelve years old this year and looked as beautiful as a huā, but her body was a little weak. Empress Xiao also reminded Yang Guang that it was time to pay attention to Aman's husband, but Yang Guang always felt that NV'er was delicate and should not get married too early. At the same time, he did not have the young hero he liked, so he did not agree to his wife.

Yang Fangxin received a good education since childhood and was gentle and polite. She smiled slightly and said, "It's because NV'er was not able to spend more time with her father. NV'er felt very guilty."

Yang Guang laughed so happily, "It's better to be considerate of me!"

Yang Qing quietly gave Yang Gao a look. Yang Gao understood and said coquettishly: "Father, you promised to ride a horse with me last year. My son has been waiting for a year. This time it's the north of the border. My father can no longer break his trust."

King Yang Gao of Zhao is ten years old this year and is smart. He knew that his father was busy with court affairs and had no time to rest, so he used the excuse of riding a horse to let his father relax.

Yang Guang nodded and smiled, "This time I go to Saibei, I will definitely accompany you to ride a horse."

Empress Xiao kept laughing and not speaking. She was thinking about the last time Li Yuan asked her. Li Yuan gave her an authentic work of Wang Youjun. She had to repay this favor. Find an appropriate opportunity to talk to Li Yuan. Today is a good opportunity.

"Master, is the last prophecy over?"

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