Chapter five hundred and ninety-two: soldiers approaching the city(2/2)
And now... Goguryeo trains an offensive army, and naturally, new tactics should be used.
When I found out, the news was that the heavy cavalry of the Tiance Army was only 3,000.
This scale is far less than that of Goguryeo, while the Tiance Army is still dominated by infantry.
There was a controversy over this in the court in Goguryeo. The final conclusion was that this might be that the Tence Army had already formulated a plan for transitional sea operations. In order to cross the sea, it was impossible to carry more supplies and transport a large number of horses to the three Koreans. Therefore, the number of heavy cavalry was not large.
Since that is the case, as long as they arrive in Baekje, Goguryeo should immediately send heavy cavalry to launch a surprise attack on them, defeating the Tiance army in one fell swoop. After that, they will remove the threat from the domestic city and send heavy troops to support Liaodong.
This combat plan was obviously very clever, which cracked Li Shimin's strategy of advancing water and land.
Gao Jianwu obviously also agrees with this strategy.
Therefore, Gao Yang was appointed as the general and led the heavy cavalry to prepare for attack.
Gao Yang was quite confident about this. This was the invincible heavy cavalry in the world. Even if he might be slightly inferior to the heavy cavalry of the Tiance Army, he had 100,000 troops and 50,000 elite combat soldiers.
As long as you are willing, it is only a matter of time to win the Tiance Army.
Wang Qi and others have already begun to mobilize. They began to move south from Chifeng Town and are ready to invade the south.
However, the transportation of these countless supplies is extremely inconvenient, and I don’t know how much manpower and material resources have been spent.
The weather has entered the cold winter, and most of the heavy riders have no clothes to keep warm. They let the cold wind blow, step on the mud, cross mountains and ridges, and winding like long snakes, people are frozen to death at all times.
Of course... this is not a fatal matter.
Although hundreds of frozen corpses are pulled away and buried every day, in this era, it is actually the norm.
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Incheon Port.
The vast fleet finally arrived here.
The first person to get off the ship was Chen Zhengtai. Under Lou Shide's personal guidance, Chen Zhengtai climbed the dock and saw Changsun Chong and others greeting him.
"I've seen Your Highness."
Today, almost all the officials and important merchants stationed in Baekje in the Tang Dynasty have gathered.
Even the prince of Baekje was coming to greet him.
Chen Zhengtai exchanged a few words with the prince, then said nothing, turned to Changsun Chong and smiled, "Look, you have gained weight. It seems that the land and soil of Baekje are nourishing."
Changsun Chong couldn't help but blushed and said quickly: "The students died ten thousand times."
Chen Zhengtai shook his head: "What's the point of dying? It's better to gain weight? If you are sent here, you look thin. You can see that the merchants and military and civilians of the Tang Dynasty were not living well in this Baekje. Even you don't have a good life. Wouldn't others live? It's so great now. Let's find a place to sit."
A vast crowd of people surrounded Chen Zhengtai to the Incheon Supervision Office not far away.
When he arrived at the Houya, Chen Zhengtai sat down and Changsun rushed up to pour tea attentively: "I heard that the student was going to lead the army through Baekje to conquer Goguryeo, and was overjoyed. But the journey was exhausted, and his highness must have worked very hard. Therefore, he prepared a residence here and asked his highness to regard this place as a place, plan and win the victory with Goguryeo."
Chen Zhengtai shook his head: "Can all the soldiers settle down, right?"
"Incheon is ready, and the camp has been built a few days ago. As for the meat and fruits that reward the soldiers, they are all available. Please don't have to take it seriously. In addition, the merchants in the chamber of commerce, when they heard that Your Highness was going to conquer Goguryeo, were all overjoyed and donated money and grain to supply military supplies."
Chen Jihong, the president of the Chamber of Commerce, also smiled and said, "Yes, Your Highness, everyone is happy and encouraging here in the Chamber of Commerce. They have long regarded Goguryeo as a thorn in their eyes. Today, Your Highness led the heavenly soldiers to come, which is very encouraging."
Chen Zhengtai just smiled.
These businessmen are not good birds.
Although they were willing to contribute money and food to support the Tang army's war at this time, in fact, they had already tasted the sweetness in Baekje.
Think about it, how many merchants have made money in Baekje. They are doing business here without any obstacles. They make a fortune by relying on their status as Han merchants. No one of the Baekje courts and officials dares to do anything to them. To put it bluntly, these people have tasted the sweetness.
Now that the battle against Goguryeo begins, if the Tang army can win, their business will be immediately spread throughout Goguryeo. The strength of Goguryeo is far above Baekje.
Not to mention, as long as Goguryeo defeated, it would put huge pressure on Silla and Japan. By then, it would be only a matter of time to allow Silla and Japan to open more ports and formulate more laws to protect Han merchants.
If those aristocratic races in Hexi had great desire to expand their territory, it was because the value of the land made them unable to stop.
Then here, the desire of these Han merchants to explore the market was enough to make them wish that the Tang Dynasty would go to war against various countries, and they made great fortunes with the continuous victory of the Tang army.
There is no more profit in the world than merchants who trade with others with the army.
This... the merchants in Middle-earth had not noticed it yet, but these maritime merchants who were doing business in Baekje had already understood it.
Chen Zhengtai smiled and said, "Since they are willing to donate, it shows their loyalty and righteousness, then I will be disrespectful. I will give me the roster at that time, and I want to see how much money and grain they have funded."
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Chapter completed!