Three days of march.

Li Chao led his army to Wubao.

The small rammed loess fort was empty, and the scouts entered the city to search it, and it was empty.

Shuofang Yamen entered Wubao, and Li Chao's commander's tent was also placed in the fort. The nine wings of the army were scattered outside to camp.

Niu saw the tiger carrying a stone tablet outside the fort, and put it down amid the sound of the surging Yellow River.

Cheng Chumo, Li Gan, and Yuchi Baolin carried a shovel and began to dig the soil one by one. A pit was quickly dug out.

"Enough, please come on the handsome guy."

In the fort, Li Chao sat in the simple stone house with his chin on his hands, thinking about things. The army had already entered Wubao. Will he continue to go north to Fengzhou next step?

This step may be the complete break between the Tang Dynasty and the East-Turkish.

Did he take this step too early? Is the Tang Dynasty now capable of going to war with the East-Turkish war? Should he endure it for a few more years and regain the seven prefectures of Shuofang and stop when they see it?

In history, the Tang Dynasty was not ready until the beginning of Zhenguan, and launched the battle to destroy the Turks in one fell swoop. It was six or seven years later. Is it appropriate to launch this war six or seven years in advance?

Now it is six years of martial arts.

In history, the Turks went south in the sixth year of Wude. In the ninth year of Wude, after the Xuanwu Gate Incident, Li Shimin had just become emperor, and the Turks fought to the north bank of the Wei River in Chang'an, and finally forced Li Shimin to sign the Wei River Alliance. He took the Tang Dynasty's money, silk, gold and silver tribute to the Tang Dynasty, and left arrogantly and proudly.

Now the Tang Dynasty has taken over Shuofang, recaptured Lingwu, recaptured Yansui, and brought back the front line of the Great Wall in northern Guanzhong. It can be said that there is no need to worry that the Turks can break into Chang'an City at any time.

If you keep a firmer foot, then the Tang Dynasty should stop when it is better and send a new envoy to see Jie Li and restore peace with him.

After a few years, the Tang Dynasty rested and became stronger, and then came to a decisive battle with the Turks.

But Li Shimin didn't want to wait a few more years.

Li Chao doesn't want to wait for a few more years.

The prime ministers of the Tang Dynasty no longer want to wait for a few more years.

The peace today is hard-won, but it is even more humiliating. The Tang Dynasty had to pay tribute to Jie Li every year, and sent money and food every year, and endured their frequent harassment and looting from time to time.

Everyone has enough of this situation where the Turks are allowed to ride on their necks to stool and urinate.

In the past, everyone had no choice but to destroy Liang Shidu almost without any effort, and after recovering Shuofang, the Tang Dynasty straightened its waist much more.

Let’s fight now, or wait a few more years?

"Master, you are going to erect a monument. Please come over!"

Cui Yan's voice interrupted Li Chao's thoughts, and Li Chao turned around.

"Oh well."

Li Chao stood up and followed Cui Yan to outside the fort, where a large group of generals were already surrounded.

A monument that is not tall is only more than three feet tall.

On the black monument, there are two big characters engraved, Ning Yuan.

Ningyuan, these two words symbolize everyone’s sustenance for the beauty here, and I hope this place can be peaceful and far-reaching.

"Master!"

Su Dingfang came over with a red silk flower, Li Chao took it with a smile, and tied the red silk flower to the monument.

Cheng Chumo and the other yamen put the stone in the pit and straightened it.

Li Chao picked up a shovel, shoveled up a shovel of loess, and sent it into the pit. The other generals also came up one by one, adding a shovel of soil to each of them.

Li Chao stood on the bank of the Yellow River, looking at the standing monument and the two words he personally selected.

Ningyuan, Ningyuan!

At this moment, Li Chao had a decision.

He didn't wait any longer, and he would not wait for three or five years. Now, he would lead his troops north to seize the Houtao Plain and recover Fengzhou.

"Going to Hetao, regain Fengzhou!"

When Su Dingfang heard Li Chao shouting this, he couldn't help but feel full of enthusiasm and his blood was boiling.

"Going to Hetao, regain Fengzhou!"

The generals and schools shouted.

The soldiers of the fangs are the commander of the commander, and the other nine-box soldiers, the army commander, the battalion commander, the head of the capital.

Everyone was shouting, and the shouts were gathering together.

"Go to the north, go to the north, go to the north!"

"Recover Hetao."

"Retake Fengzhou."

"Turn the Turks back to the north of the Mo and drive them out south of Yinshan!"

“Hetao is ours.”

“Fengzhou is ours.”

The soldiers were all very excited. It was a great achievement to recover Fengzhou. It was a reward, a field, a spoil, and silk money, a reward of cattle and horses.

"I heard that Fengzhou has six million acres of arable land!"

"That's right, six million acres are all irrigated land, and there are many pastures. That place is much more fertile than Lingzhou. Did you know that the Yellow River is there, and the water surface is six or seven miles wide. The water there is gentle, flat, fertile soil, flat terrain, better than Guanzhong."

Six million acres of irrigated land shocked the soldiers of the palace.

Especially many soldiers from Henan, east of Shannan and west of Shannan came late. When they arrived in Lingzhou, Lingzhou had long been recovered.

Therefore, they had no chance to divide the land in Lingzhou.

Looking at the early Guanzhong Prefecture soldiers who came to visit, they were allocated twenty acres of irrigated land on the fertile Lingzhou Plain, thirty acres of grassland, ten acres of forest land and two acres of homestead land, they didn't know how envious they were.

When I came late, I could only go to Yanxiayansui and other states. There were loess high slopes there, but there were no plains as good as Lingzhou, let alone the plains connected by fields and water.

Now, I heard that Fengzhou to the north actually has six million acres of irrigated land, and these people's eyes are red.

Talingzhou didn’t catch up, but this time I finally caught up.

Six million mu of irrigated land, there are a total of 50,000 Tang troops here.

Someone pointed at the calculation, "Six million acres of irrigated land, 50,000 Tang troops will all be divided. Even if the land that has been divided in Lingzhou will be divided again, one person can still divide it into twelve acres of land."

Twelve acres of land, one acre of irrigated land, as the soldiers from the south of the mountain have several acres of their hometowns. How happy the twelve acres of irrigated land is.

"Idiot, six million acres of land, fifty thousand people share, one hundred and twenty acres per person."

"One Hundred and Twenty Acres?"

The mansion soldier from Shannan was scolded as a fool, but he didn't mind at all. Really, his heart was filled with the words of 120 acres.

One hundred and twenty acres of irrigated land, so many good fields, can you plant them?

"In fact, it is impossible to divide so many of them. Six million acres of irrigated land cannot be allocated to us. I guess it is possible to divide each person into thirty or fifty acres."

"Thirty or fifty acres are also a lot. In our hometown, He-nan, there are no so many land. I didn't order the troops in the house. There were five residents in my family. One resident only divided eight acres of land, and the whole family had more than ten people, only forty acres of land. This is still the world of the Tang Dynasty. In the former Sui Dynasty, my family was still more than ten people, but my family only had twenty acres of land. Every year, I had to rent the landlords in the village to earn food. Later, when I encountered the Liao Dynasty, I sent more grain and more labor to transport grain. It was so hard. I had been to digging the canal and building the Dongdu."

"Fengzhou is too far from the Central Plains. If you divide the land here, there is no safe place."

"What's the insecurity? Fengzhou is actually quite good. Let me tell you that Fengzhou has a very good location. The north is Yinshan Mountain, and the mountain is very tall, almost the same as the Qinling Mountain. To the west is Langshan Mountain, and the Helan Mountain in Lingzhou. Further south is a large desert with Yinshan Mountain, Langshan Mountain and that desert, which blocks the grassland barbarians in the north. To the south is the Yellow River, and there are many plains and lands like Fengzhou on the south side of the Yellow River. To the south, there is another large desert."

"When going east, there is the front condom to the east, there are many Turkic people there."

"Although the back cover and the front cover are close, there is a mountain between the two plains. There is a big mountain called Muna Mountain, which is as tall as Langshan. Therefore, between the front cover and the back cover, the Yellow River is connected, and there is only one hole on the land. As long as we recover Fengzhou and block this hole, Fengzhou will be quite safe."

"Brother, you know so much."

"Actually, I heard from our captain."

"I really want to send troops north immediately and conquer Fengzhou."

"Yes, brother, you know so much. When will we send troops to Fengzhou?"

"This is probably not that fast. It is said that we must build Ningyuan City here first."

"Ah, I have to build a city. When will I go north to Fengzhou?"

A group of Shuofang's soldiers are now full of six million acres of irrigated land in Fengzhou. Lingzhou has only one million acres of irrigated land now, and it takes a 700-mile canal to add another one million acres of irrigated land. Fengzhou has actually had six million acres of irrigated land, so I was excited to think about it.

With six million acres, the soldiers of the government had already silently divided themselves thirty or fifty acres from it, treating it as their own Yongye Field.

The soldiers of the palace were talking about it.

After erecting the monument, Li Chaoju will discuss the matter.

The generals and schools were still passionate and were still demanding to march immediately.

Li Chao said, "Wubao is now renamed Ningyuan City, but this fort is still too small and simple. The geographical situation here is excellent and it is the northern gate of Lingzhou. This time we marched into Fengzhou, which is our forward base. I hope that it can attack and retreat or defend, and it can also become our food and grass transportation base. Therefore, we have to spend some time to expand Huaiyuan City."

It is still quite risky to send 50,000 troops to Fengzhou. After all, the terrain of Fengzhou is too favorable for cavalry to fight.

Li Chao is making the worst plan. Once Fengzhou is not going well, he can withdraw from Lingzhou immediately. It is very important to be able to defend Lingzhou. Ningyuan City.

Ningyuan City is now just the small fortress of Wubao, which is too small.

Li Chao hopes to expand and increase his defensive facilities.

"Or why should I let the general lead the troops north to recover Fengzhou and the general will expand Ningyuan City here?" A soldier in the wing.

"Don't be impatient. The more we are at this time, the more we must be steady. Every step we take, we must think twice before we act. We must be responsible for these 50,000 soldiers and for the Tang Dynasty."

Once this operation fails, it will not be just an offensive failure. This may be the most important battle for the Tang Dynasty to reverse the unfavorable situation for the Turks. If you miss the opportunity, you may lose all the advantages you gained in the early stage, which may trigger a chain reaction.

If these 50,000 soldiers are lost, Lingzhou will be empty and Lingzhou may be out of protection. Yanxiayansui prefectures may also be in danger, and even Guanzhong will be trapped in the threat of the Turks again.

"Send someone to send a letter to Li Simo. I hope Li Simo can come to Ningyuan in person and meet here."

After a long time, Li Chao made a decision.

"Let Li Simo come to Ningyuan? What are you doing here?"

"Just invite him to have a cup of tea, nothing else."
Chapter completed!