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Chapter 384: The First Year of Xianqing

Golden autumn.

The cool autumn wind blew, and the plains were filled with busy Tutuan Township Warriors.

The Shanli Mountain, which borders Silla, is now named Tangshan by the emperor. This mountain range in the southern part of the Korean Peninsula has now become the base camp of the Navy of the Andong Road East Expedition of the Tang Dynasty.

Tens of thousands of navy troops are preparing for war.

The navy prepared for war, and the township braved the farmland.

The fields of military farms have been drawn down, and the locations of the treasury have been selected. The rural warriors who have just divided the fields are working hard to build the treasury.

Fifty villages are in a village, and their family members are also 200 to 300 people. At this time, those who cut down trees are cut down and those who dig the foundation are dig.

The Tun Fort is not big. According to Li Xiao’s drawings, a Tun Fort is actually very small. It is equivalent to a whistle bunker, which is actually equivalent to a landlord’s courtyard. It has high walls, a solid fort gate, and there are trenches around it. The fort is mainly a Kanbank, which is where the armies are stored and a granary.

There are about ten rooms, and there is a playground in the middle.

Only the township heroes who were on duty live in Tunbao, while the township heroes who were not on duty live outside the fort with their families.

Around the Tunbao, there are houses where the townspeople and their families live. They are more simple to build, but the plan is relatively neat. The Sihe Courtyard is a small thatched roof and mud wall, but it is still very spacious.

Build the Tun Castle first, and then live in the house first.

The unified slab building model is adopted. First dig out the foundation downward, then erect the two sides, insert willow or bamboo strips into the middle to make tendons, then fill the soil to tamp it upwards layer by layer.

The speed was extremely fast. Fifty Township Yongs and their family quickly took shape under the leadership of several Tunbao officers, composed of the old soldiers of the Eastern Expedition Navy and the mercenary group gangsters.

The autumn is cool and the rain is less, which is a good time to build a fort.

First set up the fort wall, then dig a trench, then build a armored scepter house, a grain warehouse, a war shed, a canteen, etc.

Almost all these trunks are set up along the road, and the surrounding area of ​​the trunks are specially marked with the village-yong farmland.

The autumn harvest has passed, and only a short piece of rice stubble is left in the fields.

"When the shelf of Tunbao is erected, you can pause first, and instead plow these fields, sow radish and rapeseed."

The weather in Fangzhou is pretty good, it won’t be too cold in winter, and not much can be grown in winter. Radish and rapeseed are good choices.

White radish and carrots are suitable for winter production. They can be used to support mules and horses of the Eastern Expedition Army, cook, and even be used as food to eat.

Rapeseed can be used to press oil.

“Don’t you plant winter wheat?”

The climate south of Baekje is actually similar to that of the Jianghuai region. It is also possible to grow winter wheat. It is still time to grow this season and harvest it in early summer next year.

"Source, of course you have to plant it."

Radish and rapeseed can only be used as feed, vegetables and oil press, but wheat is a real grain.

"I have sent people to transport wheat seeds from Chang'an, and those wheat seeds can produce higher yields."

"The task this fall and winter is quite heavy, and you have to build forts and farmland."

"It is definitely not enough to rely on six thousand township heroes alone. I have ordered the local people in the two states to send troops to help build troughs and roads, and at the same time assist in the autumn sowing."

Before winter began, the navy was preparing for war.

The local heroes and the people are racing against time to build tung forts and autumn farming.

Fifty Township Yongyi Fort built a total of 120 Tunzhuang villages, twenty-four forts, twelve acropolises and six military towns from the west coast to the foot of Tangshan in the east.

At the end of October, autumn plowing was completed, and winter wheat, rapeseed or radish were basically planted in the fields.

In November, 120 villages and twenty-four forts were completed.

At the end of December, the construction of twelve acropolis and six military towns was also completed.

At the end of the twelfth lunar month, Chang'an Newspaper sent from Chang'an announced that the year name will be changed next year.

After the emperor ascended the throne, the Yonghui year name took six years, and now it has changed its new year name.

There is always a reason for changing the year name, such as changing the prime minister or more important changes have occurred.

Li Xiao, who was far away in Baekje, looked at the newspaper, but could roughly guess the reason why the emperor changed the era.

In the sixth year of Yonghui, Emperor Li Zhi was the most enjoyable year.

This year, he finally drove Changsun Wuji and other veterans out of the court, and had not encountered fierce resistance.

At the same time, this year, he finally deposed the queen Wang, whom he had never liked, and also made Wu the concubine.

Coupled with the success of the Eastern Expedition and the completion of the Daming Palace, the emperor was very satisfied.

Although there was a severe drought last year, it finally passed and no more trouble occurred.

So in the new year, the emperor changed his reign to Xianqing.

The first year of Xianqing, the first day of the first lunar month.

The emperor conferred Concubine Chen as the queen.

On the same day, the emperor deposed the position of Crown Prince Li Zhong, changed his title to King of Korea, and was appointed as the governor of Wuzhenzhou.

Immediately afterwards, the emperor issued an order to confer the son of Wu Chenfei Li Hong as the crown prince.

It was on this same day.

Cheng Yaojin, the marshal of the Eastern Expedition Army, led 100,000 elite troops to launch an offensive against Goguryeo in western Liaoning. On the same day, Deputy Commander Xue Rengui and Su Dingfang led 40,000 Tang Dynasty Navy and 60,000 Silla troops to launch a spring offensive on Baekje.

Xue Rengui broke through Longhua City, and Su Dingfang broke through Gulu City.

Cheng Yaojin besieged the city of Liaodong, attacked the aid of the Goguryeo and the Martial Alliance, and sieged more than 18,000 cavalry, severely attacking the Goguryeo people, forcing them to retreat and dare not leave the mountain city.

The Goguryeo people were unable to take care of themselves and were unable to send troops south to support Baekje.

The Silla coalition of the Tang Dynasty led by Su Lie and Xue Li was unstoppable, and it was so popular.

In early February, Xue Rengui, Su Dingfang and Silla Prince Jin Famin's 100,000 coalition forces defeated the Baekje Army in Xiongjinkou, defeated Zhendu City, destroyed the main force of the Baekje Army, beheaded more than 10,000 levels, and eliminated the royal city.

Baekje King Fuyu Yici and Prince Fuyu Longcang fled in panic, fled into the small Beibi city to hide, and were surrounded by Su Xue's army.

Fuyu Yici's second son Fuyu Tai made his father and brother escape and proclaimed himself king in Baekje City.

In this chaos, Zhao Chiman led Li Xiao's mercenary group to sneak into Baekje City with disguise and took the initiative to find Fuyu Yici's grandson Fuyu Wensi.

"Are you Tangren?"

Zhao Chiman nodded, "I am the envoy of the General Administration, Pacification, Observation, Tengjian, Envoy of the Field Army, the Governor of Wuzhenzhou and the Governor of Fangzhou Li Xiao, and was ordered to come and see the princess secretly."

"Aren't you afraid that I will kill you?"

"Why don't you listen to my Chen Ming's reason first?" Zhao Chiman said Baekje in a normal way, but he still expressed it very clearly. "In my opinion, His Highness Wangsun is actually unable to protect himself from crossing the river, and he is afraid he will not live for three days."

"Bold!" a guard drew his sword and shouted.

But Fu Yu Wensi stopped his subordinates, "Tell me what you are."

"Your Highness, King Fuyu and the Crown Prince are still here, but your uncle Wang has become the king. But now the Goguryeo people in the north are too busy to take care of themselves, and our Tang Dynasty and Silla soldiers are no longer able to stop them. Whether it is King Fuyu and the Crown Prince, or your Prince, you are just a mantis armed mantis chariot."

"To take ten thousand steps back, even if my Tang army retreats, does Wang Bu think that your prince can still allow you to live? I am afraid that my Tang army will really retreat in one day, and your prince will kill you first."

Zhao Chiman said everything that was above the point, but there was no reason why Fu Yu Wensi didn't understand.

But when King Fuyu and the prince went to Xiongjin City to supervise the war, they were now trapped in a small town in Beibi. Uncle Wang took the opportunity to become the king. He, the prince, was the most dangerous.

"What should I do?"

"Only with the current plan, Baekje's destruction of the country is inevitable, and the general trend is irreversible. The people who only care about the consciousness-only times can still save their lives. Why don't the prince surrender to the Tang Dynasty? If we can help me to win this city without fighting, this is a great achievement. It can not only protect your life, but also protect your father and grandfather's life. Even if Baekje is destroyed in the future, you can also move to Chang'an City and enjoy wealth."
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