When Li Shimin boarded the ocean-going ship Kunlun at Guangling Port, he had several newspapers bought on the dock under his armpit. Sitting down in the cabin of the stern, Li Shimin spread the newspaper in his hand on the table.

Several new newspapers and headlines were all about Liu Rengui's campaign against Silla's rebellion. The young general was praised in various ways, saying that he was well-known to the emperor's art of war, and his military use was like a god, etc.

Li Shimin quickly read it, but no interest was left to read it.

Throwing the newspaper aside, he lifted the stand to the table and closed his eyes to rest.

The boat underneath was only slightly shaking.

When did an unknown person like Liu Rengui become a hero?

I think where was Liu Rengui when Li Shimin became famous in Liaodong and was praised by Emperor Yang Guang? Where was Liu Rengui when he defeated the hundreds of thousands of Western Qin army of Xue Rengao and his son in Senshuwon?

The disciple of the emperor, a new generation of famous generals?

Today's Silla army has long been a zombie, with 200,000 zombies? It is impossible to have so many. Although Silla can gather an army of 200,000, it is impossible for it to gather an army of 200,000 in Maixiaocheng in a short period of time.

Therefore, the truth is definitely just a mob of tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians. Because of carelessness, underestimating the enemy, the Qin army was defeated by the well-equipped, well-trained and experienced Qin army.

I think any battle he fought with Li Shimin would be more exciting than this one.

When he was in Linyi, he could only capture Linyi Capital City and capture the king alive with only a group of pirates. When he fought against Wendan, Zhenla Capital City, it was even more classic. The entire army was only 1,500 cavalry as vanguards. He rushed to 300 miles and directly captured the enemy Wendan like lightning.

If he was like Liu Rengui, he had elite government soldiers from the court, and as long as three or four thousand people, he would dare to sweep the countries around the Qin Dynasty.

The hatch door was knocked.

Li Shimin coldly spit out a word, "Get out!"

The sailor knocking on the door left tactfully.

He is in a bad mood now.

After serving as the Minister of the Linyi Rule Envoy, he joined the court for two terms. The Political Affairs Hall said that he would be promoted to him and he was appointed as the Minister of War.

But Li Shimin was unwilling to be the Minister of War. Luo Yi said that he would help him walk the prince's path and seek a foreign position for him. He gave the prince some gifts and said some loyal words, and then the prince really found a foreign position for him.

But what is the Red Sea Road Xuanfu Envoy?

The Xuanfu Envoy is indeed one level higher than the governor and is also an ambassador for the border, but where is the Red Sea Road?

In that distant Thaisie.

The prince summoned him to meet him, and said that he had not found a good job for him. He said that he originally wanted to find a job for him, but Anxi Road, but now the court is going to make a plan in the Red Sea in Thailand to protect the interests of overseas trade, so he had to set up a new Red Sea and choose a capable general to take charge of the overall situation.

The emperor took a fancy to him and appointed him.

What can Li Shimin say?

Regardless of whether he wants it or not, the edict has been issued, and Li Shimin doesn't want to go.

He did complain and said that he didn't want to go. He wanted to pretend to be sick, but as soon as he handed over a sick break, the emperor personally approved it, saying that he would take good care of his illness. As a result, another eunuch came to express condolences with some imperial medicines, but when Li Shimin saw that the imperial medicines were all poisonous medicinal materials. The right place was good medicine, and the wrong place was poison.

Looking at the poisonous medicines and the implicit words of the eunuch, Li Shimin could only say that his illness had been cured.

He believed that if he continued to call him sick and refused to take office, he was afraid that he might die inexplicably. He believed that the emperor had done such a ruthless thing.

During the journey out of Beijing, Li Shimin spent all day studying the Red Sea Road, studying Mecca City and the like.

Tens of thousands of miles away, several commercial cities in a desert by the sea, where pirates and sand bandits are everywhere, as well as complex forces.

This is simply the worst situation.

The emperor pulled more than a hundred officials to accompany him, and there was a group of two thousand soldiers. However, these two thousand soldiers were not elite soldiers of the court, but the Long March soldiers recruited for him.

In fact, it is a group of mercenaries. To be nice, it is called volunteer soldiers. In fact, there are all kinds of people from all origins, such as Turks from the desert grasslands, Tiel people, Khitan people, Xi people, Shiwei people, as well as the Marine people in the northeast, Gogurye people, Baekje people, Tubo people in the northwest, Dangxiang Qiang people, Tuyuhun people, etc.

These guys are very smart, but they are not easy to deal with.

Many people even just have some crimes on them. They accept the imperial court's conscript to go to the Red Sea with Li Shimin, and then offset their crimes and punishments.

To put it bluntly, this is a group of exiles and convicts.

Of course, in addition to this group of two thousand thieves, the emperor also promised that the four major squadrons of the Ocean Fleet would cooperate with him and assist him in controlling the three counties of the Red Sea Road.

But after careful study, he knew that this was a scam.

The three counties of the Red Sea Road are the strongholds in the three cities and three deserts. The problem is that these three plots of land still have owners.

And he was also stared at by the emerging pagan forces on the peninsula.

He rushed to rescue and grab the territory.

Headache.

Very headache.

After carefully studying the emerging pagans, he found that their strength was very strong. In just about ten years, they had accumulated very strong strength with Medina as their holy land.

Even now, the Persian Sassanid Empire has basically given up its interference in the peninsula, and the Ryan nobles on the peninsula were even beaten to the bruised and swollen face, and had to submit to the Qin Dynasty.

The most troublesome thing about him now is that the Guihong Sea Road is too far away. It has passed by the sea, tens of thousands of miles away. The nearest area of ​​imperial territory was still Linyi he personally captured.

But in the past, Linyi had to pass through Kunlun Sea and Tianzhu Sea, which had to be tens of thousands of miles away.

Of course, you can also reach the Red Sea from the Western Regions, first from Anxi to Hezhong, and then head south to Daxia. At this time, it is not far from the Persian Sea. But the problem is that there is still a long section of land from Daxia to the Persian Sea, and that is the territory of the Persians.

This means that land is not feasible.

This also means that Li Shimin brought two thousand thieves to the Red Sea, and he had to fight alone to compete for territory with the emerging powerful pagans.

Those who are not familiar with the place can only rely on these two thousand thieves to be matched with the army?

Li Shimin couldn't help but feel powerless.

There are no Chinese and Han people there, at most, some Qin merchant ships will pass by on the sea.

Li Shimin, in an irritable mood, sat down and took out a map of the Persian Sea that he had been studying every day from his arms.

The map is not very detailed, but it also roughly indicates various forces.

The Arabian Peninsula, which is sandwiched between the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf, is too complicated.

Rome, Persia, and Arabs.

Now he is going to join in again.

Frowning and staring at the map for a long time, Li Shimin's eyes left the northern shore of the Red Sea and moved to the east of the Persian Sea.
Chapter completed!