Lao Niu has been guarding in southern Liaoning for many years and has never moved. He is the best candidate for the navy.

However, Cheng Yaojin's main land force was a little surprised. He had previously guarded Liangzhou, Hexi, and his level was of course fine, and he had all made military achievements in fighting Tuyuhun and Dangxiang.

He is now also here to participate in Fengshan, and can go to Youzhou to take office at any time to gather troops.

His qualifications and ability are pretty good, although he is not as good as Li Jing, Qin Lang, Chai Shao, Li Ji and others, but after all, he is not allowed to be the head coach of the Eastern Expedition, but he is more than enough if he is the head general along the way.

The emperor dispatched not many soldiers, Niu Jinda here for 50,000, Cheng Yaojin had 60,000, and the Hu barbarians who were in charge of the cooperation were not included.

Compared to Yang Guang's dispatch of more than one million troops to conquer Liao, there are undoubtedly some too few, but there are benefits of a small number. First, the troops are fast, and second, the logistics supply pressure is low.

It was September, and it was not a good time to send troops. Because Liaodong was cold and winter was about to begin soon. By then, the northern bays were frozen and the rivers were frozen, let alone snow drifting thousands of miles away, so there was not much time to fight.

But as Li Shimin had long deduced it with the generals, sending troops at the moment could only attack the Goguryeo people by surprise. At this time, it was still nearly three months before the Liaodong ban could not fight.

The autumn is tall and the horse is fat, which is suitable for military use.

The Goguryeo people would think that the winter was about to begin and the Tang Dynasty could not use troops at this time, so they would inevitably be a little careless and underestimated the enemy.

Therefore, the Tang Dynasty used Fengshan as a cover to mobilize troops, horses, money and food, and then launched a surprise attack in one fell swoop, which was just enough to catch the Goguryeo people off guard.

Apart from the time on the road, Li Shimin only had two months to use military service.

And the emperor only takes two months.

Of course, it is impossible to destroy a seven hundred-year-old country in two months, and the emperor would not be so crazy. All he needed was to take advantage of the Goguryeo people's unpreparedness and seize one or two key cities, such as Liaodong, Anshi or Pyongyang.

After raiding and taking down several important cities, you can defend yourself according to the city and spend the winter safely. After the flowers bloom next spring, you will launch a second round of offensive.

In this plan, the emperor personally enlisted or not, which actually did not have much impact. After all, the water and land were launched at the same time. The emperor set off from Qizhou, first went to Youzhou, and then to Yingzhou in western Liaoning.

In the end, it may only be stationed in the state camp, and it is impossible for them to lead the army to charge in person.

The troops had already been mobilized, and the money and food were transported in place. In addition, the emperor also arrived in Qizhou at this time. The war order was issued, which would ensure that the troops crossed the borders ten months ago.

This is a war that has been planned for a long time.

The emperor will come to the scene and command himself.

Although Wei Zheng and others firmly opposed it, the emperor's attitude was firm.

"I originally planned to let Qin Lang lead the army on my behalf, but since he can't take charge, I will do it myself."

Next, we turned to the discussion on military use.

"Qin Lang first offered a plan to get tired of the enemy. The Goguryeo people were trapped. In recent years, they overhauled the Liaodong Great Wall, and even smuggled iron from the sea to build Uz swords and Persian mail, which made the treasury empty, the people's livelihood was declining, the people's hardships, and even famine began to occur. If not, Goguryeo would not have been in a hurry to join Baekje and Japan to invade Silla, Gaya, and even continuously oppressed the tribes of Northeast Marine and Shiwei."
Chapter completed!