Chapter 318 Datang’s National Confidence
"That's not necessarily true. Before getting the good news today, Your Majesty almost vomited blood to the Tubo envoy."
"I have made a great wish and must seek revenge on Tubo and slaughter the Tubo people." Hongfunu said lightly, with a smile on her face.
Even Tubo dared to invade the great Tang Dynasty.
If you don’t give them some colors, can you really think that the Tang Dynasty is made of mud?
Li Ruoshuang sighed, with a faint disappointment in her expression.
The emperor still wants to seek revenge on Tubo, so where did Zhao Chen come back?
"Don't worry, I have asked your father to plead with His Majesty. I will go over and talk about the queen later."
"Zhao Chen has made such a great contribution, and there is no reason to remain in the army. In a short time, that boy Zhao Chen will come back." Hongfu Nu patted Li Ruoshuang's plain hands and said with a smile.
Li Ruoshuang pursed her lips tightly.
Although she tried her best to hide her inner joy and tried to pretend to be calm, her extremely happy eyes had betrayed her.
"Mother, I will go to the palace with you to meet the Queen..." Li Ruoshuang said with a slight bite of her teeth, holding Hong Funu's hand.
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Songzhou City was taken down.
Zhao Chen has nothing to do, at least Niu Jinda never let someone come over to trouble Zhao Chen.
Zhao Chen is also happy without doing anything.
Niu Jinda can't see anyone every day, and he doesn't know what he is busy with.
The people who escaped returned to the city, and they buried some food under their original house.
Although it is not enough to eat and drink, there is no big problem with the food and grass transport that is left behind.
Songzhou City has been undergoing reconstruction work these days.
Zhao Chen, Qin Huaiyu, and Cheng Chumo have also visited the vicinity of Songzhou City these days.
When the three of them were fine, they went to the mountains to catch some wild game.
Although it was hard for the army, Zhao Chen obviously felt that Cheng Chumo seemed to have gained weight again.
At least, this face turned round.
If he suddenly returned to Chang'an City, those who didn't know would think that Cheng Chumo was coming to Songzhou for vacation.
After ten days in a row, Niu Jinda, who had not seen for a long time, finally thought of Zhao Chen, the hero.
In the central army tent, Niu Jinda stood in front of the marching map.
When Zhao Chen entered the tent, Niu Jinda just looked back and said nothing.
Zhao Chen would no longer stand stupidly and wait, sitting down on the stool beside him.
I was thinking about whether to change my taste tomorrow. After all, eating barbecue every day is really a bit fucked.
"Zhao Chen, you told me about the situation in Tubo a few days ago, so I sent a scout to investigate."
"As you said, the environment in Tubo is extremely harsh. They have been moving less than 500 miles, and it is difficult to go deeper." Niu Jinda's eyes were withdrawn from the marching map and said slowly to Zhao Chen.
This matter was long ago as Zhao Chen expected.
Tubo is all plateaus and is a natural barrier. How can it be so easy to take down?
"But this time, the Tubo army attacked Songzhou, the Tang Dynasty, and massacred the people of our Songzhou. If this revenge is not avenged, how can we explain to the people of the world?"
"So, I feel that the army still needs to advance westward, at least it must hurt the Tubo barbarians." Niu Jinda cursed fiercely, with a ferocious expression.
Zhao Chen didn't know what Niu Jinda meant to tell him about these things.
I have told him that Tubo is not that easy to fight.
He himself said just now, and the scouts reported that the environment in Tubo was harsh and even if it was difficult to march, how could he fight against Tubo?
"Uncle Niu, I don't know if you are going to fight Tubo to avenge this revenge, or to include Tubo in my territory of the Tang Dynasty."
"But, these two are not that easy." Zhao Chen looked up, said to Niu Jinda, and shook his head again.
"Are you not optimistic about our battle with Tubo?" Niu Jinda frowned.
He thought that with such a powerful weapon as a cannon, Zhao Chen should support the war with Tubo!
"I am really not optimistic. Tubo is all plateaus. Apart from grazing and growing limited crops such as barley, it actually has no other use."
"Even if we have gone through a lot of effort to win Tubo, we don't know how much we have to invest in this place."
"If you have this money, you can use it anywhere in my Tang Dynasty. It is a good thing that benefits the people. Why should you spend it in these useless places?"
"Naturalization is not a matter of one or two days. If you don't naturalize, there will be continuous wars. Every year, many soldiers of the Tang Dynasty have to leave their lives here."
"Boy really thinks it's not worth it." Zhao Chen said, shaking his head.
He has never agreed to face the battle with Tubo head-on.
This is a completely thankless thing.
If it weren't for being full, no one would have done such a thing.
Niu Jinda was a little hesitant. According to Zhao Chen, it is better not to fight Tubo.
But the people in Songzhou City died in vain?
If they don’t fight, how can they explain to the people of the world?
Emperor, will all officials agree with their ideas?
Niu Jinda was in a dilemma for a while, and then slowly said: "No matter what, you can't just forget about this."
"Then I think you might as well kill all the captured Tubo soldiers, so that you can save some food, right?" Zhao Chen said to Niu Jinda with a smile.
Niu Jinda was a little confused at that time.
This is impossible to kill prisoners.
It will really cause grudges from heaven and people.
Wu'an Jun Bai Qi is so powerful. If you kill so many prisoners, your fate will not be much better.
Niu Jinda dared not kill prisoners.
But he vaguely felt that Zhao Chen said this on purpose.
It's just to disgust him.
This boy's mouth is not ordinary.
"No matter what you do in the future, you must remember that I, the Tang Dynasty, did not kill unarmed prisoners, and this Tubo was not something we said we would not fight."
"Apart from the 150,000 Tubo soldiers who were dispersed, killed in battle and captured, there are about 100,000."
"The people of the Tang Dynasty and civil officials in the court never care about how powerful Tubo is and how difficult our army is."
"They only know, avenge, revenge, snow, hatred!" Niu Jinda's last few words were said word by word.
Chen Tang, a famous general of the Han Dynasty, wrote a letter to Emperor Yuan of Han. Those who offend me, who are strong Han will be punished even if they are far away!
This sentence also applies to the current Tang Dynasty.
The people only know that Tubo slaughtered Songzhou City today, and if you don’t take revenge on the Tang Dynasty, you will come back.
It's incompetent!
This matter has nothing to do with Zhao Chen. Anyway, he has helped to take back Songzhou.
Moreover, Niu Jinda has said that it has reached this point, what else can Zhao Chen say?
Many things cannot be completely changed by Zhao Chen alone.
The Tang Dynasty was a country with thousands of people, even if Zhao Chen felt it was not worthy of such a big fight.
But there are always people who will do it.
Maybe it’s better to change your ideas. The Tang Dynasty is so motivated like a rainbow and everyone is fighting.
Such a strong national confidence...
After all, there was no discussion on what solution. Niu Jinda told Zhao Chen that news came from Chang'an that he would be able to go back to Chang'an City soon.
Chapter completed!