Traveling through Du He, Li Chengqian's rebellion begins

A few years ago, he accidentally fell off his horse while hunting and became lame.

From then on, his life changed dramatically and he almost lost his position as crown prince.

This time he fell off the horse again, and coincidentally, it was the lame leg that was injured. At that moment, Li Chengqian felt like the sky was falling.

"Can't move your legs?"

Du He was shocked.

But you must not break the other good leg!

Li Shimin would definitely not allow the prince with lame legs to succeed to the throne.

Du He quickly turned his head to look at Li Chengqian's injured leg and found that it was still the lame leg that was injured this time!

"Phew~ It was a close call!"

Du He breathed a sigh of relief.

His eyebrows twitched involuntarily.

This leg suffered a lot under Li Chengqian's command, as it was broken twice in just a few years.

Now Sun Simiao is using a wooden board to fix Li Chengqian's injured leg. Could it be that the bones have been reconnected?

Will Li Chengqian's injured leg turn out to be a blessing in disguise and return to normal?

Thinking of this, Du He's heart moved, and he quickly turned to Sun Simiao and asked respectfully.

"Dr. Sun, how is the prince's foot now?"

As Sun Simiao applied the medicine, he said, "I have already reconnected the prince's bones. As for how well he can recover, we can only do our best and leave the rest to fate!"

Because it was not the first time that Li Chengqian injured his leg, Sun Simiao, an expert in internal medicine, did not dare to be too confident.

A thoughtful expression appeared on Du He's face.

Since Sun Simiao has reconnected the bones, there is a great chance that Li Chengqian's leg will return to normal. This is great news worth looking forward to.

Li Chengqian pretended to be nonchalant and said, "I am already satisfied that I can save my life. This leg is lame anyway, so it doesn't matter whether it is good or not."

"But 227 members of the Black Armor Army were killed in the battle, and the remaining 35 were all injured!"

The Black Armor Army had made great achievements in attacking Baiyan City and Anshi City, and did not cause much damage. Unexpectedly, in order to protect him, most of their soldiers were killed or injured.

This made Li Chengqian feel full of guilt towards the Black Armor Army and the thousands of other soldiers.

Du He had nothing much to say about the casualties of the Black Armor Army. After all, it was a foregone conclusion.

Apart from giving more compensation to his family, no amount of words of gratitude will be of any use.

Du He did not say much about the leg issue, so as not to make Li Chengqian more sad, and he quickly changed the subject and asked.

"Your Highness, why are there tens of thousands of Xueyantuo cavalry on your side? Can you see the flags they are flying?"

Could it be that Xueyantuo has mobilized all the country's strength and sent all the cavalry here?

Li Chengqian gritted his teeth and said, "The Xueyantuo cavalry that attacked me was under the banner of Tulishi!"

"Tulishi?"

Du He frowned tightly.

The Turkic cavalry that attacked him was led by the Xueyantuo prince Datushe, while the one that attacked Li Chengqian was another prince Tulishi. It is likely that the new Xueyantuo king, Duomi Khan, is leading a large army to attack other places.

Du He said hurriedly: "Your Highness, the main force of Xueyantuo may attack Youzhou. We should notify Li Daliang who is guarding Youzhou as soon as possible!"

"At the same time, we must write an urgent report back to Chang'an, asking His Majesty to send a large army to resist the main force of Xueyantuo!"

They have too few people available, and they don't even have enough troops to besiege Pyongyang, let alone send more troops to provide support.

Moreover, there are tens of thousands of Xueyantuo cavalry in the Liaodong territory, and they have to send a large number of manpower to deal with this group of cavalry.

Li Chengqian raised his hand and pointed at the commander's seal and the prince's seal on the table.

"Du He, I'll leave the battle report to you. The commander's seal and the prince's seal are on the table. Go get them yourself."

He couldn't even sit up now, so these tasks had to be left to Du He.

Du He nodded solemnly.

Less than half an hour.

Du He quickly wrote two urgent reports.

"Your Highness, please take a look."

Li Chengqian, who was lying on the bed, held up the urgent newspaper and read it carefully. He shouted in surprise.

"Tsk tsk, Du He also said that you can't write a military newspaper?"

"Except that the handwriting is not as good as mine, the content is extremely inflammatory. After reading it, I can't wait to mobilize all the troops in the country to destroy Xueyantuo!"

Recalling the battle reports he had written before, they only stated the course of events and did not include much personal subjective emotions.

Unlike the urgent report written by Du He, which gave people an impulse to destroy Xueyantuo.

Du He crossed his arms and said, "Your Highness, you can say I'm lazy, but you can't say I'm bad."

"What does vegetable mean?"

"It's about as close to mediocrity and incompetence as you can get."

"I see."

Li Chengqian felt that sometimes Du He made up random words and phrases that clearly did not express the meaning, but they did not sound abrupt.

Not long after, Li Chengqian handed the urgent report back to Du He.

"Du He, you wrote very well. I don't have any suggestions for changes."

Du He nodded, stamped the urgent report and sealed it skillfully, then called two people who were specifically responsible for delivering battle reports into the hall and spoke.

"Send this urgent report to Youzhou and personally hand it over to the Right Guard General Li Daliang!"

"Remember not to give it to Youzhou Governor Li Yuanchang!"

King of Han Li Yuanchang is a second-generation rich man and is completely unreliable.

"promise!"

After receiving the urgent report, the soldier quickly put it inside his clothes on his chest and then ran out.

Du He then said to another soldier, "You must lead your men to rush eight hundred miles to deliver this urgent report to His Majesty!"

"promise!"

Another soldier took the thick urgent report and turned away in a hurry.

Although it is dark now, the soldiers responsible for delivering military reports have better night vision than ordinary soldiers.

As long as there was dim moonlight to illuminate the way, they could ride their horses on.

Du He thought for a while, then sat down and wrote a simple urgent report, and asked someone to deliver it to Li Ji and Hou Junji as quickly as possible.

These generals must also be informed of Li Chengqian's safety, otherwise the military morale will be unstable.

...

While Du He was resting in Anshi City, a major battle was brewing in Ruyi City, a hundred miles south of the Yalu River.

In a valley 20 miles outside the city.

Su Dingfang led more than 10,000 cavalrymen to hide inside. At this moment, the men held their tongues in their mouths and the horses wrapped their hooves. The entire valley was quiet and not much noise was made.

It didn't take long.

Several scouts rode in from outside the valley under the moonlight, their horses also had their hooves wrapped.

The scout came up to Su Dingfang, dismounted and reported.

"General Su, tens of thousands of Xueyantuo cavalrymen have set up camp outside Ruyi City. When I came back, I found that they had not set up antlers or fences."

As a powerful nomadic people, the Xueyantuo themselves did not like to take defensive measures for their camp.

In addition, they are all cavalry now, and in order to facilitate the cavalry to fight, they will not surround the camp.

Su Dingfang said in a deep voice: "Keep exploring and come back to report every half an hour!"

"promise!"

Several scouts jumped on their horses, turned their horses' heads and rode away.