Chapter 291 The Expedition Is Imminent, How to Choose?

Hmm?

Su Wan'er, who was holding Chen Lingwu in her arms, raised her eyebrows. She had guessed the identity of the skinny boy in front of her from Chen Longxiang's self-introduction question. He should be the younger brother of the current emperor Chen Huaian, King Jin Chen Longxiang!

In Chen Longxiang's scorching eyes, she saw a trace of tenderness unique to a young boy in love.

Su Wan'er was not an innocent girl who was ignorant of the world. Years of life in the harem and the experience of ruling behind the curtain, coupled with the tempering of the cruel reality during months of exile; Su Wan'er, who was in her prime (24 years old), had been forced to become good at perceiving people's hearts, especially the hearts of men who coveted her beauty.

Just as Su Wan'er was thinking about how to answer Chen Longxiang's question, the young Chen Lingwu in her arms suddenly shouted to Chen Longxiang in front of him in a baby voice: "Daddy, hug me!"

After shouting, he stretched out a pair of chubby arms and asked Chen Longxiang to hug him!

Obviously, it was the young Chen Lingwu who mistook Chen Longxiang, who was wearing the golden armor, for his adoptive father Chen Huaian.

In Chen Lingwu's memory, when he was in the Daxin Navy Camp in Jiangyin, his adoptive father Chen Huaian had held him in this golden armor.

This child was not shy, and when he saw Chen Longxiang wearing the same golden armor, he thought it was his father who came to pick him up!

Because, after being sent to Jiaozhou City, Chen Lingwu had been yelling beside his mother Su Wan'er, asking for his father.

In desperation, Su Wan'er had to coax and deceive the young Lingwu, telling him that his father was a great general who was fighting outside, and that only when Lingwu grew up would his father come to Jiaozhou City to pick him up.

Under the long-term hint, the young Chen Lingwu mistakenly thought that Chen Longxiang, who was wearing the golden armor, was his father, and that's why he asked for a hug in public.

The word "father" from Xiao Lingwu immediately broke Chen Longxiang's defense, who was trying hard to straighten his back and make himself look like an adult, and made him blush.

He waved his hands hurriedly and explained: "Little boy, I am not your father, my brother is your foster father."

However, Xiao Lingwu, who was held in Su Wan'er's arms, didn't care about that, and kept calling Chen Longxiang daddy and asking for a hug.

Faced with Xiao Lingwu's trouble, Chen Longxiang, who was still a half-grown child, immediately seemed a little at a loss, and had to look at Su Wan'er for help.

After such a commotion, Su Wan'er, who was originally a little uncomfortable with Chen Longxiang's hot eyes, finally found a reason to ease the embarrassment.

While comforting the little Lingwu, she explained to Chen Longxiang: "Your Majesty, please calm down. This child lost his father when he was young and mistakenly took the prince in golden armor as his father. Please forgive him!"

As she said this, Su Wan'er bowed slightly to Chen Longxiang to show her apology.

The little Lingwu in her arms was still crying and yelling for his father to hug him.

Until Su Wan'er pinched him hard, he stopped yelling for his father to hug him, and just cried loudly, feeling very wronged.

This made Chen Longxiang feel a little bit sorry.

Whether it was out of sympathy or some other purpose, Chen Longxiang unexpectedly took the crying Chen Lingwu from Su Wan'er's arms;

He also imitated the way an adult coaxes a child and said to the little Lingwu: "Little Lingwu, be good, don't cry, uncle will take you home, okay?"

It's strange that the crying little Lingwu stopped crying immediately after being held in Chen Long's arms, and he giggled non-stop, not to mention how happy he was.

"Prince, I'm sorry to trouble you!"

Seeing this, Su Wan'er on the side had to thank Chen Longxiang with a smile.

On the other side, Duke Dingguo Qi Jiguang, who was greeting Long Fengxiang, the garrison commander of Jiaozhou, suddenly found Jin Wang Chen Longxiang and the mother and son of the former empress dowager talking and laughing not far away, and couldn't help but frowned slightly.

Until Lin Fengxiang said to him: "Duke, please go back to the city first. I have prepared a banquet in the city to welcome you and the navy commanders!"

"Duke, please come this way--"

"Please!"

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According to the battle plan for the expedition to Goguryeo, the Tang Navy Fleet will stay in Jiaozhou City for several days, on the one hand to supply the fleet with materials needed for the expedition, and on the other hand to wait for the spring to warm up on the Goguryeo Peninsula.

The battle plan for this expedition to Goguryeo was personally formulated by Emperor Zhaowu Chen Huaian, with the Tang Navy Fleet as the main force.

At the same time, the Tang army will also gather in Liaodong to give the Goguryeo Dynasty an illusion that the Tang army will attack from Liaodong.

In fact, it creates an opportunity for the Tang Navy Fleet to surprise attack the Goguryeo capital.

This battle plan was learned by Emperor Zhaowu Chen Huaian based on the experience of the defeat of the three expeditions to Goguryeo during the period of Emperor Gaozu Zhao Mang of the New Dynasty.

Goguryeo is located on a peninsula with complex terrain, which is easy to defend but difficult to attack.

If the infantry and cavalry attack from Liaodong, they will often be caught off guard by the Goguryeo army, which has the advantage of geographical location and is waiting for the opportunity. Even if they take it by force, they will pay a heavy price in casualties.

However, if the navy fleet is launched on a long expedition, bypassing Incheon, Jeju and other places to land on the beach, and launching an attack from south to north, the geographical advantage relied on by the Goguryeo Dynasty will no longer exist;

In addition, the Goguryeo Dynasty has always stockpiled heavy troops on the side bordering Liaodong to deal with the threat from the Central Plains Dynasty;

Therefore, using the navy fleet to bypass the heavily defended areas of the Goguryeo army and directly capture its capital is undoubtedly the most beneficial military means for the Tang Dynasty at this stage.

As a result, the Tang Navy Fleet led by Qi Jiguang was highly expected by Emperor Zhaowu Chen Huaian.

Qi Jiguang also knew this very well, so he kept revising the battle plan during the rest period in Jiaozhou City.

Chen Longxiang, the vanguard general of the navy fleet, ran to the place where the former queen Su Wan'er stayed every three or five days during the rest period.

All this was seen and remembered by Duke Dingguo Qi Jiguang.

Now that the war is imminent, he is also hesitating whether to report this matter to the emperor.

At the same time.

The capital of the Goguryeo Dynasty, Pyongyang City.

The then king, Treasure King Gao Zang, also keenly perceived the threat from the Liaodong Peninsula.

According to reports from scouts stationed on the Liaodong front, since the beginning of the new spring, the Tang Dynasty's military mobilization and assembly in Liaodong has become more frequent, and the number of troops assembled in Liaodong has also increased dramatically.

The cabinet in the court has been divided into two factions on whether to fight or make peace with the newly established Tang Dynasty.

The war faction believes that the integrity and independence of the Goguryeo Dynasty regime should be maintained, and the newly established Tang Dynasty in the Central Plains should be confronted to the end;

The conservative faction believes that the founding emperor of the Tang Dynasty, Chen Huaian, is far superior to the founding emperor Zhao Mang of the suzerain state at that time in terms of civil and military achievements. In order to avoid the war from spreading to the Goguryeo Peninsula, envoys should be sent to the Tang Dynasty in time to negotiate peace;

As more and more Tang troops gathered in Liaodong, Gao Zang, the king of Goguryeo, also faced the first test after inheriting the throne.

Whether to fight or make peace with the Tang Dynasty became an urgent problem that Gao Zang needed to solve.