Chapter 344: One Man and One Horse Can Defeat Thousands of Troops

The first year of the Tang Dynasty Zhaowu, June 20th, Jinling Imperial City.

Today is the day when Emperor Zhaowu Chen Huaian personally led the army to fight. The 20,000 imperial guards of the capital, representing the 250,000 troops of this expedition, lined up on the parade ground outside the imperial city, waiting for the emperor and the civil and military officials to review.

It was the time of Chenshi.

The 20,000 imperial guards of the capital have been fully assembled, and the parade ground is full of flags and swords and spears.

The imperial guards stationed in the capital, its predecessor is a part of the elite of the Dragon City Black Armor Army, and more than 6,000 Dragon City Iron Pagoda (the original Dragon City 3,000 Iron Pagoda, plus the heavy cavalry trained uniformly after the equipment of the 3,000 Iron Pagoda of the Great Xin Dynasty was seized), is the most powerful army in the entire Tang Dynasty, without a doubt.

The strength of the imperial guards' combat effectiveness is not only reflected in the spirit of the soldiers, but also in their weapons and equipment.

Take the Iron Pagoda standing at the front of the queue, for example. Both the men and horses were wearing heavy armor, and the heavy armor was difficult to penetrate even the morning sun, giving people a strong sense of oppression.

Inside and outside the parade ground, there were soldiers of the Jinwu Guard wearing golden armor on duty.

The huge parade ground was unusually quiet, with only the sound of the flags fluttering in the morning breeze and the occasional snorts of the cavalry horses echoing over the parade ground.

In the imperial city, Empress Dowager Xu Ruoyun, Empress Liu Shujun, Imperial Concubine Yue Qiluo, as well as a group of harem family members and civil and military officials came to see off Emperor Zhaowu Chen Huaian, who was leading the expedition in person.

No one noticed that outside the crowded crowd of people seeing him off, there was a young figure wearing a flying fish costume, who had been silently watching the crowd seeing him off.

This person was Luo Yucheng, Wuping Hou of the Tang Dynasty and Deputy Commander of the Dragon City Inner Guard.

Before Emperor Zhaowu Chen Huaian went to war, he had ordered Luo Yucheng to stay in the capital to monitor the civil and military officials for Chen Huaian, to ensure that these former officials would not commit acts of deceiving the emperor and disrupting the government during the emperor's absence.

At this moment, Chen Huaian was bidding farewell to his mother Xu Ruoyun, Empress Liu Shujun and Imperial Concubine Yue Qiluo.

It is worth mentioning that Empress Liu Shujun and Imperial Concubine Yue Qiluo's originally flat bellies are now bulging.

If nothing unexpected happens, when Emperor Zhaowu Chen Huaian returns from this personal expedition, the second generation heir of the Tang Dynasty should be born smoothly.

Chen Huaian first said to his mother Xu Ruoyun: "Mother, I am personally leading the army this time. I will have to trouble you to take care of all the affairs in and outside the capital."

As he spoke, Chen Huaian looked at Liu Shujun and Yue Qiluo with a loving face, and said with a smile: "Especially Shujun and Qiluo, they are both new mothers, and I am not around, so--"

Hmm!

Xu Ruoyun nodded and said earnestly: "Son, you can lead the army to the battle without worry. Your mother will only arrange the affairs of the palace for you;"

Ah——

Xu Ruoyun sighed and said: "I thought that after the founding of the country, our family would have more time to reunite, but I never thought that after a few days of peace, our family would be separated again;"

"Your brother is far away in the mountains of the Goguryeo Peninsula to fight for the country, and you have to lead the army to quell the rebellion in the Western Regions;"

"I don't know how long it will take to return to the capital to reunite!"

Faced with this question from his mother Xu Ruoyun, Chen Huaian did not answer.

In fact, he didn't know how long it would take to return to the court after this expedition to the Western Regions.

If possible, Chen Huaian wanted to solve the historical problem of the rebellion in the Western Regions once and for all, and incorporate the Arab Empire Abbasid Dynasty, a huge empire spanning Asia, Africa and Europe outside the Western Regions, into the territory of the Tang Dynasty.

In the plane where Chen Huaian was before he crossed over, Genghis Khan, a great hero, had achieved this feat through the ages, and included more than half of the land on Earth at that time into the territory of the Mongols.

For Chen Huaian, the Emperor Zhaowu of the Tang Dynasty, who was determined to become the emperor of the Qin and Han dynasties and the greatest emperor of the ages, he was confident that his literary and military skills were not inferior to Genghis Khan;

Now that he has the [Born to be an Emperor] system, which has enabled him to have unlimited military power, he really wants to take this opportunity to incorporate the huge Arab Empire into the territory of the Tang Dynasty.

It's nothing more than setting up a few more Jiedushi after conquering it, and dividing and managing the huge Arab Empire!

Therefore, facing the question raised by his mother Xu Ruoyun about when to return to Beijing for a reunion, he really didn't know how to answer.

Fortunately, his mother, Xu Ruoyun, was also a reasonable person. She did not dwell on this issue too much, but continued to say to Chen Huaian: "Okay, the auspicious time for the expedition is coming soon;"

"You should have a good talk with Shujun and Qiluo. I guess that when you meet again next time, you will be the father!"

Yes!

Chen Huaian nodded and gave his mother a knowing smile.

Then, he turned his attention to Empress Liu Shujun and Imperial Concubine Yue Qiluo.

Looking at these two beautiful women who were about to give birth to children for him, Chen Huaian's heart was filled with thousands of words, but in the end, they turned into a simple sentence: "Wait for me to come back!"

But it was this simple sentence "Wait for me to come back" that made Empress Liu Shujun and Imperial Concubine Yue Qiluo burst into tears.

Both of them looked at Emperor Zhaowu Chen Huaian with affection and reluctance, and said at the same time: "Your Majesty, take care!"