Tang Dynasty good doctor

Chapter 729 Uncertain Landing Location

Wang Ping'an said, nodded and said, "I was startled, I thought his name was Xue Rengui, Xue Renyi is good, the name looks like Rende Guoyi, a good name!"

The manager of Qingzhou laughed and said, "That's right, I've been thinking about this name for almost a year before I came up with a good name. I specially found a fortune teller who calculated everything before I came up with this good name!"

Su Dingfang also smiled and said: "General Xue Rengui has a high position and authority. Even if he has the same name as him, it is still admiration for him. General Xue will not blame him."

The general manager of Qingzhou sighed: "When my second child was born, General Xue was not famous yet. The name I named this child, if you count it now, it is a bit like the brother of General Xue!"

Wang Pingan was very surprised and said: "You all know General Xue? I only know his name, but I have never met him!"

Su Dingfang was also quite surprised, and said: "My lord, how come you haven't seen him, he is the general of Beiya, who guards the Xuanwu Gate!"

Qingzhou General Pipeline: "I haven't been introduced by anyone. I heard that General Xue doesn't like to make friends, and he seldom interacts with civil servants."

Only then did Wang Pingan know that the general guarding the Xuanwu Gate in this era turned out to be Xue Rengui!He laughed and said: "When I return to Beijing, I want to have a good relationship with General Xue!"

The young general Xue Renyi said: "I heard that General Xue is good at archery, so the young general also practiced hard on archery. It can be regarded as a small success. I only hope to see General Xue in the future and get his advice!"

Wang Pingan hummed, and said: "As long as you kill the enemy well in Baekje and make great achievements in battle, then when you go to Beijing to show off your martial arts, you will meet General Xue. Let's go see him together!"

Taking Xue Renyi with him, Wang Pingan bid farewell to the governor of Qingzhou, ordered the troops to board the ship, and set sail across the sea.

The fleet left Laizhou and sailed into the sea.It is a beautiful time of spring.Take the sea boat to set off, and you will see the blue sea and blue sky along the way, and the clear sky; at night, the water and the sky are the same color, the night sky is full of stars, and the scenery is very spectacular!
Not a day later, the Datang Expeditionary Army arrived in the coastal waters of Baekje.The soldiers and civilians of Baekje did not know the arrival of the Tang army, and the fishermen continued to go fishing as usual. Some highly skilled fishermen even left the shore for more than a hundred miles to fish, hoping to catch more and bigger fish.

The fleet of the Tang army, the big warships marched in a line, while the smaller fast boats spread out, and caught the fishermen of Baekje in all directions. As long as they caught the fishermen, they would be taken into custody. Throw arrows and stones and sink the opponent's ship.In this way, to ensure that the whereabouts of the army will not be exposed.

One day, Wang Ping'an went on deck, looked at the sky in the distance, and said, "It should be Baekje soon, how far is it from the land, why are there no seabirds?" He didn't know much about sailing, but he did. As long as you see seabirds, such as seagulls, it means that you are close to land.

Su Dingfang held the map in his hand, looked at it and said, "This map is too simple. I just drew a circle on the shore and wrote Sibi. When I was in Chang'an, I didn't feel anything when I looked at it, but now I quickly When we got to the end of the land, we found out, where is this circle? There is a circle on the map, but it takes dozens of miles to reach the shore. If we landed at the wrong place, wouldn’t all previous efforts be wasted?”

Wang Pingan called Xue Renyi and asked, "Did you see the map of Baekje when you were in Qingzhou? Do you know the exact location of Sibi City?"

Xue Renyi shook his head and said, "I don't know exactly where Sibi City is. I haven't been to Baekje before! If the prince asked about our place near Qingzhou, then General will know everything."

Wang Pingan snorted, and said: "I really asked Yu Blind, I have never been to Baekje before, in fact, I have never been to Qingzhou, let alone Laizhou, but I can't find the place just by looking. Already!"

Su Dingfang looked at the map and shook his head, and said: "If you say it according to you, General Xue, if you haven't been to a place, you shouldn't know where it is?"

Xue Renyi thought for a while, nodded and said, "That's right, I've never been to any place, so how can I know where it is?"

In fact, Xue Renyi was no wonder, he didn't know where Sibi was, and it was entirely understandable.For ordinary people in this era, a hundred miles away from home is another world.As for a soldier like Xue Renyi, as long as it is a place under the jurisdiction of the general manager of Qingzhou, he knows it, which is quite good. As for Baekje... If he hadn't followed Wang Pingan this time, he might not I don't care about Baekje, it's still Qianji's!
Wang Pingan took the map, looked at it, and thought: "The maps drawn by ancient people are too rough. How do you look at it? It is impossible to calculate the correct landing position from the map!"

He said to Su Dingfang: "Did you see a more detailed map when you were in the Ministry of War?"

Su Dingfang said: "No, this is the most detailed one. It was drawn by the Baekje people themselves and presented to Chang'an as a tribute. However, the general thought that the map drawn by the Baekje people would be fine for themselves. People from Tang Dynasty see, maybe they will deliberately make a mistake in the drawing, and the drawing is biased, lest we take the map they drew and beat them, just like what we are doing now!"

Wang Pingan nodded and said, "That's right, what you said makes sense!"

How Baekje people draw maps, Datang will not send people to check, they can draw as they want.But he really didn't know where Sibi City was. In modern times, he hadn't researched about it, at most he had seen it in movies and TV dramas, but they wouldn't actually play these things in movies and TV dramas!

Seeing Wang Ping'an and Su Dingfang worrying together, Xue Renyi said cautiously: "Why don't we send a boat there first to investigate? Find out the landing place, isn't that enough?"

Wang Ping'an and Su Dingfang shook their heads together, Su Dingfang said: "We sent troops this time, it was too hasty, like this kind of expedition, it takes one or two years in advance, at least several months of preparation, how can there be such a thing like now, let's talk about going out , came out on a boat with soldiers, but it turned out to be unlucky now, and I couldn’t even find the landing place!”

Wang Pingan patted the side of the boat and said, "What's the use of complaining, what's the benefit of complaining?" He looked at Xue Renyi and said, "If we send a small boat over, it will be easy for the Baekje people to find out. In this way, our The surprise attack is unlikely to be successful. If a hundred thousand troops press down on the border, their preparations will be useless, but now we only have 1 people. If the surprise attack fails, we can only return to Laizhou, and maybe we will be caught up by the Baekje soldiers. Wouldn't it be bad to get a good beating!"

Xue Renyi thought for a while, and said: "This... is also correct, what you said, my lord, is too reasonable!"

Su Dingfang said angrily: "You are really inexplicable, everything makes sense! But now the question is, where are we? We don't know where we are now, how to land, how to make a surprise attack? Prince, according to For the sake of the last general, it would be best to torture the captured Baekje fishermen and let them lead the way!"

Xue Renyi was young and energetic, and was robbed by Su Dingfang. He felt unhappy. Although he was a general, his father was the governor of Qingzhou. What the prince said makes sense, but what you say makes no sense. I can’t ask anything from the fishermen of Baekje. We will attack their country, and when we land, we will wash the place with blood. For the sake of their families, they will do nothing. To tell the truth, on the contrary, he will intentionally deceive and guide the way randomly!"

Wang Pingan thought to himself: "I am the leader of the invading army now. It seems that the invading army doesn't mean that they want to invade anyone, and they can simply invade successfully!"

He said: "Stop arguing, there is no other way now, we lack guides, we can't find the direction at all, we can only ask the fishermen in Baekje, didn't we catch more than a dozen a few days ago, and take them all away Come up and ask!"

Seeing Wang Ping'an's words, Xue Renyi didn't dare to say anything, and quickly sent an order to ask Qingzhou soldiers to bring all the fishermen from Baekje!
After taking them to the warship that Wang Ping'an was on, Qingzhou soldiers knocked down the Baekje fishermen and called an interpreter to translate Wang Ping'an's words.

Wang Ping'an said: "As long as anyone among them is willing to show us the way, he can be spared. After my army lands, he can spare his family and allow them to become the people of my Tang Dynasty, and enjoy the glory of heaven from now on." The treatment of the people of the country!"

The interpreter listened and talked, and translated the words, but none of the captured Baekje fishermen said a word, looking at Wang Pingan and others, full of hatred!
Wang Pingan frowned, and said again: "The future generations will be exempted from tax forever, and can take part in the scientific examination. As long as anyone of them is willing to guide the way, then I will immediately give him an official position. After the capture of Baekje, let this person be a county." magistrate."

The interpreter passed on the words again, but the fishermen in Baekje still remained silent.

Wang Pingan looked at the interpreter and said, "Did you make a mistake in the translation, or did you have a wrong accent? Why didn't they respond?"

The interpreter was very embarrassed, and said: "Returning to the princes, the officials spoke Goguryeo to them. As for the Baekje dialect, the officials are not very good at speaking it!"

Xue Renyi quickly excused the interpreter, saying: "Isn't this too hasty? Before the arrival of the prince, we in Qingzhou didn't know about the expedition, so we ignored the interpreter when we were busy. But it doesn't matter, anyway, we are not going If Baekje does business, it doesn’t matter if they say what they say.”

Wang Ping'an felt a headache. This raid was indeed too hasty. The prime ministers in the court only wanted to use the force of the Tang army to raid Baekje, but they forgot that no matter how important force is, they had to go ashore to use it. I can't find out where to go ashore, and I can't send people to reconnaissance!

Seeing the angry expression on Wang Ping'an's face, Xue Renyi hurriedly said: "This is easy to handle. It doesn't matter if you don't understand the language, but everyone knows the handle of the knife!"

After finishing speaking, Xue Renyi drew out his waist knife, grabbed a Baekje man, pointed to the north, and asked, "Would you like it?"

The interpreter hurriedly translated it in Goguryeo. The Baekje man was astonishing, he shook his head, which showed that he could understand Goguryeo!
(End of this chapter)