Xue Li and other soldiers of the Eastern Expedition Army soon returned to Chang'an, and Li Er also received them with the most solemn etiquette.

The Eastern Expedition Army returned victoriously, and the entire Chang'an, even the entire Tang Dynasty, celebrated together.

After some celebration, you will be rewarded and punished.

Because of his outstanding performance in the Eastern Expedition, Xue Li was directly appointed as the champion general by Li Er.

This Eastern Expedition, many famous battles were fought by Xue Li, especially in the early stages, Xue Li's vanguard army was able to stir up trouble Goguryeo and prepared for most of the Tang army to invade Goguryeo.

In fact, Xue Li's achievements in this Eastern Expedition are not just as they see on the surface. Xue Li is the real core figure in this Eastern Expedition.

Zhang Yi can see it, Li Er can see it too.

If it weren't for Xue Li, the Tang army would not have won so neatly. Even if the Tang army won, it would only be a miserable victory at most.

Xue Li received the title of Li Er, so he naturally thanked him very much and was extremely happy.

The first thing he did after the enthronement was to rush back to Hedong to bring all his family to Chang'an.

Now he is the champion general of the third rank. In terms of military positions, he is already the most advanced group of generals among the Tang army. He will not lack power and money.

Xue Li went back to Hedong to pick up her family, which forced Zhang Yi, who had originally planned to set off for Chang'an, to cancel his itinerary.

He didn't blame Xue Li, after all, no matter when, it was nothing wrong to put his family first.

When Xue Li returned to Chang'an, Zhang Yi had already purchased a very good house for him and was waiting for him.

Xue Li was not polite, but accepted it openly.

Zhang Yi is his Bole, who knows this as the whole Chang'an, and he doesn't need to hide his close relationship with Zhang Yi, even if Li Er knows it, so what if it is.

He admired Zhang Yi very much, and was very eager for Zhang Yi to continue to explain his knowledge about thermal weapons to him, because this Eastern Expedition, he could already deeply feel the importance of thermal weapons to future wars.

It can be said that whoever has more advanced thermal weapons will be able to take the initiative in war.

And Zhang Yi’s head was filled with many knowledges, which were all things that Xue Li longed to know.

Compared with those politicians, Xue Li wanted to be a pure general and a pure soldier. He did not want to be involved in those political struggles. He just wanted to defend his country and contribute his own strength to the Tang army.

So he attaches great importance to his relationship with Zhang Yi.

Zhang Yi bought a house for Xue Li, but the others were not in Chang'an City, and they were still in Zhangjiazhuang.

As soon as he came, he didn't want others to gossip. After all, Xue Li had just won a war and gave him a big house, which would attract people to gossip, so he simply couldn't get over it. Anyway, he bought it under someone else's name. No one except Xue Li knew that it was the house he bought.

Secondly, Zhang Yi still felt that his Zhangjiazhuang was the most comfortable, so he was too lazy to go to other places.

Xue Li received the gift from Zhang Yi. Once he had settled his family, he rushed to Zhangjiazhuang immediately.

He was going to Zhangjiazhuang to find Zhang Yi to reminisce about the past.

Xue Li went very early. When he arrived in Zhangjiazhuang, Zhang Yi slept in and had not yet gotten up.

However, he did not ask someone to slap the door and wake up Zhang Yi, but sat in the yard waiting for Zhang Yi.

After Zhang Yi woke up, he found Xue Li waiting in the yard, and immediately went over to commit crimes: "Oh, I've been used to being lazy during this period, and my whole body has changed."

Xue Li also knew Zhang Yi's temperament. If this was left in another era, even if he was thrown into Jiangnan or there, as long as he was far away from Chang'an, Zhang Yi would definitely be a idler.

It’s not that he is indifferent to fame and fortune, but because he is lazy and lazy. Except for making money that can arouse his interest, Zhang Yi is too lazy to watch other things.

However, Zhang Yi got up very late. After he washed up, the Zhang family was ready to have lunch.

By the way, Xue Li was invited to have a meal together.

Xue Li would not be polite at all, because the food made by the Zhang family was so delicious. The best food he ate in his life was eaten in Zhangjiazhuang, and it was made by Zhang Yi.

At the dinner table, the two began to chat, chatting from all over the world.

But no matter how you talk, you will eventually turn back to the topic.

In the end, Zhang Yi couldn't help but mention the hot weapon to Xue Li. Xue Li was about to ask Zhang Yi about the hot weapon, and the two happened to talk to each other.

"Rengui, I believe you have some feelings about this Eastern Expedition. I believe you can see the gap between hot weapons and cold weapons."

Zhang Yi began to say leisurely, and Xue Li nodded after hearing this. Heat weapons are indeed much stronger than cold weapons in many places.

“I have a bold idea to do it, but before I start doing it, I hope to get your support.”

After Zhang Yi finished speaking, he stared at Xue Li blankly, waiting for his reply.

"You talk first." Xue Li did not rush to answer Zhang Yi, but pricked up his ears and listened to him.

"It's about heated weapons. I want to suggest that Your Majesty use heated weapons as the main weapon of the Tang army in the future."

Zhang Yi said with a burning look. This was definitely a shocking decision for others. Even Xue Li, who had just won the battle with hot weapons, dared not think that hot weapons could become the main weapon of the current army.

Xue Li frowned and began to think.

It is true that hot weapons are very powerful, but cold weapons are of great use. If you rely solely on hot weapons, it may be difficult to win a war.

Moreover, under their use, hot weapons are at most just auxiliary to cold weapons. The best way to win or lose the war is to rely on cold weapons to fight for it.

"Don't agree!"

After thinking for a long time, Xue Li said this.

"Don't agree? Why? You know how powerful those gunpowder bullets are, and we can develop more hot weapons at that time. If these hot weapons can become the main weapons of the Tang army, then who will be the enemy in the world?"

Zhang Yi looked at Xue Li with some confusion and asked.

Xue Li sighed and said, "I know the power of hot weapons, but the consumption of hot weapons is too great. To put it bluntly, hot weapons are actually burning money. The more money you burn, the stronger you burn, the less money you burn, the weaker you burn."

"Now the Tang Dynasty is full of treasury, it's nothing to burn some money. What if the Tang Dynasty was exhausted and what would the Tang army use to fight with others?" The explosion of gunpowder bullets could take away some of the lives of the Goguryeo people, and could also blow up the newly built inner walls to pieces, and those stones that were blown away also became tools for killing.

Countless Goguryeo military and civilians died in despair.

But, it's not over yet!

This is just the first round of rocket shooting, Xue Li and the others are not just this level.

Soon, the Rockets shot towards this side again in the second round, and the Goguryeo, who had been stunned by the Rockets in the first round, had no defense at all. Even those people didn't even dodge too much, just stood there.

Looking at the Goguryeo people who were almost desperate, Xue Li directly ordered the Tang army stationed outside the city to immediately attack the Goguryeo Kingdom.

After receiving Xue Li's order, the Tang soldiers outside the city immediately formed a team and began to rush towards the Goguryeo capital.

Now Xue Li and the others occupy the exterior wall of the Goguryeo capital, and the Tang army entered the city very smoothly.

The Tang army entered the city was almost unstoppable, and it was not enough to rely on the remaining remaining defeated soldiers of Goguryeo.

It was almost impossible to take action by Tang soldiers. They only needed to see a large number of Goguryeo soldiers, and they could kill them all by shooting them in a round of rockets.

This is the gap in weapons, no, this can no longer be said to be a gap. This is a naked crush. With this rocket alone, the Tang army was able to completely crush the Goguryeo people.

At this time, Xue Li remembered Zhang Yi who was far away in Chang'an.

I don’t know how many such ideas are in that guy’s mind. If he can do all his ideas, then who can compete with Tang Jun in this world?

But now is not the time to think about this. Since the Tang army has attacked the capital of Goguryeo, Xue Li must lead his army to break in. He wants to be the first Tang army general to break into the Goguryeo Palace.

When they learned that the city wall was broken, the Goguryeo people, from the kings to the ordinary people, knew the outcome of the war.

They were sure to lose and had no chance to turn the tables.

In this war, they lost hundreds of thousands of young and strong people, while their entire country had a population of only one million, and the young and middle-aged people had only hundreds of thousands, and now they almost lost all. Even if they still want to resist, what are they fighting against the Tang army? Is it a woman? It's ridiculous.

Before the Tang army could reach the Goguryeo palace, their emperor had already chosen to commit suicide.

Since they chose to provoke the Tang Dynasty, they should have this awareness. After all, the power of the Central Plains dynasty is not something they can imagine. They plan to take advantage of the fact that the Tang Dynasty had just experienced two major wars and was in a weak situation to lay the foundation for their future exhibition.

Unexpectedly, the Tang Dynasty would be so strong that it would destroy them directly.

The Goguryeo people probably regretted their intestines now, but there is no medicine for regret in this world. Since they chose to do that, they now have to bear the consequences of failure.

Not many of the 100,000 Goguryeo people in the capital were able to survive in the end. Although they were not massacred, after this battle, Goguryeo had basically been unable to recover without fifty or sixty years of rest and recuperation. Even the population was difficult to restore to its current level.

But these are not what Xue Li has to consider.

Now that the Tang army has won a great victory, they are ready to return to the court.

The good news had already gone to Chang'an when Emperor Goguryeo committed suicide yesterday. Xue Li believed that when he returned to Chang'an City, he would definitely receive cheers from the people.

I am also a hero.

After the Tang army won the victory, they did not stay in Goguryeo for too long, and then went down to prepare to sweep Baekje.

At the beginning, Baekje and Goguryeo were in a relationship, but now Goguryeo has been destroyed, how can he let Baekje go?

At this time, Silla, who had been enduring, also sent troops to follow the Tang army's pace and attacked Baekje from the east.

In just two days, the little Baekje was beaten to the bottom of the capital.

Faced with tens of thousands of Tang troops and tens of thousands of Silla troops, the Baekje people thought they did not have the strength to fight against two countries at the same time, so they surrendered very simply before the Tang army attacked.

After all, Goguryeo's lessons were ahead. If they did not surrender, their capital would probably be gone.

After Baekje surrendered, Tang Jun appeased Silla for a moment, and then he could prepare for the real army to return to the court.

This Eastern Expedition, the Tang army can be said to have won a great victory. Among them, the Tang army soldiers made a lot of contributions, but when it comes to generals, Xue Li’s contribution is undoubtedly the greatest.

If Xue Li wants to choose someone who helps him the most, or who helps the Tang army the most, Xue Li will definitely choose Zhang Yi who is far away in Chang'an without hesitation.

If it weren't for his gunpowder bullet, the Tang army would not have been suppressing the Goguryeo people all the time, nor would it have been possible for the war to go so smoothly.
To be continued...