Although spring had arrived, Liaodong still felt the biting chill of early spring, its temperatures somewhat lower than those in the Central Plains!
The vast army setting out to conquer the Three Peninsula Kingdoms marched toward Goguryeo!
News that the Tang Dynasty's emperor was personally leading this campaign had long since spread throughout the region!
When Goguryeo learned of it, its king hastily sent an envoy to the Tang Dynasty to beg Li Shimin, the Heavenly Khan, for surrender terms and peace!
But the Li Shimin of today was no longer the Li Shimin of the original history!
Had he been the original historical Li Shimin, he might have spared them for the time being, swayed by his title of Heavenly Khan and Goguryeo's humble pleas to surrender!
Now, however, people from later generations in this region had fabricated stories about him kneeling to beg for mercy, having an eye shot out, and ceding more than half his realm!
Li Shimin had seethed for months, waiting for this chance to personally lead his troops, utterly sweep away the Three Peninsula Kingdoms, and permanently incorporate them into China!
Thus, while he was still in Chang'an, Li Shimin had not even considered meeting the envoy Goguryeo sent to beg for peace and surrender!
He left Goguryeo's envoys kneeling before the Hall of the Supreme Ultimate for days and nights. Even if they knocked their foreheads bloody, they could not shake his resolve to destroy the Three Peninsula Kingdoms!
Faced with this!
The helpless Goguryeo envoys could only slink back home and warn their king to muster his army for war!
Because this time, the vast and powerful Tang Dynasty empire meant business!
"Old Zhao! I remember you always lived in the south before coming to the Zhenguan Era, right?"
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