Chapter 712: Yang Dong's Taste
To the west of the Han River is an endless rice field, under the sunset, it seems to be covered with a golden yellow brilliance, and the river surface is sparkling, like a magnificent jade belt stretching to the south, the scenery is extremely beautiful. The remnants of the Turkic army were fleeing along the Han Fourth Canal to the north.
About 40,000 or 50,000 Tang soldiers marched along the official road by the river to the northwest, and Li Shimin rode his horse under the escort of the Red Armor Army.
Li Shimin did not know that Liu Hongji had been repelled by the Beizhen Army, he thought that with the strength in his hands of 40,000 foot soldiers and 5,000 Chijia Army elite cavalry, as well as Liu Hongji and Dou Cong's more than 80,000 troops, it was not difficult to defeat the Beizhen Army like a source of water in one fell swoop, although the other party was well-equipped and well-trained, but the main general Dugu Yanyun had no prestige, once they were surrounded by more than 100,000 Tang Army regiments, this army formed by a number of private armies, there was a ninety percent possibility of internal strife.
However, as Liu Hongji expected, Li Shimin now does not want to completely annihilate this army, but wants to use a huge army, surrender without a fight, and collect this army for the use of the Tang Dynasty, if the other party can coerce the other party to surrender to the Tang Dynasty, then the rebellion of the Guanlong nobles will 'turn the crisis into an opportunity', so that the Tang Dynasty can obtain 30,000 elites out of thin air.
"Are you familiar with Dugu Yanyun?" Li Shimin turned around and asked the staff group that followed him.
"Your Highness Qiqi, you know Dugu Yanyun with your humble position." Yu Wenshi and Ceji stepped forward and said.
"Then does this person have the ability to command the overall situation?" Li Shimin asked the Yuwen Shi who rode side by side, and only by knowing himself and knowing the other can he win a hundred battles, and only by finding out the enemy's main commander can he use the opponent's character flaws to target him.
Yu Wenshi replied: "Your Highness, although the nobles of Guanlong attach importance to military and military affairs, they have dominated the world for more than 100 years, and it is inevitable that they will breed a sense of comfort, and it is not an exaggeration to say that one generation is not as good as the next. Since the founding of Emperor Wen in the Sui Dynasty, the older generation of Guanlong nobles has been extremely powerful, like the humble father, as well as Gao Gong, Yang Su, Yu Zeqing, as well as Han Baohu, He Ruobi, Dou Qing, Yu Zhongwen, Dugu Luo, Changsun Sheng, Yu Juluo, etc., are all generals who can stand alone, and anyone can have the ability to destroy a small country. With the older generation in the past, and then excluding the Tang Dynasty royal family Li family and the Sui Dynasty royal family Yang family, the Guanlong nobles barely have the talent of Yang Xuangan and Li Mi, but unfortunately both of them have been defeated and died, and the Guanlong nobles really can't come up with any outstanding generals. In the past, the powerful Dugu faction also withered, and no one could handle it, so he could only pick out the masters from the group of dwarfs, and pull out the nameless Dugu Yanyun as the main general, this is not to say that he is talented in commanding the army, but because of the dominance of the Dugu clan, Dugu Yan has the ability to be a pioneer general, but it is really a bit difficult for him to be the commander, even if he is really a famous general, but his biggest flaw is that he has no experience in commanding the army, and now he is in a hurry to command tens of thousands of troops, it is inevitable that he will be in a hurry. β
"Sir's words are reasonable, military books and actual combat are indeed different." Li Shimin nodded and said with a smile: "The Beizhen Army is a lone army, and Gucheng is a small city, the best way is to abandon the city and flee when our army is surrounded to avoid the strong and weak." But he didn't move at all, didn't this give us a chance to surround us? β
"Your Highness is planning to rely on the superiority in troops to storm Valley City?" Yu Wenshi asked
Li Shimin shook his head and said: "Our enemy is the powerful Sui Dynasty, I am reluctant to lose a soldier under Gucheng, and it is the best policy to surrender without a fight!" β
"What Your Highness said is very true."
"Liu Hongji and Dou Cong should have arrived, and the order should be sent down to let the whole army speed up the march."
"Whoa."
The order was issued, and more than 40,000 Tang soldiers sped up and rushed northwest along the Han River.
Suddenly, a horse galloped from the direction of Gucheng, dozens of steps away from Li Shimin, the knight had already turned over and dismounted, and crawled in front of Li Shimin, not even knowing that the helmet had fallen off, Li Shimin's eyelids suddenly jumped wildly, and a strong sense of foreboding instantly completely enveloped him.
The scout servant poured dust into the dust and said silently: "Your Highness, defeated, defeated, our army is defeated......"
Zhai Changsun heard him say that he was headless and brainless, and he was immediately angry, and shook his hand and whipped the knight behind his back, and scolded angrily: "What a panic, get up and talk slowly!" β
The scout screamed, got up, and said, "Your Highness, generals, gentlemen...... General Liu Hongji was defeated head-on by the Beizhen Army, and the 45,000 troops were killed and scattered, and those who could not form an army fled back to Yincheng. β
"What did you say?" When Zhai Changsun heard this, he was taken aback.
Li Shimin's eyes suddenly darkened, and he almost fell off the horse's back.
"Liu Hongji is leading an elite division, how can he be defeated? How can it be impossible to break the army? How is this possible? How is this possible? Li Shimin asked urgently in disbelief.
Zhai Changsun had already picked up the scouts with his chest, and asked sharply: "Come on, how did Liu Hongji lose?" β
"His Royal Highness Qiqi ......" The scout tremblingly told the whole process, and after Li Shimin, Zhai Changsun, Yu Wenshi and others listened to it, they couldn't believe their ears: the Beizhen Army actually dispatched the whole army and took the initiative to stop Liu Hongji, who was sleepy and lacking horses, outside the city, didn't they worry at all that the soldiers in the rear and the empty Gucheng would be occupied by Dou Cong or the headquarters?
Zhai Changsun You didn't believe it, and even forced the scout to repeat the narrative, but the fact is that Liu Hongji was really in a dignified head-on decisive battle, and was wiped out by the Beizhen Army and fled back to Yincheng in embarrassment, and after the Beizhen Army achieved a brilliant victory, he retracted back to Gucheng in a chic and complacent manner.
After a long time, Zhai Changsun turned his head to look back at Li Shimin, his expression was already shocked.
Li Shimin has already regained his composure, and as the first person in the Tang Army, his psychological quality is more than one level higher than that of the generals and colonels of the whole army.
Thinking carefully about the scout's words, Li Shimin only felt his scalp explode, he found that Dugu Yanyun's tactics were quite powerful, and he actually took advantage of the 'respite' that the three Tang armies could not reach Gucheng at the same time, and concentrated superior forces to annihilate all the way, if it was replaced by himself, he could only face off with the Beizhen Army like Liu Hongji, in addition, there was no choice, this was obviously a naked Yang conspiracy, which made people have to follow his plan to fight.
Dugu Yanyun, who led this battle, used his troops to escape alive and was the Yang strategy that the Sui army was best at. From this, Li Shimin seemed to smell a strong smell of Yang Dong.
"What about the losses of the North Town Army?" Li Shimin quickly asked.
"They don't have much to lose." The scout replied.
"Give Dou Cong an order." Li Shimin took a deep breath, "Let him arrive in Gucheng tonight and besiege Gucheng with me." Otherwise, military justice disposes. β
"Whoa." A Red Armor Army broke away from the army and roared away.
In the final analysis, the Beizhen Army only has 30,000 people, even if there is not much loss, but after this battle, the combat effectiveness will inevitably fall into a trough, and he and Dou Cong will go to besiege the city with nearly 100,000 soldiers in a dignified manner, and the Beizhen Army will not have a strange plan, and it is impossible to win the Tang Army.
As for the trick?
Li Shimin couldn't help but snort coldly, he had such an army in hand on his side, and the strength of the Beizhen Army would not increase, and after another big battle, both the number of soldiers and the combat power would drop a lot. This is an unavoidable fact, will he Li Shimin still be afraid of Dugu Yanyun's strange scheme?
ββββββββββ
(Fill in yesterday's chapter.) οΌ
ββββ
Thank you for the reward of "people from other places do not fall into the clouds".
The new day is always.,I implore my brother to vote for your precious monthly passγRecommendation vote,Thank you.γγγ