Late at night! The Tang army camp, which should have been quiet, shouted and killed, and the Sui army charged like a black tide!

The continuous war has filled the entire barracks with a strong smell of blood, and if you look at the fire and look at your feet, you will find that it is full of blood, and you will also find that the whole earth has been dyed brown, completely losing its original color!

In the big tent!

Li Shimin paced back and forth with a heavy heart, he saw the situation in the front camp in his eyes, and he was worried in his heart.

This situation also reminded him of Xue Wanjun's attack on Xiangwu County, in that battle, tens of thousands of elite Tang troops were frightened by Xue Wanjun's brutal act of filling the city wall with people, and they couldn't afford to resist at all, and finally gave up Xiangwu, a logistical powerhouse. In the past, Li Shimin had always thought that the escaped defenders were deliberately exaggerating in order to shirk their responsibilities, but now, when he witnessed Yang Shanhui's onslaught at any cost and the performance of the slave soldiers who did not want to die, he believed that the commanders of the Sui Dynasty were really all madmen in a county, Xue Wanjun was crazy, and so was Yang Shanhui...... Luo Shixin and Qin Qiong are even more so, the reason for all this is that they have a mad emperor.

In fact, he has seen the strategy of the Sui army, which is to capture his military camp at any cost, although the Sui army's intentions are obvious, but he can do nothing about it, he can only watch the war fall into intertwining, and then, following the rhythm of the Sui army, use human lives to block the two gaps in the north and south, and then let the soldiers take turns to rest and take turns to meet the enemy, there is no other way.

Suddenly, a gust of bloody wind blew the candlelight and swayed inexplicably, looking up, it was Liu Wenjing who walked in with a bitter face, and said to Li Shimin: "Your Highness, Yang Shanhui is crazy, these Sui troops are also crazy, they are not a temptation at all, nor are they consuming our army for tomorrow's battle, and they are clearly going to break our camp tonight." The open space in front of the camp, where people can be released, is already full of people, and there is no tactic to speak of. ”

The confrontation between the two armies generally has a process of testing the strength of the enemy's army, so as to understand the enemy's combat strength, numbers, morale, arrows, and other basic information! For example, in the attack camp battle, the enemy camp defense will be tested, and then the specific siege strategy can be determined, so as to formulate the most reasonable and effective side combat plan, so as to choose the focus of attack in the battle, which not only improves the efficiency of attack and fortification, but also avoids excessive casualties on your side to the greatest extent...... But this time, from the moment Yang Shanhui launched the giant crossbow, he broke the convention! As soon as he came up, he launched an offensive against the Don army at any cost. As the commander of the first army, Yang Shanhui's style of play is undoubtedly the most unwise and stupid move, which is extremely irresponsible to the Sui Dynasty, Yang Dong, and the soldiers under his command! But the Sui Dynasty had many generals, well-equipped, and plenty of war horses! But I have to say that his outlaw-like style of play can give full play to the advantages of the Sui Dynasty's national strength, anyway, it doesn't matter if he runs out, the rear is still endlessly supported, but what about the Tang Army? Not to mention whether the Tang Dynasty has this capital, even if there is, it is far water that can't save the near fire.

"The monarchs and ministers of the Sui Dynasty are a group of hooligans and outlaws, starting with Yang Tong, no exception." Li Shimin said angrily.

"Hooligans are not scary, but they are afraid that hooligans are powerful!"

Liu Wenjing said with a wry smile that since the end of the Battle of Bingzhou, Yang Tong has been blackmailing Li Tang, causing the emperor to lose his most promising daughter. But what can it be, isn't all this caused by repeated military defeats, and isn't the culprit of the army's repeated defeats the Li Tang Dynasty headed by Li Yuan?

Li Shimin was stunned for a moment, and found that Liu Wenjing's words were quite reasonable, he waved his hand and said, "Don't talk about this!" Let's get down to business. I now know that the Sui army will attack our army's camp with human lives, and I also know that our method of alternating truce cannot be sustained for a long time, but I have nothing to do, which is really helpless. ”

Liu Wenjing pondered for a moment and said, "Your Highness, there is a word that I don't know whether to say or not. "Xiangguo, but it doesn't hurt to say it." Li Shimin waved his hand and signaled, "Sit down and talk." ”

Liu Wenjing sat down and said, "I'm not worried about our army, although Yang Shanhui's domineering style of play is powerful, we are not helpless, it's a big deal to take the method of breaking the wrist of a strong man to withdraw to the Lu clan!" What worries me is that the Sui Dynasty has bigger plans. ”

"What do you mean by what Xiang Guo said?"

"Yang Shanhui has been confronting our army for nearly a month, and there has been constant friction during this period, but he has not even tentatively attacked the camp! But now he is going crazy and storming our army camp overnight. Doesn't Your Highness feel that there is something wrong here? ”

"Sangkook means to say ......"

"Regarding the importance of Xiangyang, there is a record in ancient documents that 'in the words of the world, it is important to focus on Xiangyang', which shows the strategic position of Xiangyang in the whole world." Liu Wenjing saw that Li Shimin was listening carefully, and then said: "To the north of Xiangyang is Nanyang and Runan, and here is a flat river, which is a favorable type for cavalry to gallop vertically and horizontally; To the west, along the Han River can reach Hanzhong, Daxing, along the river water can enter Shu; To the south, you can go directly to Lingnan, and to the east can go directly to the Huainan River! It is at a key point in the world, and all the main roads around it cannot be bypassed. However, Xiangyang City is surrounded by water on three sides and mountains on one side, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the widest natural moat under the city wall makes it very difficult for anyone to take the city of Xiangyang! Today, my Datang has Bashu manpower and material resources to feed Xiangyang, which is very difficult, so Yang Tong doesn't want to fight here! ”

Li Shimin understood what Liu Wenjing meant: "Xiangguo means that Yang Tong is unwilling to attack Xiangyang, so he used the idea of luring the snake out of the hole to lure me out of Xiangyang with my father, eldest brother, and fourth brother, and then annihilate them one by one?" ”

Liu Wenjing nodded: "The Sui army didn't move before, and the saint drove the expedition in person and drove it in Nanyang, and Yang Shanhui attacked our army like crazy, isn't this the best proof?" And Yang Tong has not shown up so far, I think it is very likely that he is not in Luoyang, but went to Nanyang. ”

"In other words, Yang Tong used our army as bait to lure his eldest brother to help, and then used the well-known greed of King Huai'an to disturb the Nanyang army, forcing his father to personally go to appease the army." Li Shimin frowned, feeling ridiculous in his heart, if Yang Tong even counted Li Jiancheng to help Zhuyangguan, it would be too godly, right?

"Actually, it's not difficult, Yang Tong only needs to know the factional composition of my Tang Dynasty court to calculate everything." As if he understood Li Shimin's thoughts, Liu Wenjing simply pierced the layer of paper, and opened the skylight and said: "I think the relationship between His Royal Highness and the prince has been mastered by Yang Tong, and it is precisely by using this relationship that he has lured the prince and the saint out of Xiangyang." ”

Li Shimin was silent.

As long as Yang Tong knows the relationship between him and Li Shimin's dispute between the crown prince, he can sort out the division of forces in Li Tang's army, Li Jiancheng in order to ensure that his military power is not lost, it seems that it is possible to go out of Zhuyang Pass, when Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin are leading the troops, the erosive situation in Nanyang can only be cleaned up by Li Yuan himself! Thinking about it this way, Li Shimin felt that Liu Wenjing's guess also made sense.

If this is the case, Yang Tong and his gang are too terrifying! But if it weren't for the success of the plan to lure the snake out of the hole, why did the good Yang Shanhui suddenly go crazy? This is obviously trying to kill your own rhythm! If this is the case on his own side, I am afraid that my father and eldest brother will not have a good time, and Xue Wanjun, who regards human life as a mustard, is in Shangluo County, isn't it a very reasonable thing for him to use slave soldiers to shake Zhuyang Pass?

Slave soldiers had no status in the Sui Dynasty, in terms of treatment, there was no military salary, there was no pension to take when they died, and they did not feel distressed when they died, so it was undoubtedly a very cost-effective business for the Sui Dynasty to use the lives of foreign people to fight for Emperor Li Tang, the crown prince, the King of Jin and the army in their hands.

The more Li Shimin thought about it, the more he felt that Liu Wenjing's words could explain the origin of this war without humanity.

"I wonder about these slaves. Yang Tong dared to summon slave soldiers like this, wasn't he afraid that these people would rebel against him? At this time, Hou Junji, who had just been replaced by Zhang Gongjin, walked in with a scolding and scolding face, showing that the war was not going well.

"He doesn't have to be afraid." Liu Wenjing shook his head, looked at Cao Cao and said: "Slave soldiers, Yang Tong has little practical use in the Central Plains, two years ago, Yang Tong went far to Goguryeo, using these slave soldiers to attack the city and plunder the land for him, and promised these slave soldiers, no matter they are Turkic or whoever, as long as they make enough military achievements, they can get the status of the people of the Sui Dynasty after the war." This thing is actually the household registration of the common people, which was called nationality in the Sui Dynasty. ”

"What?" Hou Junjixia's eyes widened blankly: "That's it?" A siege that can make those slaves die? ”

"That's right! That's it! But there are still a lot of tricks here, and I won't be able to finish it in a while. Liu Wenjing nodded,

"But no matter how you say it, it's just the household registration of the Sui Dynasty, so it's not worth a life, right?" Hou Junji is a military general who does not understand national politics.

"General Hou must not underestimate the influence of the Sui Dynasty and Yang Tong outside the territory." Liu Wenjing sighed bitterly: "Putting aside the hostile relationship, purely from the perspective of the Han family, Yang Tong is definitely a national hero, which is a fact that we cannot erase, and it is not an exaggeration to go down in history." ”

Hou Junji nodded without hesitation, he could scold Yang Tong in other aspects, but he couldn't scold him in terms of expanding his territory and promoting his power, otherwise, his own conscience would not be able to pass.

"Nomads do not have loyalty to the monarch and patriotism, they believe in the supremacy of strength, the strong are respected, and they are proud of surrendering to the strong, they feel that they are weak, it is normal to be enslaved by the strong, not only do they not hate Yang Dong and Sui Jun who killed the corpses of the grassland, but worship as sacred! In other words, if there is an immortal who asks you to be his slave and let you work for him, as long as you don't die, you can become a subordinate and a subordinate of the immortal, don't you? "Before the Li Tang uprising, Liu Wenjing had sent many envoys to the Turks, and he was quite familiar with foreign folk customs.

"Needless to say, what are you doing! Only fools don't do it! "Hou Junji is an adventurous person himself

Liu Wenjing said: "These slave soldiers think about the same as you, the gods in their minds are now letting them sell their lives, so don't beat us with their lives." ”

"......" Hou Junji was depressed, and looked at Li Shimin with an inquiring gaze, as if asking, 'Is Liu Wenjing right?'

"What Xiang Guo said is not wrong at all." Li Shimin nodded abruptly, Li Tang's spy traveled as a businessman, and brought back a lot of news from the Northern and Western Regions, so Li Shimin was very clear about all this. When their spies were doing business, even the horse thieves regarded them as uncles, and the Han people were so open and respected outside the territory, it was completely killed by Yang Tong with a gang of thugs under his command, and it had nothing to do with the that was respected in the past, such as the state of etiquette and righteousness, the way of benevolence and righteousness, and the kind of that was indoctrinated, and now he was afraid of being killed by Yang Tong, but he seriously learned benevolence, righteousness and morality, and took it as a supreme honor to be able to speak Chinese and write Chinese.

Liu Wenjing asked: "Your Highness, looking at this posture, Yang Shanhui is planning to die endlessly, our army has been reduced to a lone army in essence, and it can't fight anymore." ”

"What can Xiang Guo do?"

"Abandon all the baggage of the camp and rely on the night to meet Zhang Liang!" Liu Wenjing sighed, he knew that once Li Shimin followed his words, many soldiers would be abandoned, but there was no way, in the face of the cruel reality, he couldn't miss a big deal because of the kindness of a woman.

"Just according to Xiangguo's words." Now, Li Shimin has no choice, if he continues like this, Yang Shanhui has not yet made a move on the elite of the Great Sui, not to mention, just these seemingly endless slave soldiers are enough to tire the Tang army, these guys fight in no order, and their combat power is not as good as the carefully selected Sui army, but these things are completely under the idea of killing one person and killing a pair to earn twice as much, one or two are like a group of crazy people, and they are completely deadly when they fight!

What's even more worrying is that Li Shimin doesn't know how many mad dogs Yang Shanhui has on hand, even if the Tang Army's strategy skyrockets, and how many kills he has to kill this group of crazy people, but the next thing to face is Yang Shanhui's authentic elite division, the Tang Army will not talk about resistance at that time, even if people stand still, the Tang Army soldiers may not have the strength to cut it, just wait to be caught by others to dig mines for thirty or forty years.

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