Chapter 291: Offense Instead of Defense
What is it like to take a strong laxative?
Gu Qing didn't experience it, and he might have to ask Bian Lingcheng about the specific taste, he should be very touched.
The team has walked dozens of miles, and Bian Lingcheng is still competing with himself in the same place, and the surging stool is just like a wave that has not subsided, and a wave of invasion has come again, and the vast yellow sand is stormy......
Han Jie also drugged someone for the first time, and he didn't have any sense of proportion, and the amount of medicine for three people made Bian Lingcheng want to die, and he couldn't stand up at all when he squatted on the sand, and after I don't know how many times, Bian Lingcheng collapsed and almost fell into the sand, and the entourage next to him hurriedly supported him.
It wasn't until this time that Bian Lingcheng noticed that something was wrong.
My body has always been good, and I have lived in the desert for many years, and there is no such thing as being unaccustomed to water and soil, and this sudden diarrhea is no accident.
"What the hell Gu Qing did!" Bian Lingcheng's eyes suddenly burst out with anger, and Gu Qing in the handsome tent calmly persuaded him to eat more and drink more soup, looking like he was in a hurry, so that Bian Lingcheng instantly entered the play, and he also ate and drank heavily, presumably someone had moved his food.
The entourage said worriedly on the side: "Prison army, Gu Houye's army has been driven for dozens of miles, I'm afraid we won't be able to catch up......"
Bian Lingcheng's eyes flashed fiercely, and he gritted his teeth and said, "I want to chase!" The more they don't let me join the army, the more I have to follow and see, I am the supervisor of the Son of Heaven, as long as it is the Anxi army, I have the responsibility of supervision......"
"But the way you ...... now?"
Bian Lingcheng frowned suddenly, grabbed a handful of yellow sand tightly in his hand, and said prostrately: "It's okay, wait for me to have another ......."
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Riding a horse in a vast desert of yellow sand, the desolate scenery of the desert is in full view, which looks quite poetic.
Fifteen thousand men and horses hurried silently, and the huge soldiers and horses gradually turned into small black dots one by one in the desert, making people sincerely feel the insignificance of man in front of nature.
Gu Qing was drowsy while riding on the horse and fighting with his eyelids, and Han Jie next to him was worried.
"I don't know how the border supervisor is ...... Probably won't die, right? Han Jie sighed.
Gu Qing didn't raise his eyelids, and said lightly: "I care about him so much, he is your own child?" ”
"Master Hou, the medicine in his meal was ordered by the last general, how could the last general not care, what if he found out?"
Gu Qing sighed: "You, your heart is not strong enough, don't panic after doing something bad, immediately give yourself a psychological hint, hypnotize yourself has nothing to do with this matter, you don't know at all, after hypnotizing a few more times, when you open your eyes again, you will find that this matter really has nothing to do with you." ”
Han Jie said hesitantly: "Yes...... Is that so? ”
"You try, try a few more times, and you will open the door to a new world, and no matter what bad things you do in the future, you will feel at ease without guilt, even if the evidence is ironclad, you will be sad and indignant as if you have been greatly wronged." Gu Qing instigated.
Han Jie closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and said something in his mouth, and after repeating it a few times, when Han Jie opened his eyes again, his eyes were already clear, full of awe-inspiring justice, that kind of righteous eyes without evil intentions, and anyone who has done such a small bad thing as spitting in this life is too weak to take a second look.
"Okay, let me ask you again, who gave the border prison army a laxative?"
Han Jieyi said solemnly: "What kind of medicine?" What border warden army? The last general didn't understand what Hou Ye was talking about. ”
Gu Qing laughed: "Han Jie, you have become bad!" ”
After laughing, Gu Qing suddenly said solemnly: "If you dare to use this kind of trick on me in the future, you will not be spared." ”
"Don't worry, Master Hou, the end will not."
The 15,000 men and horses walked for two days until they reached the outside of Qiuzi City, and they didn't see Bian Lingcheng follow.
At this time, even Gu Qing couldn't help but be apprehensive.
"Shouldn't you run back to Chang'an to sue the black? Or pulled alive? Gu Qing muttered to himself.
Immediately, he quickly threw away this ominous thought and smiled lightly: "Think about the good side of everything, don't be so pessimistic...... Maybe it was just a wolf eating it when I was on a night trip. ”
The army camped outside the city, and the scouts were sent forty miles away, and Gu Qing entered the city with his personal guards.
Many officials of the Jiedu Embassy were already waiting at the city gate, and when they saw Gu Qing's army coming, the officials stepped forward to salute and greet them.
Gu Qing smiled and greeted the officials for a while, and began to inspect the city defense surrounded by the officials.
The Anxi garrison of Qiuzi City has been fully requisitioned by Gao Xianzhi, and there are only a thousand city guards left in the city, saying that it is a city guard, to put it bluntly, it is actually a regimental training, recruited from ordinary men in the city, and there is very little formal training, and there is no difference between the formation and individual fighting skills from ordinary people.
The only difference is that they have one more weapon than the common people, and they don't even have a unified system for weapons, and there are all kinds of strange things.
Since Emperor Gaozong, due to the gradual collapse of the military system of the Tang Dynasty, and the mercenary system is difficult to form combat power for a while, so when Gaozong Li Zhi was in power, he ordered that the local Zhichong Prefecture could properly recruit the people as unity soldiers, farming on weekdays, and occasionally drilling, and the unity soldiers could be the auxiliary of the regular army when fighting with the enemy.
The "united soldiers" are in a rather awkward position, the regular army looks down on them, and most of the time they are actually coolies carrying ordnance, grain, and grass during battles, and the government has no salaries for soldiers, at most they are in charge of two meals, and they themselves have no morale, let alone combat effectiveness, so they just hang the title of a soldier who is not a soldier and the people who are not a people.
Gu Qing inspected the city defense surrounded by officials, paying special attention to these united soldiers, and saw them standing in a line at the head of the city, holding a broken knife with a curled blade in their hands, or a sharpened long stick, and even a farm tool such as a nail rake and hoe.
To say that they are a rabble is a serious insult to the rabble.
Gu Qing shook his head secretly, such unity soldiers are useless to the war, he doesn't know what the Jiedu Envoy thinks, since you have spent food and grass to raise this group of soldiers, you should train them well, let them form combat effectiveness, maybe it can come in handy when the battle situation is stalemate, raise but not practice, practice without use, pure waste of food, what is the point of recruiting unity soldiers?
So Gu Qing suddenly made a decision, after this battle, expand the unity army, and practice every day, and send the elite generals under his command to train them, and they should be able to form combat effectiveness within half a year.
"Remove all these united soldiers from the city, and let the left guard soldiers under my command take over the defense of Qiuzi City." Gu Qing pointed to the city head and ordered.
The officials next to him received the order and drove the unity soldiers down the city with a curse.
These reprimanded unity soldiers were not angry, but smiled at Gu Qing and them, and left after laughing, looking like a dead pig was not afraid of boiling water.
Gu Qing also smiled, staring at their backs and smiling madly.
If you turtles are still laughing in the near future, I will admire you.
Gao Xianzhi didn't treat them as people, and Gu Qing didn't treat them as people, but there was an essential difference between the two. Gao Xianzhi never took them to heart, and Gu Qing planned not to treat them as human beings when he trained them.
After inspecting the city defenses, Gu Qing was completely desperate for the defense of Qiuzi City.
The walls were built of solid bricks and sand, and if the enemy used siege equipment, such a fragile city wall would collapse if it could not withstand a few critical blows, and there was a serious shortage of various ordnance and equipment to defend the city.
And the virtue of the unity soldiers defending the city, Gu Qing also saw it deeply just now.
If the Tibetan army comes to attack at this time, it is optimistically estimated that this city will be able to hold for about half an hour, including the time when the Tibetan army enters the city on foot.
This is the style of the Tang Dynasty's foreign army, the Tang Dynasty's strategy in the Western Regions is to attack instead of defend, even if there is an enemy, the generals of the Tang Dynasty will definitely not allow the enemy to appear outside their own cities, as early as when they are about to move, Wang Shi sent troops to destroy them, so in the various cities in the Western Regions, most of the city defense is relatively rough.
This is also the reason why the city of Khotan was captured by the Tibetans so quickly.
After inspecting the defense, Gu Qing returned to the Jiedu Embassy, and then beat the drums to gather the generals.
After Chang Zhong and the other generals arrived, Gu Qing took out the map and beckoned the generals to come around.
"We must also replace defense with offense." Gu Qing reluctantly set the strategic tone.
The defense of the city is too weak, and if the enemy soldiers are really approaching the city, the casualties of defending the city will be more tragic than the battle between the two armies on the plain.
Gu Qing pointed to the map and said, "Immediately send scouts into the Tulun Moraine Desert, and tell the scouts that there is no need to look around like headless flies, we only need to demarcate a small area, bounded by a radius of 100 miles, and we don't need to explore frequently, identify a certain place that must be passed to Qiuzi City, and then wait there, and come back to report as soon as we find the enemy's traces." ”
Chang Zhong couldn't help but say: "What does Lord Hou mean is that it is possible for the Tubo army to emerge from the desert to attack Qiuci City?" ”
"It is very likely that this is the reason why Gao Jieshuai and I discussed the division of troops and attacked, we judged that the Tibetan thief army will definitely raid Qiuci, just like the raid on Khotanese City, but we will not make the same mistake again, if the Tibetan army is coming, let them come, we can make an ambush in advance......"
Gu Qing pointed to the Qiuzi city on the map, and said: "There is an undulating sand dune in the south of the city, we can divide our troops and ambush on the back of the dunes, wait for the Tubo army to enter our ambush circle, and then go out on all sides, the cavalry flanks charge interspersed, rushing their front army, and another army of soldiers and horses from the south to cut off their retreat, this pocket ambush array can be regarded as encircling them." ”
Chang Zhong said worriedly: "If the Tibetan thieves have not divided their troops, they are still 30,000 soldiers and horses, and the chances of winning this battle are not high." ”
Gu Qing nodded: "Everything should be prepared for the worst, that's right, even if they have 30,000 soldiers and horses, as long as we lure them into our ambush circle, 30,000 soldiers and horses can still be swallowed by us. ”