Huangshui County, Xiping County, is located on the north bank of Huangshui, this section of the river is more turbulent, it is the natural moat of Huangshui County, but that was before, since the catastrophe swept the whole world, the water level of Huangshui has dropped seriously, the river that used to flow eastward has long been gone, and only a pale river beach is exposed in front of people.

After Liang Luoren surrendered in Hualong County, Li Shimin's generals asked to attack Huangshui County.

Li Shimin understood the thoughts of the generals, with the surrender of Liang Luoren, the 'Liang Shidu' who was only left in the lonely city had actually fallen into a desperate situation, whether it was to capture or kill the 'Liang Shidu' was a great achievement. After some consideration, he gave this credit to his confidant Hou Junji.

Hou Junji was overjoyed, and led 30,000 Tang troops to Huangshui County, from Hualong to Huangshui is about 280 miles away, if the cavalry will take two days and one night, but the Tang army without Ma Yuan can not form a large number of cavalry, Li Shimin can only get together 20,000 cavalry, but despite this, he still gave the precious 10,000 cavalry to Hou Junji.

At the end of the day, that is, at about six o'clock in the afternoon, he had already arrived at Bayan Mountain, which was eighty miles away, but now that the sunshine hours were long, if he continued to march, he could walk for another hour and a half.

However, leading the troops into battle, the speed of the march is very crucial. If you simply seek speed, the soldiers will lose their morale if they fall behind, and they will become lambs to the slaughter who have no strength to fight when they arrive at the designated place. But if you blindly care about the physique of the soldiers, the daylily will be cold by the time you reach the front line.

Therefore, as an excellent general, he must have an all-round understanding of military affairs, and how to rush to the battlefield as quickly as possible on the premise of preserving the strength of the soldiers in a war is a profound knowledge.

At this moment, Hou Junji was extremely accurate in the speed of the march, not only giving the soldiers enough time to rest, but also arriving at the destination on time.

This is not something that ordinary generals can do.

However, although Hou Junji knew that he was right to do this, he was extremely anxious in his heart, worried that after the news of the surrender of Hualong City reached Huangshui, he would leave him with an empty city. At this time, a captain stepped forward and said, "General, is Bayan Lin ahead, do you want to continue to move forward or rest on the spot?" ”

"Bayenin?" Hou Junji was stunned and asked.

Seeing that Hou Junji didn't know, the school captain explained: "The northeast of Bayan Forest is a large forest that stretches for more than 200 miles, and the opposite side of the forest is the boundary of Huangshui County, and there are many villages distributed on both sides of Huangshui. ”

Hou Junji's heart moved, and he hurriedly asked, "Is there a shortcut that can go straight through Bayan Forest?" ”

"There is a walkway, but it is a valley road formed by a stream, which has now dried up, but it is also more difficult to walk, and it is long, the sun does not shine in, and it is lined with alpine jungle, which is suitable for ambushes. Wouldn't it be too risky to walk here? The lieutenant looked at Hou Junji with some hesitation.

"How can you march and fight without taking risks, and if you don't take risks, what will be the opportunity to make a contribution? Liang Shidu is almost finished now, at most there are only 6,000 troops, and he still dares to go out of the city to fight? If Master Liang realizes and flees, what face will I have to go back and face King Jin? ”

Hou Junji's heart suddenly became eager, he was an outlier among the generals of the Tang Dynasty, he was violent, strong in martial arts, good at fighting tough battles, destroying the enemy, invincible, logically speaking, his combat style should be classified as a brainless general, but he Hou Junji was resourceful, leading the troops to fight very powerful, and he was quite good at giving advice. has made great achievements in these two aspects, so he is deeply valued by Li Shimin, the only drawback is that he is too arrogant and looks down on others, which is a bit similar to Wei Yan during the Three Kingdoms period, and when he is with everyone, he is always out of place.

Li Shimin has the grace of knowing him, and now he is giving him such an opportunity to make meritorious contributions, if all the credit is lost, then what kind of face does he Hou Junji have to face Li Shimin?

Thinking of this, Hou Junji immediately ordered the many generals around him: "The army immediately goes through Bayan Forest to the north, and we will take Huangshui tonight." ”

"Whoa!"

Hou Junji's orders were issued layer by layer, and the 30,000 Tang army sped up and rushed along Bayan Forest to Huangshui County in the north.

In less than half an hour, the 30,000 Tang troops led by Hou Junji arrived at the bend of the valley, and they turned east and headed deep into the jungle.

Hearing that he would be able to pass through the Bayan Forest in two hours and reach the opposite bank of Huangshui County around the time of the Emperor, Hou Junji became more and more excited, and continued to lead 30,000 soldiers to the depths of a valley.

However, what he didn't know was that less than half an hour after he led the army into the valley, Xie Yingdeng led 8,000 Great Sui cavalry to chase to the valley mouth, and the thirty Sui army scouts waiting at the valley mouth were Li Jing's pick-up people left here.

A captain urged him to step forward and salute: "General Xie, the Tang army has entered the valley for half an hour, as expected by Li Dudu. ”

Xie Yingdeng nodded, turned around and ordered: "Half of the people go up the mountain, and half of the people follow me to chase in!" ”

Speaking of which, Xie Yingdeng had infinite admiration for Li Jing's foresight.

The West Route Army led by Li Jing entered Wuwei from Huining County and entered Xiping County, when Duan Decao introduced the terrain here, Li Jing immediately concluded and said: "Bayan Lin River Valley is the fastest way to reach Huangshui in Hualong County, Li Shimin still does not know that Liang Shi is dead, let alone Xiping has belonged to my Great Sui, plus the army that supported Hualong has been defeated six times, he will not care about the combat strength of the last defenders of Huangshui County, in order to quickly take Huangshui City, which is insufficient in defense, the general he sent must take the Bayan Valley Road, The impression of the Huangshui army on Li Shimin is only about 10,000 people, and there is Liang Luoren's confirmation, he must have thought that this is an army with insufficient combat strength and low morale, so the army he sent will not be higher than 30,000, once this army enters the Bayan Valley, our army can completely annihilate this part and cut off Li Shimin's combat strength. ”

Xie Yingdeng was skeptical when he heard it, but when the facts were now in front of him, Xie Yingdeng's accurate inference about Li Jing was full of admiration.

When the order was delivered, the Sui army immediately divided its troops into two routes, one followed Xie Yingdeng into the valley, and the other carried 4,000 barrels of fire oil and abandoned horses to climb the hillside and climb along the edge of the valley to the top of the mountain.

The valley is about twenty miles long, because the river is dry, and the riverbed is quite flat, it only takes more than an hour to get out of the valley, 30,000 Sui troops lined up in the valley, directly stretched for several miles, at this time the valley is very dark, the army walked out of the road about ten miles, the soldiers in front suddenly made a noise, shouted loudly.

"What's the noise?" Hou Junji stepped forward and asked.

"General, it's not good, the road ahead is blocked by countless boulders, and we can't get through it at all!"

"What?" Hou Junji's color changed, he urged the horse to run forward, and saw that the narrow place in front of him was blocked by dozens of boulders, piled up more than two zhang high, and sealed the road ahead tightly, people may be able to climb over, but the war horse is over no matter what.

Hou Junji felt an ominous sense of fear welling up in his heart, and immediately shouted an order: "The rear army is the front army, retreat along the original road, retreat quickly!" ”

Before the words fell, there was a loud rumbling sound overhead, and as soon as the Tang army looked up, they saw dense stones, firewood, and oil canisters smashing down on top of their heads from the mountain. Then came the rain of rockets.

"Abandon the horses and the soldiers, and rush up the mountain with me." Hou Junji was so frightened that he immediately dismounted, held a mold knife, and led the guards to climb up the sloping city.

And under the ignition of the rocket, the fire burned rapidly, and the jungle, which was dry due to the lack of water, was quickly ignited, and the raging flames engulfed the entire valley road.

In the valley, the Tang army cried for his father and mother, and in the raging fire, more than 10,000 frightened war horses galloped wildly, mercilessly ramming and trampling the Tang army that was huddled together, and in an instant, the neighing and screaming of the horses converged into a tragic song. The Tang army scurried around like headless flies in the fire, and the smell of meat and burnt smell filled the air.

An hour later, the raging fire had engulfed the entire Bayan Valley, and the rest of the 30,000 Tang troops were all reduced to charcoal and ashes, except for the more than 4 million elites who rushed to the mountains with Hou Junji and fought their way out of the bloody path.

The words in the book of war, 'know yourself and know your opponent, win all battles', seems simple, but it contains extremely profound philosophy.

Confidant is to let people have self-knowledge, not to think about provoking a strong enemy that they can't provoke, but the vast majority of people have no self-knowledge, either for the sake of face, or for the sake of habit, committed a taboo.

It is difficult to know oneself, and it is even more difficult to know oneself.

How much rations the enemy has, how many troops, what is the equipment, what is the morale, and so on...... It is the most basic and lowest-level common sense that a general needs to know, and this step can be known by only sending multiple scouts.

The higher-level 'knowing the enemy' is to understand the background, experience, and combat style of the enemy's commander-in-chief, while the medium-level 'knowing the enemy' requires the commander-in-chief to do his homework in advance and the intelligence personnel to investigate clearly in advance, which is relatively difficult.

A higher level of 'knowing the other' is to be clear about the opponent's current situation, showing his thoughts, and according to the opponent's general situation and mind to judge the combat strategy he will take, of course, this realm of 'knowing the other' is very risky, how to deal with it, it needs the courage of their own general to decide, but the risk and return are very high, with a five-five chance of winning the nature of the gamble.

The attack led by Li Jing was undoubtedly a high-level confidant of his opponent, he knew his own strength, and he also knew that he had an unexpected advantage.

On the premise of being a 'confidant'. He successfully grasped one of the opponent's biggest weaknesses: the Tang army did not know that the county town of Huangshui had fallen into the hands of the Great Sui, let alone that his enemy had been replaced by the weak Liang Division to the powerful Great Sui.

In this situation of not knowing the other at all, the Tang army commander thought that Huangshui only had a weak brigade with low morale, so he misjudged that the other party would not go out of the city for a decisive battle, and in order to prevent the other party from escaping, he would definitely try his best to rush to Huangshui City in the shortest possible time. And Bayan Valley Road is undoubtedly the first choice of the other party.

On the other hand, Hou Junji didn't even know who his enemy was, and it was natural for him to suffer such a big loss, no, this can't be said to be Hou Junji's mistake, and the responsibility should be borne by the intelligence of the Tang Dynasty, because any general would make the same choice as him.

The first time the two met was that Li Jing, who was the 'master', gave the 'apprentice' a lesson, and the teaching fee charged by the master was 30,000 Tang Jun's lives.

After this battle, the Sui army officially turned darkness into light, and moved from behind the scenes to the foreground, showing the edge of the Li Tang Dynasty.

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