At the turn of Tatsumi, Li Shimin's main division rushed to the fourth barracks (from east to west), the barracks were already in a mess, the barracks and guard towers were burned to the ground, wisps of smoke had not completely disappeared, some piles were still burning, judging from the chaotic and uncleaned traces on the battlefield, the culprit who caused all this was withdrawn in a hurry, and he should have learned that the main force of the Tang Army was approaching and had to go.

As for how many people died, no one seemed to care about it now, anyway, from the easternmost point where the war took place to the barracks, it was only five miles away, and there were corpses everywhere in sight, all of which were the corpses of the Tang army.

Qiu Xinggong's body was also found, his body was full of more than 300 arrows, from his eyes that did not close, Li Shimin felt a chill, for many years, he was used to seeing corpses, and knew that this was an instinctive expression of sudden attack.

The morning sun shone on his body, but Li Shimin did not feel a trace of warmth, and now the news that there was a chasing soldier after there was no way out had been spread, and the morale of the already few had a tendency to plummet, and if it was delayed for a moment, the morale would drop by one point, and if it dragged on for a day or two, the morale would disappear, and on the third day, there would be a group of deserters in his army, and eventually it would collapse without a fight. Li Shimin is naturally very clear about this consequence, the key is not to say three days, it is one day, the Sui army led by Yang Shanhui will not give it to him, what should he do now?

In fact, Li Shimin also has a few ideas in his heart, from the enemy's hasty retreat, it can be seen that the number of this army is not large, in view of this characteristic, he came up with the idea is to send an elite division to hold the important place to resist Yang Shanhui's army, the main force of the division to advance with its head bored, do its best to annihilate the enemy in front, and open up a way to live, but he does not know whether the incoming enemy is pouring out of the nest, or only a part of the enemy army, if he moves forward, his army with low morale is very likely to be wiped out; In the face of Yang Shanhui's lifeless offensive, they will not be able to support it for long, and once the rout catches up with the main army, it will inevitably cause a great panic and a great rout; So this option is too risky.

The second plan is to take local materials, cross Luoshui on a raft, jump out of the encirclement of the enemy, and go south to join the eldest brother Li Jiancheng, but I am afraid that the enemy on the other side of the river is already looking at the enemy, if he crosses the river on a raft, and the Sui army crosses the river, then he will be defeated.

There was also a slightly safer plan, which was to send a few scouts across the river and quickly get in touch with the eldest brother so that he could send an army to meet him on the other side. But there are three problems here: first, the river is wide, and wherever the scouts cross the river, they may fall under the surveillance of the Sui army, and the scouts may not be able to reach Zhuyang Pass; The second is that the scout is about to succeed, but it will take too long for him to delay; The third is that the eldest brother may not necessarily leave behind his personal grievances and wave his teachers to help, because if he dies here, the status of the eldest brother will be deep-rooted, once the power of the Jin dynasty is integrated, it will enable the Li Tang court to settle down, Li Shimin feels that if he dies, it will be beneficial to the country and the eldest brother, in this case, will the eldest brother come to support?

All kinds of worries caused Li Shimin to veto one idea after another, and gave birth to one idea after another, but no matter which idea there was a huge risk, he was unsettled and worried for a while.

"Your Highness, are you worried about not being able to withdraw your troops?" At this time, Liu Wenjing, who had been stunned for a long time, spoke.

Li Shimin sighed: "That's true, our army has nothing to follow, there are chasing soldiers behind, the army's morale is on the verge of collapse, I want to move forward with my head bored, and use my life to fight a way to live, but I don't know how many Sui troops occupy Lu's family, if there are 40,000 enemy troops in front, we will not be able to achieve victory, let alone defeat Yang Shanhui." I don't know what to do now, Xiangguo has a good plan? ”

Li Shimin slowly sat on a marching horse, he had always regarded himself as a military genius, able to plan and decisive, but the successive failures made him lose confidence a little; Especially this time of the Eastern Crusade, if he listened to Liu Wenjing's advice in a timely manner, retreated to Luoyang in time, and watched the Sui army fight with Wang Shichong, then the casualties of the Sui army under the city would inevitably be great, and it would not have the current peak momentum, and his army would not become a tired army. Of course, this has the selfish intention of making political capital, but isn't this a manifestation of incompetence and inexperience? It is precisely because of his own shortcomings and his optimistic luck that when he met the older and spicier Yang Tong, he seemed to be passive everywhere, waiting for the back road to be cut off, and was completely led by Yang Tong.

Although he has a lot of people, but just like himself, he has no experience in dealing with this kind of life and death dilemma, so at this time, experience is particularly important, Liu Wenjing gave advice to his father in the turbulent era, which led to his father to get through many difficulties safely, and his experience and mentality in dealing with dangers are naturally not within the reach of these young people, Li Shimin looked back and realized that he was conceited and stupid, and he had a good plan but did not use it, so he fell into such a field.

"Your Highness, in fact, don't worry too much, the morale of our soldiers is unstable, especially the number of people, and each brings ten days of food, armor and armament, I think we still have time to deal with it." Liu Wenjing sighed slightly, and continued: "But if you wait for three days, the matter will be big. ”

"Xiangguo, what's the difference between now and three days from now?" Seeing the two talking, many civil and military officers came closer, and Yin Kaishan opened his mouth to ask.

"Our army is like a trapped beast at this time, if the Sui army attacks strongly, it will inevitably arouse the hearts of our soldiers and soldiers who are the same enemy... The power of more than 100,000 small beasts cannot be ignored, although it will not be able to wipe out the entire Sui army, but it is enough to break the Sui army... But after three days, it's completely different. Liu Wenjing said with a smile.

"Are you still afraid that they won't succeed?" Hou Junji snorted coldly.

"It's not fear, it's fact!" Liu Wenjing looked at Li Shimin and said: "The art of war has clouds: attacking the heart is the first, which can be seen from the headquarters of General Liu Hongji after Yang Shanhui does not attack and break, Yang Shanhui wants to be a soldier who surrenders without a fight, and he wants to completely disintegrate the fighting spirit of our army with military might. Three days later, if we no longer think of a way to save ourselves, the soldiers will be completely desperate, and there will even be mutiny, camp roaring and other terrifying things, and then when the Sui army attacks again, we can break our army in one battle. ”

"So we have three more days?" Li Shimin frowned and asked in a deep voice.

Liu Wenjing sighed: "There are always exceptions to everything, and you can't generalize; And the Sui army has always acted against common sense, and we can't use common sense, but whether it is three days or two days, we are not qualified to waste it. ”

Li Shimin nodded, pondered for a moment and asked, "What does Xiangguo think we should do now?" ”

"The way and way out are in this Luoshui." Liu Wenjing pointed to the Luoshui flowing eastward.

Li Shimin was greatly disappointed, "I have also thought about this, I am afraid that the Sui army will be half crossed, and then we will not be able to take care of each other, and we will inevitably lose a big defeat." ”

Liu Wenjing said with a smile: "My method is not this, I mean to use this Luoshui to create a bargaining chip, as long as we have a big bargaining chip in our hands and firmly grasp Yang Tong's key points, we can force him to negotiate with us, so that our army can retreat south victoriously." ”

"Will this work? What leverage do we have? Li Shimin was skeptical.

Liu Wenjing smiled: "If Your Highness is willing to listen to my strategy, I am at least eighty percent sure that all my troops will evacuate safely." ”

Li Shimin was overjoyed, and hurriedly said: "Xiangguo, please say, I will definitely obey my words." ”

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In the evening, Yang Tong's army arrived in Lushi County, he and Luo Shixin joined forces, garrisoned in Luoshui camp, and the strength of the Sui army on the north road skyrocketed.

"What did Li Shimin do?" Yang Tong didn't have time to rest, so he convened the generals in the big tent of the Chinese army to discuss the military situation.

"The scout came to report that Li Shimin was cutting wood on a large scale, and it seemed that he was preparing to cross Luoshui." Luo Shixin did not follow Xin Fang'er's advice, and did something about the feat of two ambushes in one place, and retired early to come back to rest.

Yang Tong pondered for a moment and said, "I feel that Li Shimin is bluffing, I don't know if you feel this way?" ”

Luo Shixin shook his head, he didn't quite agree with Yang Tong's feelings, "But our scouts all said the same, and the information will not be wrong." Besides, if Li Shimin didn't cross Luoshui to join Li Jiancheng, where could he go? Is it possible to cross various mountains and go north? But this is not good, the defenders of Hangu Pass and Tongguan will not let them succeed, the important thing is that they do not have much food in their hands, as far as he is concerned, the situation north of Hongnong is unknown, I feel that Li Shimin will not toss like this. Don't forget, Li Shimin does not have 10,000 or 20,000 people in his hands, at least 80,000 or 90,000 people, if he goes north in a big way, he will not be able to hide from our army scouts, with the progress of his mixed army of infantry and horses, our army will be able to guard in front of him at any time, and Li Shimin will not understand this truth. The whereabouts can't be hidden, and the grain and grass can't last long, so I think the possibility of the Tang army going north does not exist. As for turning east and shooting a decisive battle with the right servant, let alone looking for death. It may be possible to come and fight our army, but for him, the situation on this side is still unclear, and I don't think it's very likely; It was difficult to advance in the east, north, and west, and the only way was to cross Luoshui while our army was not encircled, which might cause him heavy losses, but it was better than annihilating the whole army. ”

Yang Tong glanced at Li Zhengbao, who was silent in thought: "General Li, tell me what you think?" "The last general went to the front line to watch, and felt that Li Shimin's performance was very steady, and the Tang army did not have the atmosphere of being trapped, and the camp he set up was very orderly, not in a hurry, and clearly organized, and when one side was attacked, all parties could help, which can be said to be invulnerable. This is completely different from Li Shimin's style, whether Li Shimin is in Yongliang or in this Eastern Crusade, the style he shows gives me the feeling of being aggressive, sharp and fierce, like a wolf; It stands to reason that when this kind of person is faced with a desperate situation, he will also advocate attacking, judging from his past performance, Li Shimin is indeed such a person, but now he is not moving like a mountain, not like being in a desperate situation, but like playing in the mountains and rivers, which is quite abnormal. We might as well boldly speculate that Li Shimin already has a safe way to get out of the encirclement, and as for what his method is, please forgive the general for not guessing. Li Zhengbao finally smiled bitterly.

Yang Tong nodded: "I feel the same way!" ”

"What's the difference between that and not saying it?" Xin Fang'er grinned, Luo Shixin was more ruthless, the corners of his mouth were broken, and it still hurts.

Yang Tong was not annoyed, and asked with a smile, "General Xin has an idea?" ”

Xin Fang'er opened her voice and shouted, "Not really. However, judging from the end and the future, Li Shimin is pretending to be a posture, he can be stable, not necessarily his soldiers can also be stable. Didn't the saint say that in the face of absolute strength, all conspiracies and tricks are paper tigers. Let's just go and fight him, although he has more soldiers than us, but between the valleys he has more soldiers can not set up a formation, our whole army is riding, even if we can't fight, we can run, if the right servant shoots also attack, in the face of our army two ends of the bombardment, I don't believe that he can still be stable. ”

Although Xin Fang'er's method is more barbaric, the whole truth is correct.

Li Zhengbao thought for a while, "But General Xin, we can't say that, we can't see through the enemy's intentions, if we rush to fight, then what should the Luoshui camp do?" If Li Shimin takes advantage of the battle between the two sides and sends an army to go upstream through Luoshui, this is likely to put our army in a situation where the enemy is at the end of the line, so we should not take it lightly. ”

Xin Fang'er smiled, "I'm just talking, everyone thinks I'm farting." ”

"......" Everyone was speechless for a while.

What is this, the best case of not wanting to be responsible for talking!

At this time, Luo Shixin said in a deep voice: "Holy Lord, the last general thinks that Xin is a good way. As long as our army attacks many times, won't Li Shimin see all the conspiracy and tricks. ”

Yang Tong looked at the sky and said: "It's okay, as soon as it dawns tomorrow, our army will give full play to the mobility advantage of the cavalry and attack the enemy in turn. ”

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