It is not a strange thing for the commanders of the two armies to exchange letters, and since ancient times, the intrigue between the two armies when they are at war has often been indispensable to such means.

Needless to say, what kind of effect the managers want to achieve.

There are those who persuade to surrender, there are those who divide the enemy, there are those who agitate generals, there are those who deceive the enemy, and so on.

Just like in the previous Jiexiu War, Li Po also wrote a letter to Zhang Lun, dividing the hearts of the generals of the Tang Army, and the effect was very good, but in the end Zhang Lun reversed, Li Zhongwen lost his head, and Jiang Baoyi was captured.

Li Shentong's letter is naturally similar to this.

In the letter, Li Shentong called Li Po his younger brother, and his words were quite concise and accessible.

Li Po read it four or five times, and the general meaning was almost grasped, and Li Po immediately laughed.

First describe the good of the two families, and then talk about the general trend of the world, the meaning of persuasion is obvious, and there is a strong sense of superiority of the Kansai world valve between the lines.

Maybe it's because Li Po hasn't been crowned king yet, or he has come out with some official position, and he feels that Li Po can still save him and let him return to the right path, so condescending persuasion is the main purpose of this letter.

Then as soon as the pen turned, threats were naturally added, these are actually nothing, only the last paragraph, let Li Po look at it again and again.

There is a sentence here, I heard that my brother-in-law is quite beautiful, why not take my wife into Beijing, reunite with your father-in-law, and share the family?

After watching it for a while, Li Po's smile brightened, coercion and temptation, and he had to add the agitation, is Li Shentong in a hurry?

The commander of the first army, who spoke so frivolously, really fell behind.

What kind of persuasion to surrender, this is simply a war letter, and it is also something that is in Li Po's arms.

But he never suffers a loss, and after a little thought, he asked the secretary of the general to summon him, wrote a reply, and then waved his hand gently, "Go, kill all the people, and send the corpse back to Li Shentong." ”

After a day, Jiexiu will be closed.

Above the mansion, when Li Shentong sent out, they were all lying there, and a letter with a bit of blood smell was in Li Shentong's hand.

Li Shentong's face was quite gloomy, and the killing of the envoy naturally made him very annoyed.

I cursed a few words in my heart, and opened the letter casually.

"The messenger of the brother has been returned, the brother is a soldier on the border, after the war, it cannot be humiliated, and now I have the heart of the cousin to die......"

"Brother is a rich person, not in the prosperous land of Xijing self-cultivation, fighting for the work of the battlefield, tired of others and tired themselves, it is really a wise man does not take it, today give a few horses, in order to do the eldest brother to the south, the other day the brother enters Chang'an, take the brother's wife and daughter, and then it is not too late."

In just a few lines, the muscles on Li Shentong's face jumped, and he tore the letter to shreds with his hand, and scolded: "The child deceived me too much, and I will cut off his head in the future, and let go of my hatred." ”

Well, this round is not quite in tune with the two of them, and the excitement of your coming and going is nothing more than trying to find a decisive battle.

Li Shentong then waved everyone away, leaving only Pei Lian, who was worried, his face changed quickly, and he said to Pei Lian with a smile: "Brother Xian, the decisive battle is just around the corner, Li Po'er is trapped in Pingyao, in danger, especially unconscious, he is still talking about the flames, and he will cut off his head after that......"

Well, such an exchange of letters is actually meaningless, and after a while, it was only half a catty and eight taels, and no one could say anyone.

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Two days later, the whole Tang army rose up from camp, with more than 100,000 troops, swords and guns, banners and banners, slowly heading north.

And this time, it is different from the front army, the Tang army is ready to fight a decisive battle with the enemy at any time, and the Tang army is also remarkable in morale.

The battle of Bird Mouse Valley made the Tang army quite excited, coupled with hearing that the enemy army had killed the envoy to surrender and humiliated the commander of the army, and the faint desire for revenge made the Tang army's desire to fight extremely strong.

But then again, after all, this is not Li Tang's army, most of them are defenders of various counties in Jindi, and now they are gathered together to listen to Li Shentong's orders, and under the uneven sense of belonging, no matter how high the morale is, how high can it be?

This time, the Tang army was behind Pei Liandian, and the left and right wings were led by Li Shentong's henchmen.

Before leaving, Xu Shiyun once again asked the town guard to rest, but he could only go north with the army and be under the command of Li Xiaoji, the king of Yong'an, the right wing of the army.

Li Shentong also had the determination to settle the land in a war this time, leaving only 5,000 soldiers in Jiexiu, and using Jiangzhou to assassinate Pei Shiqing to guard the Bird Mouse Valley, and urged the people to transport grain and grass, and the rest of the more than 100,000 troops were almost the whole army to the north.

In Pingyao, hearing the news that the Tang army was coming north, Li Po was also excited, and he knew very well what the significance of this battle was to him.

And the exhaustion of months has actually been preparing for this battle.

Tang Jun is quite eager to fight, why is he not like this?

This is almost the first battle that decided the ownership of Jindi...... He tried not to imagine what a beautiful scene would be after this victory, and he did not think about what would happen if he was defeated.

In front of him, there was already only this tens of thousands of Li Tang's army.

There is no longer a need to convene generals to discuss military affairs, the preparations that should be made have already been made, and the tactical considerations have matured, just waiting for a battle.

Li Po immediately sent an order to Wei Chigong, Bu Qun, Liu Jingsheng, Luo Shixin, Wang Zhibian, Xue Wanche and others, ordering them to lead their troops south.

There is no constraint on acting according to the plan, what should the cavalry of the brigade do, in fact, it is very clear that taking the opportunity to inflict heavy damage on the Tang army along the way, even if there is no opportunity, it is necessary to cut off the rear road of the Tang army and shake the heart of the Tang army.

The journey of nearly 100 miles is not short, nor is it definitely not long, and it is not an exaggeration to say that the rapid march is the beginning of the morning and the evening of the sunset.

And Li Po set a march date of three to four days for the Tang army, because he had seen the process of the march of the army in Liaodong, and the weight of grain and grass would slow down the pace of the army, especially the infantry army who wanted to fight a decisive battle with the enemy, and they had to reserve enough physical strength to fight.

At the end of the day, thirty or forty miles is a normal marching rhythm, and it will be even slower if there is continuous enemy harassment along the way.

Therefore, after three to four days, the Tang army should enter the battlefield preset by Li Po, more than ten miles south of Pingyao, a rather open area.

By that time, the situation had been completely reversed, and the army was backed by Pingyao, and if the battle was unfavorable, it could retreat to the camp, but the Tang army had no way back.

In front of tens of thousands of cavalry, once they fail, even if some lucky people can desperately run back to Jiexiu, they will not be able to cross the Bird Mouse Valley.

The reason why it was not chosen under Pingyao City was not Li Po's meaning, and all the generals thought that if Pingyao City was small and there were camps outside, it would be beneficial to the Tang army with a large number of troops under the dispersion of troops.

In particular, it also limited the combat power of the cavalry, and once the Tang army gained a firm foothold and set up a camp to hold on to the army of the same generation, the losses of charging the battle with cavalry would be unbearable.

Therefore, it is better to choose an open place and fight to the death with the Tang army.

In fact, whether the infantry generals want to admit it or not, the cavalry is the sharpest blade of the parallel army, and it is also the key to this victory or defeat.

For three or four days, Li Po would not enter the battlefield in advance, he wanted to see how the Tang army behaved under the harassment of the cavalry.

What kind of damage will more than 30,000 cavalry do to more than 100,000 marching infantry troops in the field?

Li Po couldn't imagine it, because the picture was so beautiful that people who hadn't seen it couldn't imagine it at all, even Li Po couldn't do it, he had been entangled with the Turks for many years, and he didn't have much of a definite concept of how the infantry army should prevent cavalry raids on the march.

If he had led the Tang army, he would definitely not have easily come north and encountered a large-scale cavalry raid on the march? Forget it, if it is really unlucky to that point, in addition to complaining that he is too stupid, he estimates that it is similar to what some people do, so that the army will defend on the spot and find an opportunity to escape by himself.

Therefore, he did not give too clear orders to Wei Chigong, Bu Qun and others, but chose to let them find fighters by themselves and act cheaply.

Of course, before that, he strictly ordered the cavalry generals of all departments not to have the heart of competing for merit, and once the fighters that severely damaged the Tang Army appeared, several people must cooperate tacitly.

And when to attack and where to choose, there is no need for him to say more about such a measure, it must be when the Tang army is more than halfway through the trip.

If it was a year ago, such a battle must have been led by Li Po himself, but at this time, Li Po would have to sit in Pingyao and would not have to risk with the cavalry again.

And as soon as General Li Po's order arrived, the cavalry that had been waiting for him immediately couldn't wait to pull out the camp to the south one after another.

Tens of thousands of cavalry, urged by the muffled sound of horns, rode their horses to the southeast.

The division of labor among the generals has long been clear, and Xue Wanche led Chen Er, Shi Dashi Er, Huang You and others to harass the Tang army's rear road, and probed the Tang army's weaknesses for the army.

The main force of the cavalry army will be stationed more than 30 miles southwest of Pingyao, waiting for the fighters.

According to the custom, the scouts of the cavalry almost swarmed out, like swarms of flies, around the marching Tang army to probe, and the sound of trumpets came and went.

If it weren't for the fact that few people in the Tang army had seen the Turkic elite cavalry, they would have thought that they had encountered the Turks.

The Tang army was not dead, and it also made all kinds of efforts, setting up ambushes, chasing, driving away, and all kinds of means were used, but the initiative on the battlefield, or even the rhythm of the war, had completely fallen into the hands of the army of the generation at this time.

The Tang army spread out, the black pressure covered the boundary of more than ten miles in a radius, slowly spread forward, from the moment it left Jiexiu, the Tang army completely entered the state of wartime, by the way, stretched out its huge body, like a giant beast, firmly along the Fenshui coast, to the north.

It waved its thick tentacles, swaying away the annoying flies around the army, and trying to reach farther.

But after all, the tentacles are not as strong and indestructible as the body seems, and in the eyes of the cavalry of the contemporaneous army, it is easy to cut off these tentacles, especially those stupid guys who want to detect the main force of the great army, it is more like a piece of roasted meat in front of the contemporaneous cavalry, exuding an attractive aroma.

(Commuter Pass) (To be continued.) )