Chapter 316: Northwest Battlefield
That night, Li Daozong held a celebration banquet to make up for the hard soldiers.
"Does the Winged Tiger have a strategy to break the enemy?" After eating, Li Daozong took Situ Changfeng to the study. The battle situation was introduced, and then the plan was asked.
"Although the Tubo people died more than 60,000 elite cavalry today, they still have more than 300,000 soldiers, and it is not easy to win, and there is no good way to do it in the next moment." Situ Changfeng shook his head with a wry smile and said.
With his skills, he is naturally not afraid of the enemy's strength, but the Tubo people are not wooden stakes, and it is impossible to stand still and wait to be killed, not to mention 300,000 pigs, which will not be able to be killed in a while and a half.
Now there are only 15,000 cavalry in Maozhou, and it is unrealistic to think that he wants to destroy Tubo on the grassland, and as for the mountainous area, with the IQ of Zandonglu, he will not go. What's more, the Tubo people in these places are much more familiar than Situ Changfeng.
"I'm most afraid that the Tubo people will not retreat, fight and not fight, and drag us here." Li Daozong nodded and said.
"I'm afraid that you will guess it, if it is next, you will also make this decision." Situ Changfeng pondered for a moment, looked up with a wry smile and said.
"Yes, the Tibetans have seen the power of the arrow array, at most they will only make a feint, test the reality, and then wait and see what happens, if we win, they will naturally withdraw; If the battle situation is unfavorable to Datang, these barbarians will pounce and bite hard. Li Daozong followed with a wry smile.
"In this case, we can only wait and see what happens, and tomorrow we will lead our troops to take the initiative to attack, drag them down, and make the Tubo people dare not divide their troops to Songzhou again." Situ Changfeng's fingers tapped on the coffee table.
"Good way, since they don't want to retreat, just drag them down, the Tubo people have suffered heavy casualties today, and they will definitely not dare to fight, and if they avoid it and don't fight, their morale will be even worse." Li Daozong agreed.
"When Songzhou divides the victory, even if the Tubo people don't retreat, we can divide our troops elsewhere." Situ Changfeng continued.
"Alas! The old man is most worried about Shuzhong, the Liu family's thief heart is not dead, this time the troops are inevitable, they have been attacking, plus a few tiger generals, it is really reassuring. Li Daozong sighed with a sad face.
Situ Changfeng understands his mood very well, in this war, the troops in various places are very tight, if there is chaos in Shuzhong and other places are affected, even if the Tang Dynasty wins in the end, I am afraid that Li Daozong's career will be over, and it is inevitable that he will be left out at least.
The road in Maozhou is difficult, so a lot of news is not clear, which makes Li Daozong and Situ Changfeng dare not act rashly, so they can only wait for the news slowly.
The two discussed for a long time, but they couldn't find a better way, so they had to give up.
The next day, the Tubo people really didn't move at all, Situ Changfeng led the cavalry to provoke outside the Tubo camp, but there was still no response, except for causing a burst of nervousness, no one came out, even if Ma Zhan scolded there.
This made Situ Changfeng very helpless, although the arrow array was powerful, it was only aimed at a fixed target, such as the city. The Tubo people belong to farming, and the expedition is to fry the barley, and then eat it dry, at most drink a few mouthfuls of goat's milk, so it is full of mobility, if Situ Changfeng wants to storm the camp, the Tubo people will go out of the camp, use cavalry shooting, besiege on all sides, but let themselves be trapped in place, after all, more than 300,000 soldiers, really want to fight hard, that is, both lose. Situ Changfeng didn't want the legion he had worked so hard to build to be crippled like this.
If you really want to talk about it, the cost of these 60,000 people is higher than the 500,000 people of Tubo, not to mention that Situ Changfeng thinks that he is an extreme nationalist, and he disdains the victory in exchange for human life.
Provocation, night attack harassment, arson, smoke, whether it is useful or not, Situ Changfeng used them one by one, used them in different ways, and occasionally reused. But Zandonglu was calm, and when he saw the move, he was not moved at all, he also saw that Datang's troops were insufficient and could not suppress them, but he also knew that he could not fight hard with Datang.
After five days like this, news came from Shuzhong that the Liu family had retreated and was fighting the Sun family in Nanzhao.
This news made Li Daozong breathe a sigh of relief, good news followed, and two days later, Songzhou also came out of good news, six days ago, Niu Jinda raided late at night, defeated Tubo in one fell swoop, and pursued eighty miles at night, nearly 50,000 people in Tubo were either killed in the dark night, or trampled to death by the rebel army, and were trampled to death and wounded. There are still many people who have fled, and Songzhou is still continuing to clear the rout.
"Lord Wang! The battle situation in Shuzhong is basically over, and a few brothers are brought to the north to support, and the cavalry and crossbowmen are left here, and the second brother Du He, the sixth brother Zhang Wang, and Liu Ren are willing to stay together. ”
"Good! Yihu rest assured this, if this can't be defended, a certain can only crash into the city, in order to thank the world. Ha ha! Li Daozong laughed and said, he was very relaxed during this time, Situ Changfeng not only repelled the Tubo people, brought many medical officers and medicinal materials, but also rescued more than 10,000 injured soldiers, and now he can use enough people, not to mention crossbowmen, it can be said that there is no pressure at all.
"The soldiers are fast, let's set off, see you in Chang'an in the future!" Situ Changfeng arched his hand.
"Take care!"
"Ladies and gentlemen! There will be a period later! ”
"Precious!"
Li Daozong, Niu Xiu and others hugged their fists and sent them off.
Situ Changfeng took Fan Lihua, Ah Niu, Bai San, Ma Zhan, Fang Yiai plus three hundred and forty-eight personal guards, one person and two horses, and rode their horses to the avenue.
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In the northwest battlefield, Yunzhou, with the arrival of Turkic reinforcements, the two sides remained calm for the time being, but they all knew that it was the calm before the war, and they were silently accumulating strength.
At the beginning of July, the Turkic side had many strange tactics, many of them were like savages, and a few savages were so powerful that they could fight against Luo Shixin without falling behind.
On the sixth day of the seventh month, the dragon banner of the Tang Emperor Li Shimin appeared on the battlefield, Li Shimin drove the expedition in person, completely shocked the Turks, Li Shimin's appearance, on behalf of a huge victory or defeat, the Tang Dynasty will never stop, and at the same time the most powerful army of the Tang Dynasty, the Twelve Guards Army, two guards supported Shuofang, and Yunzhou appeared eight guards. Left Wuwei, Right Wuwei, Left and Right Waiting Guards, Left and Right Tun Guards, Left and Right Xiao Guards, and the generals also appeared in Yunzhou at the same time.
The atmosphere on the battlefield suddenly became tense, as soon as Li Shimin arrived, he had to teach the Turks a lesson, it was impossible to launch a general offensive, now that the troops were enough, the generals were not afraid of being injured, so they naturally chose to fight generals, as the first general of the Tang Dynasty, Li Yuanba came on the field, and the Turkic coalition army was very wise to ignore it, which made Li Shimin proud all day.
The next day, other generals began to play, and in the first game, Qin Qiong, the general of Zuo Wuwei, started the game, beheaded one Turkic general, defeated two Fan Guogong Duan Zhixuan and Zuo Xiaowei general, and fought with a member of the ghost side.