After Tumidu drove away Po Yan, he turned his head to look at Bahu, and his eyes were full of fierce light, and he said coldly: "Li Shimin is on the other side, don't say it to anyone. ”

After that, Tu Midu walked off the high platform without looking back.

Tumidu returned to the high slope where he had been, and from a distance, he heard Bazhuo shouting: "Don't say that Li Shimin didn't come, what if the Lord came?"

Tu Midu knew that Bazhuo was emboldening himself, so he sneered in his heart and walked up with a calm face.

When Bazhuo and the others saw Tumidu coming up, they all quickly stood up and looked at Tumidu with an eager expression, wondering if Li Shimin had personally rushed to kill him in the military formation.

Tu Midu's calm face slowly swept over everyone's faces, and then said lightly: "It's not Li Shimin, they can't break our camp now." ”

"Haha, I just said that Li Shimin is already old, how can he rush to kill in the military formation? Even if Li Shimin goes crazy and rushes to kill in person, there is nothing to fear. Bazhuo raised his fist very arrogantly.

When all the generals of Xue Yantuo heard this, they all became excited, and they all shouted that Datang was not to be afraid, and today's defeat was due to the incompetence of Tong Luo Zhener.

Tu Midu looked at the disdain in front of him, and the expressions on his face became more and more indifferent, and he angrily taught everyone: "Don't be happy too early, my nephew has already surrounded Li Chengqian, and the Tang army will be desperate here." ”

The generals were stunned when they heard this, and then they yelled excitedly.

"Haha, Li Shimin also wants him to return when he comes."

"This time, I want Datang to know that I have waited a lot."

……

For a while, the scene was chaotic, like a group of beasts dancing wildly, venting the pressure and madness in his heart.

With this crazy energy, he quickly arranged a defensive task, and fiercely explained to everyone that this was a defense related to the life and death of the Mobei tribes, and whoever defended unfavorably would only be killed, and he also distributed the troops who fled back from the Tongluo tribe to the various departments in public.

After the task was assigned, the leaders of Mobei rushed to their respective defensive places as if they had been beaten with chicken blood, and kept a close eye on the Tang army outside the camp.

At this time, the Tang army outside the camp fell into a situation of ten thousand horses.

It turned out that when Li Shimin led the generals to the outside of Xue Yantuo's camp, Xue Yantuo's army had already retreated into the camp, which made the Tang army and Tang generals who had not been addicted to killing and who had not killed anyone at all depressed.

What made them even more depressed was that Li Shimin saw that Xue Yantuo's camp was very firmly established, and it was difficult to capture it for a while, so he hesitated a little and delayed the attack.

The Tang army was originally only half of Xue Yantuo's number, but because Xue Yantuo's soldiers were divided into two roads and there were unborn fierce generals like Xue Rengui, tens of thousands of enemy generals were killed in front of the battle, and tens of thousands of enemy troops fled in fright.

However, now that the enemy army is hiding in the camp, if it wants to storm it, it will suffer heavy losses, and if it is not captured and directly go to the rescue of Li Chengqian, these tens of thousands of Xue Yantuo's army will inevitably become a big problem for the Tang army.

Whether these Xue Yantuo armies continue to go south, take advantage of the emptiness in the interior of the Tang Dynasty to take Chang'an, or cut off the grain route of the Tang army on the grassland and encircle the Tang army with the Xue Yantuo army in the north, they will bring great trouble to the Tang Dynasty, and even finally defeat the Tang Dynasty.

However, the heavy losses in the storming area were also extremely disadvantageous in the subsequent war......

When Li Shimin hesitated, Pei Xingjian rode a war horse to Li Shimin's side, hugged his fist at Li Shimin on the horse and said, "Your Majesty, is it difficult to capture this village?"

"We are bound to capture this village, what is there to embarrass Your Majesty." Hou Junji next to him said unceremoniously.

Hou Junji, as a master of the art of war, naturally saw the reason why Li Shimin did not give the order to attack. It's just that Hou Junji thinks differently from Li Shimin, he thinks that this village must be conquered, and there are few generals here who are good at attacking the city except for him, and he once destroyed Gaochang and attacked the strong city, and this is the time when he shows his skills.

Pei Xingjian glanced at Hou Junji when he heard this, and then continued to look at Li Shimin.

Li Shimin also turned his head to look at Pei Xingjian, seeing that Pei Xingjian was young and generous, and he could still deal with it indifferently after being scolded by Hou Junji, he couldn't help but look at this young man carefully.

He knew that Pei Xingjian, like Xue Rengui, was the confidant of Li Chengqian's henchmen, and the two of them were in charge of the most important gunpowder in the Tang Dynasty.

Xue Rengui's brave martial arts Li Shimin has seen it, it can be said that he is very satisfied, this Pei Xingjiansheng's appearance is by no means a martial artist, but he is a general and a talent that Li Chengqian has cultivated vigorously, and even asked him to learn the art of war from Li Jing.

Thinking of this, Li Shimin smiled and said: "Junji can't be underestimated, do you know that he also learned the art of war from the pharmacist!" ”

Li Shimin didn't mention Li Jing, but he also felt uncomfortable when he mentioned Li Jing and Hou Junji, he had heard Li Jing praise Pei Xingjian in Chang'an, saying that he was his successor to the art of war.

"Without experience in battle, no matter how much the art of war is, it is only on paper." Hou Junji said coldly.

As soon as Hou Junji spoke, all the generals around him were dissatisfied, although Li Jing had not been in power for a long time, many generals still admired Li Jing's art of war.

Pei Xingjian can get Li Jing's attention and teach the art of war, which many generals can't envy, and Pei Xingjian hasn't opened his mouth yet, you say that he is talking about soldiers on paper, which is aimed at Li Jing.

Li Shimin ignored him when he heard this, and said to Pei Xingjian in the tone of an elder: "Since you are a pharmacist, you should be able to see the current situation, tell me about it?"

Pei Xingjian saw that Li Shimin was not stage frightened compared to him, and hugged his fist at Li Shimin again and said: "Your Majesty, the minister thought that this place must be attacked, but the loss of a hard attack is too great, so the minister is willing to ask His Majesty for orders to conquer this village, and there is no need to lose too much." ”

As soon as Pei Xingjian's words fell, the faces of the surrounding generals changed, and he thought that he was really a person who talked on paper, although he saw the current predicament, but it was too conceited to say that it was so easy to conquer this village.

Of course, these people did not dare to speak, but only expressed their disappointment in angry voices.

Only Li Daliang couldn't help but remind Pei Xingjian: "There is no joke in the Pei family's army!" "Point out the identity of his prince's family.

Li Shimin ignored these and asked directly: "You want to use gunpowder?"

Pei Xingjian solemnly hugged his fists and said: "It's with gunpowder." ”

Li Shimin looked at the increasingly tightly guarded Xue Yantuo camp in front of him, took a deep breath and said, "You can try." ”

"Obey the order!" Pei Xingjian saluted Li Shimin, then turned his head to Xue Rengui and said, "General Xue, can you lend me your people, I want to transport the siege equipment I brought." ”

Xue Rengui glanced at Xue Yantuo's camp with hatred when he heard this, and said to Pei Xingjian: "I'll go with you." ”

The two of them rode their war horses and withdrew from the front, and Xue Rengui went to greet his men and horses, and followed Pei Xingjian back to Li Shiji's original big business.

Li Shimin knew that he would have to wait for a long time, so he turned his horse's head and walked to a high place to get off the horse to rest, and other things were arranged by Li Shiji and others.

As a result, there was a very strange situation inside and outside the camp of Xue Yantuo, where there were soldiers of Xue Yantuo waiting in formation, armed with bows and arrows, with the help of favorable terrain and the fence of the camp, controlling the distance within fifty steps outside the camp.

The Tang army lined up with swords and shields fifty paces away, and it seemed that they were going to attack at any time, but they never attacked.

The soldiers on both sides were only fifty paces away, and they could see the noses and eyes of the opposite side clearly, but no one took a step beyond Lei Chi.

The confrontation was like this, which made the defending general Xue Yantuo very depressed.

"Hahahaha!"

"Mao Gong is really a master of the art of war, and this heart-attacking technique is really perfect." Li Shimin stood on the high ground and looked at the situation in front of Xue Yantuo's camp, and was in a good mood.

"These are just small skills of carving insects, and you can only look at Master Pei later." Li Shiji said modestly.

Pei Xingjian and Xue Rengui led 3,000 men to transport gunpowder and catapults outside Xue Yantuo's camp until evening.

Pei Xingjian determined the location of the catapult and came to the high ground where Li Shimin was.

Saluted to Li Shimin and said: "Your Majesty, because the gunpowder brought by the minister today is limited, you can't blow up the opponent's wall, you can only suppress it." ”

When everyone heard this, their faces turned dark, and the gunpowder they had high hopes for couldn't blow up the wall, wouldn't this still be a strong attack?

"What is fire suppression?" Li Shiji asked curiously.

"What is fire suppression?" Li Shimin hurriedly asked.

Pei Xingjian hurriedly said when he heard this: "Back to Your Majesty's fire suppression, the minister can throw the gunpowder bag into the military formation inside the wall of Xue Yantuo, so that their people cannot shoot arrows at our army, and then our army can send people to demolish his wall." ”

"This is very good, we will attack it after tearing down the wall." Zhang Shigui couldn't help but wonder.

Although everyone has been famous for gunpowder for a long time, it has always been the secret weapon of the East Palace, and until now Chang'an City is still a secret, and Li Chengqian and Xue Rengui have not seen these people use it several times.

Therefore, everyone only knew that gunpowder was very powerful and could conquer cities, but no one knew how to use it, and they were overjoyed when they heard that it could deal with the military array in Xue Yantuo's camp.

At this moment, the kung fu catapult has been installed, and the vice president will ask Pei Xingjian to return to command the Zheng gunpowder bag, and Li Shimin and the generals will also follow to watch.

Pei Xingjian came to a hundred steps away from Xue Yantuo, and saw five tall catapults swinging out, everything was ready, so he said directly: "Drop bombs." ”

Everyone heard a few hammer sounds, and then saw black gunpowder packs flying towards Xue Yantuo's camp with the sound of "woo".

Immediately afterwards, he saw the "rumbling" sound in Xue Yantuo's camp, saw black smoke and fire flickering, and the longbow and some severed limbs flew into the sky.

Li Shiji's face turned pale when he saw this, and he remembered for a while that he needed to send someone to demolish Xue Yantuo's camp and give orders.