Chapter 283: Two Thousand Against Twenty Thousand
Li Chengqian returned to his camp and summoned Su Ding, Fang Qiu, Xinggong, Cheng Wuting and others to tell them the letter sent by Liu Renliang.
Through the bright light of the butter giant candle, Li Chengqian looked at the generals sitting on both sides lightly, and saw that they were all overjoyed when they heard that there were rescuers coming, and secretly said in his heart that they had been under too much pressure in the past two days.
Li Chengqian waited for the crowd to calm down before he continued: "Liu Renliang and his leaders are all Turkic soldiers who have been split by me, and it is not easy to break through Xue Yantuo's resistance. ”
Su Dingfang nodded with deep sympathy and said, "What His Royal Highness the Crown Prince said is very true. ”
The other generals frowned again when they heard this.
"Why didn't Wang Fangyi bring the elite of the Tang Dynasty to rescue His Royal Highness the Prince?" Cheng Wu asked puzzled.
Several of them also looked at Li Chengqian, wondering what he thought about this matter, after all, Wang Fangyi was his confidant.
Li Chengqian thought for a while and said, "Maybe it's because I'm afraid that Xue Yantuo's army will know that I'm here." Li Chengqian chose to believe Wang Fangyi and Liu Renliang.
The generals were stunned when they heard this, and they all immediately understood their hearts: Wang Fangyi's mind is also meticulous enough.
This time, Li Chengqian did not give the generals any more time to discuss, and directly said to the generals: "We can't pin our hopes of breaking through on Liu Renliang, we must move here to teach our frontal middle route army a lesson." Let the Lord General Xue Yantuo only dare to use this place as a bait, not the direction of the main attack. ”
Su Dingfang Qiu Xinggong nodded when he heard this: "Please give an order from His Royal Highness the Prince!" ”
Seeing this, the other generals also asked Li Chengqian for his life, and Li Chengqian's face appeared with a smile when he saw this, and then he slowly said his thoughts.
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Early in the morning of the second day, the sky was still covered with dark clouds, and only the east had just revealed a little fish belly white, and the "woo" horn sounded in the military camp of the Tang Dynasty.
Su Dingfang personally led 5,000 cavalry out of the camp and galloped towards the north.
Xue Yantuo's spies, who were watching from afar, hurriedly transmitted the news back.
In the cold morning, the people in the Xue Yantuo military camp shouted and neighed, and all the people and horses had already gotten up to prepare for today's battle, but they did not get any orders to pass down.
Several middle-aged generals with their hair and leather armor shrunk their heads and stood outside the tent of the Chinese army, whispering something while waiting for Wu Tutun to summon him.
When the Hui rebelled against the Turks, they also set up official positions in their own tribe according to the rules of the Turks, and later attached to Xue Yantuo, but they only demoted the official positions in the tribe by one level, and the others remained unchanged.
Wu Su is Tumidu's nephew, and his official position in Hui is Tutunfa.
Maybe the sound insulation of the tent was not good, or maybe the people inside were too crazy, and the sound of Wu Su fighting on the bed in the tent clearly came to the ears of several generals.
Originally, Wu Su, who was in his twenties, was the nephew of Tu Midu, and he was very spoiled by Tu Midu, and some people didn't think it was strange to be lustful.
Just thinking that the woman in the tent at this time is the mother of the old woman who is confused, it makes people feel very excited.
Suddenly, a fast horse ran straight to the side of the tent before stopping, and several generals turned their heads to see that it was a spy who turned over and dismounted, ran to the door of Wufu's tent, knelt down and shouted in: "Wusu Tutunfa Tang army has moved. Then he fell down in front of the tent and waited for the Usu to summon him.
The generals standing in front of the big tent were all shocked when they heard this, and they had not taken advantage of Li Chengqian's 8,000 cavalry in several battles in the past few days. Therefore, as soon as I heard that the Tang army had moved, I felt that my scalp was numb, and I didn't know how many soldiers and generals I would lose today, so I couldn't help but keep an eye on Wufu's big tent, waiting for Wusu to make a decision.
There was no order coming from the big tent, only the sound of battle on the bed was louder than just now, and the generals couldn't help but breathe heavily when they heard it, and secretly scolded Wu Su in their hearts.
After a while, suddenly the curtain of the big tent door was lifted, and the generals looked up to see the naked Wu Su coming out of it, the young Wu Su still had spring on his face, and sweat was rolling down his smooth chest and abdomen.
Seeing the people outside the tent, they laughed and said, "But is there anything important?"
That means that if there is nothing important, he will go back and enjoy it, and the generals will be speechless for a while.
"Back to Wufu Tutunfa, the Datang military camp dispatched 5,000 cavalry to the north early this morning."
Hearing this, Wu Su raised his head and thought for a moment, "It seems that they want to join up with the group of Turkic dog thieves in the north. ”
As he spoke, he turned his head to look at the generals standing in front of the camp and said loudly: "Baye Gufeng led all the cavalry of our department to help the Eastern Route Army, and we must not let the Tang Army and the Turkic dog thieves converge in one place." ”
Hearing this, Baye Gufeng's face turned bitter and said, "Obey the order!" Then he turned and went to battle.
Wu Su watched Baye Gu Feng go away and lead the way, raised his arms and said very coquettishly: "Since most of the Tang army has left the camp, then let's set off with the whole army today and completely wipe out the Tang along the way." ”
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A round of red sun shone on the Tang military camp, and Li Chengqian, who saw Su Dingfang away, began to walk around the barracks. Now there are only more than 2,000 people in the barracks, and there are still a few hundred wounded who are incapable of fighting, and the entire camp is in a state of panic and anxiety in the face of tens of thousands of Hui troops. But as Li Chengqian slowly walked around the camp, the hearts of the people in the entire camp quickly settled down. These simple Tang warriors all simply believe that if they can die with the crown prince of the Tang Dynasty, it will be their supreme glory.
In the end, Li Chengqian came to the camp gate at the foot of the mountain defended by Cheng Wuting, which was the main battlefield today, so Li Chengqian ordered them to dig a trench here and build a mud wall, and Li Chengqian was ready to fight a positional battle with Xue Yantuo here.
Cheng Wuting saw Li Chengqian, who was dressed in a gray cloth robe, walking slowly with a cane, and hurriedly stepped forward to salute.
Li Chengqian looked at Cheng Wuting and smiled slightly: "Are you ready?"
Cheng Wuting said with a straight face: "Go back to His Royal Highness the Prince, everything is ready." ”
Li Chengqian looked left and right as he walked forward, and did not forget to wave to the soldiers who saluted him, and the atmosphere at the scene was relaxed and warm driven by Li Chengqian.
A spy who was patrolling walked quickly, knelt down on one knee in front of Li Chengqian, and said, "His Royal Highness Prince Qiqi, all the cavalry in Xue Yantuo's military camp went straight to the north. ”
Hearing this, Li Chengqian calmly waved his hand and motioned for him to retreat.
"Haha, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is really clever, and as soon as he sends out troops, he will mobilize these Xue Yantuo cavalry." Cheng Wuting, who was following behind Li Chengqian, laughed.
Li Chengqian listened to the sycophants of this future Datang general of the Tang Dynasty, and his heart blossomed, but he just smiled reservedly and continued to walk forward.
The sun rose to the treetops, emitting a yellow golden light, making the warmth on the earth gradually rise, but the Tang soldiers did not feel any warmth under the sun, and some were just like a mountain.
Cheng Wuting, Qiu Shengong, and Li Simo all stood in front of the formation with a solemn expression, and behind them were two thousand Tang Dynasty soldiers waiting for them.
In front of them, 20,000 soldiers of the Xue Yantuo clan were swarming in, and Li Chengqian made today's plan based on the situation in the past two days, but none of them expected that Xue Yantuo would come with so many people today.
In the first two days, thousands of soldiers and horses had come to attack the camp here, and the slightest defeat in the battle would be defeated, and anyone with a discerning eye could see that they were being used as bait.
However, today, the whole army dispatched a posture to annihilate their entire army, which made the Tang generals who only had 2,000 soldiers and horses in the battalion feel pressure.
Especially in the past few days, the continuous use of gunpowder by the Tang Dynasty has made Xue Yantuo's soldiers have a certain resistance to gunpowder, and two thousand against twenty thousand is really not an advantage at all.
Li Chengqian and a group of wounded soldiers sat halfway up the mountain, and also saw Xue Yantuo's army attacking the side like a tide, and his heart was also very heavy, this was the first time he had formulated specific tactics, if he failed, whether he was killed or captured, the consequences would be unimaginable.
Now Li Chengqian could only hope that the battle plan he had set yesterday would work, so Li Chengqian slowly got up and ordered expressionlessly: "King Chuangu will order everything to be done according to the plan." ”
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