Seeing that Lu Zhi was dead, Su Dingfang turned around and said to Wang Fangyi: "Zhong Xiang sent someone to send an order to Li Simo, and Xue Yantuo surrendered his rebellion and ordered him to quickly quell the rebellion."

Then prepare catapults and gunpowder to assist Li Simo's troops in quelling the rebellion. ”

Wang Fangyi's eyes flashed when he heard this, and he immediately understood the significance of Su Dingfang's move, although Xue Yantuo's soldiers had already rushed to Li Simo's military camp, there was no guarantee that Li Simo would not lead them to attack Datang's camp again.

The direct order was to tell Li Simo that the Tang army had been prepared, or that Li Chengqian was looking at him and forcing him to fight with Xue Yantuo.

As for where the catapults and gunpowder go, it depends on the actual situation.

Su Dingfang saw that Wang Fangyi was going to make arrangements, so he led the crowd to slowly withdraw from this place and retreated to set up a position between the Turkic camp and the Tang camp, so as to prevent them from attacking the Tang military camp.

Wang Fangyi arranged everything, returned to Su Dingfang's side and asked, "General, let's not stop it, what if they run away?"

Su Dingfang laughed when he heard this: "If they escape, they will all freeze to death." ”

"Oh!" Wang Fangyi didn't understand where Su Dingfang's confidence came from.

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has long controlled their grain and grass!" Su Dingfang saw that Wang Fangyi didn't understand and explained.

Wang Fangyi then remembered that it was the surname Zhaowu Jiu who supplied Li Simo with grain and grass nearby, because Li Simo watched Kang Quda being killed by Cheng Wuting, and the surname Zhaowu Jiu turned away from Li Simo.

At the end of this battle, Li Chengqian ordered the nine surnames of Zhaowu to transport grain and grass to the Lingzhou Governor's Mansion, and these days the grain and grass of Li Simo's department were supplied by the Tang army.

Although he didn't know how much grain and grass there was in the Turkic camp, Wang Fangyi would never save more than five days of grain, and if there was no grain and grass to escape in the ice and snow, it was really only a dead end.

Wang Fangyi heard Li Chengqian's order with his own ears on the hill where Li Chengqian was stationed that day, and thought that Li Chengqian was just going to starve Xue Yantuo to death, but he didn't expect to control Li Simo's department.

Just as Su Dingfang and Wang Fangyi set up a position in front of the Tang army camp, Xue Yantuo's soldiers had already rushed outside Li Simo's camp, and Li Simo and the Turkic soldiers in the camp had already been awakened by the battle not far from his camp.

They also guessed that Lu Zhi provoked it, thinking that as long as Lu Zhi was there, he would definitely take these people to attack Li Chengqian, so they kept moving.

But when the spies came to report that Lu Zhi had been killed, and Xue Yantuo's soldiers attacked their camp, Li Simo was at a loss for a moment.

"Great Khan, Xue Yantuo's soldiers have no weapons and food, as long as we guard the big camp, we can consume them to death." A young Turkic in the big tent suggested.

When Li Simo heard this, his heart moved and he was about to agree, so he heard a report from someone outside the account: "General Su has come to give an order." ”

Everyone in the tent was shocked when they heard this, although they didn't know that Li Chengqian had already seen their conspiracy, but they were originally the ones who guarded these tens of thousands of Xue Yantuo's soldiers, and now Xue Yantuo's rebellion was naturally their responsibility.

When they heard the Tang people, they were all a little weak-hearted.

"Biography!" Li Simo gritted his teeth and said, in his heart, he hoped that Lu Zhi would succeed, but at this time Lu Zhi was already dead, and he remembered Li Chengqian's terribleness, and he didn't want to have any more tricks in Li Chengqian's hands.

After a while, a small colonel walked in with his head held high, stood in the middle of the big tent and waved at Li Simo, and said loudly: "Xue Yantuo has rebelled, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince already knows, and ordered General Su to order General Li to quickly send troops to quell the rebellion." ”

The attitude of this little colonel made all the Turkic generals in the big tent angry, but now they are not in a good position.

"Got it, step down!" Li Simo said with anger in his endure.

When the junior colonel heard this, he didn't retreat, but only looked at Li Simo and said, "General Su asked me to ask, can General Li report to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince tomorrow morning?"

Counterinsurgency overnight

Not to mention tens of thousands of people, even tens of thousands of pigs, you can't kill them all in one night.

Li Simo was furious in his heart, and said in a deep voice: "Go back and report to General Su, and I will do my best to quell the rebellion." ”

When the little colonel heard this, he hugged his fist at Li Simo again and swaggered out, and the anger in Li Simo's heart when he watched the little colonel walk out of the tent disappeared, just thinking about Su Dingfang's request, worried that Lu Zhi's conspiracy had been investigated by Li Chengqian.

Although the other people in the tent were angry at Xiao Xiaoxiao's arrogance, they didn't dare to interrupt him when they saw Li Simo's distraction.

"Kill! Kill all the Turks......"

"Grab the ...... of food"

Xue Yantuo's descendant had already come to the outside of Li Simo's camp under the guidance of someone with a heart, and the generals in the tent were shocked when they heard the shouts outside.

"It's not a pity for this Lu Zhi to die...... Li Simo scolded angrily, Huo Ran got up, and said loudly: "Come and kill the thief with me!" ”

"Great Khan, these Xue Yantuo people can't rush into the camp without weapons, they can't besiege without food, they will retreat, and now they go out and fight with them, but they will only increase casualties......"

Hearing this, Li Simo waved his hand and smiled bitterly: "I can't keep it." ”

Everyone in the big tent looked at Li Simo in puzzlement, wondering why he couldn't hold it, Li Simo looked at everyone and didn't speak, sighed and walked outside.

Wang Fangyi looked at the more than ten catapults standing on the snow, and was extremely proud in his heart, although he knew that these gunpowder kills people in a limited amount, but they are stronger than the momentum, these are not civilized and barbaric, and they have to be scared half to death when they see it, where do they dare to fight.

Wang Fangyi was thinking about it when he saw his personal guard walking up to him with an inner attendant, Wang Fangyi knew that Li Chengqian had an order, but because he came to herald the order, he didn't speak first, just stood there expressionlessly.

"I've seen General Wang." Nei Zhi stepped forward and bowed his head slightly.

"Well, what is His Royal Highness the Crown Prince's order?" Wang Fangyi said expressionlessly.

The chamberlain didn't seem to feel Wang Fangyi's alienation, looked at Wang Fangyi and said calmly: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince said that if Li Simo goes out of the camp to fight with Xue Yantuo's soldiers, General Wang can use a catapult to blast open his wall. ”

"What"

Wang Fangyi, who was still unfazed just now, was shocked when he heard this.

In any case, Li Simo is still the general of the Right Wuwei personally appointed by Li Shimin, and the Turkic soldiers led by him have also made great achievements in the battle with Xue Yantuo, how can they directly bombard with gunpowder

His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is too bold to act

The chamberlain saw that Wang Fangyi was silent, Wang Fangyi slowed down and sank his face again, waved at the chamberlain to let him go back, and then sent someone to investigate the situation of Li Simo's battle.

On the other side of the river, there is an ice city more than two feet high in a mountain col, the ice city has the size of more than ten acres, more than one meter thick ice wall, and only there is a five-foot-wide outlet facing the big river.

At this time, the entrance of the ice city was heavily guarded, and the entrance was tightly guarded.

Behind the guards, there was a tent next to the gate of the ice city, and huge candles were burning in the tent, and Li Chengqian was sitting in the tent to deal with official documents.

Wei Chigong and Cheng Wuting sat on the side, protecting Li Chengqian's safety, and waited for Liu Kui to stand in front of Li Chengqian, ready to listen to Hou Li Chengqian's orders at any time.

After a while, the chamberlain who went to deliver a message to Wang Fangyi walked into the tent and saw Liu Kui looking at him and hurriedly handing Liu Kui a look of nothingness.

Li Chengqian heard the footsteps, put down the pen in his hand and asked, "How is Wang Fangyi's side?"

Hearing this, the chamberlain hurriedly knelt down and said: "Back to His Royal Highness the Prince, the slave maid went to pass on the edict of His Royal Highness the Prince, and before he left General Wang's military formation, someone came to report that Li Simo had led the troops out of the camp. ”

"Good!"

Li Chengqian lowered his head and continued to look at the documents on the table.

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, what if Li Simo instigates Xue Yantuo to attack our camp," Cheng Wuting couldn't help but ask.

Li Chengqian smiled when he heard this: "I also just saw the news handed over by Wang Qun and deduced that in order to support Lu Zhi to instigate Xue Yantuo's rebellion, Li Simo only left two days of military rations for his army.

He doesn't have the confidence to take our camp, and the nearest place around here to replenish the army is seven days' walk, and can his army march in the snow and ice without food for five days?"