Chapter 207: Sixteen Black Smokes

In this way, Xu Qing understood that the battalion soldiers still need to be filtered before they can be used. Presumably, a large part of them have a broken relationship with the Turks and the Xue Yantuo people, and the prince sent troops to destroy Xue Yantuo, which can deter those ghosts and ghosts in the Yingzhou soldiers.

Feng Li said, "General Xu, do you understand now?" The prince was really helpless to send troops, and waiting for the army behind was just a pretext to boost morale. ”

Xu Qing nodded, and said suspiciously: "Then with only the 10,000 people in our hands, we can confront the Xue Yantuo people for the time being, but after a few days, the food and grass are exhausted, and we can only retreat." ”

Feng Li shook his head and said, "Although the battalion state soldiers are unreliable, with Xu Shiji in charge, they must be able to clean it up." At the beginning, we didn't want to rely on them, and I believe that soon, the Hou Junji of the State Assassin will come. ”

"What do you say? Hou Junji is the history of the state assassination? Xu Qing couldn't help but smack his tongue, this Hou Junji is the one who killed the prince in the Xuanwu Sect, can this kind of person come to rescue the prince on time? No, Cheng Yanjin and Xu Shiji are also Li Shimin's gang in the Xuanwu Sect, but now it seems that they are Li Yuan's younger brothers, and Du Ruhui Fang Xuanling is also Li Shimin's right-hand man, but now they are centrists and Li Yuan.

Presumably, before the Xuanwumen Incident in history, something must have happened that made many ministers favor Li Shimin and abandon Li Yuan. What it is, Xu Qing doesn't know yet. Or, after the incident, Li Shimin controlled the ministers by controlling his family, and when he wrote the history books, he wrote down the generals to show that his incident was a natural move.

But now it seems that Li Shimin's Xuanwumen incident is still very different from history.

Xie Shufang couldn't help asking: "General Xu, this Hou Junji is also a talent, what's the matter, do you have a problem?" ”

Xu Qing returned: "Where is it, I just heard that General Hou became a military general and a doctor, which is comparable to Lu Mengye of the Three Kingdoms, so I admire it." ”

Uncle Xie stroked his palms and smiled: "Indeed, General Hou is good at martial arts, and after becoming an official, he also studied scriptures and history by himself, and now he can memorize a "Spring and Autumn" backwards." ”

Feng Li nodded and said, "Well, okay, General Xu, I'm taking you to practice a few times, if you will be defeated in three days, General Xu can break out with Long Wei." ”

Then, Feng Li lowered his voice again and said, "General Xu, remember to bring His Royal Highness the Crown Prince back and say something that will lose your head." If the army is defeated, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince will be arrogant and will definitely refuse to go back, and General Xu can act cheaply when the time comes. After speaking, Feng Li made a knockout gesture.

Seeing this, Xu Qing bowed deeply and said, "What General Feng said, I promised to do it. ”

After waiting for a day, Xu Qing played a set of health maintenance skills smoothly, and he did not see the arrival of reinforcements, nor did he see Xue Yantuo's people retreating. Even, the Xue Yantuo people drove the cavalry, circled around the Frost City a few times, and released some arrows to test the reality in the city. After they tried to find that the walls of this Smoothie City were not only thick and hard as expected, but the soldiers inside were also very long. In the three archery around the city, he did not find out the truth at all, and lost the lives of more than a dozen cavalrymen.

The hard crossbow of the Han people is too powerful.

If in the grassland, this hard crossbow is just a dead target, but now, the Han people still have the protection of the city wall, that is the open hanging mode.

But Xue Yantuo people are not reconciled, suddenly a city stands on the grassland, and the Han people in the future can send troops and grain here, and Xue Yantuo will no longer have to cross the long Gobi Desert. If you go back now, three watches in the middle of the night, like the first Zhenzhu Khan, you will be taken captive while sleeping, and it is terrible to think about.

In a dilemma, but he could surround but not fight, and Xue Yantuo didn't seem to be able to hold on. The grassland soldiers fight, the things they rob are their own, but they also have to rely on their own grain and grass, now Xue Yantuo has more than a dozen, the news of the food is running out everywhere, and there is no place to rob it, to the south, the Yingzhou army is there, on the grassland, unless you rob your own, you can not bite this mosquito meat in front of you. Let a few khans scratch their ears and cheeks, and there is no way to do it for a while.

Xu Qing secretly looked through the binoculars, and saw that the smoke of Xue Yantuo's cooking was getting less and less, and then he heard a few horse barks, and his heart was suddenly happy. If others observe this matter, they may wonder if this is Sun Bin Dou Pang Juan's strategy? But Xu Qing saw it clearly in the telescope, that is, Xue Yantuo had no rations!

found Li Jiancheng, and Xu Qing told him about the situation.

Li Jiancheng lowered his head and thought for a while, and asked Xu Qing, "Xu Qing, what do you mean to do with Xue Yantuo?" ”

Xu Qing thought for a while and said, "Your Royal Highness the Prince, this Xue Yantuo will either withdraw from the army, or take us down before the grain and grass run out." However, if Xue Yantuo retreats, then the prince's plan to destroy Xue Yantuo will not be completed, so the minister thinks that he will use food to induce Xue Yantuo to attack, so that he will lose his soldiers in vain, I don't know if it is possible? ”

Li Jiancheng put down a book in his hand and said: "Your method is a dangerous move." ”

Xu Qing nodded and said, "Yes, but only in this way can this big fish not slip away." ”

At this time, Xie Shufang suddenly came in and said to Li Jiancheng: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince Qiqi, sixteen black smoke appeared in the south, can you go and take a look?" ”

Sixteen black smokes? What is this? With questions, Xu Qing and Li Jiancheng came out to check together.

Climb to the city wall, but see sixteen wisps of black smoke rising from the far south side, on the horizon. Li Jiancheng looked at it, I don't know what to say, Xu Qing saw it, but he was shocked, isn't this the flag that Xu Qing handed over to Zhao Yuliang? At the beginning, Xu Qing and Zhao Yuliang assessed the Luo Rebellion together, and at that time, Xu Qing and Zhao Yuliang discussed this flag language. The sixteen black smoke in front of him just replaced the two flags in the flag, and the general idea was that the reinforcements had arrived, and they were going to attack Xue Yantuo with the people in the city.

But Xu Qing wasn't sure why Tanzhou was thousands of miles away, why it appeared here, even if this flag was taught by Zhao Yuliang to be used by others, it was impossible for it to spread so quickly. Even if it is made, is it the battalion state soldiers, or the state soldiers?

The black smoke, just a cup of tea, disappeared completely, and even the Turks did not realize it. Li Jiancheng frowned, wanting to break through the meaning of the black smoke......

"Ahem," Xu Qing cleared his throat, indicating that the intelligence of the people present is here, and you don't want to ask quickly.

But Li Jiancheng and the others just glanced at Xu Qing irritably, blaming him for interrupting their thoughts, Xu Qing shook his head, sighed, stood with his hands in his hands, and thought about it himself.

He thought that when this army came, it would definitely choose to raid at night, and since this was the case, he could give up the previous strategy of luring the enemy to attack, and there was no need to take that risk again.

"Alas, that's it, maybe it's Xue Yantuo doing something." Li Jiancheng shook his head and sighed, and was about to go back.

Xu Qing suddenly said: "Prince, please slow down, I guess tonight, reinforcements will come, and we will attack Xue Yantuo!" ”