On the second day when Datang was busy, the wolf smoke in Shuzhong also came, and Tubo also sent troops, which made Li Shimin even more irritable, and also made Li Jing feel a lot more stressed, and the wrinkles on his wrinkled forehead were not stretched.

"Mao Gong, the Longyou Dao will be handed over to you, you must destroy the Turks as soon as possible, at least to repel them." Li Jing looked at the map, rubbed his forehead and said.

"Pharmacist rest assured, he will do his best, there is no problem in winning with the current strength of the Tang Dynasty, and the Turks don't know that we have been prepared for a long time, and we have a good chance of winning." Li Ji clenched his fists and said.

"The Turks attacked, Shazhou, Yizhou bore the brunt, a certain and Rencheng county king had an exchange, after the autumn harvest, the people of the two cities will concentrate in the city, once the enemy is found, all the people will be withdrawn to the city, so that the enemy can not get supplies.

At the same time, the city has also been reinforced with cement, and the Duke of Yi Guo has set out to support, with an army of 150,000, there is no problem in defense, and how to win depends on your means. Li Jing nodded in agreement with Li Ji's words, the weapons and armor of the Tang Dynasty are much stronger than in the past, in the past, only officers had armor with armor, and the most elite soldiers had armor composed of leather armor and iron armor.

Now the whole body armor can make up one or two thousand people, and there are more than 10,000 rattan armor in Shuzhong guards, and the defense is not weak, and the remaining soldiers are at least leather bamboo armor, which is made by Feng Daiwen with reference to the proposal of ethnic minorities, made of sheepskin, and the thick dry bamboo pieces are worn with hemp rope outside.

And now the Tang Dynasty steel knives, steel guns are available, and the steel shields made by inverted molds are very convenient to make, because of material limitations, and the people are called on to make many thick wooden shields, which are more than enough to defend against bows and arrows.

There are many materials for making wooden shields, and they are convenient to defend against bows and arrows, and they are burned as materials after a battle, which can be said to be counted in one fell swoop.

It's a pity that the rattan armor has good defense but limited materials, and the rattan armor in Lingnan was provided to the sailor except for Feng Daiwen's fixed equipment of 10,000 people, after all, the rattan armor that is not coated with soil is the best life jacket.

"Yiguo Gong rushed overnight, and he will inevitably arrive before the Turks, so I will set off with these 100,000 elite soldiers on the same day, and strive to destroy them in one fell swoop." Li Ji looked at the map and analyzed.

"You can choose weapons and equipment, and you will be dragged to other places and wait for you to return to the division to rescue." Li Jing nodded and was relieved, and vigorously supported Li Ji's equipment.

"With these 100,000 elite cavalry, no matter how many Turks come, if I can't defeat them, what face do I have to stand in the court." Li Ji silently estimated and replied confidently.

"The most worried is Shuzhong, although there are a lot of troops, but most of them are Turkic cavalry, so they are not very safe to use, and the Turkic soldiers are still a lot worse in defending the city." Li Jing was worried that the Eastern Turks would not be able to fight well against the Western Turks, so he transferred all the more than 20,000 Turkic soldiers in the Central Plains except for Liaoxi to Shuzhong and placed them under the command of Li Xiaogong.

"There are 10,000 old cattle here, and there are still a lot of young men in Shuzhong, so I don't worry about defense, but I am afraid that the Tubo people will not be able to attack for a long time and flee back, and there are not enough troops to attack the plateau at present." Li Ji thought for a while and said, for the transfer of the Turks to guard Shuzhong, this is a decision that has been studied for a long time, this was originally proposed by Li Jing, but now that he cares about it, Li Jing can't help but think about it.

"This battle has been fought, and in the future, there will be no strong countries around, so we will only wait to take revenge one by one." Li Jing saw that it had been arranged, and finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"What the pharmacist said is extremely true, this time these rabbit cubs will definitely have no return, so that they will tremble when they mention Datang in the future." Li Ji formed a fist with his right hand and struck it in his left palm.

"Such a big battle is a rare encounter in life, only this once, this life is enough!" Li Jing's serious face showed a hint of a smile, and he said with a little expectation.

On October 16 of the fifth year of Zhenguan, 300,000 Western Turkic troops besieged Yizhou, Li Daozong led 30,000 elite soldiers and 40,000 government soldiers to defend the city, while Xue Rengui led 23,000 elite soldiers and 10,000 government soldiers to defend Shazhou.

The Western Turks commanded the army to storm Yizhou, which has been reinforced many times, it can be said that the wall is high and the city is deep, the female wall, the horse face is available, the rolling wood and stones are ready, the eight oxen crossbows, and the catapults are hundred.

The elite soldiers recruited by the Tang Dynasty have undergone various trainings, although not all of them are marksmen, but everyone can shoot arrows with bows and arrows, and with the addition of government soldiers, it can be said that most of the guards play the role of archers, and the rest of the government soldiers use shields to cover.

It just so happened that the most important thing in Datang was archers, and the 70,000 army took turns shooting in batches.

The Western Turks attacked for several days, with 30,000 dead and wounded or 40,000, and they didn't even touch the side of the city wall.

was also blocked by Xue Rengui, leaving nearly 10,000 corpses, only then did he stop, follow Cui Tao's suggestion, continue to gather reinforcements on the one hand, besiege Shazhou on the other, and wait for news from other places.

I want to wait for Ashina Ni to defeat the Hetao and come to converge, and I also want to wait for Tuyuhun and other places to achieve results, so that Datang can retreat without a fight.

On the 18th of the same month, Ashina Ni led 100,000 cavalry to attack the new city of Hetao, although the new city is not big, but it is all built with large bricks and mud and sand cement, although the cement performance is poor, but it is also comparable to bluestone.

Outside the city, there are several black forts that are connected into a piece, and the city looks at each other, Zhang Gongjin has been stationed here, carrying out military cantonment, agriculture is labor, leisure is drilling.

Juntun is now the routine of the soldiers stationed at the border of the Tang Dynasty, not to mention how much they can earn, at least they can fill a part of the grain and grass, and there are firemen who raise poultry, which can be regarded as self-sufficient, and the imperial court also encourages this, and some of the expenses will be distributed as subsidies, so the soldiers are also willing, after all, it is impossible to train every day.

Just when Ashina's head was bleeding in the Hetao, Yi Nan's attack on Yinshan also encountered big trouble.

The Lu family, the Zheng family's Wubao is at the forefront, there are the generals of the Tang Dynasty, the battalion officers lead the elite soldiers and the young and strong guards, Cheng Yanjin is cruising with 15,000 cavalry, and from time to time he pounces on it and takes a bite, so that he can not attack with peace of mind.

Although the castle is not big, but the wall is very high, the siege ladder can not climb up, the guards above will shoot arrows from each shooting hole, all-round, no dead ends, occasionally a long ladder is about to go up, will be pushed to the ground by the outstretched pole.

Yi Nan attacked different Wubao for several days in a row, and the results obtained were all the same, no progress was made, but the troops were lost.

This made him regret it very much after the thunderstorm, originally Xue Yantuo knew the strength of the Tang Dynasty best, but unfortunately he was blinded by lard for a while, thinking that the sum of more than one million troops of several countries would definitely make the Tang Dynasty scramble, so he wanted to take the opportunity to occupy the grassland that is now rich.

It's a pity that it backfired, and even the first line of defense couldn't be broken, and there was a desire to attack from other places, but what Datang is building now is Wubao, and the grassland is everywhere, like a hedgehog, and there is no way to eat the meat.

(End of chapter)