Broken leaves!

"General Qiyu, according to the information from the inquiry, the enemy has about 50,000 horses."

When the general under Pei Xingjian's account heard this, he couldn't help but feel a pain.

Because they only have a pitiful 3,000 men and horses, it's not that they don't want to bring more people, but they also divide a part of the men and horses to support Xiao Bolu, who is being beaten, and that must not be lost, if the Tubo occupy there, it will directly threaten the four towns of Anxi.

After all, the big food came from afar, and there was also the vassal kingdom of Tocharo in the middle, the lesser of two evils, for the time being, Xiao Bolu was still more deadly.

Pei Xingjian was still very calm, thought for a while, and said, "You immediately send someone to Tocharian to spread the news, and our three thousand reinforcements will arrive immediately." ”

"General."

An adjutant general beside him said nervously: "General, this soldier is not tired of deceit, our strength is already less than 10% of the enemy, at this time, we should use tactics to confuse the enemy, how to inform the enemy of the real situation?" ”

Pei Xingjian said with a smile: "With such a disparity in troops, it is very difficult to hold on, if the enemy knows that our army only has 3,000 men and horses, he will inevitably be careless, and he will not think that our army will take the initiative to attack them with 3,000 soldiers and horses, therefore, we must show the enemy weakly, and then suddenly attack, this is the only way to win." ”

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Lelang State!

"Newspaper... Enlighten Liu Tingshi, there is news from Xiongjin Prefecture that Silla has invited the Japanese army to help, and they are about to be unable to stop it, I hope Liu Tingshi will send troops to support them as soon as possible."

"The Japanese Army?"

Liu Renliang's eyes were on fire and said: "I didn't expect that the Japanese army would dare to come to attack my Tang Dynasty." ”

A general beside him said: "Liu Tingshi, our main forces are deployed on the front line to fight against the Yan, and no one can transfer to Xiongjin Prefecture, now we can only abandon Xiongjin Prefecture and withdraw the troops of Xiongjin Prefecture to help us defend the rear and avoid our army from being attacked on the back." ”

Liu Renliang struggled for a while, let out a sigh, and said with great annoyance: "It's hateful that Wuyue transferred the water division away, otherwise, how could our army be humiliated by the Silla and the Japanese army." ”

He didn't feel anything about being beaten by Tubo, Tiele, and Yao, but being beaten by Silla and the Japanese people, Liu Renliang really felt very aggrieved, and he felt that this was a big shame in his life.

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Dafeichuan, which is also the most important battlefield of the Tang Army, is definitely the main force of the Tang Army that can be described as embarrassed.

Since the beginning of the war, has not won a battle, led by Qinling Tubo army, from all sides to fight is defeated and retreated, has all shrunk to Qinghai Lake, with the danger in front of Qinghai Lake to stubbornly hold, the entire defense line of Dafeichuan, has been broken through most of the half, and then retreat, either decisive battle, or go home, because Qinghai Lake is not dangerous to defend.

And Li Ji's army had already arrived, but in a hurry, the enemy did not give them a chance to breathe, and now the main force finally stabilized its position.

Hurry up and hold a meeting, gather all the generals, and discuss how to fight.

In the big tent of the Chinese army.

"Ahem, ahem!"

But when he saw the old handsome Li Ji, his face was pale, and he coughed terribly at every turn, and said, "Everyone, do you have a good plan to break the enemy?" ”

Xue Rengui immediately said: "Dashuai, I thought we should take the initiative to attack and no longer blindly defend." First of all, defense is not what our army is good at, and our army generals are also good at attacking, how can they tie their arms and? Secondly, we must fight quickly, and it will be detrimental to us if we drag it out, for if the Northern General does not hold it, we will face an enemy on our backs, and the situation will be even worse. In the end, although the enemy forces are numerous, but at the same time difficult to deploy, our army can concentrate our forces and destroy them one by one. ”

This is a fact, the Tang army is really advocating offense, and finally defended once, and then gave Jieli to Chang'an, and signed the shameful Weishui Alliance, the key is that these generals are good at attacking, not good at defense, and now the Tang Empire, generally fight others, if they get the experience, they are also attacking, and there are very few defensive situations, and they have little experience.

"The problem is that you can't prevent it."

Ashina Mi said excitedly: "When has our Tang army fought such a battle, it has been defending from beginning to end, but it has been broken through by Tubo layer by layer, we have to retreat further, there is no place for us to stand on the entire plateau, and then if we want to counterattack, it will be difficult!" ”

The rest of the generals also demanded to attack against Tubo and play the demeanor of our Tang army.

Li Ji nodded slightly, suddenly looked at a silver-haired old man on the side, and said, "I don't know what General Su suggests?" ”

This old man is Su Dingfang, in fact, Su Dingfang is older than Li Ji, and now he is over eighty years old, his hair is white, and he does not have a single black hair, but Su Dingfang has been recuperating in Liangzhou for several years, Liangzhou is a trade center, he wants everything, he has no quarrel with the world, he does not have so many troubles as Li Ji, and his body is very tough.

The rest of the generals all looked at Su Dingfang with disdain.

Su Dingfang's Liangzhou army, the first to enter Tuyuhun, the defensive strategy is given by Su Dingfang, he came here is blindly defending, defending layer by layer, and covering the people to leave, what offensive important places, were occupied by Tubo, directly blocked the Tang army in Dafeichuan, resulting in the main force arrived, there was no way to immediately carry out the offensive, the problem is that Su Dingfang did not desperately defend, he was fighting while retreating.

Su Dingfang looked embarrassed, and Yu Guang looked at the generals a little, these generals from Chang'an, all of them have prominent family backgrounds, and hesitated for a long time before saying: "I still think that we should focus on defense and stick to this line of defense." ”

Li Ji asked, "Why?" ”

Su Dingfang said: "First of all, the main force of our army has traveled a long distance here, and it has not been able to adapt to the climate of this plateau, and the attack is a long-distance attack. Secondly, Tubo is the strength of the country, this is not long, must be weak in succession, and our Central Plains is not chaotic, and because of trade reasons, Chang'an to come here the road is very smooth, there are hotels along the road, although our army came from afar, but our logistics may be better than Tubo, as long as we hold the main road, protect logistics, if we take the offensive, our logistics will be very dangerous, once we lose the support of logistics, even if we win, we are difficult to continue. In the end, the art of war is cloudy, one blow, then rest, three and then decline, and now the morale of the enemy army is like a rainbow, and it cannot be fought a decisive battle. ”

Li Ji nodded, and asked again: "I wonder if General Su can be sure to hold this last line of defense?" ”

Su Dingfang nodded and said, "I'm sure I can hold it." ”

Ashina snorted: "Old general, if I remember correctly, you have been beaten and retreated one after another. ”

Su Dingfang said: "That's because we didn't do our best to defend, the enemy came from all directions, our army is far inferior to the enemy, if the defense line is too long, it will only be broken by the enemy one by one, so I chose to use the least number of troops to drag the enemy's main force, and retreat while fighting, so as to wear down the morale of the enemy and stabilize the position." Now, the defensive line has shrunk, and we have recruited a lot of men from Tuyuhun to resist the Tibetan offensive. ”

Ashinami said: "This is just an excuse you made for your own failure, our army is not good at defense at all, and Tubo is dedicated to us, and we are fighting around the Tang Dynasty, even if we have logistical support, we can't afford it." ”

Xue Rengui nodded one after another.

Zhao Zhiman said: "General Ashina, General Su is definitely not making excuses, he arranged it like this." ”

Su Dingfang himself was silent, because he was not from a good background, and he had been pressed by these noble generals for twenty years, so he usually didn't dare to talk much, although now that he has been promoted, he has also developed this habit.

Everyone looked at Li Ji again.

In fact, the Tang army had only these two choices, either to attack with all its strength and fight a quick victory, or to defend and fight a war of attrition with Tubo.

And they all said it very reasonably, because the Tang army has always won more with less, and they are all long-distance attacks and roundabout attacks, no one dares to say that Xue Rengui and they can't win Tubo, even Su Dingfang didn't dare to say that, but Su Dingfang was not wrong.

Li Ji's role is here, and he has to make a decision at a critical time, he thought for a while, and suddenly asked Su Dingfang: "General Su, are you really sure that you can hold it?" ”

Su Dingfang was stunned and nodded.

Li Ji said: "That's good! The front-line battle was left to General Su. ”

"Dashuai!"

Ashina Mi Shot and Xue Rengui stood up excitedly.

Li Jidao: "I have decided, you don't need to say much, if anyone does not obey General Su's orders, military law will deal with it." Go out and make arrangements. ”

"Hey!"

Ashina stomped his foot hard, turned around and walked out.

Xue Rengui and the others looked at Li Ji in surprise, and also shook their heads and walked out.

Su Dingfang was not overjoyed, sighed secretly, saluted Li Ji with a fist, and then retreated.

"Dashuai is really old! When did Dashuai choose this kind of turtle shrinkage strategy before. ”

"Isn't it, no matter what enemy is fighting, the commander advocates attacking, and now at a critical time, he actually chooses to shrink, so that our only chance to turn defeat into victory is lost."

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Everyone can't understand Li Ji's decision, because Li Ji is also a coach who advocates offense, even if it is defense, he is also preparing for attack, in Li Ji's tactical thinking, there is no blind defense, this is not his style.

At this moment, Zhao Zhiman suddenly came to Su Dingfang's side and said in a low voice: "General Su still chooses to believe in Shang Shuling!" ”

Su Dingfang sighed and said: "I won't tell you, in fact, the old man also wants to fight to the death with Tubo, but the old man has no certainty of victory, and Shang Shuling's letter said that as long as we hold on, when he comes, we will be able to win this battle, he has the certainty of winning, and I don't, then I can only believe him, in addition, Shang Shuling has never lost his word." ”

Zhao Zhiman nodded slightly.

At this moment, a non-commissioned officer suddenly walked over and saw that the main generals were all outside the tent, so he said, "General, Tubo has sent an envoy to come." ”

Ashina was annoyed, and immediately roared: "Isn't the queen's order clear enough, let's fight to the end, and immediately shoot all the people in the future, if anyone dares to communicate with them with a word, they will be dealt with by military law immediately." ”

"Whoa!"

After they all retired, only Li Ji and Li Bi were left in the tent.

Li Bi was also very incomprehensible, and said cautiously: "Brother, why do you want to adopt Su Dingfang's suggestion?" ”

Li Ji hung his head and was silent.

Li Bi shouted again: "Brother, brother! ”

Suddenly found that something was wrong with the situation, hurriedly stepped forward, touched lightly, Li Ji's body fell to the side, he hurriedly saved Li Ji, only to see Li Ji's face was full of sweat, gasping for breath, and when he was about to call Langzhong, Li Ji grabbed his sleeve and said: "Now the morale of our army is very low, if you let people know my physical condition again, the consequences will be unimaginable." ”

Li Bi said: "But brother.....! ”

Li Ji shook his head, stopped him from continuing, and then said, "The reason why I have lived so far is that I hope to be able to destroy Tibet, but unfortunately... It's a pity that this battle came a little late, I'm just afraid that time is running out, which is why I chose to adopt Su Dingfang's suggestion, if I adopt offensive tactics, I have three long and two short in the middle, our army has no leader, it may bury all the main forces of our army, and then the Central Plains may be in danger, I dare not take this risk. ”

Speaking of this, he closed his eyes and sighed, tears flashed in the corners of his eyes, when he came, he was sick, and ran to this plateau, he couldn't support it at all, but for him personally, it was very cruel, because this battle was what he had been looking forward to for a long time, but it was close at hand, and he didn't have the ability to complete it, and said: "You hurry up and write to Chang'an, asking Your Majesty to let Han Yi come here to replace me." ”

Li Bi was surprised: "Han Yi? ”

Li Ji nodded and said, "Although Han Yi is young and not from a military background, except for me, only Han Yi can convince the commanders of all walks of life. First, he was originally Shang Shuling, and it was reasonable to become the commander of the three armies. Second, he is in charge of logistics, and no matter which army it is, it has to rely on him. Thirdly, those generals in the army are not convinced by anyone, if I die, they will definitely quarrel with each other, the consequences are unimaginable, let Han Yi come, they will not fight, at this time, our army must unite as one, in order to defeat the enemy. ”

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There is no problem with the Tang army in Tibet, Qinling is actually the only center, and he is in the prime of life, full of energy, internal and foreign affairs, he is in charge, his eldest brother praises that if he is far inferior to him, the power is actually in his hands, and he pretends to make gestures everywhere, in fact, in order to confuse the Tang Dynasty.

The Great Tent of Tibet.

"It seems that Li Ji is really old, and he would choose this turtle shrinkage tactic, hum, it's really disappointing."

Qin Ling looked at the map and said contemptuously.

A general beside him said: "General, although Li Ji is old, it is impossible for him to surrender to us, so why should you send someone to persuade him to surrender." ”

Qin Ling said with a smile: "Of course I know, I deliberately sent people to persuade them to surrender, in fact, to humiliate them, let them come out to fight with us, you must know that our purpose is not Tuyuhun, but to settle in the Central Plains, we should not waste too much time here, we must annihilate the main force of the Tang Army as soon as possible." ”

As soon as the words fell, a person walked in and said, "General, all the people we sent out were shot dead in front of the Tang army. ”

Qin Ling was surprised: "What? ”

If the two armies are at war, if they don't kill them, where will the country of gentlemen go?

Tang Jun's meaning is very obvious, that is, if we don't communicate, we just fight to the end, even if we are shameless, we can't compare to your old man.