The Governor's Mansion, the civil and military sat separately. Wang Xuance, who was in charge of intelligence, said: "Dudu, the Turks attacked Tiele regardless of casualties, forcing Yi Nan to retreat into the desert, and after the Turks won a great victory, they quickly divided their troops and went south to kill Shuofang!" ”

"It's finally here!" Luo Tong said with a smile.

Seeing that Luo Tong had no superfluous expression, Wang Xuance was surprised: "The governor already knows in advance?" ”

Luo Tong shook his head and said, "I didn't get the news, I just had mental preparations." Jieli and Tuli are endless opponents, in order to have a decisive battle without worries, the two tried their best to clean up Tiele and the Eastern Ministries in the winter, Jieli repelled Tiele, and he would not miss this God-given opportunity to attack Tuli with the Eastern Ministries, but he was worried that our Datang would stab him in the back, and he was here to give us a horse! ”

Wang Xuance said solemnly: "The governor is right, but this time it is not an ordinary dismount. The Turks dispatched 200,000 elite cavalry, which were strong troops composed of Turkic Tujie and guards! The momentum is mighty, and the mountains and fields are like ants gathering. ”

The Turkic military system is simple, and there are only three titles: the Tuojie, the Guard, and the Commander.

Tujie is the elite soldiers selected from the nine surnames of Zhaowu, and the Turks attach importance to the Hu people, and the most courageous warriors of the Hu people form a small-scale army named Tuojie, which has extremely strong combat power. The guards are called attached, that is, the meaning of the wolf, which means that they are the personal soldiers of the wolf clan, and they are the followers of all the khans on the steppe. The man who controls the strings is the Turkic warriors, the Turkic people are fierce, every adult man is a warrior, so the population is not large but can easily gather hundreds of thousands of string controllers, compared with the previous two string control people have a certain combat power, but they are always not orthodox soldiers.

The 200,000 soldiers from the Turks are not only 200,000 soldiers in the sense, but also the most powerful 100,000 combat power.

Luo Tong couldn't help but gasp when he heard this amount!

Liu Ren track: "Fortunately, we won Shuo Fang!" Otherwise, my Datang Northland will be ruined again. We have more than 50,000 elites, and we have a dismantled border army, and we can quickly form an army of 70,000 people, let alone 200,000, even if 400,000 come, don't think about capturing the Great Wall and Shuofang! As long as we hold out for a while, the Turks will retreat. ”

"Do you have any more information?" Luo Tong couldn't help but ask, Liu Renliang's strategy of sticking to and waiting for help is indeed good, but this is not the tactic he wants.

"Who's the manager?"

"The boss is Jieli himself, after defeating Tiele, he left the general Yuanhan Fuji to continue to attack Tiele, and he personally led an army of 200,000 people, one man and two horses to attack."

Luo Tong listened attentively and did not show the slightest impatience. From time to time, he will carefully ask about some details, and even ask Wang Xuance for his opinions.

In less than a hundred short conversations, Luo Tong pondered for half an hour to understand the Turkic situation thoroughly.

Luo Tong closed his eyes and meditated: the Turks are the situation, the weakness of the Turks, the strength of the Turks...... Over and over again, tirelessly, flashing in his mind over and over again. After another half an hour, Luo Tong suddenly opened his eyes, with a hint of boldness and madness in his eyes.

"I decided to go out of town and fight! Take the Turkic 200,000 elite horsemen as a New Year's gift! ”

Everyone thought they had misheard, and Liu Boying, who was originally going to go back to Yanzhou, was stunned and said, "What did you say, Governor?" ”

"I decided to go out of town and fight! Take the Turkic 200,000 elite horsemen as a New Year's gift! Luo Tong repeated cautiously. The Turkic commander is not Li Yuanji, who is familiar with the art of war and has been Li Shimin's deputy for many years, so it will be much easier.

Liu Boying finally heard it clearly, shook his head and said, "I can understand the mood of the governor, but the battle is not like this. This place belongs to the plain, a horse and a flat river, which is most suitable for cavalry combat. Although we also say that the whole army is riding, it is still far from the Turkic elite cavalry, and we are better at foot combat than riding against riding. We are at a numerical disadvantage, facing tens of thousands of Turkic cavalry in this terrain, and we will undoubtedly be killed. ”

According to the normal situation, even if the two sides are equal in strength, the Central Plains cavalry is generally a crushing rout against the elite cavalry of the upper steppe peoples, not to mention the infantry on horseback who are at a disadvantage in numbers, with 70,000 people, in this flat land suitable for cavalry combat against the Turkic elite cavalry three times their size. In the opinion of an expert like Liu Boying, who is well versed in military affairs, Luo Tong's plan for a decisive battle out of the city is not easy to find death.

Liu Renliang also sighed: "When the army is marching and fighting, when the retreat is retreating, when the retreat is advanced, when the attack is attacking, the code is guarded, and if you barely hold on, you will only sacrifice the lives of the soldiers in vain." We occupy a fortified city, so why should the governor take such a risk? ”

"Yes! Governor. Although King Bin did not know about military affairs, he also knew that although we had the opportunity to wait for work, it was really not a wise move to use 70,000 horseback infantry to fight against the Turkic elite cavalry. ”

"Who said 70,000, I mean to use 30,000 Mo Dao troops to put out the Mo Dao army, plus 10,000 cavalry is enough, and the rest is all over to Liu Tingshi to command and defend the city. The strength of the cavalry is nothing more than the impact force, as long as this advantage is neutralized, the Turks, who are struggling with men and horses, can only wait to be beaten. ”

"Dudu, ...... you" Liu Boying looked at Luo Tong angrily, trying to see what kind of mentality he had in his eyes, but found that his handsome face was full of confidence, especially when he said that he would meet the enemy, his expression and tone revealed a confidence in victory.

He, where did that unwarranted faith come from?

Just that Mo Dao big array?

"Dudu, you are gambling with the lives of soldiers!" Liu Boying is angry, military generals are not as polite as literati, and when it comes to major events, they never beat around the bush.

Luo Tong argued: "How can there be immortals in war, Liu Tingshi should know this better than me. It is the art of war to exchange the minimum casualties for the greatest benefits. I can defeat the Xuanjia army with 3,000 Mo sword troops, and then defeat the 25,000 16 guard elite cavalry nearly ten times, and now I have 30,000 well-equipped Mo sword army with perfect tactics, and I can no longer deal with the 200,000 Turkic army that is struggling with men and horses, and I will eat this piece of fat! Liu Tingshi will be on the border army, waiting to clean up the battlefield. ”

"Good!" Liu Boying gritted his teeth and said angrily: "I hope you don't regret this decision." ”

Luo Tong smiled: "I, Luo Tong, never regret every decision I make...... And never fight uncertain battles! ”

Liu Boying, Wang Xuance, Liu Renliang, and Ma Zhou said the truth, how Luo Tong didn't understand. It's just that they underestimate the Modao array, although these 30,000 Modao troops are not as skilled as the original 3,000 people, or 10,000 people, but they are not afraid of this Turkic cavalry that has been running for a long distance and is struggling!

And he was not willing to miss the opportunity to annihilate Jieli, the main army. They are now numerically disadvantaged, but not completely without opportunities.

Maybe it's a personal emotion, he hasn't been defeated when he comes to this world. With the inherited martial arts, with the Mo sword soldiers created according to the knowledge of the super era, with a little wit, he has not yet suffered defeat.

This person who has not failed is naturally unwilling to be unwilling to bury a great opportunity and suffer the consequences of failure. Less than half a month after he got married, he dragged his family to Shuofang, the purpose of which was to eat the Turkic army that came to attack, and now the Turkic army is really coming as expected, if he can't fight, he really laughed off Li Shimin's big teeth.

In Luo Tong's view, if the enemy is not eaten, even if the Great Wall and Shuofang are defended, it is a failure.

At this moment, Luo Tong finally realized how much determination and courage it took to overcome public opinion, and he suddenly thought of Li Shimin, and thought of the pinnacle battle of Li Shimin's life: the battle of the tiger prison. The situation faced by the two actually existed

Déjà vu. At that time, Li Shimin was ordered to attack Wang Shichong in Luoyang, and destroyed the city all the way to Luoyang, and the water of the siege of Luoyang was impassable. Just when Luoyang was about to fall, Dou Jiande led an army of 100,000 to help.

In the face of this 100,000-strong army, almost all the generals and strategists of the Tang Dynasty persuaded Li Shimin to withdraw from the army, even Fang Mou Du Du. However, Li Shimin resolutely decided not to retreat, and personally led a small number of soldiers and horses to the Tiger Prison Pass to station, and as a result, he set a terrible record of 3,500 to 100,000.

However, compared with Li Shimin, the situation he is facing at this moment is much worse. Li Shimin at least has a tiger prison pass to hold, Li Shimin's intention was to defend the tiger prison and delay time with the advantage of the pass, but as a result, Dou Jiande was eager to fight and exposed his flaws. Li Shimin's soldiers were as ruthless as a poisonous snake, and he was good at catching flaws. As soon as he was allowed to grasp the flaw, he would bite it to death, and as a result, the army of 100,000 was crushed by his 3,500 men.

Luo Tong knew from the bottom of his heart that Li Shimin's victory could not be replicated. It requires the cooperation of all aspects of the conditions in the right time and place.

He is not Li Shimin, and Jieli is not Dou Jiande! The dilapidated Great Wall, which has been in disrepair for a long time, is even more unlikely to be a tiger prison that cannot be opened by a single man. But if Li Shimin hadn't been strong enough to defy public opinion at that time, why did he create this miracle?

The atmosphere in the council chamber was suddenly cold and silent.

"The governor is also helpless. Lord Liu misunderstood the governor. ”

Everyone looked at Shangguan Yi who suddenly spoke curiously, even Luo Tong was not surprised, he didn't know what he was helpless about.

"The Great Wall is repaired in the territory of Shuofang, by Liang Shidu, or by the Turks, the damage is too serious, although there is no day and night to repair it, but it is not the original Great Wall, broken places abound, if Jieli is determined to attack, the Great Wall does not play a role in blocking the enemy at all, if the Great Wall is lost, even if we hold Shuofang, the Turkic army can completely ignore Shuofang and enter Kouqingzhou, Suizhou, Yanzhou...... Now the defenders of the three states are all in Shuofang, and once the Turkic army enters the south, it will once again hit Chang'an with a momentum like a bamboo. By then, we will be the sinners of the Tang Dynasty. ”

Shangguan Yi admired and sighed with emotion: "We only thought that the Great Wall could keep us out of the country, but we didn't take into account the current situation of the Great Wall. And the governor's idea was that instead of catching the Turks who destroyed the three states one by one like catching locusts in the future, it would be better to serve them in a pot before the 'locust plague' was alive. ”

Liu Boying suddenly realized, and said with a look of shame: "The governor is far-sighted and thoughtful, and his subordinates are short-sighted, but they misunderstand the meaning of the governor!" Please also ask the Governor to forgive your sins. When Luo Tong returned to Beijing to get married, he patrolled day and night, and he informed Luo more about the situation of the Great Wall.

"Liu Tingshi is loyal and benevolent, and the heart of this fist is like a son, which is a model for my generation...... It's just that there are some things that you know you don't have to do. Luo Tong's face was unfathomable, the wisdom bead was in his hand, and he was heartbroken.

The conscience of heaven and earth, where did he think so much, he was just bent on killing the Jieli army, and now, with Shangguanyi's reasonable rhetoric, it is logical that this decisive battle will be outside the country. It's cool to have capable people under your hands!

"When will the Turkic army arrive in Shuofang?"

"With the speed of their march, they will be able to reach Qiwu Mountain in the afternoon of the day after tomorrow."

"Immediately mobilize the entire city of soldiers and civilians to let everyone know the news that our army is going to take the initiative to meet the enemy due to the Turkic invasion."

Liu Ren tracked: "Dudu, Shuofang has not recovered for a long time, there must be Turkic works in the city, will this premature spread of news remind Jieli?" ”

Luo Tong laughed and said, "I just want Jieli to know!" ”