The cold wind is blowing, and the chill is overwhelming.

The speed of the procession was very slow, and the hard, cold road passed through the soles of the feet to everyone, with equipment on their bodies, and they walked listlessly step by step.

Li Yuanji's carriage had been given way, and more than a dozen soldiers who had been severely frostbitten sat in it, but even so, there were still more frostbitten soldiers who had no cars to sit on, so they could only walk slowly under the support of others.

Being an ordinary carriage is tantamount to waiting for death, and only by walking can their bodies generate some heat.

"Set up camp! Send troops in, exchange food for houses, and arrange all the wounded as much as possible. "The time was approaching dark, just in time to set up camp, but Li Yuanji had just arrived in Taiyu, almost half the distance less than the normal marching speed.

In the face of such a slow march, Li Yuanji was not in a hurry, but sent people to the town to discuss with the people the issue of temporarily renting houses.

Taiyu terrain is dangerous, surrounded by mountains, located on both sides of the main road, the main road passes through the city from Taiyu, many merchants choose to rest here, so most of the town also operate inns, wine and food and other businesses.

The road can only be built along the mountain, as far as possible to choose a slightly gentler place, and Taiyu this road, is the only main road leading to Xinping within a radius of forty miles, and there are three consecutive three-way crossings, as long as you hold here, unless the enemy chooses to spend more than two days to detour, otherwise it will not be able to pass at all.

But the difficulty of the problem is that Taiyu is located at the second three-way crossing, in fact they only need to hold the second three-way crossing, but in case the enemy army emerges from the first three-way crossing, the thousands of wounded soldiers arranged in the town will bear the brunt.

The large camp is distributed in a clearing in front of Taiyu, as well as on the entire road, a long snake formation, a taboo for arranging troops, but there is no place for the army to camp, which is also no other choice.

The barracks were being built little by little, and there was no expression on the faces of the soldiers, and Li Yuanji's face was also without any expression.

Fighting a war is really a brain-consuming thing, and if you accidentally lose all the games, only when tens of thousands of lives are pressed on your shoulders, will you truly appreciate the difficulty of it.

"This is not a good place to camp, once the enemy army strikes, we may collapse in an instant, and we will not be able to organize an effective resistance at all." Looking at the barracks with a few miles of face, Fang Xuanling frowned deeply.

Along the way, Fang Xuanling didn't ask anything, he always felt that Li Yuanji's order to retreat was not sincere, especially when he dragged on the way, there was no impatience at all.

Fang Xuanling didn't plan to talk too much, but seeing that the camp was arranged like this, he had to remind him more, to put it bluntly, Li Yuanji, like Cheng Zhijie, had never led the army to fight alone, but there were some problems.

"This king naturally knows that this is not a suitable place to camp, what this king is thinking about is, where is the right place to put the blocking troops?" Li Yuanji sighed, looked left and right, only Fang Xuanling and Wei Chi Jingde, and they were no longer afraid to speak bluntly.

"Blockade?" Fang Xuanling was stunned, and immediately felt a burst of ecstasy in his heart, his guess was really not wrong, Li Yuanji really had an idea.

"Don't you think there's too much out of the ordinary in this fight?" Li Yuanji glanced at it and said that Wei Chi Jingde didn't see that he believed it, but Fang Xuanling, an old fox, couldn't see it, and he would never believe it if he was killed.

"Too much normal, that's not normal, Xinping County is too calm, so calm that I think those soldiers really followed Li Yi to rebel." Fang Xuanling expressed his opinion.

"You're right, those soldiers in Xinping County did really follow Li Yi to rebel, but those should only be the soldiers who appeared in front of us, as for the situation in the city, who knows?" Li Yuanji looked in the direction of Xinping County and sighed deeply:

"The king calculated dozens of times, and finally got a result that could convince the king. If you guess correctly, Li Yi should have forcibly controlled the entire Xinping on the grounds of suppressing the rebellion of Zhao Cihao and Yang Qi, and then arranged his henchmen to defend the city, and all the original defenders of Xinping were placed in the city, on the one hand, persuasion, on the other hand, secretly killed those who were 'obsessed', yesterday's attack, we should have appeared as Zhao Cihao and Yang Qi's 'same party', so there is no abnormality in the city, but it is also possible that the original defenders in the city have been cleaned up.

If this king is Li Yi, he would also be happy to see this situation, on the one hand, the fortifications are complete, there is no shortage of food and clothing, and there is no shortage of troops, on the other hand, he will lure us to attack as much as possible, consume our troops as much as possible, and even fail to win Xinping for several days, huge casualties, and the cruelty of the severe cold will inevitably make the morale of our army plummet. When we can't fight, or when we don't want to fight, we will come to an internal and external attack, and annihilate us in one fell swoop, which is easy and is a classic case of winning more with less. ”

"Are you saying that Li Yi will arrange an ambush outside the city?" Fang Xuanling was stunned for a moment, it is theoretically possible, but there may be some problems with the actual operation, and Li Yi's soldiers may not be enough.

Rebellion is not a trivial matter, it is impossible for all soldiers to follow him, that is a soldier of the Tang Dynasty, Li Yi does not really have the power to transfer troops during the non-war.

And when it comes to full calculations, the only thing Li Yi can mobilize is the part of people who originally belonged to him.

"Definitely!" Li Yuanji nodded affirmatively: "Order, after dark, all the soldiers will return here in the dark, carrying only combat equipment." ”

"Jingde, you lead three thousand infantry, hide around, send scouts to patrol a radius of dozens of miles, and if you find the enemy, you will move to a suitable position, do not seek to kill many enemies, just block them, the important thing is to ensure the safety of the wounded soldiers in the town." Li Yuanji turned his head again and commanded towards Wei Chi Jingde.

Fighting a tough battle does not have any advantage for the current Tang army, and after marching all the way to this point, it is already exhausted, the weather is cold, and I can't even stretch out my hand, how can I fight?

You have your Zhang Liangji, I have my ladder over the wall, and now that the king has withdrawn, it depends on whether you can stay lonely.

At night, with the help of the cover of darkness, the figures slowly moved towards the middle of the camp, if there are people who care, it is not difficult to find some cats, in front of each barracks, there is a large open space, there is nothing placed.

In this way, even at night, as long as they do not go crookedly, they will not bump into anything, let alone make mistakes, and there are torches on the main side to guide them.

This night, there were no less than 20 people squeezed in each tent, and the disadvantage was that it was too crowded, and people could only be crowded when they slept, and the advantage was that there were more people, and when they were squeezed tighter, it was warmer, so there were not many cases of frostbite this night, and this method was still relatively effective in ensuring combat effectiveness.

The next day, it was just dawning.

Xinping, high-spirited, high-spirited Li Yi put on a very stylish battle armor, riding a black war horse under his crotch, a high-grade war horse from the Turks, holding a pole and a horse lance in his hand, the black gun body gives people a very windy feeling, Li Yi feels that he is now trying to establish a feeling of bull breaking and coaxing, with a wave of his hand, tens of thousands of people have an urge to kneel on the ground and admire, this is what he wants.

With a wave of his hand, Li Yi personally led 7,000 soldiers out of the city, and secretly said that Li Yuanji was really a heartless fool, since he was about to escape, why didn't he flee farther? Dare to camp forty miles away from Xinping, isn't this waiting for death?

Today is bound to be a sunny day, the morning sun is particularly dazzling, with a hint of temperature and a fresh feeling in the vitality.

The 7,000 men led by Li Yi were lightly armed, the soldiers did not slack off any supplies, each person only carried one day's rations and water, plus the whole night of rest last night, and the defeat of the enemy's attack the day before yesterday, whether it was morale or other aspects, Li Yi's army was perfect.

Of course, Li Yi led a 7,000-strong morale-boosting army, and he didn't dare to easily confront more than 10,000 Tang troops.

Li Yuanji guessed correctly, Li Yi really left a back hand in this matter, and this back hand was to help him completely annihilate the enemy army.

Li Yi, who was in high spirits, felt that it was pleasing to the eye the more he looked at it, and even the dry grass and trees felt that it was very beautiful, and he laughed wildly from time to time, while ordering the soldiers to speed up, arrive before noon as much as possible, and then kill them.

The sun was rising, the army still showed no signs of pulling out, only three or three soldiers in the camp were bored to walk, occasionally a soldier could be seen running out, and then holding a pile of firewood to re-enter the big tent, curling green smoke rose, and there was a faint smoke floating above each camp tent.

Seeing this scene in front of him, he quietly glanced at the top of the mountain, and really found that there was a person waiting there, Li Yi couldn't help but laugh wildly: "Hahaha! Li Yuanji, Li Yuanji, you are hopelessly stupid, and you don't know how to run for a day? God help me! Command, the whole army attack! ”

"Kill~~~" With an order, a huge shout of killing came from afar along the canyon, sonorous and powerful, deafening.

But the sound of the voice shouting is useless, the terrain here curbs Li Yuanji's camp, and it also curbs Li Yibu's attack, the main road is not spacious, and if it goes down in a flat row, it can allow six or seven people to advance in parallel at most, to put it mildly, fighting in this kind of terrain, you only need to block ten people in front, even if you have 10,000 people, you will definitely not be able to pass.

The premise is that you can't kill these ten people, they have the strength to kill you, although it's impossible.

The tents that stretched for miles made the already modest road even more compact, and only two people were allowed to pass through it at a time, and if there were more, they would have to choose to go up the mountain, but that would be too physically exhausting, and no one would do that, unless it was an escape.

'Rumbling ......' The sound of war horses' hooves in the distance was faintly heard, and Li Yi was overjoyed: "I want to see, how do you escape this time?" ”