The burning of grain and grass can be regarded as a fatal blow to the Tang army, even if it is temporarily raised, it is not so easy to get grain and grass that can be eaten by 200,000 troops for ten days.

Moreover, the Tang army has been stationed here for a while, and the rich households with money and food in the surrounding area have already run away and can't even see a shadow, and the remaining poor people have nothing to eat at home, even if they count the living, it is not enough for the Tang army to eat 200,000 people, so don't even think about raising food.

Another point is that those grains and grass were burned in front of countless Tang Army soldiers, even if Hou Junji wanted to 'hide', he couldn't hide it at all, as long as those soldiers didn't have an all-you-can-eat meal, there would be a possibility of mutiny immediately.

As for waiting for the grain to arrive, I'm sorry, the rear also has to raise grain and grass, and it will take ten days to transport it to the front line, so even if the news is sent back to Tianzhu Road, it is impossible for the officials in charge of logistics to immediately conjure up grain and send it to the front.

Under such circumstances, retreating became the only option for the Tang army, and in order to prevent the Byzantines from catching up, the Tang army had to retreat quickly.

Iric didn't think that the Minni City Lord would succeed at all, and in his opinion, the biggest effect of this sneak attack was to use him to test the strength of the Tang Army. But what he never expected was that the city lord of Minni actually succeeded, not only successfully burned the grain and grass of the Tang army, but also brought back more than 3,000 people.

If he wasn't too worried about the strength of the Tang Army, all this credit should actually be Erik's, but because he had too many worries, he missed the battle achievements, and every time he thought about it, it made him feel heartbroken.

No, this is not right, the battle merits must not let all the Minny City Lords go, how can he get a piece of the pie, after thinking about it for a long time, Ilik finally made up his mind, and ordered people to go to the back to urge the main force At the same time, he took his 20,000 subordinates and rushed towards the Tang army that was organizing a retreat.

Hou Junji and the others stood on the top of the city wall of Minni City, watching the 20,000 Byzantine troops below pass under the city, the old man couldn't help but show a smile full of meaning, turned his head and said to Pei Xingjian beside him: "Good job, go back and prepare, it is estimated that it will not be long before the soldiers' rifles will be able to drink the blood of the enemy." ”

"General, it will take two days for the enemy's main force to arrive, is it too early for us to return fire?" Pei Xingjian asked with some confusion.

"Everything is in moderation, too much!" Hou Junji's eyes were staring at the Byzantine army passing by under the city, as if he was looking at a group of dead people: "You only know that if you show the enemy weakness, the enemy will catch up, but you haven't thought that the enemy also has brains and will observe us, if we don't even fight a battle, I'm afraid that it will soon arouse the enemy's vigilance." ”

"Yes, General!" Pei Xingjian showed a sudden expression, clenched his fists and bowed: "General Xie for guidance!" ”

Hou Junji turned his head and glanced at Pei Xingjian deeply: "That's it, we old guys can't bring all our skills into the coffin, so it's up to you how much you can learn." ”

"Yes!"

……

Long Yi, the commander of the 92nd Division, in terms of rank, is equivalent to the position of the general of the 16th Guards in the past.

It's just that compared to the previous Sixteen Guards generals, he is now much more powerful, and his subordinates have to take care of all the food, drink and Lazar, if he hadn't attended a military school for two years, it is estimated that he would have been unable to play now.

To each way, the former sixteen guards, there is a long history, there are secretaries, and marching horses, in short, there are many idlers.

However, in addition to one division headquarters, several operational staff officers, and some brigade commanders and regiment commanders below, those things that should have been managed by the chief historian and the secretary in the past have all been assigned to the division headquarters for unified management, and this has resulted in the division headquarters having to specialize in multiple skills, and one person has to do the work of several people, and even he, the division commander, sometimes has to participate in it.

But this time, it wasn't the clerical side that gave him a headache, but the combat side.

Hou Junji, the former boss, sent an order yesterday for them to pretend that the grain and grass were destroyed, and to pretend to retreat. Early this morning, they ordered their 92nd Division to be responsible for blocking the enemy, and to be sure to stop the vanguard of the 20,000 enemies behind them.

However, if they stop and stop them, they can't eat all these 20,000 people in a moment's excitement, they must be given the feeling that they can win at any time, but they need to pay a certain price.

In other words, the 92nd Division obviously has the ability to completely eat the 20,000 Byzantines behind it with a counterattack, but it must fight them in a false way, not to mention destroying the enemy, and must make its own side reasonably attrition.

This is simply too difficult for Long Yi, because the weapons and equipment of the 92nd Division are not suitable for this kind of procrastinating battle at all, nearly 100 Zhenguan cannons are fully capable of breaking the enemy's attack with a covering shot, and then the infantry will charge again, and the combination of rockets and iron pineapple plus rifles can leave half of the enemy behind, and the next thing is to pursue.

But the reality is that he can't use Zhenguan cannons at all, not even rockets, and rifles can't play with any salvos.

How to fight this battle, how to fight in the end, thinking about it, Long Yi almost turned gray.

In the end, it was his deputy division commander who gave him a suggestion: "Division commander, why don't we just ask the soldiers to raise the muzzle of their guns, so that it sounds like a lot of movement, but the damage caused is very limited." ”

"Yes, yes, yes!" Long Yizheng patted his head with sorrow, and was suddenly reminded by the deputy division commander, and said with a laugh: "Let's just do this, only use one-fifth of the strength to attack, and the rest of the people will shoot bullets into the sky, so that the task assigned by the old general can be completed!" ”

With such a decision, soon the combat mission was assigned, which platoon was responsible for blocking the enemy, which platoon was responsible for emptying the guns, and which platoon was responsible for playing dead while fighting, in short, it took half a day to understand the plan.

At this time, Iric's troops had already embellished the tail of the 92nd Division, and the two sides were only separated by more than ten miles, and they could catch up with them.

The Byzantines were almost crazy at this time, as the 'elite' with the advanced equipment of the Tang Dynasty, they had no reason to watch the third-rate troops in Minni City show off their might and win the battle in front of their eyes.

Catch up with the Tang army and completely eat the broken troops of the Tang army, this is what they need, as long as they can do this, even if Iric successfully completes the task, and then wait to enjoy the fruits of victory. (https:)

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