Chapter 335: Turning Defense into Offense

Yang Guang felt that what Duan Da said was reasonable, and nodded: "According to what Mr. Changsun said in Chang'an in the past, among the five Turkic khans in the world, only the Turkic Khan was the weakest in the Luo throat force, and he had a friendly intention towards my Great Sui. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info And before the king entered the city this morning, he had heard Li Shangshu mention that although the Turks attacked Yanmen Pass with siege weapons, the total number of men and horses dispatched was only five or six thousand, and they chose to sneak attack at night in the Chinese New Year's Eve, and retreated at dawn, which must have another ulterior secret. ”

Hearing this, Yujuluo stood up, hugged his fists and said: "Today is the first day of the Lunar New Year, the prince did not have a good sleep last night, that is, please rest for a while, and wait for the last general to lead the brave men out of the city to catch two alive mouths back, and when you ask, you will know the details of the Turkic people's virtual and real details, isn't it convenient?" ”

Yang Guang's eyes lit up, he smiled, and said to Li Xiong and Duan Da: "What Yu Juluo said is a good strategy. Then he turned to Yujuluo and said: "This time, the number of people should not be too much, after catching one or two Turkic soldiers, you must return to Yanmen Pass as soon as possible, if it is late, there will be changes, remember, remember." ”

Yu Juluo was happy that Yang Guang adopted his suggestion, and said loudly at the moment: "Please rest assured, Lao Er only took two sons out of the customs, and he must return to Yanmen to resume his life before tonight." ”

After Yujuluo was ordered to leave, Li Xiong and Duan Dazhu were still worried that the Turks would suddenly return, so they relaunched their offensive against Yanmen Pass, and strongly persuaded Yang Guang to rest in the military camp outside the south gate. Yang Guang reluctantly reluctantly rejected them, so he had to go out of the south gate in front of Yanmen under the escort of more than 100 hussar soldiers led by Li Hun and return to the barracks to rest.

He drove almost the whole night last night, returned to the military camp outside the city, became more and more sleepy, entered the tent, and was about to fall asleep, and later in the evening, Yu Juluo led the people to capture two live mouths to inquire about the movements and intentions of the Turks, but was stopped by An Ruoxi, who pretended to be a sergeant of the hussar battalion, and came with him into the account.

"Lord Wang, I have an idea of the real intention of the Turkic night attack on Yanmen Pass last night, I don't know if the prince wants to hear it or not?" An Ruoxi said while helping Yang Guang change his clothes.

"Oh? Let's hear it. Yang Guang was most concerned about this matter, listening to An Ruoxi's words, his sleepiness suddenly disappeared, he turned around and pulled An Ruoxi to sit side by side on the couch in the tent, staring at her and urging.

"I heard the story of the meeting between the prince and the generals in the city. Although I had never seen the princess draw a 'kerosene cart' or a stone machine when I was serving with her in the past, I am sure that the princess is capable of doing so. An Ruoxi said in an orderly manner, "If it is determined that the princess is behind the storming of Yanmen Pass last night, according to my expectations, it is most likely that the Shabalu Khan, who led the main Turkic force to the west, has a new movement, and the princess will ignore the peace agreement signed with the prince not long ago in order to cooperate with her husband, and brazenly send troops to attack Yanmen Pass." I wonder if the prince thinks so? ”

Yang Guang's eyes lit up when he heard this, and then he asked An Ruoxi with a little puzzlement: "If it weren't for your face-to-face reminder, I wouldn't have thought about it yet." But as you said, Sha Boluo raised troops from the west to invade the south, why didn't there be any news from Chang'an? ”

"Maybe the people sent by the imperial court to deliver the message to Bingzhou have not yet arrived, and the Turkic department left behind in Baidaozhou has already taken the lead in getting the message, so they will cooperate with the main Turkic force and attack blatantly. It is better for the prince to order people to go south as soon as possible and follow the post road to welcome the people from the court, maybe there will be results in a day or two. An Ruoxi replied thoughtfully.

Yang Guang lowered his head and thought about it, and the more he thought about it, the more he felt that what An Ruoxi said was reasonable, and immediately sent Duan Da to send a number of scouts to ride fast horses to the south, and follow the post road to meet the people sent by Chang'an to deliver the message to Bingzhou.

As soon as An Ruoxi reminded him, Yang Guang realized that the Turks were likely to have raised troops to the south, so he couldn't take any more rest, so he immediately gathered all the generals in the camp to discuss countermeasures.

An Ruoxi saw that Yang Guang had not eaten half of the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner in Hezhou last night, and had not eaten grain rice until now, worried that Yang Guang was still young and his body could not bear to handle military affairs in a row.

The result of regathering generals in the camp made Yang Guang quite dissatisfied.

Including Li Xiong, Duan Da and other major generals, although the generals did not raise too many objections to the possibility that An Ruoxi's expected war in the northwest had already started, and that the Turkic Department of Baidaozhou was staying in order to cooperate with the main force to invade the south, they all advocated that the territory should be preserved, on the one hand, beware of the Turks sending troops to attack again, and on the other hand, they waited for the imperial court to send people to pass on the news, and Yujuluo led people out of the customs to capture and get back alive, and then took different actions after the news was confirmed.

"Rank General, haven't you ever thought of turning defense into offense and using the advantage of troops to attack Baidaozhou?" Yang Guang listened to the generals after they finished stating their opinions, and asked coldly.

Li Xiong immediately stood up and dissuaded: "Your Highness, the current situation is not clear, you must not act rashly and take risks to be radical." If the Turks take advantage of the fact that our army is out of the pass, go and return, and attack the Yanmen Pass, then the annex state is in danger, and if the annex state is lost, Hebei will be in danger. According to the opinion of the general, it is better to wait for two days and make a decision after the military situation in the northwest is understood. ”

"Li Shangshu, although this king has never led a large army to confront the Turks head-on, he also knows the reason that the fighter plane is fleeting. The Turks went against common sense and launched a strong attack on Yanmen Pass with a very limited number of troops, if our army only knew that the pass could not be stopped, once as expected, the main Turkic force invaded from the northwest to the south, and the pass was in an emergency, and Hebei as the main battlefield against the Turks, what role could it play? Yang Guang looked around at the generals in the camp and asked Li Xiong rhetorically.

The generals were silent, although they felt that Yang Guang's proposal to turn defense into attack was indeed a bold move to change from passive to active in the art of war, once the attack on Baidaozhou was successful, it could not only greatly boost morale, but also play a role in containing the southward invasion of the main force of the Northwest Turks, but also because Yang Guang was too young, and Yang Shuangyuan, the king of the guard who was in charge of the military power of Hebei Province, was far away in Liaodong, he did not dare to explicitly express his support for Yang Guang's proposal to turn defense into attack.

"Lord Wang, even if you need to go out of the pass to attack Baidao Prefecture, it is not enough to rely on the more than 10,000 soldiers and horses in Yanmen Pass now. According to the opinion of the last general, Mo Ruo first asked Zhang and Wang, who stayed in Bingzhou, and Qi Angong to send reinforcements to Yanmen, and waited for General Yujuluo to capture one or two Turkic sergeants, and after interrogating and understanding the details of the Turkic defenders in Daozhou, he would decide whether to leave the customs or not. Duan Dajia cautiously suggested to Yang Guang.