Everyone was shocked!

Zhang Yi felt a serious sense of crisis in his heart, and before Tang Peng could speak, he took the lead in asking: "Although the population of Ashina is not large, there are at least hundreds of thousands of people, plus cattle, sheep, and horses, it is much larger. Disappeared in the night? ”

As he spoke, Zhang Yi looked at Xue Wancheng, who was also shocked, and asked: "General Xue has the responsibility of guarding the city, presumably for the Ashina people and the grassland tribes should also send scouts to inquire about the news, I don't know if General Xue's intelligence is about the Ashina people?" ”

As Zhang Yi said, the entire Ashina tribe has more than 100,000 people, plus cattle, sheep and horses. It is simply impossible to disappear at night. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

But... Even if other tribes want to kill them all, someone has to have the ability to do it!

Now the Eastern Turkic Jieli and his subordinates don't know where to go, the Pearl Khan's army has occupied the Hetao, and now it's good, even the Ashina people have disappeared out of thin air, which can't help but remind Zhang Yi of the gnawed sheep bone he saw on the eleventh day of the moon on the way.

"I'm ashamed!" Xue Wanqian showed a look of shame on his face, and explained: "Shuofang City only had more than 2,000 soldiers in total before the arrival of the army, so in order to stabilize the defense, I will press the defense line to the death. Twenty miles in front of Shuofang City, and strictly ordered everyone not to take a step without an order.

Of course, a few teams of men and horses have also been sent to investigate the other departments, and the scouts on Ashina's side don't seem to have returned yet! ”

"Don't wait, if the old man is not bad, they must have been killed!" Niu Jinda pondered for a moment and said, "So this time we can be said to be in a difficult step, and the future is unknown!" Therefore, the chief manager sent the old man to guard this Shuofang City, one is to ensure that Shuofang is safe, and the other is to ensure that the grain and straw in the rear of us will not be burned by someone! ”

"Yes, the weight of grain is directly related to the purpose of this troop dispatch!" Zhang Yi nodded, it was not strange for Li Jing to have such an arrangement.

In his opinion, although Li Jing has always been known in history for being a trickster and winning more with less, in fact, it is just a strategy that there is no way to make.

The so-called surprise attack and sneak attack are completely things that can only be carried out when there is no hope in normal battles. Because normal battles cannot be won, so the troops are in danger.

Victory is famous, but defeat is buried in a foreign land!

It can be said that as long as it is a general with a little brain, as long as the war does not reach a certain level, the so-called sneak attack and the like generally rarely occur.

It is precisely because of this that in Zhang Yi's understanding, Li Jing is obviously a person who knows how to be flexible and knows? Flexible generals, then the way of the military formation or some basic things of the march is definitely familiar.

But.... In the face of the defense of the Pearl Khan, the army was already undermanned, and now the Ashina people who were the front barrier suddenly disappeared, so that the Tang army had to face the enemy head-on, and in such a situation, Niu Jinda would lead five thousand elite soldiers to defend Shuofang, which has to be said to contain deep meaning.

In other words, Li Jing has already regarded Shuofang City as the last retreat of the Tang army to resettle, and he can't tolerate the slightest problem in Shuofang City.

Thinking of this, Zhang Yi secretly complained in his heart, but he still replied: "According to the remaining grain in the army, if the rear does not continue to support, the army will hold on for three months at most, which means that after entering the cold winter, we are very likely to run out of food!" ”

After he said this, Niu Jinda and Xue Wanqian immediately fell silent.

However, Zhang Yi continued: "Not only that, even if we can hold out for three months, it will be very difficult in these three months! According to the inspection, most of our grain is beans, and it can be said that there are almost no such things as chestnuts, wheat, and rice.

"yes!" Tang Peng also interjected: "This soybean eats too much and farts, the whole barracks are noisy all day long, and before the battle is fought, this person is fainted by his brother's fart, and it will be a trouble for a long time!" ”

"It's already September, in the middle of autumn, according to the past situation of the Turks, whether it is the Eastern Turks, the Pearl Khan or the Ashina people, they will definitely prepare for the winter before the cold winter comes!" Niu Jinda suddenly got up slowly and said, "Although this year's locust plague has been harmed by my Datang, the grassland has also been affected!" Some time ago, when the old man was still in Chang'an, there was a military report in Longyou, saying that the Hetao area was also full of locusts, and everywhere they went was a red land, so their life was not easy!

And now there are less than two months left before the beginning of winter, and in order to survive this winter, in order to reduce the number of deaths, they have only two choices. The first is to ask His Majesty for help, and the second is to enter the country and plunder.

But my Datang is now full of victims, and it is obvious that they will not get much help when they ask His Majesty for help, so they have only one choice, and that is to plunder deep into the territory of my Datang! ”

Zhang Yi's mouth was a little bitter.

I have to say that the veterans Niu Jinda and Li Jing analyzed very correctly.

Whether it is the evaporation of the Ashina people, or the disappearance of the Eastern Turks, or even the occupation of the Hetao by the Pearl Khan, everything is empty, and everything is actually just a cover, or a trick.

Because in the face of food and life, those people will absolutely stop at nothing to die.

It's just that we're all waiting for a good time! Wait for the other parties to kill each other, and they will profit for themselves!

Thinking about this, Zhang Yi's heart became even more uneasy, but... Obviously, I seem to have some clues, but I can't say it.

In the dark, he even had a bold idea, that is, is Jieli really defeated? And not to pull the Pearl Khan Department as a guise to attract the attention of the Tang Army?

And did the Ashina people discover something and thus hide their traces?

After all, the vast grassland, thousands of miles long, if you want to hide, it is really not easy to find!

"What does General Niu mean by telling me to wait?" Xue Wanqian also realized that something was wrong, this banquet was said to be for a few people to catch the wind, and it was better to say that it was a meeting for his old cow to take over the defense of Shuofang, and he immediately bowed his hand to Niu Jinda and said: "If the general has a life, I will not die!" ”

"Good!" Niu Jinda laughed.

What he is most worried about is this Xue Wancheng, you must know that Xue Wancheng is Chai Shao's person, the two brothers of the Xue family have been in Chai Shao's army since they joined the army, Chai Shao can be said to be both a grace to the two brothers, and there are also teachers and students in the military formation, so it seems that it is really not a simple matter to let Xue Wancheng easily call out Shuofang's defense rights.

But... What Niu Jinda didn't expect was that Xue Wanqian actually accepted it as soon as they met, and he looked obedient, which undoubtedly made him feel very relieved!