Chapter 201: Crossing (I)

"Princess, do you want to learn the scriptures and poems of our Han family, and you also want to learn to march and fight?" Li Wei was a little displeased.

It's understandable that a barbarian woman doesn't know much about affairs, but how can she ask at will about military deployment? But his displeasure was undoubtedly to Niu playing the piano, and the princess was still asking: "I'm just worried that the fewer enemies the better, now that there are many people and they are building stone walls, isn't it more difficult to cross over?" ”

Li Wei flicked his sleeves and left.

Even the princess can't say it.

But Li Wei was very calm, as if he had not seen the arrangement on the other side of the river, and arranged affairs with a relaxed expression. This calmness also infected the soldiers, maybe His Highness has some plan. For example, Changcaoling, of course, that battle was a small test, a group of rabble, and the number was not large, and they took advantage of the natural danger, but they didn't even look at the road next to it, and they didn't win.

It was not unprepared, the soldiers who were good at water were summoned, and the warriors were selected in the middle, but after selecting the candidates, they began to train normally again, or set up a lot of rafts. Soldiers are at ease, but some are not. After all, Xue Ne is a little younger, and he has seen a lot of tactics and tactics of war, and he understands some of them.

It is still different from Changcaoling, the water flow of Longchuan River is turbulent, several ferries in the upper and lower reaches are guarded by enemy troops, and other places can not swim crossing, even if they can swim crossing, it is also a cliff and dangerous ridge in the past, and the battle example of Changcaoling can not be staged again. It also means that there is only one way to storm this road, which can be delayed for a day, and the difficulty of the storm will increase. It's just that there is no enemy reinforcements, and the stone wall is getting bigger and bigger, and it is about to become a city wall. How do you get over it in the end?

found Li Wei and said, "Your Highness, you can't delay it any longer." ”

In the final analysis, the prince has never fought, Pei Xingjian has no brilliant records, and the black teeth often don't understand. Encountering difficulties, Xue Ne was a little unconvinced. Of course, his father is here, and he will be calm.

"Why?" Li Wei asked tepidly.

"Your Highness, look at the other side," Xue Ne was a little anxious, not knowing if the prince was really calm when he was confident, or if he had such a personality.

"Xenne, what kind of enemy do you say is the most dangerous?"

The question was a little vague, and Xue Ne didn't know how to answer it for a while.

"You talk to Lone now, if Lone does it with you, who will win and who will lose?"

"It will be, it will be you, Your Highness." Xue Nezhi hesitated for a moment, and finally answered honestly.

"But now that you're talking to Lone, if someone behind you suddenly touches you and tiptoes and wants to harm you, what chance of success will you have?"

Xue Ne glanced back unconsciously. Of course, not a single enemy was not. Li Wei said meaningfully: "The most dangerous enemy is the enemy behind you. ”

"But ......"

"Don't do it, the enemy behind is not dangerous, then add one, the enemy from behind you is the most dangerous. Don't ask too much. ”

"Whoa!" Since he has said this, knowing that the prince does have a reliable arrangement, his position is still very low, and he has no right to ask. Even so, it is also stained with the light of his Lao Tzu and his own light in the commentary, otherwise Li Wei still won't say it.

On the fourth day of camping, Li Wei asked people to buy more than 30 cattle and more than 60 old local horses, and ordered the soldiers to slaughter them and reward the three armies. But the slaughter is very strange, except for the slaughter, only let the soldier break a hole in the abdomen, whether it is cowhide or horse skin must be intact, otherwise it will be dealt with by military law. A law enforcement team was even sent to supervise. The meat was almost dug up, and when it was finished, the skin was immediately taken away by the law enforcement team.

The princess looked at it curiously and asked, "Prince, what is this?" ”

In fact, everyone else was curious, but it wasn't like she was a remote barbarian girl who didn't dare to ask.

"Cross the river," Li Wei replied honestly.

Everyone's faces didn't believe how to cross the river with cowhide and horseskin. Besides, a lot of rafts have been arranged, and there are enough tools to cross the river, but if you just cross it, the casualties will be heavy. And the soldiers who are really good in water will not exceed two thousand. Most of the soldiers probably didn't cross the pontoon bridge, they just got on the raft and couldn't stand.

Li Wei didn't say anything more, but he was thinking in his heart, he didn't know how many cowhides should be used to make a hot air balloon, but it was estimated that he couldn't carry many people, but he became a live target when he landed, and the gains outweighed the losses. Besides, there aren't many big livestock in the area. So I gave up.

Still training at a leisurely pace, or reading a book.

On the fifth day, and in fact on the first day of the second month, Li Wei gave another order, cutting green vines from the mountains, or buying hemp skins from nearby, and weaving long ropes, and tying ropes at the four corners of the raft. They also sent some iron masks, but the law enforcement team guarded what the masks looked like, and no one was allowed to watch. After finishing it, eating beef and horse meat, training, and in the afternoon, directly ordered to rest.

At this moment, almost everyone who doesn't know the inside story is confused.

When night fell, and it was the beginning of the month, a lot of mist rose again, and the five fingers were almost invisible on the opposite side. Although self-confidence, it does not mean arrogance, and it also prevents the other side from rebelling and counterattacking, after all, people are in danger of crossing the river, and many boats have been looted. In terms of the number of soldiers, I'm afraid it's not a lot. Therefore, the Tang Dynasty battalion patrolled more closely. On a normal night, the princess sat by the river and played the flute.

Li Wei walked over and asked, "Why haven't you fallen asleep until now?" ”

"I just can't sleep, I don't know how many people will die when the big war starts."

"It's war, and it has to die. So I told you that day, when the world is mixed, there will be no war. ”

"Prince, you will die, aren't you uncomfortable?"

"It's uncomfortable, but kindness does not mean weakness, it does not represent the kindness of a woman. In fact, Lone doesn't want to kill a lot of people, but what if you don't fight? The rebels will quickly occupy Yaozhou, and then Queensland, Huichuan, Wangzhou, and Rongzhou, and many tribes will be killed and taken captive like your Wanjian tribe. ”

mentioned her own tribe, although the princess had a good heart, she was silent.

The two sat quietly for a while, and Li Wei said: "Go back and rest, in a few days we will be able to go to Yaozhou City, conquer Yaozhou City, and send someone to ask you about the whereabouts of your captives." I hope they are still in Shunbu, and if they are captured in Tibet, they will be helpless. ”

"Tibet?"

"Well, there are also Tibetans, but there are not many of them, and their situation is not very good now, so they dare not go to war directly with our Tang Dynasty."

"By the way, the subjects heard that Tubo is better than your Han family in the north?"

"Occasional failures are a common occurrence in soldiers. Besides, how many people are in our Tang Dynasty, how many people are in Tibet. How rich our Tang Dynasty was, how many materials did they have, and what about them? Even if they win once and twice, if they go to war, they will consume Tibet's national strength and be torn apart. So Tubo didn't want to fight. ”

Not only that, Tuyuhun and the Western Regions have settled down, Tubo will fight, and the wolf's heart is always wild. But even Li Wei was reluctant to say this kind of discouragement. Of course, he is reasonable, but the first premise is that the Tang Dynasty can maintain such development for generations. One generation is in chaos, everything is in chaos, this is the biggest shortcoming of imperial feudalism.

The princess blinked and did not speak again.

When the night is quiet, the fog on the river is heavier, even if it is just across the river, looking at the opposite side, there are dark shadows, which is not very real.

Gradually, at the time of the third watch, a snoring sounded in the barracks, and suddenly there was a shout of killing on the other side of the river. It was only at this time that the Tang Army sounded the real rallying horn. One by one, all the soldiers got up sleepily and hurriedly put on their armor. Then I looked across the river, and countless fires were flickering and flying, because the fog was heavy, and I couldn't see clearly. But we can know the fierceness of the fighting on the other side from the screams of the soldiers before they died or were seriously wounded. Even the princess and sisters got dressed and walked out.

I couldn't help but look left and right suspiciously, and after roughly estimating, the soldiers did not decrease. One by one, inexplicably, the people who came, were at war with the enemy?

Li Wei began to order: "Black teeth are constant." ”

"Here!"

"Prepare now."

There are more than 10,000 people, and if they can't hear it, Li Wei gave an order, and they need to pass the herald back one by one to know what order is given. Once again, he ordered the two hundred warriors who had been summoned yesterday to stand up. Then another order was given, something was lifted. It was a piece of cowhide and horse skin left yesterday, but all the cracks that had been cut were tightly sewn with thread, leaving only a gap. Begin to have the soldier blow air into it with a hose. Then I opened the other boxes, and inside were some masks made today, which were very ugly, and some colors were painted, which looked very hideous and terrifying. Let the two hundred soldiers led by the Black Tooth Tsuneyuki take off their clothes and send someone to paint their bodies again.

Even now, except for those who know the inside story, it is still incomprehensible.

Then he ordered Ma Renjing and Han Qingyu to lead 1,500 soldiers with good water characteristics and began to prepare for swimming. But he pulled out the rope and tied it to the tail of the horse and the ox that were blowing. Then he put on a mask on the black tooth Changzhi.

The two hundred soldiers were carefully selected, not only good in water, but also burly, covered in oil paint, and wearing masks. During the day, it looked better, but this night, the night was deep and foggy, and he stood under the torches, all of them looked like demons from hell.

Tsuneyuki looked at his subordinates on the left and right, and suddenly burst out laughing. This smile woke everyone up, otherwise they were all frightened by the appearance of these two hundred people. The cattle and horses are blown up one by one, and they are also unreal, as if they are live cattle and horses. But it was very light, and the two of them carried it to the river.

Only then did Li Wei say: "Prepare to cross the river." ”

The soldiers began to put the raft, but they did not let Ma Renjing and them board the raft, but let the black tooth Changzhi lead two hundred soldiers to carry shields, knives and other weapons, holding torches in their hands, and got on the cowhide boat and horse skin boat. The powerful soldier directly used the Mo knife as a boat oar and began to row towards the other side of the river.

At first, the soldiers were dumbfounded, it turned out that cowhides and horseskins could really carry people across the river. Even the princess opened her mouth wide and couldn't close it for a long time. After a long while, Xue Ne suddenly clapped his hands and said, "Wonderful! ”

On this night, he looked like this, as if he was standing on the back of a live ox or a horse, crossing the river on the opposite bank. These barbarians, Su Ri believes in ghosts and gods the most, and some believe in some evil and crooked gods, after seeing it, they will think that what is rushing over?

Di Renjie also said: "What a clever plan." ”

Li Wei didn't listen to their feelings, and ordered: "Ma Renjing, Han Qingyu, cross!" ”

: Is it to brag about crossing the river, or is it to cross the river to brag about the cowhide? Plagiarize the Tangut people and the king of Lanling,

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