Chapter 319: Sorrow and hardship, and there is no way out
He was hating the Tuliao people for coming at an inopportune time, and ruining his big things. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info He had already contacted almost the same, and several important ministers missed the meaning and expressed their support for him to become the crown prince. Now he is waiting to find a day when the wind is beautiful and his father is in a happy mood, and asks a right attendant of the ministry that he has arranged in advance to write to ask the prince to be established early.
As a result, as soon as the Tuliao people came, his entire plan was directly disrupted. The Tuliao people have now come to the door, and his father is desperately fighting for the life and death of his family, busy deploying troops and planning strategies. At this time, you kept nagging in his ear to determine the right to inherit the inheritance early, isn't this looking for awkwardness, waiting to be scolded?
Although Li Xinxiao's heart is a little small and his qi is narrow, fortunately, he is not stupid and can distinguish the weight. didn't make any more trouble, but helped his father to transport grain and grass, prepare ordnance, and deploy soldiers to prepare to defend the city. Li Xinxiao has been in charge of the logistics affairs of the Li family for a long time, and he is also a capable person who has always taken care of the logistics in an orderly manner. The army's food, grass and equipment, and military horses have always been complicated and chaotic, and they are the most difficult to handle.
You think, if you want to levy military horses, in addition to those raised by your own horse farm, you also need to provide a batch of them from the local area. But there are also local difficulties, and the supply of war horses may be different, and it is even possible to make mules to fill the number. You can't go hundreds of miles to a remote village in the mountains and beat people up for a mule. You can only send people to reorganize and screen, select the war horses that can be used for the right age, and distribute them to the cavalry. Others are either pack horses or cut out. These jobs are not something that can be done as soon as the upper lip touches the lower lip, you must know the art of Soma to do it, otherwise your subordinates will be lazy and fool you, delaying the battle of the army, and then you will be at a loss for words, and it will be difficult to escape the blame.
Since Li Sinai came with the army, he has always been relieved to hand over the logistics to his eldest son, Li Xinxiao, to deal with it. Over the years, Li Xinxiao has also been conscientious and conscientious, and he has never made mistakes, from this point of view, he does have a lot of skills. It is no wonder that Li Sinai has always favored him so much and given him greater authority.
As for the ministers contacted by Li Xinxiao, although they expressed their support for him to be the crown prince, most of them were just hindered by the orthodoxy of etiquette and law. He is the eldest son of Yan, and he is born to be the most legitimate heir, and Wenchen pays the most attention to etiquette and law, so of course he has to show his support.
As for the generals, they are the second princes who prefer Li Shiluan's courage and good fighting, and they are not very enthusiastic about the eldest prince who is biased towards Wenchen.
Li Sinai didn't miss all the expressions of his four adult sons, but he continued to discuss countermeasures with his ministers quietly, as if he didn't see the colorful facial expressions of his sons at all. Although Li Shiluan is learning his father's facial paralysis stunt, he has just started at the moment, and the result of trying to maintain facial paralysis is that people can see that his face is unnatural at a glance.
The Golden Wolf Cavalry is really a very tricky opponent for the current Li family. In the face of an opponent like the Golden Wolf Cavalry, which is the strongest in the world, it is indeed difficult to fight. First of all, you can't beat hard fighting. You can only use a meter, but if you want to use a meter, it is not so easy. Judging from the current situation, it is basically impossible to make a plan to calculate the Golden Wolf Cavalry.
For example, the most common tactics are to lure the enemy deep into the depths of deception, and then ambush and besiege them. In the face of the golden wolf cavalry, it was difficult for the Li family to come out, because the gap between the two families was too big. If you send foot soldiers to lure the enemy, isn't that a food for the cavalry? The foot soldiers can't outrun the cavalry, how can they lead the cavalry to the ambush circle? Halfway through, he was killed by the cavalry. Send cavalry, run but run, but the golden wolf cavalry will ride and shoot, he doesn't have to catch up with you, as long as he follows your ass and keeps shooting arrows, he can kill you all. Before it was lured to the ambush circle, the bait was eaten up by the golden wolf cavalry, and the plan was naturally self-defeating.
Or maybe you divide up your forces. Your soldiers and horses can't beat the Golden Wolf Cavalry combined, and you still divide your troops? Aren't you afraid that the Golden Wolf Cavalry will give you a break? And then I'll give you a sweep of thousands of troops.
Thinking about it, the combat strength of his own soldiers and horses is too much inferior to the Golden Wolf Cavalry, and it is no longer a strategy that can make up for it. This battle is currently "difficult" in two words.
As for the frontal toughness, let alone think about it, in the face of the golden wolf cavalry, the Li family's soldiers and horses could only defend the city, and they did not dare to go out of the city to fight in the field. Reluctantly pulling it out, that is, delivering food to people, does not play any positive role. Therefore, if you want to counterattack the Golden Wolf Cavalry, you can only count on the high walls of Luodu City, and hold on for a few years until the Golden Wolf Cavalry is exhausted. When the golden wolf cavalry was sleepy and lacking horses, the Li family sent cavalry to rush up and defeat them.
But to be honest, although the cavalry of the Pingtang Kingdom is well-equipped, it is really not enough compared to the Golden Wolf Cavalry. Maybe after fighting with the Golden Wolf Cavalry for another two or three years, after being tempered by a strong enemy, these cavalry will also grow into excellent soldiers, but now, they are still too far behind.
The only advantage of the Li family now is that the Luodu City is built against the Yellow Turbidity River, and it is not afraid of being besieged by the Liao people. The Tuliao people had unparalleled cavalry on the road, but there was no naval army, so even if Luodu City was besieged, they could calmly take the waterway to continue to transport grain, grass, ordnance, and horses. Relying on the advantage of Luodu City to fight with the Tuliao State was the only conclusion reached by the ministers after discussing for a long time.
The ministers discussed for a long time, and found that their soldiers and horses were not as good as the golden wolf cavalry. This is a real way, for example, if you use a plan to ambush the golden wolf cavalry, the infantry is not used, so you can only use the cavalry to ambush. There were 10,000 golden wolf cavalry in ambush, and the Pingtang cavalry had to have at least 50,000 before they dared to carry out this strategy.
But near this Luodu City, there is really no place that can accommodate 50,000 cavalry to ambush. Hidden in the mountains? Brother, if the cavalry can go into the mountains on a large scale and hide, this matter will be easy to do. The mountains are densely wooded, how can the cavalry charge? The roots of the tree on the ground are wrong, not afraid of tripping over your horse's legs?
As for ambushing the Golden Wolf Cavalry on flat ground, when the time comes, 50,000 cavalry may not be able to beat 10,000 Golden Wolf Cavalry.
A civilian official who had read the military book for two days also proposed: "Why don't you lure the golden wolf cavalry to the northern mountains and ambush and besiege them with foot soldiers?" "Brother, either talk about killing people on paper.
Now the primary goal of the Golden Wolf Cavalry is to attack Luodu, and the road is only to clear the obstacles. You lure the Golden Wolf Cavalry? What lure? What is more tempting than Lo? It's a good idea, but it's a pity that the reality is too cruel. Luodu, the capital of the Pingtang Kingdom, is close at hand, how could the Golden Wolf Cavalry divide their troops at this time, they must be killed under the city of Luodu first, with the primary purpose of attacking the city. Everything else is a small thing, and I definitely won't care about it.
If you run into the mountains to the north, the Tuliao people will happily seize the opportunity to capture Luodu, instead of running with you stupidly to go into the mountains with you.
The Golden Wolf Cavalry is now rushing for all the family property of the Pingtang Kingdom, and you throw out a piece of brick inlaid with gold, just to attract people to give up your family property? Is it possible? The Tuliao people are not the time when they were poor and crazy before, and a broken iron cauldron can cause the two tribes to draw knives and slash each other. The Tuliao people are now very rich, and their vision is naturally rising, and the little profit you throw out will no longer be looked down upon.
In the end, Li Sinai made a decision, or first ordered the five generals outside to form a hard village with their backs to Luodu City and fight in a daze! Find a way to drag out the war, and then we must not let the Tuliao people attack the city of Luodu now, or it will be delayed until winter. When the weather is cold, it is much more convenient to defend the city.
Don't get me wrong, this is not to say that the Tuliao people are afraid of the cold, but in winter, the war horses have no fodder to eat everywhere, and they must eat grain. At that time, grain transportation will become a big burden for the Tuliao people. For a long time, the Tuliao people have been fighting with cattle and sheep and eating cow and sheep milk powder, which makes their logistics extremely easy.
But now, in order to keep the combat power of the war horses in winter, it is necessary to feed grain, and transporting grain has become a major problem for the Tuliao people. The Tuliao people had never done the work of transporting grain before, and they were very unfamiliar with it. Fortunately, Fan Guoshi came up with the idea of using Pingzhou people to carry grain. However, due to the lack of professional logistics personnel, the grain transportation of the Tuliao people is still a mess.
After the order was issued to the five generals, Li Sinai was fortunately not the kind of boss who slammed the door, and knew that if he wanted the horse to run, he had to feed the horse. With a wave of his hand, he issued a military order to increase the number of troops to the five generals by 50,000 again, and will support another 50,000 soldiers and horses in the future.
Of course, the defeat of the five generals cannot be blamed. Li Si ordered Shangshu Province to issue an official document to reprimand the five generals for losing the battle, but this Cheng was in danger of survival, and he was not held accountable first, and the five generals were guilty of meritorious service. Although the Ping Tang Dynasty mostly imitated the system of the Ping and Zhou dynasties, Li Si Nai did not set up a Privy Council to manage military affairs, and he himself controlled all the power of mobilizing troops and horses.
At the same time, Li Sinai also secretly wrote an edict, in which he comforted the hearts of the five generals, telling them that victory and defeat are common things in soldiers, and you are all my favorite generals, so you don't have to worry about this small defeat, and you should work together to resist a strong enemy. In the end, Li Sinai made a big promise, and after repelling the Tuliao people, he would seal his wife and son, and rest with the country, how to do it.
Sure enough, he is a black-hearted boss, and the black pot is carried by the prime minister, and he secretly pretends to be a good person. The next five generals must be grateful to the emperor and desperately serve to the death, and the hatred was all pulled away by the prime minister of Shangshu Province. Of course, several prime ministers are all old slippery heads, how could they not know that they are carrying the black pot for the emperor, but they can't carry this black pot, and if they don't carry it, they will have to be alienated by the emperor.
Originally, working for the boss, in front of the prime minister and high-ranking officials, he was also a powerful man in front of other officials, under one person, above ten thousand. Every day is condescending, people are in office, high sums of money are paid, large sums of money are eaten, and the black pot is carried by the boss, which is also the due meaning.
After Pharmacist Li was replenished with 50,000 new blood, he once again exerted his amazing strategic ability, planted more flags, set up a slight suspicion, and actually quickly retreated with the army at night, and when Fan Guoshi reacted, he had already led his troops to retreat for more than forty miles.
This is the first time that Fan Guoshi has been tricked since the invasion of Pingzhou Tianxia, and he secretly said in his heart that he underestimated the heroes of the world before, and he has to be cautious in the future. But he didn't rush to chase after the Li family's soldiers and horses, but calmly issued a military order, letting the colliding army continue to move forward, and the wolf teeth followed suit, and the golden wolf cavalry rested slightly.
(To be continued.) )