Chapter 438: Smoke rises from the clear field of the fortified wall
When Wang Juan and Zhang Xiaobao returned to the state capital of Jili Prefecture, they saw the detailed information sent back by Li Xun, saying that the intelligence was actually a nagging letter, and Li Xun complained a lot in the letter. lnocom
First of all, I complained that the New Year was not good, and I had been leading the troops outside, and it was freezing cold, which was very uncomfortable.
Then he complained about the difficulty of supply, and the people who helped with the transportation in the past in Jili Prefecture were able to support the consumption of the army at the beginning, and after the army continued to advance, the inconvenience of coming and going became prominent.
Often, when the army advances dozens of miles, it takes several days for the supply team behind to deliver the follow-up supplies, which greatly affects the mobility of the army.
Then he said that the people of the Black Water Governor's Mansion were cunning and did not confront him head-on, but ran all the way backwards, running with all the people.
When he was about to catch up a year ago, he had to give up his desperate pursuit because of a heavy snowfall, so that the living forces of the Heishui Governor's Mansion were effectively assembled.
What's more, many of the people brought from Shuzhou are sick and need to be taken care of, and it is not easy for Jili Prefecture to remove the people in the past, there were no problems at the beginning, and they seem to have adapted to the cold environment, but with the long-term fighting on the snow, many people have frostbite.
In short, the Heishui Governor's Mansion is not a man to fight, and he needs support, and I hope that Wang Juan, a man like a military god, can exert his power again.
After reading the letter, Zhang Xiaobao smiled and said to Wang Juan: "It seems that Li Xun encountered the tactics of other people's strong walls and clear fields, and the army was not adapted to the cold climate for a long time, so he was stunned. ”
Wang Juan nodded, agreed, and said: "It seems that our adaptation training in Jili Prefecture is still not enough, I am very worried about the part of people who go to North America, I don't know if they can survive, so far there is no news back."
Li Xun is also really, he only knows how to complain, and he doesn't know how to write down the tactics used by the other party he encounters, so I can't judge what the other party's generals are planning. ”
"How else can you fight, when winter comes, send troops, should use the fastest speed to intersperse infiltration, I guess Li Xun wants to kill fewer people, and wants to use the momentum of the soldiers to directly crush the other party, but people did not compromise, and used all the available environment to teach Li Xun a lesson.
There are high mountains and dense forests, and there should be a lot of primeval forests, thanks to the fact that he didn't bring a spear unit this time, otherwise it would be easy for people to fight an ambush and snatch the gun, and it was cold to a certain extent, and the trigger couldn't be hooked. ”
Zhang Xiaobao also followed the analysis, the time and place are on the opponent's side, as for the people, the two sides seem to be about the same.
Wang Juan put down the letter in his hand, pondered for a while, and said: "Li Xun should be allowed to stop, retreat the army, replace it with a new army and go out, now the morale of the team of more than 20,000 people is so low that it can't be lower, and the place of the Heishui Governor's Mansion is big, don't expect to be able to fight it all at once." lnocom”
Wang Juan's decision was made, and he quickly asked people to send it to Li Xun's side, and it is estimated that it will take at least a month to arrive, and there is no way to do it now.
Zhang Xiaobao also agreed to Li Xun's proposal to withdraw his troops, adding: "The gunboat was reinforced from the sea because it was frozen over there, should it be used, I don't know how about Shui Yun following?" It's best to get the news back soon. ”
Perhaps hearing Zhang Xiaobao's call, Shui Yun flew back the next day, and saw that Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan looked very affectionate, and ate a meal of beef beautifully, so he reluctantly left with Wang Juan's order.
A cold wind blew, Li Xun couldn't help but shiver, put down the binoculars, gently rubbed the face of the countless small wounds blown by the wind with his hand, bared his teeth in pain, and scolded: "Damn, these people have no backbone at all, or they are not gentlemen, there is a kind of rushing up knife to knife, gun to gun fight, you know to hide, hide from his mother." ”
Li Xun next to the person who was responsible for coming up with the idea of joining the army did not say a word at this time, he was also beaten by the other party and lost his temper, as long as the deal here formed a scale, the other party immediately retreated, relying on the familiarity with the terrain, the speed is called a fast, every time I look at it, I feel that I can be surrounded, and as a result, after closing the encirclement, I will find that the other party disappears between heaven and earth.
Li Xun gritted his teeth, turned his head and asked the army, "Tell me, how will this battle be fought?" A few days ago, they were surrounded on a hill, and they were about to rest and storm them, but after a night, they actually watered the city, and they were trapped for a few days in vain, and let them run away in a hurry. ”
When the army heard Li Xun's words, he wanted to say that if you didn't have to say anything that day to give the enemy a hope to live, if you didn't have one of the three around, how could you let the family find a chance to run away, and the people who were ambushed in the loose place didn't have time to move at all.
Thinking like this in his heart, he didn't dare to say anything when he joined the army, so he could only follow Li Xun's words and said: "Your Highness, the minister estimates that they are not having a good time now, at least they have been running, and they have never dared to confront us head-on, and they have almost eaten food or anything, and there is heating, without a house, can they not be cold?" ”
Li Xun didn't say anything, he thought that what he said about joining the army was all nonsense, who is not cold, he is still cold, after chasing until now, how can there be any fixed house to live in? Living in a tent, damp and freezing, this battle is impossible to fight.
He joined the army and continued: "Your Highness, the minister is thinking, it is better to retreat first, now that it is the time of spring, they must also need spring ploughing, let's give them the place first, let them feel safe, go back to spring ploughing, and wait for them to tidy up the land, plant the seeds, and we will make a comeback." kankankan8CN
Your Highness, you think, the seeds they have planted with great difficulty, it is impossible to give up casually, if we fight again, they will inevitably have people who want to fight with us, and now we are not afraid to fight, we are afraid that they will run, if they still run, we will destroy their land. ”
"Okay, good way, it's important to cut off their hope of life, they will inevitably go crazy, your way is good, withdraw, but if I withdraw, will I be laughed at when I go back? What should I say about the emperor? The beginning of spring, why don't I see any of the appearance of spring, it should be cold and still cold. ”
Li Xun didn't want to fight, he was physically and mentally exhausted, now it can be said that it is difficult to ride a tiger, if he enters, he can't enter, the place of the Heishui Governor's Mansion is too big, and he will run all the way after chasing each other, and he can't retreat and retreat.
I all know that this time it is the emperor who is discussing the sword in Huashan, and the people from the Heishui Governor's Mansion want to have a pot, if such a provocation of Hongguoguo is not convinced, where is the prestige of the country?
What's more, this expedition can be said to be his first time, if he runs away, the other brothers must not laugh at themselves?
Joining the army may not be good for fighting in such an environment, but he has done a good job in grasping human nature.
"Your Highness, this is not a retreat, in fact, this is called a strategic shift, when Wang joined the army on the front line of Jinchuan, he did not transfer less, and in the end, didn't he win? I only know that blindly moving forward is not a good general, and sometimes it takes more courage to make temporary concessions that are helpful to the overall situation. ”
Li Xun loved to listen to this, his eyes narrowed, he kept nodding, and said to the army: "Since you insist on making a transfer so much, the general will listen to you once, pass on the general's order, the front team will become the back team, transfer, pay attention to maintaining the formation, don't let people counterattack." ”
Joining the army was stunned and looked very helpless, which put the responsibility on himself, but who let him follow, and he didn't help win the battle, so he had to do it.
With Li Xun's order, the team began to retreat, to put it simply, if you want to retreat all, it is not possible to do it in a short time, and it is impossible to retreat to Jili Prefecture in one go, so you can only withdraw to the Bohai Governor's Mansion first.
Li Xun was very reluctant to go over, afraid of seeing the people of the Bohai Governor's Mansion, in case the other party thought that he could learn the methods of the Heishui Governor's Mansion and make a fuss, it would be really difficult to deal with.
The Tang Dynasty's army retreated when morale was at its lowest, and as is the case in all wars, the people of the Heishui Governor's Mansion would not give up this opportunity to pursue.
Although there was no large-scale frontal engagement, the harassment of small forces never stopped, traps, night attacks, all the tricks that could be used were used, making it very difficult for the troops sent by Li Xun to go.
Every day Li Xun can hear the casualties from behind, there are not many deaths, but he can't stand it and always die, he is very worried that the troops behind the palace will retreat when they have no morale, in that case, I don't know how many people will die. lnocom
After retreating for a few days, what Li Xun was worried about did not appear, but there was a little turnaround, and the 2,000 people who left behind the palace actually set up a camp in an open place.
"Your Highness, those two thousand people behind the palace seem to want to counterattack." On the morning of joining the army, before dinner, I came to Li Xun's camp and said to Li Xun.
Li Xun was stunned for a moment, and asked puzzledly, "Do they want to fight to the death?" That's not possible, two thousand people is not a small number, if they die, how should I explain to Xiaobao and them, they are people from Jili Prefecture. ”
The army shook his head and replied: "Your Highness, I don't know if they are going to fight to the death, and they didn't continue to send back the news as before, but the person in charge of answering the back saw that there was a lot of smoke rising over there, and the minister thought that they wanted to stay there for a long time, in order to have a chance to counterattack." ”
Hearing the words of joining the army, Li Xun was even more puzzled: "I don't seem to have given such an order, right?" Aren't they fooling around? Stationed, what to station, the food left for them is enough for them to eat for a few days, and now they are almost exhausted, do they want to starve themselves to death? Give me a way to reach them. ”
The more Li Xun thought about it, the more angry he became, he didn't listen to orders anymore, could it be that he couldn't command the people of Jili Prefecture after fighting a depressed battle?
As he was talking, a herald hurriedly ran in outside, with an anxious look, and reported to Li Xun: "Your Highness, it's not good, Your Highness, there's smoke over there." ”
"I know, isn't it the troops behind the palace?" Li Xun said disappreciatively.
But the smoke, the smoke, Your Highness, you better go and see it for yourself. The herald wanted to explain, but suddenly gave up, only a few steps away, and when he got out of the tent, he could see the situation over there.
"Let's go, let's see." Li Xun, who was in doubt, raised his legs and walked out, and at this moment there were already many people standing outside, all looking in the direction of the north.
As soon as Li Xun came out, the first feeling was that it was cloudy, and after following the eyes of others, the whole person was frightened, only to see that the smoke in the north was billowing and covering the sky, and it was not cooking smoke at all, but smoke that could only appear when there was a fire.
At this time, the wind is blowing in the north, and it is a little westerly, and the smoke is also sloping in the northwest direction.
After being stunned for a while, Li Xun shook his head twice and shouted, "Who knows what's going on?" What the hell is going on over there? ”
Everyone was at a loss.
Standing beside Li Xun, he muttered: "It turns out that a big fire can be burned when it is so cold, even if it snows, it can't stop the spread of the fire." ”
Li Xun nodded, it was the first time he thought that such a big fire could be burned, and an unbelievable thought suddenly appeared in his heart, and said to the army: "Could it be that the people from the Heishui Governor's Mansion saw that the people behind our palace were guarding it, so they got a lot of fire-starting things and wanted to burn them?" That's 2,000 people. ”
Joining the army was speechless for a while, with a look of fear in his eyes, and his body trembled slightly, as if he thought of the two thousand people being burned alive, with a painful expression on his face, it was the elite troops of Jili Prefecture.
"Quick, quickly find a way for General Ben, contact them, let them withdraw, quickly withdraw, let's withdraw too, in case the wind changes direction, it will be troublesome."
Li Xun was agitated and shouted loudly to the people around him, but the soldiers around him shook their heads helplessly, how to contact? Who in the past did not die?
At the moment when everyone was dazed and helpless, a crisp eagle roar suddenly sounded in the sky, and everyone couldn't help but look up, only to see a snow-white eagle soaring and circling with its wings spread, and then began to dive towards the ground.
As soon as the soldiers beside Li Xun saw the eagle, the first thing that came to mind was to shoot it down, and beckoned: "Quick, knock it down, so as not to hurt His Highness." ”
After shouting this voice, he found that many people did not move, only a few people pulled up their bows, and before they could aim, Li Xun's voice came.
"Put down the bow for me, shoot it and you don't want to live, Shui Yun, I'm here, Shui Yun, come down."
The eagle in the sky chirped back, and sure enough, it flew down towards Li Xun, circled at a low altitude, and saw that there was no danger, so it landed on the tent and grabbed a few holes in the tent.
"Your Highness, this eagle ......?" I've never seen a water cloud when I joined the army, and I don't know what to do.
"Hehe, this is Xiaobao and Juanjuan's baby, I didn't expect to come here, hurry, let people prepare something to eat, ask for raw meat."
Li Xun's mood suddenly improved because of Shui Yun's arrival, rubbed his hands and came to the bottom of the tent, looked up at Shui Yun, and said, "Where are you from?" Xiaobao and Juan Juan have a letter? ”
Shui Yun nodded to Li Xun under the shocked gaze of someone who had never seen it in the army, raised one wing and pointed at the sea, and let out a short chirp from his mouth.
"From the sea? Are you with the fleet? Send me a message? Li Xun picked up a thick wooden stick from the ground and put it on his shoulder with one hand, and asked again.
Shui Yun nodded again, and as soon as his wings closed, he flew to Li Xun's wooden stick, raised a paw and asked Li Xun to take something down.
I was stupid when I joined the army, and muttered: "Damn, where did you fly from?" Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan are already demonic enough, and raising an eagle can do the same. ”
Shui Yun turned his head and glanced at the army, obviously hearing the words of the army, expressing his dissatisfaction in his heart.
"Hahahaha." Li Xun laughed, seemed very happy, and said to the army: "We have only one in the world, this time, as long as there is news from there, I think there will be a way, I don't know if this news comes directly from the fleet or from somewhere else." ”
While talking, Li Xun had already taken down the bamboo tube tied to Shui Yun's legs, and helped Shui Yun knead it, relax and relax, and it was uncomfortable to tie it for a long time.
When Li Xun stood and opened the letter, someone had already sent the wild thing that had just been killed to the front, cut it into pieces, and put it on the ground, wanting to see how Shui Yun ate it, but Shui Yun was motionless, only staring at the person who sent the meat with his eyes.
"Okay, let's do it, withdraw what should be withdrawn, stay behind, burn some forests and be afraid of what, as long as you can disrupt the deployment of the enemy in the Heishui Governor's Mansion, everything is worth it, the juan is the juan, you can command it so far away, hehe, now you are finished."
After reading the letter, Li Xun suddenly seemed to be a different person, recovering from a general of a defeated army to a victorious general.
Joining the army wanted to take a look at what was written in the letter, but seeing that Li Xun didn't give it to him, he had to change the topic, pointed to the meat on the ground and asked, "Your Highness, does this eagle not like to eat venison?" ”
"It's called Yunshui, it's not that I don't like to eat, it's that I'm afraid of being poisoned, Shuiyun, don't worry, eat, if someone dares to poison him, General Ben will kill his whole family."
Li Xun explained to joining the army, and gave Shui Yun a guarantee.
Shui Yun shook his head, still not eating, obviously not believing Li Xun's assurance.
"Go, get it alive." Li Xun had no choice but to order again, this time it was a rabbit that was sent, very thin, probably hungry in winter, Li Xun personally cut off the pieces of meat, and Shui Yun ate it cooperatively.
The army looked at Shui Yun enviously, and asked Li Xun, "Your Highness, what are we going to do next?" ”
"The large army retreats, leaving two thousand people here to stay, all supplies are left as far as possible, and then follow orders, this time I want to let them see the strength of my Tang army."
Li Xun took out the letter he had just picked up again, and smiled with a thief's face. Super fast updates, super cool experience with the latest chapters and timely updates on lnocom