Chapter 227: In front of the two armies
Li Xian and Wang Fangyi were in the big tent for more than an hour, which made the guards under Wang Fangyi's command feel a little unbelievable, because as Wang Fangyi's personal entourage and the domestic slave of the Taiyuan Wang family, they naturally knew that their master would hate the Empress Wu, and they also knew that their master would never pretend to the sons of the Empress Wu because of this, even if the other party relieved the siege of Shancheng, this is all official business, not personal friendship, plus they have discussed official affairs just now, no matter how they think, It is impossible to have anything special to say with Li Xian, and as for talking for such a long time, it is absolutely impossible. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
But this impossible thing happened, which is really appalling.
Just when they were waiting anxiously, the tent of the big tent was finally opened, and Li Xian and Wang Fangyi walked out together, although the two looked very polite, but everyone found that the two of them looked quite estranged from each other.
And this made Wang Fangyi's henchmen and guards think that it was normal.
Even so, they were very strange about what the two of them were talking about together for more than an hour. So Wang Fangyi's personal soldier captain Wang Hu asked himself about his deep relationship with the main general, and finally couldn't help but ask about it.
But Wang Fangyi said lightly: "It's just to discuss the current military situation, but I didn't say anything useful, but no matter what, I will still cooperate with him to fight this battle, after all, this is a business matter, the emperor is as kind to me as a mountain, even if I Wang Fangyi is wronged in my heart, but I can't abolish the public with private interests." ”
"Uncle is right, what my nephew admires the most is people like my uncle who distinguish between public and private." Wang Hu was originally a distant nephew of Wang Fangyi, although his family blood belonged to the Taiyuan Wang family, but it was already a branch, the family road has long declined, as a last resort, he joined the army with Wang Fangyi, and he has also practiced martial arts for so many years, and has become the captain of the personal soldiers under Wang Fangyi.
At the same time, this Wang Hu was influenced by Wang Fangyi and was quite upright, so he listened to what Wang Fangyi said, and then he praised him sincerely.
Although Wang Hu can be regarded as an absolutely trustworthy confidant, Wang Fangyi did not reveal any of the previous conversation with Li Xian, in his opinion, his fate is nothing, but if it has an adverse impact on Li Xian, thus hindering Li Xian's resistance to Empress Wu and defending the road of the Tang Dynasty, then he will become a sinner through the ages, even if he dies in the future, he will not have the face to see those wronged souls when he goes underground, let alone his cousin Queen Wang.
On the second day of Shancheng to relieve the siege, Wang Xiaojie, deputy chief of the Taohe Road March, led 6,000 troops to the military camp outside Shancheng City, and half a month later, Liu Xianli, the deputy head of the Taohe Road March, and Liu Xianli, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, led more than 30,000 troops and a large number of heavy grain and grass to Shancheng, which finally completely solved the problem of grain and grass needed by the army.
And the total number of troops under Li Xian's command has finally reached 100,000!
Although it seems that the number of people is quite large, compared with the more than 200,000 troops in the Garqin Mausoleum, the soldiers and horses under Li Xian's command still occupy a minority, but even so, Li Xian decided to launch a counterattack against Tubo.
On the fifth day of the fourth month of the third year of Yifeng in the Tang Dynasty, Li Xian convened a military meeting with the generals in the military camp inside and outside the city of Shancheng, and after discussion, it was decided to leave Liu Xianli as the commander of 10,000 soldiers and horses to garrison Shancheng, and the rest of the generals would send troops with Li Xian's army on the same day to launch a comprehensive counterattack on the Tubo army.
The army of the Tang Dynasty was led by Li Xian himself, divided into three armies, the left, the center and the right, and the left army was led by Wang Xiaojie, leading an army of 20,000, and the main task was to intercept the Tubo grain road, making it difficult to hold on; The Right Route Army, led by Wang Fangyi, also led an army of 20,000, and its main task was to attack Wuhai from afar and cut off the connection between the four towns of Anxi and the Tuyuhun Tubo army; The Middle Route Army was led by Li Xian himself and attacked the garrison of the Garqinling army, the Dafeichuan military camp.
Garqinling is also a famous general of Tubo, before being defeated by Li Xian in a surprise attack, relieved the siege of Shancheng, knowing that it is useless to fight again, he had no choice but to lead his troops to retreat, in his opinion, as long as he can hold the four towns of Tuyuhun and Anxi, these months have not been in vain, and he can be regarded as achieving the previous intended goal.
However, he also knew that Li Xian would never just give up, so he immediately began to build the camp after retreating to Dafeichuan, and after half a month of hard work, the entire camp has been built as safe as a rock, and I believe that even if there are 200,000 troops to attack together, it will be absolutely difficult to break through this strong camp.
But Li Xian did not believe in evil and led the army to come, and ordered people to build earth mountains and wells outside the camp with great fanfare, the purpose was naturally to watch the reality in the camp, and the Garqin Mausoleum itself had absolute strength, so how could Li Xian take advantage of such a advantage? Therefore, the next day he led the army out of the camp to fight.
In front of the two armies, Li Xian took the lead and came to a distance of 500 steps from the Tubo army, and shouted loudly: "I have heard for a long time that the Tubo Prime Minister Garqinling is a famous general in the world, do you dare to come out and meet with me?" ”
As soon as Li Xian's words fell, he saw a rider out of the crowd, came to Li Xian two hundred steps away, and laughed loudly: "I have heard that the king of the Tang Dynasty and Zhou is a young hero, but unfortunately I have never seen it, and today I finally saw the real person. ”
But I heard Li Xian snort coldly: "Garqinling, eight years ago, your army was defeated, and you used trickery to force this king to retreat, before the two sides negotiated peace, you and others retreated to the border, and did not dare to commit it again, why did you betray your promise this year and lead the army to attack my Tang Dynasty again?" You don't remember the old feelings, but add up the swords and soldiers, you are really ungrateful, what face do you have to stand here with me today? ”
Hearing this, Garqinling laughed and said, "The king's words are very strange, the first treacherous one should be the first step, right?" When the peace was negotiated, Er Datang did not follow the agreement, returned the prisoners, but instead killed tens of thousands of prisoners in my Tubo, such an act is outrageous, my Tubo is precisely because I am not satisfied with such cruelty and unreasonable, this is why I raised troops to attack, for my innocent soldiers who were killed by the pit to seek justice, if you apologize to my innocent soldiers personally, and promise to cut the western area from Liangzhou to Shancheng to my Tubo to show gratitude, our army will abide by the promise, and will not invade the Tang Dynasty again within ten years. ”
But he saw Li Xian hehe sneered: "The toad yawns, what a big breath, your appetite is not small, and I am not afraid to kill you?" If you want me to agree, as long as you promise to cede the Luo of Tibet to me in the Tang Dynasty first, and you and your family Zampu will be hostages in my Chang'an, I will be satisfied with you. ”
"What do you mean by this that there is no other way between you and me than to fight? Since this is the case, there is no point in fighting between you and me, and we simply divide the victory and defeat on the battlefield. (To be continued.) )