Chapter 209 The Whole Country is Up [Down]

After pondering for a moment, Feng Dao spoke again: "In the vernacular, it is best to raise troops and drive straight in, encircle the enemy's capital, cut off the inside and outside, and force the enemy to surrender!" Command a large army, sweep a thousand armies and break the enemy's country second. Because this will cause the country to be ruined, and in the end, you still need to clean up the mess yourself. Commanding a large army to destroy all the enemy's armies is the worst, because as the so-called killing 10,000 enemies and losing 3,000 self-losses, this metaphor is best to appease the enemy's army, which not only reduces the casualties caused by the war, but also weakens the enemy's strength, and strengthens his own strength. ”

"Oh! I understand this, this is not the same meaning as what Sun Tzu said about surrendering without a fight! Yelu Abaoji said a little triumphantly.

"Well, that's pretty much it! And those words just now were said by Sun Tzu! Feng Dao said with some pride, as if he was a teacher, but to be honest, it was really majestic to be able to become a teacher who was the deputy envoy of Jiedu.

"And I choose the whole country first, as long as you kill the Bow Descendants quickly, Goguryeo will collapse, and the others don't have the prestige of the Bow Descendants, nor do they have the strength to fight me, so the only thing they can do in the end is to surrender to me. Even if they resist stubbornly, in the end, they will only be grasshoppers after autumn, and they will not be able to jump for long. Li Cunhuan smiled and explained his strategic intentions to Yelu Abaoji.

"Oh!" Yelu Abaoji and others suddenly realized.

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The bow descendant did not let Li Cunhuan wait for a long time, in the drizzle, the bow flag fluttered outside the city in the wind and rain, covering the sky, the black army rushed out in the wind and rain, at a glance, there was no end in sight, the mountain! Grass! O tree! O river! It was completely covered by the soldiers of Goguryeo.

"Not to mention that there are 580,000 troops, even if there are millions of troops, I'm afraid I will believe it!" Feng Dao muttered with a pale face.

Although Yelu Abaoji was not as unbearable as Feng Dao showed, his clenched teeth and clenched fists to the rise of green tendons all showed Yelu Abaoji's nervous emotions.

"General! The last general will ask for battle, go down and kill the majesty of the Goguryeo soil buns! Gao Siji suddenly turned around, looked at Li Cunhuan with a firm face, and said goodbye.

"There won't be a fight today!" Li Cunhuan glanced at Gao Siji, turned around, and left such a sentence without a beginning or an end, and the person had already stepped on the stairs and left from the corner tower with Fang City.

Gao Siji and Yelu Abaoji looked at Zhou Dewei and blinked, looking dazed.

Zhou Dewei said with a smile: "Don't you still understand the words of the general? Fighting in such weather is a melee, and no one is sure. Maybe we will be defeated by the Bow Descendants because we can't form a formation, but the Bow Descendants will also be disrupted by our elite troops because of the inflexible command in such weather. Moreover, with a huge army, the movement is very easy to mess up! It is easy for us to win in chaos, although the general does not dare to fight, but the bow descendants do not dare to let the war that he thought was seventy or eighty percent sure of be changed to this unpredictable war. ”

"So, we're going to be here for a long time!" Yelu Abaoji looked up at the sky and said a little depressed.

Zhou Dewei said, "No! You're smart, but you have a lot to learn, including astronomy and geography. At most, this rain will stop the day after tomorrow, so be prepared! Don't take it lightly, especially to deal with the waterproofing of the bow and crossbow, don't get these bowstrings loose when it comes to war. ”

…… The Great Tent of the Goguryeo Central Army......

Sitting on the big tent of the Chinese army that had just been built, the Gong descendant was a little sullen, and the bad weather not only made him prepare to give Li Cunhuan a plan to attack Mount Tai as soon as he arrived, but he had to die. And now his henchmen hidden in the army are even more so, and the current army is fluctuating. Most of his soldiers were peasants who had been drafted in December and had been drawn into battle after less than two months of training.

The only thing that has a little bit of a military appearance is probably the weapons in their hands. Marching in the drizzle is undoubtedly very depressing, but those dirt buns are now thinking about spring ploughing, which makes the bow descendants feel angry and more helpless. This is the peasant's real surname, and no one can change it.

But fortunately, although the bow is temperamental, I have to say that his personal military ability is still very good. At least on the surface, the army is still high-spirited. In fact, this has a lot to do with the flickering ** of the bow descendant, who claims to be the reincarnation of the Buddha. At this time, Buddhism was the most prosperous on the Korean Peninsula, nine out of ten Koreans believed in Buddhism, and the remaining one was a pseudo-believer, and the influence of Buddhism even affected the policies of the Korean Peninsula court many times. It is equivalent to Christianity in the Middle Ages, so in this case, the position of the Bow is still so consolidated.

But the Bow Descendants knew that this consolidation would slowly be weakened if they were not able to achieve victory. As Tang Taizong famously said, the people are like water, and water can carry boats and overturn boats.

This may be the will of heaven, Li Cunhuan is anxious to put the whole country first, and the Gong descendants are anxious to calm the restless hearts of the militia because of spring ploughing. On the afternoon of February 22, the drizzle finally stopped. The moist air turned into gunpowder and exploded.

The catchers patrolling the periphery clashed with Goguryeo's Tanma many times, but it was obvious that the catchers who were higher than Goguryeo's Tanma in terms of training intensity, physique, horses, experience, and armor and weapons had the upper hand, but even so, the Tang army also lost thirty of the catchers, which made Yelu Abaoji feel heartache.

Of the 38,000 Lu Long Army, there were only 500 capturing generals in total, and an average of 73 people only had one capturing general. It is conceivable that the threshold for the selection of survivors is high, and there are still training difficulties.

However, it also made Li Cunhuan get an important news, the granary of the Gong descendants is in Pingshan, which has a flat avenue connecting Shuozhou and Mingzhou, and it is only a day's journey from Kaesong, which is a transit station for the Gong descendants to mobilize grain and grass from Shuozhou, Mingzhou, and Kaesong. However, Pingshan is only less than two days away from Obifang City, not only can it be difficult to escape the detection of the bow descendants, but it is also easy to be attacked from behind by the bow descendants.

You must know that Pingsan is only a day's journey from Kaesong, the capital of Goguryeo, and in the case of the Gong descendants sending troops to help and Kaesong sending troops to rescue, once they can't capture Pingsan, it will be enough to make the generals in charge of the sneak attack desperate. And even if you capture Pingshan, it will be easy for the enemy to vent your anger, and I am afraid that you will die even worse. This matter is worthy of the name of nine deaths, but it makes Li Cunhuan very moved.

ps: Today's three watches, tomorrow's three watches, tomorrow's three watches, will be owed to pay back!

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