Chapter Seventy-Six: Self-Confidence

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"General Li Lang, I really didn't expect the thief army to be so defenseless and easily attacked by us!" On a hill three miles outside the rebel camp, a captain of the special training team couldn't help but sigh to Li Han, who was holding a telescope to observe the movements of the rebel camp.

"The rebels are careless, Sun Xiaozhe definitely didn't expect that our men and horses would attack them three hundred miles away from Shaanxi County," Looking at the skyrocketing fire in the direction of the rebel camp, Li Han put down his binoculars with great satisfaction, and said to the deputy lieutenant named Wang Wei next to him with a cold face: "Don't be complacent, such a sneak attack is likely to be successful only once, as Marshal Yang said, such a war as taking Shaanxi County lightly can only happen once, and there can be no more in the future, and we can't have contempt for the rebels." However, this time our two teams of men and horses sneaked up on the enemy's camp, which must have caused the rebels to be in chaos, and they no longer dared to advance boldly with confidence. ”

Li Han didn't know what effect he and Liu Feng's two detachments had achieved in attacking the rebel camp, and whether they had blown up the three rebel generals, Sun Xiaozhe, Tian Qianzhen and Ling Guchao, had been killed. If all three generals can be killed, the rebels will surely collapse without a fight. Even if only one person is killed, or none of them are killed, only they are injured and some of the food and grass are destroyed, it will definitely make the rebels shocked and dare not boldly move forward.

This is the effect they want.

Of course, what Li Han expected was that their attack could achieve the best effect, that is, to blow up Sun Xiaozhe, Tian Qianzhen, and Ling Guchao, so that this battle would not be fought. It was the Tang army that won.

Li Zhi believed that they would succeed in breaking through to the tent of Sun Xiaozhe, Tian Qianzhen, and Ling Guchao. And smoothly threw the improvised grenade into it, and clearly heard the loud sound of the explosion. There's always something to gain. Their attack on the rebel piles of grain and grass also had an effect, and the fire is still burning, but it is not known how much of the rebel grain and grass has been burned.

The rebels' grain and grass were not piled up in a centralized manner, but in many places, and they were short of manpower and could only attack a few larger places. Depending on the situation, the loss of grain and grass in these places where they successfully attacked is not small, and the fire has not yet shown signs of abating, and it is likely that most of the grain and grass have been burned.

After the attack is successful and evacuated. When Li Han and Liu Feng were collecting the team members, they were pleasantly surprised to find that none of the sergeants were left behind, and no one was even seriously injured. This battle was the most brilliant battle they had since they formed the army, and it was completely different from the nature of hunting and killing the opponent's scouts, and they could almost control the final outcome of a war of more than 100,000 horses.

Let the opponent suffer a lot of losses, and the own side can almost be said to have no casualties, which makes Li Han and Liu Feng can't help but be ecstatic.

They also immediately passed on the information of the successful attack to Yang Xi of Shaanxi County in the form of flying pigeons. And tell Yang Xi that they will quickly find out the effect of this raid and tell it.

The rebel camp is three miles away, and it is definitely not a safe place. They can no longer observe the fighting here and must evacuate as soon as possible.

After counting the personnel, Li Han and Liu Feng immediately ordered the sergeants. Quickly retreat southwestwards away from possible search convoys of rebels. Although the sergeants of the special training team are all elite. But their numbers were too small, only about two hundred. Their way of fighting is also hidden, and they must try to avoid clashes with their opponents, and if they encounter a large group of rebels, they will definitely suffer. After the attack, whether you succeed or not, evacuate as soon as possible, this is the strategy formulated by Yang Xi, never love war, and preserving strength is the king.

The speed of the sergeants of the special training team was beyond the reach of other ordinary sergeants, and as soon as Li Han and Liu Feng's orders were given, in the blink of an eye, their entire team had already galloped into the valley and soon disappeared. And the searching rebel horses arrived at the place where they had just stayed after nearly two quarters of an hour of their retreat, and of course there was no trace of themβ€”

On the morning of the second day after Li Han and Liu Feng led the special team to attack, Yang Xi received the most accurate battle report from them.

"Sun Xiaozhe was seriously injured, causing Gu Chao to die, Tian Qianzhen was frightened, destroyed nearly forty percent of his grain and grass, and burned about 1,000 sergeants, haha!" Yang Xi threw the battle report from the special training team on the case in a low voice, and after laughing a few times, he looked at the generals in the room and said with unconcealed excitement: "Ben Shuai really didn't expect that the special operations team's record would be so good. ”

Today, Yang Xi summoned all the generals of Zhonglang to discuss the follow-up arrangements. The rebel army pressed the border and prepared to attack Shaanxi County again, and Yang Xi of course had to make careful arrangements to prevent being attacked by the rebels.

Before the start of the military meeting, he also announced to the generals the detailed battle report sent back by the special training team.

In agreeing proudly for the excellent performance of the special training team, Yang Xi also had a little regret. It's a pity that Sun Xiaozhe and Tian Qian are really fatal, if they are also killed, it will be fun, and this battle can be won and lost without fighting.

After receiving the report of the special training team yesterday that the attack was successful, Yang Xi only talked to a few generals such as Pang Zhong and Gao Shi, and the others did not tell them. Hearing what Yang Xi said, the rebel commander Sun Xiaozhe was seriously injured, and the deputy general Ling Guchao was killed, and the generals were inexplicably stunned.

Knowing that Sun Xiaozhe, Tian Qianzhen, Ling Guchao and other rebel generals led 150,000 horses and horses to rush towards Shaanxi County with great momentum, everyone expected that a big battle would break out, but they did not expect that not long after the rebels left Luoyang, their own side won a victory and gave the opponent a dismount with a small-scale surprise battle. The enemy coach Sun Xiaozhe almost returned to heaven, and the deputy general Ling Guchao died, which is simply a work of genius.

In the astonishment of the generals, the marching Sima, Gao Shi, who was newly appointed by the imperial court as the Taishou of Shaanxi County, immediately stood up and patted Yang Xi's ass very appropriately: "The marshal strategized and won the decisive victory thousands of miles away, and only sent an elite special operations detachment, which caused heavy losses to the rebels and seriously injured the enemy commanders. It is believed that the rebels will no longer dare to advance quickly, so that our army will have more time to deploy their defenses. The marshal was really wise and decisive, and the general admired him very much. I believe that under the command and dispatch of the marshal, our army will definitely be able to completely annihilate this rebel army. ”

Although Gao Shi has the meaning of flattery, no one can deny that this is of course the result of Yang Xi's wise decision, if Yang Xi did not personally train the special training team and let them have such combat power, if Yang Xi did not order the special training team to operate in places infested by rebels, where would such a result be achieved? Almost ruined the rebels at all.

After the battle of Shaanxi County, Pang Zhong, who admired Yang Xi more and more, also stood up and praised Yang Xi: "The last general admired Marshal Yang's careful arrangement, so that the rebels suffered losses hundreds of miles away from Shaanxi County, Sun Xiaozhe and Tian Qianzhen must be frightened, if they encounter our army again, maybe they will be defeated without a fight." ”

The victory of Shaanxi County was too easy, easy as a dream, the shadow of Lingbao's defeat had been basically eliminated, and Pang Zhong had fully believed that as long as Yang Xi ordered the army for one day, it would be impossible for the rebels to capture Tongguan, and Chang'an would no longer have to worry about falling into the hands of the enemy.

It was also after the Battle of Shaanxi County that Pang Zhong threw away other distracting thoughts, and planned to follow Yang Xi's side, gain more military merits, and prepare to gain Yang Xi's greater trust with his loyalty. His performance has really won Yang Xi's further trust, many confidential matters, Yang Xi will discuss with him and Gao Shi, Pang Zhong believes that if there is a war in the future, the main task Yang Xi will definitely arrange for him again, so that he can make more military achievements.

Therefore, before the start of the military meeting, he also stood up immediately and marveled at Yang Xi's decisiveness and wisdom in public.

After Gao Shi and Pang Zhong said this, how did the other generals still sit still, and stood up one after another, praising Yang Xi's wisdom and martial arts, even Li Fuguo, who was a low-key supervisor during this time. Li Fuguo was against such a hasty battle in Shaanxi, but Yang Xi slapped him with a super beautiful victory, so that he no longer had the confidence to say anything to Yang Xi. Yang Xi's order did not dare to stand up and express dissenting opinions, after all, Yang Xi was not punished in the last fight with Li Heng, and he, the prison army, was warned by the emperor.

The almost unanimous praise of the generals made Yang Xi a little fluttery, but he still held his breath and signaled the generals to be quiet and not to say these boring polite words.

"Ladies and gentlemen, we know from the military report that has just come back that the rebels have suffered a relatively large blow, Sun Xiaozhe was seriously injured, his deputy general Ling Guchao died, and the grain and grass were destroyed, but its overall strength has not been greatly affected, 150,000 horses and horses will continue to come in the direction of Shaanxi County after a short rest, we must not have any carelessness, we must have twelve points of caution," Yang Xihuan looked at the generals who had quieted down and said: "We can't wait passively, wait for the rebels to march to the city of Shaanxi County and then attack the city, We must choose to take the initiative to attack when the rebels have not arrived, take advantage of our advantages in waiting for work and weapons, and strike at the rebels first, and all the generals must order their men and horses to be strictly guarded.

"Respect the Marshal's Order!" The generals agreed loudly almost at the same time, and the sound made Yang Xi's ears feel buzzing.

"There are generals who are diligent in their ministry and brave enough to kill the enemy, and Sun Xiaozhe will eventually return defeated!" Yang Xi continued to encourage the generals, "As long as we defeat Sun Xiaozhe's department, then Ben Shuai will have more reason to ask for credit for the generals, I believe that Your Majesty and the ministers in the court will no longer count your defeat in the Battle of Lingbao, and Your Majesty will also give you rewards!"

"Thank you, Marshal!"

"Ben Shuai believes that the special operations detachment will have follow-up wonderful battle reports back!" Yang Xi's very confident words made the generals stunned again.

Yang Xi's self-confidence is really right, in the next time, Li Han and Liu Feng, who commanded the special training team, used their wit and bravery to add military merits to their heads, and also earned Yang Xi face.

Of course, it dealt a big blow to the rebel army commanded by Sun Xiaozhe, which made the soldiers of the rebel army panic and their morale dropped. (To be continued......)