Chapter 34
Recently, Luo Shixin has been thinking about a question, how to fight the next battle.
Judging from the current battle situation, the army of the Tang Dynasty has been invincible all the way, and it can be said that it is invincible and invincible, pointing directly at the Turkic Khanate. On the contrary, the Turks no longer have the style of the king of the steppe, and they have been defeated again and again, so that the Tang Dynasty was forced to fall into the royal court, and was forced to fall into the besieged Jedi, and their morale was low. If it continues like this, the probability of Datang winning is eighty percent, eighty percent. In the ever-changing battlefield, in the Turks, who still have a certain combat effectiveness, the 80 percent victory rate is quite high.
But Luo Shixin has not been careless because of this, and has been thinking about the way to play.
When Li Jing instructed him on the art of war, he once said a truth to him: "Losing a battle must be taken seriously, and winning a war must be taken seriously." ”
It is said that there are no victorious generals in the world, and even if a person with an excellent military level is, he will be limited by external factors at some times, and fall into an unfavorable situation, or even be defeated. In the face of this situation, it is even more necessary for the commander to fight with his heart, and it is naturally good to be able to turn defeat into victory, and it is naturally good to turn things around, even if he can't, it is a small victory to be able to reduce the damage of even one person. In the same way, in the face of a great good shape, as the commander of the three armies, he cannot be complacent, let alone careless. First, the arrogant soldiers will be defeated, since ancient times, how many heroes and heroes have fallen in this area; In addition, it can also stifle the enemy's chance of turning defeat into victory. The third and most important thing is to reduce your own casualties.
As a general's commander, thinking more about details and one more aspect can reduce the number of casualties among your own soldiers. It's a multiple-kill thing.
Therefore, even if the victory was in hand, Luo Shixin did not take it lightly, but seriously thought about the next tactical play. They do have an absolute advantage. But how to use this advantage to fight this battle more beautifully and minimize your own casualties is the key to Luo Shixin's thinking.
But the effect is not obvious!
After all, the Turks were the strongest force in the North, with more than 100,000 Turkic soldiers in their hands. The strength of the army is not much inferior to that of Datang, and it is impossible not to pay a certain price no matter what tactics are used.
The Turks of the Trapped Beast Fight are not high even if their morale is not high. can still break out into a strong battle, forming a danger for Datang. At the same time, more than 300,000 Turkic people around the Khan's court. It will also become a bomb for instability.
Under such circumstances, it is inevitable to kill 10,000 enemies and lose 8,000 yourself.
They will unleash this terrible battle in the court of the Turkic Khan.
However, Li Jing's plan avoided this.
He succeeded in forcing the Turkic Khan Jieli into exile......
Jieli's run means that he left behind 300,000 people. These people are in the absence of a backbone. The Tang army could intercept them without much effort. and took them captive, and took for himself the cattle, sheep, and horses which they had driven. At the same time, it was difficult for the army to organize a decent counterattack when it was in rout.
Fugitive soldiers are the best to deal with, they will only flee without their lives, and in the process of fleeing, the soldiers will be greatly smuggled, causing their morale to be too low and scatter and flee. As long as their Tang army pursues urgently, it will not be a head-on decisive battle. The Turkic armies will also continue to weaken and give up resistance. Wait for them to run to the West. When I ran to the vicinity of Yinshan, it was already very good to have 30,000 or 50,000 soldiers and horses.
At that time, Li Jingjun, who was recuperating and recharged, intercepted in front of them, and the remaining two armies once again blocked Jieli's retreat.
Fight against the desperate escape journey with a recuperated army, and fight against the demoralization journey of a soldier with high morale. In that case, the odds of the Tang Dynasty winning were as high as 99 percent. Unless a meteorite jumps from the sky and smashes Li Jing's 50,000-strong army, it is impossible to turn defeat into victory.
Under such huge advantages and disadvantages, the casualties of the Tang army will not exceed 10,000 at most......
Compared with the tragic victory achieved by the large army besieging Jieli and the royal court, the bloody battle that consumed time and effort, and the hundreds of thousands of Turkic soldiers, Li Jing's fighting style was obviously much more clever.
Siege the teacher must be que!
There is such a saying in "The Art of War", when encircling the enemy, we should leave a glimmer of hope for the enemy to escape, prevent the enemy from falling into despair, desperately resisting, and bringing huge losses to our own side.
Li Jing deliberately created the illusion of being surrounded on three sides, so that Jieli thought that he was lifeless, and forced him to escape, thus exposing flaws and giving Datang an opportunity. This is similar to that of the Wai Shi Bique, but in a different form, the situation is shown.
"But what if Jieli doesn't choose to go west, but flees north and crosses the desert north, then what?" Luo Shixin asked.
Li Jing smiled: "As my ally of Datang, no matter what Xue Yantuo thinks, I believe they are happy to do me a small favor." Now that their army is swaying to the north, it is impossible for the Turks not to get the news. ”
Luo Shixin was enlightened, pointed to the map and said: "Hiding the army in the Sain Mountain is also a measure to prevent the Turks from escaping north!" ”
"Yes!" Li Jing nodded and said, "I just want to make Jieli feel that there is no life in escaping north, and only the West is their way out." In this way, we also fell into our calculations and fell into the middle of the writ. ”
Luo Shixin communicated with the cause and effect, remembering the shocked and respectful expression that Li Shiji showed before, he also had to be convinced, and said in his heart: "It turns out that the decisive victory is thousands of miles away, and the strategy is in the middle of the battle, this kind of shocking ability really exists......
Li Jing, the well-known god of the Tang Dynasty, played a great chess game from the moment he got Luo Shixin's battle report.
Although Luo Shixin and Li Shiji were not chess pieces in his hands, but chess players, every move they made was expected by Li Jing, who was thousands of miles away.
As for Jieli, Princess Yicheng, Zhao Deyan, Qiao Lingze, and even Xue Yantuo are all chess pieces in Li Jing's hands: he saw through Qiao Lingze's villain's mentality, and knew that this minister of the Sui Dynasty, who relied on his whiskers and horses to hold the thigh of Yang Xuan, the king of Qi, was a real villain, and he would definitely do something to inform. Deliberately revealing his true identity so that the Turks would know his existence. Then he used Jieli's suspicious and conceited personality to rely on the two Tang armies of Luo Shixin and Li Shiji, who were about to come to the city, to make him believe that the tactics of the Tang Dynasty were to besiege him in the Turkic Khanate, encircle and annihilate him, so that he firmly believed that where Li Jing appeared, there must be his army of 50,000. He also calculated that Jieli had the courage to fight to the death, but he did not have the determination to fight to the death, as long as someone persuaded him to run, he would definitely run.
Yicheng has always instigated Jieli to invade the south, and he has taken good care of the descendants of the Sui Dynasty who are in the Turks, and what he has planned can be seen in one or two. Zhao Deyan was even more reluctant to show his talents because he couldn't get the opportunity to display his talents in the Central Plains, so he traveled thousands of miles to serve the Turks, and his utilitarianism was extremely strict. These two people have a very high status in Jieli's heart, and with their existence, Jieli will definitely not fight to the death in the Khan's court. In the case of Luo Shixin in front and Xue Yantuo in the back, and Li Shiji on the left, Jieli had no choice but to break through to the right. On the right, of course, there is Li Jing's cunzài, but at least there is the support of Ashina Sheer and the Western Turks to take refuge in......
As for Xue Yantuo's thoughts, it is easier to guess, Yi Nan is very ambitious and has a wide range of plans, and the fall of the Turks will be of great benefit to him. This effort will definitely help you.
Grasp everyone's ability and character in place, use all the beneficial links that can be used, and control all of them, and lay down such a huge net to trap Jieli.
In addition to "winning a thousand miles away, strategizing in the midst of the strategy", Luo Shixin couldn't think of any words to describe Li Jing at this time.
It's amazing.
Luo Shixin also detailed the situation he encountered: Kang Sumi's surrender and Yang Zhengdao's surrender of the jade seal.
Li Jing couldn't imagine that there was such a thing, so he was surprised, and said with a smile: "Being able to welcome back the jade seal of the country is really a good thing." As for Yicheng, this person has a femme fatale heart to keep her, and after we win, we will sacrifice her to the flag. Saying this, he suddenly stood up and said, "Luo Shixin and Li Shiji obey orders." ”
Luo Shixin and Li Shiji got up together and hugged their fists and said, "The end will be!" ”
"You go back to the camp at once, and prepare your troops and horses, and now that Jieli has been running for a while, and now he is in a hurry to run for his life, he will surely not find out that I only have two thousand soldiers. Give me the wounded infantry in your hands, and take away the cavalry, and go after Jieli. Those people who let Jieli leave behind, just leave it to me. ”
Luo Shixin and Li Shiji glanced at each other, and each glanced at Li Jing with a sense of understanding and understood what he meant.
Li Jing gave them the great credit for capturing Jieli.
is not greedy for merit, does not fight for power, no wonder Li Jing has the ability to turn the clouds and rain through the sky, Li Shimin still trusts Li Jing, but whenever there is a heavy military decision, he must first ask his opinion.
Li Jing has laid such a net, Luo Shixin and Li Shiji, as rare famous generals in the world, can they still see through the key points at the moment?
After the two returned to the barracks, they immediately gathered their troops and horses and gathered all the horses in their hands.
Luo Shixin explained the situation to Liu Renliang, Xue Wanjun, and Su Dingfang in detail, and everyone was dumbfounded and amazed at Li Jing's move, and then there was a sense of admiration. If Li Jing is like this, it is really convincing.
"Almost all of us in the army will ride horses, and take them all?" Liu Renliang thought about how to arrange it.
"Don't!" Luo Shixin said: "Only bring cavalry, not a single foot soldier, and the saved horses will be rotated by the cavalry." Under his arrangement, although the foot soldiers knew how to ride, they could march on horseback and increase their mobility. But nowadays, the pursuit of Jieli requires day and night, non-stop, and even rest on horseback. It is impossible for the foot soldiers to hold out to the end, and it is better not to bring them than to fall behind, so as to maximize mobility.
He didn't want to waste resources at this critical juncture.
In any case, they are going to stop Jieli and annihilate them. (To be continued......)