Chapter 110: Battle, Battle, Battle! (below)

(Writing a book in an Internet café tonight, I'm really not used to such a noisy environment!) )

The so-called word wakes up a person in a dream. For decades, Tubo has been strong, although Dezong Zhenyuan did not fall behind in the local conflict after the Tang Dynasty, but the monarchs and ministers expressed great concern about the Tubo invasion of the Kou, thinking that it was all a bad situation, Li Jifu reminded us so much, everyone came back to their senses, we are not a weak brigade left in Guanzhong, there is really no reason to be vulnerable.

In that case, then things are easy to do. Li Yu immediately ordered:

"Pei Aiqing, do you know where General Li's troops have arrived?"

Next, the military department issued orders one after another. First of all, it issued an edict granting the power to the crown prince Li Chun, the prince of Qiguo, Li Yuan, and important ministers such as Quan Deyu, who remained in Chang'an, and emphasized that everything was centered on defeating the Tibetan invaders, and once again clarified Li Chun's identity as the right marshal of Kansai Longyou as the crown prince. The second is to order the cavalry of the various armies that are returning to the division pass to quickly break away from their own army and accelerate their advance to report under the command of the prince of Chang'an. The third is to order Yan Qin to lead 8,000 soldiers from Shannan West Road and Dongchuan Prefecture into Xichuan and launch an attack from the southern front to contain the Tubo people. The fourth way is to order Xu to return to the Southern Zhao.

In the edict to the crown prince, Li Yu expressed his extremely high expectations for Li Chun. However, the wording is extremely harsh. The crown prince has always liked to hide his clumsiness to protect himself, and he does not want his edge to overpower his father, but Li Yu spurred in an almost vernacular way in the edict:

"······ Everyone is afraid of stupidity. I am old, and the foundation is in the hands of your brothers, and Guanzhong is the land of the ancestors of Longxing, where the Tang Dynasty is located, how can the barbarians be allowed to wreak havoc? I hope that you will strategize and win a thousand miles, and live up to your duty as the prince······ I am far away in Luoyang, and all the strategies to resist the enemy are carefully planned. The money and food of the imperial court officials and soldiers are endless······"

The implication is that the battle in Guanzhong is completely handed over to Li Chun, and the victory is his, and the defeat is also his. And he is just content with the identity of the commander-in-chief of logistics. reminded Li Chun that this is fighting for his future, and he must not be sloppy. However, Li Chun was very slanderous about this edict. Li Chun complained to Lu Zhen and his advisor Zhang Su:

"Could it be that in the eyes of my father, the widow is just an unresponsible person who is willing to fight for his throne?"

Of course, Li Chun's words quickly spread to Li Yu. Li Yu's reaction to this was to laugh it off. Regarding the news obtained from unofficial channels, Li Yu has always not explicitly or implied his likes and dislikes. Li Yu was more concerned about the battle report from the front. The ministers and Li Yu had the same feeling about the war report, and the court had another county king.

This quasi-county king is General Hao, the envoy of Jingyuan Jiedu.

General Hao led the soldiers of the border army to fight bloodily under Xingyuan City, defeated the vanguard of the main force of the Tubo army, and captured the Tubo commander on Mangre (Tubo official position, internal prime minister, called 曩莣逋).

The whole battle can be described as ups and downs. Many people changed their minds about Hao after the war. In the past, people mostly thought that Hao Jue was a fierce general, but after this war, Hao Jue officially became the embodiment of courage and wisdom, and was handsome on a par with Li Shuo and Li Guangyan.

Hao Wei modestly said in the seal that the victory in this battle was purely a fluke, and it was all caused by His Majesty's heavenly might.

No sober person would believe such superficial compliments. Hao Jue knew that the emperor was not mediocre, so his watch chapter roughly stated the course of the battle after compliments. This one, which has been polished by the staff, is very motif and very infectious. But the actual course of the campaign was much more exciting than this one.

Hao Wei later said in the Thanksgiving Seal:

"The victory in this battle is really in the troops, not in the festival. Therefore, the ministers really rely on His Majesty's heavenly might, and the ministers dare not be greedy for ink. ”

Before the outbreak of this war, everyone thought that the war would not break out, and Tubo suddenly entered the Kou with hundreds of thousands of iron horses, and Hao Yu was also unexpected. * The advantage is that in the seven years after Li Yu succeeded to the throne, a relatively complete espionage system was established. The assembly of the Tibetan army and all kinds of changes were quickly reported to the desk of the prince and the envoys of the towns.

The border towns, except for Fengxiang and Li Weijian, are not good at stubble. Even Li Weijian's ability is also first-class. Everyone quickly judged that the main direction of attack in Tubo may be in one of the three towns of Fengxiang, Longyou, and Jingyuan, otherwise it is not enough to shock Guanzhong, and if it is not able to shock Guanzhong, I am sorry for such a God-given opportunity. Relying on Li Chen's method of analyzing contradictions, everyone knows that the Tubo people are not monolithic, and this battle is likely to determine the success of one or the other, no matter which side leads the attack, it cannot tolerate defeat, and the passive side will definitely not tolerate the victory of its opponent. But which one exactly? Although the Tubo people have more small actions in Fengxiang, Suining, and Longyou, Li Chun and Li Yuan's judgment is still Jingyuan, first, because Jingyuan's calm is unusual, second, because Hao Jue has a thorn in the eyes of Tubo, and third, because of the status of Xingyuan City. But it was uncertain, so it was decided to lead the main force of Guanzhong * 40,000 people to be stationed in Xianyang and rush to the aid of the towns at any time.

It was the Tibetan people who told the answer. Before the Tubo army attacked, Hao Jue's Jingyuan army was warned by a mysterious Tubo people, the direction of Tubo's attack was indeed in Jingyuan, and the letter even wrote the marching route of the Tubo army, which coincided with the intelligence collected by Zhang Pingzi, the assassin of Xingyuan Prefecture.

Hao Jue, who was sitting in Xingyuan, decided to take a gamble.

The war was originally a gamble, but fortunately, Hao won the gamble.

According to the tactical idea of Wuxue that it is better to cut off one of his fingers than to hurt his ten fingers, Hao Jue decided to fight the time difference, delay the attack of two of them, cut off the echo between each other, concentrate superior forces, and gather and annihilate one way under Xingyuan City, and then the camera is severely damaging the other way.

"This battle must be fought so that the Tubo people will not dare to commit the border within ten years."

This is Hao Jue's determination. However, the situation changed quickly, and the Tibetan army seemed to know that the military information was leaking, and suddenly launched it before the * arrangement was completed. Hao Yu had no choice but to order to ask the prince for help on the one hand, and on the other hand, he ordered all armies to fight in advance, and the tun army, which was originally a garrison, was also put into the battlefield in this situation.

Years later, the surviving warrior generals still seem to be able to hear the deafening cries of "war, war, war" as they pass through the battlefield.