The major affairs of the country of soldiers, the place of death and life, and the way of survival, must not be overlooked! This sentence is the first article of the opening meaning of "The Art of War", which has its own reason, the so-called inspection, not only to observe the enemy, to observe the sky, to observe the location, but also to self-inspection, which can do self-inspection, this can be done to know oneself and know the other, a hundred battles are victorious, Li Zhen as the successor of the great art of war Li Jing, for this way is familiar with the heart, therefore, although disappointed in the performance of the old generals of the Anxi Protectorate, but also did not show the slightest dissatisfaction, and never even mentioned the matter of the war, even if it was to Jiaohe, and Qiao Shiwang completed the handover, Li Zhen never mentioned such matters again, but well, Li Zhen was not idle, in addition to daily official duties, most of the time was soaked in various barracks, and the existing four battalions of people and horses were thoroughly investigated, and it took a month to finally have a bottom in his heart.

Anxi Duhufu should have six battalions of soldiers according to the establishment, each battalion of 1,000 people, but because the soldiers of Anxi are border troops, not government soldiers in turn, the implementation of the recruitment system and the combination of the father-son inheritance system - many Anxi soldiers are the original Shandong righteous army after the surrender of the army, when the Tang Dynasty leveled the world, after defeating Shanxi Dou Jiande and other Shandong heroes, in view of the fierce and belligerent Shandong soldiers, so these soldiers were transferred to the border pass as a border army, Anxi soldiers were originally stationed in Guazhou border army, and later because the Tang Dynasty destroyed Gaochang, then transferred to Anxi, still a border army, This part of the officers and soldiers is the main body of the Anxi Army, the number is about 2,000, all of them are the descendants of the Shandong soldiers, well-trained, extremely strong combat effectiveness, but basically all the grassroots officers and soldiers, the middle and high-level generals are basically unmanned, and there are more than 1,000 soldiers are recruited border people, although they have been in the army for many years, but the combat effectiveness is far less than the descendants of the Shandong soldiers, as for the shortage of more than 3,000 people, it is due to the lack of finance of the Anxi Protectorate, unable to raise soldiers.

The lack of troops in the Anxi Protectorate is a big problem, and the lack of armament is another big problem - the existing four battalions are all insufficient, each battalion is only about 800 people, half of each cavalry and half of the foot, in addition to the armor and weapons because they are deployed by the military department, they can barely guarantee it, and there is no shortage of war horses - because Anxi is a place where horses are produced, no matter whether they are on foot or on horse, there are horses available, and the Baidao team, which can be the sharpest weapon of the infantry of the Tang Army, is lacking in the Anxi army, and there is no relevant training, and this kind of infantry is barely enough to defend the city. Once pulled out of the city to fight in the field, it can't stop the wild impact of the cavalry at all, no wonder the Anxi army has failed miserably several times out of the city and fought in the field.

It is not difficult to find problems, the difficult thing is to solve them, however, for Li Zhen, these problems are not any problems, without him, money is what Li Zhen has, and there is no shortage of talents for military training, whether it is riding, foot, bow, Li Zhen's subordinates have sufficient talent reserves, as for the armament, there is a strong transportation capacity of the "Yanji Firm" and the existence of skilled workers of the "Yanji Factory" who arrived in Anxi with the army, this aspect is also easy to solve, and the only slightly tricky thing is the problem of erecting the army's fighting heart, After all, the confidence of the army is not based on weapons and equipment but can be erected by training, and must be supported by a series of victories, in the current state of the Tang Army in Anxi, how dare Li Zhen pull the army out to fight, what he can do is to take advantage of the opportunity of the approaching winter to recruit soldiers, strengthen training, and then order all aspects of talent who arrived in Anxi with the army to move, set up various weapons research and development institutions and workshops, whether it is a knife, a strong crossbow, or even gunpowder weapons are all on the agenda, at the same time, The military academy officially began trial operation, retraining the generals in the army, and replacing those who did not qualify, fortunately, Anxi is far away from the court, the mountain is high and the emperor is far away, everything is Li Zhen's final say, but there has never been too much chaos, and after more than three months of busyness, Anxi's affairs are gradually on the right track:

The land of Anxi has always been a military substitute for government, although the area controlled is only four cities, but there is no civilian system, it has always been the town guard government in charge of civil affairs, with a group of Ziqiu eight masters to manage civil affairs, not chaotic is a strange thing, therefore, Li Zhen in the rectification of the army at the same time, did not forget to build a civilian system, the first step is to separate the military and the government, the original four towns in the hands of the civil affairs back to the capital of the palace, the appointment of Mo Li as the governor of the capital of the history, Qin Wenhua to the capital of the palace to record the army, jointly responsible for civil affairs, and with the "rising sun." "The secretly trained scholars are the backbone, the formation of a civilian team, in the existing four towns to try out the state and county system, with Tang law as the criterion, to govern the locality, the second step is to reorganize the existing army, the four towns to guard the government to dismantle, change into six battalions of field army, the original soldiers who failed to pass the assessment eliminated to the locality, the formation of regimental training battalions, each battalion of 500 people, one battalion in each of the four cities, in addition to being responsible for defending the city, taking into account local security, of course, these regimental training battalions do not exist in the army, but act in the capacity of government servants, The third step is to carry out relevant training and assessment for the officer level, in the form of a military academy for all officers above the middle level of centralized training, the implementation of the competition system, the unqualified eliminated to the regimental training battalion to serve, after some integration, the strategy of the elite soldiers to achieve initial results - the six battalions are full of 6,600 people, half of the foot and half of the cavalry, but no matter the foot, the cavalry are all on horseback, just wartime infantry dismount and fight in formation, each battalion has a captain, respectively: Liu Whirlwind, captain of the cavalry battalion, Captain Sha Feicamel of Cavalry B Battalion, Captain of Cavalry Battalion Lin Ting, Captain of Infantry Battalion Captain Ying San, Captain of Infantry Battalion He Dacai, Captain of Infantry Battalion He Dacai, Captain of Infantry Battalion You Sifan; The cavalry commander is Chen Wu, the infantry commander is Lin Chenghe, the responsibility of the captain of the palace guard is taken over by Yan 18, and the deputy commander is Yingda; Originally, the four towns were merged into Daxi Prefecture, which was in charge of the Metropolitan Protectorate, and the specific civil affairs were in charge of Mo Li, and Qin Wenhua served as the post of the Assassin of the Great Western Prefecture, which consisted of four counties, and the county orders were appointed by the Metropolitan Protectorate, and reported to the imperial court for review, until the end of January of the seventeenth year of Zhenguan, all kinds of matters were considered to have the prototype, although there was still a gap from the completeness, but after all, it was a good start, fortunately, Li Zhen was busy with internal affairs when it was the time of the winter break, and there was no foreign enemy harassment, everything went smoothly, but it was a fortunate thing.

The so-called luck and misfortune are twins, just when Li Zhen was busy rectifying internal affairs and had no time to take care of external affairs, a major event suddenly came - the Western Turk Yibi Lu Khan detained the Tang Dynasty sent to Xuanfu season, and on the first day of the first month of the 17th year of Zhenguan, he sent more than 50,000 troops, known as 80,000, to besiege Yizhou, clamoring to exterminate the Anxi Tang Army.

The Western Turks are the strong enemies of the Tang Dynasty, occupying the richest grasslands in the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains, with a total of ten major tribes, and countless small tribes attached to it, with a population of nearly six million, and more than 400,000 warlike soldiers. Its arrogance speaks for itself.

Yizhou is located between Guazhou (now southeast of Anxi, Gansu), Shazhou (now west of Dunhuang County, Gansu) and Xizhou, and is a large oasis on the Gobi Desert, with early agricultural development. Emperor Ming of the Eastern Han Dynasty defeated the Xiongnu, took its Yiwu Lu land, built Yiwu Tun City, placed "Yihe Duwei", and Tuntian in this place. Since then, most of them have been inhabited by the soldiers of Tuntian Town. The Sui Dynasty built a new Yiwu city in the east of Yiwutun City, which was governed by Yiwu County. At the end of the Sui Dynasty, it was based on Zahu and attached to the Western Turks. Zhenguan four years, Tang sent the Northwest Province pacification ambassador Li Daliang to transport food, to the Yiwu area of Zahu to comfort, Yiwu city lord Shi Wannian to Yiwu and other seven cities to Tang, Tang therefore placed the state, under the jurisdiction of the Anxi Protectorate, there are three counties - Yiwu, Rouyuan, Nazhi, so the state is in the Hami region, and it is the place where the state was set up earlier, the civil official system has been formed, Li Zhen's state and county reform did not involve Yizhou, but only carried out preliminary training for its original garrison battalion of people, and sent several officers to train the original people, Before it had time to integrate the battalions in the Jiaohe area, its combat effectiveness was doubtful, and in the face of the siege of 50,000 Western Turkic elite soldiers, how long it could hold on became a big question mark.

The tree wants to be quiet and the wind does not stop, but such annoying things always happen, stunned Li Zhen is very sad, yes, Li Zhen's purpose in coming to Anxi is to pacify the Western Turks, but the problem is that the time is not at this time, the army is not ready, not to mention, there is still such a jackal as Qiuci by his side, according to Li Zhen's original combat strategy is to pinch the soft persimmon first, and after destroying Qiuzi, he will take advantage of the situation to deter the small countries in the Western Regions, integrate these small countries, and include them all in the county system of Tang Prefecture, first reach a peace agreement with Tubo, and then unite with Xue Yantuo to attack the Western Turks, After the destruction of the Western Turks, turn back and then clean up Tibet, at the end, with the army of a hundred battles, over the Golden Mountain, into Xue Yantuo, in one fell swoop to wipe out all the external troubles around the Tang Dynasty, the whole plan is expected to be eight to ten years, but I never thought that the plan has just begun, and the eight characters have not yet been skimmed, and the Western Turkic army is the first to kill.

Yizhou is the main road between Anxi and the Central Plains, once lost, Anxi will become a rootless wanderer, it is a matter of time before it is exterminated, this battle has to be fought if it is not fought, but the question is how to fight, the enemy is strong and I am weak or a trivial matter, and what is more troublesome is - according to Li Zhen's judgment, the Western Turks are here to be Xiang Zhuang sword dance intended to Pei Gong, and the siege of Yizhou is just an illusion, and its real purpose is probably still on the Anxi Protectorate - the Western Turks besiege but not attack, although the weather is cold, it is not suitable for the use of soldiers, But the main reason is only that it is to besiege the city and send reinforcements, inducing the Anxi Protectorate to send troops, and then annihilating the main force of the Anxi Army in the field battle, so as to uproot the Tang Dynasty's forces outside the fortress in one fell swoop.

It's difficult, it's really difficult, at the moment, the soldiers and horses that Li Zhen can dispatch are only about 8,000 if they count those regimental training battalions, even if the whole army attacks, it is less than a fraction of the Western Turkic army, not to mention that you have to guard against the turtles around you to take advantage of the situation, so you have to leave some people and horses to watch the house, in this way, the reinforcements that can really be sent out are full of the six battalions of regular army, with 6,000 against 50,000, Li Zhen has not been arrogant to the point of bursting with confidence, since receiving the letter of help from the king of Yizhou, Li Zhen has not slept much, kept thinking about how to fight this battle, and after discussing with Mo Li for a day and a night, he finally had some eyebrows, and then he issued an order to gather the generals, so that the main generals of the army could gather in the capital to discuss matters.

On the 24th day of the first month of the 17th year of Zhenguan, when the Mao was on the right card, a loud horn suddenly sounded in the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate, breaking the silence of the early morning, a moment later, the military camp located in the south of Jiaohe City and the west of the city immediately made a fuss, dozens of horsemen and horses swarmed out of the barracks, galloping all the way on the silent and unmanned streets, not counting moments, the two groups of people and horses converged into one place in front of the Metropolitan Protectorate, all the generals turned over and dismounted almost at the same time, but no one talked, each solemnly walked into the lobby of the Metropolitan Protectorate, lined up in two columns according to the gradeStanding without squinting, a moment of footsteps sounded, and more than a dozen soldiers surrounded Li Zhen, who was wearing full body armor, walked into the lobby, and suddenly, all the generals who were originally standing bowed and saluted, and said in unison: "See Your Highness!" ”

"Good!" Li Zhen glanced at the incense on the incense table in front of the lobby, the timed incense had just been burned less than half, and he was very satisfied with the rapid action of the generals, looked around at the generals, nodded and said: "You should all know about the siege of Yizhou, this king is not enough to say, today, this king Zhaoer and others come here, I just want to hear what you think about it." Li Zhen said this, waved his hand, made a gesture, and Yan Shiba, who understood it, immediately commanded a group of guards to move a large sand table into the lobby, placed it in the center of the hall, walked to the sand table by himself, pointed to the sand table and said: "The situation has been ascertained as follows: the commander of the Turkic army is the leader of the five crossbows, Ashina Sero, the left wolf commander under the Turkic Khan Yibi Lu tent, and was the general of the Turkic extermination of Tocharo, wise and brave, known as the wolf of the Chaoyuan, good at surprise attacks, and the deputy marshal is Yibi to take it, He is the eldest son of the Turkic Khan Yibidulu, brutal and killing, reckless personality, however, brave and powerful, and has been loved by the Turkic Khan Yibidu, the Turkic army has more than 54,000 horsemen, of which more than 21,000 horsemen belong to the five crossbow lost bibi, more than 11,000 horsemen belong to the Khan's court guards, and the rest are soldiers of affiliated small tribes, from more than ten small tribes, each with hundreds to more than 1,000 troops. The enemy soldiers besieged Yizhou in three ways, of which 25,000 people from Ashina Sero besieged the city of Iwu, and a total of 15,000 soldiers from the guards and servants were sent to the post, the above two divisions did not launch a siege operation, but the rest of the small tribes' troops were led by Ashina Herru, the son of Ashina Sero, and were in a hurry to attack Rouyuan, according to yesterday's battle report, Rouyuan has been in a hurry, and the fall is only a matter of time, and the current known situation is so. ”

As soon as Yan Eighteen's words fell, You Sifan, the captain of the Bu Bing Battalion, took the lead and said: "Your Highness, the last general thinks that the Turkic thieves are extremely suspicious in this use of troops, Rouyuan is located between the two cities of Nazhi and Yiwu, the city is small and lonely, and it is not very rich, it is meaningless for the thief army to attack this city, even if it takes this city, it will not help, there must be fraud in it, if the thief army really wants to take Yizhou, it should attack Yiwu first, but now it is put Yiwu and Nazhi not to fight, but it is urgent to attack Rouyuan, and its intention is to remove Rouyuan, In addition to the fact that the thief army can get a supply place and obtain a mutual echo situation, it is more likely to induce our army to come to the aid of Rouyuan, and then attack our army on both sides, so as to force our army to start a frontal decisive battle with the thief army near Rouyuan City, so as to destroy the main force of our army, therefore, the last general thought that our army should not save Rouyuan, but made a surprise attack on Ashina Sero's department, which was the farthest away from our army, and left after the fight, inducing the enemy to pursue, and then taking advantage of the chaos to mobilize the enemy army and destroy its logistical baggage for the purpose, thus forcing the thief army to withdraw. ”

Lin Ting, the captain of the cavalry battalion, has been outside the fortress for a long time, and he knows the reality of the Turkic army, he does not agree with You Sifan's opinion, and as soon as You Sifan's voice fell, Lin Ting immediately stood up and said: "Your Highness, the last general thinks that Captain You's words are inappropriate, and now the desert is frozen, and it is not conducive to holding on to the march, if our army attacks blindly, it will be difficult for one to move, and it will be difficult to maneuver in the other, once it falls into the encirclement of the Turkic army, it will be difficult to escape defeat, and the guards are the most elite royal army of the Turks, with the current situation of our army, If you encounter this army, the defeat is extremely high, so the last general thinks that you must not move lightly at this time, and after the snow melts, contact our army in Guazhou and Shazhou, and the three will gather together to recover the lost territory, and they are not afraid that the Turkic thieves will not withdraw the army. ”

"No!" As soon as Lin Ting's words fell, He Dacai, the captain of the Buyi Battalion, immediately stood up and objected: "Your Highness, although what Captain Lin said is a sound plan, but in this way, the people of Yizhou will be robbed, and once the people's hearts are lost, it will be difficult to govern, not to mention that the soldiers of Guazhou and Shazhou are not under the jurisdiction of my Anxi Protectorate, and if you want to transfer troops, you have to have an order from the imperial court. The last general thinks that this battle must be fought and won! ”

He Dacai said sonorously, but Lin Ting didn't think so, and immediately retorted: "General He said it beautifully, but I don't know where this victory came from? With 6,000 against 50,000, how should this battle be fought? ”

As soon as Lin Ting asked, the eyes of all the generals were all focused on He Dacai's body, and they all wanted to hear what He Dacai had to do, but they never thought that He Dacai spread his hands and said: "I don't know how to win, but I know that this battle must be won, Your Highness is wise, and you will definitely lead us to defeat the thief army and win this big victory." ”

Ha, damn it, this He Dacai is really him·· He's a sycophant! Li Zhen was a little embarrassed by He Dacai's words, but he didn't want to say anything, seeing that the eyes of the generals were all looking at him, Li Zhen just frowned and waved his hand and said, "Look at what this king does, let's discuss it first." ”

Yes, as soon as Li Zhen said this, the generals fell silent, and for a while, no one gave any advice, and the hall immediately fell silent......

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