202 Confrontation
"Pingguo Gong, you've finally arrived!"
When the general of Yanzhou saw Tang Ping coming with a large army, it was like seeing a relative.
There's no way, what the soldiers of this era want most is to be a marquis immediately.
But he, Liu Bo, was unlucky.
He Liu Bo was the first guard general at the border checkpoint between the Tang Dynasty and the Turks, but as a result, he had just been transferred from the Tang Turkic border for a few months, and the Tang Dynasty attacked the Turks, and then the Turks became a vassal state of the Tang Dynasty, and he lost a chance to be promoted in vain.
Then, a few months before Tang Ping led his troops to attack Dongyue, he happened to be transferred back to the border between the Turks and Northern Yan, and then missed the great battle of Dongyue.
So this time Tang Ping came over with a large army, he was eager to wear it!
As long as he can help Tang Ping win down Hou Junji, a chaotic minister and thief, then even if the first merit is Tang Ping's, how can he be mixed up as a general of Yanzhou.
If you have a good relationship with Tang Ping again, it would be better to be able to transfer yourself back to Chang'an or Guanzhong Dao than in the northeast where birds don't.
"Thank you for your hard work, General Liu!" Tang Ping smiled, he was afraid that he had created the slowest marching speed of the Tang Dynasty or the Turks.
Fortunately, he gave the officers and men in the army a good treatment, so along the way, those Turkic soldiers not only did not complain at all, but even hoped that such a march would last a little longer.
Many of the sergeants felt that they had gained some weight when they came out.
"It's not hard, it's not hard!" Liu Bo rubbed his hands: "The army brought by the Duke of Ping Guo has been settled, I don't know what ......will happen after that."
Tang Ping's real purpose of coming here is a secret of the Tang Dynasty's high-level officials, so in Liu Bo's opinion, although Tang Ping and people came all the way like a tour of the mountains and rivers, it is not really here to play, right?
"Has the Hou Du escorted you?" Tang Ping asked knowingly, before he came, he asked Liu Bo to send a message to Hou Junji, saying that he had not seen the old man for a long time, and invited Hou Junji to come to Yanzhou for a drink.
But how could Hou Junji really come over?
"Hou Junji ...... the chaos"
"Ahem...... cough Tang Ping interrupted Liu Bo's words, and Liu Bo also reacted.
This Hou Junji is now in the official face, and he is still the protector of the Northern Yan Capital of the Tang Dynasty.
He himself neither declared independence, nor did Datang say that he was rebellious, and everyone has not completely torn it up in terms of face.
Liu Bo changed his words and said: "I sent someone to send the invitation to the Northern Yan Protectorate, but Hou Duhu replied that not long ago, a soldier under his command violated the military order and came to Hu in the pastoral area, and he was rectifying military discipline, and he was really unable to come because he lacked skills."
Hou Junji will definitely not come, Tang Ping expected it, he didn't expect this guy to find the connection so well.
The last pastoral conflict was one of Tang Ping's willingness to come here to publicize to the outside world, and Hou Junji wanted to block Tang Ping's mouth.
"However, although Hou Du Hu did not come, the army of the Northern Yan Du Protector did come." When he said this, Liu Bo had a bit of schadenfreude.
Anyway, he wished that Tang Ping would lead people to fight with Hou Junji, anyway, Tang Ping brought Turkic soldiers, and they were not considered the people of the Tang Dynasty. Chinese Net
Even if there is a battle loss, he Liu Bo will not feel heartache, and when the time comes, he will follow and assist, and just get the credit.
This matter was also expected by Tang Ping, his army of more than 100,000 people, no matter how poor the combat effectiveness was, the number was still here.
It is impossible for Hou Junji to really turn a blind eye.
"The army of the Northern Yan Protectorate? How many are there?"
"According to the regulations, the Northern Yan Protectorate and the Turkic Protectorate are all 50,000 regular troops, but now outside the city of Yanzhou, the last general estimated that there are at least 100,000 people."
As a general, he can roughly judge the number of troops from many clues on the other side.
"That's a lot of people!"
Tang Ping narrowed his eyes, Hou Junji attacked Beiyan at that time, and his old department was about 50,000 people, and it had expanded to more than 100,000 people in Beiyan in a few years.
This is also one of the reasons why Datang has not done anything to Hou Junji.
You have to know Hou Jun
Although the character of the set is not good, there must still be the ability to fight.
Otherwise, Li Shimin would not give him the position of the secretary of the military department.
In addition, Beiyan has always been a fierce people, and people are born tall and mighty.
At that time, it was quickly taken by Hou Junji, first, the gap between the weapons and equipment of the two armies was not small, and secondly, Beiyan really did not have any famous generals, and they were all swarms in battle.
Under Hou Junji's blitzkrieg, he did not organize an effective defense, and was crushed by devastation.
Now many of Hou Junji's army are soldiers recruited in Beiyan, and their combat effectiveness must not be underestimated.
"Let's go, let's go and see the elite soldiers of our Tang Northern Yan Capital Protectorate!"
Tang Ping spoke, and Liu Bo led everyone up to the city wall.
From a distance, the camps were neatly set up, and the banner of the Tang Dynasty was still hanging high.
Tang Ping couldn't help but sigh a little when he looked at it, he came to Datang by mistake, and the fate of many people was different from history.
But he didn't expect Hou Junji to still embark on the old road of rebellion.
If these more than 100,000 troops are used by the Tang Dynasty, the entire north should be in the Tang Dynasty's pocket.
Now even if Tang Ping said that he didn't care about his previous suspicions, he was afraid that Hou Junji would not believe it.
As Tang Ping expected, when he was looking at the Beiyan camp opposite, Hou Junji in the Beiyan camp was also looking at the city wall of Yanzhou.
Naturally, there is Hou Junji's eyeliner in Yanzhou, and Tang Ping received the news before he entered Hou Junji in Yanzhou.
And as the former protector of the Turkic capital, Hou Junji is naturally expected to be a telescope.
He looked at Tang Ping on the city wall from the binoculars, gritted his teeth and said, "The shaft is still unwilling to let me go after all!"
He didn't know that Tang Ping was releasing a smokescreen bomb for the attack on Tibet, but he felt that with the grudge between the two, Tang Ping would inevitably destroy himself and then hurry up.
"General, the last general is willing to take a team of dead soldiers into Yanzhou, and ...... Tang Ping" Behind him, a diehard loyalist of Hou Junji made a throat-cutting motion.
"No, there are a lot of people who want Tang Ping to die, but don't you think he's still alive and well? You can't imagine Tang Ping's skills, and a rash move will only cost you your life in vain." Hou Junji shook his head and said, "Our army of more than 100,000 Datang is still afraid after all, and the current Datang will not be willing to spend too much money to liquidate us, so we just need to hold on, and when winter comes, Tang Ping will naturally retreat."
Hou Junji is planning to be a shrinking turtle completely, as long as he shrinks here, although Datang's artillery is powerful, its mobility is too poor.
And as long as there is no artillery, he is not afraid.
If Datang really wants to move seriously, he will desperately bite off a piece of meat on the other side.
He is gambling, betting that Datang will not be willing to pay such a price!