Chaos of the Three Kingdoms Summons

Chapter 2341 Qin Ji's Pain, Two Counties Lost

Once Li Tang's cavalry occupied the high mountain, with the enemy overlooking their entire defense line, they would have no choice but to stay in their cities and not come out.

Once the troops leave the city, how can they resist the charge of Li Tang cavalry from a dominant position?
As for saying that all the troops are hiding in various cities and not leaving, what a joke!
Don’t you need logistics?
Although the food stored in each city is not small, it can only last for two months. If the grain transport troops from the rear of Youzhou cannot arrive, will the soldiers have to fight on an empty stomach in two months?
But the enemy's cavalry occupied that high mountain and were ready to launch a charge from above at any time. How could their grain transport troops get up there?

As long as their grain transport troops appear, it will be just a matter of charge for Li Tang cavalry!

Even if their troops went out of the city to support, they would still have difficulty competing with the Li Tang cavalry charging from a high position. Moreover, with Li Shimin's troops guarding outside, if their troops easily left the city, their disadvantage in manpower would be completely exposed, and leaving the city would mean a big loss.

In a passive situation, rashly leaving the city is almost equivalent to giving away one's life.

It can be said that in the initial forward handover battle, even though veterans like Fei Lian and E Lai were killed in the battle, it only made them heartbroken, and this loss was really nothing!
As long as the main force is not damaged, there is always a way to continue fighting.

However, Li Guangbi's interference put them in a passive position in the battle.

In comparison, this is what will really cost them their lives!

Li Shimin sent a large force to Li Guangbi, who was to guard this place, overlooking the Youqin defense line and waiting for Youqin's reaction.

As for Qin Ji, if they don’t take care of this place, their logistics team will be in big trouble.

If they want to take care of this place, do they really think that the army outside Li Shimin are vegetarians?

Under such circumstances, Wei Liao proposed a risky plan. Qin Ji used himself as bait to give them a chance to take it back from Li Guangbi.

However, the two deputy generals Wang Zhi and Yue Yi disagreed with Wei Liao's strategy.

Li Shimin is definitely not the kind of person who is easy to deal with!

This strategy is too risky. If it fails, not only will it fail to achieve the original purpose, but Qin Ji, the bait, may actually be left there.

In fact, even Wei Liao himself had to admit that his plan was not that simple and its success rate was no more than 20%.

However, this was the only solution he could come up with under the current circumstances. Is it possible to snatch the meat from the mouths of figures like Li Shimin and Li Guangbi without taking some risks?
If Le Yi and Wang Zhi were facing other people, they might have come up with some risky strategies, but when facing a top military strategist like Li Shimin, in their opinion, taking such dangerous actions is no different from seeking death!
When top military strategists fight against each other, the first thing to ensure is not to play any tricks, but to ensure that they do not make any mistakes.

Just like the fight between Bai Qi, Wang Jian and Xu Da in Jiangxia, there is no room for you to play any tricks between the top military strategists, and in the end you have to use the most clumsy means.

Since they have lost the initiative, they should just admit defeat in this round instead of thinking of playing any tricks!
Therefore, Le Yi and Wang Zhi both thought that they would decisively abandon space and reorganize the defense line. Giving up Xuantu and Liaodong would at least ensure that their already scarce military strength could defend Liaoxi and Youbeiping behind them. If they took risks with their already scarce military strength, there would be no margin for error.

If they made a mistake, they would die without a burial place. And it was not just them who would die without a burial place, but the entire Youzhou would be buried with them.

After all, if such a dangerous method is used and it goes wrong, the main general Qin Ji will be lost, and the front-line troops will suffer heavy losses. Once Li Tang's troops cross the defense line, they can really march straight in.

You know, now, facing Li Tang and Qing Dynasty at the same time, all the military forces of Youzhou are used on the front lines, either on the Li Tang battlefield or on the Qing battlefield. Where are the military forces left inside?
Once Li Tang crossed the defense line, Youzhou could be declared dead.

With almost no garrison left in the counties of Youzhou, if Li Tang annihilated this main force and entered Youzhou, wouldn't that leave Li Shimin at the mercy of his forces?

Even if Li Shimin killed Qin Zheng, there would be no troops to stop him! At that time, it was no different from Li Shimin's knife being directly on Qin Zheng's head.

Qin Ji himself wanted to experience the feeling of turning the tide against all odds. Moreover, he lost the initiative at the beginning because of his poor performance. If he could turn the tide of the battle, he would not care about his own life or death.

However, he could not gamble with Qin Zheng's life and death, or the life and death of the entire Youzhou.

Therefore, even if he was not happy in his heart, Qin Ji could only agree to give up Xuantu and Liaodong in order to preserve his own strength to the greatest extent. Preserving this force was equivalent to guaranteeing the protection of Qin Zheng's life.

For the entire You Qin, this is always the first priority. Compared with this, everything else has to take a back seat.

With the joint efforts of Qin Ji, Wei Liao, Wang Zhi and Yue Yi, even Li Shimin was briefly deceived by their strategy of feigning an attack. By the time he saw through the opponent's strategy, the main force of You Qin had already retreated to eighty miles away.

Although if he ordered the Black Armored Cavalry to pursue with all their might, there would still be a chance to catch up.

However, Li Shimin did not choose to let the Black Armored Cavalry advance alone. He had the upper hand and did not need to take such unnecessary risks. After all, the main force of the You Qin army was intact, and the soldiers were still strong. If they were to advance alone, it would easily lead to a situation where they would win first and then lose.

Since then, before either side had engaged in a truly large-scale battle, Li Shimin had already captured the two counties of Xuantu and Liaodong.

When this news reached the rear, it immediately caused an uproar there, and countless people impeached Qin Ji.

Right from the start, he let the enemy take over two counties without bloodshed. It would be weird if no one impeached him!

At one time, the voices calling for a replacement of the general reached their highest point!

(End of this chapter)