Great Tang princess

Chapter 218 The location of the decisive battle
Li Yuechen sat on the window sill, with his shoulder leaning against the window, one foot on the window sill, looking up at the sky.

My father and mother must be happy to pass back my glorious record, but it's strange that the ministers below think so.

After all, she is a princess and a royal family.

If they control the military power in the future, they will be a huge enemy, and they will not be able to cooperate.

So it is not difficult to imagine that these people must be thinking about how to prevent themselves from gaining military power in the future, and it is absolutely impossible to be as peaceful as they said in their letter.

But forget it, Li Yuechen shook his head suddenly, and leaned his head against the window sill, since his parents didn't say it clearly in the letter, it means that they should be able to handle it.

It's better not to worry about these things for now, otherwise it seems that I like to fight for power and profit.

What I have to do now is to fight the war with peace of mind, don't think about anything, everything will be discussed after returning to the palace.

Li Yuechen jumped out of the window with a front flip, twisted his neck, and went into the barracks.

Now Liu Rengui has completely abandoned the previous way of making tea, and is completely in love with the new tea sent by his apprentice.

Every day in the tent, when there is nothing to do, I will brew a cup and taste it slowly.

Seeing Li Yuechen coming in, he raised his head and smiled: "Your Highness looks very happy."

"En." Li Yuechen nodded, "Both adults and brothers and sisters have written letters. Didn't Master receive any letters from home?"

"It's too troublesome to go back and forth, and I won't write about anything that is not important." Liu Rengui shook his head lightly.

Although it is true to say so, Liu Huang can really not write a letter for eight months... This person is indeed a bit dull.

……

Once you get bored, time will pass quickly, and two months will pass in a blink of an eye, and it will be October.

In the past two months, the Tubo army has not crossed the border once, but both sides know that the time for a decisive battle is not far away.

It has started to get a little cold in early October, and the temperature on the Tubo Plateau is low. It is estimated that it will snow soon.

If they can't get the supplies again, they may have a hard time this winter.

Li Yuechen's side is different. Due to the increase in grain production, the logistics support is still quite sufficient.

In the barracks, the master and apprentice sat facing each other, and a hot pot was bubbling on the table in the middle.

The side dishes are relatively simple, only lamb blood and lamb, and some green vegetable leaves, which are considered luxurious and delicious in this era.

Holding chopsticks, Li Yuechen picked up a piece of mutton and put it into his mouth: "Master, how is it? It's really good to have some hot pot in this weather, right?"

"Well..." Liu Rengui nodded, "It's just that His Highness can't be so extravagant every day, after all, the conditions in the army..."

"Okay, okay, I know, master, eat quickly!" Li Yuechen urged.

Liu Rengui smiled: "Speaking of which, the scouts have reported more frequently recently, it seems that Tubo is going to make a big move."

"Hurry up." Speaking of this, Li Yuechen felt helpless, "There has been no movement for two months, hurry up and go back after typing. I still want to go back to the palace for the New Year..."

"They are the same in this regard." Liu Rengui held up his wine glass, "His Royal Highness, please make preparations in the near future. I have sent people to bring the remaining troops from Taozhou. There may be a tough battle next."

Li Yuechen frowned: "Our army has a total of 180,000. Could it be that there is going to be a decisive battle?"

To be honest, at least in Li Yuechen's opinion, the tragedy of this kind of hand-to-hand combat is even more serious than shooting guns at each other in the future.

I remember reading it on the Internet before. It seems that during World War II, it took hundreds of bullets to kill a person.

After all, everyone knows how powerful the gun is, so many times watching the fierce shooting between the two sides, in fact, not many people will die.

But the wars of this era are different. In the case of hand-to-hand combat, the rate of loss of soldiers is quite fast.

Liu Rengui nodded: "Lun Qinling can't last any longer. The only thing we can do now is to launch a decisive battle. If we can win, we can take advantage of the situation and enter our Tang Dynasty to plunder."

Li Yuechen nodded: "It must be due to the master's prestige, and he dared not act easily, so it took until now."

"Having said that, Lun Qinling is not an ordinary person. If he can endure until now, I'm afraid it's not easy to fight a decisive battle on the battlefield..." Liu Rengui analyzed.

"Why didn't you lead him to attack the city?" Li Yuechen was puzzled by this, "It would be easier for us to defend the city, right?"

"Lun Qinling is not stupid, why would he choose the city we are guarding to attack?" Liu Rengui couldn't help laughing, "Your Highness, remember, don't underestimate the enemy. If he then takes a long way to attack other towns , I wait to defend the dragon branch, and it is too late for support."

"All right……"

Li Yuechen also knew that his studies were not enough, and there was still a lot to learn about the art of war.

While eating and chatting, I also learned a lot.

When I went back to sleep at night, I rehearsed what I learned during the day in my mind, and then I closed my eyes and fell asleep slowly.

……

A few days later, when Li Yuechen was practicing in the posthouse, a soldier suddenly ran over: "Your Highness, there is a military situation!"

Li Yuechen immediately stopped, got on his horse and ran into the military camp outside the city.

Liu Rengui and a group of generals had already gathered. When they saw Li Yuechen coming in, they immediately sat around the table and looked at the map to explain.

"Now the 200,000 Tubo army is marching towards Dafeichuan. I will start tomorrow. Go here!" Liu Rengui pointed at the map with his hand while talking.

Li Yuechen took a look, and it should be Xining more than a thousand years later, because the Qinghai Lake next to it was clearly drawn on the map.

"The terrain here is too open?" Li Yuechen asked.

"It's best to be open, at least you don't have to worry about an ambush." ​​Liu Rengui replied, "I didn't plan to have such a decisive battle to block everything, but now that His Highness is here, this battle will be easier."

"Yes, as long as His Highness takes the lead, the enemy is guaranteed to be frightened!" Li Jingxuan beside him smiled.

Li Yuechen curled his lips: "I'm not a god, 200,000 people are afraid of me alone?"

"Your Highness is wrong. We have an army of 180,000!" Wang Xiaojie replied next to him, "What's more, the enemy army has 200,000 and [-] to [-] are slaves. Under such circumstances, Your Highness alone is enough to make the opponent Scared."

Since the other party has said so, Li Yuechen has no objection, anyway, now she has a rough estimate of her own strength.

There is still a lot of confidence in tearing through the enemy's defense line, but it is really hard to say whether it can penetrate the enemy's line. It also depends on the cooperation of other soldiers around.

"Your Highness, please pay more attention. After what happened last time, there is a high possibility that Lun Qinling will set up a special force to deal with His Highness!" Liu Rengui reminded.

Li Yuechen nodded: "To deal with my heavy armor, it is difficult for ordinary swords to hurt me. There will probably be a troop with hammers to deal with me."

"Yes." Liu Rengui nodded, "His Highness's safety is the top priority, Wang Xiaojie, Black Tooth Changzhi! You two lead your respective troops to protect His Highness!"

"Here!" The two agreed in unison.

Li Yuechen is going to be a vanguard officer, so accompanying her must be someone with a relatively high combat effectiveness.

And among this group of young generals, although Qi Biming can be regarded as relatively capable of fighting himself, he is still not close compared with Wang Xiaojie and Hei Chi Chang Zhi.

Wang Xiaojie was not born in a family, but was killed step by step from the top soldiers. His kung fu was honed on the battlefield, and his combat effectiveness was very high.

Hei Chi Changzhi is from Baekje, and he was from a big family before he came down to the Tang Dynasty. He has practiced martial arts since he was a child, and his combat effectiveness is also very strong.

If Li Yuechen didn't have such brute force to back him up, he probably wouldn't be able to do ten tricks in the hands of these two people.

Li Yuechen knew this well. Although she was an apprentice of the famous general Liu Rengui, she could barely be considered a first-class master in terms of kung fu.

But this brute force and terrifying physical fitness abruptly pushed her to the number one position in the world.

In particular, her physical fitness is simply far ahead of ordinary people.

In the past few months, Li Yuechen has also made some different attempts.

For example, when my aunt was here, I went to eat Sushan desperately. Although I knew that girls should not eat cold food at this time, I still tried it.

Originally, she was prepared for a stomachache, but after eating a dozen bowls in one go, nothing happened.

Also, taking advantage of the rain, I deliberately let myself exercise strenuously, and after sweating profusely, I went to take a cold shower to soak my body.

Then fell asleep in wet clothes.

As a result, when I woke up the next morning, I was still full of energy and nothing happened.

When she was assassinated when she was a child, she had a fever because of sweating and soaking in water. It seemed that her body's resistance became more and more terrifying as she grew older.

After all, although she was only seven years old at that time, her physical fitness was already similar to that of an adult.

But now she is 13 years old, and her physical fitness has already surpassed that of an adult, and even surpassed that of a top special soldier.

It is estimated that after a few years of adulthood, he can really reach the level of the US team. It is hard to say whether he can pull a helicopter like in the movie, but at least pulling a two-horse carriage should not be a problem.

Li Yuechen didn't bother to think about the reason behind this, he just regarded it as a cheat for the traverser.

……

Liu Rengui roughly assigned tasks, Wang Xiaojie and Heizhi Changzhi were in charge of Li Yuechen's left and right sides, and served as vanguard officers with her.

Wei Daigui and Li Jingxuan each brought 20,000 light cavalry to outflank, and Qi Biming also brought [-] people to support at any time.

Liu Rengui personally commanded the remaining 40,000 people to hold the formation in case of emergency.

After the task was assigned that day, each went back to prepare and was ready to leave early the next morning.

Here is still a little distance from Xining, and it will take at least ten days for all the 180,000 troops to pass.

Most of the details on Li Yuechen's side don't need her to ask her personally, Geng Yunqiang and others will be responsible for solving them.

After a night's rest, early the next morning, after breakfast, the army set out and marched towards the destination.

At the same time, a large number of scouts were also sent out to monitor the enemy's movements at any time.

Liu Rengui's request was to report three times a day, and to report the position of the enemy three times a day, so that he could adjust the marching speed according to the situation.

Li Yuechen was riding on horseback, and under the protection of Geng Yunqiang and others, his gray hakama pleats looked very eye-catching.

Because her armor is too heavy, it is better not to wear it when she is not charging on the battlefield, so as to reduce the burden on the horse as much as possible.

So the current picture is that she is not wearing armor alone, while other people around are fully armed and look very prominent.

Walking on the official road paved with gravel and clods, hearing the sound of horseshoes under his feet, Li Yuechen couldn't help but shook his head.

Although horseshoes have been invented now, the output is still not enough for all cavalry to equip them, so only officers' horses have this equipment.

It seems that after going back, we still have to find a way to increase the production of steel.

Now that the blast furnace experiment has been almost successful, we can find a place to build a few more.Of course, the most important thing is to allow those captives to mine at that time.

Anyway, they are all sinners who invaded Datang, so it is right to let them eat and drink well and do some dangerous work.

The chances of landslides in mining are very high these days, so it is more appropriate for prisoners of war to do this kind of dangerous work.

While thinking about things, Li Yuechen walked slowly with the large army. At the same time, this kind of long-distance march was also a good time to learn various knowledge in the army.

Li Yuechen has been thinking about reforming the army ever since he decided on his goal of becoming a military leader, but the premise of reform is to first understand the army of this era, and then he can make a system suitable for this era according to different situations.

After carefully observing the military system and logistics of this era, Li Yuechen has already begun to think about how to change it to be more in line with this era.

The first transition to a professional soldier is a must!
But professional soldiers must pay attention to ideological education. Compared with a strong body, what they need more is to have the soul of the army and loyalty to the country!

Otherwise, the so-called professional soldiers are no different from mercenaries.

Observing, learning, thinking... This is what Li Yuechen has been doing during this period of time.

On October [-]th, the army finally arrived at the future Xining. At this time... a large wasteland!

During this period, there were no cities or even villages to be seen. There was only endless wasteland, rolling mountains and rivers and green virgin forests surrounding it.

The blue sky is as pure as the bottom of the sea, and the irregular white clouds are splashed on the sky blue background in different shapes.

A breeze blew past, causing Li Yuechen's jet-black hair to dance, and at the same time, he could even smell the fragrance of earth.

After camping and resting here for a day, Liu Rengui announced that he would lead the army to continue in the direction of Qinghai Lake.

On the way, Li Yuechen suddenly remembered that he had heard that Qinghai Lake was once a freshwater lake?I don't know if the Qinghai Lake water in this period can be drunk?
Stretching out of the time and space more than a thousand years ago, Li Yuechen couldn't help but wanted to try it.

(End of this chapter)