The third emperor of the Sui Dynasty

Chapter 712 Yang Tong's Taste

To the west of the Hanshui River is an endless rice field. Under the afterglow of the setting sun, it seems to be covered with a golden light. The river surface is sparkling, like a magnificent jade belt stretching to the south, and the scenery is extremely beautiful.As beautiful as a large group of Turkic remnants are fleeing in panic to the north along the Han Siqu.

About 5 to [-] soldiers of the Tang Army marched to the northwest along the official road by the river. Li Shimin rode slowly under the guard of the Red Armor Army. Relaxed.

Li Shimin didn't know that Liu Hongji had been repulsed by the Beizhen army. He believed that with the strength of his troops, there were 8 infantry, [-] red armored cavalry, and the [-] troops of Liu Hongji and Dou Cong. Yuanzhishui's Beizhen army is not difficult. Although the opponent is well-equipped and well-trained, the leader Dugu Yanyun has no prestige. There is a [-]% possibility of internal conflict in the army.

However, just as Liu Hongji expected, Li Shimin doesn't want to wipe out this army now, but wants to use a huge force to subdue others without fighting, and use this army for the Tang Dynasty. If he can coerce the opponent to surrender to Tang, Then the rebellion of the Guanlong nobles will "turn crisis into opportunity", allowing the Tang Dynasty to obtain [-] elites out of thin air.

"Are you familiar with Dugu Yanyun?" Li Shimin turned around and asked the staff following him.

"His Royal Highness, I know Dugu Yanyun from my humble position." Yuwen Shiji and Ce Ma said.

"Then, does this person have the ability to command the overall situation?" Li Shimin asked the Yuwen Shiji who was riding side by side. Only by knowing oneself and the enemy can one be victorious in every battle. Only by knowing the enemy's general can one take advantage of the opponent's personality flaw Aim at it.

Yuwen Shiji replied: "Your Highness, although the Guanlong nobles put military force first, they have ruled the world for more than a hundred years, so they inevitably developed a sense of comfort. It is no exaggeration to say that one generation is not as good as the next. Since Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty With the founding of the country, the older generation of Guanlong nobles are extremely powerful, like the humble father, Gao Jiong, Yang Su, Yu Zeqing, Han Qinhu, He Ruobi, Dou Qing, Yu Zhongwen, Dugu Luo, Changsun Sheng , Yujuluo, etc., are all generals who can stand alone, and anyone can destroy a small country. With the passing of the older generation, and removing the Tang royal family Li and the Sui Dynasty royal family Yang, Only Yang Xuangan and Li Mi are considered to be famous generals of the Guanlong nobles. Unfortunately, both of them have been defeated and died. The Guanlong nobles really can’t produce any outstanding generals. The formerly powerful Dugu faction is also a general withered, and no one can take it He was able to do so, so we were able to single out an expert from the dwarf group, and pull out the unknown Dugu Yanyun as the main general. This does not mean that he is talented in commanding troops, but because of the leadership of the Dugu Clan. Dugu Yanyou is the vanguard general Even though he is really talented as a famous general, his biggest flaw is that he has no experience in commanding troops in battle, and now he hastily commanding tens of thousands of troops, it is inevitable that he will be in a hurry."

"Mr. is right. Art of war and actual combat are really different." Li Shimin nodded and said with a smile: "The Beizhen army is a lone army, and Gucheng is a small city. The best way is to abandon it when our army surrounds it." He fled from the city, avoiding the strong and attacking the weak. But he didn't move at all, isn't this an opportunity for us to surround him?"

"Your Highness intends to rely on the superiority of the ambush troops to storm Gucheng?" Yuwen Shiji asked.

Li Shimin shook his head and said: "Our enemy is the mighty Sui Dynasty. I am reluctant to lose a single soldier under Gucheng. The best policy is to surrender without fighting!"

"What Your Highness said is very true."

"Liu Hongji and Dou Cong should be here. Send an order to let the whole army speed up their march."

"Here."

The order was issued, and more than [-] soldiers of the Tang army accelerated and rushed northwest along the Han River.

All of a sudden, a rider came galloping from the direction of Gucheng, dozens of steps away from Li Shimin, the knight had already got off his horse, and crawled up to Li Shimin, without even knowing that his helmet was off, Li Shimin His eyelids twitched suddenly, and a strong ominous feeling enveloped him completely in an instant.

The scout fell into the dust and said incoherently: "Your Highness, we are defeated, we are defeated, our army is defeated..."

Zhai Changsun heard him talking nonsensically, and suddenly became angry from the heart, and whipped the knight's back with a whip, and cursed: "Why panic, get up and speak slowly!"

The scout screamed, stood up and said, "Your Highness, generals and gentlemen...General Liu Hongji was defeated by the Beizhen army head-on. The [-] army died or scattered, and those who were defeated fled back to Yincheng."

"What did you say?" Zhai Changsun was shocked when he heard this.

Li Shimin's eyes suddenly went dark, and he almost fell off his horse.

"Liu Hongji is leading an elite army, how could it be defeated? How could it be defeated? How is this possible? How is this possible?" Li Shimin asked urgently in disbelief.

Zhai Changsun had already split his chest and grabbed the scouts, and asked sharply, "Quickly tell me, how did Liu Hongji lose?"

"His Royal Highness..." The scouts told the whole process tremblingly. After Li Shimin, Zhai Changsun, Yu Wenshiji and others heard it, they couldn't believe their ears: the whole army of Beizhen Army was dispatched and took the initiative to attack outside the city. To stop Liu Hongji, who is exhausted and exhausted, don't they worry at all that the soldiers in the rear and the empty Gucheng will be occupied by Dou Cong or the headquarters?

Zhai Changsunyou didn't believe it, and even forced the scouts to repeat the narration, but the fact is that Liu Hongji was completely annihilated by the Beizhen army in a face-to-face decisive battle, and fled back to Yincheng in embarrassment. After the army won a brilliant victory, they retreated back to Gucheng in a chic and self-satisfied manner.

After a long while, Zhai Changsun turned his head to look back at Li Shimin, his expression was already filled with horror.

However, Li Shimin had already regained his composure. As the number one in the Tang army, his psychological quality was more than one level higher than that of the generals in the army.

Thinking back carefully on the words of the scouts, Li Shimin only felt his scalp explode. He found that Dugu Yanyun's tactics were quite powerful. He even took advantage of the "breathing" opportunity when the three Tang armies could not reach Gucheng at the same time, and concentrated their superior forces to wipe out all the way. Cheng himself can only confront the Beizhen army head-on like Liu Hongji. In addition, he has no choice. This is obviously a blatant conspiracy, and people have to follow his plan to fight.

Dugu Yanyun, who led this battle, used his troops in a way that was the Sui army's best conspiracy.From this, Li Shimin seems to smell a strong smell of Yang Tong.

"How about the loss of Beizhen Army?" Li Shimin asked quickly.

"They don't have much loss." The scout replied.

"Send an order to Dou Cong." Li Shimin took a deep breath, "Tell him to arrive at Gucheng tonight and join me in besieging Gucheng. Otherwise, he will be dealt with by military law."

"Here." A Red Armored Army broke away from the army and left with a rumble.

After all, the Beizhen army only has 3 soldiers, even if there is not much loss, but after this battle, the fighting power will inevitably fall into a trough. I and Dou Cong went to besiege the city with nearly [-] soldiers. It is absolutely impossible for the Beizhen army to come up with no surprises won Tang Jun.

As for tricks?
Li Shimin couldn't help but smirked coldly. He had such an army on his side, and the strength of the Beizhen Army would not increase. After another big battle, both the number of soldiers and the combat power dropped a lot.This is an unavoidable fact, Li Shimin would still be afraid of Dugu Yanyun's trick?

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