The First Young Master of the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 1774 Retire Without Fighting Li Jingxuan

"What's wrong with Tang Jun this time? Why did he suddenly change generals after a good job? This doesn't look like Tang Jun's style." Lu Dongzan said.

"Major Minister, maybe the general replaced by the Tang army is stronger than the previous Liu Rengui?" someone said.

Lu Dongzan nodded: "Maybe that's the case, but in recent years, the prince Li Chengqian has been in charge of the government in the Tang Dynasty, not Li Shimin. This decision is not like Li Shimin can make. Among them, there are other secrets, anyway, although we are not the ones fighting, we should pay more attention to it."

Lu Dongzan's personality is more cautious, but it turns out that sometimes such a temperament is better than being simple and straightforward, such as in this matter.

The fact is not what they thought at all. Li Jingxuan, who was replaced, is not as good as Liu Renyuan, not even a small lieutenant general in the army. A simple civil servant like Li Jingxuan is an idiot general in the army. .

On the other side, Gongsong Gongzan and his group of courtiers were overjoyed when they heard the news.

Changing generals before the battle is not only a taboo for military strategists in the Central Plains, but also in the army everywhere. Gong Song Gongzan doesn't have so many scruples. When he learned that Datang had replaced Liu Rengui, A new general came to the army, and he was so happy that he summoned the nobles under him overnight, planning to do something about the newly appointed general Li Jingxuan, and to send a big gift to the Tang army.

Gong Song Gongzan had hit the right target, he didn't think so much, and hit it instead.

Thinking of targeting Li Jingxuan, the Tubo army did the same. After finding out where Li Jingxuan's troops were sitting, they began to dispatch troops to fight Li Jingxuan.

At this time, Xuan Shijing had already led his troops to Hexi, and stationed around a small town, which was not far from Li Jingxuan's headquarters. If he marched in a hurry, he would be there in about an hour. Therefore, Xuan Shijing stopped, and all the scouts in the general sent out, and then waited and watched.

If the Tubo people knew that Liu Rengui had been replaced, they would definitely attack Li Jingxuan. If Xuan Shijing was replaced by the Tubo people, he would do the same.

It's not hard to find out about Li Jingxuan. You only need to send someone to the Tang Dynasty to find out if there is such a powerful general. The people of the Tang Dynasty don't even know that there is such a great general in the Tang army.

This time Xuan Shijing is going to be an oriole.

The praying mantis catches the cicada, and the oriole follows behind. On the Longxi side, there is no way to lure the Tubo people down from the plateau. Li Jingxuan is going to be a guinea pig for a while.

Just as Xuan Shijing was thinking about how to deal with the Tubo people in the camp, the scouts outside came back and sent the news to Xuan Shijing.

"General, we have discovered the movement of the Tubo army. The Tubo army has gathered a hundred thousand troops and is rushing towards Hexi," said the scout.

"How fast are they marching? How long will it take to reach Hexi?" Xuan Shijing asked.

"The speed is very fast. It is estimated that General Li Jing is unable to react, and then raids Hexi." The scout said: "At the current speed, it will take about three days to reach the vicinity of Hexi."

No matter how much the marching speed of the army increases, it will never be able to keep up with the scout with one man and two horses, but even so, it will take time for the scout to run back on the road. After hearing the news of the Tubo army, he returns to the camp to send the news back , It has been a long time, so it is estimated that there are only three days.

Xuan Shijing looked at the map spread on the table, if the two armies were to fight, the last possible battlefield would be Qinghai.

Xuan Shijing thought about it, so he immediately picked up a pen and wrote a letter to Li Jing, asking the scouts to hurry up and send it to Li Jing's army together with his token.

He wants to be a oriole here, but if the Tubo people make something wrong and want to run, they have to rely on Li Jing to cut off their back road. After finally getting down from the plateau, don't go back. Datang has always been Since you are here, please stay.

Stay in Hexi forever.

The scouts left the camp with Xuan Shijing's letters and tokens, rode on fast horses and rushed towards Li Jing's department.

Li Jing knew that Xuan Shijing would rush over from the Anbei Protectorate, Li Chengqian had already mentioned this matter in his letter, and the Anbei Protectorate would find a way to plug the hole Li Jingxuan made. , Li Jing only needs to look at the cooperation.

Therefore, if the scout went to Li Jing's army with Xuan Shijing's token, Li Jing would not suspect fraud.

This time, the Tubo leader who wants to attack Li Jingxuan in Hexi is the Tubo general Lun Qinling, a subordinate of Gong Song Gongzan. For him, this war is also a person who can take a step forward among the Tubo nobles Opportunity, so for the past few days, the Tubo army has been marching in a hurry, wanting to reach Hexi earlier, and the Tang army was caught off guard.

The army came from a long distance, and the consequences must be that the soldiers were exhausted, so when they arrived near Hexi, Lun Qinling did not fight Li Jingxuan directly, but let the soldiers under him rest well.

The Tubo army was approaching Hexi mightily, and Li Jingxuan also received the news, so he dispatched Liu Shenli as a vanguard general to lead the army to fight with Lun Qinling's troops first, but Li Jingxuan himself was hesitant in the middle of the army. A few days ago, Liu Shenli and his followers were surrounded by the Tubo army in Lunqinling, and they were in danger.

The battle was like this, instead of leading his troops to rescue Liu Shenli, Li Jingxuan ordered the whole army to retreat, retreated to Chengfengling, and dug trenches for defense.

Lun Qinling immediately divided the troops, some of the troops stayed and continued to strangle Liu Shenli's troops, and the other part directly pursued Li Jingxuan.

Seeing that Li Jingxuan retreated without a fight, Lun Qinling felt greatly benefited. It seems that Gong Song Gongzan's prediction was indeed accurate. The general replaced by Datang was a fool at all. The credit for it will fall on him.

Li Jingxuan's arrangement did not escape Xuan Shijing's eyes, the scouts in the army reported all the situation on the battlefield to Xuan Shijing carefully, and a trace of imperceptible anger flashed on Xuan Shijing's face.

Li Jingxuan, retreating without a fight is very good.

Just when Liu Shenli and Lun Qinling were fighting to the point of despair, tens of thousands of Tang troops rushed out from the left side, like a torrent, directly charged into the battlefield, and immediately dispersed the troops left by Lun Qinling , Scattered into pieces.

(End of this chapter)