Man Tanghong

Chapter 1008
Li Yuanji and Li Shimin stood side by side on the small hill in the south hill of Baiyang City. They looked at the wilderness to the west, sighing with emotion.

Although the six thousand soldiers and horses led by Yang Zhengdao were less than twenty miles away from Aries City, neither of them panicked, as if they didn't know that Yang Zhengdao had brought someone to take their heads.

After Li Shimin sighed that the two brothers were clever but were mistaken by their cleverness, he suddenly turned his head to Li Yuanji and said, "How are you going to deal with it?"

Li Yuanji did not answer, but looked at Li Shimin and asked, "How about I go meet him?"

Li Shimin looked like he had eaten shit, and said angrily, "Forget it, I'll go meet him."

When Li Yuanji heard this, he narrowed his eyes and laughed.

He has already seen that Li Shimin's mind is moved, but Li Shimin is a person who likes to hold it. If you don't ask him, he won't speak out what's in his heart.

So if you get angry, if you get excited, you can't hide the thoughts in your heart as soon as you get angry.

Li Shimin felt uncomfortable seeing Li Yuanji's smiling expression, and pretended to be calm and snorted, and said: "Today, let me, my elder brother, teach you how to fight, so that you won't go out and suffer defeat in the future, and say that I'm not a good person." This brother didn't teach you anything."

Li Yuanji knew that Li Shimin was blunt, so he tactfully said, "Yes yes yes, I would like to listen to my second brother's teaching!"

Li Shimin puffed up his chest slightly and picked it up, "Huh, just watch!"

After saying this, Li Shimin called Xue Wanche who was guarding not far away, "Go, gather all the soldiers and horses that can be assembled in the city, and gather in the west of the city. When everyone is here, divide the people of King Yongwei into twenty groups , 100 people are a unit, one person and two horses, go to attack Yang Zhengdao's team along the way, and they can't stop day and night. Remember, tell them that once Yang Zhengdao's men and horses counterattack or start a siege, they must not love to fight and must withdraw from the battlefield as soon as possible.

Then divide the guards in the city into a hundred groups and ask them to dig holes ten miles outside the city. The holes must be dug two feet deep and one foot wide, and no work is allowed.

Then let them dig a trench outside the city, running through the north and south hills.

After everything has been dug, let them bring rolling logs, rocks, arrows, etc., and gather at the mountainsides on both sides. "

"Here!"

Xue Wanche solemnly agreed, and quickly left the mountain bag.

After Xue Wanche left, Li Yuanji looked at Li Shimin and said, "What kind of rules are you doing?"

Li Shimin said with an air of dignity: "What's the plan? Of course it's the method to defeat Yang Zhengdao."

Li Yuanji said curiously: "Tell me carefully..."

Li Shimin snorted, glanced at Li Yuanji and said, "Tell me first, which step did you see?"

Li Yuanji thought for a while and said: "You let Yong Wangwei's people attack Yang Zhengdao day and night, it should be a strategy to exhaust the enemy. But the number of troops under Yang Zhengdao's command is far higher than that of Yong Wangwei. People can fight against him when they gather together, but if they are separated, they may not be his opponents.

Moreover, Yang Zhengdao would not sit still and wait for death. After he was attacked four or five times, he would definitely be on guard. If the Yongwang Guards people attacked him again, they would most likely be surrounded by him.

Therefore, the strategy of exhausting the enemy is only a temporary strategy, and it will not last long, and it is difficult to truly achieve the goal of exhausting the enemy.

As for you asking the city guards to dig a hole outside the city, it was to trap horses.

But digging a horse pit ten miles outside the city, even if it can cause some damage to Yang Zhengdao's soldiers and horses, it can't stop Yang Zhengdao's footsteps.

After all, Yang Zhengdao discovered something so obvious as a horse trap, and he could easily bypass it.

As for you asking people to dig trenches outside the city, it is to prevent Yang Zhengdao from attacking the city with large ordnance.

You know very well that there is no vegetation outside Baiyang City, and Yang Zhengdao came here with a light car, so there will not be too many large-scale ordnance. A simple trench is enough to prevent Yang Zhengdao from using ordnance to attack the city.

In this way, all Yang Zhengdao can do is to attack Aries City from the hills on both sides.

And after you asked the city guards to dig the horse pits and trenches, go to the hills on both sides to stay, just to take advantage of the terrain of the hills, condescending, and annihilate Yang Zhengdao in one fell swoop. "

After hearing this, Li Shimin looked at Li Yuanji expressionlessly and said, "Is that what you think?"

Li Yuanji was stunned for a moment, then questioned, "So you have other purposes for doing this?"

Li Shimin said disdainfully: "You can see that it is not a long-term way for me to let Yong Wangwei attack Yang Zhengdao's soldiers and horses, and it will not have the effect of tiring the enemy, how can I not see it?
As for asking the city guards to dig horse pits and ditches outside the city, it was not a useless effort, nor was it to force the hills on both sides of Yang Zhengdao to fight us.

But to confuse Yang Zhengdao. "

Speaking of this, Li Shimin looked at the direction where Yang Zhengdao would appear, curled his lips in disdain and said: "He Yang Zhengdao played a trick this time, and he tricked us.

But his ability to lead troops in battle did not improve with the success of this plan.

He was still the same cowardly person who was unable to recover from the fall of the former Sui Dynasty and could only flee to Turkic for asylum.

So to deal with him, you don't need too clever tricks, you just need to fool him into five tricks, and then annihilate him in one fell swoop. "

Li Yuanji said: "Aren't you a bit arrogant when you say that?"

Li Shimin stared angrily and said, "I am blind? If I am arrogant, I have brought Yong Wangwei to him at this time! Not to mention that he only has 6000 troops, even if there are [-], I dare to take Yong Wangwei to charge. "

Li Shimin is not talking nonsense. This is what he did when he faced Dou Jiande last year.

Speaking of this, Li Shimin said angrily again: "Let me tell you, it's not that I'm arrogant, it's that he is too stupid. If I were him, I would definitely not bring a group of Han people here at this time, I would bring Ash All the elite soldiers from that department and Ashid's department came here and tried their best to behead you and me. Only in this way can Suni's lost department have a chance to turn around.

What's the matter with him bringing a group of Han people here?

Sneak attack or beheading?

If it was a sneak attack, he would have been exposed before he got close to Baiyang City. What kind of sneak attack is this?
If beheading, is it possible for him to behead you and me in an instant?

Also, how many of these Han people who have been in the Turks for more than ten years or decades are loyal to the former Sui Dynasty and are willing to fight bloody battles for him? "

After hearing what Li Shimin said, Li Yuanji opened his mouth, unable to refute.

As Li Shimin said, Yang Zhengdao brought a group of Han people to attack. It seems that the people in his team are pure and have relatively simple origins, but in fact, whether the people in his team are pure or simple, they are not too much like Turks. relation.

Because they are all Han Chinese, the ruin of the Turkic country is the business of the Turkic people, not their business. They have no reason to bet everything to fight for the Turkic people.

It is even possible that some of them still hope that the Turks will be defeated, and then the country will be ruined and their families will be destroyed.

So you expect them to break the boat and fight with their backs, which is impossible.

Under such circumstances, no matter which elite team they faced against from the Tang Dynasty, as long as there was a huge battle loss, they would all disperse.

So it makes sense for Li Shimin to say that Yang Zhengdao is stupid.

Because Yang Zhengdao only saw the unity and purity of the army, but ignored the bloodiness and death will of the army.

And blood and will to die are more important to an army than unity and purity.

An army without bloodiness and will to die, no matter how simple and pure it is, will collapse and disperse at the first touch when it encounters a powerful enemy.

But an army with blood and a will to die, even if it is not single-minded or pure enough, will fight to the end when it encounters a strong enemy, and it is possible to turn defeat into victory.

There are countless similar examples in history.

Therefore, in the army, blood and will to die are more important than singleness and purity, and Yang Zhengdao just ignored these two most important points.

"Then what's the real purpose of sending people to sneak attack them and dig horse pits and trenches outside the city?"

After being silent for a while, Li Yuanji stared at Li Shimin and asked.

Li Shimin snorted twice and said, "Naturally to confuse them, lure them here, and annihilate them in one fell swoop!"

Hearing this, Li Yuanji roughly guessed Li Shimin's arrangement, "Are you trying to give them the illusion that we are weak and have insufficient troops, so that they can mistakenly think that they can break through Baiyang City in one fell swoop, capture us, and then swarm over? "

Li Shimin nodded reluctantly.

Li Yuanji continued: "Yong Wangwei is the one who really took action against them?"

Li Shimin pouted and said, "You're not too stupid!"

Li Yuanji didn't care about Li Shimin's words, and continued: "So you let Yong Wangwei go out to attack them, in fact, it was to hide Yong Wangwei around them first?"

Li Shimin nodded his head and said: "That's right, when they start attacking the city from the north and south hills, I will let the city guards entangle them first, and then let Yong Wangwei fight out from behind them.

At that time, there will only be two choices left for them, surrender or die! "

Li Yuanji nodded and said, "How sure are you?"

When Li Shimin heard this, he couldn't help being angry, and said angrily, "Do you believe me if I say [-]%?"

Without waiting for Li Yuanji to speak, Li Shimin continued: "Also, since you asked me to take action, don't question my ability. If I weren't afraid that you would be beaten to death by your father when you returned, I would not have adopted this strategy at all. I will directly go out with a hundred cavalry, hang out in front of Yang Zhengdao, lure him to lead his army to attack, and then set up an ambush on his only way to defeat him in one fell swoop. There is no need to bother like now."

Li Yuanji was speechless when he heard this, but what Li Shimin said was in line with his usual style of doing things.

Li Shimin was like this when he was fighting. He often used his own head as bait. Many people knew it was a trick, but they couldn't stop their greed. They fell into his tricks repeatedly and let him win a prize. City after city.

(End of this chapter)