Man Tanghong

"I'm afraid Jieli isn't so stupid, is he?"

Cai Yungong said something with a smile, and the others also laughed.

The atmosphere in the city gate building suddenly became active.

Although Jieli is not stupid, but if Jieli really drove straight down from Yinsui when he failed to take down Xiaoguan and other gates in Yanqing and other places, and was locked up and beat the dog, that would be a real mistake. A thing to be happy about.

Li Yuanji smiled brightly and said: "Jie Li is not stupid, but if someone under his command is stupid and carries Jie Li down from Yinsui, it will be a good thing for us."

Cai Yungong, Chen Shuda and others all smiled and nodded.

Li Yuanji looked at Xue Shou again and said, "Do you have any questions?"

Xue Shou shook his head slowly, expressing that he had no doubts.

Li Yuanji nodded and said: "Then it's up to you to rush to Suizhou to help Suizhou. You still need to bring those things and go to the treasury in the city to get them yourself."

Xue Shou bowed and agreed.

Li Yuanji didn't talk to Xue Shou anymore, but chatted with Liu Hongji, Cai Yungong and others about further military affairs.

Sending 3000 people to aid Suizhou can only temporarily alleviate Suizhou's problems, but cannot fundamentally solve Suizhou's problems. Therefore, we need to continue to discuss and come up with a proper solution as soon as possible.

In the matter of resisting the Turkic people, it is natural not to let the Turkic people in without letting the Turkic people in.

After all, the Turkic people live by grazing and don't care about farming and mulberry. After they invaded the Central Plains, they would destructively destroy the farming and mulberry in the Central Plains.

Often places that have been ravaged by the Turkic people will not be able to recover their vitality in three or two years.

It was easy for the Tang Dynasty to move the people out to achieve the effect of strengthening the walls and clearing the country, but it was difficult to restore the local people's livelihood after the Turkic people retreated.

Not only will it consume a lot of manpower and material resources, but it will also consume a lot of time.

So if you can keep the Turkic people out of the Tang Dynasty, you must keep the Turkic people out of the Tang Dynasty. Only when there is no other way can you let the Turkic people in.

Li Yuanji chatted with Cai Yungong, Chen Shuda, Liu Hongji and others for most of the day, from noon to afternoon, and from afternoon to Mingchusheng. Although they didn't talk about a specific solution to Suizhou's predicament, they did. There are some small ways to alleviate Suizhou's plight.

For example, Li Yuanji combined with the anti-tank piles of later generations, and proposed the idea of ​​burying dense boulders on the only way the Turks must pass, leaving a stone tip exposed.

This can effectively prevent the large-scale charge of the Turkic cavalry.

The most important thing is that whether the Turks choose to detour or choose to clean up the boulders, it will take a long time.

The longer it took for the Turkic people to enter the Tang Dynasty, the less hope they had of reaching Chang'an City, and the greater the hope of the Tang Dynasty winning.

After all, the Turks were fighting away from home, and their strength could not be replenished in time, nor was their food.

Datang is fighting at home. The longer the time entrusted, the more troops can be mobilized, and the more food and grass can be mobilized together. It is inevitable to repel the Turks under the ebb and flow.

Cai Yungong extended this method. He suggested that all the official roads near the mountains and forests in the south of Suizhou should be buried with this kind of stumbling pile (started by Li Yuanji) that could prevent the Turkic cavalry from charging in a large scale. When the Turks came in, they could combine this kind of stumbling pile to set up ambushes in the mountains on both sides of the official road, and send a small number of soldiers and horses to move through the mountains flexibly, constantly harassing the Turks.

Although this method cannot repel the Turks, it is enough to torment the Turks.

As for why not dig some more time-saving and labor-saving tripping pits, it is also for Tang people's consideration.

Although the number of Tang's cavalry is quite large, it is still not as large as the Turkic people. In addition, there is no need for the cavalry of Datang to launch a large-scale charge on the official road of Datang, so as long as three people are left on the official road. A trail for horses, plus two galloping lanes, is enough for Datang's cavalry and carriages to pass.

If the Turks wanted to pass, they could only line up their cavalry in three lines, or send people to dig the huge stones buried in the ground.

This method is wonderful in seconds. Datang's carriage wheels are very high, and there is a large gap between the wheels and the road where the horses pass, so the sharp tip of the boulder is planted high, and it does not affect the passage of the Tang people.

But the Turkic people have a headache when they meet them.

Coupled with the nuisance of small groups of soldiers and horses in the mountains and forests on both sides, the Turkic people will have even more headaches.

Moreover, the Turkic people were divided into three groups. If the marching team was lengthened, it would be impossible to gather a large number of soldiers and horses in a short period of time to chase the soldiers and horses of the Tang Dynasty in the mountains and forests.

Xue Shou carefully wrote down this idea, and prepared to use it when the Turks were let in.

Chen Shuda and Liu Hongji each also put forward a good idea.

Chen Shuda felt that it was possible to recruit local young men to join the army on the grounds of exempting from corvee and taxation, and to assist the soldiers and horses of the Tang Dynasty to defend the city together. The local yamen moved people and transported grain and grass.

In this way, the imperial court does not need to send a large number of civilian husbands there. When the people are relocated, it will be easier for the nephews of various families to come forward together with the local yamen.

Xue Shou also took this idea seriously.

Liu Hongji's ideas are relatively simple and rude, and can even be said to be a bit radical.

Liu Hongji felt that since Chen Shuda wanted to recruit the local young men, why didn't he organize the local young men directly into an army, distribute weapons and armor to the local young men, and use them as a real army.

If the time for local exemptions and tax burdens can be extended, local young adults can even be allowed to bring their own food and grass to the army to serve Datang.

The imperial court only needs to send a few people to lead the army, and a few people to do a good job in the post-war pension work, and there is no need to do anything more.

If young men from three or five prefectures could be recruited, it would not be impossible to completely keep the Turks out of Suizhou.

As soon as Liu Hongji said this idea, he was strongly opposed by Chen Shuda.

Chen Shuda felt that Liu Hongji was harming the country and the people.

Liu Hongji felt that he had to use everything during the war.

The two had been arguing from the afternoon until nightfall without deciding the winner. In the end, Xue Shou came forward and said that after he went to Suizhou, he would first try to recruit the young and strong in one state. If he can really help the army resist Turkic attacks, then he will conscript a few more states. If the cost is too high and it is not easy to control, then he will make him a civilian husband, but he will not conscript more.

It was Liu Hongji who proposed the idea, and Chen Shuda who opposed it, but it was Xue Shou who actually implemented it.

Since Xue Shou said so, that's all he can do.

Fortunately, during this period, the Turks did not launch a new round of offensive.

The next day.

As soon as the sky was bright, Xue Shou and Yu Zhining took the [-] elite soldiers they selected, plus a bunch of ordnance, and left Xiaoguan quietly.

Li Yuanji rode his horse all the way, sent them to the official road outside Xiaoguan, and then brought them back to Xiaoguan.

This time Xue Shou, Yu Zhining and others rushed to Suizhou to help, not only shouldering a heavy responsibility, but also in danger of dying at any time, the pressure and risk they need to bear are greater than Xiao Guan.

It is very likely that they will never return, so Li Yuanji has to give a ride no matter what.

Although Xue Shou and Yu Zhining were flattered and declined repeatedly, Li Yuanji insisted on sending them to the official road.

People like Xue Shou and Yu Zhining are too firm in their loyalty to Li Shimin. If they want to appease them, besides using some threats, they have to exchange their sincerity for their sincerity.

If you have been using threats to drive them and appease them.

You end up with a bunch of dark-minded schemers.

This is not what Li Yuanji wants.

Because Li Yuanji knew very well that when a person with knowledge and ability becomes bad, that is really bad.

They can eat people without spitting out their bones, and they can also sell people and count the money for them.

Uneducated and incompetent people are just like that when they go bad, at most they can cause a bloody murder case, which is nothing compared to educated and capable villains.

So Li Yuanji hoped to use some threatening means to force Xue Shou, Yu Zhining and others to submit, and at the same time exchange his sincerity for his sincerity.

As long as they know that he really values ​​them and wants to use them, even if they still think about Li Shimin in their hearts, they will silently be driven by him.

When Li Shimin's influence on them completely dissipated, and when they saw clearly who he was, they would naturally attach themselves to him.

When returning to Xiaoguan, the Turks just launched a new round of attacks.

Maybe Jieli felt that his plan was seen through by Tang, or maybe Jieli lost his patience and didn't want to go back and forth with Liu Hongji anymore, and wanted to win Xiaoguan in one fell swoop, so this time Jieli dispatched his elite , and Liang Shi all attacked the city together.

The war has entered the most tragic stage from the very beginning.

Arrows and stone balls flew across the air.

From time to time, the buildings in the pass would be smashed into a huge gap, or collapsed, and the soldiers who could not escape were either shot and fell to the ground on the spot, or were smashed into a pulp.

The scene where blood mixed with brains or intestines flowed all over the floor made the scalp numb of the people who watched it.

Liu Hongji was so busy that his feet didn't touch the ground, while dispatching soldiers and horses, he personally held a strong bow to shoot at the Turkic people.

The sound of shouting and killing, the sound of golden drums, and the sound of bowstrings spread all over the pass.

Harsh screams filled the entire Jingshui River.

From time to time, people were carried out of the pass and sent to the camp where the military doctors were sitting by the Jingshui River, and from time to time some people were carried out and silently sent to the mountain forest on the side of the river for burial.

Everyone has something to do and is in a hurry.

Li Yuanji also wanted to find something to do for himself, but he was stopped by Cai Yungong as soon as he rode his horse to the gate of Guancheng.

"Step aside!"

Li Yuanji scolded with a straight face.

Cai Yungong held the horse's rein tightly and refused to let go.

Yesterday's battle was not intense, and Li Yuanji went to the front of the two armies in person, but they still pretended not to see it.

But today's battle is quite fierce, and even the slightest carelessness will kill people. No matter how Li Yuanji wants to wander in front of the two armies, they can't pretend not to see anything.

It's okay for Cai Yungong to stop him, but he even sent someone to call Chen Shuda.