Man Tanghong

Chapter 654 The Outrageous Battle ([-])

"Have you tuned Kaishan Accompanying?"

Li Shimin was a little surprised, but soon felt relieved.

He still knows Yin Kaishan's ability very well. He also has great confidence in Yin Kaishan. It is possible to hold Suizhou.

Why is it possible?

Because of the disparity in the strength of the two sides, even if the defenders of Suizhou had the help of Li Shenfu, Yin Kaishan, Xue Shou, Yu Zhining and others, they would not dare to say that they could hold Suizhou [-]%.

When fighting a war, it depends not only on the personal ability of the general, but also on the strength of the two sides.

Those with a large number of troops will more or less take advantage of those with a small number of troops.

If it is said that the number of troops is multiplied, it can completely overwhelm the opponent.

Even if the opponent's generals are all first-class fierce generals, they may not necessarily win.

It is difficult for a clever woman to cook without rice.

Two fists are no match for four hands.

No matter how good you are at fighting, you have to give up when several times the enemies surround you and strangle you.

As strong as Li Yuanji, when facing an army of more than [-] people, he had to avoid his edge, not to mention Li Shenfu and Yin Kaishan.

Facing Li Shimin's question, Li Yuanji nodded his head, and Li Shimin said relaxedly, "Even if the war in Suizhou is going to be bad, it won't go there, so I can rest assured."

Li Shimin was relieved, although he didn't talk much, but the speed of drinking and eating meat became faster. When Li Jiancheng heard that Li Shenfu and Yin Kaishan had been transferred to Suizhou to help out, he was also relieved, relaxed a lot, and started to speed up. They ate meat and drank wine.

Half an hour later, the two of them were drunk.

I don't know whether it was intentional or unintentional, the two of them talked about the past, about their childhood, how much they loved their younger brother when they were young, and how deep their relationship with their younger brother was. .

If Li Yuanji didn't understand the two of them as human beings, he would be easily infected by their truthful words after drinking.

It's a pity that Li Yuanji knew the two of them too well, and it was precisely because of his understanding that he would not believe their nonsense at all.

When the two of them felt that what they said was boring, Li Yuanji ordered Yu Wenbao to take them back to their respective tents.

In the next few days, the two of them didn't show up again, but Li Yuanji didn't relax because of this, on the contrary, he became even busier.

Liu Hongji rushed to the big tent outside the customs to report the military situation almost every day. Today he would report how many people he had captured in the battle with the Turks, and tomorrow he would report how many people he had injured in the battle with the Turks.

In the days of war, both sides have injured many people.

Judging from the results of the battle reported by Liu Hongji, Datang has killed more than 3000 Turkic people in the recent wars, and Datang paid for the lives of more than 4000 soldiers, and another 3000 soldiers were killed. Injuries of varying severity.

The battle loss was almost two to one.

This made Cai Yungong and Chen Shuda Qiqi, who were in charge of statistics of the battle results, frowned, and rushed to the central army's tent with the 'Battle Damage Report' together.

Before Li Yuanji came, the Chinese army tent here was where Liu Hongji was. After Li Yuanji came, the Chinese army tent here became the place where Li Yuanji was.

Li Yuanji was in the big tent dealing with the government affairs sent by Li Gang and others, and reading the reports sent by Li Xiaogong, Chai Shao, Su Dingfang and others.

After reading Chai Shao's observation of Li Yidong's report, Cai Yungong and Chen Shuda appeared together in the Chinese army tent just as he rubbed his brows.

Both of them frowned, as if they had heavy thoughts.

"My minister Cai Yungong..."

"Chen Shuda..."

"See Your Highness..."

The two bowed and saluted.

Li Yuanji nodded, let the two sit down, and said, "You two are frowning, but do you have something on your mind?"

Cai Yungong and Chen Shuda looked at each other, and Chen Shuda cupped his hands and said: "His Royal Highness, I have been counting the battle damage of our Tang Dynasty in the past few days, and found that the battle damage of my Tang Dynasty is almost four to five times that of the Turks. So I have come here to report to His Highness."

Li Yuanji frowned when he heard this.

Datang has Xiongguan as its support and a large number of large-scale ordnance can be used. It can be said that it has an absolute geographical advantage and an advantage in ordnance. In addition, new troops from the four prefectures of Liangzhou have also arrived one after another in recent days In terms of the number of soldiers and horses, the Tang Dynasty is about to be equal to the Turks. The soldiers of the Tang Dynasty are fighting at home again, and none of them fled in fear of the war.

It stands to reason that it is normal to have a battle loss ratio of four to one with the Turks.

But now the battle loss ratio is two to one, which shows that it is not normal, and that there is something wrong with Datang's defense against the Turks.

Cai Yungong and Chen Shuda obviously saw the problem, so they reported the matter here.

"Have you found out that there is something wrong there?"

Li Yuanji stared at Cai Yungong and Chen Shuda with questions.

Cai Yungong and Chen Shuda looked at each other again and shook their heads together.

Li Yuanji frowned even tighter and said, "Then go and check it out..."

Cai Yungong and Chen Shuda got up together, bowed in agreement, and withdrew from the central army tent.

After Cai Yungong and Chen Shuda left, Li Yuanji thought about it for a while, and finally sent someone to invite Li Shimin over.

Since he couldn't see the problem on this issue, he could only ask Li Shimin to come out and help.

With Li Shimin's ability, it should be easy to see where the problem lies.

Li Shimin couldn't figure him out on this matter, so he didn't mind listening to Li Shimin's opinion.

Under the repeated urging of the Jiji Lang in front of the tent, it didn't take long for Li Shimin to arrive at the big tent of the Chinese Army under the protection of Yu Wenbao.

Li Yuanji didn't exchange greetings with Li Shimin either, and straight to the point, he told Li Shimin about the problems Xiao Guan had now.

After listening, Li Shimin stroked his beard in silence for a long time before slowly opening his mouth and said, "I'm afraid Liu Hongji's old problem has happened again..."

Li Yuanji looked at Li Shimin puzzled.

Li Shimin explained: "Liu Hongji has always admired Bai Qi, Lord Wu'an of Qin State, and General Wang Jian in the pre-Qin period, and it is precisely because of this that his way of leading troops is also infinitely close to these two people.

These two people have a characteristic in combat, that is, they like flooding with floods, and they like to use huge forces to confront the enemy head-on, defeat the enemy's morale, defeat the enemy's army formation, and finally annihilate the enemy in one fell swoop.

It's just that the soldiers and horses my Datang recruited this time are barely equal to the Turkic people, and they can't be flooded, nor can they head-to-head with the Turkic people.

Liu Hongji chose the method of flooding with floods and head-to-head, and the damage of my Tang Dynasty will naturally be great. "

Speaking of this, Li Shimin sighed: "It's actually not easy for you to manage this matter, unless you change generals on the spot."

Having said that, Li Shimin didn't go any further, but Li Shimin's meaning was already very clear, that is, pretending not to see anything and letting Liu Hongji do his best. Within the tolerance range, there is no need to say or do anything.

After all, changing generals on the spot is a big taboo for military strategists. If Liu Hongji was replaced because of this incident, it would have a great blow to Xiao Guan's morale.

All the plans and arrangements Liu Hongji made in Xiaoguan before will be completely overthrown.

The new general had to re-plan and re-arrange. The time spent in the process and the loopholes that appeared became the targets for the Turks to attack Xiaoguan.

If done properly, there shouldn't be any major problems.

But if it is not operated properly, Xiaoguan will be breached by the Turkic people anytime and anywhere.

More importantly, Datang can't find a suitable person to replace Liu Hongji.

"That is to say, we can only let it go?"

Li Yuanji frowned even tighter.

Li Shimin raised his head slightly, stroked his beard and did not speak.

But Li Yuanji understood the meaning of his reaction, which was 'Let me go'.

Let alone Liu Hongji, even if Li Xiaogong, Li Shiji, Su Dingfang, Li Jing and others come, they have to be held by him.

Li Yuanji knew that Li Shimin had this ability, but he would never let Li Shimin go.

Let Li Shimin go to the battlefield and give Li Shimin certain military power, that is to let the tiger go back to the mountain.

With Li Shimin's ability, he will definitely be able to bury many opponents against the Turkic colleagues.

He didn't want to ask for trouble.

"Is there no other way?"

Li Yuanji asked angrily.

Li Shimin said indifferently: "If you can invite father to come here, I believe Liu Hongji would not dare to act like this in front of father."

Li Yuanji glared at Li Shimin speechlessly.

Yes, with Li Yuan in charge, Liu Hongji would not be able to, let alone treat the officers and soldiers of the Tang Dynasty as worthless.

After all, Li Yuan was his first lord, and so far his only lord in name, and Li Yuan was also a master of the art of war. Any unreasonable actions by Liu Hongji, or his methods of abusing military power, could not escape his eyes.

As long as he shouted, Liu Hongji would obey obediently.

The problem is that since the founding of the Tang Dynasty, Li Yuan would leave Chang'an City except for the summer vacation, and the rest of the time has been living in Chang'an City, not to mention the Turkic soldiers coming to Xiaoguan, even if Wang Shichong and Dou Jiande soldiers came to Hulao He didn't move when it was closed, and asking him to come to Xiaoguan was pure nonsense.

"Do you think it will be effective if I recruit Liu Hongji and talk to him?"

Li Yuanji couldn't get a solution from Li Shimin's mouth, so he could only find a solution by himself.

Seeing that Li Yuanji refused to let him lead the army, Li Shimin said with some helplessness: "You recruited him, why not go there by yourself. If you take me and elder brother to go there together, the three of us will sit in the gate of the city." , even if you do nothing, Liu Hongji will act cautiously."

Li Yuanji nodded thoughtfully, this is also a way.

As the three of them, sit behind Liu Hongji. Even if Liu Hongji wants to use the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty as nothing, he still has to take care of the three of them.

"But if you sit like this, will it put pressure on Liu Hongji?"

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