Man Tanghong

Li Shimin sighed: "There will definitely be pressure, but this is what Liu Hongji asked for."

Speaking of this, Li Shimin paused and said again: "Of course, if you are afraid that Liu Hongji will be pressured, you don't have to go. It's nothing more than killing more soldiers. I, Tang Dynasty, can afford it."

The corner of Li Yuanji's mouth twitched. He really wanted to know how Li Shimin said such irresponsible words calmly. Is this the kind of disposition that a person in power should have?

Isn't that too cold and cruel?

Although the superiors and those in power need bones to pave the way when and after they ascend, but it is contrary to the way of human beings to sit and watch thousands of people who do not need to die die without blinking their brows.

"Then wronged elder brother and second elder brother come with me."

Li Yuanji said with a sigh.

Li Shimin said a little amusedly: "Aren't you afraid of putting pressure on Liu Hongji?"

Li Yuanji glanced at Liu Hongji lightly and said: "If Liu Hongji feels the pressure and something goes wrong, wouldn't there be you? When the time comes, I will let you step up."

Li Shimin was taken aback for a moment, with a look of astonishment on his face.

Li Yuanji continued: "Don't worry, I will keep an eye on you from behind. I believe you won't feel any pressure."

Li Shimin opened his mouth, and he didn't know whether to say a curse word or not.

Now that Li Yuanji had made a decision, he didn't hesitate, and while Cai Yungong and Chen Shuda were busy investigating the specific reasons for the excessive war damage, he rushed to Xiaoguan with Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin.

By the time Cai Yungong and Chen Shuda got the news and rushed to the big tent of the Chinese army, he had already appeared on the city wall with Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin.

Li Jiancheng was quite critical of this, and kept nagging about whether Li Yuanji wanted to kill him by taking him to a place where arrows and stone bullets were flying.

As a result, no one paid him any attention.

When Liu Hongji got the news, the Turks just retreated.

So Liu Hongji rushed to Li Yuanji and the others immediately.

"His Royal Highness, His Royal Highness King Qi, why are you three here?"

Liu Hongji greeted with trepidation.

For Li Shimin, he just nodded and didn't greet him.

Li Jiancheng wanted to take the opportunity to complain, but Li Yuanji laughed first, "I heard from Cai Yungong and Chen Shuda that you have gained a lot in the past few days, so I came here to take a look."

Liu Hongji hurriedly said: "It's not a big gain, but it hurt a lot of soldiers."

Li Yuanji nodded and smiled: "War is like this. We can kill the enemy, and the enemy can kill us. I can understand."

Liu Hongji heaved a sigh of relief, and said persistently, "It's just as long as your Highness understands."

Li Yuanji nodded with a smile again, and ordered Liu Hongji to take the three of them around the city wall.

From this end of the city wall to the other end of the city wall, after personally condolences to all the soldiers and personally helping to send some injured soldiers down the city wall, Li Yuanji took Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin to stay on the city wall and did not leave.

Liu Hongji immediately understood why Li Yuanji came here, and also immediately realized what the problem was.

So when the sun was setting to the west and the Turks launched a new round of offensive, Liu Hongji decisively changed his combat strategy. After the war was over, after the war damage was counted, it really dropped a lot.

However, the consumption of arrows, crossbow guns, rolling logs, stones, stone bullets, etc. has increased a lot.

After the war, Cai Yungong and Chen Shuda rushed to the city wall to complain.

He didn't complain that the ordnance used by Liu Hongji began to increase, but complained that Li Yuanji ran to the city wall to take risks while they were not paying attention.

For this, Li Yuanji did not explain much, but only said a few words of comfort.

It's not that he doesn't want to explain, but that he can't.

Because after the war ended, Liu Hongji rushed to the city gate to wait for instructions. With Liu Hongji around, it was difficult for him to tell Cai Yungong and Chen Shuda why he, Li Jiancheng, and Li Shimin came to the city wall.

After all, saying bad things about people in front of people is no different from slapping people in the face.

Liu Hongji was a veteran of the Tang Dynasty and the number one hero of the Wude Dynasty. If he slapped him in the face, he would not only humiliate him, but Li Yuan would also look bad if he knew it.

"Your Highness, this place is dangerous, you should return to the Chinese army tent to sit in command."

When night fell, the Turkic people didn't know what was wrong, and suddenly launched a surprise attack. Thousands of arrows kept firing at the location of the city gate and building.

More than a dozen arrows easily pierced through the gate of the city gate building and appeared inside the city gate building.

Chen Shuda, who was lighting a lamp to process various documents, was startled when he saw this, and immediately stood up, admonishing him, while dragging Li Yuanji out.

Li Yuanji stood firmly on the spot, and said dumbfoundedly: "Why are you panicking? Since I dare to sit here, I am naturally not afraid of Turkic arrows."

Chen Shuda said anxiously: "Since the Turkic arrows only shot here, it means that when you were patrolling the city during the day, the Turkic people had already spotted you.

You cannot stay here any longer.

Otherwise, it may not be arrows that greet you in the next round, but stone bullets. "

Compared with arrows, stone bullets are obviously more lethal, and they pose a greater threat to the city gate building and everyone in the city gate building.

Liu Hongji also persuaded him at this time.

On the contrary, Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin found a corner to nest, yawned, and stared at the movement inside the city gate without speaking.

Li Jiancheng, who danced the most during the day, and who had the most objections to the visit to the city gate building, unexpectedly didn't dance this time, and didn't say anything.

Li Yuanji knew very well that it wasn't that Li Jiancheng didn't want to dance, but that he knew what he wanted and was too lazy to dance.

Although Li Jiancheng was unwilling to come to Chengmenlouzi, but if he really wanted to leave alone, if he really wanted to separate from Li Shimin, he would not be willing either.

Now he must stay with Li Shimin all the time, the only way to ensure his own safety.

He can stand up and pierce Li Shimin's mind when Li Shimin has some conspiracy and tricks, making it difficult for Li Shimin to accomplish anything.

It is also possible to unite with Li Shimin and find a way to pray for his life when Li Yuanji suddenly wants to kill him and Li Shimin.

Anyway, no matter Li Shimin turned over with the help of conspiracy or tricks, or he left Li Shimin's side and Li Yuanji took the opportunity to kill Li Shimin, he would not survive.

So he had to stay with Li Shimin.

"Mr. Chen, I have my own plan to stay here. I will take care of my own safety. You don't need to persuade me anymore."

Li Yuanji pulled out his sleeve from Chen Shuda's hand, and said helplessly.

Chen Shuda said seriously: "I know that you are brave and unstoppable. But arrows and stone bullets have no eyes. If you really have something good or bad, how do you let me talk to the saint, how to talk to Li Gong?" They confessed?"

Li Yuanji said seriously: "I will explain to my father and Mr. Li, you don't need to persuade me anymore."

Chen Shuda was annoyed, and he was about to start talking venomously.

At this time, Yu Wenbao appeared in the city gate building with his soldiers, knelt on one knee and said, "I will swear to guard His Highness to the death, and will never cause His Highness any harm."

Speaking of which, the group of people built a human wall at the gate of the city gate building, and firmly blocked the city gate building, preventing any arrows from flying in.

Seeing this, Chen Shuda had no other way to persuade him, he could only sigh a long sigh, and sat back in his seat feebly.

With the human wall built by Yu Wenbao and others, the Turkic arrows never flew into the city gate building again, and a few stone bullets fell on the city gate building, but except for those in the city gate building. There were a few gaps in the top, but no other damage was caused.

At least the people inside the city gate were not harmed in the slightest.

There was a lot of damage outside the city gate.

Liu Hongji didn't need to order, and immediately ordered people to start using large-scale military equipment such as trebuchets and bed crossbows.

The two sides fought fiercely all night.

In the early morning of the next day, Li Yuanji thought that this offensive would stop and the two sides would take a break, but he did not expect that the Turks formed various formations before dawn, and launched a new attack just after dawn. round of attack.

The battle never stopped from the very beginning. Both sides divided their troops into several groups and took turns to fight day and night on Xiaoguan.

From the fifth day onwards, the battle losses of both sides spread rapidly.

From the initial two-to-one battle loss, it has expanded to a four-to-one battle loss, and it is still climbing little by little.

It was not until the sixth day that the two sides gave up and stopped the battle.

Liu Hongji hurriedly led his men to rectify the troops, and Li Yuanji also watched the various news from Shizhou, Weizeguan, Yanqing and Yinsui with peace of mind.

As for the news of Lingzhou West, there is nothing to pay attention to.

Because Xieli sent soldiers and horses to detour Lingzhou before entering the border of Liangzhou, they fell into an ambush set by An Xinggui in advance. The two sides fought fiercely for two days, and the Turks lost more than 2 soldiers and horses. Under the circumstances, he had to retreat to the north of Lingzhou, and gave up the idea of ​​detouring Lingzhou to attack Huizhou.

So what needs to be paid attention to now is the wars in Xiaoguan, Yanqing, Yinsui, Shizhou and other places.

The battle situation in Yanqing was similar to that of Xiaoguan. Jieli only sent more than 3 troops to attack Yanqing, and fought back and forth with the more than 1 soldiers led by the Qingzhou defender. No one could do anything to them.

The battle situation in Yinsui was a bit bad. Jieli dispatched more than 6 troops to attack Yinsui. When Xue Shou, Yu Zhining and others rushed to Yinsui, they happened to meet Lanshi's Turkic soldiers and horses. In Yinsui, together with Yinsui's Turkic army, a total of [-] soldiers and horses, attacked the pass of Suizhou.

After Xue Shou recruited the young men of Suizhou, he led them, together with the reinforcements he brought, and the defenders of Suizhou, fought fiercely with the Turks.

It lasted for a day and a night, and after losing more than 9000 people, the Turks were barely repelled.

During this period, the Turks attacked Guancheng in Suizhou six times.

After Li Shenfu and Yin Kaishan arrived in Suizhou, they immediately gave a memorial to Xiao Guan, and there was only one content in the memorial, which was to ask for help.

After fighting fiercely with the Turks for a day and a night, and losing more than 9000 horses and horses, Suizhou's troops dropped sharply to more than 8000 people, and more than 8000 people could not defend Suizhou.

Therefore, when Li Shenfu and Yin Kaishan re-armed Suizhou, what they could do was to ask the court for help.

Also sent along with Xue Shou’s memorabilia, Xue Shou said in the memorandum that although the young men of Suizhou had been recruited to participate in several wars in the former Sui Dynasty and after the founding of the Tang Dynasty, they still had no way to follow the formation of soldiers. Horses are comparable, even the government soldiers who are registered in various places and are often organized to drill together are not as good as they are unusable and can only be used to carry ordnance and food.

Therefore, he, Li Shenfu, Yin Kaishan, Yu Zhining and others had no way to get supplementary troops from Suizhou and several prefectures near Suizhou.

Therefore, it is necessary for the court to send reinforcements to help as soon as possible.