Man Tanghong

Li Jiancheng roared angrily, "You're playing us like monkeys!"

Li Yuanji smiled lightly: "You don't have to be monkeys either!"

Li Jiancheng was stunned and speechless.

Can you not be a monkey?

No!

If you don't want to be a monkey, you have to accept your fate, but he doesn't want to accept his fate, and neither does Li Shimin.

So even if he is being played like a monkey, he or Li Shimin must resist and plan to make a comeback.

Seeing that Li Jiancheng had stopped talking, Li Yuanji smiled and said, "Look, you are quite happy to be monkeys."

Li Jiancheng glared at each other.

Li Yuanji said indifferently: "Since you are quite happy to be monkeys, then don't blame me for playing you as monkeys."

Li Jiancheng still had to retort, but at this time Li Shimin left and returned.

Li Shimin didn't do anything else after he went out, so he put on a suit of armor, matched it with a horse lance, a horizontal knife, and a strong bow, and then came back.

After returning to the main hall of the county yamen, he ignored Li Jiancheng, who looked like a cockfight, and said directly: "The Turks have come to Baima, and the next step should be to go to Anding. Once Anding is captured by the Turks, the whole of Gyeongju will be destroyed." The territory will fall into the hands of the Turks.

Now that you have decided to use Gyeongju as the battlefield, you can no longer allow the Turks to move on.

Once the Turks take over the whole of Gyeongju, then we will have to fight the Turks in Ningzhou.

Gyeongju has been troubled by Turkic man-made disasters. We will fight against Turkic people in Gyeongju. Except for the damage to our troops, there will be no other damage.

But if the Turks were allowed to enter Ningzhou, then Ningzhou would follow in the footsteps of Qingzhou. "

Li Yuanji put away his thoughts of joking with Li Jiancheng, nodded after listening to Li Shimin's words, and said, "It is true that the Turks can no longer be allowed to move forward, but I have ordered Chen Shuda to send orders to Ningzhou and Binzhou to let them start to fortify the walls and clear the wilderness. Even if the Turks conquered the whole of Gyeongju and entered Ningzhou, it shouldn't cause much damage."

With a straight face, Li Shimin said seriously: "Under the strong walls and clear fields, the people of Ningzhou will not suffer any harm, but the autumn grain in Ningzhou may be burned.

Even if we want to expand the battlefield, even if we want to send Turkic fever into Ningzhou, we have to wait until the people of Ningzhou have harvested the autumn grain.

Today, Tongchuan, Anhua, Yimaguan, Panjiao, Lepan, and Anding where the state government is located in Gyeongju are still in the hands of my Tang Dynasty.

We can use these counties to keep the Turks firmly in Gyeongju. "

Li Yuanji said thoughtfully: "What about Yanzhou and Suizhou?"

According to everyone's previous speculation in Xiaoguan, the Turks will still enter Suizhou, and even attack the line from Shizhou to Weizeguan a little further.

The Turkic people's marching route has not changed, it just shifted the battlefield from the outside of the Tang Dynasty to the inside of the Tang Dynasty.

In this way, the interior of the Tang Dynasty will suffer a lot of damage, and the places near the border will become the main battlefield against the Turks.

Li Shenfu in Suizhou and Li Xiaogong in Shizhou are both at risk of being attacked by enemies.

From Gyeongju to Suizhou, they had to pass through Yanzhou. If the Turks wanted to enter Suizhou, they had to conquer Yanzhou.

Therefore, when deploying the defense of Gyeongju, Yanzhou must also be deployed, and the war in Suizhou must also be watched.

Li Shimin still said seriously: "Didn't you call Su Dingfang, Luo Shixin, and Daozong? Let Daozong guard Yonghe Pass, and try not to let the war in Suizhou spread to Taiyuan Prefecture.

Let any one of Su Dingfang and Luo Shixin go to guard Danzhou, and try not to let the war in Yanzhou spread to the south.

The rest is that we directly compete with the Turks. "

Li Yuanji nodded thoughtfully.

Let Li Daozong guard the Yonghe Pass, keep the Turks in Suizhou, prevent the Turks from appearing in Taiyuan Prefecture, prevent the Turks from directly attacking the line from Shizhou to Weizeguan, or wreak havoc in Jinzhou in Taiyuan Prefecture It's easy.

Because Li Daozong was in Luoyang, the distance from Luoyang to Yongheguan was also short, and there was no fighting along the way, so it can be said that it was unimpeded.

In the case of abandoning his luggage, Li Daozong could reach Yonghe Pass in three to five days.

But it is difficult for either Su Dingfang or Luo Shixin to guard Danzhou.

Because Su Dingfang and Luo Shixin are now at the intersection of Daizhou and Hengzhou, there are mountains all over the place, and the mountains are spreading. It will take five days for Su Dingfang and his party to walk out of the mountains, let alone rush from Daizhou to Danzhou.

From Daizhou to Danzhou, there is a full [-] miles in the middle, and there are many mountain roads on the way.

By the time Su Dingfang and his party rushed from Daizhou to Danzhou, it would probably be more than a month later. Even if they abandoned the heavy luggage and went to battle lightly, it would take more than half a month to leave.

After more than half a month, all parts of Yanzhou may be occupied by Turks, and Danzhou may also be destroyed by Turks.

Therefore, it is not advisable to expect any one of Su Dingfang and Luo Shixin to guard Danzhou.

Li Shimin saw that Li Yuanji just nodded thoughtfully, but did not speak. He seemed to have guessed what Li Yuanji was thinking, and immediately said: "You can dispatch two of the twelve guards to Danzhou to garrison, and wait until Su Dingfang and Luo Shixin After any one of them arrives in Danzhou, Danzhou will be handed over to them."

Li Yuanji nodded slowly, there would be no problem with this arrangement.

Although the generals and lieutenants in the twelve guards were not as capable as Su Dingfang and Luo Shixin, they were not bad, otherwise they would not have been selected into the twelve guards.

If they temporarily replaced either of Su Dingfang and Luo Shixin to command the army to resist the Turks, the Turks would not be able to break through the defense of Danzhou for a while.

After all, there are soldiers and horses from the Danzhou Governor's Mansion in Danzhou to assist in the defense. Three soldiers and horses, plus three generals in charge of the troops, are enough to block the soldiers and horses sent by the Turks to invade Danzhou.

"Then what about us, how should we deploy?"

Li Yuanji stared at Li Shimin and asked.

Li Shimin's ability is particularly outstanding when it comes to leading troops in battle, so Li Yuanji believes in Li Shimin, and also believes that Li Shimin will not hide his secrets in this kind of war, or make any troubles.

Li Shimin said sternly: "Let Hou Junji lead the troops of the headquarters, as well as the troops of Ning and Ping states, plus the soldiers and horses of one guard and twelve guards who came later, continue to resist the Turks in Anding.

We led the soldiers and horses we brought to Maling to test the reality of the Turkic people. "

Li Yuanji pondered: "Is it a feint to attack, or to rush to help Maling?"

Li Shimin said seriously: "It's a test! If my expectations are correct, the troops Xieli sent to attack Maling, Baima, and Huachi this time should not be too strong, and should be around [-] to [-]."

Li Yuanji thought about it: "Have most of the other soldiers been sent by Jieli to attack Yansui?"

Li Shimin nodded without hesitation.

Li Yuanji also roughly understood the direction and intention of Xieli's battle.

Although he also had some guesses when he was in Xiaoguan, and he did some analysis after arriving in Qingzhou, but after Li Shimin explained and analyzed, the guesses and analyzes in his mind became clearer.

Xieli's main combat goal right now is to open another gap in the border of Datang.

Xieli did not dare to send more troops south before opening another gap.

"It's not too late, shall we start?"

Li Yuanji asked for Li Shimin's opinion.

Li Shimin nodded again without hesitation.

Li Yuanji immediately ordered Yu Wenbao to beat the drums to regroup the army, and at noon he led the army to Maling.

Maling is in Malingshui, that is, on the bank of Maling River in later generations.

The river has flowed on the boundary of Maling for tens of thousands of years, gradually eroding a large canyon, and Maling County is on the edge of the canyon.

In fact, most of the places where rivers flow in the Shaanxi-Gansu region are like this. Under the erosion of the river water, one after another canyons have been washed out.

It's just that the canyon of Maling is extremely long, and the scenery is also extremely beautiful. Not only are there mountains surrounded by greenery, there are also waterfalls and torrents hanging, and there are countless valleys in the ground.

According to the measurement of later generations, the canyon of Maling is more than 150 miles long, with more than 80 rapids, more than 70 deep pools, and more than 60 bends.

When Li Yuanji and his entourage arrived at Maling, the snow had already covered the emerald green of the mountains, and some leaves that had already withered and yellowed were also knocked off by the flying snow one by one, leaving only the lonely branches with no rules at all. There, there was still a pile of snow on the branches of the trees.

The waterfalls and torrents, the piercing cold winds in the cracks and valleys make it impossible for people to get close to appreciate the beauty of nature.

Yu Wenbao sent out the scouts before entering Maling, so when Li Yuanji and his party entered Maling, the current situation of various places in Maling was known clearly.

"The one in charge of attacking Maling is the Tali Division, a branch of the Western Turkic Ge Luolu Division. There are more than [-] people. They have stormed Maling for several days. At present, Baijiabao and other places under Maling's rule have been breached. There is only one county town left struggling to support it.

It is said that all the defenders and government servants in the county are dead, and now the county lieutenant is resisting the Turks with the help of a part of the township bravery temporarily recruited in the city. "

On the edge of the Grand Canyon, Li Yuanji was sitting on horseback, gazing at the mountains on the other side of the canyon, and Yu Wenbao cupped his hands to report.

"Step into the strength department?"

Li Shimin, who was also riding a horse and stopped steadily on the side, looked surprised, "Isn't the stepping force a big tribe in Western Turkic? It is also one of the royal tribes of Western Turkic. How could they defect to Eastern Turkic?"

You must know that the strength of the Western Turks is not inferior to that of the Eastern Turks, and Tong Yehu Khan of the Western Turks is also a hero.

During his reign, he merged with Tie Le in the north, rejected Persia in the west, and connected with Kubin in the south.

That is the meaning of the king of the kingdoms.

Stepping into the Strength Department is a branch of the Ge Luolu Department, which Tong Yehu Khan was born in. To be precise, it is a surname in this tribe.

In addition, there are the Moluo tribe and the Chitang tribe. The three tribes are actually one, collectively called the Sansurname Ge Luolu, and because their leader is named Yehu, they are also called the Sansurname Yehu.

Tong Yehu is not only the Western Turkic Khan, but also the patriarch of the three surnames Ge Luolu.

As a branch of the Tong Ye Hu Clan, how could it be possible to betray Tong Ye Hu?

Li Shimin didn't understand.

Li Jiancheng also didn't understand.

This is like Wuyangfang, or Danyangfang, which is a branch of the Longxi Li family, betrayed the Longxi Li family and voted for Liang Shidu or Li Yi. It is completely incomprehensible and hard to believe.