Cultivation of chastity

Chapter 61 Li Jing's Disguise

As everyone entered the camp, Zhang Gongjin said: "Report to Li Shuai, all the generals have assembled and no one is late!"

Hearing Zhang Gongjin's words, Li Jing nodded, looked at Zhang Gongjin naturally, and said:
"Director Zhang, the current situation in Shuozhou is up to you to describe!"

"Yes, Shuai Li!" Zhang Gongjin took out a map after hearing Li Jing's words.

This map is densely marked with various words, every tributary, every hill, just looking at the names on this map, one can see the painstaking efforts Zhang Gongjin has expended on this map.

And when Zhang Gongjin took out the map, she touched the names on the map with some emotion, and every place she marked was rode past by herself.

"Director Zhang? You will introduce the situation of Turks!" Li Jing looked at Zhang Gongjin and said again.

"Please excuse my gaffe." Zhang Gongjin took a deep breath and said,

"Our army's large-scale deployment cannot hide the Turkic spies.

Under such circumstances, the Turkic Jieli Khan has also gathered the main force of the Turks to station in Dingxiang, and troops will come one after another.

Therefore, the situation of the Northern Expedition is not as optimistic as we originally estimated. "

"I can't see anything, we need to meet Turkic!" Li Jing nodded, but said again.

"What does Li Shuai mean?!" Zhang Gongjin was a little stunned when he heard Li Jing's words, but he didn't expect Li Jing to have such a plan.

Li Jing looked at the map and said, "The distance between Dingxiang and Mayi is not far, only three or four hundred miles. If we use cavalry to attack it as a test, we should be able to reach it in three days at the earliest or five days later."

"Li Shuai wants to surprise Dingxiang?!" Zhang Gongjin said with a serious face, "Is it too risky?!"

"Danger is naturally dangerous, but our goal is not to annihilate the Turks, it's just a trial!"

Li Jing looked at the map calmly, and said to Zhang Gongjin calmly.

"Testing?!" Zhang Gongjin breathed a sigh of relief when she heard this. It is normal for the two armies to test before the confrontation.

"As long as it doesn't take a risk to attack, in fact, Xieli Khan's strength is not weak."

"Huh?" Li Jing looked at Zhang Gongjin, but said, "I'd like to ask Director Zhang to speak clearly."

"It's like this. Although Jieli Khan fell out with Yi Nan, he still retains the main force of the Turks in his hands, especially the three elites!" Zhang Gongjin said, "The first is the inheritance from the beginning. One of Bi Khan's Turkic Imperial Guards is the Turkic Tiger Division trained by himself, and the other is the Xiaoguo Army who has been in the hands of Princess Yicheng!"

"Xiaoguo Army?!" Li Jing frowned when he heard Zhang Gongjin's words, "The Sui Dynasty is gone, where did the Xiaoguo Army come from!?"

Zhang Gongjin said solemnly: "This army is a new army that Princess Yicheng sent people to invade the borders of our Tang Dynasty to plunder the people of the Tang Dynasty, and trained with the training method of the Sui army.

It has been held in the hands of Princess Yicheng, and I don't know how much it has.

And as Princess Yicheng's ability to stir up troubles in the Turkic border, this army should not be underestimated! "

Hearing Zhang Gongjin's words, Li Jing nodded.

To be honest, Princess Yicheng can be regarded as the trump card in the first World War in the hands of the Turks who can fight against the Tang Dynasty politically.

And this woman is also very powerful. It can be said that there is such animosity between Jieli Khan and Datang. The big reason is that this woman is instigating among them.

"Since you don't know the specific strength of the opponent, you should touch the opponent to confirm the strength of the Turks!"

Li Jing said, "I will lead three thousand personal guards to evaluate the strength of the Turkic army. There is a standard in mind!"

"Li Shuai will go in person?!" Zhang Gongjin couldn't help being worried when she heard Li Jing's words, and said:

"Is this too dangerous? The commander-in-chief is the leader of an army. How can he take risks and do reckless things? Why don't I replace them!"

Li Jing said: "The war has not started yet, and the Turks are still hesitant about whether our army will go out, and their guard is definitely not strong.

And I mainly use cavalry, and I will try the Turkic combat power first. If the Turkic combat power is strong, I can retreat with all cavalry. "

Zhang Gongjin also breathed a sigh of relief when she heard Li Jing's words. Li Jing didn't just want to take risks with his brain.

As for the generals and soldiers to go to the front line to evaluate or observe the situation in person, this is really normal for Datang.

The main reason is the unhealthy atmosphere brought about by Li Shimin. Compared with Li Shimin who often only brought a small team of soldiers and horses and dared to go to the door of other camps to investigate, Li Jing brought [-] cavalry to do battle evaluations. No matter how you say it, Li Jing is considered cautious. .

On the contrary, the kind of commander who has been hiding in the camp without even doing a simple battle evaluation, and doesn't even know the strength of the enemy army, and then recklessly suppresses the whole army, generals like Li Jing naturally make people more excited. rest assured.

"However, just in case, there is no need to make any preparations!" Li Jing thought about it:
"General Manager Zhang, you will lead the Chinese army to move slowly, and let the chief of the Modao March lead the main force of the East Road to attack the hinterland of the Eastern Turks.

He ordered the chief of the Jinhe Road march to advance along the Yellow River on the west road, echoing with us from a distance.

Ren Chengwang has also been moved westward from Lingzhou, and Wei Xiaojie, the governor of Youzhou, will gradually encircle him after we launch an attack.

As for the general manager of the Changwudao march, he used the northeast to attack the Turkic rear and monitored Tuli Khan to avoid unnecessary troubles. "

"You don't mean to test Jieli Khan, you just want to encircle him!" Zhang Gongjin looked at Li Jing's layout and said, "Aren't you afraid of Jieli Khan's counterattack?"

"The dispatch of more than [-] troops, I believe Jieli Khan will be aware of it, let them move at a normal marching speed!" Li Jing said calmly, "Faced with such a troop mobilization, the Turks will focus on the army. body.

But in fact, I have already broken through and led my personal guards to go straight to Dingxiang, false and true, so that I can be sure to withdraw! "

"The dispatch of more than [-] troops is just to cover your surprise attack..." Zhang Gongjin couldn't help muttering in her heart when she heard Li Jing's words.

Is your action like this really just to test the strength of the Turks? !

But Li Jing knew exactly what he was going to do, evaluation?If you fail your raid, it will be an assessment.

But if he succeeds in the raid, it will be more than just an evaluation!
It's just that there is no need to tell Zhang Gongjin about this kind of thing. After all, as the leader of an army, the most important thing is to stabilize the morale of the army.

If I tell everyone that I am going to surprise the Turks, let alone whether everyone will believe it, it is too ignorant to be the commander of an army of 10,000+ to attack the Turks in person.

So, think of yourself as a test taker!
Li Jing dispatched his orders with scouts and notified the various marching chiefs.

Of course, because there is a slight gap in the distance between the commanders, the marching time received by each commander is not the same.

At the same time, Li Jing led the cavalry to go out day and night, and rushed directly towards Dingxiang, while Zhang Gongjin sent a large army to Dingxiang three days later.

The time difference between almost every supervisor receiving the order was less than a day, as if Li Jing had calculated all of them well.

The war machines of the entire Tang Dynasty also began to surround the Turkic army at this time.

And such a large-scale military mobilization of the Han army naturally couldn't hide the spies and horses on the grassland at all.

The attention of almost the entire Turkic army was also attracted by these Tang troops, and they naturally focused on these Tang troops.

On the contrary, he is a little slow to the close environment around him.

They also didn't expect that Li Jing asked Tang Jun to move three days after he took action, in order to create opportunities for himself to create a sparse density of wandering horse scouts around Dingxiang.

Even if they are nomads, the soldiers who can serve as scouts in the army are generally elite.

In other words, the number of scouts in the army is limited, and the normal density of scouts is that the closer they are to the main camp, the higher the density will be.

However, with the mobilization of the Tang army's troops, there was even a tendency to encircle them. At this moment, the density of Turkic scouts became sparser the farther away from the main camp, but the closer to the Tang army, the higher the density, and this created a surprise for Li Jing. Chance!

And hiding in the mountains where you can see the Zihe River at a glance, following the deployment of the Tang army, the scouts on the river bank kept heading towards Shuozhou, but their own investigation of Dingxiang County became so-so, even almost No!

"Li Shuai really has a clever plan. In just one night, there are so many fewer scouts on the river bank!"

A thick-backed young man took a bite of a chicken brick at this moment, and he actually felt like he was eating a bone.
"Whenever we attack Dingxiang, as long as we pass through the Zishui, it will be Dingxiang!"

"Feed the horse with fine ingredients, let it eat and have a good rest, get up at three o'clock tomorrow, cook at four o'clock, and set foot on Dingxiang at five o'clock!"

Li Jing looked at the young man in front of him and said, "Ding Fang, I'll give you two hundred bow and crossbow cavalry, and you will be the vanguard tomorrow, dare you or not!"

When Su Dingfang heard Li Jing's words, he couldn't help rubbing his fists, and said excitedly: "Leave it to me, Shuai Li. When the Turks are defeated, I want to go to the city to have a hot meal. Although this meat brick is full But this snowy day is too hard!"

"Tomorrow put some snow water in an iron pot, put some pine leaves, cut some meat and cook it!" Li Jing said instead.

"Okay!" Su Dingfang was even happier when he heard Li Jing's words.

And Li Jing couldn't help but smile when he watched Su Dingfang leave, he was considered a rare plastic talent among his personal guards.

Li Jing turned his head to look at these meat bricks, and couldn't help narrowing his eyes slightly.

As the commander-in-chief of an army, or even a military god-level figure, how could Li Jing fail to see the fit between this kind of meat brick and cavalry, it was almost born to be used as food for cavalry.

Although the meat brick itself seems to be only a dozen kilograms in size, as long as it is cut off and put into a pot to cook, there will soon be a bowl of fragrant and delicious broth.

For cavalry warriors, is there any better delicacy in the wild? !
Moreover, this meat brick is quite durable, and a single meat brick can almost maintain the food needs of the soldiers for almost a month.

This in itself is a breakthrough in the continuous combat capability of cavalry.

In the case of one man and two horses, this meat brick can maximize the cavalry's long-distance raiding ability.

To some extent, this thing looks simple, but in fact it is an invention comparable to stirrups!

In fact, Li Tai has a misunderstanding here, that is, Li Tai thinks that this piece of meat can only be eaten for half a month, and that is because Li Tai calculates according to the standard of three meals a day.

But Li Jing is different, not to mention that soldiers generally only eat two meals a day, and Li Jing boiled this thing and drank it as broth, which is more warm and satisfying. Occasionally adding some edible wild vegetables, in military food, it can already crush Most of the food was gone.

After all, this is meat!
Li Jing also sighed slightly:
"It's just that compared to the simplicity of stirrups, this kind of thing is too expensive.

3000 chickens and ducks can only produce meat bricks worth [-] yuan. What kind of meat bricks are these? It’s not so much to exchange them for copper coins!
King Yue can really think, and the saint is really willing to do so!

However, apart from being a little more expensive and salty, this thing really has no other flaws as a military ration! "

To be honest, at the beginning Li Shimin bestowed the three thousand meat bricks, but Li Jing wanted to refuse.

He even wanted to tell Li Shimin that the sage would exchange these things for copper coins and give them to him. Maybe he could boost his morale when he was on the battlefield.

But now it seems that there is no such thing as a copper coin.

Especially now that it is the twelfth lunar month of winter, nibbling on this meat brick from time to time will allow the soldiers under his command to have enough physical strength to keep out the cold.

After all, in this strangely cold winter, I originally thought that the cavalry under my command had to rely on willpower to survive, but now they seem to be full, at least they will not freeze to death!
"The King of Yue's meat brick is very good, I don't know what effect the medical camp will have!"

Li Jing thought about the medical camp that he had thrown into Zhang Gongjin's hands, and began to look forward to this army with big bags and small bags on vacation.

"There are so many donkeys in your camp, and there are so many bags and bags on them. What are they?" Zhang Gongjin was authorized by Li Jing to command the whole army, and soon became concerned about the out-of-fit medical camp.

Because the students in this medical camp are really too young, basically around 15 years old.

Although Datang did not refuse to accept this soldier, anyone who brought such a group of people could not help but look at them more.

Especially for this army, their luggage is probably more than double that of other troops!
"Report to Manager Zhang!" Liu Shenwei said, "We are a medical camp organized by teachers and students from the Medical Department of the Agricultural University. These donkeys are mainly filled with medicinal materials. We are responsible for solving the problems of acclimatization for the soldiers, as well as saving lives and healing the wounded. .”

Zhang Gongjin nodded when she heard Liu Shenwei's words, and said, "Since you don't have much fighting power, then follow closely with the Chinese army when you are on the battlefield.

Don't be curious about everything, just do your job as a doctor! "

"Obey!" Liu Shenwei nodded to Zhang Gongjin after hearing Zhang Gongjin's words.

Seeing Liu Shenwei's attitude, Zhang Gongjin nodded in satisfaction and continued to inspect the barracks.

(End of this chapter)