People in the early Tang Dynasty: I compete with Wu Zhao for the throne

Chapter 1243: Attacking in the east and attacking in the west has always been Li Xuan's best method.

In the Cuona Lake camp, countless cavalrymen galloped back and forth.

A chilling scene.

In the camp, Lun Qinling stood in front of a huge map, staring at every change on it with cold eyes.

From time to time, someone would show the battle situation on the front line on the map.

Lun Qinling smiled when he saw that Li Xuan divided his troops into three places and personally led the navy and army soldiers to kill Cuona Lake.

Five thousand left guard cavalry, two thousand left guard cavalry, and two thousand right guard sailors.

It seems to be nine thousand versus twenty-five thousand, but in fact, between Cuona Lake and Nagqu, there are still ten thousand mobile troops for reinforcement at any time.

Although Qinling divided its troops, the real elites were all in its own hands.

There is even an elephant cavalry in Nagqu City.

If it weren't for the fact that Li Xuan sent out troops this time without many infantry, then Lun Qinling would have already mobilized the elephant cavalry who can trample everything.

However, although the elephant cavalry is fierce, its speed is still its shortcoming.

But even so, with more than 30,000 troops fighting against 90,000, and there will be countless supports in the future, Lun Qinling believes that he will be able to...

Rapid footsteps sounded outside, and a guard rushed in, knelt directly on the ground, and reported breathlessly: "Prime Minister, the Tang Turkic cavalry suddenly charged, directly tore through the defense line, and headed towards Naqu."

Lun Qinling couldn't help but immediately changed his expression. He quickly asked: "What about the King of Nanchang?"

"Still moving forward, slowing down..."

"Damn it, this bastard, he's cutting off our retreat." Lun Qinling punched the table hard.

Strange move, this is Li Xuan's strange move.

Lun Qinling believed that this was indeed Li Xuan's strange move.

In cavalry combat, the most taboo thing is to fight head-on with the opponent.

Occupy the high ground, gain speed advantage, attack from the weakest point of the enemy, and then defeat them with one blow, chase and drive them away, and trample each other...

In this way, the cavalry can gain the greatest advantage.

Li Xuan is undoubtedly also a good player. When he was in Qugou, Li Xuan defeated ten thousand with three thousand.

Now, he first released five thousand Turkic cavalry, using them to disrupt the retreat of Lun Qinling, and even had a chance to capture Nagqu...

Lun Qinling's breathing became serious, and then he said: "Send the order to send five thousand cavalry back to Nagqu, join the ten thousand cavalry from Shengdima, and slowly retreat back to Nagqu. Don't rush forward, be careful that the Turks will take advantage of it."

"Yes!" The guard immediately turned around and left.

Lun Qinling walked to the map and his eyes fell on a small black flag, which was the front section of a river. As long as he went further, he could go deep into the river.

A small red flag was planted in the middle of the river. Although the small blue flags in all directions were far away, they vaguely surrounded the area completely.

It's just that now a hole has been torn open in the southeast by the Turks, and there is a slight problem.

The Turks may directly attack Nagqu, or they may turn around in the middle of the battle...

Making false claims in the east and attacking in the west has always been Li Xuan's best tactic.

but……

Lun Qinling stared at the black flag on the river, looking at the distance between him and the red flag.

Even if Li Xuan's previous progress slowed down, he would reach the red flag in just half an hour.

At that time, as long as Li Xuan is stuck halfway, the cavalry from all directions will surround him, and he will be the turtle in the urn.

But first, the cracks caused by the Turks must be mended...

……

"Prime Minister." A guard rushed in frantically, half-knelt on the ground, and said urgently to Lun Qinling: "Prime Minister, the Turks rushed through the south side of Nagqu, then killed them across the South Bridge, and finally Kill Xiang Luoche."

"What?" Lun Qinling turned around in disbelief and looked at the guard kneeling on the ground. He suddenly stepped forward, grabbed the guard's collar, and said viciously: "What did you say, where did the Turks go?"

"Luo Zuo, Luo Zuo, there are already three thousand cavalry chasing after them in Naqu, but the Turks are very fast and can't catch up at all." The guard's face was frightened. Once the Turks kill Luo Zuo, then with their strength Now that Luozhe is not on alert at all, it is really possible that it will be captured by the Turks.

Lun Qinling's face instantly turned livid, he let go of the guard, and stood there in a daze.

In an instant, Lun Qinling came back to his senses, suddenly looked behind him, and shouted in a low voice: "Bring me a map of the whole country."

"Yes!" A counselor stepped forward and opened the map in front of Lun Qinling.

Looking at the map, Lun Qinling's expression became completely serious.

It was more than 600 miles from Naqu to Luozhe. If the cavalry ran like crazy, they could arrive in a day and a night at most, but this was unrealistic.

The Turks will never allow themselves to completely lose all combat effectiveness when they arrive at a certain time, so their speed will not be that fast.

You even have to take a break in the middle.

In other words, they should arrive at Luoche within two days and one night, that is, tomorrow night.

Take advantage of the night to enter the scene.

Lun Qinling raised his head, looked at the guard on one side and said: "Immediately fly the eagle to send a message to Luozuo, so that the deputy prime minister can take precautions immediately. At the same time, he will dispatch 15,000 cavalry back to Luozuo. Everything will be subject to the deputy prime minister's dispatch. It is inevitable that these people will be dispatched." Five thousand Turkic cavalry strangled Luozue and used their heads to appease the royal court."

Everyone in the royal court, from Zampuchidu Songtsan to various nobles, will be in panic because of the Turkic cavalry.

But all the blame will ultimately fall on Lun Qinling.

Who made him unprepared and let the Turks come in directly?

If Lun Qinling doesn't do something, I'm afraid he, the Prime Minister, will really be unable to sit still this time.

Therefore, in terms of logic, Qinling can only pin everything on his deputy.

As for Qin Ling's deputy prime minister, it was his own brother, Zan Xiruo.

Zan Xiruo, the eldest son of Lu Dongzan, the former Prime Minister of Tubo, was also the Prime Minister of Tubo before Lun Qinling.

When we were talking about the battle between Qinling and the Tang Dynasty Northwest Army in Tuyuhun, Zan Xiruo went to the Western Regions and instigated many tribes in the Western Turks to rebel against the Tang Dynasty.

It's a pity that when he met Pei Xingjian, Zan Xiruo tried all his means, but it took more than half a year.

Now that Li Xuan has reached the Tubo mainland, Zan Xiruo will naturally come out to help his brother.

So when he was fighting Li Xuan in front of Lun Qinling, Zan Xiruo helped him guard the area and suppress all opposition forces.

Who would have thought that Zan Xiruo would still be fighting against the Turks now. …

"There is no danger in logical matters. Don't forget, there are tens of thousands of troops in the royal capital." Lun Qinling shook his head, stretched out his hand to lift up all the maps, and then revealed the map of Cuona Lake below, which he nailed at a glance On the black flag.

Inexplicably, Lun Qinling's eyes became confused.

"I used 5,000 Turkic cavalry to take away my 15,000 cavalry. But even if I use 10,000 men to guard Nagqu and 40,000 troops are divided, I still have 20,000 men. What makes you think that you use Four thousand people can resist my two men." Lun Qinling's eyes fell on Anduoguan.

In Anduo, Li Xuan still has a thousand right-guard cavalry guarding the city, with the purpose of guarding his retreat.

With these 1,000 men defending the city, Lun Qinling would not be able to capture the city without deploying 5,000 men to attack the city. In this case, Lun Qinling would only have 15,000 men left.

With 4,000 Tang elites, there was no chance of winning against 15,000 Tibetans, but Li Xuan only had 2,000 cavalry and 2,000 infantry.

How to fight?

Marching combat is never a numbers game.

What are Li Xuan's chances of winning?

Or does he think he can defeat his own 20,000 men with only 2,000 cavalry?

That's right, Qin Ling had no intention of attacking Anduo. He was now a little annoyed by Li Xuan's strategy of dividing his troops.

He decided to concentrate all his military power and eat Li Xuan completely in one breath.

Without Li Xuan, the remaining soldiers of the Tang Dynasty would be nothing but fish and meat on the chopping board, allowing him to cut them at will.

He could even retake Tanggula Mountain, retake Supi and Yangtong, retake things from Tuyuhun, and reenter the Tang Dynasty.

Threaten Chang'an.

Lun Qinling's eyes became stern, and his heart became extremely hot.

Twenty thousand people strangled four thousand people. Even if all twenty thousand people were killed, Qin Ling would still kill Li Xuan this time.

Kill him, kill him.

Taking a deep breath and looking at the map in front of him, Lun Qinling tried his best to calm down.

The small black flag kept zooming in front of his eyes, and Lun Qinling knew in his heart that Li Xuan was not that easy to deal with.

Although it seemed that Li Xuan had dispersed most of his troops, greatly dispersing the forces of Luan Qinling, and at the same time putting himself into an almost desperate situation, Luan Qinling had a feeling.

Li Xuan must have something that can definitely turn the tables.

Something that could allow him to survive being surrounded by 20,000 soldiers.

What exactly is this?

In the depths of Lun Qinling's doubtful eyes, a trace of ferocity flashed. No matter what the thing was, Li Xuan was dead.

……

The goshawk flies high, and everything on the earth is in view.

On the gentle river channel, more than twenty large ships and countless small boats were moving forward slowly.

Li Xuan, dressed in black clothes and armor, stood at the bow of the ship, staring solemnly into the distance.

He could see the movements of the Tubo people. After the continuous panic, they had gradually calmed down and even began to slowly surround him.

Li Xuan knew that this was the reason why Lun Qinling finally focused all his attention on him.

A slight smile appeared on his lips.

An easy smile.

A smile that might even look scary to Lun Qinling.

"How are you Xiaowei's preparations?" Li Xuan asked sideways.

Li Zhu stepped forward, cupped his hands and said, "You can attack at any time."

"Very good." Li Xuan stood up straight and said in a cold voice: "Send the order and move forward at full speed."

"Here!" Li Zhu bowed, turned around and waved the flag.

The next moment, the entire fleet began to accelerate forward, and even the masts were erected on all the ships.

The black sails unfurled and the fleet accelerated again.

Goshawks flew overhead, and looking from a high altitude, tens of thousands of Tibetan cavalry were surrounding Li Xuan from all directions.

Just like the spread wings, I want to hug Li Xuan tightly.

But at this time, Li Xuan suddenly accelerated.

It was as if he had plunged directly into the trap of the Tubo people, and went straight into the depths.

The only thing that can be commended is that he was able to rush directly to Cona Lake before the thousands of cavalry on both sides of Tubo came over.

But even so, there were 10,000 cavalrymen led by Lun Qinling personally waiting in front of him.

The only good thing is that during a certain period of time, he only needed 10,000 people in front of him.

Four thousand against ten thousand.

Two thousand against ten thousand.

In this way, we can also see Li Xuan's firm confidence.

……

With a "bang" sound, the waves capsized, and the big ship at the front seemed to hit something, and it dropped very quickly.

Li Xuan was standing on the bow of the boat behind. Li Xuan couldn't help but lean forward with a concerned look on her face.

At this moment, there was a "bang" sound, and a thick and long iron chain had been completely broken.

It can be seen very clearly that there is a hard metal ram on top of the big ship at the front.

The iron lock crossed the river, and the iron lock broke when it hit the corner.

The big ship continued to move forward, but at this moment, there was another "bang" and the speed of the big ship slowed down again.

"It's wooden piles. There is a wooden pile formation under the water."

(End of this chapter)