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

Chapter 896: Minister of the Ministry of Industry, Prince’s Wings

In the darkness, flames kept burning at the mountain pass on the west side of the Dashuba Valley.

The sound of footsteps, horse hooves, the sound of sharp knives piercing the body, and the screams of pain, everything was like hell.

Countless figures were looming behind the flames, and there was no telling how many people had died.

More than ten miles away, there is the West Tuyuhun camp at the east entrance of Nanshan Mountain in Shule.

Seeing the flames of Da Dou Bagu rising into the sky, the sentry immediately sounded the gong frantically.

Under the dim moonlight, the Tyuhun soldiers who struggled to escape from Dashubag Valley ran all over the mountains and plains, everywhere.

There is no telling how many people died in the stampede.

Among the tens of thousands of soldiers in the military camps on the east and west sides of Dashu Bagong, less than half were able to escape alive.

More than 2000 of them crossed Tuolai Nan Mountain and successfully rushed into the Tuyuhun camp in the eastern section of the canyon on the north side of Shule Nan Mountain. However, chaos instantly arose.

A few miles away, Murong Zhi, who was following closely, stopped his horse, turned around and looked at Li Xuan beside him, and respectfully asked for orders: "Your Majesty, do you want to charge?"

"Don't rush!" Li Xuan shook her head calmly and said, "We only have 2000 people. Even if we take advantage of the current chaos and rush over, the Tubo people who have slowed down will control the situation and even fight back."

Two thousand versus seven thousand, maybe you can still give it a try, but facing seventeen thousand, if you still hold on to the idea of ​​taking advantage, you will only die miserably.
"Then what if they counterattack?" Murong Zhi looked at Li Xuan seriously.

Li Xuan shook her head slightly and said calmly: "They won't."

"No?" Murong Zhi looked in disbelief. He couldn't believe Li Xuan's courage to hand over the initiative to others on the battlefield. This was ridiculous.

"See for yourself." Li Xuan pointed behind her calmly.

Far behind, at the west entrance of Daduoba Valley, two flags were already flying high.

On one side is Li Xuan's blue Dragon King flag, and on the other side is the Tuyuhun King flag.

"Send the order." Li Xuan turned sideways.

Li Zhu immediately stepped forward and bowed his hands.

"Immediately contact General Weihua and General Weijiang, the leaders of Ganliang Road on the right, and ask them to send troops to support immediately." After a slight pause, Li Xuan continued: "Send the order to transport firewood from the back valley overnight into the center of the valley, and stack them all together. stand up."

"Follow the order." Li Zhu immediately handed over his hands, then turned and left.

Murong Zhi looked at Li Xuan in surprise and asked, "Your Majesty, shouldn't all the firewood be spread out?"

"The entire Daduba Valley canyon is more than 20 miles long from east to west. How much firewood is needed to spread the entire valley?"

Li Xuan glanced at Murong Zhi angrily, then looked at the Qilian Mountain Pass on the north side, and said softly: "Split your troops, I will lead my people to the north and hide at the Qilian Mountain Pass. General Murong will lead the Tuolai Nanshan Canyon waiting On the east side, as soon as the flames light up, we will attack immediately."

"Follow the order." Murong Zhi immediately agreed.

The people of Xituyuhun will definitely counterattack, but it is dark now and they cannot ascertain the situation, so they will not act rashly.

But once they wait until dawn and find out what is true on their side, the Xituyuhun people will immediately fight back ferociously.

More than 1 cavalry attacked them in such a long and narrow valley, and there was no room for movement between the two sides.

In the event of a head-on collision, no matter how brave Li Xuan is, the thousand cavalry will be killed inside.

Murong Zhi's heart was full of doubts. Although he was on the east side of the canyon and could evacuate at will, he did not dare.

Once Nan Lixuan has an accident, he will be finished.

However, Li Xuan is extremely confident now. Is it really because of the reinforcements from Ganliang Dao of the Tang Dynasty?
Hua Dazhi or Liu Shenli?
……

"Uncle Shi, General Hua." Li Xuan stood at the Qilian Pass and saluted Liu Shenli and Hua Dazhi sincerely.

Beside them, countless soldiers were pouring into Daduoba Valley, and then formed a solemn formation.

Liu Shenli was the Minister of Industry and Duke of Pengcheng County, and Hua Dazhi was the right-leading military general.

At dawn, the two of them had already led thousands of elite right-wing army guards to the Qilian Mountain Pass.

And from behind, more soldiers came up.

At this time, the flames at the west exit of Dashuba Valley had just extinguished.

The Tyuhun people's cavalry scouts had quickly rushed towards the back of the mountains on both sides, trying to find out how many people Li Xuan had brought with him on this trip.

"I've met the prince." Liu Shenli and Hua Dazhi both bowed their hands to Li Xuan in return.

"You two came earlier than I originally expected." Li Xuan stretched out his hand and asked the two of them to climb up the rock on one side.

It is higher here than in the south. At a glance, the entire Daduba Valley, which is more than 20 miles away, can only be seen at the bottom of the eye.

Even looking from the mouth of the valley, one can clearly see thousands of Tuyuhun cavalry gathering at the mouth of the valley on the north side of Shulenan Mountain.

Behind them, two thousand Tibetan cavalry were already supervising the battle with swords.

There was a slight sneer on Li Xuan's lips. The Tubo people always liked the tactic of driving sheep.

Driving the Tuyuhun people to the front line, charging like cannon fodder, while the Tubo people, like calm hunters, cut in at the most critical moment, and then snatched away the juiciest piece of meat.

But sometimes, once the sheep rolled back, the two thousand cavalrymen would be trampled directly by the sheep.

"I originally received the official document that the prince was coming to take care of me. I originally expected that it might be a little later, but Mr. Liu said that the prince might come sooner than expected, so he went to the mountainside and waited. I didn't expect that it would really come. Soon." Hua Dazhi glanced sideways at Liu Shenli.

I had long heard that the Minister of Industry and the King of Nanchang had some relationship, but I didn't expect it to be true.Liu Shenli shook his head slightly and said: "Your Majesty always does things unexpectedly. This is true in Wuzhou, and it is also true in Qingnan. Now in Qingbei, it will be no exception."

Li Xuan stood on the rock and looked towards the north.

Between the lush mountain forests, a foot-wide mountain road stretches gracefully up from the bottom of the mountain.

A rough estimate is that it is about fifty miles long, but the straight-line distance from here to the foot of Qilian Mountain is only twenty miles.

The straight line is twenty miles, but it is forced to stretch for fifty miles, which shows how steep the mountain road is.

Li Xuan From Hezhou to Qingnan, the altitude has risen by at least 500 meters. Going west from Qingnan, the altitude in the Delingha area will be 700 meters higher.

The altitude here is 300 meters higher than Delingha, which is almost the same as Wuhai.

Zhangye and Linhe in the Qilian Mountains are at about the same altitude.

From Zhangye to here, we have climbed at least 500 meters.

No wonder they were never able to board it. Even if they did, they would be killed quickly because of exhaustion.

This was the case when the Ganliang Dao army attacked Qilian Mountain, let alone how they would attack Wuhai in the future.

This is more difficult than anyone imagined.

It's not something that the people in Chang'an can imagine by patting their butts.

The war with Tubo must be fought under the Wuhai Sea, and must not be fought above the Wuhai Sea.

It is necessary to wipe out all the Tibetan fighting power in Dafichuan in one battle, and then board the Wuhai Sea in one fell swoop.

"By the way, Uncle Shi, how is the situation over at Ganliang Road? The Tubo people have gathered [-] cavalry and [-] Tuyuhun cavalry to block it there?" Li Xuan glanced at the Tuyuhun cavalry who were about to set off in the valley in the distance. Surprisingly calmly, he asked about Li Dan's situation.

Liu Shenli shook his head slightly and said calmly: "They are not blocking Shasu Dao's army, but they are trying to rush into Dunhuang at any time and capture the Prime Minister."

Li Xuan's breath hitched slightly.

This is the same method as Taozhou, except that Li Xian arrived in Taozhou much earlier than Li Dan arrived in Shazhou.

Therefore, after the three thousand fine cavalry of the Tubo Gar family were buried in the Tao River, the Tibetan people's [-] cavalry in the Qilian Mountains immediately stopped.

After all, the [-] Tubo cavalry and [-] Western Tuyuhun cavalry here are tasked with preventing Datang from attacking from Shazhou and Suzhou.

Once Dunhuang is also a trap, as long as they lose too much in Dunhuang, they will immediately be in danger of Qilian Mountain falling.

With the advantage of the Qilian Mountains in hand, why should they take risks.

There were [-] Tubo cavalry and [-] Tuyuhun cavalry watching at any time. Li Dan was afraid that even if he wanted to sleep, he would not be able to sleep well.

"How is the march on Shasu Road? If we reach the Qilian Mountain Pass in Shazhou, when will reinforcements be in place?" Li Xuan said one sentence, and the expressions of Liu Shenli and Hua Dazhi suddenly became solemn.

Liu Shenli asked: "Is Your Majesty confident that he can defeat [-] Tubo cavalry and [-] Tuyuhun cavalry?"

"No, it's 1 Tubo cavalry and 3000 Tuyuhun cavalry." Li Xuan shook his head calmly and said: "In a charge last night, three thousand Tuyuhun cavalry died in the hands of the right guard and left Xiaowei cavalry. More than 1000 people died under the trampling of their own people, and more than 2000 people fled into the mountains and forests in panic. In the end, only more than [-] people returned to the military camp in Shulenan Mountain, dozens of miles away."

Li Xuan said in one sentence that Liu Shenli was fine. Hua Dazhi was stunned. He subconsciously asked: "The prince only has 3000 people, right?"

"Three thousand cavalry made a surprise attack at night. If the mountain road was not narrow, they would have been worried about being counterattacked by Tuyuhun. Otherwise, Xuan would have continued to kill towards Shulenan Mountain last night."

Li Xuan smiled sheepishly and said: "There are only 3000 men under his command, and there are [-] Tubo cavalry and [-] Tuyuhun cavalry on the west side of the North Valley of Shule Nanshan. They have enough time and space to counterattack, and Shule The military camp on the east side of the North Valley of Nanshan also reacted one step ahead, so the chance is slim."

Hua Dazhi smiled reluctantly and said: "No wonder the prince is confident that he can kill all the Tubo and Tuyuhun cavalry."

"Now that we have a thousand infantry of the right leading army guard and a steady stream of backup, the chances are much greater." Li Xuan smiled calmly, not paying much attention, and then asked: "By the way, where is General Quan?" , why don’t you see General Quan?”

Quan Shancai was previously demoted to serve in front of the Ganliang Road marching formation. Li Xuan originally thought that he would be able to see Quan Shancai immediately.

"General Quan has been transferred to Shazhou to take charge of military affairs." Liu Shenli looked directly at Li Xuan and said, "General Zuowei Qibi Heli is ill. Before General Quan arrived, he had been General Qi Biming, the general of Zuowei, was responsible for conducting military affairs, but Qi Biming was too young, so I sent General Quan over."

Li Xuan's eyes were stunned. The emperor sent Quan Shancai to Ganliang Road because there were five thousand Zuowei guards in Ganliang Road, so Quan Shancai could serve better here.

Did Liu Shenli have a grudge against Quan Shancai? Why was he sent to Shasu Road?
Even if Qibi Heli is ill, he still has the right to march in the Ming Dynasty with the left guard general Qibi Ming. Even if Qibi Ming is young, he still has the right military guard general Xianyu Shijian to assist him.

Li Xuan immediately remembered that Qi Bi was young and Xian Yu Shi Jian was not much older.

Xianyu Shijian was the son of Xianyu Kuangji, the general of Zuo Xiaowei, who led his five thousand Xianbei warriors.

Although Qibi Heli was from Tiele, he married the head of Lintao County.

The lord of Lintao County is the granddaughter of Huainan King Li Shentong and the daughter of Jiaoxi County Duke Li Xiaoyi.

Jiaoxi County Duke Li Xiaoyi is Li Xuan's cousin, Lintao County Lord is Li Xuan's cousin, Qibi Ming is Li Xuan's cousin and a relative of the royal family.

General Quan is related to the Quan family, and Quan Yi, a descendant of the Quan family, married Princess Yiyang.

General Quan - Qibi Heli - General Zuowei - Prince.

Li Xuan suddenly lowered his head and asked softly: "I dare to ask Uncle Shi, how is Duke Liang's health?"

Liu Shenli shook his head slightly and said calmly: "It's not very good."

Li Xuan's breathing suddenly stopped.

He had a keen intuition that this Minister of Industry might be a supporter of Prince Li Xian.

(End of this chapter)