Tang Taizong is my elder brother

Chapter 104 Schedule
Ashina Rangan read the strings of Chinese characters on it fluently in affectionate Manchu. There was a thunderbolt.In all the territories of the Western Turkic tribes, if you are willing to surrender the city, I will give you a city for you to manage; if you kill the Ergouzi official uprising, I will appoint you as an official.

Never break your word, I hope you rats will do it.

Huo Dou waited for Ashina Rangan to finish reading everything before he couldn't help saying: "This thing has been posted for ten and a half months, and it's posted everywhere in Linchuan City, what's the matter?" Is it strange?"

"With this thing, I estimate that the number of Han people who went to Dunhuang from various ministries will increase by at least half after this month. When the news spreads to the west, the Han army there may not be able to sit still. Seeing the expressions of disapproval on the faces of the other two, Ashina Rangan said in a low voice, mysteriously: "Do you know where I got this thing from?"

The two said in unison, "Where did you come from?"

"It came from Tahe." Ashina Rangan shook his head with a wry smile. Tahe's real name was Zhang Bishi, and he was a famous general in the northwest. After Baizhu was captured, he surrendered to the Turkic people. There were many Han troops, so Shibi Khan attached great importance to him and gave him a Turkic noble surname.Now Zhang Bishi's servants and the Han army are important forces to maintain stability in the vicinity of Baizhu: "One of Tahe's confidantes took this notice to persuade him to surrender, and even suggested that he send troops to attack Linchuan, and then dedicate the city to Li Changsheng."

"Bold thief!" Aguna yelled, "Did Tahe tear him apart?"

"Tah didn't report this matter to me at all." Ashina smiled wryly, he threw the announcement on the table, and then said: "Although Tah was afraid, he didn't report to that confidant." To do anything, just ask his personal guard to secretly burn this announcement. Fortunately, that personal guard was the person I secretly arranged to go there, otherwise I would have been kept in the dark about this matter."

After Ashina Rangan finished speaking, both Aguna and Huodu fell silent. After a while, Aguna said, "Tah has already become suspicious, but we can't move him yet."

"Nonsense, of course you can't touch him, and you still need to tell me?" Huo Dou cast Agu's eyes and said, Sibi Khan's order in the past six months has already killed the Han people in the Northwest Turkic Territory. Lock up his staff, if Zhang Bi is killed again, the remaining Han Chinese who wait and see will probably pack their bags overnight and flee to the south.

"Tah, as well as those Han officers, many people think that we can't beat the Changsheng Army, and think that we are going to be finished. Li Changsheng, the idler, spreads the announcement, saying that everything is past, and now the Han people living in the front line of Linchuan Daobai are not reliable. .”

Ashina Rangan felt that the foreplay was almost done, and it was time to get to the point, so he said directly: "There are two roads before us, one is to abandon Linchuan and Baizhu and move all the Han people there, Set up a line of defense on the front line of Loulan in the west, and then create no man's land. After we shrink our troops there, we can control the Han people, so that they have no chance to flee south. At the same time, Li Changsheng dare not do anything to us. His army They are all infantry, so he dare not go deep alone at such a long distance."

Hearing that they had to retreat to a place nearly a thousand miles away, and the large piece of land in the middle would have to be handed over, Huo Dou felt a little unwilling, so he asked, "What about the other way?"

Ashinaran laughed: "Of course we choose now, to fight him in the field. The distance from Linchuan to Linchuan River is too close. Now he has built a bunker by the river. If we want to defeat him in one fell swoop We must lure him out to fight in a place that is beneficial to us, as long as we concentrate our efforts to defeat him, then the confidence of all the tribes in us will be restored, and we will be able to keep Linchuan until Baizhu."

"The question is how do we induce it?"

"Give up Linchuan!"

Ashina Rangan hit the map hard, and then began to explain his plan with confidence: "We will order the troops to withdraw from Linchuan early tomorrow morning, and then make a posture of fleeing north in a hurry, and take away those who can be taken away from the city. Take them all away and lead him to chase them."

Aguna asked suspiciously: "Will he be fooled?"

Ashina Rangan showed a confident smile: "As I said just now, he came out for a walk in three months. If I guess right this time, it means that his group of recruits has finished training again. Now it's him." If there is no opportunity to bring them out to gain knowledge, how can he achieve the purpose of training soldiers. Besides..."

Ashina Rangan paused for a moment and continued: "He is a military general, not a civil servant. Military generals are promoted by military merit. If he doesn't cut off our heads, how can he get his military merit in exchange for his military merit, so he will never get nothing for nothing. And back, I expect he will definitely pursue us."

When Ashina was talking about his head just now, Aguna subconsciously thought of the lunatic officer last time, and shrank his head involuntarily.

Huo Dou slapped the table vigorously: "The reason is very good, so should we set fire to it? If it is burned, I'm afraid he won't come after him."

"Of course I won't come after you." Ashina Rangan never thought that Li Changsheng was a radical and aggressive opportunist. At the same time, he had another reason for not burning the city: "If he doesn't burn the city, he will send troops to defend the city. Those horrible weapons that release iron balls can’t return to function. Those things are still very powerful.”

"It's really powerful." Aguna nodded again and again, and he used his thick thumb to click on the location of Linchuan on the map: "Leave this city to him, and it's best for him to let those strange things that make loud noises Keep them all, I believe he will stay, judging from the size, those things are more effective in defending the city, and then he can lead the infantry to chase us in light."

"Are you really treating him as a fool? I remember you were the ones who lost to him last time." Huo Dou looked at the two suspiciously, he didn't believe that Li Changsheng wouldn't see such an obvious trap.

His words made Aguna blush, his troops were defeated by Li Changsheng twice, but Ashina Rangan looked calm, and he said with a calm smile: "I once put He is regarded as a rich man, I have to admit that I have underestimated him, but I have never misunderstood him tactically, if you don’t believe me, you can ask Commander Aguna..."

"That's true. He fought very well. He didn't make any mistakes. He was strict in everything, but he also lacked aura, and his reaction was even slower." Talking about the battle, Aguna's obvious emotions became a lot more exciting, but he was the one who lost the army after all. General, it's hard to say more, and finally said as if summing up: "Well, I feel that she is not sensitive enough to the battlefield, well, that's what I mean."

"Commander Aguna means that he is a mediocre commander." Ashina Rangan said very gracefully: "But I have to admit that we have indeed lost to such a mediocre person, although it doesn't seem very pleasant to say. .”

"But this also provides us with information and intelligence. Mediocre people are destined to only look at immediate interests." He turned everyone's attention back to the map, and then gestured on it: "He doesn't have many horses , His army is mainly infantry, so he is not willing to use horses to pull the heavy supplies, but mostly pushes them with carts, and these require a large number of auxiliary soldiers, so his marching route must be a spacious and flat official road.

We let him go and ambushed him behind his ass, which is where he was. "

Ashina Rangan drew a black line on the map with a charcoal pen, and then pointed to both sides of the line: "Although his infantry is powerful, it must rely on flat terrain to deploy. There are rolling hills and woods on both sides, and I'm sure he wouldn't dare to come in rashly."

Hearing what he said, Aguna also became more confident, and analyzed together and added: "When he chases us, I will definitely not bring luggage and logistics, that is to say, he doesn't have enough food and tents, so we just need to disperse the harassment." He doesn’t let him collect materials locally, just cut wood to make fire, and build a camp to get food, as long as it can be delayed until dark, we will win, and the army will collapse once it gets dark.”

"More than that, he has mobilized a lot of troops this time. I know that the combat effectiveness of these troops is too far from his. I said before that he is a mediocre general. For mediocre generals, such friendly troops are not so much help as they are Baggage, I don’t think he is strong enough to make good use of them, so I’m sure he’ll put out one, like last time, with his allies and supplies on the inner circle and his troops on the outer circle. As for Speaking of his possible breakout location, it should be here..."

Ashina Rangan used a charcoal pencil to mark a big X on the place where the black line meets the official road: "I think he will attack here, we have to stay here until he is exhausted."

Huo Dou stretched out his head to look at the position of Ashina's dyed stem mark, it was similar to what he had imagined, and nodded and said: "You said he brought a lot of friendly troops with low combat effectiveness this time?"

"Yes, and last time he was like this, letting them on the two wings gave us a chance, this time I guess he is afraid of repeating the same mistakes last time, and he will definitely let them inside, and he may attack here first after he finds that he is surrounded. , here, and here." He marked a few places on the map that he thought were weak: "But in the process, the elite of his headquarters will disappear, and then the friendly troops inside will start to panic. At this time It’s time to decide the winner.”

Ashina Rangan spent a lot of money in this decisive battle in Sichuan. After these few defeats, the Western Turks, who were not rich in the first place, were even worse. In order to save money, they could only reduce their weapons and equipment as much as possible. Many soldiers only had Except for the helmet and breastplate, the important places such as arms, thighs and abdomen are empty.

As for the horses, it is even more pitiful. Last time, they slaughtered a large number of war horses in order to wait for reinforcements. As a result, the cavalry team assembled by Ashinaran this time can only withstand one charge after wearing heavy armor, and this may not be possible. Must break through Changsheng's infantry policy.

And Ashina Rangan still used them as his hole cards and prepared to use them at the most critical time.

"I have carefully asked about the defense of Dunhuang and the specific situation of the last battle of Linchuan. At the critical moment, this little guy dared to draw a knife and fight us desperately. I think he has a strong spirit in his bones." Huang Taiji With a chuckle, there was a hint of sternness on his face, and he pointed to a large open area on the map: "We'll put the decisive battle here, sell him a loophole, and lead him here , this place will be his death place, and his longevity battalion will also perish here."

"Perfect plan, I completely agree!" Aguna clapped his hands and laughed.

Huo Dou still had some doubts: "This place is good, but isn't the open space suitable for him to play? What if he runs away?"

"He can't run away, this must be his burial place!"

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On June [-]th of the sixth year of Daye, the weather was fine.

As soon as the first ray of light came out in the morning light, Chang Sheng brushed his teeth and walked out of his camp. He looked in the direction of Linchuan, where there were sparks of fire shining on the official road where Bai lived last night. He did something, but because it was night, he didn't know what the other party was doing.

Before long, Fang Xuanling trotted over: "See my lord!"

"Director Fang, is there anything unusual about the Turks?"

"Reporting to my lord, I don't have arm length. The fire on the official road last night was extinguished before dawn, and I don't know what the hell they are doing, but according to the spies, there is no reinforcements." reported.

"Okay, then proceed as originally planned and set off to cross the river."

Changsheng is strong and strong this time, and she plans to go straight all the way.

Although the defenders on the opposite side can easily judge the approximate size of their troops.

But Changsheng didn't care at all, because she had full confidence in her lineup.

There are more than 4000 soldiers in his two battalions alone, not to mention the vanguard battalion of Liu Houer, and the two battalions of Guanzhang with a total of 3000 soldiers are considered elite.In this way, the total number reached a terrifying 9000 people.

Therefore, Changsheng believed that if a mere Linchuan city was handed over to him for defense, it would be almost the same with the help of cannons, and the Turkic Tartars would die if they wanted to defend it.

She planned to use cannons to blast open the city gate first, and then destroy the bunkers, towers and other defensive buildings, and then her troops covered the friendly forces to seize the city gates.

And Changsheng's two battalions are escorting them behind them, ready to attack from the two wings at any time, so that when covering the attack, the engineers under her can build fortifications at places unexpected from the city gate. She has to fight steadily Push forward without giving the enemy a chance.

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(End of this chapter)