Tang Taizong is my elder brother

Chapter 78
After arranging the patrols and sentries on duty, Changsheng will rest in the tent and have nothing to say all night.

The next day, the Changsheng Army set off early, and the team was neatly organized and lined up on the road.

When the sun was approaching noon, the passing station was billowing with smoke again.

Walking beside Changsheng, Gao Ziran noticed that her expression was becoming more and more dignified, so he asked curiously, "General Li, is there anything wrong?"

"Does Master Gao still remember what happened yesterday afternoon?" Chang Sheng asked.

Yesterday afternoon, before arriving at Huaishu Shop, the Turkic defenders fled from afar, for fear of encountering the Immortal Army, but today’s situation is different. Hanging on you.

"Today's Turks and Tartars are much calmer than yesterday's." Chang Sheng said, randomly ordered the tribe to slow down the marching speed, save energy, and expand the scope of reconnaissance at the same time.

After the three pillars of incense, a horse came to report: "Iwu's Turkic cavalry appeared more than ten miles away from the right wing of our army. There were about 500 people and they were slowly approaching our army."

What Changsheng worried about finally became a reality.

"Go explore again!"

Soon the Turkic cavalry team that the spies were talking about appeared in the sight of the former army.

The spies also reported that the other party was the main force of the Western Turkic Tiele Khan. Among them, there were about 700 armored soldiers, and there were more than [-] unarmored auxiliary soldiers.

The distance between the Turkic people and the right wing of the Immortal Army was no longer five or six miles away, and the two sides just moved forward in parallel.

After a long time, the other party did not see any intention of attacking, so Chang Sheng decided to strike first and take the initiative to see the other party's reaction.

Unexpectedly, as soon as Changsheng's army drums and whistles changed, the team changed direction and moved in that direction. The Turkic soldiers also deflected to the right at the same time, and the original distance of five or six miles between the two sides remained unchanged.

When the Immortal Army turned around and returned to the left hand, they stuck it up again like a dog's skin plaster.

Changsheng had a headache and smiled wryly.

This is troublesome, if the opponent doesn't fight with me, I can't take the initiative to fight with the opponent.Because I am mainly infantry and the opponent is mainly cavalry, two legs cannot catch up with four legs.

"Report, my lord!" Another detective came to report: "The Tartars in the stronghold ahead will not retreat."

"How many defenders are there in the stronghold?"

"It looks like there are nearly 200 people, at least half of them are armored cavalry."

Changsheng nodded, thinking that it was so.

This is a sandwich between two breads, but it's just a mobile version.

Once we get close to the distance point in front and exchange fire with the enemy in the rejection point, the Turkic cavalry behind the buttocks can take the opportunity to attack.

And we couldn't catch up with the cavalry behind, which put the Changsheng army in a dilemma.

What's more serious is that their purpose is to hold back the Immortal Army. It is conceivable that the defenders in other places must be rushing here at high speed. If they hesitate or stand still here, they will be in great danger.

So should we fight or withdraw?
The troops stopped a few miles from the camp.The Turkic spies were watching their movements from a distance, and Qin Qiong and other officials beside them were also waiting for Changsheng's order.

"Why don't we be teachers?" Mr. Gao first proposed the safest plan.

"Or let's go to other strongholds to try. They won't all be so strictly guarded?" Qin Qiong also put forward her opinion.

Changsheng first vetoed Qin Qiong's suggestion: "This is the territory of the Turkic people. The other party made it clear that they wanted to hold us back. Under their supervision, no matter which stronghold we attack, they can send out a small force like now. Follow our buttocks, it will be of no use other than wasting energy."

"As for Master Gao's squadron, I also don't think it's feasible. Our army's strength is superior to the opponent's in this attack. The purpose is to concentrate on destroying their vital forces and pull out as many strongholds as possible. It is undoubtedly the enemy's decision to retreat now. Ambition, destroy your prestige!"

"The problem is that the enemy is following us like a mangy dog. What if we don't fight?" Qin Qiong was also very anxious, and he thought of another way: "Or let the last general lead the cavalry to hold the opponent back, and then cover the adults from attacking us." A frontal attack?"

Chang Sheng shook his head: "How long do you have only three hundred cavalrymen? Even if the enemy sends out part of their troops to attack you, and the rest go around you to attack the rear army, isn't the result still the same?"

"Unless..." Changsheng hesitated, "Unless we divide our troops!"

The officers and advisers who participated in the military discussion immediately exploded: "The general must not divide the troops, this is a taboo for military strategists."

Taboo?If we don't worry about it, we will have G.Longevity said.

Even Gao Ziran, who never interrupted, objected at this moment: "If you don't think about it, maybe you can think of a better way?"

Changsheng shook his head, and drew on the ground with the tip of his knife: leave an infantry phalanx two miles behind the brigade, as a barrier to cut off the enemy's harassment, and cooperate with Qin Qiong to block the enemy.

The remaining archers, infantry and auxiliary soldiers went to attack the front stronghold.

In this way, the Turkic people will not pay attention to the sniper troops of more than 400 people. If they don't fight with our large troops, it doesn't mean they won't fight with our small troops.

If you don't fight, you can only watch us take down the stronghold.

Leaving 410 pikemen and 30 archers, I personally lead the team and raise my flag!
Tell them that Li Changsheng is here, waiting for them to come and kill him.

……

410 spearmen of the Immortal Army formed a 22-ten square formation. The archers were scattered on the two wings. Changsheng and her personal guards were in the middle. A temporary earthen platform was built under her feet to facilitate her observation of the battlefield.

More than 1000 Turkic cavalry are slowly approaching, and the main force of the Immortal Army has begun to attack the stronghold two miles away.

If the Turks choose to bypass the Changsheng position to attack the rear wing of the large army, they will be caught in the two sides of the Changsheng army.

Once it fails, it will be annihilated.

Therefore, as long as the opponent's commander has normal intelligence, he should choose to deal with himself first.

Zhang Er's general flag was flying prominently in the army formation.

After Changsheng reconnaissance and the other party approached him for a mile, he stood still, as if he was waiting for something.

Suddenly a puff of smoke rose from the direction of the Turkic camp, announcing that the attack had worked.

The Turkic army was visibly commotioning, and the cavalry began to slowly approach this side.

"The whole army - get ready!" Chang Sheng issued an order.

After a short whistle, the troops lined up in the phalanx, and the archers were ready to string their arrows.

The Turks still used their old method of sandwiching bread with three sides, encircling them from the front and two wings.

"It's the old routine of putting one side around three sides," Chang Sheng sneered.

In the end, it is not necessary to dismount and fight in close combat. The classic tactic of the northern nomads who ravaged the Central Plains Dynasty in history is to use brave infantry assaults to break up the formation, and then use cavalry to pursue fiercely.

The frontal Turkic cavalry began to accelerate a few hundred meters away, and the detoured troops on both sides also drew their long knives, waiting for the moment when the Longevity Army was defeated!
(End of this chapter)