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Chapter 1517: Those who are good at fighting have no great achievements
"This Yuwen Chan is ridiculous. He actually deployed his troops to fight the Yingyang Army head-on! He is so stupid!" Yang Lin, the King of Patron in the central army, glanced at the opposing army formation and said to himself in disbelief.

"Uncle, the army should have been engaged in a head-on battle. The enemy has 2 more soldiers than us. The Imperial Guard and the City Defense Army are also elite, and the soldiers in the army are all well-equipped. We should have an advantage in a head-on battle. How can it be so foolish?" Yang Yong asked in confusion.

"Your Highness, you don't know that the Imperial Guard and the City Defense Army are both city defense forces. Their duty is to guard Chang'an City and the Imperial Palace. Their personal bravery and defense skills are naturally beyond reproach. But if someone deploys troops on the battlefield and uses changes in the military formation to meet the enemy, then he is exposing his own weaknesses and seeking his own death. It's like a thousand-mile horse running into a river. Even if the horse can travel a thousand miles a day, it can't move an inch in the water."

"But the Yingyang Army is different. It is a conquest army, accustomed to field battles, and all the soldiers and officers are familiar with my orders. I can mobilize the army and organize any military formation, just like a water ship. If this Qianli horse wants to fight a water battle with the water ship, the result is self-evident."

"In this case, our army will surely win!" Yang Yong said with great joy.

"It should be so!" Yang Lin continued to observe the enemy's army formation and said, "But Yuwen Chan and his people behind the scenes should also know the truth and understand that the only chance of survival is to defend Chang'an to the death. Why are they so foolish as to fight with our army in the field?"

"Hahaha!" Hearing Yang Lin's words, Yang Yong couldn't help but laugh, "Uncle, you only know how to fight on the battlefield, but you don't know that there are more things to consider in Chang'an City. Our Great Sui has been operating in Chang'an City for a long time, and the nobles are uneasy. If Yuwen insists on defending Chang'an, as long as it delays for a long time, there will be civil strife, and Chang'an will not be able to be defended!"

"Moreover, Yuwen has no strong support from outside. Once he is trapped in Chang'an City, we can freely deploy the surrounding garrisons. Our army is getting stronger and the enemy is getting weaker. Therefore, defending Chang'an is a dead end. You have no choice but to come out and fight with our army."

"If we lose, we will die. But as long as we win, the armies in Guanzhong will be shocked. In addition, the Northern Zhou will be restored, and the Yuwen family will rise again. Those who are loyal to the Yuwen family will definitely rise up in response. Then, our Great Sui will be destroyed. From now on, the world will belong to the Yuwen family again!"

“So for Yuwen Chan, this battle must be fought. If he fights, he will win. If he defends, he will die. So even if Yuwen Chan has little chance of winning and knows that his army’s tactics are inferior to ours, he must fight for his life and try to survive!”

"How could it be so!" Yang Lin looked at Yang Yong in surprise. He thought that this prince was a fool. He didn't expect that he could understand many things.

"But what glimmer of hope?" Yang Lin suddenly laughed and said, "If Yuwen Yong led the army, there might be a glimmer of hope. But with an eight-year-old child and a group of people behind the scenes who can only plot and scheme, what hope is there?"

"Your Highness, you must know that no matter how many things you need to consider in Chang'an City, none of them is as useful as winning a decisive battle on the battlefield!"

"Uncle, what you said makes sense. I have learned a lot from it!" Yang Yong exclaimed in admiration.

At the same time, on the other side, Yuwen Chan also stared at the Yingyang Army for a long time, and then exclaimed, "When I swept across the world, my only regret was that King Yang Lin died at the hands of the Guandong heroes, and I was unable to fight him in my lifetime. I never thought that there would be such an army formation today."

"I have seen the Yingyang Army's formation, it is indeed elite and well-organized. Yang Lin is indeed a rare general!"

"Shubao, what do you think?" After Yuwen Chan finished speaking, he looked at a general beside him who was holding two maces and smiled.

"King Kaoshan is indeed a hero of the world. I received a lot of help from him in the past. I ask Your Majesty to let me attack first and go straight to the center of the army!" Qin Qiong said with a fist.

"Oh! Shubao is so ungrateful of our past friendship?" Yuwen Chan asked with a smile.

"No, it is precisely because I miss our old friendship that I hope that after I capture Yang Lin with my own hands, Your Majesty will exchange his life for my merit in defeating an army and capturing a general, and let him live freely and not be bound by the Yang family anymore!" Qin Qiong said frankly.

"Haha, I can't make the decision on this matter. You have to ask the pharmacist. After all, the pharmacist is the main general in this battle, and I am just a general under his command!" Yuwen Chan said happily, but revealed an astonishing fact, that is, the command of this battle was not in his hands, but in Li Jing's hands.

"Your Majesty, why don't you lead the battle yourself? Instead, it's an advantage for that guy Li Jing!" Cheng Yaojin on the side muttered, "Could it be that you only have 12 troops and can't beat 1 troops? This is not like you!"

"Quack!" Yuwen Chan knocked Cheng Yaojin's head and said almost the same words as Yang Lin just said, that is, these 12 troops were not good at frontal battles and were far from being a match for the Yingyang Army.

"If the opponent is a mediocre and incompetent general, then I can naturally defeat the strong with the weak, and commanding the army is no problem. But the opponent is King Yang Lin, whose military formation is no less than mine, and the Eagle Army has been trained under him for a long time. If I command this battle, I will definitely lose more than I win, and it can even be said that there is almost no chance of winning."

"Among so many of us, only Li Jing, Li Yaoshi, is capable of using the 120,000 soldiers defending the city to fight against the 100,000-strong army!" Yuwen Chan said in a deep voice.

"That's true..." Hearing Yuwen Chan say this, everyone couldn't help but touch their heads. This time, even Cheng Yaojin didn't refute it. Obviously, everyone believed that Li Jing's ability to command the army was indeed stronger than Li Shimin's. And much stronger, otherwise no one would refute it.

Many readers may be confused about this, because they have hardly heard of any classic battles involving Li Jing, not to mention the many classic battles of Zhuge Liang during the Three Kingdoms period, nor the unimaginable Battle of Hulao Pass, the epic battle in which Li Shimin captured two kings in one battle, even the slightly less powerful ones, such as the Battle of Changbanpo and the Battle of Dingjun Mountain, have not been heard of.

Even if everyone searches their heads and thinks hard, they probably cannot find one or two famous battlefield scenes fought by Li Jing. But why is it that such a person was crowned as the God of War in history, and even Li Shimin felt inferior to him?
Regarding this doubt, we have to mention a common saying, which is "Those who are good at fighting have no great achievements."

In other words, the true god of war cannot be found in him with any great military exploits, because the god of war has already ended the war before it even happened. In the early days of Li Jing's joining the Tang Dynasty, he was always sent to the southern region to quell the rebellion. In the early days of the Tang Dynasty, the entire southern region was in chaos, with as many as a dozen forces, and there were also savages in the south and Sichuan making trouble, etc. Even a fierce general like Li Xiaogong suffered repeated setbacks in the south and almost died there.

But after Li Jing arrived in the south, things were completely different. Every time he arrived in a place, that place instantly became stable, and the city and the people all settled down. However, this did not mean that there was no war in that place. On the contrary, Li Jing would send more than a dozen war reports to the court every month, and the enemy troops every month exceeded 10,000.

Such a strong contrast made the Li Tang court think that Li Jing was lying about his military achievements, but after actual investigation, they found that Li Jing's military arrangements were perfect to the extreme. Once any local force had the idea of ​​rebellion... before they actually put it into action, Li Jing had already noticed the other party's intention, and then directly used his divine soldiers and generals to nip these attempts at rebellion in the bud.

Even if there was a real chaos and they organized an army, when these troops had not yet approached the local city, they only encountered the defensive strongholds carefully set up by Li Jing and the few dozen guards in the strongholds. They were directly pinned to the spot and unable to move. At the same time, the message was quickly transmitted to the nearby stronghold by carrier pigeons. The troops that Li Jing had arranged in advance were immediately dispatched. According to the steps that had been practiced more than a dozen times, they easily pacified the rebel army that was more than ten times larger.

Your war had not yet been fully launched, and the rebellious bandits had not yet broken through any military stronghold, but they were directly suppressed by Li Jing. Naturally, there was no great military achievement to speak of.

After all, what is there to be written about in history books about a military campaign involving only a few thousand people?

Of course, some people may think that Li Jing is only good at guarding the enemy, which does not mean that Li Jing can lead the army in large-scale battles.

This was later verified. After pacifying the south, Li Jing was transferred to the north to fight against the Turks. The result was naturally the same. In the areas where Li Jing was responsible for guarding, the Turks were directly beaten back hundreds of miles and did not dare to play with Li Jing at all.

Later, Li Shimin launched the Xuanwu Gate Incident, and the Turks took the opportunity to harass him, so Li Shimin had to make the humiliating Weishui Alliance. But what many people don't know is that Li Jing had already seen the Turks' tricks from their movements, so without asking for instructions, Li Jing directly led the northern army to block the gap where the Turks were heading south. The Turks were actually trapped.

As a result, Li Shimin surrendered to the Turks and signed an alliance. Li Jing could only sigh helplessly, "If Your Majesty could hold on for a few more days, I could have stewed all the Turks."

This was actually the reason why the Turks hurriedly negotiated peace with Li Shimin. It was because their retreat had been cut off, and if they failed to capture Chang'an, they would be gone.

Finally, there is Li Jing’s most glorious expedition in history books, the famous battle of conquering the Turks and defeating Tuyuhun.

The scale of this battle is actually comparable to the battles in which Wei Qing and Huo Qubing defeated the Huns during the reign of Emperor Wu of Han. Similarly, I am afraid that every reader can recount in detail the many fantastic battles of Wei Qing and Huo Qubing in which the weak defeated the strong to the extreme and the battles of thousands of miles of raids, highlighting how terrifying their military talents are.

But the two battles presided over by Li Jing were different. You can't even tell a slightly well-known story about them. After searching through the entire Baidu Encyclopedia, you can only find an example of Li Jingqing leading 800 people to raid the Tuyuhun camp and win.

And then nothing happened. Apart from that, there is no classic battle to be found, nor any victory with a huge difference in numbers, nor any reports of fierce battles. All we can see is that Li Jing attacked, and then the Turks were gone, Tuyuhun surrendered, and the battle was won.

And this is actually the most terrifying part. It’s like every fan of the mid laner likes to brag that their idol once killed Faker solo, but when has Faker’s clone ever boasted about which mid laner Faker killed solo?
This is also the core part of Li Jing’s military thought, that is, victory in a war is actually determined long before the war begins.

Therefore, when Li Jing was in charge of the army, he paid special attention to the daily training of the army, popularized various tactics to the army, made various war plans, and most importantly, simulated various possible situations in war.

At the same time, you must have sufficient understanding of your own army, know where every weakness and strength of the army is, etc. This is knowing yourself.

After Li Jing arrives at a certain place, he will directly collect statistics and intelligence on all the enemies near that place. At the same time, he will plan how each enemy will attack if a war breaks out, and how they will break through their own defenses. He will then calculate the changes in the battle formation, and plan food and grass strongholds and logistics supply routes along the way. He even plans how long it will take for the army to reach a certain battlefield after the war starts, and how long it will take to end the battle. He even has a detailed plan for the position of each soldier, etc.

You are fighting with Li Jing, and you think you have launched a sneak attack on him, but in fact Li Jing has already destroyed you hundreds of times in his own head.

Of course, if that were all, it would most likely be another chairman and the Gaoliang River Chariot God, because these two are loyal followers of Li Jing, and they both like to arrange and rehearse all the directions of the war, and then give their subordinates a battle map and let them fight according to the battle map.

In addition, they are both very fond of micro-management. One likes to specify the location of the machine guns, and the other likes to specify how many miles to charge after crossing the river. One mile less or more will not do!

Li Jing also had extremely strong military command and adaptability skills. His command of battle formations had reached the level of art. Throughout his career, not only had he never failed in a direct battle, but even his army had never collapsed. Even when facing a cavalry charge from the Turks, his infantry army could directly defeat them.

All these factors completely created the military god of the Tang Dynasty, a terrifying existence who was good at fighting but had no glorious military achievements. When you handed a war to him, you already knew what the outcome of the war would be.

Even Li Shimin himself could not do this.

(End of this chapter)