Late Tang

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"I know your willingness to fight!"

Li Jing smiled and nodded in response to the sworn brother's gift, and then said with a smile: "Twenty thousand barbarian miscellaneous soldiers are rushing towards our hunting ground. You all think that these barbarians are vulnerable. Request to fight alone, right?"

"Yes, Your Highness."

At this time, Li Wei, the leader of the Yingyang Special Army, took half a step forward and replied that he was tall and strong, two years younger than Li Jing, and he was Li Jing's native son, and he was good at special skills. Combat and reconnaissance, especially ambushes and raids, are his specialties.Gives the impression that he is a brave player who is full of tenacity but can always explode at critical moments.

"These barbarians are already meat to the mouth, no matter who makes a move, they can swallow him."

A gleam of light flashed in Li Jing's black eyes, and said slowly.

"The Yingyang army is the special warfare of our Qin army. It is the sharp point on the blade. Good steel needs to be used on the blade. Similarly, the sharp edge of the blade should not be used at will. You need to keep it at all times. The sharpest state, not to deal with those chickens and dogs."

Li Wei took a step back helplessly. The King of Qin really valued the Yingyang Army, but they rarely had the chance to fight head-on. Most of the time, they were responsible for various special operations.

Wang Zhong glanced at Li Wei with some complacency. It was obvious that everyone had already cast dice to determine the winner. It was decided that he, who rolled three sixes, would lead the three armies of the bodyguards to fight. He called himself uncle, and he had to be called his uncle in the future.Anyway, he is the son of the King of Qin, and he is the brother of the King of Qin, so there is nothing wrong with calling him uncle.

"The king of Qin can rest assured to entrust the mission to our guards. As the most elite guards, go out and guarantee the success of the horse. If you can catch it, you can wipe out the [-] miscellaneous fish in one fell swoop." He patted his chest and said loudly.The bodyguard army is not an ordinary army. They are called the upper three armies together with the Jinjia Shengjie army and the silver gun effect Jie army.Then the three guards of Qin Xunyi, the Secret Service Bureau, and the Attendant Department are called the Three Internal Armies, and they are also privately called the Beiya Forbidden Army.

The number of these six troops varies, but they can all be called the Forbidden Army of the King of Qin, which shows their elite and importance.The three outer armies guarded the outer city and suburbs of Yanjing, and the three inner armies guarded the palace city, with attendants and guards, and their duties were clearly defined.

Among them, the bodyguard army is the most numerous. The Silver Spear Army has 5000 infantry and the Shengjie Army has [-] cavalry.Moreover, they are usually stationed near Miyagi, and when Li Jing leads troops to go out, he must follow them.

[-] elite bodyguards, to ambush [-] Huren mob, this is indeed a sure thing.

Who knows, but Li Jing sighed softly and said: "The lineup of guards is too strong, once you go out, these barbarians will definitely be wiped out. No, no."

Wang Zhong didn't bring it up in one breath, and suddenly coughed, his face flushed red.He didn't expect that the King of Qin would use the reason that their bodyguards were too powerful to deny his request for a battle. Is this a compliment or irony?

Both Wang Zhong and Li Wei's invitation to fight were rejected one after another, which made Qiu Shengong and Xuan Cheng smile, but just as they were about to speak, Li Jing shook his head at them: "Well, no, I don’t intend to send you there either.”

Now all the generals were stunned, they didn't intend to let Li Si'an, who was tempting the enemy, fight, and they didn't let them fight, what did the King of Qin mean?

Li Jing glanced at the generals, but did not immediately answer this question, but tapped on the table and said: "Liu Xun and the others have won a great victory in Jincheng, and the 20 southward troops assassinated by Yelusa have been wiped out, and Li Siyuan's this time Although the troops outside the Great Wall were defeated, they also successively killed more than [-] barbarian mob soldiers as decoys. Do the math, how many of the [-] barbarians are left?"

Monk Hua Xuancheng rushed to answer: "20 minus 12, we have [-] left."

"That's right, there are still 12 people left. These 12 people are now in two places, one is the [-] miscellaneous soldiers who are about to fall into the trap right now, and the other is the [-] barbarians under the city of Yunzhou. "

Gongsun Lan added on the side, "According to the latest news, Yelu Shilu under the city of Yunzhou encountered stubborn resistance from generals such as Song Jirong. The many equipment and materials in the Western Expedition camp successfully blocked their attack. They also gave the barbarians a strong counterattack. Up to now, Yelu Shilu's [-] soldiers and horses are less than [-]."

Li Jing nodded, "Okay, another 20 people have been reduced. Unknowingly, the [-] people of the barbarians have been reduced by half. Look, although most of the missing half are those who make up the number, they are slightly stronger. Some of them are still with Yelu Shilu, but everyone should understand that the situation is getting more and more favorable to us, and it is getting more and more unfavorable to the Hu people. Li Keyong was still in the river and failed to return north to join the war as scheduled. Even Chengde and Weibo Second Towns in Hebei, which they had placed high hopes on, are now busy fighting internally for the commander-in-chief because of the assassination of Commander-in-Chief Jie, and they don’t care about the situation here.”

A staff officer next to him took a pencil and quickly drew a simple and clear picture of the situation on one side of the wall according to Li Jing's description.

"Tell me what's going on with Zhang Zimian now?" Zhang Zimian didn't go back to aid Jincheng as Li Jing expected, causing Jincheng to almost fall. Li Jing wasn't too angry.He trusted Zhang Zimian, so he would not make a decision easily without getting detailed information.These days, he has been waiting for the information over there, and he also believes that Zhang Zimian will not let him down.

"Marshal Zhang did not follow the military order to return to aid during the Jincheng Guard Battle. Withdrew. And just after the victory in Jincheng, Marshal Zhang led [-] troops to ride outside Yanmen Pass, southeast of Shuozhou City, and raided the Yanmen Army that had poured out from Yanmen Pass. Returning to Qin with the army and civilians. Now, Yanmenguan and Xindai two prefectures are empty, and all the soldiers and horses add up to less than [-]. Now Marshal Zhang has taken advantage of the victory and went south to take Yanmen Town in one fell swoop, and it is just around the corner."

The generals who heard the news were all shocked. In fact, when Li Jing heard the news just now, he also couldn't believe it.He originally thought that the expected goal of this battle was to repel the barbarians and then take Datong Town, but he didn't expect that Zhang Zimian violated the order on the front line, and he really made a big surprise.As expected of an admiral who defeated Wang Xianzhi and Huang Chao.

Because of this good news, Li Jing once again raised his expected target for the campaign. He was no longer satisfied with defeating the barbarians going south and capturing Datong Town.He wants to take down the entire Daibei area north of Taiyuan, so that his Shanxi province deserves its name.At the same time, he wanted to completely annihilate this army of barbarians going south, and not a single barbarian would let them escape from Yinshan Mountain.

"Liu Xun's Wansheng Legion with 3 troops is marching northward, advancing towards Yunzhou City step by step, and regaining the outer city. It will not take long for them to advance to the city of Yunzhou. There are 5 of Li Siyuan's subordinates. Previously, the Hu people were approaching Yunzhou City. Seeing that Niupi Pass was difficult to pass, they bypassed it. But now, the siege of the entire Yunzhou City is not going well, and the situation of the Hu people has become very bad. .Their reinforcements will not come, and at the same time, I lost half of my troops, and then, there are [-] troops on the Yunzhou battlefield, one north and one south, and they flank."

Li Jing smiled: "If you were Yelu Shilu, what would you do?"

Wang Zhong said in a deep voice: "Gather our troops and attack Yunzhou with all our strength before our other reinforcements arrive. If we can take down Yunzhou, then Niupi Pass will become a lone army, and it is naturally impossible to hold on. In this way, although they may not be able to join forces with Yanmen Shatuo in the south, they can still occupy Yunzhou. As long as their back road is clear, they can continue to fight with us in Yunzhou."

"This is a possibility. Of course, it is almost impossible for it to happen. Because Liu Xun and the others are moving northward very fast, they have no chance to attack Yunzhou with all their strength. At the same time, news of the loss of Yanmen Town will also come. At that time, Yelu Shilu, would he still dare to stay in Yunzhou?" Li Jing laughed.

"Your Highness, do you mean that Yelu dog thief wants to escape?" Li Wei asked.

"According to the development of the current situation, of course he has to escape. This is still a situation where we have not made a clear banner. If Yelu Shilu knows that we still have an army of nearly 10 people here, the army will gather 10 troops to fight against the enemy. With an army of ten thousand people, he might have fled long ago." Li Jing was very happy about the huge advantage of the Qin army.Although the mobilization of the Qin army's [-] troops is huge.However, the Qin army moved quickly this time and released a lot of smoke bombs. In addition, the Qin army stepped up anti-espionage operations, so the battlefield intelligence between the two sides was seriously asymmetric.This is considered one of the advantages of home games. Intelligence can often determine the outcome of a war.

However, Li Jing's army can't hide it for a long time. After a long time, the barbarians will definitely find clues.What's more, as soon as the news of the Yanmen Army's annihilation comes out, Yelu Shilu will definitely reconsider the whole situation.Without the joint action of Yanmen, Chengde, and Wei Bo, how could he dare to continue fighting in Yunzhou after losing half of his troops?

"Our goal now is to wipe out the remaining [-] Hu people. Of course, the main thing is how to wipe out the [-] Hu people under the city of Yunzhou. If Yelv Shilu withdraws now, it may be difficult for us to intercept and wipe them out Once they withdraw from the Yinshan Mountains, the vast grasslands and the Gobi Desert, it will be even more difficult for us to wipe them out." Li Jing squeezed his chin, pointed to the sand table and said, "Therefore, I plan to use [-] miscellaneous soldiers to catch Yelv Shilu. A big fish."

"How to catch?" Qiu Shengong was puzzled with a dark face.If the [-] barbarians were wiped out, I'm afraid Yelu Shilu would escape faster.

Li Jing replied calmly: "Because Gu Hui will lead Yixun's three guards and the Secret Service Bureau, the Department of Attendants and the Iron Cavalry Vanguard to attack the [-] Hu people who came."

Xun Qinyi and the three guards of the three internal armies who came with the army this time have one thousand each, and the Secret Service and the Department of Attendants also have one thousand each, plus the forward second army of the Iron Cavalry Corps composed of Hu Qi, military academy cadets, township soldiers, and united soldiers. 1 people, only [-] in total.

"Your Highness, this is too risky. Let us fight for His Highness. Anyway, if we win, it belongs to the King of Qin." Old Hei persuaded.

Hearing this, Li Jing's face couldn't help but darken a bit. What he said seemed that Li Jing was going to fight because jealousy belonged to credit, and he wanted to compete with his subordinates for credit.What a bastard, Li Jing is such a person.He didn't let the generals fight, but wanted to fight by himself, not for merit, but for fishing.

Raising his eyebrows, Li Jing sighed.

He swept his eyes across the generals, fortunately, the only one with such thoughts was Qiu Shengong, maybe Monk Hua also had such thoughts, but he didn't show it.The other generals all heard what Li Jing meant, that King Qin was going to catch a big fish for bait himself.

"It's really risky, Your Highness, why don't someone fight under the banner of the King of Qin instead of His Highness!" Zhang Chengye, who had been closing his eyes as if he had fallen asleep, suddenly opened his eyes and said sharply.

This old partner always supported him wholeheartedly. Li Jing nodded appreciatively to him, and then said: "You have to do enough to act. What's more, Gu also started his career immediately. In his early years, he fought south and north. It’s not that the vanguard is at the front, what’s more, with [-] elite guards around, what are you afraid of? Don’t let these barbarians watch carefully, I’m afraid it won’t be easy to lure them into the bait.”

"Think about it, when the Hulu chased Li Siyuan all the way and waited here, Gu suddenly led ten thousand and five troops to fight out, smashing the bandit army, and then chased the Hu bandits all the way, deep into the depths outside the Great Wall, and was in Yunzhou at this time. Yelu Shilu, who is hesitating whether to withdraw his troops immediately, if he hears that the king is leading a lone army deep into his rear to kill a remnant Hu army, do you think he will think this is a good opportunity? .If he can surround Gu, wouldn't he be invincible?"

"Your Highness, the Sa family has a doubt." Xuan Cheng asked.

"Please tell me." Seeing his serious appearance, Li Jing said.

"Sajia believes that if His Highness led 5000 troops to ambush [-] tired Hu people who came from afar, they would be able to wipe them out in one battle, and there would be no need for a single army to go deep outside the Great Wall to chase and defeat the army."

Li Jing glared at Monk Hua, unable to pay attention to him.He and Lao Hei are a pair of living treasures, with high qualifications and bravery, but unfortunately, they lack some strategies. If it weren't for the assistance of adjutants such as the marching commander, the marching staff officer, and the teaching envoy, he really wouldn't dare to let these two guys Bring an army of soldiers and horses.

"But this is too dangerous. If you are really surrounded, what should you do?" Zhang Chengye, the eunuch, said worriedly, "A son of a thousand pieces of gold, you can't sit down, let alone King Qin, as a vassal king of a country, how can you do such a thing?" It’s like using your body as bait to lure thieves.”

"There will be no danger. I will lure Yelu Shilu to come when I arrive alone, but you will follow nearby. Once Yelu Shilu takes the bait, you will immediately surround them all. Where is the danger?" Li Jing said confidently. Well, there is always a risk in war, and of course there is a risk for him to be a bait, but the risk is very small, so small that he can rest assured.

If Li Jing sent any general as bait for this plan, they would have no objection.But Li Jing wanted to make the bait himself, which made the generals feel like sitting on an anvil and kept dissuading him.

Half an hour later, not only failed to convince the generals, but Li Jing, who was a little impatient with the increasingly loud voices of the generals, finally couldn't help but slapped the table: "Okay, there is no need to say anything. , I have made up my mind, everyone should obey the command and dispatch of Gu, this matter is settled here, let's start discussing the specific battle plan now!"

Li Jing made a final decision. (To be continued.)