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Chapter 851 Betrayal
"Your Majesty, Xue Wanche has already captured Jingyang City and snatched more than [-] shi of military rations from the city." Zhang Xuansu, who came back from Xue Wanche's army, rushed to report the good news to Li Chongjiu regardless of the dust on his body.

Hearing the news, all the generals in the tent couldn't help being overjoyed except for Li Chongjiu who just nodded in satisfaction.

Ji Chuan couldn't help saying: "Your Majesty, 20 shi of military rations is more than enough for [-] troops for a month."

"It doesn't stop there, eat the enemy for one minute, and be mine for twenty minutes."

"It seems that Li Shimin's use of troops is nothing more than that. If he is more ruthless and does not set up a granary in Jingyang, then how can our army get military rations?"

All the generals were overjoyed. After capturing the Jingyang granary, the Zhao army took a defensive position north of Chang'an and stood firm.

And Li Shimin's main force has also arrived.The main force of the [-] Tang army arrived, west of Jingyang.

The battle flag fluttered on the plain. From the other side, Fang Xuanling personally supervised the [-] Chang'an garrison Tang army, and came to the east of Jingyang to join the Tang army.

Li Shimin sat high on his horse, his shirt on his body fluttering about.

Fang Xuanling came in front of Li Shimin, knelt under his horse and said, "Your Majesty, this humble minister deserves death."

Li Shimin jumped off the horse, helped Fang Xuanling up and said, "Aiqing got up to speak, but blamed herself for what happened in Jingyang warehouse?"

Fang Xuanling lowered his head and said: "Exactly, I didn't carry out your Majesty's order to strengthen the walls and clear the fields. I forgot that it is now July, which is the season for harvesting summer grains, so I ordered the soldiers and civilians to harvest the summer grains outside Jingyang City and put them in In the warehouse, it was unexpectedly discovered by the Zhao army, and finally fell into the hands of the enemy."

Li Shimin laughed when he heard the words, patted Fang Xuanling's arms and said with a smile: "Fang Qing, why put the responsibility on one person, I am also responsible for this matter. If I can lead the army back from Fufeng earlier, not only can I save the Jingyang City can still eat Li Chongjiu's [-] troops outside the city, but it's a pity that it's one step short, Xue Wanche can only be considered lucky."

Seeing that Li Shimin took the responsibility on himself, Fang Xuanling couldn't help being grateful.

Eldest Sun Wuji said: "Your Majesty, Mr. Fang, why worry, we will take back Jingyang in the first battle. Zhao Jun just captured Jingyang, and the soldiers and horses are very tired. He can be caught off guard."

Du Ruhui said: "General Changsun, I just watched Zhao Jun's camp below. It was well built and built around Jingyang City. If it attacked suddenly, I'm afraid Zhao Jun would have the advantage of the location. Besides, Li Chongjiu led the main force in Jingyang. If we attack Jingyang now, he will lead an army to reinforce him at any time."

Li Shimin nodded at Du Ruhui's words and said: "Du Qing makes sense, you all follow me to observe the formation first, and then make a decision."

After speaking, Li Shimin led his generals to the edge of Jingshui to watch Zhao's formation.After looking at it for a while, Li Shimin said to the generals: "I thought Xue Wanche was a fierce general who was good at attacking, but I didn't expect that this big camp was also built to be impermeable. It would be difficult to take advantage of the gap to attack!"

Seeing that Xue Wanche's camp was well built, all the generals were embarrassed, and they all nodded when they heard what Li Shimin said.

"However, there is nothing I can do to deal with Zhao Jun!" Li Shimin turned his head and said, "Shi Danai obeys orders!"

"No!" A general came out.

Li Shimin said to him: "Lead the cavalry of your headquarters, cross the river from the upper reaches of the Jing River, and detour to the Zhao Army's camp in Sanyuan County. If the Zhao Army attacks, you are not allowed to fight!"

Li Chongjiu Sanyuan Camp.

With the help of [-] civil servants who crossed the Yellow River, Li Chongjiu's Sanyuan camp has been completed.

He Chou, the minister of the Ministry of Industry, proposed a temporary field fortification built of double-layer board walls with wood, which was adopted by Li Chongjiu.

This kind of double-layer wall method is to build two upper and lower wooden city walls around the camp with wood. There are boards between the two walls as intervals. There are archery crenels between the upper and lower wooden walls.

When waiting for battle, soldiers of the Zhao army can enter the upper and lower floors of the city wall and deploy their defenses at the same time.

Not only Zhao Jun's camp in Sanyuan County is like this, Li Chongjiu will also operate the steady and steady tactics to the extreme, in order to protect the food road of Tongzhou.Li Chongjiu also ordered his soldiers to build a board wall between Sanyuan and Tongzhou for a hundred miles away, as a corridor for guarding grain and grass, so that grain for the Hedong army could be continuously transported into the Zhao army's camp.

Li Chongjiu believes that such a setting is enough to make Li Shimin, who is good at sneaking into other people's food, helpless.If you want to fight, you have to find a way to confront me head-on.

Li Chongjiu's tactic is to fight against the wall, anyway, Li Shimin's main Tang army has appeared in front of him.It is Li Shimin who wants to win quickly, not himself.
Otherwise, regardless of Wang Junkuo's West Route Army, once Song Jingang's [-] army crossed the Han River, the detour strategy in Hanzhong was successful.Then this army can march from Hanzhong at any time and attack Chang'an from behind, putting Li Shimin in a situation where he is attacked from both sides.

This is the advantage of the strategy of splitting up and attacking together. As long as they are not broken individually, the more the battle drags on, the more unfavorable it will be for Li Shimin.

At the same time that the Zhao army was building the Sanyuan camp, Xue Wanche, who was stationed in Jingyang, sent a fast horse to report to Li Chongjiu that the Tang army had a cavalry group that crossed the river from the upper reaches of the Jingshui River, detoured from Jingyang, and headed straight for Sanyuan. Thousands of people.

After hearing the news, General Zhao couldn't help guessing what the plan of this group of people was.

The Tang army on this road has only three thousand soldiers and horses. It is obviously unrealistic to attack the Sanyuan camp guarded by the [-] Zhao army by force, but it is also possible to attack the Zhao army's grain road by detour.

Li Chongjiu first sent Qingqi to warn Shan Xiongxin who was stationed in Tongzhou, and at the same time sent [-] cavalry to search for this Tang army cavalry north of Sanyuan.
One day later, the movement of the three thousand cavalrymen of the Tang army was found out, and they came straight to the camp of the Zhao army in Sanyuan, and they were stationed [-] miles away from the camp.Li Chongjiu didn't understand the opponent's intention, so he sent scouts to investigate.The news of the reconnaissance cavalry's report surprised Zhao Jun's generals.

"The chief general of the Tang army is Shi Danai. This man is also named Ashinana. He was originally a special agent of the Western Turks. All the [-] cavalry under his command are Western Turkic soldiers!"

As soon as the detective cavalry reported, all the generals fell into silence.

Western Turkic warriors!
Obviously, the Western Turks who sent troops to jointly attack Tang this time betrayed Zhao and joined the Tang army.This may also explain why there is still no news of Wang Junkuo's 20 West Road army at this moment.

"Wang Duhu will not fail to guard against the special forces. Even if the Western Turks betray, with his tens of thousands of horses, he will not defeat the 20 Western Route Army. Your Majesty, as long as there is news of the defeat of the Western Route Army, If there is no real news, you can't judge hastily!" Ji Chuan said loudly.

(End of this chapter)