Landlord of the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 407 Sixteen Black Smokes

In this way, Xu Qing understood that Yingzhou soldiers still need to be filtered before they can be used.Presumably, a large part of them had a close relationship with the Turkic people and the Xue Yantuo people. The prince sent troops to destroy Xue Yantuo, so that he could frighten the ghosts and monsters in the Yingzhou soldiers.

Feng Li said: "General Xu, do you understand now? The prince's sending troops is really helpless. Waiting for the army behind is just a cover to boost morale."

Xu Qing nodded, and said doubtfully: "Then we can confront Xue Yantuo for the time being only with the 1 people in our hands, but after a few days, we will run out of food and grass, so we have to retreat."

Feng Li shook his head and said: "Although Yingzhou soldiers are unreliable, with Xu Shiji in charge, we must be able to clean them up. We didn't want to rely on them from the beginning. I believe that Hou Junji, governor of Bingzhou, will come soon."

"What did you say? Hou Junji is the governor of Bingzhou?" Xu Qing couldn't help but click his tongue. This Hou Junji was the one who killed the prince in the Xuanwu sect. Can this kind of person come to rescue the prince on time?No, Cheng Yaojin and Xu Shiji are also Li Shimin's group in Xuanwumen, but now it seems that they are both Li Yuan's younger brothers, and Du Ruhuifang Xuanling is also Li Shimin's right-hand man, but now he is a centrist who favors Li Yuan.

Presumably, something must have happened before the Xuanwumen Incident in history, which caused many ministers to favor Li Shimin and abandon Li Yuan.What it is, Xu Qing still doesn't know.Or, after the incident, Li Shimin used the method of controlling his family to control the ministers. When writing history books, he wrote down the generals to show that this incident was a natural move.

But now it seems that Li Shimin's Xuanwu Gate incident is still very different from history.

Xie Shufang couldn't help asking: "General Xu, this Hou Junji is also a talent, why, do you have a problem?"

Xu Qing returned: "Where is it? I just heard that General Hou was a military commander and a doctor. He is comparable to Lu Mengye of the Three Kingdoms, so I admire it."

Xie Shufang clapped his palms and said with a smile: "Indeed, General Hou is very skilled in martial arts. After becoming an official, he also taught himself Confucian classics and history. Now he can memorize a "Spring and Autumn" by heart."

Feng Li nodded and said: "Well, well, General Xu, I will lead you to practice a few times. If you will lose after three days, General Xu can take Longwei to break out."

Then, Feng Li lowered his voice and said: "General Xu, remember to bring His Highness the Crown Prince back, and say something that will kill your head. If the army is defeated, His Highness the Crown Prince will be so angry that he will definitely not want to go back. General Xu can act cheaply when the time comes." After speaking, Feng Li made a knocking gesture.

Seeing this, Xu Qing bowed deeply and said, "What General Feng said, I promised to do it."

After waiting for a whole day, Xu Qing performed a set of health-preserving exercises smoothly, yet no reinforcements arrived, nor did Xue Yantuo retreat.Even Xue Yantuo drove the cavalry around Bingsha City a few times, and fired some arrows to test the reality of the city.After testing, they found that not only the walls of the Ice Sand City were as thick and solid as imagined, but the soldiers inside were also very long-handed.In the three rounds of archery shooting around the city, he failed to find out the truth, and even lost the lives of more than a dozen cavalrymen.

The hard crossbow of the Han people is too powerful.

If on the grassland, this hard crossbow is just a dead target, but now, the Han people still have the protection of the city wall, that is the opening mode.

But the Xue Yantuo people were not reconciled, suddenly a city stood on the grassland, and the Han people in the future could station troops and food here, and Xue Yantuo no longer had to cross the long Gobi desert when sending troops.If I go back now, in the middle of the night that night, I am like a real pearl Khan, I was taken captive while I was asleep, it would be scary to think about it.

Difficult to advance or retreat, but to surround but not to fight, Xue Yantuo seemed to be unable to hold on.Grassland soldiers fought wars, and what they robbed was their own, but they also had to bring food and grass by themselves. Today, there are more than a dozen of Xue Yantuo's troops, and there are news of food shortages everywhere, and there is no place to rob. Going south, the Yingzhou army is there. On the grassland, unless you snatch your own, the little mosquito meat in front of you can't bite.Let a few khans grab their ears and fish their cheeks, and there is no way to do it for a while.

Xu Qing secretly watched with binoculars and saw that the smoke from Xue Yantuo's people's cooking was getting less and less, and then he heard a few horses barking, and his heart was suddenly happy.If other people observe this matter, they may still doubt whether this is a strategy of Sun Bin to fight against Pang Juan?But Xu Qing saw clearly through the binoculars that Xue Yantuo was out of rations!

After finding Li Jiancheng, Xu Qing told him the situation.

Li Jiancheng lowered his head and thought for a moment, then asked Xu Qing, "Xu Qing, what do you mean to do with Xue Yantuo?"

Xu Qing thought for a while and said, "His Royal Highness, this Xue Yantuo will either retreat, or take us down before the food and grass are exhausted. However, if Xue Yantuo retreats, then the prince's plan to destroy Xue Yantuo will not be completed, so I think, I wonder if it is possible to use food to induce Xue Yantuo to attack and let him injure his soldiers?"

Li Jiancheng put down the book in his hand and said, "Your method is a dangerous move."

Xu Qing nodded and said, "That's right, but only in this way can this big fish not slip away."

At this time, Xie Shufang came in suddenly and said to Li Jiancheng: "His Royal Highness, there are sixteen black smoke in the south, you go and see?"

Sixteen black smoke?What is this?With doubts in mind, Xu Qing and Li Jiancheng came out to check together.

Climbing to the city wall, I saw sixteen strands of black smoke rising in the distance to the south, beyond the horizon.Li Jiancheng looked at it and didn't know what it meant, but Xu Qing was shocked when he saw it. Isn't this the semaphore that Xu Qing handed over to Zhao Yuliang?At the beginning, Xu Qing and Zhao Yuliang were evaluating the Luo Clan Rebellion together. At that time, Xu Qing and Zhao Yuliang discussed the semaphore.The sixteen black smoke in front of him just happened to replace the two flags in the semaphore, implying that the reinforcements had arrived and they were going to flank Xue Yantuo with the people in the city.

But Xu Qing was not sure why Tanzhou was thousands of miles away, so why did it appear here? Even if this semaphore was taught to others by Zhao Yuliang, it was impossible for it to spread so quickly.Even if it is allowed, is it Yingzhou soldiers or Bingzhou soldiers?
The black smoke disappeared after just a cup of tea, and even the Turkic people didn't realize it.Li Jiancheng frowned tightly, wanting to understand the meaning of the black smoke...

"Ahem," Xu Qing cleared his throat, indicating that the intellectual responsibility of the people present is here, so hurry up and ask.

But Li Jiancheng and the others just glanced at Xu Qing irritably, blaming him for interrupting their thoughts. Xu Qing shook his head, sighed, stood with his hands behind his back, and began to think for himself.

He thought that when the army came, they would definitely choose to make a surprise attack at night. If that was the case, then the previous strategy of luring the enemy to attack could be given up, and there was no need to take that risk again.

"Oh, that's all, maybe Xue Yantuo is doing something." Li Jiancheng shook his head and sighed, and was about to go back.

Xu Qing suddenly said: "Prince, please slow down, I guess tonight, reinforcements will come, and we will attack Xue Yantuo!"

(End of this chapter)