I’m Marquis in Great Tang

“Report!”

At this moment, another sentry came to Li Shimin.

Li Shimin asked: “What’s the matter?”

The sentinel reported: “His Majesty, the people we arranged in Guazhou city to instigate a rebellion and attack the city gate, but were Du Qi’s army ambush. Thousands of people were slaughtered.”

Li Shimin’s cheeks were twitched.

Didn’t expect his plan failed again. In fact, this plan was finally put forward by Zhangsun Wuji. At that time, Li Shimin, Li Jing and the others had agreed on a strategy to deal with Du Qi, and finally Zhangsun Wuji found Li Shimin alone, thinking that it could start from Guazhou City.

Therefore, Li Shimin arranged for the people lurking in Guazhou City to instigate the Great Clan in Guazhou City to gather more than a thousand people to rebel in order to break the defense of Guazhou City in order to close the city. The gate blocks Du Qi entire group outside the city.

Zhangsun Wuji’s strategy is not to attack food, but to seize city. It is a pity that these Great Family private soldiers encountered the people who guarded the city and were all slaughtered. None of them survived.

Li Shimin told the sentry to retreat and looked towards Zhangsun Wuji and said: “Wuji, it seems that Du Qi this time is fully prepared. It is impossible to start with Guazhou City. This The First World War is a hard battle.”

Zhangsun Wuji said: “Even if the plan in the city fails, it will not affect the overall situation. Because this battle will ultimately rely on a head-on fight. Especially now we and Du Qi The battle is over when Duan Zhixuan’s army returns to encircle. Du Qi has now left Guazhou City. Even if we want to retreat, we will catch him and it will be difficult to retreat.”

In this battle, Zhangsun Wuji is actually very confident.

He believes that Great Tang can win.

Great Tang will definitely defeat Du Qi.

Li Shimin nodded no longer said much, just watched the fight continue. A little bit of time passed, and when the evening approached, the sky was already dark.

The weather in Western Regions has long days and short nights. At this moment, the 30,000 troops under Li Shimin’s command had already been visible and began to retreat.

Li Shimin looked towards Li Jing, at this time Li Jing ordered: “Send the order, withdraw troops.”

“clang! clang!”

It sounded and Tang Army began to evacuate.

Li Jing ordered the evacuation, but arranged for the cavalry to stand by. Once Xia Country’s army is about to chase, the cavalry under his command will go up and block this batch of Xia Country’s army, and even give the opponent a head-on attack.

Du Qi noticed the retreating Tang Army, and he looked towards Xue Rengui on the side. When the Tang Army evacuated, Xue Rengui never rushed forward and ordered the retreat.

After fighting for a day, I need a rest.

Because of this fight, it consumes a lot of itself, and the soldiers are exhausted and need to rest and adjust their state. The army withdrew, without returning for the time being, and stationed outside the city.

The army lined up.

The soldiers in the army have begun to bury their pots for cooking, and Xue Rengui and the others have begun to count losses. When all the losses in this battle are counted, the time will be exhausted. Xue Rengui came to Du Qi’s camp and reported: “Majesty, in today’s battle, we killed more than 10,000 people in the battle, but beheaded but countless. Among our soldiers, there were more than 2,000 serious injuries and seven More than a thousand minor injuries. The 30,000 soldiers who participated in the battle at this time are still at a loss. Because the battlefield has not been cleaned up, it is roughly estimated that the Tang Army’s damage to one side is at least 15,000, and even the other side is seriously injured. There are also more people. Generally speaking, we won the first battle during the day.”

Du Qi said with solemn eyes: “In this battle during the day, we lost a lot! Even though such a fight , Is expected. But in fact, it makes people feel distressed.”

Xue Rengui said: “This is fighting on the battlefield, casualties are inevitable.”

Du Qi said: “I know that it is inevitable to kill and wound on the battlefield. It’s just that such a fight against strength is not cost-effective. Especially the layout of the Tang Army. Obviously, we know that our weapons such as grenades are powerful, so there is no defense, but Direct attack prevents us from using grenades and other weapons. This is precisely where Li Shimin’s Gaoming is, or Li Jing’s commander-in-chief. I think it’s not good for us to fight attrition at the moment.”

Xue Rengui said: “How is the king going to make adjustments?”

Du Qi instructed: “Bring Shangguan Yi, Laiji, and Su Dingfang to the camp, and let Ma Yuan also participate. We carefully discuss the next strategy. In a war, we must give full play to our strengths. If we use our shortcomings to attack the other’s strengths, it will be extremely unfavorable to us.”

“Yes!”

Xue Rengui immediately sent the order.

Not long after, everyone gathered together, saluted Du Qi and then sat down.

Du Qi looked around the people and said: “In today’s battle, you have all seen it. Under Tang Army’s plan, it is difficult for us to take advantage of our own weapons. Even if our soldiers’ swords are sharper, But Tang Army is also an army of hundreds of battles. The battle strength is extremely strong and tenacious, and it is not easy to defeat.”

“Even if we gain the upper hand during the day, it can be from start to finish, no crushing is formed. Situation. If we continue to fight the war of attrition like this, even if we finally win, we will be considered defeated. So now, we must change our strategy and give play to our strengths in order to win this battle.”

Du Qi said: “Since Li Shimin divided the forces, we were mobilized and we were on the passive side. What we have to do now is to turn the passive into the active, and the rhythm must be under our control. We all talk about our own ideas and speak freely. .”

Everyone fell silent upon hearing this.

The situation is not optimistic.

Ma Yuan suddenly said: “My lord, if we want to make use of our strengths, I think that tonight, we can use night combat. We will bomb the Tang Army camp with artillery fire, and then we will go in.”

“It’s useless!”

Du Qi shook the head, saying: “During the day, I observed the Tang Army camp from a distance. Because I was standing on the high ground, the Tang Army camp could see It is clear that the other party’s arrangement is very delicate.”

“The positions of the front camp are almost empty and empty. Even if we adopt a bombing strategy, it is not very useful. In the past, the bombing was the enemy. To resist us, the army gathered in the front battalion, so the bombing was effective.”

“At the moment, the Tang Army front battalion is vacant and there are only a few soldiers guarded. It is clear that they are avoiding our Gunpowder. So the Gunpowder attacked Ineffective. Once we forcibly attacked and entered the camp, Tang Army launched a hand-to-hand battle with us. In this case, we were once again caught in the daytime war of attrition. The rhythm of the war is still not in our grasp.”

Du Qi said: “So night attacks are useless.”

Shangguan Yi said solemnly: “His Majesty, the minister has a strategy.”

Du Qi said: “What strategy?”

Shangguan Yi said solemnly: “At the moment we use Guazhou City as the rear, and then go out of the city to attack Li Shimin. As the king said, we are led by Li Shimin, and we have to change the status quo and adjust Strategy, then a radical change, no longer attacking Li Shimin, and instead attacking this army in Xia Country.”

“As long as this army is destroyed, we will transfer our forces to attack Li Shimin, it’s easy. As for Guazhou City, during this time, the lieutenants in the army consumed a lot, and they opened warehouses to distribute grain to the people. Until now, there is not much grain left. Let the lieutenants and soldiers bring grain and bring energy. Take away all the food we left.”

“Currently, Great Tang’s army has not returned to Niulan Mountain, and has never fought our army at Niulan Mountain. We bypassed Li Shimin’s camp and hurriedly Go to Niulan Mountain and annihilate the opponent to the west of Niulan Mountain.”

“As for Great Tang, if Li Shimin wants to lead a large army to help, we can block Li Shimin’s reinforcements.”

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“In a blocking battle, you can counterattack with the help of terrain.”

“We can give full play to the advantages of our weapons.”

Shangguan Yi’s eyes flashed with sharp expre ssion: “And when the time comes, when we switch from offensive to defensive, we can focus on another Tang Army. Our advantage is defense, and we can switch from offensive to defensive to maximize the consumption of Tang Army forces. “