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According to Li Ye's thinking, he was not in a hurry to fight a decisive battle with the Uighur Army. It was definitely not that the army directly crossed the Juma River and had a life-and-death battle with the Uighur Army. Instead, he was defensive and counterattacked, gradually consuming the enemy's effective strength, and then wearing down the Uighur Army. After being defeated, they launched a forceful attack and defeated the Uighur army in one fell swoop.

In the morning, three hundred five-thousand-stone vehicles and ships slowly sailed in from the Zhangshui estuary. These large ships were the fleet from Donghai Island, crossing the Bohai Sea and arriving at the Zhangshui estuary.

The eastern section of Juma River was called Zhangshui instead of Juma River because of the infusion of Zhangshui and Lushui. The middle and western sections were called Juma River. In later generations, this section of Zhangshui was renamed Haihe.

Three hundred five-thousand-stone warships were sailing on the wide water. At the same time, more than a thousand thousand-stone warships were heading north along the Yongding Canal and were about to enter Zhangshui.

Using powerful water forces to intercept the enemy's main force is a consistent tactic of the Guanlong Army, which had great success on the Han River back then.

This tactic was originally planned to be used on the Huaihe River and the Yangtze River, but there was no chance to use it. In the end, it was used on the Juma River.

Li Ye's temporary marshal's residence was located in Mo County, Mozhou, about a hundred miles away from the Juma River. The general ledger of more than 200,000 troops was also located here.

In front of the sand table in the Chinese army's tent, Li Ye summoned more than a dozen senior generals including Guo Ziyi to discuss the battle strategy.

Li Ye pointed at the Juma River with a wooden pole and said slowly: "First of all, we have to clarify a principle. What is our goal? What I want is not victory, but to eliminate as many Uighur soldiers as possible and eliminate them physically, so We must use a small knife to cut the flesh, and eliminate the enemy troops bit by bit, three hundred today, five hundred tomorrow, so that their numbers will continue to decrease, but they will not feel the pain. "

After a pause, Li Ye glanced at the crowd, and then continued: "In order to achieve the goal of annihilating the enemy, we must implement the strategy of luring troops. How to lure troops? To put it simply, we must do three things:

First, we need to show weakness and not scare the enemy, so we stop using our firearms. The other party uses kerosene, and we also use kerosene, reciprocally.

Second, the defeat should be moderately small so that the enemy can taste the sweetness of victory. Of course, it is a defeat with as few casualties as possible. "

Third, we try not to destroy all the pontoon bridges laid by the enemy, leaving them for the enemy to continue laying and attacking.

In a word, we must drag the Huihe army in Youzhou and do our best to annihilate the enemy's effective strength.

The above are the three principles of how to lure soldiers. Everyone can speak freely and add their own additions! "

Everyone expressed their opinions and put forward their own ideas. At this time, Li Ye saw that Guo Ziyi was silent in thought, so he smiled and asked: "What do you think, old general?"

Guo Ziyi took the wooden pole and smiled slowly: "In the final analysis, the Uighur army came here to plunder, plunder property and people. I estimate that when they are finally desperate, they will rob Youzhou, but His Highness will allow them to rob Youzhou." And the population is taken away?”

Li Ye immediately understood what he meant, "Old General, do you mean Juyongguan?"

Guo Ziyi pointed at Juyong Pass with a wooden pole, then pointed at Feihuxing, and said slowly: "When the war reaches the later stage and we send out surprise troops to capture Juyongguan, the enemy will have no choice but to retreat through Feihuxing. If we can find a way to block the enemy in In Feihuxing, they will have no choice but to be completely destroyed."

Li Ye nodded and looked at Zhang Yun, "General Zhang Yun!"

Zhang Yun immediately stepped out of the queue and said, "The humble post is here!"

"You have been the scout leader for a long time. You are the most suitable for this task. I will give you 10,000 troops. If you return from Jingxing, you will deploy Feihuxing's dragnet. In addition, I will write a letter to Gao Xiuyan and ask Gao Xiuyan to cooperate with you. He can send troops to capture Juyong Pass."

Zhang Yun immediately bowed and agreed, "I humbly obey my order!"

This time, Li Ye fully mobilized the enthusiasm of the generals and divided the army into six armies. Guo Ziyi, Lai Yi, Ma Lin, Ma Sui, and Li Fei Yuanli each led an army and deployed them at five points where it was easier to cross the river. , and then Xi Wanli led 30,000 cavalry as the general response. Wherever there is a crisis, he will be responsible for responding to which side?

Then Li Ye personally led an army of 80,000 to Mo County. When the enemy broke through Juma River at one point, and the Huihe army came out, he was responsible for fighting.

Of course, there is still a problem here, that is, the troops are too dispersed. Once the enemy's main force crosses the river, they will concentrate their troops and swallow up the five defense points one by one.

Li Ye also thought of this consequence. The patch plan he used was to use the advantage of warships to cut off the enemy's army from crossing the river in time.

In the early morning, Li Ye and a group of generals appeared on the south bank of the Juma River. Looking at the surging river, Li Ye said to everyone in a deep voice: "The Battle of Youzhou is the end of our Tang Dynasty's domestic war, and it is also the starting point of our foreign war. , the pressure of the northern nomadic cavalry has always been a sword on the head of our Central Plains dynasty, from the Xiongnu, Xianbei, Turks to Uighurs, and there will be more in the future. We are always passive, waiting for them to attack, waiting for them to kill, I hope it's best for our generation to solve this problem.

We must learn from the Han Dynasty. Those who offend our Han Dynasty will be punished even if they are far away, but we must surpass the Han Dynasty. Every battle must gain a lot of wealth, rather than consume wealth, which will eventually lead to poverty for the people and the country. So I hope everyone will do well. Cultivate successors so that our Datang talents can emerge in large numbers, so that our younger generations can take our place on the battlefield and plant the flag of the Tang Dynasty further to the west. "

Every general's heart is boiling with excitement, his eyes are looking into the distance, and his heart is full of expectations.

Two days later, the Uighur and Fan Yang coalition forces reached the Juma River. Of course, they also received information that 200,000 Tang troops were deployed on the south bank of the Juma River, and there were Tang army warships on the river.

For the coalition forces, the first thing is to select a point, then build a pontoon bridge as quickly as possible, and rush across the Juma River as quickly as possible. They cannot stand against the Tang army for a long time on the Juma River.

Selecting a point is the business of the Fanyang Army. They are very familiar with the Juma River. Zhu Ci certainly knows that crossing the river in the middle is the most suitable place because the water is not fast and the river is not wide.

Building a pontoon bridge is also the business of the Fanyang Army. Zhu Ci has been prepared for it. He brought a large number of rafts. Connecting the double-layer rafts and laying wooden boards on them is the best temporary pontoon bridge. Their army built temporary pontoon bridges in this way when crossing the river.

Thousands of troops began to build a pontoon bridge on the Juma River. This happened to be Lai Zhen's defense range. Lai Zhen immediately ordered 3,000 archers to be deployed on the opposite bank, ready to attack the enemy army building the pontoon bridge with rockets.

The pontoon bridge was built very quickly and in a methodical manner. Soldiers drove a wooden stake into the water every 30 steps to give the pontoon bridge something to rely on.

At three o'clock in the morning, the pontoon bridge, which was three feet wide, was only 150 steps away from the south bank.

Lai Zhen ordered to shoot arrows, and three thousand crossbowmen raised their crossbows and fired into the river. Arrows fell like raindrops, and the craftsmen turned around and ran. The sheepskin bags were shot through by arrows and fell into the water. There were also hundreds of rockets in the middle, and the floating bridge began to burn.

On the north bank, Zhu Ci saw it clearly, and his brows were furrowed. The opponent's arrows were sharp, and it was really difficult to deal with.

At this time, the deputy general Dou Luqing offered a plank road: "General, we can openly repair the plank road and secretly cross Chencang. We can pretend to lay a floating bridge here, and then send people to make a simple floating bridge from the other side. Kill thousands of people and kill their crossbowmen, and we can seize the opportunity to quickly build a bridge."

Zhu Ci nodded, "This is a good idea!"

At the same time, Lai Zhen also sent people to ask Xi Yuanqing for help fifty miles away. Lai Zhen only had 15,000 people, and he was worried that his troops could not stop the opponent from crossing the river.