Chapter 850 Betrayal
"Your Majesty, Xue Wanche has captured Jingyang City and robbed more than 70,000 stone military rations from the city.: 30,000." Zhang Xuansu, who returned from Xue Wanche's army, rushed to report the good news to Li Chongjiu despite his dust.
After hearing the news, except for Li Chongjiu, who only nodded with satisfaction, the rest of the generals in the tent couldn't help but be overjoyed.
Ji Chuan couldn't help but say, "Your Majesty, 70,000 s of military rations are enough for 200,000 troops to eat in a month."
"It's not just that, one bell for the enemy, twenty bells for me."
"It seems that Li Shimin is just using military force. If he is a little more ruthless and does not set up a granary in Jingyang, how can our army obtain military rations?"
All the generals were very happy. After the Zhao army seized the Jingyang granary, they set up a defensive force north of Chang'an and were ready to stand firm.
Li Shimin's main army had arrived. The main forces of the Tang army arrived, west of Jingyang.
The battle flags fluttered on the plains. On the other hand, Fang Xuanling personally supervised 20,000 Chang'an to guard the Tang army and came to the east of Jingyang to meet with the Tang army.
Li Shimin sat high on his horse, his body robe fluttered.
Fang Xuanling came to Li Shimin, knelt down on his horse and said, "Your Majesty, I deserve to die for all my crimes."
Li Shimin jumped off his horse, helped Fang Xuanling up and said, "Your dear gets up and talks, but I blame myself for the matter in Jingyang Cang?"
Fang Xuanling lowered his head and said, "That's right, I did not execute Your Majesty's order to strengthen your walls and clear the wilderness. I forgot that it is July, which is the season for summer grain harvest. Therefore, I ordered the military and civilians to harvest the summer grain outside Jingyang City and store it into the warehouse. Unexpectedly, the Zhao army noticed it and finally fell into the hands of the enemy."
Li Shimin heard this and patted Fang Xuanling's arms and smiled, "Fang Qing, why should I take responsibility for one person? I also have the responsibility for this matter. If I could lead my army to return from Fufeng earlier, I could not only save Jingyang City, but also eat Li Chongjiu's 30,000 troops outside the city. It's a pity that one step was missing, which can only be considered a good luck to Xue Wanche."
Seeing that Li Shimin took responsibility on him, Fang Xuanling couldn't help but be grateful.
Changsun Wuji said on the side: "Your Majesty, why worry? We will take Jingyang back in one battle. The Zhao army just captured Jingyang, and the troops were very tired, and they were caught off guard by killing him."
Du Ruhui said: "General Changsun, I have just watched the Zhao army camp below. Its construction is well-built and is built around Jingyang City. If it is attacked suddenly, it is probably convenient for the Zhao army to be in a convenient place. Besides, Li Chongjiu led the main force to set up a formation thirty miles away from Jingyang. If we attack Jingyang now, he would lead the army to reinforce at any time."
Li Shimin nodded immediately after hearing Du Ruhui's words: "Du Qing makes sense. Please follow me to observe the formation first and then make a decision."
After saying that, Li Shimin led the generals to the edge of Jingshui to watch the Zhao army formation. After watching for a while, Li Shimin said to the generals: "I thought Xue Wanche was a tiger general who was good at attacking, but I didn't expect that this camp was built without revealing water. It was difficult to take advantage of the opportunity to attack!"
When the generals saw that Xue Wanche's camp was fully constructed, they were already in trouble, and they nodded after hearing what Li Shimin said.
"But I have no choice but to deal with Zhao Jun!" Li Shimin turned his head and said, "Shi Danai obeyed the order!"
"No!" A general came out.
Li Shimin said to him: "You lead the cavalry from the upper reaches of the Jing River and detour to the camp of the Zhao army's Sanyuan County. If the Zhao army attacks, no war is allowed!"
Li Chongji Sanyuan Camp.
With the help of 50,000 new civil service from the Yellow River, the construction of Li Chongji Sanyuan Camp has been completed.
He Chou, the Minister of Works, proposed a temporary field fortification that was built with wood to build double-layer panel walls, which was adopted by Li Chongjiu.
The tactic of this double-layer wall is to build two upper and lower wooden walls around the camp. There are plates between the two walls as spacing, and there are wooden ladders leading to the second wall, and there are archery marches between the upper and lower wooden walls.
During the battle, the Zhao army soldiers can enter the upper and lower levels of the city wall and deploy defenses at the same time.
Not only the Zhao army's Sanyuan County camp, Li Chongjiu also operated the tactics of steady progress to the extreme, in order to ensure the food route in Tongzhou. Li Chongjiu also ordered his soldiers to build a wall between Sanyuan and Tongzhou a hundred miles away, as a corridor to protect food and grass, to provide food for Hedong military rations and continuously transport them into the Zhao army camp.
Li Chongjiu believed that such a setting would be enough to make Li Shimin, who is good at sneaking attacks on other people's food channels. If you want to fight, you must find a way to confront me head-on.
Li Chongjiu's tactic is to stand firm. Anyway, Li Shimin's main force Tang army has appeared in front of him. It is Li Shimin who wants to win quickly, not himself.
Otherwise, it would be better to say what Wang Jungu's Western Route Army was. Once Song Jingang's 50,000 army crossed the Han River and made a successful strategy in Hanzhong. Then this army could advance from Hanzhong at any time and attack Chang'an from behind, causing Li Shimin to be attacked from both sides.
This is the advantage of the strategy of split-up and joint attack. As long as it is not defeated by each one, the more the battle situation is dragged down, the more unfavorable it will be for Li Shimin.
While Zhao's military and civil servants were building the Sanyuan camp, Xue Wanche, who was stationed in Jingyang, sent a quick horse to report to Li Chongjiu, saying that the Tang army had a cavalry that crossed the river from the Jing River, detoured from Jingyang, and headed straight to Sanyuan, with about three thousand people.
After learning the news, the generals of the Zhao army couldn't help but speculate what the plan was.
This road of Tang army is only 3,000 troops. It is obviously unrealistic to attack the Sanyuan camp, which is guarded by 100,000 Zhao troops, but it is OK to attack the Zhao army's food route by detour.
Li Chongjiu first sent a light cavalry to warn Shan Xiongxin, who was stationed in Tongzhou. At the same time, he sent two thousand cavalry to search for the Tang army cavalry north of Sanyuan.
One day later, the movements of the three thousand Tang army cavalry were found to be straight to the Zhao army camp in Sanyuan and stationed thirty miles outside the camp. Li Chongjiu did not understand the other party's intention, so he sent a scout cavalry to investigate. The news of the scout cavalry's return surprised the generals of the Zhao army.
"The chief general of the Tang army is Shi Danai, also known as Ashinanai. He was originally the special service of the Western Turks. All of his three thousand cavalrymen were Western Turks soldiers!"
The detective cavalry report was reported, and all the generals fell into silence.
Western Turkic warriors!
Obviously, this time, the Western Turks, who sent troops to jointly attack Tang, betrayed Zhao State and joined the Tang army. This may also explain why Wang Junkuo's 200,000-strong Western Army still had no news at this moment.
"The Protector of the King will not be guarded against the special forces. Even if the Western Turks betrayed, with his tens of thousands of troops, it will not cause the 200,000 Western Route Army to lose. Your Majesty, as long as the news of the Western Route Army's failure is not really coming, you cannot make the underground judgment hastily!" Ji Chuan shouted loudly. (To be continued, please search for the Astronomy of the Flying Astronomy, the novel is better and faster!
Chapter completed!