Chapter 297: Engagement
"Lord, what do you say? We all listen to you. ”
Li Shimin pondered carefully, and after a while, he said: "Continue to wait, this king will wait for him for two more days, if he doesn't come after two days, this king will take you to attack the city, and he is bound to capture Gyeongju." ”
This kind of result is not what Li Shimin wants to see, after all, if they really want to attack hard, they can attack the city before, and they don't have to wait until the time when the food is exhausted.
The reason why he didn't attack the city was because he felt that they could think of a better way, or Tuyuhun would be tempted to go out of the city to fight them.
But during this time, they tried all kinds of methods, but they failed to achieve their goal.
The crowd looked at each other.
"Lord Wang, but our food can't last tomorrow."
"Kill a few old horses, reduce the supply of food, and we must survive tomorrow."
"Whoa!"
After receiving the order, the soldiers retreated, and only Li Shimin and Li Ji were left in the entire camp.
"Strategist, do we really want to believe Qin Tian?"
Now that there is no one else, Li Shimin can naturally say what he thinks in his mind, to say that he really believes that Qin Tian can send grain and grass, it is really a little difficult for him, after all, he has always liked to control his fate, rather than leaving his fate to others to decide.
Li Ji looked calm and said, "Don't worry, Lord Wang, Qin Tian will definitely be able to send grain and grass, and when he comes, we may be able to successfully defeat the enemy." ”
Li Shimin saw that Li Ji believed in Qin Tian so much, but it was a little meaningful, after all, in the past two years, he had the most contact with Qin Tian, Li Ji was outside, but he had never met Qin Tian.
However, seeing that Li Ji only chose to believe in Qin Tian instead of having any calculations, he had no choice but to nod and continue to wait.
In the Datang military camp, more than a dozen old horses were slaughtered, and the smell of blood soon attracted a group of flies, but the soldiers who had not seen meat for a long time didn't care about this, and their eyes were full of excitement.
And while the soldiers in the Tang military camp were waiting to eat horse meat and drink broth, in the city of Gyeongju, there were already spies who hurriedly felt Tuyuhun in the military camp.
Under the big tent of Tuyuhun, the leader of the troops is Tuyuhun's Xijue King Hasiqi, Hasiqi is fat, but he is calculating, since he noticed that the Tang Dynasty troops are much stronger than them, he will stick to Gyeongju and wait for the opportunity.
"Lord Wang, the Tang military camp has begun to kill horses."
"Started killing horses?" Hasiqi touched his fat cheeks, and then showed a sneer: "Okay, Datang's grain and grass have finally been eaten." ”
Speaking of this, Hasqi asked again: "Is there no supply of grain and grass in Datang, what clues does the grain officer have?" ”
"Lord Wang, we've been staring at it, but it seems that they won't be able to deliver it for a while."
"Okay, good, as long as the supply of grain and grass in Datang is not available, they will definitely panic, and it is the best time for us to send troops at that time." Haschi was also forced to defend Gyeongju City, and if there was a chance to repel Li Shimin's soldiers and horses, he would not give up.
Li Shimin brought all the famous generals of the Tang Dynasty, if he can defeat Li Shimin, it will inevitably increase their prestige of Tuyuhun, and after he goes back, it will be easier for him to compete for the throne.
"Send someone to send a letter to Mo Li, the leader of the party, asking him to join forces with me Tuyuhun at that time to flank the Tang army."
The spies were ordered to retreat, and in the evening of that day, Hasqi's letter had been delivered to Mo Li, the leader of the party.
Mo Li was thin and had big eyes, and after reading Hasqi's letter, Mo Li walked back and forth in the big tent.
"General, what's wrong?" One of the soldiers asked.
"The King of the West of Tuyuhun wants us to join forces with them to flank the Tang army, and General Ben is considering whether to do it or not."
"General, isn't it just to defeat the Tang Army?"
Mo Li snorted and said: "Wrong, we are not trying to defeat the Tang Army, we are trying to win more benefits and benefits for our party, if the Tang Army is willing to give us the benefits of the party, we can withdraw immediately, but they are unwilling." ”
There are many tribes in the party, and the relative power is also very weak, sandwiched between Tubo, Tuyuhun and Datang, for them, survival has always been a very serious problem.
They really want to get the most favorable conditions for them from various enemies, and attacking Datang is naturally no exception, because they know very well that Datang is too powerful, even if they repel Li Shimin, they still can't shake Datang.
In this way, it makes sense to find a way to get more benefits.
After hearing Mo Li's words, a party general said: "General, if you don't defeat Datang or let them suffer heavy losses, they won't negotiate terms with us, if you want me to say, while Tuyuhun is going to go out of the city to fight, we will flank Datang, and after Datang escapes, we will talk to them about conditions, at that time, they will definitely agree." ”
Mo Li pondered for a while, and then nodded: "For now, it can only be like this, send someone to send a letter to Hasqi, and say that I will do what he said in the letter." ”
The soldiers of the party retreated.
The night was a little darker.
More than ten miles away from Gyeongju City, Qin Tian walked with grain and grass at night, and by tomorrow evening, they would almost be able to rush to Li Shimin's military camp.
However, at this time, Qin Tian ordered someone to hide the grain.
Seeing this time, everyone was very puzzled.
"My lord, we're here to deliver grain and grass, what's the matter with you hiding the grain here?"
Qin Tian glanced at the hundreds of soldiers and said, "Each person brings half a bag of grain, and then moves quickly." ”
Half a bag of grain was not much, and they were not very conspicuous with these soldiers on their bodies, they just wondered what Qin Tian was doing this for.
But Qin Tian didn't seem to have an explanation, he just asked them to bring half a bag of grain and set off with him.
Seeing this, everyone had no choice but to bring half a bag of grain and quickly rush to Gyeongju.
As for the rest of the food, they hid it in a very hidden cave, which was absolutely safe.
A group of people followed Qin Tian and quickly rushed to the barracks, from the outside, they looked like a team, not like they were escorting grain and grass at all, because after half a bag of grain was hidden, it was not very conspicuous.
The team just walked and didn't stop.
"You said that Lord Qin asked us to do this, what do you want to do, we are indeed a lot faster like this, but how can we do it if the food is not delivered?"
On the way, some people were curious and talked about each other.
"Lord Qin is a smart person, what he tells him to do, we will do it well, ask so much what to do, Lord Qin must have his reasons for doing this."
"That's right, let's just do what Lord Qin says, don't talk nonsense, let's go quickly."
It was dawn, and they were getting closer and closer to Gyeongju.
(End of chapter)