"I wish the teacher success, victory, and early triumph!"

On the side of the Hanshui River, Cheng Qian, on behalf of the emperor, saw off the army, with a golden crown on his head and a golden armor on his head, the prince also looked like a little general, and he poured a glass of wine with his own hands and handed it to Li Chao. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

"It's a shame that I can't walk with my teacher. Thinking of last year, I encircled and suppressed the barbarians with the teacher, just like yesterday. ”

Li Chao took the prince's wine and drank it all.

"Your Highness is waiting for the good news from the front line in Xiangyang!"

The first year of Zhenguan, the first day of November.

Li Chao took 3,000 soldiers and horses, with the title of marshal of the Northern Expedition, to Fengzhou, Hetao, the state where he was the governor of the world, to replace the eldest grandson Wuji, and become the supreme commander of the six northern provinces of the entire Tang Dynasty, and unified command of this great war with great disparity in strength.

One hundred thousand against four hundred thousand.

In fact, it is 40,000 against 400,000, because the Hetao Plain will be the key point of the battlefield on the entire front. In the Hetao Plain, there were a total of 40,000 people, 20,000 Shuofang troops in the Houtao Plain, and 20,000 Hedong troops in Li Jing's Qiantao Plain.

Someone looked at Li Chao's team and sighed, saying that Li Chao would not be able to come back.

Some people are also discussing, saying that when Zhao Guogong comes back, he may become the king of Zhao Jun.

Back set, Toyoshu.

The night is already very deep, standing on the top of Fengzhou City and looking into the distance, you can still see the curved Yellow River tributary Tungen Shui. Under the cover of night, the city of Toyosu was deadly silent.

The lively scene when Fengzhou was just recovered was gone, and the merchants always had a keen sense of smell, they had already smelled the war breath of this rich Hetao Plain, and went south to Lingzhou early to avoid this place.

The night was very cold, and the eldest grandson Wuji was looking out from the city tower, and his cloak was whirring in the wind.

The footsteps came from the bottom up, and the bearded Li Simo climbed the steps.

"Sangkook."

"After Li Chao recovered Shuofang last year, he also came to Fengzhou, it is said that it was here that he had a deep conversation with the king of the county, and after the conversation, Zhao Guogong decided to maintain friendship with the Turks with the Tungen water as the boundary, and not to fight each other." The eldest grandson Wuji looked at the night and said.

"Yes, at that time, Zhao Guogong had already held His Majesty's will in his hand and allowed him to go to war, but in the end, Zhao Guogong gave up the war and chose to make peace with the Turks." Li Simo replied nonchalantly.

"Now many people are saying that if Li Chao has stayed in Shuofang to preside over the front line, maybe Tongye Hu will have no chance to annex the Eastern Turkic tribes, and even this Hetao and even the entire Monan may have already reached the hands of the Tang Dynasty, and there will be no worries about today's future."

"Maybe!" Li Simo said.

"Li Chao is a weirdo." The eldest grandson Wuji smiled, "This guy's overall view is always amazingly accurate, he can be literate and martial, and he is powerful, I was always a little unconvinced before, but now I am really convinced." It's okay for me to give advice to Your Majesty, but when it comes to commanding troops to fight, or even defending one side alone, I still lack experience. Okay, Li Chao is coming, and I can also put down this burden and go back to the court. ”

"Xiangguo wants to return to the dynasty?"

"yes." The eldest grandson Wuji's smile was a little bitter, the emperor's edict had come down, let him wait for Li Chao to come and do a good job of handover.

Li Chao is here to wipe his buttocks.

Li Chao is here, although he doesn't have to carry this burden anymore, but he knows that entering Fengzhou may become a stain and a serious mistake that he can't erase in this life. Perhaps, he will never have the opportunity to command the army again in this life.

In comparison, he is far inferior to Li Chao.

The mistakes he made, but Li Chao had to help him solve them, and it would be heartwarming to think about it, but in the face of the hundreds of thousands of Turkic people outside Yinshan, Changsun Wuji had always been very nervous and even frightened in his heart, and he even secretly hoped that Li Chao could arrive in Fengzhou as soon as possible, so that he could let go of this burden as soon as possible.

"What are you doing here?"

"It's bad news, Tong Yehu seems to be really going to do it. He had appointed Tuli as the commander of the vanguard, and took his headquarters and horses, as well as the four soldiers and horses of Khitan, Kumoxi, Bai Fei, and Murowei, to the south, and they had already crossed the Yin Mountain. ”

The eldest grandson Wuji turned around, his brows furrowed, and his eyes were cold.

There was anger and a hint of panic in his eyes.

"How many men did Tuli bring?"

"100,000 rides!"

"100,000 rides!" Eldest Sun Wuji took a breath of cold air, a striker will ride 100,000, no matter how many people and horses put it together, but the number of 100,000 horses is enough to make Eldest Sun Wuji's throat dry.

The eldest grandson Wuji had 40,000 people in his hands, plus 10,000 Turkic cavalry in Li Simo's hands, just 50,000. But he had 40,000 li of cavalry, only 8,000 cavalry, 12,000 infantry left, and 20,000 people and villagers.

"Do you think we should stay in Fengzhou and wait for Hou Li Chao to come, or should we withdraw the people to the south bank of the Yellow River now before Tuli arrives?"

"When Tuli went south, the first thing he faced was General Li Jing in Qiantao, General Li Jing had 20,000 soldiers and horses in the territory of Qiantao's original Jieli, and there were also many Jieli troops, estimated to have 40,000 or 50,000 horses. If we reinforce General Li Jing, then we are not afraid of sudden profits, even if we do not reinforce, as long as we do not withdraw, it is also a support for General Li Jing. If we withdraw now, General Li Jing's flank will be empty. Li Simo hesitated for a moment and said honestly.

"Li Jing is very old and spicy in war, although he has not been in Hedong for a long time, but the army he has trained is very powerful, and he has repeatedly gone out of the Great Wall before, and he has performed very well. He is in Dingxiang, Tuli but he can't beat it for a while. But Tuli's 100,000 cavalry is just a striker, and there are hundreds of thousands of troops in Tongye Protection. My only concern is that if we fight the Turks in the Loop, it will be very disadvantageous. ”

"The terrain of the Hetao Plain is favorable to the Turkic cavalry, and we lack cavalry, and we have just entered the occupation, and there are few castles and few fortifications. In such a plain, fighting with the Turks, first, it is difficult to have logistics and transportation, and second, it is difficult to have a defensive fortress to rely on. What I'm most worried about is that the Turks will come to besiege the city and send reinforcements, Li Chao's art of war said that the most poisonous is no more than starvation, and the most ruthless is to besiege the city and send reinforcements. At present, the strength of the imperial court is inferior to that of the Turks, and if we are besieged by the Turks and forced to fight them in a decisive battle on the Hetao Plain, then we will suffer a great loss. ”

"What does Xiangguo mean, do we take the initiative to give up the Hetao?"

The eldest grandson Wuji nodded, "Li Chao also once said to me, sometimes in war, don't care too much about the gains and losses of one city and one pool. If you have lost ground, you will have a chance to come again. We have to fight with the Turks, and we can't fight in the Hetao, we don't have the slightest chance of winning here, we have to choose a battlefield that is favorable to us. ”

At this time, he remembered that he had read Li Chao's military book before, and many of the contents on it were not particularly profound before, but at this time, they were all clear.

"Li Chao is really a geek, if only I had read more of his military books before."

"I'll go and write to General Li Jing immediately, we can't fight with the Turks in the Hetao, there's no point in fighting here, we have to fight, and we have to lead the Turks to the south to fight."

Li Simo hesitated, "But if we abandon the Hetao without a fight, can Your Majesty agree?" ”

"The battle situation in the north is now up to Li Chao, and I believe that Li Chao can understand and agree with my decision." The eldest grandson Wuji said.