Night was falling. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Li Chao stood at the entrance of his big tent with his hands behind his back, looking up at the sky, the stars were sparse tonight, and the sky was dim.

The Turks had already crossed the Yin Mountains and crossed the actual border line between the Tang Dynasty and the Turks. The Turks have crossed the line, and the war has officially begun.

For this news, Li Chao was not surprised at all. No matter how good the relationship between the Tang Dynasty and the Western Turks was in the past, and no matter how friendly Li Shimin was to marry the Tang princess to Tong Yehu and become Tong Yehu's nominal brother-in-law, all this will not change the current situation.

Behind Li Chao, a group of students were writing on rolling paper with the help of butter candles in the tent.

There are not only old protégés such as Cheng Chumo, but also new students such as Wang Xuance, as well as a group of loyal young generals of the Li family, such as Erniu and Zhuzi.

During the march, Li Chao would hold a night shift every night to give lectures to these students. Sometimes not only these students and family players, but also some team leaders who perform well will be selected and asked to come and audit.

Li Chao's lectures are imaginative, he talks about everything, and the content of the lectures is different for different students. For example, Su Lie, he is a county magistrate, or a third-grade military general, and has rich experience in battle formations, Li Chao told him more about strategies and tactics. And if Cheng is silent, they are county uncles, and they are also military generals of the fourth grade, and they are considered middle and senior generals, so Li Chao told them about tactics and team management.

As for Wang Xuance, they are only seven-rank military attachés, which are considered low-level military attachés, and Li Chao told them more about team management and team tactical cooperation.

Tonight, Li Chao did not give a lecture, but gave these students a question, asking them to write their own strategies in response to the abrupt situation in front of them.

Although for Wang Xuance, a seven-rank military attaché, they can't intervene in matters at the national strategic level, Li Chao feels that he can let them write their views on the war, cultivate an excellent officer, and of course cultivate their awareness of the overall situation.

Compared with the emphasis on martial arts skills, Li Chao pays more attention to knowledge, the cultivation of their strategy and tactics, and the art of commanding. No matter how much one person can fight, he can't be a general with a hundred enemies. However, an excellent commanding officer does not need to be able to fight, but with command ability, he can command thousands of troops.

In the army, what is most needed are these command-type officers, what is needed are staff-type officers, and the most important thing is those warriors who can fight ten at a time. Warriors are good to train, but good conductors are hard to come by.

This is exactly what the ancients said that a thousand armies are easy to obtain, but one will be hard to find. This general is not a fierce general who can fight, but a general who can general.

The establishment of a staff office in the army and the training of a group of staff officers have always been the result of Li Chao's hope.

Li Chao hopes that one day, the martial arts of the imperial court can become a real selection of military talents, regardless of background, whether it is a disciple of the general or a poor family, those young and healthy teenagers can participate in the martial arts examination, and the selected outstanding teenagers will be sent to the junior military academy for teaching, starting from childhood.

By the time they reach the age of sixteen or seventeen, they will be able to enter a more advanced military academy to study, study in different disciplines, and become professional and excellent officers. Students who have come out of these military academies can take the martial arts examinations at all levels, and if they pass the examination, they can enter the junior military academy. If you pass the Xiucai examination, you can enter the non-commissioned officer school, if you pass the martial arts examination, you can enter the military academy, and if you pass the Jinshi examination, you can become a student of the martial arts hall.

The combination of military academies and the military examination system has made officers professional talents, and they are professional soldiers, but also excellent soldiers.

After looking at the stars for a while, Li Chao turned around and returned to the account.

The students have completed a 1,000-word essay.

Li Chao sat in front of the desk and flipped through the students' articles. In general, the longer students follow Li Chao, the better they write and the more to the point. And those low-level military attachés in the army who are like auditors, they write averagely.

However, the views are still very simple.

"Everyone's answer is good." Li Chao said lightly, and a group of students below listened quietly to Li Chao's comments.

"However, although you are very brave in your strategy, your grasp of strategy is still very naïve. There are several, scolding the Turks for their treachery and so on in the policy theory, in fact, it is very normal for countries to deceive each other, talking about the law of the jungle, the law of the jungle, the law of the jungle, in short, it is a sentence, backward will be beaten, the covenant agreement is unreliable, remember one sentence, the agreement was signed to tear up that day. And justice and justice can only be stepped on by the iron hooves of our Datang Dynasty and the battle flag can be planted. ”

"The warmongers will perish, but in times of peace, they will be in danger if they forget to fight. You are all soldiers, you have to remember one thing, if you want to make the world peaceful, it is not by swords and soldiers entering Kuma and putting Nanshan, but by letting Datang always have an elite division that is called to come, can fight, and will win the battle. ”

"The Turkic Protector has reneged on the oath between us, it doesn't matter, let's fight him, beat him until he submits, and let him give us another oath of covenant."

A group of young military attaches were very excited when they heard Li Chao say this.

"Let me ask you, in the current situation, the enemy is strong and I am weak, how can we defend our homes and defend the country and protect the territory and the people?"

Su Dingfang stood up resolutely, "Strategically speaking, we should avoid a full-scale war with the Turks at this time, and no one will have an advantage in a fight." But tactically, if we want to avoid a full-scale war, we have to win one game first. Therefore, I think that at this point, we must first try to win a war, and if we win one and win it beautifully, we can deter the Turks and bring them back to the negotiating table. Therefore, although the enemy is strong, as long as we concentrate our forces, choose a good battlefield, fight a beautiful battle on our home field in a battlefield that we have preset, and inflict heavy losses on the Turks, then we may achieve our strategic goal and promote peace. ”

"Very well, that proves that you're getting the bigger picture these days. That's right, the Turks are strong, and the Turks are numerous, but there is also a point, the Tongye protects the east, although the north defeats Tiele, and the south merges the Turks, but the time is still short, and these followers have not seen much sincerity. If Tongye Hu is defeated, these people below him may have different plans, and even the Tiele people in the north have the determination to fight against Tongye Hu again. ”

"Tong Ye Hu may want to seize the Hetao, or even drink horses under the Great Wall, but our goal is different, our goal is to avoid a full-scale war with them, we just need to concentrate our forces and plan to give him a heavy blow, so that he can pay us a good blow."

"Now, tell me, how are we going to fight this war against the Turks under such a big policy?"

Zhuzi got up and said, "Xiangguo, we don't fight with them in the Hetao, we will lead them to the Great Wall to fight, relying on the dangerous pass of the Great Wall, let's clean him up once." ”

Li Chao smiled and nodded.

"Look, the pillars all understand the truth, this battle seems to be dangerous, but it is actually quite easy to fight. The Turks are outnumbered, and they will inevitably underestimate the enemy's arrogance, so we will take the initiative to abandon the Hetao and Daibei, lead them south, and find an opportunity to clean them up. ”

At the end of the night shift, the students said goodbye and left.

Sitting in the tent, Li Chao couldn't sleep for a while, thinking about it, he picked up the pen and wrote a letter to the eldest grandson Wuji, Li Jing, Li Ji, Chai Shao and others.

In the letter, the main thing is to tell them his strategic intentions, don't take the initiative, just let them do a good defense.

Especially in the letter to Li Jing, he explained his intentions in detail, asking Li Jing to evacuate Dingxiang, let him return to Daizhou, and guard Yanmen.

Even if Tong Yehu is smart and cautious, but with the Great Wall, Pass Castle, etc., as a support, then the Tang army is still very sure that it will fight a defensive battle. As long as they avoid field battles, then the Turks have no advantage in fighting city defense battles.

Li Chao was worried that Li Jing would not listen to the command.

Li Jing is very good at fighting, but the more powerful Li Jing is, Li Chaoyue is worried, and people with great skills will have some temper, in case Li Jing has his own plans and doesn't want to listen to Li Chao's command, it will be troublesome.

If Li Jing loses in Daibei and the elite of Hedong is lost outside Yanmen Pass, then Daibei will not be gone, and it may even endanger Taiyuan and other places in Hedong, and then it will be quite easy for the Turks to go south, whether it is to Hetao, or to Hebei or south to the hinterland of Hedong.

After dawn, several fast horses set off from the barracks, galloped on the official road, and galloped to the Hexi Longyoushuo Fanghedong Hebei Guannei Road.

A little later in them, Li Chao also set out for camp.

Liu Hongji stood on the side of the road to see him off.

"Ren Guogong, sulfur saltpeter, please help collect a lot, and then send someone to escort it north." Li Chao said to him on his horse.

"Don't worry, I'll do this."

Li Chao smiled, "Remember to keep it secret." ”

"Well, my old Liu is doing things, don't worry." Liu Hongji patted his chest and promised.

Li Chao said goodbye and left across the horse.

Liu Hongji stood there and watched the team leave.

"My lord, do you think Li Chao can win if he goes north?" Liu Hongji's son asked.

"What do you say?" Liu Hongji asked his son.

"100,000 against 400,000, I find it difficult. This is simply an impossible task, and the Turkic cavalry has always been fierce. ”

Liu Hongji snorted, "Fighting a war is not a comparison of numbers, what about 400,000?" At the beginning of the year, the Khan Yanmen Pass besieged Yang Guang, and there were hundreds of thousands of horses, or a surprise attack, and Yang Guang was surrounded in Yanmen Pass, but what was the result, hundreds of thousands of troops broke through the cities around Yanmen Pass, but they never broke through Yanmen Pass. Besides, Tuyuhun Khan Murong Fuyun led an army to raid Longyou, His Majesty was anxious to rescue, but he was also trapped in Longxi County, a lonely army and a lonely city, what was the result? Murong Fuyun has an army of 100,000, and he can't take Longxi City. There are too many variables in this war. ”

"At that time, Yang Suneng used 80,000 cavalry to start a cavalry battle with more than 100,000 Turkic cavalry of Datou Khan on the grassland, but he was still able to win. There are also hundreds of thousands of people who besiege Yang Guangyu in the lonely city of Yanmen, but they can't be broken. Li Chao is a person who has created many miracles, although he is a literati, but he has the ability to lead soldiers, your father and I are really convinced, not to mention, he still has so many magic weapons. If you want me to say, this time the Turks are going to plant a big heel in his hands. ”

Liu Hongji's son said in surprise, "Won't it?" ”

"Hmph, what's not, if you don't believe it, then let's go and see. I still remember that a few years ago in Hebei, this kid entered the city of Zhaozhou alone, and there were tens of thousands of rebels in the city at that time. At that time, I also thought, maybe this interesting boy will never come out again, never see him again, but as a result, not only did they come out, but they also rebelled against the rebel generals. Strange, right? ”

Liu Hongji's son nodded, "This Li Chao is sometimes really convincing." ”

Liu Hongji stretched out his hand and patted his son on the head, "Call him Zhao Guogong or Li Xiangguo, don't be rude to him, although he is not a few years older than you, he will always be worthy of your awe!" ”