"Shhhh You dare to say this kind of thing, if you are heard by the Li family's eyeliner, beware of catching you and cutting off your head! ”

The people on both sides of the table were all quiet at this time, and the atmosphere seemed a little solemn.

I don't know who said: "I heard that the Jianghuai army has as many as 100,000 troops this time, not 30,000 as the outside world says." ”

"Nonsense, there has always been only exaggerated strength to show the enemy's morale by force, how can anyone deliberately conceal military strength?"

The atmosphere of discussion was once again lively.

Everyone was not to be left behind, and they added fuel to the news they had inquired about.

So much so that the more he said it later, the more mysterious it became, saying that the Jianghuai army had the help of gods, that there were those who went down to the earth with the Jianghuai king Wuquxing, and that Li Shimin lured the enemy deep and wanted to capture the old and indulge in it......

……

Early May.

The horn of the Jianghuai army to attack Luoyang sounded in the sky above Luoyang.

The spies, the iron cavalry of the heralds ran back and forth on Luoyang City and the surrounding defense line, and the battle report flew like snowflakes towards the Tiance Mansion rebuilt from Luoyang Palace.

In a meeting hall in the Tiance Mansion, Li Shimin, with a solemn face, sat on the upper seat of the hall, and on both sides of the hall were more than a dozen ministers and generals of the Tiance Mansion.

Li Shimin was holding a stack of urgent letters from Longmen Town outside Luoyang City that had just been released.

"The enemy's whereabouts are strange, carrying powerful firearms, and they launched an attack three hundred meters away where our army did not reach the range, killing and injuring our army, and the east bank of the Yi River was conquered in a few days, and our army retreated to Longmen Town, stationed in the mountains, and was eager to rush to help."

"The enemy army sailed up the Luo River and landed on the east side of Luoyang City. The enemy ships were large and hard, shaped like bull's heads, with two horns on them. White smoke came out, rampage, like entering no man's land, the slightest collision, our ships were all destroyed, shattered, and there were hundreds of crossbowmen on the enemy ships. Aim and shoot, the hit is either unconscious or drowned. Our army was in turmoil, thinking that they had met the heavenly soldiers and generals, so they fled in panic and retreated to Luoyang City. ”

"Li Xiaogong, the king of the river, set up an ambush. Lead the enemy into the valley to fight. Surrounded by fire, hundreds of enemy soldiers were burned, and one enemy general of the other side was captured. A total of 100,000 troops, with plenty of food and grass. The war horses are fat and well-equipped, enough to support half a year......"

As the war reports were sent to the military aircraft of Tiance Mansion one by one, most of them were news that the war was in an emergency and the enemy army was advancing step by step, and the generals and ministers in the hall all showed shocked expressions.

After reading these battle reports one by one, Li Shimin looked solemnly at the many generals and ministers in the hall who were talking about each other.

"The other party is like a bamboo, and he is going to attack Luoyang City in the near future, do you have a good plan to deal with it?"

Everyone looks at me, and I can't think of any good plan for a while.

Standing in the upper left of the hall, a middle-aged elegant man, wearing a brocade robe and jade robe, his demeanor is calm, and his face is like a crown of jade, he is the famous in the Tang Army, and Liu Wenjing is the first strategist of Tiance Mansion, the eldest grandson auxiliary machine.

He sat there quietly, never said a word from beginning to end, and when he saw Li Shimin asking, he said slowly: "Judging from the current information, this Jianghuai King's method of using soldiers has won the essence of the Dark Guards back then. ”

Li Shimin pondered for a while, noncommittal, turned his head to look at the swarthy man on the other side, and asked: "General Wei Chi, I heard that you have a relationship with that Zhen Mingku, you should know something about him as a person, how do you think we should deal with the current situation?" ”

Wei Chi Jingde thought for a moment, and said in a deep voice: "According to the last general's understanding of this person, this person has always been full of tricks, no way to figure it out, I had offended him because of his wife, and as a result, he designed to provoke a fight between the mining gang and the salt gang, and borrowed the hand of the salt gang to make my mine gang seriously injured, so that he hastily raised troops without being ready, and suffered the defeat later, all of which are not unrelated to him, and now he led the army to attack Luoyang, but I am afraid that it is Xiang Zhuang dancing with a sword, and there are other plans. ”

Li Shimin frowned, a little dissatisfied with the fact that these people were deeply jealous of Zhen Mingku, and he was already timid before the battle, and then asked: "Do you know the method of making the powerful firearms of the Jianghuai Army?" ”

"I don't know." Wei Chi Jingde shook his head, and made a bet with Zhen Mingku to refine tungsten gold blades, Liu Wuzhou repented, so that Zhen Mingku saw through his intentions, and never told the mining gang about the tungsten gold production method, and later because of Zhang's family, he completely turned against Song Jingang, and everyone present was amazed.

Wei Chi Jingde then said: "This person has a mysterious origin, and often has some strange ideas, which makes people marvel, Wang Shishi has been rich and prosperous in Luoyang City for many years, and he has suffered a crushing defeat, this time he came prepared, I am afraid that he will succeed." ”

Among the people present, there are always two people who have not said a word, with a hint of joy in their eyes, they are Li Jing, the general of the right military guard of the Tang Army, and Xu Shiji, the general of the left guard.

Li Shimin was upset, he didn't pay much attention to the two of them, and discussed with others for a while, but he never came up with a good way to deal with it, so he had to let everyone disperse and go back to the room alone, temporarily put these troubles behind him, and use wine to kill his sorrows.

……

After a few more days, the expected army did not come to the city, but was stationed in the mountains and forests more than ten kilometers away from Longmen Town in the south of Luoyang City.

Li Shimin did not know the details of the Jianghuai army, and he had always been good at attacking with defense, and when he saw that the other side was menacing, he did not dare to go out of the city to meet the attack, so he tightened the city defense and waited to see what happened.

In less than half a month, I heard two cities south of Longmen Town, Dengzhou County Shou Lu Zizang and Nanyang County Shou Yang Shilin City raising banners against Tang and declaring their allegiance to the Jianghuai King.

Then, Shuofang Liang led the army south, united with the Turks, raised 50,000 troops, and forced Chang'an City.

Longmen Town began to spread a news that made the people of Longmen Town excited, "The King of Jianghuai is the general of the secret guard, Zhen Ming's bitter life" The news spread all over the streets and alleys of Longmen Town overnight, and adults and children secretly ran to tell each other, just waiting for the Jianghuai army to enter the city and fire cannons to greet them.

Although the Tang army imposed a curfew for this purpose and strictly monitored those who talked about it, the news had already spread throughout Longmen Town, and even the children knew that the general of the secret guard was coming to avenge his dead wife.

For a time, Li Tangjun was embattled, and the people of Luoyang were ready to move.

……………………

"Report! The envoy of the king of Jianghuai has arrived at the south gate of Luoyang, saying that he wants to return the princess of Pingyang and ask to enter the city! ”

In the Tiance Mansion, Li Shimin was anxious, discussing with the generals how to deal with the neighboring enemies on all sides, and he was stunned when he heard this.

"What tricks does Zhen Mingku want to play this time?"

"King Qin, this person is scheming, don't be gullible."

Li Shimin thought for a moment and asked the herald: "How many people are there?" ”

"Only sixteen."

"Is Princess Pingyang with you?"

"Yes."

"Let them into the city!"

………………

Li Shimin found that the other party sent back Princess Pingyang, not pretending, nor did he suffer any harm, but he was also fat.

After Princess Pingyang returned to Luoyang City, she cried a lot, listening to her tone, she seemed to be a little reluctant to know those friends in Jiangducheng, and she also complained about Zhen Mingku's sending her back to the Tang Army, saying that she was used to seeing the prosperity of Jiangdu City, and when she returned to Luoyang, she felt like she was back in the countryside, and she would rather be treated as a prisoner and live in Jiangdu.

Li Shimin was puzzled, Princess Pingyang usually didn't go out of the gate, she hadn't seen anything in the world, and she didn't know what the charm of Jiangdu City was, which would make her happy.

How did he know, it wasn't that Zhen Mingku had any conspiracy, he was really annoyed by this pampered princess Pingyang, it was useless to keep her, picky and troublesome, and he spent money lavishly, and pulled his good-tempered eldest grandson Belle to take her around Jiangdu City every day, and the eldest grandson Belle didn't know how to refuse people, he was afraid that she would tire out the eldest grandson Belle and not treat the fetus well, so he had to send her back like a plague god.

……

After Zhen asked people to send Princess Pingyang back to Tang Jun, there was no follow-up, and Li Shimin made a fuss for a long time and didn't know what he was going to do next.

After waiting for a few days, I didn't see any movement from the Jianghuai army, and I couldn't help but move the idea of exploring the camp.

He secretly found a few good generals and told them what he thought, and several generals expressed their willingness to go with him.

So, taking advantage of the night, Li Shimin took a few generals and hundreds of subordinates, disguised as a passing merchant traveler, rode out of the south city gate, and headed in the direction where the Jianghuai army was stationed.

……

It was late at night on a hill south of Longmen Town.

By the moonlight, he looked at the Jianghuai army stationed on the flat of the col a kilometer away from the hill.

Li Shimin marched and fought for many years, and was known as a prestige in the Tang Army, and was good at attacking with defense, spying on the enemy's situation, and often relied on his superior riding skills and the advantages of weapons in battle, leading 500 well-trained brave men to rush into the enemy's thousands of troops and horses to parade and fight.

For a compact cavalry, numbers don't mean much, whether it's thousands of horses or evenly matched, and the opponents faced by five hundred cavalry, that is, the few hundred, must be able to match them in speed.

Li Shimin's best thing is to lead five hundred elite cavalry, relying on speed to rush into the enemy formation, after a rush, the enemy formation is disrupted, disturb the opponent's army, and then go straight to the local commander's camp, if you can kill the opponent's generals, it is naturally the best, if you can't strike a blow, retreat immediately, the other party has no time to pursue, so that even if you can't kill the enemy generals, you can spy on the other party's news. (To be continued......)