"Your Majesty, Xue Wanche has captured Jingyang City and grabbed more than 70,000 stone military rations from the city." Zhang Xuansu, who came back from Xue Wanche's army, ignored the dust and dust on his body, and hurried to report the good news to Li Chongjiu.

Hearing the news, except for Li Chongjiu, who just nodded with satisfaction, the rest of the generals couldn't help but be overjoyed.

Ji Chuan couldn't help but say: "Your Majesty, 70,000 stone army rations are enough for 200,000 troops to eat for a month." ”

"Why don't you stop here, eat the enemy for one hour, and be me for twenty minutes."

"It seems that Li Shimin's soldiers are nothing more than that, if he is more ruthless and does not set up a granary in Jingyang, then how can our army get military rations?"

All the generals were overjoyed, and after the Zhao army seized the Jingyang granary, they put on a defensive posture north of Chang'an and waited for the battle.

And Li Shimin's main army has also arrived. The main force of the 100,000 Tang Army arrived, west of Jingyang.

The battle flag fluttered on the plain, and from the other side, Fang Xuanling personally supervised 20,000 Chang'an to garrison the Tang army, and came to the east of Jingyang to join the Tang army.

Li Shimin sat on a high horse, and his robe hunted and moved.

Fang Xuanling came to Li Shimin, knelt under his horse and said, "Your Majesty, Weichen deserves to die for his crimes." ”

Li Shimin jumped off the horse, helped Fang Xuanling up, and said, "Aiqing got up to speak, but blamed herself for the matter of Jingyang Cang?" ”

Fang Xuanling lowered his head and said: "Exactly, Weichen did not carry out the order of His Majesty Xià, Jianbi Qingye, forgetting that it is July now, which is the season of summer grain harvest, so he ordered the army and people to harvest the summer grain outside Jingyang City and put it in the warehouse, but I didn't expect it to be noticed by Zhao Jun, and finally fell into the hands of the enemy." ”

When Li Shimin heard this, he patted Fang Xuanling's arms and said with a smile: "Fang Qing." Why put the blame on one person, I am also responsible for this matter. If I can lead the army to rush back from Fufeng one step earlier. Not only can you save Jingyang City, but you can also eat Li Chongjiu's 30,000 troops outside the city. It's just a pity that it's one step behind, and it can only be regarded as Xue Wanche's good luck. ”

Seeing that Li Shimin took the responsibility on himself, Fang Xuanling couldn't help but be grateful.

The eldest grandson on the side said: "Your Majesty, Fang Gong, why worry, let's take back Jingyang in one battle." As soon as the Zhao army captured Jingyang, the soldiers and horses were very tired, and they could kill him by surprise. ”

Du Ruhui said: "General Changsun, I have only watched the Zhao army camp below. It is built to a certain extent, it is built around Jingyang City, if it is suddenly attacked, I am afraid that the Zhao army will have the geographical advantage, and Li Chongjiu led the main force to set up a formation thirty miles away from Jingyang, if we attack Jingyang now, he will lead the army to reinforcement at any time. ”

Li Shimin nodded immediately when he heard Du Ruhui's words and said: "Du Qing is reasonable, you will first follow me to watch the formation, and then make a decision." ”

After finishing speaking, Li Shimin led the crowd to the Jingshui side. Watch the Zhao army in formation. After watching it for a while, Li Shimin said to the generals: "I thought that Xue Wanche was a tiger general who was good at attacking, but I didn't expect that this big camp was also built without revealing a drop of water, and he wanted to take advantage of the gap to attack. Difficult! ”

Seeing that Xue Wanche's camp was complete, the generals were embarrassed, and they nodded when they heard Li Shimin say this.

"But deal with Zhao Jun. It's not like I'm out of the question! Li Shimin turned his head and said, "Shi Danai listens to the order!" ”

"No!" A senior general walked out.

Li Shimin said to him: "You lead the cavalry of your headquarters. Cross the river from the upper reaches of Jingshui and detour to the camp of Zhao Jun Sanyuan County. If the Zhao army attacks. No fighting! ”

Li Chongjiu Sanyuan Battalion.

With the help of 50,000 people who had crossed the Yellow River from the Yellow River, Li Chongjiu's original camp had been completed.

He Chou, the squire of the Ministry of Works, proposed a temporary field fortification built with wood and built into a double-layer board wall, which was adopted by Li Chongjiu.

This method of double-deck wall warfare is to build two layers of wooden walls around the wooden camp, with a board as an interval between the two walls, and a wooden ladder leading to the second layer of the wall, and between the upper and lower wooden walls there are archery battlements.

When it was time to fight, the soldiers of Zhao could enter the upper and lower layers of the city wall and deploy defenses at the same time.

Not only is this the case with the Zhao army's Sanyuan County battalion, but Li Chongjiu will also operate the tactics of steady and steady combat to the extreme, in order to protect the grain routes of the same continent. Li Chongjiu also ordered his soldiers to build a plate wall between Sanyuan and Tongzhou for a hundred miles, as a road to protect grain and grass, so that the Hedong army could continue to transport it into the Zhao army camp.

Li Chongjiu believes that such a setup is enough to make Li Shimin, who is good at sneaking up on other people's food routes, have nothing to do. If you want to fight, you have to find a way to go head-to-head with me.

Li Chongjiu's tactic was to hold on to each other, anyway, Li Shimin's main force, the Tang Army, had already appeared in front of him. It was Li Shimin who wanted to win quickly, not himself.

Otherwise, not to mention Wang Junkuo's Western Route Army, once Song Jingang's 50,000 army crossed the Han River and succeeded in the strategy of detouring Hanzhong. Then this army can march from Hanzhong at any time and attack Chang'an from behind, putting Li Shimin in a situation where he is attacked by the enemy on his back.

This is where the advantage of the strategy of separate attacks lies, as long as they are not broken by each one, the more the battle drags on, the more unfavorable it will be for Li Shimin.

At the same time that the Zhao army was building the Sanyuan camp, Xue Wanche, who was stationed in Jingyang, sent a fast horse to report to Li Chongjiu, saying that the Tang army had a cavalry that crossed the river from the upper reaches of Jingshui, made a detour from Jingyang, and went straight to Sanyuan, with about 3,000 men and horses.

After learning the news, Zhao Junzhong couldn't help but speculate about what the plans of this group of people were.

This Tang army is only 3,000 soldiers and horses, if you want to storm the Sanyuan camp garrisoned by 100,000 Zhao troops, it is obviously unrealistic, but if you make a detour to attack the Zhao army's grain road, it is also possible.

Li Chongjiu first sent light cavalry to warn Shan Xiongxin stationed on the same continent, and at the same time sent 2,000 cavalry to search for this Tang cavalry in the direction north of Sanyuan.

A day later, the 3,000 Tang cavalry found out that they had come straight to the camp of the Zhao army in Sanyuan, and they were stationed thirty miles outside the camp. Li Chongjiu didn't understand the other party's intentions, so he sent detectives to investigate. The news of the return of the scout cavalry surprised the generals of Zhao Junzhong.

"The commander of the Tang Army will be Shi Danai, this person is also known as Ashina Nai, he was originally a Western Turk special agent, and the three thousand cavalry under his command are all Western Turkic warriors!"

As soon as the detective cavalry reported it, all the generals fell silent.

Western Turkic warriors!

Obviously, this time the Western Turks, who sent troops to jointly attack Tang, betrayed Zhao and joined the side of the Tang army. This may also explain the reason why Wang Junkuo's 200,000 West Road army still has no news at this moment.

"Wang Duhu will not be without a hand of the unification of the secret service, even if the Western Turks betray, with his tens of thousands of horses, he will not make the 200,000 Western Route Army defeated. Your Majesty, as long as the news of the defeat of the Western Route Army does not really come, you can't make a hasty judgment! Himekawa said loudly. (To be continued......)