【Chapter 318】 The Decisive Moment (continued) 2/2
The most important thing is that the reason why Li Dao was able to become the commander of the Xiliang Army was the Tiger Camp.
If the Tiger Camp is completely disabled, then his voice in the Xiliang Army will decline sharply. If this is the case, even if he wins the Wuwei Army Commander Banner in this battle, I am afraid that he will not have absolutely strong strength to control the overall situation of Xiliang.
Not only that, once the entire Jin Yiwei army was wiped out, and the Huben battalion suffered heavy losses, not to mention the heavy losses for the time being, the relationship between the Xiliang Army and the Wuwei Army alone would deteriorate to the extreme, and the beam between the two armies would become bigger.
Although Jin Qiwei only had more than 8,000 horses, this cavalry was Li Li's personal guard.
After the war, even if Li Li didn't say anything about his uncle and nephew, the generals of the Wuwei Army would not give up. Once the generals of the Wuwei Army united to resist Li Dao, and Li Li ignored it, then Li Dao's situation would be dangerous. Because if he wants to take over the Wuwei Army, he must successfully take over the entire army through Li Li's submission and full assistance, otherwise he will not be able to control the Wuwei Army at all. On the contrary, if Li Li won this battle, then even if Li Wei did not assist Li Li to take over the Xiliang Army, he would stay out of the matter; Li Li was also able to suppress the Xiliang generals from resisting through the strong military strength of the Wuwei Army, so as to smoothly take charge of the entire Xiliang army.
This is the biggest difference between the Xiliang Army and the Wuwei Army, that is, the fundamental difference between Li Li and Li Dao.
In the final analysis, the Wuwei Army is an army created by Li Li, and the generals in the army obey him. In addition, he is also extremely familiar with the generals in the Xiliang Army, and knows the military affairs of the entire Xiliang Army by heart. Therefore, it was very easy for Li Li to reorganize the Xiliang Army, relying on the military prestige of the Wuwei Army, the Xiliang generals were powerless to resist at all, so they could only obediently surrender their military power.
However, Li Dao is different. He wants to be in charge of the entire Xiliang Army. Without Li Li's full cooperation, it would have been impossible to realize his intention of taking over the entire army. Not to mention the various departments within the Xiliang Army for the time being, he can't take over the Wuwei Army alone. Because the generals of the Wuwei Army did not agree with him at all, they had nothing to do with him, and they could even be said to be strangers. What's even worse is that the Wuwei Army is an army with unified orders, and without Li Li's personal orders, others cannot be mobilized at all. This is not the case with the Xiliang Army, which is scattered in the army. The more than 100,000 troops have their own camps, and now they are only united for their own interests, and the relationship between the generals of the various ministries is extremely fragile, and once the interests are unevenly distributed, these generals may turn against each other on the spot. Swords face each other.
This is the reason why Li Dao has always been hesitant to make a decision. Speaking from his heart, he himself knew that he should hand over the Xiliang Army to Li Li. Because Li Li has the ability and strength to integrate the entire army of Xiliang. But. He was really unwilling. Although Li Li is his own nephew, and it is said that he is a family, he Li Li has a son. Such a big inheritance, if it can be passed on to his son, what if Weishenme wants to give it to his nephew? So he also hesitated in his heart, but in the end he was selfish. Make up your mind to fight. He didn't want to watch the huge Xiliang Army fall into the hands of Li Li, but hoped to convince Li Li and let him work for him, and finally pass on this family business to his son Li Shi.
However. Now that the decisive battle between the two armies has reached this point, Li Dao is once again faced with a difficult choice.
Why did Li Li know that he was invincible, but he still led Jin Yiwei to take the lead in attacking the Tiger Camp? Should Jin Yiwei be annihilated or not? Could it be that this is a trap deliberately set by Li Li, who put him to death and come back to life?
Li Li obviously knew that the Wuwei Chinese army could not withstand the front and rear attacks of the Huben camp and Fan Chou, and the handsome flag was not guaranteed, and the Wuwei army was going to lose this battle. Therefore, he deliberately led Jin Yiwei into the arms of the Tiger Camp, trying to delay time and wait for the Wuwei Iron Cavalry to come back, so as to win the battle in one fell swoop.
Could it be that Li Li had already expected that I, Li Dao, would not dare to annihilate Jin Yiwei, otherwise the Wuwei generals would attack him in groups? If this is the case, doesn't it mean that whether our Xiliang army wins or loses this battle, it is impossible to win the opportunity to integrate the entire Xiliang army? Did Li Li have already made up his mind that if the Wuwei army wins, he will not admit it if he loses, and Jin Yiwei is a chess piece for Li Li to subvert the overall situation?
Now this chess piece is in the mouth of the tiger camp, whether to eat it or not?
If you don't eat it, Jin Yiwei will hold the tiger camp to the death and win time for the Wuwei Iron Cavalry to come back to help. Eating this chess piece will have a great grudge with the Wuwei Army, which will make the Wuwei generals hate the enemy and unite to resist their own takeover of the Wuwei Army.
This is a dead end set by Li Li!
Li Li can let go and kill the Xiliang generals and the soldiers of the Xiliang Army, which will help him take over the whole army in the future. However, Li Dao could not kill the Wuwei generals without scruples, let alone destroy the entire battalion of the Wuwei Army, because the Wuwei Army was a complete iron plate, while the Xiliang Army was full of mountains and went its own way.
Li Dao has always thought that he knows Li Li's nature very well, and believes that no matter how much a person changes, his nature will never change. But he now knew he was wrong, and he was wrong; I looked away by myself, and I was just dizzy. I have always regarded Li Li as a child who was brought up single-handedly, thinking that he is simple-minded, reckless, loyal and filial. At this time, it seems that the current Li Li and the honest nephew in his impression are not right at all, as if they were two people. Today's Li Li is so far-sighted, calculating, ruthless, and extremely treacherous.
Looking back carefully, Li Dao suddenly found that since Dong Zhuo's death, there has always been an invisible hand pushing him to go down according to the predetermined route. Looking back now, almost everything he did was carried out according to Li Li's intentions.
At the south gate of the palace, Li Wei led the troops to kill Wang Yun, but Wang Yun's old puppet didn't know that there was something wrong with that tendon, and when he died, he left Li Li with the name of loyalty.
Li Dao and Guo Yan buried Dong Zhuo with the courtesy of the prince, but Li Li was Dong Zhuo's son-in-law, and the soldiers of the Xiliang Army thought that this was Li Li in order to repay Dong Zhuo's father-in-law, and he Li Dao would give Dong Zhuo a grand funeral.
The Xiliang army was short of food, but Li Li was very generous, allocating two months' food and salary, but asking Li Dao to rectify the discipline of the Xiliang army. At that time, he didn't think much about it, and felt that it was also very necessary to rectify military discipline, so he vigorously and resolutely rectified military discipline, but it attracted strong dissatisfaction from Guo Yan, Duan Xuan and other generals in the army.
In the battle of Lintao, Li Meng lost his troops and lost his generals, on the surface, it seemed that Zhang Ji instigated the war, but after the war, Li Li asked Jia Xu to come forward and surrender more than 4,000 Xiliang cavalry under Li Meng's account for the first time.
During the confrontation between the two armies for most of the previous month, Li Li almost never showed up, acting like a junior who was bullied by him Li Dao, but after the battle book, Li Li immediately responded to the battle.
Thinking back to the previous scenes, Li Dao suddenly found that he had been led by Li Li's nose. But he didn't get any benefits, the people of Chang'an City secretly scolded him, and the generals of the Xiliang Army were extremely dissatisfied with him; This time he declared war on Li Li, and the world thought that he was narrow-minded and power-hungry, and he couldn't even tolerate his own nephew. On the contrary, Li Li was unanimously praised by the people around Chang'an, and was called a "great good man" by the people, and the generals in the army also had a good impression of him, even scheming people like Guo Yan and Duan Xuan admired him a lot.
Looking back at dusk, Li Dao's heart was desolate.
Seeing the Wuwei Shuai Banner not far away, at first glance, he was already in sight of victory, but in fact, he felt that he was getting farther and farther away from being in charge of the entire army of Xiliang. More importantly, he was already afraid of Li Li, his nephew, and vaguely felt that he was not Li Li's opponent at all, whether it was strategy or strategy, Li Li was far above him. For so long, he had been being played with by his nephew without knowing it, and he didn't know the truth until the mystery was about to be revealed. What is extremely strange is that he feels that this is Li Li deliberately let himself know, and his purpose is self-evident, that is, to let himself let Jin Yiwei go, and then take advantage of the fact that the Xiliang army still has some advantages, take advantage of the steps to hurry down, Mingjin withdraws his troops, and the war should be over by now.
At this moment, Li Dao felt helpless and indignant, and hated and feared in his heart. At a certain moment, he even wanted to take advantage of Li Li's encirclement to wait for an opportunity to kill him, but unfortunately this ruthless thought was rationally rejected by him as soon as it appeared. It's not that he doesn't want to, but he doesn't dare, because he knows that once he reveals his murderous intentions, not only will he not be able to kill Li Li, but he will probably die in chaos like Zhang Ji.
Extinguishing the killing intent in his heart, Li Wei looked at the handsome Wuwei flag fluttering in the wind thirty paces away with an iron face, and made a decision in his heart. He doesn't need Li Li to give him steps, and he can't kill Jin Yiwei completely, but he must win the Wuwei Shuai Banner. Even if he doesn't take over the entire army of Xiliang after this battle, he must test Li Li's true attitude towards his uncle, otherwise he will be unsteady for the rest of his life.
"Wang Fang listened to the order, and this general ordered you to sit in the Chinese army and besiege Jin Yiwei!" Suddenly, Li Dao ordered sharply.
"No, the last general will obey!" Wang Fang immediately responded, and then rode his horse to the banner of Xiliang Shuai, and commanded the Huben battalion to surround Jin Yiwei.
After Li Wei issued the general order, he quietly withdrew from the front and back of the formation, and then took 10,000 tiger horses and cavalry to go straight to Wuwei Shuaiqi to kill. His intention was obvious, leaving 20,000 war cavalry to surround Jin Yiwei, while he personally led his troops to capture the commander of the Wuwei Zhongjun Banner. Now there are less than 5,000 Jin Yiwei under Li Li's command, and the 20,000 troops under Wang Fang are enough to deal with Jin Yiwei, and they can also defend the Xiliang Shuai Banner without losing it.
"General Zhang, look, Li Dao personally led the troops and rushed over!"
Under Wu Weishuai, Hu Che'er kept staring at the situation in front of the battle with wide eyes, and as soon as Li Wei showed his clues, he immediately reminded Zhang Liao to prepare to meet the enemy.
"It's just in time, Zhang has already prepared a meeting gift for him!" Zhang Liao also saw the figure of Li Dao leading the army to rush and kill, and immediately he groaned coldly, and immediately ordered: "Prepare the archers, sixty steps to the southeast, five rounds of salvos, release the arrows!" ”
"Whoosh!"
With Zhang Liao's order, the thousands of giant shield soldiers of Shuai Qi suddenly squatted down, and the three thousand archers on the left flank of the original Wuwei Army suddenly appeared, and Zhang Gong galloped, and the target was the more than 10,000 tiger battalion cavalry led by Li Wei. It's just that there are also more than 2,000 Wuwei giant shield soldiers there, but the current situation is urgent, and the archers try to shoot as accurately as possible, and accidental injuries are inevitable. —————— (To be continued)(To be continued......