Tiantang Splendid

Chapter 3336 A Great Victory
Xue Rengui sat opposite Fang Jun, with a serious face and a dignified expression, slowly shook his head and said: "The enemy army is powerful, although their supplies are insufficient, but the Arabs have no scruples about etiquette, justice and shame, and they will do everything possible to replenish food and fodder as much as possible. .Maybe as the severe winter deepens, it will be difficult for the Arabs to launch a large-scale offensive like before, but it will be as difficult as heaven to drive them out or even defeat them."

In the final analysis, it is still the same sentence, in the face of absolute power, any outside moves are futile.In addition, although the Arabs lacked supplies and fodder, it was impossible for them to go out without any provisions.Moreover, the Western Regions is not a barren land right now. Even though it is snowing heavily, there are still many tribes who do not want to brave the severe cold to move their families. Grabbing horses, cattle, and sheep can always be maintained.

Thirty to forty thousand Anxi troops have to be spread out to garrison various important places, beware of the Arabs splitting up their troops to attack, there are no more than two people who can be mobilized to confront the enemy face to face, and the 2 people in the right guard are only a mere 4 Ten thousand people, trying to defeat nearly 20 Arabs is as difficult as heaven.

Fang Jun said: "As for the marching and formation, I believe that you, Rengui, have your own achievements, and you don't want to give more advice. But you have to remember that the morale of the army is the most important thing, and morale comes from the confidence of the general, so no matter when and where Land, as a commander, you must have absolute confidence in your deployment, even if you are in a desperate situation, you must have high morale, and let your soldiers believe that you will eventually lead them out of the encirclement and win."

"Here! Thank you Duke Yue for your teaching, I will keep it in mind."

Xue Rengui felt awe-inspiring.

He was indeed a little discouraged in the face of a strong enemy, no matter how confident he was in his abilities, he didn't dare to expect to defeat a strong enemy several times his own.And his depression and lack of confidence in his heart will inevitably affect the generals and schools around him, which will make the whole army full of pessimism and morale will plummet.

How can an army without morale win a battle no matter how powerful it is?
In fact, despite the fact that the army has not suffered too much loss since its launch, the continuous loss of cities and territories and retreat step by step will inevitably lead to a decline in the morale of the army, creating a sense of fear and feeling that the enemy is invincible.

Today, if it weren't for the guards in the right guard who rushed thousands of miles away to help the enemy's central army without stopping, arousing the aggressiveness of the Anxi army, I am afraid it would be difficult to achieve such a big victory.

Morale is low, confidence is lost, and it is inevitable to be timid when fighting, and dare not go all out...

Fang Jun put down his teacup, smiled and said with relief: "Don't be depressed. In fact, in such a difficult situation right now, it is very rare for you to be able to maintain the morale of the army and fight steadily. Besides, after today's big defeat, the Arabs' I'm afraid morale will drop even worse. The Western Regions are our home field. Every river and every mountain here is on our map, and even every mountain trail and every riverside ferry is under our control. After the plundering of food and fodder, all the tribes in the Western Regions have already regarded them as wolves, tigers and leopards, so how can they help? Even many tribes that were originally hostile to the Tang Dynasty have now seen that compared with the brutal Arabs, the Tang Dynasty How magnanimous and benevolent it is, his heart is already inclined to the Tang Dynasty. As the saying goes, "Those who gain the Tao will help more, those who lose the Way will help less, if there is little help, relatives will help them; if there is much help, the world will obey. Shun, attacking relatives, so if a gentleman does not fight, he will win the battle'... Mencius has already pointed out the direction of victory for us, why should we be afraid of it?"

Arranging troops is naturally not his strong point. He is unwilling to show his shame in front of military geniuses like Xue Rengui, but when it comes to controlling the situation, looking around the world, few people dare to claim to be superior to Fang Jun.

These words immediately dragged Xue Rengui out of his depression. He felt that the confused and confused situation seemed to become clear in an instant. How to launch a strategy against a strong enemy and even launch a counterattack was all about thinking...

The two sat in the room and had a detailed discussion on the map on the wall. Naturally, disagreements and arguments were inevitable during the period, but they were immersed in it wholeheartedly and inspired one after another.

It wasn't until dawn that Yuan Wei, who was in charge of sorting out the battle reports and post-war statistics outside the house, reported the situation of the battle, which made the two of them interrupt their discussion.

Xue Rengui called the scouts in, and sent the soldiers to prepare meals, and then he and Fang Jun waited for Yuan Wei's report.

In front of Fang Jun, a big boss with a large number of centers, Yuan Wei was a little nervous, and he was unavoidably cautious when he greeted him, but he relaxed when he casually introduced various statistical data.

"Reporting to Lord Yue and Sima Xue, the main force of the enemy army has retreated for [-] miles and arrived at its rear camp at the foot of Tianshan Mountain. It is dark and snowy, which is not conducive to our army's strong attack, so all the troops chased and killed one Fan then withdrew his troops, and now he has returned to the city to rest."

"The army cleaned up the battlefield. This battle formation killed more than [-] enemy troops. Especially the Duke of Yue led the right guards and charged the enemy's central army, causing great damage. Countless elite soldiers were lost, and their strength was damaged. Extremely serious."

"Our army has lost more than [-] people, and has suffered hundreds of serious injuries. It can be called a great victory."

"We also seized some enemy ordnance, all of which were discarded when the enemy retreated in a panic. The enemy's supplies and ordnance are not generous. The loss is so large that it is very likely to affect its subsequent combat deployment."

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Yuan Wei explained one by one, with clear and clear numbers.

Fang Jun praised: "It is a talent to collect so much information in such a short period of time, and the figures obtained are so clear."

It is naturally a happy event to be praised by Fang Junzhi, but Yuan Wei couldn't say how much joy he felt, more of it was sincere and fearful, he bowed and said: "This is a matter of the last general's duty, I dare not be praised by the Duke of Yue."

Who doesn't know that Fang Jun has always been hostile to the Guanlong Clan, and the two sides have quarreled with each other several times, and the Guanlong disciples are the most despised?

At this moment, he probably praised him because he didn't know his identity. If he knew that he was from Guanlong, he might suppress him immediately.

With Fang Jun's power and status, one sentence can make him idle and never get ahead...

Xue Rengui seemed to know what Yuan Wei was thinking, and said to Fang Jun with a smile: "This man joined the army under the command of the last general. He is very capable and capable. He was born in the Yuan family of Guanlong, but he is a remote branch of the Yuan family. In fact, the name of the younger brother has not received much attention, and he was just a school lieutenant in Suiye City before. But speaking of it, he has some entanglements with the eldest grandson's family..."

"Oh? I'd like to hear about it."

Fang Jun was very interested immediately. He has always been hostile to the eldest grandson's family. Since Xue Rengui mentioned that Yuan Wei had entanglements with the eldest grandson's family in front of him, it wouldn't be an ordinary entanglement...

Xue Rengui told the story that Chang Sun Yan ordered Yuan Wei to lead his troops to intercept and kill Damascus merchants, but in the end he killed Chang Sun Jun by mistake.

Fang Jun was taken aback: "There is such a secret?"

Before, he only heard that Changsun Jun died unexpectedly, but he didn't know how he died. The Changsun family was vague on this matter, which led to a lot of speculation in Chang'an City.

But he didn't expect that he died in the Western Regions like this, and was accidentally killed by his younger brother, Sun Yan...

Manslaughter?

Ghosts believe it!

He said to Yuan Wei: "Tell the situation at that time one by one, don't hide it, be as detailed as possible."

"Here."

Yuan Wei was in a dilemma, he didn't want to mention this matter, because Fang Jun had a deep feud with the eldest grandson's family, and it was hard to guarantee that he would not use himself as a raft to attack the eldest grandson's family.But now in front of Fang Jun, how dare he refuse?

I can only tell the details of the situation at that time.

After listening to Fang Jun, he sighed and said: "It's really a celebrity with sake, fame and fortune touch people's hearts... If it is said that Changsun Yan hadn't planned this matter in advance, everything was a mistake. It is absolutely impossible. Once Changsun Jun died, Changsun Yan Yan naturally became the heir of the head of the Changsun family, benefiting the most and naturally being the most suspected. Fortunately, you were more careful and did not go back to Chang'an to join the Changsun family but followed Rengui to continue serving in the army. People, dead but not corpses."

Yuan Wei's face was pale. Although he was only a distant brother of the Yuan family and had never seen the filth behind the aristocratic families, he was not an idiot. After Fang Jun's point, he became more and more convinced that this was the case.

In order to fight for the position of the eldest son, the eldest grandson killed his brother with such cruel means. If he came to seek refuge in a foolish way, how could he not be killed by him?
Frightened in his heart, he bowed to Xue Rengui and said, "Thank you Sima for protecting you!"

At that time, if Xue Rengui hadn't been magnanimous and accepted him, I'm afraid he would have been desperate and returned to Chang'an...

(End of this chapter)