Traveling through the early Tang Dynasty starts with hanging

Chapter 144 Confirmation

The messenger came to report that Qi Shanxing and Cheng Mingzhen led [-] cavalry and [-] infantry to the west bank of Yongji Canal, and confronted Liu Heita's troops who attacked Wei County across the river.

Li Shan sat on the side with his legs crossed, listening to the discussions of Tian Liuan, Xue Zhong, Ling Jing, and Zhang Xuansu, and introduced Su Dingfang to Li Kai, Yuchi Baolin...by the way, plugging the loophole.

How do I know about Su Lie and Su Ding Fang?
It was Li Demou who informed him.

Of course, with Li Shan's current relationship with Su Dingfang, these are trivial and irrelevant.

"Is there no one in Eastern Shaanxi?" Liu Jun whispered, "Why did Wang Junkuo lead the army?"

Li Kai and Yuchi Baolin didn't say a word, Liu Jun looked at Li Shan, "This man has bad conduct, he gathers crowds to be robbers, and loots everywhere."

Liu Jun is a descendant of Jingzhao Liu's family, a rich family that can be compared with Wei's and Du's. He doesn't care about Wang Junkuo who was born in a commoner, and his words are very rude.

"I voted for Tang in the early years, then I went to Wagang, and then I voted for Tang... Luoyang and Hulao all made military exploits, but last year it was this person who caused Luo Shixin to die in battle."

After listening for a long time, Li Shan couldn't help but click his tongue. Wang Junkuo is the kind of person who wants to make money when he sees benefits, and sneaks out when he sees losses. He can't bear the pressure.

In the offensive and defensive battle of Luoshui County at the beginning of the year, Li Shimin knew that Wang Junkuo could not defend and was unwilling to defend, so he asked Luo Shixin to defend the city on his behalf, but unfortunately died in the battle.

Li Kai smiled wryly, leaned forward slightly, and said in a low voice: "East Palace wants to personally conquer Hebei, the sage of Jianyan, choose generals from His Royal Highness King Qin... Your Highness will spread out the people, and now only Wang Junkuo is suitable to lead the army in Eastern Shaanxi Road Zhang is bright."

Liu Jun was dumb for a while, and then said after a while, "Then we can only use Wang Junkuo."

Li Jiancheng tried to transfer generals from the lineage of the King of Qin, and it was quite effective. He even tried to reach into the palace of the King of Qin. When I was on the Shandong Road, I took the sheep by the hand.

Therefore, there are only two generals in the lineage of the King of Qin who stayed in Shandong Road, one is Wang Junkuo, and the other is Zhang Liang, who was later listed as the 24 heroes of Lingyan Pavilion.

But Zhang Liang...was also from Wagang.

Zhang Liang was serving as Hussar General in Qin Wangfu, but using Zhang Liang is really not as good as using Wang Junkuo.

In fact, in history, Li Jiancheng personally conquered Hebei, and Wang Junkuo was transferred from Shaanxi Province.

While chatting with some of his peers, Li Shan laughed and joked a few words from time to time, while listening to the discussion of the battle situation by the people at the next table.

In fact, Tian Liuan, Ling Jing, Li Daoxuan, Xue Zhong and others all had strange feelings in their hearts...

From attacking the county government office to snatching back Yugushe, exchanging hostages with the Turkic army, and so on, Li Shan was the host and acted decisively.

Even though these days, when defending the city and going to battle, even though Li Shan is not the decision maker, he has always been the most important person among the people who make decisions. discuss.

In the eyes of everyone, although he has not yet been crowned, Li Shan has the courage to do his part, and even has the talent to not be weaker than others.

But today, he was sitting beside Li Kai and Yuchi Baolin, looking quite honest.

For example, Ling Jing couldn't help complaining in his heart, pretending!
"Witnessing the Beizhou fire with my own eyes, there is no mistake!"

"Could it be that Xingzhou's granary failed to burn down?"

"Anyway, there are grain transport ships on the Yongji Canal every day. Obviously, there is no shortage of grain in Liu Heita's army."

There was a lot of discussion among the people, even if tens of thousands of Turkic troops returned north to the grasslands, if Liu Heita's army did not lack food and grass, it would be very difficult to defeat Liu Heita with the strength of the Tang army in Weizhou, Xiangzhou, and Weizhou.

Therefore, food and grass have become the key of the key.

Qi Shanxing and Cheng Mingzhen stamped their feet on Yongji Canal, should they cross the river?
Tian Liu'an and Li Daoxuan stick to Guantao, should they lead the army south and attack Liu Heitao?

Wang Junkuo's reinforcements are hundreds of miles away, should they go west and join forces?
Liu Heikai bypassed Guantao, conquered Yuancheng, and then attacked Wei County. Could it be that he repeated the old trick to lure the Tang army out of the city and encircle and wipe out in the field?
All of this is based on whether there is a shortage of food in Liu Heita's army.

After all, Li Shimin chose to give it a go and secretly dispatched Li Kai, Yuchi Baolin, and Wang Junkuo to lead the army across the river to help, which was also based on this premise.

Of course, if the guess is wrong, Li Shimin will not be greatly affected, but the Tang army in Hebei Province will be a bit miserable, and it is likely to be defeated and die.

However, there is naturally conclusive evidence for Zhang Wenguan to rush to Beijing.

Based on the information from Tian Liuan, Li Daoxuan, and Xue Zhong, as well as the information Li Shan obtained from Ashinasheer, plus the interrogation of the prisoners, the Tang Army in Guantao City had such a consensus.

Liu Heita's army was short of food and grass.

But just after Zhang Wenguan left, grain transport ships suddenly came to the Yongji Canal every day, which surprised Tang Jun and boosted the morale of Liu Heita's troops.

The room gradually fell into silence, Zhang Xuansu couldn't help turning his head and shouted: "Li Huairen, why don't you come over to discuss the battle?!"

"You guys are here, I dare not speak nonsense."

Ling Jing sneered and said, "Is it because you are afraid that those two people will see your true face, Li Huairen?"

"For more than a month, you, Li Huairen, planned a night attack, captured Liu Heita's right-hand man, captured Yugushi alive, and urged Ashinasheer's army to return north, but today you are silent?"

Li Kai is alright, Yuchi Baolin's eyes are wide open, such a big event, how can you, Li Shan, get in your mouth?

Li Kai sighed with a wry smile, his good friend is really as His Highness said, he is too capable of tossing around.

Li Shan is really not pretending today, but he doesn't want to affect the relationship between himself and Li Kai... He is very clear, not to mention that the relationship between himself and the Qin Palace is through Master Li Ke, Li Kai and his son, even if it is just It was the fact that the father and son knew about Li Dewu, which was enough to make them deal with it cautiously.

"I knew Huai Ren's ability earlier, so I will listen to my brother today." Li Kai pushed Li Shan away with a smile.

Li Shan breathed a sigh of relief, took out a booklet from his pocket and threw it on the table, "Liu Heita's army is definitely short of food and grass, and the grain transport boat on the Yongji Canal is just a cover-up."

"How do you decide?"

"Who is the most important food and grass in the army?" Li Shan said with a light smile: "If the food and grass are not enough, the most important thing is the horses."

Everyone nodded slightly. This statement cannot be wrong, but if the horses are not short of food and grass, they can be more calm whether they are fighting or fleeing.

"Liu Heita served as a general under the command of Wagang and King Xia successively. He has always been a cavalry general. He will not understand this truth." Li Shan opened the booklet, "It has been seven years since there was a grain transport ship on the Yongji Canal. Every day, each side is determined to kill or capture the enemy scouts alive."

"Someone cut his belly open, maybe the horses have food, but most of the cavalry eat less, and today the horses have half food."

In other words, through autopsy, Li Shan discovered that the scouts in Liu Heita's army could only guarantee the diet of the war horses, but could not guarantee their own rations.

To this day, the scouts can no longer guarantee that the war horses are full.

The scouts have always been the elite of the army, and such elites cannot guarantee rations.

And Liu Heikai was born as a cavalry general. If he is defeated in the battle, he must go north to the grasslands and attach himself to the Turks... then the horses are indispensable.

Li Shan absolutely did not believe that Liu Heita's army had enough food and grass.

The ancients used tricks within the normal mode of thinking, such as increasing stoves and reducing stoves, but methods such as dissecting corpses are like using gas stoves... definitely in the blind spots of ancient people's thinking.

After listening to Li Shan's long-winded explanation, and then reading the booklet carefully, the corners of Ling Jing's mouth twitched, "It's really omnipotent!"

"Soldiers, the important affairs of the country, the place of life and death, the way of survival, must be investigated." Li Shan sneered: "Should be omnipotent, the winner will be the king and the loser will be the enemy!"

After a moment of silence, Tian Liu'an said in a low voice: "Liu Heita has two intentions for this plan. One is to boost the morale of the army, and the other is to force Qi Shanxing and Cheng Mingzhen to retreat."

All eyes were on Li Shan, who said calmly, "Maybe temporarily cut off the Yongji Canal?"

"Yes." Tian Liu'an nodded and said, "There are many ships in Yongji County and Guantao County."

Li Shan waved his hand and said, "Liu Heita's plan is nothing more than telling everyone inside and outside that the army has enough food and grass..."

"So, set fire to the boat!" Ling Jing blurted out.

Zhang Xuansu was inexplicable, "Set fire to the boat?"

Although Li Kai had only arrived in Guantao not long ago, he understood, and explained softly: "The fire is our ship."

(End of this chapter)