Traveling through the early Tang Dynasty starts with hanging

Chapter 556 Heavy Duty

Following Li Shan's eloquent talk, Zhang Shigui's expression was unpredictable, sometimes thinking hard, sometimes suspicious, sometimes nodding.

Because after all, it was outside Yanmen Pass, and everyone was discussing matters on the hill, but there were many people around, all of whom were Li Shan's personal guards.

Uh, the eyes of most people are a bit weird, especially when Li Shan swears that Jieli Khan will not attack aggressively and attack with all his strength, Wang Junhao can't hold back anymore.

Looking at Zhang Shigui's appearance...is this considered a letter?
All the way to the south that year, every time Mr. Lang analyzed the situation, Mr. Ling couldn't express his objection...but in the end?

Wang Junhao felt that the possibility of Jieli Khan attacking in a big way should be more than half... just relying on Lang Jun's mouth.

Well, Zhang Shigui did believe it, because Li Shan's analysis was very reasonable, and Li Daozong and Wen Yanbo, who knew the situation in the Northland very well, also helped.

But regarding Li Shan's statement that the fortress of Guji Town is strong and can withstand the siege of the Turkic army... Zhang Shigui is still a little skeptical. Mayi and Yanmen Pass are both important military towns, with towering walls and extremely strong walls, which cannot be built without years of construction.

As for Guji Town... Calculating the time, it is already March, and in the middle and late May, the Turks who did not come to Daizhou to make a fortune last year will inevitably attack. Two months are enough to build a city that can resist the Turkic army. Attacking the fort?

And because the cavalry needs to be garrisoned, the scale should not be too small, at least hundreds of cavalry and more than a thousand infantry are required to make Guji Town an iron nail stuck here so that the Turks cannot look at each other from head to toe.

Li Shan pointed down with a smile, then turned his head and asked, "Has the work been completed?"

"Yes." Zhou Zhoulang, who did not know when he appeared, replied, "The construction started in the afternoon of the day before yesterday, and it was completed before noon yesterday, using 60 people."

Half an hour later, Zhang Shigui, Li Daozong and others looked at the tens of meters of the city wall in front of them with absent-minded eyes. The surprised expressions were not because this section of the city wall took only 60 people to build in one day, but because of the city wall itself. .

"boom!"

The knight who was approaching the horse stabbed out the spear in his hand vigorously, the sharp tip of the spear only left a small hole in the wall, the knight drew out the long knife and slashed, leaving only a few marks this time.

Zhang Shigui went up to check it himself, the hole was not big, so he couldn't see it clearly, he broke it off with his hand, but it didn't move.

"The inside is flat red bricks, and the outside is covered with a layer..." Li Shan thought for a while, "It is covered with a layer of mud."

"Mud?" Zhang Shigui looked down. There was a layer of gray-white shell, which looked nothing special, but it was very hard.

To be honest, neither the red bricks nor the cement made by Li Shan are strong enough, but they can be used in this era. At most, they can be piled up a few more layers horizontally to make them thicker.

The point is, Li Shan has inquired that there is absolutely no such thing as a catapult on the Turkic side... Also, the Turkic is not good at attacking the city, and it is considered a skill to get some ladders to climb the wall.

Zhang Shigui was still a little worried, so he tried it himself with a horse. The tail of the horse slammed into the wall hard. Completely unaffected, the wall is paved with three layers of red brick.

"Really only one day and one night?" Zhang Shigui was very excited, "If there are more than a thousand soldiers and sufficient food and grass, it will be difficult for tens of thousands of Turks to break through!"

In this era, the so-called camps are not very particular. Unless it is an important town like Mayi that is determined to station troops, otherwise, the camps are basically wooden structures, some are carried with the army, and some are made from local materials.

This kind of camp relies on the formation of infantry. When facing the Turkic cavalry, they are basically beaten and have no power to fight back. Don't give you a chance to fight.

The reason why Li Gaoqian abandoned the army and fled that day was largely because he knew in his heart that he could not defend by relying on defense. The roughly built camp was full of loopholes, and as long as it was broken, it would completely collapse... Wood The fences made by the Turks could not prevent the contact between the Turkic cavalry and the Tang army's infantry.

Moreover, leading the army to attack, it is impossible to have a long-term supply of food and grass. Once surrounded by the Turks, if you want to break out in a few days... the mounts will not be able to run, so Li Gaoqian will abandon the army and flee.

Li Daozong, Su Dingfang and others could all understand why Zhang Shigui was so excited... If a fortress that could accommodate more than a thousand soldiers and resist Turkic attacks could be built here in a short period of time, then everything that was said before might become a reality.

"Set up a stronghold here to resist the Turks, so that we can firmly hold Shuozhou and cover Daizhou." Li Shan touched the city wall, "Now that the Turks are in civil strife, everyone in Hedong and Guanzhong needs to recuperate."

"But in the future, when the army goes out of the fortress, it will pass through this place."

"Brother Wu An, is he willing to take on this important task?"

After a pause, Li Shan turned around and said in a loud voice: "It is also true that after the first battle in Xiabo, a certain person hates the one who sits and watches his allies be besieged."

"If Guji Town can resist the Turks and form a corner with Yanmenguan and Mayi, how can the Duke of Yongkang abandon it?"

"The county magistrate of Yiyang, Qin Wutong, and brother Dingfang are divided into Zhumayi and Yanmen. They will never sit idly by."

"If the Turks come to invade, regardless of the county magistrate of Yongkang, he will lead his troops to the north to support Yanmen." Li Daozong raised his voice: "Hedong has been plundered by Turks for many years, and he is about to recuperate. Turks must not be allowed to enter Hedong for half a step."

Li Daozong said the key to the strategy. Mayi is very important to Yanmen Pass, but if the Turks invaded aggressively, they would divide their divisions to stare at Yanmen Pass and send the main force to attack Mayi... After all, there is no one outside of Mayi except Yanmen. Other reinforcements came.

If Mayi is lost, the Turks will attack Yanmen Pass again... Even if the Turks are not good at attacking the city, they will be under great pressure.

Therefore, Li Shan and Li Daozong decided to set up a stronghold here. The most important point is to completely push the front line to Shuozhou, west of Yanmen Pass, so as to prevent Daizhou from suffering military disasters.

Liu Shirang and Qin Wutong are both veteran generals, and Mayi has a tall city wall. In addition, Li Shan started to clean up Yuan Junzhang's old army before, so it is not a big problem, but Guji Town...he needs a person with perseverance, tactical, strategic Generals who are very good.

He needs to lead his troops to resist the first wave of the Turkic offensive, he needs to judge the timing and send troops to make it difficult for the Turks to look after each other, he needs to appease the soldiers, boost their morale, he needs to take stock of food, grass and military supplies, and he even needs to personally prepare for the construction of Guji Town... So, Li Shan He specifically asked Li Shimin to be both civil and military.

Li Shimin did not disappoint Li Shan, and sent Zhang Shigui to Tiance Mansion, even Zhang Shigui, who was rarely able to stand alone in the lineage of King Qin.

After knowing the experience of this white-faced treacherous official, Li Shan felt that Zhang Shigui was more suitable than Qin Qiong, Li Shiji and others he imagined before.

He is calm in dealing with things, has the style of a general, and has a cautious temperament, but he is not lacking in enterprising spirit.

Zhang Shigui took a step forward, saluted and said: "I am willing to take this position, but please call on behalf of the state..."

"You can do whatever you want." Li Shan interrupted: "But the work must be completed within two months, and [-] infantry and [-] cavalry must be garrisoned."

(End of this chapter)