Zhenguan Crown Prince Li Chengqian

Chapter 949 A deputy commander fell from the sky!
The emperor will not be confused by a mere title of emperor, regardless of the severity. Hou Junji has followed him for decades, and Li Shimin knows it too well. Except for himself and the prince, he will not allow anyone to ride him. On his head, even his teacher Li Jing is the same.

The current situation in the Northwest is bad, except that the crown prince is unable to save the decline there, so even if it is extremely difficult, he has to make this decision, ordering Li Chengqian to be the general manager of the Hexi Road march, to control the armies of Jiaohe Road and Congshan Road, and to take charge of all military and political affairs in the Northwest. .

The prince’s army is not like other people. All the military supplies and logistics are personally represented and supervised by the three prime ministers, Fang, Du, and Ma. No one can play tricks in front of the three prime ministers, and no one dares to bargain in front of the imperial decree. The prince does not need to worry about the supply of Hexi Road.

The former Fanhou Junji has already taken away 15 people, and if he continues to withdraw the troops of the northern and southern yamen, it will only increase the pressure on the defense in Guanzhong. Li Chengqian has fought for ten years, of course he will not make such a common-sense mistake mistake.

Therefore, in order to make up for the shortage of troops, Li Chengqian deliberately recruited veterans under the age of 40 who had retired from the six ranks over the years to make up for the shortage in the troops of the left and right Zongwei and the left and right Marquis Yu. A consensus was reached on the books, and it rose to one hundred thousand people.

Afterwards, Du Ruhui added the [-] Supervisory Army under the control of the Ministry of War. The purpose of setting up this army was to make up for the shortcoming that the government soldiers could not be recruited in time due to time constraints. Now is the right time.

Li Chengqian didn't like to wear so many colorful outfits when going out, so he asked all the troops to pack their bags silently. If the army wins, it will naturally have victory wine. Therefore, after the Ministry of War received the commander-in-chief seal of the soldiers, he issued a departure order.

The marching order of the Hexi Road was still the same as before, with Qin Huaiyu as the former military commander, Fang Yizhi as the rear army commander, Li Chengqian raised the central army, and the whole army marched along the Weishui River towards Longzhou at the fastest speed. Immediately after the rest, attack and advance in the direction of Liangzhou and Shanzhou.

On the third day after the army left Chang'an, a group of dozens of cavalry caught up with the army. The leader was none other than the three brothers Changsun Jiaqing, Changsun Wunai, and Changsun Wuao. The arrival of these three men really surprised Li Chengqian Well, they are all current officials of Luoyang Metropolitan Governor's Mansion, what are they doing here?
"I said you three, didn't you go back to Luoyang? Why did you come here? Don't talk about making military exploits, get promoted quickly, the three of you are already big officials! Go back, there is no place to arrange you."

Li Chengqian knew what the three of them were here for, and who sent them. It was indeed a good intention, but he did not intend to let the three brothers follow; a waste.

"Prince, it's too late for you to say that. I'm now the deputy commander of the Hexi Road Marching Army appointed by the Ministry of War. They are also deputy generals of the Chinese army. It's against the order for you to drive me away now." After finishing speaking, eldest grandson Jiaqing With a smirk, he handed over the documents from the Ministry of War to Li Chengqian from his arms.

The prince's leadership is the same as handling political affairs, and he likes to be arbitrary, so he didn't choose a deputy commander when he went out this time. The advantage of this is that it is more convenient when making decisions, and the military orders will be issued faster.

Of course, another reason is because Cheng Zhijie and Liu Hongji, two old hooligans, almost fought for the position of deputy commander. They are both old ministers for many years. don't want.

Changsun Jiaqing was specially recommended by Changsun Wuji to the emperor. In public and private, he can support the prince well. In addition, he has rich experience in leading the army, and his official rank is enough. No one is more suitable for the post. The deputy commander, assisting the prince to check and make up for the omissions.

Alas, "You guys, let Gu tell you what you are! Well, since you are here with the imperial decree, what else can you say! It just so happens that Gu is going to hold a pre-war meeting, so come along three of you. !"

This time, except for the commanding generals of the Jianfu army - Lu Chengqing and Han Yuan, those who accompanied the army were all the generals of the sixth rank. They were familiar with Changsun Jiaqing and others, and when they saw them entering the account with the crown prince, they all flirted with each other. call.

After seeing the ceremony and taking a seat, the first thing is to join the army - come to the front of the map, and make a brief report of the received pond report and the information received by the scouts. The Western Turkic Army in the direction of Shanzhou and Lanzhou has retreated in an orderly manner. has disappeared.

The retreating Western Turkic Army is approaching Liangzhou. Their combat purpose is obviously to conquer Liangzhou and destroy the military supplies transported there!Liangzhou's defenders have now reduced their strength and are holding on to the city for reinforcements.

The only good news is that because the Western Turkic Army wants to maintain the mobility of the cavalry and the suddenness of the attack, it does not carry any siege equipment. As long as there are no accidents, it is not a problem to hold for a month.

"Another month? No, no, just defending is not enough, and we don't have that much time!" During the conversation, Li Chengqian went to the map and rubbed his chin to look at it for a while.

Then he continued: "Our greatest enemy now is not the Western Turks, but time! As long as we re-clear the notification to Liang and Su in the customs in the shortest possible time, the Jiaohedao army can turn the crisis into safety!"

"And to solve the problem in the shortest possible time is to concentrate the main force to eat all of them, so that they will be terrified and dare not act recklessly in the Tang Dynasty, and then press on like a rabbit."

Li Chengqian's meaning is very simple, since they are interested in this piece of fat in Liangzhou, let them eat it, and worry that there will be no chance to tie them down!It doesn't matter how fast they bite, with the help of the Liangzhou defenders, the Tang army can completely fight against the encirclement.

Of course, this is just one of them. It seems that they want to wipe them out, but they are actually weakening their combat power. The real killer is another person.Li Chengqian planned to divide his troops, recapture the Great Wall on the front line of Liangzhou, defend it according to the Great Wall, and drive all the Western Turkic troops to the foot of the Great Wall, gather and annihilate them.

An exhausted army that had spent a lot of energy on the siege had to fight another hard battle with Li Chengqian's new force, and then had to flee to the north to break through the siege. When they reached the foot of Chang'an, how much combat power did they have left.

The Turkic people are not fools, they will not fail to understand the importance of the way back, so there must be elite soldiers guarding the Great Wall, and whether they can seize the Great Wall in time has become a problem in this battle.If the Great Wall cannot be captured as promised and the Turks are let go, then all this will be in vain, and they will fall into endless pursuit and entanglement.

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