Great Master of the Tang Dynasty

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"It's very simple! There is a mountain road on the west side of Yushui. Let's put on a full-scale offensive posture, and then make some wooden dummies fully armed and put them on the horses! Let a few good soldiers show their faces and bodies to drive those The horses attack south along the mountain road!

When those rebels saw it with binoculars, they would definitely bombard them like frightened birds!And after they bombarded for a while, they will definitely find out the existence of those dummies and stop the bombardment.

Next, let's prepare another batch of dummies!Then came the third batch!There should be smart people among those rebels, so they must think that our second and even third attacks are real people.In this way, there will inevitably be a second or even a third shelling!
After three times, we will replace the dummy with a real person. If they continue to bombard us at this time, we will retreat, and then continue to feint with the dummy!If he doesn't run away, it means that he has seen our consumption strategy!But it doesn't matter anymore, because the sergeants of my Tang Dynasty have already arrived at their land.

And once we get to their land, with the strength of my Tang sergeants, I should no longer be afraid of those artillery that are only good at long-range shots. In this way, the overall situation will naturally be settled! "

Murong Yi said clearly.

To put it bluntly, this policy is a false record.The Tang army has always been in a dominant position, so it is up to the Tang Dynasty to decide whether to fight or not, so the feasibility of this strategy is naturally extremely high.

However, this strategy consumes a lot.

"Your strategy is not bad! But, do you know how many horses I will lose in this way?"

With a slight smile, the stone in Li Shimin's heart finally completely fell to the ground.He really didn't expect that Murong Yi could come up with such a brilliant plan at such a young age!What a genius!
However, although he was quite satisfied with this strategy, Li Shimin still put Murong Yidao in a difficult situation.

"Actually, it doesn't consume much. If it doesn't work, His Majesty can also exchange some yaks to refill! Anyway, my Datang beef is selling very well now, and those yaks that were killed by the bombing can just be sold as beef."

Not knowing that Li Shimin was joking with him, Murong Yi said seriously after pondering for a while.

"Okay! I'm just teasing you! It's just some horses. With bicycles, my army doesn't have that much demand for horses! Besides, I have Xirong Road as my backing, so it's not easy to want horses." I will credit you for this matter, and I will decree later that I will personally exempt your nanny from slavery!
However, you can't be proud of this.Zuo Ming is a good teacher, you have to hurry up and learn some skills by his side. In the future, the pheasant slave will open the government office and build a mansion, and you will have to help him! "

Nodding his head, Li Shimin said with a chuckle.

The nanny was exempted from slavery, Murong Yi was naturally extremely happy, kowtowed and bowed, "Thank you, Your Majesty, for your success! Murong Yi must guard against arrogance and impetuosity, and study hard! I will serve Your Majesty and the King of Jin in the future!"

Zuo Ming naturally got the news about Murong Yi's suggestions, which broadened Zuo Ming's thinking.

To put it bluntly, Murongyi's move was a psychological warfare, and psychological warfare has always been what Zuo Ming is best at.

For the time being, Murong Yi can only think of the key to expending artillery, but he ignores the hearts of the people and the army.

As a soldier of the Tang Dynasty, some rebels in Lingnan have seen the power of the Tang Dynasty's artillery and grenades.The reason why they are confident now is precisely because they have this kind of weapon at hand.

In fact, once they realize the unsustainability of their artillery, the morale of the Lingnan rebels will definitely be shaken or even scattered.And what Zuo Ming has to do is to magnify this wavering and laxity infinitely.

For this reason, Zuo Ming directly made a hot air balloon with a controllable direction, and then printed a lot of "final notices" and sent them out to Lingnan.

The content of this so-called "final notice" is also very simple, that is to say, the Tang army will go south to suppress the rebellion with all its strength in June. At that time, it will use [-] artillery pieces and [-] soldiers to wipe out the Lingnan rebels at all costs!Prior to this, no matter whether it was the chief general or the sergeant of the rebel army, as long as they could destroy the artillery of the rebel army as a vote, they could be exempted from capital punishment!And in these briefings, he also specifically mentioned Feng An and Chen Longshu, members of the three major families, only Li Xiaogong and Li Yuanchang, Zuo Ming didn't mention a single word!

In addition to this "final report", Zuo Ming also had people drop dozens of catties of bombs from the hot air balloon as a threat.

This move can be said to be a stroke of genius. Seeing that the court even used hot air balloons, the faces of Li Yuanchang and Li Xiaogong suddenly turned pale.

The artillery is indeed powerful, but there is no way to deal with something as high as a hot air balloon.

They didn't even dare to imagine how they would be beaten if Li Shimin sent a large number of hot air balloons to attack!resist?That also depends on them being able to meet other people.

Li Shimin was also very happy that Zuo Ming actually made a hot air balloon that could control the direction.If it weren't for the fact that these hot air balloons are easy to go to the sky and difficult to land on the ground, he would have used them as a strategic tool long ago.

The impact of the hot air balloon on the soldiers in Lingnan was too great.

Among the rebel forces, the Feng family was naturally the first to stir up trouble.

Not long after Zuo Ming's hot air balloon left, the generals of the Feng family found Feng An and tried to persuade Feng An in every possible way.

In their view, this battle is already a lost situation.In the past, they followed Feng An to become kings and hegemons in Lingnan, and they were all used to enjoying life and happiness, so they were not willing to rebel.Now that artillery can no longer be used as a reliance, how can they continue to follow Li Yuanchang to die?
"Patriarch, it's obviously impossible now, and a decision needs to be made early!"

"Yes! Patriarch! Now Li Tang's country is as solid as gold, even if we can live comfortably in a corner for a short time, but after a long time, we will end up copying our family and exterminating our family! It's better to surrender, maybe His Majesty is thinking about the past love , will give us a proper arrangement!"

"In my opinion, as long as the patriarch acts faster this time, and then claims that he is just submissive to Li Yuanchang, His Majesty will not only not blame him, but will reward us instead! At that time, Lingnan will definitely be reborn Shuffle the cards, from three families to one family! Patriarch, don't miss this opportunity!"

Hearing that everyone was admonishing him, Feng An smiled bitterly, "I understand what you said! To tell you the truth, now I also regret getting on Li Yuanchang's pirate ship. However, the notice clearly stated that, To destroy those cannons as a certificate of honor, Li Yuanchang regards those cannons as very important, how do we do it? If one is not good, it will become the target of public criticism!"

"That's why we have to hurry up! As the saying goes, they must not expect us to act so quickly!"

"Yeah! Now everyone else is still hesitating, it's a great time for us to make a move!"

Those families will continue to persuade.

At this time, Feng An's expression also flickered, obviously a little moved.

However, just when he was about to make up his mind, a cannon shot scared them all!
Afterwards, everyone heard countless shouts of panic.

"It's not good! The court is not trustworthy and launched a surprise attack! So many cavalry! So many sergeants!"

"Don't panic! Don't panic! Calm down!"

"It's over, it's over! Lots of cavalry! We're dead!"

Not only Li Yuanchang's camp, but also Li Xiaogong's camp was in a panic.

The morale of the army was so dispirited so quickly that they were caught off guard.

Knowing the situation outside, Feng An was shocked, "The imperial court is going to catch us all! What should we do?"

"Patriarch! The more this is the time, the more we must seize the opportunity! As long as we can destroy Li Yuanchang's artillery, it will be equivalent to saving the lives of those Tang troops who came to attack! Your Majesty will definitely remember our good!"

"Yes! Patriarch! Previously, the subordinates still suspected that the imperial court was using alienation tactics! Now it seems that the imperial court has no such intention at all! Even the announcement was only the idea of ​​some civil officials in the imperial court! This time The sudden attack must be made by the military, and they don’t want to let us go! The more they do this, the faster we move! It’s too late, but it’s really too late!”

"Okay! Now that everyone has said that, let's do it! Grandma's Li Yuanchang, when I came to Lingnan, I made a mess of smog, and Chen Longshu, all of this was started by him! See Your Majesty later, I must Give him a hard copy!"

After making up his mind, Feng An immediately slapped the table and got up with a group of subordinates, and launched a surprise attack on Li Yuanchang's camp.

Their side was in chaos, while Chai Shao in the north was full of astonishment.

For the first time, he had a slight fear of Zuo Ming.

Murong Yi's plan was sent by His Majesty, and he was astonished when he saw this plan, but then, Zuo Ming sent someone to send a hot air balloon and a kit.

The hot air balloon is naturally used to intimidate the rebels, and the kit is to let him immediately send out dummy to feign attack, and bluntly said that there is no need to send real people, and even the number of dummy can be halved!
According to Zuo Ming, as long as this feint attack caused chaos in the south, the original plan would not need to be implemented, and a lot of horses could be saved in this way.

Zuo Ming was advising him in his own name. He could have ignored it and continued to wait until June to implement the original plan, but thinking of reducing the loss of horses, he was finally tempted.

And the results also showed the correctness of his decision, but Zuo Ming's control over people's hearts still made his scalp tingle.

Feng An's sudden betrayal caused the entire Lingnan rebel army to fall apart. After a while, the roar of artillery fire gradually subsided.

And Chai Shao waved silently at the army behind him with flashing expression!

(End of this chapter)