"General, General Jiang said that we have to stop. The formation is too scattered and can easily be taken advantage of by the enemy. We need to reorganize the formation. We need to send people to explore on both sides of the Fen River."
This white-faced thief had been fighting for so many years. Xu Shiji felt that he was not afraid of anything, even life and death were almost a matter of course. But what he was most afraid of was people who knew nothing but pretended to be famous generals.
In the past, there were countless such people among the various rebel armies in Henan. Then, in the great waves, almost all of these people died, and everyone was safe.
Those who can lead the army in the end are all heroes who have fought several turns between life and death before coming back. No one thinks that he can be a victorious general. The one who leads a large group of people straight to the dead end is someone. there is none left.
The remaining people can usually smell the victory or defeat before the battle begins.
And he, Xu Shiji, is one of the best.
He led the army to cut off the rear of the army, and he understood his responsibilities better than anyone else.
Firstly, it protects the army's food and supplies, or the food road. Secondly, no need to ask, once the enemy comes and harasses, the most likely place to engage in battle is on the food road behind this.
This is undoubtedly a heavy responsibility, but it is not because people trust you, but he and the more than 20,000 people under his command have been placed in the most dangerous position.
Even if Xu Shiji wasn't happy with this kind of thing, he couldn't get involved, and not many of the generals in the Tang army wanted to listen to what he had to say.
After spending some time with Jiang Baoyi, Xu Shiji understood that he had met the most terrifying kind of person. He liked to point fingers. He thought he was a general in the army and would not give in to others. He wished he could replace Xu Shiji, but in fact he has no ability. .
No matter how fierce the enemy is, Xu Shiji will not be afraid. If we can't defeat him, we will leave. If we can't leave, we will surrender. If we don't give him a chance to surrender, then he will die.
But having such a person around me really makes people feel like they are in a dilemma of life and death.
Just like now, the rear army has reached here. It is only twenty or thirty miles away from Linfen. Do you want to stop and rest? Let the army reorganize its queue?
The army has walked from Jiangzhou to the present, but there is no movement at all. The scouts on the left and right are blind and deaf. How can a large army be missed and attack the baggage?
What's there to see on both sides of the Fen River? On the opposite side is Luliang Mountain. The cavalry group can run to the foothills of Luliang Mountain and then cross the fast Fen River to reach behind the army?
Is the river dry or frozen? It's summer. You really think the enemy has wings.
All signs now indicate that the enemy has no intention of entangled with the army south of Linfen. Otherwise, not even a single enemy scout would be seen.
Xu Shiji didn't want to say anything more, but just hummed twice and said: "Go back and tell General Jiang that once we stop, we won't be able to reach Linfen tonight. Someone from the Chinese Army has come to urge us. If General Jiang is not afraid of military law, let's stop and pour." It’s okay.”
Xu Shiji was smiling and talking, but the hint of impatience and ferociousness in his eyes would never escape Zhang Man's eyes.
He blinked his eyes, threw his hands and beat his chest in a naive manner, turned around and left.
Xu Shiji narrowed his eyes and continued to swing on the horse, as if nothing had happened.
If placed in Li Mi's army, even if people like Jiang Baoyi were not directly killed and drank by him, they would be sent to the enemy to be knifed in subsequent battles.
But this is the Tang Army. It is said that this white-faced thief is a descendant of Jiang Wei of the Three Kingdoms and a descendant of the Guanxi clan, so he can only keep refusing softly.
A defeated general can restrain him
As a result, he had little hope for the employment of the two generals, because sending such a person to his army would do a lot of harm but not any good, so what kind of employment could there be?
That is to say, he was too lazy to care about the intrigues of the Tang army generals. Otherwise, he would have found an opportunity to kidnap Jiang Baoyi before Li Shentong to test Li Shentong's attitude.
In fact, no matter how nervous the Tang army was, Xu Shiji was a little careless.
This trance quickly disappeared. After arriving in Linfen, Li Shentong summoned the generals to discuss matters.
The enemy troops retreated into Queshu Valley and set up some camps in the winding paths of Queshu Valley.
Li Shentong had a smile on his face, and he seemed to be in a very relaxed and confident mood, which made all the generals relax.
But Xu Shiji had been in battle for a long time and had an extremely keen sense of war.
As he listened, he already sensed that something was wrong. The Tang army originally wanted to fight the enemy at Queshu Valley South, but at this time, the enemy had no intention of attacking at all, and instead adopted a defensive posture.
This can be regarded as making Tang Jun's previous plan in Jiangzhou completely failed.
In fact, what he didn't know was that this was the first time that the Tang Army had such a clear understanding of the enemy's movements since it formed an army. What he didn't even know was that not only did the entire Tang Army have a very vague idea of the enemy's strength and composition, but also the enemy's movements. No one can tell clearly which generals hold the military power in the army.
If Xu Shiji knew this, he would be stunned, and he would also ask, do you know that if you know yourself and the enemy, you can fight a hundred battles without danger?
Of course, at this time, he just heard that the enemy had chosen to stand firm, and he was vaguely aware of the danger.
This stemmed from his intuition of leading troops in battles for many years, and he almost instinctively had the idea of not wanting to fight easily with such an abnormal enemy.
When the generals of the Tang army started to speak, he quietly pulled Jiang Baoyi's sleeve beside him and asked in a low voice: "General Jiang, how big is the enemy's cavalry?"
Jiang Baoyi was not in a good mood at this time, because with his position as General Zuowuwei, he was equal to Li Shentong, but now he could only be together with a subordinate general like Xu Shiji, which really made him frustrated.
Xu Shiji was also extremely hateful in his eyes. He always used various excuses to frustrate him and had no intention of giving him any military power.
A surrendered general hummed
If he, Jiang Baoyi, had not led the army and was defeated by Jie Xiu, how could he have succumbed to this man?
When Xu Shiji asked him, he pretended not to hear. At this time, he was quite sensitive and found Xu Shiji more and more disgusting. He felt that this man was mocking him about his defeat.
Because of the whole army, Jiang Baoyi was the only one who had ever fought with the enemy and knew the true strength of the enemy's army.
Xu Shiji was very patient and asked again.
Jiang Baoyi turned his head slightly with a straight face and said impatiently, "Only one or two thousand people, what? If General Xu has a plan, just let everyone know, why be so sneaky?"
Xu Shiji smiled indifferently and said softly: "One or two thousand people are not that many, but if the Turks are led south, there will be more than one or two thousand cavalry, right?"
Monthly pass, monthly pass, and a look at the book review area. The characters in the romance of the Sui and Tang Dynasties are too distinct, so the end of the Sui Dynasty is not easy to write about. Ah Cao just made them ordinary based on their respective experiences, not to criticize them. To be continued.
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