Li Shimin sighed: "There will definitely be pressure, but this is also brought on by Liu Hongji."
At this point, Li Shimin paused and said: "Of course, if you are afraid that Liu Hongji will be pressured, you don't have to go. It's just that more soldiers will die, and Datang can still afford it."
The corner of Li Yuanji's mouth twitched. He wanted to know how Li Shimin could say such irresponsible words calmly. Is this the character that a person in power should have?
Isn't that too cold and cruel?
Although those in power and power need bones to pave the way when they ascend to power, and after they ascend to power, it goes against the rules of human behavior to sit back and watch thousands of people who don't need to die die without even blinking an eyebrow.
"Then please excuse me, my eldest brother and my second brother, and come with me."
Li Yuanji sighed and said.
Li Shimin said a little funny: "Aren't you afraid of putting pressure on Liu Hongji?"
Li Yuanji glanced at Liu Hongji indifferently and said: "If Liu Hongji feels the pressure and makes any mistakes, won't you still be there? I'll just let you take the lead."
Li Shimin was stunned for a moment, with a look of astonishment on his face.
Li Yuanji continued: "Don't worry, I will keep an eye on you from behind. I believe you will not feel any pressure."
Li Shimin opened his mouth, wondering if he should say a curse word or not.
Now that Li Yuanji had made his decision, he did not hesitate. While Cai Yungong and Chen Shuda were busy investigating the specific reasons for the excessive battle damage, he rushed to Xiaoguan with Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin.
By the time Cai Yungong and Chen Shuda got the news and rushed to the Chinese army's tent, they had already appeared on the city wall with Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin.
Li Jiancheng was quite critical of this, and kept nagging him whether Li Yuanji wanted to kill him by taking him to the place where arrows were missing and stone bullets were flying everywhere.
As a result, no one paid any attention to him.
When Liu Hongji got the news, the Turks just retreated.
So Liu Hongji rushed to Li Yuanji and the others immediately.
"Your Highness the Crown Prince, Your Highness Prince Qi, why are you three here?"
Liu Hongji's sincere greetings.
To Li Shimin, he just nodded without greeting.
Li Jiancheng wanted to take the opportunity to complain, but Li Yuanji was the first to laugh and said: "I heard from Cai Yungong and Chen Shuda that you have gained a lot these days, so I came here to take a look."
Liu Hongji hurriedly said: "It's not a big gain, but it did hurt a lot of soldiers."
Li Yuanji nodded and smiled: "War is like this. We can kill the enemy, and the enemy can kill us. I can understand."
Liu Hongji breathed a sigh of relief and kept saying: "Your Highness, it's good to understand."
Li Yuanji smiled and nodded again, and ordered Liu Hongji to take the three of them around the city wall.
After walking from one end of the city wall to the other end of the city wall, personally condolences to all the soldiers, and personally helping to send some injured soldiers down the city wall, Li Yuanji, Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin stayed on the city wall without leaving.
Liu Hongji immediately understood why Li Yuanji came here and realized where the problem lay.
So when the sun set in the west and the Turks launched a new round of attack, Liu Hongji decisively changed his combat strategy. After the war was over, when the battle losses were counted, it turned out that the battle losses had dropped a lot.
However, the consumption of arrows, crossbows, rolling logs, stones, stone bullets and other items has increased a lot.
After the war, Cai Yungong and Chen Shuda rushed to the city wall to complain.
They did not complain that the ordnance used by Liu Hongji had begun to increase in price, but complained that it was unethical for Li Yuanji to take risks on the city wall while they were not paying attention.
In this regard, Li Yuanji did not explain much, but only said a few words of comfort.
It's not that he doesn't want to explain, it's that he can't explain it.
Because Liu Hongji rushed to the city gate building as soon as possible after the war to wait for instructions. With Liu Hongji around, it would be difficult for him to tell Cai Yungong and Chen Shuda why he, Li Jiancheng, and Li Shimin came to the city wall.
After all, saying something bad about someone in front of them is no different from a slap in the face.
After all, Liu Hongji was a veteran of the Tang Dynasty and the number one hero of the Wude Dynasty. If he slapped him in the face, it would not only humiliate him, but also make Li Yuan's face look bad if he knew about it.
"Your Highness, this place is dangerous. You should follow me and wait until you return to the Chinese army's tent to take charge."
When night fell, the Turks didn't know what was wrong, so they suddenly launched a sneak attack. Thousands of arrows were fired at the location of the city gate tower.
A dozen arrows easily penetrated the door of the city gate tower and appeared inside the city gate tower.
Chen Shuda, who was dealing with various documents with a light on, was startled when he saw this. He immediately stood up and while admonishing, he dragged Li Yuanji out.
Li Yuanji stood firmly on the spot and said in a confused voice: "Why are you panicking? Since I dare to sit here, I am naturally not afraid of the Turks' arrows missing."
Chen Shuda said anxiously: "Since the Turks' arrows only hit here, it means that you were discovered by the Turks when you were patrolling the city during the day.
You can't stay here any longer.
Otherwise, what greets you in the next round may not be a missing arrow, but a stone bullet."
Compared with missing arrows, stone bullets are obviously more lethal and pose a greater threat to the city gate building and everyone in the city gate building.
Liu Hongji also started to persuade him at this time.
On the contrary, Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin found a corner to nest, yawning and staring at the movement in the city gate building without speaking.
Li Jiancheng, who danced the most during the day and had the most objections to coming to the city gate building, didn't dance this time and didn't say anything.
Li Yuanji knew very well that it wasn't that Li Jiancheng didn't want to jump, but that he knew his intentions and was too lazy to jump.
Even though Li Jiancheng was unwilling to come to the city gate building, he would not be willing to leave alone or separate from Li Shimin.
He must now stay with Li Shimin all the time. Only in this way can he ensure his own safety.
He can stand up and expose Li Shimin's thoughts when Li Shimin has any conspiracy, making it difficult for Li Shimin to accomplish anything.
You can also work together with Li Shimin to find a way to pray for life when Li Yuanji suddenly wants to kill him and Li Shimin.
Anyway, whether Li Shimin turned over with the help of conspiracy or he left Li Shimin's side and Li Yuanji took the opportunity to kill Li Shimin, he would not be able to survive.
So he must stay with Li Shimin.
"Mr. Chen, I have my own plans for staying here. I will take care of my own safety. You don't need to persuade me anymore."
Li Yuanji pulled out his sleeve from Chen Shuda's hand and said helplessly.
Chen Shuda said sternly: "I know that you are extremely brave and have the courage to be unstoppable by ten thousand people. But arrows miss and stone bullets have no eyesight. If you really have any good or bad luck, how can you tell me how to follow the saint and how to follow Li Gong?"
Did they explain?"
Li Yuanji said seriously: "I will explain to my father and Mr. Li myself. You don't need to persuade me anymore."
Chen Shuda was annoyed and was about to use his venomous tongue.
At this time, Yu Wenbao appeared in the city gate building with his soldiers, knelt down on one knee and said: "I will defend His Highness to the death and will never let His Highness suffer any harm."
After saying that, a group of people built a human wall at the entrance of the city gate building, blocking the city gate building tightly and not giving any chance for arrows to fly in.
Seeing this, Chen Shuda couldn't do anything else to persuade him. He could only let out a long sigh and weakly sat back to his place.
With the human wall built by Yu Wenbao and others, the Turkic arrows never flew into the city gate building. A few stone bullets fell on the city gate building, but except for those in the city gate building,
Apart from a few cuts, no other damage was caused.
At least no one in the city gate building was harmed at all.
There was a lot of damage outside the city gate building.
Liu Hongji didn't need any instructions, he immediately ordered people to start using trebuchets, crossbows and other large ordnance.
The two sides fought fiercely back and forth for a full night.
In the early morning of the next day, Li Yuanji originally thought that the offensive would stop and both sides would take a break. However, he did not expect that the Turks would form various formations without waiting for dawn, and launch a new attack as soon as it was light.
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The battle never stopped from the beginning. Both sides divided their troops into several groups, took turns to fight, and fought fiercely at Xiao Pass day and night.
Starting from the fifth day, the battle losses on both sides increased rapidly.
From the initial battle loss of 2:1, it increased to a battle loss of 4:1, and it is still rising bit by bit.
It was not until the sixth day that both sides gave up and stopped fighting.
Liu Hongji and his men were busy reorganizing the troops, and Li Yuanji also looked at the various news coming from Shizhou, Weizeguan, Yanqing and Yinsui with peace of mind.
As for the news in Lingzhou West, there is nothing to pay attention to.
Because the soldiers and horses sent by Jieli to bypass Lingzhou entered the border of Liangzhou, they fell into the ambush set by An Xinggui in advance. The two sides fought fiercely for two days, and the Turks lost more than 20,000 soldiers and horses.
Next, they had to retreat to the north of Lingzhou and gave up the idea of detouring to Lingzhou to attack Huizhou.
So what we need to pay attention to right now are the wars in Xiaoguan, Yanqing, Yinsui, Shizhou and other places.
The battle situation in Yanqing was similar to that in Xiaoguan. Jieli only sent more than 30,000 troops to attack Yanqing, and the battle was back and forth with the more than 10,000 troops led by the Qingzhou garrison. No one could do anything to the other.
The battle situation in Yinsui was a bit bad. Jieli sent more than 60,000 troops to attack Yinsui. When Xue Shou, Yu Zhining and others rushed to Yinsui, they happened to encounter Lanshi's Turkic troops.
In Yinsui, together with Yinsui's Turkic army, totaling 80,000 troops, they attacked the pass of Suizhou.
After Xue Shou recruited the young men of Suizhou, he led them, together with the reinforcements he brought, and the defenders of Suizhou, and launched a fierce battle with the Turks.
It lasted for a day and a night, and after losing more than 9,000 people, the Turks were barely driven back.
During this period, the Turks attacked Guancheng in Suizhou six times.
After Li Shenfu and Yin Kaishan arrived in Suizhou, they immediately wrote a memorial to Xiao Guan. There was only one content in the memorial, which was to ask for help.
After a day and night of fierce fighting with the Turks, in which more than 9,000 people were lost, Suizhou's military strength was reduced sharply to more than 8,000 people. More than 8,000 people could not hold Suizhou.
Therefore, after re-defending Suizhou, all Li Shenfu and Yin Kaishan could do was to ask for help from the imperial court.
Also sent was a memorial by Xue Shou. Xue Shou said in the memorial that although the young men of Suizhou were recruited to participate in several wars during the Sui Dynasty and after the founding of the Tang Dynasty, they still could not follow the established soldiers.
Horses are not as good as horses, and even inferior to the government soldiers who are registered in various places and often organized together for training. They cannot be reused and can only be used to carry ordnance and food.
Therefore, he, Li Shenfu, Yin Kaishan, Yu Zhining and others were unable to obtain additional military strength from Suizhou itself and several states adjacent to Suizhou.
Therefore, it is necessary for the imperial court to send reinforcements as soon as possible.