Li Jiancheng roared angrily: "You are treating us like monkeys!"
Li Yuanji smiled calmly and said: "You don't have to be monkeys!"
Li Jiancheng was so shocked that he was speechless.
Is it possible not to be a monkey?
no!
If you don't want to be a monkey, you have to accept your fate, but he doesn't want to accept his fate, and Li Shimin certainly doesn't want to either.
Therefore, even if he is treated like a monkey, he and Li Shimin still have to resist and plan to make a comeback.
Seeing that Li Jiancheng had stopped talking, Li Yuanji smiled and said, "See, you are quite happy to be monkeys."
Li Jiancheng looked at him angrily.
Li Yuanji said indifferently: "Since you are quite happy to be monkeys, then don't blame me for treating you like monkeys."
Li Jiancheng continued to sneer at him, and at this time Li Shimin left and returned.
Li Shimin didn't do anything else after he went out. He just put on a suit of armor, equipped with a horse spear, a horizontal sword, and a strong bow, and then came back.
After returning to the main hall of the county government office, he ignored Li Jiancheng, who was looking like a cockfighter, and said directly: "The Turks have already invaded Baima, and the next step should be to invade and stabilize. Once the Turks conquer Anding, all of Qingzhou will be destroyed."
The territory will fall into the hands of the Turks.
Since you have decided to use Qingzhou as a battlefield, you can no longer allow the Turks to continue advancing.
Once the Turks take over all of Gyeongju, we will have no choice but to fight the Turks in Ningzhou.
Gyeongju has now been devastated by the Turks. If we fight the Turks in Gyeongju, there will be no other damage except the loss of troops.
But if the Turks are allowed to enter Ningzhou, Ningzhou will follow in the footsteps of Qingzhou."
Li Yuanji stopped joking with Li Jiancheng, nodded after listening to Li Shimin's words and said: "It is true that the Turks cannot be allowed to continue to advance, but I have ordered Chen Shuda to send orders to Ningzhou and Pizhou to start strengthening the walls and clearing the country.
Even if the Turks take over all of Gyeongju and enter Ningzhou, there should not be much damage."
Li Shimin said solemnly with a straight face: "Under the strong walls and clear fields, the people of Ningzhou will not suffer any harm, but I am afraid that Ningzhou's autumn grain will be burned up.
Even if we want to expand the battlefield, even if we want to send Turkic fever into Ningzhou, we still have to wait until the people of Ningzhou have harvested their autumn crops.
Today, Tongchuan, Anhua, Yimaguan, Panjiao, Lepan, and Anding, where the state is governed, are still in the hands of the Tang Dynasty.
We can completely use these counties to keep the Turks firmly in Gyeongju."
Li Yuanji said thoughtfully: "What about Yanzhou and Suizhou?"
According to everyone's previous speculation at Xiaoguan, the Turks will still march into Suizhou, and even attack the line from Shizhou to Weizeguan from a distance.
The Turks' march route did not change, they just moved the battlefield from outside the Tang Dynasty to inside the Tang Dynasty.
In this way, the interior of the Tang Dynasty would suffer considerable damage, and the areas near the border would become the main battlefield against the Turks.
Li Shenfu in Suizhou and Li Xiaogong in Shizhou are both at risk of being attacked from both sides.
Rushing from Qingzhou to Suizhou, you have to pass through Yanzhou. If the Turks want to enter Suizhou, they must conquer Yanzhou... Therefore, when deploying the defense of Qingzhou, Yanzhou must also be deployed.
We still have to keep an eye on the war in Suizhou.
Li Shimin still said seriously: "Didn't you ask Su Dingfang, Luo Shixin, and Daozong to come over? Let Daozong guard Yonghe Pass and try to prevent the war in Suizhou from spreading to Taiyuan Prefecture.
Let either Su Dingfang or Luo Shixin guard Danzhou and try to prevent the war in Yanzhou from spreading southward.
All that's left is for us to compete directly with the Turks."
Li Yuanji nodded thoughtfully.
Let Li Daozong guard Yonghe Pass, keep the Turks in Suizhou, prevent the Turks from appearing in Taiyuan Prefecture, prevent the Turks from directly attacking the line from Shizhou to Weize Pass, or wreak havoc in Jinzhou within Taiyuan Prefecture
Quite easy.
Because Li Daozong was in Luoyang, the distance from Luoyang to Yongheguan was also short, and there was no fighting along the way. It could be said that it was smooth sailing.
After abandoning his baggage, Li Daozong could reach Yonghe Pass in three to five days.
But it would be difficult for either Su Dingfang or Luo Shixin to guard Danzhou.
Because Su Dingfang and Luo Shixin are now at the intersection of Daizhou and Hengzhou, which is full of mountains. The mountains are spreading. It would take Su Dingfang and his party five days to just walk out of the mountains, let alone rush from Daizhou to Danzhou.
From Daizhou to Danzhou, there is a full 1,600 miles in between, and there are many mountainous roads on the way.
By the time Su Dingfang and his party arrived from Daizhou to Danzhou, it would probably be more than a month later. Even if they abandoned the heavy baggage and traveled light, they would still have to travel for more than half a month.
After more than half a month, every place in Yanzhou will probably be occupied by Turks, and Danzhou will also be troubled by Turks.
Therefore, it is not advisable to expect either Su Dingfang or Luo Shixin to guard Danzhou.
Li Shimin saw that Li Yuanji just nodded thoughtfully but said nothing. He seemed to have guessed what Li Yuanji was thinking, and immediately said: "You can first dispatch two of the twelve guards to Danzhou to garrison, and wait until Su Dingfang and Luo Shixin
After any one of them arrives in Danzhou, Danzhou will be handed over to them."
Li Yuanji nodded slowly, with this arrangement there would be no problem.
Although the generals and lieutenants in the Twelve Guards are not as capable as Su Dingfang and Luo Shixin, they are not bad, otherwise they would not be selected into the Twelve Guards.
If they temporarily replaced either Su Dingfang or Luo Shixin to command the army to resist the Turks, the Turks would not be able to break through Danzhou's defense for a while.
After all, Danzhou itself also had troops and horses from the Danzhou Governor's Office to assist in its defense. Three troops and horses, plus three generals who commanded the troops, were enough to block the troops and horses sent by the Turks to invade Danzhou.
"What about us, how should we deploy?"
Li Yuanji stared at Li Shimin and asked.
Li Shimin's ability was particularly outstanding when it came to leading troops in battles, so Li Yuanji believed in Li Shimin and believed that Li Shimin would not hide his secrets or cause any trouble in such a war.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Li Shimin said sternly: "Let Hou Junji lead the troops of the headquarters, as well as the soldiers of Ning and Pingzhou, plus the first guard and ten soldiers who came later.
The soldiers and horses of the second guard continued to defend against the Turks.
Let’s lead the soldiers and horses we brought to Maling to test the strength of the Turks.”…Li Yuanji pondered: “Should we feign an attack, or rush to the aid of Maling?”
Li Shimin said seriously: "This is a test! If my predictions are correct, the troops sent by Jieli to attack Maling, Baima, and Huachi this time should not be too strong, and should be around 40,000 to 60,000."
Li Yuanji thought about it and said, "Have most of the other troops been sent by Jieli to attack Yansui?"
Li Shimin nodded without hesitation.
Li Yuanji also roughly understood the direction of Jieli's battle and the intention of the battle.
Although he had some guesses when he was in Xiaoguan and did some analysis after arriving in Qingzhou, after Li Shimin's explanation and analysis, the guesses and analyzes in his mind became clearer.
Jie Li's most important combat goal at the moment is to open another gap on the border of Datang.
Jieli did not dare to send more troops southward until another gap was opened.
"Then without further ado, let's set off, shall we?"
Li Yuanji asked Li Shimin for his opinion.
Li Shimin nodded again without hesitation.
Li Yuanji immediately ordered Yu Wenbao to beat drums to assemble the army, and led the army to Maling at noon.
Maling is on the Maling River, which is also the Maling River in later generations.
The river has flowed on the territory of Maling for thousands of years, gradually carving out a grand canyon, and Maling County is on the edge of the canyon.
In fact, most of the places where rivers flow in the Shaanxi-Gansu region are like this. Under the erosion of the river water, canyons are carved out one after another.
It's just that the canyon in Maling is exceptionally long and the scenery is exceptionally beautiful. Not only are it surrounded by green mountains, there are also waterfalls and rapids, and there are countless crevices and valleys in the ground.
According to later generations' measurements, the canyon of Maling is more than 150 miles long, with more than 80 dangerous shoals, more than 70 deep pools, and more than 60 bends.
When Li Yuanji and his entourage arrived at Maling, the snow had already covered the greenery on the mountains, and some of the already withered leaves had been knocked down one by one by the flying snow, leaving only the lonely tree branches with no rules at all.
There, there was still a pile of snow piled on the branches of the trees.
There are waterfalls and rapids, and the cracks in the ground and the valley are filled with biting cold wind, making it impossible for people to get close enough to appreciate the beauty of nature.
Yu Wenbao sent out the scouts before entering Maling, so when Li Yuanji and his party entered Maling, the current situation in various places in Maling was clearly understood.
"The people responsible for attacking Maling are the Western Turks' branch of the Geluolu tribe. There are more than 10,000 people. They have been attacking Maling for several days. At present, Baijiabao and other places under Maling's rule have been conquered.
Only one county town is left struggling to support itself.
It is said that all the defenders and government officials in the county have died, and now the county captain is relying on some temporarily recruited rural warriors in the city to resist the Turks."
On the edge of the Grand Canyon, Li Yuanji sat on horseback, staring at the mountains on the other side of the canyon, and Yu Wenbao handed over his hand to report.
"Take advantage of the strength?"
Li Shimin, who was also riding a horse and stopped steadily on the side, looked surprised. "Isn't the Taqiang tribe a large tribe of the Western Turks? It is also one of the royal tribes of the Western Turks. How could it defect to the Eastern Turks?"
You must know that the strength of the Western Turks is not inferior to that of the Eastern Turks, and the leader of the Western Turks, Yehu Khan, is also a heroic leader.
During his reign, he was united with Tiele in the north, Persia in the west, and Jibin in the south. He dominated the Western Regions and moved to Qianquan in the north of the Ten Kingdoms. He was honored as Jielifa by all the countries in the Western Regions.
That is what it means to be the king of nations.
The Taqiang tribe is a branch of the Geluolu tribe where Tong Yehu Khan was born. To be precise, it is a surname in this tribe.
In addition, there are the Mouluo tribe and the Chiqi tribe. The three tribes are actually one tribe, collectively known as the three surnames Ge Luolu. And because their leader is named Ye Hu, they are also called the three surnames Ye Hu.
Tong Yehu was not only the Khan of the Western Turks, but also the patriarch of the third surname Geluolu.
As a branch of the Tongyehu clan, how could the Taqiang tribe betray Tongyehu?
Li Shimin didn't understand a little.
Li Jiancheng also didn't understand.
This is just like Wuyangfang or Danyangfang, which are branches of the Li family in Longxi, betrayed the Li family in Longxi and went to Liang Shidu or Li Yi. It is completely impossible for people to understand and believe it.
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