Many people who are familiar with Li Shan feel that this young man has amazing intuition in some aspects. Everything is still hidden in the fog, so Li Shan can make the most accurate judgment.
For example, before the defeat of Xiabo, Li Shan urged Li Daoxuan to be cautious. After the war, Li Shimin reviewed the battle in Tiance Mansion and praised Li Shan greatly. On the one hand, Li Shan suspected that the three previous victories of the Tang army were caused by Liu Heitai luring the enemy.
The plan, on the other hand, was the reason for Li Shan's admonition at that time. The so-called right time, right place, right people and no one are at hand.
At that time, Fang Xuanling also praised Li Shan for being as meticulous as his hair and knowing the smallest details.
The same situation occurred at the end of the sixth year of Wude, when the recruitment of Yuan Junzhang was blocked. Li Shan boldly turned around and attacked at night on the way back, beheading Yu Sheshe and forcing Yuan Junzhang to surrender.
If one cannot make an accurate analysis and judgment of the internal situation in the Turks, such a move is almost a recipe for death.
It cannot be said that Li Shan has no ability, but this ability relies to a large extent on his identity as a time traveler, because he clearly knew that he would definitely lose the battle of Xiaba. Otherwise, how could the prince Li Jiancheng in history be able to personally conquer Hebei and kill Liu
What about Heita's military exploits?
Li Shan also clearly remembered how Tuli Khan sat back and watched before the Eastern Turks were overthrown by the Tang Dynasty, and almost took action with the Tang army.
But in mid-June of the eighth year of Takeori, Li Shan made a bold prediction for the first time without being able to verify it from his past life memories. He made a bold prediction based on his own vision and his understanding of Ashina Sheer.
, Judgments based on the perceptions of Jieli Khan, Tuli Khan, Li Shenfu and others.
It cannot be said that Li Shan's judgment was wrong, but the origin of everything was unexpected by Li Shan.
On June 19, Xiangyi King Li Shenfu angrily led 5,000 Tang soldiers to attack. His target was a small tribe that had been attached more than a month ago.
There was a severe cold in the grassland at the end of last year, and countless cattle and sheep died of the cold. Except for the Ashina children in Wuyuan County, these livestock are the roots of the grassland tribes. Under such circumstances, many small tribes have moved south one after another in an attempt to annex the Tang Dynasty.
to tide over the difficulties.
Unlike his brother Li Shentong, King of Huai'an on the Longyou Road, Li Shenfu ordered to defeat several tribes one after another. Why not accept the military exploits that came to his door?
At that time, Li Shenfu was about to grab the position of marching director of Lingzhou Road. He was so happy that he fell from the sky.
As soon as the incident spread, even the tribes who sincerely attached themselves did not dare to come. This lasted until March. Because Li Shenfu and Duan Decao were incompatible, Pei Longqian and Xi Nidi came up with the idea of ​​attracting tribes to join.
This time, Li Shenfu did not go on a killing spree, but sent an envoy to lure the tribe to join, but he put forward a condition...donation of sheep and horses.
The Lingzhou Army had extraordinary combat capabilities, and was guarded by Yang Shidao and Li Daozong successively. However, as these two famous generals were transferred successively, there was a serious flaw in the army, which was the lack of war horses.
In the past few years, Hedong has repeatedly defeated the Turks, largely relying on the large number of war horses that Li Shan opened up trade routes. However, some of these war horses were dispersed among the people as horses, and some were sent to Longxi Racecourse as fine breeds. The rest
Most of them are in the Bingzhou Army and Daizhou Army. If there are any leftovers, they will be sent to Jingzhao first and will not be provided to Lingzhou.
Why did Li Shan defeat the Turks three times? His excellent war horses were the most important part. Li Shenfu was not stupid. If he wanted to make great achievements, a large number of war horses were indispensable.
Therefore, Li Shenfu took advantage of the fire and made a condition of donating sheep and horses... As long as it was included, every three people would have one sheep, and every ten people would have one horse.
However, the tribes within it originally went south because a large number of their livestock were frozen to death. The small tribes were able to join in, but the slightly larger tribes were really unwilling to give away all their wealth. In this case, people would appear from time to time.
Small-scale rebellion.
However, Li Shenfu didn't take it seriously. Now there were more than ten thousand Tang troops in Lingzhou. If the troops were insufficient, he could summon more than ten thousand soldiers from the four prefectures with an order. He would personally lead the troops and calmly wipe them out one by one.
In June, three thousand Jihu people went south and arrived thirty miles northeast of Lingzhou. They sent envoys to try to move in. When they heard that the Tang Dynasty wanted to collect donations of sheep and horses, they immediately rioted and looted several surrounding villages.
Li Shenfu led 5,000 Tang troops to attack. It cannot be said that he was careless. His opponent only had 3,000 Jihu, 3,000 Tang cavalry, and 2,000 infantry, which was enough to defeat them.
But the accident happened on the evening of June 19th. Perhaps it was not an accident, but a long-planned raid.
Three thousand Tang cavalry easily defeated Jihu's front formation, but the latter fled eastward. Li Shenfu personally led the army in pursuit for forty miles, but he got into the opponent's prepared pocket.
The blood-like sunset was gradually obscured by the mountains, and night had fallen. Li Shenfu, who was breathing heavily, heard the deafening shouts of killing around him, and his eyes were full of panic. How could this happen?
how so?!
More than an hour ago, Li Shenfu led his cavalry to pursue them here. Ambushes were everywhere, and two cavalrymen of up to 3,000 men attacked from both sides. The Jihu tribesmen who were fleeing turned back to fight back.
Although Tang Qi rushed into the battle sharply and was well-equipped, there was nothing he could do in this situation. The most important thing was that Li Shenfu was hesitant to command before the battle. When the army was disrupted, Li Shenfu did not lead the army.
Instead of gathering troops to fight back, they very "smartly" continued eastward, making a circle and escaping from the pocket formation.
The fate of the more than a thousand cavalrymen left behind by Li Shenfu was already doomed. The more than a thousand cavalrymen who escaped ran back desperately, discarding their helmets and armor along the way, and were in great embarrassment.
But what Li Shenfu didn't expect was that the opponent's troops were so strong. He had already cut off his tail to survive, but there were still five to six thousand enemy cavalry chasing him, and the remaining army was quickly trapped here.
"No, it can't be the Turks." Li Shenfu managed to remain calm. He was not stupid. He had long known that the Turks were in civil strife. If the Turks were attacking, the scouts would definitely report back. The nearly 10,000 Turkic army could not remain silent.
lurking less than a hundred miles away from Lingzhou.
"What is that?" Li Shenfu suddenly narrowed his pupils, and in the enemy formation not far away, under the reflection of torches, a large flag was raised high.
The guard next to him squinted for a moment, his face extremely ugly, "Your Highness, it's Master Liang, it's Master Liang!"
Li Shenfu's face turned blue and white, and he suddenly cursed: "It's all the children of the Duan family who are causing the trouble!"
The guards on the side didn't say anything. Indeed, Master Liang was beaten badly by Duan Decao, the then general manager of Yanzhou, a few years ago, but this doesn't seem to be a reason, right?
Liang Shidu was not like Jieli Khan, whose only son died at the hands of the King of Handan. How could he abandon Yanzhou and attack Lingzhou just because Duan Decao was transferred to the deputy general manager of Lingzhou Road March?
You know, in the first year of Wude, Liang Shidu frequently attacked Lingzhou, just because Shi Yangze, the governor of Lingzhou at that time, Yang Shidao, the two general managers, and Li Daozong were all good enough... In other words, Li Daozong is now in Lingzhou
Shen Fu is in charge, so Master Liang has to come to pinch the soft persimmon.
what to do?
what to do?
Li Shenfu was sweating like rain, thinking in his mind, if the other party wanted to surrender, should he refuse a few more times?