After this, the army's advancement speed increased by more than a level. After Qinzhou came out, it passed through Weizhou and Lanzhou. It was originally thought that it needed to go to the road in April. With the help of skateboards and weather, it fell at the end of January
Arrived in Lanzhou.
Go forward and reach the Hehuang Valley, and Tuyuhun is now in Qinghai, with only two essential areas, one is the Hehuang Valley, and the other is the Qinghai Lake to the west.
It can be said that when the Tang army arrived in Lanzhou, Tuyuhun naturally felt the threat, and at the same time he also knew about the arrival of the Tang army.
To be honest, the situation in front of us is different from the situation in the Tang Dynasty against Tuyuhun in history.
In history, Tuyuhun army looted all quarters. With the cover of the snowstorm, before the arrival of the Tang army, it successfully retreated to Shancheng, which has relatively safe and relatively complete terrain. It has the qualification to fight with the main force of the Tang Dynasty and cannot be beaten.
That's another story.
But this time, relying on the unexpected maneuverability brought by the entire army to master the snowboard, the Tang army arrived far faster than Tuyuhun's expectations. They did not expect that the Tang army would arrive in Lanzhou in just one month in the wind and snow.
At this time, Li Jing also organized the army and began to discuss military affairs.
"It seems that Murong Fuyun from Tuyuhun had never expected that we could pass through the wind and snow so quickly to get here."
Li Jing said this and looked at Li Tai beside him and said, "I still have to thank King Yan for his snowboard!"
"It's a simple task, it's a simple task!" Li Tai greeted him humbly and retreated decisively.
"Manager Li, although the skateboard allows us to travel smoothly, the army is extremely tired after rushing thousands of miles. It is already the end of its strength. I suggest resting on the spot, at least to restore the soldiers' combat effectiveness!" Li Daliang said.
"No!" Hou Junji said, "It is precisely because we have been rushing here with the advantage of skateboarding that we have the opportunity to get to know each other first. Naturally, we have to take advantage of Murong Fuyun's return and go straight to the Hehuang Valley.
Defeat Shancheng and cut off Murong Fuyun's retreat."
"General Hou Jun, even if the retreat route was cut off, Tuyuhun could completely allow the troops to escape from the Shazhou in Ganzhou.
We intercepted and plundered all the way to obtain supplies. We had no army behind him. He would definitely be able to run if he wanted to run!" Li Daozong thought,
"I also support General Li Daliang's opinion. We will rest in Lanzhou. One is waiting for Murong Fuyun to come and fight to the decisive battle, the other is waiting for Qiheli's Tiel cavalry to come!"
"I'm so stupid. We finally got the first advantage, so you can rest!" Hou Junji couldn't help but angrily.
"General Hou, it's useless to be angry when fighting like this." Gao Zengsheng also said,
"Our army has crossed the snow-capped mountains of several states. Along the way, who has the troops who have fully maintained their combat effectiveness? The army does take some time to renovate."
In short, except for Hou Junji, most people do not support adventure.
After all, the snowy sky stems are based on this, and most people agree to first reply to the state of the army and then decide on the offensive strategy.
Hou Junji looked around, but no one supported him, and he couldn't help but feel angry.
But this is a military ritual, and losing your temper is useless. Who is not a general in the army? Hou Junji couldn't help but look at Li Jing, hoping that Li Jing would make a wise decision.
Li Jing also frowned. To be honest, Li Jing has considered them a lot compared to them.
Simply put, for Li Jing, he would destroy the country, earn a lot of merit for his retirement career, and let himself recall his youth, which would be a glory without regrets.
Therefore, Li Jing needs to fight this war, but his goal is not within his plan.
If according to normal history, because Murong Fuyun is in Shancheng, Li Tai doesn't need to think too much, chase and kill all the way, because behind him is the basic foundation of Tuyuhun, he can only keep retreating and being chased and killed.
Li Jing completely killed Tuyuhun.
But now Murong Fuyun is not in Shancheng. What Li Jing is worried about is that after he took Shancheng down, Murong Fuyun did not dare to confront Tang army head-on, but ran directly to the Shanzhou Ganzhou and went to the Western Regions.
In trouble.
After all, Li Jing is not afraid of head-on fights, but even a military god-level figure like Li Jing is very troublesome to deal with.
Therefore, Li Jing did not want to give up his military initiative, but he also hoped to have a decisive battle with Tuyuhun!
Li Jing had some thoughts in his mind, but he saw Li Tai carefully looking at the map and said to Li Tai.
"King Yan, what do you think? Let me tell you too!"
When everyone heard Li Jing ask Li Tai to speak, everyone present was stunned.
Because in their opinion, King Yan is a very strong administrative ability and has some clever cleverness that he does not understand.
But in military terms, Li Tai really has no ability to show off except for the label of Li Shimin's son.
"Am I?" Li Tai asked again when facing Li Jing, but was a little unconfident.
"Please let the King of Yan say it clearly!" Li Jing encouraged Li Tai. After all, he couldn't really treat Li Tai as a mascot!
Moreover, Li Jing still recognizes Li Tai's strategic ability.
Whether it was the original fishing plan or the food supply during the expedition to the Western Turks, to be honest, Li Jing may not believe it.
But Li Tai's strategic ability Li Jing feels that if one of the generals present calculates the other, Li Tai may not be able to see through it.
This is also the reason why Li Jing asked Li Tai to say that Li Tai earned it through hard work over the years.
"My thought is that Aye is to let us destroy Tuyuhun, and at least Tuyuhun has not had the ability to fight with my Tang Dynasty for twenty years. Of course, if it can be reorganized, it will naturally be reorganized." Li
Tai looked around and said to everyone.
When everyone heard Li Tai's words, they all seemed to be listening carefully, but in fact they were all in a daze.
Li Tai was not angry, but continued, "On the basis of this strategy, we have two ways to achieve our goals.
One is to find a way to directly kill Murong Fuyun, and the other is to kill the living forces of the Tuyuhun clan."
"This is easy to say. King Yan, please explain it clearly at once!" Gao Zengsheng urged.
Li Tai glanced at Momo and took a note in his heart, and then continued, "Then naturally two thoughts emerged.
One is to allow some troops to continue to attack the Hehuang Valley and attract Murong Fuyun to arrive.
Then the large army formed an encirclement of Murong Yunfu and ate Murong Fuyun by surrounding the point and attacking aid."
Hearing this, everyone's eyes lit up. Unexpectedly, Li Tai could come up with such a solution.
"King Yan continued to say!" Even Li Jing did not expect that Li Tai still had some military talent.
Li Tai was encouraged to continue speaking, "As for the second point, it is to surround the point and attack the aid. If Murong Fuyun cannot be killed.
Then our army needs an army to bite Murong Fuyun, and he will chase him wherever he escapes.
Murong Fuyun is the inspiration we released, attracting all the living forces within the sphere of influence of Tuyuhun, allowing the cavalry to chase and kill and slaughter the whole way behind.
Borrowing the last prestige of Murong Fuyun, the stray dog, plow the land of Tuyuhun, and kill Tuyuhun to the greatest extent possible, so that we can take over the land of Tuyuhun."
After Li Tai finished speaking the second point, the generals present looked at Li Tai with surprise.
They didn't expect that Li Tai was young, but his plan was so ruthless.
It would be fine if Murong Fuyun died in battle while fighting aid at the surround point. If he really escaped, he would probably have to squeeze out the last bit of value like he was walking a dog.
He even had the prestige passed down from the Murong era to shatter. In the future, Tuyuhun was afraid that he would never have the courage to fight with the Tang Dynasty again.
Li Tai looked around and always felt that the people around him looked at him with a strange look, but Li Tai felt that his thoughts were quite normal. Isn’t it normal for military aid to surround and fight for aid?
Isn’t this a basic operation to take advantage of the loss of the organizational characteristics of the defeated army itself to completely destroy the stability of the region and then let the Tang army appear as a kingly army?
Of course, at the strategic level, Li Tai can tell the truth about how to start.
But if Li Tai has a practical experience, Li Tai's practical ability still needs to eat more experience.
Li Jing nodded. When planning at the strategic level, King Yan was very outstanding. He even gave himself two ideas, including remedial measures after the failure of the first plan. But in fact, King Yan did not do it again in operation.
What was proposed?
Obviously, how to implement the entire plan is to continue, this is my own problem.
"The King of Yan has a very good idea, so I will surround him and help him!" Li Jing nodded and said,
"We followed this idea to implement the overall tactics, and the army would advance the Hehuang Valley at a normal speed.
It also facilitates the army to take turns to rest and recuperate, allowing the soldiers to re-adapt to the state of the battlefield.
I would like to abandon Tuyuhun in the city ahead, but if Shancheng (Xining) is lost, the entire Hehuang Valley will be in the hands of my Tang Dynasty.
As long as the Shancheng has not changed hands yet, Murong Fuyun will climb back to Shancheng to fight us."
At this time, Li Jing pointed to the encirclement on the map and continued to say:
"The next thing we have to do is to cut off the connection between Shancheng and the city behind Tuyu to ensure the synthesis of the encirclement network.
There are two roads in total, one is the road, which can enter Qinghai (Huangyuan, Linfan City in the Tang Dynasty, but there is no such city yet).
One is a small path (Huangzhong), where two generals need to travel through mountains and rivers, detour to these two places, and cooperate with the army's attack!"
"It's up to me!" Hou Junji was the first to stand up and spoke.
"I led the army to detour Tuyuhun and cooperated with the army to launch an attack on Shancheng.
I still like to take the initiative in the battlefield myself, and I don’t like to wait!"
"If so, then I will lead my subordinates to garrison the path!" Li Tai recommended himself.
"King Yan!" Li Jing frowned when he heard Li Tai's self-recommendation. He didn't want Li Tai to go.
Li Tai said, "My army is not good at frontal attacks. If you participate in the siege and attack aid, you will easily be broken through. Since this is the case, it is better to walk the path and go to the path to ambush.
Will you encounter an enemy at that time? Another thing is that even if you encounter an enemy, even if you can't keep the enemy, you should have no problem!
As for the second point, it is because the battle division under my command is talented. Compared with other troops, it is much easier to climb mountains and ridges with the help of tools than other battle divisions."
When everyone heard Li Tai's words, they thought about it, but no one opposed Li Tai's statement.
It may not be possible if Li Tai's Battle Department is said to be strong, but it is because Li Tai's Battle Department is good at using various tools, and he can have another solution to problems when encountering problems under Li Tai's thinking. This is the advantage of Li Tai's Battle Department.
When Li Jing heard Li Tai's words, he thought for a while and said, "King Yan, you and your war department are newcomers. I do not require you to be able to judge when to send troops based on the opportunity, just like Duke Chen.
I only ask one thing: Don’t act without action after you arrive at the trail. Just lie on the trail as you said.
Even if there is no enemy arrest, you will make great contributions by giving your skateboard shoes to the first advantage you have gained in the army!”
"Please rest assured, Mr. Li, I am the most obedient!" Li Tai nodded quickly.
Li Tai really didn't plan to joke about his life. He didn't listen to Li Jing's command and did it randomly. This is not seeking death. He doesn't want to be Ma Su's second.
Li Jing was relieved when he heard Li Tai's promise. No matter what, Li Tai was not a person who was willing to do something.
Moreover, Li Tai's usual style of doing things is mainly steady. This time, he just asked Li Tai to ambush the road. Apart from the hardship of wind and snow, there should be no problem...
"In this way, what else do you have to ask for? While you are still with the army, try to raise what you can if you can." Li Jing said.
"I want to give each person another ten kilograms of chicken pieces to prepare one person and two horses for our army. When appropriate, I will launch a sprint from the back of the opponent, and bring a few more guides to avoid being consumed by accident on the road!"
Hou Junji was not very polite and immediately made his request.
"Everything is ready for you." Li Jing nodded. It was not uncommon for crossing mountains and ridges to cause the disappearance of the guide.
Li Jing then turned his attention to Li Tai.
Li Tai was naturally not polite and said directly, "Well... if I say that, can you give me two thousand crossbows? Each of them will give me a few more pots of crossbow arrows!"
Li Jing glanced at Li Tai, but he didn't expect Li Tai to have this request. He thought for a while and said, "Yes."
Li Jing would agree to Li Tai. The main reason was that at this time, due to the system of the government troops, the government troops brought their own bows and arrows, so crossbows were relatively not mainstream. If you really need long-range attacks, use the bow top.
Just one.
Moreover, Li Jing was much relieved to ask Li Tai for more crossbows.
After all, no matter how you look at crossbows, they are not offensive equipment, but defensive equipment.
In this case, Li Tai listened to his warnings, so he equipped Li Tai with more crossbows. To be honest, Li Jing was still very relieved.
After arranging Li Tai and Hou Junji, they went to break Murong Fuyun's retreat. The remaining army began to build a siege net, using Shancheng as bait to attract Murong Fuyun who was robbing Wuwei and step into this siege.