Chapter 3 Beacon Fire (Five Strikes) Xuzi can understand that Qin Shubao's suggestion is out of good intentions. Judging from the hostile attitude of Zhang Gongjin and others towards Gan Luo, in order to allow several soldiers and horses to cooperate without any suspicion, he should also
Leading Gan Luo to charge for the Sui Dynasty once can be regarded as making up for his mistakes or serving as his master. If he cannot accept this request, it will be difficult to mobilize reinforcements from all walks of life as a fourth-grade general.
Qin Shubao was injured, Yun Dingxing was old, Luo Shixin's official position was low, and Li Shimin's prestige was insufficient. Now in Nao County, only he and Dugu Lin could convince all the generals.
Looks like a heavy responsibility
"I am willing to listen to General Li's orders!" Some people clasped their fists and saluted, expressing their willingness to obey Li Xu's orders. Half of them did this because of Li Xu's reputation, and the other half was because they had witnessed Gan Luo's ferocity.
Everyone was so impressed. The direct reason why many Sui generals fell from their horses was because even though those war horses had undergone strict training, when they saw a calf or a wolf jumping towards them, they would still throw their masters off their backs.
If the Sui army in turn used this thing to retaliate against the Turks, those who were thrown off their horses and died under random swords would be the other side. You don’t need to see the result. It’s very satisfying to think about it.
"There are still people who can command Gan Luo. I'm afraid that things will go wrong!" Li Xu raised his voice slightly and emphasized again that he could not accept everyone's suggestions. If he led Gan Luo to charge into the battle, the Turks would definitely order Tao Kuo to take action.
In that way, in order to finally ensure the advantage on the battlefield, he has the only option left.
"Who else can command and move this wolf? Let's kill him first!" Luo Shixin blurted out the words.
"Yes, General Li just leads the team forward. General Luo and I will protect you and someone will come up to greet Gan Luo. Everyone will immediately serve him with bows and arrows from a distance!" Hou Junji's idea was also very direct. In order to win, he did not think it was necessary to return to Gan Luo.
Is there any price that cannot be paid?
Gan Luo, who was hovering next to Xu Zi's legs, seemed to understand the meaning of everyone's words. He quickly lowered his body and let out a series of roars from his throat. This was a sign that he would show up when he was threatened, even if the threatener surrounded him heavily.
It will defend its power and dignity with its teeth
The people who were clamoring to be Li Xu's guards were all startled and instinctively closed their mouths. Xu Zi quickly squatted down and gently stroked the fur on Gan Luo's neck, "Gan Luo, don't be ridiculous, they don't mean any harm!"
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"Huh huh - huh huh!" Gan Luo threatened the people nearby while looking at Xu Zi with his bright golden eyes. His eyes were as deep as the crescent moon lake, containing trust and expectation for a moment.
Xuzi almost thought she understood Gan Luo's thoughts. He was not protesting for himself, but for Tao Kuo Tuosi, the mistress with whom he had been dependent for many years. He could not be harmed in the slightest in front of him.
"Okay, okay! Gan Luo, don't be naughty!" Xuzi's voice became gentler, and her tall body no longer had any domineering look.
Zhang Gongjin let out a low sigh, and immediately frowned. For some reason, he had been observing the most popular general in the Sui Dynasty in recent years, and he came to the conclusion that he was disappointed: "General Li Lang is not a worthy person."
The follower, Zhang Gongjin, secretly concluded in his heart, "Although his martial arts and strategies are very admirable, he lacks the ruthlessness that a person who achieves great things should have!" In Zhang Gongjin's eyes, a true hero must always remain rational and Li
First, General Lang did not hesitate to offend the brothers who were guarding the city in order to protect a wolf, and now he took the opportunity to appease the beast and turned a blind eye to everyone's enthusiasm. All these performances proved that he was an indecisive common man who could not afford to let go. He was in vain.
The surname is Li. Such a person is only worthy of being a wedding dress. There is absolutely no chance of achieving great success in troubled times.
"The other person who can greet Gan Luo must be a woman!" Qin Shubao was careful and guessed the tenth from the movements of Xu Zi's hands and the expression on his face. "Zhong Jian was only fourteen or five at that time.
, The romantic debts of youth and ignorance!" He gave a knowing smile, and then shook his head gently.
Under the comfort of his owner, Gan Luo slowly stopped roaring, but he was obviously worried about the people around him. His pointed ears kept shaking. Whenever there was a slightly louder noise around him, his eyes immediately swept over like lightning.
After a while, it finally settled down, and Xuzi also took this opportunity to stabilize his shaking mood. He slowly stood up, glanced at everyone, and said seriously: "We are outnumbered and we can't bet on one end."
If Gan Luo turns against the wolf, just like he did in front of the Turks last night, we won’t even have a chance to retreat!"
"Moreover, if we cannot win a big victory, the Turks will not retreat easily. Instead of rushing into Yanmen Pass and being besieged again by the enemy, it is better to stay outside, at least not to dilute the defenders' food reserves!"
"Don't worry about the food stored by the defenders. Before leaving the fortress, all the food and grass for the Sixth Army of the Emperor were transported to Yanmen Pass. Together with some of the military rations originally stored in the pass, it will be enough for the people currently guarding the pass to eat for two or three years!
"Dugu Lin knew the situation at Yanmen Pass in detail and explained to Xu Zi in a low voice. At the same time, he also supported Xu Zi's view that it would be more effective to stay outside the siege than to rush into the siege of the Turks," but General Li said
Unfortunately, when it comes to His Majesty's safety, the defenders at Yanmen Pass cannot break out of the encirclement on their own initiative. Without a solid strategy to defeat the enemy, it would be more useful for us to stay on the outside and contain the enemy!"
"You alone can tell the good and the bad, Xiao Linzi, I haven't seen you for more than half a year. You haven't made any progress in other aspects, but you have learned to speak!" Luo Shixin was a little dissatisfied with Dugu Lin's duplicitous attitude, and laughed and mocked
Back then in Qi County, Dugu Lin would have retorted. But this time, he just shook his head. Maturity is a necessary stage of growth. Only those who have suffered from uprightness can understand the value of maturity. "I am talking about matters.
If we act rashly without a solid strategy to defeat the enemy, if we are defeated by the Turks, not only will we not be able to save His Majesty, but it will actually shake the morale of the military in the pass!"
His words caused a burst of noise. Seeing the enemy troops in front, he stood still, which really went against the original intention of the soldiers. But Li Xu refused to let Gan Luo take the lead, and Dugu Lin did not support an easy decisive battle with the enemy troops. This battle would never happen again.
Keep fighting, but it really makes people feel uninterested.
"As long as you fight, you have to take risks, unless you can avoid fighting against the enemy's enemy!" Hou Junji disagreed with Dugu Lin's last sentence. He took half a step forward and said loudly
What he never expected was that it was the second son of Tang Gongfu who took over his words. "There are ways to make the Turks retreat without a fight!" Li Shimin walked to the map, which was extremely far away from Yanmen.
He drew a circle and said, "The best way to deal with the bandit is to make him feel the pain. The Turks are coming in large numbers, and their old, young, women and children will definitely stay in their lair. They can't capture Yanmen Pass for a while anyway. If we take this opportunity to send an army
The strange soldiers bypassed Yanmen Pass..."
He stopped talking and looked out the window. The west window of the county government office faced an isolated mountain outside the city. Looking past the dilapidated city head, he could clearly see the woods on the hillside that had been burned by the war. They were caused by the Turks burning residences.
The mountain fire has long been extinguished, but the blackened branches are still there, one by one, pointing angrily at the sky above.
"What a great way to draw out the firepower!" Everyone's eyes lit up and they all praised in unison. Due to his age, everyone didn't pay much attention to Li Shimin at first. At best, they regarded him as a weak-minded young man who won battles based on his occasional military exploits.
A veteran like Asahi takes care of her deliberately
But after listening to the strategy he proposed, everyone immediately looked at him with admiration, "What a second son of the Tang Dynasty!" Some people secretly admired him in their hearts, no matter whether it was too late to launch a surprise attack on the grassland at this time, this decisiveness and ruthlessness alone were enough.
Make everyone admire
"Before departure, I have asked General Luo Yi from Jixian County to send troops to assist." Next, Li Xu's words surprised everyone, "So we can advance slowly tomorrow morning and camp at a dangerous location outside the Turkic encirclement.
We rely on each other with the old general Qu Tutong. When the enemy sees that we are prepared, they will definitely not attack rashly."
He wanted to fight a protracted war that could guarantee results for many years. Only if the Turks were severely injured in the first battle, they would not forget the pain of the wound the next time they wanted to enter the Central Plains. "And if nothing happens,
At this moment, my Great Sui Tiger and Iron Cavalry should have entered the depths of the grassland! When the Turkic army becomes unstable, we will take the opportunity to kill them!" He made a slashing gesture with his hand, causing a gasp of air.
With thorns on their backs, the Turks could not concentrate on attacking Yanmen Pass. Just as the two armies were facing off for a long time, bad news suddenly came from the grassland...
"General Huben Luo Yiken, are you willing to agree to your request?" Dugu Lin pressed his hands on the long table where the map was placed. He was so excited that his whole body began to tremble. He asked the most critical point in the entire plan, whether the Huben cavalry was the most powerful in the Sui Dynasty.
A frontier army with combat effectiveness, which was personally trained by General Wang Yang Shuang. His Majesty the Emperor has been using this army to intimidate the barbarians in the East. He has never been willing to mobilize easily. Even in the last three expeditions against Goryeo, the imperial court did not order Luo Yi to accompany him.
But Dugu Lin also vaguely heard that General Huben Luo Yi seemed to be disobedient. The court was just unwilling to provoke a mutiny, so it never took action against him. This time the Holy Emperor was besieged at Yanmen Pass, if Luo Yi wanted to come to the rescue.
, the cavalry under his command have arrived long ago, they shouldn’t have been delayed until now.
"General Luo Yi knows that this war involves the life and death of more than one family!" Li Xu nodded with certainty and replied that more than a month ago, he asked Pan Zhanyang to bring the news that the Turks were about to move to the infantry under Luo Yi's command.
He also wrote down the best countermeasures in the letter, but he was not sure whether Luo Yi was still willing to contribute to the court.
After a battle with Cheng Zhijie and others, Xu Zi now believes that Luo Yi will definitely take action. "My General Huben of the Sui Dynasty will not be as knowledgeable as several mountain kings!" Xu Zi firmly believed in this in his heart.
I believe that the Bu Xiaowei I met when I left the country was not a short-sighted rat, nor was the person he served an ignorant gambler who was seeking the safety of the world and seeking his own fortune. Although there were many ignorant and shameless guys in the Sui Dynasty, they were not
It should be General Bu and Luo Yi
It was the long spear in the hands of Bu Xiaowei and the legend of Huben General Luo Yi that made Xuzi embark on the road he is on today. Although the journey was bumpy, every step was extremely exciting.
"Humans are not animals and do not need names, blood, or species!" The words relayed by Bu Xiaowei back then often still echo in Xu Zi's ears. He believes that a hero who can say such powerful words will never be a coward who surrenders to a foreign race.
A strong man who refuses to bow to fate will never bend his noble back in the face of external humiliation.
"If General Luo Yi takes action, Ashina Gutuolu will be the first to be unable to bear it!" After carefully scanning the map, Li Shimin analyzed excitedly, "Yuyang County is directly to the north, which is Ashina Gutuolu's territory."
You Xi, Khitan and Ping, when they heard that the cavalry came out of the fortress, the tribes outside the fortress who came to fight against the autumn wind were scared to death!"
He looked at Xu Zi again, with a smile on his face, but his mood seemed to be turbulent. If what Zhong Jian said was really not to make excuses for Gan Luo not to fight, wouldn't it mean that he was in a
He had anticipated today's predicament many months ago, and had found a man who could command Silver Wolf, had a far-sighted vision, and was highly skilled in martial arts. Where would his future be considered to be at its peak?" Li Shimin suddenly felt his throat growl.
Dry, his heart was beating disobediently. He remembered that his father asked him and his brother in a joking tone how to subdue Li Xu. The elder brother's answer was "treat him kindly and marry him with kindness." The younger brother's answer was "if he doesn't use it, then he will do it."
He was killed!' But his young and ignorant self thought, 'A gentleman can be bullied if he is straight!' Can Li Xu really be bullied today? Li Shimin found that he was not even remotely sure of the tallness of Brother Zhongjian in front of him.
He was tall and tall, just like the King of Golden Armor enshrined in the Taoist temple. How lucky he was to be able to take such a person into his heart in troubled times? He found that he understood more and more why his father treated Xu Zi differently back then.
The refined eyesight for reading people is far beyond the knowledge of juniors like them.
"If General Luo Yi has left the fortress, what else do we need to do besides confronting the Turks?" Hou Junji was extremely curious. Seeing that everyone was deep in thought, he walked to Li Xu to ask for advice.
"Try every possible means to spread this news and let all tribes know it!" Li Xu thought for a while and replied, "Also, by the way, let them know that Liu Jizhen's soldiers and horses are also on the grassland in a burst of wind, and they will attack those without men at any time.
Stay camp!”
"In this way, even if the tiger and horse cavalry are not out of seclusion, the big and small khans will be restless!" Hou Junji's eyes suddenly brightened, and he bowed to the ground, "I am humbled to be taught and thank General Li for his guidance!"
