Hou Junji always felt that something was wrong, but in the end he nodded and said: "The Third Young Master is right, and I will agree to camp here."
Li Yuanji felt even more at ease and said with a smile: "Then pass the commander's order and station the camp on the spot!"
To be honest, Hou Junji has also considered the night sneak attack by the Wagang camp cavalry, but he thinks it is unlikely. Even if the Wagang camp wants to encircle the site and call for reinforcements, the distance is still a bit far away and the time has not yet come.
However, the Far Eastern Army's special forces, which had caused him great losses, might come to harass him.
In addition, Li Yuanji is the coach after all. Since the coach has made the decision and explained to him, the deputy general, Hou Junji can no longer object. He immediately issued an order: "The coach has ordered us to set up camp on the spot!"
"The coach has ordered us to set up camp on the spot!"
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Orders were passed down one after another, and 50,000 Li Jiajun soldiers began to camp on the spot and set up tents one after another.
Hou Junji personally deployed and arranged hundreds of thousands of spears to surround the camp, and also used carts to surround the camp. He did not show any carelessness because he only stayed for one night.
After that, Hou Junji personally led his soldiers to inspect the defense. He paid close attention to every detail. According to his character, he should have set up a camp fence. Unfortunately, it was difficult to carry the camp fence, so he had to give up.
Unexpectedly, at this time, Li Yuanji led a group of staff and soldiers to inspect everywhere, walked around in a circle, and told Hou Junji: "General Hou, please arrange to erect ten sentry towers, including one by the small river in the south.
Set up a sentry tower to prevent enemies from attacking from the water."
"General, I obey." Hou Junji clasped his fists and accepted the order, nodding secretly. He was about to give the order just now, but he didn't expect that Li Yuanji could think of these things for the first time in commanding the army, which is indeed commendable.
Li Yuanji glanced at Hou Junji and then ordered: "The grain depot camp must be outside the range of the rocket. I heard that the Far East Army's special forces like to attack grain and grass the most!"
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With the help of several staff around him, Li Yuanji inspected very carefully, found five or six loopholes in a row, and ordered Hou Junji to arrange people to rectify them. Hou Junji actually checked out these problems, and some of them have already arranged people to rectify them.
Now that I have arranged it again in front of Li Yuanji, I am even more satisfied and trusting of Li Yuanji's ability.
The 50,000 horses they led this time were all the elite of the Li family's army, including 20,000 cavalry and 30,000 infantry. All soldiers were equipped with Mingguang armor, equipped with spears and horizontal knives. Each soldier had a bow and arrow, and a round shield.
, even the war horses were Turkic horses. In the Sui Dynasty, only the elite of the imperial army could be equipped with such sophisticated equipment.
Among the 50,000 troops, 30,000 veterans were trained by Hou Junji, so he has a high prestige in this army.
Therefore, although Li Yuanji is the third son of the Tang Dynasty, it will be difficult for him to fully control this army as long as Hou Junji is still alive.
Therefore, it is difficult for the staff around Li Yuanji to truly fully control this army.
With the joint efforts of Hou Junji and Li Yuanji's staff, the 50,000 Li family soldiers set up camp, cooked and rested in an orderly manner.
Late at night, except for the necessary fixed vigilance and lurking sentries, all the officers and soldiers of the Li family army had gone into their tents to sleep.
The night was getting deeper and deeper, and at one o'clock in the morning, a piercing alarm suddenly came from the sentry tower.
As soon as there was a sound, some agile black figures appeared in the camp, some food, grass and tents were burned, and there were also several frightening explosions.
"Someone really stole the camp." Hou Junji reacted very quickly. He quickly and loudly ordered the generals at all levels to control their soldiers and not run around. He also ordered each city to send a hundred people to surround and kill the people who stole the camp.
, the chaos in the camp soon subsided and order was gradually restored.
In fact, the most fearful thing when sneaking into a camp at night is that you panic first. This can easily lead to a sneak attack by the enemy or take advantage of the loopholes to escape, or even cause the camp to roar.
After making arrangements, Hou Junji brought some of his soldiers to find Li Yuanji. Under such circumstances, he must not let anything happen to the son of King Tang, otherwise his future would be bleak no matter how great his achievements were.
This kind of stealing camp at night is most likely to cause chaos, and even the coach will have accidents, so he can only feel relieved when Li Yuanji is watching personally.
When Hou Junji came, a group of soldiers guarded Li Yuanji closely. Li Yuanji ordered the soldiers to step aside and let Hou Junji come over.
But at this moment, a figure suddenly emerged from behind the tent not far away, and something the size of a fist came out in this direction.
An aide shouted: "Third Young Master, be careful, it's a gunpowder weapon for the Far Eastern Army."
Hou Junji reacted very quickly. He was highly skilled in martial arts and knew the power of gunpowder weapons of the Far East Army. He rushed over and tried to pin Li Yuanji to the ground.
Several of Li Yuanji's staff and soldiers also rushed over from behind. The scene was chaotic and there was a huge explosion.
But at the moment when Hou Junji knocked Li Yuanji down, he suddenly felt like he was hit hard in the back of his heart, and then there was a huge pain in his heart, and his entire heart was penetrated. He looked in disbelief on the spot.
's death.
The grenade caused a rain of blood and screams. More than a dozen soldiers were killed and seven or eight others were injured.
Because it was night, the field of view was not light, and the soldiers were all facing outside. No one saw that at that moment, a tube-like thing came out of the wide sleeves of the staff behind Li Yuanji, and pressed against Li Yuanji's back.
At the center of the scene, there was a faint flicker of fire, and the sound was actually quite loud, but once it was covered up by the explosion, and no one at the scene had heard the sound, it was difficult for anyone to notice it.
"Protect the Third Young Master and General Hou." The staff shouted loudly.
The soldiers tightly protected Li Yuanji and Hou Junji who were crawling on the ground. The black shadow with a grenade had already run away, like a ghost in the dark night, and a large group of Li Jiajun soldiers were roaring and chasing after them.
Kill, and soon stay away from here.
"Ah! Blood!" Li Yuanji exclaimed.
"Third Young Master is injured, call the doctor over quickly. Hurry up." The staff member who had already hidden the things in his sleeves shouted loudly.
They just waited for a group of soldiers to help Li Yuanji up. Although the latter had a lot of blood on his body, he found that the deputy general Hou Junji could not get up at all.
"General Hou seems to have been injured too." A soldier exclaimed.
Li Yuanji was shocked and quickly asked someone to help Hou Junji up, only to find that the latter was already dead.
"No, General Hou was killed by the Far East Army's gunpowder weapons while protecting the third son." This time it was not an aide shouting, but another soldier.
There was a commotion among the soldiers gathered by Hou Jun at the scene. They ran over to take a look and inspected. It was really
Gunpowder weapons injured his own general.
Li Yuanji looked at the injury on Hou Junji's heart from the side, his face turned pale, he was frightened and palpitated for a while, thinking that if Hou Junji hadn't pushed him to the ground just now, he would have died.
Thinking like this, Li Yuanji was full of gratitude to Hou Junji. The staff next to him whispered something in his ear at the right time, and Li Yuanji gritted his teeth and said: "Damn Far Eastern Army, I swear here to avenge General Hou.
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Although Hou Junji has a high prestige in this army, he is already dead. After all, Li Yuanji is the son of Tang Wang Li Yuan, and he has also shown very good ability in commanding troops these days, so he didn't spend much effort.
Completely controlled this army.
The next day, Li Yuanji ordered the troops to continue marching. Halfway there, a messenger covered in blood blocked the way of the army and was brought to Li Yuanji.
"Third Young Master, I am the messenger sent by the Second Young Master. There is a secret message in this. Please Third Young Master, please read it." The messenger, with the help of two personal soldiers of Li Yuanji, took out a secret letter from his wife.
Li Yuanji took it and looked at it, and frowned. This was a letter written by Li Shimin. It meant that they should not advance any further to prevent Xu Shiji from encircling the area for reinforcements. Instead, he ordered them to station their troops in Hanzhong County in an orderly tone.
A place ten miles northeast formed a horn for the Far Eastern Army, deterring the Wagang Camp and containing its strength and energy. At the same time, it would depend on the situation whether to fight or not.
Li Yuanji had already become dependent on the aide he picked up these days. While ordering someone to take the messenger down to rest and treat his injuries, he handed the secret message to the aide next to him.
The staff member took the letter, read it, and said in a low voice: "My lord, there are only 40,000 Far Eastern troops outside Hanzhong County, and they are still tired troops after many days of fighting. However, my lord has brought 50,000 elite troops to help this time, and they are the most cutting-edge troops."
Army, in fact, the war situation has been determined, and Hanzhong County has been as stable as Mount Tai. But if the lord followed the second son's order and stationed near Hanzhong County, it only served as a deterrent and a containment. After the war, how would the credit be divided among the Tang king? Come to think of it, the second son
It will definitely be said that he alone defended Hanzhong County."
Li Yuanji was extremely jealous of Li Shimin and longed for military exploits in his heart. However, these days he had placed great trust in his staff, so when he heard this, he immediately felt convinced and said in a low voice with a gloomy face: "Well, Mr. Yi, look at that.
Come on, what should we do?"
The staff thought for a moment and said: "We might as well station ourselves in the valley according to the second master's order. After a day's rest, we can unexpectedly steal the camp at night. Xu Shiji has been victorious these days. He must not have expected that the master is so courageous. When the time comes,
When the camp is caught off guard, chaos will inevitably arise. The Second Young Master will definitely find something, and then send a large army out of the city to respond. When the time comes, the threat to the Hanzhong County City will be defeated. In this way, after the war, under the leadership of His Highness the King of Tang
In terms of merit, only my lord can be considered the first meritorious one."
When Li Yuanji heard this, his heart immediately boiled with excitement, and he nodded and said: "Very good, I will do as you said."
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After Li Yuanji led 50,000 reinforcements to be stationed nearby, Xu Shiji ordered the siege to stop and began to strengthen various defenses in the camp.
The Far East Army was so abnormal that Li Shimin in Hanzhong City was secretly glad. Fortunately, he had allowed Li Yuanji and Hou Junji to station nearby and did not attack rashly.