Great Tang Dynasty

Chapter 85

It's not that Li Shimin doesn't know what Changsun Wuji said.

Since they just want to surround Wei and save Zhao, they only need to surround Wei. Liang Shi feels that Liang is in danger, so he will naturally lead his troops back to help.

But Li Shimin still has his own considerations.

First, if Luzhou is not breached, after the Liang division sends troops back to help, the Tang army may be surrounded by Liang soldiers.

What's more, Li Shimin was not reconciled. The matter of guarding Lingzhou should be his Qin Wang Li Shimin's business, but in the end he was taken away by Prince Li Jiancheng.

This cost him an opportunity to build his prestige.

Fortunately, Liang and the Later Sui Dynasty supported the Turks, so he had another chance to lead the army.

And he felt that since he was leading the army, he had to show his prestige, the spirit of Li Shimin, the king of Qin, and even if this was not the main battlefield, he still wanted to make his battle even more dazzling.

After returning to Chang'an City in this way, he will have a chance to fight Li Jiancheng.

Therefore, although it was more difficult to capture Luzhou City, he still decided to do so.

Seeing that Li Shimin's opinion had been decided, Changsun Wuji didn't say anything else.

Early the next morning, Li Shimin brought [-] troops to the city of Luzhou.

After arriving at the city of Luzhou, Cheng Yaojin went out to call for battle.

"As for the small country, now that I, the leader of the Tang Dynasty, is here, why don't you open the city gate and surrender?"

"If you surrender, my King Qin is kind, and you can spare your life. If not, don't blame us for being rude."

"Hold your head like a turtle, come out and fight if you have the ability..." Seeing that Liang Bing on the tower didn't respond, Cheng Yaojin cursed angrily, and the curse was very ugly.

Jiang Tong, the guard of Luzhou City, stood on the tower and saw Tang Jun dismounting so arrogantly. He paused in his heart and asked, "Which fierce general is willing to go out of the city to fight and destroy the Tang Jun's prestige?"

As the voice fell, a fierce general stood up next to him and said, "The last general, Nie Meng, is willing to go out of the city to fight."

Jiang Tong nodded, then ordered someone to open the city gate and put down the suspension bridge. Nie Meng galloped out on horseback and came to the front of the Tang army.

"Hey, don't speak wild words, do you really think that Liang Guo is afraid of your Tang Dynasty?"

Cheng Yaojin laughed loudly: "I was scared at first, come on, let's stop talking nonsense and start fighting directly. I will let you taste the power of your grandpa Cheng's axe."

Nie Meng snorted: "I am Liang Guo's fierce general Nie Meng..."

"Who cares about you, I'm not interested in knowing your name, your grandfather, anyway, you are an unknown junior, look at the ax..."

When the two armies were fighting, generals would report their lives before the battle to show that they would not kill unknown people. Cheng Yaojin was lucky, he didn't take Nie Meng seriously at all, as long as he was willing to let him kill him.

This made Nie Meng very humiliated. After cursing, he killed him with a spear.

But Cheng Yaojin was not afraid, when Nie Meng attacked, he also struck with an axe, Cheng Yaojin's ax has the power of a hundred catties, very ferocious.

When the ax went down, Nie Meng's arms went numb from the shock, and he secretly thought that it was not good.

"Hey, give me another axe..." Cheng Yaojin saw Nie gritted his teeth fiercely, and knew that he was not capable. How could he let go of such an opportunity to make meritorious deeds?

So immediately after that, another ax came, and this ax split Nie Meng's long spear in half from the middle, and Nie Meng's cheek was even scratched by the sharp ax, directly from the middle. a hole.

This was also his weapon's blocking, otherwise when the ax came down, he would have to split the ax in half.

Nie Meng's weapon was destroyed, his cheek was in severe pain, he was not an opponent in his heart, he turned his horse and wanted to go back, Cheng Yaojin gave him a chance, and then he was struck by another ax, which directly killed him.

Cheng Yaojin won the first battle, Li Shimin was overjoyed, and quickly shouted: "Come on!"

The Tang army rushed forward like a rainbow. Jiang Tong in Luzhou City saw Nie Meng killed, his heart sank, and he quickly ordered: "Close the city gate, close the city gate quickly."

Soon, the suspension bridge was pulled up by the Liang Guo guards, and the city gate was closed.

Above the city tower, a group of archers shot at Tang Jun one after another. Tang Jun rushed bravely, and many soldiers in front were injured by arrows.

Li Shimin frowned slightly. Although he was prepared, if he attacked forcefully, he would suffer heavy casualties.

Thinking of this, Li Shimin immediately ordered Ming Jin to withdraw his troops.

The Tang army retreated, and the wounded soldiers were helped away.

On Li Shimin's side, he immediately called a group of ministers to discuss a strategy to defeat the enemy.

"Luzhou City is very strong. It is not easy to destroy this city. Do you have any good strategies?"

After Li Shimin finished speaking, he looked at everyone. Cheng Yaojin had done a great job in killing the enemy today, so he was very active at this time, and immediately stood up and said: "My lord, these soldiers and horses of the Liang Kingdom are just a bunch of mobs. We will go again at the end of tomorrow." Call out, kill them, sooner or later they will abandon the city and surrender."

Changsun Wuji smiled wryly: "Gong Lu, after you killed one of their generals today, they will no longer go out of the city to fight, so no matter how you call out, they will never send people out again. If you want to capture Luzhou City, only There are two ways, either to attack hard and win with heavy casualties, or to outsmart and lure Luzhou's soldiers and horses out of the city, relying on the strength of our Tang army to destroy them in one fell swoop."

When Changsun Wuji said that, Cheng Yaojin curled his lips: "It's like you didn't say it. Who doesn't know that you have to attack hard or outsmart you. It goes without saying that you attack hard, but you should talk about outsmart."

Changsun Wuji is not in a hurry, although he is best at governing the country and political strategy, rather than leading troops to fight, but in this regard, he is still more capable than other generals.

"It's easy to outsmart, as long as you lose."

"Defeat?" Cheng Yaojin's eyes widened immediately, they came here to win, how could they lose, but at this time, Li Shimin smiled and nodded.

"The auxiliary machine makes sense. We are newcomers, so how can we be too sharp? It's better to lose a few battles. Let's go down and call for battle tomorrow. Call a few generals who are not good at kung fu. Even if we attack the city, we must feint. , pretending to be struggling..."

Li Shimin quickly ordered, Cheng Yaojin frowned slightly, and then he understood what Li Shimin meant.

And just as Li Shimin and the others were talking, there was a sudden commotion outside the camp.

Li Shimin frowned slightly, and shouted: "What's going on outside?"

A guard hurried over and reported, "Your Majesty, a soldier got drunk at Doctor Bian's place. After he got drunk, he went berserk in the barracks, slashing wildly with a big knife, and no one dared to go forward. .”

"Nonsense, tie that man up for me, and call Bian Xingzhi to this king. It's really unreasonable. If you dare to hide wine in the military camp, who will give him the courage?"

(End of this chapter)