Prosperous Tang Soul

Chapter 259 Discussion on Tunbao!
Everyone was shocked!
Zhang Yi felt a sense of serious crisis coming from the bottom of his heart. Before Tang Peng could open his mouth, he asked first: "Although Ashina people have a small population, there are at least tens of thousands of them. Sheep and horses are much bigger, how can they hide from everyone's sight and disappear overnight?"

As he said that, Zhang Yi looked at Xue Wanren, who was equally astonished, and asked: "General Xue is responsible for defending the city of Shuofang, so he must have sent scouts to inquire about the Ashina people and the grassland tribes. I don't know. Is there any information about the Ashina people in General Xue's information?"

As Zhang Yi said, it is simply impossible for the entire Ashina tribe to disappear overnight with more than [-] people, including cattle, sheep and horses.

But even if other tribes want to kill them all, there must be someone with this ability!

Now Jieli from East Turkic has gone away with his people, and Pearl Khan's army has occupied Hetao. Fortunately, even Ashina disappeared out of thin air. Zhang Yi couldn't help but think of it The gnawed sheep bone I saw on the [-]th day of the road.

"I'm ashamed to say it!" Xue Wanren showed a look of shame on his face, and explained: "Before the army arrived in Shuofang City, there were only more than [-] people who could fight, so in order to make the defense more stable, I put the line of defense to death. The pressure. In the first [-] miles of Shuofang City, and strictly ordered everyone not to take a step without orders.

Of course, several teams were dispatched for the investigation of other ministries, but the scouts from Ashina seemed to have not returned yet! "

"Don't wait any longer. If the old man's expectations are correct, they must have been killed!" Niu Jinda pondered for a while, and said, "So this time we are in a difficult situation, and the future is unknown! That's why the chief executive sent the old man To guard Shuofang City, one is to ensure that Shuofang is safe, and the other is to ensure that the food and fodder behind us will not be burned by someone!"

"Yes, the amount of food and fodder is directly related to the purpose of sending troops this time!" Zhang Yi nodded, not surprised at all that Li Jing had such an arrangement.

In his opinion, although Li Jing has always been famous for his deceitful soldiers and victory of many with fewer in history, in fact, it was just a bad strategy that had no other choice.

The so-called surprise attack and sneak attack are completely carried out when there is no hope in normal combat.Because normal battles cannot be won, so the soldiers take risks.

It is true that if you win, you will be famous everywhere, but if you fail, you will be buried in a foreign land!
It can be said that as long as it is a general with a little brain, as long as the war has not reached a certain level, so-called sneak attacks generally rarely happen.

Because of this, in Zhang Yi's understanding, Li Jing is obviously a general who knows how to be flexible, and knows how to be flexible, so he is definitely familiar with the way of military formation or some basic things of marching.

But in the face of Pearl Khan's defense, the army was short of manpower, and now the Ashina people who were the front barrier suddenly disappeared, so that the Tang army had to face the enemy head-on. Under such circumstances, Niu Jinda would still let Niu Jinda lead Five thousand elite soldiers defended Shuofang, which must have a deep meaning.

In other words, Li Jing has already regarded Shuofang City as the last retreat of the Tang army to settle, and he can't tolerate any problems in Shuofang City.

Thinking of this, Zhang Yi secretly groaned in his heart, but he still replied: "According to the food and fodder left in the army, if the rear does not continue to support, the army will last for at most three months, that is to say, after entering the cold winter, we are very likely to No food!"

After he said these words, Niu Jinda and Xue Wanren fell silent immediately.

But Zhang Yi continued: "Not only that, even if we can persist for three months, it will be very difficult during these three months! According to the inspection, most of our grain and fodder are beans, chestnuts, wheat, and rice. It can be said that there is no, if this person eats soybeans every day."

"Yeah!" Tang Peng also interjected: "If you eat too much soybeans, you will fart. The whole barracks is full of farts all day long. Before the battle was fought, this man was fainted by his brother's fart. After a long time Going down is also troublesome!"

"It's already September, and it's mid-autumn. Judging from the past situation of the Turkic people, whether it's the Eastern Turkic people, the Pearl Khan tribe, or the Ashina people, they will definitely prepare for the winter before the arrival of the cold winter!" Niu Jinda suddenly got up slowly, and said: "Although I have been affected by the locust plague this year, the grassland has also been affected! Some time ago, when I was still in Chang'an, there was a military report in Longyou, saying that the Hetao area was also full of locusts. , Everywhere they go is a piece of bare land, so their life is not easy!

And now there are less than two months before winter begins. In order to survive this winter and reduce deaths, they have only two choices.The first is to ask His Majesty for help, and the second is to enter the country and plunder.

But my Great Tang is now full of disaster victims, and obviously they will not get any help if they ask His Majesty for help, so they have only one choice, and that is to go deep into the territory of my Great Tang to plunder! "

Zhang Yi felt bitter in his mouth.

I have to say that veterans like Niu Jinda and Li Jing analyzed very correctly.

Whether it is the disappearance of the Ashina people, or the disappearance of the Eastern Turks, or even the occupation of Hetao by the Pearl Khans, everything is false, and everything is actually just a cover, or a cover-up.

Because in the face of food and life, those people will definitely do everything they can to die.

It's just that we are all waiting now, waiting for a good time!Waiting for other parties to kill each other, they will benefit from it!
After figuring this out, Zhang Yi felt even more uneasy, but...he seemed to have some clues, but he couldn't say them out.

Somewhere, he even had a bold idea, that is, is Xieli really retreating?Instead of pulling Pearl Khan's department as a cover to attract Tang Jun's attention?

And did the Ashina people discover something again, thus hiding their tracks?

After all, the vast grassland stretches across thousands of miles, and if you want to hide deliberately, it's really not easy to find!

"What does General Niu mean by telling me to come here?" Xue Wanren also realized that something was wrong. This banquet was not so much for a few people to welcome the wind, as it was a meeting for his old Niu to take over Shuofang's defense, and he immediately surrendered to Niu Jinda Said: "As long as the general has an order, I will wait for death!"

"Okay!" Niu Jinda laughed.

What he was most worried about was Xue Wanren. You must know that Xue Wanren belonged to Chai Shao. The two brothers of the Xue family had been in Chai Shao's army since they joined the army. There is also a teacher-student benefit along the way, so in Niu Jinda's view, it is not an easy matter for Xue Wanren to easily call out Shuofang's defense.

But what Niu Jinda never expected was that Xue Wanren agreed as soon as they met, and he also acted like he was obedient, which undoubtedly made him feel very relieved!

(End of this chapter)