The Passionate Guns of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Chapter 491

As an outstanding statesman and military strategist of a generation, Li Shimin's patience is also extraordinary, let alone because of one or two defeats and a little adversity. He is now waiting for a chance to fight. It is nothing to him for more than a month. He can even wait for a fighter plane for several years, he has the patience of a hunter.

Because Fang Xuanling, one of his think tanks, had gone to the south of the Yangtze River to lobby Du Fuwei and Xiao Xian, Li Shimin planned to join forces with Du and Xiao to deal with Yang Yong.Because these two warlord separatist forces have occupied most of the Jianghuai River Basin and the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, and they have hundreds of thousands of elite soldiers under them, and their strength is quite strong.

But Fang Xuanling hadn't come back yet, Li Yuan's will came, Xu Maogong's men rushed to cross the Yellow River, Liu Wenjing and Li Shentong returned in defeat, the rebels attacked the city and plundered the land like a broken bamboo, approaching Bingzhou, the three groups of people must return quickly to solve the problem danger, and asked him to do a good job in the end, so as to prevent the rebel army from chasing and killing him later.

This once again disrupted Li Shimin's strategic deployment. What he was waiting for was that even if one of the two powerful tycoons in the south of the Yangtze River was willing to join forces with him, the rebel army would be in trouble. He could see clearly that Yang Yong was here now. Hold on, no matter if Du Fuwei sends troops to attack Henan, or Xiao Mian sends troops to Shaanxi, the rebels will be in trouble, and Yang Yong will be defeated by then.But the sacred order is hard to violate, and the capital indeed has to save it.Therefore, while he scolded Liu Wenjing and Li Shentong for being incompetent, he had to readjust his strategic plan.

In Li Shimin's tent, Du Ruhui, Li Xiaogong, and Changsun Wuji were all there. After more than a month of careful treatment, Li Xiaogong and Changsun Wuji's injuries had already healed.They are discussing how to retreat, the focus is on how to stop Yang Yong's pursuit.

Changsun Wuji advocates to focus on defending the northern line, that is, the area from Hengshui to Dingzhou, because that is the place where His Majesty retreated, and Yang Yong will definitely pursue it from there
Li Xiaogong thinks that both the western and northern routes should be considered, because Wei Jun and Mingshui on the western route are important places in Hebei, and they have just entered the hands of the Tang army. If they are lost again, the rebels from Shandong will go west to Mingzhou, and it is easy to join forces with Xu Maogong's men. One piece, Bingzhou is even more dangerous.

Li Shimin just nodded after hearing what the two said, without expressing his attitude, he looked at Du Ruhui.

Du Ruhui's words were astonishing, he did not agree with Changsun Wuji's and Li Xiaogong's proposals, to be precise, he did not agree to retreat or all retreat.

His reason is: both Chai Shen and Li Yuan made a big fuss, and Xu Maogong’s rebel army only had 8 people at best. At present, he is a lone army, and the battle line is very long. There are no less than 20 horses, and Luo Yi's injury is already healed, even if Xu Maogong's troops hit the city of Bingzhou, they will not be able to attack Bingzhou in a short time.There are only 10,000+ troops from Li Jiancheng and Li Yuan. These two troops have enough time to return to Bingzhou, and the tens of thousands of troops are more than enough to deal with Xu Maogong's tens of thousands of troops. Bingzhou is not in any danger. Therefore, Li Shimin does not need to retreat at this time.

Li Shimin was surprised at first when he heard this, but after analyzing Du Ruhui's words, it made sense, but not retreating is to resist the edict.This point, I am afraid that the father and son will not work.

Du Ruhui saw Li Shimin's worry, and continued to analyze: "Your Highness, there are still 6 troops in our battalion, plus the defenders in Yucheng, Jeju, Dongying, Pingyuan, Gaoqing, Huantai and other counties. There are more than 2 troops. We can let 2 troops retreat according to the order, and divide another [-] troops to block the western and northern fronts. Most of the remaining troops should continue to be stationed in these states and counties. The advantage of this is that it can involve Yang Yong's soldiers and horses, once we unite with Du Fuwei and Xiao Mian successfully, we will be able to make Yang Yong suffer from the enemy from the front to the back, and it will be hard to see from head to toe. If Xuanling returns without success, we can also echo with Cangzhou in the north. Cangzhou won't suffer much."

"Keming's words are just in line with the lonely will." Li Shimin made a decision immediately, and Du Ruhui said that it was in his heart. In addition, these counties in Shandong were hard-won, and he didn't want to let Yang Yong be so cheap.

Li Shimin immediately issued an order to ask Changsun Wuji to lead 2 troops to quickly withdraw to cooperate with Li Yuan's troops to relieve the danger of Bingzhou. He, Du Ruhui, Li Yuanba and others led the remaining more than [-] troops to disperse and retreat to Yucheng, Jeju, Dongying, Gaoqing, Huantai and other counties to strengthen the defense of these strongholds.

Three days later, Prince Li Jiancheng and Li Yuan's two troops plus Changsun Wuji's 2 troops, the 10,000+ army retreated.

After receiving the report, Yang Yong and Li Jingyi discussed that the Tang army was setting us up in a ecstasy formation. Some retreated and some stayed behind. The troops were close to [-]. He ordered Wei Zheng to lead Qin Qiong and Cheng Yaojin to lead [-] troops to hunt down Prince Li Jiancheng's troops to the west, and ordered Li Jing to lead Li Wan'er and Luo Song to lead [-] troops to pursue Li Yuan's troops to the north. Yong took Yang Yuling, Princess Yujing and Luo Shiying, three female generals, and led the remaining soldiers to the plain.

There is no danger to defend the small plain county. There are only 3 Tang troops here. They followed Li Shimin's order and fled without fighting.

Yang Yong scolded outside the city, Li Yuanba wanted to fight, but Li Shimin refused to let him go, the battle card was hung high above the city, the rebels scolded casually outside, Tang Jun ignored it.

After scolding for several days in a row, Li Shimin refused to fight.Yang Yong did not attack the city, because his [-]-plus troops could not afford the heavy price of forcibly attacking the land, so they had to resort to outsmarting.So he discussed the countermeasures with his three wives Yang Yuling, Princess Yujing and Luo Shiying.

Yang Yuling's beautiful eyes flickered: "My lord, I thought I had to use the old method to deal with them, climbing the city! The three of us sisters climbed to the top of the city in the middle of the night, opened the city gate, and welcomed the lord and brothers into the city."

Yang Yong shook his head like a rattle when he heard it: "Ling'er, it can't be done, it can't be done, Yucheng is no better than other places, although it's not a strong city, but Li Shimin and Li Yuanba are sitting in the town in person, and Fang Moudu is making decisions. Now it’s Longtan and Tiger’s Den. The three of you are all alone, it’s too dangerous, not to mention the failure of climbing the city, even if you succeed, you’ll be able to reach the sky. I would rather not take Yucheng than let you go into danger. "

"My lord, if you don't enter the tiger's den, how can you catch tiger cubs! There are six or nine sisters in the women's camp, and they are all very skilled. Let them go with us." Luo Shiying said with bright eyes.

"This plan is feasible. The prince just needs to make preparations to snatch Yucheng. The matter of opening the city will be left to our sisters." Princess Yujing also said.

The three beautiful wives insisted repeatedly. Yang Yong was unwilling to do so but he couldn't think of a better way. Qinggong, especially Yang Yuling's ability to fly over walls.In the end, he reluctantly agreed to the 72 US city climbing plan.

On a dark and windy night, before departure, Yang Yong told the three beautiful wives in the tent: "If it doesn't work, retreat quickly, we will discuss it again, and you must not fight recklessly. You must come back alive!" "

"Here!" The three beautiful wives agreed in unison, and saluted each of them with fists in their arms. Yang Yong hugged each of them and kissed each of them. The teardrops from the corners of my eyes went away.

At this time, the 69 soldiers of the women's personal guard battalion were all ready and stood neatly outside the tent. At this time, it was the second watch, and the three female generals Yang Yuling, Princess Yujing and Luo Shiying led the 69 soldiers. The female battalion soldiers set off, there were 72 of them in total, all of them were dressed in black night clothes, except Yang Yuling, who had a sword, Princess Yujing, who was carrying crescent moon swords, Luo Shiying and other 72 female battalion soldiers were all snowflakes steel knife.Of course, they have prepared necessary things such as climbing ropes.

Under the cover of Ye Mu, 72 beautiful shadows left the camp of the rebel army and came to Yucheng.

(End of this chapter)