Chapter Thirty-Four
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Recently, Luo Shixin has been considering a question, how to fight the next battle.
According to the current situation of the war, the army of the Tang Dynasty was invincible all the way, and it was invincible to defeat the war, pointing directly to the Turkic Khan Court. On the contrary, the Turkic no longer had the temperament of the grassland king. They were defeated repeatedly, forcing the Tang Dynasty to be forced into the surrounding Jedi, and their morale was depressed. If this continues, the chance of the Tang Dynasty winning is 80%, 80%. In the instant and ever-changing battlefield, the Turkic who still has a certain combat power, the winning rate of 80% is quite high.
But Luo Shixin has never been careless about it and has been thinking about his playing style.
When Li Jing was guiding him in the art of war, he once told him a truth: "You must take the defeat seriously when you fight, and you must take the victory seriously even more when you win."
It means that there is no ever-winning general in the world. Even if a person with excellent military level is limited by external factors at some point, he will be in an unfavorable situation and will even lose. In the face of this situation, the commander needs to fight with his heart. It is naturally good to be able to turn defeat into victory. Even if he cannot, it is a small victory to reduce even one person's damage. In the same way, as the commander of the three armies, he cannot be complacent, and he cannot be careless. First, he will be defeated by arrogant soldiers. Since ancient times, many heroes have fallen in this aspect; in addition, they can also kill the enemy's chances of turning defeat into victory. The third and most important thing is to reduce casualties on your own.
As the head coach of the general, thinking more details and thinking more about one aspect can reduce the number of casualties of your own soldiers. This is a win-win situation.
Therefore, even if they were sure to win, Luo Shixin did not take it lightly. Instead, they seriously thought about the next tactical style. They did have absolute advantages, but how to use this advantage to fight this battle more beautifully and minimize casualties on their own is the key to Luo Shixin's thinking.
But the effect is not obvious!
After all, the Turks were the strongest force in the North. They had more than 100,000 Turkic soldiers in their hands. Their strength was not much inferior to the Tang Dynasty. If they were to do it with real swords and guns, no matter what tactics they used, they would not be able to pay a certain price.
Even if the morale of the Turks trapped in beasts is not high, they can still break out in a strong battle, causing harm to the Tang Dynasty. At the same time, more than 300,000 Turkic people around the Khan Court will also become unstable bombs.
In this case, it is inevitable to kill ten thousand enemies and lose eight thousand of them.
They will also unveil this tragic battle in the Turkic Khan Court.
However, Li Jing's plan avoided this.
He successfully forced the Turkic Khan Jie Li to escape...
Jie Li's run meant that he left behind 300,000 people. In the absence of backbone, the Tang army could intercept them without any effort, capture them, and possess the cattle, sheep and horses they had driven away. At the same time, it was difficult for the army to organize a decent counterattack when it fled.
The escaped soldiers are the best to deal with. They will only escape without a life, causing large-scale smuggling of soldiers during the escape, causing too low morale to flee in all directions. As long as their Tang army is urged to pursue, even if they do not fight head-on, the Turkic army will continue to weaken and constantly give up resistance. When they run to the west and near Yinshan, it is already very good to have a soldier of 30,000 or 50,000 troops.
At that time, Li Jing's army, who was raising energy, would block them in front of them, and the remaining two armies would once again block Jie Li's retreat.
The army that nourishes energy and accumulates strength fights the journey of escape, and the army that is highly morale against the journey of defeat. To that situation, the chance of the Tang Dynasty winning is as high as 99%. Unless a meteorite jumps from the sky and destroys Li Jing's 50,000 troops, it is impossible to turn defeat into victory.
Under such a huge advantage and disadvantage, the Tang army's casualties will not exceed 10,000 at most...
Compared with the bloody battles that took time and effort to siege Jie Li and the royal court, Li Jing's tragic victory achieved by fighting tens of thousands of Turkic soldiers, Li Jing's style of fighting was obviously much more clever.
The encirclement master will be missing!
This is said in "The Art of War". When surrounding the enemy, you should leave a glimmer of hope for escape, prevent the enemy from falling into despair and fighting to the death, causing huge losses to one's own side.
Li Jing deliberately created the illusion of three sides, making Jie Li think that he has no chance of life and forced him to escape, thus revealing flaws and giving the Tang Dynasty an opportunity to take advantage of. This is similar to the besieged master Bique, but it only shows the situation in different forms.
"But what if Jie Li didn't choose to go west, but fled north and crossed the desert north, what should he do?" Luo Shixin asked.
Li Jing smiled and said, "As an ally of the Tang Dynasty, no matter what Xue Yantuo thought, I believe they were willing to do me a little favor. Now their army is swaying in the north, and it is impossible for the Turks to get news."
Luo Shixin realized great enlightenment and pointed to the map and said, "Hidding the army in Sain Mountain is also a measure to prevent the Turks from escaping north!"
"That's right!" Li Jing nodded and said, "I want Jie Li to feel that there is no chance of running north, only the West is their way out. In this way, he fell into our plan and fell into the middle of the house."
Luo Shixin communicated with the causes and consequences. When he remembered that Li Shiji had a shocking and respectful expression before, he had to accept it and said to himself: "It turns out that if you win thousands of miles away and plan in the tent, this shocking ability really exists..."
Li Jing, the well-known Tang Dynasty military god, played a great chess game from the moment he received Luo Shixin's battle report.
Luo Shixin and Li Shiji were not his chess piece, but the chess player, but every move they made was expected by Li Jing, who was thousands of miles away.
As for Jie Li, Princess Yicheng, Zhao Deyan, Qiao Lingze and even Xue Yantuo were all chess pieces in Li Jing's hand: he saw through Qiao Lingze's villain's mentality and knew that the Sui Dynasty minister who relied on flatteringly and clapped the horse and hugged the King of Qi Yang Hing, was a real villain and would definitely do a rumor. He deliberately showed his true identity and let the Turks know his existence. Then he used Jie Li's suspicious and conceited personality, relying on Luo Shixin and Li Shiji who were about to be at the city, and made him believe that the tactics of the Tang Dynasty were to surround him in the Turkic Khan Court, surrounded him and annihilated him, making him unswervingly believe that Li Jing would definitely have his 50,000 army. He was sure that Jie Li had the courage to fight to the end, but he did not have the determination to fight to the end. As long as someone persuaded him to run, he would definitely run.
Yicheng has always instigated Jie Li to invade the south, and took good care of the descendants of the Sui Dynasty who were in the Turks. What he planned can be seen as one or two. Zhao Deyan even went all the way to show his talent in the Central Plains, and he was extremely utilitarian. These two people had a very high status in Jie Li's mind. With their existence, Jie Li would definitely not fight to the death in the Khan Court. With Luo Shixin in front, Xue Yantuo in the back, and Li Shiji in the left, Jie Li had no choice but to break through to the right. Although Li Jing was there on the right, at least with the support of Asunasser, the Western Turks could surrender...
As for Xue Yantuo's thoughts, it is easier to guess. Yi Nan is very ambitious and has a wide range of plans. The demise of the Turks will be of great benefit to him. This is a thirst to do his best.
Take everyone's abilities and personalities into place, use all the favorable links that can be used, and everything is under control, laying such a huge net to trap Jie Li.
In addition to "winning thousands of miles apart and planning in the tent", Luo Shixin could not imagine any words that could describe Li Jing at this time.
Too amazing.
Luo Shixin also explained the situation he encountered: Kang Sumi's surrender and Yang Zhengdao's surrender for the jade seal.
Li Jing didn't expect that there was still something else, and was surprised and smiled and said, "It's really a good thing to be able to welcome the imperial seal back. As for Yicheng, this person's snake and scorpion cannot keep her heart. When we win, she will come to sacrifice the flag." When he said this, he suddenly stood up and said, "Luo Shixin, Li Shiji obeyed."
Luo Shixin and Li Shiji stood up and fisted together and said, "The last one is here!"
"You go back to the camp immediately and prepare the troops. Jie Li ran for a while now. Now he is eager to run away. I probably won't find out that I only have two thousand soldiers. You will give me the wounded and infantry soldiers in your hands, and you will take away all the cavalry and pursue Jie Li. Just leave the people who were left to Jie Li to me."
Luo Shixin and Li Shiji looked at each other, and each looked at Li Jing with some insight, understanding what he meant.
Li Jing gave them the great contribution of capturing Jie Li.
It is no wonder that Li Jing has the ability to be in a state of great power, and Li Shimin still trusts Li Jing very much. If there is any major military decision, he must first ask for his opinions and suggestions.
Li Jing set up such a net of heaven and earth. Luo Shixin and Li Shiji, as one of the few famous generals in the world, can he still see through the key points?
After the two returned to the military camp, they immediately ordered the troops and gathered all the horses in their hands.
Luo Shixin roughly explained the situation to Liu Rengui, Xue Wanjun, Su Dingfang and others. Everyone was stunned by Li Jing's move, and then he felt respectful. If Li Jing used military service like this, it would be a big deal to convince him.
"Almost everyone in our army will ride horses, and they will take them all?" Liu Rengui was thinking about how to arrange it.
"No!" Luo Shixin said: "Take only cavalry, and don't bring any infantry, and save the horses for the cavalry to rotate." Under his arrangement, although infantry knew how to ride, they could march on horseback and increase mobility. However, now chasing Jie Li requires a day and night, no stop, and even rest on horseback. Infantry cannot stick to the end. Instead of falling behind, it is better not to lead and maximize mobility.
He doesn't want to waste resources at this critical moment.
Chapter completed!