In the fourth year of Mingqing in the Tang Dynasty, when spring ended, Changsun Wuji, a founding hero of the Tang Dynasty, passed away. In the spring of the same year, Pi Hetuo, the leader of Nanzhao who had already sent troops to capture Yaozhou, defeated the Heman, seized Taihe City, and established Taihe City as the capital and established the Nanzhao Kingdom. (Note 1)
Li Xianyu, the governor of Jiannan, gathered 80,000 troops to fight and rush to the states, and attacked Nanzhao. He was as powerful as a bamboo shoot and easily captured Yaozhou. Almost all the cities and ponds in eastern Yunnan and their residence in Dongcun were captured by the Tang army.
When the army led by Pei was moving towards Fufeng County from around Chang'an, the vanguard army of Li Xianyu, the governor of Jiannan, had approached the city of Taihe, and the main army had accumulated the Baiya barbarian residence, which was less than fifty miles away from Taihe City.
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After leaving Chang'an, Gu Liubai took Weicheng and headed straight to Fufeng.
In order not to reveal their whereabouts, Gu Liubai and others did not walk on the official road in a carriage, but instead took the trail that was rarely visited.
He Haixin and other Youzhou students have already planned the best route, and through some business and escort businesses, some places that can be used to change horses and convey military information along the way have been arranged along the way.
To be on the safe side, after Gu Liubai and others left Chang'an, they did not obtain military information through the military and Duke Pei's subordinates. However, the prior deployment of Shishan Academy, including the Tubo Spy Department controlled by Zhou Lingyu, has been sending the latest military information to the resting points along the way under the dispatch of He Haixin and others.
When the sky gradually became dark, Gu Liubai appeared at the top of a hill. He narrowed his eyes slightly, as if he was admiring the last sunset in the west, but in fact his eyes fell on the river that lies between heaven and earth.
That was the Wei River that passed through the entire Fufeng County.
At this time, it was facing his valley area, with a flat terrain, which was a natural huge gap suitable for the army to enter Fufeng County. Next to this valley, the majestic Wei River was also the most vast. At the end of the valley, the flat terrain quickly contracted, and many mountains higher than the hills he was in began to appear in the plain.
The northward, the higher the terrain. From a distance, the mountains in the north are like giant fans spreading, quickly blocking the sky light.
Shen Ruoruo, who still turned into a middle-aged aunt, and Shangguan Zhaoyi, who disguised as a young woman full of acne marks, soon appeared behind him.
Both of them easily saw the worry hidden in his eyes.
Shen Ruoru rubbed her waist. She was hard and hard. Moreover, the scenery of the road made her who had never left Chang'an often scream with joy. Even the running of some new animals in the fields could make her feel unprecedented freedom. Especially when watching the birds fly from the forest, she felt her heart flying. However, after all, she had never experienced such a rushing march. It was true that her mouth was hard, and it was true that her waist was sore and her butt hurt.
"What did you see?" She also stretched her neck and looked at it for a while, but she didn't see any name.
Gu Liubai reached out to the closing point of the plain and said, "It is Jiangzhang Town, which is a fortress occupied by the rebels. But just looking at the smoke from cooking, the number of troops here is not large. This means that the rebels here probably don't want to stick to it at all. Before Duke Pei's army arrives, the rebels here should retreat to the north. They will give up most of the land in Fufeng, and they will probably retreat into the northern forest like bandits. If they can persist until summer, if there is more rain and they will occupy the territory, it will be difficult to fight a lot."
Shangguan Zhaoyi nodded slowly and said, "Zheng Zhu's subordinates are old soldiers who have experienced many great wars. They controlled the Fufeng area with thunder, but there was no major move next. This shows that they were thinking very clearly. Taking the initiative to fight to Chang'an will definitely be dead. It would be better to manage it here and drag the troops coming to attack in and fight."
Gu Liubai said calmly, "When the army fights, we are not afraid of how powerful the enemy is, we are just afraid of the enemy's brains being calm enough and the strategy is correct enough."
After saying these words, he spread out a piece of skin, picked a thick grass and spread it down, signaling Chen Ruoruo and Shangguan Zhaoyi to sit down and rest with him and look at the sunset.
Although Chen Ruoruo felt that his butt still hurt, she felt happy again when she looked at the river that looked golden and turned red under the afterglow of the sunset.
"Sister." Gu Liubai called her according to her preferences, then smiled and asked, "I remember the first time I met you and talked about the next battle with the army. You reminded me that if you want to earn military merit, it is best to come to Fufeng and not go to Nanzhao. Do you still remember this?"
"Is this a thing?" Chen Ruoruo looked at the charming beauty, which seemed a bit desolate but had always given her novel feelings. Her sweetheart sat next to her. She was a little intoxicated and her mind was not very clear. After blinking several times, she remembered, "It seems that this is the case. At that time, I thought you were the young master of Lu. I thought you wanted to make military achievements. I kindly reminded you not to get along with Li Xianyu."
Gu Liubai smiled slightly and said, "I asked you the reason at that time, but you wouldn't tell me. Today I saw the latest military information. Li Xianyu, the governor of Jiannan, seemed to be quite powerful. In less than a month, he had already broken more than 30 large and small cities and soldiers came to Taihe City. Why are you so sure that this person was not very good at that time? You are very familiar with this person?"
"I'm not familiar with this man." Chen Ruoruo shook his head and said, "But I know that this man wanted to enter the confidential place of Li's family before but failed. Moreover, there was a female practitioner who served me in Prince Jing's mansion who was transferred from Jiannan. She told me that Li Xianyu had a big problem. He liked to fabricate the number of people to get more allocated above. Although he was not very greedy for money, he did like to spend money on the army and had some elite soldiers, the key is that the number of troops in this person was a bit weak. Moreover, the most elite army is the personal soldiers who guard the central camp. The equipment accumulated on these thousands of elite soldiers is so good that it is outrageous, but this army always guards him and does not charge in the front. When I heard her statement, I felt that this person was no different from some wealthy slaves in Chang'an City. Many wealthy slaves looked greedy for money and made great money, but they were all piled in the cellar without spending. Li Xianyu seemed to like to make elite soldiers, but he gave me the feeling that he was not good at fighting, but liked to pile up weapons and equipment for himself to see."
Gu Liubai frowned immediately, "Arms collection habit."
Chen Ruoruo immediately laughed and said, "I feel that's it."
Gu Liubai thought for a while and said, "The number of troops is a bit weak. So now he claims to be an army of 80,000, which may be far less than 80,000?"
Chen Ruoruo seriously thought about the content of the conversation between the female practitioner who served her and said, "The original words of that female practitioner are that the number of Li Xianyu's claim to be in is often only 80%."
Gu Liubai frowned deeply again, "Then maybe the 80,000 army will only have more than 60,000?"
Chen Ruoruo looked at him with a frown in the character "Chuan", and then he felt that he was not coming out to meet his lover and traveling around, but to fight. She then became more serious and asked, "Why, you didn't say that this person was in Nanzhao and the Nanzhao King's Skin was not able to fight back. Could it be that the army of only 20,000 or 20,000 yuan would have any huge hidden dangers?"
Gu Liubai nodded and said, "The more cities you occupy, the larger the stalls, the easier it is to divide the troops out because of some turbulent counterattacks. And even if it is said that these 80,000 are real numbers, it is not false at all. With Li Xianyu's temperament, he should not like to hide soldiers, and he does not like to hide one or two reserve troops in a large number of places."
After a pause, he looked at the thoughtful Chen Ruoruo and Shangguan Zhaoyi who obviously knew what was going on, and said, "According to the previous military situation, Pi Hetuo has at least 30,000 troops in his hands. Thirty thousand troops are in the city of Taihe City. Unless the morale of the army is disintegrated, it is not so easy to conquer. Moreover, the battle between such a large army is often determined by surprise. If Pi Hetuo has a surprise soldier hidden in his hands, but Li Xianyu has taken out all the things in his hands, and there are no hidden surprises. As long as he makes some decisions, he will easily be completely reversed."
Chen Ruoruo smiled sarcastically and said, "This man's most elite army is arranged in the middle of the army. The army is defeated, and the elite army is surrounded by it and cannot exert much combat power. Especially after winning streaks, I think Li Xianyu is even more careless. How could he have any surprise soldiers?"
Everyone in Chang'an knows the beauty of Princess Jing, but after Gu Liubai met her once, although she could not confirm her identity at that time, she already knew that she was an extremely smart person. At this time, she was a little serious and said something, Gu Liubai nodded unconsciously.
"Zhaoyi, try to show the warning to the Nanzhao Jiannan army at the fastest speed." He took a deep breath, looked at Shangguan Zhaoyi, and said seriously, "I have seen the military composition of Nanzhao's Pi Hetuo before. Fourty percent of his army was heavy cavalry, but in the military situation of Li Xianyu conquering those cities, there was no sign of the heavy cavalry fighting with the Jiannan army, which means that Pi Hetuo did not use the real power at all. I think the most problematic point is that some barbarians did not have decent resistance, but according to records, all the barbarians are soldiers. Then, according to this, I think Li Xianyu will be defeated soon if he is not alert."
Shangguan Zhaoyi nodded immediately: "I will try to pass it right away."
Chen Ruoruo also frowned slightly, "If the worst plan is to be taken, if Li Xianyu in Nanzhao is defeated, what will be the most adverse impact on Fufeng?"
Chapter completed!