In the main tent of the military camp outside Hui County, listening to the news brought back by the scout in front of him, Li Chengming couldn't help but change his face.

There were about 30,000 cavalry, plus 30,000 soldiers, which was as much as 60,000. In addition, the sixteen guards and the Northern Imperial Guards in Chang'an City, Li Shimin now actually controls 120,000 to 130,000 soldiers.

It is no joke that 120,000 soldiers are not a joke. If this army was in a chaotic battle, it would be enough to conquer the whole world with this.

Moreover, the total strength of the entire Tang Dynasty is only about 600,000, and Li Shimin now has 120,000 to 130,000, or about one-fifth of it. So, it can be said that he is the most powerful person in the entire Tang Dynasty.

Although many battles in history have won the more with few battles, and if the weak defeats the strong, it feels like there is less force, so can’t we use military tactics to remedy it?

But in fact, in addition to the limited battles in history that win more with less, more battles are actually more battles, and stronger with stronger defeat the weak. This is the real historical battle.

Not only was Li Chengming shy when he heard this, but even Wang Hu was the same. Wang Hu even thought of the news that Li Shimin was transporting troops and food from Chang'an a few days ago. He stood up despite the scout's report in the tent and reported the matter, and said anxiously, "Your Highness, please order Xue Wanche and Luo Ning to return immediately."

When Li Chengming raised his eyebrows when he heard Wang Hu's words, he naturally knew what Wang Hu meant.

Wang Hu should be afraid that Li Shimin would lead the 30,000 cavalry to attack directly. If this is the case, it would be a disaster.

You know, in the entire Huixian camp, in addition to the 3,000 troops left by Luo Ning, there are only hundreds of personal guards he had Wang Hu formed.

If Li Shimin led a large army to come at this time, even if they had some preparations, such as a cross-age cheating weapon, the explosive pack was not omnipotent. It was okay to face tens of thousands of infantrymen, but if they were tens of thousands of cavalry, they would be afraid that the flaws of the explosive pack would be exposed.

What is the flaw in the explosive pack?

Of course, the explosive pack can only slander the enemy within a certain range. Even if there are iron nails and other objects in the explosive pack, it is actually that power.

If the enemy sees through this flaw and directly disperse the soldiers to attack, the power of the explosive pack will be weakened to the lowest point. How could they block the tens of thousands of people with their thousands of people?

Listening to Wang Hu's suggestion, Li Chengming, who was already a little shocked, slowly calmed down. He waved his hand to Wang Hu and asked him to go down, and then continued to look at the scout who was half kneeling on the ground and said, "Do you know where these people came from?"

"When you go back to your highness, you have already found out that these people are all soldiers from the guards of Qi, Tong and Hua states." The young scout said.

After hearing this answer, Li Chengming nodded slightly, but the answer was not too out of his intentions.

Although Li Chengming was not very clear about the Tang Dynasty's military strength before, over the past ten days, he had asked Xue Wanche and Luo Ning to give him some lessons and figured out the current military strength of the Tang Dynasty.

The total number of troops in the entire Tang Dynasty was about 600,000, of which the number of cavalry was about 100,000 to 120,000, accounting for one fifth of the entire Tang Dynasty.

In order to protect the capital, Li Yuan arranged about 40,000 to 50,000 cavalry around him.

Although the number of cavalry accounts for only one-fifth of the Tang Dynasty, it feels small, on the contrary, this can be said to be a top-ranking existence in all dynasties.

Although the Central Plains are vast and abundant, the Central Plains dynasty has always been not good at raising horses and has no source of horses, so it has always resulted in very few horses in the Central Plains.

However, horses were extremely important in ancient wars, because the mobility of cavalry was many times higher than that of infantrymen.

The reason why in ancient times, the Central Plains dynasty was unable to defeat the surrounding grassland alien races was because these grassland alien races grew on horseback. Even if they were defeated for a while, as long as they did not truly exterminate the clan, they could make a comeback soon.

Think about it, when the Central Plains Dynasty fought with the grassland alien race, the Central Plains Dynasty could defeat the grassland alien race ten times with the human sea tactics, but in these ten times, the grassland alien race immediately led the army to flee on horseback. Because the Central Plains Dynasty lacked horses, how could it run past four legs? Even if it beats these ten times, how much damage can it cause to the grassland alien race?

On the contrary, as long as you lose one last time, you will have to face the pursuit of horses from the grassland army. You can't fight or escape, and how can you last for such a battle?

In history, the reason why the Han and Tang dynasties were able to defeat the grassland alien races was that both of them liked to raise horses, and they had a large number of horse sources and had a large number of cavalrymen. They stood on an equal starting line with the grassland alien races, so that they had the basis to defeat the grassland alien races.

The entire Tang Dynasty had only about 120,000 cavalry, and now Li Shimin may have more than 30,000 to 40,000 cavalry. If there are such a large number of cavalry, even if there are 100,000 troops facing it, they may have to avoid being defeated.

"Is there any news?" Li Chengming asked the scout again.

The young scout thought for a moment, then clasped his fists and said, "Go back to your highness, and there was an uncertain news in Chang'an City yesterday, saying that some people said that the traitors might raise troops to conquer us in two days, but this news was only heard by the city and has not been confirmed yet."

"Two days?" Li Chengming frowned, his eyes flashed, and then waved his hand, "Okay, I know, thank you for your hard work, go down and get the reward and rest!"

"Thank you!" After hearing Li Chengming's words, the scout bowed again, then turned around and came out of the main account.

After the scout walked out, Li Chengming's face calmed down slightly and began to think about it.

Dong! Dong! Dong! Dong!!!~~~

His fingers gently tapped the Hu desk in front of him, and Li Chengming's eyes flashed, and he was thinking about the situation at this moment.

However, although the situation at this time may be extremely dangerous for others, Li Chengming had no worries. He had his own trump card and was confident that even if Li Shimin led tens of thousands of troops over, he could retreat calmly.

However, if he retreated like this, he would be very unwilling to accept it.

For a long time, since he knew that the system he was so powerful, Li Chengming actually no longer cared about Li Shimin, because in his opinion, no matter how Li Shimin struggled, he would win this game, and he could only be himself.

But what he didn't expect was that Li Shimin planned to lead his army to conquer him in such a short time when he was sending people out to conquer the city and land.

This time, if he hadn't received the news in advance, he would have been caught off guard by Li Shimin, even if he could leave, he would have been embarrassed.

"Since that's the case, I'll do it first!" Li Chengming raised his head, looked at the void, raised his lips lightly, and suddenly muttered to himself in a low voice.
Chapter completed!