Chapter 240 Guarding Strategy
"This strategy for defending the city should be adapted to local conditions. Hebei Road is suitable for strengthening the walls and clearing the fields, but Jiannan Road is not suitable. However, Jiannan Road also has the advantages of Jiannan Road. Only when we can find and play this advantage can we have some chance of winning."
After Li Yan's reminder, Zhang Xun and others captured some of Li Yan's ideas. Obviously, only by adapting to local conditions can they defeat powerful enemies.
"Yes, the prince has been laying out various fortifications in Yaozhou these days. But the Tubo people will not arrange these things. They will not. When they arrive here, they will definitely take these tricks of ours. In this way, our army will be the first in morale!"
Among these people, the one with the highest tactical qualities is naturally Li Guangbi. Although he didn't know how Li Yan wanted to fight at the beginning, combined with what Li Yan has been doing these days and what he said just now, he obviously had thought of some tricks.
After Li Guangbi finished speaking, Li Nai nodded and said, "This is a good saying. If you do it in one go, you will lose it again and then you will lose it. This is not only useful to us Central Plains people, but also the same is true for their arrogant Tubo people. When they first came to attack, they must be the most confident and morale. If we can't give them a moment of excitement, we will be in a passive state from then on."
"So the prince arranged pits quite far outside the city, just to let the enemy fall into some people without any difference. Although it would not consume too many of their troops, it had a great impact on their morale. There were also the crossbows and catapults we raised, which were all things that the Tubo people did not have. At least they could catch them off guard!"
Zhang Xun also understood the significance of Li Yong's early arrangement this time. As a result, they were just talking and thinking of many tricks that might make the enemy unable to defend themselves.
These tricks have a considerable commonality, that is, they may not consume many enemy troops, but they will definitely make every soldier nervous.
For more than two hours, they were thinking about these seemingly crooked tricks, and Li Ning recorded them almost without missing a single one.
In the end, Li Neng said that when and where these tricks were used, he would decide within one day, and then start to arrange them. After all, the news came here, and Li Neng speculated that the 300,000 troops in Tubo should have set off soon.
Gradually, Li Neng had actually completed a transformation without discovering it, not only Chisong Dezan or his own soldiers, that is, turning the Tubo people into the side that led their troops to attack openly, while he was the side that was hiding in the darkness.
He knew that when the troops and combat power may not be as strong as the opponent, he could only do this, which was not a shameful thing. The one who could defeat the enemy in the end was the truly awesome side.
As Li Neng expected, Chisong Dezan had already led his army to set off at this time.
The Tubo people marched and fought in wars, which was actually quite similar to the Tang Dynasty. Chisong Dezan personally marched forward in the central army. At the front were 10,000 cavalry as scouts, while sweeping and inquiring about the news. Behind the cavalry was a real vanguard army composed of 100,000 elite soldiers, and the 20,000 troops in the rear were responsible for food and supplies.
Chisong Dezan looked at the siege equipment he seized from the Tang Dynasty very important. He knew that if he wanted to truly capture the city walls that were stronger than each other in the Tang Dynasty, he could not rely on the bodies of the soldiers, and he had to rely on these seemingly bulky equipment.
He had long thought that it would be impossible for the Tang people to easily give him the opportunity to fight hand-to-hand. Even if he loses a soldier and fights a soldier from the Tang Dynasty, his Tubo will eventually win.
The army had not set off for much time, and the spies near Yaozhou had already returned, saying that Li Yan and Ge Luofeng and Li Guangbi had all gathered the army in Yaozhou, and they were frequently active outside Yaozhou City. It was obviously ready to fight the Tubo people to the death in Yaozhou.
If this were the thoughts of Chisong Dezan before, since you were waiting for me in Yaozhou, I would definitely have to change the way and give you a surprise in another place.
However, this time, after receiving the news, Chisong Dezan did not make any changes to the marching route.
Not to mention that I had suffered such a loss once before, just this time, it would be difficult to make a big splash with my 300,000 troops.
So it would be better to go to Yaozhou steadily and fight head-on with the people of the Tang Dynasty. The people of the Tang Dynasty wanted to fight them in Yaozhou. In fact, what Chi Song Dezan thought so in his heart. It was also something he had been looking forward to.
"The order is that the ten thousand cavalry in the front should not be too far from the large army. When entering the territory of the Tang Dynasty, you must always be vigilant. Li Yan will not let us approach the city of Yaozhou easily."
Chi Song Dezan has been analyzing all the previous battles of Li Neng these days. He no longer knows nothing about Li Neng's routines. He understands that Li Neng gathers all his troops here, which may indeed be trying to have a decisive battle with him in Yaozhou.
However, with Li Qing's personality, he would definitely not let the Tubo soldiers enter the decisive battle with a comfortable attitude.
In other words, Li Yan is a bit bad when fighting. His purpose is very simple, which is to prevent the enemy from feeling comfortable, and to do everything he can.
Chisong Dezan learned about this, so he decided to raise an army of 300,000 this time because he understood that if he could not guess Li Yan's behavior, hard power was the best magic weapon to break these tricks. As the saying goes, killing the master with random punches, no matter how many routines, he can still break him if his strength is strong enough.
So, nearing the territory of the Tang Dynasty, Chisong Dezan's march became more and more cautious.
Chisong Dezan believed that the ten thousand cavalry in front would be enough to test out a series of conspiracies and tricks that set Li Yan outside the city. Once his skills were exhausted, the 300,000 troops behind him could launch an inhumane attack on Yaozhou.
At that time, Li Neng obviously had to fight with Chi Song Dezan. Even if the Tang Dynasty had strong combat capabilities, with more than 100,000 Nanzhao people dragging them down, Chi Song Dezan didn't believe that they could last much time.
Chapter completed!