Chapter 1370: Coaxing
A map of Lang San Mansion is placed in front of two people.
"General Teng, did you actually make the map so detailed?" Liu Buwu was a little shocked when he looked at the huge map of each village in front of him.
Teng Jian smiled, and naturally he would not tell Liu Buwu that the people who drew these maps were basically professionals from the Tang Dynasty's inner guards.
"Major General doesn't know!" He shook his head, looking very distressed. "Lang San Mansion is not like Sheng Long Mansion, especially in the northern region, with complex terrain, numerous villages and ethnic groups living together, and they all have rebellious bones on their backs. There are chaos here today, and I will kill the official cadre tomorrow. The most important thing I did at the beginning was to take people around the mountains to wipe out these bastards. But, it's easy to defeat them, and kill them is easy to find them. It's really difficult to find them!"
"That's true!" Liu Buwu nodded and said yes.
"I suffered a lot of losses, so I was ruthless. Every time I walked around the ground, I would draw a map in detail. This has been done for several years!" Teng Jian said proudly: "Since this picture was made, those guys who had rebellious bones had nowhere to hide. I could not kill a few of them and could never become a climate anymore."
"The general is indeed a good method!" Liu Buwu sincerely praised.
Even Liu Xinda, the method of Tengjian's governance of Lang Shan Mansion, has been used as a typical example, and has educated Liu Buwu several times. First, he beat a big stick and killed the local natives to lose their souls, and then poured honey water, beat and pull it. In a short time, he brought Lang Shan into his hands. His method was many times higher than that of Liu Buwu.
"Please look at the Major General!" Tengjian pointed to the map. "Now, they should be in Qiqiong River. If so many people want to cross the river, they have to build bridges. It is estimated that within two days, they will not be able to do this. The opponents are 20,000, but the only ones who can really fight are only five or six thousand. And what about us, this time, plus the 5,000 elite troops you brought, and there are as many as 15,000 soldiers and horses that can be dispatched. It is easy to destroy them."
"The king is still very difficult to deal with."
"Of course, I still know Wang very well. I have worked with him many times back then!" Teng Jian smiled.
A few years ago, he and Wang You cooperated to defend Ezhou City, and they tasted the artillery of the Northern Tang army for the first time. That battle was the most miserable battle that Tengjian lost. Without any head-on confrontation, the army under his command was already defeated.
Although it is not a crime of war, Tengjian also knows that sharp weapons have always been an indispensable and important link in war.
It was also during the embarrassing escape after that battle that he became a prisoner, and then was instigated to become a member of the Northern Tang Dynasty.
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But even so, over the years, he has been thinking about how he should face it if he encounters such a weapon again.
The answer is very clear.
If it is on the flat ground or in the city, it is basically impossible to fight against it and can only be beaten passively. If the morale is high, it can still be dealt with for a while. If the morale is low, the defeat will be a matter in the blink of an eye.
But if it is under a terrain like Lang Son, there will be more things to do.
But it is undeniable that the emergence of artillery has changed the pattern of war.
If you swim and attack, you will not change the overall situation.
Those who can determine the overall situation will always be those head-on battles.
"The opponent crosses the river, and will inevitably cross the river with some elites first, then some young and strong civilians, then important figures, then food and supplies, and finally some elites will be left to cut off the rear." Teng Jian said with a smile.
"The general wants to attack him halfway?" Liu Buwu was also a veteran on the battlefield. Teng Jian spoke, and he roughly guessed the other party's thoughts.
"Not bad!" Teng Jian said: "We are two parts on both sides of the Qiqiong River. When the other party crosses halfway and launches an attack at the same time, the other party cannot take care of both the head and tail." Teng Jian said with a smile: "I have arranged a large number of wooden stakes upstream. When the war starts, when they are put down from the upstream, they can break their bridges, so that they are cut into two parts by the Qiqiong River, watching each other but unable to support each other, and then we eat them separately."
Liu Buwu's eyes flashed and looked at Teng Jian and said, "Who doesn't know which one General Teng is going to attack?"
Teng Jian laughed and reached out to pat Liu Buwu on the shoulder: "Major General, I am an elder at least, how could I go to grab food with you? Next, your troops cross the river from the upstream and around them. I am here waiting for the effort to hit the people who crossed the river."
Liu Buwu showed joy on his face, "Then I want to thank Uncle Teng."
"I was a family, what's there to thank?" Teng Jian said: "But Major General, when you get the spoils, you have to give me a thick copy."
"How much does Uncle Teng want?" Liu Buwu asked.
"Thirty percent!" Teng Jian said: "At least 30 percent. As for those young and strong men, I don't want them, and I can't support them. But those women, you choose beautiful ones to go, and those who are not beautiful ones must stay for me."
Liu Buwu laughed: "Woman, Uncle Teng wants as much as he wants."
"No, no, no." Teng Jian waved his hand repeatedly: "The men under my command also need to be married. Many of them are very arrogant and unwilling to beat local barbarian women. This time, so many women from the Tang Dynasty came here. They should be looking forward to it. But they are too beautiful. If their beauty is in trouble, they can't hold on. Only people like the Major General can handle it!"
The two looked at each other and laughed.
After discussing some details of the attack time of both sides, how to cooperate and other details, Liu Buwu hurriedly left. He wanted to lead his troops around the upstream to cross the river, and needed to arrive at the attack site on time tomorrow, but he had to act overnight.
After seeing Liu Buwu off, Tengjian turned around but came to the thatched house where Ma Li was imprisoned.
He pushed open the door and walked in. Looking at Ma Li who was sleeping on a pile of thatched grass like a maggot, Teng Jian laughed a few times, dragged a bench and sat opposite Ma Li.
"General Teng, we are old friends, we have something to say, what is this now?" Ma Li was quite brave and stared at Teng Jian and said.
"Don't you understand what we want to do now?" Teng Jian smiled and said, "It is precisely because we are friends that I took the lead and saved your life. Otherwise, with our major general's temper, you would have been cut off."
Ma Li changed his face and said, "Are you going to attack Your Majesty?"
"What Your Majesty? It's just a fake guy with the surname Gu!" Teng Jian said disdainfully: "Ma Li, your Ma family and I are neighbors. We have lived in harmony in the past two years, so we have saved your life. As for the others, this time we are dead. Our Major General cannot tolerate anyone coming to his territory to make up his mind."
"General Liu Xinda agreed in person." Ma Li said loudly.
"The general's health is getting worse and worse, I'm afraid he won't live this year." Teng Jian said: "The master of the family is now the major general. The major general is not good at Annan. He insists on asking a few Bodhisattvas to offer them to his head?"
"You will destroy us, and then the Tang army will fight you, and sooner or later you will be a dead son. If everyone can live together, they will die, and if they share the same thing, they will die!"
Teng Jian laughed: "Of course we know that if the Tang army wants to come to conquer us, it will be difficult for us to resist. So, isn't this going to use the heads of the fake emperor and the Xiang family?"
Ma Li was stunned for a while before he said in a daze: "So Liu Buwu wants to surrender?"
"It's not surrender." Teng Jian laughed and said, "We just use the heads of these people to exchange for peace and promise. We are honestly in Annan and the Tang Dynasty, and we are just farts and it's over. Kill you, and then block your back and make you unable to escape. If the emperor of Chang'an has a request, we can even send troops to poke your butts and make some small contributions."
"So you have been colluding with Chang'an for a long time!" Ma Li said with gritted teeth.
Teng Jian sighed as if he pretended to be a model: "In this world, in order to survive, I have to think of a few more ways! Ma Li, seeing that we have been doing business for several years before, you are very generous and have been cheated by me several times, and they have come to do business with me again and again, so I will leave your life. When tomorrow passes, I will let you go back."
"You're going to do it tomorrow?"
"Yes, now the king is building a bridge and crossing the river again. Waiting for them to pass halfway, haha!" Teng Jian stood up with a smile, "Brother Ma, I feel wronged, I will let you go when I come back tomorrow. So you will be more at ease these two days. If it makes people outside unhappy, it will be beyond my reach to stab you with a knife. By the way, I forgot to tell you that these people outside are local natives and don't understand Tang Dynasty."
Listening to Teng Jian walking further and further in laughter, Ma Li was completely embarrassed.
It is certainly a happy event to survive, but the entire plan of the Southern Alliance was completely over.
The only thing that is thankful is that this time the Ma family did not follow him.
The Ma family did not come because they were close to Annan and could evacuate at any time. So everyone is still cleaning up their belongings. It seems that there is no need to clean up at this moment.
The Confederacy is finished.
I must go back alive and tell my uncle to re-plan it all earlier, otherwise the fate of the emperor and the Xiang family will be a portrayal of the future of Ma.
Ma Li lying on the ground, his thoughts became clearer.
Teng Jian, who had deceived Ma Li, happily went to the military camp to start the next military operation.
Of course, he was not aimless to make fun with Mali.
Because once Ma Li goes back, it will have an absolute impact on the entire battle situation.
Chapter completed!