Chapter 24 Strangulation(1/2)
A huge map that is as wide as one meter wide, is spread out and placed on the table.
If there are military strategists who know the map, they will find that this is a topographic map marked with the Hexi prefectures in the Tang Dynasty, from Tuyuhun to Tubo.
Compared with ordinary maps, this map is much more detailed, with rivers, roads, and pastures marked very clearly.
Lun Qinling looked down at the map.
The Tubo generals in front of him were all lowering their heads, and following his fingers, their eyes moved on the map.
The entire tent was silent.
A bonfire was growing in the corner of the tent, and some unknown herbs were sprinkled on the bonfire, emitting green smoke, making the air full of clouds and smoke.
After a long time, Lun Qinling looked up and said, "The latest information of the Tang army."
A Tubo general with a tall and long arms, wearing black leather armor, and a string of bone beads on his neck, quickly stepped up and handed it to the military newspaper with both hands.
Lun Qinling took it and looked at him: "Asan Gu?"
"yes."
"I heard you have entered Landa Temple?"
"Suixi is more than the generals, and he once used troops in India."
"I still heard you have gained a lot there?"
"I searched through the Buddhist scriptures in Landa Temple, but I was not very interested, but I found a method of practicing and had some experience."
Lun Qinling stopped talking, Asan Gu took two steps back and stood on one side with rules.
"In the past half month, the Tang army dispatched at least a dozen partial troops, each with a few hundred and a thousand... and penetrated from all over the place to Tuyuhun. We defeated six of them, annihilated two of them, and there were still several, and there were nowhere to go."
Silence is still silence.
Lun Qinling raised his head, his eyes swept through the smoke, and swept towards the generals surrounded by the map, with a somewhat embarrassed expression: "What do you have to say?"
"General, the Tang people are cunning. If their army attacks, we will definitely know, but they sent a small group of dozens or hundreds of people to touch them. On such a vast grassland, they would sprinkle a handful of sand, so where can they be clearly divided."
"Yeah, maybe that's their purpose."
The golden ring on Lun Qinling's right ear swayed slightly.
His eyes closed slightly, as if he was thinking.
A general squirmed with an Adam's apple and said, "General, even if a few of them ran away, there were not many people, so the impact should not be big."
Lun Qinling shook his head and pointed his finger at the southern foot of Dafei Sichuan: "Where is that Tang army now?"
After asking this, everyone was stunned for a moment, and then realized that the position should be thousands of troops led by Tang general Su Dawei.
After defeating Siddouyu, where did these Tang people go?
Lun Qinling finally opened his eyes: "Your reaction is too slow. If it is really a situation where the two armies are facing each other, if they react like this, they are afraid that the Tang army has broken through the camp."
Lun Qinling said this sentence very calmly, and there was no derogatory meaning in his tone.
However, the content of the words still made the generals feel ashamed.
Qu ~
A harsh baby cry suddenly sounded.
Everyone looked at the sound and immediately saw a huge night crow flying in at some point. They squatted on the bracket at the corner of the tent, flapping their wings, and looking at everyone with their heads.
The pair of green and faint eyes seemed to have a bit of mockery.
"Night Crow, what's going on?"
When Lun Qinling asked, Ye Ya shook his wings on his body, and seemed to have made a chest-high movement. He said with a bit of arrogance in his tone: "I have flew nearly a thousand miles, went back and forth countless times, and finally found the whereabouts of the Tang people. Where is the blood food I want?"
"Tell me what I want to know and arrange it for you later, more than you think."
As if satisfied with Lu Qinling's answer, Ye Ya's eyes flashed with pride and raised his bird's beak and said, "That group of Tang people is more than 300 miles from the southern foot of Dafei River and more than 200 miles from Wuhai."
“Number of people?”
"..." Ye Ya tilted his head and stared at Lun Qinling, his eyes flashing with a faint cold light.
Seeing Lun Qinling staring at him, it moved its wings and muttered, "I... I don't know how to count, in short, a lot."
"a lot of?"
"Their tents are connected together, with Tang people and more Tuyuhun people."
Ye Ya's answer shocked the Tubo generals in the tent.
Then there was an uproar.
"Tuyuhun people? Didn't those damn herders vow to serve Tubo, have they defected to the Tang people again?"
"What are you panic?"
Lun Qinling waved his hand and sat down relaxedly on his big animal skin chair.
"The Tuyuhun people will follow whoever has the power, but they are just a group of sheep who have no opinions."
"It's all a group of ungrateful wolves who are not familiar with it."
"General, those tribe leaders took advantage of us and vowed to serve us. Now that the Tang army has only a few thousand people, these people can't help but ask me to kill all the leaders and annex their tribes, men are slaves, and women are distributed to the soldiers."
The generals in the tent were excited for a while.
When talking about the division of slaves and women, they all showed an excited look.
"Slaves, women, cattle and sheep will be there after this battle, and everyone will be given wealth that they will never spend in their entire lives."
The voice of Qinling was calm, but there was an indescribable force.
As long as he says it will surely be fulfilled.
These words also made the Tubo generals in the tent blush with excitement.
I have already begun to plan how to enjoy that wealth.
For example, how many women have to sleep in a day and how many slaves are needed to grazle so many cattle and sheep.
Lun Qinling reached out and gently twisted the huge golden ring under his earlobe, and looked at everyone silently.
After everyone's excitement passed, his voice gradually became weaker, and he spoke, "General, what should I do?"
All the old generals who have followed Lun Qinling for many years are here. Naturally, they understand that if you want to gain, you must win on the battlefield and have a perfect victory.
There were more than that defeat before, which shows that this group of Tang people is not easy to deal with.
"There are few people in Tuyuhun, which is both an unfavorable and an advantage."
Lun Qinling stood up again and reached out to the map: "It is easy to defeat thousands of Tang people on the vast grasslands of Tuyuhun, but it is not easy to destroy them all, and the most important thing is to capture Su Dawei."
Speaking of this, he stopped, held the line of Wuhai, and looked around: "There are few people, which is convenient for infiltration and escape. If you want to achieve great results, you have to recruit Tuyuhun people. You said, if you want to capture this group of Tang people and capture that Su Dawei, what should you do?"
"this……"
The generals calmed down from their previous craze.
I just think this problem is quite tricky.
Why?
Unless you know where the Tang people are, set up a net on all sides and surround them in the net.
Otherwise such a broad strategic depth.
Just as Lun Qinling said, it is easy to defeat thousands of Tang people, but it is difficult to catch Su Dawei.
Even if the other party can be determined, Tang Jun’s scouts are not vegetarians.
How many troops do you need to encircle them in this terrain?
The troops mobilized only for a few thousand Tang soldiers, which was not worth the loss.
In another parallel space, in the Battle of Dafeichuan, Lun Qinling dispatched 400,000 troops to deal with Xue Rengui's 50,000 Tang troops.
In the final result, although the main force of the Tang army was annihilated, he had no spare time to take down Xue Rengui and Guo Daifeng.
Although the Tang army was defeated, the Tubo people were exhausted.
"There were more than 10,000 people before, and it was difficult to win against about 1,000 troops led by Xue Rengui. However, after the Tang army added 2,000 reinforcements, it was impossible to support it. It can be seen that the combat power of the Tang army must be ten times that of the Tang army if we want to defeat them.
If we want to annihilate them all and capture their leader, we may have more troops."
Lun Qinling's eyes calmly swept across the audience.
All the generals present were lowering their heads to calculate.
Now in various defense lines such as Shanzhou in Tuyuhun, Tubo suffered serious losses after experiencing the last setback.
Recently, troops from all over the country are being urgently drawn to recruit Tuyuhun and the servants of various tribes to join the war.
This line of defense cannot be moved easily.
If Tubo had not maintained the power of the army, I was afraid that the Tang army in Ganzhou, Suzhou, Liangzhou and Anxi towns would have emerged from the city and launched a full-scale offensive to compress the living space of the Tubo people.
By then, the Tuyuhun land that had been annexed for several years would be spit out.
To be continued...