Chapter 46: Stealing the beam and changing the column
After Li Shimin discussed with the voice for a while, he issued several secret orders one after another.
Duan Xiong, the then general of the Zuo Xiaogu, whose courtesy name was Zhixuan, immediately left the camp after receiving the secret order and personally took the five hundred cavalry to Chang'an.
The left guard general Hou Junji gathered nearly 60,000 soldiers in the camp and secretly gathered in a valley.
"The soldiers of the Thousand Niu Guards obeyed the order."
"exist!"
"Quickly gather all the people in the surrounding villages and villages, except for the elderly and young children under ten years old, you should bring them all, be gentle and do not hurt them."
"yes!"
Five thousand soldiers took the order and left, and Hou Junji's eyes moved right.
"The soldiers of Jinwu Guard obey orders."
"exist!"
"Put up all reserve tents, light a bonfire in front of the tent, pay attention to prevent wildfires when igniting, otherwise military law will deal with it."
"yes!"
The five thousand Jinwu Guards are uniform and have begun to organize division of labor.
Hou Junji aimed at the other guards and said, "The rest of the people left their helmets, armor and weapons in the camp, and quickly went to Qixia Mountain to wait for General Duan to arrange it."
"yes!"
Seeing that the assignment assigned by Li Shimin was completed, Hou Junji looked at the headquarters where Li Shimin was with confusion.
"What kind of trick is Your Majesty playing? He transferred the soldiers away for no reason. If Jie Li Khan takes the opportunity to attack... Alas, forget it, now we can only leave it to fate."
After Hou Junji walked off the platform, a figure flashed away in a dark corner.
As it was getting dark, hundreds of villages in all sizes between the Wei River and Chang'an City were taken to the valley by the Qianniuwei people.
Fang Xuanling and Gao Jian came to appease him. The people were already frightened because the Turks went south, and now they were captured by the Tang army. They all thought they were here to be cannon fodder in front of the battlefield.
Unexpectedly, Fang Xuanling pointed to the camp not far away and said, "Everyone is in a group of ten people, there are armor and weapons in the tent, and each person is neatly dressed."
"Wow~~~" The people were noisy, and then they confirmed their idea of being cannon fodder.
Fang Xuanling hurriedly waved to the Qianniu Guards, and they stopped the trouble with them.
"There is no need to be suspicious in the village. Your Majesty has just ascended the throne and will never be able to make trouble with your lives. In addition to weapons and armor, there are also ten bags of corn in the tent. You just need to wear armor and walk around the tent for a night, and you can take the bag of corn home tomorrow at noon."
After some trouble here, the people finally made the disguise as required, put on armor and helmets, and they could not tell the difference between men and women or young people from a distance.
After Fang Xuanling settled the people so well, he looked up at the sky. He could probably guess Li Shimin's plan. Now it depends on Chang'an's side to successfully take out enough props.
Speaking of Duan Zhixuan's side, Li Shimin actually asked him to collect five thousand Yizhou military armor, five thousand Youzhou military armor, and five thousand Yangzhou military armor in a short time. In fact, it is not that complicated. It is just as much as the armor of the 36 Shangzhous in the Tang Dynasty.
This task was not difficult for Duan Zhixuan. He had just obtained 30,000 sets of armor from various states from the Ministry of War, and rushed to Qixia Mountain that he had agreed to.
More than 40,000 bare imperial guards here have already been bitten by mosquitoes and screaming.
Duan Zhixuan had no ink traces, waved his horse whip and hit the mountain wall hard, shouting: "Everyone changed his clothes immediately. After changing his clothes, he lined up with the military flags of each state to go to the camp."
"yes!"
"It's not over yet. After going to the camp, I immediately set up a camp to make a fire, and then return here in the dark again, and replace it with the armor of another state. This will continue until tomorrow morning."
The soldiers looked at each other, but they still shouted neatly: "Yes!"
Duan Zhixuan nodded with satisfaction. In fact, in his opinion, with these elite soldiers, there is no need to be afraid of the hundreds of thousands of Turkic troops. Just fight, why are you afraid? Unfortunately, he has not been emperor for many years.
After the arrangements were made here, a figure rushed towards Chang'an in the darkness.
At 3:00 a.m. (9:00), outside the dungeon where Zhi Shili was imprisoned, the uncle Changsun Wuji walked to the door with a smile. He looked at Zhi Shili with a teasing and said, "I didn't expect that the little Khan is quite valuable. Jie Li was willing to spend three thousand horses and ten thousand sheep to exchange for your life."
Zhi Shisili, who was already preparing to die, was happy when he heard this and immediately stood up: "Be serious about this?"
Changsun Wuji smiled and did not answer, and waved to the guards beside him: "Let him come out and take him to meet with me."
"Yes." The two guards really let him out under the incredible gaze of Zhishi's inspiration.
The group went north all the way.
Zhishi Sili was placed in a carriage, but the carriage had no roof. Looking around, there were endless fields.
“Huh?”
"What's the teaching of the little Khan?"
"Uh, no, it's okay..."
Zhishi Sili waved his hand to Changsun Wuji and hurriedly lowered his head, but the corner of his eyes was always aiming at the dense forest not far away.
I saw that a fire dragon winding upwards in the wilderness that should have been pitch black, and from the direction the other party was moving, it turned out to be the military camp where the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty was located.
It seemed to be to confirm the guess that the power of pride was unthinkable, and the convoy and the marching gathered together for a while.
Changsun Wuji deliberately slowed down his pace and said, "I didn't expect the troops in Yizhou to be so fast."
"Yizhou?" Zhishili sweated coldly on his forehead.
The team of troops marched extremely fast, and disappeared in front of the group in just half an hour.
Changsun Wuji sat on the horse's back and hummed a small song, but the power of Zhengfa on the carriage was shocked and suspicious.
Before he could think about the authenticity of it, on the right side of the road, another team of troops galloped past from south to north.
"Oh~ Luozhou is closest to Chang'an, but it was led by the Yizhou army. Well, it seems that we have to mention it to His Majesty. This Luozhou garrison should be replaced by someone."
Changsun Wuji talked about himself, not caring about the power of pride and thoughtlessness that was kneeling in the carriage next to him and sweating.
"Luozhou? Is it Luozhou this time?"
Zhishili was really afraid this time. The two teams had different armors. Each team had at least five thousand people. And judging from the speed of the marching, they were all elite, no worse than the six cavalry he had seen yesterday.
After the group arrived at the camp, Zhishi's soul was almost exhausted. Along the way, he had encountered countless Tang reinforcements from prefectures and counties. He had only an impression that there were no less than 50,000, and they were all elite troops.
Changsun Wuji smiled and looked at Zhi Shisili, who was sitting in the carriage in a daze, pointed to a high platform not far away, and said, "In order to let Jie Li know that the little Khan is still safe, I will feel wronged that the little Khan will rest on the high platform for a night tonight."
After saying that, the two guards next to him directly raised the power of Zhishi and walked towards the platform.
Zhishi looked up at the high platform with weak power, and then his eyes burst out with an unprecedented light.
"Okay, okay, this Tangren is really stupid. Once I get on this high platform, I can see the five miles in a radius. When I understand your troops deployment, tomorrow will be your death."
(To be continued)
Chapter completed!