Chapter 106 Chase

Author: Writer hcaGwv

"The Lord is right, that's exactly that." Fang Xuanling said in a deep voice, and then he said his guess: "The Turks knew that we would walk on the official road, so they dug a hole in advance. It was obvious that they didn't want our supplies and supplies to pass smoothly to prevent us from chasing them. So why don't they use this time to escape if they have time to dig a hole?"

Fang Xuanling said here in one breath and paused for a moment and continued: "This shows that their troops are limited. I am afraid that some Han people will escape at night and take advantage of the night. It means that their control is already low to the point where they are worried, so they only dare to act during the day."

"Well, it makes sense." Changsheng rubbed his chin and thought for a while, feeling that Fang Xuanling's analysis had no logical problems, so he smiled and praised: "The analysis is very good, very comprehensive and detailed."

When Fang Xuanling expressed his guess, Zhang Baozang, who was standing by, said nothing. After hearing this, he frowned and thought for a while before slowly speaking his point of view: "I thought the other party might be lucky and bet that we would not dare to attack rashly. Another possibility is to wait for reinforcements, but after finding that no reinforcements came to support, he gave up and chose to retreat in a hurry. Of course, the last situation is not ruled out, and the most dangerous situation, that is, the Turks arranged a large number of troops there in front not far away to prepare for our ambush. Everything we see now is the illusion of luring the enemy into depth, but it is accused of being considered to be slim!"

His guess made Changsheng mutter: "If I am ambushing my nearly 5,000 main forces of the Changsheng Camp and the Qiusheng Camp, as long as I have to dispatch all the main forces of Ashinarangan and Agu's tribe, and then there must be one or two tribes to support them. Do they have the strength and confidence that they have just suffered a great defeat?"

Zhang Baozang heard Changsheng's words and quickly bowed and said, "This is just a guess of humble vocation. Don't take it too seriously, sir."

Before Changsheng could answer him, a flag manager from the intelligence department ran in outside the door. He walked to Fang Xuanling and whispered softly, and then quickly retreated.

Fang Xuanling immediately reported to Changsheng: "Report to the lord, we did not find the hiding Turks in the city, nor did we find the hiding Han people, which means that the enemy has indeed transferred everyone away. Therefore, Hu Zhi still insisted on his previous view. The Turks had long planned to escape, and it was not on a whim. They should have been the people in the city in batches before, and the batch this morning should be the last one."

This sentence also dispelled Zhang Baozang's doubts. His nervous expressions were obviously relaxed a lot, and he said with relief: "Then there is no problem. The Turkic troops here seem to be as shown, very few and weak. They should be mainly procrastinating and trying to shift the population to the northwest."

"Then why are we hesitating? Hurry up and chase after you." Liu Houer listened for a long time, and finally couldn't help but speak: "General Li, Bei Zhi is willing to be the pioneer of the way, and immediately lead the soldiers of the base camp to pursue the Turkic deserters."

He silently calculated the time, and expected that those people who brought so many Han people would not be able to walk quickly. "As long as you have a light and fast horse, you will be able to catch up with them and take back our people in less than two hours."

When he was mentally calculating, Changsheng was also calculating silently. When she heard Liu Houer's words, she smiled and said, "There are 4,000 Turks, and it's not impossible for you to chase and knock them down with light cavalry. In this way, I let my horse team follow you." As she said that, she turned to ask Zhang Baozang beside her and said, "If the horse team in my army pursues, it should be about an hour."

"One hour is enough." Zhang Baozang said confidently.

"Okay, then let the auxiliary soldiers push the armor behind you." Changsheng pointed to the potholes and said, "First organize people to transport the weapons and armor with a wheelbarrow, and then we will be able to leave the house with light clothes, which should be the same as their speed."

But what should I do about the city? Changsheng is thinking about this issue. Now this empty city without guard power is not allowed to defend without leaving any people. Although chasing is a great contribution, if the enemy retaliates and his supplies are all stored here, I will lose a lot if I burn it with a fire.

No matter which of the three friendly troops stays, they are not very relieved. Moreover, if they don’t give them any credit for such great contributions, they will definitely not be happy, but if they want to bring them with them, their combat effectiveness will be really worrying.

If you really encounter the enemy situation, it is probably unqualified to be a meat shield.

Guan Yu seemed to see Changsheng's concerns and volunteered: "Mr. Li, Beizhi is willing to lead his troops to stay in Linchuan City to guard the back door for him and to avoid his worries."

Changsheng looked at him and found that his expression was sincere and there seemed to be no artificiality. He nodded and agreed, "Okay, thank you General Guan this time."

After speaking, Zhang Fei's troops also completed the crossing of the river. He ran over in a panic and heard that the Turks had abandoned the city and fled, and they became depressed in an instant.

Recovering the city was a merit of civil servants, so Gao Ziran's face became obviously excited. If he wanted to, he could even give some to the local officials of the county so that he could further establish a good relationship with them. If he did not pursue, Changsheng and the generals could not even drink soup, which could be considered a waste of time.

After analyzing the pros and cons, Liu Houer and Guan and Zhang began to promote the courage of immortality. Just hearing General Li's reputation is enough to make the Turkish Tartars escape, and General Li's power is not an enemy of one unity, or something like that. In short, it is just the same. I hope that Changsheng will send troops to pursue him quickly and not let the huge contributions in front of him become cooked ducks.

When Changsheng was about to order a pursuit, Fang Xuanling, who had just said that the enemy was retreating in a hurry, suddenly stood up and expressed his objection: "My lord, according to what Beizhi saw, without clear information, Beizhi does not recommend pursuing."

As soon as he said this, the battalions officials from the other battalions except Changsheng and Zhang Baozang couldn't help it, and they all glared at the person who affected their merits.

Fang Xuanling seemed to have no idea and said loudly: "Lord, I have thought about all the three possibilities of Lord Zhang Baozang just now, and the third possibility is not without it." He pointed to the northwest of the official road: "Fifty miles away is the outer city where I live in vain. There is a large granary of the enemy nearby, which can provide them with a large amount of food and grass supplies, so in theory it can support an army of thousands of people. Our detailed work has not investigated there, and there is no information about that direction, so it is not ruled out that there may be enemies surrounding us and ambushing us."

Guan Zhang saw Fang Xuanling's confident attitude and knew that this person's status was definitely not ordinary in front of Changsheng, so the two of them just dared not speak out. Liu Houer thought that they were closer to Changsheng, so she bravely stepped forward and said, "Mr. Li, Beizhi still insisted on the proposal just now to lead the troops in the headquarters to pursue first. You can lead the brigade to support the formation in the back, so you can ensure that everything is safe."

When Guan and Zhang heard this, wouldn’t the monkey take away all the credit? They stopped doing it now, and hurriedly said, “General Li, you know, you are willing to go there and pursue the bandits.”

As the counselor of Changsheng, Zhang Baozang knew what his superior meant, and he also said: "Lord, since the two generals have such a high fighting spirit, it is better for the lord to follow what they said and let them pursue first, and the lord will support him in the rear."

The simplest way to do this is to let others step on the mine first and bear the first round of attacks from the enemy's firepower. If there is no ambush, everyone will be happy. Of course, the contribution of Changsheng as the commander cannot be eliminated.

Everyone is happy to win, and if you lose yourself, you will not lose much. It is indeed very consistent with Zhang Baozang's style.

Seeing that the troops on standby were already gathered by the river, Changsheng also decisively issued an order: "I have made up my mind and set out to chase the fleeing Turkic troops immediately and save our people from Dawn. The order of pursuit is General Guan's headquarters, then Changsheng Camp and Xianfeng Camp, and finally Qiusheng Camp was cut off, and General Zhang was responsible for defending the city."

These foreign generals were very happy when they heard this, as if they had already obtained their military achievements. They hurriedly cheered: "General Li is a clear lesson, and they are destined to be despised!"

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Changsheng's order was quickly conveyed one level after another. The baggage soldiers and auxiliary soldiers of Changsheng Camp took action together and pushed the wheelbarrow and armor onto the official road.

At the same time, the friendly troops, who were the vanguard, began to slowly drive over, and lightly sent off for the trip, Tarn came directly to the official road, bypassed the roadblock at the door, and advanced with great strides.

The artillery team and other supplies were temporarily left in Linchuan City and were properly taken care of.

Zhang Baozang looked at the artillery soldiers who were stacking ammunition and asked Changsheng hesitantly: "Is the lord really not going to lead the artillery to chase him?"

Changsheng nodded, "Yes, the artillery and ammunition trucks are too heavy. If the road conditions are good, it's OK. The current official road makes horse-drawn carts purely torture them, and they can't keep up with us even if they walk. You and Director Fang are left behind, and we will analyze the information here and then convey the orders."

Fang Xuanling and Zhang Baozang responded together: "Abide by the order."

Changsheng: "Not to mention there are no ambushers on the opposite side, I am not afraid even if there are any. Even if the complete Ashina Rangan comes out, there will be only 3,000 people. In addition, Aguna, who was crippled by us, has only 5,000 people. The troops are still smaller than us, so it is not worth fearing."

The remaining generals quickly said, "Sir, wise."

Changsheng asked Qin Qiong to walk side by side with him, and then the two of them dismounted and led him instead of riding on the horse. In the newly updated regulations of Changsheng Camp, the cavalry of Changsheng Camp and Qiusheng Camp, except for the horses who were going out to perform missions, all the people in the camp had to lead the horses, which was to keep the horses in a good condition at all times to deal with possible abnormal situations.

This article does not clearly state that immortality does not apply to this regulation, so immortality will be like everyone else

At the beginning, when Changsheng abides by the regulations like everyone else, everyone expressed their freshness and surprise. By now, people are no longer surprised. This commander is unique in their eyes, and everyone also thinks that nothing is wrong with doing this.

But Liu Houer and Zhang Fei who saw this situation were different. Their eyes were round, as if they had seen something incredible.

They also jumped off the horse and followed them, but after hesitating for a while, they gave up. However, he made up his mind to follow Changsheng's approach and walk with his subordinates first, and then slowly adapt.

Seeing that Changsheng and Qin Qiong had left, Fang Xuanling was still discussing with Zhang Baozang whether the judgment Changsheng had made just now was reasonable, which surprised Liu Houer.

Fang Xuanling: "No sure news always makes me feel uneasy."

"It's okay, don't you say it all? It doesn't matter if there is an ambush. Besides, if there is a definite news before we can make a judgment, then there is no need for our General Staff. I will go to your place to work tomorrow." Zhang Baozang laughed after saying that.

While they were joking, they raised their hands to salute the passing soldiers.

The rules of the Great Sui Dynasty were very strict. For example, when officials saw their superiors in the summer, they would have to kowtow. There was a clear statement on how many kowtows each level and how the other party would give their gifts, but Changsheng abolished all these red tape.

She shamelessly plagiarized the military salutes of her previous life and regarded it as her invention, so that the subordinates and soldiers would not have to kowtow when facing superiors, but the superiors would just salute them.

Since last month, the regulations on military salutes have been updated. All officers must salute the troops on the way, and Changsheng spares no effort to improve the soldiers' sense of honor.

Liu Houer felt inexplicable when she saw their actions. She didn't know what their actions meant, but the behavior of these two people talking about Changsheng's decision behind the scenes just now really scared him.

Behind the discussion, Shangguan was a serious crime in the Sui army. Although Liu Houer had not established enough prestige for a while, his subordinates did not dare to discuss him casually in public.

At this moment, Liu Houer even had a thought about whether to report and expose these two people to Changsheng. He secretly looked at these two people and found that they seemed to have no cover for their behavior, and the inner guards and officers around him also ignored their behavior and were busy with their own affairs, so Liu Houer gave up his thoughts.
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