When it was dark, he looked eastward and saw a fire burning in the direction of the Little Dead Man's Ditch in the east.
He immediately frowned, thinking of Lin Zi's information last night, and quickly realized that Hong Junqi must have faked his surrender.
Fake surrender is a common tactic on the battlefield, and the Tang army has not completely thought of this possibility. Li Xia is not too worried about Bao San falling into the trap.
It's just that Xiaoseirengou is several miles away from the main camp, and the mountain road is difficult to travel, making it inconvenient to transmit news. For the time being, we can only wait for the follow-up battle report to come.
The fire started to light up in the east, and the sound of war drums soon started to sound in the north and west.
The Yuan army launched today's offensive again.
The Tang army just continued to fight.
On the platform, Li Xia looked here and there, adjusting his defense line from time to time, and looking down at the map from time to time to think.
After the war drums rang for a while, Uluru Hunai walked onto the fighting stage unhurriedly.
The biggest advantage for now is his mentality. For him, if he defends for a day, he will be one day closer to turning from defense to attack, and the possibility of victory will be greater.
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"Come on!" A thundering cry rang out.
A high-pitched police whistle sounded.
Opportunities are fleeting on the battlefield, and Li Xia has no intention of commanding remotely.
Getting the battle report is nothing more than marking it on the map, so you can feel at ease.
Although there were only a thousand Yuan troops who came to attack, Hong Junqi was able to boost morale.
"I can see it." Uluru said: "Previously, fifty thousand people only dared to huddle up and defend the camp, but this time you dare to divide into several groups to fight. It's like, twenty or thirty thousand people died before, but you used them to practice your skills.
of."
Li Xia's frown relaxed slightly, and he was used to this way of commanding operations.
However, when he turned around and saw several granaries to the east of the camp, he suddenly thought of something.
"If I were Kublai Khan, I would not attack without aim. Today's attack requires hard work and he has to achieve results."
"Your Majesty, Secretary Lin and General Bao believe that Hong Junqi is faking the surrender. They want to ask General Bao to go to Xiaoseirengou in the name of accepting the surrender, and the Yuan army will set up an ambush to attack. General Bao intends to use their trick and in turn take down the Yuan army's camp.
"
Because of the terrain of Yingpan Mountain, with Helan Mountain to the east, it is naturally the safest side. Food, grass, and various baggage, including firearms, are piled on this side of the camp.
After a while, the battle report from the east finally came back.
"Is Hullegan back?"
"Should I take my people to defend him?" Uluru Khunai asked.
One of the tents was on fire. The soldiers quickly extinguished the fire with sand and soil. Then they took a look and found that all the tents inside were made of cotton armor. There was some damage, but not much.
Hong Junqi shouted: "Fire the arrow!"
"He will also have reinforcements?"
He had been very patient when beating Li Xia, but in fact, he was gradually getting angry.
"To the south?" Uluru Hunai stepped forward, pointed at the map, and said: "Look, this small Yuan army in the east is pretending to surrender. No matter whether we fall into the trap or follow it, we will fight them. At this time, in the north,
, the war starts at the same time in the west, and your reserve force is only half of Kublai Khan's. So as long as Kublai Khan takes another 10,000 people into battle, you will have to send troops to support, and there will be a flaw."
"Kublai Khan almost burned your food today?" When Uluru Khunai came back, he looked at the burnt tent with his telescope and said, "Why do I feel that you are so weak that you are almost invincible?"
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Although he is very clumsy, he can actually take care of every aspect on the battlefield.
"Puff puff……"
"What are you thinking about when you frown?"
Li Xia raised the telescope and could clearly see the location.
Huo Xiaolian hurriedly led people away.
Finally, as the sun set, another day of offensive and defensive battle came to an end. This was the second day of the battle.
"The command is not good." Li Xia said, "He is not very good at fighting this kind of battle."
Some were nailed to the sand, and some fell on the camp fence. The arrows were covered with corpse oil and would not be destroyed when they hit the ground.
The soldiers of the Yuan Dynasty who were galloping on their horses fell down one by one.
It's like playing chess, but all the chess pieces are alive and not as controlled as dead objects.
"What are you thinking about?"
really.
To his surprise, Li Xia learned quickly.
According to the style of play that Li Xia was good at in the past, he might have personally fought with Hong Junqi in the east at this time, saw through the little trick of pretending to surrender, defeated Hong Junqi, and won a small victory.
Perhaps when Meng Ge personally went on the expedition and he and Wang Jian secretly left Diaoyu City to fight towards Shizi Mountain, Meng Ge also looked at him and Wang Jian in the same way, thinking that the young people were taking risks and being arrogant.
I saw a small group of soldiers and horses suddenly rushing out of the mountains and forests to the east.
At this moment, Li Xia had a strange idea in his mind.
"What exactly does Yuan Jun want to do?"
He learned a lot from Kublai Khan today.
He was not rich, and the wars he fought in his life usually involved hundreds, thousands, or at most ten thousand people.
At this time, the vanguard camp had arrived and started shooting with crossbows.
But on the other hand, he still believed that the war would be more beneficial to him as it went on.
He looked around the battlefield again, and finally said: "Then please ask Ke Dun to lead the troops to intercept the Cowardly Xue."
"Huo Xiaolian, you lead the selected vanguard battalion to guard the grain, and send out the soldiers with good riding skills to serve as scouts. You must prevent the Yuan army from sneaking into the granary."
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Li Xia closed his eyes and opened them again, no longer looking at the battle to the east, but once again observing various parts of the battlefield.
It was a rocket.
"Here!"
There were probably more than a thousand enemy soldiers, and they were moving very fast. Looking at the direction they were coming from, they should have been heading south for a while. They must have suffered a lot in this kind of terrain.
"Then let's compare whose national power is stronger."
When commanding operations, when a certain place feels particularly dangerous, there is likely to be another danger approaching that is not easy to detect.
In fact, Li Xia also had lingering fears, and he just continued to speak harshly to appease his allies.
"Report to Your Majesty, not yet."
suddenly.
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Under the setting sun, Kublai Khan was also standing on the lookout looking towards Li Xia's battle platform.
The perspective from standing on the battlefield is much more unsettling than when riding on a horse.
This is perhaps the scariest place for young people.
A place like this only needs to be set on fire, and the fire will be out of control.
Now that he has accumulated enough small victories, he needs a big victory, but he feels uneasy because he has left all the battlefields to others.
"Now he attacks and I defend." Li Xia said: "But as long as he cannot capture the third pass as soon as possible and my reinforcements arrive, I will be the main attacker."
It’s no wonder that Kublai Khan valued Hong Junqi. Apparently, Hong Junqi pretended to surrender in order to attract Bao San’s attention. Before the Tang army came into contact with him, he led more than a thousand people secretly through the mountains and forests, and the target was Li Xia’s baggage.
It is not yet known whether Bao San and Lin Zi fell into the trap or followed it.
Especially today, he thought that Hong Junqi could successfully burn the Tang army's baggage, because he could see that Li Xia was weak in commanding the battle.
"You're welcome."
Li Xia's reserve team and even the forward selection battalion were sent to the battlefield, showing a sense of weakness in the follow-up.
This is what Li Xia would do back then...
"Consumes us, doesn't it?"
Li Xia nodded and said thoughtfully: "It makes sense."
All along, he has been trying to regain the situation through small wins one after another.
Although they have always had the upper hand, there have never been any key results.
When Li Xia turned around to look at the granary, the Yuan army had already withdrawn into the mountains and forests to the east. The first selection camp arrived in time, and the second camp was surrounded by traps and traps. Hong Junqi failed to defeat them.
The defense line, seeing heavy casualties, could only leave in anger.
Known for his bravery, he personally charged forward, and finally rushed to the direction of more than a hundred steps outside the gate of the Tang army's camp.
"Don't worry, the Yuan army has to take a long detour outside. We can adjust our defenses faster in the camp." Li Xia still frowned and thought, "Let me think about it."
But it took time for the news of the small battlefield to spread, and it was obviously impossible for him to control all the details. Things that were originally very simple to handle by himself became uncertain when handed over to others.
He needs to start catching the big ones and letting the small ones go.
Following Uluru Hunai's analysis, the horn sounded in the distance. Li Xia raised his telescope and saw that a group of thousands of Xue cavalry began to move, drawing an arc on the distant battlefield.
, attack towards the south.
In the future, Li Xia is afraid that he will become stronger as he fights, and he will only get older and older.
If Li Xia cannot be killed in this personal expedition, can he leave the matter to Brother Ma in the future?
The sense of urgency gradually grew stronger, and Kublai Khan knew that his tactics had to change. Patience alone was obviously not enough.
"Pass this Khan's order, and the Japanese Khan will personally supervise the battle tomorrow..."