In fact, the Tang Army's top brass had already planned their retreat before sending troops. After all, the Qin Army was well known for its strength and difficulty. If Nanxiang failed, there would be no other way to go. This would undoubtedly be a fatal blow to the Tang Army.
After the four major military advisers jointly discussed, they finally proposed three strategies: upper, middle and lower. The best strategy was to divide the troops into two groups to attack Qin.
All the way out of Tongguan, threatening Hangu and containing the Qin army in Sizhou, it was a feint attack.
The other route left Wuguan, attacked Nanxiang, went to Nanyang, attacked Guangcheng Pass, attacked from both sides, and captured Sizhou.
The best strategy is undoubtedly the easiest among the three. After all, the Qin army in northern Jing was restrained by the Chu-Shu coalition, and the Qin army in Sizhou was restrained at Hangu Pass. As long as the Tang army could break through Nanxiang and Nanyang, it would be possible to attack from both the east and west.
, the success rate of conquering Sizhou is very high.
Li Shimin and his group of advisers had already calculated everything, but they did not expect that Qin Hao would re-enable Yue Fei at this time, nor did he expect that Yue Fei would let Yiling go, but stayed in Nanxiang, and completely destroyed the path forward for the Tang army.
Blocked.
Li Shimin had never felt powerless even when facing Qin Hao, but when facing Yue Fei, he really felt powerless.
This is a turtle shell. Water cannot be poured into it, and it cannot be broken even if it is knocked. How do you beat it?
There is no way to fight!
Now that the best strategy has failed, Li Shimin can only find another way and take a step back to adopt the middle strategy, in order to capture Sizhou.
As for the next best option? Li Shimin was not willing to use it unless it was a last resort.
"Why……"
After Li Shimin sighed, he smiled bitterly and said: "In that case, let's give up the best strategy and use the middle strategy."
"My lord is wise." Li Kui and the other four military advisors said in unison.
At the same time that Li Tang changed his strategy, the Qin army led by Yue Fei was also discussing strategies, and it was also a plan to defeat the Tang army in one battle.
"Grand Governor, isn't this plan too risky?"
Qin Wu looked shocked and asked without confidence: "Is there Li Yuanba in the Tang army?"
After hearing Li Yuanba's name, Yue Fei's face suddenly condensed. To be honest, he was not afraid of Li Shimin, but he could do nothing about Li Yuanba.
Although Li Shimin was a man of both civil and military skills, wisdom and courage, he still lacked some firepower in front of veterans like Yue Fei on the battlefield.
If the combined force of the old and new troops under his command was not too weak to bear the burden of a decisive battle, Yue Fei would have gone out of the city to fight Li Shimin long ago and teach him what the real art of war is.
Although Yue Fei is not afraid of Li Shimin, he really has no way to deal with Li Yuanba.
No one under Yue Fei was Li Yuanba's opponent, and if he wanted to defeat the Tang army, he couldn't get around Li Yuanba, so he set a trap specifically for Li Yuanba, which was of no use at all.
Yue Fei once specially set up a crossbow formation, but ordinary crossbow arrows could not break through the defense at all. The bed crossbow could hurt Li Yuanba, but the accuracy of the bed crossbow was too poor.
When a horse pit was dug, Li Yuanba fell into it and jumped out.
He wanted to use kerosene bombs to burn Li Yuanba to death, but the kerosene bombs were also isolated by the inner air gauze and could not hurt Li Yuanba at all.
After all, Yue Fei was in a passive state of being beaten, and the resources he could mobilize were really limited. He could not have the same mental calculations as Su Dingfang. He tried all methods but could not do anything to Li Yuanba, so that now Qin Jun's expression changes when he hears Li Yuanba.
After thinking about the plan in his mind, Yue Fei said: "Although Li Yuanba is strong, after all, he is only one person and cannot control a war. If the plan can come true this time, there is a 60% chance that he can be defeated."
Tang Jun."
Upon hearing this, Qin Wu, Pei Xingjian, Pei Xingyan and other generals all fell silent.
Sixty percent? Not high!
Facing the Tang army with Li Yuanba, if ten thousand failed, Nanxiang, with Yue Fei in charge, would still be there, but their generals would probably be dead.
"Grand Governor, we have already defended Nanxiang, why take this risk?" Qin Wu advised.
He is a descendant of the Qin family and the fourth brother of Qin Hao. Even if he does take the risk to fight, it is impossible for him to take the risk, but he does not want Pei Xingjian or Pei Xingyan to take the risk. After all, they are all relatives.
"I don't want to take this risk, but Liu Xiu conquered Jiangling and raided Nanjun. Wang Gui ventured in and was killed by the Chu army. Now Jiangling is in danger."
Li Shimin was anxious, and Yue Fei was even more anxious. He was the governor of Jingbei, and he knew all the battles in Jingbei. He naturally knew how critical the situation in Jingbei was now.
Although before the war started, Qin Hao had told Yue Fei that as long as he could hold off the Southern Han coalition until the war in Hebei was over, even if all Jingbei was lost, it would be a great achievement.
But after all, Yue Fei has been guarding Jingbei for so many years, watching Jingbei develop and grow, the people living and working in peace and contentment, and taking back Nanjun bit by bit, how could he be willing to let this land fall?
Yue Fei wanted to lose no territory in Jingbei, but now it seems that it may be impossible. After all, even in the Nanxiang County where he is located, there is only one Nanxiang City left, and there is also only one general left in Nanxiang County.
Now, even if Yue Fei defeated the Tang army, he probably wouldn't be able to go and recover the counties in Nanxiang, because he had too many things to do, and Nanxiang County was irrelevant at all. If he were to sort it out one by one, it would probably be at the bottom.
"Once Jiangling falls, Yiling will be in danger of annihilating the entire army. And now Xiangyang has no reinforcements to send. Even if Sizhou can gather reinforcements, it will definitely be too late."
A trace of anxiety flashed in Yue Fei's eyes, and he said in a deep voice: "Now in the entire Jingbei, the only ones who can save Jiangling are us, so we can't waste time with the Tang army."
Pei Xingjian and Pei Xingyan looked at each other and said in unison: "The general agrees to send troops to fight."
Seeing this, Qin Wu sighed and responded with clasped fists: "The general also agrees to go to war."
"good."
Yue Fei stood up directly and said coldly: "Success or failure depends on tonight."
The sun sets, the moon rises, the moon is dark and the wind is high, it is the best time to kill people and set fires.
Brothers Pei Xingjian and Pei Xingyan, in accordance with the instructions of the Grand Governor Yue Fei, each led a thousand elite troops and quietly sneaked outside the Tang Army's camp. When the opportunity came, they would join together to attack the Tang Army's camp at night.
This was a night attack that was bound to fail, because Yue Fei had already attacked at night when he arrived, and it was impossible for Li Shimin to fall twice with the same somersault.
Yue Fei knew that he would fail but still acted like this because what he wanted was the reaction of the Tang army after the night attack failed.
"kill……"
When two thousand Qin troops invaded the Tang camp, there was no violent counterattack as expected.
The entire Tang Camp was empty, not even a single person was seen. This was an empty camp!
After learning that the Tang camp was empty, Yue Fei frowned and asked quickly: "The Tang camp is empty? But where is the Tang army going?"
"General Pei Xingjian has already gone to investigate." Qin Wu replied.
After several days of investigation by Pei Xingjian, he searched the entire Nanxiang County but could not find the whereabouts of Tang Jun. Tang Jun seemed to have disappeared out of thin air.