Chastity Layman

In Xiande Hall, the atmosphere was stagnant.

When Qin Lang entered the hall, he saw more than 30 civil servants and military generals gathered in the hall at this time, and everyone's face was very serious.

Li Shimin saw Qin Lang entering and waved to him.

Qin Lang saw that Lao Cheng was kneeling and sitting there very seriously today, so he moved to sit next to him.

"Uncle Cheng, what happened, everyone is so serious?"

Lao Cheng changed his relaxed look when he saw Qin Lang, "The Turks are here."

This morning, Yu Chigong, who was stationed in the northwest of Chang'an, sent someone to send urgent military information. The Turkic forwards of Jieli Khan appeared in Gaoling, Jingyang, Yanzhou, Yuanzhou, Suizhou, and Qizhou in the north of Chang'an. Turkic cavalry brigades also appeared one after another!

Qin Lang quickly displayed a map of Guanzhong in his mind, and then found the states mentioned by Cheng Yaojin one by one. Yanzhou and Suizhou are still several hundred miles away from Chang'an, but what the hell are Jingyang and Gaoling? , then in the north of Chang'an, across the Wei River.

"So soon, could it be that Borderlands has already fallen? Is Liangzhou all right? Is my grandpa all right?" Qin Lang asked quickly.

Cheng Yaojin shook his head, "This time our border guards are very good, the generals are following the order of the prince to guard the border gates and not come out."

"The Turkic is this?"

"They didn't attack the city, they went around the city."

"Passing around the city, is Xieli crazy?"

I don’t know whether Jie Li is crazy or not, but the number of Turkic troops reported from various places is between 180,000 and 240,000, but it is not clear whether they include the 80,000 soldiers and horses from the capital of Shuofang Liangshi. However, the location of Jieli Khan's account has not yet been determined.

Your Majesty.

Li Shimin is listening to the military briefing of Jiangxia King Li Daozong.

A huge map hangs there.

"Previously Liang Division sent 80,000 troops to attack Xiazhou, and Tongwan City was empty in the rear. However, Li Jing judged that Jieli's army had reached the border and was spying on Lingxia. He intended to use Liang Division to lure the defenders to attack, and then raided Xiazhou with a cavalry army. Or Lingzhou, to seize the important town of Shuofang as a support point for going south."

"Therefore, Li Jing ordered the whole army to stand firm. The Liang division pretended to attack Xiazhou, which was actually the direction of the real attack, but they still failed to attract Li Jing from Lingzhou. Jieli's trick failed, and after the attack on Xiazhou was not good, the army simply circled around. Go down from Xiazhou and head straight for Chang'an."

Li Shimin nodded. It seems that the Turkic army quickly arrived near Chang'an. Li Jing, the governor of Lingzhou, refused to reinforce Xiazhou and failed to stop the Turkic army heading south from Xiazhou. Li Shimin's strategic deployment was strictly followed.

"Although the Turkic army has arrived near Chang'an, our northern line of defense is still intact. Although Yulin fell, Yulin is located in the plains, without the danger of rivers and mountains, without the obstacles of the Great Wall, and the city is not big. The people and livestock moved south every year, and now they are all withered, and the food, grass, cattle and sheep are extremely poor. It is actually useless for Xieli to take Yulin. Say 300,000 troops."

He breathed a sigh of relief.

"The Turkic Jieli and the running dog Liang Division both marched southward with 300,000 troops, aggressively, but in fact they used troops for danger. In the past, the Turkic invasions to the south always plundered the border and forced us to donate money to seek peace. But this time, he actually If you want to come to Chang'an, that is to die."

The Turks are mainly nomadic and do not do farming. This time they chose to invade in autumn. At this time, the Turkic war horses ate grass seeds, which is when they are fat and strong. Even if they fight for a long time, the war horses can still support them. However, the imperial court focused on defensive deployment in the two directions of Hedong and Lingwu this time, which blocked the rapid advance of the Turks. This made Xieli choose to go south from the Xiazhou line. This is actually the worst route to attack Chang'an. To cross the Gobi desert and the Loess Plateau, this is the most barren route, and it cannot provide food and grass support for Xieli's army at all.

Although Jieli has arrived at the city of Chang'an, none of the five strategic nodes of Ling, Xia, Qin, Liang, and Jingzhou have been lost, and they are all intact in the hands of the Tang army, especially now that the Tang army and the Turkic army have not yet fought The strength is preserved intact.

Therefore, although Jieli soldiers were approaching the Weihe River, Li Shimin was still calm.

"Shuofang's Liang division failed to conquer Xiazhou, so with his own food and grass, he could not supply enough, not to mention supplying 200,000 Turkic troops to fight in Chang'an."

The more Li Shimin talked, the more excited he became, and he punched several cases.

"Jieli went straight in. It seemed extremely ferocious, but in fact he had already penetrated alone. So what if he came to the city of Chang'an? He was alone in command of the defense of Chang'an. As long as he defended it for half a month, Jieli would not be able to take Chang'an. Harassing the countryside simply cannot support the daily expenses of its two or three hundred thousand horses."

"Everyone, this is great news. When Jieli arrives at the city of Chang'an, we have already won half the battle. The more troops he brings, the better our chances of winning."

Qin Lang couldn't help but get excited when he heard the news.

What Li Shimin said is right, who would dare to bypass countless cities and towns at the border in a war like this, and just swagger across the state and cross the border and go straight to the heart for hundreds of miles?

Jieli Tailang, dare to jump over the tower, but also forcefully go up to the high ground?

Although in the past, the Turkic people also used such tactics several times to go deep into Hebei and other places, but the difference is that when they went deep into the hinterland of Hebei, the imperial court focused on guarding Youzhou, Taiyuan, Luoyang, Tongguan, and Chang'an, and they could come and go freely.

But now they came to Chang'an this time. This is the capital of the Tang Dynasty, and it is the place that must be defended. One more thing, Guanzhong is the core area of ​​the Tang Dynasty. There are more than 200 military palaces of the Tang Dynasty in Chang'an. There are still tens of thousands of soldiers and Beiya troops.

In ancient wars, why were there so many offensive and defensive battles?

Why do you sometimes defend a critical city with a deadly attack? Is there no other way to go? Of course there is, but the problem is that under the conditions of this era, if you dare to bypass a strong fortress, then your back road will be cut off, and your food, grass and luggage will not be able to pass safely, so the more those big cities Important towns must be removed and captured. Otherwise, with such a big city as a support, there will be no peace in the rear, and logistics, food, grass and supplies will not be able to pass through, and they may even be cut off at any time to make dumplings.

However, the Turkic people took advantage of the rapid maneuvering of their cavalry, so they actually thought of a beheading tactic. They charged directly at the foot of Chang'an City, and with more than 100,000 to 200,000 cavalrymen rushed to break through Chang'an City before the surrounding soldiers and horses came back to help.

But they didn't expect that Jieli's elder brother used this trick more than ten years ago. At that time, he raided Yanmen and besieged Yang Guang, the emperor of the Sui Dynasty.

Yanmen is just a city on the frontier, and hundreds of thousands of people can't take it down at the beginning, but now the capital of Tang Dynasty like Chang'an, hundreds of thousands of people in Jieli want to take it?

However, Qin Lang also saw that this move was still very dangerous. Let the Turkic army go straight to the Chang'an city, instead of intercepting them step by step and blocking them layer by layer. If the attack is breached, then the game is really messed up.

"From now on, King Ren Jiangxia will be appointed as the highest city defense officer in Chang'an City, and he will be in charge of Chang'an city defense affairs. Whoever belongs to the Weifu, all the reorganizations will be handed over to King Jiangxia for adjustment, and the former generals, generals, and generals of the guards in the capital will all bow down to the positions of commanding the army and other generals."

Let the general of the third rank, the general of the third rank, be the commander of the army, don't be a general, this is an extraordinary method at an extraordinary time.

"Qin Lang, for the time being, you will be in charge of the East Palace Zuo Siyu to lead the Prince's army in Ben's army and guard the East Palace."

In the entire Chang'an army, Li Shimin left a Luben army to guard the East Palace. The Luben army is the military number of the left and right Siyu rates in the six rates of the East Palace. From the Twelve Guards to the Six Rates of the East Palace, they all have their own numbers.

For example, the left and right Xiaowei, the military name Leopard Cavalry, the left and right guards, the military name Xiaoqi, the left and right Tunwei, and the military name Habayashi.

In the sixth rate of the East Palace, the left and right led the army to surpass, and the left and right Siyu led the army to luben.

The super-carrying army led by Cheng Yaojin has been incorporated into Li Daozong's Chang'an Defense Army, and Li Shimin is left with Baiqi and Lu Ben.

Baiqi was handed over to Hou Junji, and Lu Ben was handed over to Qin Lang.

Qin Lang also didn't understand why Li Shimin chose him to lead the Luben army, but since he was named, there was nothing to bargain at this time, so he immediately went forward with Hou Junji to take orders.

In addition, the original Beimen Tunying in Chang'an, the Nanyafan Shangfu soldiers, and the inner guards and Yifu were all assigned to the command of Li Daozong. A battalion of 1,000 people was commanded by a general or a general. Zhong Lang will serve as the other general.

"Gu has ordered Li Jing to guard Lingzhou, Liu Min to guard Xiazhou, Li Yi to guard Jingzhou, Niu Jinda to guard Youzhou, and other soldiers and horses to work with Wang Chang'an."

"Qin Qiong, governor of Liangzhou, led 30,000 soldiers and horses to march eastward along the valley of the Jing River. The governor-in-law Chai Shao led 20,000 troops across the Wei River and marched towards the border of Qizhou. Qu Tutong of Luoyang led an army of 50,000 assembled in Luoyang to Tongguan. , at most seven days, you can reach the suburbs of Beijing."

Li Shiji, governor of Bingzhou, and Zhang Gongjin, governor of Daizhou, have already led an army of 80,000 to leave Taiyuan and head south, and they will arrive in about 20 days at most. "

"The 30,000 troops led by Governor Ren Gui have already crossed the Zhangshui River. This route is the slowest, but it will arrive within a month."

Li Shimin had listened to the suggestions of Ma Zhou, Wang Gui, Dai Zhou and other ministers before, and did not conscript soldiers from Jingxiang, Huainan, Jiangnan and other places to ensure that production in the south would not be delayed this year.

Qin Lang silently added in his heart that the four-way frontier army did not move, and there were about 100,000 people. The Five Route Frontier Army went south to Qin Wang Chang'an, and Qin Wang's army totaled 210,000.

It is estimated that there are still some auxiliary soldiers Xiangyong included, but it is indeed quite a lot.

King Qin's army could arrive near Chang'an within seven days at the fastest, and it would take a month at the latest to arrive from Shandong and Hebei.

The war was imminent, and after Li Shimin deployed his strategy, he began to confer official positions on the confidants of the Qin Palace.

Changsun Wuji joined Zuo Wuhou as General, Yuchi Gong entered Youwuhou as General, Cheng Yaojin entered Youwuwei as General, Duan Zhixuan as Zuo Xiaowei, Hou Junji as Left Leading General, Liu Shili inspected the right General Marquis Wu, General Zhang Liang Prosecutor Left Guard...