Datang: From exiled prince to eternal tyrant

Chapter 29 The Shocked Li Shimin
Just three days after Li Ke led his team to repair in Fangshan County to prevent a possible counterattack in the direction of Guanlong.

At three o'clock in the morning, Chang'an was still shrouded in darkness.

The imperial city looms among the lights of the palace.

After a homing pigeon circled over the palace for several times, it plunged into a dilapidated side hall.

Half a quarter of an hour later, Li Shimin, who was sleeping, suddenly opened his eyes.

Outside the door, Wang De's familiar footsteps came.

"But is there any news from the southern battlefield?"

He sat up suddenly, with a serious face, but asked outside through the door.

If there was no important matter, it would be impossible for Wang De to approach the palace at this time.

The only possibility is that there is a major event, and it is the major event that he is most worried about.

Even though Li Jing personally took action to deal with King Yan of Youzhou's affairs extremely smoothly, he still couldn't feel at ease.

He was worried that one of his son and his minister would die!
Especially Li Ke!
"Your Majesty, it is indeed a matter of Chuanshu. The leader of the secret guard is here, let him tell you."

After Wang De finished speaking, he bowed his hands to the door respectfully, and then backed away.

Immediately, a man in black came forward, his ordinary face was expressionless.

"Speak quickly!"

Li Shimin pushed open the door himself, showing his bloodshot eyes.

"Your Majesty, the war in Shu is over."

"Master grandson..."

Li Shimin grabbed the collar of the collar and interrupted the leader of the dark guard's words.

"Did you save Li Ke?"

"Is the imperial decree I asked you to bring effective?"

Li Shimin gritted his teeth and asked.

"Your Majesty, that imperial decree is useless..."

The leader of the secret guard said with a strange look on his face.

"It's useless?"

"Well, you eldest grandson Wuji, my son, how dare you move?"

"Lawless?"

At this moment, Li Shimin only felt the torment he had suffered for many days, which instantly turned into anger, and all of them ignited in a flash.

That appearance, very much like an angry dragon that wants to choose someone to eat.

The breath of anger, carrying the supreme majesty of the imperial power, can almost make the entire Tang Dynasty tremble!
With Li Shimin's self-cultivation, it has never been like this!

"Your Majesty, the imperial decree is useless because the Guanyuan Army was defeated."

Seeing that things were going in a strange direction, the leader of the dark guard hurriedly said loudly.

"Of course I know he can't beat him. Isn't this nonsense?"

"This damn sycophant bullies the young in front of me."

"The personnel and horses of the closed army, whether it is weapons or sources of soldiers...etc?"

"I seem to have misunderstood, who lost?"

Li Shimin, who was originally furious, suddenly stopped the car and asked with a strange expression on his face.

"Your Majesty, the Guanyuan army lost, and the Shu army won..."

The leader of the dark guard finally found a chance to speak, and said hastily.

"Forehead!?"

Li Shimin froze in place.

Even Wang De next to him was petrified.

Changsun Wuji, actually lost?
"what happened?"

"Changsun Wuji kept his hand?"

"There are [-] local gentry, and he has [-] elites in his hands, and Songzhou as a backup..."

"No, Songzhou's soldiers and horses cannot attack, but if he is backed by Songzhou, it is impossible for Ke'er to enter Songzhou to copy his eldest grandson Wuji's back route. This can only be counted as half."

"If you can't go around, how could Ke'er have soldiers and horses to confront Changsun Wuji's 10 people head-on?"

Li Shimin became more and more strange.

He is also familiar with Changsun Wuji's team.

As early as the end of the Sui Dynasty, they followed him to conquer the world, and they were all veterans of hundreds of battles.

The grassroots officers are even veterans who have fought all the way. If they hadn't been the servants of Changsun Wuji, any ten-man commander could become a school lieutenant in the regular army.

Whether it is the level of training, proficiency, or tactical level of the sergeants, they are among the best in the world, and they are no worse than the sixteen central guards of the Tang Dynasty.

"Your Majesty, I have brought the map, let me tell you about the situation."

The leader of the dark guard took out the map and said.

"Come in!"

Li Shimin greeted, turned and walked into the main hall of the bedroom.

Without any instructions, Wang De called the palace maid and lit all the kerosene lamps on the lamp stands in the four corners and on the wall.

Not long after, the main hall of the bedroom was brightly lit.

Li Shimin retreated, leaving only Wang De sitting on the master's seat.

The leader of the dark guard opened the map and put it on Li Shimin's small table.

On the map, there is a line of defense representing a solid wall, across Fangshan County, blocking the peak of Changsun Wuji's soldiers coming from the north.

And the marching route of Li Ke himself and the [-] cavalrymen drew a fierce right hook on the map.

"First defeated the 8 local gentry in Pi County, and took Qingcheng."

"Then go back to Junjunshan County, attack directly from the flank, and cut in from the left flank of the Guanlong Army?"

Li Shimin saw the whole war process at a glance.

"Your Majesty is aware of the details, indeed."

The leader of the secret guard said with an expression of admiration.

"How did Fangshan County defend itself?"

Li Shimin asked a little puzzled.

Li Ke's military strategy this time is indeed nothing more than a strategy. It is simply a line of defense that can block the Guan Liao army. After tiring the enemy, they can attack from the side.

The key to success, the first is that this line of defense can really block the Guanyuan army and make them very tired.

The second is that Li Ke's cavalry must be really useful, otherwise the attack would be useless.

But being able to do these two points shows that Li Ke's troops are not weak.

At least, this is not the level of mob.

"The Shu army's gun formation is very strange. The gun and shield can be integrated into one, and the terrain of Fangshan County can only attack on the road north of the city."

"The soldiers who rush forward will be assassinated from three directions by ridiculously long spears when they reach that intersection."

"It's hard to hold our ground, let alone push back. There is an advantage in terrain, but those soldiers and horses of His Royal Highness King Shu can really survive."

"Furthermore, Ma Liuzhi, the chief general in charge of Fangshan County, even attacked the Guanyuan Army at night. The first time he succeeded, but the second time, it was not as smooth as the first time, but it also achieved the purpose of exhausting the troops."

"During the second night attack, Changsun Wuji tried to send troops to surround the mountains of Fangshan County at night to prevent the Shu army from coming down, but the soldiers and horses sent out were ambushed by the counterattack."

"They fought in a panic. They didn't rest for two consecutive nights. In addition to two battles during the day, His Royal Highness the King of Shu came with cavalry in the morning of the third day."

"The cavalry of His Royal Highness the King of Shu used a dense long snake formation of infantry to crush forward. The men and horses were armored, and the cavalry spears were three feet long (nearly five meters). Wherever they passed, there was no square formation that could resist them."

"His Royal Highness the King of Shu's army is all unique..."

The leader of the secret guard introduced with a wry smile.

(End of this chapter)