"200,000 fighters each from the Heart Department and Sijin Department are the core combat strength of Yelu Abaoji and the Khitan Kingdom. In the battle of Luoyankou, the Heart Department lost nearly 40%. In the past few months, there may be replenishment, but during the fierce battle, Supplementation is not easy to do.
"According to the information obtained by Zhang Chang'an and Buchen, they came out to look for the officers and men of your department. There are about 100,000 horsemen, and they are basically the elite of the original headquarters. Yelv Xienechi sits in Huairong and governs Juyongguan. I have no time to come here in person, but I also sent my confidant Yelu Hongguang."
In Shangguan Qingcheng's military tent, Li Ye used the strength of his cultivation to assume a slightly ethereal figure, and told Shangguan Qingcheng about the battle they were about to face.
The reason for the body shape is not that Li Ye is not used to it. The sound transmission through the eyes of the emperor does not need the eyes to open and close like a mouth. However, Shangguan Qingcheng felt that this was weird and persuaded Li Ye to show the body shape , which makes the latter have to control the mouth of the manifested body when transmitting the sound again, and also move it twice.
At first, he was just perfunctory, and it was enough to express one meaning. Although Shangguan Qingcheng didn't make any further demands, but those obsidian eyes looked at him with resentment, and Li Ye couldn't stand it.
There was no other way, Li Ye could only keep improving, and in the end, he just kept doing nothing, so that his words, deeds, demeanor, and eyesight reached a normal level. As a result, Shangguan Qingcheng's joy could hardly be concealed. Li Ye reckoned that this invincible general on the battlefield wanted to jump up and down a few times for joy.
Of course Li Ye could understand that Shangguan Qingcheng wanted him to do this because he just wanted to see him.
"It will take three days for the heart to get here. If we leave early, it is almost a dream for him to find us on the grassland. Our big monks are not weak, and we can completely prevent the Khitan monks from finding out our whereabouts. .”
Shangguan Qingcheng looked at "Li Ye" with bright eyes, she was dressed in military uniform, her skin was like snow, her lips were like flames, her heroic appearance was extremely heroic.
Saying this, it's not that Shangguan Qingcheng is afraid of fighting with his heart, but that he can't let the opponent find him, and he can't bring back the cattle, sheep and rations in time, which is beneficial to the battle situation in Huairong and Juyongguan.
As long as they delay for some time, the tribal army on the grassland short of food will be chaotic, which may lead to chaos in the entire Khitan camp, even if it falls apart, it is not out of the question. At that time, Zhao Polu's troops, who are stationed at Juyongguan, will launch a powerful counterattack at the right time, and they will have a chance to defeat the enemy.
Li Ye nodded, his movements were just right, his thoughtful look was vivid, and his expression was penetrating. This imitation of his own "acting skills" can be described as impeccable.
He said: "This plan is feasible. Drag them for a while, let Yelv Xienechi and the leaders of the grassland tribes get anxious first, and then we will adapt to the current situation to see if there are any opportunities to find."
Shangguan Qingcheng nodded. When talking about business, she would concentrate on it without any other thoughts. This seriousness is one of the reasons why she became a famous general. However, the more serious the heroine general is, the more charming she is, and the charming and cuteness is more charming because she doesn't show it deliberately.
She said: "After all, the grassland is not the Central Plains. When we walk here, there will be many unexpected difficulties because we don't know the situation in various places. In addition, the Khitan cavalry are familiar with the grassland. In terms of favorable location and people, we will not have an advantage. If If the time drags on for too long, I'm afraid it will be controlled by others instead.
"According to the last general's intention, the delay time should be determined according to the situation, and even if the situation is good, it can't be delayed for too long."
Li Ye smiled and said, "Just as you said. However, with people from Quanzhen Temple and Wukong Shimen, our actions are not so difficult. In addition, with Gesang's tribe as guides, we are not restricted. It's not that big. Enough talk, arrange action."
Shangguan Qingcheng got up and took orders, and went to arrange the army's actions.
In the next few days, under the leadership of Yelu Hongguang, the heart department first went to the valley where the grain raising army was attacked. They didn't see any traces of the generals of the Tang army, but only saw the Jingguan piled up with Khitan heads all over the ground, from the ten thousand commanders down to the ordinary soldiers, all of them were full of anger.
Khitan's body had been burned by the Tang army, so the place was scorched, but it was better than letting the body rot. It is said that even if the army does not clean up the corpses on the grassland, there will be wolves to eat them up, so there is no need to worry about causing plagues or the like, but Tang Jun obviously has no intention of doing so, and still handles the battlefield according to his own habits.
The shocking scene made Yelu Hongguang's eyes turn red.
Gritting his teeth, he gave an order to the monks accompanying the army: "No matter what method you use, no matter how much you pay, you must find the whereabouts of this Tang army within two days! Otherwise, military law will punish them! They have a large herd of cattle and sheep to drive away , can’t go fast, and it’s impossible to escape into Tang Dynasty’s counties so early!”
During the war, everything was based on military orders, not to mention a qi-training monk like Warwick, even a powerful God of God who accompanied the army had to obey Yelu Hongguang's assignment.
Yelu Hongguang would still respect them a little or two on weekdays, but now that he has become ruthless, he has no intention of cherishing the strength of the monks. Even if the big monks have grievances in their hearts, they will never dare to slack off at this moment.
The result is self-evident that the monks sent by Yelu Hongguang, whether they are the powerhouses of the gods or the elites of the refining period, are like ordinary scouts. Team up.
Only when Yelu Hongguang set up camp at dusk, gathered scout information, and checked manpower, could he find out that his monks had lost a lot. Before that, he couldn't even detect when the other party disappeared during the day.
This naturally made Yelu Hongguang extremely annoyed.
However, he didn't scold the monks for their incompetence. If the other party wandered around for a few days and found nothing, he could blame them, but now that they are all gone, they were obviously killed by the monks of the Tang Dynasty and died in the post of devotion to their duties. It's not the monks' own problem at all, but the enemy is too strong.
"Report the situation here to the general, and ask the general to send more and stronger monks!"
Yelu Hongguang quickly responded correctly.
The strength of the monks is useless, and the basis for the army's actions still has to fall on the normal army dispatch, and the heart will not stop its footsteps just because of this.
The actions of 30,000 to 40,000 Tang troops, the transfer of countless cattle and sheep, no matter how Shangguan Qingcheng tried to hide his whereabouts, experienced scouts could easily find clues and point out the direction of the enemy's escape for the army.
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It's just that this kind of tracking is much worse than that of the great monk who searched for the shuttle in the air and accurately pinpointed the enemy's location. It is not easy to catch up with the Tang army. However, since the Tang army has a large number of cattle and sheep to drive away, it will not be faster than the heart. As long as the scouts in the heart do not make mistakes, they will catch up with each other sooner or later.
Great monk power cannot win, and armies will not lose their usefulness.
The reinforcements sent by Yelv Xienechi, the first monk, arrived in Yelu Hongguang's army very quickly. There were more than a dozen divine envoys, led by two high-ranking divine envoys.
Such a powerful force lifted Yelu Hongguang's spirits, and in a good mood, he kindly asked the other party to find out the location of the Tang army no matter what, so as to guide the army's way forward.
The high-ranking God Envoy, who was headed by the leader, had no eyesight and didn't look at Yelu Hongguang at all. He waved his big hand when he heard the words, and lightly dropped a sentence of waiting for the good news, and flew north with his masters.
Then, he never came back.
Full of confidence, Yelu Hongguang was waiting for the other party to bring back the military situation. After receiving the news of the monk's heavy loss, on the one hand, he wanted to cry without tears, and on the other hand, he was also frightened.
Even the high-ranking God Envoy Realm missed, one can imagine how much monk strength the Tang army has on the opposite side.
In the eyes of Yelu Hongguang, who was pacing back and forth in the military tent, it was basically impossible for this to happen.
Whether it is the Khitan Kingdom or the Tang Dynasty, under normal circumstances, the number of great monks is actually directly proportional to the number of troops.
In the past when the heroes of the Central Plains were fighting for hegemony, Li Maozhen, Gao Pian, and Wang Jian each had an army ranging from five to six hundred thousand to seven to eight hundred thousand, and the number of their great monks ranged from fifty to sixty to seventy to eighty.
Now, the Khitan army is more than two million, and the country's big monks are only two to three hundred. The same is true for Datang Guozhong. Although the Chang'an Forbidden Army only has hundreds of thousands of people, the former feudal army still exists. Although the strength has been weakened a lot, the foundation still exists. The total army of the whole country must be more than that of Khitan.
But in terms of the current situation where the whole world is attacking the Tang Dynasty, Khitan does not need to face all the monks of the Tang Dynasty unilaterally. The Uighur, Nanzhao, and Bohai Kingdoms also had such power. They cooperated with the Khitan monks in Hexi and Shuzhong, and restrained many powerful men in the Tang Dynasty.
The number of Tang monks who can rush to the northern border now is not much different from the number of Khitan monks on the border of the Tang Dynasty.
In such a close to evenly matched situation, Li Maozhen was able to assign to Shangguan Qingcheng's monk strength, which is also rare. If too many are assigned, there will be few masters in other battlefields, and it will be impossible to check and balance the strong ones in the Khitan army, and the result can only be that the front line is critical.
"We must tell the general about this situation immediately, and let him investigate and test the strength of the great monks of the Tang army in Huairong and Juyongguan... no, even in the direction of Tanzhou and Pingzhou! If Li Maozhen really played this stupid move , what awaits them is only defeat!"
Yelu Hongguang quickly made up his mind and was in high spirits.
If he were Li Ye, at this time, he would have the feeling that "the mountains and rivers are full of doubts and there is no way out, and the willows are dark and the flowers are bright and there is another village".
However, the final facts ruined Yelu Hongguang's hope again.
Datang's great monk power in other directions in the north has not been mobilized.
There are indeed many great monks in Shangguan Qingcheng's army, more than 20 people, but Li Maozhen did not send her from elsewhere, but from the Chang'an Cultivation Academy's Great Cultivator Branch. The students in the Great Cultivator's Branch are all geniuses who are expected to break through the realm of real people, and they were cultivated by the imperial court with all their resources.