Li Zhi, don't be a coward

Chapter 1058 Minimum Price

Since Li Ji's main force crossed the border, Datang's war of annihilating Goguryeo has been going on for more than two months.

In the past two months, not only Li Qinzai's battle results have been remarkable, Li Ji's main force has been destroyed, the army has overcome the dangers, Hengshan, Xincheng, Guiduan and other [-] cities, and the western region of Goguryeo has been firmly grasped by the Tang Dynasty. inside.

Now Li Ji's army is confronting the main force of Goguryeo on both sides of the Liaoshui River.

The confrontation was not because the Tang army could not break through Goguryeo's defense line, but because Li Ji deliberately slowed down the rhythm of the attack, waiting for Li Qinzai's partial division to cooperate with him from the east, forming a pincer attack on Goguryeo's main force.

Therefore, Li Qinzai's partial division is under a lot of pressure now. He must basically control the eastern region of Goguryeo in the shortest possible time before he can lead the army westward and complete the established strategy.

There are still two unbroken cities in the east of Goguryeo, Wandu and Domestic.

Marutu is very close to the mainland, only tens of miles away. The inner city is larger, and Marudu City looks more like a satellite city, just like the relationship between the earth and the moon.

Early the next morning, the army pulled out of camp and marched eastward.

Li Qinzai sat on the horse and closed his eyes to rest, but he was thinking about the plan to destroy the city in his mind.

It is said that the Tang army now has advanced weapons, and it is basically invincible no matter on land or sea.

But besieging the city was not so easy. In the past few days, four cities had been destroyed one after another. The casualties of the soldiers of the Tang army were not small.

Li Qinzai is very distressed. They are all brave and simple children from Guanzhong. They are all born to their parents. Although wars cannot avoid casualties, they will return to Chang'an after victorious victories. Li Qinzai will be rewarded by the emperor. Orphans and widows?
The commander of an army not only has to win the war, but also has to bear more responsibilities, especially the lives of the soldiers under his command.

So now Li Qinzai is thinking about how to destroy those two cities with the least cost.

Of course, there is no problem in attacking the city from the front. Rows of three-eyed guns are used to cover the enemy army at the top of the city. Li Qinzai didn't want to use this stupid method because it caused too many casualties.

When it was more than fifty miles away from the inner city of Wandu, it was getting late, and Li Qinzai ordered the whole army to set up camp.

Sitting blankly in front of the bonfire outside the handsome tent, watching Xiao Baga roast the leg of lamb for him with dull eyes, Li Qinzai's thoughts had already flown to the sky.

Wang Fangyi walked over lightly, squatted beside Li Qinzai, and said in a low voice, "Li Shuai, when we arrive tomorrow, should we take the Wandu city or the inner city first?"

Li Qinzai didn't say anything, he was still wandering in the void.

"Shuai Li, Shuai Li... come back!" Wang Fangyi shook him.

Li Qinzai came back to his senses, glanced at him lightly, and said, "Just now I almost flew into the sky, but you shook me like this and broke my fairy fate. It's not too much to pay me two boxes of silver cakes, right?"

Wang Fangyi smiled: "It's not too much, the last general will send silver cakes to your home after the war."

Li Qinzai looked at him seriously. The soldiers under his command, Ma Lianke, counted several cities. Apart from the fact that the generals honored him with a huge windfall, they probably didn't have nothing to do with it. It seemed that everyone had made a fortune.

Goguryeo has been blocked by the Tang Dynasty for many years. The country is poor, but the people are not necessarily poor, especially the officials. After the city is broken, the property of the whole city will naturally belong to the Tang army.

Judging from this, the ordinary soldiers under Li Qinzai's command more or less made a fortune. No wonder the soldiers were all beaming as if they were grooms every night during the two-day march and camp.

It’s pretty good. Serving as a soldier, fighting bloody battles, saying that the principles of serving the country and the like are too noble, and people who don’t know a few words, who can understand these principles?

Just for the sake of money, exchange the enemy's head for a military officer, and earn a few more acres of Yongye farmland with military merit.

Unpretentious and grounded.

"Li Shuai, the general is in a daze when he sees you marching today. What are you thinking?" Wang Fangyi asked cautiously.

"I'm thinking... How can we destroy those two cities with the least cost, do you have any good ideas?"

"Li Shuai, since ancient times, there are only a few methods of attacking and defending a city, such as attacking the city from the front, digging tunnels, smashing the city gate, attacking with fire, buying off the enemy's army and cooperating with the inside and outside, etc. The art of war says, 'Siege is the next', and the commander has no choice but to attack the city. In other words, there are only a few ways we can attack the city."

Li Qinzai frowned. Except for bribery of the enemy's internal and external cooperation, the other methods were all stupid, and all of them had to be filled with human lives, and this was exactly what Li Qinzai was most unwilling to adopt.

Touching his chin, Li Qinzai pondered, and said slowly: "You said that if the guarding city lord captures his father and hangs it on the flagpole to flutter in the wind, will the enemy's morale be weakened, and we will win without a fight..."

Wang Fangyi opened his eyes wide in shock.

This coach's train of thought is really... Unpredictable, how did he come up with such an unreliable method?
"Shuai Li... Don't make trouble! Let's be serious." Wang Fangyi said with a grim expression.

"What's wrong with me? Did I say something wrong? If the city lord didn't live in the city, but a nearby village, let's catch him and hang him on the flagpole..."

"The lord general and his father looked at each other from afar. The father and son were crying bitterly. His father bit his tongue and killed himself out of righteousness. The lord general turned his grief and anger into strength and defended the city desperately... Tsk, the more you talk, the more bloody it is!"

Wang Fangyi was already numb to Li Qinzai's unconstrained thinking, and let him talk nonsense, while Wang Fangyi calmly cut off a piece of roasted lamb leg and slowly put it into his mouth.

People, it is impossible to be normal all the time, it is still early before dawn, and wait for Li Shuai to recover by himself.

After a while, Li Qinzai finally broke free from the state of insanity, and his mind returned to normal.

After a long silence, Li Qinzai suddenly asked, "Has General Wang heard of 'special operations'?"

Wang Fangyi was taken aback for a moment, then shook his head.

"The so-called 'special warfare' is actually a small group of elite troops fighting, including assassination, sneak attack, beheading, use of time, infiltration, etc., with the smallest cost to achieve the greatest effect of destroying the enemy's fortresses and casualties... ..."

Wang Fangyi became more and more astonished, and chattered authentically: "What Li Shuai said, is it the Eastern Han Gaoshun's camp, or the tiger and leopard cavalry under Cao Cao's command? Our Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty also had Xuanjia iron cavalry under his command, and it is said that they are still guarding palace……"

Li Qinzai shook his head: "You are indeed talking about the famous elites in history, but they are all elites on the frontal battlefield, fighting the enemy face to face with swords and guns."

"I'm talking about 'special operations'... To use an inappropriate analogy, the armies you mentioned are all ferocious divisions, the kind of 'ooohoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo' I'm talking about sneaky Sigh, the kind of sneak attack backstabbing Sap."

Li Qinzai's words were too informative, and Wang Fangyi was stunned to digest them for a while, before tentatively saying, "The 'special operations' mentioned by Li Shuai are actually using all kinds of despicable methods to get close to the enemy and destroy them..."

Snapped!
The iron helmet on Wang Fangyi's head was inexplicably tilted.

Wang Fangyi corrected immediately: "The general knows his mistake, Li Shuai's method is to surprise and win by surprise."

Li Qinzai smiled: "That's right, that's what I meant."

(End of this chapter)