Datang: From exiled prince to eternal tyrant

Chapter 210 Two Armies Stalemate
"What? The other party just guards the big camp, no matter how much we scold, they won't come out?"

When Li Ke told the situation of today's battle, Ma Liuzhi and others were a little surprised.

The opponent has a superior number of people, but they are still willing to hold on. It is indeed surprising.

Ma Liuzhi walked back and forth a few times holding the steel knife, then turned around and asked, "Then what should we do? Are we going to go there tomorrow?"

Li Ke nodded: "Naturally, we will go. If you bring people over tomorrow, we won't lie in ambush at all! Lean over and call for battle!"

"Just scolding but not hitting?" Ma Liuzhi said.

"Ok!"

Li Ke thought for a moment and said in a deep voice: "The other side wants to defend until reinforcements arrive. Of course we can't sit still and wait for death..."

"But..." Ma Liuzhi frowned, "But if you just scold and don't hit, don't you just sit and wait for death?"

Li Ke chuckled lightly: "Beating is definitely going to happen! But now he can't hold out, and we can't get in. We might as well scold him for a few days to boost morale. It must be hard for the Tibetans to be scolded every day... "

Ma Liuzhi bowed his head in deep thought, then raised his head with an "oh".

He raised his hands, and said with an epiphany: "Your Highness is going to use scolding to dampen his morale, and wait for the morale of the opponent to drop, and then annihilate him in one fell swoop!"

Li Ke nodded and squeezed out a positive smile.

In fact, he doesn't have a good strategy to defeat the enemy now. The enemy's defenses are tight, and he will definitely not be able to rush in.

If the bow and arrow are used to shoot from a long distance, given the distance between the opponent's central army camp and the defense line, it may not be able to achieve good results.

You can try heavy weapons, and the distance should be enough to attack the big tent with a giant crossbow.

It's just that these heavy weapons are too bulky and the enemy can't defend them, so they are naturally effective.

But if the opponent really rushed out, these weapons could only be thrown away.

The combat power of the Shu army cannot guarantee a frontal battle, and it will definitely win.

Now we can only take one step at a time, yell and scold for a few days, and see the opponent's strategy to deal with the enemy, and then make a decision.

At this time, it was already dark, and the army had begun to bury pots and cook food. Li Ke stopped thinking hard, and simply filled his stomach first, and then figured out a solution.

Naturally, he can't be too particular when going out. Li Ke always dines with Ma Liuzhi and Gu Wu.

At this time, the two of them had brought the food, and the three of them sat around Li Ke's handsome tent and ate.

"Your Highness, Chief, there is an enemy attack!"

While I was eating, a spy came in from outside.

This is Gu Wu's subordinate, Gu Wu has already wiped his mouth and stood up: "What's the situation?"

Na Xizuo cupped his hands and said: "I was just a mile away from the camp and found a small group of troops marching towards us. This subordinate dare not say anything, so I came here to report to His Highness!"

"Damn, I can't even eat a meal!"

Ma Liuzhi dropped the small lamp in his hand to the ground, and went around to touch his steel knife.

Li Ke hurriedly stopped Ma Liuzhi, and continued to ask the secret agent, "How many people are there?"

"There are only a few hundred people. They don't have long soldiers. They only carry crossbows and kerosene. It seems they are coming to burn the camp."

Li Ke couldn't help laughing, Songtsan Gampo really didn't give up, he sent people to burn the camp yesterday, and he came again today.

But when the two armies are at war, both sides must be under control. How can such tricks work?
Li Ke thought for a while and said to Ma Liu Zhi: "Go and mobilize a thousand cavalry to wipe out that group."

Ma Liuzhi followed the sound and left. Before he could get out of the big tent, another spy came in.

"Report, there is an enemy attack! A small group of enemy troops approached my tent, intending to set fire to the camp!"

Li Ke couldn't help smiling wryly, and ordered Ma Liuzhi to mobilize troops and horses to exterminate them.

After Ma Liuzhi got out of the account, Li Ke thought about it intently.

This should be Songtsan Gampo's strategy. He didn't want to fight him head-on, so he kept sending troops to harass him and disrupt his attacking pace.

Thinking of this, Li Ke ordered Gu Wu to send additional manpower to patrol around the camp, and must not give the other party any chance.

His own special forces are very effective in patrolling and tracking, and they will not let Songtsan Gambo's trick succeed.

During this night, four or five groups of Tubo people came to attack one after another, and Li Ke could only be exhausted.

Although the opponent's attack did not take effect, such disturbance did make the Shu army a little overwhelmed.

Later, Li Ke simply ordered to go down and send three thousand-man teams to stand by full-time. Once the patrol personnel found an enemy attack, these teams would go to destroy them.

The night passed like this, although the Shu army was disturbed for a while, but later they had a countermeasure, and they no longer panicked.

There are patrol generals everywhere, and there are countless details scattered around the periphery, so the army no longer cares about it, and only regards this sneak attack as a commonplace trivial matter.

On the second day, Ma Liuzhi led another team of 5 people to call for battle. Li Ke simply nested in the tent, thinking hard about countermeasures.

Songtsan Gampo still did not give up the sneak attack, and the Shu army picked up many Tibetans who were sneak attacking.

It's just that the opponent's kerosene is obviously not much. Before, they were carrying large bottles and cans. Later, the kerosene gradually decreased, and finally, they replaced it with arrows soaked in kerosene.

After cursing like this for three days in a row, on the third night, Ma Liuzhi finally couldn't sit still.

In the handsome tent, Ma Liuzhi was the first to suggest: "We can't keep scolding, we must think of some ways to charge the Tibetan camp."

Li Ke has come up with some methods in the past few days, but most of them are one-time tricks, and they don't work well after using them once.

Before he could open his mouth, Gu Wu had already pushed Ma Liuzhi down first: "Don't be impulsive, the trench on the opposite side is dug extremely deep, and there are guards against horses, we can't rush in."

Ma Liu refused to accept it and said, "I simply pushed the ballista and fired rockets at his camp!"

Gu Wu said angrily again: "He is not blind, by the time you push past, someone will be sent to snatch it from the other side, can you hold it?"

His words reminded Li Ke.

A strategy that Li Ke had thought of before was to quietly push a few crossbow carts over, use kerosene to match the giant crossbows, and burn his camp.

At that time, he was only thinking about attacking, and he was thinking about losing a few ballistas at worst.

But now Gu Wu's words made Li Ke feel terrified, if the ballista fell into the hands of the Tibetans, it would be a troublesome matter.

He wanted to come to invite a battle with a ballista on his back, and he had to accept it.

But when fighting head-on, no matter whether Songtsan Gampo can win or not, he will definitely lose.

Even if Songtsen Gampo is defeated, there are still 40 troops from Tubo coming to support them.

At that time, how can the remnants of the war defeat the opponent's army?
Li Ke simply put down the ballista plan first, and waited until he figured out a plan to prevent the other party from taking it.

But he has other strategies at his disposal.

It was already dark at this time, Li Ke looked outside, and looked at Gu Wudao: "I still have a way, which can effectively kill and wound the enemy."

This strategy was also inspired by Songtsan Gampo's sneak attack strategy. Since the opponent can sneak attack, he naturally has to try it.

(End of this chapter)