Chapter 330 Absolute Trust
Li Ke returned to the military camp in Tutuhe and took a shower and changed clothes. After dinner, Sun Erlang, Am, Zadler, and Mengshan and others returned to the camp. Li Ke ordered them to go to the bathroom and change clothes first, and then go to his big tent to report the situation after dinner. Eminem, Sun Erlang and others were flattered by Li Ke's special care, and immediately returned to their camp, got familiar with it briefly, and hurriedly had a little supper and came to Li Ke's big tent.
"Where is Wang Zhongchang?" Li Ke asked Meng Shan, who was beside him.
"Your Highness, we did not find him on the battlefield or on the way back." Monsanto replied.
"Tell me what we have gained in today's battle!" Li Ke did not mention Wang Zhongchang again and asked Am and Sun Erlang. After all, they were the commanders on the battlefield.
"Your Highness, this time we wiped out 15,000 Turkic spirit cavalry, and 5,000 escaped our pursuit, and we also lost nearly 3,000 people." Sun Erlang thought for a while and said.
"Do you think it's worth three thousand people to exchange for 15,000 people?" Li Ke sighed.
"His Royal Highness, this is the best result we have achieved since the war!" Am also said happily. To be honest, the casualty rate is 1 to 5, and even if it is placed anywhere, it is a very proud record.
But Li Ke said with a gloomy face, "We have 30,000 troops, and Qiheli has only 20,000 exhausted soldiers. With the situation of war, our casualties still reach 3,000. This is not a record worthy of pride. You should feel ashamed of this."
"Your Highness——" Sun Erlang wanted to say something, but Li Ke stopped him, "Don't take the initiative to admit your responsibility. It is not easy for you to achieve such a record today. But I hope you can remember that we still have many battles to fight in the future. What we need is not pride and complacency with our existing achievements, but to learn from insufficient experience and lessons."
"The last one understands—" Sun Erlang said respectfully.
"The last one understands-" Am and Zadler also had to admire Li Ke's ambition and said with conscience.
"Monsan, you are responsible for scouts and intelligence work. Even if we win today, we cannot relax our vigilance. You all go down and rest! We will set off to return to Tulun River midnight tonight."
"No——" the generals answered without any objection.
Seeing everyone leaving the tent, Li Ke was not happy about the victory he had achieved today. In today's obvious absolute advantage, his side lost more than 3,000 elite cavalry, which is enough to show that the combat power of the cavalry in his hand still needs to be improved. At the same time, he thought of Qie Heli, who could train such an elite cavalry, and Qie Heli was indeed worthy of his respect. Just when he thought of Qie Heli, Li Ke thought of Wang Zhongchang. This tiger general who had been with him for a long time has not returned to the camp yet. Is there something wrong with Li Ke? However, Li Ke still suppressed this thought in his heart. He believed that with Wang Zhongchang's ability and the fifty eagle guards around him, even if there was any danger, as long as he did not encounter a large number of cavalrymen, he would definitely be able to come back safely.
Soon, at night, Sun Erlang had gathered troops and waited for Li Ke. Then he saw Li Ke walking in front of him under Mengshan's guard, riding a war horse, and roaring at the crowd around him, "Go back to the camp—"
In an instant, more than 20,000 elite knights disappeared quickly by the Tutu River like elves in the dark.
Late at night, the Tang army in Tulunhe agreed to have already entered a deep sleep. The soldiers who were training for pre-war preparations were the most exhausted. However, just as everyone was sleeping, a large number of cavalry appeared ten miles away. They were running at extremely fast speed, and the direction they were moving forward was the promise of the Tang army stationed in Tulunhe.
Without the scout's report, this is already very serious. The scout was massacred. Without the scout, the Tang army now agreed to be like a blind man at night, without knowing that a cavalry was running towards him ten miles away.
Suddenly, a sad sound of a horn came from the watchtower that Tang Jun agreed to.
"Enemy attack?" Such a word appeared in Li Jing's mind. He stood up suddenly, quickly changed into a cross armor, and stepped out of the handsome tent.
"The chief executive - it may be an enemy attack. It sounds like the enemy is already five miles away from us." Du Junchuo rushed to Li Jing's tent and said.
"Prepare for the battle!" Li Jing roared.
"No--" Du Junchuo agreed and quickly left Li Jing.
"Pu - Pu" the sound of horse hooves was clearly heard, and the earth was shaking constantly. Li Jing praised his war horse and walked towards the army gathered by Du Junchuo. While he walked, he thought, why didn't he get any news in advance? Could it be that there was something wrong with the scout? Is it impossible? Are the Turkic cavalry so powerful? Even the light and dark sentries of his scout were killed? But time could not allow him to think too much, and he hurried to the face of the army that Du Junchuo had already gathered and was about to speak, but a scene that surprised him appeared. The sound of horse hooves stopped abruptly, the earth stopped shaking, and everything instantly returned to silence. The sound of Tang army's horns that could be heard came from outside the camp.
"What's going on?" Li Jing asked Du Junchuo beside him.
"Return to the chief executive, I don't know what happened!" Du Junchuo replied with a confused look on his face.
"You don't know? What's going on with the horn of our army outside the camp?" Li Jing asked again.
"I don't know even the last general!" Du Junchuo replied awkwardly.
"You lead the army out to have a look!" Li Jing ordered.
"No——" Du Junchuo replied.
"Follow me-" With Du Junchuo's order, thousands of cavalry roared past the camp and disappeared into the darkness.
After Du Junchuo left, Li Jing was not idle either. He rushed to Xu Jingzong, Guo Shifeng and others to rectify the troops in the camp and were ready to attack at any time.
After about a stick of incense, the Tang army's horn came from outside the camp gate, and the soldiers from the watchtower shouted, "General Du - it's General Du!"
Li Jing received the words of the messenger and ordered him to open the camp gate.
"Squeak" The camp gate made of wooden rafts was opened, and the two cavalry rushed into the camp first. Li Jing glanced at it and it turned out that it was Li Ke and Du Junchuo. At this time, Li Jing understood everything. It turned out that the enemy attack outside the camp was caused by Li Ke. No wonder he had just heard the horn of the Tang army coming from outside the camp. However, Li Jing was very angry at Li Ke's behavior of pretending to be an enemy. When he saw Li Ke walking to him on a horse, he heard Li Ke say, "Master General, there is a problem with our army's warning at night! I met this king tonight, but the camp was not broken. If I met Jie Li, then the promise now would have become the Shura Field."
Li Ke spoke so hard that he would not give Li Jing face. His words were said in front of the tens of thousands of soldiers in front of him, and he did not leave any kindness to Li Jing at all. There is a reason why Li Ke dared to show Li Jing like this. One reason was that the Tang army was relaxed at night. The second was that he suddenly had such a night attack for Li Jing. If he didn't find a reasonable explanation, Li Jing would definitely not agree. The more he did not show mercy to Li Jing, the more Li Jing felt that Li Ke was right at night. This was the real purpose of Li Ke's daring to speak like this.
Sure enough, when Li Jing heard Li Ke's words, his face was significantly reduced by anger.
I heard Li Ke continue, "The reason for the success of the night attack is that I am very familiar with the deployment of our scouts, but it does explain the problem, that is, the scouts in our camp are not careful enough about the inspection tasks. Master, think about it, even if I don't know the deployment of the scouts, as long as I catch the person who understands the arrangement of the scouts and imposes severe punishment on him, can he guarantee that he will not tell the deployment of our scouts at night? Will it be..."
Li Ke didn't say much, but Li Jing understood the meaning of Li Ke's words.
"Let the troops dissolve and return to the camp, and strengthen the alert!" Li Jing said to Du Junchuo, and then ignored Li Ke and returned to his commander's tent. Du Junchuo glanced at Li Ke and saw Li Ke smiled faintly at him, saying that he was fine. Du Junchuo then went to carry out Li Jing's orders, and Li Ke rode a horse to Li Jing's command.
"Master General, let's come and report to Li Ke!" Li Ke shouted outside the tent.
"Hmph—" Li Jing was still a little angry with Li Ke, nonsense. If Li Ke was fooled, how could he not be angry? But he still said lightly, "Come in!"
"No——" As soon as Li Ke finished speaking, his people also walked into the tent.
"Have your mission been completed?" Li Jing asked.
"The chief executive, annihilate 15,000 enemies, and our army loses 3,000 people." Li Ke said simply.
"What?" Li Jing was shocked. He thought Li Ke would defeat Qi Bi Heli, but he did not expect to achieve such an impressive record. Li Jing knew very well that the deaths of Li Ke and Qi Bi Heli in battle were 1 to 5, and he was facing Turkic spirit cavalry. Facing the Turkic spirit cavalry, he achieved an 1,500-15-10,000-10,000-19 at the cost of 3,000. Such an impressive record even if Li Jing had not had a few times. How could Li Jing not be surprised?
However, Li Ke was obviously unwilling to give up the idea of attacking Li Jing's defense line. He continued to speak, "The enemy's head Qie Heli has been killed by my personal guard general Wang Zhongchang, and soon he will present the head of Qie Heli."
"Really?" Li Jing walked forward three steps forward and asked in surprise. He knew very well how much the beheaded Qibian Heli had on Jie Li, and how much the impact it had on Jie Li's military morale and morale.
"Really!" Li Ke replied affirmatively.
"What about others?" Li Jing asked diligently.
"The person hasn't come back yet!" Li Ke answered truthfully.
"That's right, can he kill Qi Bi Heli if you don't want to?" Li Jing's attitude changed quickly, and his tone was very cold, "Your Highness, King of Han, you have to know the result of lying about military achievements."
"I didn't lie. He is sure that he will present the head of Qie Heli!" Li Ke continued to say affirmatively.
"Why?" Li Jing asked in surprise again.
"Because he is my subordinate, I believe he can do it!" Li Ke said loudly.
"Because he is my subordinate, I believe he can do it!" Li Ke's words hit Li Jing hard. This was his absolute trust in his subordinates, his confidence in himself, his absolute confidence. What made Li Ke so confident? It was his trust in his subordinates. Li Jing suddenly understood Li Ke and understood why he achieved such an impressive record, that is, his absolute trust in his subordinates and soldiers.
Trust, this is a very simple word, but few people can achieve the meaning expressed in these two words.
Li Jing has nothing to say yet? He didn't say anything, he could only express silence!
After a while, he spoke, "Are you tired? Let's go down and rest first! When Wang Zhong grows back, you will bring him to see me!"
"No--" Li Ke bowed and left Li Jing's tent.
Chapter completed!