The march is painful, and it is so painful.√∟

Li Su is an enjoymentist. His life ideal is to lie in the pile of money, eat and drink without moving. Now, Li Su is grinning on a horse, and the idea of ​​becoming a deserter appears in his mind more than once.

On the third day of the march, the army left Chang'an for only more than a hundred miles. Li Su felt a burning pain. It turned out that riding a horse was not pleasant. The inner side of her thigh was peeled off by a saddle, and her legs were split for a long time. After a slight bump, she felt like she was about to cramp. She got off the horse and walked for a while, and her feet began to hurt again...

The road is still a trivial matter, and the most unbearable thing is eating and drinking. When marching, only eating dry food. There is no meat in the dry food. It is just a piece of cake that is as hard as a stone and a small ball of wild vegetables of unknown variety. Every two days, when camping in the evening, there is a bowl of vegetable soup with a few oil stars floating. Li Su saw with her own eyes that the chef in the middle army threw a salt-stained cloth tape into the pot when making soup. After cooking for a while, he took it out. The soup tasted salty. The chef seemed very satisfied with his skills. He took out the cloth strip and licked it with his mouth, stuffed it into a black bag, and continued to use it for the next meal...

Li Su was about to go crazy, looking at the bowl of soup with tears in his eyes, not daring to taste it, and respectfully brought it into the handsome tent and presented it to General Niu with both hands. Niu Jinda was very satisfied with Li Su's filial piety and drank it in a few sips.

It's neither wasting nor flattering, it's great.

"The little kid is good, I can barely be considered a polite..." Niu Jinda was very pleased and licked the corner of his mouth with unfulfilled satisfaction. It seemed that the bowl of soup was very suitable for his taste.

Li Su bowed and smiled and said, "The happiness of the chief general manager means happiness of the subordinates. It will not delay the chief general manager's decision on military affairs, and the subordinates will retire."

"Come back, there is no decisive military intelligence on the march. Come and talk to me." Niu Jinda waved, and the aura of a wealthy man on the roadside recruiting a taxi. Li Su had no choice but to come over.

Niu Jinda stroked his messy beard and his square face was very serious. Whether in terms of appearance or expression, Li Su felt that this face was similar to some kind of cold weapon, such as a brick...

"Little kid, tell me. I have more than a thousand miles from Chang'an to Songzhou. My Tang army rushed to Songzhou. Will the Tubo killers have captured Songzhou?"

Li Su smiled bitterly. How could he know about such a thing? Can you talk nonsense about military and national affairs?

"This... I don't know about the Grand Chief Executive. Although the Tubo soldiers are brave, they don't seem to be that powerful in siege, right? Maybe General Han, the governor of Songzhou, can defend it?" Li Su scratched his head, his words all over his words "seemingly" and "maybe".

Niu Jinda lowered his head and looked at the sheepskin map on the short table, and Li Su's eyes also bet on it.

The map is very sloppy. It is so simple that it only outlines a general terrain pattern. Draw a circle in Chang'an and a circle in Songzhou. There is a winding road between the two, and there is nothing but this, without mountains or water. It is hard to imagine that this map is actually a military map used by the general.

Niu Jinda's eyes were very worried. Obviously, he did not have much confidence in the governor of Songzhou, Han Wei.

"Han Wei is a coward, and such a person cannot bear the responsibility!" Niu Jinda shook his head and then sneered: "Two hundred thousand enemy troops are approaching the border, and they only brought dozens of light cavalry to explore the camp. After being discovered, they panic and fled back to the city in a panic. He was left alone. His personal guards died in battle to protect him. Do he think he is Huo Qubing? Such a general guards the city. I don't think he can defend for how long."

Li Suwei nodded.

"This time, the troops were divided into three groups. Hou Junji led the way, Liu Lan led the way, and I led the way. There are a total of 50,000 people. Tell me, what is the chance of winning against 50,000 Tubo soldiers?" Niu Jinda narrowed his eyes and looked at him, as if he was a bit sophisticated.

Li Su hurriedly said: "My Tang Dynasty soldiers are in a sharp and unstoppable way. In recent years, they have always attacked the Eastern Turks and Xueyantuo, and they have always defeated the crowd with few people and returned with great victory. The lower officials believe that under the illumination of His Majesty's wise and brave commands of the great generals, they will definitely win this battle with one blow, defeating the Tubo children, my emperor will be powerful in all the worlds, and all nations will be surrendered..."

While talking about it, Li Su looked for a random direction, just pretending it was the Tai Chi Palace, and bowed respectfully.

"Over there..." Niu Jinda's face was as dark as a piece of black charcoal, and he pointed to another direction gloomy.

"ah?"

"Tai Chi Palace... is there."

"oh……"

Li Su followed suit and hurriedly changed directions and bowed again.

Niu Jinda's eyes twitched straight, and his rough palms were raised and lowered several times. It seemed that he was struggling fiercely between thrusting him or not.

Li Su also noticed Niu Jinda's bad intentions and moved back a few inches carefully. She was puzzled. They were all good words that were carefully thought out, and there was nothing bad to say, so why should I beat him?

"The little kid is not honest!" Niu Jinda glared at him fiercely: "Although it sounds like anger, it's actually nothing. What are you afraid of? Are you afraid of being stabbed if you say something wrong?"

"It's all the truth from the officials, I dare not talk nonsense..." Li Su then changed into a nervous expression: "If you say something wrong, you will get a knife? What's the matter?"

Niu Jinda smiled angrily: "The little kid pretends to be stupid again, believe it or not, I will chop you up personally. I just said it all nonsense, now I will say anything again, if you have any ideas, flatter you again, I will definitely not forgive you if you write ten military sticks."

Li Su really had some ideas. He just couldn't figure out the temper of this general just now. If he was a person who couldn't listen to the truth, he was slashed by a handsome tent after he said it, how unfair, so he simply talked about it and said it. Now, looking at Niu Jinda's appearance, he seemed to be a very pragmatic person. When he flattered, he might have thought of slashing himself with one knife. In order to dispel the irrational idea of ​​the general, Li Su felt that he needed to make some useful information.

"Fifty thousand vs. 200,000 Tubo soldiers, this battle will be very difficult..."

Niu Jinda raised his eyebrows: "Oh? Why did you say this? He said carefully."

Li Su thought about his words and said slowly: "What the Xiaguan said is not to attack the crowd with few people, but to geography and climate. The Tubo soldiers only transformed into barbarians outside, and used troops to go straight. The Xiaguan had never led the troops, so the great generals decided to attack. In terms of military use, Tubo would inevitably lose to the generals to plan the plan. If the Tang army only broke the siege of Songzhou, it would be easy to attack and defend, but if the great generals wanted to join forces to penetrate the territory of Tubo after the siege of Songzhou, the Xiaguan thought that this was the beginning of the difficult..."

"Why is it difficult?"

"The Tang Dynasty had never conquered Tubo before, so I didn't know the background of Tubo. The Tubo people are not scary. What is scary is the location and climate of Tubo. There are heavy snow all year round and the mountains are continuous. Every time I go deeper, I feel my heartbeat faster and faster, accompanied by symptoms such as dizziness, vomiting, and even coma. In severe cases, I can almost die. Even if I can't die, I will feel weak and powerless. Just like drunkenness, let alone fighting with Tubo soldiers, I will be afraid of losing my strength even if I march. The Tubo people have already adapted to the local climate and geography. Moreover, Tubo is a plateau. The enemy is on a high place and I am on a low place. Strategically, I fall into a passive attitude of lowering the enemy. For the enemy, it is condescending and in a favorable dive situation..."

"Therefore, the officials thought that this battle would definitely win a great victory in the Tang Dynasty. Don't worry. If you continue to attack the enemy and go deep into the Tubo territory, our Tang army... may suffer a great loss. It is a good thing to attack the crowd with few people, but it is unwise to attack the strong with weak."

Li Su rarely said a lot of things, half of them were chatting, and the other half, maybe for the sake of the Wang brothers, was incompetent and exhausted the three armies. The Wang brothers rushed to the front line, and he didn't want to see them killing them because of the inadvertent concerns of the commanders of the army.

Niu Jinda's expression gradually became solemn: "Before this battle, the Secretariat of the Secretariat summoned several Hu merchants in Chang'an City to consult the Tubo heaven and geography. They had sold goods between Tubo and the Tang Dynasty. The Hu merchants' statements were exactly the same as what you said, but what you said was much more serious. Is the climate of Tubo really that terrible?"

Li Su nodded solemnly: "Once you go deeper, you will inevitably have these symptoms. The subordinates dare to guarantee their lives that they are invincible. The fight between the children in Guanzhong is naturally invincible, but in the end, they cannot fight against the might of heaven and cannot reverse the terrain."

Niu Jinda nodded: "Man cannot defeat nature, but to be honest, officials from the Secretariat once told me in detail about the climate and geography of Tubo. His Majesty and I thought that this battle might be difficult, and the hardship was in the climate and geography of the enemy's territory, but we did not expect it to be so serious..."

Li Su said seriously: "The Grand Chief, the army has not yet left Guanzhong at this time. If the Grand Chief Secretary does not believe it, why not send the fast horse scouts from the army to sneak into the Tubo territory quickly without inquiring about the enemy's situation. Just test the terrain. The deeper the terrain, the higher the terrain, and the more uncomfortable the people will be. The symptoms mentioned by the Xiaguan will inevitably occur."

Niu Jinda said: "I really have to send a scout. I cannot get rid of the entire army because of your own words, nor can I be so foolish that I don't take your words to heart. Only when the scouts send back can I believe it."

Li Su bowed and said sincerely: "The Grand Chief is worthy of being a famous general of the Tang Dynasty, and the subordinates are obeyed."

"Okay, you might as well pat more of this kind of flattery in the future. I like to listen to it. Don't be too verbose, get out of here, I want to decide on military affairs."

Niu Jinda kicked Li Su out of the tent without hesitation, and then he heard his loud shout in the tent: "Ten personal guards come in, hurry up!"

A group of armored guards rushed into the commander's tent, and then they heard Niu Jinda's tone give a military order in a hurry.

Li Su rubbed her butt and gritted her teeth with hatred: "Don't kill the donkey!"

Thinking about these four words are very unfavorable to me, I changed my words and said: "Cut down the bridge after crossing the river!"

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Chapter completed!