Small battles broke out every day.
The army of the Tuyuhun Khanate is slowly advancing towards Lukou Mountain.
The delaying tactics advocated by Bai Song achieved some results.
But small-scale friction is temporary after all. When the enemy forces are overwhelming at the foot of Lukou Mountain, a war will inevitably break out.
Lukou Mountain is the only highland within a hundred miles. It is easy to defend but difficult to attack. Occupying Lukou Mountain, you can have a clear view of the situation in all directions.
Therefore, the location of Lukou Mountain is very important. No matter how they retreat, the army cannot retreat from Lukou Mountain.
When the enemy reaches the foot of the mountain, a real battle is about to begin.
The Shenwu artillery has not yet arrived at the front line, and it was initially estimated that it would take a month at the earliest.
Because Bai Song delivered the cannon components to blacksmiths in three places in order to keep the drawings confidential, there was bound to be a delay in this process.
Bai Song didn't know exactly when it would be delivered.
It is possible that the war has already broken out before the Shenwu cannon arrives.
This is something that Bai Song is more worried about. Fortunately, the Tang army is now equipped with crossbows.
I believe it will not be difficult to garrison the high ground and use the crossbow to fight against the enemy.
Bai Song was an outsider. He did not participate in the war, did not enter the frontline fighting, and always retreated to the rear.
He is really like an official who comes to the military camp to gild. Although he invented the sand table and horseshoes, it is impossible to convince the public just by doing this.
One day, Li Jing summoned Bai Song.
"How long have you been in the military camp?" Li Jing asked.
"Eight days? Nine days? Almost..."
"You've been at the military camp for eleven days."
"Have it?"
"You have brought a lot of people, but have you done anything practical recently?"
Bai Song shook his head. He had never actually done anything.
Li Jing gradually became serious: "You can't do this. Don't forget the mission I gave you."
"I remember it all."
"Just remembering is not enough, you also have to take action. I have a task here, and I am going to ask you to participate in the diversionary task with General Li Daoran tomorrow. The task is very simple. Contain the opponent's ranger troops and lure the enemy's small troops. Get rid of him in the ambush of our army. There won’t be much danger. As long as you are careful, it will be a moderate achievement. You need to make a meritorious service now and establish an image for everyone."
"I won't go!" Bai Song answered decisively. He didn't want to participate in the battle. Hearing the number of people who died in the battle every day made Bai Song feel upset.
Because of one of his plans, hundreds of people were killed the next day, which made Bai Song somewhat resistant. He was very satisfied with the current situation. If he must stay in the army, it would be best to hide in the rear and wait for the outcome of the war.
Li Jing was stunned. He didn't expect that Bai Song would behave like this. He was a manly man. He didn't have any blood in him when he arrived in the military camp, but he was so cowardly!
If he were his son, he would definitely be slapped away.
But this person had a special status, so he could only say patiently: "You were always on the front line in Chengdu before, why is it different here?"
"I got carried away once in Chengdu, and now I want to regret it."
"You...how can you convince the public like this?"
"What a general wants is to convince the crowd, and the only way to convince the crowd is to go into battle and kill the enemy. Stabilizing the rear is also very important."
"Stabilize the rear? What do you use to stabilize it?"
"I don't have anything else, but I do have a lot of money. Calculating the time, the materials I donated to the army should be here soon. I don't believe that the one hundred thousand taels of military expenditure I spent is not as good as going into battle and killing a few enemies!"
"One hundred thousand military expenses?" Li Jing was a little confused. One hundred thousand military expenses was not a small amount. If there were really one hundred thousand military expenses, he should have received the news long ago.
But he heard nothing.
Bai Song nodded calmly: "General, I want you to understand one thing. I can make suggestions, but I am really not suitable for going into battle to kill the enemy. To be honest, the last incident in Chengdu has caused a lot of psychological shadow on me. .If you ask me to go to the battlefield, I may faint from fright. I can only do what I am good at, and I can guarantee the logistical supplies for an army of 100,000. All military expenditures of 100,000 are my personal investment, including equipment and food. I The idea is very simple, even if we stay here, we can still kill the enemy."
Li Jing finally saw that Bai Song was a conservative, and even more conservative than him.
Li Jing's use of troops is very stable, this is something everyone knows, but in Li Jing's view, Bai Song is more stable than him in his use of soldiers. This guy can shrink and never attack. All previous suggestions were based on safety.
In fact, this method is more in line with Li Jing's preferences.
Besides, they privately contributed 100,000 yuan in military expenses. With this sincerity, who in the entire army can say anything wrong with it?
If 100,000 supplies really arrived at the front line, it would be very impressive, right?
Hearing what Bai Song said, Li Jing felt relieved. Now he just needs to wait for all the supplies to be in place.
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Two days later, the first batch of supplies from Youzhou arrived at Lukou Mountain, totaling one million kilograms of grain, including rice, soybeans, flour, potatoes, sweet potatoes...
Among them, potatoes are the largest, weighing half a million kilograms.
After six years of development, Youzhou now has the prototype of the world's granary.
Because of Bai Song's hoarding of land six years ago, he spread a batch of genetically superior seeds. After six years of preparation, the scale of Youzhou's farmland has exceeded people's imagination.
There has been no famine in Youzhou for four consecutive years, and every household has a surplus of grain. Now the surplus is so large that it is sold to all parts of the country.
The Bai Song Dynasty is not in Youzhou, but the people of Youzhou remember the merits of the Bai Song Dynasty. It is precisely because of the Bai Song Dynasty that Youzhou has the good life it has now.
This time, the Bai Song Dynasty sent back the news to collect grain from the people of Youzhou.
The people of Youzhou all responded, and in just half a month they collected the first batch of one million kilograms of grain and sent it to the front line, most of which did not cost a penny.
Because it was the Bai Song Dynasty that wanted food, and the people all knew that all the food in Youzhou was sown by the Bai Gongzi of the Bai Song Dynasty, and this time the young master came back to harvest it.
The people must not be stingy. This time the food levy is more like giving it to Mr. Bai, showing the Tang Dynasty the achievements of Youzhou.
The army was shocked.
One million catties of grain may not be too much in front of a hundred thousand troops.
It can only cover half a month's expenses.
But this was brought about by one person's efforts. From the beginning of the food collection to the arrival of the food and grass, only one month passed.
This kind of speed and efficiency cannot be achieved even by the imperial court.
The transportation team promised that this is only the first batch of urgent food, and there will be a second batch later, and the third batch will continue.
As long as Mr. Bai of Song Dynasty is there, the people of Youzhou can feed them no matter how many people there are.
Today, Hou Junji went out to fight and killed many enemies and made great achievements.
But it pales in comparison to the millions of kilograms of grain produced by the Bai Song Dynasty.
Bai Song's generosity shocked everyone, and Jian Shisan couldn't help but ask: "Are you going to raise an army by yourself?"
It is obviously impossible for one person to support an army.
Compared with the food and grass provided by the court, one million catties is just a drop in the bucket.
But Bai Song's next move was even more surprising.
Among the 100,000 troops, 10,000 were assigned to dig the fields and plant potatoes on the spot.
Potatoes grow quickly, have no climate requirements, and have extremely high yields per mu.
It only takes three or four months to harvest.
The army is self-sufficient and prepared for long-term operations.
The military operations of the Tang Dynasty had been quick and decisive since the uprising of the previous dynasty, and they had never experienced similar long-term operations.
Most people have heard of the army farming on the spot in stories told by storytellers.
The one I have heard the most about recently is the Three Kingdoms. The descriptions of wars in the Three Kingdoms often have similar tactics.
This is not unique to the Bai Song Dynasty, but it is certainly very rare.
And we are still farming on the grassland. Is this possible?
Even inexperienced people know that grasslands are overgrown with weeds and it is difficult for ordinary crops to mature.
I just don’t know if potatoes can be measured with general crops.
The importance of food and grass is unquestionable.
One more day of food can change a war. What Bai Song did was to increase the army's error tolerance without limit.
In the following days, the army's food improved significantly. Not to mention how good the food was, at least the soldiers were well fed.
In addition, Bai Song led a team to concentrate on logistics, and now no one in the army could have any objections.
After all, no matter what kind of arrogant general he is, when he meets Bai Song, he must respectfully call him "strategist".
News from the Tang army was always leaked. Bai Song led people here to open up wasteland and farm, and Tuyuhun Khan's army seemed to feel the pressure.
Fighting became more frequent to the east, and the enemy troops closed in faster and faster.
Rangers came to report that an elite enemy force in the south was trying to bypass Lukou Mountain and go deep into the grassland. The purpose may be to intercept the Turkic coalition forces coming to support from the rear.
The elite troops numbered about five thousand and were marching very fast. By this time they had reached the rear of the army.
Li Jing convened the generals to discuss countermeasures and decided to use elite troops of equal strength to pursue from the rear, trying to form a pincer attack with the Turkic coalition forces.
Once the battle plan has been designated, all that remains is the candidates for the battle.
A hunkered-down Bai Song volunteered to lead the attack.
The reason is simple, because Bado is among them.
He can always be a coward, but he can't let his woman get ahead of him.
Li Jing was a little surprised, but he quickly thought that this boy had a very high status among the Turkic tribes, and immediately agreed to his request.
But after all, Bai Song was a military advisor in name only and had no position. The commander-in-chief of the army would be Li Miao.
During the battle, two people jointly make decisions.
After that, the two men quickly mobilized five thousand light cavalry and led the team out of the camp overnight.
The people brought by Bai Song came out in full force. Their task was simple, ensuring Bai Song's safety.
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Under the starry night, Li Miao looked back at Bai Song's entourage, and he felt how extraordinary these people were.
Especially Jian Shisan who has been following Bai Song.
"If there is an encounter, let this person serve as the vanguard and disrupt the battle. We will work together to lay siege to one place and defeat them one by one."
"Brother, this is my personal bodyguard. He is only responsible for my safety, not a vanguard."
"Don't be so stingy. We are a family. When we return home after making meritorious deeds, our faces will be bright."
Li Miao said this, obviously very confident in this battle.
Just the dozens of people behind Bai Song, without the encirclement and suppression by an army of ten thousand people, I'm afraid it would be difficult to survive.
He had long heard from his sister that Bai Song was naturally afraid of death and had been secretly recruiting martial arts masters. This time he finally had the opportunity to see them.
