"You'd better give up on this idea. If there really were such heavy casualties, I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to explain it to His Highness. Right now, they haven't caused too much harm, and we can find and fill gaps elsewhere. It's not time to send you into deep combat yet."
Chang Sun Ze certainly knew how much Li Xiang valued this army. If they were allowed to go in like this, Li Xiang would probably feel uncomfortable. Although it is said that soldiers should be trained for a thousand days and deployed for a moment, as he said, our situation has not deteriorated to that extent yet. There is no need for our brothers to risk their lives. We still have some other methods that have not been used.
"What else can you do?"
Huo Qubing said in surprise, "When they were training, Li Xiang had told them so that they could go into the forest and pull these people out. Now is a perfect opportunity. There will always be casualties in war. If we don't fight for fear of death, what is the point of having our army?"
The attack now is on the military's logistics line, and after a while it may be on the merchants' transportation line. This is not good for the economic recovery between the two places. Under the influence of Li Xiang, they basically see the importance of the economy.
"Look, most of the logistics transport teams they attacked were relatively small. We can set a rule in the army. For example, we can send out a logistics transport team every three days. The size of this transport team must be over a thousand people. When they see that we are stronger, they may not dare to take action. In addition, we have a last resort, which is to burn the mountain."
When Chang Sun Ze said this, Huo Qubing felt a chill beside him. The first method is often used in the army. If you want to sneak attack our logistics transport team, then we will arm the logistics transport team and not give you the opportunity to launch a sneak attack.
But if the second method is not controlled well, it is very likely to set the entire mountain on fire. Of course, there is no such thing as environmental protection now.
"Will Your Highness agree to burn the mountain?"
Huo Qubing thought about Li Xiang's character. He loved small animals and plants very much. If he burned down all the forests on the mountain, it would be difficult for him to explain to Li Xiang!
"Come and read His Royal Highness's letter. He has already explained that if burning the mountain can force them out, we can just burn down the surrounding forests. If that doesn't work, then we can only send you in."
Chang Sun Ze took out a letter written by Li Xiang from behind him. When Huo Qubing saw the letter, he was very moved. A superior who cares so much about the life and death of his brothers will make everyone more willing to work for him. Even if it means burning down the nearby mountains and forests, he must protect these brothers under Huo Qubing.
"Then what are we waiting for? Since His Highness has agreed, shall I immediately send people down to set fire, starting with the area around our military camp? It hasn't rained for a while, so if there are any burns, they should be easy to ignite."
Huo Qubing said hurriedly that although only a logistics transport team was attacked, he understood the situation on the battlefield very well. If we did not have a new way to deal with it, the other party would immediately expand the results on this front after tasting the sweetness.
"Don't be impatient. Even if we want to burn the mountain, we must do it in a planned way. It's completely impossible at this stage. We have to surround the area around it before we burn it. If the fire on the mountain is too intense, they will rush down. If we don't have any of our people around, they will run from one forest to another, and we won't be able to effectively reduce their fighting power. Only after we have taken control of this city, can we discuss burning the mountain."
After hearing what Chang Sun Ze said, Huo Qubing scratched the back of his head a little embarrassedly. He was really too impulsive in doing things.
While the two were discussing how to deal with the Vietnamese army in the mountains, Wu Yuanhao also set up his own temporary tent in the mountains.
This guy ran out in a very embarrassed state. Although everyone around him followed him, all kinds of things were left in the city. Especially when he saw that Luo Cheng was still intact, he wanted to kill all the generals under his command. What did I tell you in the first place? You must destroy the city before leaving.
According to his thinking, since we can no longer hold the city, we cannot leave them an intact city and let them know our determination to resist. Who knew that after Wu Yuanhao got on his horse, the people behind him also followed suit. They didn't want to stay in this city as prisoners.
Of course, if they knew that life in the mountains was so hard, they would probably still be willing to be prisoners. From the day they came in, they have been living on wild fruits and some grass roots in the mountains, because they didn't bring any good things with them before coming in. They can still hunt some wild animals for me in the past two days, but if it goes on for a long time, they will eat up all the food in this forest sooner or later.
In the past, their ancestors did hold out in the mountains and forests, and even resisted the Han army for two years. However, those people did not rely on supplies in the mountains, but on people from the south sending them up. They also robbed the Han army's logistics transport vehicles from time to time, which allowed them to stay in the mountains.
Now they have to use the old method. Although they attacked the Tang Dynasty's logistics transport vehicle this time, the Tang Dynasty soldiers responded properly and used small grenades to directly blow up the vehicle when retreating, leaving them with not much. This trip only brought back less than a few hundred kilograms of food, which was definitely a drop in the bucket for their army.
"Why are you all keeping your heads down? I know our gains this time are small, but for us, this is also a very good start. Their logistics will definitely not be consolidated. In the next period of time, you all need to find your best men to plunder them. I really don't believe they can hold out for long."
Wu Yuanhao knew that he couldn't let these people sit idle, as they would cause trouble if they were idle, so he had to get them moving.
