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Zhao Jingdian, Wei Anfang, Zhao Qiqin, and Huang Qian-er arrived at the Wang Clan Residence very late at night. The Wang Clan Residence was brightly lit, and after Wang Chong invited them into his study, he closed the door.
No one knew what they were talking about, only that Zhao Jingdian, Wei Anfang, Zhao Qiqin, and Huang Qian-er all had nasty complexions when they came out of Wang Chong's study.
The four of them were completely out of sorts, all of them so absent-minded that they didn't even hear the Wang Clan guards call for them. They left the Wang Clan Residence that night.
But the light in Wang Chong's study did not go out.
After they left, Wang Chong's silhouette on the table was reflected on the paper window, and the rustling of a brush could be heard. But the door was tightly shut, and no one knew what Wang Chong was doing inside.
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"… Lion City has long since been constructed, and a large amount of food has already been stored in the city. This is the last chance for Xianyu Zhongtong and the Annan Protectorate army!"
In the study, the candles flickered as Wang Chong stared at the table, his expression unprecedentedly grave.
On Wang Chong's table was a miniature model of the southwest. All the valleys, mountains, rivers, plains, cities, and forests, all of them were vivid and lifelike.
Wang Chong had borrowed this model from the Bureau of Military Personnel a long time ago and found skilled craftsmen to make it. In the Tang Dynasty, everything that involved the geography of the mountains, rivers, and even the defensive positions of the garrisons were classified secrets. Secretly keeping such a model was a major crime.
But Wang Chong had never cared, and this model had always been hidden in his study.
The defeat of the Annan Protectorate army in the southwest was already a foregone conclusion. The past could no longer be changed, but there was still hope.
If nothing unexpected happens and everything is still the same, then the battle between Xianyu Zhongtong and Gelofeng will definitely take place on these plains!
Wang Chong stared at the model, countless thoughts flitting through his mind. At this moment, he didn't look like a young and inexperienced teenager at all.
In a daze, Wang Chong had once again reverted to the Great Tang commander-in-chief from his previous life, a man with the sun and moon in his chest, commanding an army of thousands, commanding a mighty army with a flick of his finger, and deciding the outcome of a battle!
Whoosh!
Wang Chong took out a small flag and stuck it into the Erhai Plain on the sand table. As the "War Saint" revered by the world in his previous life, Wang Chong had experienced thousands of battles, big and small. Even Wang Chong himself couldn't count them all.
Even a layman who didn't know anything would be a good commander if he could survive thousands of battles, let alone Wang Chong.
As long as Gelofeng wasn't an idiot and Duan Gequan was still the commander, then the location of their decisive battle would definitely be the Erhai plains.
Only the Erhai plain could accommodate so many soldiers!
In his previous life, it wasn't without reason that the Tang dynasty and Mengshe Zhao chose that place for their decisive battle. And if the decisive battle was held there, as long as Xianyu Zhongtong wasn't completely muddle-headed, as long as he was still a normal person, then he would definitely be able to see this place.
Wang Chong took out a small red flag as thick as a toothpick and stuck it into the "Lion City" behind the Erhai plains without hesitation. Wang Chong hadn't been to the Lion City yet, so he didn't know what this city that cost him millions of taels of gold looked like.
But with Zhang Shouzhi's ability, once it was built, Wang Chong didn't hesitate. This magnificent city would definitely be the most prominent existence near the Erhai plains.
Even if it was hundreds of miles away, it would definitely be able to discover this "Lion City" forged from steel and iron!
— — This Lion City was built by Wang Chong for himself, and at the same time, it was also built by Wang Chong for the 180,000 Tang dynasty soldiers. This was their only hope of survival.
In his previous life, the 180,000 Tang dynasty soldiers had nowhere to hide after the battle of Erhai, and the infantry definitely couldn't outrun the cavalry. That was why the 180,000 Tang dynasty elite soldiers were completely annihilated.
Except for Xianyu Zhongtong, who barely escaped with his life, the rest of the army was completely annihilated!
But Wang Chong's "Lion City" became the only chance of survival for the 180,000 Tang dynasty soldiers. Wang Chong was almost certain that the remaining 80,000 Tang dynasty soldiers had definitely escaped into the "Lion City".
Otherwise, the 180,000 Tang dynasty elites would have been completely annihilated, and Wang Chong would have been obliterated by the Stone of Destiny because he had failed in his mission.
But Wang Chong knew very well that a single "Lion City" would definitely not be able to change the fate of the remaining 80,000 soldiers and the situation of the entire southwest.
There was no city in the world that could not be breached, and this "Lion City" was no different.
The 300,000 Mengshe Zhao army that Gelofeng had built with the strength of the entire nation, together with the 200,000 soldiers of the Ouzan Empire's Ngari Royal Lineage in the southeast, was definitely enough to break through any city.
There was no way that the "Lion City" would be able to hold out for too long!
The "Lion City" that Wang Chong had spent an enormous sum of money to build could only provide the remaining 80,000 Tang dynasty soldiers with a temporary respite.
This respite would not last long.
Moreover, even if Lion City was sturdy and impregnable, it could not last for too long. Although Wang Chong had already stored a large amount of rations in the city, this little bit of rations was definitely not enough for the 80,000 soldiers of the Tang dynasty, who had to fight day and night, ready to go to the battlefield at any moment.
"Before the troops and horses move, the rations and fodder must move first." Without sufficient rations, the army would collapse on its own!
If he wanted to save the remaining 80,000 Tang dynasty soldiers and change the course of the southwest, he had to act before the rations ran out!
There was not much time left for Wang Chong!
Wang Chong's gaze swept over the sand table, over the geography of the southwest.
The 300,000 Mengshe Zhao army and the 200,000 Ouzan army of the Ngari Royal Lineage was not a force that a trifling 80,000 soldiers could resist.
Even if his father and Li Zhengyi's tens of thousands of soldiers were added together, it would still not be enough.
But Wang Chong had no choice. Moreover, although it was not easy to defeat many with fewer, it was not impossible, at least for Wang Chong.
As long as one made good use of the geography and terrain and added appropriate tactics, it was not impossible in the art of war.
In this world, no one understood the meaning of these words better than Wang Chong.
Wang Chong was searching for this' geography and terrain '.
Swish! Swish! Swish!
One small banner after another fell from Wang Chong's hand, landing on various places on the sand table: hills, forests, rivers, mountains … all the places where the small banners had been inserted were projected into Wang Chong's mind.
The sand table was empty. Nothing had happened. But in Wang Chong's mind, thousands upon thousands of soldiers were roiling about.
Mengshe Zhao's army, Ouzan's army, and the Tang army trapped in Lion City … all of this seemed to have a life of its own as it played out in Wang Chong's mind.
This was Wang Chong's first time using Psychic Energy to deduce the changes in the war of the southwest.
'Deduction of soldiers' was a skill that any commander had to possess. But even the most formidable commander could only deduce tens or hundreds of thousands of soldiers. No one had ever been like Wang Chong, able to mentally deduce a massive war of 700,000 soldiers.
Moreover, this war involved famous generals and Great Generals like Gelofeng, Fengjiayi, Duan Gequan, Dalun Ruozan, and Huoshu Huizang!
The tactics of famous generals and Great Generals were unfathomable. If someone were to see what Wang Chong was doing, they would assuredly be dumbstruck.
This was because in order to deduce and deduce top-class figures like Huoshu Huizang and Dalun Ruozan, one had to have an extremely deep understanding of their opponents, and one had to completely surpass them in terms of strategy.
Only in this way could one smoothly deduce and deduce!
But what Wang Chong was doing was precisely this sort of thing!
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