"Thank you Khan, the Khan taught me that victory and defeat are a common thing in soldiers, and the courtiers should not be so frightened, they should think about how to avenge the thief and regain the lost land for the Khan. Bayi Middle School?? Wenwang?? ? ≥＝≠．≤８≥１≤Ｚ≤≥．≤Ｃ≤Ｏ≠Ｍ”

Li Yuan's tone and expression became impassioned, as if he had regained his confidence.

Yelu Abaoji was satisfied, patted him on the shoulder and laughed: "That's right, this is the righteous brother of Ben Khan." ”

Li Yuan also laughed, the two brothers were extremely heroic, as if they had been defeated before, they just scratched the itch, and they were not worth talking about at all.

"King of the Southern Courtyard, I saw that on the battlefield, although there were thousands of Wei troops, they were all crowded into a few narrow places, and they couldn't pursue you all over the mountains, I felt very strange, I don't know what's going on?"

Behind Yelu Abaoji, Sima Yi, who had been suspicious for a long time, couldn't help but ask.

Li Yuan hurriedly explained: "That's the case, this king met a strange person who claimed to be called Mozi, this person is a strange person in the realm of sages, who can move non-attacking magic arrays, lay invisible barriers, and are indestructible, so he blocked most of the enemy pursuers. ”

Mozi!

Sages?

Sima Yi's expression changed, and a deep strange color appeared on his face, obviously surprised by Li Yuan's explanation.

The rest of Yelu Chucai, Yan Liang and others were also amazed.

"Who is Mozi? And what are the sages? "Yelu Abaoji doesn't know the culture of the Central Plains, but he is confused.

Yelu Chucai explained: "The Khan doesn't know that this Mozi is one of the sons of the Spring and Autumn Period of the Central Plains and founded the Mohist school. As for this sage, it is a kind of realm of the wise, and when the wisdom of the wise reaches this realm, he can use the power of the torrent of thought to move formations such as invisible barriers, and this sage is said to be the realm that our strategists dream of, and it is also a legendary existence. ”

"Is there such a strange man?" Yelu Abaoji was surprised, but he was suspicious: "You just said that this Mozi is a person from the Spring and Autumn Period, how can he appear here?" ”

"This ......," Yelu Abaoji couldn't explain for a while.

Sima Yi said: "This matter is a long story, just because the pottery thief set up a martial arts hall back then, which hid many strange people, and he liked to give these people the name of the ancients, and over time, this became a kind of atmosphere in the Central Plains, if anyone feels that he is very strong, very much like an ancient person in history, then this person may change the name of the ancient." ”

"I see." Yelu Abaoji was in a trance, but said again: "Since this Mozi is so amazing, why doesn't he use his magic circle to block all the chasing soldiers, why does Ben Khan see that there are still many people chasing you?" ”

Li Yuan sighed helplessly, "The Khan doesn't know, although the courtiers have Mozi's help, but the potter's subordinates, but out of nowhere, a monk named Bodhidharma appeared, this person turned out to be a sage, what four empty arrays were used, broke Mozi's non-offensive array, so there was a scene that the Khan saw." ”

Dharma!

Another sage!?

As soon as these words came out, the monarchs and ministers of the Liao State were shocked again, Yelu Abaoji stopped, and strategists like Sima Yi and Yelu Chucai looked shocked, all of them looked unbelievable and unbelievable.

"I thought that the sage was a legendary existence, but I didn't expect that overnight, two sages appeared, and it was really because of the existence of the demon thief that the strange number of people in the world was doubled...... "Sima Yi muttered to himself, with a disgusted expression.

Yelu Abaoji quickly came to his senses, realized the importance of Mozi, and said: "Since this is the case, righteous brother, why don't you quickly introduce this Mozi sage to Ben Khan." ”

Li Yuan hurriedly turned around, trying to find Mozi's figure among his subordinates, invited him over, and swept around, but there was no trace of Mozi.

"Where's Mozun?" Li Yuanhu looked at Li Shimin suspiciously.

Li Shimin said helplessly: "That Mozun Divine Dragon can't see the tail, and he is still with us, so he doesn't know where to run this kung fu." ”

Li Yuan was helpless, so he could only look at Yelu Abaoji with a bitter face.

Yelu Abaoji frowned, and suddenly became a little dissatisfied.

Seeing this, Li Shimin hurriedly said: "Don't worry, Khan, that Mozun said that as long as the pottery thief wants to attack us, he will stand on our side, and I believe that he will definitely help." ”

Yelu Abaoji was suspicious, but he had no choice, so he had to wave his hand and said: "That's it, I hope so, pass on the order of Ben Khan, and the whole army will retreat to Shaling City to gather and rest, and prepare for a decisive battle with Wei." ”

Under the order, more than 100,000 Liao iron cavalry, as well as a small number of Li Yuan's defeated troops in the Southern Courtyard, retreated all the way to Shaling City in the north.

Shaling City, with a desert to the west, a vast grassland to the east, and a tributary of the Yellow River, the Dahei River, is the gateway to the south of Yunzhong County.

Once Shaling City falls, the army of Wei will be able to drive north and approach Yunzhong City, the seat of Yunzhong County, and once Yunzhong City is lost, the entire Yunzhong County will fall into the hands of Wei.

As soon as Yunzhong County is lost, Wuyuan and Shuofang two counties in the west will be cut off from the direct connection with the Monan grassland, and they will not be able to defend it, and at that time, the territory of the Liao State south of the Great Wall will be spit out.

Although Yelu Abaoji led 130,000 iron cavalry to come and had an advantage in cavalry, in view of the new defeat of the Liao army in the southern courtyard and the frustration of the army, he did not dare to underestimate the Wei army of 450,000 people, and decided to temporarily take a defensive position, but stick to Shaling City, thwart Wei's attempt to seize Yunzhong County, and then find an opportunity to counterattack and attack, break the Wei army, recover the lost territory, and then take the Central Plains in the south.

When the Liao army retreated to Shaling City, the potters had gathered an army of 450,000 troops, crossed the city, and advanced along the Dahei River to the hinterland of Yunzhong.

In order to prevent the camp from being robbed by the superior cavalry of the Liao army, the potters adopted a step-by-step approach, calmly advancing, and after a few days, steadily advanced to the south of Shaling City.

The army even set up camp, and the company camped for ten miles, built camp walls, dug trenches, set up heavy antlers, and set up large camps like copper walls and iron walls in the south of Shaling City, forming a time of coercion.

In the summer of that year, the 450,000 troops of Wei and the 130,000 iron cavalry of Liao formed a confrontation on the Shaling line.

A war that will determine the national fortunes of the two countries is on the verge of touching.

The advantage, however, is on the potter's side.

Because of the weather.

The Liao people are located in the cold land north of the Great Wall, and since ancient times, they have herded horses to invade the south, and they are all selected to be high in autumn and fat in autumn, when the weather is cool.

At the end of spring and the beginning of summer, the weather gradually began to get hotter, which meant the coming of pain and torture for those Liao people who were accustomed to going south in autumn and winter, and their bodies gradually began to be unbearable.

Besides, their war horses, after experiencing a winter cold, the accumulated fat and flesh have been exhausted, and their physical strength has dropped a lot, at this time it should be in the grassland to eat forage and replenish physical strength, but they have to pull it out to the battlefield, and it is too late to fully replenish the fat, so that the horsepower recovery is insufficient, which is basically cavalry-based Liao Army, naturally has a lot of impact.

Time went by day and the weather became hot day by day, and the morale of the Liao army was also destroyed little by little due to the heat.

On that day, the camp of the Liao State, the Khan's tent.

"This potter is really cunning, he can see that my Daliao warriors are not tolerant of the heat, so he deliberately wants to drag the war into the hot summer, it seems that we can't drag it out like this, we must fight."

When Yelu Abaoji spoke, he also wiped the beads of sweat on his forehead with a towel from time to time.

In the big tent, in addition to Sima Yi and Li Yuan and other Han ministers, the rest of Yelu Xiuge, Yelu Dashi and other Liao civil and military officers were also wiping hot sweat from time to time.

"The camp of the Wei State is extremely strong, and their soldiers and horses are nearly four times as large as ours, with such a comparison of troops, if the pottery thief is determined to fight a protracted battle, we will not be able to break the Wei camp no matter what, unless it ......" Fang Xuanling said that there was another Xuanyin, and he wanted to stop talking.

"Unless anything, say it." Yelu Abaoji's eyes lit up and he asked.

Fang Xuanling continued: "The 450,000 army of pottery thieves confronts us here, and the daily consumption of grain and grass is not limited to 10,000 hundreds, and the grain and grass of the pottery thieves are transported from the Yellow River to the Shaling line through the Dahei River, and the Jiling City on the edge of the Yellow River in the south is the most important transit city, and most of its grain and grass are stationed in the city. ”

"Surprise attack on Jiling and burn the enemy's grain and grass?"

Yelu Abaoji stood up, stared at the map and glanced at it a few times, couldn't help but light up, and nodded: "Well, this is a good strategy, you can try it." ”

As soon as his voice fell, Sima Yi hurriedly reminded: "Khan, that pottery thief is treacherous, I am afraid that Jiling City will definitely be on guard, and when the time comes, we will not only not break the enemy city, but if we lose our troops again, it will be worth the loss." ”

Sima Yi has been repeatedly humiliated by the potters in terms of wisdom, and he has developed a deep fear of the potters in his heart.

As soon as he reminded him, Yelu Abaoji immediately hesitated again.

At this time, Li Shimin, who had been pondering, quietly flashed a glimmer of light in his eyes, and immediately stood up, and said angrily: "Whether you can attack Jiling City or not, it depends on who will lead the troops, Khan, the minister Baoju Li Jing led the army to attack Jiling, and it will definitely succeed!" ”