After the Yan army occupied Daijun, it blocked the Yan army from entering the Yanmen and the Xiawu Mountains in the clouds, and it was completely controlled by the Yan army. For Li Mu, this natural barrier is very important in the Hongshou Mountains in the western part of the Xiawu Mountains.

Pingcheng is located in the center of the Pingcheng Basin (now the Datong Basin of Shanxi), and is the key to entering and exiting the Hongshou Mountains.

As long as the Yan army can be blocked or defeated here, the Yan army's desire to enter the hinterland of Yanmen County is a pipe dream.

Daijun fell into the hands of Yan Jun so quickly, which had a great impact on Zhao Jun.

The logistics of the Yan army's initial attack on Daijun could only be through water control and the military capital on it, and the pressure on logistics support was very huge. Now, the Puyin and Flying Fox Clans that are connected to Daijun have all fallen into the hands of the Yan Army.

Yan Guo can continuously transport soldiers, food and other logistics materials to the front of his army through the Flying Fox in Zhongyang County, especially Puyin Cheng, which can be connected to Dai County through Wuyang County, and the distance is much shorter, and the efficiency is several times faster than before.

The last bottleneck that constrained the Yan army was thus completely opened.

In particular, what made Li Mu most angry was that the main force of the Yan army led by Le Jian did not go south to attack Jinyang, but instead moved westward to attack him.

This move of the Yan army made Li Mu's plan to raid the rear of the Yan army also bankrupt.

That's it, the key is to come to the Yan army under the city of Pingcheng, and after seeing that the Zhao army did not go out of the city to face the battle, they did not take the initiative to attack the city, let alone divide the troops to attack the Quartet. Every day, in his own camp, he arranged his troops and trained non-stop.

This made Li Mu's attempt at Yan Jun unable to be realized.

Lejian's move is to tell Li Mu, you can bear it, I can bear it better than you.

If you Li Mu want to "consume", my Yan Jun will accompany you to "consume", anyway, my Yan country can "consume".

Our Yan army occupies Daijun, and we have already achieved the goal of our king's attack on Zhao this time. The rest is the army led by your Li Mu, if you Li Mu are not eliminated, my Yan army will not go south to attack Jinyang County.

You Li Mu is alone, do you understand!

The Zhao army led by Jinyang Lecheng is difficult to protect; As for the Zhao army led by Handan Lianpo and Pang Xuan, it is even more impossible to come to support you Li Mu. If they dare to move, the eastern army led by Rong Yan, the general of our Yan Kingdom, will immediately attack Handan.

Time flies quickly, more than half a month has passed in a flash, and now it has entered April.

Standing on the tower of Pingcheng, looking at the Yan army camp not far from the city, people neighed, dust was flying, and the shouts of the Yan army arranging troops entered the ears of Zhao Jun on the city tower from time to time.

Sima Shang's eyes widened, and they were about to bulge.

I couldn't help it, so I stepped forward and said to Li Mudao, who was standing in front of the battlements and looking at the Yan army camp:

"General, what the hell is this Yan Army doing? This is not a siege, nor is it a division of troops, and every day it is training in the big camp. I can't stand the army in the surrounding mountains anymore! ”

Sima Shang said this, but he said what the other generals of the Zhao army were thinking, and everyone looked at Li Mu.

Li Mu was speechless, not knowing how to answer his lieutenant Sima Shang.

I don't want to deal with you, okay!

You ask me, I ask who goes?

The Yan army led by Le Cheng did not move, which made Li Mu's heart feel very uneasy.

This time, Li Mu gathered almost all the armies of Yanmen and Yunzhong counties, totaling as much as 150,000, just to rely on the convenience of occupying geography and his own army to be familiar with the terrain and landform where they were located, and to fight a decisive battle with the main force of the Yan army.

But Lecheng's current approach, for a while, made Li Mu really confused.

Your Yan army doesn't attack, and you can't fight, why is this?

Li Mu really wanted to run in front of Lecheng and shout at Lecheng.

Turning around slowly, Li Mu said to the deputy general Sima Shang: "Let the brothers in the mountains endure for another two days, if the Yan army still doesn't attack, then ...... Then get out of the mountains. ”

The Zhao army ambushed in the mountains, because of the concealment, the food they carried with them was almost to the limit.

If the Yan army does not move again, these ambushes will have no meaning.

Just when Li Mu was angry and depressed, in the Yan army camp, Le Cheng was holding a banquet to entertain Liao Shan, the messenger sent by Ji Kang.

In the big tent of the Chinese army, the people who accompanied Lecheng to entertain Liao Shan were all senior generals of the Yan army, and there was no need to keep it secret.

After Liao Shan, the minister of rites, finished telling what happened, all the Yan army generals in the Chinese army tent, including Changguo Junlejian, laughed.

Rong Yan, the commander of the First Army, patted his thigh and said, "Director Huang Yong's Intelligence Bureau, this operation can be described as a stroke of genius. If I were Li Mu, I would have the heart to cry now. ”

This kind of thing can only be said to be the idea of the Intelligence Bureau, and it cannot be said to be Ji Kang's strategy at all.

Seeing this, Liao Shan hurriedly said to Lecheng and other generals:

"When he came down to the front, the king personally explained that he should not go to meet Li Mu immediately. Our army must put considerable pressure on Li Muzhi's army before it can make up this matter. The king said that this is called forcing surrender by war. ”

When the generals in the tent heard this, they all nodded.

Sitting in the current position, no one is a fool, including Rong Yan.

If you don't give Li Muzhi's army some color, things are really unpredictable.

Don't forget that many of the generals under Li Mu are also unruly and difficult to train.

At this moment, a major of the scouts hurried in and got down on one knee to report to Rakuma:

"General Qiyu, I probed the Malay newspaper and found that many Zhao troops came out of the surrounding mountains and withdrew to the camp west of Pingcheng City."

Lejian frowned slightly, and said to this sprecorn major:

"Continue to investigate Zhao Jun's movements, and report any changes immediately."

"No." The scouting major got up and withdrew from the tent.

When the Yan generals in the tent heard about it, they were all secretly shocked by Li Mu's operation. This Li Mu is really powerful! If the Yan army attacked the city as soon as it came, and when the attack was halfway through, the ambush soldiers would be killed together, and the consequences would be really hard to say.

Lecheng led the army to Pingcheng, and the military order that he was not allowed to fight, and many generals were not convinced at first.

However, now all the generals in the tent are convinced.

After looking at the expressions of the generals in the tent, Le Cheng smiled and said to the generals in the tent:

"Generals, the reason why this general did not listen to the suggestion of the general to attack Pingcheng first and the strategy of the Quartet, and let our army stand still, is also for this reason. Now Li Mu's ambush is exhausted, and Dr. Liao Shan comes with a book again, breaking Li Mu's army, on the tenth day. ”

All the generals stood up together and said to the music in unison: "The general's temple counts, and we all obey." ”

Le Jian smiled, stood up and said to the generals: "This is the king's strategy, not the general's calculation." ”

The generals clasped their fists together and bowed to the east, and said in unison: "The king is shengming." ”

After the generals sat down again, Le Jian pondered for a moment and said to Liao Shan:

"Doctor Liao, Li Mu's plan for our army is not much now. Since the king has explained it like this, our army will send troops to shout tomorrow and force Li Mu to send troops to fight. ”

Liao Shan hurriedly stood up, bowed down and said to Le Jian:

"The matter of the front battle, the general and the generals can decide, Liao Shan does not understand military affairs, and he does not dare to speak."

According to the military law of the Yan State, the matter of the front battle is decided by the commander of the front battle, and no one is allowed to participate in the interference, which is an iron law.

Seeing that Liao Shan was so sensible, Lejian didn't say anything more, and ordered the generals: "Generals, our army and Li Muzhi's army are in a decisive battle, and the generals will go down immediately and prepare for battle, and there must be no mistakes." ”

All the generals in the tent received the command together: "No." ”

The next day, around Heijo, the weather was very nice and the sun was shining.

Standing in the place of the Pingcheng City Tower, the surrounding dozens of miles are in front of you, and it is clear.

In the afternoon, a brigade of more than 3,000 Yan troops came to the city and shouted for battle.

For Li Mu, after the ambush troops withdrew to the camp, there was no reason to avoid the battle.

The plan to surprise the Yan army's rear road failed, and the plan to ambush the Yan army was also unsuccessful. At this time, if the city is not out again, the morale of the Zhao army will inevitably be greatly hit, and this battle will not be able to be fought again.

Therefore, in less than a moment, a drum sounded in Pingcheng City, the east gate opened, and more than 3,000 Zhao troops came out of the city.

The Yan army under the city shouted "kill" in unison and greeted them.

On the command platform in front of the Yan army's camp, Le Jian said to Liao Shan beside him: "Doctor Liao, as the general expected, Li Mu sent an army out of the city to meet the battle. Please Dr. Liao, watch it with Ben General. ”

"Liao Shan obeys."

Liao Shan took the telescope handed over by a guard next to him, raised it in front of his eyes, and looked ahead.

"The cavalry I received, get ready!" Rakuma asked Rongyan again.

Rong Yan bowed and replied, "General rest assured, everything is ready." ”

Rakuma nodded and didn't say anything more.

It is the rule of this era for small groups of two armies to confront each other and test each other. But for Li Mu, Le Jian didn't dare to be careless, and was still ready to receive the troops in case of accidents.

Judging from many previous examples of Li Mu, this Li Mu can always play "flowers".

For example, Lejian once saw such an example of Li Mu.

Once when Li Mu led the army and confronted the Xiongnu across the river. The two armies also fought fiercely for a long time, and they could not hold each other.

It has been a long time, and the two armies have tacit agreement that the officers and men of the two armies are allowed to put their horses and drink water by the river.

Li Mu asked Zhao Jun to bring a lot of mares and call non-stop on Zhao Jun's side. At once, many war horses of the Huns on the other side of the river were called.

Li Mu asked Zhao Jun to bring all the Xiongnu horses back to his camp.

Subsequently, Li Mu commanded the army and launched a fierce attack on the Xiongnu army, and the Xiongnu were defeated.

Do you say that Li Mu is not damaged? The Huns have no horses, how can this battle be fought!

The two armies clashed under the city, and in a moment, the corpses of the enemy and us were intertwined and piled up together.

However, the non-commissioned officer military system and equipment of the Yan army far surpassed that of the Zhao army, and the Zhao army gradually lost the enemy.

Not to mention weapons and equipment, let's talk about the non-commissioned officer military system in the Yan army, in wartime, after the death of the captain, the non-commissioned officers in the own army continue to summon and lead their subordinates to fight the enemy without panic.

Li Mu stood on top of the city tower, and when he saw this result, he sighed and ordered:

"No need to fight anymore, collect the troops."

There was a sudden sound of gold in the city, and the Zhao army who went out to fight heard this and slowly retreated.

On the command platform, Lema also ordered: "No need to pursue, collect the troops." ”

The two armies tacitly understood and retreated from each other, and someone came to clean up the battlefield.

Seeing that the Yan army was so elite, the generals and soldiers of the Zhao army in the city looked ugly.

This is still the infantry of the Yan army, and it is said that the cavalry of the Yan army is more elite, not to mention the equipment of the Yan army attacking the city.

Li Mu saw that under the first battle, Zhao Jun was sharp, and his heart was even more annoyed.

After thinking about it for a long time, I really don't know how to fight this battle.