On the way north again, there were ruins everywhere, and the villages were deserted.

I have to say that Yelu Huge's means of driving the Han people from Youzhou away from their homeland objectively played a good effect of clearing the wilderness!

With history as a mirror, Li Zhongyi didn't look forward to the so-called Qi food pot at all, and greeted the scene of Wang Shi with a smile.

Historically, the Han people in Youzhou, after the death of the Khitans, were by no means jubilant about the objective reality of returning to the territory of the Great Song Dynasty.

According to historical records, after the Northern Song Dynasty court took back Youzhou, the reality was that after nearly a hundred years of foreign rule, the Han people in Youzhou had an outrageous low degree of recognition of the Han nation!

Li Zhongyi was not surprised at all by this result, after all, after the Northeast fell into the hands of the Japanese invaders, the puppet army educated and trained by the Japanese people actually became the vanguard of the encirclement and suppression of the anti-Japanese army.

The same example is Taiwan, which fell into the hands of the Japanese state earlier. During the Anti-Japanese War, the Taiwanese puppet soldiers who killed, burned and looted in the mainland were more than ten times more murderous than the real Japanese.

Because Li Jiajun carried enough grain and grass, Yelu Hugo resolutely implemented the strategy of fortifying the walls and clearing the wilderness, and the biggest trouble to Li Jiajun was that the wells were soaked with dead bodies.

A person can go three days without eating without noticing starvation, but it is impossible to go without drinking water for three days.

In the battle plan of the General Staff Department, the situation of lack of water has long been taken into account, and there are nearly 100 craftsmen who are specially responsible for digging wells in the auxiliary army team accompanying the army.

The craftsmen who drilled the wells were lowered by ropes to the bottom of the wells, and after observing the flow of groundwater, they used manpower to dig a new well upstream of the polluted well.

With the cooperation of the engineer battalion, the number of newly dug wells is growing at a rate of several dozen per day.

Although the digging of wells slowed down the advance of Li Jiajun, ensuring the supply of water was a necessary basic guarantee.

After the army arrived in Yongqing County, the problem of drinking water was solved. The Yongqing River, a tributary of the Sanggan River, flows through the territory of Yongqing County, and as long as the army advances along the Yongqing River, it will enter the mainstream of the Sanggan River in Liangxiang County.

Yongqing County has become an empty city, Li Jiajun did not see a single living person in the county seat, and all the wells in the county town were thrown into the corpses and buried.

Li Zhongyi touched his chin and strolled through the empty streets of the county town, and couldn't help but secretly sigh in his heart, Brother Yelu Xiu deserves to be a ruthless person!

The two countries were at war, and the unscrupulous means used to achieve victory were simply innumerable in the history books.

Fighting a war is logistics, this truth, Li Zhong understands it, and Yelu Xiuge also understands it, now it depends on who is more ruthless and makes a ruthless move?

"Lord, the Khitans appeared behind us, about fifty miles apart, and the number of people is estimated to be about five thousand......" The news from the throat confirmed Li Zhongyi's previous opinion, Yelu Huge really wanted to cut off the grain route of the Li Jiajun and swallow the Li Jiajun in one gulp after paying a huge price.

"Who are the generals of the Khitans?" Li Zhongyi looked up at the blue sky, and subconsciously asked his throat.

He replied respectfully: "Judging from the military flag, it should be the troops of Yelu Changyuan, who were once defeated by our army. ”

Li Zhongyi nodded, this is likely to be the enemy's first wave of harassment, and there must be a large number of Khitans behind to participate in the operation of cutting off the grain route.

"Lord, why don't you let Li Yong lead the cavalry battalion to destroy the hateful Khitans?" Gao Qiang subconsciously made suggestions.

Li Zhongyi waved his hand and said with a smile: "The Khitans just want us to retreat in the face of difficulties and fight cavalry with cavalry, even if Li Yong wins a big victory, the loss will not be small, it is an extremely uneconomical deal." ”

Zhang Sanzheng clenched his fists and arched his hand: "Lord, the little one thinks that it is better to set up an ambush to lure the Khitan people who have broken the back road to take the bait?" ”

Li Zhongyi raised his eyebrows and asked Zhang Sanzheng with a smile: "How to set up an ambush?" And how to lure the Khitans to take the bait? ”

"Lord, we only need to send the cavalry out for nearly a hundred miles, and then sneak attack the Khitan camp at night, and we will have a lot of gains." Zhang Sanzheng's ghost idea is more, and he broke the countermeasures of the cavalry against the cavalry in one sentence.

No matter how powerful the Khitan people are, they also need to eat and sleep, and taking advantage of the opportunity for the Khitans to camp and catch them off guard is indeed a clever move.

Li Zhongyi looked at Zhang Sanzheng with relief, raised his hand and patted him on the shoulder, and said with a smile: "What if the Khitans were on guard and set up an ambush instead?" ”

Zhang Sanzheng replied solemnly: "Lord, don't forget, the warriors of the special battalion you trained are definitely not vegetarians. ”

Li Zhongyi smiled, smiled very happily, since the army rose in Hechi, Li Jiajun has never been ambushed by the enemy, let alone has a precedent of being successfully attacked by the enemy at night.

Among them, the most important thing is that Li Zhongyi attaches great importance to the work of repulsion of throat.

In the Li family's army, in addition to the throat camp, there is also a special battalion trained by Li Zhongyi himself.

The number of people in the special battalion is small, only about 300 people, but the fact that these people serve as warning and secret posts for marching or camping has proved that it has achieved good results so far.

In terms of the level of command, Li Zhongyi and Yelu Xiuge are at most between the best. However, if we talk about the grasp and control of details, the arrangements made by Li Zhongyi are many times more delicate.

Whether it is marching or camping and resting, there are complete regulations to guide in the Li family's army.

The lesson of a thousand-mile causeway destroyed in an anthill is not uncommon in the history of warfare.

Li Zhongyi has always been a cautious and conservative character, preferring to retreat rather than fight uncertain battles, which allowed him to lead the Li family army through countless difficulties and obstacles.

The army rested for one night in Yongqing County, and in the morning, Li Zhongyi, as usual, lined up with ordinary soldiers with rice bowls to serve rice.

When it was Li Zhongyi's turn, he took a closer look and found that today's food was not bad.

In addition to the inherent mutton soup, there are two dishes to accompany the meal, one is pickled radish strips, and the other is pork stewed white siad.

Li Zhongyi took the cooking spoon from the man's hand, and turned it from the top to the bottom in the big iron pot of pork stewed white siad.

Well, the amount of pork is indeed not young and old, and the shadow of pork can be seen wherever the spoon is turned.

After the meal, Li Zhongyi squatted in the soldiers' pile as always, chatting with everyone vaguely while eating.

"The Khitans have copied our back road, are you afraid?" Li Zhongyi stared at a black-faced soldier who seemed to be honest and honest, and asked him directly.

"Afraid of a ghost, how many, how many kill!" The black-faced soldier had never read a book, and his speech was inevitably rude.

"After taking Youzhou, what are your plans?" Li Zhongyi swallowed the white siad in his mouth, and asked the black-faced soldier with a smile.

The black-faced soldier thought carefully and thought about it, and stumbled and said, "Divide the land, marry a daughter-in-law, and give birth to ...... Give birth to a few boys......"

"Is the money enough to marry a daughter-in-law?" Li Zhongyi deliberately asked a layer deeper.

The black-faced soldier pondered for a while, and said: "There is no money for food and accommodation in the army, and the villain has saved dozens of dollars, so it may not be enough to marry a little lady in Kaifeng City...... In remote places, you can barely afford a dowry...... If you really can't do it, you can borrow some money, the interest is not high, and you can pay it off slowly......"

Li Zhongyi smiled, the idea of a black-faced soldier belongs to the most typical simple concept of ordinary people in a small peasant society.

In a word, the wife and children are hot on the kang, and there is hope for eating and dressing!