Early in the morning of the second day, after the soldiers of the Li Jiajun ate the war meal, they embarked on the journey with high spirits.

Li Zhongyi rode on the back of the "Blood Kill", squinted his eyes very comfortably, and looked at the sky.

Hehe, the sky is cloudless, it's a good weather to tear up!

Zhang Sanzheng held the water bladder to Li Zhongyi's hand and reminded in a low voice: "Lord, you haven't been in water for more than an hour. ”

Li Zhongyi turned his head and glanced at Zhang Sanzheng, took the water bladder casually, and asked him casually: "Are you afraid?" ”

Zhang Sanzheng grinned and said, "What are you afraid of?" The subordinates followed you to fight in the north and south, except for being afraid of being a starving ghost, but they were really not afraid of the Tartars. ”

Gao Qiang saw that Li Zhongyi looked at him, and hurriedly said with a smiling face: "The subordinates are a little afraid, afraid that they will not be able to get the most feudal military merits." ”

Li Zhongyi raised the corners of his mouth, and his generals always maintained an optimistic attitude towards the upcoming strategic decisive battle.

Optimism, that's a good thing!

With Li Jiajun's current strength, as long as there is abundant food, drinking water, firewood and grass, he is really not afraid of what tricks the Khitan people will play.

Hundreds of thousands of troops on both sides faced each other, and Youzhou was used as bait, Li Zhongyi was not worried that Yelu Xiuge would avoid fighting.

To tell the truth, Yelu Hugo retreated all the way, and the morale of the army is probably already unstable, right?

The elite troops of the Khitans, the leather room army and the palace division army, are indeed relatively organized and disciplined. However, whether the tribal army recruited by Yelu Hugo in large numbers can make up their minds to fight to the death with the Li family's army actually needs to be marked with a big question mark.

According to the reconnaissance of the throat, the leather room army and the palace branch army placed on the front line of Youzhou are about 150,000 people. The remaining 200,000 soldiers and horses were all conscripted tribal troops.

According to the estimation of the General Staff Department of the Li Jiajun, it is precisely because of the existence of the tribal army that the seemingly powerful Khitan army happens to expose a fatal weakness.

The truth of Qin's annihilation of the Six Kingdoms, the middle- and high-level generals in the Li family's army, almost everyone knows it, and no one knows it.

Although the number of Li Jiajun was more than half that of the Khitans, the 180,000 people who participated in the war were all veterans who had been in battle for a long time.

In the final analysis, only soldiers who have been on the battlefield more than three times, killed the enemy and seen blood, and whose comrades-in-arms cooperate with each other can be called veterans.

This is like a European coalition army of hundreds of thousands, but it can't defeat the emperor's hundreds of thousands.

In war, the number of soldiers and horses is not the point, the important thing is the close cooperation between each other, and the fearless spirit that is not afraid of bloodshed and sacrifice.

"A small rest, a small rest......" At this moment, a fast horse galloped from the direction of the leader of the team, sweeping the edge of the large army.

Rest during the march is divided into small, medium and large breaks, and the rule for small breaks is half an hour.

Li Zhongyi turned over and got off the horse, ate a few mouthfuls of dry food, drank two small sips of water, and then stood on the ridge next to the road, and looked around.

Hehe, the field that should have been planted with rice was a barren scene, obviously Li Zhongyi deliberately chose the sowing season to march, which seriously disrupted the agricultural time of the Youji Great Plain.

"Tell the Lord, about fifty miles ahead, I found the forward soldiers and horses of the Khitans, numbering about 100,000."

Not long after the army continued on the road, Li Zhongyi received the latest enemy situation, he thought for a while, and then ordered: "Let the senators collectively study it." ”

Now that the mechanism of the General Staff Headquarters is in place, Li Zhongyi will naturally not turn back the clock of history and retreat to the backward decision-making mechanism of one-man decision-making.

When fighting with the army, the senators mostly sat in wide carts, which had the advantage of making it easier to brainstorm.

After the collective discussion of the senators, everyone agreed that the Khitans were likely to change the strategy of the general decisive battle.

However, the opinions of the senators were divided into two factions, one was that the troops should march straight until they reached the city of Youzhou, and the other was that they should wait for the further development of the enemy situation on the spot.

Among them, he marched to the city of Youzhou and won the support of most of the senators.

Their reason is also very clear, to fight snakes and fight seven inches, the Khitan people's top priority is actually to hold Youzhou. As long as Li Jiajun pinched the bull's nose of Youzhou tightly, he didn't worry about the Khitan playing any tricks.

After a brief thought, Li Zhongyi supported the idea of continuing to march the army and reach the city of Youzhou.

After all, the General Staff Department formulated several sets of operational plans before the war, most of which were aimed at Youzhou.

About three hours later, the forward troops of the Khitans and the Li army encountered outside the city of Liangxiang.

The work of reprimanding the throat is indeed very meticulous, and the forward troops of the Khitans are indeed 100,000 people.

Li Zhongyi did not immediately order an attack, after all, the performance of the Khitans showed a strange situation.

The opponent Yelu Hugo is by no means an incompetent straw bag commander, and abnormal affairs are demons, out of prudence, Li Zhongyi just ordered to rest in place and stand by, and immediately launched a fierce attack on the forward troops of the Khitans.

As expected, within the next hour, Li Zhongyi received two bad news one after another, on the left and right flanks of the army, a Khitan army of 100,000 people appeared, and the finished font wrapped the Li family army in the middle.

Now that he had figured out the enemy's situation, Li Zhongyi simply ordered a big rest, and then summoned more than 200 senators from the General Staff Department and the chief general who led the troops together.

Faced with a new situation that was not foreseen in advance, the battle plan of the entire army obviously had to be revised as necessary.

"Directly in front of our army is Wanping City, on the left flank is Liuping Mountain, on the right flank is Yongqing River, and behind is Fanyang, the advancing granary." He Dabei, who also knew the secretary of the General Staff Department, carried a thin wooden stick in his hand and pointed to the huge combat sand table to give everyone a briefing on the combat situation.

"Now, in the front, on the left and on the right side of our army, there is a detachment of Khitan soldiers and horses, 100,000 people each." When He Dabei said this, he couldn't help but sigh and explained, "Yelu Xiuge is worthy of being a cunning commander, he relies on the superiority of his troops to cover it from three aspects, making it extremely difficult for our army to quickly defeat the enemy on either side. ”

"Our army's labor expedition is conducive to a quick battle and a quick decision, and it is not suitable for a long delay." He Dabei turned the thin wooden stick, pointed to the map hanging in mid-air, and tapped twice above Kaifeng City, "If it drags on for a long time, in terms of the situation on the side of Kaifeng City, sooner or later there will be great changes." ”

Li Zhongyi grabbed the red fruit on the small coffee table, brought it to his mouth, and took a bite.

Yelu Hugo did play a clever move, placing a 100,000-strong army and horse in each of the three directions, the purpose was to make it difficult for Li Zhongyi to swallow in one bite.

Li Zhongyi knew very well that if he attacked in a certain direction, the Khitans in that direction were likely to take advantage of the advantage of more horses and adopt a strategy of avoiding without fighting.

The battle situation is not optimistic!

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