It doesn't matter whether Li Zhongyi is Tulashaw or not, the important thing is that Yelu Hongguang has become his prisoner.

According to the news sent back by the sentinels, after Yelu Huge's light troops went south, Yelu Hongguang was the supreme commander of the Khitans near Zhaozhou.

With Yelu Hongguang's capture, Yelu Huge's strategic deployment in the northern part of the Central Plains region is obviously at risk of collapse.

In this battle, Li Zhongyi concentrated his superior forces, and with new weapons that the Khitans could not expect, he lit a fire in the rain and burned Yelu Hongguang.

However, Yelu Hongguang's division of the Khitan Palace under the city of Zhaozhou, as well as the other Khitan iron cavalry he sent to outflank Li Zhongyi, needed to be dealt a heavy blow in time.

Li Zhongyi knew very well that Yelu Hongguang was just an ambush with light troops, and a small part of the money and grain obtained by the Khitans from fighting grass and grain in Hebei, as well as the plundered population, were left in the Khitan camp under the city of Zhaozhou, and most of them were sent to Xiongzhou and Bazhou near the national border.

The Khitan bandits went south this time, and indeed caused great harm to the descendants of Yan and Huang in the Central Plains, whether it was agricultural production, commercial trade, or young and middle-aged population, the losses were great.

However, there are disadvantages as well as advantages. From the standpoint of the entire Chinese nation, the southward invasion of the Khitans caused disasters to the common people, and in fact dealt a very powerful blow to the ruling foundation of the old bureaucrats and warlords.

The land of Hebei and Henan has always been the most elite and most populous area of the Great Zhou Dynasty. If Empress Dowager Fu and Fan Zhen had made up their minds to appoint Li Zhongyi to lead the Northern Expedition earlier, the great rivers and mountains would not have been wantonly trampled on by the iron hooves of foreign races. led to heavy losses.

Quickly defeating the enemy in Hebei and turning bad things into good things has always been Li Zhongyi's idea. If. If you can take advantage of the victory to pursue and successfully take back Xiongzhou and Bazhou, then a large number of young and middle-aged people who were robbed by the Khitans, as well as countless wealth, will be transformed into a solid backing for Li Zhongyi to settle in the Central Plains in the future.

"To fall, or not to fall?" Li Zhongyi didn't have time to grind his teeth with Yelu Hongguang. Just get straight to the point.

"I'd rather die than surrender!" Yelu Hongguang felt that he had lost very unjustly, and the bloody nature of the grassland people drove him to unwilling to surrender.

"Huh. That's good, that's good. Someone, take this thief to Princess Yelu, and let her enlighten this reckless man. Li Zhongyi also admired Yelu Hongguang's hard bones a little. But. He is a foreign race, an enemy who has entered the Central Plains and plundered wantonly, and does not deserve sympathy.

Fold from Ruan Fuxu smiled slightly, Li Zhongyi sent Yelu Hongguang to Yelu Bottle, obviously not to let them talk about the old friendship, but to tell Yelu Bottle: The Ru family's iron horse was broken by me.

As a warlord in the northwest, he has a khitan princess among Li Zhongyi's relatives and how many women there are around him. There is no interest.

The enemy has entered the house, the queen mother and the prime minister of the Great Zhou Kingdom. He does not want to actively defend himself against the enemy outside the country, but is keen on infighting.

In fact, the ruling foundation of the Great Zhou Dynasty has been greatly loosened.

The Khitans came in, and they swept not only the countryside and villagers, but also dealt a heavy blow to the economic and military foundations of the warlords from all walks of life in Hebei.

Standing on the position of Zhe Congruan, the more Li Zhongyi's power grows and grows, the more it will help the foundation of the Zhe family.

"No blame, in the midst of a heavy rainstorm, you can actually ignite a rocket, what is the reason?" Zhe Congruan asked Li Zhongyi with a smile, and he was very curious.

Li Zhongyi pulled his lips and said with a smile: "Yue Zu must know that a certain family is good at the way of medicine and stone?" ”

Fold Congruan slightly, and then understood that the method of igniting the rocket on a rainy day is actually not complicated.

"Well, go back, you let people teach me those little cubs." Zhe Congruan pretended to be confused, and he was domineering to get Li Zhongyi's exclusive secret.

Li Zhongyi smiled and said, "The materials can be supplied, but because it is too expensive, Yue Zu can order it to go down and save some use." ”

Zhe Congruan understood, what Li Zhongyi meant was that there was no problem in equipping the Zhe family army with rockets that could be ignited in the rain, as for the formula, it still needed to be further discussed.

"Very good, remember to distribute more." Zhe Congruan really didn't have a polite relationship with Li Zhongyi, and opened his mouth directly.

"Yue Zu can rest assured." Li Zhongyi's eyes flashed slightly, and the old man Ling Gong brought more than 18,000 soldiers and horses to help, and he never asked for it before, it was just a special rocket, and it was impossible not to give enough.

After a simple inventory, Li Zhongyi found that because they were surrounded by a sea of fire, most of the Khitans had never seen such a big scene, and most of them were so frightened that they panicked and became prisoners of the Northern Expeditionary Army.

Li Zhongyi called Li 20 and instructed him to lead the two battalions of baggage soldiers affiliated with the Chinese army, responsible for counting the spoils of war, guarding the prisoners, and especially collecting the war horses.

After arranging the aftermath, Li Zhongyi reorganized his troops and horses, and returned to the road to march quickly, and there were still two enemy forces waiting for him to clean up as soon as possible.

If you go late, let the Khitans know the news of the defeat and flee, no matter how fast the Li family's army is, it will be difficult to catch up and annihilate it.

After the rapid march on the road, Zhi Congruan opened his eyes, and saw that the soldiers of the Li Jiajun were walking like flying, as if they were staring at the delicious and tireless wolves in the distance.

After seeing Li Jiajun's real foot strength, Zhe Congruan secretly sighed, under the fame, there is no vain!

Under the guidance of the sentinels along the way, Li Zhongyi led the army to quickly block the other half of the Khitans who were outflanked by Yelu Hongguang's detachment from behind.

Li Jiajun sent troops this time, roughly close to 20,000 people, Li Zhongyi led 10,000 people to ambush Yelu Hongguang's main force, and Liu Heyang led another 10,000 people, responsible for intercepting the remaining thousands of Khitans.

When Li Zhongyi led his army to come up from the back, Liu Heyang had already set up a position, and it happened to be blocked at the place where the Khitans had to pass through.

The momentum of the encirclement has been completed, and he shook his head secretly, where is this war? It's just a rush to reap the fruitful feats!

On rainy days, the Khitans could not hold their bows and shoot arrows, let alone urge their horses to rush quickly, giving full play to the huge advantage of the strong impact of the war horses.

Therefore, the more than 6,000 Khitans who were surrounded did not last long under the fierce attack of crockpot cocktails and steel-stringed bows and crossbows, and then completely collapsed.

Zhe Congruan looked at the Khitan people running around the mountains and wilderness, and sighed heavily: "If you can do what ordinary people can't, this is the way to win." ”

Li Zhongyi nodded and smiled: "It's just equipped with some gadgets, but it plays a decisive role in specific weather conditions." It can be seen that brave warriors and the right weapons, when combined with each other, can have a miraculous effect on turning things around. ”

In just two hours, Li Jiajun won two big battles in a row, and Zhe Congruan, who was already quite confident in Li Zhongyi, was full of more expectations for the future and fate of the old Zhe family. (To be continued.) )