The clouds cover the top, and the army is overwhelming.

The army, with the Han nationality as the main body, took the initiative to seek a decisive battle with the Khitans for the first time in nearly 100 years since the late Tang Dynasty.

The Han army was 200,000 and the Khitan people were 230,000, and the military strength of the two sides was roughly the same. However, the armament of the two warring parties is very different.

The Han army has nearly 100 bronze artillery, nearly 50,000 crossbows, and thousands of simple bottle throwing machines, and from one man and one horse to one person and three horses, the war horses are not much less than those of the Khitans.

The Khitans had their backs against the large granary of the Great Plain of the Thistle, and they should have had an abundant supply of grain. However, since Li Zhongyi led the sailors deep into the Great Plains last year and greatly counterattacked the grass valley, this year's harvest in Youzhou is only about 40% of that of previous years.

To put it bluntly, the Khitans have become a party with a serious shortage of food. On the side of the Han army, due to copying the old nest of the Fu family army of the Daimyo Mansion, the grain was piled up, and there was no shortage of food for a year or two.

The decisive battle of hundreds of thousands of people on both sides can be called a strategic decisive battle that will determine the future and destiny of each other's nations!

Yelu Hugo deliberately placed the main battlefield on Wumapo, sixty miles south of Youzhou, in order to lure the enemy deeper and then find an opportunity to cut off the grain route.

However, Li Zhongyi did not go to Yelu Huge, and all the Li family's troops were assembled in Xiong and Ba Erzhou, and there was no attempt to go north to Wumapo.

As a result, Brother Hugh refused to go south, and Li Zhongyi was unwilling to go north, and the two sides formed a rare confrontation situation.

Drag, that's right, Li Zhongyi wants to drag it down, just waiting for the Khitans to be more short of food, and they will definitely show fatal flaws.

Yelu Hugo also wanted to drag on without a decisive battle, mainly because some powerful people in the south had reached a consensus with him, and at the critical moment, the south would definitely respond to it.

As the saying goes, people have the heart to eat tigers, and tigers are harmful to people's minds, depending on whose means are more clever, or in other words, whose luck is better!

The food of the 200,000 troops, including 100,000 soldiers, is too good to say. Coupled with the daily rations of 100,000 auxiliary soldiers, the entire consumption of the Li Jiajun at present is naturally amazing.

However, fortunately, the money and salary of the auxiliary soldiers are as much as five times less than that of the soldiers, otherwise, even if Li Zhongyi's family is big, he will definitely not be able to bear it.

The military confrontation with Yelu Hugo made Li Zhongyi completely understand the battle of Qin and Zhao Changping in the history books, Zhao was forced to replace Lian Po because of the lack of land and people, and the logistics and supplies could not keep up, and Zhao Kuo commanded the Zhao army to fight a decisive battle with the Qin army as soon as possible.

At that time, the Qin State concentrated the strength of the whole country and tried its best to supply the Qin army on the front line, and the young and middle-aged people of the Zhao army were attracted to the battlefield, and there was no one to cultivate the farmland.

Now, Li Zhongyi gathered troops in Xiong and dominated Erzhou, playing strategies and tactics that were almost the same as those of the Qin army at that time, with the purpose of dragging down the Khitans.

Li Zhongyi has the worries of Zhao Kuangyin and other ten brothers of the righteous society, and Yelu Xiuge also has the worries of King Xi Lao Guning, as well as the Khitan royal family, and the two hostile sides depend on who can't hold on first.

In the big tent of the Chinese army, He Dabei, secretary of the General Staff Department, stood in front of the giant sand table with a thin wooden stick in his hand, giving a detailed introduction to the current military situation.

"Ladies and gentlemen, after receiving the military order to go north, our army's naval division set sail from Ganghwa Island at the beginning of this month, and is expected to arrive at Duliukou in Baigou in three days......"

After Li Zhongyi heard this, he couldn't help but smile slightly, he deliberately arranged a huge fleet of sailors to trace Baigou to the west and reach Duliukou.

Once the huge fleet of sailors appeared in Baigou, it was tantamount to a huge problem for Yelu Hugo: how to prevent the sailors of the Li family's army from landing with the infantry troops?

Even if the Khitans are a people on horseback, when facing the Li family's army, they are in the same situation as the Qing army during the Opium War.

Unless Yelu Hugo set up an ambush in advance and then lured the infantry of the Li family army to land from the preset battlefield, it is very likely that the following situation will occur: the Li family army will burn and loot and leave, and the Khitan iron cavalry will be able to arrive.

What's more, Li Jiajun's infantry army belongs to the infantry army on horseback, and the speed of the journey may not be as fast as the leather room army, but it is enough to slip away in advance when the danger is discovered.

Last time, Li Zhongyi led his army to land on the Great Plain of Youji with the help of the water division, and he caught Yelu Hugo by surprise, resulting in a large-scale reduction in grain production and even no harvest.

This time, Li Zhongyi deliberately drove the huge fleet of sailors into Baigou, just to awaken the painful memory of the Khitans being beaten against the grass valley.

"According to the secret report of the Judge Advocate General's Office in Goryeo, there is a force in Goryeo that is secretly brewing a conspiracy......" He Dabei added the news, which made the generals in the tent particularly annoyed.

"Kill, kill hard, don't kill those Goryeo, give them some flour, and dare to smear ...... as rouge"

"Yes, grab as many as you want, and throw it into the Yellow Water Ocean to feed the Dragon King......"

Under the influence of the nationalist Li Zhongyi, almost all of Li Jiajun's top and bottom were Han nationalists.

Li Zhongyi has a theory that if you want your own nation to live a prosperous life, you must exploit other peoples, and this view has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people so far.

For example, the land in the country is limited after all, and if the poor people can eat two full meals, the powerful and large landowners cannot occupy too much land.

The ideological education of the lecture hall has infiltrated with the wind and moistened things silently, and has already had a huge influence in the officer corps of the Li Jiajun.

At least, so far, the officers are fully aware of the limited nature of resources. The distribution of national resources is the continuous evolution of one class eating more bites and other strata eating five less, and even N mouths.

The final outcome must be that the rich will always be rich, and the poor will be poorer. Once the natural ascent path of the children of the Han family is blocked, the law of changing the dynasty should come into play.

Since everyone was shouting and shouting to kill, Li Zhongyi had already made up his mind, and he immediately issued a military order to suppress it, which was carried out by the sailors stationed on Jianghua Island.

Previously, the sailor was in the hands of Zhou Daozhong. After so many years of subtle change of officers, today's sailors have formed an officer corps headed by Zhao Laoqi and have the upper hand.

Zhou Daozhong has no ambitions, and he is willing to give power to Zhao Laoqi, and he himself just wants to go back to Kaifeng to enjoy the old age. Over the years, Zhou Daozhong has stayed in Goryeo, and he has already made a fortune and made a lot of money.

It is very appropriate to let Zhou Daozhong be this wicked person, anyway, when the bad things are done, Li Zhongyi will arrange for him to return to Kaifeng and leave a good position suitable for enjoying happiness and retirement.

No matter what happens in the future, the current Goryeo Kingdom is still the largest supernumerary supply base of the Li Jiajun, and there is absolutely no room for error.

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