Chapter 703: Battle
With the rapid eastward march of the large army of the Li family, this kind of ambush warfare organized by Li 38, as well as the anti-ambush war arranged by the Khitans, almost spread out around the entire battlefield. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
The bloody sentry scout killing battle is being staged all the time, and the consequence of the elite to the elite is that the losses on both sides are terrible!
Due to the large number of sharpshooters in the Khitan Pi Room Army, although the sentinels of the Li Jiajun obviously had the upper hand, the battle loss rate was still as high as an astonishing one-third.
With the help of nearly 1,000 chariots and tens of thousands of war horses, the Li family's army, which was originally very good at foot strength, marched even faster than expected.
Li Zhongyi is quite satisfied with the speed of marching in half an hour and twenty miles, since the establishment of the Li family's army, the ability to move super mobile has always been one of the strengths that Li Zhongyi is most concerned about.
There is a serious shortage of horses in the Central Plains, and even Li Jiajun, who has a lot of horses, is limited by Li Zhongyi's actual status in the DPRK and the central government, so he can't make the final say.
Therefore, before the ideal horse policy is fully implemented, Li Jiajun, who has the most horses, still can't afford the excessive loss of war horses.
At the beginning, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty sent Wei Qing and Huo Qubing to attack the Xiongnu in the north, although they won many battles, but the number of horses lost in each major battle was also extremely amazing.
"Master, there's an urgent report from the sentry camp." Just as Li Zhongyi squinted his eyes and looked at the southern sky, Li Yunxiao hurriedly rushed to him and handed over the latest military report.
Li Zhongyi took the military report and looked at it, then smiled, he raised his hand and patted Li Yunxiao's shoulder and said, "Brother Xiaosong, I know Brother Yeluxiu's scheme!" ā
"Master...... You mean......" Li Yunxiao looked at Li Zhongyi a little ignorantly, and looked a little hesitant.
Li Zhongyi put his hands behind his back, looked up at the clear blue sky, and curled the corners of his mouth and said: "Although the Khitan people established the country relatively early, there are really a lot of royal families and careerists of various tribes inside. This time, the grassland tribes of Tokyo Province were mobilized to besiege Yuguan, which was garrisoned by Shiguang, in addition to wanting to cut off our army's retreat from the sea, hehe, Yelu Hugo was probably killing two birds with one stone, wanting to use the unruly grassland tribes to weaken the strength and sharpness of our army, and he would then take advantage of the fisherman. ā
Li Yunxiao listened to Li Zhongyi's analysis, and after thinking about it carefully, he couldn't help nodding frequently, and said extremely seriously: "That's really the case." ā
Li Zhongyi touched his chin, narrowed his eyes, stared into the distance, and said lightly: "Yelu Hugo has an elite army, but he has repeatedly wanted to win by surprise, and he is unwilling to confront our army head-on. Hmph, this happens to be a big taboo in "The Art of War", husband war, win with the right to the odd match, just can't win the odd match, how to talk about the odd match? ā
"Master, such an obvious plan to drive the tiger and devour the wolf, how should we deal with it?" Li Yunxiao is full of confidence in Li Zhongyi, since the establishment of the Li Jiajun, it has been a process of rising from victory to greater victory.
"Hehe, it's necessary to fight, but you can't be too hard, you have to leave a way out for the princes on the grassland!" Li Zhongyi touched the sparse beard on his chin, and said with a smile, "The grassland tribes have always been afraid of power and not virtuous, and if they don't hurt them, they will be like wolves, fiercely pounce on us and wipe us clean." ā
"However, if we beat them too hard, our army's losses will not be small, and it will give Yelu Hugo a chance to attack while he is weak." Li Zhongyi glanced at Li Yunxiao, and said lightly, "The key at present is to seize time, so no matter how heavy the casualties of your sentry battalion are, you must control the situation on the periphery of our army and not let the Khitans follow too close." I would like to emphasize that this too close means within a radius of 100 miles. ā
"Master, the sentry camp is only more than 700 people, and it is difficult to control such a large area without the full cooperation of the brave cavalry." Li Yunxiao quietly gave the party barbarian quite Chaoyong, the purpose of what he said was to let the cavalry battalion listen to the greeting of the sentry camp.
Previously, according to Li Zhongyi's military order, Po Chaoyong sent 1,500 cavalrymen to cooperate with the task of cleaning up the perimeter of the sentry camp.
Nominally, the cavalry battalion was to cooperate with the work of the sentinel battalion. However, since the cavalry battalion and the sentinel battalion belong to two different systems, it is difficult to avoid major differences of opinion among the commanders when they join forces to complete the sweeping mission.
The lack of unity in power and military orders has brought a lot of losses to the outpost camp!
As soon as he heard Li Yunxiao's suggestion of hiding a sharp edge, he understood in his heart that there must be a problem with the coordination between the cavalry battalion and the sentry battalion.
Leaving professional things to professionals to do has always been Li Zhongyi's principle of doing things, he nodded and ordered: "I will give you a warrant, cleaning the Khitan outposts on the periphery is a matter of life and death for the army, and all the cavalry officers assigned to the outpost camp, no matter how high their official position and rank are, must obey the command of your sentry camp for the time being." ā
After Li Yunxiao got the order, he secretly breathed a sigh of relief, just now he had been worried that Li Zhongyi handed over the command of the sentry camp to quite Chaoyong, a party barbarian.
Fundamentally speaking, Li Yunxiao's serious dissatisfaction with quite Chaoyong is actually the inevitable result of Li Zhongyi's indoctrination of Han nationalist thoughts.
For example, the hearts of those who are not of our race will be different, and the barbarians are only afraid of power but not virtue, and Li Yunxiao's ears and eyes are inevitably wary of being quite brave, which is amazingly high!
Li Zhongyi looked at Li Yunxiao's back, and couldn't help but smile, whether it is the yamen controlled by civilian officials or the military camp controlled by military generals, it is simply unimaginable that there is no mountain.
once said that there is no party emperor outside the party, and there are no factions in the party that are strange, and Li Zhongyi has always thought deeply about this!
Moderate internal struggle, as long as it does not damage the overall strategic situation, Li Zhongyi will only turn a blind eye and pretend to be confused!
Quite Chaoyong soon received Li Zhongyi's military order, he read the unmistakable military order several times, and suddenly smiled: "Xiangye didn't treat us as outsiders, it's very good!" ā
Although Li Zhongyi is the general manager of the Hebei Provincial March, this is actually just a temporary dispatch, and his main job is the prime minister of the political affairs hall.
In order to express his special respect for Li Zhongyi, quite Chaoyong racked his brains and finally came up with the strange title of "Xiangye".
Po Chaomei, who has been following around quite Chaoyong, asked quite Chaoyong with some confusion: "Brother, isn't Xiangye clearly biased in favor of Li Xiaosong?" ā
Po Chaoyong showed a smug smile and explained: "With my understanding of Xiangye's temper, if he was suspicious of you and my brother, he would never give such a clear military order, but went around in circles to cut our military power. ā
Quite Chaomei still didn't understand, but quite Chaoyong didn't want to explain more, many things can only be understood at a certain height. (To be continued.) )