The Khitans who threw away their armor and fled for their lives in front, and the Han family erlang brandished his war knife, shouting loudly while chasing fiercely.

Li Zhongyi was reluctant to put down the monoculars in his hand for a long time, his heart fluctuated, since the late Tang Dynasty, how many years has a scene like this not appeared?

A hundred years? Or one hundred and fifty years?

As soon as the two thousand Khitans officially engaged in the battle, they were defeated by the Li family's army, and they could only flee for their lives.

However, the facts are all there, even if Yelu Changyuan is no longer willing to believe it, the elite leather room army of the Khitans is obviously defeated miserably!

"Nourish...... The artillery of the Southern Barbarians is so powerful, I really didn't expect it! Yelu Changyuan couldn't help but gasp a few times, rubbed his eyes desperately, and when he opened his eyes, he saw that the once invincible Khitans had indeed been defeated.

Tong Xin, the commander of the cavalry battalion of the Li family's army, slashed a Khitan to death with a knife, and was about to shout "happy", but suddenly heard the sound of the retreating military trumpet.

Although Tong Xin was very reluctant to withdraw it, however, the military order was like a mountain, so he had to slowly tighten the reins of his horse and turn around and retreat.

In the Li family's army, military exploits have always been not judged by their heads, but according to the difficulty of the combat mission, the military exploits of officers or soldiers have been determined.

However, in the process of retreating, Tong Xinduo kept an eye on it, and he ordered all the Khitans who fell along the way to be cut off their heads so that they could be taken back to Xugong.

Li Zhongyi saw that the soldiers dismounted one after another to cut off the heads of the Khitans, and couldn't help but raise the corners of his mouth, and said with a smile: "Tong Xin, is it because he wants to build a view of Beijing?" ”

Gao Qiang saw that Li Zhongyi was in a great mood, so he smiled and joked: "If you cut off Brother Hugh's head to build a Beijing view, it will be a beautiful thing!" ”

Li Zhongyi smiled dumbly, Gao Qiang's appetite is also a little too big, if he can cut off Yelu Huge's head, the entire Khitan Kingdom will definitely have been trampled under his feet, and the north will be worry-free from now on!

More than 2,000 elite cavalry attacked, but only more than 300 people were able to escape back, and Yelu Changyuan felt a bit desolate that he wanted to cry without tears.

The unfavorable result of the division was that the Khitan warriors behind Yelu Changyuan had solemn expressions on their faces.

Until this moment, the once arrogant Khitans finally understood one thing: why didn't Brother Yelu Hugo immediately fight the Li family army head-on!

Yelu Changyuan sighed with emotion: "The southern barbarians who were once beaten by us at will in the grass valley have finally trained a strong army!" ”

No one dared to take this stubble, and everyone stared intently at Yelu Changyuan's body, for fear of being a scapegoat for defeat.

"If it weren't for the timely response of the main force of our army, I'm afraid that even three hundred people would not have been able to escape." Yelu Changyuan exhaled a long breath of turbidity, waved his hand and said, "Since it is difficult to fight the Southern Barbarians, then let's simply go around to their rear and strive to cut off the back of the Southern Barbarians." ”

Yelu Hongshan lost the battle unprecedentedly, he didn't have the face to speak, but he still couldn't help but remind Yelu Changyuan: "Da Shen and steady, the task given to you from above is ......"

He was worried that Yelu Changyuan would change the combat mission without authorization, and he happened to be caught by Yelu Aman, and if he was settled by the Autumn Queen, he was afraid that it would be a situation of nine deaths and one life.

Yelu Changyuan waved his hand and said, "If I go back like this, do you think Yelu Aman will let me go?" ”

Yelu Hongshan thought about it carefully, then shook his head gloomily, and said sadly: "Yelu Aman can't let go of such a good excuse. ”

Yelu Changyuan nodded and said, "For today's plan, only when we go back after winning the battle can we atone for our sins." ”

There were more than 10,000 people at the time of the expedition, and now there are only more than 8,000 points left, and so many people have been lost.

"Report to the Lord, the Khitans have fled!"

Li Zhongyi obtained the information sent back by the throat, and he couldn't help laughing and said, "How many people have the Khitans lost just now?" How is it possible to run away without a fight? ”

Zhang Sanzheng said with a smile: "Lord, the Khitan people must be afraid of a head-to-head duel and want to go around to the back to cut off our grain route." ”

"Lord, since the Khitans are cowardly in battle, and our army is well-fed, why don't you directly advance the battle line to Youzhou City?" Gao Qiang's words immediately made Li Zhongyi laugh.

Under Youzhou, even if the Khitans don't want to fight a decisive battle, they must be led by the nose and participate in the strategic decisive battle between the Han barbarians!

Youzhou, for the Khitans, belongs to the supreme interests that they can't afford to lose!

Youzhou, for Li Jiajun, belongs to the highest interests of the nation that must be taken back!

Objectively speaking, Li Zhongyi deliberately marched north and went straight to Youzhou, which was tantamount to releasing the winner of the strategic decisive battle and forcing the Khitans to participate in the frontal decisive battle!

With the current situation that Li Jiajun's army is armed to the teeth, actively seeking a strategic decisive battle is the most favorable situation for Li Zhongyi.

To tell the truth, if Yelu Hugo had been adopting the strategy and tactics of retreating in depth, it would be difficult for the Li family's army to ensure that the grain route was foolproof!

However, Yelu Hugo is different from Kutuzov, and Youzhou is also different from Moscow.

To put it bluntly, if Yelu Hugo chooses to burn down Youzhou, and then the whole army retreats north. At the strategic level, the Han people in Youzhou were certainly hit hard, and the Khitans inevitably fell into the dilemma of surviving on heaven again.

The strategic significance of the Great Plain of Thistle to the Khitan people is mainly the abundant supply of winter materials!

Once, the Khitans chose to burn all the Youzhou and retreated north. If there is a rare cold wave in the coming year, a large number of cattle and horses will definitely die, and then the survival situation of the Khitan people is very worrying!

The strategic position of Youzhou is equivalent to Ukraine, the big granary of the Soviet Union during World War II.

After the Soviet Union lost Ukraine, and the grain of the United States and other allies was replenished by sea, after the Khitans lost Youzhou, where could they go to find so much winter food?

The distance from Youzhou to Bazhou is at best more than 300 miles, and the food carried by Li Jiajun with the army is unusually abundant, even if the grain route is cut off for a short time, there is no need to worry about hunger.

"Hehe, since the Khitans are so willing to cut off our army's food routes, let's let them be proud for a while." Li Zhongyi narrowed his eyes and said with a faint smile, "Our army insists on advancing, and the Khitans are obviously unable to stop it, isn't that reasonable?" ”

Zhang Sanzheng knew that Li Zhongyi was asking him, so he hurriedly clenched his fists and said: "In the positional battle, most of the Khitans will lose." In guerrilla warfare, the Khitans had more cavalry, but they could have the upper hand locally. ”

The biggest shortcoming of the Li family's army at present is mainly the elite cavalry that can withstand a battle, with only more than 30,000 people.

However, the Khitans had hundreds of thousands of armored cavalry, even if they lost 60,000 cavalry and wiped out the Li cavalry, the Khitans were still only wounded, but they did not really move their bones.