When Li Zhongyi attacked Fanyang City, he only surrounded the south gate, but let go of the other three gates.

Generally speaking, a siege should be a siege of three missing one, so as not to jump over the wall in a hurry and cause a lot of unnecessary casualties to the attacking troops.

However, Li Zhongyi went the opposite way, only besieging the south gate and attacking fiercely, but deliberately let go of the north, east and west gates.

The reason for doing this is mainly in the offensive plan of the General Staff Division, which determined that Fan Yang was a big pit, that is, a bait in the popular sense.

The Khitans only had more than 90,000 people under Fanyang City. However, the Khitans, who claim to have a million armor and can indeed mobilize 500,000 soldiers and horses, did not go out when facing a decisive battle, but left such a big flaw, who believes and who is stupid.

Therefore, Li Zhongyi did not divide his troops too much, but only gave Liao Shanhe 90,000 soldiers and horses, and he himself led the other half of the soldiers and horses to concentrate on attacking the south gate.

In case, Yelu Hugo led the main force to attack while the chaos was coming, the strength of the Li family's army was not scattered, and he could concentrate on turning from offensive to defensive anytime and anywhere.

Now, Brother Yelu Xiu is really here, and Li Zhongyi not only notified Liao Shanhe to switch from attack to defense on the spot, but also ordered his subordinates to attack Fanyang City.

The Khitans are not good at defending the city, if the Li family army catches up with Yelu Huge and completely takes Fan Yang, the offensive and defensive momentum is different!

After the forward troops occupied the south gate of Fanyang, they quickly swept along the city wall, all the way over, and drove all the Khitans who had been discouraged from the city wall.

At this time, the artillery corps, which was originally not far from the south gate, quickly moved the 6-pounder cannon into the city under the command of Li Yongtang.

The inner city of Fanyang, similar to Chang'an, belongs to the structure of the tic-tac-toe, located in the center of the city, the Commander's Mansion of Soldiers and Horses, which happens to connect with four spacious avenues until the front of the four gates.

As Li Zhongyi expected, the Khitans set up several barricades on the spacious streets, and set up layers of defense.

There was nothing to say, after Li Yongtang learned the news, he led the artillery army to the barricade, and lined up with four 6-pounder guns in a group, and bombarded the barricade built by the Khitans.

Originally, the Khitans didn't know how to build barricades, but an officer of the Han army stationed in Fanyang took the initiative to find Yelu Hengchang and offered him a plan to defend the city.

When Yelu Hengchang heard this, he couldn't help but be overjoyed, not only rewarded a lot of gold and silver treasures, but also gave a beautiful Han girl he particularly liked to the Han army officer.

By the time Yelu Hugo arrived at the city of Fanyang from a hundred miles away, the west, east and south gates of Fanyang had been completely occupied by the Li army.

Although the Khitan soldiers were brave, they were not good at defending the city, and after Yelu Xiuge judged clearly that Fan Yang would be lost, he immediately ordered to rescue the remnants of the city and slowly retreated fifty miles.

To be honest, compared with the field war, Li Zhongyi is more taboo about the brutal street fighting in the city. Under his intentional or unintentional indulgence, some of the remnants of the Khitan defending city were rescued by Brother Hugh.

After learning the news of Yelu Huge's slow retreat, Li Zhongyi ordered the collapsed south gate city wall to be repaired as soon as possible, and at the same time ordered Liao Shanhe to set up a large camp next to the south gate of Fanyang.

In this way, Fanyang's city defense, not to mention impregnable, at least does not need to worry about the Khitans taking advantage of the situation.

The situation in the sixteen states of Youji is different from that of Kaifeng, even the Han people in the city have been alienated by the Khitans for decades.

To put it bluntly, Li Zhongyi never thought that the Han people in the city helped the old and the young to go out to welcome Wang Shi's Northern Expedition.

In fact, just as Li Zhongyi expected, there were no Han people in the city who escaped in time, and the doors and windows of every house were closed. The common people of Han people, who looked up to the snort of the alien race, would rather stay at home and shiver than go out to greet the king.

Li Zhongyi had nothing to say, so he simply ordered the people of the Military Justice Department to cooperate with the pacifiers at all levels and go door to door to collect the whole city.

According to Li Zhongyi's handwritten warrant, all Han soldiers who had participated in the Khitan team were screened out and sent to Goryeo for labor reform by water.

After taking a certain city, how to close the door and beat the dog in a scientific and regular manner is simply the specialty of the pacifiers and the Judge Advocate General's Department.

Even, on how to more clearly pick up family property and arrest suspicious people, Li Zhongyi also wrote a booklet called "Copying and Picking Up Wants".

Li Zhongyi sat in the mansion of the head of Fanyang's soldiers and horses, and heard the barking of dogs all over the city, and couldn't help but smile slightly, and said: "There are dogs barking everywhere, and the pickups are in full swing." ”

Zhang Sanzheng said with a smile: "Lord, the villain wants to take a leave and go out for a walk." ”

"Oh, where are you going?" Li Zhongyi looked at Zhang Sanzheng in confusion.

Zhang Sanzheng glanced left and right, and saw that only Gao Qiang was on the side, so he whispered: "Please also ask the lord to allow his ministers to sell a small pass, and when they take Youzhou, it will definitely be revealed to the world." ”

Since following Li Zhongyi's side, Zhang Sanzheng has always been a character who has something to say directly to Li Zhongyi, and now this is the first time that he has been sneaky.

Li Zhongyi didn't think much about it, just nodded and let Zhang Sanzheng go out for free activities.

Gao Qiang saw that Zhang Sanzheng was leaving, so he was so anxious that he scratched his ears and cheeks, and he also wanted to go out with him, but he didn't know where to start.

Li Zhongyi had already seen Gao Qiang's embarrassment like an ant in a hot pot, and anyway, there was nothing around him, so he simply let Gao Qiang out.

"These two boys, I don't know what to do behind your back?" Li Zhongyi looked at the elated and strong back, and felt a little unhappy.

In view of the fact that Yelu Hugo was close by, Li Zhongyi brought Liao Shanhe, who was stationed outside the city, into the city, and the two chatted about the next battle plan while drinking tea and knocking melon seeds.

Liao Shanhe drank half a cup of tea and whispered: "Lord, rumors are spreading in the army, saying that you are a heavenly dragon descending to earth, and you are about to ascend to the throne." ”

"Click!" There was a flash of lightning and thunder in Li Zhongyi's mind, and he suddenly realized that Zhang Sanzheng and Gao Qiang were sneaky like they were doing bad things, and the truth was immediately revealed.

"Someone, go and find Li Thirty from the Department of Military Justice." Li Zhongyi shouted to the relatives outside the hall to call someone.

With such a big news, it was actually Liao Shanhe who came to tell him that what did the people in the Department of Military Justice do to eat?

Li Thirty, that is also the old man who started from the Hechi Township Army, and followed Li Zhongyi to fight the world. Li 30, also known as Li Haodong, after he was promoted to the commander of the envoy, he was transferred from Li Zhongyi to the secretary of the Tongzhi Military Justice.

To put it bluntly, Li Haodong is Li Zhongyi's eyes and ears in the army, that is, the intelligence leader in the popular sense.

Now, the bottom is about to turn the world upside down, but Li Haodong, the intelligence chief, hasn't even reported the slightest bit of news, shouldn't he be a little ass?

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