Since the founding of the Great Zhou Dynasty, the detailed work between the Khitan and the Great Zhou has been extremely frequent.

The Great Zhou mainly relied on the caravan to go deep into the hinterland of the Khitans and spy on the military situation.

On the contrary, the Khitans mainly relied on a large number of bureaucrats or gentry who were greedy for life and afraid of death in the border areas as their eyeliner.

The Khitans were very stingy, and the promised conditions, in addition to allowing private business, at most, spared the lives of the whole family of these traitors when the iron horse went south.

The reason for this outrageous situation is mainly due to the fall of the late Tang Dynasty, especially after the establishment of the Khitan state, the national strength and military strength of the Central Plains Dynasty were not good, and the officials and people in the border areas were repeatedly devastated by the Khitan people "fighting grass valleys".

To put it mildly, it should be that some unscrupulous officials and gentry in the border areas have been frightened by the Khitans' southward iron horses.

To describe it in modern language, these corrupt officials and inferior gentry have long been "banana people" with yellow skins.

Yelu'an, this guy, is really blind with a good skin, and just a dogwood water makes him completely collapse.

Li Zhongyi asked about the situation, and he was like pouring beans from a bamboo tube, and he recruited them all. Perhaps in order to save his life as much as possible, Yelian confessed an additional piece of crucial information.

Because the Khitan army was facing off against the Zhou army on the front line, the troops in Nanjing Xijin Mansion were extremely empty.

Li Zhongyi touched his chin, looked at Yelu'an with a smile, and said lightly: "You want to send our army into the tiger's mouth, right?" ”

Jeredian trembled with fright, and hurriedly waved his hands, trying to get rid of himself. "How dare the sinners deceive the heavenly marshal?"

Li Zhongyi noticed that Yang Lie's eyes were round. Shine, he knows. Yang Lie moved his mind to sneak attack Youzhou.

"The Khitans are numerous, and more than 100,000 troops are gathered near Youzhou, and they are all cavalry. Once the Khitans heard that Youzhou had lost, it would be difficult for our army to withdraw to the Yuguan Sea unscathed. Li Zhongyi dispelled Yang Lie's delusions in time.

Yang Lie lowered his head and pondered carefully, Li Zhongyi's analysis was right, their purpose in attacking Yuguan this time was not to fight with the Khitans. Rather, it was by raiding the hinterland of the Khitans to attract the attention of the Khitans.

On the grassland, no less inland than the Central Plains, once the Li family army is entangled in the Khitan cavalry, it is very likely to face a dangerous situation from which it will never recover.

Li Zhongyi often said: A gentleman does not stand under a dangerous wall!

With Yang Lie's understanding of Li Zhongyi, as long as he grasps the authority of the Great Zhou, sooner or later he will have to exert the power of the country. Northern Expedition to Khitan.

Once, Yang Lie and Li Zhongyi had a few drinks while dealing with official business. At that time, Li Zhongyi, who was full of alcohol, once said a famous sentence that Yang Lie still remembers vividly: next to the couch. How can Yidi sleep soundly?

Just when Li Zhongyi was torturing Yelu'an, he hastily cleaned up the battlefield and arranged a centurion. led more than a dozen Dangxiang people who could speak Khitan dialect, armed with knives, guns, bows and arrows. Standing lazily in front of the gate, disguised as the defenders of Yuguan.

Because. Having just experienced a terrible massacre, there was a smell of blood wafting in the sky above Yuguan.

After quite Chaoyong smelled the blood, he couldn't help but be shocked in his heart, but the order Li Zhongyi gave him was: Before sunset today, the Khitans must be confused and not let them know the bad news that Yuguan has been lost.

It's just that a few Khitan messengers passing by had already smelled a strong smell of blood, but they seemed to be okay and walked away.

Quite Chaoyong, who was hiding on the tower of the city gate, was very confused by the abnormal behavior of the Khitans at first.

Later, quite Chaoyong learned that the Khitan garrison here always likes to torture and kill Han people for pleasure on weekdays.

In Yuguan, a number of lowly Han captives died almost every day, ranging from three or five to dozens of them.

On the city wall, all year round, some Han fugitive slaves, bloody heads, must be hung as a warning.

Except for a few messengers, most of the people who passed through Yuguan were convoys transporting cattle and sheep to Youzhou.

Taking advantage of the short stop of the convoy in the pass, replenishing water, eating, and resting, quite Chaoyong commanded his subordinates to wrap these ignorant Khitans into dumplings.

As for the Khitan messengers who changed horses and planned to continue their journey, they also became quite brave sword ghosts, or captives waiting to be slaughtered.

Li Zhongyi's instructions were very clear, not a single ant was allowed to leave Yuguan, and the connection between the Khitan Zhongjing Road and Nanjing Road must be completely severed.

According to the exact information obtained by interrogating Yelu'an, the main forces of the Khitans, including the Pi Room Army and the Zhishan Army, as well as the elite tribal Gong Army, were all gathered west of Yuguan, south of Youzhou, and north of the Baigou River.

This means that in the vast hinterland of Khitan Zhongjing Province, in the short term, there is no military force that is enough to endanger the safety of the Li family's army.

The sneak attack was successful, and after Shun Lì took Yuguan, Li Zhongyi was already firmly in an invincible position!

From Yuguan to the west, to Youzhou, about 700 miles, the road to Bazhou is also roughly the same.

From the lenient calculation, it will take four days from the time the Khitans learned that Yuguan had lost the news, and the time when the sleeping emperor Yelujing mobilized the Khitan army to attack.

Of course, if Yelujing made a horizontal line and let the elite cavalry, one person and four horses, gallop to the city of Yuguan, it is not impossible.

The question is, are the Khitan cavalry who are in such a crazy hurry still capable of attacking the city? Yuguan, which occupies the danger of mountains and rivers, is so easy to be breached in the hands of Yulin's right guard?

In other words, even if it is a Khitan, gritting their teeth and launching a siege, without throwing down tens of thousands of corpses, they don't want to take Yuguan, where the defense master Li Zhongyi is stationed.

This means that the Khitans have fewer soldiers and horses, and they are not Li Zhongyi's opponent at all.

What's more, the advantage of the Khitans lies in the cavalry army with superior mobility and skillful bow horses, rather than the infantry army fighting positional warfare.

"Minister, if the Khitans drive away the Han army in Youzhou, they will act as cannon fodder...... "Liao Shanhe looked at Li Zhongyi with some concern.

Slaughtering the Khitans, Liao Shanhe did not have any psychological burden, but although he would not be soft when slaughtering the Han army that fell into the hands of thieves, he was somewhat uncomfortable.

Li Zhongyi smiled faintly and said, "Don't you forget, the so-called Han army that followed the Tartars to attack us is still my great Han people?" ”

Liao Shanhe knew very well the various vicious and spicy methods taught by Li Zhongyi, and he couldn't help but show unbearable expression, Li Zhongyi just didn't see the different color on his face.

At this time, Yang Lie put away the folding fan and said with a smile: "Old Liao, have you forgotten the story of the puppet army that the teacher told before?" ”

"Hehe, as long as you dare to use a knife against us, whether he is a Khitan, a Xi, a Bohai person, or the so-called Han people, he must go in with a white knife and come out with a red knife, and kill them." Yang Lie smiled very brightly, as if he was talking about the eating and drinking of slaughtering chickens and killing dogs. (To be continued......)