After the warship set sail, it sailed close to the right bank of the Sanggan River to avoid harassment or attack by the Khitans from the left bank.

In the dark, Li Zhongyi couldn't see clearly how wide the Sanggan River was. However, according to Zhao Laoqi, the Sanggan River is about 200 steps wide.

The bows used by the Khitans were almost always riding bows, rather than the heavier and longer-range foot bows.

Based on his previous combat experience, Li Zhongyi estimated that the Khitans' bows were likely to barely reach the warships. However, the warships are inlaid with iron plates, and there are sandbags on the bow and stern of the ship to extinguish fires, so the threat should not be great!

Just as the 50,000 soldiers and horses of the Li family army left the camp, Brother Hugh also quietly left the camp with 100,000 elite leather room troops and palace division troops and hid in the dark.

According to Jeruxiugo's estimates, if he did not prepare for a night attack in advance, and suddenly bombarded by artillery in the dark, hundreds of thousands of troops would probably be in chaos without a fight.

However, Yelu Hugo really didn't expect that Li Zhongyi would actually bypass the water and go straight to Youzhou City.

You must know that there are not many people and horses around the past, and once there is a mistake, it is easy to be surrounded by the Khitans and make dumplings.

If there are a lot of soldiers and horses going around, and it is easy to alarm the Khitan sentry on the shore, they will also face great risks, and the wise man will not do it!

What's more, Li Zhongyi's habit of never taking risks with his troops confused Yelu Hugo.

The confrontation between the two armies during the day, as long as you are not a fool, you can see that the Khitans have suffered a big loss!

In addition, Li Jiajun, who is not short of grain, grass and drinking water, as long as it drags on for two months, the 16 prefectures of Youyun will have a large area of grain harvest in the coming year.

At the most unlikely moment, Li Zhongyi chose to take a risk, and he also took the waterway to attack Youzhou, which was really unexpected.

Since the mast could not be hung with an indicative lantern, Zhao Laoqi chose to connect the ship with ropes to avoid the tragic incident of the ship that he hit and died.

After Li Zhongyi learned the news, his first reaction was to burn Chibi!

Nima, thousands of ships are connected end to end, and what they are most afraid of is fire attack!

After Zhao Laoqi explained again and again, Li Zhongyi put down his doubts, stayed in the cabin peacefully, and drank tea with Ma Guangda with melon seeds.

People are on the boat, Li Zhongyi and Ma Guangda are useless, so it is better to simply leave them to Zhao Laoqi to take care of.

Ma Guangda sighed: "The place where His Majesty admires the Lord the most is knowing people and being good at his duties. ”

Li Zhongyi smiled slightly, but he didn't hear Ma Guangda's sycophancy. Liu Bei was able to establish the Shu State back then, and his greatest ability was indeed to know people and be good at it!

Similar to Liao Shanhe and Liu Heyang, Ma Guangda is also an indigenous military general from Kaifeng. Based on the same coincidence, Ma Guangda entered the army of Li Zhongyi, who was the prisoner of soldiers and horses, and since then has embarked on a journey to follow Li Zhongyi.

Among Liao Shanhe, Ma Guangda and Liu Heyang, Li Zhongyi trusts Liao Shanhe the most, followed by Ma Guangda, who always sings against Liu Heyang, and finally Liu Heyang.

There is no contradiction between trusting someone and daring to use someone.

Li Zhongyi's personality has always been suspicious of employing people, and suspects should also be used, and the core is the separation of powers and checks and balances!

"Yaoming, there is no moon in the sky, and it is pitch black in all directions, although it has caused a lot of trouble to our army, but it also makes the Khitan people not notice the movement on the river, right?" Li Zhongyi went to bed early last night, and now his spirit is extraordinarily strong, and his conversation is very strong.

Ma Guangda hadn't chatted with Li Zhongyi alone for some days, so he hurriedly got up and said, "Go back to the Lord ......"

Li Zhongyi deliberately waved his hand to interrupt Ma Guangda's words, glared at him, and reprimanded: "You and I are alone, you don't need to be so polite, sit down and talk." ”

Under Li Zhongyi's prestige, Ma Guangda obediently sat down again, still arching his hands and said: "If you deceive the Khitans and bypass it, your subordinates are sure that the people of Youzhou will see the light again." ”

Li Zhongyi curled the corners of his mouth slightly, Ma Guangda's answer can be described as leakless, worthy of being a smart person!

To be honest, Li Zhongyi has always liked to deal with smart people, the smarter the better!

"What if the detour fails?" Li Zhongyi deliberately asked, wanting to hear Ma Guangda's true thoughts.

Ma Guangda did not hesitate, and said without hesitation: "Your Majesty has already figured it out, the Khitans have neither a water division nor are they good at water warfare, even if our army can't bypass it, they can go back along the waterway safely." ”

After hearing this, Li Zhongyi had every reason to believe that Ma Guangda had thoroughly understood the beauty of a sneak attack by boat.

In this era, except for Li Zhongyi, no one knows better than him the global importance of the naval division, or the navy.

Since the sail is full, even if it is against the current, the speed of the boat is not slow, but it seems to be a little faster.

When the sky was light, Zhao Laoqi came to report and said, "Lord, not far ahead, is the agreed place." ”

According to the secret letter agreement between Li Zhongyi and Yang Lie, Yang Lie would arrange a special person to wait on the bank of the Sanggan River in order to show the way to the army.

"Very good, you quickly send someone to take a small boat to the designated place to bring people to me." Li Zhongyi put down the melon seeds in his hand and looked at Zhao Laoqi with a smile.

Ma Guangda hurriedly added: "The matter is serious, please Zhao Du Envoy must confirm the identity of that person." ”

As soon as these words came out, Li Zhongyi smiled even more happily, Ma Guangda followed him to fight in the south and the north, and in the past ten years, he was indeed a famous general who had been trained.

After Zhao Laoqi left, Li Zhongyi got up, stood in front of the window with his hands in his hands, and said lightly: "The success or failure of Youzhou is here, the opportunity cannot be lost, and the loss will not come again." ”

Ma Guangda stood up and said, "The Ji people have their own heavens to take care of, since our army has come around safely, Youzhou City is obviously within reach." ”

Ma Guangda can see the power of the artillery very clearly, and with the crossbow and cocktail, it is very safe.

After about half an hour, Zhao Laoqi led Yang Lie's deputy commander to come in to meet Li Zhongyi.

"Student Su Jiacheng, meet the mountain chief!"

Li Zhongyi couldn't help laughing, all the subordinates who regarded themselves as students were all protégés of the Son of Heaven who had graduated from the lecture hall.

"Hehe, it's been hard all the way, sit down and talk, serve tea!" Li Zhongyi waved his hand very casually, motioned for Su Jiacheng to sit down, and said slowly, there was no need to be too anxious.

Ma Guangda on the side thought to himself, Yang Lie really deserved to be a thoughtful person, he deliberately sent Li Zhongyi's student, and he was also the deputy commander of the family, and his credibility was amazingly high.

Su Jiacheng took a sip of water, calmed his emotions slightly, and then took out a secret letter from his arms and handed it out with both hands.

After Li Zhongyi took the secret letter, in front of Su Jiacheng and Ma Guangda, he took out the code book and translated it against the secret letter.

"Hehe, what a Yang Baixing, Yaoming, as you said, Youzhou is at your fingertips!" After Li Zhongyi read the letter, he was in a good mood immediately.

It's not a small good, it's not a medium good, it's a real good.

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