The Khitans are a people on horseback, and their mobility on land is extremely strong, which is undoubtedly a huge advantage!

However, the dense water network on the entire Great Plain of the Thistle divided the entire Great Plain into a moat composed of several rivers, which brought countless convenient conditions to Yang Lie, who had a fleet of sailors!

The main force of the Khitans must withstand Li Zhongyi's pressing step by step, and it is impossible to divide too many troops. Next, the Han army and the Khitan army competed in an important link: whose partial division is more bullish?

Stirring a pool of spring water and letting the Khitans take care of their heads and tails is the strategic task that Li Zhongyi gave to Yang Lie.

At this time, Yang Lie stood on the bow of the battleship with his hands in his hands, letting the light breeze blow through his entire body.

Zheng Mao stood silently beside Yang Lie, chanting a famous saying that Li Zhongyi often said: Every time there is a big event, there is calm!

Mount Tai collapsed in front of him, his face did not change his color and his heart did not beat, it was easier said than done, and he had only seen two people who could do this, one was the lord Li Zhongyi, and the other was Yang Lie.

Since the establishment of the First Army, Serious Mao has been involved with Yang Lie as the commander of the First Army. So far, the two have never been separated, and they have always been a good partner trusted by Li Zhongyi.

After so many years of cooperation, Yang Lie only asked about the attitude of combat and training, which made Zheng Mao very satisfied.

Objectively speaking, the First Army was deeply marked by Yang Lie, and there were many traces left by Zheng Mao.

The use of the naval fleet to fight guerrilla warfare with the Khitans was Li Zhongyi's pioneering and groundbreaking major initiative.

It is no exaggeration to say that launching an attack on the Khitans from the water happened to be the key to the Han army turning the entire strategic situation around.

On the front of the Khitans, Li Zhongyi led an army of more than 100,000 people, and after replenishing supplies, he turned around and headed north again.

Yang Lie to the north, Li Zhongyi also to the north, it goes without saying that the military pressure faced by Yelu Hugo is extremely heavy.

Relatively speaking, Yang Lie, who was pressed towards Youzhou from the water, gave Yelu Huge greater psychological pressure.

After all, wherever Yang Lie's troops are heading, they are all the big granaries in the hinterland of the Khitans, and they can't help but pay attention to Yelu Huge.

Yelu Changyuan went around for more than two hundred miles, but the result was that the main force of the southern barbarians actually retreated to the north bank of Bazhou City faster than him.

The detour tactics made Yelu Changyuan particularly frustrated, after the last battle, there were only more than 7,000 soldiers and horses left under his command.

With more than 7,000 iron cavalry, he wanted to fight a decisive battle with more than 100,000 Li Jiajun, which was obviously wishful thinking. Yelu Changyuan's brain has not been completely broken, so naturally it is impossible to have such an extravagant hope.

However, with the retreat of the Li family's army, Yelu Changyuan's idea of attacking the grain road of the Southern Barbarians instantly came to naught.

Just going back as the general of the defeated army, Yelu Aman obviously can't easily spare Yelu Changyuan, and the excuses sent to his mouth are not used, unless Yelu Aman becomes a fool.

Similar office politics, whether in the Li Jiajun or in the ranks of the Khitans, is a widespread fact.

Li Zhongyi once said a famous saying, there is no faction in the army, and there are all kinds of strange things!

In the Li family's army, there are at least five major mountains, and the five armies headed by Yang Lie are all commanding envoys, that is, the existing five major army heads.

There is another way of saying the faction in the Li family's army, that is, the Wutang faction and the old minister faction.

Due to the iron law that every Jin must be examined, in the current Li family's army, the generals from the martial arts hall have spread to all corners of the army.

At the same time, the veteran military leaders from Hechi Conglong were often called by Li Zhongyi to make guest appearances as instructors in the martial arts hall.

Based on the actual situation, a very interesting special phenomenon has emerged, that is, behind each military leader, there are a large number of students who have graduated from the lecture hall, and each has formed a unique factional mountain culture.

As the saying goes, things gather like and people are grouped.

In the First Army, Yang Lie's old subordinates are all generals who dare to fight and are good at using their brains. This characteristic has a dense correlation with Yang Lie's people who like to use their brains.

Li Zhongyi is not a professional general, and in his dictionary, war is a violent struggle by any means, and everything is aimed at winning.

In the national war with the Khitans, all the ethereal things that had nothing to do with winning the war were thrown into the garbage heap by Li Zhongyi.

The contradiction between the Han and the Khitan is an irreconcilable struggle. In other words, if the Han people eat more benefits, the Khitans will definitely eat two less, and vice versa.

Yelu Changyuan didn't understand the purpose of Li Zhongyi's retreat and then marching north again, but Brother Hugh, who was far away in Youzhou, saw it very clearly.

With the increase in the number of dealings with Li Zhongyi, Yelu Huge's understanding of Li Zhongyi is increasing day by day.

Li Zhongyi once said that the person who knows you best is not your friend, but your enemy!

Brother Yelu Hugh is one of the people who knows Li Zhongyi best, and he sighed with emotion: "Attacking the tiger in the lower mountain, retreating like an arm!" ”

Unlike ordinary people, Jeruxiugo especially knew that although it was not easy to attack, it was even more difficult to retreat.

The problem of retreat is difficult, who is willing to be a victim behind the cushion? In the case of isolation and no reinforcements, whoever is behind means nine deaths, or even a desperate situation.

Li Zhongyi can command the army, and almost in the blink of an eye, he has completed the transformation from attacking to retreating, how can Yelu Hugo not be afraid?

As the Li Jiajun marched north again, Yelu Changyuan, who did not have many soldiers and horses in his hands, had to go out farther to avoid being entangled by the large cavalry of the Li Jiajun.

Yelu Changyuan is not a fool, the reality that the Li family army has tens of thousands of elite cavalry forces him must not be entangled. More than 7,000 people, as long as they are entangled, when the large army of the Li family army outflanks them, it will be a dangerous situation in which the whole army will be annihilated.

Li Zhongyi knew Yelu Changyuan's sinister intention of copying the grain road, but he could only ignore it for the time being, and the main army was still advancing northward.

Unlike Yelu Hugh and Brother Bibao Youzhou, the remnants of the defeated army led by Yelu Changyuan were the real guerrillas who were mainly cavalry and had no base areas to protect.

Objectively speaking, Yelu Changyuan's threat to Li Jiajun, in a sense, is roughly similar to Yang Lie's threat to the Great Plain of Youji.

If it weren't for the drag of Youzhou, Kutuzov's guerrilla tactics [Reading Books at Zero Point] would really be used by Yelu Huge.

The waterway made a big bend, and when Yang Lie led the army to the foot of Yin City, the 30,000 cavalry led by Yelu Buhua had already rushed to the west gate of Yin.

According to Yelu Xiuge's order, Yelu Buhua did not lead the army into the city, but set up a large camp outside the west gate of Yin County City, forming a situation of mutual protection of horns.

In the military order given to Yelu Buhua, Yelu Hugo emphasized two points in particular, when the southern barbarians attacked Yin, Yelu Buhua must raise an army of 30,000 to threaten the flank of the siege force.

If Yang Lie led the army to attack Yelu Buhua, Yelu Xiuge had also strictly ordered Yelu not to spend, only to avoid, and absolutely not to start a decisive battle.

Brother Yelu Xiu saw very clearly, as long as Yang Lie didn't eat Yelu Buhua, he would not be able to concentrate on attacking the city and plundering the land on the Great Plain of the Hidden Thistle, and take advantage of it.