Li Mao, who returned to Pingbabao, ordered Chang Mucang and Yan Qin to join the ranks of the pursuers, and the two fought with the Khitans, not only failed to stop the Khitans, but also suffered a big loss.

The Khitans have now come to their senses, and if they continue to flee like this, they will only be wiped out, and something must change, so the rats who fled quickly gathered and turned into a ferocious monster, turning back and devouring the kittens that were chasing them.

The monster succeeded one after another, and was in a good mood, but when it was proud, it couldn't help but be a little sluggish.

Li Mao has left Pingbabao at this moment and gone deep into the heart of the grassland, the battle has reached this point, the armies of both sides have been out of control, and after the two armies of equal strength fall into the dilemma of melee, whoever has more men and horses, whose morale is higher, and who has a greater chance of winning the final victory.

Li Mao's guards suffered a big loss, and now they are in a hurry to find their way back.

Seeing that the Khitans wanted to use their high mobility to gain the initiative on the battlefield and end the melee, Li Mao decided to take a risky move, and he urgently ordered the slave army to march towards the moving Gazi Mountain, the target was the base camp of the Khitans, which was not only the base camp of the Khitans, but also the wealth center of the Khitans.

The Khitans' homes were on horseback and could be moved at any time, but because they were in a hurry to capture Li Mao and Yu Pingbabao, they had to put their homes down temporarily in order to concentrate superior forces for a surprise attack.

Now that the raid has failed, and they are entangled by the Don army again, they are caught in a big melee in the dark, then their home has lost important protection, but the softest belly of the body is exposed to the enemy.

The slave army is good at fighting on horseback, and is also good at foot combat, and is also good at water warfare, it is an elite army with all attacks and defenses, Li Mao has always wanted to use him on the blade, but the opportunity came.

Moving Gazi Mountain, there are mountains, forests, flat land, or rivers and lakes, such a complex terrain is really not coped with by ordinary people.

Mao Taigong lived up to expectations, and after finding the weakness of the Khitans, he stabbed him fiercely, beheading all the creatures that could breathe on the Gazi Mountain, and burning all the property that could be burned.

The Khitans were completely enraged, and the Khitans scattered on the grassland ignored the order and automatically assembled in the area of Donggazi Mountain, vowing to annihilate the slave army and avenge the dead relatives.

The Khitan people were in turmoil, Li Mao made a little trick, and coaxed the Khitan people to the narrow area between the Donggazi Mountain and the Baihe River, where one side of the mountain and the other side of the river, the reputation of the Baihe River is not big, but the amount of water is really not small, the water flow is turbulent, and people and horses can not cross.

The mountains and rivers are not suitable for the movement of large corps, especially the gallop of the cavalry, compared with the Khitans, the cavalry of the Tang Army is slightly inferior, head-on conflict, the outcome is unpredictable.

Li Mao used his only cavalry strength to fight several beautiful raids on the periphery, which completely angered the Khitans, and the red-eyed Khitans desperately marched towards the moving Gazi Mountain.

Mao Taigong made a feint, pulled out the posture of fleeing, led the Khitan nose step by step to the narrow area between the mountains and rivers, and waited until the Khitan people found themselves in a desperate situation, it was too late to retreat, Li Mao's army had completed the encirclement of the Khitans.

Now, the only way out for the Khitan monsters is to fight a face-to-face positional battle with the Tang army, defeat them into the grassland, recuperate, make a comeback, defeat and bow down to the Tang people, and the steppe wolf becomes a hunting dog for people to drive.

Li Mao didn't intend to give them another chance, he personally sat in the mountain pass, calmly commanded the 40,000 Tang army to block the 30,000 Khitans in the narrow area between the mountains and rivers, dug deep trenches outside the only exit, built earthen walls, and waited for the walls, and more than a dozen charges organized by the Khitans were repulsed, except for leaving behind a lot of corpses, they never moved forward half a step.

Between the mountains and rivers, there is no shortage of water, but the consumption of food and arrows is very alarming, the wounded lack of medical care, shouting and wailing all night long, and every morning when they wake up, the camp is full of dead people. The Khitans discarded their corpses in the river, so much so that corpses floated for dozens of miles downstream of the White River.

However, Li Mao's side is not easy, tens of thousands of troops gathered here, the pressure on logistics support is huge, the Khitan people lack food and clothing, no food, the Tang army also lacks medicine and medicine, food is scarce, the animals and wild fruits within dozens of miles around are hunted and mined, and now the food supply per person per day is only three taels, and can only rely on two meals of gruel to survive.

The battle was also extremely difficult, and the dying Khitans were extremely fierce and endlessly attacked. The nerves of the defenders were tense every day, and even some veterans could not bear the huge pressure, and there were continuous camp roars in the barracks, killing each other, and it was unbearable to see.

After a month's hold, heavy snow fell, half of the Khitans trapped in the mountains and rivers had died of war and disease, and diseases were epidemic in the Tang army camp, and the non-combat attrition increased sharply every day. Li Mao was also infected with wind disease, cold and heat, and was miserable.

After careful discussion, Zheng Xiaozhang, Wen Cheng, Zhu Luoke and others who stayed in the rear area transferred 5,000 troops from the southern front defending Yingmo and handed them over to the command of the Xiongwu Army's soldiers and horses to send reinforcements.

The manor rushed to Donggazi Mountain after a month with an army of 10,000, at this moment the second snow was already fluttering on the grassland, the two sides were exhausted and could no longer fight, the Tang army could only serve one meal of gruel a day, and the Khitans had begun to slaughter war horses.

Li Mao seized the opportunity, with the main force of the manor, issued a general attack order, personally assumed the command of the former enemy, the deployment has been completed, and all the generals above the team were summoned to do pre-war mobilization, Li Mao pointed out that the culprit of today's tragic situation is the Khitans, and the only way to end today's painful situation is also in the Khitans, the officers and men of the three armies must carry forward the iron-blooded spirit, attack bravely, complete their efforts in one battle, and completely defeat the Khitans, then in the next few decades, hundreds of years, there will be no more war on the northern border, and Youzhou will be as solid as a rock, Peaceful and happy days will come to you and me.

The generals of the three armies shouted long live, Li Mao, who was anxious, sweated on his forehead, and was in a hurry, and hurriedly said loudly: "Long live the Tang Empire, long live His Majesty the Emperor, and long live the invincible Long March athletes." ”

The deputy marshal of the three armies, Chang Mukura, took advantage of the situation to point at the command flag and shouted: "Go to war"

The only three remaining flowering bullets were shot into the valley with dazzling long tails, and the 20,000 Tang troops marched at the level, and the first in the line was the 2,000 heroic soldiers who came from afar.

The Khitans were blinded from the beginning, and they had the impression that the situation of the Tang Army was as miserable as theirs, a meal of porridge, legs and stomachs turned when they stood and walked, and their stomachs were empty when they peed, where did they have the strength to fight.

But it was indeed the Tang Army who was killing in front of him, and Li Mao really killed them, and he had already set out his nest.

After the army was launched, Li Mao sat down, formulated a strategy for the commander, grasped the general trend, and handed over the specific details to the generals, but it was not appropriate for him to meddle everywhere.

He exhaled, his stomach was gurgling, his head was hot and cold these days, his appetite was extremely poor, he couldn't eat two bowls of porridge a day, how hungry was he now

Shi Kong, who was holding the hanging arm, handed over a hot towel and asked him to wipe his face.

face, Li Mao noticed that his forehead and face were full of sweat, this sweat was scared out, just now thousands of officers shouted long live, it really scared him badly, this is definitely a big rebellion

I have always been stupid, why this speech has such a seditious momentum, it is very doubtful, or these guys are too ruthlessly suppressed, seeing that victory is in sight, all pain will be relieved, so they shouted indiscriminately.

Fortunately, he was in a hurry and skillfully resolved it, otherwise a rebel thief's hat was enough to crush him to death.

"I'm sweating, I'm sick, I'm hungry, I'm going to prepare something to eat."

After Shi Kong's reminder, Li Mao was shocked: he had been sick for more than a month, his head was dizzy every day, he was often dizzy, and he didn't think about eating, but at the moment he was refreshed and his ears and eyes were clear.

Li Mao waved his hand: "Eat tight in front, I will eat tight in the rear, and I must not rebel if it is passed out."

Shi Kong coughed, called seven or eight tall guards to block Li Mao's side, Li Mao's eyes were round, like a thief, he snatched the rice ball from Shi Kong's hand and stuffed it into his mouth, chewed it without chewing, swallowed it, swallowed three in a row, waved his hand, and asked everyone to withdraw. With food in his stomach and his spirits gradually rising, Li Mao stood up, took a mace, and beckoned left and right: "Move forward, strive to end the battle before noon, and have a celebration banquet in the evening." The guards were about to give an order, but Li Mao shouted: "This is not an order, it is not allowed to be transmitted, how to fight in front of it, don't interfere with them." ”

Li Mao led the guards to move forward slowly, out of about a mile, the front reported that the war had ended, beheaded 10,000, captured 20,000, the Khitans were hungry and cold, fell ill in pieces, and after the front was annihilated, the brigade surrendered without a fight.

Li Mao was stunned for a moment, raised his eyes to the sky, and then asked where the leader of the eight Khitan tribes was, answered that three people were killed in the battle, and the remaining five surrendered, and asked where the alliance Yili Jin Yelu and the alliance leader Yao Yuan Jin were, and answered that he was nowhere to be found. He also asked the famous general why he was here, but he was nowhere to be found.

Tens of thousands of people surrendered at the same time, and it took a lot of energy just to count the number of people, and as for the identification of identities, it had to be done slowly.

Li Mao ordered the withdrawal of the army and returned to Youzhou before the heavy snow sealed the plain, once the strings tightened in the brain were untied, the non-combat attrition in the army rose sharply, and about 3,000 people failed to enjoy the fruits of victory in the bloody battle.

When Li Mao returned to Youzhou, the number of casualties in the damage report reported by the General Staff Office increased by 800 to 12,424. The number of Khitan casualties was about 50,000, including 20,000 civilians.

After this battle, the Khitan people have been unable to organize effective resistance, the pursuit of the war in various battlefields, the Hedong Army, the Zhenwu Army also took the initiative to attack, with superior forces to slash vertically and horizontally, each has a gain, to the end of November this year, the battle outside the Saiwai is basically over, statistics war report: kill 200,000 enemies, self-loss 12,000, Khitan eight leaders were captured, the remnants of the defeat fled to the north of the North Sea.

For many years, the Khitans dominated the grasslands and the Gobi, enslaving other ethnic groups and tribes, and had deep grievances, this time they were knocked over by the Tang army, and it seemed that there was no chance to make a comeback, so they fell into the ground, and took the opportunity to take revenge one after another.

The Khitan people claimed to have 300,000 people who controlled the strings, but only 50,000 or 60,000 people were destroyed in the hands of the Tang army, although they were elite but not all, but because the general trend had gone, they were brutally retaliated against by other tribes, the territory was seized, the clansmen were killed, the prestige was lost, the status of the king of the grassland collapsed overnight, and the proud wolf of the past is now panicked like a lost dog, slaughtered by others.

The Shanxi, Turkic and other tribes suppressed by it took advantage of the situation to rise, frantically grabbing territory and expanding their strength.

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