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After more than a year of preparation, the materials, grain and grass in Donggao Town are abundant, the city defense is extremely strong, and the arrows have reached a terrifying 200,000, even without the support of the Murwei people, after losing the backbone of Yeludelong, not to mention that the revenge is stronger than the Khitans, the six Murwei people are heading south in the starry night, and the six thousand troops are chaotically surrounding from all directions.

The Murowei people are not good at fighting big battles, which they themselves admit, so when Li Mao proposed that he should command the 6,000 Murowei army gathered outside Donggao Town, the leader of the Six Divisions Alliance, Sprite Hua, and the deacon of the Elders' Alliance, Meng Dun, did not object.

Naturally, Li Mao's acquisition of command also came at a price, and Li Mao signed a treaty with them to continue to supply salt and iron to the six departments for the next ten years at the price of one catty of salt or three catties of iron for each sheepskin, and allowed the Wei people of the six ministries to send envoys to Donggao Town to purchase silk cloth and medicinal materials.

This treaty seemed a bit harsh, but it was actually beneficial to Li Mao, and if the Murwei people really got such benefits, they would take the initiative to help him maintain the order of Liaodong after the war, so that he could obtain a relatively stable development environment before his power grew. As for salt and iron, once the coastal salt works are built, salt is not a problem, and iron, Liaodong has coal and iron mines, as long as he is given a little time, the value of iron will be reduced from gold beads to earth and stone.

Before the Battle of Donggaozhen, the largest battle Li Mao had commanded was the spring and summer anti-bandit operation launched in the 19th year of Zhenyuan when he was the deputy envoy of the Qing Navy and the commander of Gushan Town, and the total force he commanded was 888 men, and the enemy was some peasants who were desperate for hunger.

Personally commanding a general battle with more than 10,000 troops was the first time for Li Mao. Not only him, but his assistants have so far no such successful examples to advise, everything is still unknown, all are new, but Li Mao is not afraid, encouraged by entrepreneurial passion, inspired by successive victories, Li Mao is full of confidence.

Naturally, Li Mao, the commander-in-chief, is at best the role of the chief coordinator. Once the Murwei people were on the battlefield, they were so chaotic that they couldn't even command their own leader, let alone an outsider

What Li Mao can do is to divide the six divisions into theaters, make it clear that a certain department is responsible for a certain place to a certain place, and another department is responsible for a certain place to a certain place.

This proposition was endorsed by Sprite, the leader of the Six Divisions Alliance, and Meng Dun, the deacon of the Elders' Alliance.

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Li Mao did his best to provide the friendly forces with iron weapons to narrow the gap between them and the Khitans in weapons, and sent advisers and liaison officers to the various departments to strengthen the communication between them.

One night before the general assault was launched, the bad news spread throughout the Khitan camp in Liaodong, and their newly elected agent, Yi Li Sumire, was stabbed by the Assassins in his tent at night, and died suddenly before dawn.

Zhengguli is a member of the Yaolin clan, because he is not the same as Yerodron and has been ostracized in the tribe, but he is brave, wise, fair, and enjoys high prestige in the tribe.

The Assassin committed suicide on the spot, and the case was still unsolved, and the clan did not have the energy to solve the matter in the current war. They had no choice but to settle for the second best thing, and elected Yelu Clan, who was ranked fifth in the ranking of Yili Sumire's deputy, to act as the acting Yili Sumire and lead the clan through the difficulties.

The Khitans were immersed in great grief, and the mourning soldiers were bound to win, this was the ancient precept that Li Mao saw from the military books, and the developed intelligence network he raised could learn the top secret information that happened in the Khitan camp at the first time, but his allies were still in the dark, and Li Mao decided not to share this information for the time being.

The general attack plan was as usual, and on the last day of the month, in the early morning, the army of 6,000 Murowei launched a fierce attack on the Khitan camp from three directions. In front of the steep pine pass, a mountain of corpses of the Murowei people was quickly piled up.

Li Mao did not want to be a spectator of this battle, and after the Murwei people were dispatched on all fronts, he concentrated all the forces he could concentrate and opened the south gate to launch a fierce attack on Songmu Pass, where the Khitans were stationed.

The terrain of Songmu Pass is dangerous, more internal than external, but there is also a flaw here, there are three huge iron chains left on the steep cliff on the south side of Songmu Pass, and the soldiers can climb directly to the top of the cliff along the iron chains, and launch a fierce attack when the Khitans are caught off guard. These three chains were cleverly hidden before, and the Khitans searched several times, but found nothing.

The city is recuperating these days, but the Khitans are starving, confused and at a loss. Although the onslaught of the Murowei people was fruitless, it greatly attracted the attention of the Khitans, the defenders of the southern cliff were repeatedly drawn, and when Mao Taigong took the lead and killed the top of the cliff, the defenders were only a dozen people, and the eighteen-pound Qinglong Yanyue knife was danced by him like a hot wheel, and there was no heavy armor to protect the Khitan defenders in the conflict, such as entering a no-man's land.

Shi Xiong, who immediately climbed up, did not have the patience to play with the defenders with big swords, and the crossbows were fired continuously, and the defenders rushed to the ground.

This was the first appearance of the improved repeating crossbow on the battlefield, and its powerful arrows and high-frequency rate of fire made it difficult for the Khitans, who lacked iron armor to protect them.

The advantage of a crossbow is its strength, and its disadvantage is its frequency of fire. The continuous crossbow carried out epoch-making reforms, and under the continuous sweeping of dense crossbow arrows, the defense line built by the Khitans with grief and indignation was ruthlessly torn apart.

Yelu Mao, who had just succeeded Yelu Delong as the supreme commander of the Khitan, was in the western command of Guancheng to confront the far superior number of the six divisions, but suddenly heard an earth-shattering shout of killing behind him, and when he figured out what was happening, Li Mao had already broken into the second gate less than twenty steps away from him.

Yelu Mao was young and vigorous, brandishing a scimitar and calling the guards to come over to meet him, and the main general turned into a stormtrooper, inspiring the morale of his subordinates, and miraculously forced Li Mao back into the second gate.

However, the losses caused by the absence of the main general are huge. The greatest advantage of the Khitan people over the Murwei people is organization, once the highly organized army lacks a core coordinator, the consequence is a disaster, and now the organizational advantage of the Khitan people is gradually lost, and the only thing left to resist the Murwei people is a little advantage in equipment and grief and indignation.

Li Mao quickly met with Yelu again, facing the leader of the Khitan people like a leopard in front of him, Li Mao wanted to fight with him alone, but he couldn't help it, now is a war, not a martial arts exhibition match, every minute is related to the life and death of thousands of people, not the time for him to be a personal hero.

He picked up his crossbow and shot all the remaining three crossbow arrows, one missed, and the other two hit Yelumao in the chest, and Yelumao stumbled, stubbornly unwilling to fall.

Li Mao walked over, and wanted to send the iron chopping knife in his hand into his chest, but suddenly changed his mind again, he split his chest and grabbed Yelu Stone, and shouted in the Khitan language he had just learned: "The Yili Violet Stone has fallen, and your generation is not ready to return quickly." ”

Yelushi wanted to struggle, wanted to resist, but apart from being full of anger, he really couldn't exert any strength.

The great rout of the Khitans finally began, the Khitan soldiers who were killed and broke into the woods, fled for their lives, the Khitans were good at fighting on horseback in the sparse forest, but Gushan Town was surrounded by the kind of dense miscellaneous woods.

Horses could not be used, so they had to flee on foot, but running and fighting in the woods was the strength of the Murowei people, who imitated the wild boars and applied a thick layer of pine resin oil to their leather coats, making them stronger than iron armor, and lighter than iron armor and easy to maintain.

They hunted their prey in the woods and thorn bushes, shuttling back and forth as lightning, their fur caps could be turned down to cover their eyes, and they ran in the woods with their heads down, disdainful of thorns and stingers.

They are born forest killers.

The tragedy of the Khitans is also that although they arrived at Donggao Town first, they are still unfamiliar with the surrounding geographical environment, and Yerodlong is too confident, thinking that the soldiers will be at their fingertips as soon as they arrive in Donggao Town, and it is completely unnecessary to bother to survey the surrounding terrain.

Many of them found themselves on the road to a dead end as they ran, but the Murowei people came by a pair of footboards, and they had carefully surveyed the surrounding geography before the battle began, and knew everything about the grass and trees.

There is no way to count how many Khitans were buried in the dense forest, Li Mao saw six towering mountains of human heads in front of the camp of the Murwei people, and the Murwei people recorded their exploits by beheading them, and all the enemies they killed without exception had to be beheaded and brought back to the camp.

Looking at these barbarians with sloppy and dirty cloaks, dressed in heavy, gray-black, and disgusting leather clothes all year round, Li Mao frowned unconsciously. He had carefully observed that many of the Murwei people were covered with feathered arrows, but they moved freely and were not hurt in the slightest.

He instructed Qin Mo to quietly rip off the clothes of a Murowei man who had died in battle and bring it back to study. After this heavy blow, the Khitans will be completely eliminated from the arena in Liaodong, and in Liaodong, in the future, the only opponents who can become his opponents are these barbarians in front of him, the current allies.

The six tribes of Murowei are not harmonious, they gather together for a common goal, and now the battle has just ended, they have a conflict because of the loot, the two tribes are tense and ready to go to war, the other two tribesmen act as peacemakers and always persuade them, and another tribe is eyeing Donggao Town and wants to take advantage of it.

The leader of the Six Alliances, Sprite, and the deacon of the Elders, Meng Dun, were indifferent to the disputes of their clansmen, and they were not only unimpressed by it, but also knew that they were powerless to dissuade them.

Li Mao didn't want them to open up a battlefield under his nose.

The life-and-death battle with the Khitans just now had exhausted all the energy that Donggao Town had accumulated, and he needed to recuperate.

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