At this moment, the war in Huaixi is in a stalemate, but the dawn of victory has appeared, Li Chun did not want Hedong to be chaotic at this time, so he supported Zhu Xie to cut off one side, and issued an edict to imprison the three envoys for the crime of confusing the people with evil words;;;;;;;;;;;;; The site page is refreshing, there are few ads, and I like this kind of website the most, so I must praise it

In this way, Hedong officialdom is like a pot of boiling oil, Hedong and Khitan grievances and grievances have a long history, the two sides have long formed a blood feud, in Hedong as an official, one of the biggest taboos is to show weakness to the Khitans, who is weak who falls, without exception, the evil brothers not only compromise with the Khitans, but also deceive Shengcong, harm Hedong officials, such people are not worthy of being the lord of Hedong.

The forces of all factions in Hedong were unprecedentedly unified under the banner of the anti-Zhu Xie brothers, and a mutiny was triggered immediately, and the end was that Zhu Xie Zhiyi was expelled from Taiyuan City.

Zhu Xie crossed the corner but skillfully got out and ran to Luoyang to hide.

The chaos in Hedong gave the Khitan people an opportunity to take advantage of, and the eight Khitan tribes immediately united, gathered 20,000 troops and marched directly at Yunzhou, and had the momentum of breaking Yunzhou to take Hedong.

The war in Huaixi is in full swing, and the northern border must not be chaotic, Li Chun ordered Zhenwu Army, Hedong, Youzhou, Yingping, and Liaodong five towns to attack the Khitan, and made Li Mao the capital of all armies with Youzhou Jiedu.

The position of the Zhenwu army is westward, can only be the flank, the civil strife in Hedong is in full swing, and it is not of great use, and the main force attacking the Khitan is Youzhou, Yingping and Liaodong three towns, all of which are Li Mao's sphere of influence.

As far as Li Mao is concerned, the Khitan is a problem for his henchmen, and if the Khitans cannot solve it, they will not be able to deal with the imminent threat in the south with all their strength in the future, and the threat in the south is actually imminent.

Li Mao did not plan to fight a face-to-face war with them, in that case he would only repeat the mistakes of the past, the enemy retreated like the wind, and his own work was fruitless, and the enemy came again in the next year, and he had to work again.

In this battle, Li Mao made careful arrangements, mobilized a total of 50,000 troops from the three towns of Liaodong, Yingping, and Youzhou, and attacked from the east and west, preparing to defeat the Khitans in one fell swoop.

Li Mao appointed Chang Mucang as the commander of the Western Route Army and Yan Qin as the deputy commander, and supervised the fourth, fifth, and ninth divisions of the Andong Army and the 28,000 troops of the Pinglu Army, the Shence Army, and the Xiongwu Army, and left Feizhou to enter the Saibei grassland, with the goal of relieving the siege of Yunzhou and inflicting heavy damage on the main Khitan force. With Zhu Jiu as the commander of the Eastern Route Army and Shi Xiong as the deputy commander, he led 22,000 people out of Cozhou and attacked the Khitan from the flank.

Li Mao sat in Yanzhou and commanded the overall situation.

The battle with the Khitan people was extremely difficult, the Khitan people were more organized and disciplined, the individual soldiers were fierce in combat, highly mobile, and more importantly, they were cautious in nature, they fought if they fought well, and ran away if they didn't fight well, and used the entire grassland desert as a battlefield to flexibly and flexibly attack the Tang army out of the fortress.

And because the purpose of the Tang army was to annihilate, not to defeat, they didn't dare to fight hard when they could, and they couldn't fight when they couldn't, so they tied their hands and feet, and fell into a comprehensive passivity from the beginning.

After two months of fighting, the various units were very tired and asked for a decisive battle with the Khitan.

Li Mao only replied with one sentence: "Those who dare to speak lightly about the decisive battle, behead." ”

Look at the heavy snow is coming, the Khitans besieging Yunzhou began to retreat in full force, once the heavy snow seals the plain, their mobility will be completely reported, and the troops under the fortified city will not be a blessing for the attackers.

The retreat of the Khitans was orderly, and Chang Mucang, who was too cautious, failed to seize the opportunity, causing 20,000 Khitans to retreat and enter the grassland of Yanshan.

Li Mao, who was sitting in Fuzhou, was a little breathless, and led 5,000 pro-troops out of Zhenping Babao, and commanded the West Route Army to chase the Khitans nearby.

The Khitans, who had the overall upper hand, assessed the situation and decided to use superior forces to pull out their teeth, seize Pingbabao, capture Li Mao, and defeat the Tang army in one fell swoop.

Li Mao had only 5,000 pro-army troops around him, of which 3,000 were stationed at the Yanshan Great Wall Castle, which was about 120 miles away from Pingba Fort. If you can suddenly surround Pingbabao with superior forces and capture Li Mao in one fell swoop, even if you fall into the encirclement of the two Tang armies, you can retreat with your whole body.

Since the start of the war, the progress of the Eastern Route Tang Army has been slow, and it does not seem to be in keeping with the Eastern Route Army.

Li Mao is still alive, and as soon as Li Mao dies, it is possible for the two families to part ways, so how can they work together.

10,000 Khitans secretly assembled and rushed towards Pingbabao with lightning speed.

The intelligence section of the staff office got the movement of the Khitans, and urgently warned Li Mao, Pingbabao is a fortress built by the Tang army outside the old days, the area is not large, and it has been abandoned for many years, Li Mao's troops are here, and they can command 50,000 Tang troops on the east and west roads nearby, and the location is unique, but the surrounding area of Pingbabao is a wilderness plain, there is no danger to defend, and it is vulnerable to Khitan attacks.

Because of this, Li Mao only stationed 2,000 pro-troops in the fort, singing empty city plans, and stationed the main force of the pro-army in the Great Wall Castle in the depths of the Yanshan Mountains, and erected a big wall to be a suspicious soldier.

However, the Khitans' ability to gather intelligence was very amazing, and they actually saw through the array set up by Li Mao, and 10,000 troops killed Benping Babao in the starry night.

What the Khitans didn't expect was that Li Mao's battlefield intelligence was more efficient than theirs, and the 10,000 raid army was still being assembled, and Li Mao had already gotten his true intentions.

At this moment, retreat to the Yanshan Mountain Range and defend according to the danger, so you can naturally be foolproof. But the cunning Khitans will definitely take it when they see it, and slip off again like loaches.

Li Mao was unmoved, and severely reprimanded Shikong who advised him to avoid.

Shi Kong knew that he couldn't persuade him, so he secretly ordered Yanshan's pro-army to rush to reinforcements, and urgently sent a distress signal to Chang Mucang and Zhu Jiu.

The Khitans marched day and night, getting closer and closer to Pingbabao, eight hundred li, five hundred, three hundred li, and only two days later appeared outside Pingbabao, and the two armies were thirty miles apart. Such a distance, under the gallop of the fast horses of the Khitans, it only takes half an hour, the Khitans are the wolves of the steppe, they can hunt their opponents in a rapid run, once they bite them, they don't want to get out again.

Shi Kong ordered to build fortifications on the spot and resist desperately, he followed Li Mao for many years, and admired Li Mao's strategy of using troops, Li Mao must have a reason not to go, he will not persuade again, even if the enemy is under his nose.

When the Khitans were still ten miles away from Pingbabao, Li Mao suddenly got up and said to Shi Kong: "A team follow me, quickly." ”

The first team is Li Mao's personal guard, and the establishment is more than the ordinary team, about 150 people.

Shi Kong's scalp is fried, go now, in case he is entangled by the Khitan front team, it will not be a dead end. When the Khitan army marched, it always sprinkled behind the enemy in an elite disguise, called the Tanma Army, to outflank and intercept to prevent the enemy's leaders from abandoning and fleeing.

Since they knew that Li Mao was in Pingbabao, how could they not prepare

Li Mao didn't explain much, the people had already got on the horse, and Shi Kong immediately ordered a team to get on the horse, except for the weapons and the water bladder that he carried, all the rest were discarded, and if he couldn't escape into the Yanshan Mountains, it would be a burden to bring anything; If you can escape into Yanshan, you need what you want, and why do you need to bring these messy things.

When everyone left the fort and walked out of Balidi, there was an ambush cavalry of the Khitans on the horizon, about 200 people, roaring.

Li Mao fought face-to-face with the Khitans, this was the first time, and his scalp was numb, but the brave won when they met on a narrow road, and there was no way back, so he had to lead the crowd to pounce over.

The Khitan soldiers in charge of the ambush were an elite light cavalry, and in the face of Li Mao's guards who were fleeing in a hurry, they had the absolute upper hand in momentum and numbers.

But the result of the battle was greatly unexpected by them, and the strength of Li Mao's personal guards taught the Khitans a profound lesson.

More than a hundred cavalrymen fell off their horses and could not get up again, but their opponents obviously had no intention of fighting, and after the victory, they did not take advantage of the victory to pursue, but continued to run forward.

The remnants of the Khitans judged that it was Li Mao who fled, and they changed their tactics, stubbornly biting Li Mao's tail, dragging him down, and dragging him as hard as they could.

When the Khitan strikers heard that Li Mao abandoned Pingbabao and ran to Yanshan, they immediately adjusted their strategy, besieged Pingbabao with one piece, bypassed the Tang army fortress with the main force, and went straight to Yanshan.

A Khitan ambush soldier came out of the willow forest at the foot of Yan Mountain, and the arrows rained down, and the guards around Li Mao rushed to the ground. Li Mao's mount was hit by an arrow, fell to the ground, he couldn't dodge, fell down heavily, rolled a dozen times, just got up, a feather arrow screamed and drilled into his shoulder, pushing him a stumbling, and fell again, before he came to his senses, a Khitan knight had already floated over like the wind, and the bright saber was slashing head-on.

Shi Kong, who also fell off the horse, fired an arrow desperately to save Li Mao from the knife, but he ate a knife from the Khitan, leaving a foot-long bloody wound on his back, but fortunately his armor was extremely tough, and the Khitan man's knife was not deep. Li Mao raised his crossbow and shot down a charging Khitan warrior, and only a few feet away, Shi Kong's head fell off.

A wolf's tooth arrow shot at the heart guard on Li Mao's chest, the arrow slipped down, and the sabre of the Khitan cavalry immediately slashed, Li Mao rolled on the spot, grabbed a spear and threw it towards the Khitans.

The spear was empty, but the Khitan arrows hit him in the arm.

However, the Khitans are already at the end of their strong crossbows, they will focus all their energy on Li Mao, unaware that Li Mao's guards have surrounded them, and the continuous machine crossbow is suitable for close combat, and the improved machine crossbow is also suitable for horse combat, the crossbow arrows are flying sideways, and the Khitans have pounced on the ground. Shi Kong grabbed a horse, helped Li Mao on the horse, and sent ten elite cavalry to escort Li Mao first, leaving him behind.

Because of this delay, the Khitan cavalry, which had been thrown off, chased after him again, and Yanshan was in front of him, and Shikong felt that Li Mao should not take any more risks.

Five miles forward, a majestic mountain blocked the way, Yan Mountain, the dividing line between the grassland and the Central Plains, around this mountain, the Central Plains country and the grassland tribes did not know how to fight for thousands of years.

The mountain in front of you is not too tall, but there are many trees, the mountain road is rugged, and it is not suitable for horses to gallop, as long as you retreat into the Yanshan Mountains, the advantages of the Khitan people will be difficult to play, in terms of foot fighting and killing in the forest, it is obvious that Li Mao is better.

When there was still a mile away from the nearest pine slope, a knight dressed in Orion's clothes came out of the pine forest, lined up, a total of thirty people, but Li Mao was only ten people by his side, ten elite knights, of course, the Khitans who were responsible for the final blockade were definitely good at picking one in case.

Li Mao was wounded in the arm, and his hard-trained marksmanship could not be used as powerful, he discarded his spear, drew his iron sword, and a guard wrapped the handle and hand with strips of cloth, and his subordinates also discarded the spear one by one and drew out the improved scimitar-bladed saber. This kind of saber absorbs the strengths of all families, has a round handguard, beautiful and practical, not only for the three towns of the soldiers to receive, even the Khitan people also secretly imitate, but the exquisite and complex casting process and the extremely high requirements for steel, so that the Khitan people draw the tiger not into the anti-dog, the imitation of the saber is bulky, rough, easy to fold, far less than the beautiful and practical Liaodong knife.

The Khitan people love knives, for a good knife, they can do everything, they covet this standard Liaodong sabre, but it is not easy to get it on the battlefield, although the number of horses in Liaodong is not much, but it is well-trained, and the combat effectiveness is very amazing.

There is no certainty of victory with one enemy and three, and it is too late to retreat now, and begging for mercy is obviously not the best policy.

Since the beginning of the army, Li Mao has encountered the biggest crisis in his life.

Li Maodao pointed ahead, and sure enough, he launched an attack, he galloped on his horse, and he was indomitable. This move not only encouraged the guards around him, but also inspired even the Khitan enemies, who respected the warriors, even if he was your enemy.

Li Mao's riding skills are already very exquisite, although he feels a little inconvenient to hold the knife in his left hand, his knife skills have reached the point of perfection, and the power of the knife has not been diminished in the slightest.

In the first round of slashing, three people from each side fell.

Li Mao killed one person and was not injured.

In the second round of killings, the Khitans suffered two casualties, the Tang army injured three, and Li Mao was not injured.

The third round of chopping began, this time the Khitans lost four people, Li Mao slashed and killed two people, and his own side injured two people, one of whom had his right arm cut off and lost his combat effectiveness.

The fourth round of chopping followed, and after this round, there were only two capable soldiers left around Li Mao, and there were still more than 20 Khitans left.

The victory and defeat have been divided, and the Khitans no longer face to face with Li Mao, they moved their formation to surround him.

A man who could speak Chinese shouted, "Dismount and surrender, I can spare you from death." ”

Li Mao raised his hand and a crossbow arrow knocked him under the horse, which was too close for the crossbow to aim.

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