(First update.) ）

In the military tent, Li Congjing gathered all the generals to comment on the battle situation during the day.

Overall, in today's battle, the Hundred Battles Army faced Yelu Wantin with inferior forces, and its performance was excellent, especially when the Khitan cavalry occupied the majority, it was extremely rare for the Hundred Battles Army to be undefeated. This is not only due to the strong combat strength of the Hundred Battles Army, which has been recuperating for a long time, but also due to the fact that when Li Congjing was about to fight, he was extremely appropriately mobilized from the small 100-man array to the 10,000-person array.

What seems to be out of proportion to the fierceness of the fighting is that the casualties of the two armies are not large, and the whole day of fierce fighting is not even a thousand casualties. This seems incredible, but in fact it is reasonable, the two armies are evenly matched, no one has been defeated, and large-scale casualties are naturally impossible. In other words, if the casualties are large enough to a certain extent, it means that the war has been won or lost.

"In today's battle, we are inferior in the face of the Khitan army with more than 10,000 elite cavalry, and we can still be evenly matched, and we did not let Yelu want to take advantage of it, which is the work of the soldiers of our whole army." At the military meeting, Li Congjing first summed up the situation of today's battle in two sentences, affirmed the achievements of the Hundred Battle Army, and then changed his words and said: "However, all the generals must know that the situation is not optimistic, and it is also a fact. During the day, the Khitan cavalry rushed into battle, although our hundred battle army elite cavalry can cope with the battle, but it is in a situation of exhaustion, in the case of the Khitan army and horse army several times that of me, although the soldiers cannot be blamed, but tomorrow's battle will be more difficult. And once my Hundred Battles Elite Cavalry loses control of the situation, no matter how stable the infantry array is, it will be broken sooner or later. ”

At this point, Li Congjing asked: "I want to ask you to think about what our army can do in the face of the current situation. ”

In all fairness, this is not an easy question to answer, and after Li Congjing threw out this question, all the generals looked pensive. Later, some people said that with the sharpness of the gentleman's capital, he took the initiative to attack the Khitan formation and lead the whole army to break the formation; Some people also say that they can launch a night attack, first defeat one part, defeat Yelu Xiangyin, who is outside the Khitan inner camp and the camp defense is relatively weak, and then concentrate on eating Yelu Naer with a backhand; Some people also say that we should not attack the other with our own shortcomings, but should try to fight before the battle, induce the Khitan generals to go out of the battle alone, first kill their generals, and then defeat their army. After the conversation box was opened, the generals were full of words and ideas.

After several years of accumulation, the generals of the Hundred Battles Army, especially the senior generals, have been tempered by a series of wars and educated, researched, and studied by the Martial Arts Academy, and their quality is very different from that of the past, and their vision and insight are far beyond those of the past.

This made Li Congjing very satisfied. But what made him more satisfied was that in the remarks of the generals of Fang Cai, almost all of them sought the opinions of taking the initiative, and there were no remarks about shrinking back to protect themselves and retreating. Everyone has a fighting spirit, a desire to win, a will to move forward, and a determination not to be afraid of strong enemies and hardships.

Such an army is the army that Li Congjing wants.

When Li Congjing and the generals discussed the feasibility of various opinions, there was a sudden uproar outside the barracks, and then a sergeant came to report that the Khitan army attacked at night.

"Just now, there was a general who said that he intended to attack the Khitan military camp at night, but Yelu wanted to hide not only thought of one thing with us, but also moved one step faster." Li Congjing smiled faintly, he was not so alarmed, after today's truce, he ordered the military camp to be on strict guard, beware of Yelu's hidden night attack. Prudence, this is the minimum quality that a qualified commander should have, let alone a guy like Li Congjing who is demanding on details.

"Straight mother thief, Yelu wants to hide his grandmother, but he dares to sneak attack my camp, I don't know whether I am dead or alive! Commander, please let the last general go into battle, go and beat this old horseman hard, let him know that it is powerful! "There are generals asking for orders.

Li Congjing waved his hand, signaling the other party to be calm, he ignored the noise outside the camp, but chose to continue to study tomorrow's tactics with the generals, "There is no need to worry about the night attack here, and from time to time Yelu will retreat." Discussing tomorrow's tactics is a big deal, and we can't let that old man disturb us. ”

Seeing that Li Congjing was calm and light, knowing that he had already dealt with it, the generals stopped talking and concentrated on continuing the previous topic.

As Li Congjing expected, in less than half an hour, the noise was far away, and the sergeant came to report that the Khitan army had retreated.

Li Congjing laughed and didn't ask much about the battle situation. He is naturally confident in the arrangement he has arranged with his own hands, and it is not something that can be broken casually. Moreover, according to Li Congjing's expectations, the reason why Yelu Xiangyin launched a night attack was more of an attempt and harassment, and he did not have much expectations, because Yelu Xiangyin should also know that Li Congjing would be on guard against this.

Just like Li Congjing just heard that someone should attack Yelu Xiangyin at night, but did not immediately agree, he also knew that with Yelu Xiangyin's ability, it was impossible not to have a defense against it.

Because he had already had a head-to-head confrontation with Yelu Xiangyin, the other party inevitably exposed his strength during this day, which made Li Congjing's staff office useful. Although Li Yanchao and a few others did not accompany him, it was nothing more, the entire staff office, and other staff officers, including the twenty scribes, were all in the account, which made the staff office completely able to operate normally.

As a precision-running machine, the working mode of the staff office allows him to conduct an almost data-based analysis of the strength of the Khitan army in front of him today, and the direct benefit of this analysis is to evaluate the opponent's combat strength, distinguish the strength and weakness of the opponent's different generals, and find a breakthrough point.

This kind of work has already begun since the fight between the Hundred War Army and the Khitan Army, and today's battle has undoubtedly added an objective research data to the work of the General Staff Office.

The staff office in Li Congjing's hands is not just as simple as "studying the enemy's situation and making suggestions," or it is not as simple as these eight words seem on the surface, but behind these eight words, there is a whole set of strict operational procedures and advanced analysis methods.

The next day, at dawn, the two armies met again.

Compared with yesterday's passive battle, after last night's military discussion, today's actions of the Hundred Battles Army have taken on the color of taking the initiative.

When the Khitan cavalry began to charge as yesterday, the gentlemen were the mainstay, and the elite cavalry of the Hundred Battles Army took the initiative to meet them. As for the Khitan cavalry that still rushed to the infantry of the Hundred Battles Army, because the military strength was greatly reduced, the infantry army was in large formation, relying on the advantages of bows and arrows and defensive formations, to deal with it on its own.

Today's tactics of the Hundred Battle Army can be encompassed by "one attack and one defense, both offensive and defensive, one static and one moving, and a combination of movement and static." The purpose of this is to try to grasp part of the battlefield initiative and seek an opportunity to win.

The process of the battle was very intense, and the result of the battle made Li Congjing a little disappointed.

In the past battles, the almost invincible Junzidu, this time in the face of several times their own enemy army, did not be able to continue their previous record of God blocking and killing God, Buddha blocking and killing Buddha, although they still fought fiercely, brought a lot of trouble to the Khitan army, and even caused them panic for a time, but in the end, they were still blocked by Yelu Desire, and lost the spirit of breaking the formation.

In the end, when Li Congjing saw that the gentlemen were in danger of falling into a heavy siege, he had to order the gentlemen to withdraw from the battle and retreat to the infantry formation.

In contrast to the gentlemen, the infantry army array, as one of the two deputy commanders of the Hundred Battles Army today, is already above 10,000 people, and Meng San, who has an extraordinary identity, has always fought on the front line. He led the infantry army, not only blocking the attack of the Khitan cavalry, but also did not let the Khitan infantry rush the formation. The infantry army under the leadership of Meng San in the battle, like a huge iron plate, stood still under the white wave of the Khitan army wave after wave.

After retreating to the infantry formation, Guo Wei, the blood-stained gentleman, ran to Li Congjing, took off his pocket, knelt down and pleaded guilty, "Dare to ask the military commander, let the gentlemen rush for a while, if you can't break the Khitan horse army's formation, the last general is willing to come to see you!" ”

glanced at Guo Wei, the other party's ashamed and hot eyes did not move Li Congjing, he did not agree to Guo Wei's request, and said almost ruthlessly: "The gentleman and the other horse army, with yesterday's tactics, cooperated with the foot soldiers to defend the formation. ”

The look of shame in Guo Wei's eyes was even worse, he had the heart to ask for war again, but he also knew that after Li Congjing made up his mind, all the chatter would only be exchanged for the other party's disgust, and would not make the other party change his mind, so he had to forcibly press the war intent in his heart and retreat in shame.

The next battle almost returned to the same trajectory as yesterday, and Yelu wanted to hide the number of tunes and change the formation arrangement, intending to break through the large array of the Hundred Battles Army. And Li Congjing reacted several times and blocked Yelu's attempts to hide one by one.

The confrontation of tens of thousands of people on the battlefield was fierce and brutal.

On this day, not only did the Hundred Battles Army fail to make a breakthrough, but after the battle, the situation was even more severe than yesterday. After all, Yelu wants to hide the tribe by half than Li Congjing, and he has the initiative on the battlefield, so it is more convenient than Li Congjing to find a breakthrough. And after the Hundred Battles Army took the initiative to attack and failed, it had to turn to a passive defensive situation.

That night, Guo Wei once again proposed to let all the gentlemen rush into battle, but was still vetoed by Li Congjing.

At the end of the third day of the battle, the losses of the Hundred Battles Army were much greater, although as the attacker, the Khitan Army suffered more casualties, but in the absolute strength of the comparison, the Khitan Army still occupied an unchangeable advantage.

It was after the battle of this day that Li Congjing ordered the Hundred Battles Army to retreat into the barracks, no longer fighting with the Khitan army outside the camp, but defending according to the camp.

The Khitan army, which had achieved breakthrough results, was greatly demoralized.

The next battle continued in the situation of the Khitan army attacking the camp and the hundred battle army defending the camp.