In fact, the strategy finalized by Li Congjing and Wang Pu was not complicated, in a word, they left this place first, and then attacked the army that disturbed the Khitan Pass.

Then you have to ask, it's easy to leave here, where do you go after leaving? It's not hard to think of that. Since it is not feasible to retreat to Sangkan Pass, in order to prevent falling into the Khitan encirclement, they can only flee far away. After highlighting the encirclement of the Khitan army, he turned into the vast land of Fengsheng Erzhou, and at this time, Li Congjing and others changed from being in front of the Khitan army and being opposed by it to being at the back of the Khitan army, eyeing it.

This change seems simple, but in fact it is not only a change in geographical location, but also a change in the ownership of the initiative on the battlefield by changing the relative position! At present, the Datong army is surrounded on three sides, although there are defenders of Sangkan Pass who can echo each other, but first, the strength of the two sides is very different, and second, Sangkan Pass is still insufficient for self-protection, and it is really difficult to get out. And once the Datong army jumps out of this encirclement and turns behind the Khitan army, then when to attack the Khitan army and how to attack the pass is completely up to Li Congjing.

In short, the Khitan army cannot be allowed to knock on the pass in peace, let alone let them conquer the Sangkan Pass.

"The Khitan army outside the Sangjia Pass has not moved, but is only in a tight formation and on the defensive. It should be in the form of a surprise break between the defenders and us in the guards! Before the reorganization of the armament, Zhang Daqian sorted out the surrounding situation for the last time, "Yelu enemy is in the north, and his righteous army is in the west, all of them are rapidly approaching us, and in less than half a day, the two divisions can gather here!" ”

The generals of the Datong Army who gathered together, including the fifth girl, Wang Pu, Liu Xixi, etc., all looked solemn. After Zhang Daqian finished speaking, everyone raised their eyes to Li Congjing, waiting for him to give an order.

Prior to this, Zhang Daqian and other generals of the Datong Army had discussed the ownership of the command of the Datong Army together, and they had to come to the conclusion that the only way to get the Datong Army out of the current predicament was to hand over the command to Li Congjing and let him lead the Datong Army to fight! Otherwise, it would be difficult for the Datong army to have a chance of survival.

Chen Li raised objections at the time, saying: "General Li is certainly talented, but he is not a general of the Datong Army, and he has no power to control the Datong Army, so it is unreasonable to hand over the Datong Army to his command!" ”

Zhang Daqian disagreed with Chen Li's words, and he said to Chen Li very seriously: "If you are in a hurry, how can you be confined to the vulgar system?" Now that the enemy is surrounded by a strong enemy, we are deeply encircled, and although we have a plan to break through the difficulties, it is difficult to make it successful, and we must have a commander with both wisdom and courage. General Li yesterday made two plans to enable our army to withdraw from the battlefield safely and smoothly return to the east, and today he relied on his strategy to let us and others have a strategy to break through the encirclement. At this moment, who can lead us and others to break the situation of the enemy and the martyrs, General Sheli? ”

"Although the plan has been obtained, it is still difficult to break through" Yunyun, it is indeed the truth, Chen Li can't refute it, but he still refuses to give up, and said: "Let people who are not from the Datong Army command the Datong Army to fight, I am afraid that the soldiers will not be convinced." ”

"But you're too worried. Not to mention that General Li saved the lives of the soldiers yesterday, and all the officers and men of the army were grateful for his kindness and admired his courage. In other words, when the commander was seriously injured, when he saw General Li, he said, 'Save my Datong army', which is entrusting our safety to General Li's hands! Now that the commander is seriously injured, he is still holding on to the head of the city, trying to ensure that the pass is not lost, if General Li leads us to defeat the enemy again, isn't this a good story? Zhang Daqian said to Chen Li, and Chen Li said no more.

Li Congjing saw that everyone's eyes were focused on him, and he was very familiar with the expectation and trust, leading the army of a hundred battles for many years, and every time he faced the enemy, the officers and soldiers in the army also looked like this.

The situation is critical, every second counts, Li Congjing didn't say anything else, and said directly: "In the next few days, your generals will face the most difficult battle you have ever experienced since the battle. In this war, the enemy forces are several times larger than ours, and they are encircling us from different directions, and we must fight our way through the enemy's encirclement and get rid of the pursuit of the enemy's elite cavalry. Not only that, but after this catastrophe, we also need to maintain the combat strength of the Khitan army outside the Sangjia Pass, and be able to drive the Yelu enemy out of the Sangjia Pass with General Qin! ”

The task is arduous and the war is difficult, and the generals are well aware of it, but at the moment, everyone has no choice but to rise to the challenge.

Killed in battle, or slaughtered, these are the only two choices for the current less than 5,000 Datong army!

After saying that, Li Congjing gave an order to all the officers and men of the Datong Army, "The whole army goes south and pulls out!" ”

There are strong enemies on three sides, but there is no Khitan army in the south, and the Datong army takes breaking through as the first step goal, so it naturally chooses to go south.

More than 4,000 troops, that is, more than 4,000 pairs of iron armor and more than 4,000 iron soldiers, gathered into a hot stream of steel, running in the billowing smoke and dust. And in front of this ironclad male soldier, nearly a hundred figures in green shirts and long knives, riding horses and galloping, are particularly prominent and conspicuous, they don't look at the armor that makes people feel cold, but the soaring evil aura they exude all over their bodies seems to put them in the black fog, which is impossible to ignore.

The Datong army ran away from their place, not hiding from the Khitan army, who had taken them as prey, and soon after they left, the Khitan rangers discovered their traces. After learning that Li Congjing led the Datong army to run away and wanted to flee to save his life, the Khitan army immediately sent elite cavalry and accelerated to pursue.

Yelu Pheasant, who has been returned to the position of the main general yesterday, is eager to bear the wrath of the Yelu enemy, and is eager to make meritorious contributions, and even personally leads several other sons of the other Yelu enemy martyrs to personally hunt down and kill Li Congjing, vowing to snow the shame of yesterday!

The horses are fast, and the foot soldiers can't run, but if you really want to talk about it, when the manpower is crazy, it can travel 100 miles a day, and looking at the classic and glorious cavalry pursuit cases in history, it is only at the level of 200 miles a day at most. It stands to reason that the difference between the two should be significant, but why is this the case? This is because no matter how many people there are, it is easy to run, and when there are more horses, it is very difficult to run. It is very difficult for the latter to maintain the queue and ensure that there is no chaos on the way. People are different, as long as they distance themselves a little, they won't run out of a big mess.

Li Congjing led the first day of the Datong Army, and the first half of the battle was spent in a wild run. In the evening, the Khitan elite cavalry behind chased after him.

This was to be expected, although the Datong army marched much faster than usual, it still barely maintained the queue, so it was not difficult to understand that it was caught up by the Khitan elite cavalry before dark.

From the Sangkanguan to the southwest, one hundred and fifty miles away is the Yellow River that flows through the Hetao Plain, above the plain, the Yellow River flows gently, if you get a boat, it is very simple to cross the river. Shengzhou Prefecture, one of the two states of Feng and Sheng, is on the shore of the Yellow River, not far from here.

If the Datong army can successfully rush to the banks of the Yellow River and cross the Yellow River smoothly, then it will be much more difficult for the Khitan army to pursue the Datong army. The Datong army could even wait for work on the bank of the river after crossing the Yellow River, and attack it halfway when the Khitan pursuers crossed the river. Because as long as the Yellow River is crossed, even in the face of several times the pursuers, the Datong army can be at ease.

The Yellow River is the first destination of the Datong Army's trip. However, at this time, there were still dozens of miles away from the Yellow River, and the Khitan elite cavalry had followed. According to the current situation, before reaching the Yellow River, the Datong army must fight with the Khitan pursuers. If the battle is won, the Khitan pursuers will be repulsed, and the Datong army can go to the Yellow River and cross the river; If the battle is defeated, the Yellow River is no longer the other side, but hell, and the Datong army, which was chased by the Khitan elite cavalry to the bank of the Yellow River, will have no way to enter the sky and no door to the earth, and become a real desperate division, and there is only one way to die.

After Li Congjing was informed by the rangers that the Khitan army was coming, he ordered the Datong army to continue to the Yellow River, while he, Zhang Daqian and other brave generals led the Datong army cavalry to stay behind to block the Khitan pursuers.

The horse army is noble, that is, the proportion of the six armies of the imperial court and the guards is also very small, not to mention the feudal army. The Datong army has 5,000 soldiers, and the horse army is only more than 1,000 people, and after the previous battle, there are quite a lot of losses, and only about 1,000 horsemen are left at this time, all of them are left to work with Li Congjing to block the Khitan elite cavalry.

The Khitan vanguard elite cavalry who came to pursue the Datong army reached 3,000, and its commander was Yelu Pheasant, who suffered a loss at the hands of Li Congjing last night.

When Yelu Pheasant learned that all the Datong Army and Horse Army had stayed behind and intended to stop them, not only did he not worry, but he showed joy. He said to the third and fourth elders around him: "Now my father personally supervises the formation outside the Sang Kang Pass, and wants to conquer this pass with the power of thunder, although we are not many people and horses pursuing the Datong army, but it is also close to 10,000 people, according to the will of the father, we only need to expel the Datong army far away, or bite the hell, so that it can not turn back to support the Sang Kat Pass, then the Sang Kan Pass will definitely fall into the hands of the father sooner or later!" However, we waited for yesterday's war to be unfavorable, and my father was already very angry, how could I not behead Li Congjing to sacrifice my father to the Datong army this time? Our army is three times the enemy, and the Datong army will be defeated, and I will go forward with me to capture Li Congjingsheng! ”

When the third and fourth children heard this, they all nodded their heads, "That's how it should be!" If you don't capture and kill Li Congjing, it's not enough to vent the hatred in our hearts! ”

Lao Wu followed with a gloomy face, without talking, and in his cobra-like eyes, he didn't know what kind of light was flashing.

The plan of everyone has been decided, and without further words, they lined up the formation and rushed to the place where the Datong army and horse army were located.

More than 1,000 horses ago, Li Congjing stood calmly, he had already put on his armor and held the horse lance - more than 4,000 people in the Datong army, how easy it was to make up a coat for him. The sun sets, and the afterglow is like gold, dyeing all over the thousands of horses standing in the wind.

Near the Yellow River and the edge of the Hetao Plain, the terrain here is generally flat, except for the low hills, which are the mountains that extend along the eastern Yunzhou border line - the Pingzhou border line is along the Great Wall.

Yelu Pheasant is eager to fight, and he also knows that time is precious, so he races against time, and there is no word to face him, and he directly rushes into battle. Li Congjing waited for work, but he also knew that there was no possibility of delaying time, and besides, the Khitan army was behind, and they had no time to delay time, and defeating this Khitan elite cavalry as soon as possible was the only thing they wanted.

Behind Li Congjing, nearly 100 guards in green shirts were expressionless, just staring at the approaching enemy army with a solemn expression. The sound of horses' hooves in his ears made the earth tremble, and the long knives that lit up were ghosts and angels.

And for Li Congjing and Zhang Daqian, who were sharp-knifed, rode out of the horse, drove thousands of horses to rush out of the formation, and went forward to kill the Khitan barbarians in front of them!