Chapter 37: The Khitans Attack [6]

"The Khitans suddenly moved to the West Bank, and it seems that they are not good at coming, and good people are not coming. What should we do? Li Cunhuan, who was sitting on the tiger skin chair of the Chinese army's big tent, asked calmly.

Chen Changfeng pondered for a moment and took the lead in speaking: "At the end, the end will think that it should be unchanged to respond to all changes!" We, our forces are not weaker than the other side, moreover, but also occupy, occupy the geographical advantage. The Khitans, the Khitans got off their horses, horses, even earth dogs are inferior, and they can calmly face the enemy! ”

And the eldest Sun Chengliang, who was just appointed by Li Cunhuan as a staff member, also agreed: "What Chen Senjun said is very true, the reason why our army is stationed in Coyote Mountain is to form a rivalry with Gubeikou, making it difficult for the Khitans to attack Gubeikou wholeheartedly. Waiting for the Khitan people to decline three times, General Li Cunxiao led the elite Flying Tiger Army from behind to kill from behind. The army of Coyote Mountain and the army of Gubeikou cooperated with the elite cavalry of the Flying Tiger Army, attacked back and forth, and defeated the Khitans. So we only need to hold Coyote Mountain, and we don't need to be angry with the Khitans, and wait for a maximum of ten days to divide the victory. ”

Li Cunxiao, a war maniac, also rarely did not lead the battle, shrugged his shoulders and said: "Although I am used to attacking, I will attack again." However, it is obvious that on the grassland, even if we defeat the Khitans, it will be a crushing victory. Moreover, the Khitans are cavalry, and they can form their formations again at any time, and our infantry-based army fights against them. Obviously, it is more than enough to keep and not to be enterprising. I think it's better to hold Coyote Mountain. ”

The rest of the generals, seeing that Li Cunxiao is the number one in the military, also said so, and Li Cunhuan's henchmen and advisers also thought so. The others also chimed in.

However, there was also Pang Kongming, the main battle faction, muttering dissatisfiedly, "How good it would be if it was a full cavalry!" I can lead the troops to fight the Khitans. Regarding Pang Kongming's words, Li Cunhuan wisely chose to ignore them.

After deciding on a coping strategy, Li Cunhuan immediately ordered the barracks to be reinforced. Outside the camp, he worked tirelessly to dig a trench half a zhang deep (more than 1.6 meters) and three feet wide, and the bottom of the trench was filled with bamboo sticks, sharp gravel, and sharpened wooden stakes.

Li Cunhuan's action naturally did not hide from the Khitans. However, the Khitans didn't care, they didn't plan to attack directly. They are heroes on the grasslands, but in the mountains, their proud legs are enough to turn them into bears. The hypertrophied looped legs are significantly slower than the average person in the mountains. More importantly, equestrian skill does not mean that foot combat is skillful, and a cavalryman with a horse can fight against seven, or even ten light infantry. However, if you go up the mountain and do not have horses, then one cavalry can fight against three light infantry at most. It's more that one fight is not able to defeat the other side.

When Li Cunhuan returned to the camp, Pang Kongming ran over happily and said to Li Cunhuan: "General, I have thought of a good way!" Good strategy! ”

"What's the best way to do it?" When Li Cunhuan heard this, he couldn't help but feel curious, and he didn't know what way this old man came up with. He actually called it a good way and a good strategy.

Pang Kongming coughed twice, looked left and right, looked mysterious, leaned to Li Cunhuan's side, and said softly: "General, if the Khitans attack tomorrow, we will ambush an elite army of hundreds of people on the mountainside. When the Khitans are defeated and retreated, they will take advantage of the situation and kill out, and the army will fight out from the gate again, driving the defeated soldiers to storm the enemy camp! In this way, the Khitans will definitely be defeated! ”

When Li Cunhuan heard this, a strange look flashed, he glanced at Pang Kongming, and said, "I didn't expect you to be a little handsome!" But do you know what our army is made of? ”

Pang Kongming first showed a blank look, and then his face showed a little embarrassment, and threw all the pride that Li Cunhuan praised him just now to Java Island. "General, this, this, this ......"

Li Cunhuan waved his hand and said, "Okay, I also know that you have good intentions, you can go back!" If there is no accident tomorrow, the Khitans will definitely attack, so have a good rest! ”

Pang Kongming breathed a sigh of relief and withdrew from the big tent to Li Cunhuan.

Why did Li Cunhuan say the military component before? The reason is that Li Cunhuan now has 8,000 troops stationed in Coyote Mountain and 3,000 Xingzhou soldiers, although they feel that Li Cunhuan gave them a home, but their most loyal object is still Li Cunxiao. And the other 5,000 Youzhou soldiers are about to be transferred, and they don't dump Li Cunhuan much. Of course, basic orders still have to be heard.

Needless to say, even if Li Cunxiao has no selfish intentions, the generals under him also have selfish intentions, they just have such a little capital, where will they accidentally keep it. And the Youzhou soldiers are even simpler, they are ready to return to Youzhou, from the generals to the soldiers, they all want to end the glorious and arduous career of this hard soldier and go home for the New Year.

Li Cunhuan chose to stick to the camp, where is it as simple as Chen Changfeng and Changsun Chengliang. Li Cunhuan now only has 3,000 Danzhou soldiers under his hands, and they are still overwhelmed, that is, the material for defending the city. In addition, there are 1,000 Hedong Army troops, they were organized into the black-clothed army by Li Cunhuan, but although the combat effectiveness is strong, it is also unruly, in such a short time, Li Cunhuan naturally cannot take them into account.

Now Li Cunhuan's situation can be described as dangerous enough, that is, the situation of walking a tightrope. However, Li Cunhuan is very smart, they skillfully united various forces, so that there is a balance between them, of course, this is indispensable to the help of the Khitan force. Otherwise, Li Cunhuan is now a nominal Danzhou defense envoy, where can he command so many large armies.

So in this case, any risky action will be resisted by others, especially the Youzhou Rong soldiers, who are all ready to return to Youzhou to meet their families. Who still wants to work hard at this season, if they don't want to lose their surname on this coyote mountain, they will naturally choose more safety plans as safe as they are.

After Li Cunhuan waited for Pang Kongming to leave, the confident smile on his face immediately disappeared, revealing a tired face. In fact, Li Cunhuan is not easy, but Li Cunhuan knows more that if he doesn't work hard, I'm afraid he will die miserably.

Because he just remembered who Liu Rengong was, he remembered the romance of the five dynasties he had heard before, in which Liu Rengong and his son established the Yan Kingdom on the land of Lulong, and conquered the Yan Kingdom when Li Keyong's son Li Cunqiao was proclaimed emperor.

And before here, that is to say, Liu Rengong conquered Lu Long with the support of Li Keyong. And Li Cunhuan has now looked at the situation, Zhu Wen is still digesting the area around Shandong that he has just captured, and there is friction with Yang Xingmi, the southern overlord, it is estimated that he can't take care of Li Ke's one-eyed dragon now. In Hedong, there are only four towns separating forces, Hedong, Lulong, Chengde, and Yiwu. Among them, Hedong is the strongest, Lu Long is second, Chengde and Yiwu are about the same, they are all half a catty to eight taels.