Bailiyi's strategic deployment began to show its edge, and he used artillery not as a weapon to effectively kill and injure the Liao army, but as a tool to cut off the follow-up of the Liao army. The landing Liao army without follow-up troops was simply unable to resist the counter-charge of the new army, and the Liao army, which was not killed by muskets, only maintained less than half an hour of resistance before it collapsed.

The first offensive and defensive battle of the decisive battle of Ming Liao ended in a hurry, and the battle was only three and a half hours from the beginning to the end. It ended in a complete victory for the Ming army.

In the end, there were more than 10,000 corpses that died on the river beach, and nearly 10,000 people were captured, and when Baili Yi reported to Baili Wuji, a relatively conservative figure was adopted, and the casualties of the Liao army in this battle were no less than 30,000.

At the same time, from time to time, a small force of 5,000 men was sent to raid and reconnoiter the Ming army on the south bank.

The Ming army, as a side with a huge disparity in soldiers, could not carry out an effective sabotage war against the Liao army on the north bank, so it could only hold on and wait and see.

As a result, the two armies entered the stage of confrontation after the bloody battle, and each accumulated strength, plotted and planned to prepare for another battle in the future.

Baili Wuji has a new understanding of the command of Yelu Xiuge's battle, Yelu Xiuge can see that the front is gone, decisively order the whole army to retreat, out of the range of the Ming army's artillery without sending a large army to rescue, this is indeed very valuable, you know. If Yelu Hugo had sent a large army to reinforce at that time, nine times out of ten, the consequence would have been to directly follow in the footsteps of the battle of Yelu Jing's relocation of the state, even if the 600,000 troops were all pressed down. can't escape the fate of collapse.

"If it were Ayi, I'm afraid I would never be able to do such a thing." Baili Wuji secretly sighed, "Seeing 30,000 strikers disappear in front of me, how much perseverance does it take." ”

Under the salvo of thousands of organized artillery, even 600,000 iron cavalry who dared to attack against the wind would inevitably be wiped out.

Baili Wuji glanced at Yelu Hugh Gogao from this. This future Liao general in history has begun to show his extraordinaryness.

But Baili Wuji did not have the heart to solicit because of this, which is unrealistic. On the contrary, Baili Wuji had the intention of destroying Brother Yelu Hugh. He could not tolerate such a dangerous general in the Liao State.

In view of the dilemma that the Ming army could not take the initiative to effectively attack the Liao cavalry, Baili Wuji began a bold development, that is, the use of hot air balloons.

During the confrontation between the two armies, Baili Wuji mobilized three thousand guards to control three hot air balloons. But all failed. Baili Wuji makes people sew a round skin bag with a diameter of one zhang with skin. Then wax is added to the air intake for fuel, and rattan baskets are placed underneath for people to ride.

At the beginning, the hot air balloon can also slowly rise into the air, and the height of the hot air balloon can even reach more than 30 zhang, but as long as two people enter the rattan basket, the balloon cannot rise. That is to say, the hot air balloon simply cannot achieve the expected function in Baili Wuji's heart.

Baili Mowgli wants to use hot air balloons. At a critical time, the Liao army on the north bank was "beheaded" and destroyed the Chinese army tent of Miè Yelu Hugo in one fell swoop. In order to achieve the unified command and dispatch ability of the Liao army, so as to end the war as much as possible.

However, the three tests failed, much to the disappointment of Baili Wuji, who knew that the problem was likely to be fuel, but with the ability of this era, there was no better fuel to choose from.

Although the hot air balloon can rise to a safe height of more than 30 zhang and can avoid the shooting of any bow and crossbow of the Liao army, if even two people can't ride, then there is no hope of carrying gunpowder into the air, even if only one person takes it into the air, the excess load can only carry dozens of catties of gunpowder, and the explosion of this amount of gunpowder is completely unable to reach the expected power.

After all, throwing these dozens of catties of explosives in the air cannot be absolutely sure that it is hitting the Chinese military tent of Yelu Huge, and there are simply no people and technologies in this era who can do this.

Baili Wuji could only abandon this plan, but only organize the participants and send them to Jinling Mansion, hoping that the armory workshop would make a new breakthrough in the development of hot air balloons.

At this time, Xu Shouren led the special combat army to cross the Luan River north and came to the south bank of the Huang River, and then was officially included in the battle sequence under Baili Yi.

And when the bad news came, Chai Rong sent someone to send a handwritten letter, which had already been assembled and was ready to be sent to the north for reinforcements When the 50,000 Zhou forbidden troops marched to the north of Taiyuan Mansion, they were recalled by Chai Rong's order and turned to Lingzhou. The reason is that after receiving reports from Xiang Xun and Zhao Kuangyin, the Bu State once again sent a large army from the Ulugu River to the south of the Bu Wangfu, and the number of the army was as high as 150,000 rangers.

Baili Wuji heard the news and knew that with these 150,000 rangers in the south, it was impossible for Zhou Guo to provide him with any help. He even distracted himself to deploy the arming of the western Xinjiang in case of emergency.

Baili Wuji replied to Chai Rong on the one hand, telling him not to mind, and on the other hand, he issued an edict to grant Yunyang Hexi Zhenfu envoy to have military jurisdiction over the melons and sand of the Hexi Guiyi Army, the Uighur Su, Gan, and Liang regions of Yuan Jingqiong, and the Qinghai surrounding states of Jiaoluoluo, and have the right to supervise the leaders of the tribes.

In fact, the appointment of Baili Wuji has made Yunyang the nameless leader of the Hexi tribes. Baili Wuji ordered Yun Yang to actively prepare for war and assist the Zhou army in resisting the invasion of divination, without absolute power, I am afraid that it will not be able to play a real binding force on the Hexi tribes, after all, the Hexi tribes have been away from the central power for a long time.

In view of the unexpected death of the Uighur Khan Jingqiong of Ganzhou and the annihilation of the Uighur army, Baili Wuji issued an order to merge the Su, Gan, and Liang regions under the jurisdiction of Cao Yuanzhong, in order to fulfill the promise made to Cao Yuanzhong that day that the Su, Gan, and Liang regions would be under the control of the Guiyi army. As a result, the Guiyi Army once again reproduced the grand occasion of the Tang Dynasty Zhang Yichao Festival in the Hexi Corridor.

Baili Wuji also ordered Ma Jiyun of Chengdu Prefecture to actively deploy defenses to the west, especially the defense of Yazhou and Weizhou, in case Tubo has recovered its strength after more than a year, and it is ready to move.

After this arrangement, Baili Wuji obviously felt that the military strength of the Ming State was still slightly insufficient, but he did not want to recruit new soldiers, for Baili Wuji's heart, he did not want to be reckless, the Ming Kingdom now has about 300,000 elite troops and about 300,000 garrisons, and the total strength has reached more than 600,000 people, but with the continuous expansion of the territory, the strength is relatively stretched, and the duel by the Huang River makes Baili Wuji feel empty.

If there were another 100,000 new troops, the battle situation by the Huang River would never be as passive as it is now. Baili Wuji is caught in a dilemma between conscription and non-conscription.

……。 (To be continued......)