In the stable of a big cart shop in Macheng, there were Khitan soldiers hanging upside down under the thick beams and pillars, and the leather whips whistled and whipped on their bodies and faces, their leather robes had been stripped off, and the clothes on their bodies were like silk, which had long been broken, and the ground was full of messy fragments of clothes, and the clothes were stained with blood and frozen into crystal ice flowers.

Some people were already unconscious, and the whip was whipped on them, and they only instinctively twitched, and no longer screamed, so Zhou Jun poured salt water on him, and when he quickly woke up and screamed loudly, he raised the leather whip in his hand again and whipped it down fiercely.

The Zhou army suffered a lot of losses in the hands of the Khitans, and the officers and soldiers under Li Duozuo were the rest of their lives after the catastrophe, and how could they be polite to the enemy, and more than one Khitan had swallowed their breath under their whipping, and the dead were thrown on the snow outside the stable, frozen together, and became a blood-red ancient monster body like a hard root carving.

"I'll recruit ...... I recruited ......"

From time to time, some people could not hold back the never-ending, painful whipping, and weakly cried out for mercy.

Scourging is the simplest form of punishment, but it is enough to break the strongest of the strongest.

Those who begged for mercy were quickly untied from the roof of the shed, and dragged like dogs into a large, warm wooden house with six braziers, with a few low tables on the side, and a scribe recording confessions sitting in front of him, and a scout with a smiling face in front of him.

It is Yang Fan's intention to use scout soldiers as the chief judge, most of these illiterate military men are relatively thick, and calling them to interrogate confessions may leave out a lot of useful information, and the scout soldiers do this business, even if it is an illiterate man, he will become very sensitive in this regard.

There is more than one similar shack. All of them were used as interrogation rooms, and all the interrogation records were collected in a study in the front house, and Yang Fan was here, and all the records were gathered to him, and he organized, summarized, and analyzed. Now Yang Fan is serving as Li Duozuo's envoy to the marching Sima, and the staff officer of the military aircraft.

Yang Fan constantly sorted out the confessions of each Khitan who had been collected from them, all of whom were Khitans who had been captured in the Battle of Macheng, and there were some small leaders among them, who sorted out and analyzed everything they knew and compared them with each other. It's easy to weed out the false information and get the more accurate information.

Through this information, it can be seen that the Khitans intend to eat Macheng first and then swallow Qianjinye City as they analyzed. Then, the army that blocked Lou Shide and Wu Youyi on the north and south roads immediately retracted, taking advantage of its mobility advantage and quickly rushing back. Take down Lulon. thus forming a base with their old nest camp state.

This only confirms Yang Fan's analysis, now that they have broken the enemy's strategy of the Eastern Crusade, this news is no longer so important, the important thing is that from the confessions of these Khitans, Yang Fan learned that the Khitans were formulating this strategy. Someone has already been sent to the Turks to negotiate a peace alliance.

Obviously, the Khitans' series of victories, especially the two major defeats of the main Zhou army and the reaction of the two commanders, Wu Youyi and Wu Yizong, made them reluctant to capture Macheng and capture Qianjinye. Jihua, who established the base area, was very optimistic, and they didn't pay attention to Li Duozuo's remnants in advance.

And once this jihua succeeds, regardless of whether the Turks agree to make peace with them or not, it will be in the interests of the Khitans to connect the northeastern corner and establish a stable foundation. After coming to this conclusion, Yang Fan immediately rushed to the Shuai tent with the information he got and reported to Li Duozuo.

Li Duozuo's Chinese army marshal tent was set up in this big car shop, and all kinds of people in the marshal tent were busy, and some people were constantly marking something on the simple map. There are also people who are constantly issuing and signing all kinds of official letters, and the post guards are coming in and out, and they are in a hurry.

As soon as Yang Fan came in, several high-ranking generals stood up and greeted him politely. Li Duozuo's soldiers and generals are very miscellaneous now, but whether they used to be the generals of the border army, the generals of the forbidden army who have no one in their eyes, or the generals of the government army who have always been the only ones in their own territory, they all respect Yang Fan very much.

Because they know that this young man is the key to this great victory, and people in the military can disobey anyone, but they can't disobey those who have strength and military merits. Compared to them, those ordinary non-commissioned officers and low-ranking officers did not know Yang Fan's role in this battle, and turned a blind eye to his entry.

Yang Fan greeted them politely and walked into Li Duozuo's room.

"Congratulations to the General! Congratulations to the General! ”

As soon as Yang Fan entered, he saw Ma Qiao, Chu Yi, Li Mulan and other generals hugging Li Duozuo and saying goodbye.

Li Duozuo had a smile on his face, waved his hand to everyone and said, "Okay, okay, it's just that General Wu is unwell, and I will temporarily take command, and it's not a promotion, but ...... The soldiers and horses are mobilized by me, which will be of great help to our next battle, and I hope that all the brothers will work together with Li to bring back the prestige of our court with swords and victories! ”

"Willing to serve the general!"

"Swear allegiance to the general!"

As soon as Yang Fan opened the door, the noisy voices in the outer room came in, counting soldiers, calculating grain and grass, sending and receiving official documents, and asking the local government to send strong men to assist in the deployment.

As soon as Yang Fan closed the door, the thick curtain blocked the sound, but everyone had already seen him, and Li Duozuo smiled and said, "Our meritorious man is here!" ”

Yang Fan looked at everyone's happy faces, and couldn't help laughing: "It seems that there is a big happy event? ”

Ma Qiao hurriedly said: "Brother Fan, the imperial court ordered that the general should preside over all the military affairs of the Northern Route Army, and at the same time, he also sent someone to send a holy decree to Wu Youyi, telling him to hand over the military power and let our general command the whole army." ”

"Oh?"

Yang Fan was also overjoyed when he heard this, the so-called commendation and post-war promotion were not attractive to the generals who were in a dangerous situation. If the next battle is lost, all of this may be in vain, and if you die on the battlefield, it will be meaningless. At this time, a capable and prestigious general or reinforcements along the way is what they need most.

Whether it is Wu Yizong, who is now ridiculed by the Southern Army as a "pig riding general", or Wu Youyi, who is called "Turtle Shell General" by the Northern Army. He had long lost any prestige in the army, and Wu Zetian's attempt to make Wu's nephews establish prestige in this battle was a complete failure.

Wu Zetian is self-defeating this time, if she never lets these nephews lead the troops into battle, everyone is not sure whether they are capable or not, but this time, even an ordinary soldier will mock them with extremely harsh words with his comrades, and they can be said to have lost their foundation in the army.

Yang Fan was busy and said hello to Li Duozuo, Li Duozuo was very happy in his heart, but he forgot that no matter how he fought and how much credit he made. It is impossible for military power to be above Wu Youyi, and Wu Youyi temporarily handed over military power on the grounds of physical illness, and he fought the battle, and it was his responsibility to lose, and Wu Youyi still had merit if he won it.

And Wu Youyi has always been his immediate boss. Right now, this kind of thing makes Wu Youyi very undignified. Although it was out of Wu Zetian's will, Wu Youyi would definitely be angry with him.

Yang Fan congratulated a few words. Then he looked solemn. said: "General, the last general sorted out the confessions of the Khitans and got very important news!" ”

When Li Duozuo heard this, he immediately calmed down, and hurriedly waved his hand to make everyone stop laughing, and said, "Sit down." Captain Yang, tell me about what you have discovered. ”

"Yes!"

Yang Fan sat down beside Li Duozuo and said solemnly: "There are two news, one is happy and one is worried. Which will the general listen to first? ”

Li Duozuo was stunned for a moment, and said with a smile: "You kid, what kind of mystery are you playing in the handsome tent." Speak up! ”

Ma Qiao interjected: "Let's talk about the happy event first!" ”

Li Duozuo is a member of the Jin Dynasty, and when he was still the young patriarch of the Jin people, he participated in the affairs of the clan, and they did not have the strict laws of the Central Plains court, and the dignity and humility of the same class were not strict, and they were less particular about etiquette. His majesty Li Duozuo has a lot of clan habits, so his subordinates are not afraid, and they are casual in front of him.

Yang Fan said: "The good news is: Li Qianzhong is dead!" ”

The tent suddenly fell silent, and after a moment of silence, the generals were in an uproar, and the crowd was excited.

"Is that true?"

"Li Quanzhong is really dead?"

"The court has won the battle again?"

"Who killed Li Quanzhong?"

"Silence!"

Li Duozuo scolded, and the room immediately fell silent again, Li Duozuo stared at Yang Fan with blazing eyes and said, "Go on!" ”

When Li Duozuo saw Yang Fan talking about Li Quanzhong's death, he didn't show a happy smile on his face, and he knew that the worry he said was even more serious than Li Quanzhong's death, so he was worried in his heart, but he was even more nervous.

Yang Fan said: "When Li Qianzhong was setting up an ambush to deal with the men and horses of General Cao Renshi, he was hit by an arrow in the Huangzhang Valley. Since then, because of the repeated wars, the arrow has not been able to recuperate, coupled with the advanced age, it finally ran out of oil, and before General Wang Xiaojie led the troops north, Li Qianzhong was already dead.

Sun Wanrong was worried that the news of Li Quanzhong's death would shake the morale of the army, so he kept it secret, pretending that the Khan was sick and needed to go back to the mountains to recuperate, and he himself led the main force to ambush in the Dongxia Stone Valley again, and won a complete victory! ”

Li Duozuo immediately figured out the crux of the problem and said: "In other words, now that Li Duzhong's death can no longer deal a blow to the Khitans?" ”

Yang Fan nodded and said, "That's right!" However, the Khitans are still secretive to the outside world, but after the big victory, they announced the news to their own people, and diluted the impact of the matter with the power of the great victory, and the reason why they did not announce it to the public was because they did not want to grow the morale of the imperial court. ”

Ma Qiao said loudly: "Then let's announce it, plus the big victory in the battle of Macheng, and raise the prestige of the imperial court." ”

Li Duozuo said: "This matter is naturally to be done, but ...... Captain Yang, what worries you said...... What is it? ”

Yang Fan said in a deep voice: "The Khitans sent all the way to the east; Sent a messenger all the way west! The soldiers and horses to the east have already been defeated by us, and those people to the west, if their mission is successful, Liliang will be several times stronger in an instant! ”

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