After this battle, Niu Gao was naturally very excited, but he didn't dare to be too proud in front of Li Jing, and when he entered the tent, he strode up to Li Jing and saluted respectfully.

"Having fun?"

Hearing Niu Gao's salute, Li Jing moved his gaze from the book to Niu Gao's body, and the corners of his mouth showed a slight smile, teasing.

"Hehe, no, lieutenant!

This Liao army is really too careless, and his grandmother is not addicted at all! ”

Niu Gao is a little stingy by nature, and when he heard Li Jing's ridicule, he became happy, smashed his mouth, and said with a look of unfinished business.

"Haha, you bastard, you get cheap and sell well! That's it, Ben Shuai doesn't bother to bother with you, what about people? Li Jing had already learned about the entire battlefield from Tanma, so naturally he didn't need to ask again, but asked with a smile.

"Back to the deputy marshal, the person has been taken out of the tent!"

Niu Gao is simple, he has always been unambiguous in major matters, and after listening to Li Jing's words, the playful expression on his face immediately retracted, and he replied with a fist.

"Bring it on!"

Li Jing glanced at Niu Gao quietly, and was very satisfied with his performance, so he commanded.

"Whoa!" Niu Gao respectfully agreed, turned around and strode to the entrance of the big tent, and shouted, "Bring that guy up!" ”

"Get down on my knees!"

Hearing Niu Gao's order, the sergeant of the Xiaoguo Army, who had been waiting outside the tent for a long time, hurriedly dragged the five-flowered Yelu Chucai into the tent and pressed it heavily to the ground.

"You're Yelu Chucai?"

After Li Jing looked at Yelu Chucai with interest, he asked lightly.

"Humph! A certain is Yelu Chucai, if you want to kill, you will kill, and you will not say much! ”

Yelu Chucai was furious by Li Jing's heart, and he was unwilling to admit defeat, so he roared with his neck, his voice was not small, but when he heard it, he was just angry.

"Oh? You're the bones, aren't you? That's it, since you are bent on death, this handsome man will be the beauty of an adult, and it will be fulfilled by you, and someone will drag it down and cut it down for me! ”

Li Jing looked at Yelu Chucai, who was stubble, how could he be concealed by his little trick, but this Yelu Chucai was of little use to him, and if he killed him, he would kill him.

It was in order to drink a snort, and the guards outside the tent rushed up, and dragged Yelu Chu out of the tent.

"Ahh No, spare your life, spare your life......"

Yelu Chucai is just pretending, who would have thought that the commander of the Zhou army was really going to kill him, he panicked, wailing and begging for mercy, but naturally no one in the tent pleaded for his enemy, and Niu Gao snorted coldly with disdain.

"The main force of the Liao army will arrive in Zhucheng in a few days, Yue Yun, you immediately order the troops to reorganize and fight to meet the Liao army!"

Disposed of Yelu Chucai, Li Jing immediately ordered to Yue Yun in a solemn voice.

"Whoa!"

……

Sure enough, within two days, the main army of the Liao State arrived under the cities.

Since the arrival of the Liao army, that is, the formation outside the Zhou camp in the place of Xu, hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses hunting and covering the sky, the intention is naturally to shake the military heart of the Zhou army with a grand force, but the Zhou army camp is stationed in the 12 guards of the imperial court The elite of the hundred battles will naturally not take such a scene in their eyes.

"Withdraw the army for five miles and set up camp!"

Seeing that the coercion of his own army did not work at all, Yeluqi frowned and ordered in a deep voice.

……

On the ninth day of the third month of the fourth year of Shenwu,

Li Jing was in the big tent of the Chinese army, and he was a little worried about the battle report he had just sent in his hand.

During this period of time, the Zhou army has won several games against the Liao army, but good luck cannot always favor them, and the Zhou army's grain transportation team was robbed by the Liao army three times in two days.

Because of the suddenness of the war, Li Jing waved his army to Zhucheng in a hurry, and it was impossible to bring enough grain and baggage in the army, so the commander Xie Xuan could only sit in Daxing Mansion to preside over the transportation of grain and baggage.

And the Zhou army's logistics battalion is located in the camp of Baohan Mountain, Baohan Mountain is located in the remaining veins of Chongling, the terrain is dangerous and easy to defend and difficult to attack, there is a general Su Dingfang personally led the main force of Zuo Ying Yangwei to sit in Baohan Mountain, and he is not afraid of the surprise attack of the Liao army.

However, the road of more than 200 miles from the camp of Baohan Mountain to Zhucheng is not so easy to walk, during which the terrain is complicated, there are both high mountains and hills, rivers, and dense forests and wastelands, and there are too many places that can be ambushed.

In addition, the Liao army was eyeing the tiger, and Li Jing did not dare to send too many troops to escort the grain and straw, so as to give the Liao army the opportunity to take advantage of the fire to rob, just yesterday, another grain transport team was robbed by the Liao army, and the thousands of officers and soldiers escorted were invincible, and the whole army was annihilated!

As for the grain and straw, there are still some in Li Jing's army, and it is not a problem to support them for more than ten days, but who knows how long the Liao army will be here? Such a small amount of food and grass is obviously not enough.

This grain and grass still has to be transported, but how to ensure safety, at least not cheapen the Liao army, has become a problem that Li Jing has to solve now.

In the final analysis, there is still a shortage of troops, if Li Jing can have more soldiers and horses in his hands, not only the problem of food and grass, but also the main force of the Liao army does not need to let him shrink so aggrievedly, just fight directly.

Li Jing had already carefully calculated the strength comparison between the two sides, and it was very clear that in order to hold back the main force of the Liao army so that they did not dare to move, at least 200,000 troops were needed, and at present, there were more than 170,000 soldiers and horses in the camp, which was barely enough, in other words, Li Jing did not have much mobile force in his hands.

Even if all of them were sent out to escort grain and grass, they would not necessarily be able to deter the Liao army from sneaking attack, and you must know that the Liao cavalry who robbed grain yesterday could be a full 30,000 people, and a mere few thousand grain soldiers were tantamount to wolves in the mouth of a tiger.

But no matter how difficult it is, it has to be fought, and the Liao army that came to rob the grain must be taught a hard lesson in order to ensure the safety of the grain transportation team, but how to fight this battle is very particular, after all, Li Jing does not want to have a head-on duel with the strong Liao army at all.

Then you can only use the psychology of the Liao army to rob grain to design a trap, of course, it is not easy to lure the Liao army to take the bait.

For this reason, Li Jing thought hard for a long time alone in the big tent of the Chinese army, and thought of one method after another, but he didn't dare to win, after all, there were not many troops available at hand, and it was unrealistic to transfer too many soldiers and horses from the camp under the watchful eye of the Liao army, so it seemed that he could only take a dangerous trip.

"Someone!"

When the interruption continues, it will be chaotic! Li Jing knew this truth very well, and after deducing the sand table a few times, he stood up violently and said loudly to the outside of the tent.

"The last general!"

Hearing Li Jing's call, Yue Yun, who had been waiting outside the tent for a long time, hurriedly walked into the big tent and saluted with his fists

"Excuse me, yesterday our army had another grain transport team wiped out, and thousands of soldiers were stained with blood.

I called you here to lead your army to escort the grain, how about it? Would you like to receive your life? Li Jingxu raised his hand, looked at Yue Yun with blazing eyes, and asked solemnly.

"The last will go!"

Listening to Li Jing's order, although he knew that he might never return, he still agreed without the slightest hesitation.

"Good! As the son of Pengju, this commander ordered you to immediately lead the 3,000 iron cavalry of the Crane Army to the camp of Baohan Mountain, and hand over this letter to General Su after arriving! He will give you an account, and you will do it. Hearing Yue Yun's wish, Li Jing's face couldn't help but soften a lot, and he handed the secret letter in his hand to Yue Yun and said.

"The last general commands!"

Yue Yun hurriedly took the secret letter and saluted with his fists.

"Go down and prepare!" Li Jing saw that Yue Yun understood, so he waved his hand and signaled.

"Whoa!"

……

Just when the Zhou army camp fell into a deep sleep, the Liao army camp was very lively, a celebration banquet was going on, although the grain robbery was only a small victory, but for the Liao army that had suffered repeated setbacks, it was a good opportunity to boost morale, Yeluqi would not let go of such an opportunity, in order to order a big banquet for the three armies.

"Report, Great Khan, more than 3,000 cavalry of the Zhou Army's Crane Army have left the camp and are rushing in the direction of Baohan Mountain!"

Just when the tent was very lively, a scout horse hurriedly arrived and reported the movements of the Zhou army, and for a while, the hustle and bustle of the audience suddenly disappeared without a trace, and all the generals fell on Yeluqi, who frowned slightly......

"What do you think about this?"

Yeluqi is not an idle person, what Li Jing can see clearly, Yeluqi can also do, so he dares to send a large team of soldiers and horses to cut off Li Jing's grain route, bullying Li Jing's embarrassment of the major general.

At this time, when he heard that Li Jing had sent troops to transport grain, he became suspicious, but he did not say anything, and then asked unhurriedly.

"Great Khan, this may be because there is no food in the Zhou army camp and he is panicking, so he sent an army to transport grain! Of course, it is more likely that there is fraud in it, knowing that we will rob the grain and send the army to transport the grain, I am afraid that the Zhou army has bad intentions, and please Khan Mingjian! ”

Xiao Guohui led the army to successfully rob the Zhou army's grain three times in a row, and naturally won a lot of money, but he was not complacent, he was still calm and abnormal, and he thought about it for a while before he spoke out to Yeluqi.

"Well, what Xiao Qing said is reasonable, the Zhou army is very anxious, and the grain and straw it carries must not be much, and it is inevitable that he is in a hurry to transport grain, as for the fraud..."Yeluqi said slowly after listening to Xiao Guohui's words.

"Great Khan, don't listen to what Xiao Guohui said about deception or not, the slave is willing to lead the troops and horses of his headquarters to attack, and he will definitely strangle the Zhou army on the spot!"

The one who spoke was Yelu Baohe, the deputy head of the Liao Imperial Guard

"Hmm!"

Yelu Baohe is one of the most elite cavalry units in Liao, called the "Regret Mountain Army", and is one of the only two heavy cavalry units in Liao. Hearing Yelu's request for peace, Yeluxin hummed undeniably.

"Great Khan!"

Seeing that Yeluqi didn't move in the middle of the sound, Yelubaohe couldn't help but be anxious, and clenched his fists again and asked for his life.

"Ben Khan's opinion is the same as Xiao Qing's, in Ben Khan's opinion, the Zhou army's grain transportation is fake, and it is true to lure our army to attack, and the left and right are just ambushes, but there is nothing unusual at all!

Thinking that Li Jing'er, who didn't know that came out of the cracks, even though he was full of cunning, but his soldiers and major generals were outnumbered, what could he do to me, Ben Khan saw that he was just dying, since he dared to set up an ambush with me, then Ben Khan ate the bait and the fisherman! ”

Yeluqi ignored Yelubao and asked to fight again, but said with an impassioned expression.

"The Great Khan is wise!"

The generals in the tent have been following Yeluqi for a long time, and the five bodies who have always been convinced of Yeluqi's judgment are to listen to what Yeluqi said, and the generals in the tent are complimentary.

"Good!"

Seeing that all the generals in the tent had understood what they meant, Yeluqi Huoran stood up and said with a solemn face.

"Jerubaohe!"

"The slave is here!"

As soon as Yelubaohe heard Yeluqi call out his name, he became excited and hurriedly bowed down to answer the promise.

"Ben Khan ordered you to lead the mountain army as the vanguard, ambush in the area of Hutou Mountain, and wait for the Zhou army to transport grain, then send troops to take the grain, and immediately retreat to the northwest after success, if there is a Zhou army to chase and not fall in love, you can kill all the grain and horses and retreat, if the Zhou army is in hot pursuit, you can introduce it into Qiheyuan!" Yeluqi waved his hand and ordered in a slightly excited tone.

"Oh, slave command!"

Yelubaohe listened to Yeluqi's instructions, and he was very excited, and hurriedly agreed.