Li Maozhen looked at the military newspaper in his hand and frowned.

The weather is getting warmer, even if you live in Youzhou in the north, the midday sun is already roasting, which means that summer is coming. At the same time, this also means that the offensive of the Khitan army against Ping, Fu and other states has lasted for more than a month.

Li Ye sat in Chang'an, and the war in the north was handed over to King Qi, which put Li Maozhen under a lot of pressure. In the past two months, it can be said that I have been sleeping at night, and I have never had a moment of leisure.

Fortunately, although the battle in the north is fierce, there is nothing strange about the battle situation. The Tang army is still in the first stage of the war, and according to Li Ye's arrangement, the Tang army at this stage mainly adopts a defensive position, relying on mountains and rivers passes, strong bows and crossbows to consume the Khitan army.

After the Khitan army lost a certain degree and the soldiers were exhausted, the war would enter the second stage, and the Tang army would have the possibility of launching a counteroffensive and marching to the grassland.

Pingzhou Yuguan and Fuzhou Juyongguan, as two important towns, are now blocking the Khitan onslaught. In the past month or so, although the casualties of the soldiers have been small, the losses caused to the Khitan army are several times that of themselves. If the Khitan did not have any tricks, it would be difficult to burn the flames of war to Youzhou City.

Such a war scene is quite plausible.

Since ancient times, as long as the border defense is normal, few steppe cavalry can attack the Central Plains. Since the Anshi Rebellion of the Tang Dynasty, the national strength has declined, and the three towns of Hebei do not listen to the orders of the imperial court.

Before coming from Chang'an, Li Maozhen remembered that Li Ye said that as long as the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun are in our hands, the soldiers have a favorable land to rely on, and the grassland people must attack in an open and honest manner, unless we ourselves are too weak to speak.

The Tang Army, which has been fighting in the south and north in recent years, is naturally not a weak brigade. Therefore, even if the Khitan can crisscross the grassland, it will be difficult to come to the city of Youzhou.

The battle situation is like this, Li Maozhen has nothing to worry about.

But she is not a mediocre general, and the situation of nearly two months of fighting has made her discover something unusual. At this point in the war, although the Khitan army seemed to have been fully dispatched, its combat strength was not commendable in front of the Tang army.

This is the right thing to do.

But Li Maozhen doesn't think so.

She carefully deduced and estimated that if the Khitan army took out these armies in front of them, even if the Tang army did not have the various powerful magic weapons and crossbows newly developed by the craftsmen, they would not have the strength to attack the Great Wall.

"Yelu Abaoji hid the Sijin Division! It was another army that attacked under the banner of the Sijin Division at Yuguan. Judging from the Beikou battle report, the Khitan army that has been attacking them these days is not an ordinary army, and it is very likely that it is the Sijin Division!"

Li Maozhen had a flash of inspiration in her mind, and suddenly thought of this.

This made her heart tighten.

After the Khitan army attacked Beikou, she mobilized half of the Tiger Guards who had been preparing to enter Danzhou for a long time to face the sudden appearance of the Khitan army.

Originally, she thought that this was enough to deal with the situation in Beikou, but judging from the current battle reports everywhere, if there were really Si Jinbu among the hundreds of thousands of Khitan troops outside Beikou Pass, then half of the Tiger Guards would not be enough to defend the city, and they must all be pressed up!

Li Maozhen thought about it for a while, and immediately called Zhao Bingkun and asked him to lead the remaining 50,000 tiger guards to Beikou.

Since Zhao Nianci's death, Zhao Bingkun has been in poor spirits, which is also the reason why Li Maozhen sent the Tiger Guards to the battlefield in the end.

Hearing Li Maozhen's military order, Zhao Bingkun said in a hoarse voice: "If all the Tiger Guards are dispatched, King Qi will have no reserve soldiers and horses in his hands." Now that the battlefields are stalemate, if the Khitan has any more tricks, won't King Qi be helpless?"

Seeing that although Zhao Bingkun was skinny and skinny, and his sunken eyes were bloodshot, his thinking was still clear, Li Maozhen finally put some heart.

The other party is the humerus who supported her to achieve the royal industry, although there is no such thing as King Qi's great cause now, but the disciples of the military family have always remembered her follow-up.

"It's almost summer. This war has also reached the time to win or lose, and it is inevitable to do our best, as long as all the passes can be defended, we can realize the plan set by King An in advance. ”

When Li Maozhen said this, he hugged his fist to Zhao Bingkun, "Danzhou will ask General Zhao!"

Zhao Bingkun returned the salute and received the order, which was enough to say this, and he had no intention of not accepting the military order.

At this time, the fierce battle at Beikou Pass was in full swing.

Countless Khitan foot soldiers climbed up the city wall like ants, and under the leadership of the Qi cultivators who jumped up to the head of the city, they launched a fierce attack on the Tang army guarding the pass. The soldiers guarding the pass were naturally not to be outdone, and they met with knives and guns one after another, and the two sides collided together, and soon people turned over on their backs, and flesh and blood flew sideways.

The two dogs slashed down, disemboweled the Khitan warriors in front of him, and sprinkled the warm viscera on the ground, he was about to take out the knife again, and accidentally stepped on the opponent's liver under his feet, and almost fell down with a slippery slippery, although he stabilized his body in time, he was slashed on the shoulder by the Khitan warriors who followed.

If he didn't wear iron armor, this knife would break his arm up to the shoulder, but with armor protection, Ergouzi just felt a sharp pain in his shoulder, gritted his teeth and cut off the opponent's head with a knife under the frightened gaze of the Khitan warrior.

The comrades around Du Tou Niu Dan were killed by several Khitan monks, and he himself was entangled by a strong monk, seeing that he was overstretched, and his armor had been cut several times, and the two dogs roared angrily and pounced in two steps, holding a Khitan monk who wanted to shoot a cold gun and rolled to the ground.

The two fought in a pool of blood and corpses, and even used their teeth, and finally decided the winner. Although this Khitan monk has not yet achieved Qi training, he is also extremely powerful, and it is impossible for Ergouzi to defeat the other party, but in the end it was he who stood up crookedly.

This is not only because the two dogs attacked each other and took the lead, but also because his armor was tougher and firmer than the other party, and in the end, he hit it with his head, and he broke the opponent's facial features with his hard hood, which turned defeat into victory in a desperate situation.

Border troops like the Beikou Defenders, whose armor and blades are now the same as those of the Chang'an Forbidden Army, have just been redressed at the beginning of the year, and now they are playing an extraordinary role. Although the Khitans were brave, they were much inferior to the Tang army in terms of the benefits of the armor soldiers.

However, the second dog, who was lucky enough to pick up a life, was pierced through the thigh by a shot before he could stand firmly, and the defense here is weak. He fell down with a wail, and saw that he was about to be hacked to death by the two Khitans who rushed up, and suddenly the other party seemed to have been hit by a firing pin, and he fell out sideways.

It was Zhang Zai who crashed into the Khitans like a bull.

Zhang Zai in front of him couldn't see it anymore, he looked like a blood gourd covered in blood, and the sturdy nail leaves were cut through many holes, and the worst thing was that two nail leaves were still hanging down, and he looked a little like a beggar in terms of appearance.

Zhang Zaiyi pulled up the two dogs and threw them behind him, picked up a round shield from the ground and stuffed it for him, and fought with the Khitan warriors in front of him while holding the knife in both hands, while roaring and asking people to come and take the cow egg and the two dogs down.

If it was half a decade ago, when he saw Zhang Zai fighting forward on the battlefield of blood and fire, Ergouzi would definitely feel incredible; if it was five days ago, when he saw Zhang Zai picking up a knife, he still remembered the fighting skills, and Ergouzi would definitely be dumbfounded.

If it was three days ago, when he saw Zhang Zai, who was like a killing god, Ergouzi would definitely be dumbfounded.

But now, Ergouzi has no waves in his heart.

If he insisted on saying something, he wanted to cheer for Zhang Zai.

Since returning from acting as a ranger last time, Zhang Zai and others have been pestering cow eggs every day, asking Dutou to teach him the way of battle formation. Niu Dan was not very happy at first, but as the head of the capital, his subordinates wanted to train seriously, and he had no reason not to teach him.

As a result, three days later, Niu Dan was no longer Zhang Zai's opponent, whether he was fighting alone or with a team of people.

can become a literary teacher, Zhang Zai is undoubtedly smart, there are many people in this world who die reading, but there are also people who read and read to open up their wisdom skyrocketing, Zhang Zai obviously belongs to the latter.

No matter what kind of skill, he only needs to teach Niu Dan once, he can master a seven, seven, eighty, eight, eight, and when he practices it himself for a while, he can basically draw inferences, and when he gets up after a sleep, he has already entered the room.

Of course, this is also because Zhang Zai is a literary teacher. Today's Confucian scholars, although they are not good at fighting, but the root cause is that they don't look down on the courage of their husbands, and it's not that Confucianism didn't pay attention to these from the beginning. The six arts of a gentleman, archery and royalty are all among them.

Those who have no power to tie the chicken and can't twist the knife are called scholars, not Confucian gentlemen.

The original Confucian scholars most admired the four words of worshipping the general and entering the phase, that is, to be able to fight on the horse and govern when dismounted.

Although the aura of the scholar is not the qi of the Daomen, the improvement of physical fitness is also obvious. Therefore, the current Zhang Zai, after experiencing the stage of slashing with his eyes closed on the first day of fighting, knowing how to advance and retreat on the second day, and being able to use his combat skills freely on the third day of fighting, has now grown into a border killing god.

The price is not for nothing.

In the capital of Niu Dan, there were originally three Confucian students.

And now, Liu Dahe and another Confucian scholar have been killed in battle.

Of the more than 30 Confucian scholars who arrived at Beikou in the early days, there are now less than 10 left. On the eve of the opening of the war, a large number of Confucian scholars came, and there were as many as 300 terrifying people, and now there are less than 30% left.

Compared with the casualties of the border soldiers, the loss ratio of Confucian scholars is greater, and it is much larger.

The results are not for nothing.

The Confucian scholars who can still fight now have basically become killing gods.

If it is just a personal bravery, it can't be called a killing god in the eyes of Ergouzi, but if it is in addition to personal bravery, it can also stimulate the blood and qi of the comrades around him, making them several times more brave than usual, then it is definitely a killing god on the battlefield.

This is the case with Zhang Zai and the Confucian scholars at the moment.

On the battlefield of the Central Plains, Shangguan Chengcheng had seen Yangzhou Confucianism with his own eyes, and the effect of breaking out on the battlefield on the morale of the army was sharpened. If she were standing here now, she would be surprised.

Because Zhang Zai and the others not only improved the morale of their comrades, the heroic aura exuded from their bodies, but also improved the combat power of their companions, allowing the other party to follow them to cooperate in battle, and their strength was raised to a higher level.

It is a power that is not the power of a soldier, but it has the same end as it.