After the army left Yuguan in the west, on the great plain of Pingchuan, the advantage of the whole army of mules and horses was immediately manifested, and the speed of the march was amazingly fast.

At noon, the guards who stayed at the end of the line were more than 80 miles away from the west gate of Yuguan.

Under the premise of separating the four powers of military administration, military orders, military law, and logistics, Li Zhongyi has always been willing to delegate power. Since Yang Lie was appointed as the commander of the march, he simply led the guards to stay at the end of the entire army, so as not to make Yang Lie feel in the way and ask him for instructions and report everything, which would not be beautiful.

In Ye Xiaolan's opinion, Yang Lie's ability to lead the army is far better than that of Li Zhongyi, the sovereign, which is somewhat similar to Liu Bang and Han Xin.

Liu Bang has no more than 100,000 soldiers, but Han Xin is not afraid of more soldiers, but he is afraid of fewer soldiers, that is, Li Zhongyi often talks about the command and combat ability of the large corps.

Ye Xiaolan still clearly remembers the famous saying, the letter says: If people say, the cunning rabbit dies, and the good dog cooks; The high bird is exhausted, and the good bow is hidden; The enemy country is broken, and the ministers are killed; The world has been decided, and I will cook.

Han Xin died a tragic death, and Empress Lu tricked him into Changle Palace, and ordered the armor to stab him to death with a random gun. Han Xin burst into tears before his death, shouting: Regret not listening to Kuaitong's words!

Tang Taizong tasted the words, using history as a mirror, you can know the rise and fall!

Ye Xiaolan was born in the famous Ye family in Youzhou, and received a good family education since she was a child, and her knowledge is not necessarily much worse than that of the great Confucian.

Whether it is calligraphy or knowledge, Ye Xiaolan is far better than Zhu Niang and other concubines. Even if it is, Li Qiniang and Zhesaihua of the Jiangmen family are inferior to Ye Xiaolan.

Of course, Han Xianglan, who was born in the Han family, the first family in Youzhou, adheres to the family history that has not been passed down, and is one of Ye Xiaolan's biggest rivals in life.

As Li Zhongyi's inner study clerk, Ye Xiaolan has information that is far from what outsiders can imagine.

Under the ingenious system of checks and balances of military power, Li Zhongyi has indisputable absolute control over the Li family's army. Officers above the rank of the team must enter the lecture hall where Li Zhongyi is the head of the mountain to study for further study, and after completing the study, they must be summoned by Li Zhongyi.

The protégé of the whole army is also my protégé, this is what Li Zhongyi inadvertently said after drinking too much wine, but Ye Xiaolan listened to it.

More importantly, the mobilization of troops above the battalion level must be ordered by the Senate Department, signed by Li Zhongyi, and supervised by the Military Judge Advocate General's Department.

The more Ye Xiaolan pondered it, the more he felt that the military system designed by Li Zhongyi was really exquisite and wonderful, which was also the confidence that he dared to fully authorize Yang Lie to command the army.

The relationship between the commanders and generals is clear, and the bottom line of power and responsibility is also very clear, Li Zhongyi only needs to give a military order, and he can easily relieve Yang Lie of his military power, is it necessary to kill him in the future?

After the army entered the vast Luanhe Plain, it quickly spread out in three ways, and Li Zhongyi led the guards to hang leisurely at the end of the whole army.

Due to the limitations of roads and logistical supplies, the marching operations of this era must be divided.

However, the division of troops in this era is easy, and it is even more difficult to concentrate on gathering them.

Far away, not to mention it, Li Guang was forced to commit suicide and apologize because he lost his way and did not arrive at the designated combat location on time.

However, the Li family army has a unique map room, which has brought countless benefits and conveniences to the marching battle.

Since Li Zhongyi occupied Yuguan, the professionals of the surveying and mapping battalion to which Yutufang belonged followed the elite rebukes and traveled almost all over the area east of Youzhou.

The map is easy to make, but the work of winning over the Yanyun Han clan gate valve secretly presided over by Li Yanqing has progressed unusually slowly.

In the entire sixteen states of Yanyun, there are only a few very small Shu clan gate valves who secretly hook up with Li Zhongyi. Its purpose was just to take advantage of the opportunity of Yuguan to lock the trade route between Nanjing Road and Tokyo Road, and take the opportunity to make a windfall, but he had no intention of committing to the Han family.

Li Zhongyi actually understands this embarrassing situation very well, it has been nearly thirty years since Shi Jingjiao of the Shatuo clan sacrificed the sixteen states of Yanyun.

Objectively speaking, the Khitan people's implementation of the northern and southern official system, and the strategy of Han officials governing the Han Dynasty, have well encircled the Han intellectuals in the Yanyun area.

In this era of weak nationalism, for scholars, as long as they don't block their promotion rank as officials, in fact, it doesn't matter who becomes the emperor.

After the Later Jin Dynasty entered the Central Plains, the Han intellectuals, led by the Donglin Party, lowered the wild boar skins one after another, and all these people wanted was to keep their family wealth and official positions and power.

As for the Han officers and soldiers under the jurisdiction of Nanjing Dao, they enjoyed high-ranking officials and generous fortunes on weekdays, and they were extremely afraid of the heyday military might of the Khitans, and none of them dared to move closer to Li Zhongyi.

Li Zhongyi didn't mind whether the Han bureaucrats and generals in Nanjing Province were interested in the Han court, and it was gratifying to become solid, and since then there has been an internal response. No, and don't worry, since they are loyal to the Khitans, then they should speak with their swords and guns!

Therefore, before marching into Anxi, Li Zhongyi issued a secret warrant to generals at all levels: all the officials and gentry in the Khitan territory, or the giant businessmen, all of them were raided in one piece, and the captured men and women were reduced to slaves or maids.

In the warrant, Li Zhongyi emphasized one point: those who dare to resist the king of the Celestial Dynasty will be punished by all the men of his clan, and all the women will be used as officials!

The long-distance march was indeed very hard, Li Zhongyi simply got into Xiao Xuan's quilt, hugged the beautiful woman who was convex and backward, and slept beautifully.

With a lot of effort, Li Zhongyi fell asleep, and it was unusually sweet. Xiao Xuan gradually lost his breath because of the heavy head pressed on his chest. What's even more embarrassing is that one of Li Zhongyi's paws was actually on her inner thigh.

The conscience of heaven and earth, Xiao Xuan wanted to cut off that hateful claw fiercely, but because his hands were tied behind his back and his legs were tied into an M shape by silk ribbons, he could only be so angry that his eyes were red and tears were pouring out, and he couldn't help Li Zhongyi at all.

Just when Li Zhongyi dreamed that Zhou Gong was playing chess with him, he suddenly heard the earth-shattering roar of copper cannons, and he woke up in shock, and asked sharply, "What's the matter?" ”

Soon, Li Yunxiao rushed to the carriage, leaned in front of the window, and whispered: "Master, my guards passed through a dock fort, and its owner refused to open the door to surrender. ”

Li Zhongyi immediately came to his senses, and immediately instructed Li Yunxiao: "Set up the five bronze cannons of the artillery battalion three hundred steps in front of the fort gate, and wait for me to personally direct the firing of the cannons." ”

"Whoa." After Li Yunxiao received the order, he ran to mobilize the artillery team, and Li Zhongyi, under the service of Ye Xiaolan, tidied up his clothes, and then got off the car and rode on the "blood kill", surrounded by the personal soldiers, and followed Li Yunxiao's footsteps and rushed over.

When Li Zhongyi arrived, he found that the scale of the dock fort in front of him was really not small, the wall was about five zhang high, and the ditch in front of the fort was as wide as one zhang and about one zhang deep.

The walls of the fort were full of burghers armed with knives and guns, apparently intent on refusing to enter by force. There were arrows scattered everywhere on the ground, and Li Zhongyi knew at a glance that there were at least 100 archers in the fort.

Hmm, no wonder there are those who have the courage not to listen to the orders of the army, and dare to love is a hard thorn who pierces his hands.

It's just that Li Zhongyi felt strange in his heart, how could he not have seen such a large dock fort on the map?

The people in the Yutu room marched with the Senate Division, and Yang Lie of the Chinese army, Li Zhongyi sent someone to inquire about the Yutu room, while touching his chin and staring at the main gate of the dock fort.

The whole dock fort has long been surrounded by the soldiers of the guards, and in front of the fort gate, five bronze cannons are lined up.

Li Zhongyi had already seen the problem, the angle of the bronze cannon was adjusted too high, and if he was not careful, he would fly over the fort wall and smash into the fort.

From the manufacture of the bronze cannon to the firepower experiment, Li Zhongyi participated in the whole process, and he naturally understood that the dock fort in front of him happened to be a very meaningful actual combat bombardment attempt before the attack on Anxi.

"Attention all the artillery battalions, now listen to my command. The sword and shield men stepped forward to cover the gunners, and all the guns advanced to a hundred paces from the fort gate. ”

Since it was a combat training, Li Zhongyi simply adopted the tactic of putting bayonets on the artillery, advancing the artillery to a close distance to the fort gate, and adopting a strategy close to direct aiming.

Just as the sword and shield men were guarding the artillery, a shout suddenly came from the fortress wall, "Shoot the arrows, release the arrows quickly......

"Whoosh ......" a dense rain of arrows poured down, burrowing into the shields held high by the sword and shield bearers, making an aggressive and piercing sound.

Li Zhongyi was quite surprised, he took the monocular in the hand of his entourage, carefully observed the movement on the fort wall, and soon found that there were at least more than 100 archers concentrated on this fort wall.

"Xiaosong, the master of this fort is too arrogant, send the Divine Arm Crossbowmen forward, let them see the military might of our Han people." Li Zhongyi obviously held the attitude of a civet cat playing with a mouse, and wanted to wash it off.

Li Yunxiao was not in the mood to play, so he seriously mobilized his troops and horses, protected Li Zhongyi tightly, and when he had his hands free, he ordered the crossbowmen to line up behind the artillery.

If Li Zhongyi has three longs and two shorts because of the light enemy, the skin of Li Yunxiao's whole body is not enough for Yang Lie and others to peel.

"Three strikes, nine crossbows in a row!" As soon as Li Yunxiao came up, he made a ruthless move, with only one purpose, to completely suppress the archers on the fortress wall.

Just because, Li Zhongyi's figure moved forward with the artillery, and slowly walked into the range of the bow and crossbow on the dock fort.

In everything, he is not afraid of 10,000, but he is afraid of what happens, Li Yunxiao can't afford the tragic result of losing his handsome before the battle.

Li Zhongyi is not a fool and bold without a head, he dares to enter the range of the enemy's bow and arrow, and he must rely on it. The shield bearers of the Guards have all been trained to resemble the Roman tortoise formation, so as long as Li Zhongyi does not die by himself, there is no need to worry about safety.

"From left to right, fire three shots in succession." Guarded by a tortoise-shaped shield, Li Zhongyi commanded the officers and soldiers of the artillery battalion to set up a position and angle, and then issued an order for the bronze artillery to go into actual combat for the first time.