The cattle, sheep, forage and other materials transported into the customs from Zhongjing Road, as well as the grain, cloth and other materials transported from Nanjing Road to Zhongjing, were all intercepted by Li Zhongyi in Yuguan.

In addition, the large amount of military supplies that Yuguan had already hoarded brought about a welcome consequence: the northward army commanded by Li Zhongyi was extremely abundant in grain, grass, baggage, bows, crossbows and weapons, etc.

There are four Khitan cities closest to Yuguan, Wangdu County in the west, Lulongping Prefecture in the northwest, Yingzhou in the southwest, and Runzhou in the northeast.

Li Zhongyi sat behind the handsome case, drinking tea while listening to the arguments of the brothers in the Senate.

Now that the dangerous Yuguan has been taken, the battle situation has changed significantly, and the senators of the Senate Division have also been divided into two factions.

One faction advocated that the army should march west out of Yuguan, and take Yingzhou first, and then take Pingzhou in Lulong, so as to create a dangerous flank for the Khitans on the line of the Baigou River. Its purpose was to force the Khitans and transfer troops to the east to relieve the pressure on the main force of the Zhou army south of the Baigou River.

The other faction of senators advocated avoiding the main force of the Khitans, stationing the Yuguan with the Yulin Right Guard, which was extremely dangerous, and then concentrating the Flying Dragon Cavalry, the Dangxiang Cavalry, and the main force of the Yulin Right Guard, to go east out of Runzhou and Qianzhou, and completely remove the passage for the northward army to retreat eastward to the south.

These two factions fought for each other, refused to give in to each other, and some even slapped the table regardless of decency.

Li Zhongyi has been quietly drinking tea, watching plays, and watching the changes. From Li Zhongyi's original intention, if there is no need to participate in the discussion, then there is no need to establish the so-called Senate Division.

In Li Zhongyi's army. There has always been a good tradition, and that is. Before he made a decision, no matter who he was, he could speak freely. Without restraint.

Yang Lie gently shook the folding fan, while knocking on the fragrant spiced sunflower seeds, and from time to time called the tooth soldiers to continue the tea, but Leng was silent.

"Bai Xing, the war horses in the city are all allocated to the infantry army?" Li Zhongyi couldn't get used to Yang Lie's leisure, and deliberately picked on his thorns.

Yang Lie closed the folding fan and said with a solemn face: "A total of 20,000 high-quality Khitan horses and more than 10,000 infantry troops have been captured. Each of them got a horse. It's just that these Khitans are much shorter than Hetao horses, and I'm afraid that the speed of the attack in front of the formation is not ideal. ”

Li Zhongyi smiled slightly, the so-called Khitan horse in Yang Lie's mouth was actually the later "Mongolian horse".

MONGOLIAN HORSES ARE NOT LARGE, WITH AN AVERAGE SHOULDER HEIGHT BETWEEN 120 CM AND 135 CM, AND A THICK BODY. The limbs are solid and powerful, the physique is rough and strong, the head is large and the forehead is broad, and the chest is deep and long. The legs are short, the joints and tendons are well developed, and the hair is thick. The coat color is complex, mostly green, mulberry and rabbit brown.

The sprint speed of a Mongolian horse. It's not as good as the tall Hetao horses, but. The advantages of Mongolian horses are also obvious: hardworking, not afraid of cold, able to adapt to extremely extensive breeding management, extremely vigorous, and able to survive in harsh conditions.

Under normal circumstances, Mongolia can travel about 60 kilometers in four hours. The well-trained Mongolian horse, which is not frightened or deceived on the battlefield, is extremely brave, and has always been a good military horse.

When Li Zhongyi was in the northwest, he had a few Mongolian horses, and he once made a special job: riding a Mongolian horse to march on the grassland, but he could travel 100~200 miles a day, for more than 10 days in a row, but he was not tired.

Of course, it is not the same thing to march alone and lightly armed with a large army carrying a heavy load.

In the more than two years of Kaifeng, Yang Lie tried his best to let the infantry soldiers of Yulin's right guard learn to walk horses.

Since Li Zhongyi took the land of the Northwest Hetao, the Privy Council has not treated Yulin Right Guard badly, and the war horses allocated to Yulin Right Guard, although there are only a few hundred, are also precious.

These war horses were actually equipped for the officers, and Yang Lie simply gathered these horses and taught all the soldiers to walk the horses in phases and batches.

That's right, it's really a horseback, that is, marching on horseback, rather than charging into battle.

This time, after taking Yuguan, he got more than 10,000 war horses in Yelu'an's hands, which just solved the problem of tools for the long-distance trek of the Yulin Right Guard.

The boss and his immediate boss sat and chatted, but the senators were arguing about each other, and their noisy voices could almost tear down the roof.

Hehe, the Shuai Mansion is about to become a vegetable market, Li Zhongyi glanced at Yang Lie interestingly. Yang Lie just raised his head, perhaps sensing that Li Zhongyi's eyes were a little strange, and he said with a smile: "Students have always remembered the teacher's teachings, and military operations are actually a science that is very worthy of in-depth exploration and summary. ”

Li Zhongyi touched his chin, didn't squeak, but teased Yang Lie in his heart, stinky boy, do you know what science is?

Yang Lie really didn't know what science was, but he could figure out what Li Zhongyi really thought now.

The main army of the Khitan people is all west of Yuguan, and although there are many soldiers and horses from the military state on this side of Zhongjing Road, they are basically in a state of scattered sand.

The so-called military state under the head is actually that in the early wars of conquest, the Khitan military aristocracy plundered a large number of people of various ethnic groups, especially the Han and Bohai people, as their private slaves.

These Khitan military aristocrats gathered these slaves together and privately established organizations such as state and county castles, which were called headies.

At the latest, from the third year of the Liao Taizong Yelu Deguang meeting (940), with permission, some large-scale private cities were established as states, set up armies, and placed officials, and became the first military states. The scale is second to that of the military state, as well as counties (cities) and forts, which are divided into three classes.

Only the prince, uncle, and princess can build a city, and the rest of the military states are just some walled forts, farms, and pastures. Among them, the largest one is about 10,000 households in the Touxia Military Prefecture, and the average Touxia Military Prefecture has only one or two thousand or two or three thousand households each.

A few Han ministers who defected to the Khitans also owned military states. For example, Han Kuangsi and his son Han Derang have their own military states, which can be regarded as private territories for rewards.

Today, Yelujing, the sleeping emperor of the Khitan, due to the need to resist the Northern Expedition of the Zhou army, has transferred a large number of garrisons near Nanjing Road and Zhongjing Road. Therefore, compared with the Nanjing Road where the heavy troops gathered, the southern area of the Khitan Zhongjing Road was completely exposed to Li Zhongyi as if she had been stripped into an aar.

In the end, after some quarrels, the senators of the Senate Department reached a consensus: 5,000 infantry troops were stationed in Yuguan, and the rest of the main force attacked Runzhou and Qianzhou to the east.

What Li Zhongyi did not expect was that the senators took the initiative to put forward the operational essentials of this sortie: to liberate the slaves of all ethnic groups and jointly resist the brutal Khitans.

Li Zhongyi glanced at Yang Lie, who deliberately lowered his head, and he thought to himself, I'm afraid that it was the local tyrants he did in the northwest and the business of dividing the fields was digested and absorbed by Yang Lie, this kid!

The vast majority of the subjects of the Great Zhou Empire were Han Chinese, and the population of the main ethnic group occupied an absolute advantage.

However, the land of the Khitan people is basically a mixed state of herdsmen of various ethnic groups, and the pure Khitan people are always a minority.

Hehe, to provoke contradictions between the barbarians of the grassland, Li Zhongyi not only did it in the northwest, but also did it handily. (To be continued......)