The general Li Congjing who put forward this opinion knew Xu Daring, a graduate of the first phase of the Youzhou Performing Arts Academy, and was in the same class as An Chongzhi and Zhao Hongyin. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info was already a commander when he entered the Martial Arts Academy, and now he is one of the few senior generals in Lu Long's army, and he is very important to Li Yanchao.

Xu Daring's analysis is not unreasonable.

Let Yelubei and Yelu Deguang hurt each other, so as to weaken the Khitan national strength, this is the meaning of the title of Lu Long's army going north, and according to Xu Daring's suggestion, Lu Long's army standing in the city is undoubtedly a very effective way to fight in the face of the Raozhou army, and it is a strategy to promote strengths and avoid weaknesses.

"It's feasible to retreat to Yikun Prefecture, but we have to solve a problem first." Li Yanchao touched his chin and groaned and looked at Li Congjing.

Li Congjing naturally knew what trouble Li Yanchao was talking about.

At this time, there were more than 10,000 Khitan captives in Yikun Prefecture. If Lu Longjun wants to retreat to Yikun Prefecture, he must first deal with this group of prisoners. Otherwise, once the Lu Long army and the Raozhou army held each other for a long time and did not use the heavenly punishment to quickly repel Yelu's enemy, the Khitan captives in Yikun Prefecture would lose their reverence for the heavenly punishment. Once the Khitan captives regained their fighting spirit and gathered all the people in chaos, the movement of nearly 20,000 people was tantamount to a disaster.

Originally, in response to this group of captives, Li Congjing's plan was to escort them back to Youzhou, under the control of Lu Longjun, for Youzhou Tuntian, which was the best way to give full play to their value. It's just that the captives haven't had time to be taken back yet, and most of them are still stranded in the city.

Li Yanchao looked at Li Congjing because only Li Congjing could give an order in this matter.

Kill prisoners.

Li Congjing shook his head, "The Khitan captives in Yikun Prefecture don't need to be killed, and they can't be killed. He looked around at the generals, "War is a continuation of politics, and a war without a political purpose is a senseless killing." This time, King Gu sent Lu Longjun to the north, in order to declare the authority of the Tang monarchy to the Khitan, to support the pro-Tang faction in the Khitan, but also to protect the Tang people in the Khitan, and fundamentally speaking, it was also for the empire's long-term plan to rule the grassland in the future. ”

"To achieve these goals, the army of the kings of my Tang Empire must use an unstoppable momentum to defeat all those who dare to stop them, and drive straight into the West Tower to replace the Khitan with an emperor." There was a sharp edge in Li Congjing's eyes, "Yelu Bei and Yelu Deguang can fight and be injured, but they must be under the surveillance and control of the Tang Empire, and Yelu Enemy Lie must be defeated, but not to retreat dangerously, but to attack and make it crush!" ”

Therefore, this battle is not about being able to win, but about being able to sweep away the leaves with the autumn wind and thunder. The purpose of this battle is to make all the tribes of the grassland afraid of our Tang Dynasty because of this, and they no longer have the courage to fight with our Tang Army. Is the Yikun State defense line strong? The lonely king was broken one day. But is that enough? Inadequate. Is the elite army of 50,000 of Jerod's enemies? Elite. But no matter how elite he is, the Lone King will be defeated in one battle! ”

"In this way, the grassland will know that I, the king of the Tang Dynasty, are invincible in the world by destroying cities and villages, and rushing to fight. In the future, wherever my Tang Dynasty King goes, all the troops will be afraid, so that we can truly achieve the goal of surrendering without a fight! Li Congjing paused and looked at everyone, "In a word, this battle is a battle to promote national prestige and military prestige, a battle to defeat the heart of disobedience, and a battle to establish the supreme majesty of our Tang Empire!" The lonely king asked you, do you dare to fight?! ”

"I'll dare to fight!" All the soldiers understood Li Congjing's intentions, and they all felt a burst of spirit, and at this time, they were all impassioned, and they hugged their fists and promised loudly.

"Good!" Li Congjing waved his hand, "Take the picture!" ”

Du Qianshu hurriedly presented the map, Li Congjing hung it in front of the tent wall, asked for the horizontal knife of the guard, pulled out and pointed to the map, and said to the generals: "Fifty miles north of this, there is a place called Wanma Slope, which is the highest slope within a hundred miles, if we can occupy this place, our army can calmly set up a formation in front of the mountain, relying on the geographical advantage to let the Raozhou army teach our army how powerful!" ”

The previous generous words certainly boosted morale, but the formation of the battle alone is not enough, and you have to pay attention to the way of the battle, Li Congjing has long been prepared for this, so he is confident, "The Lone King has ordered Li Yanrao to retreat and occupy this place, waiting for the main force of the army to come to help." ”

Retracting the horizontal knife, Li Congjing looked at the generals, "Li Yanrao has 3,000 fine horses, but in the face of Raozhou's vanguard 10,000 horses, it is unknown whether he can hold the 10,000-horse slope, or how long he can hold it." The army will make dinner tomorrow on the third watch, pull out the camp on the fifth watch, and rush to Wanmapo at full speed, there must be no mistake! ”

"The last general commands!" The generals clenched their fists.

After the generals withdrew from the big tent, Li Congjing looked at the map with his hands.

The war is imminent, and his heart is like water.

Explosives are not conducive to the battle, and tomorrow's battle is destined to play little role. But the Tang Army has been fighting for many years, and it is not relying on explosives!

The words are divided into two ends. Let's talk about Li Yanrao.

When Li Yanrao received Li Congjing's order to retreat, the vanguard of Raozhou was not very far away from them, Li Yanrao was a thoughtful character, if it was Li Yanchao or some radicals here, he would have to have the mind of beating him first and then leaving, he directly ordered the whole army to retreat.

"General, there's a tail hanging behind us!" After getting the report, Li Yanrao turned his horse's head around and turned around to look, and sure enough, he saw dozens of Khitan cavalry behind the army.

"Damn, in broad daylight, staring at Lao Tzu so blatantly, is there any royal law!" Although Li Yanrao said that he was gentle, it was also compared to the explosive barrel in the army, where was it really good to match, "Xu Jing!" Bring someone over to Lao Tzu and teach these barbarians how to behave! ”

Xu Jing is Li Yanrao's favorite general, eagle-eyed and tiger-faced, young, and looks like he is only twenty-five or sixteen, but he is already a veteran of the battlefield.

Later, the dozens of Khitan horsemen saw that the Tang army had divided a hundred horsemen back to stop them, and the centurion led by him immediately ordered his troops to slow down and go around to the side. Watching the enemy's movements is afraid that the other party will send someone to block it, this centurion is also a clever man, and he abandons the pursuit.

Of course, if Xu Jing goes back, he will have to keep up.

Generally speaking, it is almost the same to force the tracking eyeliner to stop or retreat, after all, everyone is a cavalry, and if you really want to hit someone, they can still run.

Xu Jing didn't care about this, he saw the Khitan cavalry walking around slowly, sneered, stretched out his hand and stroked a few circles in front of his head, and the parts behind him immediately dispersed and surrounded the dozens of horsemen.

When the Khitan centurion saw Xu Jing behaving like this, he was immediately furious, and said that this was too arrogant and bullying, and he actually had the idea of eating Lao Tzu, and he was immediately unhappy, and secretly said that although you have a hundred horses, Lao Tzu has nearly a hundred horses, and you are really afraid of who - you still dare to spread out the tribe to surround Lao Tzu, is it tolerable or unbearable. Then he shouted, led his troops into a sharp arrow, and concentrated his strength to meet Xu Jing, wanting to kill the opponent's men and horses.

Xu Jing saw that the other party was coming up, a trace of contempt appeared on his dark face, and without saying a word, he pulled out the horizontal knife, and the horse was fully deployed, entering the state of charging into the formation.

When the centurion saw Xu Jing holding on like this, he was even more angry, and he also rushed up to meet him.

When the distance between the two sides was only a few hundred steps, and Xu Jing did not see how to move, his subordinates suddenly began to change formations, and the scattered hundred horses gathered in the middle into three, about fifty horses in the middle, and more than 20 horses on each wing, because the distance between them was short, so it could be completed before the two sides made contact.

When Xu Jing's change of formation was about to be completed, the Khitan centurion noticed the abnormality, and his heart rose sharply, but because of Xu Jing's sudden change of formation, the centurion found that something was wrong at this time, and the distance between the two sides was only about two hundred steps, and it was too late to think of any response.

Xu Jing's department, in the shape of an inverted product, killed the Khitan cavalry.

As soon as the two sides came into contact, Xu Jing immediately connected with the Khitan cavalry with his headquarters, and the troops on both sides were like two sharp arrows, passing from the left and right of the Khitan army array.

It was indeed two sharp arrows, because they did not rush into the Khitan army formation, but took it by surprise and shot the Khitan cavalry with bows and arrows!

The Khitan cavalry was suddenly wounded, especially the cavalry on the periphery of the two wings, which suffered heavy blows, and several people fell off their horses in a moment.

The Khitan cavalry hurriedly returned fire with bows and arrows, but in the end they did not take the initiative to attack and lost the first hand, plus the Lu Long army had already taken precautions and protected themselves with a round shield, and the Khitan cavalry did not reap much results.

At this time, Xu Jing's headquarters had already entered the Khitan army formation! Those Khitan cavalrymen who hurriedly released arrows had to be busy changing their sabers, and they were in a hurry for a while.

The Lulong Ma army on both flanks went around behind the Khitan formation and came back again. They did not rush into the formation, but only roamed the two wings, and responded to Xu Jing's headquarters with bows and arrows, which immediately overstretched the Khitan army and overwhelmed it.

Lu Longjun with half of the force to meet the Khitan cavalry head-on, with the other half of the force to move in response, this style of play from the beginning of the scattered hunting, to the middle of the rapid gathering and change of formation, and then to the final multi-faceted attack, seemingly simple, in fact, the integration of the art of war to show the enemy to weak, provoke the enemy generals, lure the enemy deep, surprise, preemptive, use strengths and avoid weaknesses and other methods, coupled with the soldiers to cooperate skillfully and tacitly, it can be seen that it is not Xu Jing's temporary arrangement.

Either it was a temporary idea, or it was a customary tactical exercise.

This is the well-trained border army of the Tang Dynasty!

That Xu Jing is also a brave man, not long after the meeting, he injured the Khitan centurion, and under the multi-pronged approach, Lu Longjun, who was already superior in numbers, immediately killed the Khitan rangers so that they could not find the north.

Fortunately, the Khitan centurion was not stubborn, and seeing that the situation was unfavorable, he immediately ordered a breakthrough and retreat.

It's just that by the time he covered his wounds and escaped, nearly half of his subordinates had been eaten by Xu Jing.

What's even more infuriating is that Xu Jing was unforgiving, and even let go of the horse's hooves to start a pursuit.

The centurion secretly complained, although he was angry but helpless, he ran all the way, and the parts behind him also decreased all the way, that Xu Jing was like an insatiable ogre devil, biting off a few of his clansmen from time to time.

Although he encountered some Khitan rangers on the way, due to the small number of people, he could not form an effective counterattack at all, and finally he could only join the centurion's escape team in grief.

When the centurion finally joined the army, it was already dozens of miles later, and there were dozens of people beside him, but most of them were rangers who joined him on the road and fled for their lives, and his original subordinates were now less than twenty.

This was not over, and then the centurion was sad and angry to find that Xu Jing did not retreat immediately, but followed their previous appearance and started to monitor their army!

Only this time the two sides switched positions.

After being taught how to behave so nakedly, the centurion finally couldn't get angry, and fainted in front of him.