At the beginning of the war, the battle situation was not over, and Li Shaocheng's rest could only be a little psychological relaxation, not physical.

The soldiers were quickly cleaning up the battlefield, and Li Shaocheng and Da Ming Xing accompanied Li Congjing to the slope of Daokou Mountain to look at the movement of the near division in the distance.

The sky is still dark, and it is impossible to see it from far and near, but the rangers have already been dispatched, and they are not worried that they will not be able to detect the movements of the near division.

"After this battle, before daylight, the division of the near division will definitely not dare to come rashly again, this has freed up extremely valuable time for the coalition forces, and it is better for us to evacuate this place as soon as possible." The breeze is blowing, the moon and stars are sinking, and the lights are faint on the wilderness in front of the mountain, it is the soldiers cleaning the battlefield, Daming Xing breathed a sigh of relief, and suggested to Li Congjing.

Li Congjing stood with his hands in his hands, and the night could not let him wander, but this did not prevent him from raising his eyebrows and looking comfortable. Although the current battle has ended, the victory is certainly morale-boosting, but the battle situation has not changed substantially, the journey is long, and the road ahead is not yet known, but Li Congjing does not seem worried. Close your eyes and take a deep breath, the smell of the wilderness makes you feel free from the bottom of your heart, and it is so unrestrained that you want to sing loudly.

"What the old general said is true, the army should indeed evacuate this place in time, but not everyone."

"Why is that?" Da Ming Xing was stunned, "Could it be that General Li still wants to move forward?" Then you have to encounter the army of Yelu Abaoji! ”

Li Congjing raised his arm, moved his fingers, and the clerk of the staff office who followed him immediately stepped forward, took off his backpack, took out a picture from it, and unfolded it in front of everyone.

Li Congjing's hand was on the map, crossed three arcs from different positions, and said to Li Shaocheng and Daming Xing: "On the way here, Ben Shuai received the latest scout report: Yelu Abaoji personally led 100,000 middle route troops to the north, and the soldiers were divided into three routes, the west road passed through Xingshui and approached Shuangtong, the east road passed through Yecheng and approached Jiuyang, and the middle road passed through Heishi Ling to take Yitai. The three roads were divided into separate attacks and attacked, with a protrusion in the middle and a detour on both sides, to adopt an encirclement posture against our coalition forces. At present, its west road has reached Xingshuihe County, and the east road is only a day's journey from Yecheng. This is the situation that our army is facing at the moment. ”

Daming Xing's color changed slightly, "Yelu Abaoji is going to trap our army to death between Shuangtong, Yitai, and Jiuyang, and encircle it with an iron wall, so that we have to fight a decisive battle with it!" ”

Li Shaocheng sneered, "It's just a decisive battle, Yelu Abaoji wants to annihilate us here." Typical hunting method. ”

"The method of hunting originates from the way the wolves hunt for food, and the Khitan is accustomed to using tricks, and it is also the most skillful tactic they use." Li Congjing nodded and said, "The grassland people have learned a lot from the wolves. ”

Yelu Abaoji's three-way march route has been marked on the map by the staff office with arrows, forming a closed circle, Li Congjing's finger fell in the middle of the circle, and continued: "Yelu Abaoji's encirclement has been half formed, this is where our army is now, it can be seen that the position of our army going south has been blocked, and the route to break through is full of enemy troops. At present, only the north does not have a Khitan army. ”

"In the north is Yanjie Mansion, where the land is poor and the people are poor, but it is also my Bohai Sea land, and at present, it seems that the only way to retreat into Yanjie Mansion is to strive for strategic change." Da Ming Xing groaned.

Li Shaocheng's voice was cold, "Surround three queyi, but this is a common method used by my Central Plains army to attack the city and pull out the village." It's just that the empty portal is never a door to life, but a place of death! ”

Da Ming Xing's face was slightly ugly.

Li Congjing said: "Not bad. In terms of the current situation, if our army retreats northward, it will obviously be in the hands of Yelu Abao. Everyone, please see, our army is now in the middle of the circle, if it retreats north, with the foot strength of the Khitan army, the Chinese army only needs to entangle us with light cavalry, and the east and west armies can take the opportunity to successfully complete the encirclement! At that time, we will really have no way to go to heaven and no way to enter the earth, and we can only be forced to fight a decisive battle with the Khitan. ”

"And what should our army do?" Da Ming Xing ran out of ideas for a while, frowning and pondering.

"Breaking through, this is an undoubted strategy, because our army can only advance, not retreat." Li Congjing concisely and concisely set the major policies.

Da Ming Xing said tentatively: "Can we concentrate our forces and attack all the way, in order to quickly break the enemy and open a breakthrough for our army?" ”

Li Congjing shook his head, "It's almost impossible. In the previous battle with the Khitan army, the reason why we were able to break the enemy in one battle was because the Khitan army had the heart to underestimate the enemy, rushed forward, and underestimated the combat strength of our Youzhou army, which gave our army an opportunity to take advantage of. Now after two battles, it is impossible for the Khitan army to be so careless, and it is not only more difficult to defeat its soldiers and horses all the way as quickly as before, but once it is delayed, when its reinforcements arrive, we will be sent to the door and trapped by it. ”

"So what's going to be done?" Da Ming Xing was anxious.

is not as good as Da Ming Xing, Li Shaocheng has followed Li Congjing for so long, and he has long been clear about Li Congjing's habits, he is not half worried, and said calmly, "Presumably the military commander has a way to break the situation, I would like to hear it." ”

Hearing Li Shaocheng say this, Da Ming Xing looked at Li Congjing in surprise. Only then did he realize that from beginning to end, Li Congjing was calm and relaxed, and he was not half worried. He couldn't help but wonder: Since Li Congjing has seen through the situation, is he really already in the chest? But if the situation is like this, Da Ming Xing can't think of a way to deal with it, the current situation is like a dead end, what is Li Congjing's clever plan?

Li Congjing waved his hand, signaled the clerk of the staff office to put away the map, smiled slightly, and said: "Yelu Abaoji abandoned the Xiande Mansion and personally led the Khitan Middle Route Army to fight with me in the north, and laid an iron wall for me to encircle the situation. But it's a pity that his attention is still not enough! ”

It was dark, and the army was ready to go.

Different from the large army gathered in the mountain road, there are 3,000 horsemen gathered at the mountain pass, the formation is neat, the soldiers are solemn, and the war horses are silent. Carrying a bow and crossbow, a horizontal sword at the waist, a long lance in the saddle, and a banner fluttering lightly above the military formation, each soldier looked forward with eye level, looking at their commander.

This is the gentleman's capital, Guo Wei is in front of the horse, and Li Congjing is saying goodbye to him.

"When the Junzi Capital was established, it was the battle of Huaizhou on a snowy night, and it was the retreat to Qimen after the war, and it was the military commander who personally broke off the Junzi Capital." Guo Wei's eyes are calm, since the battle of Zelu, he has also been a horse for many years, after being promoted to the chief general of the gentleman's capital, he has repeatedly performed miraculous feats, experienced countless unspeakable hardships and tribulations, and now he is like a general, "The gentleman is up and down, although he is grateful for the kindness of the military commander, but he regards this behavior of letting the main general break off as a great shame. This time, let the gentlemen be cut off for the military commander. ”

In the Battle of Huaizhou, Guo Wei was not in the sequence of the gentlemen, but he had been the master of the gentleman's capital for a long time, but he had already been honored and disgraced with the gentleman. As a general, to be fortunate enough to lead such an outstanding army as Junzidu, isn't it a blessing from the cultivation of three lives, and what reason is there not to be with the soldiers of the whole army with one heart and one mind?

Compared with Guo Wei, Lin Ying and Lin Xiong's brothers, but they participated in the Battle of Huaizhou, and Li Congjing talked with him cordially that night, because of the feelings for Guo Wei, they were all better. After Guo Wei's voice fell, the two brothers both punched their chests with their fists, and in the sound of iron armor, their rich voices were close to the hearts of the people, "From today onwards, the gentlemen are all broken off by the military commander!" ”

"From today onwards, all gentlemen will be cut off by the military commander!"

Li Congjing, who had already cultivated his heart and qi and did not move the eight winds, heard this, and a hot current rose in his chest in an instant, rushing straight to his throat and eye sockets, almost making his throat as hard as a rock.

It turned out that Li Congjing's planned plan to break the situation of the coalition army was to cover the retreat of the army with a partial division, and at the same time make a big fanfare, pretend to be a large army, drag the Khitan army, and turn the battle between Shuangtong, Yitai, and Jiuyang, attracting Yelu Abaoji's three-way people to gather there. The coalition forces concealed their whereabouts, and when Yelu Abaoji's three-way encirclement was attracted by the partial division, they took the opportunity to transfer and jump out of the encirclement.

Such a task is too arduous, not only because it is difficult to accomplish and the slightest carelessness will kill the coalition forces, but also because it has to survive and save itself in the end. Originally, Li Congjing planned to personally lead Junzidu to complete this task, but Guo Wei, Lin Ying, Lin Xiong and other generals who heard about it did not agree in any case. In addition, the coalition forces are numerous, the precision of the action is also extremely high, and the commander is even more needed, so he can only let Guo Wei lead the gentlemen to complete this task.

This is also his belief in Guo Wei's talent, and what he can do is as good as his own gentlemen.

The division is not far away, and its troops are all elite cavalry, and it is too easy for them to bite the mixed army of foot and cavalry. In order to make room for the army to turn around, someone must break the rear, so the battle of the gentleman has to start here.

It was precisely because he knew the situation of Junzidu that after listening to the words of Guo Wei and others, and seeing the generous behavior of the soldiers going to difficulties, Li Congjing was so unstable.

Those are his comrades in life and death, brothers who have lived and died together countless times, without them, there would be no Li Congjing's position today. And each of them was Li Congjing who brought them to the battlefield, not so much that they were soldiers of the Tang Dynasty, but that they were Li Congjing's soldiers.

Ci is not in charge of the army, so Li Congjing left the gentleman, but this does not mean that as a person who controls the life and death of everyone, he can be indifferent.

Since the establishment of the army in Qimen, Li Congjing has cultivated the loyalty of the whole army to him through a series of measures. Now this scene undoubtedly shows that he has succeeded. However, he couldn't be happy in any way.

There were no tears, and there was no cold greeting to hold the hands of the soldiers, in the cold wind, in a foreign land, Li Congjing just stood solemnly and solemnly gave a military salute.

"The strong captives have not been destroyed, and the gentlemen are fighting endlessly, so you must triumph!" He said.

Guo Wei, Lin Ying, Lin Xiong, three thousand gentlemen and generals, vigorously punched their chests and vibrated the universe: "The strong captives will not be destroyed, and the battle will not end!" ”