Three days later, Yelu Abaoji put out his own banner, ordered the army to attack Yuguan, and personally supervised the battle behind the formation.
For hundreds of thousands of soldiers, resting for three days is actually nothing. The total number of troops who can take turns to fight every day is at most tens of thousands. When it is not their turn to fight, eighty to ninety percent of the soldiers basically They are all idle.
However, resting for three days was a great way to relax the mind. Therefore, the morale of the Khitan army has obviously improved a lot during the attack. Coupled with the fact that Yelu Abaoji came here and personally supervised the battle behind the formation, Khitan monks and fighters had no reason not to fight with their lives.
Under Yelu Abaoji's disdainful gaze and Yelu Dilie's concerned gaze, the Khitan warriors flocking towards Yuguan like a tide, soon reached the top of the city, flooding Yuguan like locusts.
After half a day of fierce fighting, the look of disdain on Yelu Abao's face disappeared, and Yelu Dilie's concerned eyes became heavy.
A day later, Yelu Abaoji's face sank like water, and Yelu Dilie was extremely nervous.
Three days later, the battle returned to the way it was six days ago.
Even if Yelu Abaoji was overseeing the battle, the situation did not change fundamentally.
The gray-faced Yelu Dilie, after hesitating for many times, still bit the bullet and said this to Yelu Abaoji: "Your Majesty... It seems that Li Maozhen did not transfer the Yuguan garrison to Beikou , the number and strength of the Tang army here are still the same as before... "
Needless to say, Yelu Dilie, Yelu Abaoji had already realized this.
He just didn't want to admit it.
Why didn't Li Maozhen dispatch Yuguan defenders to support Beikou
How dare she? !
Isn't she afraid of making mistakes at Beikou
Yelu Abaoji was furious.
When the king was angry, he lay down millions of corpses and bleed for thousands of miles. So the Khitan fighters in front of Yuguan ushered in the most severe military law. Since soldiers cannot spontaneously have high morale, in order to maintain the strength of the offensive, the commander must use military law to restrain him.
This is also the commander's last resort.
Hundreds of Khitan soldiers outside Yuguan City were executed by military law every day, and their heads were hung high in front of the gate. If you can't hang it, just hang it on the flagpole.
Under such high-pressure military orders, the Khitan army's offensive returned to normal.
However, Yelu Abaoji's anger did not dissipate much.
He did not see the possibility of capturing Yuguan in the short term.
This is as it should be. If Yuguan could be captured only by strict military orders, Yelu Abaoji would not have to use those tricks to lure Li Maozhen to divide his troops.
However, King Qi of the Tang Dynasty was not fooled.
Yelu Abaoji didn't think he had revealed his weakness.
So the only explanation is that Li Maozhen's military strategy is extraordinary.
Such King Qi made Yelu Abaoji feel helpless.
What finally wiped out Yelu Abaoji's anger was a heavy rain.
During the heavy rain, the water level of Yushui soared, and Yuguan became more difficult to attack.
Under such circumstances, Yuguan was already indestructible, and Yelu Abaoji lost the opportunity to break through Yuguan.
Yelu Abaoji barely calmed down the grievance in his heart after killing the two commanders who were weak in combat.
...
The strategy laughed, and the attack on Yuguan failed. Yelu Abaoji showed his anger and disappointment with the army in front of the Khitan soldiers, which made Yelu Dilie and others feel ashamed and angry. .
Yelu Abaoji did not let Yelu Dilie do this.
Because although he was indeed very angry, his anger was not as deep as Yelu Dilie and others saw.
What made him angry was that Li Maozhen was not fooled, which made the plan he thought he could succeed come to naught; the reason why he was not so angry was that this war would not gradually worsen as Yelu Dilu and Yelu Dilie said. In the end, it can only end hastily.
He also has greater reliance.
In other words, a larger strategic layout.
Yelu Abaoji just didn't expect that the Khitan army would not even be able to attack Youzhou after several months of hard work and paid a high price. The outcome of the war will ultimately fall on that layout, which he is actually not very willing to see.
That was his last tactic to win the war.
"All ready?"
Yelu Abaoji in the king's tent held a glass of wine, looked at the great shaman envoy who came in, and waved away everyone in the tent.
With white hair and a childlike face, Qi Wo Tai has always been in good spirits.
But now, his spirit is even stronger.
Just because there is something happy in my heart.
When people are happy, they will appear more energetic.
Qiewo Tai's joy was so strong that he didn't even have the thought of sitting down and pouring himself a glass of wine first, but he couldn't wait to tell the good news that he couldn't hold back.
He said in a tone as calm as possible: "The preparations of the three parties have been properly done. The situation is just as we expected, and Li Ye has indeed not noticed any clues. Soon, he will be baptized by the storm and walk into his own grave in the storm !"
Although the words were spoken smoothly, the excitement that Qiewo Tai tried his best to suppress still jumped out between the lines.
Yelu Abaoji chuckled, "Li Ye relied on the Tsingyi Yamen to collect military information from all sides. The Tsingyi Yamen is indeed strong enough, pervasive, leak-proof, and worthy of all his trust.
"It's a pity that some time ago, the Tsingyi yamen was busy cleaning the interior and investigating people in the middle school who had contacts with us, whether openly or secretly, and they were already busy."
Qiewo Tai picked and picked on the wine table, chose a silver jug that satisfied him, and sat down comfortably in his seat.
Before he could pour himself some wine, he smiled and said, "Of course Li Ye doesn't know, this is a plan that the king has planned for many years.
"Those people who infiltrated the Tsingyi Yamen and interacted with Tang Dynasty officials were all placed by the king with great painstaking efforts. After the Ma Yin incident, Li Ye must have sensed the risks hidden in the Tsingyi Yamen, so he had to immediately clean them up. And this is exactly what happened. It is what the king wishes to see."
Yelu Abaoji took a sip of wine and said intoxicated, "They have indeed collected a lot of useful information for us. This is where their usefulness lies. But their greatest usefulness is that I exposed them when the war came. , to attract the attention of Li Ye and Qingyi Yamen."
Qiewo Tai poured himself some wine, and immediately answered, "Only when the Tsingyi yamen is busy dealing with internal issues, they don't have so much energy to take care of the outside. This is a very simple solution."
"The simpler the method, the more effective it is." Yelu Abaoji said.
Qiewo Taida nodded his head, drank a glass of wine in one breath, and continued, shaking his head, "The most wonderful thing is that Li Ye regards the war in the northern border as the core, and also regards the king as the opponent who needs to be dealt with the most. Transferred five hundred thousand Chang'an Imperial Guards here."
Yelu Abaoji said leisurely: "Li Ye has always been very wary of me. I am grateful that he thinks highly of me. In fact, I am also very proud. So, when I lead the soldiers of the whole country to conquer, how can he not regard me as the number one enemy? If he doesn't If you do this, the northern border cannot be defended."
Qiewo Tai said: "Under the situation where the whole world is attacking Tang, Li Ye has no choice. He also has no choice in the matter of letting the main force of the army fight against the king. Just like now, the Tang army has always been on the defensive in the war and did not take any risks. If you want to attack, it's not a matter of choice."
Yelu Abaoji said: "That's true. But in this way, he lost the last chance to break the game."
Qiewo Tai said: "Your Majesty started the whole world to attack Tang, so I didn't give him this chance."
Yelu Abaoji said with a smile: "Tell me, if the Tang army didn't intend to defend the city from the beginning, but went out to fight a decisive battle with my army, with the tyranny of those Tang monks, is it possible that the monks in our army are weak? time, defeat me in one fell swoop?"
Qiewo Tai shrugged: "Maybe, maybe not. Who knows what will happen if things don't happen?"
Speaking of this, Qiewo Tai had already drank a pot of wine.
The same is true for Yelu Abaoji.
They are all intoxicated.
Indulging in his own terrifying conspiracy.
"In half a day, at most another half a day, we will be able to approach the city of Youzhou. By then, the mountains and rivers thousands of miles south will become a battlefield for Khitan warriors!"
...
In the government affairs hall of Prince An's Mansion, Li Ye was holding a military newspaper, his eyes were like cold stars.
In the hall stood several blood-soaked monks, big monks, big monks in real life.
The military newspaper was sent back by them personally.
The military report sent back by the Daren Realm cultivator in person is naturally very important and urgent.
One is from Nanzhao and the other is from Yangguan.
After Wang Jian led the troops into Nanzhao, the battle has been smooth, and the army has been advancing steadily, which means it is unstoppable. The previous military report stated that Wang Jian had already occupied half of Nanzhao's mountains and rivers, and he was only short of defeating the main force of Nanzhao's army in the end to win the battle against Nanzhao.
But the military newspaper in front of him said that Wang Jianzhong fell, the army was defeated, and he himself was seriously injured.
"Eighty monks with the strength of real people, more than a thousand high-level Qi practitioners, led an elite army composed almost entirely of monks... In the areas occupied in the past, a large number of people rushed out from the mountains and forests. The fierce soldiers, cooperate with the army to attack from all sides... "
This was the reason why Wang Jian was defeated. Li Ye looked at the messenger Wang Jian sent back, "Where are there so many monks from Nanzhao?"
The messenger half-kneeled and reported: "Most of them are Khitans!"
Li Ye stopped talking.
He looked at the messenger from Yangguan again.
Yangguan was broken, and the Guiyi Army retreated to Shazhou City, which is the content of the Yangguan Military News.
The reason for the defeat of the army was that it was attacked by the Uighur army at night. The reason for the success of the night attack was exactly the same as the reason for Wang Jian's defeat. It was because of the sudden appearance of a powerful army of monks. The Guiyi Army was caught off guard and was defeated.
Li Ye put down the military newspaper and stopped looking at the messenger. He closed his eyes and rubbed his eyebrows, lost in thought.
Of course there are many monks in Khitan.
But not so much. At least not so many, so many monks can be given to Uighur and Nanzhao. So the only explanation is that in the Khitan army in the north, the number of monks is now very small.
In the previous battles in the northern border, because it was a battle of attacking and defending the city gates, there were at most tens of thousands of soldiers who took turns to fight every day, which was less than 10% of the Khitan army. Correspondingly, the number of monks would not be too many.
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Therefore, even if half of the monks in the Khitan Kingdom were lost, the guarding Tang army would not be able to find out.
Not to mention half of the Khitan monks, even if there are only 30%, throwing themselves into the battlefields of Nanzhao and Yangguan is enough to cause great changes.
The troops sent by the Tang Dynasty to Nanzhao and Uyghur can only be regarded as partial divisions, and the number of monks is naturally not many.
Now that both armies are defeated, Li Ye doesn't need to think much about what will happen next.
The Nanzhao army invaded the middle of Shu, and the Uighur army invaded Hexi. Datang, whose borders were lost, suffered a resurgence of border troubles. Once the border trouble cannot be contained in time, it will soon become a national disaster sweeping half of the country.
After a while, Li Ye opened his eyes, looking over the heads of the people and looking at the eaves outside the door, his eyes were as sharp as arrows. He murmured in a low voice: "Yelu Abaoji, Yelu Abaoji, you are playing with fire."