Yelu Abaoji's will to fight is very firm. He wants to show his courage and fighting spirit, and prove that he is at least as good as Li Ye.
However, before the Tang army broke through the Khitan camp at Beikou, the Khitan army received an order to retreat, requiring soldiers who could escape the battle to abandon all their belongings and leave the battlefield at any cost, and quickly return to Khitan Yikun Prefecture.
The Sijin Department did not enter the battlefield to fight the Tang army to the death. Instead, it returned to Yikun Prefecture in Qilaotu Mountain first, and relied on the favorable location to build a defense line to meet the retreating Khitan tribe.
Not only the Khitan army at Beikou, but also the Khitan battalion outside Pingzhou Yuguan also received such orders. The slight difference is that the battle in Yuguan has not yet entered a situation where it is about to collapse, so the main general is required to stay behind and cover the retreat of the main force.
Such an order was naturally issued by Yelu Abaoji, and only he could issue it.
This shows that Yelu Abaoji, in the face of the heavy blow, was so furious that he trampled the high priest of the God Sect into a pulp, but he did not lose his mind at the last moment.
"In a fight to the death with the Tang army, the Khitan has no chance of winning. The Tang people said that if the green hills are left, there will be no firewood. If the army retreats at this time, although it will suffer heavy losses, as long as we can keep some vitality for the Khitan, we may have a comeback. It is not my wish to bury all the Khitan warriors on the border of the Tang Dynasty."
When Sijinbu was evacuating the camp, Yelu Abaoji immediately looked at the north entrance under the setting sun, and said this to Yeludi Lugu who was beside him.
At that moment, he looked desolate and painful, as if he had aged twenty years in an instant.
Yeludi Lugu didn't answer, his heart was so heavy that he couldn't speak.
The lonely shadows of two people and two horses are drawn very long by the setting sun on the open grassland.
In this worldwide attack on Tang, the Khitan dispatched more than two million soldiers, and it is estimated that no more than 30% of them will be able to safely retreat to Yikun Prefecture. After this battle, the Khitan Kingdom has been able to survive in fact.
The premise must be that the Tang army does not chase into the grassland, or that Yikun Prefecture can block the Tang army's advance.
The dawn light fell from the sky in front of the feet, and the blood-stained cow egg and Er Gouzi raised their heads panting like a cow, and there was no Khitan in front of them. The comrades beside him were stunned for a short time, and then burst into shouts like a mountain roar and a tsunami.
Behind them was the mountain of Khitan corpses and the sea of blood, completely covering the lush grass.
The Khitan army fled overnight. They originally wanted to take advantage of the darkness to keep a safe distance as much as possible. However, the Tang army's offensive continued day and night, which made their plan impossible and they could only be chased and killed all the way.
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Now that the night is over, those corpses lying on the grass have not been able to see the new dawn. Only the generals and soldiers of the Tang army cheering among the corpses all over the ground, after a night of fierce fighting, can usher in their glory when they are exhausted.
The battle of Beikou came to an end, with a big victory.
Even if there is still fighting in the future, it will no longer happen at Beikou. As the Beikou frontier army, Niudan and Er Gouzi, including the Yangzhou Confucian scholars who came to support and fought bloody battles, all got what they wanted at this moment.
A thing called new life.
Above the battlefield, Li Ye and Li Maozhen looked down at all sides and looked at each other with smiles.
The end of the Beikou War marked that the national war launched by the Khitan against the northern border of the Tang Dynasty with all its power, ended in a disastrous defeat.
Although there is still war outside Yuguan, it will not last for a few days.
"Although the battle in the northern border took a long time, it finally ended in a big victory, and I have lived up to my duties." Li Maozhen patted his chest and let out a long sigh of relief, his words were full of joy.
Li Ye was noncommittal: "If Khitan is defeated, will the war in the northern border be over?"
of course not.
Li Maozhen is well aware of this.
She solemnly said: "If Khitan is not destroyed, this war will not end!"
Li Ye looked in the direction of Yikun Prefecture, playing with his taste: "Yelu Abaoji thought that if he retreated from the Great Wall, he would be able to live on his last breath and continue his life for the Khitan Kingdom? That's nothing but wishful thinking."
Li Maozhen pondered and said: "The remnants of the escaped Khitan army are retreating in the direction of Yikun Prefecture, and the situation at Yuguan should be the same. After this fierce battle, the soldiers are very tired, and they want to attack Yikun Prefecture, which has a geographical advantage. Kunzhou, I'm afraid it will take a while to cultivate. But during this period of time, Khitan will definitely strengthen Yikunzhou's defense line, the longer the time, the stronger the defense line will be."
If the Tang army wants to be in a good state and enter the grassland to completely destroy the Khitan country, it must take a serious rest for a period of time.
This is a paradox.
unresolvable contradiction.
But for Li Ye, this is obviously not a problem.
He smiled smugly: "The Sijin Department did not join the battlefield, but chose to go directly back to Yikun Prefecture to deploy defenses, and stared at their Tiger Guards and Spike Army. Naturally, they will not be idle. They have rushed to Yikun Prefecture now. Yelu Abaoji thought that if he defended Yikun Prefecture, Khitan would have a way out, but in my opinion, Yikun Prefecture is the end of his life. I have already dug his grave in Yikun Prefecture, and I am waiting for him to go in and sleep forever. "
King Qi, who had been devoting himself to the defense and counter-offensive of the northern border, couldn't help being surprised when he heard this.
She stared at Li Ye with wide eyes: "Did you make arrangements?"
Li Ye gave her a strange look: "Do you think that I will allow Yelu Abaoji, who provoked the whole world to attack the Tang Dynasty, to return to the West Tower alive? Will I be satisfied that this battle is just to defeat and attack me in the northern border of the Tang Dynasty, and to offend me?" My majestic Khitan barbarian?"
Li Maozhen was speechless.
She blushed and said angrily: "Don't think I don't know what you have! When you solved Ma Yin, you said that you had secretly contacted the Huangtou and Tatars on the grassland. The war has been fought until now. You didn't see them appear, even when the battle was at its most stalemate, you didn't let them do anything, weren't you just waiting for today?"
After saying these words in one breath, Li Maozhen was startled for a while.
Then she squinted at Li Ye, feeling complacent, and very satisfied with her wisdom in seeing through the other's plans with a single glance.
Li Ye was used to Li Maozhen's occasional childishness, and was really happy to see the other party, so he didn't say anything more to hurt the other party's self-confidence.
He did secretly contact the Huangtou and Tatar ministries who were suppressed by the Khitan, and at the same time unwilling to lose their status. Both of these two tribes are big clans on the grassland. Although they don't have much military power on the surface, they have great influence. It is not difficult to gather the old tribes with a wave of arms.
It's just that Li Ye can't order them around like an arm.
Contacting them before only confirmed the possibility of an alliance between the two parties.
It will take time for the Yellow Head and the Tatars to really raise their troops. Let them see the certainty of victory, instead of taking a risky blow. In the end, the rebellion failed, but was completely wiped out by Yelu Abaoji.
When the Tang army and the Khitan army were in a stalemate, the Yellow Head and the Tatars would naturally not act. But after the Guizhou battle, they saw hope, made up their minds, and began to prepare.
If they were not ready at that time, Li Ye would be unhappy. When everything is decided and there is no suspense about the outcome, what does Li Ye want them to do? To pick peaches, you have to water the tree first.
Now that the Beikou War is over, the Yellow Head and the Tatars have already launched operations.
"The frontier army has been fighting fiercely for many years. It is not easy to guard the frontier. They can rest and recuperate. But the Chang'an Imperial Army is now a critical time for them to play their role and make contributions to the country. Even if they are a little tired, they must persist until the last moment."
When Li Ye said this, he became more and more confident, "Don't forget, we still have the grassland tribal army to drive. Whether it is the tribal army from Guizhou or the tribal army captured in Beikou, we can fight the wind fighting.
"The Khitan army who retreated to Yikun Prefecture also had many tribal soldiers. When they saw soldiers who were not Khitans, they all chose to fight side by side with the Tang army. Naturally, they knew what to do to survive."
According to Li Ye and Li Maozhen's arrangement, half a month later, the Tang army arrived in Yikun Prefecture.
Among the Tang army, the Chang'an Forbidden Army is naturally the absolute main force, but this time they are not assisted by the Tang Frontier Army, but more than 200,000 grassland tribal troops.
The mountain and river situation of Qilaotu Mountain is relatively complicated. It is a relatively rare terrain on the grassland. The role of side forces.
In such a zone, there are many opportunities for combat.
This is a battlefield that is naturally beneficial to the defender.
However, the Khitan warrior who had just experienced a disastrous defeat, witnessed a large number of relatives and friends dying in battle, and escaped with his own life. Even if he occupied Guancheng, he did not feel much sense of security, and his morale was not high.
Especially when they saw those steppe tribal troops yelling and shouting and showing off their power outside the pass city, many of them looked gloomy.
The mental outlook and fighting spirit shown by the grassland tribal army at this moment seem to be better than those of the Chang'an Forbidden Army.
When they were gearing up, their faces were ferocious, and they looked at the Khitan warrior with particularly fiery eyes, as if the opponent was not a soldier with extraordinary combat power, but a slave of cattle, sheep, wealth, and beauty.
To be honest, in the face of huge wealth at your fingertips, a well-disciplined army is not as motivated as a bandit.
The grassland tribal army who came to rob was not fundamentally different from the bandits.
If you insist on saying yes, it means that their combat power is stronger.
The war continued from spring to autumn, and the warriors of the grassland tribes had no time to fatten their cattle and sheep. If they don't rob the Khitan people of their cattle and sheep, it will be difficult for them to survive, and their own tribe will also suffer from extinction in the cold winter.
Of course, the Khitan people who were robbed of their cattle and sheep would definitely not survive the cold winter.
But no one will care about this, because they can't even survive this war.
When there are only so many living supplies or even less than in previous years, the only way to survive is to reduce the number of people who need to eat.
Li Ye looked at all the big and small pass cities, smiled and said to Li Maozhen: "The grassland people always covet the wealth of the Han people, and they will go south to plunder every now and then. Now, let's rob the Khitan people once."
Li Maozhen clenched her fists and said with burning eyes, "I'm not interested in the Khitan people's cattle and sheep, but I want to take away their right to live in this world!"
The war in Yikun Prefecture officially broke out immediately.