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Yelude Guangbian said: "It's absurd, Sun Tzu's art of war has a saying: Ten can surround it, five can attack it, double it can fight it, the enemy can divide it, if it is small, it can defend it, and if it is small, it can avoid it. It's exactly twice the size of the enemy, so we should fight with them upright. The city of Yanjing is strong, and there are [-] troops. As long as we can contain Duan Mingyu here, nothing will happen to Yanjing City, and we won't go all out in a single battle. , first send a few Han generals to test and beat him, hehe, if I don't fight him with all my strength, then I will be able to deal with him so that he can't survive or die. Huh, as you said, if you go directly to Under the city of Yanjing, if Duan Mingyu returned to his teacher to make dumplings, it would be an inevitable battle."

"Brother Huang, we have 50 people, forgive him for not being able to beat us," Yelu Lihu said, rubbing his nose.

"You know what a fart. If you are not afraid of [-] yuan, you are afraid of the eventuality. If you are dumped in the city of Yanjing, we have no food and grass to help you, so you can only fight against it. It's okay if you win, but if you lose, everything will be over. , I will never have a chance to compete with my elder brother again, third brother, you need to practice more," Yelude Guangyu said earnestly.

Yelu Lihu didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and explained helplessly: "Second brother, have you forgotten that there are still [-] troops in our Yanjing city, who might make whose dumplings by then?"

Duan Mingyu didn't expect that Yelu Lihu's bold idea almost pushed him into a dangerous situation, but at that moment, you really surrounded me, and I surrounded you, one layer after another. It was an ancient version of a battle. In the "Battle of Huaihai", the battle became more complicated and confusing.

But Yelu Deguang obviously did not accept his suggestion, "No, no, no..."

Yelu Deguang shook his head like a drum, and said with a triumphant smile: "Duan Mingyu went all out to save Qi County, I'm afraid that's exactly what he wanted me to do. Hey, he wanted to win a battle. Ben How could the crown prince fall for his treacherous tricks? The way of using troops is to make the enemy unpredictable and wise. How can he let him lead him by the nose? Since he can be dragged to death, why bother to use my Khitan good man? life as a bet,"

When Yelu Lihu heard it, he also felt that it was reasonable, so he did not insist on his own opinion.

Yelude just glanced at the generals and said, "This commander has made up his mind. He will send out troops immediately. The troops will be trapped in Qi County. The three armies will move out and move slowly."

The generals did not dare to say anything after hearing this, Yelu Deguang was full of spirits, and immediately ordered all armies to march towards Qi County. It took a whole day for the 50 troops to command and dispatch a battalion. Haohao couldn't see the head in front and the tail in the back. He left the camp and went straight to Qi County.

Three days later, the Khitan side had rectified the troops, prepared the food and salaries, and re-raised the winter clothes. Although it was a bit early to prepare the winter clothes at this moment, it was enough to prove the Khitan's long-term combat capability, and the fierce morale of the Khitan soldiers had been fully mobilized Standing up, the whole army has unified orders, strict discipline, and a completely new fighting style.

Yelu Deguang was full of confidence, and the Khitan flag fluttered in the cold north wind. The second prince of Khitan, Yelu Deguang, swore to join the three armies and threatened to besiege Qi County in half a year, but he couldn't besiege Qi County after all because Duan Mingyu The back road of the army is Yanjing City, and there is no need to worry about supplies for a while. Yelu Deguang will not block the supply line of his back road with the army, because once the supply line is blocked, then it will be a real decisive battle. His real purpose is to Delaying the time of the decisive battle, and delaying it by one more day, the higher their winning rate will be, and if it is delayed until the severe winter, they will undoubtedly win.

It is said that Duan Mingyu secretly cares about that a Qi county can be defended properly with 10,000+ people. If you want to maximize the damage to the enemy army, you can't just defend the city blindly. Then the enemy army can advance and retreat freely, and come when they want to fight. Just go back when you are tired, then you won't get the expected effect, so Duan Mingyu is going to send some troops to take the initiative to attack. To take advantage of guerrilla warfare, this army must be cavalry, and the cavalry is quite insufficient in defending the city, so it can't help much, so Duan Mingyu decided to send a cavalry out of the city to harass, and when it comes to cavalry , he only had two armies in his hands, one was the light cavalry and heavy cavalry belonging to the Shence Army, and the other was the 10 cavalry of Li Cunxu from Hedong. The reason why the Hedong Army was able to repel the Khitan invasion repeatedly in the late Tang Dynasty was because They have a cavalry force that can rival Khitan, and this mission requires someone who can stand alone, and Li Cunxu is undoubtedly the best candidate, but the goal of [-] horsemen is too big, so Duan Mingyu only asked Li Cunxu to bring out [-] cavalry , Li Cunxiao also fought with him.

The next day, Li Cunxu and Li Cunxiao led [-] cavalry from the east of the river quietly out of Qixian County.

And Yelu Deguang also started to prepare to attack Qixian County. Since he could not fight a decisive battle, Yelu Deguang did not want the Khitan troops to suffer meaningless casualties, so the main attackers were Han generals.

The main attack on the first day was the Han general Guo Sheng. Guo Sheng's sister was the concubine of Yan Wang Liu Rengong, so she had tens of thousands of troops, which was enough to shock one side. Later, Liu Rengong was chased and killed by Li Cunxiao alone for dozens of miles. , Guo Sheng surrendered to Khitan when he saw that the general situation of Khitan had come true. Now that Guo Sheng has assumed the main task of attacking, he must go to the ordnance department to check the preparation of the siege equipment. He has an equipment under his account For important events, everyone respectfully called "Master Yang". As soon as Guo Sheng entered the tent, he heard Master Yang yelling at his disciples, "The city wall of Qixian County is low and thick. Such a city wall is not only easy to erect all kinds of heavy weapons. , and it is difficult to be penetrated by the enemy's siege artillery. At the same time, more fortifications can be built on the wide and low city wall, and more firepower can be deployed. The firepower can block all the passages of the castle, but the traditional tall city walls always have dead ends for attack.

If the traditional city wall is transformed in this way, combined with moats or moats, a lower outer cliff will be built beside the ditch, some civil engineering works will be built on the edge of the cliff, and a corridor will be laid along the top of the gentle slope. The city defense forces can quickly move from one place to another, and some light guns can be erected on the outer cliff of the moat to deal with a large number of siege guns and keep them away.

The enemy's large number of siege machines will lose their effectiveness, but they still want to attack the city, and the defenders are still attacking the enemy in tight fortifications. The enemy will have to pay more sacrifices to capture a city. Simply put , this way of thinking has changed with the increasing power of siege equipment. Today's wars should not use the defensive methods of thousands of years ago. No matter how tall it is, it is easy to be destroyed by the enemy.