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This is inconsistent with previous intelligence.

Obviously, the opponent's scouts are very professional in intelligence, and their actions are one step ahead of them.

This is awkward.

It was a thousand miles from Beiting City to Ye Mili, but it was all in vain.

Li Yanxian immediately realized that things might not be that simple.

He sent people into the city to check first, and the Khitan people really cleaned up, not even leaving their underpants.

This is the advantage of nomadism. If it is farming, it is not so easy to withdraw in a short time.

Li Yanxian said with emotion: "In order to confront us, Yelu Dashi even retreated from the land of Longxing. This person is difficult to deal with!"

On the same day, Li Yanxian also withdrew.

But on the way to retreat, the Song army was repeatedly harassed by cavalry of unknown origin.

Is it a Khitan?

After several fights, Li Yanxian discovered that the opponent was not a Khitan, but a Uyghur.

He knew immediately that it might be Bhathmi.

When Li Yanxian conquered Beiting City, the Beiting Uyghurs were defeated, but this does not mean that the Uyghur cavalry disappeared completely.

At least Basimi, the son of Bilge, fled. After he fled, he kept gathering defeated soldiers in the grasslands north of the Tianshan Mountains.

Behind Gaochang is the backing of the Liao Kingdom, so he must have gone to Yelu Dashi.

This time I went to Ye Mili, Ye Mili city was empty, which means that Yelu Dashi has been laid out in advance, so it is not surprising that the Uighurs appeared here, it can only be said to be a pawn in the layout of Yelu Dashi.

The function is to constantly harass the Song army and cause troubles to the Song army. Maybe the Khitan cavalry is ready for a surprise attack.

Li Yanxian did not dare to take it lightly, and he ordered to speed up the number of withdrawals.

In the next few days, the number of Uighur cavalry increased day by day.

At first, it was only one or two thousand, and then it increased to four or five thousand, until the end of April, it actually increased to nearly ten thousand people.

This should be all the troops in Basimi's hands.

They kept pestering Song Jun.

The Song army often repelled the Uighurs with a strong attacking posture. On April [-], nearly ten thousand Uighur cavalry launched a fierce charge against the Song army.

After the two sides fought for most of the day, the Uighurs were defeated and left.

Although the Uighurs were repelled, Li Yanxian felt more and more bad.

In the early morning of the first day of May, the scouts frequently sent information, saying that some herdsmen were found grazing around.

Is this normal?

This is of course normal!

The pastures to the north of the Tianshan Mountains are extremely vast, and there were originally many cattle and sheep.

But that's not normal either!

Because so many herdsmen have not been spied on to herd sheep before, why are there so many suddenly appearing now?

Li Yanxian is indeed lacking in the strategic level, but in various operations at the tactical level, he definitely belongs to the ranks of famous generals.

He immediately realized that it might be the danger of the Khitan people.

So he didn't have any thoughts about those cattle and sheep, and it was strictly forbidden for the whole army to act without authorization.

On the third day of May, the Song Army was only four hundred miles away from Beiting City.

At this moment, the Khitan people could not bear it any longer, and it was Erbusi, a general under the command of Yelu Dashi, who was leading the army. He was extremely brave in battle.

He commanded [-] Khitan cavalry, another [-] Turkic cavalry, and [-] Uighur cavalry, with a total strength of [-].

Erbus launched a brazen attack on the Song army.

The Song army was also fearless, and launched a formation to fight frontally with the Liao army on the grassland.

After marching for more than half a month, the Song army was still very tired, and its combat effectiveness was affected.

The two sides fought for a long time, and it was hard to tell the winner for a while.

Erbusi retreated in the evening, but Li Yanxian did not pursue him.

Don't look at both sides as if the earth is shaking, the mountains are shaking, the sea is dry and the stone is rotten. In fact, both sides have concerns, and both sides are worried that the other side will have an ambush.

So they fought fast and retreated quickly, and they didn't chase each other after they retreated.

The next day Erbus came again.

The two sides fought again, still no winner.

The total casualties of the Liao army were more than a thousand, and the Song army was also close to a thousand.

Until the third day, the Song army was less than two hundred miles away from Beiting City, and the Liao army did not catch up again.

On the evening of the sixth day of May, Li Yanxian's troops returned to Beiting City.

This time the troops were dispatched in vain.

At the same time, he also really saw the cunning of the Liao army.

When he arrived at Beiting City, Li Yanxian didn't rest. When he learned that Yue Fei was coming, he was shocked at first, and then immediately went to find Yue Fei.

"Pengju! Pengju!"

From far away, one could hear Li Yanxian's angry voice.

Yue Fei strode out, seeing the person in front of him, he was startled for a moment, then cupped his fists together: "Brother Shaoyan!"

"The last time we parted was in the capital four years ago!" Li Yanxian looked very excited, "In the past few years, I have been thinking about when I will see Pengju's demeanor again!

"Brother Shaoyan has won the prize! A certain one has been thinking about Brother Shaoyan!"

"Let's go! Let's go in and talk!" Li Yanxian said excitedly, while shouting, "I brought my own good wine, today we won't go home until we're drunk!"

The hospitality was hard to turn down, and Yue Fei did not refuse.

Then the people below went north to barbecue again, and the two ate meat and drank wine.

While drinking, recalling the past few years.

They are all Zhao Ning's confidants and favorite generals. They have gone to Bianjing more than once to report on their duties at the same time, and they have been guarding the frontier. The common language is like a surging river, which flows endlessly.

Different from Yue Fei's calm and capable personality, Li Yanxian's personality is bold and airy, and he talks a lot, from fighting with the Xixia people in Lanzhou after beheading Wang Yi back then, to talking about many things about the Northwest Economic Strategy.

He also mentioned the extermination of Xia and the crusade against the Uyghurs.

Finally, we talked about the march into Yemili City.

He couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "This is the first time I have encountered such a situation after so many years of fighting. The Liao army is more difficult to deal with than we imagined."

"That's why the imperial court came here with more troops." Yue Fei said, "Before in the capital, His Majesty mentioned Yelu Dashi many times that he was extremely difficult to deal with. Last year when the barbarians went south, Yelu Dashi was behind his instigation. Top notch!"

"You come to Beiting this time, I feel much more at ease. Together, we will definitely defeat Nayelu Dashi!"

Yue Fei shook his head and said, "These days, I've heard many businessmen mention the Western Regions, and the situation is indeed more complicated than we imagined."

Chapter 1363 Song and Liao game (third change)

"Why did Pengju say that?" Li Yanxian said.

"After listening to Brother Shaoyan, I can conclude that Yelu Dashi will not easily fight our army head-on."

Although he drank some wine, Yue Fei was still very sober.

"The Western Region is extremely vast, and Beiting City is more than 2000 miles away from Husi Ordu City. If our army travels a long distance, it will be difficult to guarantee logistics. As long as Yelu Dashi deliberately delays, we will be very passive."

The ancients said that the use of soldiers pays attention to the right time, place and people.

There is a deeper explanation here: the only thing that can be decided by the coach is Renhe.

That is, only people and are controlled.

And human harmony also needs strict military discipline, sufficient food supplies, and a system of clear rewards and punishments to guarantee it.

To be harmonious, the threshold is extremely high.

If Yue Fei can do it, so can Li Yanxian.

But fighting is not just about peace.

Neither the right time nor the right place can be determined by anyone.

The coach can only wait for a good opportunity to lure the enemy to a position that is beneficial to him.

These two important factors cannot be transferred with the transfer of human will.

After all, fighting itself is extremely difficult to operate, and successful generals are good at borrowing the avenue of heaven and earth, rather than controlling the avenue of heaven and earth.

Those who can be controlled are the ascetics in myths and legends, not generals like Yue Fei and Li Yanxian.

Once you understand this truth, you can understand Yue Fei's worries.

Li Yanxian did not refute Yue Fei's words, if the Liao Kingdom was really so easy to fight, he would not have fought Ye Mili, but directly led his troops to besiege Husi Ordu City.

The surrounding barbarians in the Song Dynasty were different from those in the Han and Tang Dynasties.

For the first time since the Song Dynasty, the barbarians surpassed the Central Plains Dynasty in terms of technology.

It was the Liao Kingdom established by the Khitan people. During the Five Dynasties period, a large number of craftsmen who escaped from the Central Plains were absorbed, and they caught up in iron smelting, forging, textiles, gunpowder, etc., and even surpassed the Central Plains in many fields.

It is already very difficult to have a situation where one Han is against five Hus.

The same is true for Xiliao.

The barbarians in the Seven River Basin and the middle of the river were no longer the barbarians of the Han and Tang Dynasties.

These people either absorbed Tang's technology, or absorbed the technology of the Arabs, and used it for themselves. A large number of armored equipment, coupled with excellent war horses from the Western Regions, created many cities.

Of course, in the era changed by Zhao Ning, Da Song's technology has advanced by leaps and bounds, and gunpowder manufacturing has become more and more common.

However, when gunpowder is used in military affairs, it has a fatal weakness: slow action!

This fatal weakness is not obvious when fighting in the Central Plains or Liaodong, because the Central Plains or Liaodong have a large number of cities, a large number of villages, and a large number of infantry.

But in the grasslands, there are few cities, and what we have to fight is a highly mobile cavalry battle.

It is often extremely prone to surprise attacks, which reduces the role of artillery, unless it enters an urban area like Husi Ordu.

Yue Fei went on to say: "Your Majesty does not want to make enemies with the Khitan people. All of this stems from the series of confrontations caused by Gao Chang's arbitrarily killing himself as an emissary."

Li Yanxian said: "I sent envoys to the city of Husi Ordu, but the Khitans deliberately delayed and forced us to send troops in order to give us a warning. From this we can see that the Khitans are currently very tough on us, and they are not willing to Give in, we really want to do business, but the Khitan people don't believe us."

Yue Fei nodded and said, "It seems that the war with the Khitan people is inevitable."

On the second day, Yue Fei wrote a letter to Liu Qi in Gaochang.

The Song army began to actively prepare for the battle.

On the grassland, it is obviously impossible to push all the way like the Central Plains, to support war with war.

Long-distance raids are inevitable, and the logistical pressure will naturally increase.

In mid-May, a batch of food supplies were dispatched from Gaochang.

At this time, Zhang Ke once again arrived at Husi Ordu City.

This time Zhang Ke's identity was different again, he brought two letters.

One letter was from Zhao Ning to Yelu Dashi, a letter of mutual wealth.

In the letter, Zhao Ning expressed his determination to live in peace with Yelu Dashi in the most sincere tone, and hoped that Da Song and Daliao could be as they were in the past.

At the same time, promise that Da Song will continuously import goods into Daliao, and exempt Daliao from all commercial taxes for entering Da Song.

This is a very tempting letter.

After reading it, Yelu Dashi even wondered whether Zhao Guan's family had some brain problems, and they could offer such generous conditions.

But Yelu Dashi didn't know that times had changed.

A hero like Yelu Dashi is naturally extraordinary.

But he doesn't know about concrete roads, spinning jenny machines, hydraulic spinning machines, the transformation of rice into mulberry in Jiangnan, and the social division of labor brought about by assembly line production.

All of these have greatly improved production efficiency, made commodities enter the era of standardization, lowered the cost of commodities, and enabled the producing countries to have a strong cost advantage to dump commodities on neighboring countries.