Spring has already arrived in the season, but in Yanyun Land, spring has not yet arrived. Looking at it, it is full of yellow and yellow. The dry branches of the dead grass and branches of last year are still hanging on the earth this year.

If you look closely, you will find that under the withered yellow, a little bit of tender green has begun to appear.

Yanfangdian is a huge wetland that exceeds a hundred miles, with shallow lakes, muddy swamps, and moist soil. When Zhu Di of the Ming Dynasty truly established his capital here, a place called Tongzhou at the end of the river would become an extremely prosperous place. The so-called Tongzhou means traffic through the thoroughfare, which is the end of the Grand Canal of Beijing and Hangzhou, and the connection point between the capital of the Ming Dynasty Beijing and Jiangnan.

At that time, cargo ships from the south would also experience "traffic jams". The lake in Yanfangdian was a huge parking lot.

Hundreds of miles of Yanfangdian, and lakes are just decorations. The real protagonist is the wetland that migratory birds like the most. The wetland is a wetland, but it allows animals and people to walk on it. Lush grass and tall reeds will grow on it, and it is also a paradise for cattle, sheep and livestock raised by the people.

This is also a natural hunting ground, and it is the favorite place for the emperors of the Liao Kingdom to come to hunt.

But at this time, looking around, it is full of yellow and yellow.

Gan Qi set the battlefield here because he was attracted by some of the characteristics here.

But this place is not a must for Yelu Ren to return to his teacher to rescue first, because there is a better road to the northern edge of Yanfangdian, which leads directly to Luxian County, which is later Tongzhou.

So Gan Qi had to find a way to let Yelu Ren not go to Lu County first, but walked a little southward a little to Yanfangdian.

There is a way to mobilize Yelu Renxian, because Yelu Renxian is passive, while Gan Qi is proactive. This is the key to the outcome of this battle.

How can Yelu Ren not go to the road in Lu County for the first time?

Gan Qi obviously had made arrangements long ago.

Di Yong, who has been following Yelu Renxian's army, is the executor of this arrangement.

When the army was still more than 100 miles away from Lu County, Di Yong began to take action. He suddenly stopped moving and recruited all the generals in front of him.

The military generals in front of Di Yong were the civil and military officials of the Great Yan Kingdom. Di Yong asked, "How many horses are there in the army?"

"I have seventy horses here."

"I have more than one hundred and sixty horses."

"I have…twelve horses."

"I have three hundred and sixty-one."

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While listening, Di Yong was also taking a pen to record. After everyone finished speaking, Di Yong calculated and said, "There are more than 1,300 pieces in total, which is not bad..."

"Di Xiang, most of the people we have in our hands are inferior horses. Even if we build a cavalry, it is probably useless."

Di Yong waved his hand, but did not answer the conversation, and asked again: "How many donkeys and mules are used in the army?"

"I only have two hundred mules, but I have more than eight hundred donkeys."

"I have many donkeys, I have more than 500 mules, and about 100 mules..."

"I have eighty donkeys and sixty mules."

...

Di Yong made another calculation and said to himself: "There are 3,600 mules and 5,800 donkeys. It's barely enough."

"Di Xiang, don't you really want to build a cavalry battalion? We can ride this little thing, and we can run, but if we use it for war, it's really useless. Compared with the Liao people's strong horses, it's much worse."

Di Yong said: "Gather all the horses, donkeys and mules together, and I will immediately draw an army of 10,000 and follow me to attack!"

"Ah? Di Xiang, are you going to bring ten thousand... cavalry to chase and cover and kill the Liao people?"

Di Yong shook his head: "No, I want to lead the troops to pick up the Liao people to block their way."

"I wonder where Di Xiang is going to block the road?"

"Lu County!"

When everyone heard this, they frowned and thought, and then they all looked like they suddenly realized.

"I'm good at making plans, Di Xiang is good at making plans. As long as the people of Liao block Lu County, there is no way out, and they will inevitably be blocked by my more than 200,000 troops. In this way, our 200,000 troops will be destroyed by less than 100,000 people in one battle, and the 16 states of Yanyun will be in my hands."

"Suke Di is indeed not comparable to me. He actually came up with such a good plan!"

"No wonder Di Xiang wanted to take us to chase him out. It turned out that he had already made a decision. I admire him!"

"When Di Xiang took us out, he said he wanted to find an opportunity to annihilate it. Seeing that Yanjing City was not far away, I thought Di Xiang had no plan. It turned out that the opportunity was here!"

Di Qing listened to everyone's praise, smiled and looked around. He only felt one feeling in his heart, a bunch of chewy guys!

If it was really the strategy they mentioned, they would really use the so-called 200,000 army to block the Liao people and confront the 100,000 army in the field, and they would not know how to die. The 200,000 army was bound to be entangled, not to mention the morale and fighting spirit of the army, even if they were not standing in a straight line, how could they fight against the Liao army's armored soldiers? I am afraid that they would be able to return to their true colors in one battle.

The so-called "rising up" means "rising up" and "rising up" with a bamboo pole. The 200,000 army did not even have a man or a weapon. Most of the soldiers who were carrying them were still sticks, let alone armor, so what should I use to fight against the Liao people?

However, these are just Di Qing's psychological activities and it is impossible to say it out loud. So Di Qing smiled and said, "That's the plan to block the Liao people's way, and to attack them from the front and back, and once you defeat them, our Great Yan Kingdom will be truly established from then on. At that time, you will invite His Majesty to Yanjing City to live in the palace of the Liao emperor. Your official positions will be truly real official positions."

"good!"

"Thank you, Di Xiang!"

"Follow Di Xiang, there is a future."

None of these mud legs knows a little military! They are all blinded by the so-called victory in the past.

Di Yong shook his head, but his face was still smiling: "It depends on your life!"

"It's Di Xiang who is planning and we should do our best to do our lives!"

"Yes, it depends entirely on Di Xiang's command!"

Everyone was very excited, and the Liao people fled in panic. Di Yong's plan was to remove the firewood from the cauldron. As long as the Liao people escaped, the Liao people would collapse on the spot and victory was in sight. In the play, in the storyteller's mouth, weren't the generals who were planning and strategizing the commanders so that they commanded and dispatched?

"Go quickly to do your errands, gather all the horses, donkeys and mules, and send all the bravest people under your command! Time is too late, so I took them to take a small road and ran away day and night, and went to Lu County first." Di Yong was confident and laughed loudly, obviously feeling that victory was in sight.

Don’t underestimate donkeys and mules. These animals have one great ability, that is, they have amazing endurance. Donkeys that pull mills don’t have any fine feed and eat grass. They can pull mills all day long. Camel pullers also have extremely strong endurance, but they can’t run at speed and be stronger than horses. It is the most suitable for rushing to travel.

Di Yong had to rely on bad horses and donkeys and mules to travel starry night and go around the small road, heading straight to Lu County, and rush to Lu County in front of Yelu Renxian.

This tactic has a professional military word called "interspersive tactic" in later generations, and it is also the special tactic of the military strategists of Taizu, Beijing in later generations.

Yelu Renxian obviously did not take the mobs following him seriously at all. If he had not been rushing back to Yanjing to rescue the emperor at this time, he would have prepared to fight the Song army, and nearly 100,000 troops would have turned around and defeated these mobs.

But Yelu Renxian couldn't afford to waste this time and could not delay it. The generals of the Southern Privy Council under his command were unwilling to waste time on these mobs.

It is not for these Liao generals to underestimate the bandits behind them. This is the truth. The bandits who have towered the city walls are really not worthy of their attention.

At the end of the night, camping camps, burying pots and making rice, and carefully feeding the strong horses in the army. The Liao army, who had been on the way for a day, fell asleep quickly in exhaustion. Yelu Renxian wanted to travel to Yanjing at night, but it was only possible for humans to do such things as a starry night.

It means that it is barely enough to walk for a day and a night, but it is impossible to rush on the road for two days and two nights. Therefore, when the army travels far away, it still has to walk out of the sun and sleep at sunset. If you have to fight after rushing, you have to accumulate energy and not really exhaust the army.

Yelu Renxian couldn't sleep because he had not received the exact news from Yanjing City for several consecutive days. Most of the news came from other places. What Yelu Renxian was worried about at this time was that he did not understand the specific news from Yanjing City, which was also a great disadvantage on the battlefield.

He had known before that the Song army arrived in Yanjing City was less than 30,000, and it had been seven or eight days, so this information was obviously not accurate.

Since the Song people dared to start this battle, they must have been prepared. It is impossible to send only 20,000 to 30,000 people to attack the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun. There must be a continuous stream of reinforcements. This number is really hard to say. Moreover, many places outside Yanjing City have also sent people to send information. From time to time, a large number of Song army convoys can be seen moving on the road. This is the proof of the situation.

Yelu Renxian was worried about the specific number of Song troops in Yanjing City and the current situation of Yanjing City. Although he knew that Yanjing City not only had 30,000 defenders, but also many people and aristocratic families who lived and perished with the Liao Kingdom, and many Khitans. It was not difficult to keep the city for a period of time, but who could decide such a thing?

Worry is worry, but we still have to drive it day by day. Yelu Renxian also knew that the less than 100,000 troops under his command were already Yanyun's last army. If he wanted to come to rescue other places, it would take one or two months to come from the nearest Zhongjing Dading Prefecture.

Therefore, Yelu Renxian knew that if he was defeated, the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun would be lost. This situation was too unexpected and too passive.

Sixty years ago, when the Liao and Song dynasties were fighting, the Liao Kingdom had to do all the country's efforts to transfer all the troops that could fight across the country, with hundreds of thousands of troops. There were so many troops that several prefectures could not be placed. Along the line, from Yanmen to Xiongzhou, they were lined up, and the battle was dark.

This time, I was really caught off guard by the Song people.

However, Yelu Renxian was also holding back his energy. As long as Yanjing City stabilized its position and waited for the reinforcements from the capital to come, he would take the cavalry of the Northern Privy Council and would definitely fight the Song people back to their hometown, and he would have to fight to Bianliang to relieve his anger!

Yelu Renxian was actually emotional and angry at this time. The Chanyuan alliance had been 60 years, and the Liao and Song dynasties had been peaceful for 60 years, and the Song people suddenly turned against the alliance.

Even before the Liao Kingdom, it was just a military exercise on the border, and it was just a matter of scaring. Who would have thought that the Song people would actually betray the alliance? They still carved so secretly and resolutely.

It's like being stabbed in the back by a brother who grew up together. How can you not be angry?

Yelu Renxian's feeling was probably the feeling of all the Khitans at this time. In the Chanyuan Alliance, you and I call each other brothers, your Song Dynasty was the Southern Dynasties, and I am the Northern Dynasties, and we have formed friendship for generations. I have never thought of really beating you, I just scared you at the border, and scolded you a few words between my brothers, but I just thought of having a good deal, but I didn't expect you to be a gangster, and you had already prepared for a long time and then took action.

Are you still an individual person if you are so treacherous?

Obviously, Gan Qi is not a human being. No matter what kind of covenant you are or what kind of brothers you are, I just want to do it. After doing this, the world will be unified, the generals and ministers will be in the future, and the power will be in full swing!

Gan Qi has arrived in Yanfangdian, with more than 10,000 people and two thousand horses. The countless migratory birds in Yanfangdian have not yet flown back from the warm south, and there is no sight of swans in the sky, geese flying, and wild ducks playing in the water.

There were countless rovers sent out by Gan Qi. The horse's hooves ran in the wetlands and turned out the black soil, which contained some tender green that had just emerged.

A few big fish can be fished out from the shallow lake, and the grill is fragrant.

Another day was rising sun, and Yelu Ren rode his horse to Yanjing and continued walking. While sending a roar forward to explore the way, he urged all the troops not to fall behind.

At this time, the Lu County County Town started fighting.

A cavalry of ten thousand people suddenly came to the city. However, this cavalry was really unbearable. At first glance, they were all mules and donkeys.

Lu County, a small county town in the hinterland of Yanyun, is close to Yanjing, and there are not many garrisons. They are all transferred to Jumahe to perform martial arts. At this time, in the county town, there is a team of yamen in addition to the county government office, and only two or three hundred old soldiers are left.

However, Lu County did not open the city to surrender, obviously because the magistrate in the city was not a greedy person who was afraid of death.

But this battle is easy to fight.

Di Yong made a plan and cut down about a hundred trees in a hurry, putting up the axes and saws, and then putting up the chisels. Along the short branches, a hundred long ladders were made.

The four gates attacked at the same time, and placed twenty or thirty long ladders on one side, and the feather arrows shot and suppressed them, and the people climbed up.

Then, I climbed up!
To be continued...