Only by ensuring integrity can this line of defense be useful and to put enough pressure on the Khitan during confrontation. Xu Ping didn't know why Yelu Renxian chose to carry out the war in this way, but he had to ensure that the integrity of the line of defense could not be lost.

Zhe Jimin said: "In this way, the Khitan cannot be assured to attack the city. The last general is willing to command the troops of the headquarters and attack the Khitan sideways from the north bank of the river. If the command is done properly, it should not be difficult to disrupt their deployment in one battle!"

Xu Ping waved his hand: "No need, just take your troops and horses to guard the city tightly. If you hit the side of the Khitan, we will naturally have someone."

After saying that, Xu Ping said to Wang Kai: "I ordered Ye Li Wangrong and Cheng Keshang to come to the Protectorate's Mansion immediately!"

Wang Kai crossed his hands and responded, turned around and left the official hall.

Zhang Kang asked Xu Ping: "Is the Protector who protects the Dangxiang people to attack the Khitan? Yelu Ren brought tens of thousands of people to attack. Only when the entire army of Dangxiang came out can they be defeated."

"We won't worry about how the Dangxiang people fight. Yin City is nearly twenty miles away, and Yelu Chongyuan's camp is still outside the prefecture city. Yelu Renxian brought tens of thousands of people there, and the Khitan army formation was like a shoulder pole. In this battle, Zhema took people to stare at Yelu Chongyuan. If he leads troops to rescue Yelu Renxian, you will lead troops to attack his side. He doesn't move, you don't move!"

Zhe Jimin Yingnuo. Yelu Chongyuan wanted to send troops to rescue Yelu Renxian, and he must pass by Zhe Jimin's front and attack the flanks.

Xu Ping turned around, looked at the map hanging on the wall, and said to Zhang Kang and Zhe Jimin: "The Khitan army set up a shoulder pole formation, one end heavy and the other light, and there was no camp defense in the middle. Order the two armies of Dangxiang joined forces to attack Yelu Renxian at night and knocked down the light end of their shoulder pole. If Yelu Chongyuan sent heavy troops to rescue, the entire Khitan army would move and march from south to north for nearly twenty miles in front of us. If the Khitan really did this, why are we polite? All the troops came out together and disrupted them completely!"

Zhang Kang smiled and said, "No matter how stupid Yelu Chongyuan is, he will not do this. He will show us the flanks of the entire army. I think it is probably Yelu Ren who was attacked first, so he led the army to retreat to Yelu Chongyuan, so that he can be safe."

Xu Ping nodded: "It's probably true. Yelu Ren first led his army to Yincheng, and thought he had already thought of a solution to the attack. Either retreat to Yelu Chongyuan, or retreated radially eastward to Fengzhou, and there was nowhere to go. When retreating to Yelu Chongyuan, he would leave the army and horses to fight, and retreat to Fengzhou, and Liu Jianji would lead his troops to pursue it. The Khitan army gave up to attack the city and demolished the walls one by one. It was very abominable! In this battle, the Khitans would extinguish this idea!"

After the Khitan sent troops, all the Dangxiang army retreated to the defense line and set up a tent between Yunneizhou and Dongshengzhou. Xu Ping did not allow Dangxiang people to enter the city, including Yeli Wangrong and Cheng Keshang. Unless there was a military order from the Protectorate, they would only be stationed outside the city. Try to use Dangxiang people in the field, and the Song army did not leave the city unless there was a special situation, but would just guard the city.

This is not to consume Dangxiang's manpower, but to separate the Song army and the Dangxiang army as much as possible to prevent accidents. To make the Dangxiang army work hard, rewards are of course the first priority, but the Song army is also indispensable. The Song army went to participate in the war, and the Dangxiang army watched from the side. Once the Song army was not effective in fighting, no one could guarantee the loyalty of the Dangxiang people.

Dangxiang people are now mercenaries. Don’t believe in the professional ethics of mercenaries. What you see in movies and TV in previous lives are all deceptive. Ensure the loyalty of mercenaries, the strength of employers is the first priority. Once the strength is not good, the mercenaries will not care about the rewards promised to them. They will turn around and rob the employer and take as much as they want. Only by ensuring their own strength can you use money to buy them for their lives. This is the most fundamental reason why Xu Ping does this.

If all the conditions had not happened to meet together, Xu Ping would not have used such a mercenary, and this would not have benefited the court. Xu Ping would rather recruit the people from the mainland to join the army, even if it cost more and the political cost was higher, it would definitely be worth it. It is mainly for me to use the Dangxiang people, which is just a temporary measure.

When the imperial army fought, while fighting against the enemy, it was still training its own team. Using Dangxiang people would lose this opportunity to train. Soldiers grew the fastest in war, and no matter how good the training was in peace, it could not replace the experience of war. If it were not for the preservation of strength so that Dangxiang people would not have any other intentions, Xu Ping would give priority to using his own army.

Just after noon, Yeli Wangrong and Cheng Keshang arrived at Yunneizhou City. They arrived at the official hall of the Protectorate's Office and performed the ceremony as if they were rituals.

Xu Ping ordered his seat and said to the two: "It has been a few days since the Khitan army has arrived. Have you all received the news?"

Yeli Wangrong said: "I just heard that hundreds of thousands of soldiers came to the Khitan, but I didn't know what the war was going on."

Because the Song army had been deployed on the map that was originally hung, it had already withdrawn and another new map was taken and spread it on the table.

Xu Ping pointed to the city and said, "The Khitan army was nearly 400,000, and most of them set up camps in front of the city at this time. The day before yesterday, his deputy general Yelu Ren brought tens of thousands of troops and horses to Yincheng. It was here. He attacked the walls of that area."

Yeli Wangrong and Cheng Keshang came up to look at each other for a while, looked at each other and said, "The City of Yin is just a little bit of details, even if the Khitans take it, it doesn't matter the overall situation. If the Khitans don't come to attack the city, what are they going to attack there?"

"Who can guess the thoughts of the Khitans?" Xu Ping stood up and walked a few steps. "We don't have to guess what the Khitans think. They did this anyway. Last night, the guard of Yin City brought one or two hundred cavalry and stole Yelu Renxian's camp. There was no big result, but just set a fire, and the Khitans quickly extinguished it."

Hearing this, Cheng Keshang suddenly stood up: "What the Protector means is to let us attack the Khitans overnight?"

Xu Ping turned around and looked at Cheng Keshang, and smiled and said, "General, the old Yu army is very good at all. That's right, the Khitans have less than 50,000 people in Yincheng, and it happens to be a piece of fat that is put to their mouths! I think they have also tried our arrangements and knew that Liu Jianji's troops were not more troops than theirs, so they couldn't do anything to them. The Khitans actually don't know how many soldiers the two kings have, and they don't know where you went and whether they will participate in the war. King Cheng Keshang once killed Xiao Puda, and the Khitans' southwest recruitment department was only 5,000 troops, so they really may not take you seriously."

The Khitan always looked down on Dangxiang. It was a small country that surrendered to it. How capable could it be? Before Yelu Chongyuan's army arrived, Dangxiang's cavalry was extremely prestigious between the two states. Once they arrived, they no longer saw them. Even now they doubted whether the Song army was acting as Dangxiang people and used this as an excuse to seize their territory.

The tribes in this area were killed and killed by Yeli Wangrong and Cheng Keshang, and all of them were cleared. Many of them fled to the Khitan, and there were all kinds of news that they brought over. Some of them said that Dangxiang had hundreds of thousands of troops, and some said that they were just a few hundred people based on what they saw with their own eyes. The various news made the Khitans not understand how many Dangxiang troops had come.
Chapter completed!