In his anger, Yeluren first wanted to lead his troops back and kill the thief army twenty or thirty miles behind him.

But Yelu Renxian had a circle of people around him, but he didn't think so. What kind of thief are you going to kill at this time? If the siege of Yanjing is not lifted, the family is in the city, who is still in the mood to turn back and kill the thief at this time?

Someone immediately spoke: "The privy envoy is angry, don't fall for these people's delaying tactics, the thieves occupy Lu County first, they must know that we are eager to help, and want to delay our return to help, and please don't be impulsive!" ”

One of the people next to him also nodded again and again: "Yes, yes, I think the thieves have also received the news that the Song people have come to Yanjing City, so they want to block our way back to help, thinking that Yanjing City was broken by the Song people, and they thieves can sit and reap the benefits of the fishermen!" ”

"Yes, it must be like this, maybe the thief and the Song people may have been in collusion for a long time. The Privy Counsellor can't be fooled! "This man seems to be on point.

But it's all about talking about it here.

These words really made Yeluren frown and think, because there was really some truth in these words.

Luxian is the fastest way back to Yanjing, and it was suddenly blocked by thieves, it is impossible to say that the thieves have no other purpose, so turn your head and think about it, the thieves want to block the way back to Yanjing for the army?

That's it!

Everyone really guessed Di Yong's purpose, and they guessed correctly.

Yeluren was angry: "The rabble, the mosquitoes and flies, reach out to hit him, waste time and strength, don't hit him, buzzing is not annoying!" ”

"The privy envoy should focus on the big picture! If you turn your head to fight, you will only fight one battle, command and dispatch, arrange the formation, and then start the war to fight, I am afraid it will take two days. If the thieves who turned around and came to Lu County still defended the city, it would really outweigh the losses. ”

Everyone is persuading Yelu Renxian that this land of Yanyun is not a dangerous place with heavy mountains and mountains, but a relatively gentle place, and there are other roads that are not passable, and there are small roads. It's just that it's unrealistic for an army of 100,000 to take a small road, and if you can't cross the road of the frame, it's difficult to use it to march a large army.

After some persuasion by everyone, Yelu Renxian's mentality calmed down a little at this time, looked left and right, and asked, "Is there any way to Yanjing that is closer?" ”

The people on the left and right looked at each other a few times, and one of them spoke: "Privy envoy, there are many roads, and the best one to walk the most gently is Yanfangdian, it is the dry season, and there is only a little mud, and the army will pass through it unimpeded." ”

In fact, there is no big road in Yanfangdian, but the small road there is the big road, and the left and right sides of the road are weeds and reeds, and it is flat after one trip.

"Yanfangdian?" Yeluren first groaned slightly, he was familiar with that place, because he had been hunting with the emperor several times.

"Yes, yes, it is Yanfangdian, you can enter Yanfangdian Lake by walking a few miles to the south, and in the dry season, it is good to walk tightly. After passing through Yanfangdian, it is not far from Yanjing! ”

Yeluren sighed first and said, "Let's go, change the route to the south, enter Dianzi, and send more rangers!" ”

"The privy envoy doesn't have to worry, it's the Song people, no matter how you think about it, you can't imagine that we can get out of the lake, maybe you can catch the Song people off guard."

This is also reasonable, although the road in Yanfangdian is easy to walk, but it is not easy to find, people who have not really been there many times, or locals, it is difficult to find a road that can cross the east and west. Because there is a puddle here and a shallow lake there, there will be a small swamp in the way as you walk.

It is very difficult to find a dry hard road to penetrate things in these puddles, shallow lakes, and swamps, and it has to be done by those who are extremely familiar with hundreds of miles of Yanfangdian, otherwise although there is no great danger in walking around in it, people who are not familiar with it will have to waste time in exploring the path and making mistakes.

Fortunately, most of the people under Yelu Renxian are Yanyun locals, and there are some Yanfangdian locals, and even Yelu Renxian himself has been here several times, and there is no problem in going to Yanfangdian.

Yelu Ren also nodded: "Maybe we can get out of the lake, and it can really catch the Song people off guard." ”

Yeluren first agreed with this idea, and if he didn't take the main road, he walked hundreds of miles to Yanfangdian, which was really a strange move.

Some local soldiers in Yanfangdian led the way in front of the head, and the 100,000 army began to enter Yanfangdian, preparing to rush out from here, go straight to Yanjing City, and catch the Song people by surprise.

It's just that not long after entering Yanfangdian, Yeluren frowned first.

As far as the eye can see, there are overgrown weeds, withered and yellow, and crooked reeds are clumped after clumped, until the end of the field of vision is not visible.

Yelu Renxian obviously noticed the problem immediately, and the horse stopped slightly, and there was some hesitation.

"Privy Counsellor, what's the matter? Why don't you go? The general beside him hurriedly asked, for fear that this privy envoy would make some trouble again, and he would have to turn back to kill the thief.

Yeluren raised his hand and pointed forward, looked around, and said, "This is not a place for marching, especially this season!" ”

"Privy envoy, you see this road is very easy to walk, there is not much mud, the carriage and horses can walk, although the wild grass on the left and right must be driven in front of the head, but it is not troublesome!"

Yeluren first worriedly said: "It's not that the road is not easy to walk, but it's really too dry and yellow, dry firewood, wildfires and prairie fires, just talk about it!" ”

Everyone was stunned when they heard this, they all just wanted to hurry back to Yanjing, ignoring many things. In this kind of environment, if you really want to have a fire, then what's the point?

However, there are also smart people, and they immediately laughed and said: "The privy envoy is too worried, how secret and difficult to find the road here?" If you are not a local, who can easily travel through here? Not to mention whether the Song people can think of us going back from here, even if the Song army thinks of it, there is nothing to be done, the Song people just want to send some scouts to come in to investigate, their southerners, can walk in, I'm afraid they can't go out, how can they find out what news? Let's just go here, the Song people will definitely be difficult to know. ”

Ye Luren was still worried at first, and then said: "I'm afraid that once the Song people think that we may pass through here, whether they know it or not, they will also put the fire first." ”

"Privy envoy, you look at the sky, there is no wind, you look at the terrain, and where you can go through the fire, there are twists and turns. Even if we can see the fire and smoke in front of our heads from a distance, it is too late for us to turn around and retreat, the fire here is not as continuous as the high mountains and mountains, and there is no wind from high places to help, so we will definitely not be able to catch up with our pace, and we will just turn around and walk when the time comes. ”

Yeluren sat on the horseback first, but he could see far away, the terrain was really as the words said, the weeds and reeds were also twisted and turned, and there was no wind, it was really about to catch fire, and the speed of the fire could not spread quickly, and it was really too late to turn around and run.

Yeluren smashed his mouth first, thought for a while, and sighed: "Alas...... It's best that the Song people really can't think of these, if the fire really comes, let's go out of Dianzi to take a long detour, and I don't know how much time we have to delay. ”

"The privy envoy can rest assured, the Song people are not familiar with the terrain of Yanyun, and they will definitely not think of this section! As long as we pass through here, we will inevitably catch the Song people off guard. ”

"Let's go, let's go, send someone back to urge, and speed up and go."

"Well, the last general will personally urge it!"

Reeds, lakes, wetland swamps, in fact, the scenery is still beautiful, if it is the spring and summer season, when everything is prosperous, the breeze here is blowing, the reeds are fluttering, the migratory birds are flocks, the fish are fat, the livestock are happy, it is even more beautiful. At that time, some residents in the vicinity will have a new kind of livelihood to support their families, that is, to collect eggs, and experienced people can go into the reeds to collect the eggs of swans, geese and wild ducks to sell, and they can support their families.

The real spring of the revival of all things here is actually not far away, only in another month or two, it will be more green than yellow, and it will be full of vitality.

100,000 people, meandering in Yanfangdian, as if hidden, if the vision is not in the sky, it is almost impossible to find that there are so many people walking inside, because even if the reeds are withered, they are still taller than people.

In the past, the emperor of the Khitan Daliao, with his personal guards, rode into this place, bent his bow and shot geese, and he could always return happy.

There are some things, the more worried you are, the more they will happen.

This is the supreme principle, and later generations called this phenomenon "Murphy's Law".

For example, Yelu Renxi was worried that the Song people would find out that they had entered this place and would set fire to it.

Yelu Renxi guessed well, Gan Qi thought about it all night, and thought about it, so he came up with this plan, forcing the 100,000 troops of the Liao State into Yanfangdian, and then burning them all.

When he knew that the Liao army turned south and entered Yanfangdian, Di Yong, who was overjoyed, immediately took one hundred and ten men out of the county seat of Luxian County, and he still had the last thing Gan Qi arranged to do.

At this time, Ganqi, who was on the western edge of Yanfangdian, did he know that Yeluren had advanced to Yanfangdian?

In fact, he didn't know that Di Yong didn't have time to send the news.

But knowing it doesn't prevent Ganchi from continuing to carry out the plan he made.

There are dates without dates, Gan Qi has to play three poles, and in the era of unsmooth information, this is the only way. It is completely unnecessary to have to wait for definite information before setting fires. This Yanfangdian will not become a barren land because of the fire of Ganqi, the wildfire is inexhaustible, and the spring breeze blows and grows, which is the norm in a place like Yanfangdian.

This fire, regardless of whether he Yeluren entered Yanfangdian or not, Ganqi has to be released, Yanfangdian is very large, Ganqi not only has to set fire, but also follow the fire in, and keep setting fire to help the fire advance.

The fire to the west of Yanfangdian Lake has already burned, burning reeds and weeds crackling. But it is a thing like reeds and weeds, and it is not burned, far less than the trees are burned, after burning, the ground is exposed, and the ground is exposed to have a benefit, that is, it is easy to find a way, dry land and wetland, at a glance.

The fire made Ganqi warm, and in this cold season, it was quite comfortable.

More than 10,000 iron armor followed the fire.

Yelu Renxian's army entered Yanfangdian from the direction of Luxian, and was in the area north of the center of Yanfangdian at this time. It was about seventy or eighty miles from Ganch.

Although Gan Qi didn't know whether Yeluren had entered Yanfangdian first, he also ordered everyone to take the initiative to help the fire advance in the direction where Yeluren had entered Yanfangdian first.

This is done by lighting fires everywhere as you go, and lighting all the weeds and reeds that can be seen in the northeast direction.

The advance of the fire is actually not fast, there is no strong wind, and the speed of the fire is not as fast as no one's footsteps.

So Gan Qi didn't walk fast, and just slowly followed behind the line of fire.

Seventy or eighty miles, you have to burn for a day or two.

But the smoke and dust raised by the fire can be seen twenty or thirty miles away, and not only can you see the smoke and dust, but there will also be a lot of swept grass ash floating in the air, permeating the ground within a radius of twenty or thirty miles.

This characteristic of fire is also the reason why Yeluren first thought that it might be burned by fire, and still returned to Yanfangdian, because the fire could be found twenty or thirty miles away, which was enough for him to react and avoid disaster.

The fire burned from noon on the first day until the morning of the next day.

Yeluren finally noticed the grass ash floating in the air, and his first reaction was to shout: "Stop, stop, turn around, retreat!" ”

The people on the left and right also discovered this situation, and hurriedly shouted: "Turn around, quickly, order the soldiers to turn back, give the order, the rear team will change to the front team, retreat!" ”

In a panic, the commander turned his horse and galloped, repeating the order as he ran.

Beside Yelu Renxian, there were still people scolding: "Damn, how do these Song dogs know that I am waiting in this Yanfangdian?" ”

Someone was shocked and guessed: "Isn't Yanjing City broken?" Is there a two-faced thief who gives advice to Song Gou? ”

Obviously, some people think that if a place like Yanfangdian is not a native of Yanjing, they will not think about marching and fighting.

"Don't talk nonsense!" Yeluren immediately opened his mouth to stop this kind of disturbing words to the army.

This characteristic of fire is also the reason why Yeluren first thought that it might be burned by fire, and still returned to Yanfangdian, because the fire could be found twenty or thirty miles away, which was enough for him to react and avoid disaster.

The fire burned from noon on the first day until the morning of the next day.

Yeluren finally noticed the grass ash floating in the air, and his first reaction was to shout: "Stop, stop, turn around, retreat!" ”

The people on the left and right also discovered this situation, and hurriedly shouted: "Turn around, quickly, order the soldiers to turn back, give the order, the rear team will change to the front team, retreat!" ”

In a panic, the commander turned his horse and galloped, repeating the order as he ran.

Beside Yelu Renxian, there were still people scolding: "Damn, how do these Song dogs know that I am waiting in this Yanfangdian?" ”

Someone was shocked and guessed: "Isn't Yanjing City broken?" Is there a two-faced thief who gives advice to Song Gou? ”

Obviously, some people think that if a place like Yanfangdian is not a native of Yanjing, they will not think about marching and fighting.

"Don't talk nonsense!" Yeluren immediately opened his mouth to stop this kind of disturbing words to the army.