When Zuo Xiaosi and Monk Jia were arguing about whether Zhou Nan would fight Yanjing City tomorrow, Zhou Nan was still behind Yang Keshi, all the way north, towards the Jade River.

Because of the detour to the west, it is more than 50 miles longer than the normal trip. At first, there was a crescent moon hanging in the air, but when the first quarter moon disappeared, only the stars in the sky remained.

"There are still more than sixty miles to go," Yang Keshi said to Zhou Nan beside him, because of the bumps on horseback and the oncoming wind, Yang Keshi's voice was a little erratic.

"Rush to the Jade River and rest!" Zhou Nan roared. Fortunately, all their cavalry are equipped with war horses captured from the Liao soldiers, if it was the Hexi horse ridden by the Song army, it would have been messed up a long time ago, no matter how well the cavalry on your horse is trained, it will have to run away at this time. Zhou Nan looked back just now, and the two thousand cavalry troops led by Gao Yuan behind him were just like the formation at the beginning, not chaotic at all, and sparse.

Yang Keshi had already run to the front and shouted loudly to the cavalry soldiers beside him: "Rush to the Yuhe River to rest!" ”

Under the moonlit night, Liu Guangshi kept sending people to look north in the watchtower, and repeatedly warned those who went up: Wherever there is a spark, report it immediately.

Outside the camp, the ditch was widened by a zhang, and an additional layer was set up to prevent the horses from being repelled by antlers. He even learned from the practice of Fanren and sent out more than a dozen sentinels, but they didn't dare to go far, at most they patrolled on the east and west sides of the camp - the north is the river, so there is no need to patrol; To the south is your own people, so don't be careful.

Liu Yanqing was unusually tonight, he didn't let people serve him to boil water for a shower, but sat in a big tent in military uniform, which attracted all the soldiers in the past: Liu Dutong is such a noble person, it is not easy to treat him with their general pillows!

Liu Yanqing knew his own business, he quietly ordered his own soldiers to feed the horse again, once something happened, he could run farther and not delay things. It's just that it's already time, why don't the people raise the fire? - Yikes! Bah! Bah! Why is he looking forward to being attacked?

Anyway, if the Fanren don't come tonight, they must have said it on purpose, so that they can strengthen their vigilance and not easily send troops to grab food, so that the Fanren can calmly transport the stolen grain and grass back to Yanjing.

Fanren is really hateful! In previous years, they were all honest and barbaric, where would they play any tricks? Now the more they fight, the worse they learn, and even they fall into their way. No, tomorrow I will definitely send someone out to loot in the Fanren realm!

Looking outside, the moonlight was gradually obscured by the clouds, and Liu Yanqing couldn't help but yawn, it seemed to be a false alarm.

The Yingchun Gate of Yanjing City was opened, just like the more than 300 people who ran out of the Qingjin Gate in the west, all of them were cavalrymen, all carrying several torches behind their backs and inserting them in their belts. There were more than 300 cavalrymen, and none of them spoke, and after leaving the city gate, the Yingchun Gate behind them closed again. The first one took the direction and headed southeast, followed by the rest. At the end of the hour, we had to cross the Gaoliang River and rush to Heifengdu, which was ordered by someone sent by Dashi Linya yesterday. This team rushed to Heifengdu, and the other team also rushed to the southwest of Yanjing City to wait for Lin Ya's signal together.

There were almost no soldiers and horses in Yanjing City, so only 300 people were organized for each team. According to Lin Ya's orders, each team should have at least 500 people, and each team should have two torches. After getting together, there were only seven hundred people left in the city, and they had all been drawn out to cooperate with Lin Ya's action this time.

In Yanjing City, there are more than 5,000 infantry troops and hundreds of palace guards left. In order to repel the Nanren army, the court has gone all out, completely led by Xiao Gan and Yelu Dashi, preparing to fight the Nanren in the wild.

And Yanjing is now like a childish child who has no ability to protect - 5,000 infantry troops, eight city gates, and each city gate is not enough for 700 people! If there is really a strong enemy attacking, it will not be able to resist it at all.

Yelu Dashi looked up at the sky again, and saw the six stars of the Southern Dipper looming in the night sky due south, and Tianfu Star was the brightest time. Jerodashi looked behind him, and the four thousand cavalry were waiting quietly, while the horses were restlessly digging the ground with their front hooves.

"Light the torch!" Yelu Dashi shouted.

For a while, the soldiers took out the fire folds and torches that had been prepared long ago, shook the fire folds in the wind, and a faint flame appeared, and the torches were brought up, and with the help of the grease on the torches, the flames of the fire folds immediately ignited the torches. One, two, three...... After a while, a long fire dragon appeared in front of him.

Holding torches in their hands, some soldiers stood on horseback, held high and waved constantly. After a while, I saw a fire dragon also appear in the northeast, but it was too far away, and the fire looked a little small.

"Blow the trumpet!" Yelu Dashi ordered. More than a dozen soldiers around him took out the prepared horns, first one person blew the horn "whining", and then the other soldiers also blew, one after another, as if there were hundreds of dozens of people blowing at the same time.

Soon a low horn sound was heard from the north, accompanied by the movement of the fire dragon.

These two fire dragons and horns finally blew up a "fire dragon" in the northwest, but they were too far away to hear the horn.

"Hurry up and report to the capital! The soldiers are coming! The soldier on the lookout shouted loudly down.

"Which direction?" The soldiers below shouted.

"Three-sided! 、Three-sided! The soldier on the watchtower nervously did not know how to answer, and then shouted to the people below: "Firelight! There is a fire! Report to General Liu! ”

It doesn't matter which direction the soldiers come from, General Xiao Liu has told him that as long as he sees the fire, report it to him immediately. Of course, the soldiers below also knew, and as soon as they heard that there was a fire, they immediately flew towards General Xiao Liu's camp.

When they arrived at General Liu's tent, it was empty, and the soldier who reported the news immediately ran to General Liu's tent of the Chinese army. General Liu was taking off his armor, and the soldiers hurriedly came in and said, "Report to Liu Dutong, I saw the fire of the soldiers coming from three sides." ”

At this time, it didn't matter whether it was or not, the soldier who delivered the message himself first summed up the words handed down by the soldiers on the watchtower - the people on the watchtower said: The soldiers are coming, on three sides, and there is fire. Together, isn't it just: There are soldiers attacking the fire from three sides?

Liu Yanqing, who was taking off his armor, was suddenly frightened and sweated when he heard the report that there were really soldiers coming to sneak attack, and if he went to do so, he was really on fire. Thanks to Wang Yuan's desperate escape, he told himself about the sneak attack of the soldiers tonight, otherwise he would have eaten the tricks of the Fan people tonight.

"Pass the order down, and meet the enemy in formation! There must be no act to disturb the morale of the army! Liu Yanqing put on his armor again, and said to the pro-army around him.