At this time, let Cao Hu fight happily, and after that, he was annoyed that he would continue to ask for his life.

Second, in order to keep Zhang Jianbei, a real forward force, fighting at bay.

Once Yanjing stays behind and chooses to refuse to accept the city, Cai Dao will send Zhang Jianbei out to sweep all the prefectures and counties around Yanjing Mansion, he doesn't want Zhang Jianbei to be able to break through a city, he just needs to disgust these states and counties. Now is the time of spring ploughing, and even Cai Dao has given up the grain harvest of Hebei for a whole year, so how can he allow the Liao people to farm with peace of mind?

Moreover, the archers who followed behind Cao Hu's guard Ma Jing cavalry were not so simple, and there were many divine arm archers and divine arm crossbowmen mixed in.

Especially the Divine Arm Archers, these people are all sharpshooters from the forbidden army, and Cai Dao only gave them one task - to target the officers in the Liao army and shoot them.

The soldiers and officers of the Liao army had strange hairstyles, but their clothes were very different, and these most primitive snipers of the Song army were still easy to recognize the Liao officers after training.

So, as soon as the two sides came into contact, the Liao army so ignorantly crashed headlong into the forward cavalry of the Song army.

To be honest, Cao Hu's guard horse cavalry, in addition to Cao Hu himself, including his own soldiers, is not as good as the Liao army in terms of riding skills and horse ability.

As soon as the advance of the Song and Liao armies fought, the number of casualties on both sides was basically equal.

That's because the Song Army's divine arm archers, who caught up from behind, began to kill the officers of the Liao State.

Under the threat of Cao Hu's personal courage and divine arm bow, the cavalry guarding the horse finally managed to maintain itself from the decline.

Over time, the situation on the battlefield quickly reversed.

A large number of middle and low-level officers in the Liao army were sniped, which really affected the combat effectiveness of the Liao army's forwards, and the soldiers under them gradually became headless flies and attackers.

Then, the defeat of the forward troops of the Liao State is also reasonable.

After that, the Liao forward army became a major rout.

Cao Hu rose up and led his army to chase him all the way to the city of Yanjing.

Afterwards, after statistics, the soldiers killed in front of the Liao army were actually not as good as the ones who were trampled to death after being defeated.

Afterwards, Cai Dao also imprisoned Cao Hu in a small black house, and because of his own reckless behavior, he was killed by more than a dozen soldiers and soldiers who guarded the horses with bows and arrows shot from the Yanjing City.

At this point, Cao Hu himself admitted his mistake.

However, all the guards forgave the brave commander who was not good at fighting.

I can't remember how many years, anyway, after the Song Dynasty, Taizu, Taizong, and Zhenzong Dynasty, no general was able to reach Yanjing City in person, which is a great honor.

Moreover, these forbidden troops who are now near Yanjing also understand that Liu Qing, that scholar soldier is not wrong at all, they are not the main battlefield here, and what really faces the attack of the Liao army is the 100,000 troops who everyone thought they were going to go overseas before.

So, can the 100,000, or 100,000 standing forbidden army and 350,000 Tuntian forbidden army, hold the newly built Yuguan, the north bank of the Luan River, Gubeikou, and Juyong Pass, which are the four key places?

Once, the Song army really withstood the all-out counterattack of the Liao army, and finally held the above places, and even, in the end, only held Yuguan.

Wanyan Aguta will definitely raise troops immediately, although this does not coincide with the timing of his expected army, but if this God-given opportunity is missed, when will their Jurchens completely get rid of the oppression of the Khitans?

200,000 construction workers have returned to Michigan with the Cai family's fleet.

Pan Xiong left the defense of Yuguan to his favored lieutenant general, and he himself did not care about the affairs of Gubeikou and Jiayuguan. Before the departure of the two troops, he had already given full authority to the two lieutenant generals, so he naturally had to trust them.

The generals of this 100,000 standing forbidden army were all selected by Cai Dao from among many young generals. The military quality can only be regarded as qualified, and it is not a big problem for them to defend the city.

A young general with a high level of talent in civil and military affairs like Cai Dao's apprentice Zhang Jianbei is hard to find.

Pan Xiong personally came to the forefront of the defense of the Luanhe River, which was the weakest link in the entire defense system.

The water potential of the upper, middle and lower reaches of the Luanhe River is very different, especially the upper reaches, now it is early spring, the spring rain in the north is as expensive as oil, the amount of water in the river is very small, in many sections, the cavalry of the Liao army only needs to ride horses to wade across the river.

Therefore, as soon as Pan Xiong arrived at the Luanhe front, he immediately deployed his troops.

The 8,000 standing forbidden troops left by the cash were sent to Yuguan with 3,000, plus the original 2,000 standing troops and 50,000 tuntian soldiers in Yuguan, a total of 35,000 forbidden soldiers, although the fortifications were built in a very short time, Pan Xiong was very satisfied after seeing it. Therefore, the number of soldiers he left behind in Yuguan was not large.

The second batch of 350,000 Tuntian forbidden troops, now there are 300,000, Lulong, Qian'an, Leting, Zunhua four fortress cities stationed 10,000 Tuntian forbidden army, he deployed the remaining Tuntian forbidden army behind the fortifications on the north bank of the Luan River. 120,000 people were placed in the upstream, 50,000 in the middle and 80,000 in the downstream.

Pan Xiong himself left only 15,000 mixed arms of the forbidden army as a general reserve, stationed behind the defensive front in the middle reaches of the Luanhe River. This general reserve force is composed of 5,000 standing forbidden troops and 10,000 tuntian forbidden troops, all of whom are equipped with war horses, and each of these people can use the divine arm bow.

Of course, the number of snipers trained by Cai Dao is very small, and only two people have been trained so far. Before Pan Xionglin set off, Cai Dao sent one of them to his command.

To say that the preparation is complete, it is definitely impossible, for Pan Xiong, who is very demanding, no amount of time and materials will feel that it is not enough to give him. However, the time was so limited, and the initial establishment of a system of fortifications on the north bank of the Luan River was thanks to Cai's whimsical ideas.

The tools used to construct the defense system of the Luanhe River and the defense system of Yuguan are the kind of combined steel frame that Cai Dao asked the ordnance supervisor to customize, and the bottom of the steel frame is smashed into the ground with an iron hammer, and after it is fixed, it is piled with soil, which does not need to be too high, just reach the height of an ordinary man's chest. On the north bank of the Luan River, a defensive chest wall of Sancheng was built in turn, and each layer gathered just fifty steps.

In this way, even if the iron cavalry of the Liao army easily crossed the Luan River, they would not be able to exert the advantage of cavalry on the land on the north bank of the Luan River.