In the end, Yelu Yanxi still had to accept Yelu Zhongke's suggestion.

Now, time is very important for both Song and Liao, and without a day's delay, the Song army will try to strengthen the defense capability of Yuguan.

According to the latest news reported by the Liao State Tanma, the Song army has actually completed the overall deployment of the Luanhe River. For the current situation of the Great Liao, Yuguan is the most important key point, if the Liao State can recapture Yuguan, the Song army of Gubeikou and Juyongguan will collapse without a fight.

However, if the main force of the Liao army is stalemate under Gubeikou for too long, even if Gubeikou is finally captured, then the Song army will completely complete the defense of Yuguan and Luanhe, and the Song people are best at building cities. After a month, it will be very difficult for the Liao army to break through the Yuguan, which has been built impregnably.

At that time, if the Liao State still wants to defend the Yanjing Law Mansion, it will have to pay more costs.

In the early morning of April 1, the fifth year of Tianyou, Yelu Yanxi personally led the palace army and a part of the Han army of Yanjing, and finally rushed to the south bank of the Luan River.

Yelu Yanxi and the generals came to the shore on horseback, and when they looked up, everyone's hearts became a little cold.

Good guy, how many days have passed, and the Song army actually built such a scale of fortifications on the north bank of the Luan River, is it a superficial appearance or a solid copper wall?

"Come on, bury the pot and cook, give you half an hour, when the time is up, start attacking immediately." Yelu Yanxi still didn't believe it, except for the Han army that would only be used to siege the city, the rest of his men were skilled in archers and horses, warriors in the country - Gong Fen Army, and they could not beat the forbidden army of the Song Dynasty who could not walk on two legs!

"Yes!" Yelu Zhongke replied that he had instructed his men to prepare meals for the soldiers, while he himself led his own soldiers, intending to take advantage of this period of family to investigate the defense of the Song army on the opposite side of the Luan River.

Of course, the results of the investigation made him worried, and the general on the opposite side was obviously a commander who was good at defending. Not to mention the bottomless trenches on the north bank and the breastwork behind the trenches, Yelu Jongk had to admire the boldness of the other side in the deployment of troops alone.

The water potential in the upper reaches of the Luan River is indeed very small, and it is also very suitable for the Liao army to cross the river on horseback, but the problem is that looking at the formation, the commander on the opposite side actually deployed almost half of the Song army's troops here.

With so many troops, even if they fight all the palace divisions, they may not be able to rush through those three fortifications.

According to the report, due to the very heavy snow last winter, after the ice and snow melted, the lower reaches of the Luan River are now very strong, and it is not suitable for swimming across the river for the time being. Moreover, the specific strength of the Song army deployed on the opposite side is unknown, but according to their rough guess, the Song army on the opposite side has a lot more soldiers than the soldiers in the middle reaches of the Luan River.

Based on this, Yelu Zhongke deduced that the commander of the Great Song Army must be on the north bank of the Luan River, and must be waiting for their attack in the middle reaches of the Luan River.

Obviously, this place has been the territory of the Liao State for more than a hundred years, but, for some reason, he always feels that the other party wants to know this land by himself.

After summarizing the information from the three aspects, Yelu Zhongke personally reported the incident to Yelu Yanxi, and then, Yelu Zhongke did not speak. This is a choice, even he feels really difficult to decide, which area to choose for the attack.

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Half an hour later, the Liao army's attack officially began, and Yelu Zhongke probed for so long, but Yelu Yanxi only said one sentence: "Let's start attacking from here!" ”

In fact, this emperor is just too lazy to change places.

The sound of war drums, the sound of armor and armor colliding, the neighing of horses, and the shouts of soldiers suddenly resounded throughout the entire sky on the south bank of the Luan River. However, what makes people feel strange is that there was no reaction on the defensive position of the Song army on the opposite side, and not even a single soldier of the Song Dynasty forbidden army showed his head.

Since there were fortifications on the opposite bank of the river, it was the Han army that took the lead this time. Until these Han troops crossed the Luan River barefoot, the other side did not send a single arrow.

It wasn't until the Han army was ten paces away from the first breastwork that countless Song Dynasty forbidden soldiers half-crouched up from behind the breastwork, and countless arrows shot out from the bows and crossbows in the hands of the soldiers.

All of a sudden, the Han army of the Liao State in front of them didn't have time to panic, and they were shot and killed on the spot by countless arrows, and even those palace troops who were swimming across the river didn't have time to dodge, and the river was full of silt, which could not be freed in a moment and a half.

In this way, the Liao army only lasted less than a quarter of an hour of attack, and ended in a crushing defeat.

Seeing the performance of the forbidden army of the Song Dynasty, Yelu Zhongke felt a chill in his heart, no matter what the real strength of the army on the other side was, at least its military discipline was outrageously good. It was so close that the main general sent the first arrow, which shows that these soldiers were either convinced or afraid of their main general.

The corpses of the dead and wounded soldiers of the Han army and the Gong branch army in the Liao army were spread all over the bank of the river in front of the first breastwork, and in the waterways of the Luan River, blood stained the entire Luan River bright red.

"Why don't you attack? Zhongke? In the face of such serious casualties, Yelu Yanxi turned a blind eye, on the contrary, he was very angry that Yelu Zhongke hastily asked the troops to stop the attack without reporting him.

In the eyes of His Majesty the Emperor, war is to kill people, and now that so many people have died, continuing to attack is to continue to attack, as long as the corpses of the Han army fill in the trenches and breastwork, won't his palace division army have a chance to continue to advance forward?

"Your Majesty, this ......"

"Hurry up and start attacking, if you can't do it......" Yelu Yanxi did not continue, but Yelu Zhongke, who was familiar with his temper, understood.

If he disobeys His Majesty's will, he will be dismissed from office at least and beheaded on the spot. In this case, His Majesty may also directly let him be the captain of the death squad.

Next, the Liao army attacked for a whole day, but the results were not obvious at all, until the sky darkened, and the Liao army captured the first chest fortification in front of the river bank with the combined efforts of the Khitan warriors and the Han army.

The Song army had so many bows and arrows that it seemed that they couldn't shoot them all.

It was almost dark, and the Han army hiding behind the first breastwork would rather be killed by the Khitans than continue to move forward.

The anti-water Han army was finally strangled by Yelu Zhongke and his people.