Just as Helan Jinming, who couldn't rescue him, said, in fact, Huaiyang City was already doomed when Zhang Xun decided to defend it.

Today, the 400,000 troops in Pan Xiong's hands seem to be a large number, but the area he needs to defend is not small, and the location they are in is the depth of the enemy's army.

Therefore, only if Pan Xiong restrains Yelu Yanxi's army here in the Luanhe River will the pressure on Juyongguan and Gubeikou be less.

Huang Keqi's idea is indeed likely to succeed, but what if Yelu Yanxi escapes? That would be seriously inconsistent with Cai Dao's previous strategic plan.

The purpose of the establishment of the Luanhe Front is, firstly, to prevent the Liao army from the south from attacking Yuguan from behind, and secondly, to contain Yelu Yanxi and his Gongfen army.

The degree of it is very difficult to grasp, and the main general of the other party is not a fool, it will not take a few days to see the trajectory of the Song army, however, someone will contain the commander of the palace division army for him, this person is the emperor of the Liao State Yelu Yanxi himself, he only needs to speak, let the palace division army continue to attack here, unless there is a mutiny, then, the palace division army will not leave.

But if you really listen to Huang Keqi's strategy, it is really possible to smoke the emperor of Liao away.

Although the Luanhe defensive front has the disadvantages of not being as solid as the cities and checkpoints, the defensive area is too large, and it needs more troops to defend it, it has an advantage that the city cannot match-it is easy to attack.

In urban offensive and defensive warfare, if the opponent has more troops, unless it is the reincarnation of Zhang Xun, no one can play a defensive battle into a flower.

What's more, if the enemy gives up storming the city, the defenders in the city will basically have no way to pursue the enemy.

But on the Luan River, Pan Xiong had the means and confidence to attack the enemy.

Historically, there are few examples of infantry defeating cavalry, and the Tang Dynasty's Modao Formation is indeed a cavalry that can deal with nomadic people, but the Tang Dynasty wants to be dominated by elite soldiers and elite cavalry, and the Modao Formation does not mean that there is no cavalry protection.

What's more, the Tang Dynasty did not lack war horses, so it is certain that the Tang army of the Modao Formation was just a special means to deal with cavalry assaults. What's more, there aren't too many soldiers who can really dance the Mo knife.

There is a formation, but Pan Xiong is here to test it.

But the moon is in the moon!

Its inventor was Liu Yu, the emperor of the Southern Song Dynasty, and many people who are not familiar with history may not have heard of this emperor's name.

did not be able to dominate the world, only lived south of the Yangtze River, and his fame naturally could not catch up with Cao Cao and Liu Bei, and even the Sun brothers. But in fact, this Liu Yu is a heroic figure who can compete with Cao Cao in terms of political ability and military ability. It's just that history doesn't give him a matching opponent.

The moon formation is to rely on the river, use a small number of infantry to lure the opponent's cavalry to attack on the river bank, and then use the warships on the river to launch arrows and infantry counterattacks, so as to break the opponent's cavalry.

It should also be noted that the infantry on the river bank must also be defended by chariots.

This kind of moon formation is only a flash in the pan on the battlefield, because this formation has very big limitations, if there are no rivers and ships, the infantry staying on the river bank is simply looking for death, rather than breaking the kettle and fighting against the water.

At this time and here, isn't it just in line with all the conditions of the Moon Array?

The only fly in the ointment is that the flow of the Luan River is still too small, and besides, Liu Yu himself grew up in the south and is good at using water to fight.

Therefore, Pan Xiong now plans to hold back, and only when the water in the Luan River is more sufficient, will he be ready to show his hole cards and completely defeat the Liao Imperial Forest Army in front.

However, Pan Xiong didn't expect that at this time, Yelu Yanxi had already moved his big tent back to a distance of only five miles. Even so, he still only sent a little eunuch to give Yelu Zhongke a holy decree, which was an ultimatum to Yelu Zhongke, telling him to continue to send troops to attack Luanhe tomorrow, and he must defeat the enemy in front of him within tomorrow.

Otherwise, Yelu Yanxi is ready to change generals at any time!

Unfortunately, Yelu Yanxi's instructions were destined to be just a luxury, and on the second day, Yelu Zhongke personally served as a team of overseers on the south bank of the Luan River. Unfortunately, knowing that when night fell, the Liao army still failed to break through the last line of defense of the Song army's chest wall.

During this period, Yelu Zhongke also sent people to destroy this kind of steel frame breastwork, and the first one was destroyed by a fire, so it didn't take much effort to break most of it immediately.

However, when they reached the second line of defense, they found that the soldiers alone could not clear it.

Late that night, Pan Xiong did not continue to set fires, but stopped a pair of elite soldiers, fought a beautiful counterattack, and once again drove the Liao army back to the south of the Luan River.

On the third day, Yelu Yanxi really removed Yelu Zhongke and replaced Yelu Zhongke with the deputy commander of the palace division army to take over Yelu Zhongke's duties.

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In the next ten days, the commander of the Liao army changed every few days, and six commanders had already changed, but the frontal battlefield was still playing a game of tug-of-war with the Song army. The two sides advanced one during the day, and the other always engaged in stealing chickens at night, and again and again the Liao army had finally taken back the advantages that the Liao army had finally occupied during the day.

No matter how anxious Yelu Yanxi was, there was no way to take the scoundrels of the Song army on the other side.

At this moment, Yelu Zhongke risked his life to see Yelu Yanxi, admonished him, and begged His Majesty the Emperor to stop taking care of the Luanhe River or Yuguan. Instead, we should return to Shangjing as soon as possible to stabilize the situation at home, and when the time comes, we should collect heavy troops from the country and directly break through the defense of Yuguan Pass from the front.

If the Yuguan Pass was breached, then the Song army would have no chance to continue to stay here, and the defense system of the Luanhe River, the Song Dynasty defenders in Juyong Pass and Gubeikou would have to choose to retreat or surrender directly.

Yelu Zhongke is not wrong in what he said, although the Song army blocked three important passes, but the passes of the Yanshan Mountain Range are not only these three, and the other passes are just not as convenient as these three passes.

Just when Yelu Yanxi was about to agree to Yelu Zhongke's advice, the situation ahead suddenly changed in a 'surprise'.

The Song army in the frontal position suddenly retreated.