With the outlaw impact of the two thousand "decisive people", he can safely reach Liaoyang City, which is the idea of all the remnants of the Khitan army, including Yeluxian, at this time. And the facts seemed to prove their thoughts, because since they quickly evacuated from the city of Lejiao in Shenzhou, the scouts in charge of the guard sent the news that the enemy and us were still fighting fiercely under the city of Lejiao. It was not until nearly an hour later that the situation became that the battle had ended, and the enemy army was coercing the soldiers and civilians in the suburbs of Shenzhou to go out of the city to clean up the battlefield and bury the corpses, and it was estimated that it would take at least half an hour or more before it could be reported that the army could move south again. By this time, they were fifty miles away. At such a distance, no matter how fast the horses of the Zhou army pursued, it was impossible for them to catch up before they reached Liaoyang City.

Therefore, although this place is still more than 100 miles away from Liaoyang City, from the leaders of Yeluxian and Yeluwu, to the 8,000 remnants of the Khitan army who fled south with them, they can't help but secretly breathe a sigh of relief, and they can no longer see the panic and uneasiness on their faces when they heard that the Zhou army's pursuers were approaching. Yelu Gangsage, who was crowned King of Qi more than an hour ago and had the status of the emperor's uncle, even pointed to the tributary of the Liao River and the surrounding terrain not far behind him and his army had just crossed and said: "The Han people have a saying, called 'Ji people have their own heavenly appearance', and the old man thinks it is very appropriate to use it on us. The area is surrounded by rivers and rapids, with only a small wooden bridge over the front and back rivers. Moreover, the length from east to west is no more than ten miles, and the width from north to south is less than six miles, so the room for us to turn around is extremely limited. If the pursuers of the Zhou army can rush in front of us, choke the wooden bridge in the north and destroy the wooden bridge in the south, we can trap nearly 10,000 horses and horses here. However, they are now dragged fifty miles away by the two thousand loyal and brave soldiers, so that we can calmly cross the river and pass the land of death. From the old man's point of view, this is not only relying on the protection of the ancestors and the blessing of the Son of Heaven, but also the blessing of God and the help of the gods. This time, we can get rid of the pursuit of the Zhou army, and we will definitely be able to defeat the Zhou army in the future and revive our great Liao. ”

Although his last words are somewhat unrealistic, it is good to have such a desire in the face of such adversity. Therefore, not only did other civil ministers and military generals echo their words, but even the new emperor Yeluxian, who had been proclaimed emperor and was just one step away from the ascension ceremony, also nodded again and again. However, before the smug expression on the face of Yelu Gangsage, who had received a response from the courtiers, dissipated, and before the words echoed by everyone landed, a loud bang came from behind them. With this loud bang, the wooden bridge they had just crossed was also blown apart, turning into countless pieces and being washed downstream by the river.

Before the Khitan monarchs and ministers could recover from their stunned, the "Far Detective Interceptor", who was in charge of the investigation, brought them another even more shocking and terrible news - the Zhou army was found ambushing three miles ahead, and what was even more serious was that this Zhou army ambush was stuck on the wooden bridge that the Liao army had to pass. In other words, at this time, the back road of the Liao army was destroyed, the front road was blocked, and it was surrounded by water on all sides.

Seeing that Yelu Sage, who was full of emotion, actually said a prophecy, and the Khitan monarchs and ministers who had just praised him and echoed him suddenly changed color, and their eyes were full of resentment, resentment, and even hatred and anger. And Yelu Sage himself had no time to care about the eyes of the Son of Heaven and his colleagues at this time, and he also didn't expect that he would actually say a prophecy, his face was full of astonishment, looking at the column of smoke rising into the sky with a huge explosion in the north, Yelu Sage's wide mouth could even stuff an egg into it.

However, the anger, resentment, hatred, and anger of the Khitan monarchs and their astonishment did not last long, and a heart-pounding "hiss, hiss" sound overhead, and the loud explosion that followed—the Zhou ambush at the wooden bridge to the south began to shell. Although he is already in the place of death, although he has become a "turtle in the urn", even the most ordinary people have the instinct to survive, not to mention these noble and brave generals. Although they knew that they were afraid that they would not be able to escape again this time, but for the sake of even one in ten thousand hope of escape, they still had to fight, do the battle of the trapped beast, and do the dying struggle. Therefore, after obtaining the consent of Yeluxian, Yeluwu, who was the first to come to his senses, passed down a series of orders.

First of all, a death squad of 3,000 soldiers and horses was formed to launch a decisive assault on the wooden bridge on the south side, on the one hand, to make a final effort for the hope of a breakthrough that may only be one in ten thousand, and on the other hand, to contain the Zhou army to ambush the troops and buy time for the main force to find other ways to cross the river; secondly, send some ministers and generals who are good at building to the north of the wooden bridge to explore and see if it is possible to repair it; Thirdly, divide the other soldiers and horses into countless small units, and while evading the artillery bombardment of the Zhou army, scatter in all directions, looking for a position along the river where they can wade in vain, so as to open their eyes and give themselves a chance to escape from death; In the end, Yelu Wuzhi also gathered a group of cronies and generals who had good water quality and were absolutely loyal to the new emperor, and prepared to cross the river with the emperor and some of his cronies and important ministers on their backs once they could not recapture the wooden bridge and could not find a suitable place to cross the river. After all, although the area of this dead land is not large, the total length of the rivers in the east, west, north and south is more than 30 li, and it is impossible to strictly defend everywhere with the strength of the Zhou army, as long as they can cross the river, they will have a great chance to break through the siege and escape and retreat to Liaoyang City -- as for what to do after arriving in Liaoyang City, it is not a problem that needs to be considered now, only to take one step at a time.

Yelu Wuzhi commanded the Khitan monarchs and ministers to make the final struggle in the "dead land", but he didn't know that his every move was watched by Yang Kefu on the temporary watchtower that had just been built on the south bank of the wooden bridge in the south. Although the two sides were undying enemies, you can see from the high-powered binoculars that Yelu Wu gave frequent orders, and the remnants of the Khitan army, which gradually recovered from the panic and panic at the beginning of the ambush under his pressure and command, slowly stabilized and began to move separately. They may have attacked the defensive positions of the "Wyvern Army" at the bridgehead; Or disperse into hundreds of small units and search along the surrounding rivers. Although these Khitan remnants still seemed a little flustered, they did not have any cowardice in carrying out their orders. In particular, the 3,000 cavalry rushing into battle, facing the dense fire net from the defensive position of the "Flying Dragon Army", were swept to the ground in waves like cutting wheat, but none of them flinched. So much so that even Yang Kefu had to secretly praise "loyalty" in his heart, and nodded with a slight invisible amplitude.

Of course, admiration is admiration, but Yang Kefu will not be merciful. In fact, the reaction of the Khitans was all expected by him. Due to his obvious geographical advantage, Yang Kefu focused on preventing the remnants of the Khitan army from crossing the river from other places at the beginning of the ambush, and most of the three battalions in his hands were used to patrol along the river, harassing and preventing the remnants of the Khitan army from finding a crossing point to prevent the other side from escaping. Moreover, thanks to the secret investigation work of the Shenzhou Branch of the "Dark Feather" for many years, although Yang Kefu was here for the first time, he was very clear about the hydrological characteristics of several nearby rivers. He knew that although the rivers on the four sides of the small plain were not big rivers, they were more than 30 zhang at the widest point in summer, and at least 15 zhang at the narrowest point, and the depth was more than 2 zhang, coupled with the turbulent current, it was said that the remnants of the Khitan army fled all the way, and there were no suitable tools and materials for building bridges, even if they had complete tools and sufficient materials, it was very difficult to erect pontoon bridges or trestle bridges on the surrounding rivers. Therefore, when Yang Kefu assigned the task, he especially told the river patrol troops to pay attention to the situation on the river surface and prevent the other party from abandoning their horses and baggage to swim across. As a result, Khitan soldiers looking for suitable swimming points along the river were often harassed and driven away by machine guns, rifles, or crossbows on the opposite bank as soon as they approached the river bank. Moreover, because the Zhou army was a mixed patrol of the "Flying Dragon Army" and the "Security Army", the remnants of the Khitan army had a numerical advantage, but they were often beaten by the former and had no ability to fight back, so they had to jump with their heads and flee from the shore.

As for the men and horses assigned to defend the wooden bridge to the south, there was only one company of the "Wyverns", archers equivalent to two companies of the "Security Army", and all the artillery fire of the pursuing troops. However, although the number of troops used to defend the bridge is small, thanks to the huge advantage in terms of terrain, the cavalry of the Khitan remnants can only concentrate on attacking the narrow bridgehead, so that the "Flying Dragon Army", "Security Army" and supporting artillery guarding the bridge can give full play to their firepower advantages, so in addition to leaving corpses everywhere, the 3,000 Khitan death squads have not even been able to enter within 50 steps of the Zhou army's defensive position.

Breakthrough and defense, pathfinding and harassment, the battle between the Khitan remnants and the Zhou army went on for nearly an hour and a half, and the Khitan remnants neither broke through the blockade nor found a suitable place to swim across. Seeing that the sky was getting darker, and that there would be no substantial breakthrough in addition to increasing casualties if the battle continued, Yeluxian, who had been swimming around in the small plain to avoid possible artillery attacks from the Zhou army, obeyed Yelu's construction and ordered the whole army to suspend the attack and find the way, and took advantage of the coming night to set up camp in several wooded places on the small plain, recuperate and recuperate, and accumulate strength for the bitter battle behind.