In the rolling dust, groups of Khitan athletes and tribal vassal cavalry skipped over the city as skillfully as the wind. The rain of arrows shot from the city rushed into the battle formation under the city like hungry wolf and tigers. Then, they rushed forward and crossed with the more intense screams, or shot arrows like flowing water on the lightly galloping horse's back.

At this time, the Dongxi tribe soldiers who helped the team also re-arranged the formation not far from the new city. They used high wheels wrapped in cowhide and felt to surround the original formation where Yelu Shilu was eager to try, and then piled up wooden guns and wool rope gratings, and set up basic arrays and camp tents;

This is also the usual tactic developed by the Xi tribe during many years of fighting against the Khitan. Faced with harassment from various Khitan troops from Rao Leshui, they would use this as a support to first block their first wave of offensives, and then use cavalry to drive them out or entangle them for a while, and then use large teams of invasions to block their rears; so that they cannot stand firm and leave.

Therefore, the Xi kings of all dynasties resisted and repelled the Khitans' many attacks in the territory of Raole Governor's Office, which had many hills and mountains. However, when the Xi tribes, mainly the five tribes of Beishan, defeated and split the Khitans, this tactic became the best cover and support to cooperate with the Khitan cavalry to go out to fight and be responsible for the camp.

This southern expedition was also a land of Liaodong with many hills. These tribal soldiers from the Dongxi tribe who still remained in the ancestral land of Beishan undoubtedly attacked and attacked the Tushan Mountain City and Villages that were almost everywhere and guarded by danger. It was also a natural skill and advantage. It was just to share some of the captives of cattle, sheep, slaves and slaves.

However, when the formation under the city gradually formed, the other three troops that had been blocked and killed first still did not take down or defeat the enemy in front of him. Instead, as the messengers of the headquarters ran around, they continued to add troops to help. However, the situation of the battle did not change much. Instead, there were many people from other small tribes who had attacked before that retreated one after another.

At this time, Yelu Hedi, who was responsible for suppressing the formation, could not sit still. Then, after asking Yelu Shilu for advice, he led the team out like an arrow to rush into the misty subordinates who were covered in dust and dragging the flags. After burning for a while, Yelu Hedi and others stood on the horse's back and threw it on the ground in front of Yelu Shilu one after another.

"Tell me, what's going on? What did you encounter again?"

Yelu Shilu said calmly:

After these defeated soldiers brought back, they were beaten by whips and sticks and rolled and cried all over the ground, a small head man with a tail feather on his fur hat was obviously decorated with tail feathers kneeling in the dust and shouting hoarsely:

"It's Tang Bing, it should be Tang Bing..."

". They formed a formation under the city, and they fired a crossbow like rain. The young men couldn't rush over at all, so they dispersed. Even the athletes who fought against the adults of each unit were not afraid. Apart from the soldiers from Tang, the local Tu tribes would not be able to take such a formation."

"Is it the Pinglu Army?"

Yelu Jiedi, who was next to him, speculated: At least there are only a handful of Tang terrestrial forces that are capable of interfering and joining the Liaodong area at present; compared with the Lu Long Army, which is separated by most of the western Liaoning, the Pinglu Army, which has several cities and port strongholds on the coast of the southern Liaoning Peninsula for many years, has a greater possibility.

However, when Yelu Shilu heard this not-so-good news, he felt a sense of slight relief and the yin sounds were gone. Although he was from the outside tribe, he at least knew that as a commander, facing an enemy who had not found out the details was the most troublesome existence. However, after knowing the local camp, it meant that there was a basic strategy to target.

Although I don’t know why these Pinglu troops suddenly broke, the Khitans only rampant in the northeast and central Liaoning, and rarely affected the long-term tacit understanding of the southern peninsula area; and took the initiative to intervene in the situation in Liaodong. However, these Pinglu troops, which were suspected to have come from across the sea, are good choices that he can use to make contributions and consolidate his authority at present.

You should know that although the Central Plains Tang Dynasty had been in trouble internally and externally for many years, the prestige and legend left outside the Great Wall can be in the bones of these grassland vassals for a long time, and it is not so easy to shake and erase. Although in history, the Khitans have successfully defeated the Tang soldiers led by the Pinglu Army and their subordinate cities and the vassals fell.

However, the result of each Tang army retreating was a more aggressive counterattack several years or even decades later; then, under the survival crisis that was stronger than others, he did not hesitate to kill the leader and his relatives who were in charge of the war, and then he bowed down and surrendered for a while; in order to wait for the Tang Dynasty to transfer attention and hostility from itself to another place.

Therefore, the Yaonian clan, which was only a branch of the clan, was also caught up with the Dahe clan, who had long controlled the Khan throne. In the crisis of standing in the wrong camp during the Anshi Rebellion and being liquidated, he launched a sudden attack and killed the Dahe clan without hesitation. As the upper class of the tent at that time, he killed all the killings. Then he obtained the imperial edict enthronement of the Tang Dynasty, and justified the inheritance of its tribes, and suppressed the other seven tribes and became the new head of the tent.

As a witness and witness of this change of tents, he was just an unknown small leader who had revenge on the grounds that he could not help but slaughter the Li Guozhe clan, the governor of Songmo of the Dahe clan. In the process of pushing the Kuwu Khan from the Yaonian clan, Yelu Neri, the seventh-generation ancestor of the Diesh tribe, who was able to rise up in his contributions.

Therefore, Yelu Shilu even initially thought about how to fight against these Pinglu troops. For example, he used the troops of the three masters to entangle and drag the main forces of these Pinglu troops, and then used all the cavalry tents and soldiers of the Yelu troops to detour and rob them, and cut off their food routes; in this way, the Tang soldiers who originally crossed the sea would be difficult to last.

Under the blockade of Khitan cavalry, it was difficult for the local people in Liaodong to eat and eat. At this time, they would face the dilemma of losing food and retreating, and they would be defeated without fighting in the midst of famine. Once the Tang soldiers were shaken and declining, the local local soldiers in Liaodong who were following them would be difficult for them to continue to persist and resist.

Then he just sent people to make him rebel, or to turn against him, which would be enough to make these Tang soldiers unstoppable, or to suffer enough setbacks and losses on the way back. This is also the thing that Yelu Shilu, who was the leader of the army, was not very brave but was still well-known among the eight divisions, was the best at and specialty.

In the Battle of Raoleshan, when facing the desperate resistance of the five tribes of Beishan, he sowed and instigated them to fight and strife in this way, paving the way for conquering the Xi tribe. In this way, there is no need to lose too many players from the headquarters to do their best, and with the tactics and means that the Khitan players are best at, they can gain the greatest victory and advantage.

However, the impatient voice from Yelu Halli once again interrupted his initial formation:

"Master! Do you need to send troops to help?"

"Don't worry, keep it steady... It's not time yet, so it's in vain to rush up..."

He glanced at Yelu Shilu who was eager to try it out:

"When will you stay? The best opportunity is...

Yelu Hadi, who looked thick and straight, swallowed and muttered:

"Of course, I will wait until the third masters, and take the initiative to ask for help from our team..."

Yelu Shilu frowned, and explained coldly:

Although he wanted to defeat the Tang Bing's merit and reputation, he did not want to pay too much price or loss for it. Even though he felt that he had always been loyal to the king's tent, loyal to the Hende Khan who had not made any big mistakes or showed a weak attitude so far; but he was also the chief of the Dieshu tribe, and he had to consider the future and more possibilities of the Yelu clan.

In this case, taking advantage of the situation, letting the other three adults consume more power, and at the same time, they also left behind favors and status that had to seek help from themselves, which seemed to be at ease. After all, they had not asked for instructions or passed on the Central Army tent before, and the result of going to fight without authorization can also be an opportunity and result to establish their own authority.

However, at this time there was a strange sound that overwhelmed the fierce fighting in the battlefield under the city ahead; it also made the Khitan formation's mounts, who were watching the battle and surpling, suddenly shook their heads and tails, shaking their ears, and their noses and became anxious and restless.

"Is it thundering?"

Yelu Shilu looked at the distance where the trembling sound came faintly, but he saw only some white clouds under the clear blue sky, and there was no trace of dark clouds and rain. However, out of some caution and conscience, he still said to Yelu Halli

"Send someone to explore..."

However, not long after, in the direction upstream of the Liaoshui tributary outside the city, a faint white line suddenly appeared in the gradually becoming a little wet air and the whistling cold wind. Then, this unknown white line turned into a somewhat dirty and dim low wall in a short time;

Then, as the rafted whistle fleeing from the upper reaches, the whistle was scattered and heart-wrenching shouts came from the wind:

"water..."

“So much water…”

“A huge water…”

Originally in the dry season, the water level fell into a narrow river channel with many river stones exposed, and was suddenly filled with fierce swells; it also overflowed like thunder, rippling with the constraints rushing out of the river bank, and suddenly rolled the messy neighing and the people and equipment that were running around everywhere, regardless of each other, and turned into a part of the wild waves.

Then, the turbid wave continued to spread, and it seemed to catch up slowly and resolutely. The troops and horses abandoned all the baggage and burden without hesitation in panic, and tried their best to flee to the Khitan Central Army's main formation. Because of the relatively low-lying terrain in the northwest, most of them who were in a panic were unable to escape the raging flood.

Therefore, when they finally arrived around them, they had slowed down and lightened, and they could only just flood the torrent that had just flooded the horse's back; but they floated up without hesitation, and then overturned and struggled among the vortexes and splashes; then the foreign objects of all sizes and sizes carried in the water flow turned into blood-colored vortexes under the impact.

On the next day, after the flood receded, many swollen corpses of people and horses were piled up and stranded after the flood receded. Of course, most of them belonged to the Khitans and their subordinates.

Before the firearms troops mobilized in the south landed in the large salt marsh at the mouth of the Liaohe River and rushed to support the temporary port, this traditional cold weapon synthesis army that went north to attack the hinterland of Liaodong had already used its unique strategies and tactics to severely damage the invading Khitan army, and basically ended the battle.

Then, as the deputy general Lin Ming, who led the team to help, knew the whole story, could only sigh that these special troops selected and trained by the former Taining Army, Wuning Army and Ping Lu Army were not only fierce enough to the enemy, but also cruel enough to him. They actually directly drew thousands of people under the city and the local soldiers who were trapped as bait.

Then, in the camp fighting behind the city, more Khitan cavalry were attracted and dragged down until the flood arrived at the moment before it was captured. The Taiping Army, as the supervising army, made the greatest contribution to this, in addition to providing cover and support on the city, was to provide joint efforts for explosives and blasting in the civil engineering operations of blocking rivers and dams upstream.

Although sufficient preparations were made in advance, only half of the decisive people who set up formations under the city were able to recover their bodies by various means or recover a dying living silence.

Therefore, the biggest problem next was that the muddy ground after the flood hindered and restricted the subsequent pursuit progress, and also allowed a small number of Khitan cavalry who were not affected to escape by chance. However, what happened next was a bit incredible. The remnants of the Khitans who fled and the subordinates, slaves and herds that fell behind became carnival feasts for the Tu people along the way.

They emerged from their respective hiding places like bamboo shoots, and attacked and plundered the Khitan tribes who fled day and night. Although most of them just took one snatch or harassed them bluffingly, they were caused great trouble and trouble by the defeated Khitan tribes, so that they all became frightened birds with panic and frightened soldiers.
Chapter completed!