At night, on the banks of the Lishui River, the tranquility of the Liao camp for more than ten miles was completely broken. Fierce killing sounds and dazzling firelights filled it, incessantly.
If you look at it from the panoramic view, you can find that the entire Liaoying camp is like a long black snake, cut off at the waist, and then gradually lit up from south to north, becoming restless and evolving into a "candle" dragon.
Only when you are deep inside the enemy formation can you realize the scale of the camp of hundreds of thousands of troops. They rushed north for five or six miles in one breath. Looking around, there was still no camp in sight to the north. The Liao army's camps were simple and loose, but even though their number increased, they were still only densely packed.
Fortunately, the city of Luan County on the edge of the Mishui River is obviously getting closer. After all, the Longqi Army's cavalry soldiers were not in sufficient numbers, and it was difficult to achieve the purpose of drilling through the enemy camp. After this wave of attacks, the impact of the cavalry army decreased, and Liu Chengyou stopped decisively and reorganized the formation. Many Khitan people in the north have already reacted. This can be seen from the beginning when they encountered resistance from organized Khitan soldiers.
Liu Chengyou was still among the guards, breathing heavily. The fire was raging around him, and the rising temperature made a thin layer of sweat break out on his forehead.
Looking around, there were crowds of people and soldiers from the enemy camp running and shouting. This chaos made Liu Chengyou feel a little relieved. Along the way, there were more than 20 random camps. As for how many people were killed, it was really hard to count. It was somewhat satisfying. The enemy camp was finally in chaos and their confidence doubled, but this was not enough!
"Your Highness, we rushed too fast!" Xiang Xun was equally excited, but remained calm and continued to give Liu Chengyou advice, pointing to the northeast: "There is a 'Jin Camp' there. You can send a unit there to encourage Subdue the soldiers to revolt! Your Highness will lead the people to fight back. After the meeting, the soldiers will gather their strength and attack the 'Yan camp'. If the Han people are completely in chaos, the Khitan army will be defeated!"
"Luo Yanyu, take your people and go straight to the Northeast's Jinying'!" Without any hesitation, Liu Chengyou almost roared and called Luo Yanyu to his side and ordered.
"Follow the order!" Luo Yanxuan didn't hesitate at all. He obeyed the order and galloped away with his battalion of more than 500 riders. Luo Yanxuan was originally a soldier, so if he was to encourage people in his capacity, he would have a high chance of success.
Liu Chengyou also quickly led the remaining men to make a "U" turn, turned around, and attacked south, preparing to plow the middle section of the Liao camp.
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The Chinese army's imperial camp was on the southeast side of Luan City. Yelu Ruan was sitting there in person. He was sleeping deeply and was woken up by someone. At first, they didn't take it seriously, just thinking that the "grass bandits" from those places were harassing them again. This was not the first time they had experienced this kind of thing along the way. He even personally led troops to conquer a larger group. Rebels.
But when he walked out of the military tent, climbed up to the sentry tower in the camp, and looked south, his expression became serious at a speed visible to the naked eye. Surprises are always refreshing, and the original sleepiness completely subsided.
The camp in the south was already full of fireworks, and they continued to spread to the north. Almost under Yelu Ruan's eyes, the fire gradually became soaring into the sky. Although he was frightened, it still frightened Yelu Ruan. His psychological quality was very good. What really made him angry was the chaos on the Chinese side.
In the hustle and bustle, among the longing figures, Khitan sergeants were seen, but they were as chaotic and disorderly as headless flies. The situation in the south has not yet completely spread to the north. The situation here is already a bit chaotic, and there is no trace of the Khitan elite.
In fact, the entire Khitan army's journey back north is very unstable. Coupled with the sudden death of the Liao Emperor, the internal fighting in the past two days has been very depressing from top to bottom. If something goes wrong, it will break out. Not to mention night attacks.
"Command the generals to suppress all the camps immediately and secure the central army. Anyone who dares to make any changes and disrupt the morale of the army will be killed!" Regardless of other matters, Yelu Ruan directly issued a strict order in order to stabilize the imperial camp first.
There was a sergeant who sent the order and he immediately followed the order.
"Where did the enemy army come from? How many people there are? They can make such a big fuss. There must be a lot of troops!" Yelu Ruan then looked at the Khitan general who came to report the news.
When asked, the general answered simply with three words: "I don't know."
"Trash! The enemy has already stepped on his face, and he doesn't even know who the opponent is?" Yelu Ruan was angry for the first time.
Seeing King Yongkang angry, the general lowered his head.
"Immediately send orders to the other battalion officers, and each general officer will organize the officers and men on the spot to secure the camp and resist the enemy!" There was no time to argue with him, and he took a deep breath and ordered Yelu Ruan again.
"Your Majesty, are you okay?" Yelu'an Tuan and his men found Yelu Ruan. His face was full of worry, but he breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that he was intact.
Yelu Ruan shook his head, frowned, and was still immersed in thinking: "The number of enemy troops must be small. They dare to attack our army like this, and they have such fighting power. They are definitely not ordinary grassroots bandits. They must be elite soldiers of the Jin people!"
"Hedong Army!" At this point, the two people exclaimed at the same time: "It's the Longqi Army!"
"Didn't they retreat? How could they attack quietly?" Yelu'an was stunned.
"There's no time to think about this!" Yelu Ruan said.
Yelu'an Tuan said: "Your Majesty, we must stabilize the general's morale as soon as possible. The enemy's charge is not scary, but the chaos of the position is scary. If the camp roars, the army will be doomed!"
His words served as a reminder to Yelu Ruan: "If the enemy makes a surprise attack, if you want one attack to be effective, you should attack the Chinese imperial camp directly. Why did you choose the southern camps?"
"They must have failed to find out where the Chinese army is!"
"That's not right!" A look of surprise suddenly flashed across Yelu Ruan's face, and then he glared at Yelu Anbo and ordered sternly: "Personally arrange the people, send orders to the generals, and ask them to lead the people, and be on guard against the Jin people, the Yan people, especially Yelu Jieli , let him be careful of the Yan army! There are also those Han people who are strong and strong in labor. If they dare to make any move, they will be killed directly!"
"yes!"
A pair of pupils flashed with the rising flames from the south. Yelu Ruan's expression was so gloomy that his fingernails almost dug into his flesh. He knew that the Jin army had already had different ambitions, and the Yan army was unstable due to suspicion and oppression, not to mention the Han people who were forcibly taken into slavery in each camp. If these people took the opportunity to make noise and cooperate with the "enemy army" "The consequences are simply unimaginable.
While Yelu Ruan was issuing orders anxiously and actively responding to the situation, Liu Chengyou led the army in the south and had completely built up "momentum".
The camp roar happened smoothly and was completely uncontrollable. Fear, panic, and anger spread like a plague. A large number of random soldiers rushed around, hacking and trampling each other.
That is to say, the part in the north, close to the Chinese imperial camp, was stabilized by Yelu Ruan's timely and powerful measures. But this was based on a large amount of internal suppression and killing. The spirit of all the Khitan people had completely collapsed, and they were just short of a "touch" that would break them.
The Khitan cavalry also lost its combat effectiveness in this process. There were two horse camps, which dispersed directly. One after another, the horses fled in all directions and charged randomly. People are in chaos, what's worse than animals.
It’s chaos, it’s all chaos!
