"Withdraw!"

As soon as Jiang Cai raised his hand, he turned around together with the banner behind him, even if his subordinates were puzzled, there were only more than 2,000 enemies, and there were already 3,000 horsemen, and they had the support of geographical advantages and intelligence, not to mention that the other party was not even a Mongol, it was just a Han army horse, but the general did not explain, and they would not question the military order. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

It wasn't until the whole army turned around that Jiang Cai slowly turned the horse's head and went down from a small bridge, which is a tributary of Xiangshui, the river is not wide, nor is it deep, and in winter, most of the riverbed is exposed, and it is easy to reach the opposite bank by riding a horse and wading, and the meaning of the existence of this small bridge is just for the convenience of pedestrians.

Geographically speaking, the north of Dongting Lake is the vast Jianghan Plain, which is very suitable for the cavalry activities of the Yuan people, and the south is the water network zone, with rivers and lakes vertical and horizontal, whether it is a large cavalry or foot soldiers, it is not easy to pass, and it is not easy to find a suitable ambush site, and fight hard with the enemy? Of course he was not afraid, but that did not meet Liu Yu's expectations.

For the three thousand horsemen under his command, they have already experienced the tempering of the war, skills, bravery, and morale, the only difference is the number, Liu Yu told him early on that in the future, they will be used as the backbone to expand and become an independent army, and the significance of deterrence is more important at the moment, whether it is for the enemy or his own people.

But this does not mean that Jiang Cai will avoid the war, he does this, he just wants to know where the other party will enter, after Weishui, it is only dozens of miles away from Tanzhou City, and it is his own territory.

Due to the advent of the war, the official road from Xiangyin County to Tanzhou has long been devoid of people. In such an unhindered state, it should be the cavalry's favorite, but since leaving the county seat, when several dead human and horse corpses were found in the field about twenty miles away from the camp, Zhang Hongzheng immediately ordered the whole army to slow down.

These headless corpses were not only stuck with arrows, but also spear-pierced cave longs, it is obvious that they were killed in battle after encountering the enemy, so that the unparalleled Mongolian scouts could not even run back, which can only show that the Song people were not only prepared, but also numerous.

For this reason, Zhang Hongzheng was extremely cautious even in such a trivial matter as letting his subordinates get off their horses and draw water, as if there were murderous intentions hidden everywhere on the endless plains, and even the birds flying low by were full of hostility, even when the Jingjiang estuary was surrounded by the Song people and the ship was on fire, this feeling was never there.

When he arrived in Qiaokou Town, this feeling was even more obvious, he did not rashly let the team go in directly, but sent more than ten people to investigate from several directions, and he led people to a place more than a mile away, unfolded the formation, looked at the low roof, and already had an ominous premonition in his heart.

"Ten masters, all of them are inside, there are fourteen people in total, none of them survived, just like before, the Song people cut off their heads." The soldier who returned was a servant of his family, and he had always been referred to by his clan name, and Zhang Hongzheng saw something called fear in his sad eyes, which should not have appeared in the children of the Zhang family.

"All right, death is death, take your people, and go ahead to explore the way, not more than five miles." With the addition of these fourteen people, all the scouts sent by Li Ting were found, and this is the final result they got after running for two days and nights? Zhang Hongzheng was unwilling.

Since they came, there is no reason to return in vain, no matter what, what my brother wants is an exact news, how many Song people are down, why it is so weird, they all need to know urgently, hateful, all the way from Xiangyin County, there is not even a single person, and if you want to catch a common person, you can't ask, Zhang Hongzheng reprimanded with some annoyance, watching them go away first.

However, what made him even more puzzled was that until he crossed Weishui and was only half a day's journey away from Tanzhou, he still didn't find the shadow of the Song people, as if he had disappeared between heaven and earth.

Fifty miles, forty miles, thirty miles...... As the distance got closer and closer, Zhang Hongzheng's defensive heart became more and more serious, could it be that they had already escaped? Just as he was in doubt, a sharp whistle suddenly sounded not far ahead, and it reverberated in the open field.

"Enemy."

Without Zhang Hongzheng making gestures, the well-trained children of the Zhang family immediately stretched out from the marching army column to the side, and lined up into a horizontal formation of up to five columns in front and back of about hundreds of paces, and before they could complete the transformation of the formation, the earth-shattering golden drum sound came from a distance, it was Zhang Hongzheng's extremely familiar melody, the march drum of the Song people!

Immediately afterwards, several pro-soldiers who were exploring the way ran back, and the man at the head didn't even have time to restrain his horse, so he pointed out the direction from which the voice came from breathlessly: "Song ...... The Song people are in ...... Front. ”

"How many people, what are they?" Zhang Hongzheng whipped it over, lest he talk nonsense again.

"Foot soldier."

As soon as the pro-soldier's words fell, Zhang Hongzheng's eyes widened and he ignored him anymore.

In his sight, from the direction of the soldiers fleeing back, there were large black shadows, as the drums approached, the black shadows slowly turned red, like a wall pressed over, the smoke and dust in the sky covered the shores of Xiangshui, and the military columns that could not be seen at a glance were as neat as a school parade, such as the spears of the forest, the Great Song Forbidden Army with bright armor stepped on the drum, approaching step by step, with firm eyes and no fear.

Foot pawn, how can it be a foot pawn! Zhang Hongzheng's heart was like a thousand grass and mud horses galloping by, he would never believe that those Mongolian scouts who died less than thirty miles away from Xiangyin County would be under such a formation.

As the Song people approached step by step, the children of the Zhang family who had already listed the formation were waiting for the order of the main general, but I don't know what this tenth master was thinking, the Song people were already less than two hundred steps away, and they still did not issue any orders.

Hearing the drums and having a fighting spirit, more than 2,000 war horses were restlessly scraping the ground with their hooves, and their noses were whirring and wheezing, and the cavalry on the horses had to strangle the ropes to prevent them from rushing out, or fleeing in all directions, just when there were about one hundred and fifty paces or so, the Song people finally stopped, and the spears in the front row were put down by the sergeants, and began to prepare for the onslaught of the enemy.

Zhang Hongzheng stared at the huge military array in front of him, slowly raised his arm, and before his command could be shouted out of his mouth, the ground under his feet suddenly made a trembling sound, and the floating soil was raised in large areas, and it fell with rhythm.

He turned his head suddenly, and a thunderous roar sounded on the side of Xiangshui, and on the horizon in the distance, a long black shadow was moving rapidly, like a rushing flood, roaring and pounced on this little man who was sandwiched between Xiangshui and the Song infantry army.

"Withdraw!" Zhang Hongzheng waved his arms and shouted behind him.