Nearly 30,000 Western Army and Hebei Army were blocked on the edge of the Yellow River, in front of which was the turbulent Yellow River that coincided with the rising water level in the rainy season, and behind was the pursuit of the Heavenly Dao Army, which was really to the point of desperation, just at this time, the coach Liu Fa vomited blood and fell into a coma, the army was leaderless, and the chaotic scene can be imagined, but people were forced into danger, but it was easier to stimulate their desire to survive. Everyone thinks that the horizontal and vertical are dead anyway, and now they turn their heads and fight with the Heavenly Dao Army, maybe there is still a chance to live. So, as the officers quickly reorganized the army, the 30,000 Western Army immediately re-grasped their weapons and faced the upcoming Heavenly Dao Army, waiting for the decisive moment to come, but ...... What made them strange was that at this time, the Heavenly Dao Army, which had an overwhelming advantage in troops, superior equipment, and a victorious morale, actually stopped the pursuit, but lined up with nearly 30,000 officers and soldiers outside to besiege the Yellow River.

Why didn't the Heavenly Dao Army continue to attack? It turned out that Zheng Fei couldn't help but feel very strange when he saw that the Song army in front of him had stopped fleeing, and then he received the news that the Yellow River pontoon bridge had been destroyed by the 30,000 Song troops who were the first to rout, so that the tens of thousands of Song troops were trapped by the river.

Zheng Fei, Wang Jin and the others were taken aback, and Fu said, wouldn't the Song army's move force the tens of thousands of Song soldiers who had not had time to cross the river to death? Is Song Jun crazy? How can they pit their own people?

In order to prevent fraud, Zheng Fei immediately ordered the army to stop attacking, and then after scouts' reconnaissance, it was quickly determined that the tens of thousands of Song troops were indeed trapped by the river, and there was absolutely no ambush within a radius of more than ten miles.

At this point, Zheng Fei was finally convinced that the tens of thousands of officers and soldiers in front of him had indeed become a lone army that had no way to retreat, but the generals were divided into two factions on how to deal with these tens of thousands of officers and soldiers next.

What Wang Jin and the others meant was that the army rushed up together, and the 30,000 Song troops were either driven into the river, killed on the spot, or forced to surrender by force.

But Hu Sanniang disagrees with this, she thinks that the poor Kou Mo chases, the other party has fallen into danger, and must be dying under the backwater battle, and the combat effectiveness of these tens of thousands of Song troops has been shown under the city of Qizhou, forcing them, even if we can finally kill them, they will definitely suffer a certain degree of loss, instead of killing the enemy one thousand and losing eight hundred, it is better to send someone to recruit them, as long as they are given a way to live, I believe that even if they are rejected, they can also disintegrate their fighting spirit, Pang Wanchun and others also agreed with Hu Sanniang's idea.

Zheng Fei thought for a moment and then asked Lu Zhishen, "Brother Lu, you are from the Western Army, have you ever heard of Liu Fa before?" This is the first time Zheng Fei has had the opportunity to ask Lu Zhishen since he entered Qizhou City, he always feels that the name Liu Fa is very familiar, but he can't remember who it is.

Lu Zhishen sighed inexplicably and said, "Alas, the Sprinkle family has not only heard of it, for the Western Army, Liu Fa's prestige is no less than that of a seed!" For the Tangut people, Liu Fa is even more of a nightmare for them! ”

Zheng Fei and the generals were all shocked when they heard this, and Pang Wanchun said, "Brother Lu, you're not joking, are you?" ”

Lu Zhishen squinted his eyes, as if he was recalling something, and a trace of excitement flashed on his face, "The Sprinkle family only tells you two things about this person." First, during the reign of Zhezong Yuanfu, the Battle of Song Xia Ping Xia City broke out, and the 300,000 Western Xia Army invaded the Great Song Jingyuan Road, and the Great Song Dynasty also gathered 100,000 troops from all walks of life of the Western Army to confront it in Wuyan Gorge. In the battle of Tianjiabao, the five thousand cavalry of the elite soldiers of the Western Xia came to sneak attack, Liu Fa, who guarded this place, was only a small officer at the time, and there were less than a thousand horses in his hands, but the result was that Liu Fa personally led a thousand horses in and out of the five thousand Western Xia iron cavalry, and the soldiers in advance, fell off the horse several times, and finally turned defeat into victory under the absolute disadvantage of the troops, killed the three thousand cavalry of the Western Xia, and the remaining two thousand cavalry frantically chased and killed a hundred and ten miles, until the base camp of the Western Xia army retreated, and became famous since then! ”

"The second thing, Chongning five years, the Song army recovered most of the Hehuang, the front of the army reached Qinghai Lake, the main force of the Western Xia carried out a large-scale counterattack on the Song army, 50,000 troops stormed Huizhou, Liu Fa was already a general at this time, led his subordinates to meet in Huizhou, and finally broke the Western Xia army, cut tens of thousands of enemies, and then he led his subordinates to step across the frozen Yellow River, in the desert long-distance pursuit of the Western Xia defeated army nearly 400 miles, across Zhuo Luonan and the military division, killing the enemy Western Xia army soul scattered!"

Lu Zhishen said that his expression was solemn when he said this, and his face was full of respect and worship, "From then on, the people of Western Xia changed color when they heard it, and called it 'Liu Zhanshen'!" If there is another battle in Song and Xia, if the people of Western Xia hear that it is the army of 'Liu Zhanshen', they will not retreat and dare not fight with it! There are very few people in the Western Army of the Sprinkle family, but among the few people who admire him the most is Liu Fa! And when the Sprinkle family learned that the opponent was him, they were secretly horrified in their hearts, so as not to increase the burden on the soldiers, I concealed it until now. ”

The hall listened, there was silence, and everyone knew that the person who had fought with them for a few days had such a brilliant record, but after these few days of fighting, although the Western Army under him was indeed strong, it was not as strong as Lu Zhishen said, what was going on? Shi Jin couldn't help but ask, "Brother, what did you say...... If he was so powerful, why did he end up in such a field today? Could it be that we are even more powerful than the Western Xia Army? ”

Lu Zhishen smiled, there was a bit of luck in his smile, "Liu Fazhi is strong, he is the best at leading the cavalry to launch long-distance raids, and he is good at leading the cavalry to fight the enemy in the flat desert Gobi, even the Western Xia people admit that Liu Fa is one of the most powerful cavalry generals in the world." But in comparison, his control of the infantry is much weaker, especially not good at commanding siege warfare, since Liu Fa became famous in the first battle, his only few defeats have been lost in siege battles. And with my understanding of the Western Xia Army, our current Heavenly Dao Army is definitely not weaker than the Western Xia Army, plus we are all united, and Qizhou City is particularly tall and strong, it is not surprising that Liu Fa is the enemy but we are not the enemy. ”

Everyone suddenly realized, Zheng Fei was even more excited with his hands clasped together, his eyes lit up, like a drug addict who had discovered a bunch of drugs, what weapons and types of weapons did Zheng Fei like to use the most? The answer is clear, one is a bow and a crossbow, and the other is a cavalry! Deeply influenced by future warfare, he paid special attention to the use of long-range and rapid attack weapons in actual combat.

The bow and crossbow can be used for long-range attacks, which is especially important in the era of cold-weapon engagements, which are mainly hand-to-hand, and can kill enemies hundreds of paces away when used properly, and the enemy has already suffered most casualties before they can get close.

Cavalry is the best weapon for rapid attack, and the reason why the Han and Tang dynasties were able to achieve brilliant results in the great war with the nomads outside the Saiwai was because they both built a strong cavalry army.

It was precisely because of these two ideas that Zheng Fei spared no effort to equip the whole army with bows and crossbows, and also deliberately gathered the war cavalry of the whole army to form a special cavalry army, which really played a key role in several major wars.

But Zheng Fei is far from being satisfied, the current cavalry of the entire Tiandao Army is only three thousand horsemen, compared to the proportion of hundreds of thousands of troops of the Tiandao Army, the lack of war horses is one thing, but it is not the most critical shortcoming, there is always a chance to grab or buy more war horses in the future, but excellent cavalry generals can't be bought with more money, and now God actually sent a "God of War" level cavalry general to himself, how could he miss it?! This Liu Fa, Lao Tzu is going to decide!

Zheng Fei thought about it and immediately gave an order, "Come on, send someone to tell Liu Fa that I want to see him!" ”

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Liu Fa woke up from a coma, only to see his son Liu Zhengyan looking at him with a nervous face, and when he woke up, he breathed a sigh of relief and said happily, "Dad, you finally woke up." ”

Liu Fa struggled to sit up, and first asked urgently, "Has the pontoon bridge been repaired?" Did we cross the river? ”

Liu Zhengyan's face turned pale and he didn't speak,

Liu Fa understood at a glance, his heart couldn't help but be angry, his anger and blood surged, and he couldn't help but roar angrily, "These traitors and thieves!" If there is a chance in the future, the old man will definitely break them into pieces! ”

Liu Zhengyan asked, "Dad, what's going on?" Why did the Hebei Army ......?! ”

Liu Fa sighed and shook his head and said, "We were betrayed, the person who betrayed us is none other than the so-called loyal ministers in the court, this matter is a long story, I will tell you ...... later," Speaking of this, Liu Fa couldn't help but feel gloomy in his heart, in the future? Will there be a future?

He hurriedly drove this discouraged thought out of his mind and hurriedly asked, "Let me ask you, how is the state of the army now?" ”

Liu Zhengyan said dejectedly, "The army is still by the Yellow River, and the thieves are not far away, but they didn't attack, they just besieged our ......."

Liu Fa was stunned when he heard this, and at this moment, he saw a personal guard hurriedly running from a distance and kneeling down on one knee to report, "My lord, the thieves released a few of us and asked them to bring a word to you, ......, then what is the ......?" ”

Liu Fa shouted, "Why are you spitting? Say what you bring! ”

Only then did the guard say, "Yes...... The leader of the thieves wants to see you, my lord! On a high ground between us and them, there were only three of us with each other. They also said that if you don't see you in half an hour, they will ...... Go on the attack! ”

Liu Fa's face changed, and he had already guessed that this was a thief who wanted to surrender!

Liu Zhengyan hurriedly said, "Dad can't go, this must be a thief's trick ......,"

Liu Fayi interrupted him with a wave of his hand, and said coldly, "Go, of course I want to go, I also want to see how the Liangshan thief can be trained to look like this, three heads and six arms!" ”