The corpses of the Liao army in a mess, because the cavalry of the Liao army came to help too quickly, the Song army did not have time to cut off the head, only cut off all the left ears and led the horses to leave in a hurry, but the horse manure was still hot, and the blood stains of the big beach stalls had not yet completely coagulated.

The looting of the Song army caused great difficulties to the cavalry of the Liao army, and the war horses had to be maintained by gnawing green, and it was inevitable that they would lose weight. Well water could not be drunk, if there were no streams and rivers in the camping place, they had to dig the ground to get water, and the Liao soldiers and horses were used to drinking yellow mud soup. Where the Song army fled and passed, the wells were filled with rotting corpses, the villagers were nowhere to be found, and the villages were looted to the point that there was not a single grain of food. "Bandits are like combs, and soldiers are like grates." The cavalry of the Liao Army, which was tightly behind the Song army, deeply realized this sentence that was circulated among the people of the Southern Dynasties. Mountains and rivers are vertical and horizontal, hills are dense, these days, the scout cavalry is slightly lonely, it is easy to be ambushed by the Song army, hundreds of horsemen, often do not return. The horses suffered heavy losses, and more than 100 people under the command of the commander of the thousand commanders were not only heartbroken, but also angry: "These Song people who ran away with their tails between their legs and only dared to steal chickens and dogs!" ”

"General?"

"Chase!" Su Butai's face was hideous, and he held back a sentence from his mouth, "Song Zhu hasn't escaped yet." ”

The Liao army was the best at identifying the traces of men and horses, judging that the Song army had not gone far, and could not care about reining in the corpses of the clansmen, they all loudly urged the horses to gallop, and more than 1,000 horsemen chased after the traces of the Song army's retreat like a whirlwind.

After galloping for about half an hour, there were still more than ten miles to reach Jiangzhou, and Su Butai couldn't help but feel anxious. It would be troublesome to let this group of Song soldiers flee back to Jiangzhou. At this moment, more than 100 horsemen in front of them suddenly reined in violently, and the horses neighed. No sooner had they reached a slope than some had bent their bows and arrows, some had drawn their scimitars, and the captain was shouting loudly for the whole team, and the cavalry rushing down the hill rushed back. In a panic, the formation suddenly dispersed.

"There's an ambush!" Su Butai had a flash of fire in his mind, and shouted loudly, "What's the matter? Don't mess around! He drew his scimitar in one hand and urged his horse forward. He secretly wondered in his heart that the road ahead was open, only some gentle slopes, and the trees were scarce, and this was not a place for ambushes.

"Song Jun! ...... Song Jun! "The centurion who ran back was slurred," "There are so many ,......, so many Song troops!" ”

"What's going on?" Su Butai was puzzled in his heart, he waved his hand to let the centurion follow him, and just galloped up the hillside, he saw the Song army, and chased the Song army who had not been seen for more than ten days! On the gentle slope not far away, the Song army seemed to have been waiting for a long time, and formed a neat formation. The large array of the Song army was facing the rising sun in the east, and the shiny step armor reflected the brilliant sunshine, like a sparkling lake. Long spears and axes are like forests, and more of them are the musketers who have already made the Liao army suffer enough. The two hills near the Song army's main array were also occupied by the Song army's camp, and various colored flags fluttered high behind the wooden fence wall.

Subutai gasped, and involuntarily slammed the reins, and the war horse stopped on the high slope.

"Song Jun,......, this is the Zhenguo Army," Su Butai could count the herd of horses two or three miles away, and he quickly glanced at the huge array of the Song Army, "Also, Baoyi Army?" He shouted in disbelief, "Have you been fooled?" A terrifying feeling came to his heart, and Su Butai turned around sharply and shouted, "Quick, hurry back to General Xiao!" ”

On the opposite side of the Liao army, not long after the Song army finished the formation, at this time the sun was in the east, Yue Fei squinted his eyes slightly, it was not easy for the Zhenguo army to withdraw his troops this time, he was exhausted, he was infected with eye disease, his eyes were bloodshot, and he couldn't stop crying when he encountered the dazzling light. This time, the Liao army's footsteps were calculated, and the troops were sent to occupy the battlefield in the morning to wait for the Liao soldiers, and probably in the afternoon when the decisive battle was held, the sun would shine on the opposite side. Yue Fei narrowed his eyes and looked at the hillside on the right, where the Zhao character handsome flag was floating on the fort. Zhao Xingde advocated a quick victory, Yue Fei gave up the plan to let the Liao army attack Jiangzhou City first, and the Zhenguo Army and the Baoyi Army chose to fight a decisive battle in the field. The Liao soldiers were like arrows from the string, and followed the Zhenguo army all the way to Jiangzhou, even if they found the plan, a decisive battle was inevitable, and it was impossible to flee from the wind. What's more, this place, which is suitable for a decisive battle of the army, is not completely unfavorable to the cavalry of the Liao army.

Sure enough, after the Liao army found the Song army, the brigade behind not only did not retreat, but sped up and rushed to the battlefield at noon. The Liao army occupied the hillside opposite the Song army's large array, the cavalry formed a cavalry formation according to the thousands of people and 10,000 people, the cavalry used to carry wooden stakes and branches and other things to build simple antlers around the cavalry array, and all kinds of ranger scouts wandered around the brigade, which seemed to be messy and loose, not as strict as the Song army's military formation, but the 20,000 or 30,000 cavalry together with the war horses were pressed in black, which put huge pressure on the psychology of the Song army, especially the psychology of the state and county volunteers who had not been in the battle array.

However, stationed on the hillside, the commander of the Liao army, Tiemuge, was also uneasy. The Liao army followed the Song army all the way, begging for a decisive battle but couldn't, I don't know how many dark losses it has suffered, and it is also ready to attack Jiangzhou Jiancheng. Sooner or later, there will be a decisive battle, why bother retreating more than 600 miles, and it is fun to be chased by four legs on two legs?

"General Temugo, let me send my subordinates to test it first?" Deputy Commander Xiao Xiangsheng said proudly.

The Song army broke and fled all the way, and Brother Temu was very cautious, and wherever the army passed, whenever it encountered slightly more complicated terrain, it all sent scout cavalry everywhere, which not only tired the Khitan generals to suffer, but also because the scout cavalry was scattered, and was picked up a lot by the Song cavalry who were more familiar with the terrain. Someone complained to Xiao Xiangsheng that during the Battle of Shuzhou, if it weren't for Brother Temu's timidity and hesitation in the battle, and his delay in raising troops to attack, the Song army would not have defeated tens of thousands of Liao cavalry so easily. Although Xiao Xiangsheng didn't think so, he had a deeper impression of Brother Tiemu's timidity in his heart. At this time, the Song army came to the decisive battle with great fanfare, and there was no ambush, Xiao Xiangsheng couldn't help but secretly laugh at Brother Temu's worries, so he took the initiative to ask for his subordinates to test the reality of the Song army. The Zhenguo army was defeated all the way to here, maybe it was just a bluff, the Liao army sent thousands of horsemen to test, and this seemingly huge Song army array was about to be defeated.

"Wait and see......" Brother Tiemu looked up at the sky, at noon, the scorching sun hung high in the middle of the blue sky, and the scorching sun burned the warriors and war horses a little, "Wait and see, build the camp first, and then attack the Song army tomorrow morning." "The morning air was cool, and the Liao army fired arrows from east to west, and there was no sunlight dazzling.

Xiao Xiangsheng disdainfully, "Hmph! He didn't ask for another fight. He is a person who has followed Yelu Dashi for a long time in the Xiao clan of the descendant clan, and this time he is under Brother Temu, although he looks down on this grassland beard a little in his heart, but he still has a lot of cultivation and does not show it.

"Open the cannon—" Zhao Xingde ordered, "The enemy troops do not move, blast them out!" ”

"Yes!" Gao Su shouted the order, turned around and said, "Open the cannon!" ”

"Fire!"

"Fire!" The guns of the various artillery groups ordered loudly.

The rows of artillery had already been aimed at the hillside where the Liao cavalry formation was located, although it was condescending and extremely suitable for the cavalry formation, but it happened to be within the range of the artillery. Zhao Xingde also took a fancy to this place early in the morning, and asked the gunners of the artillery battalion to aim and test fire several times.

"Boom-" "Boom-" "Boom-" Black smoke rose.

A round iron cannonball whistling towards the dense array of Liao cavalry, in the open battlefield between the two armies, the black flight trajectory of the cannonball is very obvious, the Liao cavalry even seems to have time to dodge in advance, however, the Liao cavalry who are familiar with the power of artillery in the early battle have panicked. Although the cannonball flew a little slowly, it was still much faster than the speed of the warhorse. In the midst of the noise of people and horses, dozens of cannonballs fell in an arc to the cavalry group that had not yet dispersed, and where the round cannonballs passed, the scene of flesh and blood aggravated the confusion of the cavalry of the Liao army, and many commanders even led their troops down the hillside without even waiting for the commander's military order. Everyone can see that the Song army has already aimed at this slope, and staying on it is waiting for death!

"Damn it!" Brother Temu didn't know whether to scold himself or the cunning Song General. On the steppe, this sloping area is an excellent cavalry position, and anyone who sees it must occupy it first. However, the advent of artillery changed the rules of war, and it seemed that it was not so necessary to build a camp in the night. What kind of makeshift camp can withstand the shelling?

The artillery fire of the Song army has been announced, and there are only two ways in front of the Liao army, either to meet it or to get out of the way!

"It's all that cowardly bastard!" Xiao Xiangsheng retreated from the hillside in embarrassment, to be exact, he rushed forward, and a cannonball landed beside him, almost smashing the pride of this descendant into a ball of meat sauce, Xiao Xiangsheng couldn't help but be furious. Unlike the grassland barbarians, Xiao Xiangsheng has not seen iron barrel cannons, and there are many of them in the Han military camp in Shangjing. The artillerymen who trembled under the horses of the Khitan cavalry did not even have the courage to look up. Xiao Xiangsheng never thought that the iron bucket cannons fiddled by those cowardly guys could block the scimitars and bows and arrows of the Khitan cavalry, as long as the speed of the war horse was fast enough, dealing with the artillery was as simple as cutting the foot soldiers. First capture the artillery camp of the Song army, and then rush down the hillside on that side to attack the flank of the Song army's infantry formation. If Temuge led the army to rush from the front and cooperate, the two tens of thousands of cavalry groups would crush the Song army's bluffing infantry formation like an iron fist.

"No big deal!" Xiao Xiangsheng shouted, he didn't hesitate, and pulled out his scimitar, "Rush up with me!" ”

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