The Jin soldiers, who retreated back to the canal and fled back to the other side, were hungry and cold, and their morale was extremely low.

The defeated Jin army was in a state of confusion, and there was no commander to be found at night or commander, so when someone shouted to return to the transportation camp, the chaotic army at a loss immediately turned around and headed south, regardless of who gave the order.

The Jin army retreated, and took advantage of the night to go straight to the transportation camp.

Although there is no food there, they will not be able to fill their stomachs, at least they can be guaranteed not to freeze to death.

The soldiers of the Song army, who were sticking to the defense line of the canal, quickly cleared the battlefield after the elite heavy cavalry repelled the Jin army that tried to break through, returned to their original posts, and restored the destroyed ice wall overnight.

The good news reached Shuaiying, and Yang Congyi finally relaxed.

The most difficult part of this battle was the canal, because the defense line was too long, only more than 20,000 people in 50 miles, and the troops were too scattered, and the enemy could attack from any point, and it was difficult to defend against it.

To tell the truth, Yang Congyi does not have much confidence in this blocking battle, he is ready to block the Jin army that broke through from the camp, as for blocking the enemy army, whether the enemy army flees back to Yanjing City at night, or scatters and flees elsewhere, they can only let them escape, whether they can catch up after dawn, it depends on how strong the enemy's willpower is.

Fortunately, the cavalry support in this battle was timely and blocked the gap, driving the enemy troops who were trying to break through back to the other side of the canal.

It is believed that after tasting the icy cold in the canal, the enemy did not dare to enter the water lightly, and did not dare to try a second time.

After the First World War, the canal defense line should no longer be breached by enemy troops.

The enemy forces who withdrew to the other side of the canal had no other way but to go south in search of a way out.

An order was issued from Shuaiying overnight and flew straight to Matou Village.

After the repulsion of the enemy troops, the canal defense line remained uneventful all night, and by dawn no attempt by the enemy troops to cross the river was discovered, and not half of the enemy troops were seen on the opposite bank.

And a few dozen miles to the south, a great battle is about to begin.

Wan Yan Xizheng, who led 25,000 or 6,000 troops south, did not choose to launch an attack at night, because he did not know what kind of trap the Song army had set for him, and a blind attack at night would only dissipate their limited strength, and only during the day could there be a possibility of a battle.

But when it was really daytime, after Yan Xizheng personally stepped forward to see the formation laid out for him by Song Jun, he suddenly lost even the slightest confidence.

In front of him are countless ice walls and snow walls of different heights, some horizontal and vertical, some straight and some curved, densely packed, at a glance, it is impossible to see how many there are, how many miles stretch.

Even if Wanyan Xizheng was not proficient in the formation, he could roughly guess that once his army entered the formation, it would soon be divided into the formation and killed one by one, and maybe not even one person would be able to get out.

He had never seen such a formation, let alone how to crack it.

Of course, there is no way, that is, to use brute force to smash and knock down all the ice walls and snow walls in front of you, and destroy the formation laid by the Song army.

If they want to do this, brute force to break the formation, they will still be in the formation, after all, this formation is very huge, I don't know where the Song army laid a more vicious trap, brute force to break the formation, still have to pay an unbearable price.

Wan Yan Xizheng has been leading the army for more than 30 years, and he clearly knows that once an army suffers casualties to a certain extent, it will definitely lose morale, and it is impossible for any military commander to listen to it.

Therefore, brute force breaking is a way, but it is not a good way.

More than 20,000 people led by Wan Yan Xi froze in front of the killing array under Ming Fubu.

The two sides were only two miles apart, and a big battle was about to break out, but no one sent troops to call for battle.

Ming Fu, who had set up a killing array, obviously would not let the soldiers go out to provoke, the Jin army wanted to drag it down, he was naturally willing to wait, and the anxious thing was that the Jin army was not them.

Wan Yan Xizheng did not dare to rashly send troops to rush into battle, so he could only convene the generals of all armies to discuss the method of breaking the formation.

However, in a hurry, everyone and Ben couldn't do much, except for rushing into battle, that is, to avoid the Song army's formation, where can they go?

Matou Village came to everyone's minds, there was a bridge there, which had not been demolished at this time, and the Song army did not have many garrisons there, so in their opinion, it was completely possible to give it a try.

However, this suggestion was quickly rejected by Wan Yan Xizheng, because Matou Village did not have the food that the soldiers needed, and even if they broke through Matou Village, the soldiers would still be hungry, which would not be beneficial to the current situation of the whole army.

In Wanyan Xizheng's view, what is more critical is that once they break through the encirclement of the Song army in Matou Village, the army is likely to be divided into several parts, some people want to return to Yanjing City, some want to go to Xianghe, and some people want to go to the camp in Haizi Village to try their luck, he as the commander, at this time the authority has been damaged because of the previous division of troops, if there is a commander asking for the division of troops, he is powerless to refuse, if the division of troops repeatedly, waiting for them is only the destruction of the whole army.

Wan Yan Xi didn't want to see the more than 20,000 people he personally led to such an end, so he absolutely couldn't divide his troops at this time.

Just when he was having trouble convincing the generals who wanted to change the direction of the breakout, the scouts who stayed in the direction of the Tongyun camp came with the news that the Jin army had failed to break through the canal at night and had returned to the camp, and was likely to go south to find a way out and try to break through from Matou Village.

Hearing this news, Wan Yan Xizheng persuaded the generals to wait, not to let them go to Bang Bang Matou Village Song Army first, if they can break through the defense line, the army will follow, if they can't break through, and then break into the big array laid by the Song Army in front of them.

If there are soldiers in their hands, they will have power and status, and if someone opens a way for them, who is willing to fight with their brothers.

The generals were pacified, returned to the army and waited for news from Matou Village, and were always ready to turn around and break through Matou Village.

At about noon, news came from the direction of Matou Village, the Jin army hurriedly went south from the transportation camp and encountered the Song army stationed in Matou Village, the two sides fought for less than half an hour, the Jin army suffered heavy casualties, and some of the soldiers had left the battlefield and fled to the north.

Wan Yan Xi is gathering all the generals to tell them the news of Matou Village, and let them know that the Song army has deployed heavy troops in Matou Village, and it is just wishful thinking to break through from there.

So the generals really stopped mentioning the direction of the breakthrough, but how to pass through the Song army in front of them was still pressed on everyone's hearts.

There is no food and grass in the army, and it is obviously not a way to continue to drag it out, what is the big formation in front of you, someone has to try it, if this formation is not as terrifying as it seems from the outside, they delay here for half an hour, it will reduce the possibility of breaking through.

The idea of trying to break through was unanimously agreed, but who would break through became a problem.

Wan Yan Xi was hoping that someone would take the initiative to ask Ying to take on this important responsibility, but unfortunately in the face of unknown dangers, there were no generals who did not spare their lives and did not regret their subordinate troops, because no one knew whether they could calmly withdraw once they entered the battle.

In desperation, Wan Yanxi Zheng had to use the method of drawing lots, randomly selecting a general, leading a thousand people to break into the formation, and go deep into the formation to see what kind of formation the Song army had laid out.

Only by knowing what kind of big array you are facing can you have the possibility of breaking the formation.

All the generals and Wanyan Xizheng all understand this truth, in order to take into account the overall situation and break through successfully, no one raised objections to the draw, and only hoped that the one who won the lottery would not be himself.

A quarter of an hour later, the results of the lottery came out, and a general in his thirties unfortunately won the lottery, and everyone could only wish him good luck and hope that he would come back alive and bring back good news.

Two quarters of an hour later, with a sad face, the general personally led a thousand gold soldiers to leave the army and slowly walked towards the Song army's large array two miles away.

These thousand people are desperate and anxious in their hearts, what is waiting for them, in fact, you don't need to think about it, you can roughly guess that the vast majority of them will definitely die in the battle, and there will also be some people who are extremely lucky to survive and return to the army with the news.

At this time, they all hope that the person who will survive in the end is themselves.

However, what they wanted to break into was the Song Army's carefully arranged killing array, once they entered the formation, how could they give them the opportunity to break out of the big array, or withdraw from the big array.

Half an hour later, the good news was transmitted back to the Song army camp: the Jin army was annihilated, nine prisoners were captured, and none of them left the battle!

Mingfu is overjoyed, it seems that the killing array they have spent a lot of effort to set up is really worthy of the name, and they will die if they enter the battle, and they can't help but be more convinced of Yang Congyi.

At the same time, the commanders and generals of the Jin army were still anxiously waiting in the army for the soldiers who broke into battle to bring back good news, and everyone hoped that they would succeed.

But the news brought back by the scouts made them despair: there was a battle wail at the beginning of the Song army's great array, and after a while, there was no sound, and no one could get out of the formation.

There is no doubt that the 1,000 gold army that tried to break through did not make much splash, and it completely fell into the Song army's large array.

All of a sudden, an atmosphere of despair spread among the generals.

Now they all know that the big array laid by the Song army is a big array that eats people and doesn't spit out bones, and the big array is placed here, just let them die!

Wan Yan Xi was at a loss, the ice and snow array laid by the Song army was really terrifying, and the death of the 1,000 people who explored the formation made them unable to raise the courage to rush into the formation.

The news of the failure of the commanders and generals to come up with a solution quickly spread throughout the army, and in a short period of time, the people were panicked, the morale of the army was shaken, and the morale of the army was greatly lost.

Not long ago, the commanders and generals were still telling them that the lack of food was only temporary, as long as they broke through the Song army's blockade in one fell swoop, captured the Xianghe, eat, drink, and wear, and what they wanted, but at this time, they were told that the large array set up by the Song army in front was eating people, and they were waiting for them to die, who could withstand such a blow?

The ordinary soldiers couldn't stand it, they were cold and hungry, and the commanders couldn't stand it like the generals of the army, because they wanted to return to Yanjing alive, and the blessings they deserved had not yet been enjoyed.

The unwillingness and despair pervaded the Jin army.