At this moment, the Song army that reacted was forced to have no way to retreat, the infantry army was fully armored and guarded, and the Liao army was condescending, but there was no advantage of the cavalry. I saw that the Song army used spears to pick and stab the Liao soldiers on the horses, and used long knives to cut the Liao army's war horses, and many crossbowmen discarded their bows and crossbows and withdrew their sabers - the hand knives of the Song Dynasty were not daggers and short blades in later generations, but similar to the style of thick-backed machetes - slashing and killing the Liao soldiers who fell off their horses, and when the knives fell, there was an extra corpse of Liao soldiers on the ground and a large pool of bubbling and flowing red blood. The spears in Song Bing's hands are also more than a zhang long, or even longer, the head of the spear alone is a foot long, a shot pierced into the body, it is basically hopeless to survive, if you are lucky, pierced into the thigh, arm, etc., it is also seriously injured and difficult to move, and you can't escape the result of being killed. For a time, the Song army's long knives, short knives and long spears greeted the Liao soldiers, and the Liao soldiers were slightly defeated, which was the end of falling off their horses and dying.

Xiucai Yelu Dashi was also in the cavalry, fighting with these Liao cavalry in the Song army. He was originally a majestic Khitan man, but he was always said to be a sissy, and Yelu Dashi was naturally not happy. After suffocating in the camp on the north bank of the river for more than ten days, it is natural to relieve his chest and sulk now.

Yelu Dashi's spear was wielded freely, and he was surrounded by pro-soldiers and generals who had been holding back for more than ten days, relying on the advantage of being tall on his horse, smashing and slashing with the weapons in his hands. The Liao soldiers had been fighting with the Song army for many years, and naturally they were well aware of the weaknesses of the Song army. The Song army's infantry is powerful, one is to form a formation, the second is to shoot a bow and crossbow from a distance, and the third is that the body is fully armored. In the years of fighting, the Liao soldiers slowly discovered that although the Song soldiers' iron armor was good, if they were hit hard by a blunt object, the force could shock or even directly crush the Song soldiers after passing through the iron armor. Therefore, many Liao soldiers held heavy blades such as maces, axes, and hammers in their hands when fighting, and few people used technical blades such as spears, lances, and Fang Tianhua halberds. At this time, without the huge impact brought by the war horse, the heavy blade hit the head and back of the Song soldier, which would still cause the Song soldier to fall to the ground, or even shatter his head and die.

Within a radius of one mile on the north bank of the ferry, the Song army and the Liao army fought hard together, and from time to time soldiers were killed and wounded, blood soaked through their clothes, and slowly flowed out of the grass under them. The horses that had lost their owners stopped beside their masters, and from time to time they wailed. The roar of killing and the wail of being killed often sound at the same time. The killer's weapon and the slain's blade are often fired at the same time. The corpses on the ground are intertwined, and there is no distinction between country and race.

The battle centered on the east and west positions of the Song army, relying on the infantry combat power of the Song army and the ruthlessness of either you die or I live, temporarily killed the Liao cavalry, which was more than twice as strong as itself. Their mission was to guard the shore and guard the troops who had just crossed the river. Fortunately, the Liao army had not yet gained the upper hand, and at the place where the two sides were fighting and at the ferry, there was still an open space with a radius of about 100 zhang in the middle, which was crowded with soldiers who had just crossed the river and had not yet commanded the assembly.

Seed Master Dao and Heshu were on the shore, three miles away from the place where the two armies were fighting in the north, and they couldn't dispatch and command for a while, but they just watched Yelu Dashi on the anime mound take advantage of the fact that the enemy army in the north was about to arrive, and he knew that the big thing was not good. He ordered the commanders of the various armies to quickly assemble, lined up in formation, and slowly advanced to the north to strengthen the forces guarding the ferry.

If it was simply these horses from Yelu Dashi, the Breeder Dao would not take it to heart at all. However, the two people in the north who chased and fled all the way did not know what would happen if they rushed over, so the Planter Dao could only prepare in advance and let the soldiers after crossing the river slowly push the formation north to consolidate the defense.

He Shu was still ambitious and full of momentum just now, and just now he saw Yelu Dashi leading the cavalry to sweep down and overwhelm the world, and he was already too frightened to stand, but fortunately, his cronies around him supported him left and right, so he did not collapse on the ground. At this time, it was not the time to point out the country, but I just watched the planting master Dao busy arranging troops and dispatching and commanding, and I felt a little comforted in my heart.

During this period, the soldiers who had just crossed the river were also ordered by the master to rush to help fight and fight, which contained the range of the Liao army. This temporarily made the edge of the ferry port not killed by the Liao army. It also made He Shu work harder to urge the Song soldiers who crossed the river to hurry up and cross the river.

The 2,000 men who had crossed the river last night were soon beaten into their original headquarters, and the soldiers and horses under the commanding officers of each command were assembled together and lined up in a long row from east to west, moving little by little to the north in the order of swords and guns in front and bows and crossbows in the rear. The sharpshooter moved twenty feet forward and stopped. Then it was the turn of the crossbowmen to follow, followed by the longbowmen, followed by the overseers.

Yelu Dashi hit it very easily, and it was purely time-consuming. He would not put himself in danger, and his remote barricades had already relayed him a steady stream of information about the situation in the north long before he led his army down the mound. He expected that when Xin Xingzong's army was still five miles away from the river, he led the army to attack.

Although the Seed Master Dao had already organized people to start advancing here, Yelu Dashi was still confident, not in a hurry, and commanded his subordinates to continue to fight with the Song soldiers, ignoring the Song soldiers who slowly drove in.

Zhao Zhi and Zhao Ming have recovered from the shock at the beginning, after the first round of Liao attacks, the next fight, so that Zhao Zhi and Zhao Ming and their soldiers feel that this soldier is nothing more than that, although the fight is difficult, but the Liao soldiers who continue to be killed and injured make these Song soldiers more and more confident. When a soldier eats food, wealth and danger are sought, by the way, what else is there to say? Just hit it.

What made Zhao Zhi and Zhao Ming even more confident was that after the fight, they had already caught a glimpse of the comrades who had crossed the river under the command of the old minister, and slowly surrounded here. After this battle, as long as you live, it will be a military merit and reward.

On the other hand, these Liao soldiers and cavalry are these 5,000 or so people in total, and the more they kill, the fewer they kill, and the more casualties they have. On the contrary, the Song army copied it from the south bread. The Song army became more and more courageous, and seemed to have forgotten that what they had just set up to meet was the rout and pursuers from the north. Zhao Ming and Zhao Zhi, the two vanguard commanders, were only suffering in it, but they had no choice but to try their best to kill Yelu Dashi first.

(End of chapter)