In all the chaotic and noisy scenes where all the Song troops did not hesitate to flee to the south bank in various ways, the figure of the independent raft in the planter's division, with a dozen people facing the crowd, silently heading north, was so lonely.

This is Da Song! This is the 100,000 border patrol army of the Great Song Dynasty!

Although the number of people is large, they are like a plate of scattered sand, and when the disaster comes, they each flee for their lives. The Lord will flee for his life, and the soldiers will flee for their lives. What's the use of such an army coming?!

The seed master has long been dissatisfied with the trick of the Western Army being changed and divided by the imperial court, and now seeing such a desperate escape scene, his heart is even more cold to the imperial court. That's why he didn't think much about it, left his ministry, and hurried over to save his eldest brother.

After everyone rowed the raft to the north bank, in order to avoid the influence of the soldiers who fell into the water, one of the planters had people dock a little further downstream of the pontoon bridge. Let the pro-army guard the raft, nail a dozen spears to the ground on the shore, and tie the ends of the dozen or so hemp ropes to the shafts of the spears. He personally took two pro-soldiers to the shore to look for the planter.

Seed Master Dao looked at the chaos in front of him, knowing that he was powerless, and he couldn't help but feel a huge pain in his heart. These are all good sons of the Western Army, and the Xixia people who can fight can't raise their heads and can't cross the boundary, but they will die in vain on the edge of the river in this realm. He, the commander-in-chief of the whole army, bears the title of commander-in-chief, but he cannot arrange troops according to his own will, and he is even more powerless about the situation. If it were in his own command, it would never have turned out like this. At present, he can only protect his Eastern Route Army first. Now that the encirclement of the Liao army is only a few dozen zhang away from the river, he knows that if it were not for the Liao army's main general, who was worried that he would not leave a way to live, it would have provoked the Song army to resist, and he would have been killed to the shore long ago.

Looking at the river surface that is only dozens of zhang wide, looking at the two crumbling pontoon bridges that are crumbling and carrying floats and sinking, and looking at the Song soldiers who are struggling on the river, it is difficult for the master to calm down in his heart, he is so old, it is not a pity to die, but he can't take the children of the Western Army back to the loess beach where they were born.

The Liao army gradually approached the shore, and Zhao Ming and Zhao Zhi each led a few hundred people, and they were already the only two teams of men and horses in the battlefield on the north bank of the river who were still fighting with the Liao soldiers. At this time, he was gradually forced to the river by the Liao army. Zhao Ming's iron armor is scattered, the abdominal belt has long been lost, the legs and back are patches of bright red, the spears in his hands are scattered, and the soldiers around him are also untidy, all of them are injured, Zhao Zhi's situation is slightly better, and the long knife in his hand can also cover one or two for the pro-army around him, but in the face of more and more Liao cavalry, it is just a matter of fighting for a while.

The cultivator slowly drew his sword, and was about to go into battle in person, where would the soldiers around him agree? They all grabbed the seed master and cried to the seed master: "Old Dutong, how can this be made? The old capital is going to go quickly, there are us here to kill a few more Liao dogs, and we also want to protect the old capital to go back. The old and young in the family, please take care of the old capital. ”

Zhao Ming turned around and saw the cultivator Dao holding a sword from a distance, and he couldn't help shouting: "Old Dutong, hurry up!" Let's kill for a while. ”

A pro-soldier beside the seed master suddenly shouted: "Look at the old capital!" ”

The planter glanced in surprise in the direction of the soldier's finger, and saw that the soldier pointed to the riverbank, and on the bank, he saw his younger brother and two soldiers crawling along the riverbank. A little farther away, a large raft was parked by the river, and several pro-soldiers were tying hemp ropes to the shafts of spears stuck in the ground, and a few pro-soldiers were anxiously guarding the raft, waiting for him to go up.

The farmer was short-tempered, although the grade was not small, but he rushed over in three steps and two steps, and did not say much, he stepped forward and grabbed the hand of the farmer Dao and walked to the raft, and instructed the farmer Dao pro-army to say as he walked: "I will take the eldest brother to go first, and the river has pulled a hemp rope, and now I will retreat, so that the babies can escape back to one more one." Just go! ”

The pro-soldier replied heavily, ran back to the shore, and shouted to Zhao Ming and Zhao Zhi: "The two commanders, the old commander has an order, withdraw from here!" ”

He didn't dare to say much about Masuo in the river, and Zhao Zhi and Zhao Zhi fought desperately for a while, and saw that the two of them got on the raft and began to row towards the center of the river. At this time, the raft carrying the planter road and the planter had rowed to the middle of the river, and more than a dozen spears were inserted into the ground on the bank, revealing only half of the spear shaft, and the hemp rope tied to the spear shaft flickered in the water, and it was not conspicuous from a distance.

The pro-soldier who gave the order saw that the men and horses on the shore had withdrawn here, so he did not hesitate, the first to jump into the water, the cold river water soaked his clothes at once, he had never been in the water and reached out in the water in a panic, only in the water and the shore is different, there is no place to borrow, after drinking several mouthfuls of river water in his mouth, he finally touched a hemp rope, only to drag the hemp rope out of the water to show his head, do not care to stay, use both hands and feet, along the hemp rope to the south bank.

Zhao Ming and Zhao Zhi saw the hemp rope in the water, and they also jumped into the water, and the soldiers of the two subordinates also followed suit, jumping into the river and swimming to the south bank.

The Liao army on the shore was originally ordered to drive the Song army into the river, but when they saw that the hundreds of Song soldiers led by Zhao Ming and Zhao Zhi followed the example of those routs, they jumped into the river, didn't care, and put a few arrows indiscriminately, so they turned around and killed the two pontoon bridges.

The Song soldiers who fled south in a panic on the pontoon bridge were already crowded, and there were still a large group of Song soldiers waiting to cross the river on the north bank of the pontoon bridge. As soon as the Liao army commander who rushed over saw the situation on the pontoon bridge, he gave an order, and the surrounding Liao soldiers drew arrows and shot towards the middle of the pontoon bridge in unison. After a rain of arrows, a group of Song soldiers fell down and fell into the water, and the Song soldiers who were hit by the arrows lay down on the pontoon, tripped over the Song soldiers crowded behind them, and even blocked the Song soldiers who escaped. The Song soldiers on the pontoon bridge saw that the Liao soldiers began to shoot arrows on the bridge, and they were even more crowded, all of them were ruthless, no matter whether they were stepping on dead corpses or living people, they rushed forward regardless of it, for fear that the next arrow would hit themselves.

Suddenly, I don't know who shouted: "The bridge is broken!" ”

Before Song Jun could react on the bridge, he only heard a "creaking" sound, and his feet were empty, and the pontoon bridge that was broken into two was instantly washed downstream by the water. The Song army on the pontoon bridge did not enter the water, and some were lucky enough to catch a wooden plank on the bridge, or rushed downstream, but were stopped by the hemp rope, dragged the hemp rope, and survived death.

As soon as the pontoon bridge was broken, all the Liao troops rushed to the Song soldiers who were guarding the remaining pontoon bridge and were about to flee back to the south bank, and slashed at the Song soldiers who were already unarmed and unarmoured. The Song soldiers on the remaining pontoon bridge were frightened and also jumped into the water to escape.

Now on the north bank of the river, there are Liao soldiers everywhere who are killing everywhere, and the Liao army of 30,000 is really victorious.

(End of chapter)