The river water enters the body, and it is cold and biting.

Whether the Jin soldiers who fell into the water were advancing or retreating, they didn't have time to think about it with their brains, out of instinct, their bodies had already made a choice, and they turned around and fled desperately towards the river bank in an instant.

The Jin army, who was still on the river bank and had not yet stepped on the ice, saw that the ice suddenly shattered, and countless people fell into the water, so they suddenly stopped and involuntarily retreated, and the Jin army behind them heard a noisy and chaotic front, only knew that something had happened, and they didn't know what had happened, so they retreated and advanced, and the Jin army on the shore squeezed together again, and in a moment, there was no formation at all.

In the face of the sudden change, there were still people who were a little calmer, only to hear them shouting loudly on the bank of the river: "The ice is broken!" Back off! Back off! ”

"The ice is shattered! The ice shattered......"

The news of the broken ice of the canal sounded in the ears of the officers and men of the Jin Army who were still charging just now, one person, ten people, and a hundred people, and soon the generals of the Jin Army who were in the rear commanding the battle learned the news, and in a hurry it was difficult to make a decision, and urgently reported to the commander of the Jin Army.

At this time, on the bank of the canal, the soldiers of the Song Army who were hiding behind the snow wall saw the ice breaking, and countless golden soldiers who rushed over like hungry wolves fell into the river, and then turned around and ran back desperately.

Yang Congyi and several generals of the Jingwu Forbidden Army clearly saw everything that happened in the canal, and saw that the ice was shattered as expected, and the Jin soldiers fell into the water and escaped, and the Jingwu Forbidden Army knew that it was difficult for them to have a chance to appear today.

But this canal battle is far from over, the fifty-mile canal ice has only broken one mile, and there are still forty-nine miles upstream and downstream, and the Jin army still has the opportunity to try to cross the river from other places, so the task of mobile support of the Jingwu Forbidden Army is not over.

Seeing that breaking the ice layer of Zhang Xu Kuan was indeed effective in preventing the Jin army from crossing the river, Yang Congyi immediately ordered the 3,000 elite forbidden army around him to divide into two more groups, each with 1,000 people, one going north and the other south, to strengthen the patrol and defense support capabilities of the north and south of the canal.

At the same time, the officers of the Guards Military Academy were dispatched south to inspect the progress of the construction of the defense line between Matou Village and Xianghe by the Ming Fu Department, and to confirm whether the Ming Fu had built a defensive position in accordance with the previous deployment and blocked the way for the Jin army to escape.

After about a quarter of an hour of ice breaking, the Jin soldiers, who had survived the catastrophe after falling into the water, finally fled back to the riverbank, and at the same time waited for the order of the Jin army commander to stop crossing the river.

Soon, the Jin army withdrew from the river bank under the sharp arrow fire of the Song army's soldiers, withdrew out of the range of sharp arrows, and retreated to the camp to consider the long term.

This wave of hasty offensive initiated by the Jin army ended hastily after five or six hundred casualties.

The Jin army retreated, and the soldiers of the Song army put down their bows and crossbows one after another, and let out a breath of air, and before they could be excited, a cold wind blew, and the cold air entered their bodies, and they were shocked to realize that their underwear had already been soaked.

Soon, the soldiers who were sticking behind the snow wall on the river bank received orders from their superiors to leave two people under each snow wall, and the others temporarily returned to the camp to eat and rest, and those within five miles of the camp were rotated after an hour, and those who were ten miles away were rotated for one and a half hours, and those who were ten miles away were to set up temporary camps nearby.

The nearly 10,000 soldiers who had been busy fighting off the Jin army at dawn and had been busy until this time finally got the opportunity to return to the camp to rest and recuperate, while the remaining soldiers had to continue to endure hunger and cold.

Yang Congyi has been preparing for the Northern Expedition for many years, and he knows very well that the war is actually about logistics support and supply, and he has prepared the winter clothes of the soldiers very completely, although the winter clothes are warm, but after strenuous exercise, they will inevitably sweat, if the back of the clothes is wet and can not be baked in time, the winter clothes not only can not keep warm, but will absorb the heat in the body, and it is also easy to induce diseases.

Therefore, in the winter clothes, Yang Congyi also specially equipped each set of winter clothes with three cotton towels, and ordered the soldiers to carry them with them, in case it is difficult to return to the camp to bake winter clothes, and put the cotton towels between the back and the underwear to keep warm.

At this time, the soldiers who could not return to the camp to rest and recuperate took advantage of the retreat of the Jin army and hurriedly stuffed the cotton towels they brought with them into their backs.

Just a cotton towel can't isolate all the sweat-soaked clothes on the body, but taking care of the back can solve most of the problems.

The temporary retreat of the Jin army did not mean that they gave up the canal and the camp that originally belonged to them, and they would inevitably plan the next attack, because the Song soldiers on the bank of the river did not dare to slack off, and still left the snow wall from time to time to shelter, and came to the bank through the gap between the two walls, stirring up the ice floes that were about to condense in the river.

The Song army stretched the spear into the water and stirred the action, was crawling forward, with the snow as a cover, the Jin soldiers who lurked near the river bank saw it, and after lying in the snow and observing for a long time, the Jin soldiers who were shivering from the cold slowly retreated.

"What? The Song army chiseled all the ice of the canal? ”

In the transportation camp, after listening to the report of the scout, the face of the commander of the Jin army was extremely ugly.

"Yes, Sir. The little one saw with his own eyes that Song Bing would stir or push the ice floes in the water with spears or wooden sticks every two quarters of an hour or so, so there was actually no ice at a distance of about a zhang from the bank of the canal, and there was only ice floes. The scout's cheeks were red from the cold, but he spoke fluently.

The commander of the Jin army was silent.

"Dashuai, how is this good?" A general asked.

"Song Jun is too cunning, he will quietly chisel the ice and make us suffer a big loss, this revenge must be avenged! When we cross the river and defeat them, we will throw them all into the river and freeze them into ice lumps! Another general was very unconvinced, and there was no worry on his face except for unconvinced.

As soon as the voice fell, someone immediately chimed in: "That's it." The Song army will also secretly play a little clever, play some small tricks, and come to the shadows behind their backs, they don't dare to fight us head-on at all, as long as we seize the opportunity, they will never give up if they are not destroyed! ”

"That's all they can do, if I'm not bragging, they won't be able to fight in the north. Let's think about it, seven or eight years ago, they didn't also gather 100,000 troops, water and land moved together, hit Pingzhou to hit Laizhou, and even more soldiers came to Yanjing City, and recently it was three miles away from the gate of Yanjing City, and in the end, it was not obediently going back, Pingzhou and Laizhou did not get one, and lost 20,000 or 30,000 soldiers. Four years ago, they also committed a crime in the north in early spring when the ice and snow had not melted, but they also took three or four small county towns that were empty, and they couldn't even get close to Pingzhou City, let alone attack Yanjing City. It's the same now, the cold wind is howling outside, and it's snowing in the sky, I think they are taking people as inappropriate and bluffing, and there is nothing to be afraid of! ”

"That makes sense. Since they are willing to blow the wind and stir up the water by the river, let them stir it up, the sky will only get colder and colder, and they will not freeze to death for three days! ”

"I think this is a good solution, we shouldn't deal with them, if they like to stir up water, let them stir it up, and fight against the sky, that is a dead end."

"Your idea is not right, since they are weak, they also occupy our camp and steal tens of thousands of our war horses, how can they be left alone? What if they rode away tens of thousands of our horses? Before, it was because we had horses, and they didn't have horses, that we could come and go freely and have an advantage on the battlefield, but if they had these tens of thousands of horses, the situation would be different. So we have to get this horse back, and we can't let them go. "A different opinion has been raised.

"The camp has been occupied by them for most of the day, and if they really want to steal our horses, they have already snatched them, how can they still be in the camp. Besides, can we outrun a horse on two legs? They want to run, but we can't stop them, so let's not bother, just let them take advantage of it. It's still not enough, then you can only freeze them to death. ”

"Reasonably, the horses must have been snatched away, and there is no point in thinking about going to chase them now. Besides, we came out of Yanjing City, the ultimate goal is to defeat and repel the Song army, and relieve the siege of Yanjing. Wait for two days, and when the Song army on the other side of the river can't stand it, it will naturally withdraw its troops, and it will not be too late for us to besiege the Chaobai River camp at that time. ”

"That's not right. Let's think about it, why did the Song army chisel the canal ice, and what was the purpose of doing this? Isn't that just stopping us from returning to the west bank of the canal? So why are they blocking it at this time? I think there must have been a connection between the Song Army's transportation camp and the Chaobai River camp before, and many smart people in the Song army, since they knew that the transportation camp could not be held, they must have known that we would definitely besiege the Chaobai River camp after taking the transportation camp, so the Song army would divide its troops in advance and ambush us, and when we attacked the transportation camp, they copied our back road and chiseled the canal ice. From this, it can be inferred that the Song army now guarding the other side of the river must have come from the Chaobai River camp in the north, and they are trying to trap us here so that we can retreat smoothly! ”

"Yes, I got the news before, saying that the Chaobai River camp in the north had sent 5,000 people to cross the river and march westward, and it turned out that their purpose was to go south to copy our back road, so that we could not cross the river and return to the camp, so as to prepare for the smooth retreat of the Chaobai River camp. I have to say that Song Jun is really cunning! ”

"Alas, we also miscalculated, if we can divide our troops to contain the Chaobaihe army before attacking the transportation camp, the situation may be different, our battalion will not be lost, and the Song army in the Chaobaihe camp will not be able to run. However, our troops are limited, and we lack skills, and it is too difficult to deal with the Song army of 70,000 or 80,000 people with more than 40,000 people. ”

"Yes, yes, we really can't do anything if the Song army wants to run, 40,000 people to surround the other party's two battalions of 70,000 or 80,000 people, it's simply impossible, they want to run, and they can only watch them run."

It has to be said that until this time, the generals of the Jin Army were generally optimistic.