Li Yuanhao on the west bank of the river did not dare to retreat, and if he retreated, his morale would be completely lost, and he would have to bear the doubts within the party, but the Great Song Dynasty could not wait forever, in case the weather suddenly changed, this battle would not be able to be fought, so Zhao Zhen could only take the initiative to cross the river and fight a decisive battle with the party members.

For this decisive battle, both sides have their own advantages and disadvantages, the party can not return to Xingzhou City, and it will lose the city wall to rely on, but it can give full play to the power of their cavalry, and although the Great Song side has firearms, it still has to suffer a little loss in the field battle with the cavalry, but the Great Song side occupies a numerical advantage.

On October 27, with Zhao Zhen's order, 50,000 Song troops began to set up camp, and Zhou Mei's vanguard army also began to spread soil on the ice, because the party members were on the opposite side, and it was likely that they would launch a blockade when they crossed the river, and at this time the Song army was at a loss on the ice, so a road had to be paved.

Seeing the actions of the Song army, the party army on the other side also stopped sending scouts to harass, and then the cavalry from all walks of life gathered in front of the camp, and Li Yuanhao also sat in his own car and personally sat in the Chinese army, ready to attack the Song army at any time.

It's just that what Li Yuanhao didn't expect was that the Song army's movement across the river was unexpectedly slow, especially the vanguard army was responsible for paving the road on the ice, but after waiting for most of the day, the road was only half paved, which made the people on the party side also a little anxious, especially the weather was so cold, and the hands and feet of the people who were even more cold on the horses were numb, but the Song army was delayed, which made everyone feel a little anxious.

At the same time, the Song army was still paving the road slowly, and in the rear of the army on the shore, buckets of hot soup and vegetables were also sent to the team, so that the soldiers could eat in batches, and these soldiers were wearing heavy cotton clothes outside, with the cotton harvest, Li Zhang also gave priority to making a batch of cotton coats and cotton shoes for the army, which now just came in handy.

As time goes by, the party members on the other side of the river are becoming more and more anxious, and Li Yuanhao in the Chinese army instinctively feels that something is wrong, and now it is only about an hour before it gets dark at most, even if the Song army paves the road, is it possible that they still want to cross the river at night?

But at this moment, I suddenly heard a rapid sound of horses' hooves from behind, and then I saw a scout galloping over and reporting loudly: "Your Majesty, the Song cavalry has been found in the rear!" ”

Although Li Yuanhao did not openly claim the emperor, he was attached to the Liao State over the years, and the Liao State also named him the king of Great Xia, and internally, Li Yuanhao has always regarded himself as the emperor, so the party members have always called Li Yuanhao His Majesty the emperor.

"Not good!" Li Yuanhao also shouted when he heard this, and immediately realized that he had fallen into a plan, the Song army was obviously pretending to be preparing to cross the river, but in fact, he secretly sent cavalry to cross the river from other places and go around his back to sneak attack.

Thinking of this, Li Yuanhao also immediately ordered a cavalry to turn around to meet the enemy, but at this moment, he suddenly heard a loud noise behind him, it seemed that the Song cavalry behind him was signaling, and he soon found that the Song army on the opposite side also accelerated the paving action, and in the blink of an eye, the ice of the Yellow River was paved with loess.

"Kill, kill, kill!" At this time, I saw the Great Song army on the opposite side shouting three times, and then I saw that the entire Song army was also slowly approaching the river beach, but before the Song army stepped on the ice, the Great Song cavalry behind it had already been killed, after all, the distance of three miles was almost instantaneous for the cavalry, and the party cavalry sent by Li Yuanhao to meet the enemy had just attacked at this time, and he didn't even mention the speed of the horse.

The main general of the cavalry of the Song army is named Guo Zun, that is, the one that Di Qing wants to apprentice to, known as the one who has no opponent in the three armies, whether it is foot combat or horse warfare, he is very proficient, in fact, Guo Zun also controls the most elite cavalry in the border army, but unfortunately in the original history, Guo Zun and Liu Ping died in Sanchuankou, and all the cavalry under him were killed, but Guo Zun killed three in and three out of the party army before his death, and no less than 100 people died under him, and finally killed for the first time due to exhaustion.

Guo Zun was assigned by Zhao Zhen three days ago, and led his 5,000 cavalry to quietly leave the camp at night, go around to the upper reaches of the Yellow River to cross the river, and then sneak behind the Dangxiang camp day and night.

Although Li Yuanhao's reaction was extremely fast, and he also sent a cavalry to meet the enemy at this time, Guo Zun smiled very calmly, and at this time he turned his horse's head and did not kill the party cavalry that met the enemy, but directly killed the party battalion next to him.

Li Yuanhao had almost the whole army dispatched in order to meet the enemy before, although there were defenders in the camp, but there were not many of them, so when Guo Zun's cavalry arrived, these defenders had almost no power to stop them, and in the blink of an eye, the camp gate was knocked open, and then the cavalry was killed.

"Boom ~ Boom ~ Boom ......" just as Guo Zun's cavalry entered the camp, there were bursts of explosions immediately, it turned out that the purpose of Guo Zun's cavalry was to burn down the party camp, so they only brought a small amount of supplies when they came out, but each cavalryman's horse had two bags on it, all of which were grenades.

As Guo Zun's cavalry threw grenades everywhere, the entire party battalion was also in chaos, and wherever the Song cavalry killed, there was a fire, and the sound of explosions was endless.

With the burning of the party camp, Li Yuanhao's party people finally panicked, after all, there are not only tents in the camp, but also food and other materials, if there is no these, even if they win, I am afraid they will freeze to death on the bank of the Yellow River, so at this time many people want to turn back to rescue.

However, at this time, Zhao Zhen's main army had already begun to cross the river, and it looked like it was about to be killed, but Li Yuanhao was indeed worthy of being a genius in using troops, and at this time he even forced the main force not to move, so it can be said that he gave up the rescue camp, but concentrated on dealing with the main army of the Great Song Dynasty.

In fact, this is also the best choice, because if the main force of the party turns back to rescue, the main force of the Great Song Dynasty who crossed the river will definitely take advantage of the situation to attack, and then the party will be difficult to take care of, and it will definitely be defeated, and now the camp has been burned, Guo Zun's cavalry is also entangled by the party cavalry sent before, and it is impossible to pose a threat to the main force of the party at all, if Li Yuanhao can command the army to defeat the main force of the Song army, there is still a chance to turn defeat into victory.

Seeing that the party's army was still standing still, Zhao Zhen in the army of the Great Song Dynasty couldn't help but sigh and said: "General Cao once praised Li Yuanhao for being a hero, I still didn't believe it before, but now I really live up to my reputation when I see it." ”

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