To the east was the undulating mound on the north bank of the river, with patches of forest growing from time to time, and the terrain was not at all suitable for cavalry to attack, because of the trees, the cavalry could not increase its speed.

Zhao Zhi breathed a sigh of relief, maybe it was his own delusion, didn't the soldier who reported the news just now say that it was only two miles away from here? Zhao Zhi glanced at the soldier who was looking east like him, and couldn't help but scold: "Don't go and give the order yet: beat the drum and wait for the enemy." ”

The soldier hurriedly dismounted from his horse and went to give the order. Zhao Zhi followed behind, pulled out the hand knife in his waist, and strode to the back of the formation, the soldiers who got the order had already lined up in formation, unfolded behind the fortress, guns, knives, and arrows were lined up in turn, looking nervously to the north, and the supervisor pulled out the knife one by one, but he was not preparing to meet the enemy, but to monitor whether the soldiers did not obey the order. There are more than 2,000 soldiers drawn out from the battalions who crossed the river last night, although under the command of Zhao Zhi and Zhao Ming, they also roughly formed a formation next to the two large formations, but they were only temporarily put together, the generals did not know the soldiers, and the soldiers did not obey the generals, but they were awkwardly lined up in formation, and felt that there were two infantry formations in front.

Zhao Zhi looked north nervously, he was under the command of a small Xuanfeng army, and now he had to protect the 50,000-strong river-crossing army behind him, and the army of 50,000 horses on the west road was defeated in front. He didn't think about it and didn't understand how 50,000 people were defeated by more than 10,000 people, could it be that this soldier was really powerful?

The more Zhao Zhi thought about it, the more apprehensive he became, he couldn't help but stand on a high place and look north, standing on a high place, only to see that there were really two roads of people and horses in the north, one in front of the other, rushing to the south, accompanied by thousands of horses, and the two roads of people and horses seemed to be stepping on the yellow wind.

"Ready! Get ready! Zhao Zhi was still standing on a high place, and he didn't have time to jump off and began to shout. The soldiers below immediately seemed to be petrified, and they clung to their weapons tightly, and they must not dare to move.

After jumping down, Zhao Zhi inadvertently found that a flag was also floating in the east - could it be that crossing the river so quickly that so many people came over at this time?

Zhao Zhi hadn't reacted from the shock of the cavalry on the north side, and when he looked at the north, a question suddenly floated in his heart: The flag is wrong!

Zhao Zhi looked east again, and at a glance, Zhao Zhi's face suddenly turned pale - a big flag fluttered in front of thousands of troops, the Khitan characters and Chinese characters on it were juxtaposed, and the two big white characters "Yelu" were eye-catching embroidered on the black flag, and there was a unique sun and moon flag of the Khitan people next to it. The cavalry, all of them, stood in a row on a small mound that was slightly raised to the east. The bottom of the small mound was flat all the way to his large array.

Although he did not correspond with Xiao Ganxin, he accurately grasped the situation on the battlefield, keenly grasped this fleeting opportunity, and boldly speculated that the Song soldiers must be attentive to the psychology of the north, and boldly ambushed the cavalry in the hills east of the Song army's crossing of the river, and waited patiently. Then the time and angle of the positional defense line that could best defeat the psychological defense line of the Song army appeared.

Xiao Gan didn't have a trace of a scribe's aura on his body at this time, just like the soldiers around him, they were all dressed in armor and fingered spears, and Zhao Zhi even found that he seemed to see a trace of contempt at the corner of Xiao Gan's mouth.

The Baigou River rolled and rolled eastward, but the cavalry, all in black armor and black horses, began to gallop down from the small mound, began to accelerate, and rushed westward.

Along the undulating depression on the north bank of the Baigou River, black iron streams swept over, and the cavalry lined up in a north-south line, swords and spears were like a forest, even under today's gloomy sky, it seemed to shine with dazzling light. The first-line cavalry, like the roar of spring thunder, like the tide of the sea rolling upside down, like a shower of rain splashing, made people dizzy, and in an instant it was less than 300 steps away from the Song army's position.

Zhao Zhidu didn't know how he ordered the soldiers to form a formation, and in the hurry, the crossbowmen had no time to test the shot, so they all picked up their bows and crossbows and fired fiercely at the Liao cavalry rushing to the east, which also bought time for the spearmen and long knifemen to turn their spearheads and form a formation in front.

But it was too late.

The cavalry of the Liao army had already rushed into the Song army formation in a few breaths. First, the Song army's front was thin and had just been formed, and secondly, the Liao army's cavalry rushed over from south to north with the momentum of overwhelming the mountains and seas, and the Song army was deployed at the north end, but the south end was empty.

Not only that, Zhao Ming led the army in the west to line up, which was originally to defend the enemy army in the north, but it was suddenly attacked by the enemy from the east from the side, and suddenly there was no formation advantage at all. This is completely a copy of Xiao Gan's raid on the infantry formation outside Xin Xingzong's camp. The reason for the similarity between Xiao Gan and Yelu Dashi is because only from this angle can the Liao cavalry dare to attack the Song army's battle array.

The 10,000 horses led by Yelu Dashi were actually a hodgepodge, only half of the cavalry, the remaining half were infantry troops, and some were just recruited homeless. At this time, these infantry troops were at best waving their flags and shouting, only these 5,000 or so cavalry troops easily rushed along the river bank, from east to west, and after a sweep, the Song army on the north bank of the ferry was already dead and wounded. With 5,000 cavalry, charging and killing an infantry army that is less than their own number is as easy as hunting wild animals for the Liao soldiers.

At this time, the Song army still had a certain combat effectiveness, and there was no "phobia of Liao", let alone the collapse of the confrontation with the Jin army later. Although the large array is chaotic by the enemy, and it is impossible to set up a formation to resist the enemy, but on the battlefield where you either die or I forget, people's instinct is to choose to kill the enemy, if you don't kill the enemy, the enemy will kill you, always so direct. In addition, the actual number of Song troops crossing the river has reached more than 4,000, and the Song army's infantry is well-armed, and it is a spear and long knife specially used to restrain cavalry. Therefore, the first wave of the Liao cavalry attacked, taking advantage of the rapid and sudden, so that the Song army suffered a loss as soon as it came up, and when the Liao army turned its horse head and rushed back, the Song soldiers who had nowhere to flee began to counterattack, and the Liao cavalry was not as sharp as the first charge. After rushing into the middle of the Song army for the second time, he was immediately entangled as if he had fallen into a quagmire.

Seeing that the Liao army rushed to kill the Song soldiers, even if they could cut down the Song soldiers, they would be either killed or injured, so they hesitated, and they lost the powerful impact of the cavalry, and could only fight with the Song army.

(End of chapter)