Outside the party camp on the west bank of the Yellow River, Li Yuanhao sat in a special carriage to climb a high slope, and then took out the telescope in his arms to look at the big Song military camp on the other side of the river.

The river surface of the Yellow River is very wide, and it can even reach several miles in summer, but the river water decreases in winter, and the current river surface is only about two miles, but the military camp of the Song army is still some distance from the river bank, so Li Yuanhao can only roughly see the layout of the Song army camp through the telescope, but the situation in the camp is completely unclear.

But even if he couldn't see clearly, Li Yuanhao still held the telescope and looked at it for a long time, because he was observing the situation outside the Song army camp, only to see one after another Song army entering and leaving the camp, and on the ice and beach of the Yellow River, there were countless small groups of Song troops fighting to the death with their own elites, although not many people died every day, but it was a morale contest between the two sides, to this point, no one would give in, otherwise it would only weaken the morale of their own side.

In the end, Li Yuanhao slowly put down the telescope in his hand, and then carefully put it into a leather bag he carried with him, although this was only a very simple action, but Li Yuanhao spent half a cup of tea, because his hands were missing four fingers, and the back of his hand was full of burn marks.

However, compared to the burns on Li Yuanhao's hands, the scars on his face are even more terrifying, especially the right half of the body is completely disfigured, the upper lip is missing half of it, revealing burnt yellow teeth, and the right cheek is also full of red and purple scars, one of which is from the ear to the corner of the eye, almost blinding his eyes.

After putting the telescope, Li Yuanhao also intentionally or unintentionally stroked the scars on his hands, these scars are all thanks to Li Zhang, and he also knows that the telescope is also made by Li Zhang, once he also hated Li Zhang's madness, and he couldn't wait to break the other party's corpse into thousands of pieces with his own hands, but now he also figured it out, no matter how much he hated, he couldn't hurt Li Zhang's half of his hair, and only when he led the party to rise and was even stronger than the Great Song Dynasty, it was possible to force the Great Song Dynasty to hand over Li Zhang, otherwise he would never have a day of revenge.

There have been countless times when Li Yuanhao dreamed that he stepped on Tokyo, captured Li Zhang alive to the party, and then tortured him little by little, but every time he woke up, he felt extremely lost, and he also obviously felt that even if Li Zhang was not in the northwest, he was still targeting him everywhere, and even he guessed that the other party was likely to be the same as himself, and they wanted to control each other to death.

Thinking of the above, Li Yuanhao couldn't help but clench his fists, he was almost certain that this time the Great Song Dynasty suddenly sent troops without any warning, and it must also be related to Li Zhang, I heard that the emperor of the Great Song Dynasty was not the son of the Empress Dowager Liu E, but Li Zhang was the cousin of the Emperor of the Great Song Dynasty, and with such a relationship, his influence on the Great Song Dynasty was even greater.

"Back to camp!" After being silent for a long time, Li Yuanhao finally opened his mouth and commanded, and immediately two tall slaves stepped forward to pull his car and returned to the party camp step by step.

For this sudden attack of the Great Song Dynasty, Li Yuanhao really did not have any preparations, it was not that he was too careless, but the transformation of the Great Song Dynasty was too fast, coupled with Liu E's death, Li Yuanhao thought that the Great Song Dynasty would only focus on the country for at least three or four years, and the time for the other party to send troops was also very delicate, and they actually sent troops before the winter, so that their party had no preparations at all, and finally lost the entire land south of the Yellow River to the Great Song Dynasty.

Originally, Li Yuanhao thought that after the Great Song Dynasty conquered Xiping Mansion, he would cross the river to attack Xingzhou non-stop, so he immediately gathered a large army and stationed it on the bank of the Yellow River, in order to launch an attack when the other party crossed the river.

But he didn't expect that the other party's main general was very calm, instead of crossing the river immediately, he patiently waited for the river to freeze, which made Li Yuanhao's previous calculations all come to naught, and even put him in a dilemma.

If Li Yuanhao was still stationed on the shore and waiting, the Song army on the opposite side could attack at any time, and after the river froze, the Yellow River would become a smooth road, and the other party could cross the river from any place, and it might even be divided into two roads, leaving the army to contain him on one side, and the other way sneaking up on Xingzhou City behind.

So intellectually speaking, now Li Yuanhao retreats to Xingzhou City, and it is the best choice to defend the city by himself, after all, their strength is not as good as the Song army, even if the cavalry has an advantage in the field battle, but the other side has a musket army, and there is a strong camp, if the Song army does not fight with them, the advantage of the cavalry will not be waved.

But if the army is withdrawn, it will shake the military heart of the party, because the Song army came too fast before, and the party departments on the south bank of the Yellow River did not have time to retreat, most of them were wiped out by the Song army, and even the Xiping Mansion was lost, which made the people within the party panic, and this time Li Yuanhao also finally suppressed the internal dissent and sent troops.

It can be said that Li Yuanhao is under tremendous pressure, after all, the party is not monolithic, especially when he failed to attack Li Chengyu before, and failed to completely eliminate Li Chengyu, plus he himself is disabled, and he can't even walk, let alone fight on horseback, and the party members have always been martial, which also has many party members who have doubts about Li Yuanhao, the leader.

At the same time as Li Yuanhao returned to the camp, Zhao Zhen, the general of the Great Song Dynasty, also conveyed a series of orders, and the generals who gathered over also left with excitement after receiving tasks from all over the place, and after a while, the entire Song army camp suddenly became a little quieter, and the previous hustle and bustle was mostly less, but this quiet seemed more dangerous, like a fierce beast that had pounced to hunt its prey, exuding a dangerous atmosphere.

And after instructing the generals, Zhao Zhen also walked out of the camp, and then raised his eyes to look at the other side of the Yellow River, he knew that Li Yuanhao was under huge pressure, which he also deliberately created, but now he can't wait any longer, as the weather gets colder and colder, if he doesn't send troops now, I'm afraid it will really have to wait until next year.

However, Li Yuanhao on the opposite side still resisted the pressure and refused to retreat, in other words, this decisive battle between the two sides should be unavoidable, which has advantages and disadvantages for both sides, and now it depends on who can play better.