Li Yongqi was wrong, as the chief military plane that Gao Yu relied on the most, he gave Gao Yu a bad idea that would inevitably cause disastrous consequences at a time of crisis.

It's not that it's wrong to break through to the west, it's that you shouldn't break through and retreat at all!

Because retreating under the heavy pressure of the enemy is a military operation that requires more morale and military support than waiting for reinforcements. If it weren't for the previous peace negotiation, the more than 10,000 elites under Gao Yu's command, especially the more than 6,000 Lingzhou soldiers among them, would still be able to unite and should be able to protect Gao Yu slowly.

Even though Yelu Yanxi had more than 100,000 troops, he might not be able to defeat them. After all, there are not many roads from Qihe to Cangshan, as long as you go to Cangshan, the infantry-based Gao Yu department will be undefeated.

And Yelu Yanxi's own back road doesn't know when it will be completely cut off by Wu Haogu, where can he dare to stay in the Central Plains for a long time?

He summoned up the courage to fight Gao Yu not so much as being provoked but saving himself in extreme fear. He also thought that he had fallen into the trap carefully set by Gao Yu, and if he didn't fight hard, he was afraid that he would die in the Central Plains.

Now that I finally won the bet, I naturally want to accept it when I see it, and run away quickly.

If the Gao Yu Division that broke through the siege can still maintain a high struggle and a strict formation, then Yelu Yanxi will not be able to take advantage of it after a few fights, and he can only "return to the court after victory".

But the problem is that Gao Yu's Lingzhou athletes have already been disappointed in the future, and Gao Yu, who knows that he has "failed to betray the country" and lost the battle, will soon fall. And the Lingzhou army lost the big tree of Gao Yu, and it will soon become the object of the imperial court's rectification. Because the Lingzhou Army has always been a semi-warlord force with strong independence, it is the separatist force in Lingzhou.

With the Song Dynasty's traditional fear of martial arts and troops, how could it continue to tolerate the existence of the Lingzhou Army?

The later French Emperor Napoleon once said: Three parts of spirit are equal to one part of matter. From a material point of view, the infantry and auxiliaries of the Lingzhou Army, who had been marching and fighting hard in the cold, rain and snow since yesterday afternoon, were very tired. If you have enough mental support, you may be able to insist on driving to Cangshan.

However, the low morale made the soldiers and auxiliaries even more tired, and only the 2,000 Lingzhou armor cavalry marching on horseback still maintained a considerable physical strength.

Therefore, in the battle of the breakthrough on the morning of October 29, more than 10,000 Song troops set up a fish-scale formation, with 2,000 Lingzhou armored cavalry as the vanguard, and less than 4,000 Lingzhou infantry to guard the flanks of the two flanks, and began to rush westward.

At the beginning, the Lingzhou Jiaqi exerted great power. The onslaught they launched defeated the Liao light cavalry who tried to stop them and fled, opening a retreat channel for the infantry that followed behind.

But when the Sun and Moon Divine Commander of the Liao Lord led the boundless cavalry to appear behind the infantry of the Lingzhou soldiers and began to pursue. The spirit of the Lingzhou soldiers has finally come to collapse!

The two battalions of infantry that collapsed first were exhausted and demoralized, and they were no longer able to maintain the phalanx. After several rounds of assault by the armored cavalry of the Liao army, it fell apart. The chaotic fleeing armor caused great panic among the auxiliaries in front of them, and they also fell into chaos.

Li Yongqi and Yang Keshi, who knew that the general trend was gone, did not invest in the precious armored cavalry in their hands to save Wu Song's infantry army - most of the officers of the infantry army were born as warriors in front of the emperor and belonged to the "strong man faction", and Li Yongqi and Yang Keshi were not in the same faction!

And how precious are these 2,000 armored horses? How can it be sacrificed casually?

With them in hand, even if Gao Yu falls, Li Yongqi and Yang Keshi will not worry about finding a new backstage!

Both of them knew that this model new army in Kaifeng had always been worried about the lack of cavalry. With the addition of 2,000 Lingzhou armored cavalry, the new army of Kaifeng was complete and could go out of the city to fight in the field.

In the face of this, Zhang Shuye and Wang Yu have to protect the future of Li Yongqi and Yang Keshi.

This bit of selfishness, this little bit of calculation, became the last straw that overwhelmed the Lingzhou Army at a critical moment.

As soon as the armored cavalry left, Wu Song's heavy infantry completely collapsed, and it was impossible to reorganize at all! Wu Song also had to break through on a horse with a vote of cronies - they, the officers who were born as warriors in front of the emperor, had stayed in the northwest for so many years, so they naturally had good horses, and their kung fu was not very bad.

However, they will not run away in the direction of Kaifeng Mansion, let alone run behind the butt of the armored horseman, but will flee to the north, and they will all go to the Xiangzhou regiment to train the army. There are not many decent infantry officers in the Xiangzhou regiment training army, and they, the officers of the Lingzhou soldiers, are not afraid of having no official to do.

Small abacus or something, Second Brother Wu can also fight!

The collapse of the infantry army dealt a heavy blow to the morale of the armored cavalry and cavalry auxiliaries. There was no way for them to maintain a tight formation, and no one was willing to turn around and repel the pursuing Liao army.

In order to escape quickly, many armored horsemen even removed their armor and horses' equipment!

In the troubled times, knights like them will have food to eat wherever they go, and there is no need to be buried for the sake of Gao Yu, who is sure to fall......

And just like that, the organized retreat turned into a full-fledged rout!

As the commander of the three armies, Gao Yu has only a few guards left.

……

When night fell again, Gao Yu, who had fled all the way with a drowsy horse's neck, finally woke up.

I heard an eager voice shouting: "Captain, let's go and block it again!" Our horses can't outrun the Liao dogs, they are all riding a few people, and they are riding! You and Gao Jiyi hurriedly abandoned the horse and went uphill, went to Cangshan to hide for a while, and then went to Hedong when Liaogou retreated! ”

Gao Yu turned his head and saw that his own commander was resolute, turned around his horse, and took a few guards who had received his great favor in the past, and launched a charge like crazy with his horse.

Dozens of steps behind him, the Liao people's brigade had already rolled up the snow and dust, and they flew closer. They were not armoured cavalry, but ordinary light cavalry, but they were also armed with pistols. If Gao Yu still had even 100 Lingzhou cavalry in his hands, he could easily defeat them.

But there are no ifs on the battlefield!

Gao Yu looked back at his side, only to find that there were only a few guards left around him. I don't know how far I ran here from the Qihe battlefield. In front of me is a low hill, because the woods on this side of Hebei cannot be cut indiscriminately, so the mountains are densely wooded, which is not suitable for cavalry movement. But it's not something that can be defended by just a few people, as long as the Liao brigade fences the hill and searches carefully, it's not a dead end?

Gao Yu was shocked in his heart, this is his own death? Is it really irretrievable? Subconsciously, Gao Yu was shaking, and tears poured out from somewhere.

He is not crying for himself, but crying for the Great Song Dynasty and the official Zhao Ji.

The thousands of Lingzhou soldiers who perished here are as elite as the pillars of the country! It is the elite soldiers fought in the Battle of Pingxia and the Battle of Anxi. If you use it well, you can drive away Hulu and restore Yanyun.

But he, the first marshal of the Great Song Dynasty, is a Xibei goods, he doesn't have much real ability, and he betrayed the country to seek glory, and he didn't succeed, and he fell into the treacherous tricks of the Liao people, so that the army's heart was in turmoil, and he was defeated today......

And after the destruction of the Lingzhou soldiers, which elite army of the Great Song Dynasty could resist the iron hooves of the Khitans?

Tong Guan's Shuo Fang Bing? Although they are numerous, they are not as elite as the Lingzhou soldiers, especially if they do not have a strong knight order.

Zhang's Hexi Army? It doesn't seem to be very reliable...... The Hexi Army was reorganized from the Great Education Corps, and the number was not large, and it was also inextricably linked to Wu Haogu's Doctor Corps. If it is transferred to the east, I am afraid that it will greatly enhance Wu Haogu's influence in the imperial court.

In addition, the Hexi Army still adheres to the ideals of the Great Education Corps, and is busy opening academies on the territory of the Hexi Corridor and the two major capitals of Anxi and Beiting, to spread the principles of heaven. In short, it is weird, and it may be a hidden danger to really enter Beijing.

As for Wu Haogu's "Cangzhou soldiers", it seems to be even more unreliable!

Moreover, whether it is Cangzhou soldiers, Hexi soldiers or Shuofang soldiers, for Kaifeng Mansion, they are all far water!

Far water, difficult to quench near thirst! Now the weather is cold, the Yellow River is about to freeze in a blink of an eye, and the Liao army has broken the Lingzhou soldiers and Xiangzhou regimental training, and no one can stop the Khitan iron cavalry from going south.

Kaifeng Mansion is about to be lost, even if the Great Song Dynasty is not destroyed, it will have to break its muscles and bones, and it will be a prosperous time, so it will be buried for itself.

Gao Yu, a thief who misled the country! O thief who has misled the country!

Thinking of his crime, Gao Yu couldn't help crying loudly, the two guards beside him had already turned over and dismounted at this time, and dragged him down, and Gao Lian followed them, and the four of them climbed up the mountain with a roll. Gao Yu is now blessed, his body is fat, and the two guards are tired and out of breath, but they still use all their strength to run with him.

The sound of knights dismounting was already heard from below the hillside, apparently the Khitan cavalry dismounted and walked up the mountain.

Gao Yu staggered forward with the support of the guards, and suddenly shook his arms and broke free from the hands of the two guards.

"Don't run, don't run!" Gao Yu cried and shouted.

"Captain ......"

"Big brother!"

Gao Yu looked at his cronies, looked at his brother, and cried loudly: "A dream, a dream, a certain family was originally a disciple of Kaifeng City, and he knew the art of war, but it was just a coincidence, so he had to achieve a feat, but as a result, he was not secret, suffered a catastrophe, misled the country and himself, and had the face to live?" ”

"Big brother ......" Gao Lian looked at his brother, and cried like a tearful person, he thought that the eldest brother was like a god with soldiers, but he didn't expect the soldiers to be so dangerous!

Gao Yu waved his hand and said, "Second brother, you can run better than me, hurry up...... Don't go to Kaifeng Mansion, go to Jiehe Commercial Market, and go to see Wu Haogu! Tell him not to lose the grace of the official family! If he has the emperor's grace, he will not spare him if he becomes a powerful ghost! ”

"Big Brother ......"

Gao Yu pushed his younger brother away, then pulled out his sword with a bang, gritted his teeth and stomped his feet, and wiped it off his neck!

On October 30, the third year of the Great Song Dynasty, a generation of famous handsome Gao Yu was killed and martyred!