"Captain, no, I just sued for peace, and the people in the army are unstable, so don't attack rashly!"

"Captain, the army's spirit has been dispersed, don't take risks!"

"Captain, morale is drained, it's too dangerous......"

Gao Yu's decision was unanimously opposed by the three henchmen under his command, Li Yongqi, Wu Song, and Yang Keshi.

And the reason for their opposition is not because there are few people.

Gao Yu brought only more than 7,000 elite soldiers from Lingzhou, including 2,000 knights, and 5,000 elite soldiers on the Northwest Road. At present, there are still two or three hundred light cavalry subordinate to the first general of the northwest who have gone out to search and have not returned. In addition, Gao Yu also has 1,000 Hebei utility knights provided by Ji Yi in his hands.

In other words, Gao Taiwei can pull out a maximum of 7,800 soldiers. It really can't be counted as much, and the regular soldiers under Yelu Yanxi must have 45,000 of them, even if a part of the Song army camp to attack the east of the Qi River should be able to divide 20,000 people into the west of the Qi River.

However, the current weather is not conducive to the Liao army, which is good at riding and archery, and the rain and snow are not conducive to riding and archery. However, the spears of the Lingzhou infantry are easy to exert their power!

Therefore, the Lingzhou army, which has a small number of people, is not necessarily unable to win.

The problem is that the morale of the Lingzhou army has dropped significantly because of the previous peace talks, and now it has been pitted again if the peace talks fail. You can imagine what the morale will become!

Li Yongqi, Wu Song, and Yang Keshi, who have led soldiers in the army for many years, all know that low morale is not only a problem of mentality, but also a problem of management, and more importantly, a problem of unity.

When the morale of an army is high, everyone is positive, does their best in everything, and is united from top to bottom, so that everything is naturally good and the combat effectiveness can be fully developed.

On the contrary, when morale is low, it is easy to have a situation where everyone is confused. Training, equipment, daily life, everything can go wrong. For example, the officers do not care about training, the soldiers are perfunctory, and when it is time to rest, it is not a good rest, but drinking and playing with women, and the maintenance of weapons and equipment and horses is even more perfunctory.

However, the above is not the worst, the worst thing is that the previous reparation and peace also caused a struggle between the various groups in the Gao Yu army, and the disappointment of the entire group for the future.

Where there are people, there are strife, there are factions!

There are also factions in Gao Yu's Lingzhou army. There are mainly three factions, one is the military academy faction headed by Li Yongqi; One is the forbidden army faction headed by Yang Keshi; One is the strong man faction (Fang Nu faction) headed by Wu Song.

When the three factions were in Lingzhou, they struggled a lot, because Gao Yu was unwilling to become bigger, so the interests of the Lingzhou army were not much, and the internal struggle was more intense. Before, because of the great merit that could be made, the three factions were quite united. But Gao Yu's "betraying the country for glory" suddenly made the Lingzhou Army change from meritorious to inactive, and even had a fault!

Therefore, the three factions have been fighting openly and secretly for a long time over the matter of throwing off the pot. Moreover, the officers in the army who have followed Gao Yu for many years have complained about Captain Gao's weakness.

Betraying the country to seek glory is "Shangyi", but Gao Yu can disobey the yang and the yin! Why should you bear the charge of betraying the country for glory? Wu Haogu can shake the pot, Ji Yi can shake the pot, but you Gao Yu can't shake the pot?

The Great Song Dynasty is a thousand mistakes, and the official family is good! Therefore, the crime of betrayal can only be high! Gao Yu finished carrying the black cauldron, and he couldn't escape when he turned back to Haizhou.

As soon as you get off the stage, what will happen to the people below? Let the Ministry of War and the Privy Council do it? Can you still have a good life?

It's better now, five million have been given, and peace has not been reached, but troops have to be sent to make up for it. But has the function been made up?

A crime of "failing to sell the country and mistaking the country with compensation", Gao Yu has to stay in Haizhou for the rest of his life.

What hope do the people below have? I'm afraid that I won't even be able to save the situation in Lingzhou......

So the hearts of the people were scattered all at once!

When such a unit goes to the battlefield, its training, physical strength, and equipment cannot keep up, the people's morale is scattered, and the morale is low, can there be no problems?

"Troops! Gather all the people now! All units of the Lingzhou Army must attack! If there is any disobedience to the postponement, they will not be spared! ”

Gao Yu roared and ordered.

How did he not know the calculations of Li Yongqi, Wu Song, Yang Keshi and others? But he, like Wu Haogu, is a good courtier who is loyal to the monarch and patriotic, how can he watch Zhao Ji, who has the grace of knowing him, encounter danger? Because the peace was not successful, Gao Yu was already guilty to death, and if he wanted to let Yelu Yanxi go to the Yellow River dam, he simply found a rope to hang himself.

"Someone!" After Gao Yu sent the three generals out to order all the people, he roared again, "Take the armor of the commander, the commander will come to the battle in person!" ”

"Big brother!"

Gao Lian, who was in Gao Yushuai's tent, was taken aback when he heard this, and hurriedly persuaded: "You are the commander-in-chief of Hebei, you can't take risks!" ”

Gao Yu glanced at him, "What if you don't take risks?" The people below already have the heart to fight, if it is up to them, where will they take the initiative to seek war? ”

"But the army's spirit is unstable, in case it ......"

"What's there?" Gao Yu waved his hand, "You go to the treasury to get 100,000 taels of silver, and one person will send a few taels first, and the morale will naturally rise!" ”

Gao Yu also let it go, and as soon as he made a move, it was 100,000 taels of silver! Fortunately, he met one of the most defeated Hebei Road transfer envoys in history, otherwise he wouldn't even have the capital to give up.

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"Great Song Wansheng! Great Song Wansheng ......"

On the afternoon of October 28, the third year of the Great Song Dynasty, the sound of cheers finally sounded in the camp on the west bank of the Qi River, and the shouts of more than 10,000 people (including auxiliary soldiers) shook the heavens and the earth, overpowering the sound of wind and snow, and also covering the sound of fighting on the battlefield on the west bank of the Qi River.

It also frightened the Liao army, which had been fighting for most of the day and was a little exhausted - they had now captured most of the camp on the east bank of the Qi River. But the camp built by Zong Ze is also strong enough, more than a wall! It's one ring, two rings, three rings, four rings, five rings, and there are walls in the rings!

Yelu Yanxi's soldiers braved the rain and snow to attack, and wasted all their strength to hit the "three rings", and the "first ring" and "second ring" were not won!

Now when you hear the Song army on the other side of the river, can you not be afraid? So he hurriedly stopped the attack and temporarily retreated to the "third ring" defense, so that Han Xiaoxuan and Zong Ze, who were a little anxious, had a chance to breathe.

At this time, Gao Yu put on a sturdy armor, rode on a tall Persian horse, and looked at the 6,500 soldiers and nearly 5,000 auxiliaries who had completed the whole team, and sighed with emotion. He wanted to say something to boost morale, but when the words came to his lips, he didn't know what to say.

Because he also knew that after this battle, no matter whether he won or lost, his Hebei Xuanfu envoy was almost over, and most of the official titles of Taiwei could not be kept.

Although he himself definitely has a chance to make a comeback, the Lingzhou Army brothers who have followed him for many years can't keep it.

The Lingzhou Army used to be semi-independent, and Gao Yu had a lot of power in the army, which was not the same thing as an ordinary air-wrapped officer. Because almost all the Lingzhou soldiers are field soldiers, the demand for military expenses is not very large. There are also many soldiers who are Han people in the land of the former Western Xia who do not have the idea of emphasizing literature over martial arts, so it is difficult for the Northwest Transit Envoy to meddle in military affairs.

But with the resignation of Gao Yu, the good days of the semi-independence of the Lingzhou Army have come to an end.

It was also inevitable to be purged by the imperial court......

"Let's go!" After holding it for a long time, he couldn't say any inspiring words, so Gao Yu had to raise his hand violently and give the order to attack.

At this time, the sky is also similar to Gao Yu's mood, the temperature has plummeted, and the sleet has turned into snowflakes.

For the officers and men of the Lingzhou Army who have lived in the bitter cold land of the northwest for a long time, the wind and snow weather is nothing. They also had leather robes, leather hats, and leather boots to protect them from the cold, and they were also used to marching and training in the snow. So he still sang "How Can I Say No Clothes", and walked out of the Qihe camp majestically and with high spirits.

At least on the surface, their morale is quite good!

However, the heavy snow still caused them some trouble, that is, the visibility was too poor. There was also about a layer of dark clouds in the sky, so the sky was dark, and the eyes could not see far except for the dusk and snowflakes.

In order to avoid a sudden encounter with the enemy in a snowstorm, Li Yongqi, who was actually in command of the operation, ordered more than 200 light cavalry belonging to the first general of the Northwest Infantry Army to open a search net two or three hundred paces ahead of the brigade.

At the same time that the more than 10,000 soldiers and horses of the Song army were marching south under the cover of a snowstorm, the army of 30,000 people commanded by Xiao Temo (half of the main soldiers and half of the auxiliary soldiers) had also completed the operation of crossing the Qi River, reorganized it south of the Qi River, and then divided into two columns (one team of the Imperial Tent Army and the Palace Army, and one team of the Tribal Army), and marched north in parallel. Like the arrangement of the Song army, Xiao Temo also mobilized more than a thousand distant horses to spread out in front of the two armies.

Nearly 50,000 troops on both sides of the enemy and us are slowly approaching in a snowstorm!

It was getting darker and darker, but the wind and snow showed no signs of stopping. The wind and snow covered everything until the light cavalry of the two sides collided almost face to face, and the existence of the other party was discovered!

"Enemy attack, Liao dog! Enemy attack, Liaogou ......"

As several light cavalry rushing towards Gao Yu's marching team shouted all the way, everyone stopped and looked back in the direction where the Chinese army was.

"Woo woo woo ......"

The melodious sound of the horn soon came, which was the order of the Chinese army to start a battle formation with the sound of the horn. The leading officers of the battalions and units who heard the sound of the horn also gave orders to put on armor and prepare for battle.

After a while, the Chinese army's cavalry came galloping, and as they ran, they shouted loudly: "Quartet Great Array!" Quartet Array! Swing the Quartet! ”

The so-called "quadripartite array" is actually a large hollow phalanx, with eight battalions forming four connected horizontal formations, enveloping the Chinese army, auxiliaries, cavalry, and a battalion of reserves. It is a very practical military formation in the new military science system founded by Wu Haogu, Murong Wuwu and others. Best used when infantry encounters large groups of cavalry.

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