The Yelu sorcerer was so angry that he almost vomited blood—how could he beat the Song people and break their teeth even if they were a heavy team? This is his first battle against the Song people, and if he defeats him, he can't afford to lose this face.

He quickly made a judgment in his mind, it would definitely not work to rush over with the remaining hundreds of cavalry, that would only stop the cavalry that was chased by the Song cavalry like rabbits, once the horse lost the speed of the impact, it would be slaughtered. Therefore, only a detour to the past from the tail of the Song people's team or the direction of the rear waist is the right way, once the Song people to entangle the horse and descend quickly, the pursued cavalry can turn back and join the war group, and it is completely possible to quickly eat this small group of cavalry by virtue of the advantage of numbers.

He took the mace from his horse, and was just about to raise it high and give the order, when suddenly several of his own soldiers around him exclaimed: "Defeated! Defeated! "General Ugutu is defeated!"

The mace in the sorcerer's hand almost didn't hold it steady and fell to the ground, and he hurriedly looked at Wugutu's side, only to see the blood-red battle banner of the Great Song Dynasty suddenly rushing out of the crowd of Liao cavalry, followed closely by a gray-black team. This team had already split the cavalry led by Ugutu like a steel sword, and some of the cavalry under Ugutu had already begun to turn their horses and flee back.

"What's going on?" The thought just flashed through his head. As a nobleman, he had to receive military education from his father and ancestors since he was a child, and he clearly remembered the admonition he had received - unless he had to fight to the death on the battlefield, he first fled from danger, took the initiative into his own hands, and then went to find out the cause of the frustration.

The sorcerer looked the way he came, and saw that there was a lot of dust over there, and it must be another group of men and horses. So his mace waved in the air: "Withdraw!" ”

The combat principle of the Liao people was to escape a hundred miles without a single blow, and regroup and make a comeback, so retreat was a very normal means of warfare in their view. Without hesitation, the cavalry following the sorcerer immediately turned the dock and retreated to the way they came, meeting up with the newly arrived men and horses. The cavalry of the attacking chariot formation of Ugutu immediately dispersed into dozens of small groups and fled to the east and northeast.

When the cavalry who led the police division saw the Liao people scattering, he immediately admired Li Bu again in his heart. This situation was expected by Li Buqi a long time ago.

Before the attack, Li Buqi explained to him that the Liao army would attack nine times out of ten, and let him return to the big formation immediately after defeating this Liao cavalry. Therefore, the Liao people were divided into small units, and if they continued to catch up, they had to disband the formation, which made it difficult to collect, so they were ready to accept it when they saw it. However, there was a sudden terrible sound of brass trumpets from the side of the formation, and according to the trumpet score agreed in advance, Chong Ge heard that this was for him to continue to chase the Liao, and the direction was northeast.

Wrapped in the galloping cavalry, he couldn't see the situation in the distance clearly, but he believed that there must be a reason why Li Buqi commanded like this. So he kicked the stirrup again, urged the horse forward, and with a move of the spear in his hand, the rider immediately followed, and the cavalry, which had been slightly slowed down, accelerated and ran again.

On the other side, Li Buqi stood on the lookout car and shouted to the herald below: "Let Guo deploy all the cavalry to send out, hold the enemy's defeated army, and attack the rear of the Liao army!" Fast! ”

The herald repeated it, and Li Buqi immediately slapped away after approving it. After a while, the cavalry of Baozhou rushed out with a shout.

The leader of the troops followed the Yelu sorcerer was Xiao Wenshunu, the commander of the Liao State. Just now, he received a report from the messenger Pegasus of the Yelu sorcerer that he had begun to attack the Song people, and hurriedly ordered his cavalry to speed up, for fear that he would not get the credit.

I had already seen the Song army in formation from a distance, and there was a horse running in front of me: "Report!" Did the surgeon run back in front? ”

"What?" Xiao Wenshu was taken aback and asked, "What's the matter?" ”

The Jeredian was defeated too quickly, and Tan Ma just saw the cavalry of the Jeluist rushing towards this side, where did he know the reason, he could only answer that he didn't know.

Xiao Wenshu Nu immediately ordered: "Array!" Get ready to meet the enemy! ”

Li Buqi stood on the high pole of the lookout car and held a telescope to see the retreating Liao cavalry, and consciously separated to both sides, bypassing the Liao cavalry that was arraying. And the cavalry of Baozhou rushed out at the beginning of the tail of the retreating Liao army, and they failed to hold the Liao army in the rout at all. Although the cavalry of the police division rushed towards the Liao army from the side, there were too few people and could not hold too many people, so it could not have much impact on the Liao cavalry in the array, so he had to sigh and order to withdraw the troops immediately.

He couldn't let the Liao army rout and rush into the rear formation, if he let Chong Mo continue to chase, he would crash headlong into the center of the Liao array. Seeing that there were at least 4,000 cavalry in this later Liao army, even if the more than 1,000 people in the belt could fight, they would not be able to take too much advantage.

There was a dense sound of gold on the battlefield, and the cavalry of the two Song armies turned back to their own formation, and some of them grabbed the ownerless horses and led them back. The cavalry returned to the front of the infantry formation and swept past the front of the formation with cheers, and the infantry also cheered and thundered, and their morale was greatly boosted.

The seed man rode his horse to the lookout car and asked loudly: "The Liao army has not yet gained a stable foothold, why don't you take advantage of the situation to attack its position, but instead withdraw the troops?" Li Buqi leaned down and said loudly: "I don't know how many Liao people will come, don't be quick for a while." Then take the cavalry to cover the flanks of the army, and rest for a while. ”

Chong Ge led the team, and Li Buqi got off the lookout car and came to Guo Kui's side. Guo Kuiyu reported: "Patrolling the border, the big array has been arranged. Do you want to strike now? ”

Li Buqi nodded and said, "Guo Deployment, you can command according to your own will, as long as you remember the plan we made." ”

He also wanted to see what it was like to attack cavalry with infantry. Seeing that Li Buqi did not intend to interfere with his command, Guo Kui immediately waved the flag, and the drums beat like thunder, and then the two infantry phalanxes began to slowly move in the direction of the Liao cavalry.

The sorcerer ran to the back of Xiao Wenshunu's array before he circled back his horse to find Xiao Wenshunu, and Wenjushri asked, "You brought 4,000 cavalry, how could you let the Song people chase after you like this?" ”

The sorcerer still didn't understand the mystery of the car formation, thinking that there was some trap in the car array, so he only said: "I didn't expect that the Song people's baggage convoy set up an ambush, and I accidentally fell for the Song people's tricks." ”

Manjushri said, "No wonder. Now that the Song people have formed a formation, it seems that they can't attack strongly. It seems that the number of Song people is less than 50,000, right? Where are the extra ones? ”

The Yelu sorcerer looked at the Song army's large array, and said strangely: "I haven't found any other teams of the Song people all the way, and I can't see any rear teams behind. They should all be here, right? ”

Manjushri was suspicious and hurriedly ordered the horse to investigate again. At this moment, he heard the sound of drums, looked up at the Song army's large array, and saw that the large array had begun to slowly advance towards his side in the shape of a sharp arrow formation.

Seeing the dense formation of black pressure, Manjushri knew that he could not find it comfortable to attack such a formation when the troops were not superior, so he wisely ordered to retreat slowly, but stretched the two wings and began to look for loopholes in the formation of the Song army.

The Liao people were all six-legged cavalry, and it was a dream to catch up with the two-legged infantry, so only the blocking horses of the Song and Liao armies were lively, and the brigades of the two sides did not contact at all.

Li Buqi was not surprised at all to see the Liao people retreating calmly, but he had a new understanding of the quality of the Song army.

I haven't fought a big battle for more than 40 years, but it seems that this soldier has been trained quite well, at least there is basically no lag in the change of formation in the process of advancement, and the various phalanxes echo each other, and it seems that there is basically no opportunity to take advantage of it, which shows that the officers and soldiers still have some quality. It's just that I don't know what will happen when I really fight.

Guo Kui commanded the troops to advance slowly, posing as if they were advancing towards the Guangxin Army. However, the Liao people obviously did not intend to stop the advance of the Song army, but the follow-up troops rolled in. Soon, the Song army's large array was surrounded by running Liao cavalry, but suddenly there was a fight in the distance, and a small group of cavalry that broke through the Liao army rushed over, and the banner was the cavalry of Gaoyang Pass.

After the two armies met, the total number of cavalry reached nearly 4,000, and Li Buqi's heart relaxed a lot.

PS: Thank you Tong Tianlei and Wandering Tianya 6664 for their tips.